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by garrettgrimsley 13y ago
Child sex slaves would be DynCorp's specialty[1][2], but Halliburton has a Human Trafficking division named KBR.[3] [1] http://my.chicagotribune.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-2115403... [2] http:/&
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Could be the company performs whatever service better than the competitor and the time spent locating an alternative site would take longer than filling out a reCAPTCHA. And who's to say that the competitor site won't employ human
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Did Geee really need a /s for a comment that would imply Google/Moto had mind-reading powers? I guess so.
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Clever in that it has captured hundreds of thousands (millions?) of person-hours of labor. reCAPTCHA is now being used to improve Street View CV and will ultimately contribute to automated driving. We were doing CAPTCHAs before, and reC
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The primary function of a CAPTCHA is to act as a gatekeeper that a human can bypass while a not can not. The reCAPTCHA was a clever creation to put capture what would otherwise be fruitless labor. http://www.businessinsider.com
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It is a joke.
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It's more nuanced than that. The USA is very good at the use of soft power, and targeted application of hard power. Our profiency at the use of soft power largely eliminates the need for hard power. Iran and China are simply not on our
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The issue is that they are encouraging vendors to artificially inflate the prices of products to cover shipping costs. Essentially, the shipping cost is hidden in the price of the product. The losses Amazon would normally incur as a result
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Personal property laptop: You use it on your own. Private property laptop: Someone else uses the laptop to perform work. You retain ownership of the laptop and the product of their labor. It's a use distinction.
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Even more upsetting are all of the marketing emails that I receive in my student inbox.
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Same deal with T-Mobile, they have opt-out marketing that you can't disable through the text messaging.
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Yes, I can't see that being abused.
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I use a Model M and sometimes encounter ghosting. Some types of gaming are worse than others. For example, while playing RTS or MOBA I do not encounter ghosting while playing FPS I encounter it on a regular basis. This is because in RTS and
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TextSecure does use public key cryptography. It performs the key exchange silently, but it still performs it. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/wiki/ProtocolV2 https://www.whispersystems
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by garrettgrimsley 13y ago
You can disable the SMS push. https://github.com/WhisperSystems/TextSecure/issues/639
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You are really overthinking this. The Car Talk puzzlers are straight forward and should be taken at face value.
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Well, I just checked and found information about Java being disabled by default in Firefox and Chrome. The only resources I found on IE were about how it is difficult to disable. Because of this, I am going to assume that it is enabled by
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Are drive-by-downloads no longer a legitimate threat?
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To use their example: You own a lawn care company and do lawn maintenance for a client in Deleware for Dr. Olivia Bolles[1]. Unbeknownst to you Dr. Bolles is a drug dealer on Silk Road. She pays you for your services in bitcoin. The bitcoin
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Whether or not they are "hard to deal with" is not basis for denying one a writ of habeas corpus. Should we not let a court decide, rather than the executive branch arbitrarily denying these rights? Taking the fact that there are
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Rather than relying on a religious text we can reference rulings, like Boumediene v. Bush[1] and and the US constitution. This article by Greenwald[2] neatly examines the whether constitution protections apply to foreigners. [1] http:&#x2F
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Does every inconsequential defacement need to make the news?
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The recognition Snowden is receiving is for the revelations about the NSA programs, not the creation of said programs. He isn't being lauded as a creator, but as a whistleblower. Would it not be absurd to thank McNamara for the work of
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by garrettgrimsley 13y ago
Vidalia is control software for Tor.[1] The Tor Browser Bundle, what you likely used, ships with a slightly customized version of Firefox. I would also recommend upgrading, as the bundle no longer ships with Vidalia.[2] 1. https:/&#x2
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This home is far smaller than the average single-wide. I looked around online for floor plans and it appears that the smallest plans available are 600sqft or larger. http://www.mheinc.com/singlewide.htm http://