genedickson

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by genedickson 10y ago
There is nothing new here, but I am glad to see it. I'm forwarding the link to my local listserv where it will be ignored by most. Radio waves literally go through people's bodies; people own themselves. I fail to see any reason
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by genedickson 10y ago
The missing vital information is this: IBM Berlin would not have been cut off until the U.S. entered the war. The war broke out years before, and the human rights abuses began years before that. IBM absolutely knew what was up for years b
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by genedickson 10y ago
There is a very important piece of history left out of this article and comments. The Nazis hired IBM to do the bulk of their computing. They may have used the Z3, but my uderstanding is that they didn't use it, though since it had s
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by genedickson 10y ago
Recent memory research supports the way they structure the testing. The repetition and redoing things until you get the score of 100% not only shows sticktoitiveness, but the process improves retention. Also, the way they have the video le
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by genedickson 11y ago
There are lots of people working to stop surveillance blockers. I expect that at least some of the HN crowd are employed by sites which are refusing admittance to people with such filters. I stumble on it regularly while surfing around.
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by genedickson 11y ago
I don't give a FF, I want to minimize the information strangers have about me. I'd rather see ads that were not targeted. If they know about me that is bad, regardless of all else. Who doesn't matter. Why doesn't mat
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by genedickson 11y ago
I don't use facebook or google. I use startpage a a google proxy on rare occasions, but mostly search with ixquick. My representatives know what I think about government surveillance and privacy issues, for what its worth. I agree an
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by genedickson 11y ago
The U.S. has been a cashless society for generations. Few people even know what cash is. They think federal reserve notes are cash. They are not. Alaska has cash in circulation and you can spend it at any business, though the scales ar
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by genedickson 11y ago
I live in California and you are wrong. They use federal reserve notes like everybody else.
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by genedickson 11y ago
Stop calling them ad blockers. They block surveillance features that advertisers put in their ads. I do not believe that ads would be blocked by surveillance blockers if they were just ads. Absent the surveillance, how would they recogniz
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Stop calling them ad blockers(mendocino.craigslist.org)
2 points by genedickson 11y ago|0 comments