gridmaths

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by gridmaths 13y ago
This is a back-of-the envelope, rather than a serious analysis, but perhaps it gives some idea of the scale?
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by gridmaths 13y ago
So, per person on the planet, that would be 10^24 / 7*10^9 ... lets say on order of say 10^14 or 100 Terabytes, or 25,000 DVDs worth of storage.. for each man woman and child. That would be enough to store a few years of everyones life
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by gridmaths 13y ago
Follow the Money. This is a big part of the problem, the massive .mil budgets go to commercial contractors, who in turn support party candidates by donation. Its an incestuous positive feedback loop. see Lessigs video talk on "LesterL
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by gridmaths 13y ago
Indeed.. and this guy will be crucified, for basically doing the right thing. Such is the projection of American military power that his credit card and bank account will already be locked down, on grounds that he is a 'terrorist'
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by gridmaths 13y ago
Wrong Question. A better Question is : If the Government trusted the NSA with our every phone call and email, why should we trust the Government?
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by gridmaths 13y ago
fuckers
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by gridmaths 13y ago
TLDR : 80yo nun incarcerated for non-violent protest at nuclear weapons facility [ fence cut, graffiti sprayed, prayers said ] Quote, last sentence : "In ten months, an 82 year old nun and two pacifists had been successfully transforme
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by gridmaths 13y ago
verbatim : "At the Chronicle.SU, we take truth seriously. We take what we do so seriusly, untruths at chronicle.su are punishable by mutilation or death. Sadly, chronicle.su is not of this earth. After crash landing in an asteroid Dece
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by gridmaths 13y ago
Check out the chronicle.su [about] page ... hilarious. Whether they have real information is a seperate issue, who knows, they may have.
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by gridmaths 13y ago
For such an event, you really want to know there has been a proper investigation. I dont know if there was a video, what it showed, how many people died, how many were combatants, what their ages were. If I was a soldier.. Id want to know t
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by gridmaths 13y ago
"shit happens in war" ... and when it does, it needs to be investigated properly, the results published [ subject to sane censorship ] so we can learn from those mistakes and prevent them in future. I don't think that would h
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by gridmaths 13y ago
I posted the link. I wanted to describe my reasons : I know that even the most justified war is ugly : there are accidents and mistakes and innocent people die at times, despite the best precautions. Im aware that the freedoms I have every
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Bradley Manning leaked Granai Airstrike "~86-147, mostly women and children"(en.wikipedia.org)
233 points by gridmaths 13y ago|173 comments
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by gridmaths 13y ago
Thats pretty great bang-for-buck, they've got a lot of ongoing cases, and the website has been pretty superb over the last year. Nice vertical javascript timeline on Surveillance. Id be very interested to see a compiled / aggregat
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by gridmaths 13y ago
Assange comments on the Trial day 1 : http://wikileaks.org/Assange-Statement-on-the-First-Day.html
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by gridmaths 13y ago
Rolling Stone article : 'ChumpBait' news stories missing the point : http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/as-bradl...
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Bradley Mannings own statement, day 1 of trial, with audio(boingboing.net)
4 points by gridmaths 13y ago|2 comments
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by gridmaths 13y ago
Missing from this cynical legal response, is the outrage towards the government for spying on all our private communications [ both legally and illegally ] Google could have used their platform to campaign for better laws : a 'free spe
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by gridmaths 13y ago
to linux
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by gridmaths 13y ago
this always annoys me.. common practice in science papers, which is weird as the citations invariably have date.
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by gridmaths 13y ago
IMO, you can ignore the arguably bad reputation of The Atlantic, and focus all your critical faculties on the article itself [ which happens to be written by Bruce Schneier :]
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by gridmaths 13y ago
irrelevant, its Bruce Schneier
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by gridmaths 13y ago
Bruce Schneier gives a more coherent overview on the current HN "surveillance state" theme. tl;dr : massive surveillance is real, there is far more, blow the whistle if you can, take precautions
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by gridmaths 13y ago
How about some kind of non-violent mass protest, it worked for sopa? A million geeks have quite a lot of power, if its focused at one point in time. What would be the most effective form of protest? Examples : Everyone call random phone nu
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by gridmaths 13y ago
thats just good marketing / social engineering :]
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by gridmaths 13y ago
If I could take rss feeds from the N web sites I like to get new from, and pipe/merge/filter that into a live twitter stream. that would be kind of useful. If I could share that with my cabal, and use the clicks or upvotes to optimize the s
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by gridmaths 13y ago
Anecdotally.. were they afraid of terrorism attacks [ or eg. cybercrime ]?
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by gridmaths 13y ago
You can build any UI with SVG [ so your app = svg + javascript ]
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by gridmaths 13y ago
I guess you could make an editor tool which could let you construct these from circles/rects etc.. then output css or svg. Did you make a tool to construct these? ie to place elements by dragging with the mouse rather than trial and error.
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by gridmaths 13y ago
Great point - Id really like a way to flag 'svg only, no scripts' say in the img tag. I use both heavy SVG apps with a lot of javascript, and also small svgs for icons etc.

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