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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Why wouldn't you be concerned if it fell under a US-based organisation? A country that has admittedly no qualms in doing anything, from torture to murder, to get their own way? Long live the petrodollar.
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Yeah I'd be keen to learn more of the nefarious stuff, if it exists, in which case the donation gets pulled back.
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Hopefully a sign of things to come. Way prefer to give my cash to someone that dilligently works away out of the public eye, but also gets some reward when its recognized. My cynical side says someone will pop out soon and say its compromis
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
I find it hard to believe there are still people getting brought up under this kind of stuff. http://store.iblp.org/product/ZHABE.html Edit: I believe it, just find it really sad.
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Makes you wonder doesn't it, the dollars that got spent to have something blatant happen. Its not an industry I'd like to be in, with everything so compromised.
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Be nice to see more and more bits of land claimed, and just let live. I'd sign up for that.
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Some of the talks [1] on the LMAX Disruptor [2] were interesting with regard to how it interacted with the various caches and how important it could be. 1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCdGlxBbKU4 2. https://l
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Be nice to have got into the market early, many people over here in Australia get the benefit of negative gearing too as they accumulate more houses. I'd particularly be worried as a young person in the States now, a hefty mortgage on
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
With Oracle at the helm, what right-minded developer would be interested in it?
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
What a waste of peoples LCD's. Such a load of crap I haven't read in a while.
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Location: Australia (dual US/Aus citizen) Remote: Either (remote would be attractive) Willing to relocate: Yes Technologies: ~18 years in Java development (enterprise/web), C/C++ (bit rusty), .NET (bit rusty), SQL/NoSQL,
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Should have asked the poor dude about Node and JavaScript's suitability on the server-side. Can't help but cringe every time I see the latest abuse.
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Might be naive, but it feels to me like this type of propoganda from the various militaries and TLA's should be illegal. I wonder if that's where Google were going with their real name policy... if you can link stuff back to a rea
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
"Leon Panetta, former US secretary of defense and former director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)" Interesting board of directors for a database software company, isn't it?
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
I don't know, sometimes something in an article triggers another stream of thought or tangent, and its a comments section, and other people might want to discuss that. I don't necessarily agree with the comment (as I have next to
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
I'm not clear on how this helps. I mean, the corrupt machinations would happen on the level of mouth-to-mouth conversations, I would guess, and not reported on a website. Won't this just show a massive blob of datapoints near Wall
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Making the collected data machine readable so it could be sucked into snort/firewall rules/redirected etc might prove nice too.
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
I'd guess they've done their market research on this and I'd also have to guess they figured it wouldn't hurt their sales. Which seems odd to me. Having a TV with the ability to surveil me is a foul feature and one that&
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Its beyond me why anyone would want to sign up for Linked In, let alone have them trawl your contacts etc. I don't understand the pressure people feel they're under to sign up. Much like Google, you're the product.
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The Greed and the Polotics
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
I'm uneasy about that... presumably they get funded from our taxes. I'd have to guess any profit they make is put back into the pockets^w system, but not responding to FOI's on the basis of a commercial interest strikes me as
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
I hadn't seen that one :) Someone above mentions its VB6 with embedded SQL Server upgraded from COBOL [1]. Can sort of see how they don't want anyone looking at it now. 1. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=80399
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
"I am advised that publication of the software could leave the voting system open to hacking or manipulation". Well, if the problems are there, opening up the source to more eyes strikes me as the obvious thing to do; or should th
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
What sickening, repulsive little wankers. It feels a bit surreal seeing what people will invest in, or enjoy.
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
I shifted to using Adblock Edge [1] after that. I got a good chuckle out of the term 'acceptable ads' though. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adblock-edge/
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
I'm finding the same.
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
All fair points, yeah. No, there was no pun intended with echelon, I originally had it the way I wanted, but beer and a spellchecker overruled me. Pretty poor situation.
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
:) Its a bit surreal.
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Quite right, it'd be a terrible spy agency with those restrictions. I have no issue with warranted investigations, or prosecuting people doing bad things. I'm arguing that broad, warrantless surveillance is a horrible, chilling th
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by harkyns_castle 12y ago
Same thing in Australia, its surprised me also it's not picked up on more. But after the likes of George Brandis' comments (essentially that Snowden was a crook yada yada), I'm starting to not be surprised. The other thing wh

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