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hexonexxon
13y ago
1%?? Lol they charge 150% where I live until the regulators clamped down on them and class action lawsuits happened. Now it's $50 maximum per week they can charge, but they get around this with NSF fees and late charges. They also hit bank
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13y ago
The poor also make bad financial emergency decisions like using payday loan companies and loansharks, so a significant amount of their actual income just goes to paying off debts. I lived in the "poorest postal code in Canada" and it was fu
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13y ago
true, I also don't like these articles when the guy magically has a rice cooker, strainer, pots/pans and all cooking utensils ready to go. these articles should be done starting in a single room occupancy hotel with a hot plate and nothing
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13y ago
Bush seems pretty smart, after all he got away with warcrimes http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/apr/16/us-torture-priso...
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14y ago
aaaaaand it's gone. my horrible government has now decided to regulate Wi-Fi.com signals as they do radio, because of fears over some sort of revolution happening here with access to free and uncensored information. it was championed by the
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14y ago
Canada is handing out citizenship for anybody with a Ph.D right now, so are a lot of other countries. If you don't want to move write books or self publish ebooks, or write articles for industry journals or mailing lists and watch offers co
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14y ago
John Ralston Saul has written extensively about the dictatorship of vocabulary and how it is important to write in clear everyday language instead of the technocratic babble of an expert. Voltaire didn't write crypto books only the elite co
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14y ago
should've made it 9 books Voltaire's Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West by John Ralston Saul a critical essay of how the age of reason was distorted to trample all over modern democracy
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14y ago
Yep, I've always assumed if it's not encrypted by a key you yourself hold privately (and not feudal security cloud encryption) wherever that data is kept is subject to some sort of backdoor shady process by either copyright lawyers, US feds
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14y ago
They did in the movie Battlefield Earth lol
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14y ago
Same psycho freedom stealing prosecutor also had to grovel to the courts a few days ago that her office arrested the wrong guy in a high profile gang case because he kind of looked like who they were after. Innocent guy enjoyed almost a mon
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14y ago
They do not provide real isolation only the illusion of isolation. Remember software engineers have been stamping out bugs in the x86/64 arch for decades and they still find new bugs all the time. ARM arch is no different, they'll be stampi
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14y ago
He's pushing for same review system MS uses to be implemented into public schools in order to increase their school rankings, which is apparently riddled with corruption and ineffective according to ex employees like this guy: http://www.q
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14y ago
all the bike shops in my city are also repair places which is where they make all their money charging crazy hourly rates to change a tire or for tuning, and from triple marked up accessories. they all know each other too and will collectiv
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14y ago
I bet that kid that went to jail for DDOSing Amazon back in the day would've liked to have this engineer's comment for his defence when they claimed he did 'millions' in damages
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14y ago
Yep. Though you may eventually be found not guilty by the courts when there is no other evidence around that still doesn't mean the prosecutor won't try to invent evidence, like finding out you used Tor once upon a time through your ISP log
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14y ago
alas waiting list doubt i'll switch from scheme but still interested
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14y ago
irssi http://www.irssi.org/
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14y ago
Or looked at your ISP logs. Did you use Obfsproxy every single time or tunnel Tor through a VPN to your bridge node? probably not
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14y ago
No I think they saw his posts on the forum, then contacted him pretending to be a customer or the guy just blabbed when they picked him up. He's not exactly a master criminal I'm sure he told them his user name and everything which is why h
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14y ago
SR is .onion you don't use exit nodes to get to it. The only way they could get you by running infrastructre is if they controlled enough entrance and internal nodes they could do a timing attack, especially with SMF telling the world when
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14y ago
They didn't circumvent anything. (1) over 10,700 clear text msgs about drug dealing (2) announced to a forum probably watched by every police outfit in the world he was in Australia and about to start importing a lot of product and selling
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14y ago
The CPC simply wanted the names of whoever was leaking their corruption to the foreign press to 'fix the leak' by rounding these people up for unpleasant interrogation. lol western orchestrated arab spring in China. I don't think so. Hey Ch
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14y ago
Or just learn how to do it properly Getting Code Right And Secure, The OpenBSD Way http://www.bsdcan.org/2010/schedule/events/172.en.html
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14y ago
I live in Europe now, but before when I was in Canada UBC and SFU would do 'Community roundtable cafe philosophy' and there was often Math and Physics professors there. Here it's all Math professors in the cafes with their own roundtable an
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14y ago
I use Redphone almost everyday. They now have global coverage except for most of the Middle East and some parts of Eastern Europe. The Egyptian server apparently doesn't relay so well either last I heard on the mailing list. Works as advert
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14y ago
Privacybox.de is a good open source alternative if you need people to email you encrypted and they have no idea about encryption. You can forward it to a nym server or tormail, or just retrieve it from their i2p or tor hidden service though
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14y ago
where I live all the Mathematics professors hang out every month doing a public round table discussion which is free, completely informal and held at a local cafe. anybody can go in and ask questions about anything there is no discussion ag
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14y ago
I've never had an account, this is from my observations of every single facebook page I've ever seen from coworkers, friends and girlfriends. Do you guy's enjoy circle jerking around tagging each other's pics and liking stuff? Sounds pretty
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14y ago
a decentralized phone app social network would work to cut down on costs because you'd make no income :P i prefer to have a private jabber/OTR chatroom open with a bunch of friends in it to talk to each other back and forth like a slow room
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