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by hrehhf 10y ago
> Should anyone be able to show up to an airport, pay for a ticket and board a flight anonymously? Yes.
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by hrehhf 10y ago
Have you noticed that Starbucks has wifi sponsored from Google? Considering that Google tracks everything else, it is reasonable to assume they track MAC addresses at nearly every Starbucks, too. It has been reported that shopping centers d
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by hrehhf 10y ago
To be honest, it is more likely that the prosecutor is the one who has ulterior motives, such as trying to get revenge on behalf of one of the prosecutor's friends/family. Or even just for personal career advancement.
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by hrehhf 10y ago
Going to an Ivy League school does not help the student earn more money compared to going to a non-Ivy, except for students from certain disadvantaged backgrounds. "students, who were accepted into elite schools, but went to less selec
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by hrehhf 10y ago
> do not allow you to use removable storage for that purpose You are complaining about Samsung's hardware being inexcusable, yet you consider an unnecessary software restriction to be acceptable? I was not aware that Amazon Instant
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by hrehhf 10y ago
I timed it and it took about 25 seconds to go from the Chase login prompt to the "Add authorized user" page where you can get another credit card added to an existing account. So, I admit its not quite as fast as you would like. T
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by hrehhf 10y ago
But it is that simple. In my case, I got a card for a family member. But there is no verification done so you can literally get a card with any name on it. It is still tied to your identity through the bank.
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by hrehhf 10y ago
While you make a fair point, he does not have schizophrenia. He has dissociative identity disorder (also known as multiple personalities).
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by hrehhf 10y ago
Isn't it reasonable to want a taxi service that doesn't track its customers beyond 1 single ride? For example, a regular taxi paid with cash?
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by hrehhf 10y ago
I agree with your comments about grsecurity making the kernel much more secure. However your comments about remote exploits and Qubes are somewhat contradictory. You claim that a remote kernel exploit is very rare/difficult, therefore
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by hrehhf 10y ago
Sovereign immunity does not protect innocents. When officials have immunity, they target vulnerable people for prosecution and imprisonment, even if those targeted are innocents. In general, police and prosecutors do not care whether a pers
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by hrehhf 10y ago
In a twisted sort of way, a person could destroy trust that paying the ransom will actually get your data back. Someone could create ransomware that will never decrypt, even after the ransom is paid. Once the victims know the dishonest rans
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by hrehhf 10y ago
Why do you keep bringing up guns in comparison to drugs? Millions of Americans say yes to legal gun ownership; similarly millions say yes to legal drug ownership and use. That is a consistent attitude towards personal responsibility.
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Feds have tried to force fingerprint unlocking(arstechnica.com)
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by hrehhf 10y ago
Debian has a command-line tool 'pdftotext' which extracts the text from a PDF. It is not OCR, it pulls the characters from the file itself. Its in the package called poppler-utils.
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by hrehhf 10y ago
On my system, I can run this: # echo 100 > /sys/class/backlight/intel_backlight/brightness This sets the backlight brightness. I'm not sure what the units are, but it can go all the way to 0. If I shi
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by hrehhf 10y ago
"collect more evidence" means they take your hardware or other property that they want and you will not get it back for many years. Even if there is no criminal charge. If its computer hardware that was taken, it will be obsolete
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by hrehhf 10y ago
In my experience, it is more typical to use percent change or relative change in the physical sciences and this is how I was taught. Just to be clear, if you have values t1 and t2, the relative change is (t1-t2)/t1. There is a 1 to 1 c
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by hrehhf 10y ago
With 2 cores (4 logical) 58.9% decrease in time for the 680 MB file a.txt: # time pigz -c /tmp/a.txt > /dev/null real 0m19.352s user 1m16.148s sys 0m0.344s # time gzip -c /tmp/a.txt > /dev/null
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by hrehhf 10y ago
I tested it on a 680 MB of text. gzip compresses to 246.0 MB. pigz compresses to 245.5 MB. I see similar percent change on a 3.8 MB text file. So they are approximately equivalent.
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by hrehhf 10y ago
> $90,000 starting salary for a javascript bootcamp grad That is not a realistic expectation in Seattle.
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by hrehhf 10y ago
> If this guy is innocent, his life is ruined now. And we've seen this pattern elsewhere, outside of tech; teenagers/adults falsely accused of rape or worse. People pissing behind a bar with a permanent contextless "sex of
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by hrehhf 10y ago
If I would rather not be tracked and profiled by these companies, which service would you suggest? In the terms of service of iTunes, Play store, and Amazon it appears those three do track and profile users. Is it too much to ask? How much
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by hrehhf 10y ago
And the UK is occupying another EU member's land, northern Ireland. The UK has their reasons as does Turkey.
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by hrehhf 10y ago
Then logically texting must also be made illegal at all times. These are not simple accidents, these are people texting, driving and killing people, and its happening a LOT more frequently. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015
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by hrehhf 10y ago
Notice how that link is not specific about what counts as upper class and middle class. It is not the case that people in the "lower" classes decided not to get any skills. It is that the economy changes over time and their skil
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by hrehhf 10y ago
I think this is a mostly a false dilemma. It makes most sense that if a collision is unavoidable, brake hard to minimize overall damage/injury. There is no reason a computer-driven car should ever unavoidably find pedestrians in its
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by hrehhf 10y ago
I think that you are saying you need a salesperson, someone who sells your services to potential clients. That is not the same as a recruiter. A recruiter is paid by a company to find people to hire, whereas you pay a salesperson to find pe
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by hrehhf 10y ago
Are you sure you looked at the table? Chemistry and Mathematics are in the upper half of the table, i.e. higher earnings.
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by hrehhf 10y ago
Is it actually illegal to sell information that a particular bug exists and can be exploited? What if it is sold to the company which owns the software? What if it is sold to one's own government?

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