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by ignostic 13y ago
They didn't lie - they just made the truth dance with help from legal advisers. I think we already knew that, but the slide just confirms that they knew exactly what they were doing. EDIT: to clarify, GIVING someone access directly to
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by ignostic 13y ago
This is foolish. I can tell our author here is new to both web design and SEO, and needs some education: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/66353?hl=en > "Are any text or links there solely for s
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Austrian plane search for leaker Snowden enrages Bolivia(reuters.com)
7 points by ignostic 13y ago|2 comments
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by ignostic 13y ago
You seemed to think this would be some sort of protection, but ultimately you were right. Bolivia is pissed. http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/07/03/us-usa-security-sn...
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by ignostic 13y ago
Are you sure there are no criminal or civil charges that apply? Also, are you a lawyer?
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by ignostic 13y ago
I do too, but... this is a good reason not to bug allies. You make everyone paranoid if it's discovered.
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by ignostic 13y ago
It's true: you don't say something like "Well, Amazon just sucks." without backing the statement up with something more credible. As someone a little less savvy on the topic I'm glad to know that the test wasn&#x2
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by ignostic 13y ago
> "The second option is to shift your bias so that you are more or less likely to conclude “it’s ringing”, regardless of whether it really is." The author implies that this is entirely a conscious choice. Can it really be? Is
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by ignostic 13y ago
I know we're in a government-authority-hating mood right now, but I agree that this shouldn't be here. Hacker news is not /r/news
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by ignostic 13y ago
Your victims really aren't victims in the sense the original examples had victims. I hope you can see the difference between a human victim and some vague concept. Or between another person and yourself, for that matter. The rest of yo
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by ignostic 13y ago
> "Some are illegal; some are stigmatized; some are dangerous—though, perversely, these sets only partially intersect" I'd say stigmatization and legalization tend to correlate well, but sadly neither law nor cultural att
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by ignostic 13y ago
Your comparisons are all extremely unfair in the same way: they involve unjust disregard for the well-being of others. There are victims in each of your analogies. There are no victims if I safely use a mind-altering drug like LSD. Resp
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by ignostic 13y ago
For reference, the United States' "youth unemployment rate" is 22-23%.[1] And yet unemployment over the age of 25 is 6.3% and falling.[2] One must wonder to what extent this is the fault of our economy and to what extent this
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by ignostic 13y ago
> "to give you a bit of context, when this guy wrote his first piece last september, the backlash was quite big" I appreciate we Americans don't know everything about the system, but you added nothing to my understanding.
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by ignostic 13y ago
I think we could really get automated road systems working if the auto makers were interested. But why would they invest in technology and work with the government on it when it would demolish their profits? Fewer people will need cars: one
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by ignostic 13y ago
Firstly, it's not uncommon for billionaire stock owners to shift big money around. Since they're such big traders that the market follows, they can also apply to the FCC to have transactions temporarily withheld until completed so
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by ignostic 13y ago
Sure, simple text is fine for a blog. But if I'm selling something like a piece of art it's all about the images: large, high-quality images from multiple angles. Pinterest wouldn't be called minimalist, but it does a damn fi
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by ignostic 13y ago
Yes, this is one of the main problems I see with the NSA.
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by ignostic 13y ago
I see a lot of smart people making intelligent comments, but intelligence is not knowledge of the law. I'm not a lawyer, and am happy to be corrected by one, but I do have some small knowledge of law. First, under the law there is no e
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by ignostic 13y ago
Sadly I don't think so. I believe in that case it was certain that documents did exist and one party was just refusing to produce them. In this case, the NSA is neither prosecution nor defense, and therefore doesn't have the same
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by ignostic 13y ago
That's not surprising, given the title comes from and links to a press release .
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by ignostic 13y ago
USP: No safeguards! Nothing prevents you from collecting data on political opponents and vocal dissenters!
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by ignostic 13y ago
I think much of the controversy has been made far too abstract, allowing differences of semantics and emphasis to create unnecessary disagreement. Most of these debates are endlessly frustrating, and the only productive discussions I'v
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by ignostic 13y ago
I have similar conflicts as a Libertarian! To add another point: for one election I was deeply involved with the party. I found that many Libertarians went overboard in conspiracy theories: vaccines with trackers, 9/11 truthers, anti-G
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by ignostic 13y ago
Obama made plenty of statements that suggested he cares about civil liberties and privacy. Several of these quotes have been passed around: > "For one thing, under an Obama presidency, Americans will be able to leave behind the era
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by ignostic 13y ago
And as it turns out, you get low-quality links when you pay $5 on Fiverr. Who would have imagined!?
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by ignostic 13y ago
> "I never said it was their fault, but it's certainly not Google's." Neither did the author.
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ITC to ban import & sale of 3G iPhones, iPads after Samsung complaint(pcworld.com)
3 points by ignostic 13y ago|0 comments
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by ignostic 13y ago
This definitely doesn't sit right with me, and it will hurt sales if they move forward with hardware DRM. Is it going to allow me to play content that I purchased physically and ripped? If I can run a ripped version, what stops me from runn
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by ignostic 13y ago
Sorry, I meant to add, "nor do I believe they haven't seen mobile games coming."

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