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by itistoday2 11y ago
Citizen Four makes it clear that Snowden did not redact anything he gave to Greenwald. He left it up to the journalists to take care of that (and presumably answered questions). I see no meaningful difference here.
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> Revealing the name of a covert agent can jeopardize their life and the lives of others. The claim that it's an "open secret" doesn't exactly hold water (being an oxymoron and all). He did not leak the name of just
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The point is that torture: 1. Is not helpful or useful even if, by chance, accurate information is given [1,2]. 2. Hurts our national security [2]. 3. Is unnecessary. Given that torture is one of the most harmful options to pick from, it&
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Well, we can all chip in to help move it forward. Behavior like his should be rewarded, and the behavior of those he outed should be punished. How else are we going to stop torture? To send Kiriakou $USD is to take real, meaningful action a
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> It would be nice to know why they're so intransigent about it. Do they believe the evidence is wrong? Or perhaps they only use intelligence gathering as a pretext, and they really use it for punishment. Despicable, either way, bu
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Well, they've done trials of torture (as the article points out). Maybe he should survey those who were tortured? "I know from personal experience that the abuse of prisoners will produce more bad than good intelligence. I know
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by itistoday2 11y ago
It's one thing to rationalize "live donor transplants", quite another to make excuses for torture.
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I would like to take this moment to point out that John Kiriakou is doing an Indiegogo campaign: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/the-whistleblower-who-won... It's because of people like him that we know about t
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by itistoday2 11y ago
Well, "But, ISIS!" is not a real argument, that should be clear. Backdoors make the situation worse, not better. We'll still have ISIS, we'll be even less secure, and we'll have lost whatever is left of our right to
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> If you think you can write a better implementation then put your hands where your keyboard is. Show us the code. Here you go! https://github.com/mirleft/ocaml-tls
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by itistoday2 11y ago
Here's an example of a grizzly expressing non-consent to being caged up: http://www.startribune.com/minnesota-zoo-bear-slams-rock-int... That is sufficient for me and it should be sufficient for any decent human being.
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by itistoday2 11y ago
Happy to see the community chose AGPL. I'd be more OK with the Apache license if it did not contain very dangerous language in it for contributors: https://www.taoeffect.com/blog/2013/09/the-apache-contri
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by itistoday2 11y ago
> because an orca will neither grow up to be able to give consent Conjecture that I do not agree with. Orcas can definitely give consent, it depends on the situation. > nor could they reach that capacity as a species (within human
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Anything relying on HTTPS is not "100% confidential".
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Nice exception to Betteridge's law of headlines, IMO.
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Under United States law companies are persons as well, so these definitions are a bit out of date. It's perfectly reasonable to expand the term "person" to apply to non humans, companies and orcas alike.
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I had read that, and it didn't really answer my question.
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How do pixels become "stuck" in the first place? What is the mechanism by which this happens, and how does this technique fix it?
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HN discussion on this article from two weeks ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9697058
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What is "conscious auditory processing" , and what is "an effective side-channel attack on the synaptic substrate" ?
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Um, brainwaves != subjective cognitive effects. Even plain old, ordinary, non-binaural music has significant, meaningful cognitive effects (and is often used in gyms and therapy for that purpose). Most know from first-hand experience that s
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by itistoday2 11y ago
> Would this be better if the pasted command included some checksum which was checked before piping into the `sh`? hashpipe does exactly that: https://github.com/jbenet/hashpipe
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I am aware of that.
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Looking at the source, this is where the alarm bells should go off in a reviewer's head: memcpy(filter->buffer, output->piu_text_utf8, sizeof(output->piu_text_utf8)); 1. memcpy is less safe than memmove and strncpy. s
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> I'm curious about this. Any references? Yes, see my post above for links about one possible cryptocurrency approach called Group Currency (disclaimer: I am one of the contributors to that idea). Group currencies can be thought o
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> I'm a fan of the idea of eliminating coercive taxation but I do not see it as something politically achievable in the foreseeable future. It is also questionable whether basic income itself is politically achievable. The beauty
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> Guaranteed basic income. It's the only way... at least if we want a future that is actually good for more than ~10% of the human race. Basic income is one of two ways of realizing a future that is good for everyone (and those
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Relevant: coverage of various perspectives and positions by Ethan Heilman along with counterarguments to each: https://github.com/EthanHeilman/BlockSizeDebate/blob/master/... I like that it also includes
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He's not saying "HTML is done" as in "over" or "not to be used". He seems to mean something along the lines of "feature complete" and suggests further efforts focus on parts of the web that are l
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This is the problem with reading only the title of an article...

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