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by jascii 7y ago
By itself not, no.. However if you figure in how said policies came to be, looking at for instance the amount of money the "healthcare industry" spends on lobbying, then the term "corruption" seems not unreasonable.
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by jascii 7y ago
Sigh, whipping up a cable when needed has become something to post about? Does having stacks of pin-out diagrams and a hot soldering iron near my desk make me look old?
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by jascii 7y ago
Obviously the military has "toys" I cant afford, however, do you see any fundamental technologies in that imaging system that are not available to consumers? Even the quoted development cost of $15 Milion are not out of range for
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by jascii 7y ago
Do you have any examples of that? In my experience the military tends to be extremely conservative and prefers well-proven designs. For example: The RCA1802, a processor launched in 1972 is still being manufactured mostly because of its use
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by jascii 7y ago
I agree! I took Andy's class that he wrote the book for and it was one of the most influential classes I have ever taken. It is also one of the few books I have kept over the years and throughout all my travels.
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by jascii 7y ago
Its been a while for me too, I lived in Beijing for a little over 3 years and it has been my experience that access to western media was not all that difficult. There was a general consensus among my friends (mostly academics) that this w
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by jascii 7y ago
The second sentence of the article says: "It is believed that some of the crowd control devices are capable of emitting electric shocks in a bid to neutralise any perceived threat." It kinda implies these devices could deliver an
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by jascii 7y ago
Is there a group for paranoid people? The first thing I think of is how, with our societies stigmas around mental health, peoples life's could get ruined if this site had a data leak. The second thing is how do you prevent groups preyi
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by jascii 7y ago
He is not a native english speaker. What is your excuse? I find it somewhat ironic that you criticize someone else's language yet cant seem to be able to construct a full sentence..
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by jascii 7y ago
I am not saying you are wrong, however this comment would be a lot more useful/interesting if you mentioned some sources.
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by jascii 7y ago
Then again, mechanical instruments can have quite a bit of latency themselves, for instance: It takes a while for the reed in a harmonica to settle into a specific vibration when activated, especially when bending notes. Same for a string i
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by jascii 7y ago
I play both (badly) and while it is possible, I find it a lot harder and often miss the specific pitch I'm trying to bend too (with quite unpleasant results!). I am not sure why this is, but I suspect the slide mechanism and the larger
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by jascii 7y ago
Wouldn't it make more sense to have those discussions under the moniker of the WWW consortium rather then having yet another entity?
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by jascii 7y ago
Yes published. the link you posted is a link to a publication. I am not sure what you are trying to insinuate with the rhetorical quotation marks.. The fact that it is a Chinese newspaper that publishes it seem logical, it is after all inf
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by jascii 7y ago
> EFF has no evidence that it was anything more than that. If it was anything more than that, don't you think Snowden would have leaked it? A lot of it is public record, no need to leak: https://www.eff.org/nsa-spyin
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by jascii 7y ago
I thought that the electoral college and gerrymandering were to separate issues, how are they related?
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by jascii 7y ago
I think it did at the time, I see the protests as a response to mainland China's efforts to reduce those freedoms.
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by jascii 7y ago
There is a bit more then that: https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying And no, he didn't flee to china, he transited through Hong Kong, which seems to be a sound tactical choice considering Hong Kongs unique position in interna
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by jascii 7y ago
The linked article talks about Snowden publishing data on US operations in China as parts of the leaks, it does not seem to corroborate your claim that he was trying to be "getting into the PRC's good graces via transfer of classi
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by jascii 7y ago
We are discussing it right now, so I would say its already doing something.. Nothing wrong with creating awareness, though other avenues will certainly be needed before meaningful change will happen.
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by jascii 7y ago
I'm not quite sure I follow you, could you elaborate?
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by jascii 7y ago
I see it as a playful way to bring attention to an issue, and refreshing to see any attempts at keeping money out of politics. If you are looking for a more funded, formalized campaign, those exist as well, for instance: https://
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by jascii 7y ago
I learned cable lacing in aviation maintenance school when I was burned out on tech. It has a lot of advantages (less abrasion, plastic flow, plastic waste, etc then zip ties). With a bit of practice it can be faster too. I still use it in
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by jascii 7y ago
Then please inform us what the local benefits are that justify a global history of forced child labor, slavery, dumping toxic waste, poisoning food products, etc, etc?
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by jascii 7y ago
To bad, I wanted to sue Oracle for not hiring me.
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by jascii 7y ago
Since said 3 letter agencies often work together with the telcos, I assume it wouldn't be too hard to keep that bandwidth outside of the users bookkeeping.
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by jascii 7y ago
There is still such a thing as physics: having a continuous audio stream would deplete the targets phone battery in short order potentially alerting the target that "something's fishy". A plugged in device would not have such
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by jascii 7y ago
I did most of my life (grew up in the Netherlands and never owned a car till I moved to the US). I started car commuting a while ago when I had a 15 Mile commute (one way) with a minor mountain range in between. Now I discovered the joy of
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by jascii 7y ago
Its mostly an informed guestimate from spending time in bike stores and seeing what other commuters ride. But here goes: In 2014 the average retail price was $714 nation-wide ( https://www.statista.com/statistics/276088&
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by jascii 7y ago
The avarage bike around here retails for about $1500, so $15000 in a single swipe isn't bad. I have seen an entire bike rack being pulled out of the ground using a truck and winch, so yes it does happen. Research has shown over and ove

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