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by jimworm 13y ago
Let's be charitable to the NSA for a minute, and imagine that they are following the plot of the God Emperor of Dune[1], where in seeing the danger posed to the Internet by the formation of cloud service giants, they became the fearsom
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by jimworm 13y ago
Someone else already noticed that the external pictures were easily identified. The location is no longer secret.
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Mitochondria maybe.
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I use Firefox on Android for its proxy settings, so I can SSH tunnel out of China.
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80%? Are you sure it's not 60%, the percentage that's not in Holland?
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It would be very worrying if someone on a random phone call managed to recover any information on public email from the NSA. At least now we know that the NSA seems to be safe against very poorly executed social engineering.
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How wonderfully ironic.
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These two points are the most horrifying in my eyes, being enough for the PM to install himself as king by having complete surveillance over all the kingmaker positions within parliament. Expose a marital affair here, schedule meetings duri
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by jimworm 13y ago
"Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious." -George Orwell, 1984
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by jimworm 13y ago
Anecdotal evidence: most articles I find on Baidu Baike are copied straight out of Wikipedia, but many articles on Chinese topics have extra information added.
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by jimworm 13y ago
1. Increase efficiency. 2. Reduce leak surface area. 3. Would-be whistleblowers might be more tempted to exchange information for money, ie become spies, at which point you could nail them and nobody bats an eyelid. 4. At least spies sell t
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by jimworm 13y ago
Yes, just turn on the SSH to a server in a country that isn't China. You are relying on the citizens of other countries defending their Internet from their government. If nobody did that there will soon be no such places to SSH to. I&#
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by jimworm 13y ago
In 2011, Huawei offered to give roughly 50MM GBP's worth of mobile equipment to the London Underground as a gift, which the UK declined due to "national security" reasons. In 2013, the UK is going to pay Huawei to filter all
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The Chinese list would lead to instant political death, because that'll block Facebook, Youtube, Twitter, and some Google+ services. A large number of businesses in the UK that rely on those services will soon follow Mr Cameron to the
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Needs more emphasis that the left column is the one to avoid.
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That is a theoretical possibility, and a highly unlikely and unobserved possibility at that. Real life mutations aren't like in children's cartoons. Most of the genetic material in a multicellular organism do not belong to germ ce
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by jimworm 13y ago
If the sole effect of voting is to choose a winner, then you're probably right. But I think that's not the only effect that comes out of counting the votes. It's the one place where voters actually lay their cards on the tabl
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by jimworm 13y ago
Security cameras are quite often placed at the entrance/exit. Having your device connect and making a DHCP request as you walk in seems like a legitimate concern.
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by jimworm 13y ago
I think another parameter is the long-lasting data corruption in the network. Unclean power fades the processor channel on your hard drive. EDIT: this is a sarcastic response to a comment that backs up an assertion with nonsense.
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by jimworm 13y ago
As a nomad, those address questions would be impossible for me to answer. This is particularly relevant because in 2013 I've started using Airbnb 100% of the time. Any others like me hit by this requirement will have to stop using Airbnb al
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While software that violates other countries' patents cannot be sold to those countries, the sale of software is not the only use of software. The visual effects industry for example can sell their visual effects, and this is a major part o
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by jimworm 13y ago
A review with references to the ease of fear learning in primates. http://www.psychologicalscience.org/journals/cd/12_1/ohman.c...
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by jimworm 13y ago
Male teachers are probably the most vulnerable targets to such attacks. If you're male and a teacher, it's probably best to use a different name in all non-professional activities (said only partially in jest). That said, he should've annou
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by jimworm 13y ago
Quite possible, especially because there's a safe haven of antibiotic-free medium just across the border, and the likelihood of a beneficial mutation is correlated with the number of individuals present. In a properly-applied therapeutic si
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by jimworm 13y ago
If by "risk" you meant the horizontal transfer of resistance, then I point you at genomic studies of horizontal gene transfer across bacteria. It happens with such regularity that the concept of a species cannot be naively applied to bacter
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by jimworm 13y ago
While true, it is also irrelevant. All known antibiotics belong to a very small number of classes by their mode of action. Resistance genes often confers resistance to not just one antibiotic, but an entire class, for example mecA in MRSA.
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Excellent video. What would be even more powerful is if they repeated the experiment, but with the 1000x agar right next to the antibiotic-free medium to illustrate what happens when antibiotics are used properly.
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by jimworm 13y ago
Ah, la douche écossaise. Good for the circulation, says wikipedia. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douche_%C3%A9cossaise
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by jimworm 13y ago
Imagine the ease of getting someone legally murdered with 15g (less than a tablespoonful) of heroin, simply by getting it in/on their car or hotel room. Journalists in Singapore probably don't sleep very well.
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by jimworm 13y ago
Heathrow has the most aggressive Skytrax campaigning I've seen (note: some compared with nearly none) in the 7 of the top 10 airports I've been to, which might have something to do with it. It's definitely not in the same league as the like

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