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by justizin 11y ago
But he clearly misses the point that the article is about police facilitating enslavement.
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by justizin 11y ago
Since when did slavery not involve kidnapping? Slavery isn't defined as an inherently legal practice, it simply was legal in some places at some times. The secondarily linked story does also talk about local law enforcement being invol
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meat supplements and plants fortified with meat?
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by justizin 11y ago
> But on 9-11, US air defense got caught with their pants down. I wouldn't expect much. I'm not sure it's US air defense who got caught with their pants down, the entire notion of the 9/11 attack would have been to ge
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by justizin 11y ago
They note that one of the sites (Ft Cronkhite) is being used by The Marine Mammal Center, it says that one 'magazine' (silo) is being used for the storage of veterinary drugs, there are also a few decades of biological samples, an
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by justizin 11y ago
> I don't want to anyone to build autonomous weapons, but I don't want anyone to build nuclear weapons or any other weapons of war either FWIW, all of the scientists involved in creating the first nuclear weapons immediately af
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by justizin 11y ago
I typically rec installing virtualenv systemwide, if a reasonable version is available by package, and managing per-app dependencies in a requirements.txt that's platform agnostic. The Debian ecosystem is great, but I would never recom
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by justizin 11y ago
IIRC, Facebook uses (or used) Tilera machines for memcache nodes, they seem to be focused on network applications now.
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by justizin 11y ago
Pretty much agree with his general concerns, although IPC between web pages would probably bring some terrible security concerns, but this is a little off, IMO: "Oh, and speaking of sound: on iOS, you flat-out cannot play sound unless
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by justizin 11y ago
weak ass downvote. It is not perfectly consistent, nor logical, to say that violent actions toward people by other people in favor of particular people don't assign intrinsic value to all of those people. But it is something a lot of
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by justizin 11y ago
> .. which clearly doesn't provide long term value. The police are not interested in long term value. They want action, they want to play with their toys. It is simply not more complex than that.
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by justizin 11y ago
If wishing made it so. The institution of the police is intrinsically corrupt and unbalanced. This has nothing to do with the fact that your neighbor or your Uncle Joe is a police officer and seems like a perfectly nice person, and joined
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by justizin 11y ago
> It's perfectly consistent to think that ... If you say so.
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by justizin 11y ago
> Ads or fees can just be different points in a price structure. Tell that to the various for-pay services which have decided to force ads onto paying users because, frankly, it's so fucking convenient that there's already an a
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by justizin 11y ago
> leaving the field for those who do work for the love of their craft. In their free time, after their accounting gig?
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by justizin 11y ago
Seriously?
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by justizin 11y ago
Unfortunately, AT&T is sometimes the only available internet provider, and DirecTV the only available TV provider.
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by justizin 11y ago
Since nobody can agree what RESTful is, and RESTful services tend not to follow any particular set of rules, indeed to the extent that most RESTful services aren't really RESTful, it's hard to get past the section titles in this a
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by justizin 11y ago
> Well, lets get started then. Have you adopted IPv6, yet? ;) Clearly, we wouldn't rebuild an IPv4 internet.
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by justizin 11y ago
> By that logic there's no security on the internet at all. Have you /been/ on the internet, lately? ;)
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by justizin 11y ago
An argument could be made that putting the vehicle control system on the same bus as the internet-connected entertainment system was criminal negligence, but they would just hang the guy who probably put up a fight against it in the first p
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by justizin 11y ago
> Instead, they’ll be sent a USB drive with a software update they can install through the port on their vehicle’s dashboard. So, if I'm in someone's Fiat Chryslermobile, and they're pumping gas, I can flash the vehicle&#x
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by justizin 11y ago
[citation needed] http://www.wired.com/2015/04/hackers-commandeer-new-planes-p...
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by justizin 11y ago
I helped someone sitting next to me on a flight deal with the fact that the touchscreen wasn't calibrated, you had to move your finger around and see where the cursor ended up, then start to translate your pokes a few inches. ;d
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by justizin 11y ago
> I find myself unable to sympathize much with the woes and travails of those poor stock-holding employees of private firms with skyrocketing valuations. Stock-Option-Holding and often financially restricted from exercising.
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by justizin 11y ago
I have in the past, but for some years I've just kept good xylitol gum handy and chew most of the day, esp right after eating.
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by justizin 11y ago
IANAL, but I think that's what's sticky about equal pay, or one thing. For a given job, not all _people_ will get the same pay, and as individuals, a particular man and a particular woman may not make the same, but across an organ
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by justizin 11y ago
It /should/ be an opportunity to reflect on your weaknesses, I don't think I've ever met a manager who would do anything but laugh at all-tens in a self-review, but I have been able to keep annual review conversations sh
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With self-driving cars, this is definitely going to be the norm, and this really draws attention to how dangerous they could be, although human-driven cars are also pretty dangerous.
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by justizin 11y ago
This is not particular to Jeep, the Jeep Cherokee is simply the particular car they hacked. This basically affects all Fiat Chrysler vehicles.

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