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by kahirsch 13y ago
> His car malfunctioned. It wasn't careless driving. Huh?
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by kahirsch 13y ago
The numbers that were given were contracts that allowed them to purchase up to that amount of ammunition at a given price over 5 years. The actual quantity purchased last year was more than an order of magnitude less than reported.[1] [1] h
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by kahirsch 13y ago
There was a fifth Powerpoint slide published by the Guardian[1] which clearly distinguished between PRISM and "Upstream" methods which collect "communications on fiber cables and infrastructure as data flows past." The P
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by kahirsch 13y ago
Clapper just made up a new definition of "collect" to excuse his brazen lie. I don't understand why Clapper still has a job. But there's nothing in this article that indicates that either Senator Feinstein or Senator Nel
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by kahirsch 13y ago
No, Toobin says nothing about Snowden's factually accuracy , which is what I'm talking about. Snowden said "I, sitting at my desk, certainly had the authorities to wiretap anyone, from you, or your accountant, to a federal j
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by kahirsch 13y ago
"It will be alleged that Snowden does not understand the secret programs on which he blew the whistle." Isn't this true, though? It appears that all the information from the internet companies came from court orders for spe
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by kahirsch 13y ago
http://www.adherents.com/Religions_By_Adherents.html
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by kahirsch 13y ago
They actually were tracked by the cell phone of the man whose car they hijacked. Obviously, this was only a small part of the story and isn't the same kind of cellphone data.
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by kahirsch 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1729_(number)
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by kahirsch 13y ago
> no one's thus far denied its validity. On Thursday, James Clapper, the Director of National Intelligence, wrote " The Guardian and The Washington Post articles refer to collection of communications pursuant to Section 702 of
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by kahirsch 13y ago
> Tech CEOs carefully chose their words in order to make what they said technically true while not addressing the issue as a whole. I don't understand how you come to this conclusion. All the companies issued flat-out denials , whi
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by kahirsch 13y ago
> Probably best case scenario, they're still giving them the data wholesale in some way, and he's playing word games and semantics. No, the best case scenario is he's telling the truth and Google only gives specific data i
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by kahirsch 13y ago
This article is terrible . What exactly did "the White House" say? There is not even one sentence that is attributed to a specific individual. Was it the White House press secretary, or Obama, or somebody else? Or are they referr
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by kahirsch 13y ago
Who says they did it independently? I'm sure the people who wrote each statement read the others that had been previously released.
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by kahirsch 13y ago
> Verizon was given a Patriot Act order for business records, metadata; no names; no content, but all citizens or foreigner. No, it was a FISA order: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun&#x2
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by kahirsch 13y ago
I am going to guess that PRISM is a system which receives and parses the data files from those companies that are produced as a result of warrants/subpoenas/national security letters. So the excerpt from the NSA document that the
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by kahirsch 13y ago
You are allowed to contest it and Google did contest it. This is true since, at least, 2006. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/3511
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by kahirsch 14y ago
It was restored 22 hours after deletion. 5 avril 2013 à 09:16 Inisheer (discuter | contributions) a restauré la page Station hertzienne militaire de Pierre sur Haute (30 versions restaurées : suppression précipitée) 4 avril 2013 à 11:02 Rem
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by kahirsch 14y ago
One side effect of these is that it's hard to figure out what the minimal parameters are needed to search when you're trying to create a keyword search (or similar task). E.g., I can type "gna harry carey" in my address bar to search in the
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by kahirsch 14y ago
I think the sign-up only requires an email verification step, so it's not clear how many people have actually signed up.
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by kahirsch 14y ago
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/18/health/research/pairing-of...
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by kahirsch 14y ago
> The planks are boiled to soften them, and also to clean them. Ah, so it's true about the cork soakers.
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by kahirsch 14y ago
The Federal Arbitration Act of 1925 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Arbitration_Act See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_Mobility_v._Concepcion
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by kahirsch 14y ago
I used a predecessor to SkyDrive called Windows Live Sync (a.k.a Windows FolderShare), which just synced folders on different computers. They came out with a new version in 2010 called Windows Live Mesh which didn't support Windows XP--fin
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by kahirsch 14y ago
I disagree with this for several reasons. First, I find that having more different ways to look at a problem, the better I am able to deal with it. I can look at an equation algebraically, or as a graph, e.g. I can use rectangular coordina
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by kahirsch 14y ago
That's actually vulnerable to certain problems. Using "-n" or "-p" or "while (<>)", the files get opened using the 2-argument version of open, so a file names, e.g. "|rm *" can cause problems!
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by kahirsch 14y ago
> Actually, purchasing stolen goods is illegal in most places, full stop. In my state, the statute says "such person knowing or having reasonable grounds to believe the same to have been feloniously stolen or taken". I doubt any state m
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by kahirsch 14y ago
Just to add a little weight in numbers, billswift is right. Also, if you heat something up, it will weigh more. Even though the change in mass is very small, it can sometimes be measured. When an electron and a proton combine to form a hydr
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by kahirsch 14y ago
There is one aspect that everybody here seems to be ignoring. Files can span boundaries of time, space, connectivity, bandwidth, and trust. They also span boundaries of architecture--CPU and OS. I have files "in the cloud" that were born on
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by kahirsch 14y ago
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