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by kunai 13y ago
Are these people serious? Pushing the blame fully on Obama is absurd. Yes, he is a shit president, just like those that preceded him. But the whole government is shit. Congress sucks. The SC doesn't give a damn about the law. The whole
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by kunai 13y ago
Sensationalism on Hacker News... interesting.
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by kunai 13y ago
When I switched to OS X from Linux, case sensitivity was a thing I missed dearly. I know that it's a fringe feature, and that even I don't use it much, but it irks me that it isn't there, especially when both ext4 and NTFS ha
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by kunai 13y ago
In a sense, however, this is egregious. Since 10.6 OS X has been about abandoning developers and professionals and catering to consumers. The removal of 2-dimensional workspace management, inconsistency in NATIVE application look and feel (
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by kunai 13y ago
> brought Unix to the mass market Not really. 90% of Mac users don't care or know what Unix is. They don't know that OS X's toolchain and userland are based on FreeBSD. All they care about is ease of use. Developers like O
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by kunai 13y ago
I hope we see a modern, case-sensitive filesystem, for once, without resource or data forks of any kind. Second, I hope we see better graphics, new OpenGL is a must. Third, maybe a fresher UI similar to iTunes 11, would be nice. Aqua is dat
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by kunai 13y ago
From the transcript, it seemed pretty clear he did know what the information was, but he just didn't know the potential consequences of it. You have to remember that this is an IM transcript after all. The "trigger-happy hyper-m
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by kunai 13y ago
In case you didn't notice, those were Bradley Manning's words, not mine.
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by kunai 13y ago
What is more frightening than the leaks themselves is the future of this administration and the administrations to comes, assuming that they will continue in a partisan manner. It's only a downward spiral from here. What needs to be ef
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by kunai 13y ago
"Hi. How are you? I'm an army intelligence analyst, deployed to Eastern Baghdad, pending discharge for "adjustment disorder" in lie of "gender identity disorder." I'm sure you're pretty busy. If you h
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by kunai 13y ago
"Rule of law" is also not closed to debate; it's somewhat difficult to define a precedent for checks and balances when those checks and balances have been iterated so frequently. While Assange could have been more precise wit
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Google may not like it, but facial recognition is coming soon to Glass(arstechnica.com)
37 points by kunai 13y ago|11 comments
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by kunai 13y ago
> Isn't that what a democratic country would do An informed democratic country, yes. But people in the United States are misled, misguided, and taught not to question government. I know this from personal experience. My parents ta
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by kunai 13y ago
> We can also have the debate ... but that's not the same thing Yes, it is. The whole thing is cohesive. Penetration at the source is the only thing that will halt government secrecy, and condemning those who leak classified informa
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by kunai 13y ago
PRISM and the Verizon scandal are two completely different fiascoes. PRISM was a supposed program that archived and collected data of American citizens in a widespread data mining project. The Verizon scandal was one where Verizon agreed to
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by kunai 13y ago
I meant both userland and toolchain. I like the BSD userland for its simplicity, but the GNU userland has a lot of features that BSD doesn't have. It's bigger, and some may say more bloated, but it works well and is fully-featured
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by kunai 13y ago
You can't compare the GPL with the BSD/MIT licenses. They're two different types of free software licenses. The MIT/BSD licenses give the developer freedom, while the GPL is more free if you're talking about the c
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by kunai 13y ago
This is the exact same thing that sprung to my mind as soon as I read the testimonies. They sound too homogeneous; too staged and rehearsed to be genuine. I wish somebody had the guts to be a hero. We need more of them.
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by kunai 13y ago
Github. I use Github, and I love it, but they're closed-source, in spite of so many free software projects being hosted on the site itself. It's ironic. Now, of course, Github doesn't have vendor lock-in because it runs on Gi
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by kunai 13y ago
He may not be in most cases; but usually if you're going to sell proprietary or closed-source software, you should at least give back to the community somehow with an open source project. Of course, it's not always right. And that
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by kunai 13y ago
Just because we voted people in doesn't mean they're gods as soon as they enter office. And positivity is useless if you just think everything can be fine as long as you have a positive outlook. That's foolishness. You SHOULD
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by kunai 13y ago
It's just the nerve that gets me. "We can tell our children this day" --stop it right there. That's bullshit, and he knows it. A president can't do anything without Congress, and when Congress is crap, nothing but
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by kunai 13y ago
This is why I get very angry whenever somebody calls Stallman a nut. He's not a nut. He's a visionary; albeit a very pessimistic and dystopian one. Call him crazy now, but in 2023 you'll look back at what he said now, and you
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by kunai 13y ago
BSD is great, but if you're on a laptop, I have to say I can't recommend anything other than GNU+Linux. That is the only Unix-like system besides OS X I've run on my MacBook Air that has good power management. Everything work
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by kunai 13y ago
First of all, ad hominem never helped anyone. Second, I don't for a second expect to win. The point is not to win at all, it's to start something. I'm not the only one who believes so; there are plenty others who believe the
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by kunai 13y ago
"Because if we are willing to work for it, and fight for it, and believe in it, then I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provid
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by kunai 13y ago
IF that's the risk it takes, so be it. Safety be damned; this is the welfare of my children's, your children's, and their children's, future. And our future too. We're going to be here quite a while.
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by kunai 13y ago
We cannot. Ultimately, it boils down to the sheer audacity of the government and the fearful (and sometimes, falsely patriotic) apathy of our fellow citizens. We here on Hacker News are progessives who believe in liberty, freedom, choice, a
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NSA's PRISM is a good thing -- here's the justification(forbes.com)
3 points by kunai 13y ago|0 comments
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by kunai 13y ago
Mindless with respect to political issues, is quite appropriate, I think. When my mom or my dad or my grandma says, "I have nothing to hide" (and they do, whenever I call them about some privacy concern), my respect for them with regards to

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