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Stanford researchers discuss the ethics of autonomous vehicles(youtube.com)
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by macns 10y ago
The public's attitude is slowly changing in favor of machines. By the time autopilot is super-safe, self-driving car passengers will probably feel like passengers of an airplane or a river boat; yes there are risks of not driving yours
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by macns 10y ago
Wondering - when that happens - if their firmware is open source but monitored for ad targeting should we be OK with it?
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by macns 11y ago
Boxbe is an interesting service, thanks. Maybe this 'permission-based' was never a standard because spam didn't exist back then and, later when it did exist, didn't play well with the idea of mailing lists. In the latter
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by macns 11y ago
A quick google search on 'permission based email service' shows email lists- marketing related results, do you know any of such service provider? Maybe some day email will fade away giving its place to an IM, though I'm not s
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by macns 11y ago
> It has become really hard to figure out what to believe and what not. This. Thankfully it is also becoming obvious to more people the necessity of end to end encryption and open source software. Then - depending on the level of paranoi
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by macns 11y ago
I think adblockers block content which usually is offsite, so it's not a matter of "technical concern". EDIT: rephrase
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by macns 11y ago
Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange Julian Paul Assange (born 3 July 1971) is an Australian computer programmer, publisher and journalist. He is editor-in-chief of WikiLeaks, an organisation whic
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by macns 11y ago
Julian Assange is an awarded journalist and one of the most famous hactivists of the 21st century[0]. Wikileaks (founded by him) published documents supplied by Chelsea Manning including the Collateral Murder video[1], the Afghanistan war l
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by macns 11y ago
You got a few answers. I'm curious, did you change your mind on the subject of mass surveillance?
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by macns 11y ago
> Visual Studio Code is also built on Electron and is not only faster than Atom for many tasks, but also faster than Sublime. Can you please back this up with any benchmarks? 2 months ago when I tried VSC, though the UI and some feature
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by macns 11y ago
works well in Greece (east-southern?) but the available content is dated, a disappointment really.
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by macns 11y ago
Perhaps large corps like dell should face charges for leaking personal data.
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by macns 11y ago
please define 'work smarter' before saying a whole nation is 'working dumber' UPDATE: I'm sure lots of 'smart' German businessmen or self-employed work long hours just like the rest of the world, not?
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by macns 11y ago
title was shortened due to submission form restrictions, Full title: 14 Dec. 2015: Global arms industry: West still dominant despite decline; sales surge in rest of the world, says SIPRI
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Global arms industry: West still dominant despite decline(sipri.org)
2 points by macns 11y ago|1 comments
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by macns 11y ago
Reading the participants' comments below the announcement, most of them speak of an open/distributed ledger, not Bitcoin's blockchain. So it seems they really are ditching the original blockchain. IBM intends to contribute
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by macns 11y ago
blockchain aims to solve the "Two Generals' Problem"[0] short explanation in video[1] On what the article says, transactions not relying on the first bitcoin blockchain are more vulnerable to 51% attacks[2]. Though if tha
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by macns 11y ago
Thanks for going deep into this, let me add though that it's not about an ideal world or bullying, HTTPS should be the default. Lets Encrypt managed that for us already, pretty soon it will be the default.
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by macns 11y ago
Your IP and the hostname of the website you're connecting to isn't encrypted over HTTPS anyway. AFAIK website hostname is visible when using SNI.
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by macns 11y ago
to protect a visitor's privacy
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by macns 11y ago
As others have said, better change name early, how about LetsGo ? :-)
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by macns 11y ago
I'd love to see this paired with your https://gethttpsforfree.com/ which was very easy and pleasant to use (loved the: This website is static, so it can be saved and loaded locally. Just right-click and "Save Pag
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by macns 11y ago
This. Article ends with: > But Cantley says it may be possible to make an oral formulation that reaches high doses in the blood—which may be one way to get companies interested in sponsoring trials.
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by macns 11y ago
true, but still no competition.
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by macns 11y ago
Happened to me too yesterday on fresh windows 7 SP1 x64 install. Why let the user hide it if you're going to unhide it again later ?
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by macns 11y ago
On a side note the 'get windows 10' update even if hid from the available 'important' updates will come back again to install. Disabled updates altogether, still not sure if that does the job!
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by macns 11y ago
Snowden demonstrates the way NSA and the British equivalent operate on demand* at the documentary film 'Snowden'. You should really skim through it at least, you will be surprised to what their finite budget can do. * they collect
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by macns 11y ago
It shouldn't be nor standardized nor hard-coded because someone with the funds (e.g. NSA) would need to break the encryption using this 'standardized' number only once. If everyone used a random very large prime (spec suggest
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by macns 11y ago
a hit has value no matter what they choose to see.

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