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by milesf 13y ago
The danger of a surveillance state is not the obscure chance of a truly evil person abusing the system; rather, the actual threat, the real danger, is a person with good intentions who believes that their draconian actions are morally just
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If PRISM is Good Policy, Why Stop with Terrorism?(m.theatlantic.com)
227 points by milesf 13y ago|128 comments
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by milesf 13y ago
Depressing how few people are there. America wasn't invaded by a foreign power, her citizen's simply handed over their freedom and liberty voluntarily.
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by milesf 13y ago
Apparently he's around 39 years old, as he was born in 1974 http://www.techcofounder.com/ads/view_ad.php?id=769
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by milesf 13y ago
The point that the Christian makes is unalienable rights are given by God Himself, and that no human authority can take them away. You and I are valuable because we are made in the image of God. Without God, all morality and ethics are comp
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by milesf 13y ago
So glad the US is engaged in a worldwide effort to spread the good news of democracy! Look at how her leaders behave! What a vast improvement over those other non-democratic nations! </sarcasm>
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by milesf 13y ago
If there is no Creator, there are no unalienable rights. This is the conundrum Francis Schaeffer pointed out back in the 70's http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=francis+schaeffe... Unfortunately discussions ab
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by milesf 13y ago
How do I find out if my name is on it?
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by milesf 13y ago
Who knows what to believe anymore. Hopefully encryption will become the norm for everyone so that parity can be regained. RMS seems less crazy than he used to. His radical views seem to be quite rational. We need free software and privacy t
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by milesf 13y ago
We need to do both, and since I'm not a lawyer, donating to the Electronic Frontier Foundation means I can be fighting on two fronts. Legal and technical.
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by milesf 13y ago
"And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light. So it is no surprise if his servants, also, disguise themselves as servants of righteousness." 2 Corinthians 11:14-15
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by milesf 13y ago
RCMP generally don't chase vehicles here in Canada for this exact reason.
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by milesf 13y ago
I apologize for behaving badly and deleting most of my posts. I've cooled off now, but am still very concerned for people being taken in by this. This gif pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter: http://i.imgur.com/twkp3So.gif
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by milesf 13y ago
Do you really think this is some revolutionary, new idea? Do you?! Do you think of all the thousands of students who go to University for 4-7 years to learn about one subject - Food - haven't thought "hey? why don't we just mix the basic
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by milesf 13y ago
Yes, however I don't remember playing with Lego for hours everyday, week after week, month after month. There's something qualitatively different about Minecraft that makes it even more engaging than Lego. In fact, today's modern Lego is no
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by milesf 13y ago
I'm in Chilliwack, British Columbia, Canada. I used to work for Engine Yard across the bay in SF, so I'm familiar with the city and have ties there. I'm sure I could come up with a flimsy excuse to come down to Oakland when we're done :) My
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by milesf 13y ago
My kids are huge Minecraft fanatics. I set them up their own server with a whitelist, and now they have over 40 of their friends on it building incredible things. Not wanting to waste this opportunity, I'm using Purugin ( https://github.com
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by milesf 13y ago
One of the top Ruby User Groups in the world has a large number of Dvorak users. I mimicked them and posted about it on Slashdot years ago: http://ask.slashdot.org/story/07/04/15/0043237/is-dvorak-gai...
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Warren and Brandeis, "The Right to Privacy" (1890)(groups.csail.mit.edu)
47 points by milesf 13y ago|1 comments
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by milesf 13y ago
There's no such thing as burnout, it's really heartache in disguise.
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Kickstarter Documentary on the cultural influence of The Legend of Zelda(kickstarter.com)
1 points by milesf 14y ago|0 comments
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by milesf 14y ago
Uh, no it doesn't :/ Unless it's unsafe to view abstract images with a bit of sound.
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by milesf 14y ago
There's a documentary being made: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47LtM830ocE
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by milesf 14y ago
Have a look at the pull request notes: https://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com/pull/3 "What progress, you ask, have I made? … I have begun to be a friend to myself." A github user thdvl (likely _why) communicating with another github
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by milesf 14y ago
I'm working on a project called "decyphering_why" that seeks to explain that. He's an artist who created books, blogs, code, music, videos, and more. For example when he released the book "why's poignant guide to ruby" ( http://mislav.uniqp
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by milesf 14y ago
Okay, now I'm really confused :D steveklabnik found user thdvl whose is a contributor to http://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com (the source for whytheluckystiff.net). thdvl's repository http://github.com/thdvl/shore has this eerie l
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by milesf 14y ago
_why is an artist. His work touches people: -- https://twitter.com/rgm/status/324939563770474496 And I find my heart suffused with joy, for @_why has returned to us: -- https://twitter.com/rgm/status/324939832663080960 An improvement to
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by milesf 14y ago
Thanks Steve. Maybe we could move this discussion over to Lobste.rs? The thread I started keeps being weighted down.
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by milesf 14y ago
Here's the text from /SPOOL/EXPERTS --- The audience laughed, female laughter. Incidentally, the videotape of this program can be seen at http://youtube.com/watch?v=ShpcjWG_Me0 . (I don't know if it is proper to dump a YouTube address here
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by milesf 14y ago
Here's the text from /SPOOL/WHATUPDOC: --- Dr. Pestus, good afternoon, I am a fellow, a professor of sorts, who is doing work under an anonymous guise and I have just finished reading your book "Kill Yourself! The Terrible Things People Say

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