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by mmjaa 8y ago
Not just Australia - the UK too, don't forget.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>Nobody has found built-in backdoors for UK spies I think GCHQ's intercept capabilities are pretty well documented in the ANT catalog: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSA_ANT_catalog I know for a fact that GCHQ a
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>To suggest that the Nazi legacy of the CIA somehow is connected to current day abuses of power is an even further leap of logic. On the contrary: MK ULTRA. Agent Orange. Secret torture sites.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Yes, but 1600 of them escaped to live the American dream, protected by America's military-industrial-pharmaceutical complex and they went on to create the society we have today: impervious to any reproach over its war crimes and crimes
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by mmjaa 8y ago
The USA put a lot of Nazi's to use after the war. 1,600 of them went off to be part of the CIA. We can see how successful that integration went .. EDIT: Yes, I know, it makes you feel uncomfortable, Americans. But it is an uncomforta
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by mmjaa 8y ago
> We destroyed 2000 years of an entire continents written history. The Australian aborigines have been around for 60,000 years. Their oral history has survived for 40,000 years. We can't even maintain an oral history in the so-ca
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by mmjaa 8y ago
>In my opinion, the rest of the world should be stopping US, Israel, and Saudi from continuing their global terrorism programs and ending imperialism. You are not alone. There are many of us in the West who tire of the duplicity and arr
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by mmjaa 8y ago
But hubris is worst of all.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Its not unrealistic .. western society has generally gotten less mature, not more. In my 20's I did stuff that none of the kids of today even consider feasible ..
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by mmjaa 8y ago
This is just a few ghosts and some pellets away from being awesome .. ;)
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Surely its enough to get a Hacker News person to give you a claim waiver or something? I mean, did you try contacting the HN folks?
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by mmjaa 8y ago
.. which is odd, given how much of a villain she is in the Australian context.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Its Boeing and BAE Systems.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Whining that "all the other kids are doing it" is only relevant when there is actually evidence on the table that it is at the same level of magnitude as when 'your team' does it. So far, there is nothing like the heinou
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by mmjaa 8y ago
When "the sovereignty, security and public order" is defined by people whose entire lives are based on the ability to keep secrets, use knowledge gained illegally, secretly, and ensure that nobody else has the ability to usurp the
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I've done something similar, but with the boys in my kids' circle, who have all grown up with playstray-tions and whatnot, only we are using retro computers that don't have internet or amazing games or heavy tooling, but rath
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by mmjaa 8y ago
All of the above is positive, in my opinion. As long as the Starlink sats somehow, eventually, fall out of corporate hands. I mean, such infinite power...
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by mmjaa 8y ago
What on earth do you mean? Everyone online, i.e. in the general public, hates on Comcast. Disclaimer: Never been a customer. Started my own ISP's instead.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
This article already addressed it: red and black paints are used to cover up imperfections in the less-than-high-quality wood being used .. red and black both being inexpensive paints.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
The only thing that would make electronic book-reading, for me, replacement for paper books is guaranteed, 100% future-proof integration.. like, I need a book-reader that will last 50 years at least, have the ability to store books and retr
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I don't think there's anything in the story to suggest that the retro-futurism was because of a lack of imagination regarding future, alien-yet-familiar, sustainable information technology. Perhaps the point was, the book aestheti
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Wouldn't the T2 security chip mean an end to putting non-MacOS operating systems on Apples hardware? Honest question .. I don't know the answer .. but it seems like this is going to be a hurdle for Linux on Apple hardware going f
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Fascinating that the inclusion of a headphone port was considered a key feature and drew people to the platform, rather than repelled them...
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by mmjaa 8y ago
RedHat, Canonical and Microsoft make phones?
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by mmjaa 8y ago
I'm quite content with investing in the Middle East and Pakistan over the 'tobacco guys'. One group has been responsible for wilfully murdering hundreds of thousands of innocent people, including children, for decades. The
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Its quite interesting. I'm a hacker, and I'd really rather not invest my money in things I find morally objectionable, such as arms and tobacco. So this is indeed a great article.
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by mmjaa 8y ago
This is great. I'm not a Muslim, but learning that there are banks that don't invest in arms and tobacco - this is great news, and I guess I'll take a closer look at halal banking soon. For too long I've been bothered
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Great to encounter another Atmos fan on HN .. have you been following the OricExos project? Its a system consisting of 4 Oric's, tied together, sharing duties for graphics and sound .. pretty amazing hack, if I do say so myself: http
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by mmjaa 8y ago
Here's an intro to Oric display in general: http://www.defence-force.org/computing/oric/coding/part_7/in... Here's more details on the attributes mode that, when properly grok'ed, gives us
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by mmjaa 8y ago
My favourite 8-bit machine, the Oric-1/Atmos range of systems, had a secret video mode embedded in its bowels that we didn't know much about until this century. It turns out there is a way to do color rendering on the Oric that p

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