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by mpyne 12y ago
"The last forty years have seen a huge proliferation of think tanks and political NGOs whose purpose, beneath all the verbiage, is to execute political agendas by proxy." This one is especially ironic, given that WikiLeaks has b
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Judge in Silk Road case gets threatened on Darknet(arstechnica.com)
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by mpyne 12y ago
I find the proposal that Bitcoin may want to setup central authorities (that can be federated) to support 2-way sidechains more. A lot of the Bitcoin luminaries now seem to be coming around to the idea that regulation is OK and that trustin
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by mpyne 12y ago
Pretty much. In fairness to Kennedy (and by Kennedy I mean McNamara), he at least did get the train rolling on buffing up U.S. conventional forces so that it was at least theoretically possible to deter Soviet use of armed force without b
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by mpyne 12y ago
You have always needed to be careful, depending on which power you were speaking truth about, just ask Anna Politkovskaya. It's reassuring to see that Ms. Poitras did not feel the need to be so careful with Russia's FSB. Why, they
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by mpyne 12y ago
The US bureaucracy is vast, and although POTUS has the ability to directly appoint many, that ability is neither unilateral (since the Senate must confirm most of the most important appointees) nor wide-ranging. Civil service hiring rules h
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by mpyne 12y ago
> seem fine with surveillance and publication by private sector Remember, the private sector can't enforce their laws and taxes by force like the state can. After all, it's not like Mafia rackets were able to enforce their &quo
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by mpyne 12y ago
You say that as if it's hypocritical, but this seems like an almost axiomatic statement to me. It is perfectly reasonable to have opinions about exceptions to free speech which are safe and unsafe, and to advocate why to those with dif
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by mpyne 12y ago
As the other comment mentions, restrictions like those may well be overturned, but it's true that free speech is not an absolute right within the U.S., considering we have laws against slander, libel, divulging personally-identifiable
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by mpyne 12y ago
I'm not trying to advocate one way or the other with this comment, just to clarify what is actually being argued about.
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> What kind of a company invites journalists from a newspaper known for its investigative/muckraking skills I can only guess, but I'd be willing to bet it's because of a mistaken idea that "we're on the same side
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by mpyne 12y ago
I think all they're saying is that the location X appears precise , but that it's not accurate . Just because the pin appears at location X doesn't mean that the user was actually at location X, simply that the database end
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by mpyne 12y ago
Even the need for regular replacement went away long ago. Our current (old) designs get refueled only once, and new ships don't get refueled at all (the core lasts as long as the hull does). They do all need regular maintenance , but
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by mpyne 12y ago
FDR took the larger U.S. international economy off the gold standard in 1933, so if "bank-controlled fiat" isn't exactly "new". And even that is a highly American-centric POV; other economies have worked on bank con
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by mpyne 12y ago
Sure, but knowing the actual IP address certainly narrows down which ISP to send a subpoena to in order to image the storage of that server.
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by mpyne 12y ago
> can't get past the idea that a currency needs to be backed by a state to be a real currency. That's the most ridiculous claim ever...currencies existed long before nation-states ever did. I think if you examine those economis
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by mpyne 12y ago
The page has an anarchist-style logo in the upper left. I suspect that this, in addition to the normal stereotyping of "the authorities" as being clueless with regard to technology, is what led to the jibe.
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by mpyne 12y ago
If he can smell it from outside my cellar, then why isn't he able to knock on my door? Or call the cops if I'm not home. Even for actual extremis (such as a fire) I'd generally expect people to call the fire department instea
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by mpyne 12y ago
They had data of "discolored water" in an area 3nm from where the seamount actually was, on a chart not normally used for navigation It is true that they did have the chart available, and that they would have been far more prude
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by mpyne 12y ago
> We can't fix this by working within the system. That's what the Church Committee tried to do. They failed. There is no reason to think their twenty-first century counterparts will not fail again. So take it to the logical con
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by mpyne 12y ago
Read it as much as you want. His first sentence said "...every single document I disclosed ..." (emphasis added). Note how he didn't say "every single document I copied from NSA"; he was referring to documents he
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by mpyne 12y ago
There's a fair amount of IRC channels which are nice (and where that's enforced). IRC is a technology, not an ideology, just like the WWW that underpins HN.
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by mpyne 12y ago
What is your scheme to ensure that all of the people who need to review (which should be millions , right?) are able to fairly review, without also exposing the stuff which should not be seen by ISIS to that review? Snowden "chose for
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by mpyne 12y ago
> NSA also tapped FB upstream. Which might have made sense as a defense if Snowden was talking about MUSCULAR... but he was talking about PRISM , and by your logic (saying he had IC expertise and wasn't simply a sysadmin) he should
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by mpyne 12y ago
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-... Note the date. Here's the quote: "I carefully evaluated every single document I disclosed to ensure that each was legitimately in
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by mpyne 12y ago
This deserves way more than 70 points in 2 hours. If bash.org isn't up HN's alley I don't know what is!
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by mpyne 12y ago
Snowden, in an interview that he gave when this all started, stated explicitly that (unlike Manning), he reviewed each and every single document in that mass that he dumped. Furthermore, that review was to ensure that it was material the th
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by mpyne 12y ago
Just because the mafia doesn't simply break knees randomly doesn't mean that the threat of violence doesn't underpin the mafia's operations. Yes, this includes targeted killings and violent extortion when required. Since
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by mpyne 12y ago
I think the thought seems to be that if we don't allow people to organize in any meaningful way (i.e. against the people) then the problem of organizations is solved. Never mind that said organizations would simply resort to setting up
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by mpyne 12y ago
I got to see some of it at Navy OCS (where Marine Corps drill instructors lead the military training). For example, the women in our class always seemed to come in for extra punishment. Nothing demeaning, nothing untoward or out of regs, ju

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