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by mpyne 12y ago
> You don't find pretty redheads like Anna Chapman sneaking into the country. No, China does that too. It's a big problem over at U.S. Pacific Command over in Hawaii. They do the rest of the stuff you mention as well, don'
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by mpyne 12y ago
> it doesn't benefit anyone to have a real hostile relationship. It benefits China greatly to have a "hostile" relationship, at least as far as using networked computing to carry it out. Computers and cyber-attacks bring
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by mpyne 12y ago
> > Momentum, syncopation, rhythm and pattern make a sentence flow > However, I simply can't bring myself to read this without speaking "rythm, and pattern": the sentence is expertly crafted and frankly sounds amazin
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by mpyne 12y ago
> - We still don't know whether or not the companies on the PRISM slides were participating voluntarily or even knowingly. Sure we do. PRISM has an NSA part and a company part. The company had to build out their end in order to part
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by mpyne 12y ago
Plus I can confirm that the open source driver is much more stable on pre-radeonsi hardware than it used to be. I eventually ended up buying a radeonsi card and while the extra GPU oomph is nice, the lower stability is not.
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by mpyne 12y ago
I read an article the other day about how jihadist software developers were complaining that higher-up leaders in their terrorist organization refused to switch away from GMail. And this from the very groups that should have known better! I
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by mpyne 12y ago
> I strongly disagree that the NSA is a good guy. Somewhat ironically IMO, Snowden himself seems to hold the NSA in higher esteem than HN does. You guys all try to find ways to vilify the lowest-level tech working at Ft. Meade while Snow
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by mpyne 12y ago
> GCHQ is quite strongly against allowing some evidence to be used in court cases because it would need to be tested in open court. Yep. And that's the whole reason 'parallel construction' exists at all in the U.S.... even
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by mpyne 12y ago
If they meant to limit it only to keep the states from taxing each other then that's exactly what would have been in the Constitution. For instance Art. I. Sect. 10 is very clear about how states may impose duties and tariffs on impo
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by mpyne 12y ago
Well, that decision was also conducted under the aegis of a wartime America with a President that actually did have much more expansive Article I powers due to the nation being in a state of war. I could be hopelessly optimistic and naïve
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by mpyne 12y ago
Why does everyone simply quote the Fourth Amendment as if that answers the question about privacy , especially privacy as applied to electronic communications ? Let me quote the Supreme Court decision establishing a right to privacy [1] (
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Warning: I am constantly looking for any opportunity to mention my son and I am duty bound to include him an any headcount or history or whenever a new family face is born. If The Meyers do this, please try not to look shocked each tim
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Not sure why you got downvoted, it's a very valid comment. I think in retrospect that my normal dose of snark, even with the point I was trying to make, was probably not appropriate to the topic at hand. If nothing else it might s
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by mpyne 12y ago
I've lost a daughter. I can't even begin to describe how traumatic it was, and I think losing her at 6 years instead of 5 months would only have been worse. My grandfather died shortly after my daughter and it wasn't even in
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by mpyne 12y ago
And while we're at it we can eradicate all software and biological viruses, since that would be nice to have too, and about as difficult.
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by mpyne 12y ago
Good points, all. It would probably be easier to argue about particulars if EFF had suggested any (though maybe they've made such feelers already in private).
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by mpyne 12y ago
While I hesitate to add to the speculation, it's interesting in retrospect to think of how Japan might have used bases they seized at Attu and Adak, Alaska to help with the problem of making strategic bombing of the U.S. west coast pos
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by mpyne 12y ago
This is really cool.
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by mpyne 12y ago
That's somewhat fair (there are still conditions under which war might occur), but my point was that we are seeing a deeper peace than simply "peace between great powers".
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by mpyne 12y ago
> the Japanese were already literally begging to surrender, and they only asked for a few trivial conditions in exchange Who specifically was begging to surrender? There were elements within the government willing to surrender, and the &
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by mpyne 12y ago
The claim is either true or not. If it is true (or even substantially so), how can it be simultaneously offensive?
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by mpyne 12y ago
I like how we're evaluating the USG of 2014 on the War of 1812, among other things. I was involved in planning for a 200-year commemoration of the War of 1812. We invited the U.K. and Canada, amongst other nations, and they were glad t
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by mpyne 12y ago
Do civilian webmasters or Dev/Ops personnel typically retain all the data they transmit or receive along with the metadata as well? That's what I'm still confused about here; why couldn't the court order the NSA to retai
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by mpyne 12y ago
Neither indefinite detention nor drones are contrary to international law per se. German combatants were detained indefinitely during WWII, and a drone is no different from any other aircraft as far as international law is concerned. Tortur
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by mpyne 12y ago
> It also discusses how conventional bombs were doing a fine job of systematically destroying the country (and population), waiting would have likely produced the same effect as japan was blockaded and staving So now ask yourself: Is it
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by mpyne 12y ago
Can you point to any safety-related mechanisms that have ever entirely eradicated the unsafe behavior they were meant to protect against? For those mechanisms that are not 100% effective, does that mean they should all be removed completely
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by mpyne 12y ago
Doesn't help that it's completely out of context as well, IIRC. But even in this quote the weasel word " essential " is included in the term "essential Liberty". So what is absolutely essential? Could there be
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by mpyne 12y ago
As an example, look at all the people who simultaneously supported Sabu hacking into government computers and email when it was part of LulzSec and opposed Sibu hacking into Brazilian computers and email when it was part of FBI. The &quot
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Well, I've heard[from whom?] speculation Well that's a good question you ask yourself, since speculation is just that. There were certainly elements within the Japanese government that had wished to surrender for a long time,
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Furthermore it seems likely that a combined soviet/american land invasion would have prompted nearly as quick of a surrender as the atomic bombings. Perhaps (there always remains the question of where the Soviets would have found

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