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by n3rdy 14y ago
> Actually it is not excessive. It is legal for CSIS to monitor non-citizens and it is even legal for them to investigate citizens if they may be assisting foreigners that Canada disapproves of. Just because something is legal doesn't m
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by n3rdy 14y ago
Is it possible that they may have used a type of hardware backdoor? Something that would be connected to the router, or back of the computer using the lan or usb port? None of that would show up in any logs or files, and it would get around
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by n3rdy 14y ago
Are you talking about the prosecutors or their victims?
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Personally I would donate to a kickstarter project (or any similar platform) that seemed like projects I would like to build myself, but didn't have the time or skill to do so. It seems too often that people forget that financial gain is no
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by n3rdy 14y ago
So.. many.. cats!
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> The point isn't that Fabrice Bellard isn't special. It's that even a special (clearly brilliant and self-directed) guy like him can arguably benefit from the systematic learning of domain specific information that happens at a univers
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by n3rdy 14y ago
I disagree. Success is all about trial and error. If you want to call it luck when you run out of things that can go wrong, then call it luck. I consider luck to be an exception, not an inevitability. The only role luck has in achieved succ
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by n3rdy 14y ago
I disagree that luck has anything to do with success. People get lucky all the time and do nothing with it. How many people win the lottery only to go broke? When that happens nobody bats an eyelash, but if someone uses those lottery winnin
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by n3rdy 14y ago
Only if you're inheriting all their wealth. For every successful person who can attribute their success to the work ethic their parents taught them, there are ten losers and twenty disappointed yet hard working parents.
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> The FDA is an ugly, flawed, but arguably vital workaround for that bug. If you want to get rid of it, you need to offer another fix for the bug. Here is an idea of a work around. First, FDA "recommendations" shouldn't be mandatory. Ev
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> Sheldon's tireless and obnoxious pedantery is a perfect caricature of me. IMO Sheldon's personality is the personification of a kitty cat.
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by n3rdy 14y ago
Just pointing out the full hierarchy of the nerd scale: Dork -> Geek -> Nerd -> Hacker -> (Ritchie || Wozniac || Tesla) It does in fact go deeper, but its a little more controversial: Jock <- Madden Gamer <- Gamer &#
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> There are countless therapies that are dangerous and/or ineffective and plenty of unscrupulous or incompetent people who want to flog them. The FDA forces their own therapy of "do nothing for yourself" on the patient when the patient
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by n3rdy 14y ago
Perhaps they shipped them with only 23 gigs of free space knowing they would be returned long before anyone could use up that space.
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by n3rdy 14y ago
Apparently we're not just behind in internet speed, but payment methods as well.
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I’ve also worked the other side of the fence, working with law enforcement and the US Government on computer-involved national security issues, most notably in the apprehension of Bradley Manning for leaking military and diplomatic secrets
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So this is kind of what its like to have interesting things to share as filtered images and friends who care enough to enjoy them! Now I just need friends :'-(
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Bootstrapped Intelligence. I like it.
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Was about to post what a perversion that interpretation is of the 2nd amendment, but holy cow can't actually argue with that. What a shame they wrote "free state", but then again, they were forming a new government, so what should we have e
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by n3rdy 14y ago
Aren't drones already privatized? Every time I pass a Brookstone at the mall, they're selling the "arduino board not included" models.
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This isn't about protecting investors from losing money, this is about raising an artificial barrier to entry for smaller start-ups.
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I didn't have a choice, according to CFAA I was probably breaking the law just viewing the page!
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As it is today you're absolutely right. If there were a campaign equal to those "rock the vote" campaigns, it could be interesting. I'm also realistic. If voter turnout was even 1%, it would still be considered a legitimate election. It wo
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by n3rdy 14y ago
> Seriously, someone needs to keep these loonies that run our country in check, because our masses are so stupid that they keep electing the idiots back into office. Ridiculous. The electing isn't the problem, the voting is. If nobody v
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by n3rdy 14y ago
Wouldn't you need a broker account with minimal spread and very low broker fees for this to work? The banks who are already doing high frequency trading don't have to worry about this, they can profit off a trade after its gone up a fractio
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by n3rdy 14y ago
It can go the other way too. Should it be illegal to kill animals for food? How is bestiality more cruel to an animal than how some pigs are raised in factory farms, or veal, or the frequent abuse of chickens that we've turned a blind eye t
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This definitely puts the original article in a different perspective. It also answers my question whether the jurors were forced to watch the material. Governments solution to a man producing movies that sexually violate animals? Sexually v
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Worth mentioning that the court probably didn't take the consent of those random citizens into consideration before making them watch the material either. If that were the case, the government probably committed a bigger crime than the prod
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Disturbing, but valid point.
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> What if I always lock my front door, but this morning I was in a hurry and forgot? Should I give up all rights of private property because of this error? You and me would both be alarmed if someone entered our house after we forgot to

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