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by olefoo 13y ago
On top of all the other steps, you'll want to get cosmetic surgery to alter your face to match the new identity. In the US at least the FBI has a program in collaboration with every state DMV to perform facial recognition on drivers li
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by olefoo 13y ago
Yes, but the extraordinary renditions were to cooperative governments. not to ones that were in opposition. The list of countries that accepted prisoners for the US is relatively short and mostly consisted of "secular arab governments&
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by olefoo 13y ago
Yes, the rest of the album is a sort of primer on the elements of disco and that track is the example of what happens when you put all the elements; hooks, beats, bridges, vocals and feelings together. I expect that in a couple of years, pe
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by olefoo 13y ago
The problem is that Europeans today feel as though they are under the US's economic bootheel. They see their leaders pushing austerity policies at the behest of US headquartered financial firms and they see their markets opened to the
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by olefoo 13y ago
As a copyeditor; 'reactive' might be a better word to communicate the meaning you intend.
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by olefoo 13y ago
Your needlessly inflammatory hypothetical example is irrelevant in this case. Snowden did not; no matter whose rhetoric one accepts uncritically, perform an act of violence. And most people's moral calculus admits the concept of the ba
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by olefoo 13y ago
And the Egyptian, Turkish and Brazilian governments are not afraid of their citizens either. It is best to give up any hope for a better world, power always prevails; and power is always on the side of authority.
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by olefoo 13y ago
It probably won't; but the fact that there is a split in what was previously a rock solid relationship, and that Europe would be much better off if it could distance itself from a US led global financial system does mean that the possi
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by olefoo 13y ago
If your alternatives are "Return to your home country and face torture." or "Accept that you will have to live out your days under the protection of a government not your own."; I would say that qualifies as being forced
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by olefoo 13y ago
It's almost as if he's deliberately provoking the most rabid response possible from the United States Government. Regardless of what happens to him; he is writing himself into the pages of history. His actions have opened the poss
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by olefoo 13y ago
Without having the letter from Snowden's father in front of us, we can't say exactly what is being asked for; but the fact that the United States of America has been labeled a 'country of concern' by multiple internation
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by olefoo 13y ago
It's an interesting question the criminality of his actions may from a legal standpoint be completely independent of his status as a whistleblower or spy ( and those two categories may not be mutually exclusive either ). Certainly he h
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by olefoo 13y ago
Cases like this are corrosive to the legitimacy of the judicial system. And it seems all of our institutions are suffering from a crisis of legitimacy. Our justices care not for justice; our law makers are so bought and paid for they should
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by olefoo 13y ago
The point I was trying to make is that there are some powerful forces that will drive the expansion of "security culture" far beyond what seems reasonable to us now. The .gov has always required contractors working on sensitive ma
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by olefoo 13y ago
This is a very chilling article. One element of the fallout of Snowden's escapade will be that private industry will be required to participate in and be a part of the same security policies; and this will be true of companies of all s
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by olefoo 13y ago
The petition to censure or fire Carmen Ortiz ( Aaron Swartz' prosecutor ) has still not received any answer.
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by olefoo 13y ago
LD;DM == Lame Duck; Doesn't Matter Obama's approval rating with any demographic is just a statistic with no implications toward his behavior or any future events at this point.
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by olefoo 13y ago
The fact that Holder and Obama chose to drop their charges into public view smack in the middle of the friday night news blackout shows that they lack confidence and feel weak in the face of negative public opinion. We are entering into the
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by olefoo 13y ago
You should spend some time with english majors. Finnegans Wake is sort of the literary equivalent of The Art Of Computer Programming, widely admired, seldom read, rarely understood.
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by olefoo 13y ago
From the perspective of an established incumbent player in a lucrative market, a disruptively effective startup _is_ an economic terrorist. The existence of a repository of data of this sort will be used to defend existing economic arrangem
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by olefoo 13y ago
Including after the fact attribution of motive for any of a number of actions based on peoples online comments. The real question is if the already exposed two way trade in information is going to be broadened into a comprehensive assessmen
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by olefoo 13y ago
Anwar-alAlaqui was a lot closer to being an Alex Jones, or Glenn Beck type of figure than being some terrorist mastermind; he was basically killed for calling for spiritual struggle against the United States Government. There's not muc
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by olefoo 13y ago
Actually, the national security budgets are remarkably insulated from the rest of the government, and there is plenty of evidence that the CIA at the very least, has not been shy about creating other sources of income to fund it's off
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by olefoo 13y ago
A more effective list of tactics (for the long term): 1. poison databases; feed bogus information to surveillance systems at all levels, do this as a matter of course, make it pop culture. 2. build darknets: for instance wifi nodes disconne
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by olefoo 13y ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/25/sami-al-hajj-al-jaz... Oh, wait that's not the one you were looking for; it's much worse; he's being held in a concentration camp; and questioned extens
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by olefoo 13y ago
Real-time synchronous communication ( like phone calls ) is pretty hard to hide, it uses bandwidth and takes up space on switches and needs low latency to work at all ( make a voip call to someplace that only has satellite internet to see h
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by olefoo 13y ago
Don't take this the wrong way, but .gov procurement people do notice things like the fact that both domains ( dobt.co and procure.io ) are using cctld's for non-US countries.
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by olefoo 13y ago
> Next time I'll read the article before submitting it, sorry. So what was your thought process in submitting that article?
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by olefoo 13y ago
Have you ever given someone a gift of food or beverage as a way of saying thank you for a financially meaningful favor? Have you ever given a gift card or stored value card produced by a non-bank institution? Been on the receiving end of a
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by olefoo 13y ago
I was mildly appalled that such a low quality article made it onto the frontpage of HN, a psychological study that starts off by talking about Aristotle and les quatres humeurs scores high on my bullshit detection algorithm. But I thought

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