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by pkinsky 13y ago
>(The NSA) simply doesn't have the time to read irrelevant emails or listen in on conversations unconnected to possible plots against American civilians. Possible "plotters against American civilians": -Occupy -animal-righ
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by pkinsky 13y ago
If by "ordinary, mainstream" you mean white, you need to remember that the Irish, the Polish, etc. were not considered white at this time. (not trying to be racist, just trying to accurately describe a racist system)
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by pkinsky 13y ago
>Our legislation is currently investigating the president for: * CIA coverup of the attack on our Benghazi consulate' * IRS targeting of political opposition These investigations are politically motivated, effectively battles in a w
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by pkinsky 13y ago
NSLs come with gag orders, and it's possible that the government would view shutting down a service entirely as a violation of the duty not to disclose. It gets fuzzy here, because we're speculating on how a secret court will rule
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Are they shutting down preemptively because shutting down a service that has received an NSL is illegal? I'll be watching what happens to Lavabit to find out.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
I've got some bad news for you about the US and Britain. I assume you know about Churchill's prefered method for dealing with 'uncivilized tribes', poison gas?
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by pkinsky 13y ago
> And Russia support some of today's worst mass murderers/torturers. Are you arguing for or against symmetry? The US has gotten much better since the end of the Cold War, but we still prop up the House of Saud, for example.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Java is not a good example of a statically typed language. Null pointer exceptions just don't happen in idiomatic Scala. For example, let's say I have 3 functions a,b and c, each with signature Int => Option[Int]. Any one of th
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by pkinsky 13y ago
>If Schneier is as unhappy with today's programs as he was with 2005's, then perhaps he should communicate a bit more clearly that today's occupant of the Oval Office could end any of them with a phone call. I want to beli
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by pkinsky 13y ago
As if the NSA needs Germany to get at emails on yahoo and google!
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by pkinsky 13y ago
If the US were to apply this same principle to our bankers and white collar criminals then we might have a leg to stand on. As it is, this isn't an argument the government of the United States can make in good faith.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
The CPC cares about maintaining legitimacy and avoiding unrest. Their legitimacy rests on continued economic growth. China has had massive popular insurrections in living memory and continues to have local ones to this day.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Do you mean that a serious hacker would upload (encrypted) data from a compromised machine to pastebin for later retrieval?
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by pkinsky 13y ago
It's not implausible that the employer's tip led to a full trawl of the family's stored online history. Which, with what I'm sure is a shockingly high false positive rate, found cause for suspicion.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Let P(F|D) = .001 (assuming 1 in 1000 chance foul play was involved given a death of a speaker at a conference) P(F|D) = P(D|F) P(F)/P(D) = 1 0.00002 / 0.0017 = 0.018 (chance of foul play for a single speech giv
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Oh, like Anwar_al-Awlaki's son? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdulrahman_al-Awlaki#Abdulrahm...
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The Networked Narrative(ribbonfarm.com)
1 points by pkinsky 13y ago|0 comments
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Glad to hear it, from the title I thought you meant that you would be gone from this earth, and not as a taikonaut.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
<sociopath>Other patent assertion entities would be inspired to think carefully about targeting entities subscribing to our protection service.</sociopath>
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by pkinsky 13y ago
What if 'you' are an anonymous remailer service account and a bitcoin address? It would be amusing if patent trolling got bad enough to force startups to operate on the black market. After all, what's the ROI on legitimacy if
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by pkinsky 13y ago
I don't consider Congress to be an honest career. Do you?
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Does this include f5? https://code.google.com/p/f5-steganography/
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by pkinsky 13y ago
>So Gordievsky believes Snowden would have gotten roughly the same treatment that the KGB spy got back in 1985. “They would have fed him something to loosen his tongue,” Gordievsky says by phone from the U.K., where he has been living in
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National Geographic photographer arrested for feedlot overflight(hutchnews.com)
10 points by pkinsky 13y ago|2 comments
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Remember Assange talking about how the presence of organizations like wikileaks would impose additional operating costs on institutions operating under conditions of secrecy? This is that.
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by pkinsky 13y ago
I'm starting to think some people value social stability so much that they would condemn the leaking of "Soylent Green is people!"
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Re Google Glass: Do you think that security forces would be less able to violate your rights if all interactions with them recorded? Alternatively, do you think video logs of interactions with oppressive security forces might spark public o
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by pkinsky 13y ago
I've built a tool to create arbitrary rigid 3D surfaces and support structures from laser-cut-and-perforated folded tyvek panels. It's probably never going to be commercialized, but it is fun to tinker with. The use case is 3d shapes where
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by pkinsky 13y ago
http://www.businessinsider.com/absurd-laws-of-singapore-2012... >Singapore also differs from the United States where penalties are determined by a judge;breaking certain laws in Singapore can come with mandatory decisions that still i
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by pkinsky 13y ago
Is that perception based on his public speech or on his actions?

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