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by pvnick 13y ago
Not saying it goes back that far, but referring to more recent times. Like over the past couple weeks. I don't think anybody in the world other than Snowden himself knew of his plans to penetrate BAH. But even if they did, who cares? A
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by pvnick 13y ago
Just want to reply to say I also would like to hear an answer to this question. Something I've wanted to do for a while is write a fuzzer [1] that puts together arbitrary garbage shader script code and runs it with weird webgl operatio
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by pvnick 13y ago
I wonder to what degree Wikileaks held Snowden's hand through all of this? For those who remember, Assange's organization distributed a large encrypted archive through bittorrent around the diplomatic cable leaks, presumably with
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by pvnick 13y ago
I've been saying this for a while now (well, a couple weeks anyway). The defeat of the cryptography behind SSL communication is an inevitability given sufficient time, so it would absolutely behoove intelligence agencies to store ever
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by pvnick 13y ago
I don't accept that.
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by pvnick 13y ago
FWIW "Kim Kardashian is fat now" has been a top news story for weeks and week. The vapidity of our "news" is stunning.
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by pvnick 13y ago
This is infuriating. What can we do?
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by pvnick 13y ago
More leaks, this time something huge , which I certainly expect Greenwald and Snowden are sitting on
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by pvnick 13y ago
I am so saddened to hear that the country I pledged allegiance to as a child is now being accused of human rights abuses by Amnesty International :(
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by pvnick 13y ago
You're correct that lots of interest groups say lots of things, but I happen to agree with the ACLU's position, which is why I specifically brought it up. I agree that the FISC opinion in question will be very enlightening. Also,
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by pvnick 13y ago
Maybe if you squint really really hard you can see some legality to the individual components that make of the programs, but, according to the ACLU, the programs themselves are blatant violations of the first and fourth amendments [1], an
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by pvnick 13y ago
A bit offtopic, but is there a style associated with the image at the top? Particularly the way that eyeball looks, I've seen that style of artwork a lot when reading surveillance-related stories.
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by pvnick 13y ago
I also think that there's a really huge opportunity here for Big Data to make a Big Impact (excuse me for being cliche). See http://beluga.grooveshark.com for a good example. Imagine the possibilities of linking music consu
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by pvnick 13y ago
I actually came here to comment on the same quote. It's quite sad, really, that my country has, with the revelations of a single person (and of course their response), completely lost all credibility to make statements regarding &quo
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by pvnick 13y ago
FYI the box to sign the petition is in the upper-right, for those that may not have seen it I say, the more petitions (and other things of course) the better. While one petition is unlikely to force a change in course, the public making eno
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by pvnick 13y ago
>To make matters worse, there are no alcohol sales aboard the nearly 12-hour flight and the reporters must spend three days in Cuba before they can leave because of the country’s travel rules. I find this supremely funny. "Where&#x2
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by pvnick 13y ago
> That’s exactly the danger of what too much ambition can do: Narrow the range of acceptable outcomes to the ridiculous, and then make anything less seem like utter failure I love this quote, it succinctly puts in words the uneasy feelin
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by pvnick 13y ago
Yes this will make you stronger, but not as much as barbell exercises
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by pvnick 13y ago
Love it! This is the kind of initiatives we should be working towards.
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by pvnick 13y ago
Shameless plug for http://restorethe4th.net , a planned mass demonstration on July 4th to restore the fourth amendment.
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by pvnick 13y ago
Nobody is talking about chicken pot pie. I don't appreciate your obvious straw man attack. The stories about a political refugee trying to escape the grasp of the United States, a country which stands for freedom and human rights , is
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by pvnick 13y ago
I agree with everything you just said (and I can't claim that about anybody very often). Like someone else said, I will upvote every Snowden-related story because only by talking about this and taking action can we have even the slight
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by pvnick 13y ago
> But we all know essentially how this will end: Prism isn't going away and Edward Snowden's fate is grim Not only do I disagree with this point, I would go so far as to say your defeatist attitude will make this terrible outco
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by pvnick 13y ago
Actually this sounds like a viable business model
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by pvnick 13y ago
http://www.exrx.net/Testing/WeightLifting/SquatStandards.htm... Really it's somewhere between 250 and 300, but I chose 270 because 1) it's in the middle near where average-weight men would be and 2) star
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by pvnick 13y ago
Kerry really comes off as a crybaby here
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by pvnick 13y ago
Read this article for the answer http://startingstrength.com/articles/barbell_medicine_sulliv... Fitness relativism is not acceptable. It leads people to live unhealthy, and, in some cases, shorter lives.
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by pvnick 13y ago
> exercising just for health If you aren't making progress, than you aren't exercising "for health." This article is very enlightening: http://startingstrength.com/articles/barbell_medicine_sulliv
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by pvnick 13y ago
Completely agree, this is very good advice. I wish I had more time to respond but I'm at risk of being late to work. Here's how you put forth the minimum amount of time commitment while deriving the greatest amount of benefit: -If
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by pvnick 13y ago
I agree with your sentiment for the most part, except to nit-pick and say that the guidelines prohibit " Most stories about politics," but, like you said and what I think I stated pretty well in my post is that this topic is part

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