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by ripb 12y ago
It's working fine for me in FF 32.0.3 and Chrome 37.0.2062.120 (64-bit)
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If you're just lurking then you're committing no crimes, and sure if you've ever even googled "Tor" or "Tails" the NSA will have you marked for it anyway. [1] I decided to fire up Tor and have a look at th
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No not necessarily. I use PM a lot here in Ireland, mainly for things that only have UK shipping available, or free shipping to the UK but not elsewhere, etc. PM is €3-€4 for a standard package, so what I'll regularly encounter is thin
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by ripb 12y ago
That will depend on the drug. If you're talking about heroin or crack addicts who've to essentially approach random people they don't know, then yes there is obviously risk associated with it. However when you're talking
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You could also use drop box services like Parcel Motel and maintain a degree of anonymity through it. Depending on how well you set it up, the only real chance of being caught is if the package was found in transit and the authorities decid
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It is absolutely not your problem to comment on this matter. It's actually none of your business. Also, admitting that you were looking at offer letters when you should have known straight away from first glance that it was none of you
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>Most do not care about their abstract rights, as the OP stated. Life is mostly okay, maybe not as easy as 2000-2008, but pretty easy. Therefore, they don't want to rock the boat. I'm surprised that you've been downvoted f
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>Even in extreme situations where governments are overthrown, foreign intelligence agencies have perfected their ability to totally manipulated the chaos to their benefit. If not simply orchestrate the whole thing themselves, as the US a
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The odds of heads rolling, going by previous non-attempts at holding these agencies responsible for their actions, seem to be low enough that they're quite happy to engage this behaviour without fear. And as for bringing about a change
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>Throw a couple of cops in prison for stunts like this, and we'd probably see a lot less abuse. I think you'd see a variety of political arguments against this that would amount to such an action helping terrorism, those suppor
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>The Corruption Perceptions survey is a useful metric. The USA tends to hang with Japan around the high teens in ranking year after year. Interestingly, there is a wider variance in perceptions of American corruption than for other count
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Verizon-bankrolled “news” site bans stories on US spying and net neutrality(arstechnica.com)
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>So you can be directed towards doctors/procedures/products to treat whatever they find? Advertising isn't necessarily bad... Which promotes those who can pay the most to advertise, not the best in their field or even a gi
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>Haters: "No thanks, way too intrusive. I don't want you tracking me/selling my data/showing me ads." Why is anyone cynical of such an activity deemed a "hater"? Because they don't conform and alig
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>Honest question: Why? Why should an advertising company get access to this data in the first place? What do they intend on doing with it? Selling us adverts based on a combination of our biochemical data, or the state of our health, cou
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>Why do Apple, Google and major IT companies seem so much interested by our health suddenly ? What are they planning to do with the data ? Just selling it ? (life insurance companies ?) I'm surprised that posts containing not even o
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by ripb 12y ago
>This is a great way to help increase the risk you get cancer, since it's cumulative, not per-instance. Well, I suppose at least in their case it has a high probability of being detected within 6-12 months.
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I find the idea of potentially handing Google, a firm whose core model is selling ads and generalized user data, the details of my biochemical makeup quite troubling.
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by ripb 12y ago
It will be interesting to see how this progresses. As you said, false positives would certainly be a significant issue, and underlining that would be a question of liability. If Google's scanner tells you that it has detected the forma
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New data shows more signs that patent troll suits are in decline(arstechnica.com)
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>Yes, it's pretty incredible. And try to imagine if a foreign power forced down air force 1 and boarded the plane. That would be an act of war. Absolutely. Imagine if Air Force 1 were even prevented from taking off from a foreign co
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Apple to distribute over $100M worth of iPads in underprivileged schools(engadget.com)
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>"The Obama administration in my view is conducting a war against whistleblowers and ultimately against independent journalism." This is spot on. When you use your power to ground another President's flight in the hope of
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>This disparity can be addressed, but its not by the Soviet solution of fixing prices or quotas I agree. > Its by doing diligent hiring, looking hard for the good candidates of minority descent This contradicts your first point in a w
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>You have to graduate from specific places and have a specific background. It's a general problem. It's only a problem if you believe that these places are being favoured over others with merit being thrown to the way side, and
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>How can Google and its competitors consult the data source at the scale they deal with? As insinuated by the author of this article, by overlooking the best and brightest at the country's top universities in favour of pulling in mo
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>These authors saying white employees are bad? Or that a 60% white force is bad? I'm sick and tired of the "white people" bashing for no good reason. They're saying that hiring based on merit, from the top universitie
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by ripb 12y ago
>It's just not accurate enough on 140 character tweets. I would disagree but apply the caveat that there has to be heavy filtering of what is being analysed to derive anything of value from it. A tweet like: "“@BarkhamTaylor: #
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Nice site, although it does have issues with the analysis as outlined by others here. One suggestion I would have is some sort of filtering based on the content of the tweets. This tweet returned "feeling good": "New post fea
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by ripb 12y ago
I'm on my mobile so can't do much linking, but there is evidence of narcotics use dating back throughout recorded history. Drugs are extremely popular today. Using the two above, I made the assumption that people will be using nar

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