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811.
by rmc 10y ago
> Consider the default zero-zero GPS coordinates (and use an app for plane or shipping tracking to look at it). It's about 200 miles off the coast of Africa and there are thousands of dodgy transponders identifying various vessels a
812.
by rmc 10y ago
This is why you should run your own mail server. Email, along with the web, is the last part of the decentralised internet to exist. Don't let it die.
813.
by rmc 10y ago
> but you do have to trust Google's privacy infrastructure. The NSA have already backdoored it.
814.
by rmc 10y ago
> And land sale? The Outer Space Treaty [1] prohibits governments from claiming ownership of planets, so where would the authority to sell land on Mars come from? Possession is 11 tenths of the law. The Treaty of Tordesillas gave the m
815.
by rmc 10y ago
How about donating $100 to Lets Encrypt then? :P
816.
by rmc 10y ago
(Some) Jews were being hidden by non-Jews. The Nazis would be very interested in the secret communication between the people/groups hiding Jews.
817.
by rmc 10y ago
> a quite decent improvement from the era when Or the era of "Linux is a cancer" http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/06/02/ballmer_linux_is_a_c...
818.
by rmc 10y ago
The mapping in west africa could be from the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team
819.
by rmc 10y ago
Microsoft allow people to use the aerial imagery that's on Bing Maps to trace things into OSM. Previously Yahoo allowed their aerial imagery to be traced from.
820.
by rmc 10y ago
> o Hw they [OSM] might've constructed their maps given the similarly noisy GPS samples Mark One Eyeball. OSM mappers manually convert the GPS traces to roads/features. You load the GPS trace into your editor, like a backgroun
821.
by rmc 10y ago
Other countries' constitutions cover non-citizens.
822.
by rmc 10y ago
Germany had a history of the government claiming "those people there aren't 'people' hence the rights don't apply to them". I suspect the courts might take that into consideration if the government tries that l
823.
by rmc 10y ago
> Are there actually any countries whose constitutional protections apply to non-citizens and/or non-residents? Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union protects you too! If you're non-US & non-Canadian, and us
824.
by rmc 10y ago
Remember: if you're a non-US citizen outside the US, then the US Constitution protection against search (4th Amendment) doesn't apply to you! We have no 4th Amendment protections!
825.
by rmc 10y ago
If they really want it to be confidential, you could tell them that you'd be willing to sign an NDA. And see if they tell you. :P
826.
by rmc 10y ago
In places with an active OSM community, like Europe, the community usually maps the new buildings faster than the satillite imagery is updated.
827.
by rmc 10y ago
> There is no core privacy premise of the internet, and certainly not one that everybody used it signed up for. There is in Europe, in the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union (basically the EU's Bill of Rights).
828.
by rmc 10y ago
No idea, but a guess: OSV will improve OpenStreetMap, which ensures that there is more options for map data?
829.
by rmc 10y ago
Germany has a history of "Let's make a new race of super humans, and presume they are the default". So I don't think that argument will fly.
830.
by rmc 10y ago
Didn't the courts require that people be allowed to blur their house fronts? Which resulted in large amounts of Google Street View being blurred.
831.
by rmc 10y ago
Mapillary already does that?
832.
by rmc 10y ago
> I know that it [Markdown] is widely used, but that's only because GitHub pushed it so much. Markdown is a specification of the informal way people wrote plain text emails.
833.
by rmc 10y ago
People might be interested in Jason Scott's documentary about text adventures: Get Lamp http://www.getlamp.com/
834.
by rmc 10y ago
This is a website for start up companies.
835.
by rmc 10y ago
Hiberno-English (the English dialect in Ireland) is similar. Lots of grammatical influence from Irish. e.g. plural you, additional tense ("do be"), verb repedition instead of yes/no. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
836.
by rmc 10y ago
The Pope does not have a symbolic power over the Roman Catholic Church.
837.
by rmc 10y ago
In countries where the employer does the tax for the employee, then the employer will see how much tax has been paid earlier in the year. They can deduce salary from that.
838.
by rmc 10y ago
> How could alt.games.football not scale, and /r/football scale ? Upvoting. NNTP didn't have it. Reddit does. This allows a reader to see the top posts.
839.
by rmc 10y ago
> to control thousands of human bodies connected (enslaved?) to them I think it's quite clear that the human bodies have their original personalities wiped and become nothing more than tools of the original AI. And the supreme leade
840.
by rmc 10y ago
Have you heard of the Arthur C. Clarke Award? It's an annual written sci-fi award from the UK, but it's a judged award. People who know lots of sci-fi read all the UK published SF in a year, and pick a winner. You can't win b

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