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901.
by s_q_b 13y ago
Nope. But now we've got a great dataset of users that blindly upvote stories.
902.
by s_q_b 13y ago
It's on the SpaceX website. That Musk was doing this through SpaceX is news to me.
903.
by s_q_b 13y ago
Federal sales and ECC encryption patents are alone worth the purchase.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
EMP over the Pacific primarily targets military communications, preventing an organized conventional response. Cyberstrikes are used to pressure the civilian population into demanding peace. Theoretically you could just blanket the North Am
905.
by s_q_b 13y ago
High-altitude EMP over the Pacific is often cited as the first step in a Chinese response to open conflict with the United States, followed by cyber-strikes against US infrastructure. It's a very good asymmetrical warfare weapon for we
906.
by s_q_b 13y ago
Wow, didn't realize Meta was a YC company. It's a very interesting product. I watched the demo on Kickstarter. I couldn't put my finger on it, but something seemed off about the object occlusion. Was that FX or real tech?
907.
by s_q_b 13y ago
Helped me quit smoking, as well as several of my friends. It's a much more effective transition because it mimics the entire ritual of smoking, not just the nicotine hit. Mostly, nicotine was very secondary to the other reasons I would
908.
by s_q_b 13y ago
You can make a electronic bump key that will open most doors for <$100, most buildings have windows (cover them in duct tape to break without noise), and even the wire mesh in the walls of a "secure" building can be cut with th
909.
by s_q_b 13y ago
Wow, that's a very unusual case. I suppose the lesson is that confessions should always be investigated thoroughly for corroborating evidence. If a person committed a crime, they should be able to give details that only the criminal wo
910.
by s_q_b 13y ago
You're confusing understandable with permissible. I understand Nazi concentration camps. It was a manipulation of nationalist sentiment against an imagined internal enemy, conveniently one that could be dispossessed of a great deal of
911.
by s_q_b 13y ago
Miranda should attach immediately upon any interaction with the police. You shouldn't be able to confess until you've had the benefit of legal counsel, regardless of whether you assert the right. I recognize that sounds extreme, b
912.
by s_q_b 13y ago
>only the government (via prosecutors) can charge anyone with criminal offenses. That's almost universally true, but some states still do in fact have the right of private prosecution. E.g. New Jersey allows you to swear out a crimi
913.
by s_q_b 13y ago
Yeah, searches of homes or cars can really just be straight out ransacking. There should be a statute that the government has to pay for damages incurred during searches, especially if they're ruled improper.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
I actually don't do this at the border, mostly because I travel for work, so getting detained for 12 hours isn't an option. I do commend you for doing that though. It takes true courage and conviction. You're doing a national
915.
by s_q_b 13y ago
I love the idea of cop watch. The Justice Department's specific guidance that taping the police was one of the rare moments over the past few years that I've been very proud of the Obama administration. I wish someone sold a discr
916.
by s_q_b 13y ago
Actually this is exactly what occurs. Intelligence exchange among America and its allies under Echelon, ANZUS, and UKUSA have been used in this exact way to end-run around anti-domestic surveillance laws.
917.
by s_q_b 13y ago
Right. Sovereign states exist in a state of anarchy. They can do whatever they want, and the only ultimate way for one state to stop another is through force. Of course, this is the traditional Westphalian model that is beginning to cede to
918.
by s_q_b 13y ago
For the record, I always assert my rights, and I've seen both results. Since I was never breaking the law, it's always worked out in my favor. I'm certainly not suggesting that people don't avail themselves of their lega
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by s_q_b 13y ago
Really asserting your rights gets you even more screwed by the police. You usually catch a charge relating to resisting arrest, or even obstruction of justice. What I've often wondered is if we could just troll them somehow. Something
920.
by s_q_b 13y ago
Strictly speaking, non-citizens have no rights under the American Constitution when they're not on US soil. FISA 702 grants extensive access to collect foreign communications relating to terrorism. So from a legal standpoint, there isn
921.
by s_q_b 13y ago
This is tin-foil hat territory. The CIA was practically dismantled under Bush 43, and the intelligence agencies fight amongst one another like boisterous stepbrothers. To think the intelligence agencies control the government is vastly over
922.
by s_q_b 13y ago
The specific type of explosive used the Boston bombings, the pressure cooker devices, was originally from Anwar al-Awlaki's Inspire magazine. The Feds, based on DC hearsay, may be a little embarrassed they didn't catch the associa
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by s_q_b 13y ago
> That people don't think their actions are evil doesn't prove that their actions aren't evil. Certainly not. The issue is not their beliefs, but rather the reasoning behind them. Different experiences of the world give ri
924.
by s_q_b 13y ago
> The technical possibility isn't the new and staggering part, it's the profound lack of morality, respect for any ideal whatsoever, and compete apathy towards the oaths these people took to serve us. Again, I'll chime in
925.
by s_q_b 13y ago
When the Germans stop hosting NSA facilities, and end their own version of internet surveillance programs, their opinion on these issues will carry more weight with me.
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by s_q_b 13y ago
They're just starting to get serious, but the Internet Association is playing way too much softball, and more importantly they're pushing more for the specific corporate goals of their financiers than the interests of the internet
927.
by s_q_b 13y ago
Sure, there are some interests that run in the opposite direction. But domestically, the amount of power Silicon Valley and tech centers across the country hold in Washington is not commensurate with their economic and cultural clout. Certa
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by s_q_b 13y ago
We need a well-organized lobbying effort to support the interests of United States internet companies. Those survey numbers are actually astounding. The most surprising thing about lobbying and donation efforts is that they aren't real
929.
by s_q_b 13y ago
Let me think on that. It's really a political question of vulnerability. You want someone that's prominent enough in the debate, but weak enough in their home district to take down. A senator would be better than a Congressman...
930.
by s_q_b 13y ago
For the founder and the seed investors and the VCs, certainly it was a great success. From my perspective, that's a type of success is exceedingly rare, akin to winning the lottery. That mindset doesn't fit with my own personal go

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