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by salient 13y ago
Look at it this way: it makes killing people with targeted missiles that much cheaper, which means they will want to do more of it, not just to "important targets", but to "associated targets", too. It's basically t
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by salient 13y ago
Exactly. If they don't really know what it is, then they should've left it alone for now.
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by salient 13y ago
So is this the Bluestar or not? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tesla_BlueStar 2015 would be on track for the Bluestar, but I remember Musk saying this year that it was basically delayed until 2017, which was pretty disap
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by salient 13y ago
Yes, they keep saying that as if all the collected data wasn't already "looked at" through keyword alerts or similar systems, or that they wouldn't give themselves permission to look manually at someone's data anyw
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by salient 13y ago
I'll leave this here: http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/15/5214452/60-minutes-softba...
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by salient 13y ago
Maybe not shut down, but I imagine if the US did something truly bad (nuking an innocent country?), and there would be strong worldwide outrage to the point that everyone would boycott - or even riot - against American companies abroad, tha
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by salient 13y ago
It would be nice if Whatsapp, which is so popular, would help make its users a lot more secure by adopting end-to-end encryption, perhaps like what TextSecure v2 is using. Getting people to use services with proper encryption is going to be
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by salient 13y ago
Too bad it hasn't happened to AT&T (and other carriers), too. AT&T especially has been pretty dismissive to shareholders caring about its relationship with the NSA: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131208
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by salient 13y ago
Just use a camera with OIS instead! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbd7TtKrDFc
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by salient 13y ago
Look at it this way. If Android wouldn't have existed, Samsung would've gone with Bada, LG with their own Bada-inspired clone with no binary compatibility with Samsung's OS, Sony would've made their own, too, HTC, and Mo
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by salient 13y ago
He meant 4.1/4.2/4.3/4.4. Obviously there are huge differences between 2.3 and 4, and even 3, which barely existed anyway.
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by salient 13y ago
Now we know why IBM was one of the main companies to lobby for keeping the covered business method in the new anti-patent troll bill, along with Microsoft. They were getting ready to sue other companies with that kind of patents.
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by salient 13y ago
Surely we can create a better jobs program with that money?
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by salient 13y ago
This is because they want to obfuscate as much as possible what is being done within the agency. If everything was logged, and you knew exactly who did what, it would be a lot easier to audit the agency, which is what they don't want.
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by salient 13y ago
Is this US only?
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by salient 13y ago
The "don't be evil" mantra is going to be an order of magnitude more important in the future, than it has been so far - that is if Google still cares about following that mantra.
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by salient 13y ago
You only need to read the news about what the government is doing with drones abroad, or with military equipment at home to think at worse case scenarios.
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by salient 13y ago
And more than a half a century later, nothing changed: http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fbi-hatched-some-crazy-te...
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by salient 13y ago
> Whereas in Nazi Germany the state dominated economic actors, in inverted totalitarianism, corporations through political contributions and lobbying, dominate the United States, with the government acting as the servant of large corpora
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by salient 13y ago
Will this work only for Americans? Is there a minimum deposit amount?
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by salient 13y ago
The intelligence of the dog is limited. I guess it depends on whether we'll let such robots have limited intelligence, too, or we'll give them access to everything, and make them as smart as they can be (much smarter than us).
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by salient 13y ago
Google really is building Skynet, isn't it? And the Terminators, too... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SD6Okylclb8
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by salient 13y ago
Which often doesn't end well.
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by salient 13y ago
Wow, Keith Alexander is such an asshole. > This is analogous to a hostage-taker taking 50 people hostage, shooting 10 and then say, "If you give me full amnesty, I'll let the other 40 go." Yeah, except he didn't actua
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by salient 13y ago
ARM has the momentum, compared to MIPS.
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by salient 13y ago
For the same reason Apple is making its own custom ARM CPU right now - it can be highly integrated with whatever they want it to be, and it has exactly what they need, and none of the stuff they don't need. You can build solutions th
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by salient 13y ago
So is Google: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-12/google-said-to-mull...
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by salient 13y ago
Going by their recent announcement of Mali T760, it seems global illumination is coming with it next year: > Other features of the ARM Mali-T760 GPU include YCrCb frame buffer output and hardware assisted global illumination . Both are
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by salient 13y ago
I found this much more amusing, and it shows just how "real" Oculus VR can be to people, to the point where it physically affects their movements: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9po7_2hYaU
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by salient 13y ago
I hope it wasn't just an "accident" and Google really was working on a way to make it work for both developers and users, and perhaps it was there much like the ART runtime is in there, even though it's not ready for pri

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