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901.
by sehugg 13y ago
They do this in parts of Europe, but I think this is more due to laws that make the hotspot operator liable for user conduct.
902.
by sehugg 13y ago
I would think WaPo has plenty of sources, and if anyone was wiling to speak on the record they would have published those quotes.
903.
Senator makes twelve LoveINT case details public [pdf](grassley.senate.gov)
62 points by sehugg 13y ago|5 comments
904.
by sehugg 13y ago
Bill text (I think): http://leginfo.ca.gov/pub/13-14/bill/sen/sb_0551-0600/sb_568...
905.
by sehugg 13y ago
The declassified document is new, but this has been well known for some time and corroborated by multiple trusted sources: http://www.ibiblio.org/bomb/story.html Mr. Schlosser is doing a good job promoting his book tho
906.
by sehugg 13y ago
Blog post about it: http://www.sensepost.com/blog/7557.html
907.
NSA Hiring Civil Liberties & Privacy Officer(nsa.gov)
5 points by sehugg 13y ago|1 comments
908.
by sehugg 13y ago
The articles linked talk about antibiotic-resistant genes being passed from organisms in hog waste lagoons (and hospitals) to organisms in groundwater. DNA is a molecule, yes, but a molecule with the will to survive.
909.
by sehugg 13y ago
I didn't read the article as making a judgement on whether nuclear weapons are good/bad, but since you asked... At least one study claims a conflict with few as 100 detonations could result in enough fallout to trigger a 10-year g
910.
Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011(washingtonpost.com)
292 points by sehugg 13y ago|73 comments
911.
by sehugg 13y ago
Something I didn't know; the original "RobotWar" was written by the same guy behind the original (pre-id software) Castle Wolfenstein: http://corewar.co.uk/robotwar/
912.
by sehugg 13y ago
The author has posted an update which kinda-sorta retracts this article: http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2013/09/hed
913.
Intel processor microcode security update(lists.debian.org)
73 points by sehugg 13y ago|22 comments
914.
by sehugg 13y ago
If this holds up, there are going to be some awkward conversations about mass Amber Alert broadcasts.
915.
by sehugg 13y ago
"After he was grilled for three hours by a dozen different officials, he got the time wrong by 20 minutes! He's definitely unreliable!"
916.
by sehugg 13y ago
Note that in the 1960s gold was valued at a fraction of the cost of launching its weight into orbit.
917.
by sehugg 13y ago
Might mention that the website in question is satire...
918.
by sehugg 13y ago
It's amazing what kind of yarns people on SO will spin to get help with their homework.
919.
by sehugg 13y ago
In those days I'd just be happy with a language that let me quickly manipulate 16-bit integers. AppleSoft used floating-point for all intermediate calculations, which made even simple loops very slow. I enjoyed using GraFORTH, which wa
920.
by sehugg 13y ago
I wonder if Andrew Plotkin's "Lists and Lists" (a Scheme tutorial written for the Z-machine VM) can run on a //e? Seems like it would. http://ifdb.tads.org/viewgame?id=zj3ie12ewi1mrj1t
921.
by sehugg 13y ago
So far Safari on iPad is my least unique browser (13 bits).
922.
by sehugg 13y ago
I disabled all of my plugins, and I'm still unique.
923.
Japan ponders freezing Fukushima ground to stop leaks(cnn.com)
1 points by sehugg 13y ago|0 comments
924.
by sehugg 13y ago
It doesn't look downplayed to me; it's a complete sentence in the White House's press release on the summit. A pretty big deal diplomatically ( http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2013/08/
925.
by sehugg 13y ago
Tube amps distort in a very gradual way when overdriven. The "fuzz" sound is a more severe form of clipping. This is why transistor-based stomp boxes were sought out; it's actually hard to get a tube amp to clip in this exact
926.
by sehugg 13y ago
Another article at Gibson.com talks more in detail about "fuzz milestones": http://www2.gibson.com/News-Lifestyle/Features/en-us/who-cal... The distortion in "Don't Worry" was a fault
927.
by sehugg 13y ago
I'd love to see this sort of thing standardized -- a "how much does this connection cost?" function. I get twitchy whenever I hook up my laptop to any sort of metered hotspot. And when using a gateway with wifi-over-wan there
928.
by sehugg 13y ago
Remember when the Secret Service visited the 13-year old boy at his school regarding a Facebook post? http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/national_worl... What about Justin Carter, a 19-year old recentl
929.
by sehugg 13y ago
The person is a user of storage media seized outside the U.s. Interesting, so everyone who ever hit a MegaUpload link is potentially a foreign entity?
930.
by sehugg 13y ago
Ah, so many memories. How Text Adventures Work! http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1980-12/1980_12_BYTE... What is FORTH? http://archive.org/stream/byte-magazine-1980-08/1980_08_BYTE

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