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sleepingeights
9y ago
Why be a bum when you can be an FBI agent? It would only had been a full investigation if they had to investigate surfing, beach life, and women in bikinis. "Sir! We have reason to believe the pinko bastards are posing and infiltrating
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9y ago
Many of these articles are missing an easily exploitable position. The key term is "bandwidth" which is the resource at stake. What is being fought over is how to define this "bandwidth" in a way that will be enforceable
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sleepingeights
9y ago
Net neutrality simply means that all content is treated equally by the ISPs, backbones, etc... As for the massive monopolies, that was born of US businesses. US tech monopolies are not original. Monopolies are a traditional form of how the
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9y ago
Why is it as the US' population went up, the US' health and food services quality degraded? Observe that the US' own stand-in for government/communist style supplied food services through the fast-food chains of McDonald
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9y ago
Either way they're going to be digging through the emails. NSA and I think the US military is allowed to hack into any communication traversing boundaries between countries. And Germany is also part of the alliance of the many eyed spi
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9y ago
We're talking about the security of the lock guarding the door irrespective of the criminal history of a person with the motivation to break-in. The FBI, who have been known to break-in to people's residences were not found guilty
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9y ago
GraphQL looks cool, kind of fancy but simpler way to do some complex SQL without the SQL. Using the business as the root query would be a bit cumbersome, but more like: business(id: "garaje-san-francisco") { review
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9y ago
I am a bit lost. How is cryptography about secrecy of the text through some operation, like a function, while at the same time being a system that defines itself? Cryptography has nothing to do with secrecy at all. It has to do with maintai
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9y ago
Well, 'they' allowed door locks to be easily broken by anyone with minuscule knowledge in lockpicking because that is the type of locks 'they' like on doors. It's going to be no different for "crypto" solu
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9y ago
The US only values lawyers. Doctors, programmers, chefs are significantly imported from other countries... particularly India and China. Over 50% of the doctors and specialists visited by myself and friends were Indians. Also, over 50% of
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9y ago
It's either ALOT harder or very different now-a-days. Anything that you could run on a consistent basis as a bread-winning norm is already or quickly in the process of *aaS or being integrated into one or other. One way to sell a remot
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9y ago
All of the more recent ARM SBCs are capable of running as desktops for the most common tasks of browsing the web, watching movies, editing documents, etc... on less than 5W of electricity. ARM's selling point is efficiency and cost, no
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9y ago
I don't buy from our local chinatown which sources some of its vegetables from farmers who grow right off freeways etc where the land is cheap because of its location. On the other hand they also buy from farmers who grow their crops o
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9y ago
in reality, I would want 100 days from the average developer.
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9y ago
They're likely a test-bed for a prototype surveillance system already being developed and/or deployed by the Silicon Valley of the West for Western regimes and dictatorships. edit: Even simple surveillance features like file taggi
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9y ago
The company called Facebook has already implemented features within their services to allow censorship, control, targeted* and mass propaganda efforts, monitoring and surveillance, etc... on targeted* and mass user bases, and is already sel
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9y ago
These people are insane. > And if North Korea ever does change, if the Kim family were overthrown or were to voluntarily loosen its chokehold on information, a U.S. apology for the bombing could help dispel 65 years of hate. Consider the
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10y ago
There's a lot of external influence on the Korean government. A significant amount of Samsung shares are foreign held. The larger foreign investors are concerned about the structure of these Korean giants based on familial ties and wan
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10y ago
The FBI is a predominantly white organization, over 88%<?> white. The rest are minorities used as pawns and analysts for infiltration and analysis of their respective ethnic populations. There's no way they're going to activ
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10y ago
> If you truly believe that H-1B should exist only for truly extraordinary talent Second to last paragraph: " Employers claim that they hire H-1Bs for rare skill sets or outstanding talent ― traits that they would need to pay a p
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10y ago
The Indian H1B mills are deeply entrenched already in the tech industry. Consider the US intel activities in subverting US citizens rights, no one is surprised if even NSA and CIA database centers are outsourced to India. The CIA already ru
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10y ago
That is a bit harsh. Go outside of any large city in the US and you are basically in Trump supporters' territory. Even SV is basically Trump area with their third world billionaire enclave. SV basically develops and sells the services
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10y ago
The article is about the failure to make something honorable of the worst actions a person does to another. What is so surprising of that fact other than the US spending billions on their Navy SEAL brand and exceptionalism? They could spend
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10y ago
No they're not. Silicon Valley is hyped and is just an exercise in transition of American business culture and economic classism to reign in "disruptive technology". That is the only "innovation". More so, there
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Horrible analogy, as what did Nixon do with data towards citizens? It'd be more like the FBI, Hoover, CIA, NSA, etc... who have the capacity to bend the data to invent facts to fit some crime and then act on it with force without fear
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10y ago
According to B.Katz LinkedIn biography, he was a Special Agent and is using gov. intel grunt tactics on Google employees, much like special agents would when Obama/etc... cracked down on whistle blowers. Looks like a revolving door hir
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Eh... "those who have the gold make the rules", including what kind of ideas to pursue. American, and SV in particiular, tends to be very predictable and focuses and exploits ideas that capitalize on labor and work already availab
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Yea, that is called a torpedo or a missile. Also, it is a terrible idea because it provides a way for the other side to prevent drones from performing their missions.
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10y ago
Silicon Valley has nothing on Asia. In China's Silicon Valley, if you have an idea and comparatively far smaller bank roll, you can have a prototype of your idea at your desk within a week. Compare that to SV which is like a backwards
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Or steal them from the CIA like the Iranians did: https://www.wired.com/2011/12/iran-did-capture-a-secret-u-s-... http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Military/2011/1207/US-considere...
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