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The Right to Anonymity is a Matter of Privacy(eff.org)
51 points by srl 15y ago|5 comments
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You Don't Need Generics(iottmco.wordpress.com)
2 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
You get pity upvotes, but I do disagree. Law enforcement in this country has become increasingly uncomfortable with the spread of information concerning it - whether that information is propagated by twitter, "bona-fide" journalists, or fol
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by srl 15y ago
> I'm curious what would it take to overturn "settled science," Evidence to the contrary. Or, failing that, a lack of the traditional continual build-up of supporting evidence is often enough to cast a theory into doubt. I feel like I s
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The Smartphone Wars: Mystery of the Android tablets(esr.ibiblio.org)
29 points by srl 15y ago|29 comments
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Dutch Courts Join Pirate Bay Blocking Bandwagon(eff.org)
3 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
If I'm understanding this correctly, the "serious flaw" recently uncovered is that if the manufacturer of the crypto devices is malicious, the crypto devices can be made to be insecure. Despite the fact that this same "serious flaw" exists
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ESR: The Smartphone Wars: CyanogenMOD Rising(esr.ibiblio.org)
44 points by srl 15y ago|19 comments
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by srl 15y ago
OTGH, the software industry is $300B (in the U.S. src: wp), and has had its own important part in delivering those astonishing things. If anyone's in place to say "y'all need to try harder" - it's us.
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by srl 15y ago
You have to click the mouse - hitting 'enter' doesn't work. It's impressive, if laggy, in ffx12.
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Do Small Things(iottmco.wordpress.com)
1 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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This is the problem (and what can be done)(iottmco.wordpress.com)
1 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
Just so you know: it's "vigilante", pronounced "vigilantay". There's a secret accent over that last 'e'.
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Amazon(amazon.com)
2 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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And... XKCD(xkcd.com)
7 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments
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by srl 15y ago
> I hope that one day spamming peoples websites is also illegal. Today of all days, be careful what you wish for.
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by srl 15y ago
Wyden was originally from the same district, in fact. You guys are good.
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by srl 15y ago
I was just watching Blumenauer on C-SPAN (deficit debates) - out of the 10 or so people I saw speak over the past hour, he was the sane one. (My own rep. was an embarrassment.) Same district Sen. Wyden came from, too. Apparently, Oregon's t
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by srl 15y ago
What the others said. Or, append ?banner=none to the URL. As some haskell-cafe folk put it: because censorship only affects the innocent. Everybody else knows how to get around it.
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by srl 15y ago
Well, this sure brings back some memories... So much for my hopes of being productive this Wednesday.
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by srl 15y ago
> Vahid Asghari, a 24-year-old student in India, was arrested on May 11, 2008 at Tehran Airport and accused of hosting websites with “pornographic” content critical of the government. Wait, what? That's gotta be a new genre. Or, the Ira
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by srl 15y ago
> What's the logic behind these pointless distros? Distros, like IRC bots and text editors, are a popular (to use ESR's phrase) "finger exercise". It's fun; nothing more is needed.
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by srl 15y ago
Protip: if you're having load problems but think you've resolved them, try posting a story about them to HN. Disclaimer: haven't read and can't read the article. EDIT cache is here: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http
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by srl 15y ago
12 atoms is the quantity used to store a single bit (~100 atoms / byte) near absolute zero. As usual that important nugget was buried in the middle of the article; just reading the first 3 paragraphs, one would think they had fit an entire
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by srl 15y ago
The format of Stewart's show is such that he gets most of his talking points directly from his media targets. It seems reasonable, then, that in an effective media blackout, he and his writers might have legitimately missed SOPA.
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by srl 15y ago
He's being slightly facetious, I'd think, but: $6,612 is the amount he claims it would take the 'thief' to recreate the photo on their own. (Of course, he's only talking about material costs; he could easily claim $300,000 and get away with
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by srl 15y ago
After the first question: after being primed not to trust my instincts, I decided (SPOILER) it couldn't be (a), and thus guessed (c). Which I suppose reflects another important cognitive bias.
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by srl 15y ago
Scientific research has a very high turnaround time. If you want to find out what you're profiting from now, look back nearly a century, when Einstein theorized about simulated emission of photons (laser). Or (more parallel to the LHC), the
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by srl 15y ago
Happy new year from CENSORED. (East coast.)
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Functors in Go(iottmco.wordpress.com)
2 points by srl 15y ago|0 comments

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