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No, Female Hurricanes Are Not Deadlier Than Male Hurricanes(io9.com)
3 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
The problem is that the laws in India are very poorly worded, often misunderstood and arbitrarily applied. All of this gives the overworked & corrupt Indian police almost limitless discretion on what to enforce & against whom. It al
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The Mission to Bring Google’s AI to the Rest of the World(wired.com)
2 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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Apple just took another step towards obscuring the way the web works(qz.com)
12 points by suprgeek 12y ago|1 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
(Politico-Technical comment) India shares intelligence with the NSA because (presumably) given the cozy relationship between the USA & Pakistan, the US (via the NSA) is in a better position to figure out if the intelligence has Terroris
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by suprgeek 12y ago
"The Government gets to decide what Journalists can & cannot publish". Anyone who publishes against the express wishes of the Govt. is a perpetrator possibly even a criminal. This is pretty much the central theme of this mans
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Awesome Principled Stand by Newegg! This is one of the reasons to support buying from them. However this only underscores how easy it is to sue over flimsy patents and how expensive and time-consuming it is to go after and shut down these h
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Chelyabinsk Meteorite Collided With Asteroid Before Hitting Earth(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
23 points by suprgeek 12y ago|3 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Tried Glass. My mini review: 1) Huge potential - something like this will be the next "iPhone" 2) Headaches - 2-3 hrs of intermittent usage would give me a headache without fail 3) Battery Life... BATTERY LIFE 4) Surprisingly host
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Technically Pluto is also in the Kuiper Belt. So scientists are scrambling to find "another" KBO for New Horizons probe to visit. Pluto has a fascinating history - from being unknown to being deemed a planet to being demoted to a
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by suprgeek 12y ago
By most reports this bill was watered down on the express meddling of the White house. This is very unfortunate in that Senator Obama had clearly promised in his pre-election speeches to explicitly push for what this bill was (somewhat) try
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Coming to SF and Expecting world beating infrastructure is a very naive expectation to begin with. Keep in mind the kind of politics (and hence policies) that SF is known for. It is not know for ruthless efficiency and well oiled policies,
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by suprgeek 12y ago
What is most disturbing is that NSA & DEA seem to have such a Cozy relationship. Given that one is a mostly domestic agency and the other is supposed to focus primarily on Foreign Intelligence, this incestual relationship sets up many t
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by suprgeek 12y ago
The race is officially on! Can the Telecoms retain their terrible monopolies by becoming streaming providers Faster than the Streaming providers (Netflix, Youtube, Amazon Prime et al) trying to become Content creators? AT&T is running o
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WePay Withholds Funds From Sick Woman Due To Offer Of Porn For Donations(techcrunch.com)
2 points by suprgeek 12y ago|2 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Pardon a silicon valley long-timer for this rant. With minor exceptions whenever a company goes on and on about its culture, it is time to leave. Culture has become a by-word for: 1) Rejecting older applicants while hiring "He is not a
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Keys left unchanged in many Heartbleed replacement certificates(news.netcraft.com)
4 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Some very troubling trends for young people today: 1) Education has become much more expensive than just 10 years ago - you typically leave college with anywhere upto ~50K in debt 2) The Economy has changed - companies are making do with f
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by suprgeek 12y ago
I hope they do not throw out the baby with the bathwater. In their rush to "repackage" and rebrand they need to be careful to not devolve into Upworthy-BuzzFeed-Mashable style popcorn BS. That stuff is worth about 15 seconds of g
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Amazon, AT&T, Snapchat rated among the least trustworthy with data, EFF finds(computerworld.com)
86 points by suprgeek 12y ago|20 comments
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Greenwald On NSA Leaks: 'We've Erred On The Side Of Excess Caution'(npr.org)
7 points by suprgeek 12y ago|1 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Mozilla had to be dragged into this acceptance kicking and screaming (metaphorically). They were faced with a hard choice, Not implement EME (HTML5 DRM) and risk users moving to other browsers (user loss) or implement EME and risk looking l
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Photos of an NSA “upgrade” factory show Cisco router getting implant(arstechnica.com)
16 points by suprgeek 12y ago|3 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Hi Jason, Thanks for replying and that (no rules just data) is a pretty cool ML + Big Data play. Having worked in this space a bit, I know where the dragons be in such an approach. I imagine that you are doing some kind of Pattern Matching
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Is the fact that this is based on "no rules just data" even sensible? Or is it an artifact of bad reporting? Many Credit card fraud prevention systems such as the Falcon Fraud Manager use both Rules and ML (Neural Network modellin
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by suprgeek 12y ago
"The NSA has been covertly implanting interception tools in US servers heading overseas..." Which is Somewhat Ok, given the NSA charter. What is the more interesting question - Is this limited to "US servers heading overseas.
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Sinatra inspired web framework for quickly creating web apps in Java(sparkjava.com)
1 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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A Question Of Biggitude: What's The Largest Creature On Earth?(npr.org)
2 points by suprgeek 12y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 12y ago
The path to hell is paved with good intentions. Hide URL to make phishing harder -> URL is no longer understood by anybody ->Keyword based navigation->GoogAOL->Keyword based phising
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by suprgeek 12y ago
Strike One: When G+ opened up to the world, they decided to take an "invite" approach. While this might have been cool for the first few days, there were too few invites and this nonsense just lasted far too long. Not really the

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