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by suprgeek 13y ago
The NY times article got a very basic point wrong. Q: How do you judge the success of the campaign to raise awareness by calling congress people? A: By the number of calls/contacts made. Instead they compared it to the SOPA protest tha
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by suprgeek 13y ago
This comes from personal experience in the USA. Never talk to/Interact with cops unless asked directly. Never call 911 unless there is a threat to life, risk of serious imminent injury to you or to family. If you have to do it for a by
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by suprgeek 13y ago
If this merger goes thru, (and the AnitTrust people would have to be really asleep at the wheel for that) two things are certain: 1) Americans can expect some of the worst Cable price gouging they have ever seen 2) NetFlix, Amazon Prime et
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by suprgeek 13y ago
Upvoted for the sentiment. The actual paper marks just another incremental step in a triple marathon that we seem to be running veeeery slowly. Also, if you do "pull an Aaron Schwartz" please change the ending - we need a very pub
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by suprgeek 13y ago
Fast and Furious 6
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by suprgeek 13y ago
Why don't we (as the hacker/programmer community) also "fight back" in the meaningful & legal way that is our core strength? Resolve to push for encryption if there is any PII data in an app that you work with especi
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by suprgeek 13y ago
Very inspiring post. I think it will be hard for me to look at Ramen Noodles and not think about this for a while. Paraphrasing from a a recent movie "Every one should live by a code...glad to know that yours is Family."
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Curriculum, semantic listening for groups(blog.nytlabs.com)
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by suprgeek 13y ago
Many interesting "nuggets" buried in this report. For example: ...A more sophisticated effort, though, relied on intercepting Google Maps queries made on smartphones, and using them to collect large volumes of location information
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DWave’s updated quantum optimizer gets beaten by a classical computer(arstechnica.com)
4 points by suprgeek 13y ago|0 comments
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Welcome to 'Powai Valley', India's new start-up hub(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
1 points by suprgeek 13y ago|0 comments
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How the iPhone 5S replaced my Fitbit(reviews.cnet.com)
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by suprgeek 13y ago
"No discernible Impact" on preventing acts of terrorism. But that was never the end goal of bulk metadata collection. Terrorism was the merely the excuse to invoke those powers. The end goal is and always has been, to give the U.S
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by suprgeek 13y ago
<Quote> Will Nest customer data be shared with Google? Our privacy policy clearly limits the use of customer information to providing and improving Nest’s products and services. We’ve always taken privacy seriously and this will not c
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by suprgeek 13y ago
$3.2 BILLION All-Cash offer. Is that Color-level valuation for a Thermostat company? Or more like Instagram-level... Holy Moly!
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by suprgeek 13y ago
A report like this could become another track from which privacy respecting companies (against the Govt.) can differentiate them selves from others. If sonic.net (to pick one from random)consistently keeps touting "Five stars from the
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by suprgeek 13y ago
The Writer of this article needs to perform some fact checking. There are nowhere near 1600 Millionaires in Twitter - closer to 600 to 700 is the number most common heard in their offices. A lot of those are not at the end of their vesting
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by suprgeek 13y ago
Very useful Site - Thanks! Reminded me of an old favorite "Shields Up" https://www.grc.com/shieldsup - Great way to quickly test your Router
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by suprgeek 13y ago
As soon as I saw the Title of this paper, there were two ideas that sprung up: 1)"Sokal Hoax" 2)David Deutsch, Max Tegmark, Some Other trouble-maker Max Tegmark has done similar things before:[1]. He is also related to the FQXi wh
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More researchers join RSA conference boycott to protest $10 million NSA deal(arstechnica.com)
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With "Sponsored Data" AT&T is double dipping -also harmful to startups(gigaom.com)
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by suprgeek 13y ago
It is hard to conceive of the risk faced by these folks in order to carry out what was in effect an act of civil disobedience -for no personal gain. Bravo! Unfortunately it looks like such courageous folks are the last remaining defense aga
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How they made Gravity: Video shows pioneering “Light Box” technology(slate.com)
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by suprgeek 13y ago
Google tries many more high-profile "MoonShots" than most other companies. While this is not motivated by some altruistic desire and in the end is expected to make money, this is not necessarily a bad thing. In fact this is the es
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by suprgeek 13y ago
This is an atrociously optimistic view. The fundamental inequalities between the rich and the poor are more getting more and more out of balance. There is chronic long-term unemployment, the Debt has ballooned beyond reason and Fundamental
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by suprgeek 13y ago
MIT Played a key role in Aaron's Death: http://gothamist.com/2013/01/15/aaron_swartzs_lawyer_mit_ref... They refused to sign-off on any deal that did not involve Jail time. This was THE one point that we
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Laser Scanner Detects Malaria Infections in Seconds(voanews.com)
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by suprgeek 13y ago
The "USS Independence" is slowly disintegrating... Somehow that statement makes a lot of sense on many levels.
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American-style startup takes root in India(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
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by suprgeek 13y ago
I think there are three clear parties that need to take more active steps to try to reign in these kinds of Shysters: 1) Google - Institute a "Reputation Rank"/or other algos. internally when selling Ads thru any platform. I

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