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by suprgeek 13y ago
BillG is one of the very few people about whom I have completely changed my opinion. Post his Microsoft days, he is the highest profile "rich tech person" who has promoted so many projects and efforts to help the poor. While Micro
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Oxford research questions aspect of Darwin theory (theadvocate.com)
1 points by suprgeek 13y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 13y ago
All good and straight-forward points. Once you internalize these, you are on the way to being a "code craftsman" - someone who knows their tools well yet is humble enough to ask for help & make himself/herself uncomfortab
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by suprgeek 13y ago
His mission yes - giving up the comforts of a stable paying job in Hawaii and exposing himself to tremendous danger from a variety of nation-state level adversaries for life - in the bargain. Amazingly commendable - all for the sake of pres
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by suprgeek 13y ago
Hmm ...complete Sarcasm fail on my part then. Getting harder and harder to tell.
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by suprgeek 13y ago
Excellent principled stand by Mikko. Minor problem ".... In fact, I'm not expecting other conference speakers to cancel. Most of your speakers are american anyway – why would they care about surveillance that’s not targeted at the
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by suprgeek 13y ago
While this diplomat person as an individual is none too commendable (back home in India she is involved in some questionable property dealings [1]) - there is much more to the story than this shallow but seemingly introspective "articl
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by suprgeek 13y ago
NSA invents weak (Back Door present) crypto algo. Pushes RSA to make it a Default in a key function (RNG) by giving them $10 Million. NSA points to RSA as an early adopter and gets NIST to certify it. Millions of systems are now protected b
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by suprgeek 13y ago
If like me you sometimes skim the comments before going to the article - SKIP reading this article completely. There are a couple of major assumptions and lot of specious reasoning. Apple could lose the War for talent because...it is not in
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by suprgeek 13y ago
Excellent concept - but one major Caveat. Why in the world would you publish it for all the world to see? Keep it internal to the company - you have an expectation of privacy from your employer and this post just ruined it completely. I hop
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A Forensic Overview of a Linux perlbot (sempersecurus.blogspot.com)
1 points by suprgeek 13y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 13y ago
Which is why there is some talk of offering him Amnesty - to find out exactly how much and what he leaked (Among other things) http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/report-nsa-mulls-...
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The shakeup of Kleiner Perkins exposes the short comings of venture capital(gigaom.com)
51 points by suprgeek 13y ago|28 comments
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Report: NSA mulls Snowden amnesty (but it probably won’t happen)(arstechnica.com)
5 points by suprgeek 13y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 13y ago
A perfect reason to NOT let Google own all layers of the stack between you and the internet (or indeed the real world). Search - Check (goog.com) Mail - Check (Gmail) Browser - Check (chrome) Devices - Check (Android/Chrome books) Webs
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DoJ admits Assange case is doomed because WikiLeaks is a journalistic entity(gigaom.com)
7 points by suprgeek 13y ago|0 comments
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Wal-Mart, Coca-Cola, McDonalds spying on nonprofits with former NSA, CIA hackers(venturebeat.com)
20 points by suprgeek 13y ago|3 comments
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by suprgeek 13y ago
This is the blandest non-statement filled with lies: - "...any Salesforce customer or developer is likely to have a whole set of existing customizations and logic that can be exposed to their mobile app via REST API." - Customizat
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by suprgeek 13y ago
It is very clearly laying out what they think - and in black and white text - the LAWS are what is broken - not the screwed-up snooping at any cost motto of the NSA - so the LAW (U.S Constitution and state and federal statutes) should be mo
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by suprgeek 13y ago
How about this.... Every Senator or Congressman that votes to continue this Metadata BS program release all of THEIR Metadata. If you have nothing to hide why not release all of the following: Every Phone number they called in the past 5 ye
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New Ways to Fight 'Imposter Fears'(online.wsj.com)
1 points by suprgeek 13y ago|0 comments
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by suprgeek 13y ago
It is quite puzzling about how you are equating buying & selling on e-bay without ANY misrepresentation (Product is as described & Payment is legimatelty delivered) to a Confidence scam where the author very clearly cheated the sto
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by suprgeek 13y ago
There seems to be a suspiciously large dose of "How smart I was to exploit the trusting nature of people" even if he makes it clear that what he was doing was illegal. If I had to guess, the moral compass is not truly reset - I se
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by suprgeek 13y ago
<Minor Spoiler Alert> A very similar experiment today - http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/07/120709-arsen... The Arsenic Life claim that was much ballyhooed by NASA but turned out to to be b
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Will India’s low cost Mars mission rewrite space economics?(firstpost.com)
1 points by suprgeek 13y ago|0 comments
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Is any amount of Sugar safe?(outsideonline.com)
2 points by suprgeek 13y ago|2 comments
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by suprgeek 13y ago
So Rockstar - an NPE patent Troll by definition - filing lawsuits against Google & Samsung is the same as Motorola filing lawsuits according to Gruber. Except Motorola has - you know - actual products that it sells. Additionally this co
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by suprgeek 13y ago
The Step Detector and Step Counter platform support is an especially interesting addition. Perhaps a nod to the wearables market, with the upcoming Google watch hooking into it for some Fitness tracking smarts?
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by suprgeek 13y ago
If all of this pans out to be true and verifiable then this has to be the most sophisticated Malware that I have ever heard of, even beating Flame, Stuxnet and what not - really fascinating. - Self-healing (of sorts). - Able to spread via m
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Armed agents seize records of reporter(washingtontimes.com)
110 points by suprgeek 13y ago|21 comments

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