tedks

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by tedks 12y ago
It's a little absurd to ragequit a discussion about free speech for racist extremists when someone mentions... racist extremists. I think I'm in the right country, because as an aware, conscious person, I can act against oppressio
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by tedks 12y ago
You said they don't exist: >>Where are the violent neo-Nazis? I don't see it.
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by tedks 12y ago
In France, lighting fires outside synagogues and chanting "Jews to the gas": http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/07/antisemitism-... On the Mexican-American border with assault weapons,
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by tedks 12y ago
You would collect a cross-sample of infants from a wide variety of backgrounds and arrange for cameras to be put in their homes. This isn't unethical given certain constraints, and people have agreed to it before. Interactions with the
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by tedks 12y ago
Actually, white nationalists and other racist groups depend on liberals like you allowing them a platform to appear like a legitimate alternative in the political system. They use that legitimacy to attract new members, and there's a b
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by tedks 12y ago
I agree that the American government shouldn't regulate speech. I don't trust the government and I can't easily replace it, so it's worth the legality of NAMBLA that the activist groups I belonged to could exist. But b
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by tedks 12y ago
If we had stayed with fission instead of bailing after relative non-incidents (Chernobyl and Three-Mile Island), wouldn't it have drastically increased the power supply to almost that point? The casualties, even the most indirectly com
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by tedks 12y ago
One of the reasons free software is free is so that you can be insulated from the actions of the developer. There used to be a thousand word processors that were all mutually incompatible, and when the company died you were SOL. Lennart cou
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by tedks 12y ago
I can't believe this is true, given that the FSF was able to get Apple to release it's Objective-C implementation without even a lawsuit. (For some background, search objective-c on this page: http://clisp.cvs.sourcefor
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by tedks 12y ago
"The public" is an abstract concept. If you try to use radio spectrum in ways the government dislikes, it will stop you with violence, so they own it for all intents and purposes.
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by tedks 12y ago
There's no free speech or association here, only questions of who can access government-controlled radio spectrum. This is also incredibly dangerous -- nearly all drug trafficking is orchestrated via cellular networks, and it's no
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by tedks 12y ago
I really doubt that any free software project would intentionally make its code harder to deal with. What would that even accomplish? People ripping off GPL'd code aren't distributing the source, so your obfuscation isn't goi
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by tedks 12y ago
Well, the government owns the radio spectrum that the communication goes over, so it's more direct than that.
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by tedks 12y ago
It's certainly regulatable, though it isn't now. Since cell carriers lease public airwaves, it'd be possible to mandate that they block some people from using their service, only sell phones if the person's ID is checked
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by tedks 12y ago
Likewise, having a cell phone is a privilege, not a right, but it's nearly impossible to survive in modernity without one, so restricting access to one becomes a form of coercion. No matter how you spin it, this is an attempt to coerce
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by tedks 12y ago
I'm from a state that does this and I have to confess, I'd never really thought about it this way before. There are so many other ways this sort of principle can be exploited: your ability to have a cell phone contract could be co
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by tedks 12y ago
I wouldn't call it unfortunate.
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by tedks 12y ago
What a beautiful article. What a shame so many people here didn't read it. If you're in this thread to bicker about train regulations and government spending, stop wasting your time and read the story that was shared with you. It&
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by tedks 12y ago
There was an American program towards the end of the second world war aiming at causing tsunamis to weaken Japan: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tsunami_bomb
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by tedks 12y ago
Deliberate practice is a very specific category of activities that doesn't include most of what people think of as "practice." If you are a developer, having an open source side project does not count as deliberate practice.
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by tedks 12y ago
Let's say that the EFF wins. Let's say it exceeds its wildest dreams. How do you know it had any effect? Until the next Snowden comes along, you don't. And I'm sure there won't be any more Snowdens. The NSA is going
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by tedks 12y ago
The interview you link to points out numerous problems with that study, but beyond that, the very existence and success of activist groups disproves that premise. If the United States was truly an oligarchy, gay marriage or marijuana legali
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by tedks 12y ago
But they're wrong. The United States is, whether you like it or not, a democracy. Voters can be influenced, but they still decide the outcome. Everything backends to them. If you disagree with that, there are legal avenues. This is an
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by tedks 12y ago
It's in the intent. I don't think anyone is denying that Apple and Google are doing this to make it harder for police to search through user files. They could have implemented this at any point since the inception of AES, and are
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by tedks 12y ago
It's already possible to identify people running Tor relays. Tor relays are publicly listed in the Tor consensus. They need to be for clients to build paths through the network. Some relays are used as entry points to the network, and
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by tedks 12y ago
If you support this sort of system, you are saying that individuals should be able to place themselves above democracy. Like it or not, we have a legal system that entitles the government to execute lawfully obtained warrants. Tech companie
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by tedks 12y ago
The parent commenter may not have been talking about the Ukranian government, but of the numerous paramilitary nationalist groups that were instrumental in the protests that destabilized the previous regime. This is not a disputed fact. Wha
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by tedks 12y ago
1. This is irrelevant to what I was discussing. No MDMA dealer is committing any violence. The fact that Ross Ulbricht's opsec was allegedly bad enough that he could be blackmailed isn't a general fact about darknet markets. 2. Th
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by tedks 12y ago
Test kits are cheap, ~$25 on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/NIK-Drug-Test-Kit-Methamphetamine/dp/B... The Silk Road (and presumably the darknet markets that followed it) let any user contest the charge and get thei
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by tedks 12y ago
It's interesting and probably not surprising that the most popular drug on the Silk Road 2.0 (and probably other darknet marketplaces) is MDMA. MDMA is difficult to find in pure forms and impurities can kill you. If you buy MDMA from a

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