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teeja
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Maybe all available surveillance cams were in use on your street, catching teens flipping each other off and trading "contraband".
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It needs to have 1st-party cookies enabled in FF for all sites. Now you're setting cookies on visits that you might not have if you'd used a whitelister only. (I sometimes visit Google and YT w/out needing any.) My buddy Cook
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I'm thinking most people who've been on the net for more than a decade are wondering what the hell you mean by better.
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It's good to see human capital being utilized, even if it is ont he cheap. Chillingly spoken like a true, cold-blooded functionary. Are humans mere "capital"? Is their worth decided by being "utilized"? Is that wh
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Reminds me of Bartleby the Scriviner. I'd guess that the widespread "major depression" aspect may be based in an acute perception (may or not be accurate or accurately portrayed) of what life is like for many Nippon men. Than
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Half of the hobbyists and makers who made personal computers and the internet sounded just like Ev at one time. You muggles should lay off the magicians. They could have saved you from the Panoptican if you'd been less dismissive.
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13y ago
under U.S. law nothing keeps the government from getting that information from the phone company. To the extent that you can actually differentiate between them. Which was hard enough when ATT ruled.
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People might think that (apart from GPS) signals to one tower only are unlocalizable. Add the variable of signal strength (with fairly uniform xmit pwr) to that single vector and it gets more interesting.
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Why did it take someone 2 years to spot this????? Doesn't anybody care to watch what's going in/out of their appliances any more? Furthermore, if this report is true: why aren't there more tools out there so that there a
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There you go, let's all get caught up in the endless distractions. Maybe Snowden's words were run past an editor (as are most journalist's words) of British public-school extraction, who applied reflexively what he'd bee
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I believe in public education Based on what evidence?
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Look at the top of Der Spiegel's page: where it says "English" leads to the International Edition. http://www.spiegel.de/international/
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Be sure to make a direct reference to the boys listening at some point in each call so that they can feel good that they're not being ignored. Remember, one of the most important aspects of networking is about establishing a warm relat
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It should be fairly simple to calculate the simultaneous gravity effects of 3 or 4 planets on each other, then plot their courses. That simple problem has not been solved yet!! http://www.math.uvic.ca/faculty/diacu&
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In this climate, you should be so lucky that they sue you for copyright infringement.
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I guess I no longer need to pretend that Obama is pretending to be an a-hole in order to get re-elected.
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FYO: Ridicule does not constitute a counter-argument. It's now useless to suppose that Fed spooks and SV corps have not had a long and cozy relationship. (Which it is not necessary to suppose for anyone who's followed the news for
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Maybe the prospect of someday burning gigawatts to decipher my elliptic-curved peanut-butter-cookie recipes will alert them to what a charade they're part of. We must create boogeymen from a vacuum so that we can burn taxpayer dollars
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The government outsources background checks for top-secret jobs? Why, so they can shift the blame for their 10%-rated efforts to private firmst? Makes you wonder: who was responsible for picking USIS to do the job?
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Moot. There's no need to descend into the trenches to have a good overview of the battlefield. I encourage those who haven't to actually read (or listen) to Ms. Wolf.
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Classy operation.
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I'd say that her books The End of America and Give Me Liberty give her more than adequate standing - certainly more than most posters on this board - to comment on the current question ... far more deserving than a dismissive '
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13y ago
Overlooking for the moment all of the lost Japanese gold in the Philippines. (Which isn't really lost, just remaining where it's safest.)
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A couple of days ago I read that 'As of 2012, 80% of the Tor Project's $2M annual budget comes from the United States government.' http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732467720457818... That mig
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Maybe. 700-pound rocks 'floated' by ice, though? I'm inclined to think about ice build-up on the ground on the windward side. Note the pancake-sized hillocks with valleys between that can fill with water. When it freezes, the
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Try that with Noscript on, and it gets cut down to 3 trackers.
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Even in those times, it was realized that there are 300,000,000 Americans. That there was no way that any techonology, including today's, could begin to monitor any but the crudest details about all the traffic so many generate. That s
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The current alternative is to keep installing solar and wind and (eventually) wave plants ... which the smart money has been investing in, which require no government-paid insurance, and which generate no waste-that-has-to-be-safely-stored-
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None of this was news since William Binney, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Binney_%28U.S._intelli... who estimated "that the NSA (particularly through the Stellar Wind project) had intercepted 20 trillion
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13y ago
When it's out of beta, maybe.
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