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Yes, thanks, I noticed Especially surprising that on a site unmatched by any other in the near-reflexive liberty and anti-surveillance attitudes, one of the most aggressive and far-reaching surveillance corporation finds such support...
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The scandal here is that multilevel security MUST be a core of the product from the outset The evaluations quoted in my previous comment shows it is VERY obvious the Army expected to see at least the capabilities to prevent "an adver
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1y ago
Perhaps the word you are looking for is "conjecture that the risk from radiation ..." ??
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>>The Army should treat the NGC2 prototype version as “very high risk” because of the “likelihood of an adversary gaining persistent undetectable access,” wrote Gabrielle Chiulli, the Army chief technology officer authorizing official
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Impressive engineering and build. Looks like a great spot for BASE jumping!
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YUP Was working for a construction guy I overall respected, and he had us going up on a 3-story barn roof without any kind of roped-in protection. Although I was a fairly experienced rock climber (or perhaps because of it), I quit at lunch
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1y ago
Yes, quickly skimming your linked site, I saw Pressure, Force, and Vibration sensors, but as you mention no mention of lateral force, nor of temperature. Thinking briefly about the sensations used in manupilating tools or checking a surface
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1y ago
Exactly right on every point. And they won't willingly change. And absolutely, the metaphor is absolutely right where the table is set with one brown person with one cookie, a white person with two cookies, and the oligarch with a pile
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1y ago
Of course they won't accept it spontaneously. The issue would need to be forced, just as with any time common people force a regime to relinquish power.
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>>Coercing who, exactly? Do you have any examples? Seriously? #2 We now have the President and Commander In Chief (elected with the essential help of a quarter-$$billion++ of Elon Musk's money) just addressed an unprecedented gat
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1y ago
This thread of comments seems like very nice example of "The exception that proves the rule". Both are satisfied to have found good products, and somewhat surprised, at least tacitly acknowledging by even finding it worth commenti
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1y ago
>>People will need to accept to earn much less than they expected Or, perhaps, the executives and shareholders who have been primarily engineering how to take an ever-growing share of the pie to the degree they can accept to earn much
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The gym I go to explicitly forbids both taking unsolicited photos/videos or staging any permission videos. Good idea
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Combine it with the desert reclamation efforts finding success pushing back the Sahel, and it could be amazing
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1y ago
And seriously, this [0] is something a Libertarian would do? "Musk calls Anti-Defamation League ‘hate group’ for documenting Christian extremism" [0] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/2
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>>Coercing who, exactly? Do you have any examples? Seriously? How can you ignore or justify as not authoritarian all the newspeople and COMEDIANS who Trump has coerced the networks into cancelling? All the spurious lawsuits and thr
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1y ago
>>"We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness" The instit
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1y ago
Umm, that claim is literally a cut-and-paste quote from the US Secret Service announcement (which is why I inserted the ">>" at the beginning of the paragraph to signify the quotation). So YES, there is a specific claim, and
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>>...early analysis indicates cellular communications between nation-state threat actors and individuals that are known to federal law enforcement. >>These devices were concentrated within 35 miles of the global meeting of the U
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Just wait until the current regime finishes their plans, which include hacking the exception in Section 1 of the Thirteenth Amendment [0] to bring back slavery for prisoners. >> Section 1. Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, ex
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"One test is worth a thousand opinions." And here, the too-frequently posted excuse that "oh, many humans would have hit that too" is utter nonsense. In that situation, with light traffic, clear daylight visibility, and
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That DEA agent's 'credit card' could be eavesdropping on you
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I'm glad you agree democracy requires independence in the three branches of govt and various branches of society. Which is why Musk's "Libertarian" presentation does not match reality. Musk spent more than a quarter BILL
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Rather off-topic, but the juxtaposition of words in the headline made me think of a potentially actually cool application for 3D AR glasses — visualizing the radio-frequency fields in the surrounding environment, colors mapped to wavelength
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The headline definitely evokes such an idea, but the detail in the article simply shows the machine learning system better augmenting the doctors' work
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I do not revile him; it is not worth the energy. I am merely deeply disappointed to discover he was not even close to the person I thought he was, either in technological skill or wanting to actually improve humanity. His tech skills turn o
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The only point being demonstrated here is that you fail to see the explicitly authoritarian actions of the parties Musk supports in the US (Republicans), Germany (AfD), Hungary (Fidesz), etc., and do not understand that in democracies the b
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No, I did NOT say the safety features were not due to Musk, I stated clearly I believe he was responsible for that safety initiative, just as I thought him responsible for the door handles, but I doubt he had much input in the detailed desi
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>>would you compliment him on the Tesla Model 3 yes, as I mentioned, I have posted similar strong compliments/defenses of Musk in the past, including on here. I'd also point out that while one person can drive design of the
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Retractable flush door handles without an obvious, usable, and effective manual override option are one of the most stupid and user hostile "innovations" ever. Designers effectively said: "Lets save 0.03 on our Coefficient of
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