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by wasx 9y ago
Very true. More famously there were photos of Hitler engaging in debauchery produced by the Brits in WW2, which is why I believe such an act has precedent. But producing videos like this where if done well, you literally struggle to tell th
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by wasx 9y ago
I haven't read the paper but do they define what they mean by "westernized"? China is very much the east, does acne vulgaris have the same prevelance in countries in Asia and the middle east?
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by wasx 9y ago
This is... scary. The potential applications of this technology extend far beyond porn. How long until intelligence agencies are using this sort of technology to sabotage political opponents?
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by wasx 9y ago
Finally I can play my favourite game without worrying about how Intel has fucked me!
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by wasx 9y ago
I think that automation is going to contribute massively to wealth inequality in the next few decades, and I think that not considering the destabilising risks of such centralisation of wealth is short sighted. People will only for so long
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by wasx 9y ago
I don't think the word "took" implies what you said, and I think your offence at the title is unwarranted
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by wasx 9y ago
That's kind of the point though, even if the army and police didn't revolt, they're crippled by the lack of services produced by the civilians. Major upheaval like this hypothetical have multiple times in history crippled eve
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by wasx 9y ago
It's silly to say that the 1% are there from hard work, family fortunes apparently don't exist in that fantasy. Also you're forgetting that the armies of the 1% are made up of the 99%, all the money in the world has done noth
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by wasx 9y ago
No you're conflating two different issues here. An open architecture with a copyleft license would be resistant to the abuse you just identified. An open architecture that allows closed changes would do what you're saying, and is
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by wasx 9y ago
I don't know why this was downvoted, it's a very reasonable assumption given the scale and spread of people who knew. Sure there's no evidence of any actual attacks exploiting this vulnerability, but that doesn't mean we
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by wasx 9y ago
The only way you can know if a protocol is secure is if you have a lot of eyes on it trying to break it nine ways from sunday. This is nothing but a good thing.
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by wasx 9y ago
No. Source: writing code using openSSL
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by wasx 9y ago
Well seeing as the criteria that they used to pick the OpenSSL project is: "for dramatic improvements to the code quality of OpenSSL" I think there is a question around why LibreSSL was not chosen seeing as it has done exactly tha
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by wasx 9y ago
You can make up all these outrageous examples which don't correlate to what I said in any way shape or form at all as much as you like, but just know you aren't convincing anyone or making a compelling argument. Skin cancer and he
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by wasx 9y ago
Your comment would be relevant if this post was about the US, but it's not, it's about Australia. I recommend you read the link
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by wasx 9y ago
> I'd prefer to see taxation and education be the sole solutions The market is incapable of self-regulation, that much has shown itself to be true. Removal of marketing towards children and easy access to vending machines will go a
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by wasx 9y ago
Good. Sugar is a horribly addictive substance, and the outcomes of it's consumption and abuse are a massive drain on Australia's public health infrastructure. Hopefully however the sugar tax is coupled with some form of subsidy or
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by wasx 9y ago
What about meltdown?
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by wasx 9y ago
>They can a handle a bit of criticism from a bunch of nerds on HN. What a reductive and shortsighted evaluation of the situation. Can they handle the loss of faith from big companies? Can they handle the loss of faith from the entire tec
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by wasx 9y ago
If your news only aligns to a political ideology it is not news.
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by wasx 9y ago
>Vote with your dollars. I hate this saying. It's such a bullshit saying. a) There is no viable competition and b) It's incredibly profitable to lock people into an ecosystem, so even if you do "vote" with your dollar
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by wasx 9y ago
Wow what a deceptive defensive response by intel. Nobody is concerned about data being deleted, it's the unprivileged access thats the issue here.
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by wasx 9y ago
At this point articles like this are stale. They don't convince anyone not already convinced, and are really just echo chambers. The thing is, making posts and articles isn't going to change a damn thing, there's such a disco
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by wasx 9y ago
Actually given the horror stories that have been told about the windows source code over the years, I'd be very, very surprised if there wasn't 20 year old code in a lot of places. Hell there's still 20 year old code running
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by wasx 9y ago
Right but they're not saying they don't trust regulators and legislators as a concept, they're saying they don't trust them when they're basically writing what lobbyists tell them to. It's right they don't
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by wasx 9y ago
Their criticism wasn't of the law but of the undue influence of lobbyists in the American political system.
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by wasx 9y ago
I would dare say the majority of unsolved problems are solvable by an individual with a unique perspective and set of skills. Having those people find those problems seems like a case of serendipity more often than not.
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by wasx 9y ago
This is crazy but I'm pretty similar, is this a documented effect that I could read more about? Almost always after a night of heavy drinking I wake from anywhere between 5am - 8am and have a rough time getting back to sleep for at lea
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by wasx 9y ago
Is there anywhere we can read the responses? I would be interested in hearing how they justify their actions and attitudes

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