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by woodman 10y ago
> So it is impossible to really know if the surveillance does anything. We know that it has a chilling effect, and the likelihood of it actually performing the stated mission is really low. We've had several massive leaks, but the
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by woodman 10y ago
You'll never be able to please everybody, just look at the WMO and their tropical storm naming methodology. I've actually heard someone complain about a perceived bias in the ethnicity of the names. You wouldn't even be abl
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by woodman 10y ago
It seems pretty common among social animals, violators get cut from the herd or monkey stomped.
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by woodman 10y ago
You are going to have a tough time finding the answer unless you really pin down your terms. I'll skip that part and just pretend that you said "universal preference" instead of "morals". Yes, I think that there i
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by woodman 10y ago
It is hard to say for a lot of reasons, like if you'd consider informants with explicit direction from the FBI as "FBI". Also, while living in DC many years ago, I was surprised by the number of homeless people I saw with Bl
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by woodman 10y ago
If that is a serious concern then any kind of name outside of a serial number could look bad in a headline. "Attenborough caught dumping diesel, killing baby seals".
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by woodman 10y ago
I'm surprised that they made no mention of Mister Splashy Pants [0]. Greenpeace went through the exact same thing, but stuck with the funny name - which turned out to be a really good move. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org&#x2F
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by woodman 10y ago
Let me direct your attention to the new soft drink: Hitler did nothing wrong. 4chan has been around for a while now.
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by woodman 10y ago
The subsequent modifications to the website lead me to believe that the chances of this being a suicide note are really low. But everything leading up to this leaves me confident that he will continue to "do something dumb", just
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by woodman 10y ago
> Why talk about the negotiations with Australian tax authorities when those authorities could very easily come and say that he was lying. Like he did with the unearned degrees, the nonexistent business partnerships, and key signing slig
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by woodman 10y ago
Sorry, no - everything I touch looks like it came from a TUI... BSD King Midas.
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by woodman 10y ago
I would guess that the majority of the angst can be summed up with the simple fact that some people get real pissy when you treat them like they are stupid. I think it wasted energy for strangers on the internet, but I can sympathize with
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by woodman 10y ago
Just to save anybody else the effort of pulling times from the jpg: 20160503T16:00:03Z First Internet Archive snapshot of extraordinary proof post [0] 20160505T10:57:08Z homepage.jpg created [1] 20160505T11:13:52Z homepage.jpg sa
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by woodman 10y ago
Officers are trained in force escalation, wherein their presence is a use of force, so unless they change their policy on force escalation - hinting at a street encounter is hinting at a use of force. Whether a hint is a threat is another
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by woodman 10y ago
Well if I had thought I was in a conversation where I had to guard against a bad faith interpretation, then I would have been more careful (and verbose) - repeating the intent component I've already mentioned. So with that in mind, no
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by woodman 10y ago
Conspicuous following is the most famously employed tactic, and obviously where it got its name, but it isn't the sole defining tactic. Bumper lock is the application of stress through overt investigation - and that doesn't neces
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...issues as a result of their inquiries... As I said in another post, the FBI is well aware of the stress induced - to the point that they have given it a name when turned to their advantage: "bumper lock". If any of that c
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...having panic attacks is not a healthy response to stress. Choking to death because of an allergy isn't a healthy response to peanuts, but like panic attacks, is involuntary. The legal system has already addressed the thrust of
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by woodman 10y ago
Being threatened by someone who can legally kidnap you kind of puts the zap on you. I once pissed off a municipal cop, and he started calling coworkers - it took about a month for me to stop weighing the possibility of being dragged onto t
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by woodman 10y ago
Harassment might not be accurate, but the word "threat" certainly is. In the law enforcement force continuum, just showing up is recognized as a use of force.
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...and this person totally freaked out. It sounds to me more like old fashioned FBI "bumper lock". This is when they attempt to provoke some sort of action on the part of a person under investigation. This very publicly bac
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by woodman 10y ago
I'm sorry, but your clarifying statement left me even more uncertain about your message. I think we'll just have to leave it, the comparison of any party in a discussion to moon landing conspiracy theorists pretty much shuts down
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...behavior of the people involved in the discussion... It is the context of the "sociological event" that I refer to, not the discussion about the discussion that you seem to have in mind. > There's always some possi
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by woodman 10y ago
Given the context, a trustless cryptographic system, the phrases "self evident" and "the nature of belief" are really out of place. This could all be easily settled - no faith required.
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by woodman 10y ago
ACH is just a very high level framework for shaking bias, the methods are implementation details. This is for humans, so you have to keep that in mind when you are choosing the analytic method - the most difficult that I'd press for i
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by woodman 10y ago
It would be fun to implement it to take advantage of the benefits that a restricted natural language would bring, like Attempto [0]. That would allow you to really automate the evaluation of hypotheses against new data points. You might b
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by woodman 10y ago
An email has at least three fields that can both influence the address to which a reply goes and isn't necessarily visible to the recipient's MUA. Even if the recipient where to look into the headers, there are plenty of games to
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by woodman 10y ago
Email is an incredibly weak form of validation. Mix a lack of DMARC policy with some social engineering and you have a dox.
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by woodman 10y ago
Sounds to me like you're already familiar with ACH [0]. I was sure that there was a free online platform, but I'm not seeing one. But if there was, it would be easy to plug in what you've posted and enable a structured coll
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by woodman 10y ago
> ...it's about conveying what someone has already desided to be true. I think the field strives for a little more than that, at the very least discussion is preferred to rote learning. Logic provides a common language for that dis

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