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“Julian Assange’s internet link has been intentionally severed”(twitter.com)
231 points by zipwitch 10y ago|16 comments
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by zipwitch 10y ago
I've been following space news since I was a kid in the 70s, and now I'm to the point where I find these repetitions of "Mars in ~25 years" to be more pathetically sad than anything else. Maybe Musk and SpaceX will succe
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by zipwitch 10y ago
The U.S. Patent Office will grant a patent for basically anything. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20100819/12015210689.shtml
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by zipwitch 10y ago
If doing so proves beyond a shadow of doubt that our government officers are lying both to the people of the United States and to their representatives in Congress, as Director of National Intelligence did, isn't that a good thing?
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by zipwitch 10y ago
Just so I'm clear here, you're expecting us to trust the NSA? An agency that is publicly on officially on the record as lying to Congress ?
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by zipwitch 10y ago
A rifle really is the best tool for: hunting large game for food and defending yourself from hostile megafauna.
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by zipwitch 10y ago
As xkcd put it, "In the last few years, with very little fanfare, we've conclusively settled the questions of flying saucers, lake monsters, ghosts, and bigfoot." https://xkcd.com/1235/ The Chelyabinsk m
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Dogs Trained to Find Electronic Storage Media for Police(cnn.com)
1 points by zipwitch 10y ago|0 comments
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by zipwitch 10y ago
How terrifying would status quo power holders find a free, universally available and readily usable software tool that provided real and uncrackable anonymity for anyone?
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by zipwitch 10y ago
If all you're concerned with is keeping basic information out of the hands of comparatively low-resource adversaries (such as hiding your IP address from single website and its authors/owners) there are low-cost and comparatively
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by zipwitch 10y ago
I seem to recall that one of the drags on the Shuttle's performance was the Air Force insistence on a larger cargo bay and requirement that it be able to reach polar orbit.
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by zipwitch 10y ago
Or perhaps made from some strange matter, alien to understanding? (What does a fossilized Great Old One look like, anyway? Would it still be alive?)
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by zipwitch 10y ago
To quote Mike Brown (who has the best Twitter handle ever ), "Weekly PSA: no, in fact the earth is NOT going to be destroyed by [fill in crazy thing seen on internet here] next week. Thanks for asking." https://twitter
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by zipwitch 10y ago
Billionaire's personal media outlet promotes virtues of panoptic surveillance!
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by zipwitch 10y ago
What they're _planning_ is not relevant. What matters is whether they're competent enough to keep such keys secure. (Such as by not allowing malicious actors to get copies of them.) What is relevant is that they are demonstrably _
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by zipwitch 10y ago
Data-mining. How can the smart-fridge company sell your eating habits if your fridge only tells you (and not them) how you're using it?
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by zipwitch 10y ago
Sports-worship is an accepted sect of American Civic Religion.
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by zipwitch 10y ago
Only some of them. The transient orca are the ones who eat mammals and don't have large social groupings. The resident orca have larger (matriarchal) social groups and don't eat other mammals , just fish. It's always amazing
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by zipwitch 10y ago
Thomas Babington Macaulay gave some brilliant speeches on this, back in the first half of the 19th century: http://homepages.law.asu.edu/~dkarjala/OpposingCopyrightExte... One takeaway from his words is brutally practi
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Peelian Principles and policing by consent(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by zipwitch 10y ago|0 comments
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by zipwitch 10y ago
Ending low-intensity conflict within the United States is not going to be achieved by pure force. At least not by any level of force that can be practically applied. Dominant factors will lean more towards public relations, resilience, and
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by zipwitch 10y ago
>The English I am using to write this comment would be incomprehensible to my great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents. Not necessarily. For example, take this: "Harold is swift. His hand is strong and his word grim. Late
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Two federal judges say IP address insufficient evidence in piracy cases(fightcopyrighttrolls.com)
7 points by zipwitch 10y ago|0 comments
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Molniya orbit(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by zipwitch 10y ago|0 comments
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Google developing an AI “kill-switch”(hothardware.com)
3 points by zipwitch 10y ago|0 comments
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by zipwitch 10y ago
Something that is also mentioned in Neal Stephenson's Baroque Cycle. Which someone already mentioned in reference to gold. In really is an amazing dive into history, even if it's not 100% accurate.
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by zipwitch 10y ago
Or we'll all wear goggles, steampunk or otherwise.
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by zipwitch 10y ago
I find the mindset behind, "analysts estimated that ad blocking had cost web publishers nearly $22 billion in lost ad sales" to be both hilarious and terrifying. It's something right out of Max Headroom I watched as a kid, wh
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YouTube threatens legal action against video download service(torrentfreak.com)
12 points by zipwitch 10y ago|4 comments
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by zipwitch 10y ago
While it doesn't speak to the weapon's historical existence, fantasy author an Society for Creative Anachronism founder Paul Edwin Zimmer wrote at length about a 'war flail' consisting of a wooden handle attached by a ve

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