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by zipwitch 11y ago
Don't buy an Amazon device while planning on rooting it and installing CyanogenMod or the equivalent, either. Starting with Fire OS 5.1.1 in December 2015, Amazon locked down the bootloader making such hacks considerably trickier. Here
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He was reportedly driving a 2013 Chevy Tahoe, which typically has OnStar. DARPA demonstrated the ability to hack GMC's OnStar system to remotely control brake and throttle about a year ago. Make of that what you will. http:/&#x2F
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There's also the original manga _Ghost in the Shell_ by Masamune Shirow (first published back in 1991), and it's two sequels _Vol 2. Man-Machine Interface_ and _Vol 1.5. Human-Error Processor_, published in 2001 and 2003 (years l
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Or, given that it's Cryptome, it could be a an attempt to foil stylometry. http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/why-hackers-should...
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I was thinking more "self-funding prole monitoring device program".
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roflmao Goldman Sachs lies to people who pay them millions, and you think that anything they publish for free is reliable? http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/pictures/how-goldman-ex... Any report from Goldman Sa
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Capable? Maybe. Willing to exert itself on behalf of US citizens in danger? Nope. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/01/american-civili... The US evacuated government staff and contractors, but ab
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NASA had third and fourth options as well. Have the Columbia crew patch the hole and pray while doing what little they could to reduce stress and heating on the damaged wing during re-entry, or expedite Atlantis' next launch as a rescu
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The billionaires need to extract their rent somehow. (
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Wired, and it's multi-billionare owners can stuff it. Wired has been on a long stead decline ever since it was first sold in the late 90s. Now they've gotten to the point where they do so little good journalism that just blacklist
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I've seen the term 'inverted totalitarianism' to describe how the US is in a similar, but different place to pre-WWII fascism. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
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It's strange how the article you linked doesn't actually mention feminism at all. It's almost as though you don't know what you're writing about.
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When the WSJ says "more Americans" does it actually mean that, or does it mean "more people who live in the US and make at least $100,000 annually"?
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NSA Says It “Must Act Now” Against the Quantum Computing Threat(technologyreview.com)
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From a company whose marketing strategy is "act like assholes", with a business plan of "break the law and then whine when anyone points out that we're a bunch of criminals in suits", nothing surprises me anymore,
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There is an inverse correlation between CEO pay and performance. http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2014/06/17/3449737/ceo-pay-...
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> This, IMHO, is the crucial point: what exactly is Yahoo's business? Keeping the C-levels employed?
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When it comes to securing ourselves, anything coming from the NSA should be treated as some form of disinformation. The NSA betrayed its "information security" brief long ago and can never be trusted on that front again. We are
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Didn't Neal Stephenson predict this decades ago? "There was a competing bicycle dealership next door (Apple) that one day began selling motorized vehicles--expensive but attractively styled cars with their innards hermetically sea
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Under no circumstances should you search for videos of coconut crabs.
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Some of that feel will likely come back if(when) the internet begins to splinter, infrastructure begins to fail, and you start seeing hacked together municipal or neighborhood networks.
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Can you provide anything to support that particular narrative? Or any narrative at all?
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The lack of FTL and time required to get anywhere in the outer reaches of the solar system, the hypothetical but plausible antimatter-beamed power, the rogue sub-dwarf planet, are lots of similar small details. (I won't say more lest I
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Both the ruling class and the public of the 21st Century United States have a great deal of emotional investment in pretending that we are some sort of hyper-equitable nation, governed wisely by the public in the interests of freedom and th
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To sum up both the article and the judge's ruling: the idea of "Rule of Law" in the United States is a bad joke. This has been true for a while, but is becoming increasingly difficult for the public to ignore.
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The modern idea of CEOs is basically a cult. There is a inverse correlation between CEO pay and corporate performance http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1572085
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Well, what do you expect? P-zombies' facsimile of empathy can only stretch so far.
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I'm reminded of author Peter Watts' _Blindsight_ where travel beyond the asteroid belt required genetic modification (to allow the squishy hairless monkeys to hibernate for the required time).
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At high levels you're less likely to die in the simple course of wandering around the dungeon, but there are a number of challenges only encountered at high levels that have little margin for error, and can be swiftly deadly to even a
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This is all the same sort of thing that the folks who keep "finding" Amelia Earhart do, and it's all completely backwards. They are not finding bits of evidence, investigating them at length, and then reaching a conclusion ab

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