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by zipwitch 8y ago
Is it really a boondoggle though? I mean, it keeps the defense industry rolling, gives the military something to fly, politicians and the media something to talk about, and it's more or less capable of bombing third worlders who can&#x
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by zipwitch 8y ago
To save mass (and thus cost) they'll probably dehydrate the water before shipping it back to Earth. Their target market won't care.
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by zipwitch 8y ago
Environmental familiarity can be a huge thing. It's something we don't really notice with our mix of technology and associated wide-ranging logistics. I've got a little taste of it myself. I casually hiked and camped in the N
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by zipwitch 8y ago
It's a problem of scale. Say 0.0001% (number pulled from my rear pocket for illustration purposes) of the population want to engage in 'recreational terrorism' or 'orc-work'. If you have a population in the hundreds
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by zipwitch 8y ago
Oh, I agree that they cannot now be trusted. I was just trying to indirectly make the point that from our POV SpiderOak acknowledging they made a mistake, or them deliberately covering for a NSL look identical.
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by zipwitch 8y ago
If, for the sake of argument, a hostile (to the security of SpiderOak users) government actor was able to arbitrarily manipulate SpiderOak's further statements for purposes of furthering said government agency's goals, what migh
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by zipwitch 8y ago
Obviously the thieves weren't after them for any mundane value they possessed. <insert story about occult conspiracy theory here> (Back when I ran tabletop RPGs, this is exactly the sort of thing the PCs would have done.)
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by zipwitch 8y ago
I suppose it's too much to hope that BitTorrent fights for the users now?
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by zipwitch 8y ago
I've been using Syncthing for the same purpose.
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by zipwitch 8y ago
From the Skeptoid link I provided above: "Near the skeleton, Gallagher also found a small wooden box with dovetailed joints, that he determined to be a sextant box. It was delivered to Harold Gatty, founder of Air Pacific, and a good f
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by zipwitch 8y ago
TIGHAR again. (When there's Earhart news, it's always TIGHAR.) The problem with TIGHAR's work is (and this paper seems like no exception to me, though I am not an expert in related fields) that it inevitably starts with t
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by zipwitch 8y ago
That would eliminate a competitive advantage that large companies receive against their tiny bretheren.
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by zipwitch 8y ago
Jupiter and the Sun orbit a point located outside of the Sun. Using your definition would this make Jupiter a double planet with the Sun? A double star, and thus not a planet?
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by zipwitch 8y ago
So, you're saying that the technology focused billionare is facing criticism from a journalist and a man who rescues people from mortal danger underwater? Are a forensic scientist and an exotic female ambassador inexplicably involved a
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by zipwitch 8y ago
I once worked for a large telco, and although there were some basic security and verification processes in place internally, they were not rigorously enforced. An imposter or social engineer with malicious intent and the level of company-sp
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by zipwitch 8y ago
Because you don't want the land to take it's water rights and transportation links (among other things) and go home?
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by zipwitch 8y ago
Nah. Not Han Solo coat on Hoth, either.
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by zipwitch 8y ago
"Showing ads" is a phrase that covers a wide range of activity. Personally, I don't see anything wrong (and a lot of good) with a polite "hey, this thing exists" message. But once ads start trying to grab your atten
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by zipwitch 8y ago
As carriers change to fiber for all or part of their network, this is increasingly not true. It does bring back fond memories of trying to explain to WoW guildmates that we needed to hurry up and finish the fight, because my power just went
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by zipwitch 8y ago
Backhoes. The internet's natural predator.
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by zipwitch 8y ago
What would such evidence look like? I don't think we can consider brain size definitive, since it's possible for humans with about ~10% of our normal brain volume to function normally. There seems to be no evidence for tool use, m
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by zipwitch 8y ago
An objective debate over the future of capitalism is something our society needs.
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by zipwitch 8y ago
Perhaps not an emphasis on story-telling, but definitely on role-playing. Back in my red and blue box days, and through years of 1st ed, the emphasis was on immersing yourself in character. Stories emerged from the setting and characters, b
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by zipwitch 8y ago
It depends in where you want to stick that 'invented' label. The principles of Sir Robert Peel, arguably the father of modern policing, are very different: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_principles
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by zipwitch 8y ago
Because the advancement of technology changes the impact of certain classes of surveillance and tracking. Existing law is based on a balance that no longer exists. Bruce Schneier has a nice essay on this and license plates: https:/&#x
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by zipwitch 8y ago
Wait, it's not called Public Security, Section 9?
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by zipwitch 8y ago
I have the similar thoughts about capitalism as the Great Depression leaves living memory. Perhaps it is not any arbitrary and general '-ism' that is so deeply problematic, but the periodic failure or fall below some critical leve
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by zipwitch 8y ago
No, we cannot be certain. But I think that trying ISPs with motivation beyond "what gets the top executives the biggest bonuses at the end of the year" is worth trying.
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by zipwitch 8y ago
60 is a very natural number. You have twelve joints on the fingers of one hand. (Use the thumb to count.) You have five fingers (including the thumb) on the other hand to track multiples of 12 with. Voila, 60!

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