00rion

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by 00rion 13y ago
Sounds like this would make for a great movie script.
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by 00rion 13y ago
municipal internet
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by 00rion 13y ago
We could all pressure our local governments to provide municipal internet. Many cities have already created services that are much faster too.
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by 00rion 13y ago
This makes me wonder if a bank could operate with Bitcoins. Not everyone would withdraw the money at once and there would be a way of publicly verifying the degree that they're leveraged. If the bank wanted to lend out part or all of
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by 00rion 13y ago
That's certainly a possibility. The contrary may prove to be true as well. For example, if I was a terrorist and I knew that the NSA was spying on all my phone communications, I may elect to not use a phone. This means that I'm
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by 00rion 13y ago
I don't think you're being very clear. The victims of terrorism generally don't have access to the information that these counterintelligence operations obtain. In other words, the victims are in the same place they were be
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by 00rion 13y ago
If the government offered a legitimate and effective way for whistleblowers to expose wrongdoing and unconstitutional behavior, perhaps they could limit this type of damage from being done. As it stands, the release of this information cou
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by 00rion 13y ago
There's another possibility. The NSA has blackmailed Obama into protecting their interests. If Obama makes substantial changes to the NSA and then is outed for something that the NSA would have known about, he may have been blackmail
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by 00rion 13y ago
If it takes approximately 10 minutes to confirm a transaction, it seems like you would be putting merchants at risk. Perhaps some sort of bitcoin insurance would mitigate this risk for a small monthly fee.
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by 00rion 13y ago
What's stopping another crypto currency such as Litecoin from superceding Bitcoin?
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by 00rion 13y ago
I'm curious about this too. Miners who maintain the blockchain will have to do more work for less bitcoins. If miners are earning less bitcoins, the value will have to continue increasing in order to encourage the miners to maintain
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by 00rion 13y ago
On the legislative side, it seems that we need more transparency and the ability to curb abuses once detected. I don't really know what a working system that acts in this capacity would look like but I think it would include citizens
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by 00rion 13y ago
Galaxy S4 with Cyanogenmod is pretty awesome. The camera is much better and you can setup everything exactly as you want.
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by 00rion 13y ago
If we are justified in spying on foreigners, then foreigners are justified in spying on us. If foreign intelligence agencies have records of all the emails, phone calls, metadata, etc. of US citizens, what's to stop them from handing
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by 00rion 13y ago
I'm curious to know what can be done to subvert this form of control both online and in the real world. Zersetzung sounds incredibly frightening and you're 100% correct that that's the direction we're going.
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by 00rion 13y ago
I notice that nobody has related this to the Swiss proposal to provide a basic income for all adults. If it works there, I wonder if other countries will move in that direction.
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by 00rion 13y ago
We also give third parties the content of our calls as well. Under the third party doctrine, it's then legal for the government to listen to the content of our calls. The reason they claim they don't collect all the content of o
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by 00rion 13y ago
I've been meaning to setup BTSync on all my devices, including the raspberry pi I haven't hacked with in awhile.
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by 00rion 13y ago
I would say the focus is more on the offenders' enlightened self interest. Not everyone is aware of the best course of action given a situation. That goes for both offenders and the people who have decided to perpetuate our punitive
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by 00rion 13y ago
I somewhat agree. However, it's incredibly dangerous for everyone to give up privacy while the government continues doing things secretly. If we all must be forced to be exposed, so should the government.
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by 00rion 13y ago
If you don't like the conversation then leave.
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by 00rion 13y ago
The Zimmerman trial isn't something that affects everyone's day-to-day life, but the media chose to focus on it. Imagine what would happen if the media had instead focused on the NSA scandal. If that were to happen, things would
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by 00rion 13y ago
Organize ourselves. The people need a way to influence the government more. We can do this through collecting money for specific causes and deciding, as a group, how best to influence politics, be it through billboard advertisements that
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by 00rion 13y ago
There are two ways to prevent terrorism. You can a) focus on preventing the actual act and b) focus on preventing people from becoming motivated enough to commit the act. If we truly want to prevent terrorism, we need to focus on both. C
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by 00rion 13y ago
That's why broad, not specific, goals would be decided by large groups. One broad goal might be to "end domestic NSA surveillance". Specific actions could be decided by teams of people in working groups which is similar to
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by 00rion 13y ago
I'm currently working on a social network that helps groups of people make decisions and build consensus. In most organizations, decisions are made from the top down and then implemented by small groups within the organization. The go
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by 00rion 13y ago
Indeed. I can't believe more people don't know about this.
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by 00rion 13y ago
Could you list some things they do to protect us so that we all have a better understanding? I feel that their aim would be to collect non-domestic information that could be used to push US interests. Is that really a positive thing?
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by 00rion 13y ago
If you haven't seen the video of the House judiciary committee meeting: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/314032-1
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by 00rion 13y ago
What would be a good alternative?

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