Tangaroa

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by Tangaroa 13y ago
Snowden has not, in fact, revealed the existence of a global system to capture the digital communications of everyone on the planet. Try again. Also, I'd still like to hear the explanation of how Snowden exposed his NSA co-workers tort
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
Please show me where Snowden has exposed his coworkers torturing other human beings. Please show me where Snowden has exposed his coworkers building a totalitarian surveillance infrastructure. Justify describing it as 'totalitarian&#x2
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
"just"? The BLA was shooting people and blowing up buildings, no scare quotes needed, they actually did that. That is why the police were after them: they were breaking the law in a serious way. How confused do you have to be to s
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
I'm still waiting on Snowden to provide evidence of the NSA breaking the 4th amendment and illegally spying on the American people. For all the panic and the republication of old stories about the NSA, it is Snowden who has provided ab
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
Thank you for adding nothing to the discussion.
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
Because he is starting at China, one superpower that is an antagonist of the US; taking the first leg of his trip to Russia, another superpower that is an antagonist of the US; and traveling through one to three countries (Cuba, Ecuador, an
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
The entire Snowden hoax is a media event, a PR campaign to cover up the fact that he spied on the US for foreign powers. It's the most effective case of spin and damage control that I've ever seen.
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
Assata Shakur? The terrorist? Of course she did not "find a safe haven here in the U.S." while she and her Black Liberation Army were shooting people and blowing up buildings. The police were trying to put her in jail.
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
Someone could, but the explanation is secret. Ironic, isn't it?
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
Regarding the idea that someone would have leaked something, WorldNetDaily seems to get a lot of leaks from the CIA. This raises several questions about any of these stories starting with how fake is it, what kind of person would leak to WN
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
They are already effecting change; seeing this on the front page has made me have much less respect for the Hacker News community. How can so many people be so stupid , and on HN of all places?
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
What outrageous actions? What outrageous policies? What long-festering problem? You haven't said a damn thing, just as Snowden has yet to expose any wrongdoing on the part of the NSA. He has said that the NSA is spying on everybody,
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
AJAX and REST sure are evil. The fact that 229 people have upvoted this is certainly proof that web-based UIs are something that we as hackers ought to oppose. We are all aware that PRISM has been exposed to be nothing more than a user inte
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
As long as we're playing at labels, I am a socialist and you are a goddamned idiot. There is no such thing as a corporatist. You're just using it as a nasty word to accuse your debate opponents of malicious intentions. Back to the
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
What we need is a court ruling that people who click through these things have no intention to be bound by the contract, and therefore aren't.
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
Is the community jumping the shark, or is Hacker News under a denial-of-service attack? It's hard to tell.
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
The civil police force.
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
"If you knew this was happening"... Define "this". For the last few days, these huge comment threads have been completely empty of information. People are complaining about "NSA spying" or simply "this&quo
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
I submitted a better link yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5859658 It is "better", in that: 1. It goes to the original source, not a blog post giving a five-line summary of another blog post. 2. It
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US Supreme Court: no warrant needed to collect phone metadata(caselaw.lp.findlaw.com)
2 points by Tangaroa 13y ago|0 comments
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
I disagree, but I gave you an upvote because your mindless rhetoric is as equally valuable and informative to this conversation as the other mindless rhetoric posts that do nothing more than agree with TFA and yet have not been marked down
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
So you are taking the position that Unit 61398 of the 2nd Bureau of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) General Staff Department’s (GSD) 3rd Department has no relation to the state of China. Please elucidate. http://intelreport.ma
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
The alleged spying project is led by a Scottish American and organized by guys named Randall and Paul Jacobson, using software from an Indian company owned by Boeing and an Israeli company headquartered in Massachussetts. Of all the differe
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
If he gets banned, the conversation is indeed over so his point stands, eh? A funny thing about this "tone troll" business is that PZ bans people for asking for more civility in discussions, and he banned Thunderf00t for being incivil. Go f
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
Reread it yourself. He does in fact uphold forcefulness ("confidence", "command", "outmaneuver", not "feeble") and rhetoric ("inner strength", "emotion") as superior to logical thought ("predictable", "rigid"). It's like he just discovered
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
This is wrong on so many levels that it's difficult to keep track of them all. Let's start with the introduction: <blockquote>Why did people who deployed these [critical thinking] terms always look so rigid, so predictable, so feebl
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
This one actually has techie relevance, but I hear what you're saying. The political links and their duplicates and their duplicates are drowning out the technology posts, even on /classic.
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
Yes. http://hamburgsteak.sandwich.net/writ/bad_ideas/
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
An expert would know the ecma spec inside and out, know what javascript does differently from similar procedural languages, know how to approach performance and memory management issues, know common practical development patterns, know the
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by Tangaroa 13y ago
Here is a free clue for you: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1253796 And some notes on his influence: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qutbism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma%27alim_fi_al-Tariq They do indeed "hate

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