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Burglary of lawmaker reinvigorates his phone-tracking bill(columbian.com)
1 points by chroem 12y ago|0 comments
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by chroem 12y ago
Still, though, the weak link remains that everyone has to trust these officials will actually uphold the constitution. Unless we can develop something more binding than swearing on a Bible, we're going to keep coming back to this same
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by chroem 12y ago
Well, it can be seen and it can be used, but just not by everyone yet. I have no idea where I'll go to do a beta now.
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by chroem 12y ago
While I think it should apply to non-US citizens, the fact that it technically doesn't is irrelevant as long as they're still willfully violating the rights of US citizens too.
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by chroem 12y ago
>The job of three-letters agencies is to find out all various enemies of the state. Within the confines of the law and US constitution. If all you care about is rooting out enemies of the state, then you're left with organizations l
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by chroem 12y ago
I'm actually kind of bothered by this. I was about to release signups for a private beta of my current project, but apparently that no longer fits the formal criteria of "Show HN." Disappointing to say the least.
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by chroem 12y ago
Why not a fission fragment rocket? We could send a probe to the centauri system with current technology. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fission-fragment_rocket
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by chroem 12y ago
This isn't 2004. The state of development of the various GNU/ Linux distributions has reached a point where everything "just works". I have yet to see an installation with driver problems. Not to mention that the batt
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by chroem 12y ago
Why should this even matter in the first place? How can we be a supposedly post-racial society and yet have this level of scrutiny on the racial makeup of a company that is clearly not actively discriminating based on race? I don't me
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by chroem 12y ago
>As production techniques for hard drugs like cocaine and methamphetamines improve, cost of access has dropped significantly, leading to increased use of these substances in children. Technological progress is inevitable, so we might as
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by chroem 12y ago
There has been a cultural shift lately from "Ha! Those people are nerds!" to "Man, those guys are going to make so much money.". I would argue it has a lot to do with this movie: http://en.wikipedia.org/
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by chroem 12y ago
Well, in terms of package and code validation, there are definitely strong arguments to be made for source-based distribution models and FOSS-backed fuzzing operations. Although freely available source isn't perfect for combating gove
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by chroem 12y ago
Well, RMS exclusively uses a Lemote Yeelong that has been formally verified to not contain backdoors, and he runs purely free software on it. If that's not enough, he never connects it directly to the internet by having another comput
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by chroem 12y ago
Richard Stallman? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Stallman He's about free software as well. People that haven't started subscribing to his ideas post-leaks are part of the problem.
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Passive listening will soon be a feature for Facebook app during status updates(arstechnica.com)
5 points by chroem 12y ago|0 comments
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by chroem 12y ago
I realize it's not the most credible source, but there was a purported leaker a few months ago on 4chan that claimed Google is getting ready to turn Android into something like this. He even claimed to have a prototype device. I&#x27
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by chroem 12y ago
This is exactly the sort of thing that I have been absolutely terrified about for a while now. When you're being hired, companies often tell you that they're going to run a professional background check, and I am concerned this m
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by chroem 12y ago
Ugh, but Go is slow compared to Java and it's missing a lot of features. Why not something like Mono? It's faster than their current Dalvik/ ART VM and it would allow for many more languages to be used natively than just J
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by chroem 12y ago
Do the epiphany cores have storage and network I/O access, or are they something more similar to a GPU? In other words, could I write an epiphany webserver?
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by chroem 12y ago
This is a red herring if I've ever seen one. Honestly, why should anyone care about how members of government sign documents when we have such dire problems as ballooning inequality or an ongoing push toward totalitarianism?
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by chroem 12y ago
And water is still wet. Really, it doesn't make sense for robots to not be a net drain on employment. As a thought experiment, let's say that a company fires n workers because it is in the process of automating their jobs. Now,
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by chroem 12y ago
Really? I picked up CSS in a few hours but I still can't begin to wrap my head around how to properly work with Android layouts. I really wish Google would let people use HTML and CSS instead of that bizarre relational XML stuff.
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by chroem 13y ago
>Elon ... is an engineer Oh really? Where did he study engineering? When did he take the FE exam? That's not a term that you can throw around all willy-nilly, especially in the context of hardware. Next, are you about to tell me
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by chroem 13y ago
It seems like HN is mostly missing the point. Stallman's four essential freedoms are intended to fix proprietary software vendors abusing their users. For example, let's say there's some "open source" software that
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by chroem 13y ago
I'm sorry, but no amount of Kony 2012-ing is going to fix this problem. People need to get off of their asses and start protesting. Campaigns like this are just an embarrassment at this point.
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by chroem 13y ago
So how is that NSA reform coming along? Good I hope?
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by chroem 13y ago
Too bad God doesn't approve of a networking stack.
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by chroem 13y ago
At risk of being called a crazy conspiracy theorist: At some point you have to realize that politicians have been reduced to little more than actors and the deep state is now the entity that's really in control. What do I mean by that
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by chroem 13y ago
Well, it's illegal for them to fight the unionization of their workers. Normally when they do it, they say "but we're not anti-union" with a wink and a smile, and that makes it okay. However, if the leaked documents ar
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Walmart's guide on silencing workers leaked(occupywallst.org)
28 points by chroem 13y ago|3 comments

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