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by dram 13y ago
Corruption on this level only existed 50+ years ago. Nowadays our politicians, popes and corporations would never do what they'd did in the 20th century.
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by dram 13y ago
I like the name didapper mail. A fun sounding duck inspired protocol.
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by dram 13y ago
This says that debit cards are "online transactions" that could cost 10 cents vs 2% for an "offline" credit transaction - http://banking.about.com/od/checkingaccounts/a/debitvscredit... I
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by dram 13y ago
The investigative reporter lives nearby. He recorded the surveillance camera playback with his camera or phone. Perhaps the recording of the playback slowed down the video slightly? Maybe someone could load the video up in Physics Toolkit
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by dram 13y ago
Let's be fair. Krikorian had access to the ENTIRE video and this professor only a short Youtube video clip. Kirkorian wrote, "Three seconds later, another vehicle goes by, traveling from the restaurant front door to the crash si
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by dram 13y ago
Here's a story about an FBI FOIA document that included the language, "planned to engage in sniper attacks against protestors in Houston, Texas, if deemed necessary." The plotters names are redacted but seems rather disturbi
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by dram 13y ago
Fair points but the author of the article, Kimberly Dvorak, appears convinced that Hastings' was murdered. It seems she found someone to support a theory that his car was travelling 35MPH. I think you can deduce from him speeding thr
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by dram 13y ago
The article and your comment are misleading. Despite the professor's calculation, it contradicts other evidence including the eye witnesses. Michael Krikorian observes that Hastings' car was going at least twice as fast as the ot
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by dram 13y ago
The investigator that released the video wrote a good article debunking a lot of the claims out there- http://whowhatwhy.com/2013/07/14/the-michael-hastings-wreck-... Although I'd never heard the story a
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by dram 13y ago
Try renaming it gfacemail and hiring 50 Cent as a partner.
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by dram 13y ago
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Keynesianism
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by dram 13y ago
9/11 was definitely planned by KSM and indirectly by his nephew Ramzi Yousef. But it's also true that we accidentally let it happen. It's remarkable that this interview with Richard Clarke only has 53,000 hits- http:/&
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by dram 13y ago
He was responding to a retired US Senator who wrote him an e-mail. You think it's pompous to respond to him?
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by dram 13y ago
Sounds like great news for Glenn Greenwald. Can we see the audit trail for Team Themis and understand more about how Palantir was contracted to be paid $3.6MM for malicious datamining to attack a US journalist?
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by dram 13y ago
And in two sentences after your excerpt, it says it's closely related to the push for popular sovereignty. This "higher ideal" that the American and French Revolutions prided themselves on is called the Citizen. Let's
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by dram 13y ago
But a US citizen's rights are not derived from the Constitution. It's clearly hypocritical to say a German has no natural right to privacy. We could declare war on Germany, then we could morally justify violating their rights. B
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by dram 13y ago
So from Wikipedia, Boundless Informant uses 504 separate DNR (electronic surveillance program records) and DNI (metadata) collection sources known as SIGADs. In a 30-day period, they collected 3 billion data elements from within the US fro
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by dram 13y ago
We should be doing this. The United States' organic law is based on natural rights. Defined as the innate right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Our rights do not come from the Bill of Rights. If the US repealed or di
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by dram 13y ago
I never realized how powerful HBGary was. I knew they employed dirty tricks but I did not know they had so many unpublished 0-day exploits and sophisticated rootkits. I had this impression from the Colbert Report that they were inept gove
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by dram 13y ago
For a social site, they are doing great but how could they possibly have any technology that the CIA would need? And while I realize their personas are a joke, to me, they represent everything I dislike about music. Also advocating amphetam
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by dram 13y ago
The NSA is wholesale collecting data and later using a secret court to authorize them to query their own databases [1]. PRISM is not just an interface. It is officially known as SIGAD US-984XN which means it intercepts and collects electr
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by dram 13y ago
This is the most interesting fact. There's video cameras everywhere and he had to know that. The reasonable answer seems to be a medical issue.
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by dram 13y ago
There is also a black box (electronic data recorder) on that Mercedes. If something manipulated the system, you'd assume the EDR would record it. Not to mention it'd be a terrible place to try to kill someone, with cameras everyw
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by dram 13y ago
Well it is officially SIGAD US-984XN, so by its own definition it intercepts signals- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGINT_Activity_Designator It is not just an interface. The NSA is collecting data and using secret co
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by dram 13y ago
Perhaps I am misreading your comment but "can't imagine" is a figure of speech. I meant I was excited for the possibility. And the last statement was just referencing my ignorance about metal-air batteries working in oxygen-
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by dram 13y ago
May I add: "To rob the public, it is necessary to deceive them. To deceive them, it is necessary to persuade them that they are robbed for their own advantage, and to induce them to accept in exchange for their property, imaginary serv
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by dram 13y ago
Tesla's filed eight patents for metal-air batteries. Phinergy said they'll have a 1000-mile EV by 2017. Can't imagine a 30k Tesla with this technology. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/04/23&
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by dram 13y ago
Some places will charge you with "addressing words to officers". The real problem is a cop can arrest you for anything and call it obstruction of justice. And then either the prosecutor will reject the case or you'll get ch
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by dram 13y ago
Some video - http://allthingsd.com/category/d11/
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by dram 13y ago
He's given $60 million to the the College-Ready Promise coalition in Los Angeles that serves thousands of inner-city kids and has given $1.37B to the United Negro College Fund.

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