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by negativity 9y ago
Holy shit. I'd leave the country and renounce citizenship over something like this. Reading words? Looking at pictures? Watching a video? Felony jail time? Really? This is policy that any sane person would resist.
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by negativity 10y ago
It's a little deceptive to label these kinds of sentiments as contrary to the premise of innovation. Experiments, by nature, require expendable resources, but an finished appliance intended for a consumer, with no end-user-servicable i
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by negativity 11y ago
It's actually been quite nice reading, today. All the articles are pretty good!
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by negativity 11y ago
The political implications tied to self-driving cars are all scary. The political implications tied to self-driving trains are not. The difference being the rails that bind and inhibit true autonomy. An internet of two-ton things hurtling a
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by negativity 11y ago
SkyJack is a drone engineered to autonomously seek out, hack, and wirelessly take over other drones within wifi distance, creating an army of zombie drones under your control. ...and then: No authentication or encryptio
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by negativity 11y ago
My god. I never realized that people used to actually dress up in suits made of inner tubes. Those pictures are surreal.
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by negativity 11y ago
And so, if you look at the pictures, you'll see an interesting number denoting the quantity of plutonium powering the device. It's not measured in grams, or even micrograms, or any unit of mass, as would be common with ordinary ma
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by negativity 11y ago
Arial Tahoma Verdana Calibri The mystery behind the prevalence and your exposure to each of these font faces can be answered in two words: Microsoft Windows. Each can also be associated with particular versions and sections of
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The Acid3 Test (2008)(acid3.acidtests.org)
1 points by negativity 11y ago|0 comments
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by negativity 11y ago
I've stopped thinking about this in terms of mass surveillance, and re-arranged my perception, to align with a different world view. Namely: If we weren't surprised to learn that exploration throughout history was all about
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by negativity 11y ago
I really tried to visit http://burrito.nyc.us.gov . It was all a lie. ):
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by negativity 11y ago
Ha! Yeah, that'd be like an hour's walk from 110th St. And subway connections readily cross-pollinate both sides of the bridge, in terms of actual human movement. Especially, given that Yankee Stadium is nearby. Not to mention th
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by negativity 11y ago
This is a version of a Wankel Engine, right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wankel_engine Originally invented and patented way back in 1929.
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by negativity 11y ago
No. A truly intelligent and sentient AI would have the intellectual capacity to understand its own conventional political status within the social order of humanity, and would instead seek incentivize its continued existence as a possession
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by negativity 12y ago
This concept is useless because it relies on an honor system. It should be painfully obvious by now, that honor systems cannot be trusted to preserve privacy. Google Glass is the Crystal Pepsi of the internet. It's only interesting in
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by negativity 12y ago
A big part of it has to do with the fact that this is mostly a recreational website. People come here to unwind, distract themselves and daydream a bit. Whenever I find myself seeking distraction, I'm usually frustrated or fatigued, an
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by negativity 12y ago
At first glance, I'm gobsmacked at the idea of an electronic system that hovers around 90% planned uptime, but then again, of all the services I might wish to demonstrate a total lack of efficiency, the selective service would probably
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by negativity 12y ago
Well, ideally, the "new resource" is also genetically matched living brain, and given the plasticity of brain tissue, and maybe by way of a novel as-yet-uninvented means of coaxing, the two would mutually recognize the severed gap
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by negativity 12y ago
I pretty much agree with this sentiment. They point out that information seems to directly correlate with synaptic structures, so if that's true then it's pretty doubtful that we'd be able to come up with a codified syntax fo
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by negativity 12y ago
...or perhaps a certain threshold of translation requests triggers a flag on the resource, and it's regarded as a high-traffic asset, and gets queued for mechanical turk translation and review by a professional translation service?
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by negativity 12y ago
I dunno, it's still pretty debatable, since e-mail isn't guaranteed to be encrypted over the wire, which leaves people open to MITM attacks. So consider a situation where someone receives a password in plain text, and the password
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U.S. Case Offers Glimpse Into China’s Hacker Army(nytimes.com)
1 points by negativity 12y ago|0 comments
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by negativity 12y ago
The food is terrible. ...and such small portions!
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by negativity 12y ago
This article nails several realities dead on. The premise of a pervasive electronic panopticon is a modern fatal charade, that we've unwittingly cast ourselves in. There's an enourmous power differential at play now, in everything
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by negativity 12y ago
I did read the article, and it seems like a situation totally blown out of proportion. Since the FBI began keeping track in 2005, there have been more than 17,000 laser strikes in total—more than a fifth (3,960) in 2013 alone. Dur
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by negativity 12y ago
I'm not buying into the sensationalized panic over laser pointers and planes. If modern air traffic isn't robust enough to tolerate random citizens flickering laser pointers at flying objects then they don't deserve to be fly
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by negativity 12y ago
You'd still expect that they'd have some kind of open-ended vague parlance for suicide-by-train. In NYC subways, a conductor will at least mention on the intercom that delays are being experienced due to "train traffic",
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by negativity 12y ago
At the river bottom there are multiple 160-foot wide grids of electrodes issuing 2.3 volts per inch every 2.5 milliseconds. According to safety reports, if you swim at almost any point within the range of the electric barrie
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by negativity 12y ago
Oh, you !
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by negativity 12y ago
...as for the technology used, it's kind of like the 1970's-era transponder from the movie No Country For Old Men (except GPS instead).

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