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by ryusage 13y ago
A friend of mine sent me this video just yesterday, showing the feed from a FPV quadcopter: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TrVLh6r8hd8&feature=player_de... Because it wasn't clear to me at first, I'll just poi
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by ryusage 13y ago
> clarifying the precedent so there's a better, more concrete understanding of how our state democracies relate to the federal democracy I think that's been a somewhat fuzzy, ongoing debate all the way back to the beginning, so
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by ryusage 13y ago
I saw that lecture also. Wish I'd had more time to go further with the Modeling class, it was really cool. Anyway, the equally interesting alternative to what you explained is what happens when everybody actually is super racist. If
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by ryusage 13y ago
I don't really see why it would be any different from taxing a cash currency?
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by ryusage 13y ago
Eh, I don't think they said that at all, and that doesn't make sense anyway. They would need to add an extra 3D model or two obviously, so sure, that's a bit more work, but in the big scheme of things it's very straightf
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by ryusage 13y ago
Okay, so this is a dumb article, but it's not quite as idiotic as it sounds. Kotaku makes it sound like the devs are saying female characters are just somehow more complex technically than male characters, and they literally didn&#x2
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by ryusage 13y ago
Those are great points. I hadn't considered the ability to jam signals at all. That seems like a pretty huge challenge to overcome actually.
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by ryusage 13y ago
To be honest, I'm surprised they haven't started switching to air-to-air drones yet. They seem to be using them for everything else these days.
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by ryusage 13y ago
You're right. I think he was referring to himself as being a spy before all of this, as in working for the US intelligence agencies. Probably? I'm not sure what else that could mean.
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by ryusage 13y ago
It seems pretty clear from the way they talk about it that they're tracking who sees each ad on each bin in exactly the same way google tracks who sees each ad on each web page. The obvious next step for such a technology is to show sp
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by ryusage 13y ago
> There is a healthy level of meat intake and we far exceed it Why do you think that? I definitely eat a lot of meat, but I've never really seen any reason to think it was an inherently bad thing.
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by ryusage 13y ago
That's a fair point. I would think that it's a bit of both, rather than either/or. It's worth pointing out though that just because it's less scary doesn't mean it's less problematic.
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by ryusage 13y ago
I think keevie's comment was referring more to a situation in which two strangers meet, one buys many drinks for the other, and then, once very drunk, gets them into bed. If you ask 100 people if that's wrong to do, I'm prett
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by ryusage 13y ago
There's a 43 year gap between those stats. You've got the beginnings of a hypothesis, but I think you need a lot more data if you want to support it at all.
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by ryusage 13y ago
That really is awesome. I just shared it on my Facebook page, and there were people talking about downloading it within minutes. Seems like marketing this thing should be relatively easy.
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by ryusage 13y ago
I remember a friend was up in arms a couple years ago about their phone number being exposed on Facebook. When I pointed out that's exactly what the phone book had done for decades, he suddenly didn't care much.
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by ryusage 13y ago
If this counts as "Little Brother", then I would argue that we've already reached that point. A year or two ago, I recall seeing many stories of outrage that police were confiscating phones after people filmed arrests. Fights
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by ryusage 13y ago
Consider this: the whole point of his huge sacrifice was to get people to talk about the information he revealed. If we expend too much of our energy talking about him and the way he got the information to us, rather than the information
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by ryusage 13y ago
> Healthy, well-adjusted people just don't say things like that. Unless they're doing this on an extremely regular basis, I don't even think this is a sign of someone having a problem. I think I'm normal enough, and I
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by ryusage 13y ago
I feel like I'm a fairly open-minded guy, but I've just always taken it for granted that Intelligence agencies exist entirely for the purpose of keeping tabs on what other countries and their citizens are doing, in order to know a
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by ryusage 13y ago
That's a great point. Whether that's his intent or not, it seems to be how it's progressing. An alternative explanation: he's obviously been following the news about the whole thing very closely, and so he knows what que
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by ryusage 13y ago
I think that's part of Schneier's point though. This spending seems to be primarily on cyber "weapons", not cyber "shields". We DO need to spend money on making our networks more secure and redundant. But inste
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by ryusage 13y ago
The problem I have with it is that, in all cases, any synthetic DNA could exist in nature. We can't even verify with 100% certainty that any given sequence doesn't already exist in nature. If it doesn't exist already, it coul
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by ryusage 13y ago
To be fair, part of the US government's job is to protect its citizens against outside threats. Given that, I can't imagine anyone inside the US arguing that they should stop spying on other countries' citizens. I'm pret
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by ryusage 13y ago
The richest country in the world, by far, and you think we lack the resources to give fair trials and humane prison conditions to the people we accuse of crimes? You do know that innocent people get arrested sometimes, right? > As in all
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by ryusage 13y ago
That implant seems like a pretty serious surgery, though. Hopefully the trials go well and they get this figured out without too many mistakes.
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by ryusage 13y ago
Reminds me of the book How To Win Friends And Influence People. All the way back in 1936, Dale Carnegie was trying to teach people that explaining why they should want something gets far, far better results than explaining what you woul
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by ryusage 13y ago
When I try to think of scifi that really seems like "the future", I have a hard time thinking of any movies. But I can think of some novels that fill the role. The one that comes to mind most immediately is Neal Stephenson's Diamond Age, wh
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by ryusage 13y ago
The article itself is actually just being reprinted from U of M's own site, which is much less ad-congested and even includes video. Would've been a much better choice for OP to post. http://www.uofmhealth.org/news/archive/201305/baby%E2%8
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by ryusage 13y ago
I don't know, it looked to me like you literally just walk in the room, say "Xbox, turn on. Go to Netflix." and you're good to go.

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