tippytop

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by tippytop 12y ago
Upon browsing a few of these threads tonight, I've realized there is no worse reading than a bunch of tech enthusiasts armchairing about geopolitics. I'm out!
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by tippytop 12y ago
But JSON doesn't support comments which are pretty nice in a config file. You can do the ugly comment as property stuff, or strip them out, but you're getting away from the One True Format.
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by tippytop 12y ago
So which Uber driver is taking the calls to the poorer neighborhoods?
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by tippytop 12y ago
Higher education has become an export of the US. What's citizenship got to do with it?
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by tippytop 12y ago
So they picked the favorite in the final and missed the third place game. The singularity is almost here.
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by tippytop 12y ago
Uber drivers aren't invisible. It wouldn't take much effort to use the app to flag one down, note the license plate, and give them a nice little talking to. I doubt many part-timers would stick with it if they thought there was a
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by tippytop 12y ago
If you're ever in Mountain View and walk by the Google campus around 4-4:30p, you can witness the vast network of Google buses picking up their colonist cargo ready for dispersal throughout the Bay Area. It's not just one or two b
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by tippytop 12y ago
So I'm waiting behind a soon-to-be (or not-so-soon) leaving car and some other jerk with an app pulls up and claims it's his spot because he "paid" for it? And I'm supposed to recognize this transaction and carry on
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by tippytop 12y ago
Gross. It's also GPLv3, that seems a bit restrictive for a class system.
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US tech giants knew of NSA data collection, agency's top lawyer insists(theguardian.com)
186 points by tippytop 13y ago|41 comments
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by tippytop 13y ago
And now thanks to Mr. Greenwald's reporting, citizens & elected officials, policy wonks & pundits, scholars & laymen alike, can all discuss actual facts instead of relying on grkvit's assumptions about how government s
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by tippytop 13y ago
You are correct, I've misunderstood this program and perhaps the parent post I was responding to. Oh well, can't win 'em all. This is in addition to the PRISM programs we've already seen.
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by tippytop 13y ago
> Google had no knowledge of NSA's physical compromise of their data centers. How do you know this is the case? In the diagram submitted within the article, the box highlighted with the smiley face is labeled "GFE" for Goo
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by tippytop 13y ago
HIPAA is no joke. Even if this company is technically in the clear, being associated with a controversy like this is enough to keep doctors from using the service. Makes me wonder if they had any domain knowledge at all or just a "Yelp
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NSA Reforms Under Threat(theguardian.com)
3 points by tippytop 13y ago|0 comments
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by tippytop 13y ago
Regarding the mainstream news cycle and from a PR perspective, you want bad news to come out late Friday to minimize exposure. The typical audience is ready for the weekend and paying less attention. Also staff journalists tend to be off wh
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Snowden Nominated for a European Human Rights Prize(nytimes.com)
8 points by tippytop 13y ago|0 comments
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NSA violated privacy rules, declassified court documents show(washingtonpost.com)
3 points by tippytop 13y ago|0 comments
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by tippytop 13y ago
Then does not saying racist things automatically make you not-racist? Or is there other criteria we need to apply before hanging the label? For example, do they believe the words coming out of their own mouth? What about someone with Touret
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by tippytop 13y ago
I noticed on my last trip that the TSA, at all airports involved, were more pushy this time about herding me through the machines, using similar words. I guess there was a new policy memo sent out.
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by tippytop 13y ago
And what happens when these videos are leaked to the press, or some hair-brained politico wants to post them up on his mugshot website. Accountability is great, but so is innocent until proven guilty. Hopefully systems will be put in place
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by tippytop 13y ago
Sure, it's the belief that the rulers can create a rational society through technical means, and it's been the dominant idea of the past century. And time after time, their pet theories of the day are undermined by the unintended
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U.K. Government Thought Destroying Guardian Hard Drives Would Stop Stories(washingtonpost.com)
138 points by tippytop 13y ago|36 comments
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Obama Asks Supreme Court for Warrantless Cellphone Searches(washingtonpost.com)
17 points by tippytop 13y ago|1 comments
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by tippytop 13y ago
Anyone who watches government in action understands quite well how laws are twisted and turned to meet objectives. It only matters what is explicit, and there is no mention anywhere in the Constitution about "privacy". If this is
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by tippytop 13y ago
We need a privacy amendment to the Constitution. It needs to shore up the legalese of the 4th which lawyers have made a runaround.
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by tippytop 13y ago
The reciprocal, my Internet company will spy on my users in exchange for a government contract, wouldn't be called leverage, it'd be called corruption.
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by tippytop 13y ago
Any leadership on the Intelligence Committee will back these programs to the bitter end---they set it up, it's their judgement under scrutiny, and they have the most to lose politically and historically.
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Momentum Builds Against N.S.A. Surveillance(nytimes.com)
263 points by tippytop 13y ago|30 comments
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US Attorney General Holder: We Won't Torture or Kill Snowden(newyorker.com)
35 points by tippytop 13y ago|67 comments

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