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by ttt_ 13y ago
That's a valid point only if it could somehow auto-engage on 'drive-mode' and disallow any other function. The burden would be on the maker to ensure that. Otherwise, it maybe could allow for safer driving, but it sure would
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by ttt_ 13y ago
Do we really need to have data on several hundred or thousand injury, maiming and death records for each new type of gadget that comes out? If X requires your attention, it will cause accidents. We already have enough data on that.
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by ttt_ 13y ago
“Look, NSA has platoons of lawyers and their entire job is figuring out how to stay within the law and maximize collection by exploiting every loophole,” Interesting how agencies, corporations and alike have the collective maturity of chi
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by ttt_ 13y ago
>> Does anyone honestly believe the Germans aren't regularly trying to figure out ways to listen to American officials' communications? Your statement seems to equate "it's usual to spy" with "it's
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by ttt_ 13y ago
I agree. While reading the article I can't help but, sort of, empathize with modern AI programs. Me and Watson are very similar, Watson can win Jeopardy but has no understanding why, I can recognize a handwritten 'a' and I to
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by ttt_ 13y ago
Business such as this is what makes us have to raise our consumer shields up 100% of the time. I'm so very fucking tired of this.
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by ttt_ 13y ago
We also have a cronic underdog syndrome perpetuated by countless broad opinions such as this. That only helps to undermine any kind of effort to change the culture of low self-esteem into a culture of excellence. Feel free to demand more, b
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by ttt_ 13y ago
>> Most of my friends had access since they were 10 or 11. We turned out fine. Much akin to "when we were kids we rode in the front seat without seat belts on, we turned out fine", and several other versions of that phrase
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by ttt_ 13y ago
Not all psychologists see eye-to-eye on the tests issue. In the case mentioned in the article, even a professional that truly trusts the tests should have taken into consideration: 1) make his own assesment and check against the test score,
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by ttt_ 13y ago
The State is the one that must have no expectations of privacy and in fact be held to rigorous transparency an independent audit, not the other way around. Like in software, security that relies on closed source is in fact more vulnerable.
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by ttt_ 13y ago
> You still see absorb the advertisement passively. Good thing I have control of my software and can opt out. I'm already assaulted at the senses all day long in different forms. The whole concept of advertising I find abhorrent.
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The FISA Court Knew the NSA Lied Repeatedly(motherboard.vice.com)
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by ttt_ 13y ago
" If subjects do not obey, rulers have no power."
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by ttt_ 13y ago
I can almost picture NSA analysts vulturing all over the private data collected of these enemies of the state. How soon utnil they send out the drones into the foreign lands where they have not so great a political strongarm? "Drone bo
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by ttt_ 13y ago
>> If enough people move to services outside of the States What service can we trust at this point? After the Evo Morales flight debacle, it's pretty clear that their five dollar wrench works equally well on other nations as we
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by ttt_ 13y ago
The internet is imploding.
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by ttt_ 13y ago
Colateral damage aside, doesn't bombing rescuers and funerals classify as terrorism? Seriously...
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by ttt_ 13y ago
On one side there is huge incentive to be social on the web, which paramounts to sharing stuff with others. On the other side, no one will let you share their content. If the world were a person, he would be right on track for schizophrenia
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by ttt_ 14y ago
As long as there isn't such a thing as PrinterSockets for the browser, Java Applets are the only way we can provide printing services for our clients, because a browser can only send documents for printing and not byte streams, which is wha
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by ttt_ 14y ago
Currently it's the best way to serve labels for thermic printers that our clients need. There is no direct input to the printer as a byte buffer, the browser will always print a markup document. Unless HTML5 comes up with Printer Sockets, w
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by ttt_ 14y ago
>> anyone using Instagram should have known that a change was coming and accepted that risk from the outset The ability to perceive a business agenda should not be pre-requisite to use any kind of service that is being offered. Ev
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by ttt_ 14y ago
One comment really caught my attention in there: >> Man, this really blows. FB Purity helps me, a blind user, actually use Facebook more effectively than without it. sighs I do hope you continue to fight the power.
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by ttt_ 14y ago
I'll be saying this as a user. I wish most developers would turn to HTML5 today, like right now, and avoid native apps at all cost unless there is really no alternative. Why? Because I remember the browser wars and how much it was a terribl
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by ttt_ 14y ago
Do you mind elaborating a bit on your solution that doesn't rely on Java? We have a similar case though with printers.
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by ttt_ 14y ago
> They probably didn't think they could actually kill someone. In Brazil that would be true in the case of a regular car accident, it would be regarded as having no intent to kill. If you are drunk however, brazilian law understands t
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by ttt_ 14y ago
So you are saying that the right away to face the challenge of supporting multiple platforms is to outright not do it? I can't respect a product/company whose future vision is less integration and not more. I really dislike Apple as a brand
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by ttt_ 14y ago
>> intelligence organisations in democracies Democracy != immutable state.
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by ttt_ 14y ago
How about a reddit-like ranking system as a portal do the darknet? It would easily categorize content in niches that would be curated socially. It could even help further ostracize the CP crowd to a marginalized role even in the darknet. It
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by ttt_ 14y ago
>> You really want a source for the fact that his site was a piracy haven? Are you that naïve? IANAL but I figure that for the law to be upheld in an unbiased manner it must be considered naive for all intents and purposes. Simply
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by ttt_ 14y ago
>> And IE8 was the default browser on Windows 7. Hasn't Microsoft decided to auto-update IE? In that case, most people who don't know what a browser is will already be using IE9 on Windows 7 by 2013 or is there reason to believe oth

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