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They were saying on NPR this morning that DIA doesn't incorporate all sources (eg: no HUMINT/SIGINT from CIA/NSA). It might be where based on things like satellite photos they cannot dr…
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bowl of
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Jokes aside, at least your examples were formed prior, unlike ISIS the payment system :-) >In November 2010, AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon officially announced a joint venture known as Isis, whic…
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>isis-online.org Heck of a name for a think tank.
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Apply elsewhere before you get fired IMHO. I had a bad manager. As in verbally and physically aggressive. When I did the "correct" things: formally register my disability (autism) with my em…
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it's hard to stay anonymous and say anything of substance, doubly so when you start linking handles
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Do you drink alcohol? I once felt this way, and as COVID fell I decided to abstain. Suddenly, I was open to trying healthier foods, I'd go on long walks, I shed about 50lb and learned a lot of th…
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Is "PET" the "Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium"?[0] Looks like it became a "symposium" in 2008[1] if we're discussing the same thing. The one PETS I went to,…
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>The ninja party was not even great. I believe you. By the time I was cool enough to have my pick of parties, I ended up having a massive panic attack during the crowd crush at the bar at some Rapi…
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Focus less on those who helped you, and more on helping others. The first time I went to Defcon, I felt lonely and lost -- it was the first year they had those cool electronic badges, and at the time …
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I haven't been able to access my gmail in years -- iOS apparently doesn't back up TOTP generators when you back up your iphone, and the so called "recovery codes" did not work. (I …
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My head canon is that Gregor was a source for the CIA who got lucky the USSR collapsed.
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Below are the Internet Archive copies, since Facebook doesn't have the greatest track record on stable URLs. (I reregistered recently and was banned for being "inauthentic" -- the URL t…
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>while not living in a bunker, we did have parties in some somehow converted into clubs. Apparently in Bratislava, there is a club inside what was a fallout bunker underneath what was the king'…
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>The other concern is that when he gets too much screen time he becomes less interested in us and starts to be a little aggressive (lands on you and pecks you until you put bird videos on) whenever…
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>But it's set in the past, when relations between the countries were much friendlier. Do you have trouble suspending disbelief during fictional movies set in WWII, because the U.S. and Germany…
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>His "screen time" is not every day and limited to a few hours. Are you worried if you give him excessive screen time he won't be able to focus on his studies or something? ;-) (Cute…
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It always gave me a sketchy vibe, I try to rely on the Internet Archive whenever possible. (Some publishers whitelist their bot, since it is used for scholarly citations -- I'm not clear how a re…
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I always liked how they framed the gun being jammed into Gregor's back at the opera, the entire scene carries a certain tension that modern films often fail to sustain or rely on things like expl…
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>Did anyone honestly think that Apple was touting privacy as anything other than a competitive advantage for revenue maximization? I think they're more willing to build out privacy enhancing f…
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Thanks!
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Why doesn't DuckDuckGo fund Firefox? A lot of their missteps stem from trying to diversify revenue.
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>We met only briefly and never talked, but I'm glad our paths crossed. Poor guy probably was carrying a lot with him. There is a famous poem[1] about ball turret gunners that immediately came …
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Interesting. Does this mean I should tell users to avoid pinning tabs when browsing in the Tor Browser Bundle? (Assuming they have set the slider to "safest" to disallow JS)
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Can you elaborate on this? What does "always rendered" mean?
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My bad, thanks.
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