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9,801karma·1,821submissions·April 12, 2011
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I am not sure what you mean – in-between relative to what? The LP is to the left of Obama (e.g., individual rights for social matters such as marriage) and also to the right of Bush/Obama (e.g., …
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> There is no anti-drone party, no anti-NSA party, and no anti-Drug-War party: the two dominant parties agree more than they differ, especially when looking at actions rather than rhetoric. There i…
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The gist summary on TFA says: > even if you've disabled all use of Spotlight Suggestions and sharing of Usage and Diagnostics data
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I wonder if the same behavior is present for the browser in iOS 8. If they have done this on the desktop, it seems plausible they would also have done the same on their mobile platform.
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> Does HN support Tor? What do you mean by "support"? You can access HN through tor, though sometimes it is blocked (perhaps depending on which exit node you happen to be routed through).…
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> The basic architecture of TOR is limited theoretically with regards to some types of attacks it can handle. Would you mind providing some links on this topic? This is the first I have heard of th…
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The actual paper[0] title is somewhat precise: "Observing Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays with Smartphones" [0] http://arxiv.org/abs/1410.2895 …
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I should note that my response here was incorrect. Thanks to loarake and tjradcliffe for the correction.
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I was pretty sure neutrons beahved that way (recalling from a course I took in grad school), but it has been a few years, and I do not have references handy. I am not entirely sure what the y-axes are…
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> How much dangerous are the neutrons from such device? Similar to radiation, worst? Neutrons are interesting in that they dump all their energy into a very small region. Instead of losing energy …
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I think they understand; they were joking that the only things on the ship which involve fusion are the nuclear warheads.
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> Is known what distros are affected by this backdoor From my understanding of the article, it was a rootkit, rather than a pre-existing backdoor. So it would have been something that was installed…
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There is a press release from the Linux Foundation here: http://www.linuxfoundation.org/news-media/announcements/2014... …
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Google Now has been doing this as well. Nothing really new here...
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Pitched surfaces of course survive in some areas. Drafting tables / drawing boards[0] come to mind. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drawing_board …
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There is already extensive discussion of this from a post[0] of the original Intercept article. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8441055 …
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> There should be a downside for police if the seizure turns out to not be legit. I don't think paying back double would be that out of line. In principle, I agree. But since the police are ta…
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The subtitle of the article is a bit more descriptive: "Laura Poitras’s Closeup View of Edward Snowden" vs the current HN (and article) title of "The Holder of Secrets".
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Is this approach similar to something like flickrfs[0], to make one's flickr account locally accessible? It always seemed like a cool idea (though I never had much luck with flickrfs itself), and…
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And Yasser Arafat; there have been many contentious Peace Prize recipients[0] [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobel_Peace_Prize#Criticism_of... …
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Well, they can always say "The Silk Road was violating American laws and the [other nation]'s hacking was not a legitimate law enforcement effort or done in response to a violation of laws i…