minimize_me | 12 years ago | on: Spying by N.S.A. Ally Entangled U.S. Law Firm
Well that's an easy workaround - al-Qaeda is anywhere and everywhere so we have to spy anywhere and everywhere.
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minimize_me | 12 years ago | on: The Facebook Comment That Ruined a Life
But didn't you see that movie about the guy with the hotel?
minimize_me | 12 years ago | on: Today is The Day We Fight Back
This is really, really, well done. It'd be nice with some simple styling, to not make it look too "alpha-geek" to the wider tech sphere. Otherwise, cracking work.
minimize_me | 12 years ago | on: The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies
"We must go forward, not backward. Upward, not forward. And always t..."
/watch?v=zGmfiKowrYU
minimize_me | 12 years ago | on: GoPro Files For IPO
VirtualDub+Deshaker.
minimize_me | 12 years ago | on: Scotland's Eigg island to become completely self-sufficient in renewable energy
Apart from the part where it manufactures its own panels from its own resources.
minimize_me | 12 years ago | on: Ex-Napster exec fatally struck by sheriff's patrol car while biking
"The impact smashed the patrol car’s windshield, leaving the deputy with cuts on his arm and glass in his eyes."
Clearly the peace officer was the victim of the cyclist's irresponsible road behaviour here!
minimize_me | 12 years ago | on: Free Mathematics Books
You should look at the intro to David Mackay's information theory book. It had something akin to what you're saying...
minimize_me | 12 years ago | on: Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA
"I'm like a lover you just beat up for the first time"
Surely that just demonstrates poor knowledge of history? I mean, between the unethical experimentation on its own citizens of the 20th century and before, Japanese internment camps, the Gulf of Tonkin, the overthrowing of democratic governments in Iran, Iran-Contra, drone attacks for the past 7+ years, Guantanamo, the illegal invasion of Iraq, retroactive immunity for executors of some of the aforementioned...(and that's just off the top of my rather poor memory), how could your disdain have only recently arisen?
I find that a better analogy would be an uncle who gave you nice Christmas presents, so you ignored the persistent rumours that he molested your cousins. And now you're starting to receive the same treatment.
minimize_me | 12 years ago | on: Police May Know Exactly Where You Were Last Tuesday
We should mandate subdermal GPS tags for everyone.
Think of the children.
minimize_me | 12 years ago | on: Kim Dotcom Releases New Raid Footage Captured By In-House CCTV
Not all raids, no.
minimize_me | 12 years ago | on: Greenwald: Snowden Has Provided ‘Thousands’ Of Docs, ‘Dozens’ Are Newsworthy
Also the fact that he is a supporter of the IRA, both in his statements for the past 40 or so years, and also materially (back during the Troubles). How the hell does a guy like that end up as Committee Chairman for Homeland Security?
minimize_me | 12 years ago | on: UX Problems Holding Back Crypto And Anti-Wiretapping Technology
"Host it wherever you want" - unless it's physically self-hosted, it's not truly "yours" is it?
minimize_me | 12 years ago | on: Assange in 2011: "They have automated the process."
GMail? Dropbox (eventually)?
minimize_me | 12 years ago | on: Soylent Campaign
Those doctors were probably on the Nestle payroll, after the money from Camel dried up.
minimize_me | 13 years ago | on: Soylent Month Three
"Because there probably hasn't ever been a person who consumed a particular batch of refined nutrients for nearly every meal"
minimize_me | 13 years ago | on: How to share your data effectively
http://source.mozillaopennews.org/en-US/articles/introducing... Wasn't this on here a few days ago?
minimize_me | 13 years ago | on: Go Hard Early
Can you elaborate a bit on said psychological structure?
minimize_me | 13 years ago | on: A Practical Intro to Data Science
But this way, my $employer's Business School can charge 19 thousand for an MSc in Data Science and Management!
Quantitative business analyst just doesn't sound as wallet-opening.
minimize_me | 13 years ago | on: How My Co-founder's Dog Boosted My Productivity
You don't have to go through the process of imprinting a routine from scratch with a rescue dog, do you?
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