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Comment #46187410
NSA is under Pete Hegseth's Department of War [sic] if that is any indication of their position and priorities.
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Comment #46142673
How many historical examples of civilians being misidentified as combatants does it take before we question whether these strikes have all been drug boats?
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Comment #46125106
Weird take. Android is still ~80% of the market.
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Comment #46074564
A statement so vague and ominous it could have been uttered at any point in human history by persons of any ideology without loss of meaning.
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Comment #46066037
Lightning is just the snowcap on a mountain of Mini- and Micro-USB.
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Comment #46052084
Having seen Musk fandom, every unhinged Grok claim has a good chance of having actually been written by a human somewhere in its training data.
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Comment #46031504
The point is that a vaguely defined throwaway line on Reddit's blog is not great evidence for either.
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Comment #46030627
There's a Popeye's at Eglin, maybe all that traffic was a chicken sandwich influence campaign?
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Comment #46029800
The boring but more likely explanation is that "most addicted" is just a weird statistic that produced weird results. Eglin has something like 50,000 people but it's actual populat…
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Comment #45775160
If I follow you correctly, you're saying that we should not investigate or prosecute crimes committed by politicians¹ because the CIA did something on a TV show? That's an interest…
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Comment #45774157
I don't know what you mean by "good guys got the bad guys in the end": the subject of the indictment is currently the President of the United States and the charges were dropped as…
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Comment #45773157
I don't know who that is or what that means. I'm referring to the actual indictment filed after the investigation that those phone records were subpoenaed during. It's unclear if y…
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Comment #45769090
FYI, that investigation also resulted in an indictment— conspiracy to defraud the United States; conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding; obstruction of and attempt to obstru…
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Comment #45718143
Not to pull the Godwin lever, but the German SS went from being security guards to overseeing the entire national police force to running gas chambers in about 10-15 years. The fun…
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Comment #45716335
Maps looks like a swing at "library of real world immersive 3d content" that landed on "guy air-tapping his way through a slideshow of bridge pictures".
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Comment #45689885
I'm not seeing how other phones are being held back by any of this. Google and Samsung have design patents, too, and my Pixel Watch also has a blood oxygen sensor.
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Comment #45689254
You seem to be confusing Masimo's patent infringement case against Apple over Apple Watch with the notion that Apple has some kind of a patented blood oxygen sensor in the iPhone. …
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Comment #45653872
Tiger still had that weird thing where half the apps were brushed metal for no apparent reason.
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Comment #45632517
I think what you're looking for is not "copyrighted material" but material that's both 1) used without permission and 2) outside the scope of fair use. There's no easy answer there…
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Comment #45604294
> there is nothing stopping a journalist from talking to military personnel outside of a building the handles secret documents Under the new rules this would not have been allowed,…
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Comment #45594845
Um, okay. Specifically, glasses don't try to do any kind of gaze tracking, gesture recognition, spacial awareness, any kind of 3d, depth, or immersion. You could add more cameras a…
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Comment #45593654
Meta's glasses are "normal sized" because they don't even attempt to do what headsets do. To think one will replace the other misunderstands both.
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Comment #45593171
This may be a controversial statement, but: you don't have to replace things that you're not using.
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Comment #45547142
> Those troops have "cleared 1,015 bags of trash, spread 744 cubic yards of mulch, removed five truckloads of plant waste, cleared 6.7 miles of roadway, and painted 270 feet of fen…
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Comment #45469611
It's a hypothetical in that while a) the primary purpose of the app is to locate a certain group and b) people have died due to attacks targeting that group (i.e. Dallas) there is …