Viewing profile — drunkenmasta

This is going to take a while.

First impressions: anything over free seems like a lot to pay for something that looks so limited. pay $1 $2 do who or what? what would I do if unable to do challenge? (don't have …

how is this different from the 200 other online education platforms?

I think this is a good illustration of the value of process-based goals over outcome-based goals. The things under control, you completed. Those not under your control you did not.…

I guess the sad part is that they will still have plenty of people falling over themselves to get the job.

amen

Seems to me like they are trying to get libgen into the spotlight so it might be shutdown. Remember library.nu? "If you want to steal the text, it's pretty easy to find an illegal …

I was excited to learn about a new Android release but all I got was a transfer to the KitKat candybar site at the bottom and a manipulative "See if you have won!!! aka go buy some…

Is there something similar to this for Firefox? The closest thing I have found is the TrackmeNot extension http://trackmenot.org/ http://www.cs.nyu.edu/trackmenot/ " TrackMeNot run…

more of this : "But the last thing it will do is intimidate or deter us in any way from doing our job as journalists. Quite the contrary: it will only embolden us more to continue …

only one way to find out!

well someone has got to do it. Like Rosa Parks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Parks "On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Bla…

I don't get it. Why doesn't someone just speak out on principle. Out of everyone who "can't" speak I would expect at least one to come out and do it even though it might get them i…

There really isn't much to see here. After reading I thought I had missed something, perhaps one of those "page 1 of 30" things at the bottom. But to get the "full story" I'm told …

The bigger picture is in terms of Social Network Analysis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_network_analysis and the fact that companies are able to figure out lots of stuff abo…

Yea it's a shame that Snowden risked so much just so that a newspaper could rewrite the same story 50 times. We could use more leaks and less grandstanding and posturing.

this is cool. anything like it for Firefox? edit: looks like there is one called "Trackmenot" but that it has not been updated in a couple of years. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-U…

I guess that, unlike Google, there is not $$$$$$$ at stake in refusing to comply.

Doesn't the same thing happen in the US? Didn't At&t just announce a new (opt out) privacy policy? - program one "External marketing & analytics reports" - ..."for example, we migh…

you know what would be extremely helpful? If a reading list was put together concerning how citizens could become better at vigilance, information gathering, investigative journali…

how about : "we the people approve of Russia's actions and therefore order you, president Obama, to represent us at the summit."

So much Grandstanding in the media makes me roll my eyes after a while.

don't forget the + الله أكبر search function

This story reads like fiction to me. but it does inspire me to search using the same phrases.

just think how great this technology would have worked back in the day when homosexuality was taboo. Think of how many people could have been cured or could have found help for the…