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There was a documentary about this company and other surveillance topics aired on Swiss TV in last November. https://www.rts.ch/dossiers/la-suisse-sous-couverture/ It's in French a…

Printer manufacturers have been doing this [1] for a long time. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code

It seems they have removed the DNS entry for www.farsnews.com therefore, www.farsnews.ir is still accessible.

Electron rest mass is about 1E-31 Kg which is orders of magnitude more than the proposed estimated bit mass of 1E-38 Kg.

Yet, Saudi Arabia is an ally of US and purchases billion dollars of American weapons that kills civilians. You know very well that the sanctions has nothing to do with the democrac…

You should add to your list thess odds as well - smart watch correctly detects a crash

I feel this is becoming a geopolitical conversation. I can go on and on, so do you. I don't want to hijack the main discussion of the thread any longer which was the human aspect o…

Yes, you are right they didn't literally say that because in that case it would be legally troublesome. I think it is childish to think that this is not pure coercion either to the…

What they mean by negotiation is sever limit on Iran missile program. They ask Iran to limit its missile range very considerably. At first you may say missile is not defensive but …

Just refer to John Bolton, you can find many instances. He gave a talk for MEK which was in the US terrorist group list.

I didn't say it is "Terrorism" I said "Economic Terrorism". Economic sanctions by definition are indiscriminate. Now there is a shortage of some cancer and MS medication in Iran an…

Definition of terrorism according to Wikipedia: "Terrorism is, in the broadest sense, the use of intentionally indiscriminate violence as a means to create terror among masses of p…

Now there are many ARM single board computers such as RockPi with PCI-E connectors.

This might be due to the involvement of Panthera Corporation in the conservation effort. The founder of Panthera,Thomas S. Kaplan, is also the main donor to United Against Nuclear …

Online Codes ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Online_codes ) are very similar to Raptor codes for rateless erasure coding. The construction consists of an inner an outer code. Howev…

You can have a look at Tornado codes[1]. These codes are also based on LT codes and their patent seems to be no longer in effect. For a completely open and free alternative for app…

PuTTY is a good example where the author resisted to turn it into bloatware. It is minimal and does the thing it is supposed to do.

I think the recruiting process is designed to minimize type II errors (false negatives), namely someone who passes the process but would later turn out to be a bad recruit. Inevita…

The point is not that is 86K is low. In fact it is an interesting salary if you consider all salaries in the US among all jobs. The point is that it is lower than US software engin…

As a side note, I've lived both in San Diego and Berlin for a short period. It's true, in Germany total deduction of salary can go as high as 40 percent. But you get full health ca…

The statistical expectation from the dataset that you link to is $86,328.67 [1]. I no nothing about US salaries, but I don't consider this value a competitive salary. Therefore, I …