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Comment #45115380
Yes, and these numbers have been established as what we in the industry call "invalid".
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Comment #44258425
Maybe they are an aircraft carrier that is deployed in places that no reasonable human can expect a service technician to visit, and this level of imbecility should generally be av…
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Comment #39288553
You're being bad for the community. But thanks for including a well - spoken, albeit opinionated reply, in your otherwise rude, projecting, and downright censorious comment.
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Comment #37482360
This rationale is fundamentally incorrect. God's gift of Free Will (unto Man) is specifically the power (with faith) to manifest that which is nondeterministic. Where you got this …
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Comment #37468431
There was insufficient context. Imagine I tell you "turn on that light, where I'm pointing". You'd do no better. No one here is under the conviction magical prescience is involved.…
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Comment #37467723
Indeed, the context is "people using natural language to make requests". No soul on earth would consider/use your phrasing. I (a human) have clue what your request is for - "lowest…
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Comment #37467284
Your false dichotomy is disingenuous, a distraction/derailment to the discourse, and does not engage in addressing the issue of a person wanting to pay the developer yet having no …
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Comment #37412037
An "interesting distance" at which this device could communicate is the distance which the Titan submersible operated below its ship.
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Comment #37411987
There is no more information, as described in TFA, for reasons of this information having not been discovered yet by the researchers studying the new tech.
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Comment #37406251
The argument for inevitability is inevitably a lie. His opinion is engulfed in the notion that there exists no individual whose will is truly free as if given by God alone.
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Comment #37406133
"Toying with an idea" is fundamentally considering its real world implementation unless your toy idea is intended to only ever be just fantasy.
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Comment #37405878
Or, as another apt metaphor, its like taking hydration tablets instead of water. Not that they don't help, but that you're using them wrong. In your example, it sounds like arrogan…
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Comment #37405765
Yeah, they may be great for empathy, but not so much for advice.
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Comment #37405747
Going to a priest may be cheaper, but when they say to "go to god" instead of to the police when reporting rape and abuse, it becomes quite costly.
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Comment #37405609
There's a lot of imagined, manufactured offense here which should perhaps remain packed up. You know a strawman fallacy makes your paraphrasing both inaccurate and rude, no?
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Comment #37399031
But can you uninstall the root certificates of an adversarial government (i.e., your own)? Is it now necessary that the chain of trust includes entities you don't trust?
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Comment #37398972
Analog. Unencrypted. Your intent to misinform appears evident.
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Comment #37398960
One of those countries is the US. Fax is unencrypted analog. If practice, tgis is ver certainly not secure. It's only "more secure" in the sense that unauthorized access to it coun…
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Comment #37398925
"Try" == "it's a .gov email - looks good!"
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Comment #37398907
Never buillding a back door for LEOs sounds like a reasonable option.
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Comment #37398706
Yes.
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Comment #37396237
Fundamentally, IoT security will increase in proportion to repairability and our. ability to modify/reflash IoT devices. No other change will have as great of an effect. If we (the…
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Comment #37392944
Not all the value going over those lines is created by the cable company. In fact, very little of it is, and it can only exist on the vast majority of its path with taxpayer suppor…
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Comment #37355755
Commercial surveillance, by definition, includes the context of a surveillance company's primary customer. When dealing with the sale of endangered animal furs, you don't just go a…
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Comment #37355664
Consider asking a cashier for a new membership card and take the membership form home but never fill it out. Why give a fake name when you can give no name at all? The loyalty card…