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Sorry, I forgot this isn't really a forum full of hackers. Just news about hackers. I'll remember not to comment without wearing my tie.

Ah, darnit. I thought you meant the wine.

I think that somebody is the EFF. HTTPS-Everywhere (look to the bottom of the page to DL the latest .xmi) has a LOT (certainly hundreds) in their list ... with qualifiers noted. ht…

That war drove the rise of -empires- seems no surprise at all (see e.g. Alexander). But is that civilization ("An advanced state of intellectual, cultural, and material development…

That's ok, but I was more intrigued recently by 25840^2 + 43776^2 = 2584043776 which led me to Numberopedia. https://sites.google.com/site/numberopedia/

The benefits of modest amounts of exercise are in how you FEEL (energized) more than how you LOOK. Another benefit is that, because it takes little time, you're much more likely to…

Well said!

Absolutely. What makes (non-vocal) music "sad" is not inherent in the scales or harmonies used but in culturally-conditioned responses to them. The sad part is that some people can…

Well said. About a year ago I walked into "my" bank (hah!) and a guy pulled me over to his desk and "invited" me to sign a form (he said was mandatory) accepting or rejecting a $35…

Baj. Jumbug. Their hedrons are only special cases of my 42-dimensional Universahedron, which certifiably and undeniably contains everything, including all possible universes. The p…

We were building things that we didn’t need to build,” Johnson said at the time. “We were harboring fears that we didn’t need to have.” Somebody needs to engrave that in huge lette…

Goes back quite a ways. There's John Brunner's 1975 classic Shockwave Rider . See also early cyberpunk stuff (Gibson, Sterling et al): http://project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/ . More recen…

I know. It's as if (ex-CIA-case officer) Phil Agee's claim back in the mid-80s that America was about to be Latinized is true . Healthcare, education, housing ... what's next?

One of the more sensible theories I've heard is that the fluoridation push happened at about the same time as the need to ramp-up uranium hexafluoride use for enrichment processes …

I never heard Robert Young say "fucking sue me" in Father Knows Best . But then fathers don't wear fucking fedoras these days either.

This 'code' reminds me of the gobbledy-gook exchanged between the supercomputers in Colossus - The Forbin Project .

That's because when they do, it often sounds just like a lie.

It's great that someone so attentive to teens is candidly exploring this subject on film. Unfortunate that it seems to be focussed primarily on negatives. Yes I spend a lot of time…

Health, housing, education. What's the next sector for the relentless blood funnel?

$36,000 / 120 months = $300/mo. If it lasts 10 years, that's a pretty good ROI.

Well, for example compare: OSM http://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=10/51.3825/-68.5375 (I don't see anything on the St. Lawrence River either...) Mapquest http://mapq.st/18F1XnO Look…

I guess I was thinking of this: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57410234-93/wikipedia-dumps... which was a year ago April (how time flies...) IIRC before that time GM were thickly…

They're funded through our 'representatives'. And (going by Sensenbrenner's statements lately) they'll have something to say about that when Congress rejoins.

John Gilmore (born 1955)is one of the founders of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Cypherpunks mailing list, and Cygnus Solutions. I should be such an 'idiot'.