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> Evidence of the NSAKEY being a backdoor includes some description of how the backdoor might work... It would only work one way with an API relying on a PKI with a single CA, zero…

> The entirety of the NSAKEY evidence is "it has NSA in the name." Your comparison is out of line because of ridiculous characterizations like this. Microsoft said that it was a ba…

The demand for evidence in the wake of all the NSA leaks is laughable.[0] What does evidence of the NSAKEY being a backdoor look like to you, a provably malicious CSA shim, signed …

It was a debugging symbol that a Microsoft developer either negligently or heroically included in a public release... so that explains away the "nobody would be so stupid" argument…

> I'm sorry, but this seems a little naive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NSAKEY . I thought everybody already knew that US corporations serve as an extension to the surveillance a…

This is one of those situations that makes me wonder at how obvious the right way to go is, and how unlikely that is to happen. Offense/defense costs are not even close to being sy…

This, unfortunately, occurs so infrequently that it can safely be ignored by 99.9% of the economy. Businesses have really enjoyed having their cake and eating it too with the trans…

> > "If every investor..." This is already a thing, and it is starting to look like an incredibly bad idea. Well over a year ago I had lunch with my financial advisor and he tried …

Google "Richard Prince copyright". This is not a new issue, not even close. BTW... She is using a still[0] from a video that CNN owns the copyright to, and section 3 of their tos[1…

ctrl+f 'transformative'... No matches. I'm surprised by the sympathy I'm seeing for this position. You people know that she is effectively complaining about fair use, right? This i…

There is a good chance they subscribe to a blocklist, so you could be blocked by anyone of a thousand people. Image the old PGP web of trust, but for crafting perfect echo chambers…

The insane spike is for low traffic sites, so I'm guessing a blog platform defaulted RSS.

Wow, to base such a lengthy article on a google trend search of "rss"... Queue rekt.webm: https://trends.builtwith.com/feeds/RSS

I'm curious, how are you defining "the like"? The list of people denied service looks a lot more like those you wouldn't want preceding your Coca-Cola ad buy. Why would Patreon car…

I'd say the former, but it really doesn't matter - the point is the subjectivity of collective "good" and "correctness". Also, a lot of people are under the impression that these t…

One literally defines the other, so no. Unless you are speaking from a universal perspective, which unfortunately isn't really part of the collective consciousness - and therefor i…

Wallstreet. My financial advisor tried to sell me on this new socially conscious index, years ago. Political correctness is great for business - very predictable, very manageable. …

Ouch, feeding probabilistic models training data scored with a gradient of truthfulness tags generated by humans and all their biases... surely this won't end horribly and simply s…

I think you're right about the lack of power being the biggest contributor to the problems we had - which remained even after they tried to reduce the feature set (emergency magazi…

Hopefully it gets better with time for you. My complaint wasn't with pain, but numbness. I developed this problem very early on, in SOI, and kept it to myself because I knew that i…

It sounds like you never got to use the original SAW barrel. We got issued those stubby paratrooper barrels while in Iraq, which are nice for maneuverability, but it was at the cos…

I disagree. The USMC doctrine on this matter has remained the same for generations, so that doesn't explain the increasing loadout. Also, and I don't know what the official Army gu…

For a long time I was pretty irritated about landing in a line company instead of a mounted weapons company... but after a combat tour, where the majority of KIA was from roadside …

I actually wrote an essay that dug pretty deep into this topic, many years ago, after I finished my enlistment as a Marine infantry machinegunner - likely the most overburdened MOS…

> In WWII they leaned on understanding from British occupations across the world. Nah. The Corps has had plenty of opportunity to acquire the experience organically: "During about …