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zeep

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    Comment #16750227

    Amazon used to provide free networking for its readers... I think that it is very cheap to transfer text/"meta-data"... It might even be sponsored by the government...

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    Comment #16729016

    Any of them automatically connect to open wifi networks or maybe cellular networks?

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    Comment #16676409

    The FBI stole my Litecoins from BTC-E ... I didn't even claim that loss because it was very small.

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    Comment #16676387

    If you are talking about the NSA, yes they do have a special channel with Apple... not sure who else does...

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    Comment #16614855

    unless there is a secret law that prevents them to actually do it...

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    Comment #16609915

    For two programs that do the same thing coded in the same language, I would pick the one with the least amount of lines but that doesn't mean that less work went into it... Probabl…

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    Comment #16548923

    Tesla is already starting to see competitors... if they don't get better quality control, it will probably hurt them soon enough

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    Comment #16547535

    This government is sick...

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    Comment #16331484

    In the US, many counties/cites have license plate readers installed already... Not quite as bad as facial recognition but....

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    Comment #16249825

    That's not a real flame thrower.... I used to do something similar to this when I was 10 with a hair-spray can and a lighter

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    Comment #16153837

    Most homes would probably benefit more by having better insulation... If you are only talking about dollars...

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    Comment #16112331

    I get your point, but if soldering is the only problem, just get a spring loaded solderless connector for JTAG pads? then it is about the same as USB for many more people?

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    Comment #16111553

    but it's not physically broken... it's just a different way of connecting to it... so yes I would call that hard bricked, but not broken, since you don't need to replace components…

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    Comment #16111050

    10% equals how many billions of chips?

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    Comment #16110844

    it's just how it is when everything is digital... digital voting machines with no paper trails are just as bad... if not worst.

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    Comment #16109828

    I switched to duckduckgo a few months ago and it has been the first time that I felt that I was not missing something... I tried to switch a few other times before that and the res…

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    Comment #16109136

    JTAG connector is not that much different from USB at at stage... you just have to remove the case to access it or solder a connector to existing pins? I would call that hard brick…

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    Comment #16108723

    to me, soft bricked means that you have to do something out of the ordinary to fix it, something that most people would not know how to do, even if it's just a software problem (ma…

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    Comment #16108670

    https://sattrackcam.blogspot.com.au/2018/01/fuel-dump-of-zum... mirrors: http://archive.is/chd3C https://web.archive.org/save/https://sattrackcam.blogspot.co...

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    Comment #16108233

    and they could easily be revoked... If the government wanted to delete somebody, it would be pretty easy... just revoke all tokens and don't issue new ones.

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    Comment #16108023

    Maybe the government could issue 100,000,000 ID Coins per person, and you would use each of them only once ... a bit like bitcoins, but for ID... You would spend 1 each time you ne…

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    Comment #16107958

    You appear to be talking about soft brick vs hard brick? neither hard brick or soft brick is physically broken though...

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    Comment #16107910

    The parent of my previous comment claimed: > [...] it really feels like people love to watch Space X fail. which is why I said that...