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mrt0mat0··on Specifications of the planned solar-powered Ubuntu laptop
I will buy this. It has a great price and even if it isn't the greatest computer in the world, the fact that you can just put it out in the sun to power it up makes it convenient. Can't wait!
mrt0mat0··on Senate IP linked to edits in Snowden's wikipedia page
Outside legal spheres, the word "traitor" may also be used to describe a person who betrays (or is accused of betraying) their own political party, nation, family, friends, ethnic group, team, religion, social class, or other group to which they may belong. Often, such accusations are controversial and disputed, as the person may not identify with the group of which they are a member, or may otherwise disagree with the group members making the charge.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason

mrt0mat0··on Senate IP linked to edits in Snowden's wikipedia page
i think i would be ok with being called a traitor to the US government, as long as it specified that i was a hero to the country.
mrt0mat0··on Implementing "Prism Break"
http://googleenterprise.blogspot.com/2010/01/keeping-your-da... http://gcn.com/articles/2011/11/10/cloud-hack-via-google.asp... i guess this was before google poured the billions into it with it's engineering elite, class-A data security. Google may be more secure but google is also a big target. a personal cloud is less likely to get hacked. if i live in the woods with $1000 and only have one lock, i'm probably less likely to be broken into than a giant bank filled with tons of money in the middle of a city, even with it's heavier security.
mrt0mat0··on Implementing "Prism Break"
What I truly love about this article is it shows how many open source alternatives exist out there. I think the big problem with people is they think there isn't a tool that can be equivalent to what they use now. I am also stuck on facebook. I like your indirect solution though!
mrt0mat0··on Apple Files Brief Calling Department of Justice Remedy 'Draconian'
i think the punishment fits the crime. Severe punishment should be expected for trying to steal from their customers.
mrt0mat0··on US issues travel alert, will close embassies due to al Qaeda threat
How did they get this information about the attack? According to the NSA, the leaking of confidential data to the World last month allowed terrorists to avoid their spying techniques. Apparently it wasn't as big of a hit as they portrayed. shocking.
mrt0mat0··on Pressure cookers, backpacks, and quinoa, oh my
http://news.yahoo.com/google-pressure-cookers-backpacks-visi... also an article from yahoo. the problem is that we have to wonder if this is real. it shouldn't be. it should be found in a book written about a horrible distopia in the future... but it's not.
mrt0mat0··on XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
i was shocked by this too. about an hour ago i went to CNN.com and searched the keyword xkeyscore and got 0 results. Not a single article?
mrt0mat0··on XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
they did mention it offhandedly, the woman(i was only listening) started making a list of things that the nsa should release yearly including how many crimes 702 and whatever helped prevent, and the main guy asked her to add a view, in the light of the news posted today, but said they would investigate that further at a later time. sorry it's poorly detailed but just wanted you to know it was mentioned.
mrt0mat0··on XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
On cspan this morning, the phrased it as: a secret interpretation. the fact that those two words can even sit together hurts my head. How do you secretly interpret something one way, but openly interpret another way.
mrt0mat0··on XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
so if that's the case, then it would seem that facebook, google, etc. are still lying? or could this be more gag order stuff?
mrt0mat0··on XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
I asked this in a deeper thread, but i would like to reask anyone that can explain. If the NSA is tapping pipelines as it seems they are, wouldn't the sources such as facebook and google all come online at the same time? if they were in fact referring to the pipeline access as their way into facebook and company, why did they all have different onboarding times? wouldn't they have all come on at the same time: the time when they tapped the pipelines? Maybe i misunderstand the process. I get that maybe they had to write some interface that interpreted the packets and sorted them as such, but that wouldn't take years.
mrt0mat0··on XKeyscore: NSA program collects 'nearly everything a user does on the internet'
My question is, if they did this, why did each company have it's own join date in the prism timeline? wouldn't it just all happen at once? if they were tapping pipelines then the data would be collected regardless of the system, yet they all had very distinct dates that they were onboarded.
mrt0mat0··on High court bans publication of car-hacking paper
Judges can stop people from speaking about publicly available information? That seems... useless.
mrt0mat0··on Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $80 million yacht
that's sad. I wonder if anyone has done a case study on companies that listen to their IT and implement as much as possible compared to the "let's just make it pass inspection" guys. I know in every cartoon I've seen, the first group wins, but in reality it may truly be worth it to skimp
mrt0mat0··on Texas students fake GPS signals and take control of an $80 million yacht
I am seeing this more and more. I've seen the ability to have a phone take over an airplane, a laptop control a car, now a laptop taking over a ship... where are all the security guys at when this stuff is implemented?
mrt0mat0··on As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Public-Key Encryption
i think the issue is: 10% of the people are informed enough to realize what's going, and yes, some of them are acting. the majority of Americans don't know what's going on, and many of them don't care, which is sad.
mrt0mat0··on As Feds Demand the Keys, Preparing for the Death of Public-Key Encryption
which time?
mrt0mat0··on Light completely stopped for a record-breaking minute
my head just exploded trying to grasp this... objects don't move but i can see them, but i can only see them because of light. therefore, if light doesn't move, if the object does, can i see it on the object?
mrt0mat0··on The Pixar Theory
I'm pretty sure this is a rip off of a rant in "After Hours" on Cracked.com but still an interesting visual http://www.cracked.com/video_18459_why-pixar-movies-are-all-...

P.S. After Hours is HILARIOUS!

mrt0mat0··on Light completely stopped for a record-breaking minute
this seems like the coolest thing in the world to see, but yet no pictures? What does stopped light look like?
mrt0mat0··on Google Glass you'd actually wear--or too hipster-y?
I like the idea of 3rd parties designing new looks for google glass. With smart phones, all the customization is in the display, and I guess the case. With glass, all i have is the choices someone else gives me. It would be great if the choices were not just expanded colorwise, but look wise. these glasses aren't necessarily for me, but i think it shines a light on a cool concept of reskinning google glass.
mrt0mat0··on Forgotten Employee (2002)
sorry. my slang trickled over into the internet. I learned what a demarcation point was after I had heard the word, so i always called it in my head, a d-mark. i know what it is now, but the term is stuck in my head. I'm sure I'm not the only one that's done that. I remember thinking euthanasia was about children living in Asia...
mrt0mat0··on Forgotten Employee (2002)
i worked for a company that wanted a new office in Chicago and it fell on me to handle the internet installation. You'd think it would be as easy as, run cable to office and be done. Nope. we had to get att to run it to the d-mark then had a union company run it from the d-mark to the office, but they wouldn't touch the office. i had to get another contractor to come up and finish the wiring of the office itself. that didn't include the actually company i used for internet, that had to have their own tech come in and "install" the box (this consisted of plugging it in and watching the green lights light up). What a mess.
mrt0mat0··on Ubuntu Edge
i have to wonder how many ubuntu users are using ubuntu simply for the cost of owning it ($0). If that group is high, which i think it is, it may imply that a lot of those same users, might not want to put money into a project. Speculation.
mrt0mat0··on New NSFW content restrictions enrage Tumblr users
i want a search for porn tumblr sites only please! you guys can have the rest :)
mrt0mat0··on Feinstein just sent an email response and lists two prevented terrorist attacks
I'm sick of the same arguments about this stuff, so I'm just going to say this, "legal" and "constitutional" are not synonyms, so I wish that the government employees would stop using them hand in hand. Just because there is a law saying you can do it, does not make it Constitutional.
mrt0mat0··on The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previously Revealed
good catch. I know i had heard that there was someone testifying to congress under oath, so I made the assumption that that was the process. It's interesting that there is no true reason to stop congress from always having people offer a testimony under oath, yet they allow it. another blatant loop hole.
mrt0mat0··on The NSA Admits It Analyzes More People's Data Than Previously Revealed
all testimonies before congress are under oath, i believe
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