December 2010
11 posts
Surprisingly, the US already operates a nationwide network of virtually...
– MetaFilter user Hiding From Goro, on military prisons
The handling of the case has been highly irregular from the start, in ways that...
– A Bayesian Take on Julian Assange - NYTimes.com
Emptyage: Will We See A Great Gawker Troll Hunt? →
emptyage:
You know those semi-anonymous trolls who hide behind essentially meaningless usernames? Yeah. Well. When Gnosis put the Gawker database online, it became a simple matter of ⌘-F to associate a username with an email address. And once you have an email address—especially one someone wasn’t expecting…
Two things about computer programming:
1. Nobody really knows how to do it
2....
– Extension on Hacker News. Via apenwarr.