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It's a Magic Eyew (aka Autostereogramw):
(see attachment in previous post)-Deozaan (June 15, 2013, 05:12 PM)
I've found it but I must have done something wrong, as when I type "tw This is an update!" and hit enter, it doesn't show up on Twitter at all! This used to work! Any help is greatly appreciated!-siouxdax (June 13, 2013, 07:05 AM)
Ron Paul apparently warned about this sort of thing in, erm, 1984...
September 6, 1984: Ron Paul Warns of Surveillance State - Don't Ever Say We Weren't Warned.-IainB (June 15, 2013, 06:05 AM)
Honestly, though, I’m being unfair in singling out Michael Arrington here. Really the only remarkable thing about his involvement with CIA-friendly big data companies is his hypocrisy in attacking those Valley luminaries who won’t admit to exactly the kind of spying his portfolio companies help facilitate. (In the hypocrisy stakes, though, Arrington comes a distant second to Ron Paul who this week told Fox Business, “I’m worried about, somebody in our government might kill [Edward Snowden] with a cruise missile or a drone missile,” after Snowden exposed the mass government surveillance facilitated by companies like Palantir. Last year Ron Paul received over $2.5 million in donations from his biggest single donor… Palantir’s Peter Thiel)
if you talk about the data collection of the private sector, you're not in immediate danger of becoming a non-person-CWuestefeld (June 14, 2013, 07:52 PM)
“What I would like to see right now is for people at these internet companies to stand up and say the truth, all of it, about their dealings with the NSA.” – Michael Arrington
Arrington, along with the rest of Libertarian-leaning Silicon Valley, is right to be wary of the way the government is able to use technology to track our every move. He’s also right to criticize the double-speak of any Valley company that prevaricates on its true level of involvement in programs like PRISM.
The only odd thing is why Arrington doesn’t go even further in connecting the dots fully between Silicon Valley and government snooping.
As the Financial Times’ April Dembosky reminds us, the relationship between the Valley and Homeland Security is nothing new. The Internet started out as a government project, designed to keep communication lines open in the event of a nuclear attack. In 1999 the CIA established In-Q-Tel, a venture capital fund to invest in technology companies that might be useful to the folks in Langley or Fort Meade.
According to CrunchBase – the technology investor database founded by Arrington himself – Cloudera, iMove, 3vr, and Mocana – all share one additional investor in common: SV Angel, one of the Valley’s most prolific “micro VC” firms. And whose name do we find on the firm’s list of limited partners? One Michael Arrington. (In a neat piece of symmetry, SV Angel’s co-founder, Ron Conway, is an investor in Arrington’s CrunchFund.)
Once you start digging into the data, the connections get really entertaining: Arrington is also an LP in Benchmark, which invested alongside In-Q-Tel in data-storage company Decru. And in Andreessen Horowitz, which co-invested with In-Q-Tel in Silver Tail Systems and Platfora. CrunchFund also invested in Facebook, which boasts Palantir’s Peter Thiel as a board member, and from where former data team leader Jeff Hammerbacher left to head up technology at Cloudera.
Data mining is fun!
The only people who love big data more, and who care about our privacy less, than the NSA are the outraged Libertarians of Silicon Valley.
Next, The Dream Police, and I'm not talking about Cheap Trick either.....-Tinman57 (June 13, 2013, 07:05 PM)
Thanks for creating this app!
I would like to be able to reset the "Total Work To Date" stat. I've searched the registry for "instantboss", but didn't find any entries. Is there a registry entry where I can reset this data, or maybe a data file somewhere?
Thanks.-limcid (June 12, 2013, 10:27 AM)
So are pistachios, but I find them to require more work than I'm willing to perform just for a nut-barney (June 02, 2013, 07:40 PM)
单核CPU到双核CPU到三核CPU。现在的四核CPU。依然怀念这款软件。-legendcvb (June 05, 2013, 07:26 AM)
^ Bad, bad, woman.-wraith808 (June 01, 2013, 03:36 PM)
Thanks for that, I tried from a couple of other IP Addresses and they were blocked as well.-pilgrim (June 02, 2013, 02:51 AM)
(support in german but you're allowed to post in english too)
(see attachment in previous post)
I'd like to suggest Microsoft do something similar for their current Windows 8 owners.-40hz (June 01, 2013, 01:13 PM)
I cannot access your second link or the direct download link, http://www.waldbauer...l.php?download=beepx, they are both blocked.
I am offered the option to enter an unblock code which is provided, but when I do it just takes me back to the same page?-pilgrim (June 01, 2013, 04:10 AM)
If I am not mistaken the source code for BEEPx is available. As different people often approach the same problems from different perspectives has anybody got the time to have a look at it and see if it gives them any ideas?-pilgrim (June 01, 2013, 10:24 AM)
and all I did was be a fussy beggar when it came to choosing a theme :-)-tomos (May 29, 2013, 04:06 PM)
When I say 'setup', I mean everything from domain name to hosting to Wordpress plus a contact page (all free)-tomos (May 29, 2013, 04:06 PM)
