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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhat good is building the perfect Big Brother if only the hipsters know it exists?
No matter how good the NSA is, no matter how many people they have using the new "Google for Tyrants" tm), you can't keep tabs on everyone and all their doings.
--- BUT ----
If everyone "knows" that Big Brother is watching....
Think about the normal trajectory for a story like this. DemocracyNow, Truthout, DU maybe Kos....
Now, what was this story's trajectory?
Something to ponder.
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What good is building the perfect Big Brother if only the hipsters know it exists? (Original Post)
Junkdrawer
Jun 2013
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nebenaube
(3,496 posts)1. dev/null
longship
(40,416 posts)2. Only if you are at / (root)
You have to cd / first if you want to use dev/null
Otherwise, it's /dev/null
Just so newbies don't get confused when they su their command and it doesn't work.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)3. Ni thuigim focal ata a ra aguit!
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)4. Kick
Union Scribe
(7,099 posts)5. Hipsters ruined everything.
I have to put on a stingy fedora just to buy some PBR or they won't sell it to me. It's like carding but for hipsters.