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Junkdrawer

(27,993 posts) Sat Jun 8, 2013, 07:12 PM Jun 2013

What 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&quot 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 OP

dev/null nebenaube Jun 2013 #1

Only if you are at / (root) longship Jun 2013 #2

Ni thuigim focal ata a ra aguit! sabrina 1 Jun 2013 #3

Kick nadinbrzezinski Jun 2013 #4

Hipsters ruined everything. Union Scribe Jun 2013 #5

nebenaube

(3,496 posts)

1. dev/null

Reply to Junkdrawer (Original post)

Sat Jun 8, 2013, 07:59 PM

Jun 2013

longship

(40,416 posts)

2. Only if you are at / (root)

Reply to nebenaube (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 8, 2013, 08:15 PM

Jun 2013

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.