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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
I can abnsolutely understand that realisation, and I suppose I am not sure of my thinking regarding the whole paradigm of a powerful select being immune to the tentacles of the surveillance state - I just think it is all very, very bad. I a
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
I hope that 'the Merkel effect' will be significant here, in that it was not an issue until those with power were directly and obviously affected. All too often it feels like 'the people' is a separate set to that of tho
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
I really enjoyed this, and it was somewhat of a different pace/style to the talks I've been watching today.
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
What filter are you discussing? AFAIK UK filtering is done by ISPs and conforms to their own solutions, there is no plan for a statewide filtering system.
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
Although I entirely see your point. I am not sure what expectations you have of an astronomical artefact, I mean it hasn't been particularly spectacular to us in an aesthetic sense, but it's certainly been interesting to see it&#x
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
Without wanting to be too facetious "Don't worry, we may be violating your privacy, but we're rubbish at it." isn't a particularly compelling defence. The problem with the locked box analogy is that my ISP isn'
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
Pretty sure they'd have a hard time bringing about a prosecution with unassembled parts as it is. Slow news day is what this is.
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
if you follow ioerror and ggreenwald on twitter you probably have some idea of what forced this particular cache of articles.
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
Although, in effect I think you are right about GCHQ, that whole CCTV thing is pretty much a myth founded in a deeply flawed study focussed on a street in Central London. 90% of CCTV is privately owned, and if you step out of the metropolis
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
Not sure that's true if you factor in decent quality. In fact it's demmonstrably untrue if you look at mmj users or the heroin programs in the Netherlands.
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Ask HN: ho2w about sponsoring the unemployed to work voluntary jobs?
1 points by BgSpnnrs 13y ago|0 comments
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
I understand the ideology, but I fail to see how this can work in practice. I do think the US perspective is very different to my own due to the size of the nation, and that state level programs probably would be fairer and less wasteful th
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
This sounds, with all due respect, like libertarian mantra. How on earth do you propose to enable the poor to bring themselves above the poverty line without a centralised system to manage it? You're completely correct that US governme
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
Well by that measure it's off-topic then.
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
Read the primary source if you prefer... http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/sep/11/nsa...
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
I think it's more to do with the largest tech-based scandal since stuxnet, except with a vast litany of content of trickling leaks is going on right now. People may have topic fatigue, but it's not like some manufactured sideshow
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
This is totally fair, and a solid observation. I think it's a little remiss to square blame on the shoulders of the young though. A lot of accidents are caused by poor reactions, tiredness and distraction. Something the older generatio
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
I strongly recommend listening to his Quakecon keynote in full. It meanders over a huge variety of topics and I personally find him a very engaging and easy to listen to orator.
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
"Michelangelo decorated a ceiling, but I’m sure he had loftier things on his mind." That's almost Douglas Adams levels of dry wit. This is a fascinating article, as someone who's never really contemplated the playfulne
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
I think the issue of privacy is being intentionally and collusively kept a series of domestic affairs by national state agencies. We need a global charter for privacy rights.
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
That seems like an incredibly odd system to be deployed, and to be used for that particular incident at that time.
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
Yeah, that made for some strange reading having gladly eaten Quorn stuff over a long time. I'm not really grasping the 'controversial' distinction between fungus and mushroom either. It is interesting to see how a new market
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
Is there a decently populated microblogging tool that people are migrating to?
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
The senate hearings are with regard to phone metadata. This is a totally different show.
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
No thankyou. BBC worldwide does just fine earning from the channel's exports and otherwise the BBC maintains a fine standard of ad-free media.
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Former US general James Cartwright named in Stuxnet leak inquiry(guardian.co.uk)
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by BgSpnnrs 13y ago
A couple more eyebrow-raising tidbits: "One key innovation has been GCHQ's ability to tap into and store huge volumes of data drawn from fibre-optic cables for up to 30 days so that it can be sifted and analysed. That operation, c