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by Laaw 11y ago
Anyone have additional/alternative sources for this article? I like to read as many perspectives as possible.
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by Laaw 11y ago
Good, Windows 7 is a security problem (or will be, soon).
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by Laaw 11y ago
How? One of the search terms could easily be topic...
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by Laaw 11y ago
I wonder why it is we assume it's even possible to successfully maximize happiness on a global scale. Has there ever been a time in human history where slavery wasn't the fundamental backbone of a prosperous society?
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by Laaw 11y ago
What devastation? 4chan is absolutely not a "toxic garbage fire of an internet community", and it's not even his concept or idea. He didn't "create" anything in that sense. He also didn't, "walk a
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by Laaw 11y ago
Slack has (had) some very serious security problems. So does Skype though, so whatever.
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by Laaw 11y ago
Wait, are there military "Waze" deployments? That'd probably be pretty useful, yes? In addition to the routing information, a military could have an "enterprise" Waze that contained a bunch of intel marked on a ma
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by Laaw 11y ago
Yeah, I kind of do. This is not a privacy issue, you're on the road and behaving in a way that's directly endangering me. You're out in public, operating heavy machinery. Better enforcement of traffic laws would save lives
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by Laaw 11y ago
"Is it so implausible" isn't really the bar we're trying to reach, though.
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by Laaw 11y ago
> They may not "have everyone's data", but they have data on most Americans in one form or another Where did you hear that? It's not in anything that's been leaked, and the NSA surely didn't say it, so I&#x
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by Laaw 11y ago
Folks here do, read the other comments. They think the NSA could give the FBI the data, but just won't.
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by Laaw 11y ago
This just isn't true. You can't, on one hand, claim the NSA has everyone's data, and on the other hand claim Apple has a legitimate case against the FBI -- if the NSA had that data, they'd share it with the FBI, and App
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by Laaw 11y ago
> The highest ranking official who understands this issue is Ted Lieu. You mean the highest ranking official who agrees with us. It's easy to see how, if you trust the US judicial system, you'd be okay with this. If you thi
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by Laaw 11y ago
I use FlightAware all the time , but didn't know they pull the data directly from the planes. I'm guessing FlightAware is one half of the "duopoly" spoken about in the submission. Edit: Looks like the cost per 1k querie
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by Laaw 11y ago
You're the second person to claim tautology, but you've both been wrong. "Reality works as I've described" is not tautological. "Reality works as reality works" is tautological. "As I've descr
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by Laaw 11y ago
Question about flight data and the middlemen: Do these middlemen have to strike deals with the various airlines, or are they simply accessing public APIs that generally stink? What order of magnitude, cost wise, do these airlines charge in
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by Laaw 11y ago
That's not tautological at all. Also, it's not really true. There are plenty of rules. What I'm saying is the only "unalienable" rules are the laws of the physical universe. Every other rule is a construct of so
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by Laaw 11y ago
I was (and still am) trying to illustrate the "physical reality" that exists independent of the concept of personal liberty. It can be argued in many different ways, but the actual, consequential mechanisms regarding a person&#x27
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by Laaw 11y ago
You don't "have" any personal liberties. You are not born with rights, you are gifted them by a benevolent society. That society can easily lose its benevolence, and take your rights away, and there is absolutely nothing yo
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by Laaw 11y ago
There are the exact same checks and balances taking place right now for the iPhone.
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by Laaw 11y ago
That's my point.
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by Laaw 11y ago
There's nothing that makes the digital data on a phone any different or more private than the physical data in a filing cabinet in a home or office, both which require the same level of judicial oversight to obtain (your first point is
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by Laaw 11y ago
There was a recent podcast (Freakanomics) that went into some depth about this concept, and it focused on a story about a pencil describing how it gets made, and the millions of people who are involved. The moral given in the podcast is t
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by Laaw 11y ago
Yeah, I'm reading this story (and some of these comments), and I have been in language comprehension mishaps before, but only because I was being obstinate (and was aware of it). I can't think of a situation like this where I coul
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by Laaw 11y ago
Not the same. This is more like if the FBI wanted access to investigate a space murder and demanded Virgin Galactic to build a special shuttle to allow the FBI's equipment to the station, something only Virgin Galactic can do because
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by Laaw 11y ago
"The Government" is just a collection of people, and the judicial branch (this judge) is especially distinct from the executive branch (the FBI).
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by Laaw 11y ago
I know this is going to sound crazy, but there are parallels here between Apple vs. the FBI, and Superman vs. Batman. Superman represents an unchecked power, and Batman finds this unchecked power to be unacceptable as a risk, in case the po
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by Laaw 11y ago
Do you own a home? Do you own a car? The executive branch can obtain warrants from the judicial branch to "exploit vulnerabilities" and gain access to these "devices".
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by Laaw 11y ago
Small sample sizes don't mean low confidence, why do people constantly make that mistake? What you should be asking about are confidence intervals and reproducibility.
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by Laaw 11y ago
If they make sending your DNA a requirement of consuming their content, then yes, you send it to them if you want their content. That's their right, as owners of something, to dictate its use. You aren't entitled to WSJ.com, NBC,

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