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by _djo_ 13y ago
You arguably have more to fear from your own government, which has far greater capability to (legally) spy on your electronic communications in real-time. Both the NCC and the Interception Centres set up under RICA have virtually unlimited
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Did you order a black Pebble or another colour? The black Pebbles have been shipping in large quantities for ages (I got mine some time ago) but the colour ones are taking a little more time to get right. Assuming you opted for a colour oth
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Why not? Do you think other countries are not hacking US telecoms to spy on US citizens? The main threats in the world are no longer just states, they're also small groups of individuals capable of doing a ton of damage. I see no way f
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by _djo_ 13y ago
I don't believe that the US has any obligation to protect the right to privacy of non-US citizens living in foreign countries. To do so would be to place a burden on it that no other state shares. It is well-established principle that
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Manning falls under the Uniform Code of Military Justice, Snowden does not. That alone means that he cannot be treated the same before his trial. It especially means he cannot be tortured or denied legal representation. I still have faith i
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by _djo_ 13y ago
No. While I believe Snowden did the right thing by releasing information on the NSA's domestic spying, he lost my support by going on to release information detailing how the NSA spied on foreign states. He crossed a line when doing th
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Not quite, PRISM provides access to data legally acquired through mechanisms (like FISA requests) that should ideally not be legal.
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Apple's claim is specifically that they don't store those keys.
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by _djo_ 13y ago
Thing is though, that doesn't matter. No country places any restrictions on whether the foreigners its spy services monitor are part of a foreign government or not because it wouldn't make any sense. To use a pertinent example, no
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by _djo_ 13y ago
It's less of a big deal because states spy on other states, even their allies. It has been that way since the beginning and everyone usually turns a blind eye unless it either gets leaked and causes embarrassment or it results in a rea
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by _djo_ 13y ago
There are no official Apple Retail stores in South Africa, only stores run by Core Group which is the official distributor. That's why they're called 'iStores' and not 'Apple stores', they're not the real
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by _djo_ 13y ago
The problem is that, from hearing how electronic encryption is permitted and carried out elsewhere, you can't trust any non-US-based or non-US-operated entity to keep your data secure either. The only way to keep your data secure is to
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by _djo_ 13y ago
I'm suspicious of this fundraiser. How does it relate to the Tombouctou Manuscripts Project? [0] The TMP has government funding from the South African government, University of Cape Town and Ford Foundation and was working to preserve and d
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Tiny PC puts world in palm of pupils’ hands(iol.co.za)
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by _djo_ 14y ago
Google has said they're working on Glass hardware that'll clip onto regular prescription glasses.
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by _djo_ 14y ago
Nice, South Africa's three major airports all rank in the Top 30.
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by _djo_ 14y ago
'White space' is the standard term for allocated but unused radio frequencies. It has also been nearly 20 years since the end of Apartheid, South Africa is no longer defined only by its racially-segregated past. Your comment is as silly as
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by _djo_ 14y ago
There are many embedded devices running Java that are quick and efficient, so whatever slowness those cable boxes have is not due to the technology used. It's probably due to the same organisational problems that cause all slow and bloated
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by _djo_ 14y ago
It turns out that the amount allocated to 'Development and Creation', 'Testing' and 'Implementation' was $191 436, a fairly small proportion of the total. $2.1 million alone was spent on 'Planning' and 'Design'. It's difficult to find any l
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The real cost of South Africa's most expensive website ($15m)(timeslive.co.za)
1 points by _djo_ 14y ago|1 comments
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by _djo_ 14y ago
That's not quite true, Apple offloads some of its static assets to Amazon, MS's (Azure-based) & Akamai CDNs. There's as yet no evidence that Apple's cloud-based software (like iCloud) runs off anything but their own datacentres.
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by _djo_ 14y ago
Not really an issue if you live in the right areas, in my experience. Cape Town in particular is quite safe as long as you don't go into the townships (like Rio's favelas).
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by _djo_ 14y ago
What about South Africa? Well-developed legal system 4G network and high speed internet Existing support structures, especially for funding And one of the most beautiful cities with plenty of sun & sand in Cape Town.
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by _djo_ 14y ago
Maintains a persistent ssh connection to each host once the first is created. Any subsequent ssh commands will be sent over the existing channel, skipping the time-consuming handshake process.
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by _djo_ 14y ago
Over $65 000 per kg, significantly more valuable than Gold. Fake horns do make up a lot of the consumer trade in rhino horns, with most made from water buffalo horns, but these have had the effect of increasing demand. High-end buyers get t
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by _djo_ 14y ago
Unfortunately while this helps it's not a panacea. I wrote a previous comment on HN [1] on the same subject, which I'll paste here as the points still apply: This is welcome from Google, as focused aid of this sort can often have an outsiz
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by _djo_ 14y ago
That approach has been tried and although there's limited success it's not workable for rhino poaching. The huge amount of money being made by criminal syndicates means that the people doing the poaching are being paid far, far more than th
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by _djo_ 14y ago
Both South Africa and Kenya already operate military drones, in South Africa's case dating back to the mid-1980s. The idea that a tiny number of cheap low-endurance crowd-funded drones will increase government oppression or that these gover
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by _djo_ 14y ago
What lutusp said plus the fact that the lakebed runways are much, much longer than the tarred runways. So the combination of much more width and much more length means its far safer to get an aircraft like the X-15 on the ground.
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by _djo_ 14y ago
Indeed, plus one of the aircraft is one of only two remaining examples of the X-21 [0]. I suspect the other is also derelict on the range somewhere. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northrop_X-21

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