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by a3_nm 13y ago
Eventually, you would expect that a Bitcoin-based crowdsourcing platform should come into being.
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by a3_nm 13y ago
The fact that the vast majority of payors used PayPal rather than Bitcoin certainly has nothing to do with PayPal's buyer protection and everything to do with Bitcoin being obscure and more complex to use.
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by a3_nm 13y ago
> I'm genuinely wondering whether Wikipedia should have a policy of deleting all such articles and disabling their creation. I don't think it's in the spirit of an encyclopedia. Hopefully, it will soon be possible to gener
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by a3_nm 13y ago
> but as a free OS, I accept that there's going to be some of that sort of thing happening The vast majority of Linux distributions are free and include none of this sort of things, with some of them (e.g. Debian) having been in con
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by a3_nm 13y ago
Agreed. I worried that this might be yet another example of printers and scanners doing strange things, like < https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_steganography> or < https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by a3_nm 13y ago
How exactly is this incompatible with it being open source? Being open source does not mean that you have to accept contributions from others, nor is it incompatible with making a decent living especially when the game is free as in free be
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by a3_nm 13y ago
As a general remark, the statement "If A had done X then Y would not have happened." is not sufficient to prove that A's doing X is responsible for Y. Various counterexamples: - If the murderer's mother had refused to ha
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by a3_nm 13y ago
> It was declassified as munition it can be reclassified as munitions pretty easily as well. As any browser has to integrate some sort of public-key cryptography support to use HTTPS, and as HTTPS is pretty useful for things like sending
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by a3_nm 13y ago
> Public-key cryptography as we know it today may be rapidly approaching the end of its useful lifespan. No evidence in the article substantiates this bold statement. - "pressuring major Internet firms to provide their "master&
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by a3_nm 13y ago
Online people are not "open about some parts of their life voluntarily in ways that the offline-borns wouldn’t". Given how Facebook and such services work, they're being open about everything they do online with service provi
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by a3_nm 13y ago
I suspect that by "transferring" the files they mean "transferring a token allowing the recipient to access the files from your plug". From there, under their (debatable) underlying assumption that accessing files from a
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by a3_nm 13y ago
It's sad to think that, with Google Analytics, Google probably has this data point already available for a lot of pages without having to ask people to install stuff.
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by a3_nm 13y ago
Hum -- so assuming Facebook is making offline backup copies (which they should), are they really going to retreive their offline backups and remove your info if you want to delete your Facebook account?
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by a3_nm 13y ago
... because everyone is using it. It says nothing about the difference in social utility between the current state of the world and an alternate state of the world in which everyone would be using a federated social network. Facebook is a l
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by a3_nm 13y ago
I used to think this, but the truth is more complex. Facebook makes it easy for a lot of people to manage very large number of friends. If you're not using Facebook but most people around you are using it, even though your close friend
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by a3_nm 13y ago
> I set up a Kickstarter to turn it into open source and release everything I've written and then some You could also, you know, just release what you have as open source without asking people to pay $30,000 for the privilege?
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by a3_nm 13y ago
It would perhaps be possible to adapt text watermarking tools like < http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2002/Sep/68> to function as steganography tools.
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by a3_nm 13y ago
> the choice is between using everything in the open, unencrypted, and then maybe they won't look at it, or encrypt it and then there's a very high chance they'll look at it ... but then it's encrypted. I'm not w
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by a3_nm 13y ago
"I wrote these words, and you're reading them"... and Google knows you're reading them. I find it a bit ironical that a manifesto for minimalism still carries Google Analytics code to track people.
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by a3_nm 13y ago
What I find the most surprising in this story, without having to take sides about the merits of any of the discussed papers, is that the initial refutation of the work of Bellgrau et al. was reviewed by Bellgrau et al. If this fact is true,
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by a3_nm 13y ago
I would imagine that travelling through South American countries would be a better option (ie., the only option).
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by a3_nm 13y ago
The title is ambiguous, but the body unambiguously and incorrectly states: "The world's last telegram message will be sent somewhere in India on July 14."
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by a3_nm 13y ago
Observe how Nineteen Eighty-Four is in the public domain in Australia, but won't be in the US until at least 2044.
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by a3_nm 13y ago
If Dropbox bundled a keylogger with the Dropbox client, I'm pretty sure it would eventually attract some attention...
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by a3_nm 13y ago
> is it worth the trouble if Wuala's clunky client takes 100 times longer than Dropbox to sync a file between two devices Is this some general FUD about encryption being slow, or an actual measurement? Maybe all client-side encrypte
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by a3_nm 13y ago
> I think it was a good thing that he revealed his identity so as to speak with authority and be representative of the current events. I disagree. We have the technology to allow people to speak with authority and be representative with
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by a3_nm 13y ago
Sadly, TextSecure and RedPhone are distributed on the Google Play platform, so, if you don't want to tie a Google account to your phone or use Android without the proprietary Google applications, you're out of luck. (They are not
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by a3_nm 13y ago
People can put their lives on Facebook's database, it's still Facebook's database. The problem is not that Facebook is sharing this information, it is that people are sharing it with Facebook.
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by a3_nm 13y ago
Native French here, the original is beautifully written and the Google translation does not do justice to this (and sometimes even obscures the meaning). I would presume that people reading the original are more touched by what is said (be
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by a3_nm 13y ago
This is an excellent resource, thanks a lot for this.

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