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by alan_cx 11y ago
General thought... Two things strike me about these issues. Firstly there is a disconnect between a lot of citizens and those who are supposed to be there to protect those citizens; and second, we need to decide how much risk we are prepare
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US hit by 'massive data breach'(bbc.co.uk)
137 points by alan_cx 11y ago|148 comments
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by alan_cx 11y ago
Am I to take from this that are we getting excited that privacy is a premium item that you have to pay for?
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by alan_cx 11y ago
She/He never said it was. It is being suggested that, er, enthusiastic anti pedophile groups think that. I think that its implied that its a dubious argument at best. None of us can answer for the flawed logic of campaigners with tunne
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by alan_cx 11y ago
It rhymes with......
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New York court issues habeas corpus writ for chimpanzees(bbc.co.uk)
2 points by alan_cx 11y ago|0 comments
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Google dominates search. But the real problem is its monopoly on data(theguardian.com)
2 points by alan_cx 11y ago|0 comments
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by alan_cx 12y ago
I would suggest that a .rocks type domain would be redundant because the official .com or whatever is usually where all the positivity is. Often the owners of the .com try to manage negativity, and ensure their domain is a positive place, s
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by alan_cx 12y ago
Yeah, I know what you mean. I've got this AM radio and I cant get DAB.....
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Sim card database hack gave US and UK spies access to billions of cellphones(theguardian.com)
9 points by alan_cx 12y ago|0 comments
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Google warns of US government 'hacking any facility' in the world(theguardian.com)
15 points by alan_cx 12y ago|0 comments
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by alan_cx 12y ago
Add Instructables.com to that. In fact, I'd respectfully suggest that HN is not even slightly the best place for this sort of thing.
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by alan_cx 12y ago
Just writers? I'd suggest that many people putting their thoughts and opinions in any sort of permanent, record-able, store-able, searchable medium are self censoring to some degree, or at least considering it. In the last few years, I
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by alan_cx 12y ago
My take is that laws exist to protect our rights. Police exist to protect those rights by enforcing the laws that protect those rights. There for the police exist to protect our rights, including the right to protest. There is no discussion
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by alan_cx 12y ago
I thought that was the whole point of building lots of nukes on both sides. They called it MAD, mutually assured destruction.
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by alan_cx 12y ago
Yeah, I keep trying to settle on DDG, but every time I get frustrated with the results and end up back on google. I remember back when google first appeared, I used it and never turned back. Its was immediatly clearly superior to everything
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by alan_cx 12y ago
A question was asked. That implies a lack of knowledge. Given that lack of knowledge, how is one to know if the question is regarded by people who do have that knowledge as "stupid"?
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by alan_cx 12y ago
From the little I understand of psychology, essentially all you need to do is get the accused to doubt their memory, then push them over the edge. Consequently, I think that high quality CCTV wouldn't be necessary. A blurry hint would
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by alan_cx 12y ago
FWIW, here in the UK we have an entertainer called Derren Brown. He specializes in psychological "magic". A while ago he did a show where he set up a punter to believe he had committed murder. The mark reacted exactly as your frie
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by alan_cx 12y ago
"Most academic computer science is funded by the American government. Does that mean that all academic computer science is backdoored by the military?" If you were some one who believed that your liberty or even life depended on i
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by alan_cx 12y ago
Im with you in spirit, just a thought or two.... "Powers that be have always treated people outside the system as sheep." Isnt it that people inside the system are sheep? People outside the system are considered renegade, some how
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by alan_cx 12y ago
Problem I have is that there is no way of knowing why posts are down-voted. Quality? Politics? Just wrong? No idea. Sometime I see posts which are factually correct, but clearly unpopular and voted down. And to be utterly fair, I'm not
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by alan_cx 12y ago
Im with you in spirit, but the US partly gets away with all this because other countries not only support them, but aid them. Prime sorry example, UK and GCHQ. Cant help thinking that if a lot of US allies simply said no, something might ch
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by alan_cx 12y ago
I guess its a comment about the morality of the rich. The idea being that to get rich, whatever rich is, it is assumed that they effectively stole from the poor. So taking it back is re-appropriation, or some such. Personally, I see tax as
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by alan_cx 12y ago
Possibly easier than piloting the real thing. No g-force, total vision, simple controls, and so on. With various fail-safes and controllers, its made much easier Dont get me wrong, I've tried flying normal RC planes, and Im rubbish at
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32,000 Hungarians plan to take to the streets for 'internet tax' protest(theregister.co.uk)
3 points by alan_cx 12y ago|0 comments
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by alan_cx 12y ago
Hiding something does not equal a conspiracy theory. I mean, do you believe that behind every door there is a conspiracy? Do clothes equal a conspiracy to hide the human body? Is covering a seed with soil a conspiracy to hide seeds? If you
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by alan_cx 12y ago
Why should any insider do that? Snowden did it, and look what happened. Nothing. Sad truth is, the majority don't care. If they did, then it would be reflected in voting, and things would change. But no. Mean while, Snowden is a wanted
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by alan_cx 12y ago
My take on that is that spying is supposed to have as it primary justification the objective of determining a foreign nations true intentions. Its a method to confirm or disprove what is said. Germany, for example, says its no threat to the
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by alan_cx 12y ago
Not disagreeing, but a number of people have many email addresses. No idea how that stacks up with people with SMS though.

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