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by alan_cx 13y ago
I know what you mean. Perhaps HN agrees. I submitted an article describing what this is and it got no where. Weird though, because any criticism of Musk usually gets karma slaughtered.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Tax is paying for services you use, which is very moral.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Hang on, how is it a defense to say that? Can a startup, or any other organisation, also say that? "Oh sorry, we don't have a search facility, so we cant act on your warrant"? I'm sorry, but how can any court accept that
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by alan_cx 13y ago
More so that non Chinese people can act against China with out risk of arrest, extradition or rendition. China is an easy target. It is very easy to take a stand against China, and get props for it, when what one is doing is risk free and f
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Obvious giggles aside, this is well worth a read.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Not trying to justify Bradley's treatment in any way, but to put the other side... Is it not possible that wget was not authorized specifically because if would make copying lots of file easier and quicker? I mean, if I were in charge
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Inside the Hyperloop(telegraph.co.uk)
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by alan_cx 13y ago
And that stops UK users accessing TPB how?
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by alan_cx 13y ago
True but not relevant. This isn't a privacy thing, its just purely about accessing pirate bay and other blocked sites. So open source and so on is irrelevant in that goal. Edit: Quote added. "“This browser is just to circumvent ce
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Well, presumably because he doesn't want to end up in jail or Russia. I very appreciate his actions, what he has felt able to say publicly and his dilemma in general. Part of me wants to call him a coward, but I can not say I would do
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by alan_cx 13y ago
For that alone? Cant be. Really? Surely there must be something more than that alone. Granted, its not the most useful post, probably meant to amuse, but a hellban?
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Cool, but why not Opera in off-road mode?
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Obama said that? Shame on him. He doesn't even need re-election. I was so happy for the US and world in general when Obama was elected. This man has become the world biggest disappointment. Americans appear love world records and thing
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by alan_cx 13y ago
If my, or some one else's, life or liberty depended on it, no. Not email, not the internet. From a simpleton POV... there is a wire from my computer to an ISP. Then from that ISP to another ISP. Then from that ISP to a recipient. At an
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by alan_cx 13y ago
How about: "What are you protecting," Freedom "and who are you protecting it against?" The US(UK) government.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
You want a citation for what is essentially a thought? Actually, I suppose one could simply link back to the post its self, since is this the most reliable expression of that thought available.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
As a general point... isnt spam something worth putting up with in order to get secure email? If there is too much spam, obscuring the legit emails, couldn't the client end filter that out? Frankly, to take and extreme, if I were relia
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by alan_cx 13y ago
So, secret court case, started by a secret spy service gets an email service shut down. We know next to nothing, except the service went down, with out an open honest explanation. The owner is left with leaving a cryptic-ish message to th
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Will SOPA ever come back in a minimally modified form? It it really dead? Or will they just find another way to ram it through? Is there a real victory? Are the politicians now going to leave it well alone? Or will the media money eventuall
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Sounds all a bit "USA, USA, USA", rather than any sort of intelligent logic. I think the article this thread is based on pretty much explains that. Any US folk considered how hard it is for the rest of the planet to reconcile US p
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by alan_cx 13y ago
"Oh ho ho, what a clever ruse, pretending to confuse Bush with Obama." Firstly, I actually did. Bush went through my mind as I was typing. I realized as I was typing. I was about to delete back, but I thought it was quite interest
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Always worth looking at that the US military do. (I say US because it seems that a hell of a lot of their instruction manuals are freely available. Shame I cant say that of the UK) For me it was engineering. Years ago, I found some document
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by alan_cx 13y ago
This is one of the best articles I have read on this subject yet.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Obama wanted to brand Snowden as a traitor, ignoring the detail, subtlety and nuances involved in the case. Black and while, Snowden is a traitor. Yes? Now, Russia gives Snowden temporary asylum, so in retaliation, Bush.... sorry, Obama can
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by alan_cx 13y ago
How high is your confidence in the word "outside"?
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by alan_cx 13y ago
You forgot file sharers, drugs and pedophiles. All of which have been since been said to fund the terrorism. Which in the case of drugs, IIRC, is true. Didn't the CIA use cocaine trafficking to fund some black type ops?
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by alan_cx 13y ago
And that's not a hyperbolic reaction to the post? Or are you indulging in some very clever subtle irony?
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Seems to me that those of us who worry about the likes of NSA data slurping are the "radical fringe". That uniformed Muppet certainly seems to think so. Writing off minorities as radicals is their game, not mine. You just played r
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Disable the grouping? Properties, Taskbar buttons, Never combine.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
What about one of those skin tight spandex suits with shock electrodes in it? Then give the kids a smart phone with an app that allows them to shock on demand. Every time they feels angry or frustrated at their lives being ruined, then can

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