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by alan_cx 13y ago
I see the logic, but given recent spying revelations, I saw it as a perfect opportunity to move further away from google and US based services, and certainly not an opportunity to get closer and more integrated. If I had a shred of trust le
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Ignoring your jet setting nonsense, which is obviously not on the cards... Fair process. Counties with nothing to hide.... Yes most countries might have a problem with it, when considered alone. But, if all countries knew that it equally ap
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by alan_cx 13y ago
IMHO, there should be an independent UN protection. If not, then how can any individual whistle blow against a country with the power and reach of the US? We have the aggrieved party, a whole state, hunting down an individual for exposing i
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by alan_cx 13y ago
You kinda sounds like you agree with Snowden's message, appreciate his risk, but then want him just left to hang out to dry? Surely this bloke deserves protection? If he is forgotten while people deal with the allegations, he'll r
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Freedom, hey? All a bit Sharia, no?
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by alan_cx 13y ago
As far as I know, that is normal. Putting month first is illogical.
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Why China loves to build copycat towns(bbc.co.uk)
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Yup. For the ultra concerned, its battery and sim removal.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Indeed. Cant someone just post: http://learnxinyminutes.com/ and be done with it? If only some one would do that...
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I don't know about what has happened here, but this story does ring true with what has historically happened after 9/11. We know that EU countries bent over backwards to accommodate US demands with respect to information sharing w
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Call me behind the times, but I like the fact you can DL a virtual appliance, and have it working in 10 mins flat.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
That reads like you have simply bought in to the media smearing. Sound familiar? See here in the UK, our media represent the whole of the EU like that. Don't give up, get involved.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
What does Germany have to hide......? In fact, hello US gov, what do you have to hide?
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Like I've said in other posts, spy on people and they start to react. In this case they start using encryption more and more. No, such people are not 100% secure, but if there is a secure option, they take it. This increases encrypted
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by alan_cx 13y ago
You do not want bipartisan. That just means the same old same old, simply pretending to be different. If Obama can't or wont repair the damage of the Bush administration, well, he seems hell bent on out Bushing Bush, why turn to their
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by alan_cx 13y ago
MI5 spends a lot of its time and energy keeping an eye on US officials in the UK. Presumably the opposite happens too. This is the "legit" spy game that mostly I find acceptable. Again, its merely about understanding intention. Ea
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by alan_cx 13y ago
We think we have been enlightened, empowered, and liberated, but really all we have done is concentrate our activity in to one nice easily monitor-able state, which means we can now be more controlled than ever before. Chat in a park? Goo
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by alan_cx 13y ago
If it were me, nothing. Users should back up. If the admins back up too, well, that is a bonus.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Privacy? If only. We have no rights as human beings, let alone privacy. The worst part is that America claims to have rights over us, where ever we are. It is a disgusting abuse of humanity that American asserts that its laws apply to world
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by alan_cx 13y ago
No one is saying that at all. I am amazed that people still do not understand the problem. And that really hurts, hurts us all.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Ok. Not sure if that is better or worse, but it does explain my point!! Ta.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Shouldn't the leaders of the free world set the best example for free countries to aspire to? No one begrudges the US, UK, or any other country having spies and what not. They are essential to peace. Remember the point of spying is to
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by alan_cx 13y ago
If he was on a leave of absence, and that changes his status, how does he have the authority to be there at all? Surely the exemption exists because while on a leave of absence his is basically not a CIA officer. He is not bound by CIA rule
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Yeah, having read the replied and ideas, Gopher is sort of what I was thinking. Its coming back to me now... Im going to do some revision reading.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Oh hang on. Minecraft? Is that what we are talking about? Or perhaps are the kids using that like we sort of used the internet in the old days? Ish?
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I don't know, I just made it up. So, maybe.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
No idea, it just came to me as I was typing. But I suppose something like sort of modernising the old method of firing up a terminal and issuing manual GET commands. So, have something called a command line browser, and sites that only work
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Yup, I agree. Same sort of thing where people put down the use of things like Dreamweaver, claiming note pad is better. Same mentality, I think. And even though I would argue logically for Dreamweaver, I would still sort of feel the notepad
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I know its like admitting that you wear your mums underwear, but I still like dreamweaver....
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Im 41, I might have been mucking around with the internet before you, and while a hell of a lot is fantastic about the internet now, yeah, Im kinda lost and homeless too. Know what you mean. Not to say the internet , or web is or has gone w

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