alan_cx

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by alan_cx 13y ago
Be fair, we in the UK don't have the gun issues the US has. Raiding a property here isn't as much of a risk. Probably the same across Europe. The trick for us is to keep it that way. To try to be kind to US law enforcement, I susp
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by alan_cx 13y ago
More over, why so many perceived enemies who are US citizens? Why is the US government treating its own citizens as enemies of the state? As a non American, I take a perverse sort of comfort from that idea that it looks like the US governme
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Given that now we are all suspects in waiting, use of anything to protect privacy is going to be evidence of, well... something. Governments, for some weirdo reason, think that no one should have need for privacy, if they are decent lawful
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by alan_cx 13y ago
My instant thought is that the bold headings draw the eye away from the bit you are currently reading. "You" read the first heading, and decide to read the plain text below. As you are reading that, your eyes notice another headin
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Another example of authority protecting itself by invoking national security scares, patriotism, etc. Quite disgusting that the idea of outing internal wrong doing or failure is some how helping enemies. Its not the outing that helps enemie
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Who defines the scum of the earth? You? The so called leaders of the free world? Anything non western or not allied to the US is scum? If you are fighting against the hypocrisy and frankly tyranny of the west, where would you go to be prote
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Publicity is, or can be, protection.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
You have sort of defined "fad".
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I agree. My feeling is that flat works for small touch screens, but not so well on big screen computers. I think you need the simplicity on a small screen so that navigation is clear in a small space, but it looks just dumb and silly on a b
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I realize people don't like what you are saying, but, while I think your snarky tone might not be helping you, you do make several worth while points. Demonstrations can and will be used to crack down further. Despite our rights to pro
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Actually, yes. He doesn't need money for elections any more.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
If it really was, why do you think you need to tell people? Do you think people are a bit stupid know and need telling? Do you need to tell every one for your own sense of well being? Or are you just a karma whore?
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Well, I say no to all mass slurping of data, foreign or domestic, but yes to targeted spying with the full weight of government and technology, foreign or domestic. The problem is not spying, the problem the industrialised mass spying of li
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Is this a Mac fanboi's idea of writeen(1) porn? It reads like a diary of a boy about to go out on a first date, while already dating... Actually, it's kinda cute. Or is it creepy? Lets hope the writer doesn't end up, er, &quo
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Glenn Beck? Yuk, I feel dirty now! That's like reading the Daily Mail here in the UK!! That said, seems like a reasonable fair enough article.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Have a read: http://www2.mercedes-benz.co.uk/content/media_library/united... Not much on those cars isn't computer controlled.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
First I have seen of this, so I have no idea of the various theories. As I understand it, the car crashed at the front and blew up? Correct? If so... I find it very, very hard to believe a modern Mercedes would do that. Merc are very safety
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Fair enough!!!! :)
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by alan_cx 13y ago
I like that idea. Clearly the US government have to prosecute him with something. Cant encourage it and all that. And presumably he leaked this info knowing full well that the US government would have little choice but do this. So, I suppos
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Sort of, yes, But I felt I was not adding to the point I was replying to. But do know, I find the idea of having nothing to hide absurd, and see far too much of authority actually treating us people as guilty before we have done anything ev
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by alan_cx 13y ago
You are of course 100% correct, but I am a tad worried I now have some sort of reputation. Eeeek.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Hold on.... If a foreigner is protected while in the US, is accountable to the US if he/she breaks US law from abroad, and accountable if he/she breaks US law while visiting the US in the form of visiting a US web-server, (we fore
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by alan_cx 13y ago
In theory, why not?
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Lost the key.... Sir? OK, then we will take you house away and you cant have it back until you produce the key.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Well, what have you got to hide........?
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Now, encryption is probable cause...
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Im 99.99% against this sort of thing, but even I have to reluctantly accept that wheels don't get un-invented. So, proper regulation and oversight is the only way to go.
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Yeah, me too, ish. :(
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by alan_cx 13y ago
Just read this thread, and it applies to my newly learned wonder phrase: "Tyranny is the suppression of nuance" Not many people working with the nuance here, are there? Its gotten very black and white , and if you don't agree
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by alan_cx 13y ago
So, like when a car sales man insists you sit in the expensive car to see how it feels, so one is forced to rebuff him? Sounds similar yo me. Why isn't this just taking the initiative then? Being proactive? It seem to me that these day

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