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by anon1385 11y ago
>regarded as politically useful for the Obama administration Judith sure knows how to play to the gallery.
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by anon1385 11y ago
>Apply the same logic to the justice system and courts would operate behind closed doors. That has already happened: http://www.theguardian.com/law/2013/jun/14/what-are-secret-c...
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by anon1385 11y ago
>There is no country in the world with more public surveillance cameras Do you have a source for that? Every discussion of the number of CCTV cameras in the UK I've seen has always been talking about both public and private cameras
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by anon1385 11y ago
>For users, it is about building a platform in which users are not locked to a proprietary silo How are they not locked into the 'silo' of FirefoxOS and the FirefoxOS APIs? If the answer is that the apps are 100% web standards
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by anon1385 11y ago
They just added generics to Obj-C, which is one of the biggest new language features in a long time.
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by anon1385 11y ago
Jobbik[1] are now the third biggest party in Hungary. Their candidates are openly anti-semitic[2]. They want to return Hungary's borders to those of the pre-WWI Kingdom of Hungary. They put up statues to military commanders who were al
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Twitter shut down a site that saved politicians' deleted tweets(theverge.com)
15 points by anon1385 11y ago|3 comments
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by anon1385 11y ago
This is a rather strange comment since we already know for sure that Google has already been hacked by both the British[1] and Chinese[2] governments. And of course the US government access information from Google without hacking: they just
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by anon1385 11y ago
That is just a Terms Of Service change away. Such legal changes aren't even unlikely: Google already changed their Terms of Service in the past to allow them to combine information from separate sites and services, which they didn&#x27
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by anon1385 11y ago
There is a lot of tracking Google does that couldn't just be instantly turned on at the request of a government if Google wasn't already doing it. For example Google Analytics: if that product didn't exist the government coul
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by anon1385 11y ago
So you think the FSF/SFLC wanted to go to court over this case, where Moglen was giving private legal advice to linux developers that was very much in conflict with copyright law[1]? I don't. Uncertainty over what adaption means s
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by anon1385 11y ago
Somehow I imagine you take a rather different stance when it comes to the many aspects of the GPL or AGPL that haven't been tested in court. On those issues the position of the FSF is very much 'illegal till proven otherwise'
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by anon1385 11y ago
>If this same product was released by a company you had never heard of, would you use it? Would you honestly believe it to have a greater chance of survival? >My suggestion is to simply judge this product on its merits, and accept tha
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by anon1385 11y ago
>I'm not sure the GPL allows you to fork something under the same name though, right? Copyright law still lets you own the name of your project? Trademarking the name of your project is considered incompatible with Free Software by
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by anon1385 11y ago
>You won't be limited to a particular OS and APIs You will, of course, be limited to the APIs available in standard Javascript. At the moment that means missing a lot of things that people might want to be able to do (or need to be
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How Facebook Exposes Domestic Violence Survivors(thedailybeast.com)
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Cameron's government is expanding the definition of extremist to include 'non-violent extremists', which is people who disagree with the vague 'British values' or are opposed to the current democratic system. So it
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by anon1385 11y ago
Well, people have been out in the streets over the last couple of weeks over a variety of issues. The difficulty is that there was just a general election where the Tories won a majority of seats and got the largest share of the popular vot
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by anon1385 11y ago
It's far broader than that: http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2015/05/13/theresa-may-s-pla... >The details are still not clear and won't get much clearer until the Queen's Speech – or pro
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by anon1385 11y ago
>can't do anything about because they can't prove they've broken any laws. Yes, that's how the rule of law works.
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by anon1385 11y ago
“For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone'. This government will conclusively turn the page on this failed approach.” -- David Cameron h
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by anon1385 11y ago
>> Or, they could take their own medicine, and try and write the browser in JS. >You mean like Firefox? This is a very strange comment, especially coming from you. Everybody knows that the bulk of Firefox is not written in JS. You
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by anon1385 11y ago
You say that as if we even know what kind of human it would take to write safe C code. No specimen has yet been found.
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by anon1385 12y ago
Judging from this thread Go users are regularly using various tricks and hacks to avoid the compiler errors. So evidently Go programmers can't be trusted to handle compiler errors responsibly and not use hacks to hide them. In which ca
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by anon1385 12y ago
It's worth remembering the full context to that incident. Earlier that year OpenBSD had been found to contain code that had been copied from a Linux GPL wireless driver project, in violation of the GPL. The Linux developers made a publ
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The Troubling Reality of Forensic “Science”(firstlook.org)
65 points by anon1385 12y ago|20 comments
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>Do inflated "likes" for brands or celebrities harm the core value prop for consumers or Facebook's business model with advertisers? The argument presented in the article is that they do: >These fake likes weren’t just
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by anon1385 12y ago
You do realise that people were criticising US bombing campaigns and assassinations long long before the use of drones? People talk about drones because the vast majority of "blowing people up" that the US does these days is done
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Oklahoma: Not OK(tamino.wordpress.com)
1 points by anon1385 12y ago|0 comments
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by anon1385 12y ago
You are shifting the goalposts. The original commenter just stated that they didn't feel enthusiastic about using a language without a debugger. Not that they couldn't solve a problem without a debugger. The type of argument you a

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