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by beeboop 11y ago
I haven't read the book, but I found this summary: https://lettersfromtheporch.wordpress.com/2010/03/07/what-yo... You are close, but I think the message is more nuanced than you state (as you guessed).
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by beeboop 11y ago
I am not sure how true this is, but even if it were, I would assume you're largely referring to European countries, where the nature of air travel is very different. In most of Europe you cannot get on a plane and fly in any direction
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by beeboop 11y ago
Both Bernie and Hillary have been vague about their stance on having encryption backdoors, almost to the point of implicitly supporting encryption backdoors but not wanting to outright say it. Bernie's message about privacy isn't
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by beeboop 11y ago
I use FB maybe twice a week for a total of 5 minutes and it never seems slow to me.
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by beeboop 11y ago
> If someone is shooting at you, you shoot right back at them regardless of whether they are standing behind a hundred babies. That is not a problem. You very well might be a sociopath.
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by beeboop 11y ago
Considering it stops updates to IE, I would never recommend that. I only ever use IE if I'm on some ancient (often government) website that doesn't seem to work in FF/Chrome, but even the default IE homepage (Is it still MSN?
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by beeboop 11y ago
Hope you never buy anything other than the fastest GPU and CPU for a given model :)
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by beeboop 11y ago
Intel ME has very useful legitimate purposes for existing. It's a very powerful tool for some people, and most people would call you a conspiracy theorist for suggesting that Intel, or someone who manages to get security creds from Int
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by beeboop 11y ago
Same, this is a million times more legible than the HTML Google Material Design uses.
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by beeboop 11y ago
I think your concern about lack of due process should be more focused on the tens to hundreds of thousands of civilian bystanders the US has killed since 2001. We are killing dozens of women and children overseas every week and chalk them u
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by beeboop 11y ago
The Lavabit case was only contentious because of a very poor implementation of encrypted user data. It won't be long until there are established platforms and libraries that are used by most apps that fix the technical problems of Lava
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by beeboop 11y ago
I don't think it will happen due to the impossibility of actually enforcing it, hence "effective manner" in my OP.
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by beeboop 11y ago
I guess I thought the drones were a joke or hyperbole in your post. There are a lot of things that make me not concerned about your scenario. Firstly, cameras are easily defeated, especially by technology 50 years from now. You're pres
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by beeboop 11y ago
This is unfortunately not true in many places. In the UK you can be thrown in prison for failing to decrypt any data in your possession. This means someone can encrypt garbage on a USB drive and slip it in your pocket and make you rot in pr
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by beeboop 11y ago
Imagine a big ass river. Pretty much the same concept, but in reverse.
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by beeboop 11y ago
I don't think whether he understands it to really matter. I think even if he was the world's foremost security expert, his message would be the same as it is now.
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by beeboop 11y ago
I cannot fathom end to end encryption ever being made illegal. I tremendously doubt this will ever happen in any effective manner. At worst, they will pass from vaguely worded bill that makes it illegal in the sense that you are required to
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by beeboop 11y ago
I disagree - digital surveillance state will be gone within a decade, or twenty years at most. Already we see programs like Telegram becoming very popular (100 million users) where the opportunity for surveillance is massively reduced. Plat
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by beeboop 11y ago
edit: I realize after posting this it might not be relevant since you may be discussing the trackpad as used with Ubuntu. As of 1 month ago, when I bought and then returned an XPS 15 due to the trackpad, there was no option for middle click
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by beeboop 11y ago
On the most recent iPhone, data isn't encrypted based on a 4 digit PIN. It uses a tremendously long piece of data as the encryption key, but the encryption key is only accessible through some special hardware they have (which is essent
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by beeboop 11y ago
That's an unconfirmed third hand story by someone who was obviously way too emotional about the equivalent of being kicked out of their D&D group. I would guess his/her friends ignored him/her because he/she was acti
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by beeboop 11y ago
You say you've spent a ton of time reading about this, but don't actually say what your conclusions are. I know it's sort of counter to your point, but I would be interested in hearing your opinions on how soon we will start
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by beeboop 11y ago
I am a huge cynic and probably one of the first people to agree with a post like yours, but I really have to disagree. I saw very little power dynamic going on from what I read. There was a level of mysteriousness in that some people knew a
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by beeboop 11y ago
Without the context of what the community was like, I can see how some people might feel this way. I know nothing other than what I read in the article, but I think there is a lot of details left out about the people, activities, and ideolo
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by beeboop 11y ago
I am not a music lover, but I also agree that playing instruments is an extremely valuable life experience for children. It is such a unique experience and makes you use parts of your brain you probably wouldn't use for any other reaso
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by beeboop 11y ago
As a generation Y person myself, I feel like older generations are combative against newer generations. Whether it was willful neglect or negligence, I am not sure, but the reality is that I am getting a pretty raw deal when compared to my
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by beeboop 11y ago
People have to lie about steroid etc (gear) use because it's illegal. It's dumb to admit to doing something illegal, especially if you're a celebrity and it'd be front page news. The world's best and biggest body bu
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by beeboop 11y ago
You can be be found in contempt of court for not providing information that you have not been proven to possess. One guy spent 14 years in prison without being charged or convicted of a crime, and never had any input from a jury: http:&#x2
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by beeboop 11y ago
Sometimes the job posting is done for the reason of renewing a worker's visa. Maybe showing there was some real action taken towards considering other candidates (15 minute phone screen) helps cover their ass in case the government com
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by beeboop 11y ago
It's probably some poorly implemented HR policy that if there's a job opening they still have to publicly post it even if there's someone internally who fits the bill and wants it. I ran into something similar at my first job

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