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Orlando: Senate Republicans Set Up Vote to Expand FBI Spying(reuters.com)
1 points by benevol 10y ago|0 comments
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by benevol 10y ago
It's time to share & spread information about PayPal's competitors: What has your experience or market research yielded (stripe.com and paymill.de probably being the most obvious ones)?
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by benevol 10y ago
Having read during the last few years about the endless horror stories businesses have endured with PayPal, I honestly don't understand why anyone would still use PayPal when there clearly are alternatives (be that US companies like
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by benevol 10y ago
Once you have successfully locked the consumer (rather: society) into your product portfolio and therefor are taking control away from the consumer, once you have sufficiently monopolized your market(s), you can afford behavior like Google&
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Switzerland basic income: Landmark vote looms(bbc.com)
1 points by benevol 10y ago|0 comments
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by benevol 10y ago
After what Snowden has shown us about the lengths the government is willing to go (on our payroll, that is), how can you really trust any technology? To me, the chilling effect is far stronger than we generally suspect.
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U.S. court says no warrant needed for cellphone location data(reuters.com)
1 points by benevol 10y ago|0 comments
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by benevol 10y ago
> they'll demand access to all that data Snowden has made it clear that that government grants itself direct access, whatever the legal situation really is. It's also become clear that the government lets itself get away with i
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by benevol 10y ago
> offering that as a toggle-able option on that page might be sufficient Technically speaking yes. From a marketing/communication standpoint, I would separate this "feature" clearly from the 2 known browsing experiences. I
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by benevol 10y ago
> Google has explicitly WontFix'd bugs on the subject of expanding incognito to be hardened against fingerprinting Obviously. Google is in the business of destroying your privacy: Advertising revenue is maximized when the consumer i
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by benevol 10y ago
There are pros and cons. Whatever her reasoning, she chose the same destination as people like Jacob Applebaum who "[...] has moved to Berlin, where he has applied for residence authorization; his stated reasons include that he doesn&#
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Tor developer dodges FBI, leaves US(money.cnn.com)
114 points by benevol 10y ago|94 comments
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by benevol 10y ago
Honestly, this evolution became obvious more than 10 years ago. Btw, Snowden is about illegal mass surveillance by the government (in collaboration with tech corporations). The app mentioned in the article however only connects publicly and
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by benevol 10y ago
You're right. It wouldn't care more about humanity than the Universe does. And it seems it would even end up not caring about its own self-defence, since this is only a human/animal-based drive, not a "divine" one.
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by benevol 10y ago
If we extrapolate, humans will sooner or later create "true AI". Such an AI system can break free from our control (it will end up manipulating us in the physical space), it should become wiser than humanity as a collective (becau
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by benevol 10y ago
Osama Bin Laden told the US the reason for his fight (which is the origin of violent movements such as ISIS): American politics/interference in Muslim countries. Do you see the pattern?
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by benevol 10y ago
> If that's true we are moving into a scary world pretty much like 1984 This became obvious since the proof delivered by Snowden. And we don't need more proof. What we need now is a way to roll the surveillance state back.
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by benevol 10y ago
Capitalism is always about control. At the center of our society/culture is the human being's desire to dominate others. We use capitalism/money as a means to achieve that. Money/power always has a systemic property to c
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Movidius Unveils Artificial Intelligence on a Stick(pcmag.com)
1 points by benevol 10y ago|0 comments
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by benevol 10y ago
Official version: "grant new hacking powers" Reality: "Make legal what has been going on illegally for years" Ok, land of the free.
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by benevol 10y ago
Streisand in full effect - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect
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U.S. Labels Switzerland an Internet Piracy Haven(torrentfreak.com)
39 points by benevol 10y ago|22 comments
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by benevol 10y ago
Let's admit it, we are at the stage where we are discussing nothing but semantics anymore. Anyone who's actually followed and understood the Snowden leaks knows that the government will get all the data it wants, legally or not. A
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A majority of millennials now reject capitalism, poll shows(washingtonpost.com)
1 points by benevol 10y ago|0 comments
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by benevol 11y ago
I'd say the Nordic countries plus Switzerland.
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by benevol 11y ago
Whatever we can speculate about the ifs and hows of this situation, let's keep in mind that incredibly courageous people like Snowden have to endure what they endure because people like us, citizens, don't seem to stand up to corr
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by benevol 11y ago
Which, I guess, says everything about the level of systemic corruption that we as a society have reached.
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by benevol 11y ago
“I credit Snowden for having a great deal of courage, because he’s ruined himself forever,” he told Salon. “I don’t think he has a future,” the former Bush administration official added. I'd say it depends on the American citizen&#x2
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by benevol 11y ago
So if I understand the situation correctly, using this offer, we all feed the AI Google is building, thereby creating another Google monopoly situation (the AI system that gets the most training will be the strongest, thereby attracting eve
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by benevol 11y ago
Good idea short-term. Long-term, it should be financed via our taxes (best case: international agreement).

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