bengrunfeld

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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
LoganCale, get them to watch the movie Brazil and then read 1984, and for good measure hit them with a copy of Animal Farm just for the heck of it. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
I believe that you can't truly speak freely when you don't have any privacy. This from Wikipedia - Freedom of Speech: "Freedom of information is an extension of freedom of speech where the medium of expression is the Internet
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
Right, but this isn't just about teeny-boppers posting pics of themselves partaking in underage drinking on Facebook. This is about journalists being intimidated by government representatives if they start writing an article on their p
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
As a new immigrant to the USA, I am simply appalled at the infringement of privacy that is being carried out by the NSA and the government. In Australia, we learned that the 1st amendment protected the Freedom of Speech of every American. H
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
Having gone through a fair amount of tech interviews, I really understand the author's point. On another point, I just wish recruiters would put the salary in the job offers. It would save everyone a lot of time.
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
Large companies often fall into the trap of lack of communication between departments and individual employees. They get so big they trip over their own feet. I used to work for Melbourne IT, a behemoth with hundreds of employees spanning m
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
Without sounding trollish, I believe there is a need for a completely new 'transfer of information' protocol that is as immune as possible to NSA (or other agency) snooping. She's right, the internet is broken. So rather than
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
That sucks. Are you guys going to move? I work in an office in downtown Boulder, CO, and while it looks amazing (heaps of comfy chairs, bean bags) there is construction being done all the time and my desk shakes like we're being hit by
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
"But we want to keep sending you heaps of spam... It's not fair, Google! It's just not fair!" – Marketing peeps
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
Cement colored offices make people sad, but you don't get much done at a coffee shop. I think that making your office space awesome (e.g. Google's Tel Aviv office in particular – http://bit.ly/1ePziyy ) is the ulti
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
IgorPartola, it's not about where we're at at the moment, it's about where we're going, and currently, that doesn't seem to be a good place. No, this isn't Stalinist Russia, but the question is, if we continue
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
Tell that to Lavabit.
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I hear you. What city did you move to? (Melbourne is my home town).
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
Tell me about it! By being part of the tech industry here, you get to rub shoulders with the likes of Zuckerburg, Dorsey, & Bezos. That type of exposure just doesn't exist in Australia. Unfortunately there are some other issues tho
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
I don't know, barking. I make a lot of mistakes. Most of them before breakfast... If you want me to justify my reasons for moving here, fine. Australia was starting to slide into a quiet recession(link below), and I was having serious
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
Dude, not cool! Slightly trollish. I was in love with the passion of the American people for civil rights. I visited in 2004 and read Archibald Cox "The Role of the Supreme Court in American Government" and "Freedom of Expres
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
chasing, when I was living abroad, I had a Palestinian friend who worked with me. One day he told me his neighbors had disappeared in Gaza because they were vocal against Arafat. I might be spoiled, but I've seen where a lack of freedo
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
But why should that have to be something that you accept? Every government loves power, and it is the job of the people and the press to restrict that love. "Lingering Effects of DOJ Snooping on Media" http://youtu.be&#
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
Sarcasm, lazyjones. I was being sarcastic. I dream of a world where you can say what you want without getting persecuted for it, not the world represented in the following video: "DOJ justifies searching Associated Press phone records&
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
Just remember that the author knows the NSA is watching him, and if he goes too far (i.e. by outright saying that they or the president is lying), he might become a risk to national security. In this country, the people do not have the righ
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
“In America, we’re not supposed to have to worry about watching our words like this when we’re talking to the press,” Binnall said. (from article) I am a new immigrant to America. I came with my wife from Australia 8 months ago. All my life
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
According to Snowden's slides, PRISM began to receive information from Microsoft in 2007. So now in... wait for it.. 2013, Obama was juuust about to start looking into what those crafty NSA people were doing?? The amount of stupid here
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
This is just plain wrong. Instead of admitting that what they did was immoral and attempting to repair faith with the tech community and the country, they're now trying to automate IT so that they don't have to worry about SysAdmi
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
I agree with you. Small workarounds like E2E encrypted email aren't enough. I think that it's time the tech industry had an open and frank discussion about about re-building our infrastructure from the ground up to avoid organizat
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
Snowden's future directly affects us all. If he was incarcerated against the will of other powerful countries, it would send a strong message that personal freedom is a thing of the past, and that if you do the right thing at the expen
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
Firstly, he is a legend. Having the guts to pull off a move like that is admirable and unique. I think it's a shame that regardless of if he wins or loses, many people believe that "fine print" is a tool that only big institu
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
"The story of one man is the store of the entire world". I think it's easy to talk down to someone who has admitted failure, but the truth is we've all been through it, although some of us hide it better than others. My
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Funny, I saw a documentary about lawyers that showed very similar footage... =)
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I think the viewpoint that the article expresses is a bit extreme. The cost to companies of changing cloud providers from Amazon EC2 to anything else alone would be substantial enough to make most businessmen hesitate. And if the NSA was re
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by bengrunfeld 13y ago
Just my luck that a group of Drupal enthusiasts came upon my comment...

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