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by choward 6y ago
Because criminals will follow the encryption laws? If they're not going to comply with a search warrant why would they stop using encryption? The logic makes no sense. The only people this law will affect are law abiding citizens. I&#x
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by choward 6y ago
> With end to end encryption, however you can show up with a warrant all you want it makes no difference because they physically cannot hand you clear-text communications. Well, no. That's the issue! They shouldn't be executing
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by choward 6y ago
> The key problem is not automation, it's access. I agree. There is a problem if they have open access to everyone's data. > But it's impossible to intercept communications encrypted end-to-end, or encrypted at rest, co
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by choward 6y ago
> they know that without legal provisions technology can make it impossible to access communication during legitimate police investigations > How do we solve this problem? It's called a search warrant.
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by choward 6y ago
What difference does that make? You can't just sell your company to another company and have the liabilities disappear. Imagine how many more mergers we would have exploiting this loophole.
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by choward 6y ago
Necessity? Why is that?
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by choward 6y ago
I've only used jet dry when I got free samples and never noticed a difference. I never have spotty dishes. Maybe it depends on the water.
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by choward 6y ago
Sounds like the worst of both worlds. You have a smart TV but it's locked down even more.
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by choward 6y ago
Any piece of equipment can have a malfunction that bricks it. That doesn't mean I want it connected to the mothership.
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by choward 6y ago
If they have wifi you have no idea if they're connecting to open networks.
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by choward 6y ago
Or they don't want private information to be released. However, paying the ransom doesn't guarantee this.
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by choward 6y ago
Who is this addressed to? From the article it seems addressed to British people using social media to share American specific viewpoints. But the comments here make it seem like it's Americans doing the imposing of views.
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by choward 6y ago
That doesn't protect against them threatening to make all the data public.
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by choward 6y ago
It could still store the data on the device. Then in the future, a companies like google could drive around with an open wifi network on their street view cars and charge TV manufacturers for gathering the data. Or drones with open wifi cou
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by choward 6y ago
Even then though, you can continue to keep using it as is and not have to worry about them doing some shady updates now that they sold out.
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by choward 6y ago
Right, it's a fixed sum but split out into arbitrary increments over an arbitrary period of time. If it was $6,000 paid one time, would anyone try to consider that a UBI experiment?
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by choward 6y ago
This is a good example of why I like open source. If someone decides to pull a move like that it can be forked and the project can live on.
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by choward 6y ago
How do you know it's not using open wifi networks?
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by choward 6y ago
How do you know they aren't tracking that either? Your TV has a computer inside that has the capability of watching whatever is being displayed on your screen.
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by choward 6y ago
The one thing I don't like is that it goes through ddg. This makes sense implementation wise since it's a web site. But I wish it was built into the browser for when I use ddg in my browser URL field. Every once in a while ddg tak
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by choward 6y ago
The thing that about me the most is how much it's pushing fear without any evidence of something bad actually happening. Has there been a single pinephone that has caught on fire?
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by choward 6y ago
I have also strayed away from Ruby so I'm out of touch too. The arbitrariness helped get me into Ruby and helped get me out. It's cool if that's your sort of thing but as I get older I'm starting to dislike arbitrary thi
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by choward 6y ago
What do you mean by "powerful". Meaning you can type less code. You can still do delegation by writing it out yourself. Or you can also use the Delegator or Forwardable classes to save some typing. I'm not sure what meta prog
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by choward 6y ago
Then Ruby isn't your language. There are a million ways to do everything by design. It's so you can make your code look pretty (or as they like to say "expressive") for whatever you interpretation of that means. It'
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by choward 6y ago
It's also not supposed to be used unless you have another method with the same name. Also, what kind of danger are we talking here? I consider mutation dangerous. Danger could also mean it has side effects or that it can raise an error
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by choward 6y ago
I appreciate the write up, but you can't just put "simple" in a title to and expect it to be simple for everyone. It's simple for what audience? I know there are plenty of developers (especially Mac/Windows users) w
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by choward 6y ago
Yet you continue to use it. No reason for them to change. Anyway, I agree it's naive to think their replacement will be better if it's just another corporation behind it. The only real hope is a decentralized open source solution.
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by choward 6y ago
What? Why?
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by choward 6y ago
I thought this was deliberate though. FDR thought entering the war was the right thing to do but knew it wouldn't be liked by the American people. So he provoked Japan to force the US to enter the war.
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by choward 6y ago
I disagree completely. I absolutely refuse to have a Facebook account linked to my identity that Facebook uses to spam people asking if they know me.

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