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by clicks 13y ago
tptacek, I disagree with you that these tech companies are completely free of blame. They're not 100% blameworthy, but they're not 0% blameworthy either. I think burning google effigies is a good PR tactic in renewing, or dramatiz
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by clicks 13y ago
> They shouldn't be angry at techies, who, after all, are helping fund the city with their taxes. That is a specious line of reasoning. What good is funding the city with taxes to the very inhabitants of the city who're forced
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by clicks 13y ago
I think we should just accept the poor range of Tesla and still root for it, because fundamentally, the technology is good for us and should be the future. We should accept it with all of its faults. I'm happy it made it through (while
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by clicks 13y ago
An appeal process exists. It's pretty much e-mailing info@ycombinator.com and saying something like "Hey, have I been banned? Please undo!" (if you feel you were unfairly banned), or "Hey, I realize I said something that
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by clicks 13y ago
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/22/us-usa-security-sn... And they're urging Hong Kong to do it quickly. I wonder what the result of that will be.
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by clicks 13y ago
Well there we are. Maybe submit that to HN? I'd love to see discussion on it, and how we can resist these doings. edit: I see it here now -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5925001 -- thanks
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by clicks 13y ago
I can't tell if you're a bad troll, if you're trying to be deliberately obtuse for whatever reason, or are just plain misinformed. But I'll humour you anyway. Keith Alexander, the NSA chief head himself, came to the last
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by clicks 13y ago
This makes me curious. Do you think three-letter agencies are now actively trying to shape public opinion of themselves and their doings by astroturfing popular tech blogs? I recall seeing a document not too long about how the FBI could bas
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by clicks 13y ago
He's constantly hounded by the authorities, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Appelbaum#Investigation_a...
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by clicks 13y ago
I'm fiercely opposed to this newly unveiled surveillance state that US of A is... and yet I find myself not blaming Obama much for this. I think people have misinformed notions about how much power the president really has. Obama'
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Millimeter Waves May Be the Future of 5G Phones(spectrum.ieee.org)
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How to fit 1,000 terabytes on a DVD(theconversation.com)
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Assange says WikiLeaks helping Snowden with asylum for Iceland(usatoday.com)
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by clicks 13y ago
That is pretty awesome. I'm curious: was the privacy focus by the DDG guys always there, or was it pushed after they found it was a nice advertising point? Either way, I think this is a good enough reason for me to finally make the swi
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by clicks 13y ago
Yep, exactly. Now, this makes me wonder: What could be an equivalent implementation for e-mails. An e-mail host that encourages immediate download, totally deletes e-mail contents, deletes logs of any sort, etc. when you delete messages?
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by clicks 13y ago
I was recalling your take on taxes (and some other things): you can't possibly make them airtight, there'll always be loopholes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5734713 Anyway, I'm curious to know more o
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by clicks 13y ago
For as much as I'm familiar with the CU vs. FEC case, the reasons don't stack up all that well for corportation's 'right of speech' in this context. Trevor Potter I think very reasonably explains why here: http:&#x
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by clicks 13y ago
Will you consider giving it away to free to students, in the way that the 'Two Scoops of Django' folks do?
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by clicks 13y ago
Actually that would be a good question to ask him. Him intimately knowing about how NSA does stuff, what would be his suggestion of ensuring anonymity. What steps should one take, what tools should one use, etc. His answers on this would be
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by clicks 13y ago
He will be online today from 11am EST/4pm BST today. An important caveat: the live chat is subject to Snowden's security concerns and also his access to a secure internet connection. It is possible that he wi
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by clicks 13y ago
You don't make any convincing or exceptionally novel points I'm afraid, it's the same old rehashing of poorly construed history data. I mentioned this earlier but I'll say it again: It seems the free market is apparently
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by clicks 13y ago
Exactly. A lot of leakers in the scene actually go to quite some lengths (financially and otherwise) to be the first one to release something. It's a whole another world of its own where cred matters a lot, and people will really do go
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by clicks 13y ago
That is a pretty naive point of view. I think the exact opposite of what you posit is closer to the truth of things -- a more carefully planned economy would have resulted in better conditions. If China was straight up laissez faire capital
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by clicks 13y ago
Not to mention... would-be pirates could just use a non-traceable method of payment when acquiring these eBooks. This seems to be a lot of effort for really no good.
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by clicks 13y ago
But he essentially implied that a black guy fighting segregation during the height of communist paranoia and racial tension in the 1960's could count on a fairer shake from the justice system than a wealthy white
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by clicks 13y ago
> Where by "economically free" we include such freedoms as "ability to deploy child labor", "ability to pay workers below subsistence", "ability to create the equivalent of company towns", "ab
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by clicks 13y ago
That may be, but really... privacy is dead. It is pretty much impossible to not be outed out on every last forum you used to participate in when the whole world has an eye on you. If Ars hadn't done it, someone would have put the piece
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by clicks 13y ago
Concerning whether Tor networks might or might not be compromised trojan horses: Reason why it might be: 80% of the Tor Project's $2M annual budget comes from the United States government (says wiki), this perhaps implies that the US g
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by clicks 13y ago
Terrific news! Many thanks to all who made it possible. https://python3wos.appspot.com/ needs an update. :)
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What's being Googled right now(google.com)
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