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by devx 13y ago
Very nice. We need more of this.
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by devx 13y ago
>The government should have long ago explained the parameters of surveillance that touches Americans, Aftergood said. There should be no dragnet surveillance against Americans, according to the Constitution. All investigations need to
453.
by devx 13y ago
Maybe this wouldn't be such a problem if those with the money wouldn't use it to pay Congress to help them make even more money to the detriment of others. I think that's really what bothers most Americans, and not necessaril
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by devx 13y ago
Unlike Apple, Samsung will actually take advantage of the 64-bit support, and will most likely add 4GB of RAM to its next Galaxy S5 smartphone.
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by devx 13y ago
E-ink has too many problems, and it's not very good for anything other than mostly static content. If you're thinking "like Pebble" - Pebble doesn't use e-ink. It's using a type of LCD similar to PixelQi. Miras
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by devx 13y ago
Isn't Opera using Chromium now?
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by devx 13y ago
The US government certainly wants them to think that, at least. Then again, this is the same government who wants to put a journalist (Barret Brown) in prison for linking to hacked documents for 10x longer than the guy who actually did the
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by devx 13y ago
Said the guy who made a platform for the police to get access to user data, and automatically scan Facebook chat for "criminal activity". It didn't occur to him that the government was going to far with that already?
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by devx 13y ago
> "Releasing classified information is treason and you are incarcerated," she said. Remember when some were saying how whistleblowers should just "go through the official channels". Yeah, what channels, when as soon a
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by devx 13y ago
Because they saw everything through Windows lenses - and in the end that's how they built those tablets anyway. They still see things that way. They killed Courier for the same reason - it wasn't Windows.
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by devx 13y ago
It used to be that every 2 years the internal storage would double in the iPhone. How long has it been since it stopped doing that, 3-4 years? Apple is starting to care too much about profit, to the point where they have to make a plastic b
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Russia's Latest Idea: An Internet Whitelist For Copyright Materials(techdirt.com)
1 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments
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by devx 13y ago
DEA has already done that with data from NSA, and then cover their tracks (IRS, too). What makes it so improbable that FBI hasn't done it, too?
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by devx 13y ago
Windows-based ultrabooks are selling slowly as it is, and Google thinks $1,000+ ChromeOS devices will sell better? They really should stick to ARM-based $250 Chromebooks. But this time please put at least a 10" tablet-battery, not a 7&
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by devx 13y ago
If you can assume the worst about dragnet surveillance - NSA has already done it. That would be a pretty safe bet at this point.
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by devx 13y ago
The most popular tablets are $200-$300 now. Good luck trying to enter that market with Windows tablets where the CPU alone costs $300+.
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by devx 13y ago
It's probably how Net Apps manages to still get such high numbers of IE market share (they measure browser "usage"), when I think it's pretty obvious Chrome, and then Firefox are the most popular browser choices . But s
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by devx 13y ago
NFC rings for everyone! An NFC Internet-less ring with open source firmware would mean it should be quite protected against NSA backdoors, too. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/mclear/nfc-ring http:/&#x2F
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by devx 13y ago
Let's see how they dramatically improve the process then. I hope they don't think statements like "we didn't do it, trust us" are enough. But it's probably best to just forget about NIST and start from scratch
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by devx 13y ago
I think something like W3C would be better.
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by devx 13y ago
You, too, can help spy on everyone, infringe on human rights, and help with corporate espionage! Be part of something big. Be part of the surveillance state. The future is here. http://www.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/politi
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by devx 13y ago
He doesn't really explain why this will help healthcare. Ok, it has a better and more efficient motion sensor. And? Do joggers run with their iphones in their pockets? How accurate is that data going to be anyway if the phones jump a
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by devx 13y ago
Mike Masnick calls it a complete non-response from NIST, regarding the real issue/accusation: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130910/12371124473/nists-...
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by devx 13y ago
Gliding over their ridiculous logic (meaning they're obviously lying, and did it on purpose), then why do they keep insisting "everything is under control, nothing to see here! We have lots of oversight."
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by devx 13y ago
Yes, and what else we don't know about, thanks to their closed software? Yes, Apple just told us your fingerprint will be stored locally. So? Does that mean Apple si telling the truth, or couldn't leave a backdoor for NSA to get t
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by devx 13y ago
After all of these NSA scandals, we really need to be pushing more for open source firmware from all companies. I don't even think firmware is what's maintaining their "competitive advantage". That firmware needs to be
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by devx 13y ago
> The NSA apparently believed that it had the authority to search the telephone records database in order to obtain the 'reasonable articulable suspicion' required to investigate those numbers. Essentially, they were conducting
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by devx 13y ago
I stopped reading at "at least use Bitlocker".
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by devx 13y ago
It's not much higher quality. The quality comes more from being machined instead of melted plastic, but it's still not much better.
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NSA Has Been Doing What It Explicitly Was Told Not To Do(techdirt.com)
2 points by devx 13y ago|0 comments

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