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by drcube 13y ago
Because they support spying on them. That's kind of the opposite of supporting them.
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by drcube 13y ago
I often read FAQs in order to get a sense of what I should be asking about a product or service I'm unfamiliar with. It helps put things into context. Sure, I could get that information other ways, but I don't see anything wrong
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by drcube 13y ago
Once you have "industry experts" involved in politics it's "corporate lobbyists buying votes" or "revolving door government", or even "regulatory capture". Without industry influence, you get a b
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by drcube 13y ago
Closed software, locked down hardware, and onerous restrictions on what you're allowed to do with the devices you supposedly "own". There's other stuff too, but those are the main reasons I don't buy Apple devices.
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by drcube 13y ago
>I think the point of the GPL is to utilize the copyright system to ensure access to source code for everyone, not to simply increase freedom. According to many, including the FSF, GNU, Stallman and myself, increasing access to the sourc
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by drcube 13y ago
What's wrong with distributing source + makefile?
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by drcube 13y ago
I see this all the time. "Waah, we won't make as much as we did before!". Who cares? You'll make what you can make, or you won't and somebody else will. Did the world frantically try to prop up typewriter repair rev
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by drcube 13y ago
I get instant suggestions for "Edward Snowden" on the main search site, but nothing from Google News. Suggests "Edward Sharpe" until I type the "n", then nothing.
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by drcube 13y ago
"Since WWII" is not the same thing as "always".
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by drcube 13y ago
Yes.
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by drcube 13y ago
Slackware.
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by drcube 13y ago
Human Resources Managers 72.7% women Human Resources Workers 71.8% women Human Resources Assistants 82.7% women
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by drcube 13y ago
Everyone should immediately install CyanogenMod upon booting up their Android phone. Spyware like this is depressingly universal among carriers.
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by drcube 13y ago
It's a matter of who owns the device: me, or the company that sold it to me? Some things are better left unchangeable if the alternative is that somebody besides the owner is in charge of them. For example, suppose you had the choice b
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by drcube 13y ago
You and I are just afraid to face obvious and true answer, which is "no".
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by drcube 13y ago
So despite being broadcast around the world for the last few weeks, this information is still considered "secret"?? I would assume any information that is published by a news organization on the world wide web is no longer conside
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by drcube 13y ago
Because secret treason courts are where justice is best served? In the very country being accused of civil rights violations by the defendant? And besides troop movements, names and locations of undercover operatives, and other specific inf
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by drcube 13y ago
I have loved Cracker since I was a kid, and recently became a big fan of Camper Van Beethoven. So I say this with utmost respect: Why should David Lowery get paid now for work he did 20-30 years ago? Most of us are lucky to get paid for wor
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by drcube 13y ago
And I read picture books before I graduated to books with text and chapters.
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by drcube 13y ago
I didn't have a computer at the time, but my friends who were online all used AOL, which came with its own search engine, chat rooms, email, etc.
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by drcube 13y ago
Not just anybody. You had to have a publisher, and it took weeks to years to get a piece published. Which means nothing got published if there wasn't a chance at a monetary return. The web is a significant improvement if you ask me.
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by drcube 13y ago
I disagree. Only 20 years ago the GP would be saying "Only techies use email, web, etc." People get better at this stuff, but slowly. The current privacy issue is growing in the public consciousness, spurring action from "tec
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by drcube 13y ago
What secrets are you talking about? Particulars don't need to be known (troop locations, battle plans, weapons capabilities/vulnerabilities, list of undercover agents in the field, specific espionage and surveillance techniques, e
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Why I no longer give away my music(onthecommons.org)
6 points by drcube 13y ago|0 comments
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by drcube 13y ago
You can trust that there are a lot more developer eyes on open source software than proprietary software. You personally may not be able to verify every piece of software you have, but if you run free/open software, you know it's
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by drcube 13y ago
When something is against the law, how do you go about getting an accurate estimate of those who break it? It's not like people will voluntarily admit to crimes on the off chance that it may get the law repealed.
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by drcube 13y ago
> An ideal Facebook would have been a directory of people and their connections. People can message each other, post text updates and pictures. AKA Email. Seriously, somebody needs to build an email client that makes maintaining incomin
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by drcube 13y ago
"If I had a family..." This is sad. Stallman is one of my favorite people (among people I've never met), and everyone deserves a family of some sort. Not necessarily kids, but simply a small group of people who he loves, who love him back,
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by drcube 13y ago
The gods most people believe in break almost every natural law we know. There are most definitely scientific reasons to be an atheist. That's besides Occam's razor and "the stage is too big for the drama" and all the other science inspired
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by drcube 13y ago
> We don't want any form of sex with children to be legal (and I hope no-one's really suggesting this) Children should be able to have sex with other children legally. Though I don't know how you could transfer that legality to porn. Lo

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