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by dreamfactory2 13y ago
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/nsa-attacks-thwarte... Two weeks after Edward Snowden's first revelations about sweeping government surveillance, President Obama shot back. "We know of at
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by dreamfactory2 13y ago
Presumably the fact that Snowden took what he did and yet they still have no idea what he did take is ample evidence that the emperor is wearing no clothes and anybody could have anything by now. The security crime here was to aggregate all
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by dreamfactory2 13y ago
> if the goal is to get a global adversary to pull their punches And by 'pull their punches' you mean stop illegal abuses and basically setting up full Stasi apparatus? Frankly the KGB would be doing you a big favour in this ca
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by dreamfactory2 13y ago
Although AWS are continually cutting costs so probably worth sitting out and focussing on cost reduction elsewhere and growth.
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Talk about going from the frying pan to the fire.
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Skrewdriver had nothing to do with punk. Apart from being long dead by the time the BNP formed, punk was nihilist and situationist, not fascist.
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I believe Orwell's main influence for 1984 came from his wife's job in the censorship department at the Ministry of Information.
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That's disingenuous - I was talking about the normal limits on free expression (shouting 'fire' in the theater) and gave some concrete examples. Surely you're not suggesting it is viable for a foreign company to undermin
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I think what google provide has become societal infrastructure, particularly wrt their monopoly position. That someone else would take their place (however badly executed) is evidence of that. We use it for studying, planning journeys, shop
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How about distributing the indexing to browser plugins? Apart from delegating the work and displacing crawlers, it would also help with relevance, currency, and avoiding link farms.