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by flatdeviant 12y ago
Yet nobody in Alabama wants to secede. A significant chunk of European citizens are against the European Union. Plus, the cultural, historic, linguistic similarities between Alamaba and Woyming are infinitely greater than between the UK and
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by flatdeviant 12y ago
Nope, I've had to reinstall iOS several times recently and I can confirm that every time, it was turned off. Maybe this depends on your SIM/carrier?
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by flatdeviant 12y ago
Nope. PRISM has do to with "direct access" to Apple's servers. This is according to NSA's own documents, and Apple may either be aware and forced by law to lie (Yahoo-style [0]) or unaware of this (i.e. they got hacked
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by flatdeviant 12y ago
> I know I have to trust them to do what they say they do, anyways, but if they do not have the keys, they cannot change their mind (say in response to a visit from the NSA) Apple absolutely holds the keys to everything stored on iCloud.
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by flatdeviant 12y ago
> I'm amazed at the reaction And I'm baffled by yours, and others' in the thread. With the PRISM/Snowden revelations, Apple still refusing to encrypt their data center links, not using perfect forward secrecy, etc, th
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by flatdeviant 12y ago
It actually did upload stuff silently. Here's what you can do to reproduce: Have TextEdit enabled in the iCloud System Preferences panel. Open TextEdit, create a new document, type stuff in it. Now press cmd + O to display the iCloud d
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by flatdeviant 12y ago
I don't see how you can think your beliefs are the product of "independent thought" while theirs are just an attempt are "feeling important". This is awfully arrogant and dismissive. For the record, I support gay ma
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by flatdeviant 12y ago
I was about to make the same comparison. To me, this is enabled by social media. This uproar against Eich wouldn't have been viral if it weren't for Twitter, Reddit, and others. The people who complained used tactics akin to bully
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by flatdeviant 12y ago
This is hindsight bias. You can compare this to racism: back in the 18th and 19th centuries, racist and antisemitic people were in the overwhelming majority, and this only changed recently. And yet, applying 21st century moral values to the
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by flatdeviant 12y ago
Posted 1 hour ago, with 38 up votes, and it's on the bottom of HN's second page? This was on the front page minutes ago. HN's ranking algorithms seem to get abused whenever a submission is even remotely critical of Google, I
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by flatdeviant 13y ago
Definitely black propaganda. None of this comes from GCHQ. The original for the first part of the document is on DailyPaul [0], published in 2008 (before the alleged Cryptome 'leak' in 2012. Reddit user /u/itsnotlupus fo
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by flatdeviant 13y ago
Apple has also changed the behavior of the power button on notebooks. Previously, pressing the button made the Mac instantly go to sleep. Now, just pressing it doesn't do anything. You can still hold the power button for 3 seconds to g