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901.
by fwn 11y ago
I had the same confusion in the beginning. The BSI is responsible to fix the infrastructure, to report on the problem, etc. You might not be aware of the discussion regarding the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitutions involv
902.
by fwn 11y ago
Without denying the currently very present principal–agent problem between parliamentarians and the statefunded intelligence community all other claims seem sappy to me. I bet they earned your trust for a reason. Nevertheless it should be t
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by fwn 11y ago
They should totally have someone looking after the parliaments part of the it infrastructure. I don't see why they shouldn't have someone in charge of it.
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by fwn 11y ago
In what way are foreign agencies dangerous? Now remember that they do the same thing. The other question is pretty easy: Every involved party should use own trusted experts for the hardware/software part it manages. If you are a parlam
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by fwn 11y ago
For this "we are being attacked" reason, they want to get the parlamentarians to let secret services manipulate their laptops / phones. It's a classic. As if the local agencies are somehow less dangerous for the individu
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by fwn 11y ago
Hmm. I can't imagine how. Maybe if the Browser would simulate a pageview without adblock but somehow manages to hide the ad page elements. I'm sure that might break pages and (since resources can't be blocked) might reduce th
907.
by fwn 11y ago
I don't know what counts as reliable, it works most of the time. You can check for cosmetic filtering (CSS reapplied to your ad-divs) by checking their width or something like that. You can check for blocked domains by getting this inf
908.
by fwn 11y ago
Yeah, right. Except for the rape prisons I guess. It's not against you personally, but I never understood how people compare a brutal, murderous gov. agency to something as mild as a social network.
909.
by fwn 11y ago
Don't try. There is no way to protect yourself from our absurd German privacy laws. (Except if you are the government, then nothing matters.) Even the local residents' registration offices simply sell your private data for next to
910.
by fwn 11y ago
ok, well. Whatever floats his boat I guess.
911.
by fwn 11y ago
I also found this graph to be a bad start. I mean, search queries? If facebook.com isn't bookmarked it's still presented as suggestion right after "f" is typed in close to any facebook users omnibox. The only reason I ev
912.
by fwn 11y ago
One might argue that a majority can not decide anything since it's not an agent, nor is the relative amount of people who share a specific opinion somehow relevant in most of contemporary politics. Also taxation is not a one way route
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by fwn 11y ago
I guess powerobsessed, competitive people will just rush towards politics the minute their time spent in the job won't increase power anymore.
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by fwn 11y ago
Depending on your threat model, the very fact that Facebook and google are non European companies IS the privacy advantage. ..on the other side most people fear tailored ads more than their omnipresent government agencies. That's why I
915.
by fwn 11y ago
That's clearly not my ideal. I can see how we first-worlders really like net neutrality and everything. I do see that we fear that our web access might get more expensive if access prioritisation is successful somewere else, but: Since
916.
by fwn 11y ago
I don't get it. It's not that internet.org/facebook prevents anyone from doing something similar. So if you don't like it, make your own free internet.
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by fwn 11y ago
I think this is not surprising. After all, "academic results" in schools are measured by your grades, or: how much you participated in the given courses. Smartphone usage leads you away from that curriculum, grades therefore may f
918.
by fwn 11y ago
This is in fact a highly interesting debate. Other than economic circumstances, I would argue that we have little reason to believe that human empathy changes substantially. Slavery went away for farming and balancing reasons, child labour
919.
by fwn 11y ago
..let me just get back on my chair. Just unbelievable. Happy that it worked out for you two.
920.
by fwn 12y ago
I was confused as well. I wish I could have explained it! Sorry for being snappy in the end.
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by fwn 12y ago
Oh, ok. Well, thank you for this clarification! I have to admit that I also did not understand why it was displayed in the way it is. Thank you! So I guess it's all caused by an interface stumbling block we did not realise.
922.
by fwn 12y ago
So now, after your insults and allegations, you want to have a little debate with me, right? Unbelievable.
923.
by fwn 12y ago
Hey smhenderson, I'm embarrassed to ask you but I get harassed by someone who thinks I was the person you replied to. He is convinced I was the person and tries to engage me in an argument about gamer gate. However: Can you remember to
924.
by fwn 12y ago
He did not reply to me. That was someone else. Your remarkable impudence is a shame. Edit: Also I - still - did not participate in any argument about gamer gate. I - still - did not edit anything in the thread you mentioned. I can't be
925.
by fwn 12y ago
Uhm, ok. I do not relate to anything gamer-gate. I think you wanted to reply to someone else? Edit: Also I did not edit anything recently, I really think this is a mistake.
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by fwn 12y ago
Gandi seem to be pretty popular in here. I won a .info in this game. I won't use it, so if anyone is interested..
927.
by fwn 12y ago
Folders, attachments and the Webclipper..
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by fwn 12y ago
I think this view comes from the idea that "freedom of the press" can be understood as "publishers should never feel the economic pressure to change". Besides reducing press to current publishers, this view is confusing
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by fwn 12y ago
Why do you think this is bold? Clearly, the argument for more control over what to download isn't connected to selling (or not selling) ads.
930.
by fwn 12y ago
This is not about choice. (.. or we would appreciate the option to browse facebook for free.) It's about net neutrality. Unconnected people in India shouldn't destroy the bad impression we associated with this policy in the first

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