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by glesica 13y ago
I think OP was referring to the people who used Megaupload to store data, not the company itself. But I could be wrong.
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by glesica 13y ago
Do you really believe that no one will ever look at it without proper authorization if it is allowed to be collected?
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by glesica 13y ago
I wish I could upvote this more than once. Not talking to the police isn't just a good strategy for an individual, it is also important for the collective. If no one ever talks to the police, then not talking to the police won't b
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by glesica 13y ago
Soooo... what exactly do they plan to DO? The entire article is filler, there's no actual information. All I can gather is that they might tell scientists about the "open web", whatever that is. Couldn't they just have d
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by glesica 13y ago
How many engineering graduates end up being Sal Khan? Or writing something like PGP or Tor? He didn't say all engineering graduates should go into public service, he said that more of them should. It takes working from both sides t
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by glesica 13y ago
First they used the massive, militarized police force peacefully and I didn't complain because no one was injured. Then they used the massive, militarized police force to hurt people and I didn't complain because no one was killed
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by glesica 13y ago
Kippt is generally great and I've been using it regularly since signing up, but the interface is just awful. I don't want to see my links as a weird Pinterest-inspired grid or a ridiculously low-density list. I want an actual list
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by glesica 13y ago
If they just put all their slides on Slideshare I would certainly never see them...
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by glesica 13y ago
I can't speak for others, but as far as I am concerned, every person on earth has the exact same rights. I see no difference between an American and someone from another country. This informs my stance on all of US foreign policy. To m
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by glesica 13y ago
Nothing, that's the problem. What needs to happen is for these programs to be brought in to the sunlight and for Congress to make it explicitly legal for people to discuss them, regardless of any previous prohibition. Then I might be a
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by glesica 13y ago
The comment about MS Paint is one of the stupidest, most naive things I have ever seen on HN. Have you every worked for a company or organization outside of SV? Nobody gives a shit what your slides look like in the real world. Sure, ideally
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by glesica 13y ago
I assume the government would require them to deny involvement, just like companies aren't (weren't?) allowed to discuss NSLs. Consequently, I view the denials as meaningless.
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by glesica 13y ago
The article is mostly about the data he gathered, not the methods he used to acquire the data. I agree with you that it is hard to draw conclusions from his analysis without knowing more about the tests and how they work, but that is exactl
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by glesica 13y ago
Why are all the comments focused on how he got access to the data? The real scandal isn't in that they didn't protect the results (apparently Indian culture doesn't have the same level of privacy in this area), but in the fact that the resu
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by glesica 13y ago
It's not the fact that they throttle. It's the fact that they hide the fact that they throttle.
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by glesica 13y ago
Many schools, at least in the US, frown upon students earning a second BS/BA. I tried and was basically told by an admissions counselor that I probably wouldn't be accepted. I was welcome to apply for a master's degree and take any undergra
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by glesica 13y ago
Going to court at all is a loss. Why should I have to risk having to pay for a lawyer and take time out of my day to convince a judge that I shouldn't be bound to the terms.
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by glesica 13y ago
Why should I have to agree to whatever terms MS has set forth just to be allowed to wipe their operating system off of my hard drive?
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by glesica 13y ago
The site looks out-of-date, but would the average potential customer for table planning software know that? I'm not sure. If anything, it seems likely to me that the complexity of the site is reducing conversions, but not the fact that it i
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by glesica 13y ago
So then what is Fox? They seem to be trying pretty hard to reduce the power of certain elements within the government. Whatever your political stripe, I think we can agree that Fox, MSNBC and similar do a great deal more than simply "inform
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by glesica 13y ago
> wrong to target bona fide journalists for criminal prosecution I'm curious to know how you feel about Wikileaks. Part of the problem, I think, is that much of the media (including Fox) more or less cheered the administration on in its
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by glesica 13y ago
But it is a perfectly, wonderfully in fact, appropriate example of the government playing the role it is supposed to play by setting the terms of competition in the marketplace. Just as the government says I can't break into your house and
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by glesica 13y ago
The concept of "good" and "evil" is inherently a value judgement. Less open is more evil for some people. That's not wrong, you just don't agree with it. It's values, not everyone will agree.
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by glesica 13y ago
Sharecroppers had rights, too. But when one party can cut off the other party's livelihood, it essentially suppresses the technical "rights" of the second party. Every American has a "right" to a fair trial. But it is well-documented that i
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by glesica 13y ago
I strongly disagree with his apparent assumption that you can't "push down on the top" without wrecking things up. Sweden and Finland are proof that this isn't true, both have competitive economies that outscore the US in many important met
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by glesica 13y ago
Sharecroppers have no rights. They didn't 200 years ago. They don't today. Doesn't make this suck any less, but it's something that needs to be discussed more.
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by glesica 13y ago
I think that when people say "hard problems" they mean "problems that almost certainly have solutions if you are willing to put in the effort". Poverty on the other hand is a much, much harder problem than that. In fact, no one quite knows
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by glesica 13y ago
He meant that over-prescription of antibiotics will lead to resistant viruses (probably meant bacteria) not that the conditions themselves will lead to such an outcome. Not saying I agree or disagree, just clearing that up.
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by glesica 13y ago
I'm really not that interested in what the law says. The law often says horrible, stupid things. I was criticizing the OP's assertion that the policy "made sense". It does not make sense unless you also believe that it is acceptable for the
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by glesica 13y ago
You share your telephone conversations with the phone company, so why did they need permission to set up a wiretap in the past? You shared your personal and business possessions with your housekeeper, janitor, plumber and other maintenance

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