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by jccc 12y ago
Do you believe the marketing efforts that went into naming the Future Stack conference chose that name accidentally unaware of this person's domain and other online presence? If not, then I'm not sure collision is the correct wor
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by jccc 13y ago
“It’s an awful thing, solitary,” John McCain wrote of his five and a half years as a prisoner of war in Vietnam—more than two years of it spent in isolation in a fifteen-by-fifteen-foot cell, unable to communicate with other P.O.W.s except
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by jccc 13y ago
> Gruber spends an awful lot of time trying to justify and enshrine every action Apple takes. My guess is, if Apple got an Advanced Tech Group again, we'd have a blog article talking about how it's a masterful bit of Apple str
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by jccc 13y ago
amaks: Gruber is a "fan boy" whom we can expect to say only positive things about his irrational religion, Apple. jccc: Here are three examples (from three separate years) of not just criticism but particularly hostile points of
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by jccc 13y ago
> an apple fan boy, Gruber. What else one could expect him to say? "This is such bullshit it hurts my head." [...] "The point isn’t about what Apple can do but what they should do. And they shouldn’t be doing this."
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by jccc 13y ago
(Without necessarily disagreeing with your broader point...) I also think the fact that people have been conditioned to think that way is a big part of the reason why there's such an enormous and growing wealth and power divide in the
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by jccc 13y ago
The book's subtitle is "Office not required." It's about being able to work without having to live the same city or country, and not having to work together with everyone in the same office. Microsoft's campaign qu
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by jccc 13y ago
For the benefit of those who have not read the 1995 article all the way through to the end: "As I thumbed rapidly through box after box to confirm that the entries described in the Finder's Aid were actually there, I tried to glan
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by jccc 13y ago
Google [...] was kicked off the iPhone after it refused to give Apple access to its voice-driven turn-by-turn map navigation [...] Er ... was that how it happened? http://allthingsd.com/20120926/apple-google-maps-talk
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by jccc 13y ago
Regarding that "disclaimer" in the corner, here's why it was added: https://micahflee.com/2013/11/canonical-shouldnt-abuse-trade...
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by jccc 13y ago
Parents != school staff. I don't think anyone asked parents, "Let our IT staff monitor your child's location and activities at all times, on campus and off." Even if it were parents alone instigating this, I'm not
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by jccc 13y ago
"The students are getting around software that lets school district officials know where the iPads are, and what the students are doing with them at all times ." (Emphasis added.) This is not in the lead, not in any way suggested
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by jccc 13y ago
[Regarding the point that this is only supposed to be convenient for users, not to be unhackable...] Today: "Fingerprint scanning on my phone ... that's super convenient." Tomorrow: "Fingerprint scan required by govern
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by jccc 13y ago
People in the western world have been able to talk to each other culturally, economically, etc. without necessarily speaking English. But the Communist Party might have a better time influencing culture/economy/policy/ideolog
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by jccc 13y ago
Actionable articles about the business of software and technology to help build same. That's what we're here for. Really? http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html "On-Topic: Anything that good hackers wou
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by jccc 13y ago
And Greenwald doesn't present himself as impartial. And impartiality is not required for a journalist to have legitimacy. And "impartiality" as practiced really means oscillating between voices of Republicans and Democrats an
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by jccc 13y ago
"And, at least for the first couple of days, Glenn certainly did appear quite frustrated and did say he'll publish more aggressively. But isn't acting like this playing into their hands, by giving up his legitimacy as an im
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by jccc 13y ago
Citations please: http://www.twitlonger.com/show/n_1rm09tf http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2013/08/19...
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by jccc 13y ago
"One U.S. security official told Reuters that one of the main purposes of the British government's detention and questioning of Miranda" [note: using a clear abuse of a terrorism law] "was to send a message to recipients
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by jccc 13y ago
"One U.S. security official told Reuters that one of the main purposes of the British government's detention and questioning of Miranda" [note: using a clear abuse of a terrorism law] "was to send a message to recipients
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by jccc 13y ago
Fortunately we have the opportunity judge for ourselves: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6L79wWAFUqg http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/mar/12/bradley...
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by jccc 13y ago
The actual ugliness of the story here is a bit obscured by the distorted framing of that headline. But that seems to be the modus operandi across this Web site: "President Obama turns 52" (... with a photo from way back when he l
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by jccc 13y ago
I personally hate the "corporate" style culture of being passive agressive, avoiding confrontations, being polite all the times and whatnot. Agreed. If only that were what she's talking about: To me, being "profes
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by jccc 13y ago
In jail he's been beaten to the point of black eyes and concussions, stripped naked and held in solitary. While we're all debating like armchair constitutional scholars, I'd say the $500,000 donor was motivated at least as m
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by jccc 13y ago
On the off chance that anyone here is new to the story: He's been given concussions, black eyes, stripped and held in solitary confinement. http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/07/03&#x2F
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by jccc 13y ago
A whole wall of posts about the law, the prosecutors, the bail -- not one about this seemingly ordinary teenage kid stripped naked, held in solitary, black-eyed and beaten to concussions in pre-trial confinement. The law is what the police,
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by jccc 13y ago
Aren't the people most able to keep that focus future leakers and whistleblowers like Snowden? Do you want to empower the message now playing out in front of our eyes that such people had better not even think about trying?
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by jccc 13y ago
Snowden said he has told Attorney General Eric Holder through his lawyer that his son will probably return home if the Justice Department promises not to detain him before a trial nor subject him to a gag order. Lonnie Snowden has not sp
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by jccc 13y ago
What if the near-term result of all these revelations is that it just becomes the new normal? Is it necessarily such a bad thing for the snoops in the shadows if they know people will eventually just get used to it? After all nothing real
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by jccc 13y ago
Please note also that "politics: none" as it is actually practiced is very much political and is inherently pro-government. There are only Republicans and Democrats, they are equal voices in all debates, and anything outside of t

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