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by jevoten 5y ago
But you wouldn't tell them which check exactly - you only tell them "spamming/malware".
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> If the person is a spammer or otherwise not legit and you tell them what they did wrong, it's a lot easier to hack around the problem and beat the automated moderation and get your malware into the store. Is it? Because spammers a
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> It was clear that King’s main transgression was not knowing his place. Or maybe it was antagonizing the military-industrial complex. If there's one thing both political parties (though not their voters) and most major media compan
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Of course, white people can never disagree with or be opposed to something. Gone soft from their lives of comfort and luxury, the strongest stance they can muster is being "uncomfortable". > Although, in death, he became one of
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Individuals do not relinquish their rights if they organize into a company. Or let me put it this way: if Facebook can be compelled, do you think this precedent won't be applied to Bob's Linux Repair Shop?
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But WhatsApp is a US company - by compelling them, aren't Facebook 's rights being violated? Do US citizens have no legal recourse if the government forces them to betray foreigners?
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> By Richard H. Adamson on December 19, 2012 > Variously, despite no actual evidence of causation, soda and even diet soda are claimed to be responsible for heart attacks, stroke, asthma, COPD and even death. > In 1994, Dr. Adamson
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> The email communication between the two appears to be consensual and appears to have taken place from 2019 to 2021, according to the redacted email correspondence. [..] "Failure of the Supervisor to disclose an Intimate Relationsh
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Pentagon Leaned on Hollywood to Sell the War in Afghanistan(mintpressnews.com)
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There is effectively no difference between the state placing those conditions on all taxis, or forbidding all taxis except those that have a medallion, to which those conditions are attached.
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> Like avoid stopping in those areas That may be illegal due to various anti-discrimination laws: > But Free and other riders were baffled over proposed legislation that would lower mandatory penalties for taxi drivers who refuse to p
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> First of all, information regarding the US is obviously irrelevant in the context of UK surveillance. Why even bring it up? Barring evidence otherwise, I believe it's reasonable to conclude the situation in the UK is similar, or a
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Maybe "sexual reproduction" can be used as the search term instead, if you want to learn about the concept without hitting any ideological landmines.
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I only have information on the US, but warrants don't offer much protection: https://www.popehat.com/2014/07/15/warrants-bulwark-of-liber...
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> The arguments are true to some extent. CSAM online is a big thing As is sexual abuse inside private homes. Any child-protection argument that applies to spying online, applies ten times over to spying at home. How many children are rap
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Must it? Edit: “I would like them to say something like, ‘Any sentient creature from the material plane is like a human, in that they can be anything they want to be—good, bad, smart, or not so smart.’ And so races might dictate certain th
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> OEM who trusts only their own cryptographically signed BIOS code to run on their platforms It's not their platform after they sell it. We should resist this trend of referring to items as still belonging to their manufacturers
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Don't forget to count automated license plate readers, too: https://www.thenewspaper.com/news/48/4865.asp And in the context of a crime investigation, all those private cameras will have their recordings look
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by jevoten 5y ago
One surveillance camera for every 11 people in Britain, says CCTV survey - https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/10172298/One-surveill... I'll leave it to you to estimate how many people live per street co
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by jevoten 5y ago
I haven't seen Der Ring des Nibelungen yet - does the opera really ridicule Brünnhilde, as this article implies?
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> The new campaign, however, is entirely focused on the argument that improved encryption would hamper efforts to tackle child exploitation online. I bet cars and homes without microphones and cameras spying on their residents also hampe
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> The police and intelligences agencies aren’t intercepting the communications of normal and petty criminals. Snowden showed otherwise - they're spying on everyone's conversations, criminal or not.
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> The phone thing is a different issue It's a different manifestation of the same issue - bait & switch. Get popular, then implement user-hostile features.
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You misunderstand me. That they don't practice those ideals doesn't stop them from including them in their party platforms. Parties can distinguish themselves in two ways: with promises, and with actions. Until they gain power, th
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And yet Twitter waited until after it got hundreds of millions of users to start limiting visibility. I wonder if it would have gotten so popular if it worked this way from the start? Along with the mandatory phone-number to sign-up (that
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Sorry, I didn't mean to imply those were wedge issues. I agree they're in line with pirate party ideals, but they're also in-line with the (stated) ideals of nearly every other party. Featuring them so prominently is like a
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> Platform: Putting People Before Corporations [..] Opening up Government [i.e. transparency] Every party makes similar promises. Instead, lead with what makes you different - your focus on IP law and digital rights. Perhaps even emphasi
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> to support the housing market I.e. to keep housing prices high?
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But they get music for free either way - Youtube and others are broadcasting it. And now they want the legal right to restrict us from recording those broadcasts, no different than stopping us from recording radio. They broadcast free of
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So home taping was also illegal, if this lawsuit bears out? Or is "on a computer" the key difference?

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