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by justsee 16y ago
Limiting analysis to the personal impact of privacy / security issues arising in our rapidly evolving society is simply poor analysis and certainly not helpful in contributing to a well-planned, well-designed future society. This narcissist
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by justsee 16y ago
Bit of an unfair mischaracterisation of my position don't you think? People can still conceive of the social implications of security / privacy issues and disagree in informed debate. However it appears that a certain segment of the communi
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by justsee 16y ago
You're a police informant. You're an undercover cop who didn't realise all this was accessible, but the organisation you've infiltrated just did. Look, it's so easy to conceive of situations where someone's well-being is seriously impacted
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by justsee 16y ago
I'm not sure why there's a tendency to evaluate the security / privacy implications of technology at an individual level when it has societal reach. Yes in your instance, evaluated from an individual perspective, it seems absurd to worry ab
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by justsee 16y ago
That's actually the point of the article - law enforcement does have access to tracking data, but the barriers to access are high. By storing a user's data in an easily-accessible, unencrypted way the barriers are low enough that private in
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by justsee 16y ago
The same community that would generally react very negatively to reports of a company storing passwords unencrypted in a database seems to effortlessly explain away Apple's approach to storing a significant amount of personal tracking data
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Google's Moat and Castle(jonontech.com)
4 points by justsee 16y ago|3 comments
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by justsee 16y ago
You picked the best title in the first sentence of your survey ;) I think something plain and to-the-point like 'JavaScript Web Applications' suits an O'Reilly publication, and gives a title a little bit more authority / respect. If you'd l
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by justsee 16y ago
No, he is saying that knowledge on its own ('academic "knowing"'), separate from the experience, is insufficient. This is straight from the school of thought that says any great truths have to be understood at the experiential level, not ju
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by justsee 16y ago
It seemed an interesting anecdote, but in a more recent post on network neutrality he referenced the TCP encryption proposals again ( http://www.reed.com/blog-dpr/?p=85 ): "In the early days of the Internet design, my officemate at MIT, Ste
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UDP co-creator on UDP (and NSA killing end-to-end encryption in TCP)(reed.com)
50 points by justsee 16y ago|9 comments
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by justsee 16y ago
But it's not that simple if the client is running as a relaying node as well, is it? The mixture of client traffic and relay traffic would make traffic analysis much more difficult. Of course if you're that interesting that your ISP is doin
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by justsee 16y ago
I'd disagree, and state that it's exactly the sort of effort you'd expect if you were to assume sophisticated character assasination is the order of the day. The alternative is to assume that Assange did create a public profile (when many a
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by justsee 16y ago
In a world where Stuxnet exists and Gawker might not, a date field in a dating site database should probably be taken with a shovel of salt though right?
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Ask HN: Did Reddit Just Get Astroturfed? How Could Technology Tell Us?
5 points by justsee 16y ago|9 comments
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Ask HN: Will Twitter Drop WikiLeaks?
8 points by justsee 16y ago|3 comments
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Ask HN: Microkernel vs Monolithic Kernel in a Mobile Context?
1 points by justsee 16y ago|1 comments
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by justsee 16y ago
I'm sticking with Occam's razor on this one - "the simplest explanation is more likely the correct one". A world awash with kilojoules means any life forms around human civilization will be a little more plump. Charlie Stross does give a ha
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by justsee 16y ago
Agreed - it also feels like the omission of any useful in-context product shots (actual people wearing the watches at different angles) is subconscious admission the major design failure is that the product will simply be far too 'chunky' f
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UK Government: will not support Net Neutrality(bloomberg.com)
29 points by justsee 16y ago|37 comments
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by justsee 16y ago
Flash has had 'Unresponsive Script' warnings as long as I can remember, maybe since 2000?
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by justsee 16y ago
Yes, it's a stellar example of comments being far more insightful than the actual article.
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by justsee 16y ago
The quote you snipped there was just making the point that throwing Banksy in to the same category as your pedestrian vandal is a mischaracterization. You make some good points. The artistic / social / political value of an act is subjectiv
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by justsee 16y ago
Your reductio ad absurdum is another's straw man. I think you're wilfully missing the point, so I'm picking straw man. Anyway, I agree with your sentiments about those who disrespect private property, but only to a point. The endless messy
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by justsee 16y ago
You've demonstrated perfectly the old-grandpa 'get off my lawn position'. However dismissing him as just some guy who sprays crap on other people's property probably just indicates you aren't aware of the social / political messaging he eng
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by justsee 16y ago
This is a presentation from Christopher Joye of Rismark, who has gained a lot of notoriety in Australia for being so bullish on Australian property. Rismark sells an innovative shared-equity mortgage product. Shared-equity products require
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by justsee 16y ago
Unlike the US we don't have a housing bubble, because of our increasing population. "Debunking the Australian Housing Shortage" http://www.unconventionaleconomist.com/2010/05/debunking-aus... The claim Australia has a housing shortage i
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by justsee 16y ago
Also, it's not a property bubble when there are less houses than people who want them. Because the population growth rate in Australia is (comparatively) high for a developed country we have high intrinsic demand for new housing. It is qu
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by justsee 16y ago
The Flash player has been getting faster over the years - dramatically so, afaik. Could you provide links to back up your statement that it has gotten slower? I've never heard that before.
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by justsee 16y ago
One thing that's always been like a junk-science beacon for me in regards to water fluoridation is the decree that the ppm of fluoride in water varies depending on whether you're in a hot climate or a cold climate because "people who live i

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