kinsomo

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by kinsomo 8y ago
> So to summarize you: rights are not inalienable but dependent on if people get annoyed. You're not being reasonable, but rather reading your own straw men into what I wrote. Based on your misunderstandings, I can pretty confidentl
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> What does violence have to do with any of this, unless some of the noise-related altercations are getting out of hand? I think this guy is one of those hyper-libertarians who equates government regulation with violence.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Seeing as the proponents -- of regulations regarding who can trade what with whom -- first cited issue is "Affordability", categorically, yes, these regulations are about making things "cheaper". > How successful
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> “The government knows how to segregate us properly” The government is great place to balance competing interests, especially if it's more democratic. > And “Everything will be cheaper by limiting people the ability to trade” Th
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> alleviate whatever hypothetical issue the OP is referring to That "hypothetical" the OP referred to is the VPN provider keeping logs (or more logs than they advertise) and providing them when asked to the authorities. It&#x27
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> True. But Tor has pwned people too. Most recently, there was the bug that CMU researchers exploited, and then shared with the FBI. Also, many users of Tor browser have been pwned by phone-home malware, which leaked their ISP-assigned I
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I want to say I take your point. I wouldn't use this in formal writing, but as far as I can tell this is an accepted western way to emphasise something. No, it isn't. Using "them" in the way you did makes you sound
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> So a better option would be to use your Comcast / AT&T / Verizon connection to leak data to the press? A better option is to use technology that might be better able to provide some verifiable anonymity guarantees, like T
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Those other countries have developing economies and populations. It won't be long before the other large countries stop seeing the US as significant -- they'll be trading with each other where appropriate. Which is why the US
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> It will never happen. There will always be some lower labor cost region where manufacturing jobs can be sent, and there will always be some loophole which corporations can use to get around restrictions. It will have to happen. IIRC
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Its interesting that the USA is strategically trying to go back to being the manufacturing country and China is strategically trying to become the innovation country. Its like China and the USA want to swap places. Or the US is trying
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> We're not ready to name names at this point, but you're actually correct. Where do you plan to announce when you're ready to name names? I may have some need in the future to use a VPN in China and would like to be awar
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> So how do you refer to cryptography? Just fully spell out "cryptography"? This is aggravating to me as well. Considering cryptography is a far more useful and pervasive technology, I feel it should have dibs on the shorter &q
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Honest question: Is there any reason to believe that PIA is a US intel operation vs, say a Russian one? I would also like to know the motivation for a US intel agency to want to run a VPN. It seems to me like it wouldn't be worth
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> ProtonVPN (operated from Switzerland) claims[1]: "Our security team has also identified at least one VPN service which is working on behalf of a state surveillance agency." > If I had to guess, it would be PIA: the most po
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> This hesitation demonstrates the often tense relationship between game preservationists and private collectors. According to a screenshot uploaded by Saint, the private collector threatened to pull the entire folder of content from the
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70 Lost Japanese Games Have Been Found in a Folder of ROMs on a Private Forum(motherboard.vice.com)
3 points by kinsomo 8y ago|1 comments
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by kinsomo 8y ago
>> [...] and you have complete control over who sees it and [...] > If you have complete control over who sees it, that should mean that no one else has any control over it... Actually that quote is false: the Facebook algorithm ha
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> It's downvoted because the users of hackernews have an irrational hatred for unions, so anything that justifies having/forming a union is downvoted Of course, unions are a barrier to "disruption" and there's a
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> It took over a year to finally hear it from other colleagues that they don't see some posts, which I started telling from the very first day. I wonder if you have to pay FB to promote them? /s
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> The most frustrating change for me was FB (or Messenger later) used to send me an email when I received a message, with the message content inside the email. A few years ago they removed the content from the email and forced me to log
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> It will be inaccessible until it becomes public domain, but the copy that you download from archive.org will be copyright archive.org. You can get the music from somewhere else, if you can, you most likely won’t be able to. No. > Fo
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Yeah, spot on. Governance and durability through org structure is a thing. > The way to solve this is to provide the Internet Archive with enough resources to build out a globally distributed storage system. Yeah, I agree. I do see
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> I don't work for them but I think the move towards decentralization is the best way to address those concerns. How feasible would a reliable, distributed archive be; given how massive amount of data Archive.org has? After all, it
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Google article title. Oddly, I've had better results doing that with DuckDuckGo than Google.
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> There's no real justification for anyone having that right. The device manufacturer/website owner/etc does the work of creating the data, yet you think it's yours? That's BS. The real justification for anyone
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Tesla's a new company, either they're holding themselves to a higher standard than the establishment or they aren't. If they're not then I'm going with the establishment. I can overlook a great great great many
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by kinsomo 8y ago
Common Lisp, I think...
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Or when Blackwater, a private military company, rebranded to "Xe Services" after murdering a dozen-plus Iraqi [civilians]. They've rebranded twice more since then . They were "Academi" and now they're ap
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by kinsomo 8y ago
> Successful insurgencies these days are supplied with heavy weapons and training by outside powers. You’re not going to do anything against armour and air power with small arms. An insurgency has a lot of freedom in choosing its targets

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