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by motters 16y ago
Right. You can effectively censor sites simply by putting subscription charges on them. It's a westernised version of China's Great Firewall.
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by motters 16y ago
Blocking sites because they're "not on the service plan" is likely to be much more acceptable in western countries than explicit censorship, as in Iran or China. It's authoritarianism dressed up as commercialism. In the post-Wikileaks era
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by motters 16y ago
I installed Ubuntu onto my father's netbook after he started having trouble with malware. I think he barely noticed that it wasn't Windows, and I've had no complaints since. For most purposes the operating system is becoming less importan
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by motters 16y ago
There is also the vaultingly ambitious employee. Someone who is both clever and also prepared to do anything to get a promotion or pay rise - even if that means causing chaos, using other employees as collateral damage, etc.
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by motters 16y ago
Whatever Goldman Sachs motivations are, you can bet they're not good.
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by motters 16y ago
I've been using DDG for a while, and have been very happy with it. IMHO they should focus on this privacy aspect, trying to be the most privacy respecting search engine, because it's a key product differentiator and it's also an issue whic
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by motters 16y ago
I think this is a sign that I should get off of Facebook ASAP. I don't want to be doing anything which boosts the bonuses of Goldman Sachs.
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by motters 16y ago
2010 was very cyberpunk. All that was missing was Wintermute.
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by motters 16y ago
> Not-for-profits are often run to benefit the folks working for them. You may be right. I can think of a few not-for-profits which seem to be benefiting not much more than their few founders.
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by motters 16y ago
Surely once for-profit companies get involved there is a conflict of interest between poverty alleviation efforts and the interests of share holders/investors.
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by motters 16y ago
Whatever tech industry reputation Paul Allen may have previously enjoyed, he's really destroying it now.
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by motters 16y ago
Looks as if I am completely typical of this group. I started using computers aged 10, but only wrote programs unambiguously of my own making (as opposed to typed in from a book or magazine) at the age of 11.
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by motters 16y ago
This seems to be a not uncommon tale for people who make money out of Adsense.
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by motters 16y ago
Bill Gates is probably getting onto a plane for Russia about now, to make Putin an "philanthropic" offer he can't refuse. That's usually how it goes.
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by motters 16y ago
When I was thinking about stuff at work other guys, who were electrical or mechanical engineers, would describe me as "praying".
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by motters 16y ago
This is one of those in-depth series which the BBC no longer seems to make. Burke pretty much dispels the notion of the lone genius inventor and shows how many technologies and ideas are linked as a historical process - sometimes in surpri
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by motters 16y ago
Indeed. Smart is as smart does. I did once apply to work for Microsoft about five years ago, but didn't get anywhere. Now I don't really care about Microsoft, rarely use any of their products and no longer think of them as a desirable com
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by motters 16y ago
Well I can confirm that all vehicles manufactured in Europe after 2002 do have something comparable to a "black box", recording all sorts of engine parameters which can subsequently be downloaded for analysis.
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by motters 16y ago
This sounds as if he's in favour of the skull programmer's output. I've seen the skull methodology used in practice in businesses, and it invariably results in disaster (i.e. angry bosses/employees and disappointed or fleeing customers).
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Allegations of OpenBSD Backdoors May be True(linuxjournal.com)
1 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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SocialBar: because Mr Zuckerberg doesn't need to know(mobisocial.stanford.edu)
1 points by motters 16y ago|0 comments
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by motters 16y ago
I agree about the charging. Even though the fee may have been small it was enough to dissuade me from using that site to any significant extent.
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by motters 16y ago
I'm no expert on security, but as far as I'm aware encrypted wifi is completely broken, and can be trivially unencrypted by someone with negligible knowledge using easily available software within a few minutes.
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by motters 16y ago
Fortunately there's a way to resolve whether this is whistle blowing or mud slinging. Someone with some expertise in that area should audit the code to check whether the allegations have any basis. The original email makes some fairly spe
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by motters 16y ago
If they're public officials in a public space performing a public duty then there should be no problem with taking photos or video of them. The recent case of the death of Ian Tomlinson is a good illustration of how important it can be for
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by motters 16y ago
The methodology is described but not the questions. If you asked "does disclosing classified documents harm national security?" most people would probably agree. If you asked "Do you have a right to know what your government is doing on y
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by motters 16y ago
I can confirm the experience of others in that I have no particular problem listening to music while coding, but music with distinguishable lyrics is more disruptive to concentration.
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by motters 16y ago
As an organisation Wikileaks should distance themselves as far from this sort of activity as possible. If they condone it, or even merely appear to condone it, then their fate is most certainly sealed.
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by motters 16y ago
Creepy. It seems to me that we really are living in the kind of dystopian cyberpunk future which I read about as a teenager.
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by motters 16y ago
It's also a function of the transition from paper based storage to primarily electronic storage of documents - something which has only occurred in most organisations within the last 10-15 years. Probably governments will try to tighten up

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