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by motters 13y ago
I was dubious about the idea of Basic Income in the past, but now having more experience of the problems of the economy I'm in favour of it and see it as becoming inevitable at some point. Eventually it will simply be impossible in th
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by motters 13y ago
"essentially an evil thing...to initiate a war of aggression...is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of th
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by motters 13y ago
I have a dream that one day law abiding citizens will be able to go about their business without being under constant surveillance - without having every telephone conversation, every email and every other electronic communication recorded
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by motters 13y ago
The Snowden leaks indicate that assuming your data is safe and secure from warrantless access while residing blissfully in plain text on the cloud servers of the PRISM list member companies is at best a hopelessly naive expectation. That a
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by motters 13y ago
I don't agree. Google may have spent a lot of money, but that hasn't kept them off of the PRISM list and so far I've not read any really convincing explanation from anyone at Google about why they're on that list. I thi
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by motters 13y ago
Relax. The Party is everything, knows everything. There are no spies, only brave members of the inner committee doing their duty for the empire.
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by motters 13y ago
This is an example of making a bad system more efficiently bad. So it's great that the process can be made more efficient, but that doesn't address the cause of why people are having to rely upon food banks in the first place or
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by motters 13y ago
Times are hard and if it's a choice between your personal morals and feeding your kids or ensuring that your home doesn't get repossessed then there are likely to be plenty of programmers willing to make the compromise.
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by motters 13y ago
Having signed a number of these in the past I can predict what the official response will be. They will say that they are not forcing anyone and that the system is entirely voluntary. They'll say it's on by default merely to hel
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by motters 13y ago
This article completely misunderstands what GPL is about.
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by motters 13y ago
That might be an unrealistic psychological profile. Jimmy Saville and Stuart Hall had abundant access to the views of non-sex-offenders. Both those figures could hardly be described as being isolated from society during the time when they
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by motters 13y ago
The amount of CO2 being absorbed by plants is far less than the rate at which it is accumulating within the atmosphere. You can get a good idea of how much CO2 is absorbed by looking at the seasonal variation in atmospheric CO2. https:&#x
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by motters 13y ago
It's unclear whether Yahoo did fight tooth and nail. They were assimilated into PRISM on 3/12/2008 according to the leaked slide. Other companies (particularly Apple) took longer to undermine and presumably put up more of a
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by motters 13y ago
The leaked slide says that Yahoo was assimilated into PRISM on 3/12/2008. I assume that must be some time after the secret court decision.
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by motters 13y ago
Fixing American laws is a step in the right direction, but it doesn't make me as a non-American feel any more confident about using US-based internet services.
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by motters 13y ago
These things are always a tradeoff. The number of terrorists is a tiny fraction of the population, and the amount of damage which they cause is small compared to road accidents, tsunamis or common and preventable diseases. Is it really wo
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by motters 13y ago
But if few people bother themselves with encryption code then there are not many eyeballs on it and mistakes or backdoors become more likely. Probably encryption code should not be left entirely to the "experts" at NSA, Microsoft
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by motters 13y ago
The process of law should not be occult. It's hard to imagine how a secret court could do anything other than pretend to carry out a legal process. For law to be law it needs to be at least in principle knowable by the people to whom
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by motters 13y ago
Likewise I also have no interest in any work which involves spying or building weapons. However, we're living through extremely difficult economic times and I can totally appreciate how for some people putting your personal beliefs to
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by motters 13y ago
I think we need to see the actual document to even begin to have any level of confidence in this narrative.
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by motters 13y ago
Seems like a weak article intended to try to placate people who are concerned about what the leaks revealed. The scope and scale of mass surveillance systems today is in no way comparable to the government systems one or more centuries ago
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by motters 13y ago
Just because it's unsurprising that doesn't make it ok.
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by motters 13y ago
If it's not funded by the license then that suggests that part of the BBC has been quietly privatised.
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by motters 13y ago
I think it's more complicated than this video suggests. The most obvious omission is where are the rights of non-Americans in all of this? Privacy isn't just something in the US constitution, it's a human right. As it stan
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by motters 13y ago
It's a valid point. Putting months of engineering effort into something which sells for 1-3 dollars is economically illiterate unless you expect to sell thousands of copies. Considering the very niche nature of many apps, selling in
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by motters 13y ago
Compared to surveillance of the internet and phone calls drones don't pose much of a threat to privacy. It's technically difficult to recognise people from aerial photos, although when combined with mobile phone geolocations and
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by motters 13y ago
My current theory on this is that companies such as Google probably generate vast amounts of metadata (there must be a fair amount of it behind Google Now), primarily for advertising purposes, and that it's this which PRISM has "d
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by motters 13y ago
As a person "outside the united states and not a US person" this doesn't fill be with confidence about using US based internet services. It also doesn't give me much confidence about communicating with "US persons&
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by motters 13y ago
They may not get any content, but do they store any content? It could be that "get content" has a very narrow legal interpretation ("taking the book off the shelf and reading it").
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by motters 13y ago
The biggest component of espionage is always industrial espionage.

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