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by msabalau 13y ago
I would say that people, and their reasons for objecting to surveillance or having privacy concerns far are more complicated and varied than you are imagining. Some of the people who have expressed concerns may be: Citizens concerned about
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by msabalau 13y ago
There is nothing magical about being the customer. Paying money doesn't stop anyone from creating a multi sided market that makes you the product. As anyone who subscribed to a magazine, purchased season tickets to a cultural organizat
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by msabalau 13y ago
'cause that stuff totally doesn't happen when you pay carriers money...
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Good for Microsoft. This is a confident move, as when Google rolls out a app or feature on iOS before Android. I'm sure a Windows phone version is coming. Microsoft needs to do more of this. Neither consumers nor the company benefits w
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by msabalau 13y ago
Many players in my neck of the woods use Ankers. I find I can get by with just my Note II.
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Perhaps because it is distracting and overwhelms other useful uses of a social space? A characteristic it shares with other compelling areas of deep human interest such as politics and religion.
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It's a broader question than the pass given to any one particular start-up that pivots. If one actually was upset about the likeliness of something being killed off, one would never use anything from the start-up ecosystem, where almo
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by msabalau 13y ago
Oddly enough, people have multiple priorities in life. For most people their economic prospects or issues related to freedom of choice, or stopping abortion happen to be far more important than what the NSA does. These people are not confus
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Glass is a perfectly fine way to get directions while driving. Just listen to the voice prompts and ignore the screen. Heck, one can push the prism up to the top of your head so there's no chance to see it. (To be sure, one can also
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by msabalau 13y ago
Some people viewed a series of actions and statements from Microsoft as showing contempt. Simply changing a business model to one more acceptable to consumers does not remove people's emotional reactions and suspicions about motives.
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Microsoft joins Google calling for increased transparency of gov data requests(thenextweb.com)
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"The press is not among the elements of civil society that Brooks lists; and yet it is the one to which Snowden turned." Real journalists should be ashamed of "pundits" such as Brooks
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David Brooks and the Mind of Edward Snowden(newyorker.com)
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Director of National Intelligence issues fact sheet on PRISM(theverge.com)
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Just because the system described in the article exists, is there any reason to believe that it is PRISM? Couldn't PRISM be something the NSA is doing in addition to this?
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He is responding in the thread, so you could actually ask there, and maybe hear an answer, as opposed to merely being snarky here. Unless, of course, you are someone who actually needs a pseudonym even to ask such a question, in which case
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by msabalau 13y ago
Good clarification. Only so many words that would fit into the headline...
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Also worth reading is the comment thread. " We don't sell our users' information to anybody.... we do use user information to target ads: this approach has made us what's technically known as "large stacks of cash:
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Google Chief Architect: we only respond to specific orders about individuals(plus.google.com)
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Between the First Amendment and Right of Publicity(nytimes.com)
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So, you joined this community nine days ago and thought a great way to begin would be with a ridiculous and absurd lie about Nexus sales? Regardless, it's hardly clear why a community of people intent on founding new businesses would consid
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Masterworks for One and All(nytimes.com)
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I wonder if their business case to support just such an ongoing effort counted on a stronger reception in their domestic market--there is a strong cultural affinity in Japan for robots, and crowded conditions that make pet ownership more ch
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by msabalau 13y ago
At first I made the same mistake, thinking the headline writer was referring to this future state as a dystopia. Instead, it's a candid admission that Pandodaily is a timesuck of low value linkbait, and that from this dystopian vantage poin
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by msabalau 13y ago
Of course, one could have been T.S. Eliot, with a reasonable case to be made that you were the greatest poet of the 20th century, and find yourself working in a sub-basement of a bank for eight years to support yourself while pursuing your
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by msabalau 13y ago
Yahoo doesn't necessarily have to bolt onto Tumblr onto a dying core, one option would be to milk yahoo.com (and leverage whatever synergies exist) to invest in Tumblr as a new and seperate replacement core. Maybe not likely, and maybe not
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by msabalau 13y ago
What's striking to me is the extent to which the past decade's innovations (ad supported web services, carrier subsidized smartphones) have shifted people's perceptions of a reasonable price for technology. Especially for early adopters, wh
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More Tech Magic, if You Can Afford It(nytimes.com)
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Cult of Mac: Why the iPhone is falling behind(cultofmac.com)
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Most Americans would call him poor (or retired) and Beckham rich. The social signifiers Americans would recognize distinguish between the main groupings of people who work for a living: working class, middle class, and professionals. On eit

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