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901.
by mtgx 8y ago
Why was Ford's name redacted from the comments? Was it a national security issue or part of a terrorist investigation? This is ridiculous. These things should absolutely be part of the public record.
902.
by mtgx 8y ago
I'm not quite sure what this is exactly, but it sounds like they are providing a security "service", so all the "real identifiers" will be stored on their servers? Why should an entire country trust them? I'm n
903.
by mtgx 8y ago
Microsoft's Hololens is quite a bit more: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/hololens/buy Definitely too much for consumers, though. The price needs to drop at least 3x, which it probably will in a couple of yea
904.
by mtgx 8y ago
Didn't Yahoo also promise a few years ago it wouldn't do that (only after they saw a backlash against scanning the emails, I believe).
905.
by mtgx 8y ago
I'm kind of surprised they let him in the Senate Intelligence Committee for so long. It seems like everyone else in that committee is basically an "anti-Wyden" or pro-complete surveillance. I think the only reason they haven&
906.
by mtgx 8y ago
No, that's not why. Otherwise they wouldn't have to lie to judges, too. But they did, and still do. And it's because they know the judges would require them to follow proper due process if they are caught using Stingrays.
907.
by mtgx 8y ago
> seems like that makes it trivial to detect and defeat for any capable criminal Or OS vendors. crickets
908.
by mtgx 8y ago
I believe it was already proven by a couple of researchers right after the election that Google was showing about +20% more search results about Clinton even to people who were supposed to get more results on Trump (those in the filter bubb
909.
by mtgx 8y ago
I'm sure that's true, but I think this decision was ultimately made based on GloFo losing AMD as a big customer. GloFlo has relied for too many years on AMD's business.
910.
by mtgx 8y ago
Sites like YouTube or Wikipedia would have never happened then. And it would completely doom the idea of P2P internet.
911.
by mtgx 8y ago
Well, that's the ISPs' problem now. They're the ones that killed the "unified" federal net neutrality policy, no? Reap what you sow.
912.
by mtgx 8y ago
High ISP competition would be preferable. But that's not going to be possible anytime soon until all state monopolies are removed (by law). Until then, net neutrality is needed to keep the internet fair in a market full of local mono
913.
by mtgx 8y ago
Facebook is THE tracking platform and Facebook mines every word on it, and they STILL haven't fixed the fake news problem there. Giving up encryption on WhatsApp in an attempt to "fix fake news" is going to be just as useless
914.
by mtgx 8y ago
And now we know why it's so broken. None of those methods should be used for true security (especially when you're talking about a billion people). Biometrics are not much better than SSNs - once they're stolen, it's gam
915.
by mtgx 8y ago
You start by not giving everyone an "ID" but a hardware token with a chip in it. The person who has that chip and the corresponding private. The only real attack against that is supply-chain attacks, which is why the government bu
916.
by mtgx 8y ago
Every developed country has a biometric ID system? I would go further than say that's false, it's the exact opposite of the truth.
917.
by mtgx 8y ago
BS. European countries have prosecuted banking crime just fine. Plus, we have Eric Holder on the record for saying he wouldn't go after bank executives because it could "hurt the economy", a reason I rank right up there with
918.
by mtgx 8y ago
That's a nice spin on what is essentially another way of saying "filter bubble."
919.
by mtgx 8y ago
On the melatonin I would add that studies have shown negligible increase in effectiveness over 0.3mg. Yes, most pharma stores offer only 3mg and above, but that seems to be wrong. Personally I've only taken melatonin when I most needed
920.
by mtgx 8y ago
Did Wired miss the Google memo?
921.
by mtgx 8y ago
I blame Apple for forcing users to backup iMessage messages to iCloud if they keep iCloud itself enabled.
922.
by mtgx 8y ago
> Clearly, they don't have an answer to AMD at all. If this is true, their shareholders should be asking serious questions about why they've nothing significant to show for all that time and money spent when they were raking it
923.
by mtgx 8y ago
IPSEC is broken by (NSA) design. Use Wireguard instead. https://www.mail-archive.com/cryptography@metzdowd.com/msg12... https://www.wireguard.com/protocol/
924.
by mtgx 8y ago
Focus on the grassroots and reach out to the grassroots movements even from other states that can help you organize. Who has the most money in a campaign still matters, but it doesn't matter as much as it used to, especially if you hav
925.
by mtgx 8y ago
> because our legislative bodies can't work together This is not (just) a people failure, it's a system failure. More precisely, it's the highly polarizing FPTP voting system that allows one party to dominate almost comp
926.
by mtgx 8y ago
It's optional, unfortunately.
927.
by mtgx 8y ago
If senators are asking for this, then there must be some companies out there that have lobbied for this. What kind of company would ask for something like this? Is it Oracle and its ilk?
928.
by mtgx 8y ago
This is coming from someone who drugs and keeps kids in cages and launches MOABs against "terrorists' families". It's the birds that pull at his heartstrings, though.
929.
by mtgx 8y ago
I like most of Brad Smith's initiatives, but I hope the end-goal here isn't to just put more Windows on voting machines. Because the last voting machines that got Windows are some of the least secure devices around, many of them s
930.
by mtgx 8y ago
I'm glad Tesla is at least considering that price-point. When they announced the Model 3 they said they wouldn't go any lower. I instantly thought that would have been a big mistake for Tesla, because not going lower means they wo

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