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by paulsecwhatt 11y ago
This is brilliant, found me without any problem. I'm sure it finds most people in hackernews.
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by paulsecwhatt 11y ago
"Source? So what?" Apologies for that intro, I had planned to delete it but I'll leave it so your comment makes sense. I was planning to expand a thought about how it's always the rich who casually conclude that lower ta
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by paulsecwhatt 11y ago
A large number (majority?) of people who are proponents for american-style capitalism, advocating for less government intervention, are from big universities around the U.S, and will often earn a relatively high wage. Although it's ver
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US Government credential dump discovered by Recorded Future(wired.com)
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by paulsecwhatt 11y ago
I laughed out loud at this. In no other developed country (in the sense of a competitive GDP, somewhat large and somewhat well educated population) have I seen the same disdain and mistrust for government. Why is it amoral for a government
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by paulsecwhatt 11y ago
Interestingly enough almost all of them hold these beliefs in areas they themselves have no expertise in (of course, there are one or two exceptions). I think it's dangerous when laymen who admire these individuals for their excellent
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by paulsecwhatt 11y ago
And yet you're still paying 4-5x the price for 4G, with ridiculously limited data plans and excess charges.
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by paulsecwhatt 11y ago
Europeans never paid for speed, that's completely incorrect. There's no tradeoff - mobile phone usage in Europe is simply much, much cheaper because there's not the same quadrupoly that exists in the US (thanks to government
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by paulsecwhatt 12y ago
This. Exactly. I'm sure Stallman absolutely HATES services such as Spotify. However the as I mentioned in the parent comment, the world is not black and white, and thus viable solutions will always be in a middle-ground. Nothing he cou
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by paulsecwhatt 12y ago
https://stallman.org/pearlharbor.html Indeed. If only we had had Stallman right before Pearl Harbor, I'm sure he could have published a manifesto, saving everyone from the obviously impending doom and most importantly
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by paulsecwhatt 12y ago
I honestly don't understand why people value Stallman's opinions on these matters so highly. I completely disagree with him on essentially everything he writes about these topics. Granted, he's an incredible programmer who co
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by paulsecwhatt 12y ago
I absolutely believe Mike should have paid Patrick. On the simple premise that since Mike was hosting a bet that he KNEW was impossible (i.e. under no circumstance, ever, would he have to pay the 5000$), then literally the only point of the
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by paulsecwhatt 12y ago
TL;DR - the author claims to have hacked their encryption by reading the messages in phone memory. I don't understand how this is a valid exploit/vulnerability? How would any device, Android or not, render the actual picture of th