philovivero

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   by philovivero 13y ago

   He's on about the problem of data mining being used by NSA and corporate America to do Bad Things. And what are you on about? I'm guessing you're on about the "tool is only as good or evil as the wielder." Trying to
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   by philovivero 13y ago

   This is simply brilliant. I always call the United States a fascist dictatatorship, but it leaves a bitter taste, since I know that's not entirely true. There are subtle elements I'm not accounting for. A "Managed Democracy&q
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   by philovivero 16y ago

   I'll second this. Owen's code was bad, because it was a large hack. It was a hack that worked. It was a hack because he had limited resources. He was ONE GUY coding, administering, doing everything up until something like 8 million users. T
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   by philovivero 16y ago

   Sometimes, Kevin, a technical master will realise the limitations of the tool, and not always suggest it as a solution for a problem that clearly calls for something else. Of course, that's over-simplifying things. Sometimes you asked for t