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by rahoulb 13y ago
obligatory XKCD: http://xkcd.com/538/
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by rahoulb 13y ago
> But for me, the Internet is over. This is how I've been feeling about it for the last few weeks.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I like Rob Crilly's writing, and he raises an important point. The problem isn't the detention itself, which could be argued for. The real problem is the legislation that allows such wide-ranging reasons for detention itself.
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David Miranda's detention can be justified(blogs.telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by rahoulb 13y ago|1 comments
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Google argues it is exempt from UK privacy laws(telegraph.co.uk)
1 points by rahoulb 13y ago|0 comments
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Depends how it is implemented. LastPass say that all your details are encrypted client-side via your master password, so they cannot access anything of yours. There's nothing to stop Apple doing the same - but I suspect they won't
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I suspect it's part of their strategy for deflecting from the "fragmentation" issue - "what version of Android does your phone run? Jelly Bean? Snap!" I also reckon that they will start releasing bits of the OS vi
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Unfortunately, the Daily Mail is very influential - their demographic fits extremely closely to the membership of the Conservative party.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I disagree - saying "that was a stupid thing to do" is very different to saying "you are stupid for doing that" and most people will notice that.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I disagree; the criticism isn't about the term itself, it's that the term isn't readily explained on the site. If, as explained, the term is widely understood by the target market, then this criticism is invalid (but caused b
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by rahoulb 13y ago
It's more like having RSS feeds in your reader for blogs that are rarely updated and you may have forgotten about (although not quite as you have to actively mark feeds as read). An email (whether direct or via a mailing list) is an in
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by rahoulb 13y ago
The Guardian is (of course) carrying it as well: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/12/edward-snowden-t...
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by rahoulb 13y ago
For me, it's not about the direct messaging - it's the feed. Someone on the other side of the world posts a photo of something they've been doing, I comment on it and we have a conversation. For this to happen without the lik
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Also extremely likely - the NSA/GCHQ/Whoever siphon off all "metadata". At the next Boston bombing, or whatever, they analyse that metadata for the perpetrator. And the next one. And the next one. And build a profile
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Sorry, I wasn't clear. I use last pass to transfer my private key to the PGP app on my iPad (and elsewhere) (as opposed going through Dropbox or whatever). Relies upon trusting last pass and trusting the iPad of course, both of which a
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by rahoulb 13y ago
I use Lastpass, which has a client for most platforms. They could be compromised, but they claim all data is encrypted locally before being sent to their servers. I have not verified that claim.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
It is on my (UK layout) MBA and Bluetooth keyboard (although its also labelled as Alt and not Opt). Control doesn't have a symbol on it though.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
All they'd have to say is that the plane was a danger to other planes in the area. If it was ignoring air traffic control orders then that is probably all the justification they need, president or not.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
The main thing for me wasn't the simple feed-reader aspect of it; it was the syncing. I could use my choice of clients on different platforms and as Reader was effectively a monopoly, all the clients would sync with it, allowing me to
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by rahoulb 13y ago
He does mention Apple in a footnote. However, Apple doesn't really make claims about openness (apart from a brief marketing push around OSX 10.2), whereas Twitter's success came from liberal access to its API and Google makes a bi
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by rahoulb 13y ago
> Apple dragged Google into a similar war for extreme mobile-OS lockdown (although it is a footnote)
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Your ultimate goal is to ensure that the service is at the latest version. There are numerous dependencies to that task - one of which may be stopping the service before upgrading. There are dependencies to stopping the service - maybe tel
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by rahoulb 13y ago
There are often politicians (and others) who say "we will not let them change our way of life, because that would hand them victory". The fact remains that our way of life has changed, in the name of security.
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by rahoulb 13y ago
It was originally proposed a couple of years back and dropped. Then following the murder of a soldier on the streets of London it's back on the agenda. They are probably cursing the timing of the NSA revelations.
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Swedes say no to Google Apps for government use(gigaom.com)
108 points by rahoulb 13y ago|24 comments
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Not just the browser. They also had pricing schemes with OEMs that made it impossible for the box builders to release any products with alternative OSes preinstalled (as it would raise the price of their Windows license). And a box builder
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by rahoulb 13y ago
Or worse still, what if the definition of what is "safe" changes, following some sort of incident (9/11?) Once they have amassed all this data about you they can mine it to their heart's content and use it to make predic
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by rahoulb 13y ago
bought those ideas from Xerox and then added a whole load of extra stuff to them (icons, pull-down menus)
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by rahoulb 13y ago
twitter for video (140 chars == 6s)
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by rahoulb 13y ago
The "find a good design and stick with it" idea seems to be an Apple trait, as it applies to hardware just as much as software. The Mac Pro design debuted with the Power Mac G5 in 2003, the Macbook Pro design comes from the Titanium PowerBo

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