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by rbecker 6y ago
I'm afraid we can't blame the NYT for that - printer tracking dots are public knowledge: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machine_Identification_Code
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by rbecker 6y ago
> But what exactly does it mean to add an emotional and moral dimension to products? Odd not to mention the GPL license, which attempts exactly that - to make software serve the moral goal of user freedom.
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by rbecker 6y ago
I'm not flaming anyone, except Canadian trademark law. And in what way do you consider my view on free trade perverted? Don't you find that giving the trademark owner the ability to prevent imports restricts the free trade of peop
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> Vanity Fair asked in 2015 “whether First Look Media can make headlines that aren’t about itself?” I guess the stories mentioned in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Intercept#Awards count for nothing to the New Yo
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by rbecker 6y ago
Can't even import items without permission from the manufacturer? Funny how all the free trade stuff never applies to consumers.
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> So taking your example, the government could not use Windows unless Microsoft decides to open-source it? Incorrect. The government could use Windows, even closed sourced. That is why I pointed out the "custom made" part you
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by rbecker 6y ago
> I don't agree with this. Probably because you missed the "custom made" part. > secrecy and avoiding to give away software that is vital to national security. This would obviously be an exception and the code wouldn&#x
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by rbecker 6y ago
> The author presents this as fact but does nothing to actually justify the claim. Let me fill in the justification then: https://www.androidpolice.com/2016/03/01/google-explicitly-b... https://
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Facebook removes lots of truthful stuff Such as? Examples would be appreciated.
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by rbecker 6y ago
But the oil companies that lobbied to prevent any action on climate change, to make sure oil subsidies remain and renewable subsidies don't come to pass, that funded FUD research on climate change when their own confidential, internal
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by rbecker 6y ago
> Please let me know when a phone manufacturer starts advertising... They're advertising smart phones, not just phones. And the expectation of what a smartphone is is defined entirely by the Apple/Android duopoly. So even your
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by rbecker 6y ago
I'm afraid the location daemon must have went a bit over my head. What part of such a daemon is necessary for a phone? Did Nokia 3310 also have such a daemon? "What Google does with that info" - does this daemon send data bac
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by rbecker 6y ago
> "an expert in the field can determine the system registers the votes/totals cast by individual voters." When it comes to computers, there is no expert able to verify a system is really running what it's supposed t
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by rbecker 6y ago
The cases he mentions with Apple blaming independent repair shops, when it was their DRM that bricked the phone - wouldn't that make them liable for defamation or something? They are after all lying for commercial gain.
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Pharma wages stealth war on drug price watchdog(reuters.com)
1 points by rbecker 6y ago|0 comments
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The problem is those same executives then lobby against renewables, and against taxing oil for its externalities (which would also make renewables more economical). So they're actively preventing the changing of that way of life. Just
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by rbecker 6y ago
If you buy this logic for universities, then surely government has an even greater interest in ensuring assaults aren't taking place. So shall we mandate every private apartment has microphones installed, to catch terrorists and child
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by rbecker 6y ago
That is too often true. But at least you have the right to attempt to control it. Sadly even that is under attack, with laws against circumvention and "reverse engineering" (i.e. looking at how something works).
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by rbecker 6y ago
All those uses sound like they could be accomplished without connecting the Echos to the internet. If the connection is interrupted, can they still perform those tasks?
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by rbecker 6y ago
This reveals one giant cost usually not covered by rent vs. own economics: if you rent something, a car, a computer, a home, you don't control it . This is why we should all be very worried about the move towards as-a-service economie
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by rbecker 6y ago
Does it literally brick your hardware, or do you just lose access to the Oculus store or something similar, and can still use it as a generic VR headset?
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by rbecker 6y ago
What do Wikipedia, Bing, and Google have to do with this?
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Such efforts have popular support, but a lot of lobbying opposition: https://www.politico.com/news/2020/01/20/plastic-bags-have-l... https://theintercept.com/2019/10/18/coc
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by rbecker 6y ago
I don't think the comparison was made with holocaust denial in mind, however.
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> Open Until they gain enough market share and decide to close it, just as with phone bootloaders: https://www.androidauthority.com/huawei-bootloader-unlocking...
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With e-commerce, the coupon bit will soon be unnecessary - you'll just see higher "personalized" prices, with no indication that they differ from what others see. Like a more targeted version of https://crow.app&#x
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by rbecker 6y ago
So if I understand correctly, during WWII, so many Jews were trying to enter Germany, they had to build camps where they were kept before being deported? Edit: To clarify, I'm pointing out there is a huge, gigantic difference betwe
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by rbecker 6y ago
The article body contradicts the title: global population will peak at around 9.7 billion people in 2064 There's a big difference between "is currently declining" and "is growing, but projected to start declining in 44
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References to white men still dominate college biology textbooks, survey says(washingtonpost.com)
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by rbecker 6y ago
I'm sorry, what? Doesn't a "sensor box" by definition have surveillance capabilities? The only way that sentence makes sense is if you're using some ridiculously narrow definition of "surveillance". Edit:

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