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by roc 13y ago
If telcos keep the data, in personally-identifiable format, beyond what's necessary to run their networks, that itself is a problem to be solved.
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by roc 13y ago
> "who the hell do you vote for?" Primary challengers who uphold the other values you personally share, but also share our values on the subject of privacy, the 4th amendment, reigning in the expanding police/surveillanc
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by roc 13y ago
> "If the NSA wants to track you," It's not about when the NSA wants to explicitly track you . It's about things like their "3 step" policy, where they search this bulk data for anyone within 3 degrees o
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by roc 13y ago
> "your system will need to create this information" Or it could ask me to identify locations that I care to have context-aware functionality for -- and then not build a complete history of my movements, with all the asso
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by roc 13y ago
Apparently that you want to manage your business so as to avoid being the target of the press and the stock traders, as opposed to, say, executing your business plan to realize the goals of the company owners. The entire theory seems to res
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by roc 13y ago
> "How to decline a search" From the article: "The report describes their children as possible decoys, meant to distract police as the couple breezed down the road, smoking marijuana. (None was found in the car, althoug
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by roc 13y ago
So how many happy Samsung customers does that translate to, when the rest of their phones are not doing so well and GS3/GN2 are hardly as numerous as any model of iPhone?
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by roc 13y ago
Of course it's focused: they almost certainly used their web traffic to pre-screen. We already know from the slides that they do searches of their ill-gotten web traffic against a laundry list of keywords. Probably, every single remot
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by roc 13y ago
> "I think the personal experience of 'everyday citizens' is enormously important in understanding issues of privacy and (self-)censorship." Which is what I said. "The writer's burying what should be a re
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by roc 13y ago
So you've gone from "that's not how things work here" to "if you ignore the bulk of what goes on here, you probably won't see it" ?
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by roc 13y ago
"The NSA does the routine profile on everyone within three steps of the-guy-on-the-list, some key words generate hits, salaried agents get another address to visit." By routine profile, I meant "of the data we all already k
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by roc 13y ago
> "subjective reasoning why I'd believe Apple is any different from any other company" When your customer satisfaction numbers are that high, who needs to pay for astroturf?
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by roc 13y ago
To say nothing of the bureaucratic fun that occurs when the US government is forced to work with itself in a JTTF-type situation. 1. Departments are territorial and image conscious (most being headed by elected officials or political appoin
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by roc 13y ago
> "Why is that?" Mentioning the connection to foreign business casually, once, while spending the bulk of the 'story' hyping some implication that the government is profiling people based on web searches alone shows
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by roc 13y ago
TFA: "They asked my husband about his work, his visits to South Korea and China" I'd say the NSAs '3 steps' policy is far more likely. The husband interacts with someone overseas who interacts with someone else who
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by roc 13y ago
A tricky bit, often overlooked, is that the line between hardware and software is fuzzy and moves constantly. What's hardware today is virtualized or emulated or decomposed into a general instruction set tomorrow. Is infringement cont
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by roc 13y ago
> "Blind allegiance (or antipathy) is not how things work here." You may have missed a few threads. HN has had brand/tribe/loyalty slap-fights. More than a few. And more frequently as of late.
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by roc 13y ago
> "Blizzard is leaking subscribers in the hundreds of thousands recently" Another few years of that and they'll merely be ... well, still the largest subscription MMO ever...
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by roc 13y ago
> "Sure, and shooting yourself in the foot is also possible by pointing the gun down at the floor ... doesn't mean it is a good idea." But it's possible and people do it. Which is, I believe the point was, the coun
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by roc 13y ago
In a product line-up where a new GPU requires an entire new machine , merely having to replace a display would actually be an improvement. Not that people with those sorts of interests, even when Apple customers, rely on Apple hardware t
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by roc 13y ago
> "You have to admit that people that commit suicide are primarily responsible for their own deaths. " Perhaps in the same way that we might say someone who dies of cancer is responsible for their own deaths. That is: if we
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by roc 13y ago
But without the GPU what Apple machines other than Mac Pros will decently drive a 4k display? [1] Apple's left the Pro line to languish for so long, I can't imagine they'd let it limit their ability to differentiate in the
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by roc 13y ago
Are you trying to say Apple wouldn't put GPUs in displays because it might accelerate the display upgrade cycle?
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by roc 13y ago
Yeah, $250-not-counting-the-GPU is very much in the "why wouldn't I just dust off my old mid-tower?" range.
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by roc 13y ago
Personally I think baking the GPU power into the displays themselves is the more Apple-y approach. As opposed to some sort of additional-stackable-boxes solution. (Which I'd love to see; I just don't see Apple doing it.)
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by roc 13y ago
Windows legacy problems were very often, very much a case of Windows running on a ton of different hardware. Drivers have quite a bit to do with the pains of hardware fragmentation. And quite a bit of the legacy pain is in having to deal wi
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by roc 13y ago
You've never seen anyone complain about shoddy windows drivers, dll hell, legacy support or browser quirks? You've somehow missed so much as the kvetching about Microsoft not updating older browsers, instead tying finally-better
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by roc 13y ago
They'd be more visually practical, but it would be far easier to swap a reactive straw with a non-reactive straw. It's a tricky problem, even before you consider false-positives and the false sense of security in general.
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by roc 13y ago
The bigger problem with cups would be dark-colored drinks. The concept looks great if we assume a martini. But fairly useless with a cola- or red-juice-based mixer.
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by roc 13y ago
> " The whole premise of this article is that if you are not eager to make it big and shoot for the starts in your chosen profession, there's something flawed inside you and you should take immediate action to fix it." I

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