rockskon

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by rockskon 2y ago
I don't know anyone who has been affected by "traffic violence". As big of a source of death it is, it's still an infinitesimally small one in he grand scheme of things.
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by rockskon 2y ago
Generally something that's okay to do to one person is okay to do to a billion in the law. Something legal applied a billion times doesn't make it illegal. That's also one of the legal principles underlying mass warrantless s
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by rockskon 2y ago
Does that body of literature say anything about in-person interactions in the workplace? Specifically the workplace. An environment that a breathtaking number of people do not want to think one second about outside of work.
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by rockskon 2y ago
That all said.... There's a lot of comparatively wealthy engineers and programmers out there. Enough to fund a powerhouse of a lobbying force. But lobbying to change what is the question?
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by rockskon 2y ago
Feels a lot less joyful to be involved in open source than it used to be when there's just not as much of a culture of respect/"respect" or even the knowledge that you're making the world a better place for individu
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by rockskon 2y ago
So I'm aware she worked for the NSA but this is the first I'm hearing of her working for TAO. I had thought she worked at the NSA's IAD (defensive side) pre-merge of the offensive and defensive sides.
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by rockskon 2y ago
Will Microsoft face liability if someone dies or fails to receive critical care because some infrastructure system auto-rebooted to apply an update and lost state/data relating to that patient's care?
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by rockskon 2y ago
By that logic, the interesting question is who paid them? There's no shortage of money and headlines promoting working in the office. Who had the money to pay for the other side?
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by rockskon 2y ago
See - your problem is you think you're talking to politicians, Facebook-era journalists, disinfo activists. Most people here have thought more about the the topic of privacy in the modern era far more than what some 70 year old politic
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by rockskon 2y ago
Don't forget Google's adsense rules which penalized useful straightforward websites and mandated websites be full of "content". Doesn't matter if the "content" is garbage nonsense rambling and excessive w
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by rockskon 2y ago
The second to last point is laughable since it's long been authorized in executive order that if the NSA stumbles upon information relating to criminal activity while searching for other stuff that they can report that info to the FBI.
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by rockskon 2y ago
Does this have any substance behind it or is this one of the social media accounts that worship the military and project their fan-theories on substance-less posts?
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by rockskon 2y ago
It can also be explained by there being stuck with the same soul-destroying business model for decades that's slowly taking over everything and making life shittier for everyone except marketers to optimize revenue.
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by rockskon 2y ago
"willingly". Just like you willingly walk to your car and willingly drive to work and willingly do your job. Sure - you have the option of doing none of those things. No one is forcing you to do it. But you won't make a mean
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by rockskon 2y ago
But they're still doing those questionable things right now . They and the FBI openly fought to preserve the legal right to continue doing these constitutionally dubious actions!
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by rockskon 2y ago
There are no shortage of Feds who evangelize the NSA who don't actually work for the NSA. Of particular frustration to me are lawyers who cannot conceive of any issue with the NSA's practices because they've filled put paperw
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by rockskon 2y ago
Books do not biodegrade in a timeline we'll ever see in our lives unless there's water damage. Which is relatively rare. It is very much not uncommon to see books several decades old in libraries. And I suppose it is survivorshi
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by rockskon 2y ago
It puzzles me to hear of these "degradation" arguments, as if it isn't common to find perfectly readable books over 100 years old in antique shops. "Degradation" is the conception publishers want to think of applyin
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by rockskon 2y ago
> You know how some people think rent control is a good idea but then every economist explain how it’s actually bad? That’s how I feel about “impose the restrictions of physical goods onto digital”. It’s a terrible idea that has terrible
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by rockskon 2y ago
Steam effectively implemented digital game borrowing years ago. Works just fine.
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by rockskon 2y ago
The idea is to impose the restrictions of physical goods onto the digital one. Your idea is to eliminate the very concept of a library where ebooks are concerned. You may want to rethink your argument.
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by rockskon 2y ago
Sued under what grounds? "Cause we don't want you to" isn't valid legal grounds.
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by rockskon 2y ago
My understanding is that there generally isn't a legal prohibiton on disseminating data you obtained legally even if the person who initially acquired it did so illegally.
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by rockskon 2y ago
Unless I'm mistaken, the city lied about the data existing in a form unusable to the hackers. That lie is, itself, giving a false sense of security to witnesses for ongoing criminal investigations. Witnesses whose data is data is ac
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by rockskon 2y ago
???? I'm not quite certain what law he's accused of violating. He didn't download the info from the gov website so there couldn't be allegations of unauthorized access. He didn't hack the website either. What gives
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by rockskon 2y ago
The FBI is part of the Intelligence Community. The Department of Justice indirectly so as well. And someone has to charge Snowden and lobbies for stricter legal penalties.
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by rockskon 2y ago
He said he'd do that if given the opportunity to present his case in the court of law. That is not an option the US Intelligence Community would allow.
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by rockskon 2y ago
His continued existance in Russia antagonizes the US Intelligence Community. That itself has value to Russia. Not tremendous value, but value nevertheless.
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by rockskon 2y ago
If anything I'm not trivializing it enough. There are dozens of companies with vastly more cultural literacy vying to manipulate you into buying goods every day. Amidst the sea of "look at my notification! Look at my recommendati
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by rockskon 2y ago
Yeah - that doesn't get rid of or replace cars. It reduces how much time they're on the road.

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