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UN Committee Approves Text Titled ‘Right to Privacy in the Digital Age’(un.org)
131 points by salient 13y ago|35 comments
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by salient 13y ago
Didn't N900 run Maemo? Also, I'm not even sure N9 ran Meego. If it did, then it was Meego + Nokia's own UI.
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by salient 13y ago
I hope this will not always be the case with merchants, otherwise Bitcoin will never sever its ties with the dollar.
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by salient 13y ago
Is there a way to do recurring payments with Bitcoin yet?
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by salient 13y ago
It definitely needs to be combined with a huge overhaul of the healthcare system (no, I don't think ACA is quite enough), and another huge overhaul of the education system (stop giving unlimited guaranteed money from the government to
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by salient 13y ago
Canonical refused to offer Android emulation for that reason. They didn't think it would be beneficial for Ubuntu Touch in the long term.
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by salient 13y ago
I hear, for instance, that T-mobile is still using Carrier-IQ, and that's without considering the "other OS" for the phone's radio: http://www.osnews.com/story/27416/The_second_operating_syste..
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by salient 13y ago
If someone would've said this before, they would've definitely been seen as paranoid/conspiracy type people. I mean it's ridiculous to even think that a government agency would concern itself with stuff like this - and h
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by salient 13y ago
And people were worried about overpopulation.
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by salient 13y ago
Yes, I saw ~200,000 votes for Snowden when I voted earlier today, and now it's just 37,000. What's going on?! Is Time changing the numbers, or is NSA that petty and hacked them?
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by salient 13y ago
For your sake, you better hope there won't be another ARMv7 and also ARMv8 version of Raspberry Pi, too :)
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by salient 13y ago
The problem is not that they want to be safe, but that they are willing to give up all the rights even against the minimum amount of danger. First off, never give up all of your yours in the name of safety. If you do, then you better ma
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by salient 13y ago
That was one of the most disappointing winnings of Time's POY awards. It should've been Assange, not Zuckerbeg.
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by salient 13y ago
The PR train wreck is but a symptom of Microsoft's own culture of control and bullying. Fix that first, and there should be a lot fewer "PR scandals" related to Microsoft. But I'm not seeing Microsoft fixing any of tha
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by salient 13y ago
Citation needed.
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UK porn filter to also block "extremist narrative"?(publications.parliament.uk)
157 points by salient 13y ago|57 comments
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Julian Assange unlikely to be charged in US(smh.com.au)
61 points by salient 13y ago|82 comments
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Has Intel totally lost the plot?(tgdaily.com)
1 points by salient 13y ago|0 comments
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by salient 13y ago
Good video.
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by salient 13y ago
Maybe this will be the motivation everyone else needs to dump RC4? http://googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.com/2013/11/a-roster-of...
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Meet the FBI Spies Doing the NSA's Dirty Work(foreignpolicy.com)
3 points by salient 13y ago|0 comments
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by salient 13y ago
The point is, Bitcoin can end up saving a lot of energy, by replacing traditional banking transactions, while everyone seems to be seeing it as "wasting" energy. Everyone sees the glass half-empty. Bitcoin only needs to be mined
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by salient 13y ago
None of the altcoins really interest me right now besides Zerocoin, which should be launched in a few months.
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by salient 13y ago
Wait - Bitcoin-like elections? He may be on to something there. Everyone could have their own Bitcoin-like address, that can't be recreated and that person could only vote once. Then maybe we can finally have online voting.
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by salient 13y ago
Does that rule really apply to regional monopolists, though? This is why I don't like some of the states' proposals for bringing fiber there by giving even more such regional monopolies to companies. Fiber is great, if they do mak
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Ukrainians riot in Kiev to join EU after deal collapses over Yulia Tymoshenko(theaustralian.com.au)
8 points by salient 13y ago|0 comments
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by salient 13y ago
What do you think the exploits given to them by Microsoft, way before they even start working on fixing them, are used for? http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-14/u-s-agencies-said-t... The excuse that they are
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by salient 13y ago
This is actually just one of the reasons why I'm not that worried about overpopulation on Earth.
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by salient 13y ago
I do think "fixing" TLS is ultimately a pointless exercise that would only serve for the transitional period until we can build an Internet that's encrypted by default at the IP or Tranport layer. If that's the case, the
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by salient 13y ago
Is NSA "law enforcement" though? They are spies. It is (or should be) also quite illegal for them to be doing that to its own citizens, so if they do that, they should be in prison. Too bad we live in a time where the presiden

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