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by salient 13y ago
But it's interesting to know the scale of this, because the bigger the scale, the more people and institutions around the world will starting to think that "hey, they must be doing this to everyone , possibly even to us - so mayb
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by salient 13y ago
The question is will the Bitcoin Foundation put those add-ons into the Bitcoin protocol? I think they would be quite reluctant to do it at this point, as they are more concerned with establishing Bitcoin as a viable currency right now, that
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by salient 13y ago
Google doing this would be great, and I do support it. However, the effect would be so much greater if all US companies allied against stuff like this, and form some kind of BSA against censorship and surveillance by governments around th
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by salient 13y ago
I think the author wasn't suggesting to end surveillance, too, just censorship. Unless you're saying that the Chinese government could just do MITM attacks and serve the readers different stuff.
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by salient 13y ago
I think anyone who still believes the mass surveillance isn't used over 95 percent of the time for different reasons than "defending against terrorism", is being naive at this point. This is mainly about industrial espionag
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by salient 13y ago
Well this one had a nice story on it: http://toastytech.com/evil/ieisevilstory.html
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by salient 13y ago
I hope this won't turn into something like: "We offer Gigabit fiber*. Come and get it!" Footnote: Speeds may get no higher than 200 Mbps most of the time. If these investments are going to last for another decade, they need t
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by salient 13y ago
> John's work on id Tech 5 and the technology for the current development work at id is complete. So he's leaving just before starting to work on the voxel/polygon id Tech 6 hybrid gaming engine. Darn it! http:/&#x2F
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by salient 13y ago
Don't expect Holder the Untouchable to ever be punished for this. At this point I think he's more untouchable than even "Emperor Alexander", the current (and soon former) chief of NSA.
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by salient 13y ago
But is it end to end encryption?
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by salient 13y ago
Isn't Windows 8.1 logging local filenames, too, thanks to the integrated Bing search and advertising platform, so then it can serve you ads based on your local files?
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by salient 13y ago
That's why Intel's future chips that will allow encrypted connections to Intel's servers and be updated whenever Intel wants them to, without the user seeing anything, worry me, too. http://www.popularresistance.or
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by salient 13y ago
It saddens me that so much focus is being put on the price speculation aspect of Bitcoin. 9 out of 10 articles I see about Bitcoin are about its price. The last Senate hearing on Bitcoin was already quite aggressive about this, and some s
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by salient 13y ago
Can I just say how much I hate that Google automatically turns blogspot.com into the TLD of your own country? Who the hell wants that?
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by salient 13y ago
> If a crime was committed in france they can ask for extradition. But it wasn't "committed in France". This is getting ridiculous, not to mention extremely dangerous . A few more cases of these from the "democracies
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by salient 13y ago
These stupid short-sighted governments are going to ruin the Internet for the rest of us through their greed for money (like in this case) and power (NSA mass surveillance).
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by salient 13y ago
The business method part of software patents is perhaps the most damaging one by far, and why so many patents are "crappy", and describe very vague ideas that then get applied to everything when you say someone "infringed on
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by salient 13y ago
In cases of bribe, do you blame only the receiver, or the one who gives bribe, too? And as a non-American I fully see this as nothing but bribing. The only difference is that in US paying money to pass or fail bills like this is "legal
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Discussions On The Abolition Of Patents From 1869(techdirt.com)
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by salient 13y ago
Yet again, this is just the cost of doing business, and no one is going to prison. If what they didn't wasn't so illegal, they wouldn't be paying $13 billion to settle. If they settled for that much, the damage to them, eithe
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DOJ: We're not going to release our Patriot Act interpretation(techdirt.com)
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by salient 13y ago
Because unfortunately, most of these companies are clueless about technology, and buy from whoever comes to them through the door, pitching them about how awesome it would be to buy some thousand dollar/unit such displays, and have the
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by salient 13y ago
Seems so much faster than Youtube.
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Feinstein promotes bill to strengthen NSA's hand on warrantless searches(theguardian.com)
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by salient 13y ago
As soon as a service becomes relatively popular, the carriers will know about it, and throttle it manually until they "pay up".
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by salient 13y ago
I definitely blame Google most for not sticking with their original plan of stopping support for h.264 in Chrome 10. They could've done like Apple, when they decided not to support Flash, and Apple "won" - why? Because them d
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by salient 13y ago
Now how about you "mortally wound" Skype's (in)security model, Microsoft? No end-to-end security = no security.
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CIA's Financial Spying Bags Data on Americans(online.wsj.com)
2 points by salient 13y ago|0 comments