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by salient 13y ago
I don't understand why Microsoft even calls the two tablets the same, when they couldn't be any different from the software, hardware and price perspectives. The only explanation I can come up with is that they're trying to c
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by salient 13y ago
> Leaving pretty much the entire IT infrastructure vulnerable seems like a very dangerous strategy. From NSA's perspective? I'm not so sure. A severe attack on US infrastructure would probably mean just more money and more lega
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by salient 13y ago
VLC doesn't even seem to be fully ported to Android yet.
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by salient 13y ago
I used to support Chromebooks. Not anymore. Having every last bit of your data "in the cloud" has turned out to be a very dangerous concept, especially since Google (and many other cloud providers) don't provide any kind of e
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by salient 13y ago
I've never agreed much with Krugman's theories, but at least he understands a thing or two about economy. However, what I've always found him to be always clueless about is - technology. You have a better chance finding a m
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by salient 13y ago
Well there's P2P file sharing through WebRTC: https://www.sharefest.me/
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by salient 13y ago
Life isn't black and white. What that means is that maybe US should get involved in some situations, and not get involved in others. So you don't have to think that either you get involved in no situation, or in all situations
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by salient 13y ago
That was a great one. So was this by Jacob Appelbaum from last year, where he was already saying (pre-Snowden) that the chief of NSA is probably the most powerful man on the planet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mnuofn_DXw
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by salient 13y ago
That's why EU and everyone else is waiting for US to pass strong laws that prohibit US gov doing that, and for them to acknowledge the EU laws for data protection, before they can trust US companies at all . At least if US passes such
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by salient 13y ago
I agree. I don't know how that number was reached, but if the potential for losses is $180 billion already , then the long term losses might reach $1 trillion, maybe more. There are so many companies that change so slowly. They probab
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by salient 13y ago
Maybe you just aren't paying attention: http://www.cnbc.com/id/101291247 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/09/nsa-spying-braz... http://www.washingtonsblog.c
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by salient 13y ago
No, it's the best possible reaction (not for US, obviously, but they deserve it). This sends a message to US and US companies. Also, in case you haven't paid attention the US government was hacking into one of the biggest US
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by salient 13y ago
This deal was probably made pre-Snowden revelations. I doubt any of the world's governments are so eager to deploy US-controlled machines in their institutions and schools, especially if they are "cloud-only".
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by salient 13y ago
Seems like the Gates Foundation is mostly a front for a profit-seeking venture.
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by salient 13y ago
What's even more confusing is that after we've settled that 3840x2160 is 4k, which is 4x the pixels of 1920x1080, just like 8k is 4x the pixels of 4k, instead of calling 1920x1080 "2k", everyone is starting to call 2560x
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by salient 13y ago
Classic blaming of the messenger.
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by salient 13y ago
That can apply to other apps and products, but much less so to crypto tools. It's basically one of the reasons why new crypto algorithms only start being used after 5 years of being in the wild, and many more in pre-release research
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by salient 13y ago
Not only did they add that after the fact, when they saw people were coming to their site to see it, but it seems they've also asked Google to flag all Youtube videos with it. Wow. How can they claim copyright on that? Wasn't the
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by salient 13y ago
What type of OTR improvements suggested by Trevor Perrin did you use. The same ones TextSecure will be using? https://whispersystems.org/blog/advanced-ratcheting/
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by salient 13y ago
The white paper is down the page a little: http://okturtles.com/other/dnsnmc_okturtles_overview.pdf
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by salient 13y ago
I'd be interested to see another comparison with DNSCurve on your page ( http://okturtles.com/#DNSNMC ): http://dnscurve.org/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K8EGA834Nok It seems Aaron Sw
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by salient 13y ago
> "A child born today will grow up with no conception of privacy at all. They'll never know what it means to have a private moment to themselves, an unrecorded, unanalyzed thought. And that's a problem, because privacy mat
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by salient 13y ago
Jesus. Do you even read your own source before posting? The author seems just as confused as you are, since he's the one posting the Novell comments, and saying it's actually about Nortel, when it's not. From your own source,
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by salient 13y ago
Universities have patents for the purpose of selling them, no? If a company is making something and wants to use it, then they buy the patent. No different from today in that case. The only difference is that trolls can't buy the same
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by salient 13y ago
If you've been following the situation you'd know that isn't true. Rockstar was built for the whole purpose of suing Google. And use them "for themselves"? Rockstar is a little more than a shell company.
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by salient 13y ago
For crying out loud. Will people stop confusing Nortel with Novell!! That was about Novell patents - different company, and it all happened about a year earlier before Nortel thing went down. Completely different situations. Stop confusing
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by salient 13y ago
If he did, they'd just yell that he put everyone in life-threatening danger, like they did with Manning and also Wikileaks. I guess he wanted to avoid that level of accusations, although people like Mike Rogers still say that about him
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by salient 13y ago
You should hold it at 30C3 instead (unless it's too late to sign-up now).
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by salient 13y ago
NSA didn't need to backdoor DES when they just forced everyone to use weak keys: > 1979 - Present, DES: The Data Encryption Standard was altered by the NSA to make it harder to mathematically attack but easier to attack via Brute Fo
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by salient 13y ago
Recalling her is the only option if she doesn't resign from the position of Chief of Senate Intelligence. She's way too dangerous in that position to be left there. No real reform of the NSA will happen with her there. I still rem

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