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by sroerick 12y ago
Agreed. I may just be past smartphones altogether, but if I get one, it will only be FirefoxOS or some other alternative.
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by sroerick 12y ago
I wish I could actually be more supportive of this initiative. After Snowden, I switched to FLOSS software, a dumbphone, and creative commons culture. I had stopped using Google products primarily a couple years earlier, and last summer rea
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by sroerick 12y ago
Great point.
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by sroerick 12y ago
I'm not necessarily saying that the carriers should regulate. I'm just saying that T-Mobile just lost every bit of goodwill that they had earned by becoming a "european" style carrier. I don't own a smart phone, I d
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by sroerick 12y ago
> Despite your theoretical indie label service it doesn't have anything to do with net neutrality. I respectfully disagree. Net Neutrality is not simply about carriers charging for" double dipping. It is, at its heart, a free s
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by sroerick 12y ago
It doesn't have to be masterful. T-Mobile can't issue a press release about free data, if everybody has unlimited data.
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by sroerick 12y ago
First off, I take issue with your argument that this data costs money, and therefore making it free isn't an issue. The data costs money because the telecom industry has spent the last decade prying unlimited data plans out of the cold
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by sroerick 12y ago
Yes. The article makes the point, the issue is not charging for access, the issue is creating a corporate barrier to entry in the market. What if I'm a musician hacker, and I want to release a album app like Bjork or Jay-Z did? Do I ge
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by sroerick 12y ago
Make no mistake, Rhapsody is the real winner here.
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by sroerick 12y ago
Try building a small indie label web streaming music startup. And asking your customers to pay more because you don't have a T-Mobile partnership. "Letting music be free", as long as it participates in a corporate subsidy, no
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by sroerick 12y ago
Well, every ounce of goodwill I had for T-Mobile just went way out the window.
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by sroerick 12y ago
Would you play a game that used that as its business model?
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by sroerick 12y ago
No, I don't think it would be. For a company to announce that they were forgoing tracking would be a brave step. I understand that analytics is a really really useful thing for a company. But, as a corrolary, what if Google Analytics a
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by sroerick 12y ago
> No you wouldn't. You might be hard-minded enough to try and commit to it, but instead you'd almost certainly just stop reading any news...then go back to aggregators/blogs whatever. Yes I would. I do soft boycotts of all
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by sroerick 12y ago
> In order to avoid this type of data collection, you'd have to walk around with a dumbphone, avoid using any bank-connected services and basically only log on to the Internet via a VPN. Ironically, this usage pattern is so far out
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by sroerick 12y ago
My understanding is that users use their Comcast credentials to login to public wifi.
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by sroerick 12y ago
You may want to find another email provider with a different business model.
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by sroerick 12y ago
Yeah. Honestly, I think that if you know that someone encrypts their messages, you probably know a lot more about them then most other data points reveal. It would also get Google a lot of street cred for being a privacy centric business. M
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by sroerick 12y ago
Well, they could just serve privacy ads to people who were encrypting their communication.
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by sroerick 12y ago
That last line was maybe ill spoke. I just meant to illustrate that Snowden knew Levison would go to bat for him, and also that his transgressions against the DoJ would likely be forgiven by the public, in hindsight.
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by sroerick 12y ago
>And the premise of your comment is that DoJ investigating it was somehow abusive. Was it? I don't think I ever made that claim. I was just commenting that Snowden has demonstrated a prior knowledge of tactics that would be used aga
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by sroerick 12y ago
This is something I've thought about a lot. It's not entirely clear to me why Ed Snowden had an account on Lavabit in the first place. Surely he must have known that any companies he operated with were going to receive NSLs. Did h
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by sroerick 12y ago
> But how well does RMS' model scale to our modern, global and interconnected society? It doesn't. But it isn't supposed to. Stallman is consciously upholding a moral ideal that most in tech are not. The goal is not for ev
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by sroerick 12y ago
> Let's say you were preparing an Occupy 2.0 movement. Do you think the government would bring the NSA to bear on you? Do you think you might get "stifled?" Perhaps it's just the nature of activist groups, but I'
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by sroerick 12y ago
It depends. Do you believe that NSA is stifling citizen activism? If that's the case, than NSA spying affects a large portion of Americans. If that's the case, that would put a dampening effect on democracy, which theoretically af
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by sroerick 12y ago
Your comment led me to Matasanto's website. I just want to commend you for your hiring practices and wish you the best.
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by sroerick 12y ago
You know, I've read easily a dozen articles on Levison, and I realised just now that to this very day, I've never read his warrant canary, nor did I know that it was his warrant canary that first broke the warrant request to the p
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by sroerick 12y ago
I'm conflicted by Levison. On one hand, I support what he's doing. I also think that he's raising awareness of a serious issue. On the other hand, I have exactly the same issues as you. I don't think that his case holds
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by sroerick 12y ago
Check this out for primary sources: https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying/nsadocs
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by sroerick 12y ago
I think you're raising great points, and I think this is a really valid concern. However, I'd counter it thus: I think the shilling that happens on reddit is primarily acheived through the use of sock puppetry. I think casting upv

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