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by thg 9y ago
> SoC exist with builtin LTE/CDMA/etc. But inside the Echo? It's not my area of expertise, but I'm almost certain that there are people with the expertise that are looking for exactly that and if Google or Amazon had
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by thg 9y ago
> Not really practical with a pinned internal CA and batched uploading. It's not so much about looking at the payload than it is about whether it's sending anything at all and if it is, what amount. Correct me if I'm wrong
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by thg 9y ago
You could sniff the network connection and see whether it is sending anything home. Of course you'd have to do that again after every update and you wouldn't know if it doesn't activate silent recording for specific key words
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by thg 9y ago
It's more a mix of both than an either-or. In the western world we can see Huxley's vision much more dominantly, while in China / NK it's not far a stretch to full Orwellian. However, Orwell's envisioned surveillanc
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by thg 9y ago
You are correct. He was born December 25th, 1642 as per the Julian calendar and January 4th, 1643 as per the Gregorian calendar that almost everyone uses today.
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by thg 9y ago
If I were a regular WSJ reader, I'd subscribe, but I'm only reading the occasional WSJ article that's linked here on HN. Having the Add-On bypass it is more convenient than using the FB redirect snipplet and that's about
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by thg 9y ago
It's perfectly fine if the US does it, but if Russia does it they're the big, bad man in the room? All that blatant Pro-US Anti-Russia propaganda all over the western world must actually be efficient. Who would have thought.
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by thg 9y ago
If you're browsing with Firefox, the "Bypass Paywalls" Add-on is really neat. No further workarounds necessary. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypasspaywall...
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by thg 9y ago
It made me switch to uMatrix, which incidentally also gave me the cookie controls back that I had with the Cookie Monster extension pre-Quantum.
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by thg 9y ago
> Facebook made a commitment they wouldn't connect the data in order to get permission from competition authorities for the merger. I don't know how legally binding that is. Not quite. They said it's "technically impo
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by thg 9y ago
I don't see other nations (trying to) force their culture, views and laws on everyone outside their nation.
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Osaka University professor: “The prince from Snow White is a sex offender”(en.rocketnews24.com)
4 points by thg 9y ago|1 comments
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by thg 9y ago
This reminds me that the EU had a proposal last year about mandating all publicly-funded research to be open access. I'm curious to see what will become of that. https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/05/dr
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by thg 9y ago
> Claims that he's beholden to Verizon are exactly as absurd as that Manchurian Candidate sketch. https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20171205/10255738745/days-... He sure isn't making a very good
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by thg 9y ago
Obviously it would, however phones run on battery power and having the microphone always-on would drain the battery fast , which users would most certainly notice and also care about (more recharging, phone becomes unusable due to empty ba
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by thg 9y ago
Until you get a (targeted) firmware update that allows for just that. Even if there is no malicious intent now, can you be absolutely certain that that won't change? That there aren't or won't be any hidden keywords that will
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by thg 9y ago
> One thing that has often intrigued me and which I never saw an explanation for is why older languages often have more elaborate and complex grammar than modern languages, and why English has simplified over time more than others. I c
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by thg 9y ago
I take that you've never heard of Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language"[0]? My favorite quote is "My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and prono
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Trump’s anti-Muslim retweets draw outrage and criticism(theguardian.com)
1 points by thg 9y ago|0 comments
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by thg 9y ago
Skynet is entertainment. A real ASI will be much more proficient at removing threats. Both nanobots and a genetically engineered super virus, for example, would be very well suited to extinguish humanity in a timeframe that makes resistanc
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by thg 9y ago
> Yet rather than keeping this information in the closest confidence, they sell it to the highest bidder. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/05/faceb...
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by thg 9y ago
John Oliver[0] might have had something to do with that. [0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92vuuZt7wak
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by thg 9y ago
Facebook isn't concerned about fake news, it's concerned about bad press and possibly facing regulation. Make the bad press about Facebook fake news go away and Facebook will stop caring about fake news on their platform. https:&
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by thg 9y ago
AMD PSP (Platform Security Processor) is what you're looking for. Essentially the same thing as the ME, just for AMD processors.
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by thg 9y ago
Waterfox[0] is another option. It's based on Firefox, integrates patches from upstream and will continue to support the old extension system. [0]: https://www.waterfoxproject.org/
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by thg 9y ago
Well, maybe AMD does at least some security reviewing on their own? /s ARM could be a affordable alternative to x86 if that works for you.
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by thg 9y ago
Public opinion is shaped a great deal by what and in what way the mass media covers a specific topic. There was a lot of uproar about NSA surveillance while it was in the news , which quickly died down as the headlines disappeared. Out of
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by thg 9y ago
> No one is forced to give their data to Facebook. Neither do we have to. Facebook is grabbing it all anyway. With pre-emptive measures ala ad-, cookie and tracker blocking we can reduce the amount of data they get, but they still ge
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by thg 9y ago
> “As a vendor here in the United States,” Clark said, “we are headquartered in a country where it is OK to say no.” Until the government comes knocking and can demand pretty much everything with your only option being a secret court tha
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by thg 9y ago
> I've built notification systems in the past, and in every instance, respecting the fact that abusing the notification power entrusted to us by our customers was seen as a cardinal sin. The keyword in your sentence is customers .

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