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The low-transaction-fee argument for Bitcoin is silly(freedom-to-tinker.com)
2 points by vy8vWJlco 13y ago|0 comments
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
With their records, if they didn't make it, they should at least know who did (who posted the paper, who was mining during the early days, etc...).
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Canada Moves Forward With WIPO Internet Treaty (ETA 2014)(michaelgeist.ca)
1 points by vy8vWJlco 13y ago|0 comments
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
http://news.cnet.com/Wi-Fi-arrest-highlights-security-danger...
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
It would be great if it didn't take a company project to overcome the fear of being harassed at 2:30 AM because someone misused my open WiFi.
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
The need for a filesystem is proportional to the owner's expectation of control. Filesystems are part of the general purpose computing toolkit. Assuming we don't all turn in our computers for appliances in a forced buyback to ge
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
Self-promotion is hardly a conspiracy (unless you can have a conspiracy of one, from a simple conflict of interest... namely in the form of: "alternative narratives are bad," says the author, quoting on behalf of a well-establishe
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
"Confirmation bias - the tendency to pay more attention to evidence that supports what you already believe - is a well-documented and common human failing." ... Search bubbling doesn't help. "Not only does more exposu
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Canadian Petition: No Secret Spying(secretspying.ca)
4 points by vy8vWJlco 13y ago|0 comments
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
One variation on the " nothing to hide" theme I hear (usually when I bring up Internet surveillance to non-tech friends) goes something like: " I only use Facebook for public things anyway ," or " I only want to Sky
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
You might have a look at seccure ( http://point-at-infinity.org/seccure/ ) as well, if you haven't. It's packaged and ready to go in Debian.
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An introduction to elliptic curve cryptography(embedded.com)
2 points by vy8vWJlco 13y ago|4 comments
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51% foreign test doesn’t protect Americans(freedom-to-tinker.com)
11 points by vy8vWJlco 13y ago|0 comments
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
No quote, just thinking out loud (so, as another comment asked, I can't really offer any recommended reading... Other than maybe this classic episode of TNG: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8WpjLGh3wg&list=PLB579CF
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
I have often thought that any successful attempt at AI would have to reproduce the behaviors associated with fear/paranoia and lying . (Or maybe I'm just taking The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy too literally.)
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
The "nothing to hide -> nothing to fear" sophistry is about shifting the basis of judgement from "innocent until proven guilty" to "guilty until proven innocent," replacing reason with superstition. It'
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
I suspect just getting a request from a three letter agency is enough to make most CTOs and CEOs wet themselves and roll over. (Standing up against the government is not usually part of the business plan.)
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
I think the ubiquity of HTTP and other centralized methodologies have encouraged this discrimination ("residential internet" vs "commercial internet"). There's no time like the present to roll back the presumption of consuming non-producers
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Internet Surveillance and Free Speech: the United Nations Makes the Connection(eff.org)
90 points by vy8vWJlco 13y ago|9 comments
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
Since this has access to all the capabilities of a browser, it is a short step from this sort of generic file-based swarming to something with previewing of those files using the browser as a media player for those videos and music (and PDF
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
You've hit it: standardization speeds proliferation, and there's no reason at all for the W3C to speed the proliferation of lock-in, effectively supporting a digital arms race. There may be rationalizations for DRM by certain individuals or
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
Ideally, IMHO, copyright would be non-transferable.
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
See: Lenovo K800, Lava XOLO X900, or any of the new-ish X86 phones (Atom SoCs) with locked bootloaders that will only boot the pre-installed Android, or whatever originally came with the phone. You may revise and say "Sure, but I meant on t
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
"I don't even know what to do anymore." Code. People use Skype because there's no clear alternative (maybe work on Jitsi... It still needs a server for the good stuff). People use Facebook because there's no alternative (maybe work on Ret
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
When I read that bit it dawned on me just how plausible all those worst-case alien-movie scenarios might just turn out to be... Oh sure, it starts innocently enough: someone shows up for work feeling slightly "under the weather," one thing
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
"Back in 2008, a Russian cosmonaut managed to take a laptop to the ISS that spread the W32.Gammima.AG worm to all the other laptops aboard the station." Holy crap.
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
Most of these debates seem to start from the idea of a yes or no ballot to formalize a panopticon and I think that only makes it more likely that society will go there (I mean: please, somebody, think of the children). IMHO, the idea that l
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
"Are there any video chat clients with end-to-end encryption?" Jitsi claims to. ( http://www.jitsi.org )
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
Interestingly, Adam Back has a cache of a Satoshi Nakamoto bio, and related stuff on his home page, advertising a conspicuous interest. http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/ As long as we're speculating wildly, I have a theory... (Bear with me
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by vy8vWJlco 13y ago
I'm not sure I see myself using BitMessage (yet) but if nothing else this FAQ has introduced me to TorChat, which looks promising for simple private text messaging - and whatdoyaknow, the latest version is in Debian Sid (and a slightly olde

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