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by wtmt 8y ago
Slightly related: The Chinese government is already working on a social credit rating system using mass surveillance. I shudder to even imagine living in such a world.
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by wtmt 8y ago
> Hopefully from Federal prison with a life sentence. Literally billions of times he and his execs, managers, and engineers have violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, Electronic Communications Privacy Act, Federal Wiretap Act, and
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by wtmt 8y ago
I'd be happy in a world where Facebook is run into the ground!
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by wtmt 8y ago
This is off topic from the headline. > Future Applications > While it’s easy to get caught up in the Orwellian nature of an “always on” network of license plate snitchers, there are many positive applications of this technology. I don
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by wtmt 8y ago
Games on iOS: Flight Control, Flight Control HD and Flight Control Rocket, all by Firemint (later Firemonkeys after being bought by EA). I have an old device on which I can play a couple of these until those devices die. Features to add: I
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by wtmt 8y ago
Maybe I’m in the minority here. Is this the “new editor coming soon” on wordpress.com blogs? If yes, I tried it and was left more confused than before (features like copying an existing post with its categories, tags and content in order to
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by wtmt 8y ago
Thanks for those links. If you see this soon, could you please edit your comment and remove the code block formatting for the five bullet points and instead use a blank line between each point to add newlines? [1] It’s difficult to read on
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by wtmt 8y ago
Looks like Google is shutting down most of the consumer focused platforms where someone in the organization believes it’s expensive and not making money like selling ads does. I’m confident on Gmail and Maps staying around for the long term
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by wtmt 8y ago
Here, "you" is a person in Canada, US or UAE (with early access). So it's not really global from one side of this equation! There's plenty of space for such flat fee and low cost disruptions to send money from other cou
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by wtmt 8y ago
> “...you’ll have the peace of mind of knowing that others can’t see your online activity," Google's blog post says. "That includes Google—our VPN is designed so that your traffic isn’t tied to your Google account or phon
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by wtmt 8y ago
One rationale is when the machine is used for several years and Apple (certainly) stops providing OS updates/upgrades for that hardware. In such cases, Linux has been a viable option to move to so far. It creates a usable system with b
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by wtmt 8y ago
> Unfortunately the current government, the first in many years that is actually taking some decisions to get the ship in working order is gonna get caught in the quicksand created by its predecessors. Citation (and additional informat
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by wtmt 8y ago
I'm in India and work in the tech sector, but I've rarely seen cutesy drawings in presentations or trainings. Most of them I have seen are dull standard PowerPoint bullet points. At least the larger companies, both Indian and fore
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by wtmt 8y ago
I find these cute and beautiful. As someone who cannot draw well, I appreciate graphic designs that attract people and make things a bit more fun where necessary. Computers and websites are already scary and difficult to use for most common
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by wtmt 8y ago
On morality and atheism, I'm reminded of this dialogue from the show "True Detective", Season 1 Episode 3 (emphasized part of it) [1]: Rust Cohle: " If the only thing keeping a person decent is the expectation of divine
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by wtmt 8y ago
Very well done. In a personal or online conversation, it takes a little while to explain how bad things can be for the poorer people and how it’s a vicious circle (or like struggling in quicksand). Many people don't get this without an
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by wtmt 8y ago
As others have said, whatever the author has written could apply to any smartphone from any vendor and any OS. And there's a whole lot of room for improvement in iOS (only Apple has to decide that these are priorities). The small scree
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by wtmt 8y ago
There doesn't seem to be a way to sign up for this directly. If one wants to support Mozilla through this, it looks like one has to be in the U.S. (or fake being in the U.S. with a free account of ProtonVPN) and hope to be picked up
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by wtmt 8y ago
Wish these were not as expensive as they are. This, the new Palm phone and similar devices could potentially start a minimalist (and "cute"?) revolution where devices focus on some core aspects with battery life closer to that of
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by wtmt 8y ago
I was hoping and looking for ePub support, and it's listed in the long term section of the roadmap. That's the main feature I'd want. This looks really nice (though I'm not a fan of Electron apps). I can't wait for
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by wtmt 8y ago
What are my options if I don't want my ISP (and thus the government, which in my case can easily get that information) to easily know which sites I'm visiting and thwart their attempts to block sites using trivial methods — assu
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by wtmt 8y ago
Well, think of any kind of mass change that you believe is beneficial to humanity and I bet you'd have a similar set of points that seem cultish.
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by wtmt 8y ago
Don't wait for others to do things or take decisions. That's going to be an uphill battle if you really want changes quicker. Start with yourself, and then push others (including friends, family, colleagues, corporations, politici
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by wtmt 8y ago
Yeah, the DRM and the various limits (even if they look big, they're still limits...on a paid service) imposed on offline storage and the inability to move content across devices are huge bummers.
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by wtmt 8y ago
Somehow I don't like the "rental model" for songs and books that one may enjoy multiple times in one's life (compared to movies that are usually more ephemeral, and there may not be many that one would want to watch mult
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by wtmt 8y ago
That's really sad, and I understand how frustrating that can be. It used to be next to impossible to do the same in India, but things have changed a lot in the last two decades. We still have a lot of control on the currency.
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by wtmt 8y ago
> ...and local streaming services don't have a good selection of non-bollywood music By non-Bollywood, do you mean music in other Indian languages or popular English music? Amazon Prime and Apple Music seem to have something in othe
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by wtmt 8y ago
It's sad that the poor, who have faced the brunt of this scheme and have died or starved because of exclusion through this ill conceived and ill executed scheme, have been excluded once again by the majority verdict of the top court. T
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Aadhaar: India top court upholds world's largest biometric scheme(bbc.com)
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by wtmt 8y ago
> Then what, who will use those data ? Thieves ? Criminals ? If it's just that well, that's a minor inconvenience. It's only a minor inconvenience if you can sit in a comfortable place and pontificate on Hacker News about

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