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by znowi 13y ago
3.2% of seniors over 65 years old. I hope to be as engaged with innovation and have an early adopter spirit when I'm that old :)
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by znowi 13y ago
Those tech companies possess immense power and influence, both in lobbying and even more so on the internet with the people. If they really wanted to "push back", this story would be over in the summer. One Google could turn the t
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by znowi 13y ago
> On Monday, eight major tech firms, many of them competitors, united to demand an overhaul of government transparency and surveillance laws. Not long ago they united under the PRISM project to spy on their users. What a quick change o
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by znowi 13y ago
Good for him, I say. Opens up interesting opportunities. Feel sad for BT employees though. With a company culture like this I don't think it's much of an attraction for smart, innovative folk.
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by znowi 13y ago
I'm surprised. After all the user rights and privacy issues pouring in this year - Google is most trusted. Perhaps, it's the lesser of evil. If I were to choose from the list, it would be one single company - Mozilla.
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by znowi 13y ago
Robin Hood, $0 fees, pompous venture names - there must be a catch somewhere :) I'm positive HN will find out.
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by znowi 13y ago
The US is indeed a superpower. The only superpower left after the Soviets collapsed. It's not a big leap to predict how it's going to turn out in the long term without checks and balanced imposed. This is the first step: the Bush
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by znowi 13y ago
Sadly, Disconnect detects less trackers than Ghostery (e.g. 5 vs 7 on washingtonpost.com). I also like how Ghostery provides URLs for each tracker source (actual payload) that you can easily view on their site. There's also a database
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by znowi 13y ago
So, basically, Google's location history is NSA's HAPPYFOOT data aggregator. https://maps.google.com/locationhistory/
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by znowi 13y ago
They should have used Octocat - charming, friendly creature, who keeps your stuff in order :) This one will do. http://octodex.github.com/images/murakamicat.png
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by znowi 13y ago
There's a very insightful documentary on the Israeli-Palestinian relationship, featuring 6 former directors of Shabak (Israel Security Agency). I highly recommend it. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2309788/
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by znowi 13y ago
I feel a bit uneasy that the undersigned are all PRISM companies. All 8 of them. They seem to stick together and not mix with outsiders. Note that there's already a similar initiative launched by Mozilla called Stop Watching Us [1].
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Your location history(maps.google.com)
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by znowi 13y ago
Yes, even caught me off guard for a second. This is a rare case when sensationalist title is indeed factual :)
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by znowi 13y ago
As I understand high-temperature superconductors are in use today and new materials are found to exhibit superconductivity at -150 C or higher. But the mechanism by which it happens is not known, which is the focus of this research. They se
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by znowi 13y ago
Yes, I admire their resolve in staying truly lean as a company with focus on making a great product rather than making a great profit. After more than 10 years, it's still a compact team of 36 people. I wonder what happens when they
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by znowi 13y ago
OK, my archive is being collected as of now. It was so easy, with a direct link to the takeout, with Gmail preselected, and a one click operation - I almost wonder what the catch is :) I suspect it might have been a bit of a battle to push
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by znowi 13y ago
Yes, I can see that: droids on the streets and our homes conducting surveillance for Google and NSA :)
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by znowi 13y ago
Is this a clever way to harvest email addresses? :)
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by znowi 13y ago
Damn, I feel sad he's not around anymore.
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by znowi 13y ago
Jesus. Take a look at this "patch": https://github.com/joyent/libuv/pull/1015/files Ousted the guy because he referred to "user" as a "he" in the comments? Are you fucking k
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by znowi 13y ago
And here comes the bloat. Soon Rails will be replacing WEBrick in Ruby 3.0.
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by znowi 13y ago
This is an open letter to enterprise customers . A bit of a misleading title.
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by znowi 13y ago
> And the danger is that it can polarise populations creating potentially harmful divisions in society. I think we already see the effect of this. It gets harder for opposing sides to find common ground - from local to government level.
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by znowi 13y ago
I was surprised at the amount of trackers on the net after I installed Ghostery. News publishers are the worst in my experience - up to 20 ad/tracking plugs on one page. Insane. Sadly, some sites do not work properly if you (Ghostery)
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by znowi 13y ago
I'm glad the Chinese go for it, for whatever reasons. It's a net gain for everyone, technology or socially-wise. I'd rather see funding for the moon program or new exciting probes rather than dozens of useless companies like
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by znowi 13y ago
> At best they had a great marketing department that made it possible for them to peddle their crap to the public for so long. They also chose the most susceptible target market - teen gamers and overclockers. "Being cool" is t
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by znowi 13y ago
> they as an organization are completely deprecated What deprecates them is countries like the US who don't give a shit about international agreements.
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by znowi 13y ago
Not much surprising, though. The US and their minions. Full stat for a bigger picture: 148 in favor, 4 against, 27 abstained. It's like 4 against the world.
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by znowi 13y ago
> I've been working on a new email platform This! You're doing it right. I wish all the Gmail tweakers united to build a better platform rather than spend their time propping the old, PRISM-tainted, UI-crippled service.

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