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by znowi 13y ago
I think the truth is somewhere in the middle. In particular that government and corporations are working together at high level, while maintaining opposing stance in public. When you're a huge corp like Google that operates around the
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by znowi 13y ago
Wow. So, basically, Facebook says: "You're locked out. If you want to stay a Facebook user, you must provide your government issued ID, or else - get lost." This is a glimpse of the future, if we let it slide. The Internet gi
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by znowi 13y ago
Wow! This is awesome. Might be a revolution coming. The first thought I had was - IBM PC. This could be just that for the mobile market.
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> This surveillance is now seen in Latin America as a threat from the classic "American Imperialism" Funny you mention that, cause Latin America has always been treated as a colony by the US. Recent detention of the Bolivian pr
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Funny how none of the PRISM companies support this initiative. However, say, Google's participation would highly increase the awareness of the cause. But all they came up with are copycat press releases to deny NSA revelations and a no
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True. However, it's the what people hear part that is the goal. Hence, from a PR standpoint, it's quite effective.
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This brilliant professor of yours should not have a problem following a few simple rules that a repair technician can and everyone else abides to. > he's the editor that Wikipedia desperately needs to attract If those editors requir
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I wish it was a sincere initiative to protect users, however, I suspect it's a political campaign in order to get some preferences out of the US.
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> And I honestly don't know how one can take down such a power structure that's in such an advanced stage. Revolution would work. Except, most Americans are living rather comfortable lives, despite all the surveillance uproar.
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This will be a hit if it comes to fruition. A hassle-free hacker-friendly alternative to GMail. Simple freemium model, no ads, and complete privacy. Even use your own domain. https://assemblymade.com/amail
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What else can you expect from the Empire? Anakin was once a honest Jedi, too. But the evil forces of greed overpowered him :) Choose the path of the Jedi - use DDG! https://duckduckgo.com/
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Wow, this is an unusual step for Yahoo. Who would think that a hijack process that tempers with user's browser settings is a good idea? Hello, Marissa Mayer? As for uTorrent, it's been going down this path for a while, gradually i
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Katz talked freer, laughed harder, stayed up longer and dreamed bigger when he had a drink in his hand, friends say. Drinking brought a painfully shy man out of his shell. I wonder if alcohol served him as an unfortunate remedy for his in
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A text editor project without screenshots is just... wrong :)
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Ah, very nice. It's a European competitor to Coursera based in Berlin.
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> Privacy groups contacted by The New York Times expressed concern over the security agency’s widening reach At this rate of government's lust for control and power, it is time to express outrage already. I'll enjoy watching
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> I can see CIA looking at how their propaganda are affecting foreign nations by seeing who reads it from where Interestingly, this is the second Google project on HN today that caters to people in oppressive countries. uProxy and recent
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I'm actually saddened by the fact that we consider 8 hours of battery life satisfactory, and 14 hours nothing short of astronomical . Anything less than a full day work for a mobile device should be unacceptable. Smartphones are par
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> Project Shield is an initiative to use Google's infrastructure to protect free expression online How peculiar. The tech is DDoS mitigation, but the PR focus is on "free expression online", Syrian gas attacks, and evil Ir
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Thank you. It'd be nice to have this on the stream page.
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And no privacy issues, NSA revelations, services shutdown, Google+ coercion, and further exploitation of users have any effect on the bottom line. You can get away with anything when you're big and important.
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> Goldman beat estimates but many analysts say a driver of this was Goldman's ability to cut costs If they ever cut costs somewhere, it's from the pockets of their clients. http://www.theguardian.com/business&#x
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MPAA doesn't get it. Costly lobbying and crushing lawsuits is not how you defeat piracy. This is how you do it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0ukYf_xvgc
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tl;dr We wanted to please the trendy Mac users, hence switched to Qt, which providers a more authentic interface on Mac OS X.
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> The vast majority of the time I have been invited, or had opportunities to visit, I just do not choose to visit the USA. This. I think it's the only viable solution today. Do not put yourself in a derogatory position, if you can a
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Compared to the US, any other country can be deemed politically incorrect :)
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More like Eric Clapton's fans https://github.com/cocaine/cocaine-core#readme
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> the very real possibility of default It was never a possibility. Only a matter of cutting a better deal for each involved party. Just like with the Wall Street bailout - it's "too big to fail". So the debt bubble will co
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> going to be funded by a particular backer Somehow, when I read this, I imagine this guy :) http://i.imgur.com/IF7omHj.jpg
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Abundance of throw-away accounts to express a potentially unpopular opinion is a good evidence of a groupthink environment. People either afraid to lose karma or be scrutinized or otherwise upset the mods. I can often see people opening the

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