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by znowi 13y ago
I read the motions and now this response and somehow it resembles a show for the public. Big tech picked a minor surveillance issue of FISA orders statistics and conveyed their care for user privacy. Government respectfully denied and conve
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Agreed on the camera. It's pretty much crap and comparable to images taken with an ancient Nexus One. Look forward to this MEMS camera, but stay skeptical. Fast focus is awesome, but how good is the matrix? Low light performance? Dynam
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by znowi 13y ago
This is a good time to buy cheap bitcoins :)
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Feds Raid Online Drug Market Silk Road(nation.time.com)
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Google lawyers are presenting a clever argument, which on the surface looks quite sensible. But the accusation is not about scanning, but wiretapping , which, as the judge notes "primarily used to create user profiles and to provide t
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More than 70 percent of the civilians working for U.S. spy agencies have been deemed "non-essential" employees ...due to great effectiveness of the recently deployed digital surveillance systems like PRISM and the help of big te
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When it happens in the US - it's to protect freedom. If it happens elsewhere - OMG! Human rights violation! Must send the troops to save the world :)
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The ad-centric intent is clear and trying to cover it with "we don't see it this way" only further alienates potential users (and worse, makes fool of them). Be up front and honest about the product you make.
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by znowi 13y ago
Might as well be called "Google Ad Designer" :) There seem to be a hidden agenda in everything Google does these days.
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I understand your inner skeptic, but seriously, this investigative zeal might have been more appropriate elsewhere. The guy could have easily folded, like hundreds of other companies, without a word. Instead, he shut down the service to pro
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by znowi 13y ago
> Exactly! Global Warming will actually bring more snow! This is why they renamed it to Climate Change , which is a win situation in any outcome :)
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I suspect if this idea was not coming from Wheeler/Feynman, it would be readily dismissed as a crackpot theory :)
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I shall bookmark this discussion and get back to it in a couple of years :)
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> Jeez! I can't believe... I concur. > attacking the messenger while completely missing the message Yes, but who cares about some president of some South American former colony? Obviously a shady individual. If it was, say, Chanc
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It has little to do with the quality of the comments, but a greater initiative of a Single Identity online. For better tracking, control, and ad coverage. The goals that also align well with the government. First, they got a hold of our d
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by znowi 13y ago
Well put and a nice addition to the article. Please post more :)
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From the brief [1]: "There is no statute, nor any other law, supporting the government’s demands." Does it mean that essentially the companies are intimidated to comply without the rule of law? Under what law and what sanctions
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How much of it was subsidized by NSA? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/23/nsa-prism-costs...
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Don't you laugh. Flat Earth still has a following today. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flat_Earth_Society
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I'd like to remind of an alternative: http://www.mailpile.is/ Apart from a clean UI, it doesn't milk you for data and is not in collaboration with NSA :)
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This is the glorious triumph of consumerism. Steve Jobs would be proud.
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Where is Robin Hood when you need one.
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The top comments here are well correlated to the current state of privacy in the US :)
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I hear these detention stories at the border continuously and each time there's a lot of discontent among people about such practices. However, nothing changes. I wonder, is it that largely this topic does not concern the American publ
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It's a fine initiative, but its angry-teen, hatred attitude isn't very appealing. I think it lost a lot of potential contributors right in the first paragraph.
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questioned him about his political activities and beliefs confiscated his laptop computer, camera and a USB drive If this happened to a computer scientist abroad, say Moscow airport, there would be a storm coming from the western media
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Trying hard to counter-PR the NSA partnership :)
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Fountain of youth for the rich. This is a lot more profitable than selling ads on the net :)
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> break from US-centric Internet This is in part what the delegates tried to accomplish during the "infamous" ITU summit last year. But Google et al launched a major FUD campaign to Save the Internet , when in reality it was t
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by znowi 13y ago
Climate Change (rebranded Global Warming) is such a heated and controversial topic, including in academia, that turns decent people into crazed maniacs (think of Apple or sport team fans). I suggest to stay away from it until something conc

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