anxious

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by anxious 13y ago
First and foremost it's off-topic. Second, these are the same citations used by those who were pushing for the FTC to sue Google for antitrust, so they have political baggage, third: it's before the company was founded so it'
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by anxious 13y ago
Way to hijack the thread with anti-Google propaganda ...
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by anxious 13y ago
No they're not, its just a cynical PR stunt: http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/08/crypto-experts-blast...
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by anxious 13y ago
What is really troubling is how many outlets are picking that piece of propaganda as is, with no attempt to even look at the source - both the original text of the motion the people who are spreading the misinformation.
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by anxious 13y ago
For the umpteenth time to the umpteenth submission, this is not true, Google never said that: sections of this legal motion have been deliberately taken out of context to mislead readers. If anything that quote is about non-Gmail users and
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by anxious 13y ago
This is like the 10th submission of this nonsense: sections of this legal motion have been deliberately taken out of context to mislead readers. If anything that quote is about non-Gmail users and even then it’s in response to a certain asp
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by anxious 13y ago
As I've already commented on a previous submission of the RT source, this is nonsense. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6208521 Wow, talk about taking things out of context, but I guess this is what you get from &q
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by anxious 13y ago
IMAP. Or search for previous Ask HNs, there are dozen on the topic.
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by anxious 13y ago
Wow, talk about taking things out of context, but I guess this is what you get from "consumer watchdog" via RT. The "quote" in question is that of a lawyer citing a previous ruling (they do that a lot) to counter a speci
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by anxious 13y ago
That is a pretty big downgrade in rhetoric on your side: first you were claiming that their business is "surveillance", and that they "sell their users to advertisers" and now that you know better you try to shift the ar
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by anxious 13y ago
I'll avoid making a comment of how NSA talk is hijacking every thread, but I'll attempt to correct your misgivings: Google's primary business is advertising , meaning that like the publishers of yore they sell "space&qu
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by anxious 13y ago
Seems the author is suffering from fanboyism induced blindness. The main points made about Android that make it great have little to do with Google: the ability to set default apps, intent sharing between apps, notifications, customised lau
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by anxious 13y ago
Try "--enable-webgl --ignore-gpu-blacklist "