etha

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by etha 12y ago
Hardly. Google could simply ask the children to fax in signed permission statements from their parents, as websites that actually make an effort to support child users do. Neopets had this figured out 15 years ago. Google chooses not to do
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by etha 12y ago
Most people aren't worried about being secure from the CIA, we're worried about being secure from random criminals at the airport or the cafe. If the CIA wants you, they can just kidnap you and lock you away anyway.
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by etha 12y ago
Actually, the lesson is that people don't WANT a "solution".
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by etha 12y ago
It's not as if AWS has never gone down ( http://aws.amazon.com/message/65648/ ). It just hasn't had a major outage in the last 30 days.
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by etha 12y ago
It does happen to be a positive interpretation, but there's no reason to think that's why it was chosen, since it's also the simplest explanation.
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by etha 13y ago
How to dismantle a tyrannical regime if you have the support of an omnipresent computer system they trust with absolutely everything.
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by etha 13y ago
Do you always follow the suggested resolution 100%?
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by etha 13y ago
What users? If Geocities had users to piss off, they wouldn't have needed to shit it down.
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by etha 13y ago
Your government wants them to have that option. Why should MS listen to you and not your government?
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by etha 13y ago
There's no "sky" in "skype" but we still call it skype because that's its name.
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by etha 13y ago
Or maybe we should accept that security ultimately doesn't matter.
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by etha 13y ago
But how much of that is due to nearly two decades of experience and how much is due to having kids?
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by etha 15y ago
What is wrong with those scenarios? It sounds like you are proposing that instead of using this information, people should ignore it and make bad decisions.
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by etha 15y ago
The point is that it's not as private as you think it is.
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by etha 15y ago
Conquest? Isn't it Pestilence?
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by etha 15y ago
No, that's where the metaphor breaks down. I don't think there's a good equivalent of "public" in the facebook tracking situation. Instead, I would say that you are on someone else's virtual property, and that they are perfectly within thei
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by etha 15y ago
This may not be a realistic expectation now, but I think that as the general population becomes more technologically literate, for the average person, the presence of such a button should indicate "this website has some kind of relationship
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by etha 15y ago
Not really, no. Please correct me if I'm misunderstanding facebook's tracking system, but I don't think your browser history is being captured here. You are viewing pages that have a facebook widget on them, and if you have a facebook cooki
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by etha 15y ago
Why would you be uncomfortable in that case? How do the potential drawbacks of such an oracle existing outweigh the potential positives?
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by etha 15y ago
That's not an argument against keeping that history. It could just as well be presented in court as evidence for me, or be presented as evidence against people I don't like. I'm in favor of the legal system having better evidence that they
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by etha 15y ago
I see this as something that could potentially lead to abuse, but I don't see how it is abusive by itself, and I don't agree with trying to limit technology because it could potentially be abused unless there's a clear case that the danger
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by etha 15y ago
I met your friend yesterday and he was showing me some pictures from a camping trip he took last week. I asked "who's that guy standing to your left" and he told me it was you. Now I know what you look like, forever, and you can't ask me to
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by etha 15y ago
It's not obvious to me. How were you harmed by facebook logging this data?
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by etha 15y ago
Actually, Nintendo's old cartridge-based games already did this to some extent. You were simply plugging in a circuit board, which could, and often did have additional processors, memory, etc on it.
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by etha 15y ago
If people cared about "we did x first" as a reason why some software is better, everyone would be browsing with Opera. What matters is how well they do something now.
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by etha 15y ago
- It's hard to drop ten dollars cash on the other side of the country. - You don't need a smartphone to use ten dollars you found on the ground. - Cash can be spent somewhere other than Starbucks. - There's no twitter account broadcasting t
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by etha 15y ago
Even so, implementing EHRs in a way that qualifies as meaningful use still improves patient care for the worst institutions.
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by etha 15y ago
If they truly aim to teach math and not, say, engineering, then they should not be teaching students to assume constraints that aren't given in the problem.
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by etha 15y ago
Some do. Epic Systems, for example, is quite well known for this attitude.
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by etha 15y ago
"Not responding with another illegal action" is not the same as "idly standing by."

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