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by jtome 11y ago
Clickbait title. Nowhere in the video does he say anything about apple, or even disk encryption.
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by jtome 11y ago
Starting with oracle hopefully. (Un)fortunately (and IANAL) I don't think copyrights are enforceable if you don't enforce them everytime you know of a violation.
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by jtome 11y ago
>Still both the Soviet Union and China have turned into far more humane societies during socialism than they were at any earlier times What do you mean be this? Surely modern != humane
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by jtome 11y ago
Interesting that one of the touted benefits of content blockers in apple marketing was that content blockers can't track history.
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by jtome 11y ago
I suspect Kazakhstan doenst have the resources to mount attacks against tor unless they can pay some western company to do it for them. Blocking it is a somewhat different matter.
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by jtome 11y ago
I don't think this is entirely correct, I think there might be some disagreement in Islam as to whether interest is actually forbidden
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by jtome 12y ago
Most of the (non-systems programming, which use C) classes offered at my university are in Java but a few of them are taught in O'Caml (The programming language and compiler ones).
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by jtome 13y ago
Linking can be considered "dissemination" thanks to the DMCA, see http://www.chillingeffects.org/linking/faq.cgi#QID152
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by jtome 13y ago
I actually know very little about the LLVM, so the article had me almost confused for a second until I confirmed that the LLVM is just a compiler as I thought. Ignoring the issues with his analysis of google and apple being brought together
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by jtome 13y ago
I agree about the ISC, that's why OpenBSD, the most free OS (as in you can do whatever you want with a larger percentage of it than any other OS), prefers using the ISC over the BSD license now.
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by jtome 13y ago
Did anyone notice the line: What if it will become illegal to sell consumer devices without signature checks for all software running on it. I find it pretty weird that he's complaining that any country foolish enough to enact such a d
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by jtome 13y ago
When I heard of snapchat I spent two seconds figuring out that turning off your data connection after receiving the photo allows you take as many screenshots/view the picture as many times as you want (I have no idea if this still work
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by jtome 13y ago
I don't know much about it but plan 9 had alot of interesting innovations in this field. I think the idea of it was to build a "UNIX out of a lot of little systems, not a system out of a lot of little UNIXes"
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by jtome 13y ago
Keep on mind alot of this enthusiastic userbase is in the third world or too young to afford it.
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by jtome 13y ago
Although I think you're right about everyone sharing blame I think as not for profits this type of behavior is egregious from universities.
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by jtome 13y ago
Um...what? I had said that it isn't obscene for the federal government to make 50 billion dollars a year off a much larger amount of very risky loans that it bears almost all the risk for, and you accuse me of "shilling for the ba
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by jtome 13y ago
Just some context: Student loans outstanding will exceed $1 trillion this year http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/perfi/college/story/201... The amount universities are charging students is what's
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by jtome 13y ago
One forum user pointed out this link: http://www.fsf.org/campaigns/priority-projects/priority-proj... I would be thrilled if this project gets somewhere, even to gnash-like quality.
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by jtome 13y ago
I think it would really depend on the local population but I generally think its a bad idea to have elected officials in the criminal justice system. In Alabama they have elected judges and they do things like campaign on how tough on crim
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by jtome 13y ago
Adblock just very noisly requests a donation, it doesn't require you to actually pay. Adblock plus does not do either.
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by jtome 13y ago
Some of the primary things people use computers for are watching flash videos and listening to mp3s and I would rather people use 99% Free software and 1% proprietary software than the other way around because someone zelously recommended t
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by jtome 13y ago
Lubuntu is a fantastic choice, I install it on all of my friends' old, crapped up, virus infested Windows XP computers and it has them running like new. The interface requires almost no adjusting to coming from XP, much less so than u
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by jtome 13y ago
"Isn't the whole point of all this outrage that NSA have equipment or data exchange arrangements with GMail etc. so that SSL is irrelevant" Yes which is why the NSA needs the cooperation of the companies, s
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by jtome 13y ago
Wrong, if they are tapping at the wires they only see that your using gmail, not the content of your email or who you are speaking to (Unless you turn off ssl for some strange reason).
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by jtome 13y ago
Section 215 of the Patriot Act has a secret interpretation
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by jtome 13y ago
Right, like dropbox which was "coming soon".
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by jtome 13y ago
I don't think they will give the companies immunity by name.
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by jtome 13y ago
well first i think you should be commended on having these policies and I think that this is the best you can get with a website. However an adversary can force you to change these policies. While an adversary can also force a developer o
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by jtome 13y ago
The article says that privacy by design but then goes on to list examples of privacy by policy: - "Don’t track anyone’s search histories" This can simply be changed by changing you policy and deciding to start tracking it - &quo
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by jtome 13y ago
I've always thought of no-fly lists as completely out of place in a democracy. Either you have enough evidence to charge them with something or you have no business restricting them from doing anything.

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