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Re:Ross Ulbricht Sentenced to Life in Prison
on Friday May 29, 2015 @10:57PM (#9628705)
This has nothing to do with what he did. They're making an example of him.
Re:Popcorn Time in Your Browser
on Tuesday May 19, 2015 @11:48AM (#9570973)
While it may be traceable, I don't think you'll get in trouble because Coinado is the service doing the actual torrenting.
Re:House Votes to End N.S.A.’s Bulk Phone Data Collection
on Wednesday May 13, 2015 @09:35PM (#9543028)
I'm so confused. What about this?
Re:C-51 will undermine Canada’s businesses: Open letter from 60 busine...
on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @06:08PM (#9417458)
Where is your evidence of that?
Re:When You Lose Weight, Where Does It Go?
on Tuesday April 21, 2015 @03:38PM (#9416494)
Physical activity speeds up the digestive process, so you do often poop more when you work out.
Re:Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance [ft. Ed...
on Monday April 06, 2015 @05:13AM (#9327225)
I feel like the interview was edited to make it seem that way. If you watch any of Snowden's other interviews and lectures, he's always very articulate and passionate about the subject.
Re:This page crashes my chrome tab
on Sunday March 08, 2015 @04:45PM (#9167169)
Doesn't crash for me; Chrome 41 on Linux Mint 17.
Re:Unix V5, OpenBSD, Plan 9, FreeBSD, and GNU Coreutils Implementation...
on Sunday February 22, 2015 @04:05AM (#9088788)
What's the minimum amount of creativity required to copyright software? Or is it really complexity, and not creativity?
Re:Ask HN: Why keep living?
on Sunday February 22, 2015 @03:48AM (#9088757)
It's fairly reasonable to care about privacy when it comes to sensitive topics like this. Maybe the OP isn't ready for people to know his identity yet.
Re:British bookseller hides reading list for developers in its website...
on Friday February 20, 2015 @07:18PM (#9084002)
I remember the endless amusement I had using Firebug to create ridiculous headlines on yahoo.com.
Re:The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
on Friday February 20, 2015 @07:28AM (#9080119)
That's the third leaker, not the second one.
1. Snowden
2. Unknown NSA leaker
3. Unknown National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC) leaker
Re:The Great SIM Heist: How Spies Stole the Keys to the Encryption Castle
on Friday February 20, 2015 @04:06AM (#9079617)
In fact, Bruce Schneier believes there's another, unknown NSA leaker besides Snowden: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2014/08/the_us_intell...
Re:Our brief in support of Twitter's First Amendment suit against the ...
on Wednesday February 18, 2015 @11:39PM (#9072409)
You have a good point here, but I consider this perpetual struggle a matter of liberty vs. power, rather than security. True security actually encourages personal freedoms to an extent.
Re:Microsoft adopts first international cloud privacy standard
on Monday February 16, 2015 @02:39PM (#9058774)
Right, you can never be 100% certain it's the same code. But it's a valuable "good faith" step that sets a level of trust between the users and developers.
Re:Microsoft adopts first international cloud privacy standard
on Monday February 16, 2015 @02:28PM (#9058704)
You can't have a reasonable assurance of privacy unless your software is open source.
Re:How Prisoners Make Moonshine
on Wednesday February 11, 2015 @11:58AM (#9033925)
I strongly believe the modern American prison system is something our descendants will look back upon with disgust, much like how we perceive slavery.