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Re:Google Launches The Chromecast To Bring Chrome To The Living Room on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @10:11PM (#6100523)

NSA, US government, tyrants everywhere, watch Google carefully for how it's done. For a fickle crowd like Hacker News, you can seize their liberty and human rights easily - just distract them with shiny new things.

For shiny new toys, some people will rationalize anything ;-)

Re:Snowden asylum still under review, stays in airport for now on Wednesday July 24, 2013 @08:17AM (#6095691)

This news made my day. The safety of Snowden has been on my mind for weeks. Hopefully he'll make it all the way to sunny Bolivia.

Re:Why Doesn't Skype Include Stronger Protections Against Eavesdropping? on Thursday July 18, 2013 @07:37PM (#6067306)

Why doesn't Skype have a phone number? They don't, and they're in the business of phone calling.

Re:Show HN: HireMyFriend – Get your friends to help you find a new job on Wednesday July 17, 2013 @02:03PM (#6059148)

Twitter is a lot better than Facebook IMO, and a Twitter account is easy to set up and easy to delete.

Re:SkyDrive in Windows 8.1: Cloud storage the way it’s meant to be on Tuesday July 16, 2013 @07:49AM (#6051219)

Serious, snark-free question: is this a paid review by Microsoft? I've never been an Arstechnica reader but I thought they had more integrity than this.

Talking up SkyDrive is like extolling the virtues of ivory from elephant tusks. In both cases there is a horrible hidden cost.

Re:Why We Can No Longer Trust Microsoft on Monday July 15, 2013 @05:35AM (#6044523)

Let's boycott the hell out of Microsoft. They gleefully sold out their users to the NSA.

Re:Why We Can No Longer Trust Microsoft on Monday July 15, 2013 @05:30AM (#6044505)

Exactly. Microsoft were making a comeback and I moved my email and online storage from Google to Microsoft. Now I feel back-stabbed.

I don't use the hate word often, but I HATE Microsoft now.

Just for the record, I think Dvorack is bang on with this article. Couldn't agree more.

Re:Show HN: I've been learning PHP. My first tool finds your competito... on Friday July 12, 2013 @10:37PM (#6036467)

Do you own the SERPs.com domain name?

Re:Don't be evil: Moving everything off of Google on Friday July 12, 2013 @06:51AM (#6031931)

There's something sketchy about Jottacloud. I don't trust it. I installed the client a few weeks ago and it wouldn't upload my files. The program just froze. When I tried to uninstall the software it hung again (I had to manually delete it).

It's still in my start menu somehow, although I disabled it. And this is happening to a guy who religiously scans and cleans his Windows partition.

I recommend everyone stay away.

Re:Militarized police overreach — a second excerpt from Radley Balko's... on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @05:47PM (#6023055)

Omnipresent surveillance, more prisons, secret courts and the militarization of the police - Obama's presidency looks like a reign of terror.

Re:DuckDuckGo Direct queries per day (28 day average) on Wednesday July 10, 2013 @05:29PM (#6022974)

I didn't think I could ever get off the Google habit, but I for one welcome our new DDG overlord! I use it for 100 percent of my searches now.

Data point: unlike some, I love the name and branding.