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I'll throw in my .02. I see the context-switch as one between text and graphics. If I'm working on the command line, then most times I have no need to have X11 running. I'm working…

Because it is tied to the checking system, where checks were routinely flown across the country from bank to bank before they could be settled? (Even after we had electronic system…

I'm curious, have you used Plan9? If yes, how long did you use it?

Email is store and forward, not real-time. And all the mainstream messaging services to date have been centralised, at least in the sense that they involve interacting with a third…

One of my favourite quotes. History is so easily ignored or forgotten.

proper grammar: Are we next?

I imagine there might be other software/consulting companies in the business of stealthily collecting GB and PB's of personal data about consumers using wired and mobile networks w…

ramchip, you are correct. With respect to "telling something to some of your friends", and attempting to do so "privately", there are certainly ways to do this without using Facebo…

You said: "I think it has to be a part of a large _service_." My question was about the size of the _network_. In any event, following your line of thought, do you think it's possi…

You said: "I don't think any large..." If someone only wants to tell something to some of their friends, and assuming "some" is not a large number, does the network have to be "lar…

"Then don't tell them through Facebook." And that's the point. If a current offering such as Facebook is "not a solution that people like", then that creates an opportunity for a s…

What if someone wants to tell a few friends about something but doesn't want to tell all the people working at Facebook, all its clients and potentially any other Facebook user?

As another commenter pointed out, Zuckerberg once called users "dumb fucks" for giving him their personal information. If he does not believe in privacy, as he now claims, why woul…

"inherently public" Exactly. The ideas of a "Facebook" _as Zuckerberg has constructed it_, i.e. a website on the open internet, and "privacy" are incompatible.

"Privacy is a matter of social responsibility." Privacy is a matter of not using Facebook.

So where does the investor obtain the information to perform due diligence? Are companies required to file reports? If so, with whom do they file them?

Interesting. So you think that with no SEC the public will be safer from people like Madoff? Do you think that investors would be able to make sound investment decisions without co…

Is it unreasonable for a consumer to want complete control over a device from the moment she powers on? Is there a certain level beneath which it is not reasonable to give consumer…

Yikes. The SEC certainly has its flaws, but if SEC regulations are stopping anyone from becoming more wealthy it's certainly not the small guy.

I do not want a "smartphone". I want a "blank slate". With the right specs and form factor.

There is no sense of humour on HN.

This company just seems so over the top, it's surreal. There's probably plenty more like them that us plebes don't know about. What would we do without EFF?