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That attitude sounds like a myopic focus on the software at the expense of everything else. Say that in the year 2160 you have perfect, unbreakable encryption on your pocket comput…

That's what happens when you are on someone else's web. So far, China is the only one deciding they are unhappy enough with the arrangement to build their own web, but the option e…

So you simultaneously think the other side is so powerful that you cannot even compromise with them without being pushed back further, but they are also so weak that you believe yo…

Anyone can find a quote that says anything. >"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face — forever." - George Orwell: 1984, 1949. Welp, guess that…

It's a corollary of Clarke's law. When technology is described by someone too stupid to understand it (like nearly all journalists), the explanation makes it sound like magic, beca…

What do you expect the non-competes to accomplish, exactly? Thanks, California.

That's a pretty outrageous claim. Do you have any evidence this is possible?

Yep, just shoulder surf the passcode the user enters on the train, or read their fingerprints/retinal patterns off their body and print it out onto your key material.

>Mass surveillance is not going to go away without huge cultural reform of the security services. They don't take concessions. FakeComments was mostly talking about targeted survei…

And any business whose users are too stupid to be meaningfully informed. AKA just about everyone.

Democracy means accepting that the voting public has no idea what makes good policy, but that they should determine policy anyway.

It's easy to make nice-sounding speeches when you're not accountable for delivering any results.

If only god had created runoff voting.

It's very difficult to keep your digital record clean your entire life. Anyone who manages it is either very able and motivated or Amish.

If everyone were working together, it wouldn't be stealing. I don't steal someone's software when I fork a project on github, and they don't steal mine when they accept my pull req…

That narrative is only applicable retrospectively. It doesn't say anything about the future. Whichever way the arc of the universe bends, we call justice.

As natural as it might be, it's wrong. If you are, for example, a US resident, the US government is in a great position to use any information they have about you. The Chinese gove…

Buying and installing your own permanent elevators is too difficult and expensive. Think of what happens in 25 years when they need to be replaced. You'd be a fool not to pay a mon…

Are you being deliberately obtuse? Canada doesn't have anything to do with this. Amir's account was closed because of his Iranian ties, not his Canadian ones.

What is so clearly wrong about trade sanctions between two countries? Do you think foreign trade is always a moral good?

Other way around. The EU is the one who bears the burden of forcing American companies like slack to comply with their laws. Though jumping straight to a shooting war feels like an…

Not a great analogy since you normally can't shop at an American grocery store from Cuba, but you can use an American web site from there.

Others sufficiently cover the actual killing. I would only add that wasting peoples' time and/or money at scale is just as bad. Waste 30 seconds for each of 100 million people and …

I would hope for 100. We deserve it. Though of course others deserve it more.

Execution. Facebook is big enough that it would serve as a useful warning.