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Interesting reaction. Is the highly negative reaction correlated with US culture maybe ? I've used them for many years and had several complex support interactions with them. Their…

I think we are talking at cross purposes. If the chips are tightly integrated propriatary black boxes like on most hw then from my POV its _physcially_ possible for them to read an…

It's not FUD. It's about different threat models. General design failures/bugs from assumed acting-in-good-faith silicon/sw designers vs not-acting-in-good-faith silicon/sw designe…

i was referring to the "golden age" of captive eyeballs ie eveyone watched lots of TV and mostly could not avoid seeing most of the ads. at least we've had ad blockser on browsers …

consider the concept that lots of businesses operate perfectly fine whilst temporarily having full physical control over physcial objects owned by their customers why not treat dat…

im happy to just block/not visit those entire domains there comes a point when the content is just not worth it doesnt scale obviously we're headed back to the "golden age" of TV a…

i fear people will "want it" when it gets good enough the combination of "dumb screen(TV?) as interface" with "any/all content* you want (cheaper with ads)" will be very attractive…

i hate ads i cant avoid seeing because my agency to do that has been subverted. i will attempt to acquire tools to avoid that in future. i dislike ads as 99.??% are effectively aut…

is ordering silence and secretly seizing control of the publication technology (ie website) then maintaining a false warrant canary a way around compelled speech ? if so then regul…

An important detail in the US juristiction certainly. On a practical basis i cannot evaluate the jurisprudence involved and I would assume the number of people who credibly can is …

A warrant canary is utterly useless as a defense. Any secret legal order to alter IT systems (the specific threat model it is most often suggested for) can logically also include a…

Did your "learning about" include sitting in meetings with legal during contract planning and C-level strategy meetings for market domination ?

Awesome maths. A practical problem I see is that even if everyone used this everywhere, an attacker has no reason to believe any forceably decrypted plaintext. The disclosing party…

continue button doesnt even work without disabling all my browser security. no thanks.

They have no hope until they fix the terrible audio quality on Linux that appeared several months ago.

If your threat model includes any sovereign state's intelligence agency then a warrant canary is worse than useless. Given their other widely abused powers it is likely trivial to …

> Well, your cat will also likely be very cruel if it ever caches a mouse or a bird I'm no expert but I vaguely recall hearing from non-trivial sources that this is a common but in…

the _nearest_ star is actually quiet close :-]

Both stories literally feature mechanically automated fast-food outlets. care to elaborate your pov please ?

http://marshallbrain.com/manna1.htm pops to mind. again.

Elite Dangerous doesn't have that excuse. You can play in a "NPCs only" mode but still cannot pause/quit at will.

baby steps ...

The sovereign state called "The Republic of Ireland" is not leaving the EU as part of Brexit. The sovereign state called "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland" …

>What does privacy rules have to do with monopoly or anti-trust? They are becoming related. Monopoly laws traditionally apply to commercial transactions. Facebook's customers are n…

a few points Thanks Nothing about this is trivial. This is not nationalism. There should be no pride in our creation or solution to our portion of this moronic mess. The obvious wa…