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Comment #6388817
Are you smoking again?
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Comment #6236348
Signal jammers would be a problem as well.
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Comment #6236137
> I love the idea of having my own surveillance drone. That's the point. Everybody loves to do surveillance but nobody wants to be the potential target. See the issue here? What I'…
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Comment #6236126
Unlimited range is the thing that makes this important (sexy for the average consumer). On the receiving end, it means you will never be able to know who's watching you. Your only …
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Comment #6236060
RetroShare seems to be what you're looking for: http://retroshare.sourceforge.net/ It's the encrypted, decentralized/p2p, open-source communication suite (it also allows you to sta…
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Comment #6233989
Exactly, see the "Five Eyes": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UKUSA_Agreement
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Comment #6233889
> why me? Was it something I said on Twitter or Facebook? Did I just look at him the wrong way without realising? Yeah, don't think too far - it's probably your skin color that mak…
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Comment #6233780
The UK should be kicked out of the EU. Until they learn how to behave.
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Comment #6233736
Effing cheap intimidation pricks. One day it will come back to haunt them.
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Comment #6233628
> Well 9/11 would have seemed a perfect fantasy on 9/10/2001. Not at all. This scenario was well documented by the responsible government agencies before it happened.
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Comment #6233584
So, by government logic, we'd have to start a War on Government Employee-ism ... EDIT: Seriously, just this 1 thought would warrant HUGE articles in papers like the New York Times.…
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Comment #6233404
But one should not. "Terrorism", for the tiny, tiny little bit that happens in our country, was not here before. Let's just switch to a sane foreign policy and be done with "terror…
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Comment #6233265
Always keep in mind that the government's cheapest manipulation strategy is fear (it always works): http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2009/07/constitutional-expert... And for some mor…
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Comment #6232896
Or you just book a round trip with a few hours inside the US and you're good to go for the next 12 months in your home country. This way you can opt for the wait-and-see approach r…
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Comment #6232837
That works, thanks!
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Comment #6232628
The lesson IMO is to rebuild the whole political system, on a foundation made of sane rules. (And that should obviously include all government agencies, especially those which have…
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Comment #6232487
Also, let's keep in mind that Obama has lied to the public when he said that there was no abuse by the NSA. (Not that we can expect different behavior from any of the future Presid…
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Comment #6232302
The thing is, the owners of the private prisons want to get richer and invest serious money so their cells are kept as full as possible: http://www.republicreport.org/2012/marijuan…
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Comment #6232191
EDIT 4: Even having set about:config -> browser.cache.disk.enable -> false , I have to close/open the browser twice in order for the cache (and tracking) to disappear.
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Comment #6232068
Expect around a 1% chance of winning.
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Comment #6231971
Same here. This is definitely not ok. EDIT 1: I also checked "Clear history when Firefox closes" and included "Cache" in the definition of "history". And the tracking is still happ…
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Comment #6229312
> “Most certainly our nation’s security will be enhanced.” Because we're all so close to dying from terrorism: http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/08/president-obama-the-o...
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Comment #6228875
I'm positive it will stay alive on these (b/c peers can stay anonymous): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darknet_%28file_sharing%29
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Comment #6228714
> "Were we to provide positive or negative responses to requests such as yours, our adversaries' compilation of the information provided would reasonably be expected to cause excep…