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I get what you are saying, and yes, those are totally reasonable expectations in any community. Im just saying - I think its amazing that _anybody_ trusts any of these Silicon Vall…

"breach my expectations of privacy" Q: where did these expectations of privacy come from ?

"it only takes an instant to destroy your company’s reputation, and it’s incredibly difficult to win back that confidence." Not really. Given that nobody on here has identified the…

A lot of complaints below, and not much sympathy from the likes of me on this one. An entire generation (across all age ranges) has willingly thrown out personal liberty in favour …

At least in the discussions area, there is a distinct lack of "hacker culture" opinion expressed on any topic, given the name of the forum. At least from where I am standing, this …

Wow - good stuff, and keep up the good fight. I don't have that many people around me that are worth influencing directly, so here is the way that I do it : 1) I divide up the TODO…

Good point. Note also that some "laws" may remain as "laws", even in the face of experimental evidence which directly contradicts the predicted results of that law. Which gives ris…

The DateField hypothesis : For any given reasonable estimate for an item of software, add 2^N days to that estimate, where N = the number of date/datetime fields involved on that f…

Great article with a lot of good points. Enjoyed the read. Having said that though, the first paragraph or so made be choke. In the "hypothetical" case of Mike, who after being lay…

I have been (forced against my better judgement) to attend a total of 4 conferences in my whole career ... and been politely asked to leave during 3 of them In all cases, my questi…

Thought about that too, but then, as the girl in the article suggests, its not the excessive bandwidth use that is the problem ... teh real prob is that parents just dont understan…

How does anyone know for sure that all of that traffic (or at least the meta data related to the traffic) is not prepped for data mining on a per-user basis ? There would be obviou…

A direct neural interface, paired to a bi-directional low latency satellite feed. That way users can see,hear,smell,feel & taste everything that their friends are experiencing ....…

Having a look at the company in question, and the products that they produce. I only got as far as the "Diversity Dashboard" to realize that this organization doesnt actually produ…

Ah .. not quite. Im not a photographer by any stretch. Im a Vexiologist by trade, and Ive invested a tonne of time and money into that. It has provided me with a wonderful lifestyl…

>Cameras have gotten better and better while getting cheaper. >Twenty years ago the only people taking photos of this quality were professional photographers. >Now we have college …