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inevitable2 | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are removed

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -John Gilmore

Lately this is getting absurd. I believe this quote is still true, but the amount of 'I don't like what is being said so therefore you should be silenced' is going too far. I don't agree with what this guy said (or even know who he is aside from what was said in the article), but I'm alarmed that Microsoft would go after Gab for a user on Gab's platform.

inevitable2 | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are removed

Good post and agree with you.

>libertarian crowd on this one, and I say this as someone who is nowhere near the alt-right politically.

This is one thing that concerns me is people who stand up for this or lean libertarian being seen as alt-right simply because they disagree with this corporate censorship. To me this censorship or suppression goes against the founding principles of the internet. I don't understand why it is acceptable to label everyone as such.

inevitable2 | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are removed

I disagree. I would rather live with the freedom to express myself, be who am I, believe what I want, speak my mind and deal with consequences of it than deal with suppression and censorship. In the US its not that we're learning this is a bad idea granted I will say it is under attack. Its more that some people can't accept that people might just be different or have different thoughts than them and would rather say its a bad idea (easy way) than to engage them in conversation or accept that we're all individuals with different thoughts and backgrounds (hard way) or that being offended shouldn't be allowed.

Germany is not freer. They do not have Freedom of speech close in terms to the US. One easy example is Section 185 of Germany's criminal code which you can be punished for insults. Section 90 is also interesting and I bet people would dislike that one if we had that currently in the US. If you see those as freeer by all means have it in Germany. I'll stick with the 1st amendment.

inevitable2 | 7 years ago | on: Microsoft threatens to stop hosting Gab unless posts are removed

"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." -John Gilmore

Lately this is getting absurd. I believe this quote is still true, but the amount of 'I don't like what is being said so therefore you should be silenced' is going too far. I don't agree with what this guy said (or even know who he is aside from what was said in the article), but I'm alarmed that Microsoft would go after Gab for a user on Gab's platform.

inevitable2 | 7 years ago | on: Russian Hackers Reach US Utility Control Rooms, Homeland Security Officials Say

I sat in on this webinar and can say there was a few things misleading about this article. These networks were not “air-gapped” they were able to be accessed with lateral movement in the networks. Also they were able to detect them get get all the way to the point where they were able to flip the switch on the ICS. When asked later in the webinar why they didn't there was really no explanation as to why not even though that was their goal as the attackers. That is just fishy to me.

inevitable2 | 8 years ago | on: Ask HN: What do you think of performance appraisal at your workplace?

"...all employees must have goals for their year..."

In all seriousness, this type of appraisal process always confused me.

What are some examples of measurable goals that a rank-and-file "Member of The Technical Staff" can come up with on their own, seeing as they likely don't have much choice re the projects they work on, the teams they are in, etc.?

inevitable2 | 8 years ago | on: Google's stance on neo-Nazis 'dangerous', says EFF

He has multiple times condemned the kkk and neo nazi's as well as the groups you mentioned. What I don't understand from media coverage is why is what he said not treated like condemnation for those groups or that his words weren't strong enough or that it needs to be repeated at every news conference.

inevitable2 | 10 years ago | on: Updates Make Windows 7 and 8 Spy on You Like Windows 10

Here is a more in-depth analysis of windows 10 and what is sent to MS

http://aeronet.cz/news/analyza-windows-10-ve-svem-principu-j...

For those who don't speak Czech: -It sends all text you type anywhere (not just into search) every 30 minutes to MS. If you type about a holiday to your blog, next day you'll see holiday ads.

-Every 30 minutes it sends your geo-location and network information.

-If you type a telephone number into Edge it sends it to MS after 5 minutes.

-If you type anywhere in Windows a name of some movie, Windows will start indexing all your media files after a while and will send it to MS after 30 minutes of your inactivity.

-After installing W10, it will send about 35MB of data once.

-After turning on your webcam for the first time it sends data to microsoft once.

-Everything you say is transferred to MS, it works even if you disable and remove and uninstall cortana. Parts of Cortana are needed for the core of the OS to run.

-Voice is transferred every 15 min, 80MB of data.

-After 15 minutes of your inactivity or when screensaver is on, network activity ramps up and everything else is being sent to MS.

-Blocking in hosts doesn't work, IPs are hardcoded into their code and DLLs.

inevitable2 | 10 years ago | on: CS for All

As a general rule, college presidents don't get involved in course creation--even at small colleges like Harvey Mudd. In this case it would have been hard for her to have had a part since the course was created before she arrived.
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