pivnicek's comments

pivnicek | 11 years ago | on: Tor users are selected and monitored by the NSA as extremists

Right there in the 1st amendment.

Backed up by the supreme court in the right for group memberships not to be revealed.

You have the right to anonymously assemble and associate with a political group. I hope you don't lose it.

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: Burglars Who Took on F.B.I. Abandon Shadows

There was a whole popular culture movement back then. I don't see that now, sadly.

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: A CNN Viewer Has Questions for Mike Rowe

That font is garbage, hard to read, it's like they'd been downvoted on HN.

Please end the light text trend, let us read.

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: In the Murky World of Bitcoin, Fraud Is Quicker Than the Law

With Bitcoin, fraud may be temporarily outside the law; but with JPMC and HNBC, fraud is built into the law.

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: Aaron Swartz’s last gift to journalism and online privacy finds a new home

A great project. RIP AS. HOPE and BUILD HOPE. Thank you.

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: How Seinfeld's Productivity Secret Fixed My Procrastination Problem

Self discipline has no relation to generation. It's a human condition problem. This method seems to have some merit and may be a tool that can help people suffering from depression climb themselves out. I look forward to trying it.

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: Pinay traumatized by horror trip to US

Canadian immigration controls can be just as bad, though you may get water. Like someone said above, it's all about people having power over others with zero accountability.

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: Salaries for Developers and Designers across the world

Because these numbers are drawn out of a rabbit's arse?

They don't provide methodology, or any decent description of categorization; this infographic is worse than useless, it obviously has an agenda.

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: Salaries for Developers and Designers across the world

Because these numbers are drawn out of a rabbit's arse. No other way to explain it. Doesn't help that they don't give a description of the categories, or methodology

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: Close the N.S.A.’s Back Doors

One imagines that this is the reason Lavabit shut its doors.

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: The United Nations Meets 13 Principles Against Unchecked Surveillance

This train wreck keeps getting avoided by the community, but the choo bloody choo is pulling in at the station with a big bomb that has already gone off, but people are just slow to notice.

Snowden killed the USA-centric internet.

Let's see what we can make out of the rubble.

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: Why Phonebloks Will Never Happen

This is a great idea. Own your phone. Right now, the phones we have feel like they are the corporation's phone and not ours.

I love this idea, and hope that they get enough interest to make a splash.

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: Obama administration had restrictions on NSA reversed in 2011

The American people simply haven't had the misfortune of living under a totalitarian regime. That said, right now they should be earnestly listening to those who have; but sadly they seem to be brushing those views aside with thinking such as "well, that won't happen here".

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: The code culture problem

Indeed, I came across a last_day_of_the_month SQL implementation today that I showed my colleague who's instinct was that it was shit, but upon closer inspection, it seems quite clever.

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: Linus: bool is dangerous in C if you don't understand it

Never understood why we needed a boolean type, myself. What is wrong with 1 and 0?

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: What is a magic number, and why is it bad?

What really is the difference you are achieving? Are you going to redefine zero?

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: Why I Hate Frameworks (2005)

My first encounter, and it would have hit the nail on the head, if I'd bother to spend the 3 weeks developing it.

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: Defeated

Every place has their pros and cons. Eastern Europe feels quite free in the context of daily living, but graft and corruption seem to be the mo of the powers that be.

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: NSA paid millions to cover Prism compliance costs for tech companies

In other news, prostitution legalized.

pivnicek | 12 years ago | on: UK government now leaking documents about itself

Does anyone know what kind of encryption was used on those drives that were taken from Miranda at Heathrow? Is it feasible to break that in this little time? That seems to be the angle here, that that info was on those drives. At least that's my wild stab in the dark.