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q7 | 11 years ago | on: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Government Surveillance [ft. Edward Snowden]

Also, if you are outside of the USA, you're pretty much fucked as the NSA sees everything you do, including the dicks and vaginas of all 7 billion non-US citizens. And there is also no chance of that ever changing, since no foreign surveillance program hasn't even entered any debate.

So from here, the non-united states to you, dear US reader: here's 7 billion people pointing their fingers at you, you peeping toms, you creeps.

q7 | 11 years ago | on: iPhone Killer: The Secret History of the Apple Watch

iTunes 10.7 user here (the last version before that crappy redesign). iTunes 10.7 is now 2.5 years old. Since yesterday I cannot access my iTunes account details anymore. App just keeps asking for my password again and again.

Don't expect your watch to have support for more than 2 years.

q7 | 11 years ago | on: How Beats by Dre played you like a fool

Oh you can listen to anything you like. Any mix is fine, and any headphones are fine.

When I say truthfulness, I refer to playback equipment. Truthful means that it outputs something that is close to the input.

My argument is that if a headphone doesn't add deliberate distortions, it can be used for all kinds of music, enhancing its utility. And at the same time, with such a more useful headphone, you can still have the same experience as before, if those distortions are added at an earlier time.

q7 | 11 years ago | on: How Beats by Dre played you like a fool

Imho beats headphones don't sound good. The bass is ridiculously overpowered and distorts nearly constantly.

Now, tastes are different, and you might want exactly this experience with that distorted bass.

If you create both the music and the speaker, like Dre does, and you wanted that experience, the right approach would have been to add such a distorted bass to your track during mixing/mastering, and then create headphones that faithfully output this signal.

This would ensure that you could enjoy Dre's tracks with that distorted bass on all your music equipment, like with your home hifi system, and if you used the beats headphones with other music, it would also output that other music truthfully.

So it becomes a bit of a standards issue. It's as if a very popular computer displays brand made displays where pixels that are 100% white will flicker wildly, but the displays brand was created by a guy known for his lowpoly wireframe art style, and this particular style looks great on those displays. So that combination might be fine, but you cannot use the displays to faithfully assess other images, really.

q7 | 11 years ago | on: After Snowden, the NSA Faces Recruitment Challenge

History has shown that if you join an intelligence service, you basically forfeit your right to a fair trial if anything ever goes wrong.

Your potential future opponent can make anything secret and off-bounds that you want to present in court, has unlimited funds and no qualms to invade your private life and present anything bad about you, has unlimited funds to haunt you for the rest of your life, and has no conscience except to preserve itself, even if it was in the wrong. I've also got a hunch that their culture is not "let's all chill and find the truth" but has more of a clan-like "you're either with us or against us" vibe. And this organization has guns, lots of guns.

So in effect, it's a bit like joining the Mafia.

Considering this, one has to wonder why anybody would ever join such a service.

q7 | 11 years ago | on: Your wifi shows me where you live, work and travel

What makes this particularly bad for iOS users is the fact that you cannot delete a wifi connection if you're not there. The interface just doesn't show all your previously authenticated networks.

So imagine that you travel, go to a few hotels and use their wifi networks. Once you're back home, the fact that you used these networks is still broadcast everywhere, and there is no way in the interface to turn that off.

q7 | 11 years ago | on: My Roommate, the Darknet Drug Lord

The way I read about it, the FBI arrested one of this employees and made it appear as if that employee took all of his money and did not talk to Ulbricht anymore. Then the FBI created another persona that did talk to him, and waited until his hitman order. It was all part of an elaborate play.

"It's only because you support the legalization of drugs"

Oh please. Ad hominem much?

q7 | 11 years ago | on: My Roommate, the Darknet Drug Lord

Oh c'mon, he ordered a hitman inside a play the FBI fully staged for him. There was never any harm done to anybody.

Pure entrapment. Create a fake simulated decision dilemma he never had to decide in real life, put a lot of emotional pressure on him, and then when he made a bad decision inside this simulation that harmed nobody, try to condemn him for it.

He hasn't lost my goodwill yet.

q7 | 11 years ago | on: Paperspace – A full computer you can access from any web browser

In the video you claim that it is "secure". I understand that as "nobody else can see my files or what I do, guaranteed".

Well, you could place a bug between the VNC and the VPS parts. Or your government might force you to do it. How can you reassure me that isn't the case?

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