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Comment Re:Then Safari should have the same warning! (Score 1) 315

Restricting internet access is a trivial task to anybody that can use a computer and a search engine - many free solutions are available. Apple is just trying to pander to the crowd of lazy parents who buy into the notion that Apple is a nice company with morals that will protect their kids from porn. IMO, kids love porn, and will find it regardless of the computer they're using. *yawn*

Comment Should hackers be praised... (Score 1) 232

I think they should be praised, yes. I also recognize their actions are illegal and therefore uncondoned; however, I believe it is a important thing that the potential impact of the internet is commonly known to all peoples of the world. We live in an age where near-instant communication is the norm and that will hopefully empower more revolutionary movements like the ones we've seen in the Middle East. Damn the semantics - "those 'hacktivists' broke the law" - those hackers are peaceful protestors from a certain perspective.
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Submission + - Social networking sites - would ad-hoc work? 1

GillyGuthrie writes: "We all know what happened in Egypt recently. The government, in an attempt to suppress its majority, forcefully shut down their local internet communications. The Egyptian government did not use a magic "kill switch," but rather sent police to force Egyptian ISPs to pull their plugs, effectively stopping users of Twitter and Facebook from "calling home" and using their respective services.

I want an ad-hoc, social media solution that doesn't depend on any one company to provide stability and functionality. I want a peer-to-peer social media network. Seriously — why doesn't somebody develop a service that is independent of "mothership" servers to be relied upon as mission critical for the whole system? I hear plenty of complaints about current social networking sites, and I agree with them — screw the billionaire CEOs of these companies like Facebook and Twitter. We need an alternative. I don't care if I have to see advertisements, or donate a few bucks a month. I want a service that can protect me if my government decides to pull the plug (that is, send cops to shut down my local ISP) on my internet. I want a service that can provide adhoc functionality in case of a government power trip.

I want a social networking service that will be immune to pressure from my government. Is this feasible?"

Comment Re:TL;DR Version (Score 1) 391

And the data they gathered was data that people chose to broadcast in plain text to a public street. They might as well set up a PA system that broadcasts everything they're doing on the internet. Google didn't do anything wrong by sniffing those packets.

Hmm. While I appreciate your attempt, your analogy is quite insufficient. I think the point is, Google intercepted transmissions that were not intended for them. Stop thinking so hard, you're making my head hurt.

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