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Comment Re:Of course (Score 1) 49

The abstract linked in the summary doesn't even suggest the paper contains a list of "what" is censored. It's more about "how" its supposed to be censored.

If the censor doesn't censor it, then it's not censored. The keywords tell you what the government wishes to censor, the algorithms tell you what the government does censor. If the two don't match, it means either the government is failing to censor stuff it wishes to censor, or is incidentally censoring stuff it doesn't want to censor.

Comment It's possible to care less (Score 2) 548

It's "could NOT care less", you stupid, American cretin...

It's technically correct because they could, in fact, care less. If they couldn't care less, then they wouldn't be posting about it now would they? (Though I do think the proper "could HARDLY care less" is both more accurate and more descriptive)

Comment Re:Why such paranoia ? (Score 1) 299

Your sarcasm aside, turn the idea around and convince me there is any situation short of an emergency where the big evil government would use this power even if they had it?

They don't even need to ever brick a phone. The knowledge that the government could, should they choose to, brick your or even everyone's phones would have a chilling effect. And that's assuming that the government requested backdoor only bricks your phone, as opposed to also having the capability to track your GPS and activate your microphone and camera. And if that's not the current step it's the next step.

Comment Would be awesome (Score 2) 727

Would also require that people be able to run most of the apps they want in Linux. Note that though this has long been a problem, the increase in web-based apps is slowly eroding the relevance of any specific OS. Even for games, though the quality of web-based games will always be inferior. And (nearly) everyone likes to play games.

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