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Comment Re:Guilty (Score 2) 207

Interpretation of carefully worded equivocations is important specifically in this context of American corporations which are being compelled to do certain things and then not speak of them.

Is there anything close RFC 2119 for the language that these companies are using. Or can we make one?

We could help companies create stronger press releases and we could give journalists a primary source for parsing bullshit statements like "we are not collecting".

Would anyone like to help start this project with me?

Comment PPC (Score 1) 327

If you run any kind of a website in a competitive market you can see the value (cash) that Google is extracting with this change.

Every time the user leaves your website to go to Google (even if they come right back) is a chance for you to lose that customer to a PPC competitor that is squatting our your trademark/URL with an ad that users will confuse as actually being part of your site.

Anyone with me on this?

Comment Re:Anonymous on the internet? (Score 1) 171

Heres the slides (warning TS//) http://apps.washingtonpost.com... They are from 2007, before iPhone came out. Much has changed since then.

NSA capabilities now include tapping phones of an entire country this is even U// by now https://firstlook.org/theinter...

Since Tor was identified as interesting in 2007 and since it hasn't died, it is safe to assume efforts are continuing to be applied against it.

And no, I don't have access to Internet scale data streams here, just using the standard Tor disclaimer at https://www.torproject.org/abo... but even 10 minutes is a long time if you have constant near-realtime communication.

Of course, Tor would be very effective for messaging services where you send one message and then disconnect!

Comment Re:I loved the ads (Score 1) 285

> Why is it that the ads in mags like Byte were a key part of the reason I bought the magazine -- but banners and online ads have become little more than annoyance and irritation?

This is the same reason some Superbowl TV ads are funny but all other TV ads are boring -- they require a large up-front investment.

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