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Comment Re: 3GPP (Score 2) 148

It matters because without privacy you have no power.

Everyone has a skeleton. Nobody is perfect. This is about archiving everything and using search technology to create instant dossiers on people who have influence on more than a handful of people. In other words, anyone who wants to effect change will be prevented/discredited.

It is a direct attack on democracy itself. It is an attack on the public at large.

Whether it's done by private corporations or the government, the effect is the same. It should be condemned in all cases.

And it's people like you that give this all a pass. You and your ilk disgust me.

Good day, sir.

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BMO

Comment Re:This is moderately insane (Score 1) 239

> I wonder if they'll drop POP support before lowering the boom? I have so very much data in there.

What, exactly, is preventing you from archiving what you have /right now/? What is preventing you from setting your IMAP/POP client to continually store in local folders?

Been using Tbird to access Gmail for years now. I don't see your problem.

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Comment Re:Look what those assholes did to gedit. (Score 3, Insightful) 488

>> Getting rid of this shit-for-brains UI is the best possible bugfix that gedit could undergo right now. But will it be accepted? Of course not! The hipsters can't possibly be wrong about the UI.

>Substitute 'Firefox' or just about any other open source program in place of 'Gedit' and you have a perfect description of what is wrong with open source today.

Substitute Microsoft Word or just about any other closed source program in place of 'Firefox' and you have a perfect description of what is wrong with closed source today.

Fixed.

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BMO

Comment Re:Google doesn't have a monopoly on ANYTHING. (Score 2) 334

Moreover, if Nokia wasn't run by absolute incompetents, they'd still be a huge player in the smartphone market.

But they farted around with OSes, libraries, and waffled and couldn't decide themselves out of a wet paper bag being while pushed off a cliff. To top it off, the board decided to welcome Microsoft's cukoo-egg into their nest because "OH MY GOD A BILLION DOLLARS."

Google is where it is because a lot of companies are run by boards that are more interested in feathering their own nests instead of what they largely give lip-service to - "innovation"

Look at Yahoo. Go ahead, look at 'em. Point And Laugh. They deserve it.

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BMO

Comment Re:Market Share in 2019? (Score 0) 400

while threatening to jump ship to a browser they can't even customize at all.

You can't possibly be talking about Google's browser.

Chromium is properly FOSS.

https://chromium.googlesource....

Chrome itself is closed source, but Google really does an awful lot for the FOSS community.

The browsers you truly can't customize consist of the likes of IE and Opera.

petty little complaints

I've been an open source user/abuser and proponent going on 20 years now. It's stuff like this that make me think that if you're an actual Firefox dev, you need to GTFO right now before your toxic attitude spreads.

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Comment Re:I think (Score 5, Insightful) 335

Product liability never results in anyone being actually responsible for the death going to jail or huge penalties.

A multinational might> pay out a couple of million in product liability, but then it will just be chalked up to the cost of doing business.

If the multinational is a defense contractor (BAE, Raytheon, Lockheed, General Dynamics, etc), it will all be swept under the rug and more money will be thrown at the contractor to "fix" it.

That's the reality.

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Comment Re:don't use biometrics (Score 1) 328

You'd be surprised how many felonies and misdemeanors they could find on your phone. If they find anything suggesting you committed a crime, they can make your life hell for quite a while. This affects everybody.

You know those pill organizers, because you're taking so many drugs each day (heart, etc)?

If you carry around prescription drugs without the actual bottle without the actual sticker, it's a felony. This actually happened to one of the members of my DBSA group.

No, you do *not* have permission to search my bag, Mr. Officer.

http://edfolsomlaw.com/2013/01...

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Comment Re:Standard Document Retention Policy (Score 1) 190

The county had to buy a spare server and restore each monthly tape to it and manually pick out the email messages

It's a fucking computer. How do you not even try to automate stuff like that? How stupid do you have to be to not even write a script, but sit there and fucking vgrep everything?

The cost was not because of the documents being requested or that the county kept the records too long, the cost was that their IT department is run by retards.

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Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 242

It's fashionable to complain about the replaced start menu in Win 8.

It wasn't just that, it was all the touch shit crammed into a desktop OS that failed to work well with a mouse and keyboard. Ballmer et al., were chasing after the "golden fleece" of a "universal interface" by j-j-j-jamming touch into desktops/laptops. They thought that mobile interface on desktops would work better than desktop interface on mobiles (XP tablet edition, to be specific).

They're finding out that people use different form factors in different ways/use cases and that the interface should follow the use and form factor.

Winidiots swear up and down that Linux "will never be ready for grandma." I have to tell you that from personal experience "grandma" hates 8 more than any Linux desktop environment.

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