Well I get my operating system and software both for free (no cost) and for free (I'm free to use it as I wish... no EULA). So I'm part way there, probably all the way there, given that it's probably not possible to make access free of charge, nor possible to make the hardware itself available free of charge.
I certainly wasn't from any of the well known and popular "communities" such as Reddit, or stumble upon, or anything like that, as I rarely visit such places. But I do keep on coming back. Your articles are almost always interesting and informative.
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If you are a C-SPAN member you can download "low" quality videos for free, they are probably of sufficient quality for commentary. You can even have my account, if you want, I only set it up to find this out.
It doesn't matter how private and secure it is, the very people who should not have that much access to the private information of children and families, are the very people who are collecting and guarding it.
But he still has ear of Federal MPs. He could if he chooses work with the right Federal People.
Most likely he will find a formula that enables he to get the video back and simply forget about it, such is the insensitivity of those in positions of power to the rest of humanity.
The "patented Technology" sounds very similar to the way KDE's Semantic desktop is implemented, as it pertains to photo recognition in Digikam.
This particular instance, Superfish, is really just yet another example of the shenanigans you get through out the Windows ecosystem.
The idea itself may be sound, but typically it is corporate interests that foist insecure or badly implemented software on unsuspecting users, where even technically proficient users are generally caught out, because the software is closed source/proprietary, and no can easily inspect it, and no one but the proprietor can do anything about it, until it's too late, and mostly the proprietor won't do anything because the functionality that everyone hates is the feature they most want.
And unlike where there was a huge out cry at Canonical, for instance with their Dash search, and Canonical was very transparent about the whole process, mostly nothing gets done, because Corporate interests supersede user interests, and transparency is considered a bug, not a feature.
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Re: Copyright curve
I had to answer this oldy as well.
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Re: “Drag Up History”
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Re: Why not for direct messages?
Precicely why I won't use such services, for anything important.
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Re: Photoshop
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Jack Ely tells his version
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would you be so supportive of a similarly anti-Jewish film? Of course not.
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I can't remember how I came across Techdirt
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On the post: Congressional Rep. John Carter Discovers Encryption; Worries It May One Day Be Used On Computers To Protect Your Data
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Re: Campaign to bankrupt the IOC
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Privacy and Security
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re Meanwhile In America
Reading about it on Techdirt... priceless
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I'll stick to my 4-digit PIN for now
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IF no one has seen it.. the video
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And for what?
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Encryption Backdoors Will Always Turn Around And Bite You In The Ass
But seriously, the lesson they are probably going to take away is "We have 15 years grace period on each back door, I think we can manage that."
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Yes he state Premier
Most likely he will find a formula that enables he to get the video back and simply forget about it, such is the insensitivity of those in positions of power to the rest of humanity.
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Never heard of Linux,or mac photography?
This particular instance, Superfish, is really just yet another example of the shenanigans you get through out the Windows ecosystem.
The idea itself may be sound, but typically it is corporate interests that foist insecure or badly implemented software on unsuspecting users, where even technically proficient users are generally caught out, because the software is closed source/proprietary, and no can easily inspect it, and no one but the proprietor can do anything about it, until it's too late, and mostly the proprietor won't do anything because the functionality that everyone hates is the feature they most want.
And unlike where there was a huge out cry at Canonical, for instance with their Dash search, and Canonical was very transparent about the whole process, mostly nothing gets done, because Corporate interests supersede user interests, and transparency is considered a bug, not a feature.
On the post: Superfish Keeps Digging Deeper And Deeper Hole: Still Refuses To Acknowledge Seriousness Of What Its Software Did
I'm really glad of two decisions I made since I retired
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