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Why Free Software Evangelist Richard Stallman is Haunted by Stalin's Dream (factordaily.com)
Richard Stallman recently visited Mandya, a small town about 60 miles from Bengaluru, India, to give a talk. On the sidelines, Indian news outlet FactorDaily caught up with Stallman for an interview. In the wide-ranging interview, Stallman talked about companies that spy on users, popular Android apps, media streaming and transportation apps, smart devices, DRM, software backdoors, subscription software, and Apple and censorship. An excerpt from the interview: If you are carrying a mobile phone, it is always tracking your movements and it could have been modified to listen to the conversations around you. I call this product Stalin's dream. What would Stalin have wanted to hand out to every inhabitant of the former Soviet Union? Something to track that person's movements and listen to the person's conservations. Fortunately, Stalin could not do it because the technology didn't exist. Unfortunately for us, now it does exist and most people have been pressured or lured into carrying around such a Stalin's dream device, but not me.
I am suspicious of new digital technology. I expect it to have new malicious functionalities. It has happened so many times that I have learned to expect this, so I have always checked before I start using some new digital technology. I asked to find out what is nasty about it and I found out these two things. It was something like 20 years ago, and I decided it was my duty as a citizen to refuse, regardless of whatever convenience it might offer me. To surrender my freedom in this way was failing to defend a free society. This is why I do not have a portable phone. I refuse to carry a portable phone. I never have one and unless things change, I never will. I do use portable phones, lots of different ones. If I needed to call someone right now, I would ask one of you, "Could you please make a call for me?" If I am on a bus and it is late and I need to tell somebody that I am going to arrive late, there is always some other passenger in the bus who will make a call for me or send a text for me. Practically speaking, it is not that hard.
I am suspicious of new digital technology. I expect it to have new malicious functionalities. It has happened so many times that I have learned to expect this, so I have always checked before I start using some new digital technology. I asked to find out what is nasty about it and I found out these two things. It was something like 20 years ago, and I decided it was my duty as a citizen to refuse, regardless of whatever convenience it might offer me. To surrender my freedom in this way was failing to defend a free society. This is why I do not have a portable phone. I refuse to carry a portable phone. I never have one and unless things change, I never will. I do use portable phones, lots of different ones. If I needed to call someone right now, I would ask one of you, "Could you please make a call for me?" If I am on a bus and it is late and I need to tell somebody that I am going to arrive late, there is always some other passenger in the bus who will make a call for me or send a text for me. Practically speaking, it is not that hard.
Like most leftists, he's fine with using Stalin's Dream as long as it's invading your life and not his
The people who are important enough that they'd need a call phone have a secretary anyway. For the rest of us, cell phones are money sinks and toys.
That works because everyone else is carrying Stalin's dream.
If nobody did, it'd be like the times before everyone had a cell phone. Life was quite tolerable then too.
Why doesn't he just use a phone case that is a faraday cage with sound proofing and only take it out when he needed it?
Surely someone invented small faraday cage phone cases by now. Or else just use a ton of aluminum foil and test call it.
He is simply sacrificing one freedom for the illusion of another.
Giving up my privacy and security, so that Richard Stallman remains safe and secure. That's half-assed IMHO.
I refuse to carry a portable phone. I never have one and unless things change, I never will. I do use portable phones, lots of different ones. If I needed to call someone right now, I would ask one of you, "Could you please make a call for me?" If I am on a bus and it is late and I need to tell somebody that I am going to arrive late, there is always some other passenger in the bus who will make a call for me or send a text for me. Practically speaking, it is not that hard.
So as long as other people are around who are willing to be exploited slaves, it's all good. You get the benefits of the phones when you need them, while their owners get the drawbacks.
Thanks Richard!
So RMS won't carry a cell phone himself, but he will borrow someone else's, placing a call or a text to people he knows. Which would then be traceable back to a location. That doesn't make sense. If he is fine with mobile phone calls and sending messages over plain text, then why not carry a cell phone of his own and just disconnect the battery when he's not using it?
All he is doing is making his life unnecessarily complicated and annoying the people around him so he doesn't need to turn a mobile phone on/off when he wants to use it. This isn't smart or deep or a stand against technology, it's just being stubborn and anti-social without benefit. Like if I refused to buy items off Amazon, but then asked my relatives to buy all my books for me from their store.
" If I am on a bus and it is late and I need to tell somebody that I am going to arrive late, there is always some other passenger in the bus who will make a call for me or send a text for me."
This man is living a true hippie's dream
I do use portable phones, lots of different ones. If I needed to call someone right now, I would ask one of you, "Could you please make a call for me?" If I am on a bus and it is late and I need to tell somebody that I am going to arrive late, there is always some other passenger in the bus who will make a call for me or send a text for me. Practically speaking, it is not that hard.
The devices are evil, therefore he does not use his own with security mitigations, but relies on others being victims to navigate the modern world.
Doesn't seem ethical to me.
Like most leftists, he's fine with using Stalin's Dream as long as it's invading your life and not his
Bullshit.
He's saying quite clearly no one who cares about their freedom and/or privacy should carry around one of these devices. He's right.
He's also (indirectly implying or saying) that most people choose convenience over freedom. He's right about that too.
Finally, he's making the point to those who might care _almost_ as much about their freedom as convenience that, as long as there are so many people willing to trade their freedom for convenience, those who care about such things can piggy-back off of them to get almost the same level of convenience without compromising their location 24/7/365.25. He's right about that as well.
He is not saying "Freedom for me, not for you" he's merely mentioning a useful workaround that he probably himself hopes will become untenable someday (because everyone "sees the light" and stops carrying surveillance devices around). He's also implicitly acknowledging that that is most likely a pipe-dream, and he's right about that most of all.
But nice try on the right-wing anti-leftist spin against a guy who had the audacity to share his source code with the world, and write a license to help others do the same. I'm sure Putin likes you very much.
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> Richard Stallman recently visited Mandya, a small town about 60 miles from Bengaluru, India, to give a talk.
He just happened to get on an international flight, travel many hours, book hotel rooms, buy food to give a talk. He apparently did this without any compensation for his expenses.
Mention that he must have got compensated somehow in the lead in /. blurb.
It's interesting -- I remember the first time I read Utopia (probably in high school?), my objection was that Moore's premise of living a perfect life in a perfect society relied on letting somebody else fight all the wars.
I respect Stallman and I'm glad he's out there, but I smell a whiff of that here: it's "not that hard" for him to live without the convenience of a cell phone because he's able to assume someone else will be.
" I call this product Stalin's dream. "
Without the location data, Google Maps and others would be unable to lead you around the other morons in traffic.
It allows us to see at which times a restaurant, a Pool or other facilities are used by less people.
I don't want to miss that.
Here is the translation of this "news", IMHO:
"Evil (US) government SPYING on you people!!! Let's turn the whole internet to DARK WEB & make all smartphones impossible to access by Evil (US) Government (so criminals cannot ever get caught anymore)!!! Who is with me???"
Not being able to prevent it is the problem.
...who went off the Communist Cuba to record music? You know, the totalitarian state that does track everyone's movement, and jails people for illegally owning meat?
It sound no different than my grandpa talking about the internet in the 90s.
Sounds like someone who doesnâ(TM)t understand the technology and rejects it based on fear.
Heâ(TM)s not protecting his privacy, itâ(TM)s just afraid and not interested in technology anymore.
People who use the GPL, CHOOSE to use the GPL. It isn't shoved down their throats.
Slashdot isn't even fun anymore. Trolls r weak. Half the userbase is clueless but shoved politics into the convo anyway, because hey that's what we do on FB.
He does more harm than good for free / open source software, especially after the release of a broken license called GPLv3 which doesn't even permit to lock down the binaries compiled from a code using this license. GPL was very popular at its time but after GPLv3 nonsense it's now in decline.
What I'm really reading here is someone who has the resources to organize and offer an alternative to Stalin's Dream but isn't. I understand and agree with his misgivings but I disagree with his choice to take no action.
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I get the technophobia (reduce potential attack surface, i.e. facebook, etc). But what the fuck does he have against showers and deodorant?
So he won't carry a phone but he thinks it's OK to use someone else's? Fuck him.
Love it.
"Lock down the binaries"? WTF does that mean?
Tivoization is incompatible with software freedom.
But he TOTALLY created free computing for all gais!
Riggen please. Stallman cares about Stallman. End of line.
Well, forced freedom isn't true freedom. Tivoization is a hardware issue, you still have the source code to compile your liberated version of software and use it on your liberated device. It's your freedom to lock down the binary and sell it with the hardware. The software doesn't become less free of this.
His "freedom" only exists in his mind.
Wow, he must be a bit of a fairly clueless idiot if he believes this shit.
If some random stranger walks up to me and asks me to place a call for them (and end up handing them my phone), or text on their behalf (to god knows whom) ... I'm afraid the answer is "no, sorry".
If I get random texts claiming to be from someone I know but from a number I don't know, I'm not going to trust or believe that ... I'm going to block that caller immediately.
I understand what he's saying, and as a person who refuses to be tethered to a mobile device and all of the bullshit apps ... I get it, I feel the same way. I have no interest in your portable ad tracking device or your useless app.
But having random strangers place calls for you or text people (assuming you know the number off the top of your head)? Yeah, no ... you can't have my phone, I'm not placing calls or texts for you, and I'm not interested.
First and foremost, I don't hand expensive electronics to random strangers. Second of all, I do not trust any form of communications from people I don't already know, and that includes new random numbers claiming to be from people who I do know.
Sorry, but if he believes any of these scenarios are plausible, he really is stupid or delusional.
Why didn't you sign your post? What's the point with a post which only serves the purpose of telling everyone how ignorant and retarded you are, and then then not signing it?
Not realizing you had to sign for it to serve it's purpose - to warn people to stay away from you since you're clearly retarded - seems to be the only consistent and logical about your little mental fart, so clearly it's unintentional.
So he's taking a stand to preserve his freedom, by relying on the fact that others are not preserving their own? If he believes cell phones are truly evil, then he should boycott all use - not foist the inconvenience of his choices on others.
tl;dr - a few wingnuts refusing to use cell phones helps Stalin just as much. Now he knows who is a threat.
I'm not getting what's Stalin specific here. s/Stalin/Truman/ and what's the difference? Imagine McCarthy's with current technology.
Socialism is an evil and immoral philosophy that advocates treating human beings as chattel
No, it is not. Look up the definition: "a political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.". Just like any political ideology it only becomes immoral if it is taken to extremes but that is just as true of capitalism as well.
Like most things in life generally what works best is a balance. The community needs to provide some regulation on production, distribution and exchange to provide protection for its weakest members but, at the same time, not too much regulation otherwise it stifles and prevents the innovation and entrepreneurship that we all rely on to make our lives better. I'm not a fan of socialism because its proponents tend to take it, in my opinion, far too far towards the regulation/control side of things. However, it is by no means an "evil and immoral philosophy" nor does it advocate "treating human beings as chattel". You are thinking about communism which is not at all the same thing.
Richard Stallman recently visited Mandya, a small town about 60 miles from Bengaluru, India,
Hey Richard: Since you're in India, give my regards to all swine who robocall me up to 5 times a day. Let them know that the gods will destroy them and their families for what they do.
Absolutely - just like forcing people to give up their money for free in exchange for food is totally Stalinist.
If you don't like the price I charge for my code (GPL compliance) then don't use it, or try to convince me to sell it to you under other terms. It's as simple as that. Or do you think you are entitled to steal my code and give me nothing in return?
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I'd say you do more harm than good for humanity especially since there is no shortage whatsoever of mindless drones who can't do a lick of thinking on their own without orders and permission from those they perceive as their "betters". Humanity does not need more servile, soulless torturers and executioners eagerly "obeying orders", eroding our freedoms one bit at a time.
Please off yourself at the earliest convenience. Thank you.
I agree with all of that except the forcing. His being a prick doesn't force you to do anything.
There is not a single hardcore Libertarian running any SV company that matters. None. For all of their problems, I have never met or heard of a libertarian whose reaction to the PC orthodoxy of SV is less than extreme disgust. If the head of Google were a hardcore libertarian, he'd have made the rubble bounce on the people who went after James Damore and those that followed up with demands for a witch hunt because that mentality is anathema to everything they value.
He's fighting the war harder than just about anyone, just on a different front.
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It's not the fault of technology that oppression happens.
I don't care if Google spies on me, Google can't lock me in a cage. Google can't drop a bomb on my family or random people I know nothing about 12,000 miles away. I'm not concerned with what Google does with my information.
Sure is easy to do without cellphones/vaccines/etc. when everyone else around me is paying the cost in privacy and cash/very small chance of reaction/etc. I'm a genius and not a freeloader/freeloader/freeloader on society.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go help an old person on Medicare and SS write a post on their subsidized phone about how they are tired of all the welfare queens.
Your ad here. Ask me how!
and Stallman's pretty obsessed with not being tracked. I don't think he likes others being tracked either, but given that cell phones have killed payphones (I even stopped seeing them in the really poor neighborhoods where I work) there are just times when you can't get away from it.
Me? I don't care so much for tracking. I'm more worried about economic attacks on me and mine, e.g. things like cutting my access to medical care, education, my wages, etc. Take care of those things and the tracking problems solve themselves.
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Our loss of privacy was handed away gleefully, as if we were kids given candy.
Since early on, I advocated that whatever the level of transparency, it should be mutual. If government can read my conversations then I should be able to read theirs, as it pertains to mine. The same for commercial organizations. Of course, some level should be set. I mean regardless, I don't want them watching me poop. But then again, if it's my doctor and I can see that my doctor is doing this to monitor my health then I could be leanient even on that. So it's not a trade between privacy and security -- it's a balance of mutual privacy that we need.
On the other hand, I think the issues of fake information, information overload, and relationship destroying social media comments are all bigger issues.
Sounds like the worst carnival ride *ever*.
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Absolutely - just like forcing people to give up their money for free in exchange for food is totally Stalinist.
If you don't like the price I charge for my code (GPL compliance) then don't use it, or try to convince me to sell it to you under other terms. It's as simple as that. Or do you think you are entitled to steal my code and give me nothing in return?
Sure. You can put up your software on whatever licence you wish. Just don't go around claiming it's free software when the licence terms are more restrictive than BSD's "here it is, do what you like with it, I accept no responsibility if it blows up in your face".
JustAnotherOldGuy here posting as AC from work....
"This is why I do not have a portable phone. I refuse to carry a portable phone. I never have one and unless things change, I never will. I do use portable phones, lots of different ones. If I needed to call someone right now, I would ask one of you, "Could you please make a call for me?" If I am on a bus and it is late and I need to tell somebody that I am going to arrive late, there is always some other passenger in the bus who will make a call for me or send a text for me."
Yes, but if everyone did as Richard Stallman did, there would be no one to make a phone call for you.
It's like herd immunity in reverse.
There's a man who hasn't learned the benefits of owning Delaware based LLCs and holding companies.
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It's not a problem to NOT borrow use of somebody's phone. Some of us are old enough to have lived during a time when everybody didn't have a phone or internet.
The world functioned so well it was able to invent all the stuff you use today so you can "innovate" your silly stuff on top of that along with the help from us old timers.
He loses none of his rights if he uses your cell because you already gave up your rights. There is no hypocrisy here. He can do just fine without it and he can deal unlike everybody else.
This guy is more consistent than MOST people which is what gets him labeled as extreme all the time. We get people attacking him for being extremely consistent and idealistic beyond what they consider reasonable-- labeling him unreasonable-- and also attacking him for not being so extreme he can't even borrow use of a phone on rare occasion.... keep in mind that a PUBLIC SHARED PHONE is dead because of everybody else... the more you share your phone the less revealing it is about you, like a public phone was.
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Nobody's claiming it's free - rather they're claiming it's Free, as in "you can't lock up this software"
If you want free code that you *can* lock up inside your own proprietary product, then by all means restrict yourself to using BSD or any other "glorified public domain" license. It's a really simple distinction, and only an idiot would claim confusion.
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I don't want some fat weirdo using my phone, I would tell him to get his own phone.
Not to ignore all the things they did which made them such, they also identified as such. So who are you to tell them they're not?
Please be sure to elaborate on the standards used to reject this self-identification, because those standards will be checked for consistency with other choices of self-identification and when that can be rejected or not.
They both pushed right wing societal values such as attacking and even killing homosexuals, certain races and such, as well as governance by those with merit . At that when Stalin took charge, a lot of what is usually considered leftist in America was prosecuted. He even believed in capitalism, as long as the government was the capitalist running industry. Like most successful capitalists, he did hate the free market, as that means competition.
Neither one believed in the people and especially having the regular people involved in governance through democracy and neither made any moves in the direction of communism, which has as one of its basic tenants to not have government.
People are complex and can not be simply divided up into the right wing and left wing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
Richard, I think "they" are probably more interested in people without phones than people with phones.
Perhaps more practically, how hard would it be to add a noise-generator to a reasonable case that would prevent sound capture from the phone's microphones, except when disabled by the user?
Agent Smith did nothing wrong!
Also, Illuminate confirmed!
Seriously? This guy's a thought leader?
Take the damn battery out of your phone and then put the phone in a foil bag. Jesus.
With an OS level GUI dropping down over any attempts to read the news on a website.
Soft power off on a cell phone that keeps tracking the user.
Battery power that stays on to keep tracking the users even when they think the smartphone is not powered.
Political ads, search services, social media and browsers that track the users.
PRISM thats ready to help any gov collect it all.
Junk crypto standards in an OS sold as full tested and trusted.
Domestic spying is now "Benign Information Gathering"
I do use portable phones, lots of different ones. If I needed to call someone right now, I would ask one of you, "Could you please make a call for me?" If I am on a bus and it is late and I need to tell somebody that I am going to arrive late, there is always some other passenger in the bus who will make a call for me or send a text for me. Practically speaking, it is not that hard.
So he depend on other people forfeiting their privacy so he doesn't have to forfeit his. Seems like a philosophy that can work for everyone. Oh wait...
Sorry bro, I can't. I'm busy looking for the Democratic Republicans in North Korea and the Congo.
No he wouldn't have. You even quoted the relevant part: Damore was the dog that got in the way of the stock options. Google cannot have smaller numbers so he had to go.
You also fail to recognize a very common libertarian trait (which the dog analogy is related to), probably because you think of yourself as one, but those reactions of disgust only apply when that individual didn't come up with the idea. "It's just disgusting that dude is dumping his mining waste in my beautiful field. Oh the waste I'm dumping in the river? Oh it's harmless- it even HELPS and makes everything better (tm)!!! My shit smells awesome, but everyone elses is putrid."
He refuses to carry a phone to protect his privacy, but the relies on others to compromise their own privacy for him to make a call on their devices...
Why stop at China's borders with 'Social Credit'.. they can take it global.. we're not thinking big enough..
To buy from Aliexpress, your account will come with 'social credit'. Say something bad about China, your prices will go up.
Your company wants to buy (or sell) something with China as the counterparty.. how is the social credit of your staff rate? (they will slurp your staff list from linked in, facebook, or your company's poorly secured India outsourced mail server).
Then your HR will instruct you to never say anything bad about China on the web as it is 'bad for business'.
Oh, your Xiaomi or Huewai phone tells the Chinese govt that you went to China, or were at a democracy rally in your country... minus social credit for you..
The more powerful China's economy becomes in the world, the more this will impact you, even if you don't live in China or never intend to go there..
I've been watching that guy off an on for years and years. Everything is a problem, everything, except what the thinks, is a huge terrible problem. No, he just is built that way. He'd do better if he didn't talk so much.
I'm not an English speaker, could you explain to me that word?
What are are a person's conservations? something like their racism and bigotry draped in "conservative" small-government philosophical mumble-jumble?
People are complex and can not be simply divided up into the right wing and left wing.
Really? How's that Red/Blue Thing going for ya? Seems to work on the masses I see in the street, even better than that Hope Thing worked. You really need to get some better lab rats, some that eat that Red/Blue s**t up, like people do.
If the Faraday cage is working, then the phone can't know where it is. If it isn't communicating with any cell towers or receiving GPS signals, the only way it could possibly divine location information would be to use dead reckoning -- guessing that it knew where it was and how fast it was going in a known direction at time T1 when it went into the cage, and it knows where it is at time T2 when it comes out of the cage, so it must have travelled between those two points. If you take it out several times a day, that'll work pretty well. But if you take it out a couple of times a week, the data is a lot less valuable.
.. of my cold dead hands. Damn commies.
This is folly. Big Brother is watching, there's little you can do about it. Between the vast number of surveillance cameras deployed in the entire world, license plate recognition, facial recognition, voice recognition... it really doesn't matter if you're carrying your digital leash or not, someone still knows exactly where you are and mostly likely what you're doing.
Fortunately, this isn't Stalin's world anymore, it's something different. Better, worse or no difference really remains to be seen.
I take comfort in the fact, there's got to be at least 5 billion cell phones in the field.. and Big Brother is just some data center doing Bayesian inference calculations on everything it 'observes.'
You are wrong.
He's fine with someone else trading their freedoms when it's convenient for HIM
They traded their freedoms at the time of buying the phone, activating mobile service on it, or putting it in their pockets while switched on while they were leaving their homes. They also kept trading it every moment they did not destroy / switch off / enclose in Faraday cage their phone. But they absolutely never traded any of their freedoms when it was convenient for RMS. Including the freedom to refuse to acquiesce to his request.
Actually, letting RMS make his call increases the anonymity and hence freedom a tiny bit. If you call the acquaintances of RMS instead of your own, the algorithms to figure out your social circle is a tiny bit more confused than if you were exclusively calling your own acquaintances.
I don't murder people so I'll hire this hit man to do it for me.
No, it is like I don't murder people but other people hire hit men anyway to murder yet other people. I can request the hit man to deliver a courier to the person being killed, or someone close to him. If the consignee is the one being murdered, I can further request the hit man to deliver it before the murder - but of course he may still choose to deliver after the murder or not deliver at all.
Bingo Dictionary - Pragmatist, n. A myopic idealist.
Go fuck yourself.
Tivoization is incompatible with your tiny bubble world.
While there can be no question that Hitler was the very opposite of a socialist (despite the 'S' in NSDAP), it's just too convenient to argue away Stalin socialism, notwithstanding what may from time to time be "considered leftist in America." Please!
We need look no further than this liberal-bourgeois Identity Theory muck which passes for "leftist" in the US ...
He could use VPN and VoIP calls to stay anonymous, this wsy the telecom would not know that it's him, and he could use pay as you go registered to someone else and pay for it with cash.
Privacy is gone. Stop beating the dead horse. Stop all the anti-government cowboy bullshit. You look like dumbass backwater hicks.
The whole vector of progress is government getting more and more power. Orwellian and Kafkaesque worlds are as inevitable as climate change. The only way you got government less powerful is to throw away your phone (like this old dumbass idol of other old farts did), then all the tanks and go back to spear hunting into the jungle.
Otherwise, eat it. Learn to live with it. Learn to live with all your data being used to personalize advertisement to you.
The only war path is ad-blocking. Put all of your effort into this war: block ads, block ads, block ads. Fight for your sanity. Fight against people who keep saying that black is white.
Privacy is gone and people who are holding on to cowboy pseudo-ideology of XIX century look like imbeciles.
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The fact that Stallman seems to have no sweet clue how the software on smartphones work, or that it is trivially possible to be 100% under your own control - including nowadays all the way to the modem firmware if you really want - makes me seriously wonder about him. Criminals have figured this out as a matter of course, you would think that for someone as supposedly smart as Stallman it would be simple.
He is SUPPOSED to be someone who is keeping pace with the industry and technology, but he has to ask people how cell phones work - and seemlingly gets the wrong answers?
This summary is mind boggling and makes me think he has really fallen off the deep end.
You explain it to me then why instead of the S there isn't a L (for liberal, the real kind) or some other individual liberties minded doctrine ? Why did they chose socialism+*arbeiters* partei ? Let me guess they just had to pick a name and rolled a dice or something, since the nazis were known to not plan propaganda or anything.
They both pushed right wing societal values such as attacking and even killing homosexuals...
Wtf are you making stuff up? Attacking homosexuals is right there in Stuart Mill or Friedrich Hayek, I must have missed it. It's like saying leftist values are killing jews because the nazis were left wing.
He even believed in capitalism
Just like the KKK believes in freedom for all. What glue are you sniffing?
Not the American glue obviously.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverted_totalitarianism
If it says apply liberally it can mean apply as much OR AS LITTLE as *YOU* WANT. Emphasys on YOUr dominion over the qty required. Also, i speak a neolatin language where to liberate means to free someone/something. (not to widen them).
Um... why not just get a phone that you can remove all sources of power from? Then, you could still use a cell phone when you are willing to, but not have it communicate in any way when you don't want it to.
This is why Google, Apple, and Samsung all make phones without removable batteries. So you can't actually turn the damned thing off. Ever.
I am still not entirely certain why removing the analog audio port is so important. I am guessing it has something to do with DRM and copying... but that really doesn't make any sense to me since I had to copy the music to the phone to begin with. I guess they assume everyone streams their music from a commercial service?
TL;DR, RMS is an absolutely fucking crazy nutjob. He happens to be right more than he is wrong, so people should pay attention to him... but do NOT treat him like a fucking God or something. Remember, he is an absolutely fucking crazy nutjob.
"Someone needs to talk to the tree of liberty about its ghoulish drinking problem." by ohnocitizen
Hypothetically, if a phone were to do this, how much power would it consume? Surely it would be a noticable amount, I mean if you had your phone off all day and it still lost 5% charge, wouldn't that be suspicious?
Perhaps it is a hidden feature that can be turned on for people of interest, but if there is no power loss when the phone is off, then we can be fairly sure it is not tracking us while it is off.
Because communists claim to govern in the name of the people, that's why. Just like Hilter. Also like him they love them an all powerful state. Funny how you don't see any individual rights touted in either N.K. nor nazi Germany. Just a coincidence i guess that they all just love them this socialism stuff. You know, think of the people !!!!!!!!