Two points to consider:
1. My experience has been that smart phone hardware is not too reliable. So no matter how little or how much you pay, sooner or later some essential feature breaks at a hardware level - sound doesn't work, or your charging port doesn't accept a charge, or your screen is dead, and so forth. So I'm inclined towards middle range phones, so that I'm spending $200-$400 every two or three years instead of $600-$700.
2. My phone is paid off at Verizon, and they replaced my $25/month payment on the phone with a $25 increase in my monthly fee. Thanks, Verizon! (I'm switching carriers in a month or two. But they have me by the short hairs - cell phone reception for all of the other carriers sucks around here. So I can pay 60% less for service, just as long as I like not being able to actually call anyone. But I'm sick of the price, so I'm switching anyway.)
both of my sisters have LG Nexus 4 and both of them ended up with dead zones. phones aren't built to last and that's annoying.
dude they're thinning away the 3.5mm headphone jack. Phone makers are idiots who think thinner is better they won't be happy until our phones fit in magic the gathering card sleeves.
I'm in Canada on Wind mobile. Those rates only apply to in the city, but I only leave the city about once a year anyway, and it's usually to another city where the rates still apply. The only place I don't get unlimited usage is out on the highway between cities or at the cottage, but I don't tend to make that many calls out there anyway. I'm also grandfathered into an old plan, their current plan is $40+tax if you want 5GB of data.
I was about to say that's what I pay on Wind.. roughly. I pay $45/mo for with Free US calling. I slipped in on a deal so i have Canadawide not province wide calling.
Also we should note that the 5GB cap is actually unlimited (iif i recall correctly) but it's slowed down (not stopped) after 5GB
Whenever I get a new phone, either because the old one broke or I just want an upgrade, I move my SD card to my new phone and all my stuff is there. I can't do that with built-in memory.
Seriously why aren't more people sympathetic to that? My dropbox is FULL. I'm 30GBs over my 46GB storage limit because I take videos and don't have anywhere to put them. When I switch to 1+3 I'm kinda terrified about what I'm supposed to do with all my data that can't be synced anywhere. Because google drive is all fun and game until you realize that space your photos eat up bites into your email allotment space.. it's all ONE big space.. that's limited. Bah. And no I'm not compromising my quality just for unlimited space. about 70% of the time I need maximum quality not "good"
i want an SD slot too. Even the 1+X had a choice of dual sim or sim+sd. I don't travel that often. I don't need two sims at once. I can just take out my home sim and get a new sim. What I'd LIKE is to be able to takea ll the stuff on my Galaxy S4 to my new 1+3 and i can't and that's frustrating.
Not so great, considering that USB-C is the future. And what about Apple, who still uses Lightning ports (although I hear the next iPhone is also going to be USB-C)
yeah we standardized.. then we evolved.. USB was amazing.. the fact that it lasted this long was able to become this pervasive is due in huge part to government intervention. The fact that Apple tries to buck this is not proof that government failed. I still have a drawer filed with pre-standard characters to prove that even in North America I'm thankful to the government that forced phone manufacturers to get on the same page.
People who think SJWs are new or novel are seriously fucking new themselves
they just got rebranded by their opposition. I remember when White Knight was an insult feminists used then the anti-PC err. anti political correct because this is/. people basically tried turning it on supporters and now it's an insult to any man who supports women. But you're right no gaming or gamer articles is not that big a deal. and no the "gamer" aren't gone. I've seen/. get surprisingly racist and/or sexist like I was lurking back in the 5 to 6 digit user ID transition and I don't recalling it getting as racist/sexist as I've seen.. I want to say Last year? or the year before.
When I used to do locksmith work, it would take me a few seconds to unlock your car or house if you locked the key inside. Customers were happy that I could bypass the security for them.
Now that I work in information security, most people seem to think something is horribly wrong if I'm able to bypass the security.
There is an appropriate level of security for each use case. Neither your apartment nor your Slashdot account needs to be an impenetrable fortress that even the CIA can't get in to . Sometimes, convenience does trump security.
that's why I used to use a three password system. One simple alpha password for accounts that don't matter and then a beta and gamma passwords for sort of secure and really secure accopunts respectively and then a delta password for my email.
Nowadays I use a Password Manager and Two Factor Authentication for every place that allows it.
I use KeePass because while I'm pretty careful I wasn't help with the security of a 3+1 password system nor the flexibility such as the fact that I tended to use Alpha for everything and only switch when that site got hacked. I started to use Google Authenticator but I hit that phone failsafe issue where I was constantly worried about what happened if my phone was off or dead or lost. The fact that I had to go through a version of that when I switched phones only cemented my fears. I ended up at Authy and full Two Factor because Authy provided me the flexbility and failsafes to complete the loop that KeePass started. I now feel comfortable with appropriately complex passwords on everything. I don't worry about having to enter them on my phone because KeePass has android ports that can access a cloud stored back up of my database. It's controlled (by me) it's uniform. I know how to do it on every site I need to do it on. It's practically unintrusive at this point in my life.
The type of secuity I'll use is about how much I trust it, how consistent the experience is and how easy it is to use. Two Factor isn't hard and it's rigedly consistent.
You can't. That's how it is with Windows and proprietary software in general. You either take it or leave it.
And this is why it's not "a free choice". I need to use windows to work and when MS changes things that makes it annoying to work with windows, I'm allowed to complain about it. I'm not steadfastly refus[ing] to abandon it like some kind of sadomasochistic ritual. I'm forced to maintain with it because of extrinsic factors that you seem to think are mythical.
Sure you can [switch]
No I can't because I need windows to work. It's like how I now need MS Word to work because I'm literally the only one in my office using LibreOffice and people are compalining that when I edit their documents there are formatting losses.
Any choice you make is going to have ramifications. I don't have a big pickup truck, so I can't tow a big boat.
and this is a much smaller problem when you don't tow boats for a living. When you don't need to tow aboat regularly yeah this is a choice you can make to not have a tow truck because you don't like the handling or the emissions. But when you NEED to tow a boat then no a Nissan Sedan isn't a viable alternative Yes both can take me grocery shopping and while I may do that more often than towing a board if my job description involves towing boats every other day than I can't ignore that need. My current job description involves using MS Office so that I can not bork up the compatability with Office files people send me all the time. If it was as simple as just exporting PDFs back to them this wouldn't be an issue. For years this is how I lived but now my situation is different.
good grief man you don't have a boat and don't want one? What kind of argument is that? That's fine for you but some of us out here HAVE boats and need boats. You waving boatless solutions in our faces is kinda missing the point.
tl;dr - no switching isn't a viable alternative to everyone. Even if it is completely and 100% literally possible within the physical realm of existance, it can be a functional non-starter for people. I guess I'll be seeing you at the next "If you don't like our country, why don't you just leave" rally
If you can tell me how to turn off the UI Menus within menus that require me to dig thru touch capable menus ( that most importantly don't have the configuration options that I'm actually trying to access) in order to get to the panel that DOES have the config options I'm trying to get at. Then by all means enlighten me and I shall turn it off promptly.
but steadfastly refuse to abandon it like some kind of sadomasochistic ritual
I hate the touch screen aspects. There are however things I really enjoy about windows and have appreciated since I switched from Mac way back when. That said I'm not in a position where I CAN switch even if I were of a mind to. But sure go on and assume that we're all using Windows for the fun of it. That's super reasonable of you.
Just newer/prettier. I haven't seen a newer verison of something be faster in a very long time.
And no the ui wasn't broken before.
I have to point out that even in windows 10 half the settings are in a touch screen style ui and the rest are in a windows 7 ui its terribly inconistant.
you have no idea how much i hate touch screen UI on my Win10 computer. I hate it so much. all the control panels are still there but you have to go thru a curtain of simplified touch screen capable control panels first before you can find them EVERY time. It's a nightmare. Combine that with the hugely annoying Function Keys that are media keys and no way to change them to just plain function keys and I'm hating nearly every moment of my Win10 experience so far.
The whole look/UI on the latest versions of the Office suite stinks. The ribbon is utter shit.
The ribbon reduces the effort required to find the function you want. It's not buried in a million levels of menus.
this only holds true if what you want is one of the 10 most common functions under five pre-determined tabs. The just last night I had no idea how to find out how to adjust column text settings in ribbon Word. Where as I had it open in LibreOffice and it was fairly easy to figure out Pick one heading that I think it might be, Pick another and what do you know it IS there. I'm STILL not sure how I found it under Ribbon.
But The Oatmeal taught me that having to wait for disc releases is an unreasonable burden and it's unfair to ask that of someone.
How on earth did you get that readng out of that comic???
it was not only the comic, but the context behind it. For instance the tweet he used to promote it was something to the effect of "Now that Game of Thrones season 1 is finished I'd like to see it". IIRC it was the month after it finished. That's why Netflix has unknown dates, it's why iTunes only had featurettes at the time and why it wasn't showing up on Amazon. I wouldn't have expected it on Hulu but I left the US back when Hulu was just everything networks were already streaming just in one centralized location. Before it was an actual platform by itself before the dreaded Hulu Plus. (aside: I went back to the US a while back and couldn't find anything to watch because everything wanted HuluPlus). My problem isn't that he choose to torrent the show. I torrent shows. Probably more than him. I was annoyed at his expectation that it should be available darn near instantly. That's what I found objectionable.
The comic is hands down the most obnoxious thing I've ever seen from The Oatmeal to my recollection and he's hit or miss with me. Better than the Notepad++ guy but not better than Josh "Let me just pay a grand for a movie reel and see it in my home day 1" Topolsky.
Yeah, hyperbole saying he'll burn in hell or something is one thing, but threats of violence are not automatically hyberbole. Simply [secretly] not planning to do it, and just saying you will, is not an attempt to communicate exaggeration.
Hyperbole is an exaggerated comment not meant to be taken literally. If you straight out say something threatening, without any clear exaggeration, then it isn't obviously hyperbole. I'm not sure what the source of the "hyperbole" claim even is. Techdirt, I guess? The comment may or may not have been a poorly executed attempt at hyperbole; or it might have been a threat. My advice, if you're making comments that involve the police, and violence, make a clear exaggeration. Don't just deadpan a threat and rely on people trusting that you're a good person and so it just must have been exaggeration.
Threatening to send Voldemort or a Klingon Bird of Prey to wipe them out, that is clear hyperbole. A "bullet to their... skull" is just not obviously hyperbole, especially in the context where firearms are commonly possessed, and in fact a constitutional right. If somebody said that about me, I'd have to start carrying inflatable ninjas in my pocket for protection.
And if you run a website that has comments, expect to get some subpoenas, especially if you don't delete, redact, or otherwise squelch comments describing violence in the context of real humans.
What may be the course if the context of the comment. If I saw you in an ally and said that yeah it's hardly hyperbole and a genuine threat. If we were on an acting set and I was dressed like a 1950s train robber then again it's probably hyperbole. I think there's a difference between what we say on a comedy stage, what we say on an internet comment site, and what we say in a protest rally and that context is what makes certain phrases hyperbole and others legitimate threats. At least that's what I assume the author's intent was by labeling it hyperbole.
Believe it or not, there actually are people out there who are not so selfish as to deny every tax increase simply because, "It's my money I worked harder than them!"
Yeah I'm not sure those people are the entire subset of non republican property owners. In general I support taxes but honestly I'm not sure I wouldn't kick a fuss about raising property taxes.
The fact is, the US hasn't been hit by a major attack since 9/11. That doesn't prove the security measures are effective or necessary, but it certainly doesn't discredit them. It's necessary for law enforcement to combat terrorism. There is no reason that facing terror attacks should be the price for freedom. Slashdot commenters are happy to criticize law enforcement but fail to offer better solutions to stop terrorism. If you don't like what law enforcement is doing now, what's your solution to keep terror attacks at least as infrequent as they are now?
You know prison sexual assault has increased since 9/11. I theorize that the threat of prison rape is part of what deters terrorist attacks. For them it's a zero sum game now. Die or get violated. Since dying is so hard they don't bother anymore unless they can guarantee death. So you know what I now oppose people who try to work to end prison rape. Who cares about all the innocently assaulted prisoners. It's what keeps our country safe.
Even more important than just the spread of Encryption itself, but the fact that more and more of the non-tech community is becoming acquainted with it and why it's important. It's exciting to see people who clearly prescribe to the "I just want my technology to work" thought process to be actually caring about the underlying processes.
well arguably that was the point. Snowden made people care and that caring is what increased the pace of encryption growth
"It sounds nutty but Facebook has a rock solid First Amendment right to filter out all Trump news -- if it wanted to.
Of course they do. It's not nutty at all. They have a clear and obvious right to filter out everything Trump. And we have a clear and obvious right to then delete our Facebook accounts and boycott the company in response if they did that. I personally wouldn't do that as a Trump-free Facebook sounds like a dream but I understand entirely that's what would happen and wouldn't cry about it.
Do people really have this much trouble understanding the first amendment? This is like when Milo GamerGater was complaining about his first amendment rights being violated when Twitter took off his verified checkmark. It wasn't violating first amendment then and the hypothetical wouldn't violate first amendment now. It'd just be bad business.
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Two points to consider: 1. My experience has been that smart phone hardware is not too reliable. So no matter how little or how much you pay, sooner or later some essential feature breaks at a hardware level - sound doesn't work, or your charging port doesn't accept a charge, or your screen is dead, and so forth. So I'm inclined towards middle range phones, so that I'm spending $200-$400 every two or three years instead of $600-$700. 2. My phone is paid off at Verizon, and they replaced my $25/month payment on the phone with a $25 increase in my monthly fee. Thanks, Verizon! (I'm switching carriers in a month or two. But they have me by the short hairs - cell phone reception for all of the other carriers sucks around here. So I can pay 60% less for service, just as long as I like not being able to actually call anyone. But I'm sick of the price, so I'm switching anyway.)
both of my sisters have LG Nexus 4 and both of them ended up with dead zones. phones aren't built to last and that's annoying.
you'll deal with it the way we dealt with no more physical keyboards.. grumbling and wishing for death.
dude they're thinning away the 3.5mm headphone jack. Phone makers are idiots who think thinner is better they won't be happy until our phones fit in magic the gathering card sleeves.
I'm in Canada on Wind mobile. Those rates only apply to in the city, but I only leave the city about once a year anyway, and it's usually to another city where the rates still apply. The only place I don't get unlimited usage is out on the highway between cities or at the cottage, but I don't tend to make that many calls out there anyway. I'm also grandfathered into an old plan, their current plan is $40+tax if you want 5GB of data.
I was about to say that's what I pay on Wind.. roughly. I pay $45/mo for with Free US calling. I slipped in on a deal so i have Canadawide not province wide calling. Also we should note that the 5GB cap is actually unlimited (iif i recall correctly) but it's slowed down (not stopped) after 5GB
Seriously why aren't more people sympathetic to that? My dropbox is FULL. I'm 30GBs over my 46GB storage limit because I take videos and don't have anywhere to put them. When I switch to 1+3 I'm kinda terrified about what I'm supposed to do with all my data that can't be synced anywhere. Because google drive is all fun and game until you realize that space your photos eat up bites into your email allotment space.. it's all ONE big space.. that's limited. Bah. And no I'm not compromising my quality just for unlimited space. about 70% of the time I need maximum quality not "good"
No SD Slot, No Sale. It's that simple.
i want an SD slot too. Even the 1+X had a choice of dual sim or sim+sd. I don't travel that often. I don't need two sims at once. I can just take out my home sim and get a new sim. What I'd LIKE is to be able to takea ll the stuff on my Galaxy S4 to my new 1+3 and i can't and that's frustrating.
how often are people going to the bloody movies. I don't think i saw one last year and I've been stuggling for 3 months to get time to see one now.
Not so great, considering that USB-C is the future. And what about Apple, who still uses Lightning ports (although I hear the next iPhone is also going to be USB-C)
yeah we standardized.. then we evolved.. USB was amazing.. the fact that it lasted this long was able to become this pervasive is due in huge part to government intervention. The fact that Apple tries to buck this is not proof that government failed. I still have a drawer filed with pre-standard characters to prove that even in North America I'm thankful to the government that forced phone manufacturers to get on the same page.
they just got rebranded by their opposition. I remember when White Knight was an insult feminists used then the anti-PC err. anti political correct because this is /. people basically tried turning it on supporters and now it's an insult to any man who supports women. But you're right no gaming or gamer articles is not that big a deal. and no the "gamer" aren't gone. I've seen /. get surprisingly racist and/or sexist like I was lurking back in the 5 to 6 digit user ID transition and I don't recalling it getting as racist/sexist as I've seen .. I want to say Last year? or the year before.
I use telnet as my web browser, you insensitive clod!
all your base are belong to Lynx
When I used to do locksmith work, it would take me a few seconds to unlock your car or house if you locked the key inside. Customers were happy that I could bypass the security for them.
Now that I work in information security, most people seem to think something is horribly wrong if I'm able to bypass the security.
There is an appropriate level of security for each use case. Neither your apartment nor your Slashdot account needs to be an impenetrable fortress that even the CIA can't get in to . Sometimes, convenience does trump security.
that's why I used to use a three password system. One simple alpha password for accounts that don't matter and then a beta and gamma passwords for sort of secure and really secure accopunts respectively and then a delta password for my email. Nowadays I use a Password Manager and Two Factor Authentication for every place that allows it. I use KeePass because while I'm pretty careful I wasn't help with the security of a 3+1 password system nor the flexibility such as the fact that I tended to use Alpha for everything and only switch when that site got hacked. I started to use Google Authenticator but I hit that phone failsafe issue where I was constantly worried about what happened if my phone was off or dead or lost. The fact that I had to go through a version of that when I switched phones only cemented my fears. I ended up at Authy and full Two Factor because Authy provided me the flexbility and failsafes to complete the loop that KeePass started. I now feel comfortable with appropriately complex passwords on everything. I don't worry about having to enter them on my phone because KeePass has android ports that can access a cloud stored back up of my database. It's controlled (by me) it's uniform. I know how to do it on every site I need to do it on. It's practically unintrusive at this point in my life. The type of secuity I'll use is about how much I trust it, how consistent the experience is and how easy it is to use. Two Factor isn't hard and it's rigedly consistent.
Did someone a word here? What is this trying to say?
And this is why it's not "a free choice". I need to use windows to work and when MS changes things that makes it annoying to work with windows, I'm allowed to complain about it. I'm not steadfastly refus[ing] to abandon it like some kind of sadomasochistic ritual. I'm forced to maintain with it because of extrinsic factors that you seem to think are mythical.
No I can't because I need windows to work. It's like how I now need MS Word to work because I'm literally the only one in my office using LibreOffice and people are compalining that when I edit their documents there are formatting losses.
and this is a much smaller problem when you don't tow boats for a living. When you don't need to tow aboat regularly yeah this is a choice you can make to not have a tow truck because you don't like the handling or the emissions. But when you NEED to tow a boat then no a Nissan Sedan isn't a viable alternative Yes both can take me grocery shopping and while I may do that more often than towing a board if my job description involves towing boats every other day than I can't ignore that need. My current job description involves using MS Office so that I can not bork up the compatability with Office files people send me all the time. If it was as simple as just exporting PDFs back to them this wouldn't be an issue. For years this is how I lived but now my situation is different.
good grief man you don't have a boat and don't want one? What kind of argument is that? That's fine for you but some of us out here HAVE boats and need boats. You waving boatless solutions in our faces is kinda missing the point.
tl;dr - no switching isn't a viable alternative to everyone. Even if it is completely and 100% literally possible within the physical realm of existance, it can be a functional non-starter for people. I guess I'll be seeing you at the next "If you don't like our country, why don't you just leave" rally
If you can tell me how to turn off the UI Menus within menus that require me to dig thru touch capable menus ( that most importantly don't have the configuration options that I'm actually trying to access) in order to get to the panel that DOES have the config options I'm trying to get at. Then by all means enlighten me and I shall turn it off promptly.
I hate the touch screen aspects. There are however things I really enjoy about windows and have appreciated since I switched from Mac way back when. That said I'm not in a position where I CAN switch even if I were of a mind to. But sure go on and assume that we're all using Windows for the fun of it. That's super reasonable of you.
Just newer/prettier. I haven't seen a newer verison of something be faster in a very long time. And no the ui wasn't broken before.
I have to point out that even in windows 10 half the settings are in a touch screen style ui and the rest are in a windows 7 ui its terribly inconistant.
you have no idea how much i hate touch screen UI on my Win10 computer. I hate it so much. all the control panels are still there but you have to go thru a curtain of simplified touch screen capable control panels first before you can find them EVERY time. It's a nightmare. Combine that with the hugely annoying Function Keys that are media keys and no way to change them to just plain function keys and I'm hating nearly every moment of my Win10 experience so far.
The whole look/UI on the latest versions of the Office suite stinks. The ribbon is utter shit.
The ribbon reduces the effort required to find the function you want. It's not buried in a million levels of menus.
this only holds true if what you want is one of the 10 most common functions under five pre-determined tabs. The just last night I had no idea how to find out how to adjust column text settings in ribbon Word. Where as I had it open in LibreOffice and it was fairly easy to figure out Pick one heading that I think it might be, Pick another and what do you know it IS there. I'm STILL not sure how I found it under Ribbon.
But The Oatmeal taught me that having to wait for disc releases is an unreasonable burden and it's unfair to ask that of someone.
How on earth did you get that readng out of that comic???
it was not only the comic, but the context behind it. For instance the tweet he used to promote it was something to the effect of "Now that Game of Thrones season 1 is finished I'd like to see it". IIRC it was the month after it finished. That's why Netflix has unknown dates, it's why iTunes only had featurettes at the time and why it wasn't showing up on Amazon. I wouldn't have expected it on Hulu but I left the US back when Hulu was just everything networks were already streaming just in one centralized location. Before it was an actual platform by itself before the dreaded Hulu Plus. (aside: I went back to the US a while back and couldn't find anything to watch because everything wanted HuluPlus). My problem isn't that he choose to torrent the show. I torrent shows. Probably more than him. I was annoyed at his expectation that it should be available darn near instantly. That's what I found objectionable.
The comic is hands down the most obnoxious thing I've ever seen from The Oatmeal to my recollection and he's hit or miss with me. Better than the Notepad++ guy but not better than Josh "Let me just pay a grand for a movie reel and see it in my home day 1" Topolsky.
They were doing it for factual reasons and not political ones.
yeah there was a joke about that recently.
Yeah, hyperbole saying he'll burn in hell or something is one thing, but threats of violence are not automatically hyberbole. Simply [secretly] not planning to do it, and just saying you will, is not an attempt to communicate exaggeration.
Hyperbole is an exaggerated comment not meant to be taken literally. If you straight out say something threatening, without any clear exaggeration, then it isn't obviously hyperbole. I'm not sure what the source of the "hyperbole" claim even is. Techdirt, I guess? The comment may or may not have been a poorly executed attempt at hyperbole; or it might have been a threat. My advice, if you're making comments that involve the police, and violence, make a clear exaggeration. Don't just deadpan a threat and rely on people trusting that you're a good person and so it just must have been exaggeration.
Threatening to send Voldemort or a Klingon Bird of Prey to wipe them out, that is clear hyperbole. A "bullet to their... skull" is just not obviously hyperbole, especially in the context where firearms are commonly possessed, and in fact a constitutional right. If somebody said that about me, I'd have to start carrying inflatable ninjas in my pocket for protection.
And if you run a website that has comments, expect to get some subpoenas, especially if you don't delete, redact, or otherwise squelch comments describing violence in the context of real humans.
What may be the course if the context of the comment. If I saw you in an ally and said that yeah it's hardly hyperbole and a genuine threat. If we were on an acting set and I was dressed like a 1950s train robber then again it's probably hyperbole. I think there's a difference between what we say on a comedy stage, what we say on an internet comment site, and what we say in a protest rally and that context is what makes certain phrases hyperbole and others legitimate threats. At least that's what I assume the author's intent was by labeling it hyperbole.
I don't want to subscribe to HBO. I want to subscribe the Game of Thrones.
You can do that by buying each season's DVD or BD set as it comes out.
But The Oatmeal taught me that having to wait for disc releases is an unreasonable burden and it's unfair to ask that of someone.
Believe it or not, there actually are people out there who are not so selfish as to deny every tax increase simply because, "It's my money I worked harder than them!"
Yeah I'm not sure those people are the entire subset of non republican property owners. In general I support taxes but honestly I'm not sure I wouldn't kick a fuss about raising property taxes.
The fact is, the US hasn't been hit by a major attack since 9/11. That doesn't prove the security measures are effective or necessary, but it certainly doesn't discredit them. It's necessary for law enforcement to combat terrorism. There is no reason that facing terror attacks should be the price for freedom. Slashdot commenters are happy to criticize law enforcement but fail to offer better solutions to stop terrorism. If you don't like what law enforcement is doing now, what's your solution to keep terror attacks at least as infrequent as they are now?
You know prison sexual assault has increased since 9/11. I theorize that the threat of prison rape is part of what deters terrorist attacks. For them it's a zero sum game now. Die or get violated. Since dying is so hard they don't bother anymore unless they can guarantee death. So you know what I now oppose people who try to work to end prison rape. Who cares about all the innocently assaulted prisoners. It's what keeps our country safe.
Even more important than just the spread of Encryption itself, but the fact that more and more of the non-tech community is becoming acquainted with it and why it's important. It's exciting to see people who clearly prescribe to the "I just want my technology to work" thought process to be actually caring about the underlying processes.
well arguably that was the point. Snowden made people care and that caring is what increased the pace of encryption growth
Of course they do. It's not nutty at all. They have a clear and obvious right to filter out everything Trump. And we have a clear and obvious right to then delete our Facebook accounts and boycott the company in response if they did that. I personally wouldn't do that as a Trump-free Facebook sounds like a dream but I understand entirely that's what would happen and wouldn't cry about it.
Do people really have this much trouble understanding the first amendment? This is like when Milo GamerGater was complaining about his first amendment rights being violated when Twitter took off his verified checkmark. It wasn't violating first amendment then and the hypothetical wouldn't violate first amendment now. It'd just be bad business.