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Suddenly it's 1960.
Microsoft, Apple, Amazon and Google have replaced ABC, NBC, PBS and CBS.
Your "personal computer internet appliance" is a black-box running rented software, just like in the 'dumb-terminal time-sharing' era.
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Correct answer.
Using any form of biometric 'login' under the US's "justice" system is supremely ill-advised.
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When the dust settles, it'll be just like Ma Bell in 1975: There will be the "Internet Company" just like there was the Phone Company, with a probable 'bonus' of an extra "National Internet Corporation" modeled on the BBC.
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Storage has never been cheaper.
There's going to be a seppuku session in somebody's IT department.
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Off to the wrecking-yard and auto-parts house to get more spares for my '99...
If you're going to monitor me like an airline pilot, you can pay me like one.
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The SEC or FTC or someone should sue Reddit for using the word 'decentralize' in connection with a feature that's only available within...Reddit! I don't care how many 'blockchains' and other buzz-terms they surround it with.
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...and just turn the computer off and wait for the updates to finish.
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Usual info-free article with clickbait headline. Tinfoil-heads will call it a "troll / honey-pot", designed to attract and identify 'troublemakers'.
And from that comment section, it's working.
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Nothing on Reddit can be proved to have come from a "user", and it's been that way since the "Great Spezzing of 2016", where 'spez' admitted to falsification and alteration of 'user' content.
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Communication wasn't "lost", it was thrown away through malpractice.
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Google up "Commercial Signage Displays".
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...useless tech
Oh, it is "useful"; to the real 'owners' of "your" car...
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I wonder if it was done on purpose after it came out that the Pentagon had typo'd ".ml" instead of '.mil' and exposed a lot of sensitive emails...
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Yeah? What's that; 14 seconds of their profits?
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The 'hostage-taker' will never be able to duplicate my family's grammar and sentence structure quirks, so I won't care how it "sounds"...
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They're also easily disconnected in case you don't want to be in a statistic like:
Air bags were previously blamed for the deaths of 31 children and 20 adults--mostly smaller women--in low-speed crashes they otherwise could have survived.
My wife (a 'smaller woman') will not sit behind one.
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...Behaviors and lifestyle choices. They do not rise to the immutable characteristics that qualify for civil-rights protection.
And yes; I've seen the sleazy Wiki edit that attaches "perceived" to the definition of "immutable". 'I just have to believe...' belongs in a child's fairytale book.
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"Never mind..."
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"Just don't you worry yore purty little haid, darlin'; Big Brother™, in partership with the Manufacturer's Cartel will keep you safe from the nasty States-Righters who want you raped and red-lined."
-- The Big Guy, on the way to deposit his latest "campaign-contribution"
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"Leak, or leak not: There is no '...will leak'."
-- Yoda
Claiming that "you're gonna..." accomplishes nothing, and paints a target on your chest. Also it tips off your adversary and allows them time to:
- Dig up dirt on you
- Publish 'mitigating data' to soften the blow of your activity.