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The Emperor Has No Clothes and Nobody Cares 
It’s been a couple of years since Snowden leaked the entire treasure trove of documents to the media and stories started coming out explaining just how much the NSA is spying on us. And nothing has fundamentally changed since then. Nor will it. NSA dodges another lawsuit because nobody can prove agency is spying on them Plaintiffs are having trouble taking down the NSA in court for a simple reason: they can’t prove that the spy agency’s wide-reaching surveillance programs actually targeted them. Judges in several courts — including the Supreme Court — have repeatedly ruled that it is not enough to assume that these programs were highly likely to have caught a certain organization’s data in its dragnet. The latest case to fall victim to this line of reasoning is a case brought forward by the ACLU, Wikimedia, The Nation, Amnesty International, and a few other organizations. In a court’s ruling, US District Judge TS Ellis III writes that the “plaintiffs’ argument is unpersuasive, as the statistical analysis on which the argument rests is incomplete and riddled with assumptions.” He continues on to note that, without the proper context, it’s unclear whether or not Wikipedia is large enough to have come under the NSA’s policies — despite the fact that it’s one of the largest sites on the internet.
Ever since we found out just how much government spying is going on, the security community has been systematically looking into every piece of technology that we use, from operating systems to network protocols, and we’ve learned just how insecure everything is. Every week or so there’s a new and massive security hole in the technology that runs the internet, and companies and open source programmers alike are patching holes like crazy. Companies are starting to encrypt all of their traffic — Google is even starting to encrypt traffic on their own private network. Apple has made iPhones encrypted by default if you enable a passcode, and Google and even Microsoft have options to fully encrypt your devices. At the end of the day we’ll end up much more secure, and that’s better for all of us. That’s the good news. The bad news is that nothing has fundamentally changed as far as the spying is concerned, despite all of the stories and media attention online. Organizations like the ACLU have tried, and failed, to even bring cases to figure out what’s actually going on. Very few politicians even talk about it, and the ones that do have no power to change anything. People not only haven’t exploded in anger, they don’t even know the details, as John Oliver illustrated brilliantly in his interview with Snowden. Everybody knows the government is probably spying on everything, and nobody really cares.
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| - Will Windows Phone's long streak of unpopular phones ruin it for Windows 10 Mobile?
Unfortunately for Microsoft, their smartphones already have a reputation to consumers, and it's not a very good one. [Phonedog ] - Why Steve Jobs Never Had License Plates on His Car
Steve Jobs didn't like putting a license plate on his car, and since California lets you go 6 months after buying a car without having a plate, he'd just get a new car every 6 months. Billionaires are crazy. [ABC News] - Write Like You Talk
Written language is more complex, which makes it more work to read. It's also more formal and distant, which gives the reader's attention permission to drift. But perhaps worst of all, the complex sentences and fancy words give you, the writer, the false impression that you're saying more than you actually are. [Paul Graham] - Lawsuit accuses Apple's iOS 9 Wi-Fi Assist of burning through $5M+ in data
Apple was slapped with a class-action suit on Friday, claiming that the company failed to properly warn users that the new Wi-Fi Assist feature in iOS 9 will use data from their cellular plan. [Apple Insider] - The New Apple TV is Out Today
The latest version of the Apple TV is out today - it has Siri voice control through the remote, an app store with games, and a combined search across Netflix, Hulu, iTunes, and other channels. [Apple] | |
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| If you find the battery charge percentage in the upper-right corner of your iPhone or iPad screen distracting, it can be turned off easily. However, if you decide you want to easily keep track of your battery life, you can easily turn the percentage back on. | |
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| A few years back, Intel noticed that less and less people were as interested in buying desktop and tower PCs as they were during the roaring 90’s. As sales continued to decline for the dinosaurs of modern computing, the company decided to mix the best of both worlds up in a blender to see what came out the other side, and their new line of NUC computers are the result of that experiment. | |
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| Web pages can automatically play audio thanks to HTML5, even if you’ve set Flash and other browser plug-ins to click-to-play. Most modern web browsers include an audio indicator that will show you which tab is playing sound. Most modern browsers also let you mute individual tabs. | |
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| Telephone scams are on the upswing, and they’re often enabled by caller ID spoofing. That name and number that appears when someone calls you can be faked, so you can’t place all your trust in it. | |
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| The console wars. A test of will, strength, and perseverance almost as old as gaming itself. Over the past few decades companies from every corner of the technosphere have thrown their hat into the ring with one wacky system or another, with only a select few fighting through the fold to make their way to the top of the heap. These days, however, only three major manufacturers have survived to tell the tale: Nintendo, Microsoft, and Sony. | |
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| Spotlight search on Mac OS X shows results from the “Developer” category if you’ve ever installed Xcode on your Mac. If you still have Xcode installed, there’s an easy checkbox to disable this. But, if you’ve uninstalled Xcode, Spotlight just keeps showing Developer search results with no way to turn them off. | |
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| There’s a very wide range of prices on the Apple Watch and a lot of that variation can be chalked up to variations in the band style. You don’t have to pay Apple a huge premium to get a different band, however, as you can swap it out at home with a myriad of styles. Read on as we show you how. | |
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| If your worksheet takes up more than one page when printed, you can print row and column headings (also called print titles) on every page so your data is properly labeled, making it easier to view and follow your printed data. | |
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| The first big update to Windows 10, reportedly arriving in early November, fixes a lot of problems with Windows 10. Microsoft is streamlining activation, restoring colored window title bars, integrating Skype, and improving the Edge browser. But they’ve also added advertisements to the Start menu. | |
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| When you install the iCloud client on your Windows computer, it configures the shared folder in a specific location. You can, however, move this folder to another location, even another shared cloud folder or backup drive. | |
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