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AdmiralACKon The best icon is a text label

As someone who speaks both languages fluently, it doesn't bother me at all. The iconography could use some tweaking, but this false sense of being offended is ridiculous.

AdmiralACKon Dark Clouds Over the Internet

> since you are handing your data to a third party, there is no reasonable expectation of privacy

I disagree with that argument. Just because I place information with a third party doesn't mean I shouldn't have an expectation of privacy. People used to have a level of discretion and "minding ones' own business".

AdmiralACKon Leaked Documents Reveal Police Department Planted Drugs for Years, DA Complicit

I've experienced this before at the federal level. They're corrupt. All of them either are themselves corrupt, or complicit in the knowledge of it.

AdmiralACKon Cards Against Humanity Has Made Over $54K Selling Nothing on Black Friday

The Nothing was a great enemy to Atreyu.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088323/

AdmiralACKon Lock Pick Laws, Rules and Regulations: Is the Hobby a Crime in Your State?

No, but they do have a law about "burglary tools" that can include bolt cutters. That's pretty ridiculous if you ask me.

AdmiralACKon Judge Deals a Blow to N.S.A. Data Collection Program

Colour me a cynic, but I doubt this will curb their activities.

AdmiralACKon PyPy.js – PyPy in Your Browser

Links, perhaps...

AdmiralACKon Announcing Docker 1.9: Production-Ready Swarm and Multi-Host Networking

Docker is a solution looking for a problem.

AdmiralACKon Busybox removes support for systemd

I'm going to step out on a ledge here, but those that are happy with it really don't understand linux or much of how it works beyond editing a few confs. None of which ever touch systemd

AdmiralACKon Busybox removes support for systemd

Redhat used to be good before they forked off the desktop OS into Fedora. They went downhill in my eyes quickly after that.

AdmiralACKon Busybox removes support for systemd

Good. Systemd can die. Debian should never have started using them, too.

AdmiralACKon The future of UI is text

Because it's really hard to type "?" or "help" into a command prompt?

Please. It's not difficult to do at all. No one needs a GUI, it just makes it easier for "mom n pop" to do their thing.

AdmiralACKon Debian Dropping the Linux Standard Base

I, and many others, prefer sysvinit over systemd, which I consider overly bloaty and not in-line with the unix philosophy of 'do one thing and do it well'. It's far too involved in the overall systems where, now, some desktop environments require it? That's absolute crap.

AdmiralACKon European data protection ruling could impact Facebook and Google

Relevant:

"The ECJ ruled* Thursday that if a company operates a service in the native language of a country, and has representatives in that country, then it can be held accountable by the country’s national data protection agency despite not being headquartered in the country."

*http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf;jsessioni...

I think this is great news.

AdmiralACKon Apple CEO Tim Cook: 'Privacy Is a Fundamental Human Right'

From: http://9to5mac.com/2015/06/10/xcode-7-allows-anyone-to-downl...

"Apple has changed its policy regarding permissions required to build and run apps on devices. Until now, Apple required users to pay $99/year to become a member of Apple’s Developer Program in order to run code on physical iPhone and iPads. As part of the new Developer Program, this is no longer required. Apps can be tested on devices, no purchase necessary."