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This obvious comment doesn't answer whether lying/saying nothing can add charges or not.

Where everyone excludes you, because you will not just save time, you will _gain_ time - jail time. So, if you're guilty, only talk if you _want_ to turn yourself in/face charges.

Woah, are you serious? So could they do something like 'Yes sir, I know you have Miranda rights, but since they passed <bs law> on <bs date>, if you are caught with possession of <some drug>, you no longer have the right to remain silent, and if you do, it can add up to <ridiculous amount> dollars to your charges.'

What if the guy confesses something there and then later finds out the cop was lying? Can he do something about it?

Thank you for your comment. It shows a lot of insight and has given me a few things to think about.

That makes no sense.

You are awesome and correct.

I didn't understand that part. What does 'Keyboard would get stu' mean?

The last line sounds painfully familiar.

Assume for a moment that the 3D printer for logic gates is a little too much of a long-shot. So if somehow the funds for a large-scale investment into 'open' RISC-V processors are obtained, it is theoretically possible for a community of hackers to write their own BIOS'es on a these processors? And then eventually the whole stack going up to userspace applications. So the only problem right now is that of funds? What other obstructions will be there to build a completely libre system from the ground up?

EDIT : Also, HomeCMOS doesn't look active as of June 2013.

As someone who is a novice to computer architectures, is there some consensus in the research community about what will be a good replacement for the von neumann machines we are currently running? I mean, if you think about it, if we truly want to take control, shouldn't we attempt to break free, at a ground level, from all the technologies coming from (or dominated by) corporate structures (and government agencies)?

x86 (and _64) and even ARM are all primarily developed by govt-influenced companies like Intel, yes? So what are the possibilities of us, all programmers and electronic engineers who want to support personal computing, to get together and develop a crowd-researched, crowd-designed, and (maybe) crowd-funded architecture to last the future. Of course, writing software for that architecture could take decades-centures (unless someone writes a perfect x86 emulation layer on that architecture), but at least that gives us a hope for the future, a backup to fall to if Intel pulls a full on 'google' on us.

So are these just big dreams or is there an actual possibility of something like this happening? Especially if the community secures the funding of some visionary who's rich as Bill Gates (maybe the man himself) and on the side of the public? That way we'll be able to actually build a system from the ground up that is libre and transparent, without having to muck about with reverse engineering on the 'enemy's ground', so to speak, like corebook does.

Ha. The strange thing about stallman is that his words of 'craziness' magically convert to words of wisdom, but there is always a delay in that process, which can go up to decades. This happens _always_. Joke's on us, despite knowing about this phenomenon, we never adjust for it.

That's probably their next attack target. VPNs. Put out this awesome new 'secure' service for free, suddenly make everyone aware of VPNs and what they are, and how they are suddenly the most important thing for security, through subtle ads and 'techcrunch-y' articles. BAM, people start switching in droves, other reliable and cheap VPN service providers start losing business, google reader (but the service actually stays up this time, just logging like hell, and eventually becomes _necessary_ to use google services, because SECURITY!) yada yada

How is google allowed to repeat this again and again is beyond me

>doesn't make me any more potentially-spied-on than I already was

That's the logic that brought us ads plastered all across the web, with nothing sanctified, including the _content_ of the web page. 'I mean, we _already_ see them anyway, what's the difference if they're blinking/videos/popups? I mean, we don't have to look.'

And yes, I pretty much use my mobile as less as I can, just for these reasons. I'd never use it willingly as long as there's even a trace of google in android. However, can you elaborate more on the coprocessor? Maybe some additional reading? I'm very interested in what possible surveillance do they have in the hardware itself.

P.S - At this point, I'd rather use apple than google. At least apple can't tie my activities to my search results, which is an insanity that the world will come to terms with several years down the road, and then repent.

Yes but why are they doing it in the first place? When the whole point of firefox is its customizability and 'non-proprietary' nature over chrome. I don't understand.

What if using google's service for your vpn would actually make it easier for them to get the data _you are trying to hide_ than compared to not involving GOOGLE as your _vpn service_ at all.

Honestly, how are everyone's alarms not going off right now? Google fiber, alright, at least I get fucking 1 gbps. Google VPN?? A VPN?? Keep Google/<substitute-3-letter-agency-of-the-day> in charge of what you use to hide your illegal torrents?? Genius.

>automatically

If they don't provide an easy and apparent way to turn that off, this is the word that always sets off alarm bells in my head.

The latest versions of firefox are a painful reminder.

>and those who start counting from zero.

That kills the joke. 'off-by-one' is subtler.

I'm surprised no one mentioned lynx first.

lol people like you are going to be happy when in a decade, everyone is going to be wearing google glasses, browsing through google chrome, having a google fiber internet connection, and 'renting' self-driving google cars. Cameras everywhere, control of the source internet, control of the browser, and I bet through some magic prominent universities decide that Go is the perfect language to teach beginners, over Python/C++/others- and start issuing free chromebooks to students.

Just look at how they've been fucking up google voice to drive users to Hangouts to get more control. Look at how sometimes, Hangouts randomly doesn't give you notifications of new messages, so that you're kept on your toes and keep checking your mobile frequently. Look at how google maps absolutely _degrades_ and the 'famed' UI starts to look retarded when you turn off 'Location sharing'. Haha, google is definitely going to have the last laugh. Edward Snowden must be crying somewhere right now.

There's going to be a day, when your 3 months old search for 'google services open source alternatives' gets you flagged as disqualified to being hired in Google/(maybe) other companies. And it's not going to stop. Google is going to keep getting bigger and bigger, keep growing tentacles, and keep getting more and more in control, and omniscient. I wonder how the great hackers of ages past allowed the whole technology industry to come to this, to let the situation become so bad. There should have been dozens of rms', but everyone kept quiet and rolled over. Now, it's near impossible to be free of google's touch when browsing the internet.

EDIT : Hmm, downvoted without a comment. Looks like the 'crawlers' picked this up. I'm scared now.

The page doesn't even mention his death, save for wikipedia classifying the page under '2015 deaths'.

Nicely done. To be fair though, Go is just 6 years old and still evolving.