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> It's war. Shit happens in war.

Fuck that, the U.S. has a huge dominant army with superior technology and well trained personnel. They bombard a village because it's easy and effective.

Someone made a decision that the lives of American soldiers were worth more than an entire Afghan village. That's a war crime, and someone should pay for that. And that person should not be Bradley Manning..
Whether Assange is legally a rapist depends on two things. First, which country's legal definition of rape is relevant (e.g., Sweden's might not be the same as yours, e.g. if you think that it is not rape to get sex on some false premise but Sweden does). Second, what the facts of the case are - but Assange does not submit to the legal process in Sweden so this really hasn't been evaluated.

The issue isn't that people are assuming "he's totally a rapist on the run" but rather that he refuses to allow a legitimate judicial process to evaluate that. Well, OK, but simply avoiding judicial process does not mean you are already proven innocent.
The point is, self-employment is the way out of that, and a real eye-opening. Personally I can't imagine going back to formal employment as a long-term goal and I know many who feel this way.

However, the tradeoff is real. You accept risk in exchange for freedom and reward.
I agree, less money on the power point, and more on the Utah data center[0]...and just for laughs, lets not forget Ryan Fogle[1], the CIA agent captured in russia.

[0]http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/03/ff_nsadatacenter&#x...;

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/05/14/ryan-fogle-cia_n_32...
You're right, we are definitely in a transitory phase. But it goes beyond just "mobile technology", in my opinion.

I see this as going all the way back to the first stone tablet. Humans reading / watching a framed format. With the advent of cinema in the 20th Century, this form evolves into a screen. Presently, we are witnessing the interface change from a screen to a lens. This will be a crucial pivot in the human trajectory, as the technology becomes more sophisticated and comes to color the seeing aparatus. The politics and dialogue around how this technology "compliments our real world experience" will be a very interesting space to watch.
Yea, definitely! That's why, like I said in another comment, for local routes I don't really use a map unless it's some place I haven't been before. If I know how to get to the road the place is on, and can figure out where it is reasonably based on the address, there's no point in using a map.

But I'd find a traveler foolhardy to not at least consult a map ahead of time when visiting some very new, distant place. The good thing is that it's normal in the US for gas stations to all carry local maps. So I'm usually not more than a few minutes from being able to stop off and get my bearings if needed -- last I had to do that was in a tricky part of NC (damned business/non-business routes) in 2007.
Nearly every American __wants__ our country to be a beacon of democracy, however, which is why this type of behavior by our government is so frustrating.
Well whatever else it is, PRISM is "valid legal channels" (even for foreign citizens). There's no generic authority to simply extract information on any desired foreign citizen even now. The law itself is transparent, though the court system actually implementing it is not, nor is the proceedings by which the law is drafted and debated.

But with that in mind I'm not sure how much you're really asking to be different.
If it were true that "anyone that tries to talk gets prosecuted under the espionage act" then thousands of people and a very large share of HN would already be facing prosecution under the espionage act, since we seem to talk about nothing OTHER than NSA these days...
So, yes? Civilians were directly targeted?
Any sensitive material that is uploaded should be encrypted anyways.

Self-hosted email is pointless without both parties doing it. Self-hosted would also probably be less secure, less reliable, and have a higher chance of complete failure verses a well established cloud email service.

Using non-US companies is dumb, the whole point of all of this hoopla is that the NSA isn't suppose to be spying on American citizens. The legal mission is gathering foreign intelligence, how is non-US hosted services going to help? The NSA doesn't have a problem with interception and encryption, they practically invented it.

How could anyone possibly believe that the NSA is not gathering a significant amount of data from US companies and US citizens? Their mission is to gather foreign intelligence, to protect the US security systems, and to maintain information dominance. "This Agency also enables Network Warfare operations to defeat terrorists and their organizations at home and abroad, consistent with U.S. laws and the protection of privacy and civil liberties." They ventured into the grey area regarding "privacy and civil liberties", but is the mass interception of data and computer analysis of that data (without it being touched by humans) for strictly national security protection (no political party bullshit) really that bad?

The real issue is that the NSA is not technically allowed to spy on US citizens, which many would argue is 100% required to protect the United States and its allies. More checks and balances need to be in place so that any gathered data is not abused.

Anyone who parades around on the internet spilling their guts over a non-encrypted connection (not that it matters to the NSA), is naive to think that a government doesn't analyze this data. People argue that terrorists could just use "codes" or obscure language so it's pointless to monitor gmail/facebook/everything, but you're battling the NSA, codebreaking is what they live for.

Yes, 1984 is pretty scary, but the issue is so complicated that there is not necessarily a clear right/wrong answer. How do you gather signals intelligence and ensure that horrible terrorist/criminal acts are not committed within this country of 350 million non-trusted citizens?

The public is just now starting to debate (and strongly oppose) the collection of data by the US government, but do you think the govt employees care? Who is going to tell the NSA to stop collecting/analyzing network communications? They would laugh at you and do their best to ensure that leaks do not happen in the future.
Allegedly is an overused weasel word in today's news media. They'll show you a video of someone knifing someone else and then call them the alleged perp, or say they allegedly stabbed the victim. No, they did it, they stabbed them. They can still plead not guilty by reason of whatever, but the word allegedly isn't needed.

In this case, allegedly would be if this was hearsay, or rumor, or according to a source, but no, he is flatly stating it as a fact about himself, and is generally considered honest. If we want a qualifier, you can attribute the fact to him (GG says he has) but allegedly is too weak.

http://www.noozhawk.com/article/121512_harris_sherline_most_...;

http://www.examiner.com/article/ban-this-word-allegedly
You don't need a computer science degree to become a web developer. Learn PHP and Javascript and you will be dangerous enough to get a job anywhere if you can demonstrate your skills correctly, join app academy or any coding training money is nothing the experience is worth it and you will have a good foundation to move on your own once you finish the bootcamp code training stuff. I'm doing the same thing except here in Seattle. If you make enough money and have good skills then go back to school and learn some more fun stuff but at least then you will feel good about going to school.
The middle class spending money on consumption might create jobs, but it doesn't grow the economy. Economic Growth == More Production. Savings, capital, investment, entrepreneurs (%1) => production.

This is a shill piece trying to justify more government money printing, on the premise that spending/consumption is good for the economy. The fact is that this achieves the exact opposite; drains savings and capital from productive business.
I'm using Islamist as the term was first defined, which means exactly "Islamic terrorism". As far as I know there's never been a popularly-agreed-on meaning of "Islamist" other than that, if you're referring to the peaceful followers of Allah the term is Muslim, or perhaps Islamic, but never Islamist.

Christian on the other hand is already overloaded with many meanings and I don't feel like inventing new words when I can simply add adjectives as appropriate.

Pray tell, is my explanation sufficient?
Governments have a legitimate need for secrecy in some situations. If FBI investigations of white collar crimes were posted on a public website, for example, there would be a dramatic rise in both flights and wire transfers to Belize.

The blame here lies squarely with legislators that have drafted laws that are intentionally worded to give the public a false sense of privacy while enabling agencies like NSA to run amok. We elect these representatives precisely for this reason - they are supposed to protect our rights in situations where we can't. Not only did they create these laws, but they were apparently overseeing the mass-surveillance programs established under them and had no problem with the extraordinary Constitutional violations they enabled. Our own President has come in in strong support of these programs. Whether you voted for him or not, you should not be OK with that.

Every senator or congressman that has anything to do with intelligence oversight, along with those that had anything to do with the drafting of these laws, and all other elected officials that have or will come out in support of these programs, must never be reelected. This, unfortunately, is the only realistic defense that US citizens have against their tyrannical government.
I think it is incredibly naive to think that the American people are any more awake to the deceit of the government than they were in the past. The next major terrorist event will have people running to Big Brother for protection, ready and willing to give up any last vestige of freedom that they might have.

Yes, I am a cynic in these matters, but I am also a student of history. Any honest appraisal of history makes one a cynic. A bayesian analysis on the question as to whether the populace will continue to be deceived and subjugated in ever greater ways and numbers is overwhelmingly at odds with utopian ideals. I see absolutely no signs of this changing, because the nature of humanity has not changed, nor will it ever change.
This has actually been studied:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dying_to_Win:_The_Strategic_Log...

http://www.amazon.com/Dying-Win-Strategic-Suicide-Terrorism/...

TL;DR People do not run kamikaze attacks against other people for being less religiously conservative than they are, they run kamikaze attacks against occupiers.
The reason Mohamed Atta or Osama Bin Laden hated the U.S. need not be the same reason their followers hate the U.S.

Let's just say that Al Qaida had an easy time recruiting men with a grudge against the U.S. The western worlds 'decadent' lifestyles are just a way for Al Qaida to dehumanize them.

That said, I bet Mohammed Atta and Osama Bin Laden also have their reasons besides idealistic ones to despise the western world.
All big companies have incentive to stay on the government's good side. There are too many laws; everyone's guilty of something. Selective enforcement is an amazing tool.
All they really have to do is refuse to enforce American IP. New copycat competitors will emerge immediately.
Not remotely what they said.
That is not "the issue", that is "an issue". And to bring it up in this context is a red herring. Oh yeah, it technically has to do with the law so blah blah blah.... NO.

Oh, and I actually do think that was kind of fucked up, if the allegiations are true, I don't shrug that off at all; but this matters only for drinking beer or giving him the hand of my daughter in marriage or something, not for talking politics, where, to me, he clearly has "the heart in the right spot".
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Same could be said about flank steak which used to be a cheap cut of steak. After Fajitas got popular the price tripled

[1989] http://www.nytimes.com/1989/04/26/garden/how-a-humble-cut-go...

Now about PBR... being from the Midwest and a bit of a beer snob PBR was largely the defacto-standard because it was the cheapest lawnmower beer that wasn't a BMC (Bud-Miller-Coors).

The same could be said about lobster - there's a story behind it.

Sure, 'they're all made up'... so is the value of gold, but they also have some interesting history behind them if you are willing to go beyond the surface.
Sorry, I didn't realise that such a term was even widely used. Accepted!
As the zdnet article says the slides sound more "marketing pitch than briefing".

If it is true, whats worrying is how fast things can escalate to Dr. Stranglove territory.
To be fair, your governments lack the military strength to withstand the US. Germany is still under American occupation. To really throw off the yoke (which I support), you'll need to re-militarize.
You assume those people, like you, don't care about and are not affected by the world they live in. I'm not free until everybody is, I'm being spied on and tortured as long as just one innocent person is. I agree that this also applies to rape and everything else, but it's still a subject on its own.
You could easily make it completely opensource and standalone by replacing the calls to web-based api's like lambda or betaface, with the standalone face recognition engine from openbiometrics.org https://github.com/biometrics/openbr
I'm a coder and one of the young redditors/HN readers you're talking about (18 years old). I've grown up in a post-9/11 world so it can be sometimes hard for me to understand that there was a time that it wasn't assumed the government wasn't conducting mass surveillance. How do you approach the problem of making this a real issue for most people my age? And as technologists, how can we help develop solutions to intrusive government policies like this?
It bears mentioning not just for the hypocrisy (though I don't certainly like hypocrites) but rather because it may indicate bias.

The title might as well have been "Bill O'Reilly Says Fox News is the Best Network and MSNBC Are Poopyheads", what else did we think Assange would say?

As it stands it's really hard for me to take "COMPLETE BREAKDOWN OF RULE OF LAW" very seriously so he's probably actually wrong too!
I think everything is to fresh for us to come up with a picture about what is going on. These companies require their users trust to run and they could face action by governments if they have been giving user data over to the US so they are not going to come out and say. “Hell yeah we did" but for all we know they are telling the truth. We need more information. Right now it is a clusterfuck of claims and denials. Someone is lying, place your bets on who...
I wasn't aware that I wasn't affected by the world I live in. I'll have to try that out next time I'm on the subway.
> I do too, and so does every hiring manager in this field that I know.

How broad do you mean by "in this field" (security specifically, or tech in general)? My very small sample of hiring managers at Google claims that, there, degrees are a pretty significant factor in their decision-making, and a candidate without a degree has to meet a much higher bar before a hiring manager will want to make an exception and consider them despite lacking a degree. So if your previous startup was acquired or you have a significant role in a major open-source project, then yeah, but if you are "just" a good programmer, then maybe not.
I think this comic raises an interesting point:

http://asofterworld.com/index.php?id=346

I interpret it as saying: Say there is some private activity you engage in that is very important to you. What if that were arbitrarily made illegal? It could be studying martial arts, masturbation, contributing to open source projects, or maybe a second prohibition. Chances are you might not be so willing to give something like that up cold turkey, but it would be too late. You would have already given away your privacy to such a degree that you would be forced into compliance, no matter how stupid the law was.
To the well trained mind reality provides an infinite stream of novelty. I suppose it's all down to perspective and what rewards you attune your brain to.
Not really practical for an aircraft to operate underwater, but someday operating in space might not be inconceivable. My point was that for trillions of dollars, the aircraft better do some cool shit. Yes, crash avoidance is awesome, but not trillions awesome.

The sea is arguably more valuable than space in terms of military value, an underwater vehicle is practically invisible and can deliver massive amounts of firepower to any region in the world. Not to mention the secret mission capabilities of submarines such as tapping undersea fiber and special forces delivery.
Well, it's certainly a pity that Islamic terrorism is a big enough threat that they had to invent a Huffman-coded word for it. Though perhaps we can treat it as a relief that Christian terrorism is no longer so prevalent that we had to make a shorter term for it after we invented 'terrorist'.

Though I hear 'Crusader' is a close equivalent among many Muslims, for obvious reasons. I don't think Americans or most West. Europeans would understand that as a negative connotation though.
There's stories of vodka sales increasing with price increases. Marketing can sometimes overcome Economics. :-)
Sometime do an actual blind taste test with some beers at the PBR level. The differences are subtle to nonexistent.
I don't think he's a hypocrite. He may run his organization in an authoritarian, despotic, and un-transparent way, but in the end, the people working for him are there voluntarily. While some of his actions may put people at risk, in general, wikileaks doesn't directly put people in jail, assassinate people, or otherwise impinge on people's civil liberties. So the moral responsibilities of Assange are fundamentally different from that of the United States government.

It would, however, be hypocrisy, for example, if the president of Ecuador, for example, saw fit to criticize the US (unless Ecuador is a saintly state, which, I doubt).
Oil land is farm land, what is under doesn't affect farming. I've seen 30k in western ND. Back, to the original point of the original poster, the land isn't dirt cheap.
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I'm not sure this is fair—doesn't the author admit that the value of the good is based on scarcity? That it became valuable when it could be shipped to places that didn't have two foot tall piles of lobster washing up on the beach?
We developers, especially those of us who consider ourselves activists, have been too slow to move this stuff forward. I’m fairly certain that is because most of us are “savvy enough” to use the tools that exist, etc. The movement has been growing to evolve these tools to catch up with the needs (well...) of modern users, but that evolution is really just beginning.

One among many such projects, I am a developer at LEAP ( https://leap.se ). We are working on this very problem. We’re getting ready for public beta of our Encrypted Internet Proxy ( VPN for now, Tor and more features to come) and will be rolling out truly end-to-end secure email, IM, SMS, and voice. Also calendar, contacts, and possibly password management. All client encrypted. All syncing across your devices. All in an Open Source, Trust No One, user friendly way.

There are many tools and services out there already, but the ones that the technology un-savvy can use happily mostly run in a centralized fashion, requiring that you trust your service provider. No different, except in mission statement, than what people use today with big mail or chat providers and social networks. Would it were not so, but we live in an era where that trust is a vulnerability that we are seeing exploited.
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> Membership in Stormfront or KKK today in not illegal either, but I think you'd want to know if somebody in the government was a member.

In fact membership in the KKK was held to be Constitutionally protected specifically because membership in the Communist Party had become protected. Remember that Brandenburg (can't prosecute for KKK membership or for shouting "Kill the niggers... we intend to do our part," quoted from majority opinion footnote 1, at a KKK rally) overturned Whitney v. California, a 1920's precedent allowing prosecution for mere Communist Party membership.

> Membership in CPUSA per se is not illegal.

Yes it was. Look at the portions of the Yates indictment from the Supreme Court's syllabus. The Smith Act prohibited among other things organizing groups which advocated overthrow of the United States government and that was essentially what Yates was charged with.

You talk about taking the 5th but keep in mind that people were being prosecuted and thrown in jail for advocating Marxist ideas. In such, taking the 5th was perfectly legitimate.

> Not difficult at all. NRA never been controlled by a totalitarian state led by the homicidal dictator, never performed mass massacres, never advocated totalitarian restrictions of human rights, never facilitated transfer of top secret defense information to the hands of the enemy. How hard is that?

I meant a line regarding Constitutional liberty. I am sorry if I was unclear. I think you agree with me on that, given that you say the Supreme Court got it right in Yates so this is probably just a miscommunication.

As far as non-criminal matters, it is worth noting that the Supreme Court struck down prosecutions for people refusing to testify before HUAC at the same time Yates was decided in Watkins v. United States, ruling that Congress's power of investigation was limited to legitimate goals of Congress (see http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/cgi-bin/getcase.pl?court=US&vo...), and overturning a misdemeanor conviction of contempt of congress for someone refusing to answer certain questions before HUAC.

> Flee, submit or fight. It has nothing to do, however, with communist actions - they weren't some Tea Party activists going too far.

My point is that where statute and Constitution are at issue the same lines would probably apply to both, and so the protections of one protect the other too.
The fact is that if you have someone's phone number, you generally have access to all that other information because linking it to a name and thus everything else is fairly trivial, even for ordinary people not affiliated with the NSA. Claiming it's somehow okay and protecting privacy because they have the phone numbers without names is ridiculous.
The text of the 13th Amendment is particularly telling.

Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.
In the case of lobster, I wonder if the issue was taste or freshness. If they "washed up on the beach in two-foot-high piles", it's easy to imagine that people were eating not-so-fresh seafood and getting sick, giving it a bad reputation.
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> Like, tap a padlock icon on your cellphone and suddenly anything your phone does is encrypted and only the receiving party can decrypt it.

That's not enough. They still know who you talk to, where you are and just about everything except the contents of your conversation.