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I understand what you are saying, but cannot see how employees are comfortable with ascribing virtue to large-scale microeconomic exploitation.

To me, the behavior of employers towards employees ("here, go create all of our value; go let us economically exploit you") is the sociopathic behavior (and somewhat misanthropic too.. except not really, because founders take the risk and expect a reward, and that's how the economy works). I guess this gets into all kinds of deep economics, but employees either let it happen, are powerless, or most likely, are completely oblivious to their exploitation.
Prism docs leaked put a huge accent on the fact that it is real-time.

On top of that google take-out is just google but a lot of other companies are listed as well. So, all things taken into account the two most likely have nothing to do with each other.

Rachelbythebay does not let any chance go by to diss her former employer and that's fine by me as long as it is based in fact, not in speculation. If she knows for a fact that this is the case that would change things considerably but from where I'm sitting this looks like speculation to me.
Nice :) Please do.
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What would a concrete example of a "big brother sort of way" be?
>The fact that the actions are "invasive" doesn't mean they're unconstitutional.

Perhaps, though that only reinforces Spooner's point. Given the repeated attempts to frame this as only an issue of explicit prohibition, I think that perhaps you're trying to counter an argument I'm not actually making.

Anyone who tries to make a claim of "unconstitutionality" -- or argue against someone making a claim of "constitutionality" -- is wasting their time. The Constitution means precisely whatever the people can be convinced it means, and that in turn is decided largely by a handful of individuals in power. If something as explicit as the Seventh Amendment's "twenty dollars" clause can be argued away, then anything can.

Sometimes, as is (slightly, temporarily) the case now, the people may find an act of the state egregiously wrong, and look for protection in the Constitution. Thankfully we have people like you to remind them that they are incorrect. From this the value of the Constitution is revealed: the imprimatur of legitimacy it provides to those in power when they commit otherwise illegitimate acts.
Every time I read about digital privacy issues, and there's a lot of them, I'm always thankful that EFF exists and is there to fight these battles that I can't and don't have the means to.

I'm actually surprised at why some people here in HN think negatively of EFF. I'm very happy to hand over money to EFF each year. My employer allows us to pick charitable organizations to donate to from our paycheck, and EFF gets the biggest slice of the amount I allocate.
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It's not a written rule, at least not in http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html.

I do agree it's a good guideline, then again the above says if such an article is the original source, it should be directly linked to....
May be, in that case, they thought the US government will still back them up. Will the Chinese government help Google in tis case against the US gov?
Now this is a smart scam. He can do exactly what it says on the tin by keeping a pool of extra bitcoins to supplement his users when value falls, but when value rises he gets to recharge his pool with the surplus. This is built on the assumption of a "conservation of value over time" which in the long run is true (if it proves false then bitcoin has failed anyway) but in the short run you could easily have a crash where the net loss by users is less than the backup pool. You are also leaving yourself open to the controller of the backup pool stopping the service or just skimming off the top of it with users having no means of recourse.
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On the one hand, you are right. Preventing things like this (a 3% budget overrun) in large projects is very, very difficult.

On the other hand, if this really is a single off by ten error, this was not a death by a thousand cuts, but someone must have reported that his 80 ton part only weighed 8 tons. That must have been noticeable, even if it got reported for a 'part' where nobody has a natural feel for its weight (for example, what do living quarters, with kitchen, supplies, and water for the showers weigh?)
If only it would run on the browser. Installing something is a big barrier this days.
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And, if given those document, why would you trust it? They could still be lying. If you don't trust what they are saying now, why would you trust any document created by them?
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I was thinking if everyone increased the noise to signal it would thwart their attempts. If everyone talks about illegal stuff their monitoring will useless for finding people that are actually trying to do illegal things.
Another way to ask this is - what would cause you to take advantage of your 2nd Amendment rights and refresh the tree of liberty?
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You can't compare the GPL with the BSD/MIT licenses. They're two different types of free software licenses. The MIT/BSD licenses give the developer freedom, while the GPL is more free if you're talking about the code itself, and not who wrote the code.

And, just like Aaron, Stallman has done a lot. He's also written software to further his cause, and he also went out of his way to challenge the status quo and get people to pay attention.

Half the software you use now wouldn't be here otherwise.
Indeed design is not about sticking a pretty UI on top of the existing software.

You have to apply UX to the development process, such as how a user interacts with features, or the steps involved in each action, or the way the app communicates to the user, or delivering feedback after an interaction is completed. Design influences the software requirements.

It's necessary for designers to collaborate with developers if you want a well designed app... not just a pretty one.
This article is two days old, but seems to contain details that contradict later reports from other sources.

> A FISA order is required to continue monitoring and analyzing these datasets, although the monitoring can start before an application package is submitted to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

That doesn't seem to fit with more recent claims that PRISM is just a streamlined interface for presenting FISA warrants to companies. That might be one component, but there appears to be data collection (just not analysis) pre-warrant.
This is very cool. Any chance humanity will gradually evolve into being able to see UV light and other wavelengths? Well, one is allowed to dream.
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The line between 'seizing' widespread outrage and 'manufacturing' it is perilously thin.
This is the same absurdity as boycotting airlines because of TSA. Boycott your government.
You are victim of fear, uncertainty and doubt.

Tor's security is in its design (which is free and open). And thanks to that it does not matter what the original purpose was. Everyone can run a router and thus contribute to the network.

You can find research on remaining issues in https://blog.torproject.org/category/tags/research
Oh, that makes a lot of sense. Referring to this:

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/mt/assets/science/assets_c...

For only $20M/yr (which is nothing by government standards), I could definitely see that being a roadmap for building the user friendly endpoint to obtain the relatively small number of legally obtained records from each provider.
> I guess this gets into all kinds of deep economics, but employees either let it happen, are powerless, or most likely, are completely oblivious to their exploitation.

They generally know but don't care, as they have what they consider to be more important things to worry about. Lives, family, friends. These things take up all their mindspace, leaving no room for career machinations. You should read Venkatesh Rao's series of essays called "The Gervais Principle".

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/the-gervais-principle&#x2F;
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Then you just process basic metadata. Size, IP source, destination, timing, and statistical analysis of the binary. Assuming that they have ways of converting IP to an identity that information alone would be hugely revealing. In fact basic metadata is what they have admitted to recording.
"The government does not have access to Google servers"

No they just have Google's SSL private keys- perhaps...
I meant both userland and toolchain. I like the BSD userland for its simplicity, but the GNU userland has a lot of features that BSD doesn't have. It's bigger, and some may say more bloated, but it works well and is fully-featured.
With bionic eyes or experimental spider eyeball transplant? Maybe. From what I've heard the protective membrane exists to protect your receptors from UV, damaging it allows UV to affect your receptors (probably damaging them).

NOTE: I could be wrong and UV doesn't do anything to receptors.
There is a sizeable group of men on the Internet who don't get it, and are very vociferous about it. Cf, "Men's Rights"
No, their success is measured in how well they achieve their goals such as ridding an invader from land they consider sacred.

You know why they're pissed off, right?

Knowing our enemy is rather essential if we want to stop this war one day.
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They could be regularly piping filtered information to serve the US's Government's interests, as part of project they know by another name but happens to have the code name "PRISM".

There; no "back door", no "direct access", no "PRISM", not "broad", as said elsewhere in the release.
To be fair, Khodorkovsky was a billionaire, too. He'll get a third prison sentence on more trumped-up charges shortly. The existence of various kangaroo courts ("military tribunals") in the US security apparatus since the Bush 43 administration suggests that Zuckerberg's money and influence are nowhere near enough to protect him.

The buck for such decisions stops at the Oval Office, and its current occupant has no reelection campaigns to worry about.
How much one donates is a distraction from the actual point.

The point is that these people have made their fortunes using the internet, and probably in no small part the freedoms that exist(ed). Its is not that they are rich, is system on which they got rich. I think many people would feel that such people should donate as a sort of pay back, paying one's dues. The rich part of the point simple suggests that a decent donation would be small fry to such people, and cause them no pain. $5 to some people could be a significant hit to the pocket.

Edit:
Been in garden, letting the subconscious flow, and it suddenly occurred to me that donations from the likes of google and facebook would be a problem. Eventually EFF would be accused of being in google's pocket and all hell would break loose.

Begs the question: how can the likes of google donate to the likes of the EFF with out there being the suspicion of a conflict of interest?
> Anyone who tries to make a claim of "unconstitutionality" -- or argue against someone making a claim of "constitutionality" -- is wasting their time. The Constitution means precisely whatever the people can be convinced it means

Seems to be a very good reason why persuasion based around "constitutionality" is not a waste of time.

> and that in turn is decided largely by a handful of individuals in power.

Well, no, its decided by what the people accept, which depends pretty much entirely on the arguments they are exposed to. Certain individuals in power in government and the media have some advantages in terms of inherent trust with some segment of the population on the issue, or just a bigger microphone, but those can be overcome. Even in states where the means of mass communication have been far more tightly controlled than they are in the US, "what the people can be convinced of" has often conflicted with what those in power want; preaching defeatism of the kind you are here is precisely the thing that serves to reinforce the power of the elites, which mostly comes from other people giving up.
thanks for the link.. interesting answer here:

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Designers, you need experience and connections. Education helps, but experience is best.

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Rings true across many industries.
Why? I stash often and it has been quite reliable for me.
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expect for the oil boom driving up land prices in non-populated areas. $9,000 is really a low figure these days.
More detail here than I've seen elsewhere.

In particular, this explanation of what PRISM actually does-

"PRISM works well because it is able to handle several different types of data streams using different basic encryption methods, the person said. It is a "front end" system, or software, that allows an NSA analyst to search through the data and pull out items of significance, which are then stored in any number of databases. PRISM works with another NSA program to encrypt and remove from the analysts' screen data that a computer or the analyst deems to be from a U.S. person who is not the subject of the investigation, the person said."

It mostly sounds like a typical DB query front end, which accesses DBs built up from individual record requests from the tech companies.

But then there's the part about handling different kinds of encryption on the input side, which is puzzling.
One place where the stash is really useful is pre-rebase. Unlike in merge, you need a clean worktree before you can rebase irrespective of whether or not those worktree changes will be affected by the rebase. A very common workflow on a topic branch:

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NASA = National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

NSA = National Security Agency.
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Cnet reports the exact opposite, according to another anonymous government source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57588337-38/no-evidence-of...;

The legal process, the person said, is akin to how law enforcement request information in criminal investigations: the government delivers an order to obtain account details about someone who's specifically identified as a non-U.S. individual, with a specific finding that they're involved in an activity related to international terrorism.
Sounds like the big risk is in choosing to have a monolithic architecture.
I do believe the GP is talking about freelance work, not full time jobs. $50 an hour 40 hours a week is $100K/year, freelancing, that's a pittance.
Did you actually read CISPA?
I have my stashes listed in the status, and drop them when needed. For me committing requires a good name and needs to be "somewhere", so it is a deeper action, while I can put any kind of crap in a stash instantly, and drop it if unused.
I don't think it's absurd at all. If the leak is an accurate depiction of reality, then it doesn't matter how culpable I think Google and Facebook are. What matters is that I can't use the services of those companies if I want my data to be private.
One has to wonder when the 'combating terrorists' (non-state actors) rhetoric will end, especially when it clearly is at the very bottom of the list of objectives regarding internet surveillance. All of this public-private cooperation seems to indicate that the USG is gearing up for an offensive against other state actors (or it's already in progress).

People who self-identify as 'pirates' sometimes refer to the internet as 'the open seas' (similarly representing freedom from oppression and authoritarianism) so it's interesting to see governments establishing 'internet navies' with offensive capabilities given as much attention as defensive capabilities.
I think the best explanation is given here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5844576

Prism is probably no more than a mail-merge program that will take your (i.e. NSA agent's) signed court order and convert it into whatever format each company requires. Then it will make the request quickly and easily - Say Google requires a PGP encrypted email, Microsoft wants a HTTPS PUT request, Facebook needs you to upload to SFTP server etc.
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every country is in the business of protecting its own interest. the internet is now a front in any possible conflict and the right thing from our perspective just like it is from theirs is to be prepared. it's not evil (although it is somewhat evil if you aggress pre-emptively, which China does, and it's definitely possible that we do as well, as we have militarily in the recent past.)
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User data export features as they have been common recently – Facebook und Twitter for example offer similar features as Google Takeout – could without any doubt be used to export data for all kind of other 'users'.

NSA might tap every single bit of communication worldwide but getting structured data for users of specific interest directly from Google etc. is still much easier.
Why is it absurd?

And which government?
The Tor Project sprung out of a research project at the U.S. Naval Research Laboratory, and to this day a large part of its funding comes from U.S. government sources.

This is entirely fine as far as I can tell - the U.S. interest can be explained as two-fold:

First, it could be a genuine wish to fund projects with potential to support freedom of expression in parts of the world they think need it (Secretary of State Clinton has expressed this as a policy at least once).

Second, and I think this is the more important reason, is that the various intelligence arms in the U.S. need Tor for themselves, in order to provide anonymous means of communications for secret agents and other foreign operatives who work in hostile environments. The important thing to realise is that low-latency mixnets absolutely depend on being widely used by many kinds of users for many purposes, so that each user can hide in the crowd. Therefore Tor absolutely needs to be publicly available - if American spies were its only users, they would stick out like sore thumbs and the entire thing would be hilariously pointless.

Tor is of course open source and can be inspected for backdoors and such, and its design continues to be subject to scrutiny and research. If there is a danger involved, it is an attack where the U.S. government controls sufficiently many Tor nodes in order to be able to do traffic analysis efficiently. So far I don't know of any signs of this, and I question if they would want to sabotage a project that has such a useful potential for themselves.
The whole business model of Silicon Valley is based on not obeying the law. It's called "disrupting", and how it works is "let's break laws and regulations we disagree with until they're either changed or recognized as obsolete".

This is how Uber works, or AirBnB... but not only. Facebook or Google routinely ignore European privacy laws. Twitter ignores European laws about free speech (which you and I may consider "bad" laws, but which are laws nonetheless).

So why is it that suddenly everyone hides behind the "law"?
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You might as well try boycotting US customers as well -- both are phenomenally impossible to accomplish but the end-goal is still the same.
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Considering that PRISM is secret government intelligence operation, it should be clear that those who participate can't reveal that they are part of it. I mean, if for example Google is participating, would anybody expect Larry Page just admit it: "Damn. You caught us."
Could be why this only costs $20 million a year maintaining and upgrading it. Now we need to find out what's really powering this front-end program.
Have actually read it all the way through, or are you just reacting to the title?
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Google is not alone with this kind of user data export feature.

And just because systems like PRISM are in use, doesn't render data export for specific users useless:

PRISM might for example identify some users of specific interest. As a result, NSA might access all Google data in relation to this user in structured form. Legal interception ports in hardware and software have been known for years, they are mandatory in many countries. And while live surveillance can be important too, most results are gathered from structured user data and meta data. And in any case, why should the same work be done twice? Why should NSA do work that has already been done by Google etc.?
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"I think we should trust Google to keep their private keys safe, although it would help a lot if the published in general terms how they accomplish this."

Really, I would think it would be easy for the NSA, etc to get an operative inside Google, FB etc and steal these. Intelligence organizations are very good at this after all..