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Interview with NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden (with Glenn Greenwald)
Fantastic job pulling their names from their Twitter profiles and putting them next to their Twitter usernames! I can't even imagine the amount of work that must've gone into such an effort.
Within living memory, Japan has been transformed from (paraphrasing a line from Neal Stephenson here) just about the fiercest culture on Earth to a nation of nerds obsessed with cute anime characters.

So, it's not like they're incapable of this.
Time for the Nobel Peace Prize Laureate to strengthen international diplomacy and increase cooperation between peoples.
> Lovely except it really was﻿ decided to explicitly make OpenSolaris incompatible with GPL.

In fairness to both sides, pretty much everything that isn't GPL can be said to be incompatible with GPL, and almost anyone who decides to use something different than the GPL can be said to be deliberately incompatible with the GPL. That's just the nature of the GPL.
No, the most vulnerable aspect is almost always users. Human, fallible, greedy, lazy, sloppy, mismanaged users.
The NSA, Big Data, Minimization and the Future of Privacy
Worth noting: Having the private keys for all the CA's in the world just means that they could launch a man-in-the-middle attack against a secure service. (Which would be easy for a rudimentary traceroute to detect.) Not that they could decrypt SSL traffic talking directly to my server, for example.

The susceptibility to this kind of attack is a big part of the knock that a lot of people have against HTTPS. It's generally been ignored as "too hard to pull off" - but it's also generally been assumed that your own government won't bother recording your communications without probable cause.

Anyway, unless they were targeting a specific service (which they usually aren't, they usually target a person) it would require too much effort to set this up for all the secure services they use.
"An NSA Big Graph Experiment"
Do you have any sense how many nodes (or I guess how much bandwidth or even something else I'm not thinking of) it would take to make a material difference on the speed of the network?
I have colleagues in the defense industry. There are many people who are aren't 100% on board with the ethics of their work but they do it because it is a well paying job. So, while the culture isn't entirely subservient to "orders", nobody really rocks the boat either. I am glad that Edward has the incredible courage that he has displayed!
A supreme court case has benefits that legislation doesn't. If he can get a favorable decision for civil liberties, he could bind future congresses that may not be as friendly to civil liberties as he is. This also could be accomplished through a constitutional amendment, but a court case is far easier.
Ignoring for a moment the validity of this statement, can I ask why you visit a site that is primarily about business news/Silicon Valley Hacker errata if you're not a fan of the 'bourgeois'?
I think the biggest single thing to happen was significantly faster JavaScript processing. The speed boost has made things that were previously not worth doing possible. With out the V8 engine node.js was not a realistic proposition.
You make what I believe is a fatal mistake of thinking that your individual efforts matter significantly one way or another. To suggest that any one person's level of care will impact the outcome of the US government is both disingenuous and frankly offensive to anyone who understands a modicum of statistics.

In other words, don't be so harsh on someone who doesn't think their individual vigilance is going to change the world. It is sufficient, morally speaking, to support a group who does your "caring" for you. Representative caring, you might call it.

If you want to suggest someone towards an activity, suggest the help a group that they believe in. But that draws the question, "What if there aren't any groups I believe in?" What do those truly in the minority do? Nothing is the answer to that question, because individuals mean nothing, and it leads to the following statement:

If you don't believe the same things a sufficiently large group of other people do, then your voice and your opinions don't effectively matter. How can you blame such a person for "not caring"?
I think a lot have fixed rate long term bonds that would hurt if inflation increased. 95 % of Japanese bonds are owned domestically (http://m.nber.org//papers/w18287). Japanese people with wealth (ie old people) would have large direct or indirect exposure to government bonds which are mostly fixed interest.