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One thing that many people don't realize about the Hierarchy of Disagreement is that going up the hierarchy takes more and more effort. If someone makes claims that are so hypocritical that they instantly fail the laugh test, there's no need to move up the hierarchy and develop more sophisticated arguments against their main points.

Now, the obvious rebuttal to this would be to claim that I'm only saying this because I can't rebut Assange's points on their own merits, so I have to attack his character. This is an appealing but dangerous line of reasoning, because it forces you to engage with trolls. The appropriate response to a troll is not to examine their argument and point out its weaknesses, but to classify them as a troll and ignore them. Is this ad hominem reasoning? Sure, but ad hominem reasoning isn't necessarily bad.

I can rebut Assange's points on their own merits, but I choose not to because I think doing so gives Assange attention and credibility that he does not deserve. Don't feed the trolls.
You should check if the software is listed on the bugcrowd bug bounty list. Its a list of websites and software which accept responsible disclosure of security issues.

http://bugcrowd.com/list-of-bug-bounty-programs/

If you can't find it there you should send them an email and suggest they add it.
It's not confusing. It would mean what you originally read only if there were a comma after "said".
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Just change the number
The Declaration of Independence is not a legal document, though.
> In the USA the ultimate source of power is the Constitution of the US

...which starts with "We the people, for a number of good reasons, establish the following Constitution." So you're kind of stuck there.

If you're willing to draw these kinds of distinctions, no country is a democracy and the word is meaningless.
> Why should a private actor be burdened for the perceived misdoings of government?

But why does this have to be ensured through the action of the Congress? If the misdoing was the Government's, it is up to the courts of law to absolve the private actor of guilt.

Granting immunity of private actors for government illegalities is a very dangerous precedent. Imagine if the same was to be done if a private security company fires on civilians on behalf of state orders, and is then absolved of responsibility through an act like this one.

When a private authority does something on behalf of state authority, the state effectively gives away some of its responsibility; when it decriminalizes it later, the part of responsibility that it has given away is now vanished. In some cases, of course, the state can still be sued over the initiative, but such a measure ensures that companies are sheltered in case the whole thing goes awry, so there's little incentive in not collaborating.

What does suck about this in terms of ethics is that it's hard to draw a line between when retroactive decriminalization is beneficial and when it isn't. After abolishing slavery, it obviously makes sense to decriminalize slaves' attempted escapes. But does it also make sense to decriminalize racist behaviour?

Edit: just to be sure, I'm arguing over principles here, and all I have to bring is historical arguments, not judiciary ones, since I neither am a lawyer, nor do I reside in the US. If I missed something due to unfamiliarity with the US law, I apologize in advance :-).
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For those interested, there is a dissection of Yahoo!'s statement by Chris Soghoian (privacy and security research, policy expert/technologist @ the ACLU): http://paranoia.dubfire.net/2013/06/analyzing-yahoos-prism-n...

Like the other official/legal postings so far, the verbiage in this post is carefully crafted to mean the opposite of what it says.
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Hacker News Bug - &#x2f appended to hyperlinks
It looks like the xss filter on hacker news is being a bit overzealous at the moment. Links that end with forward slash are being escaped as &#x2f.

This could be a bug with the latest chrome update as well.
The Lernout and Hauspie stuff sounds like bullshit. This was a company run by fraudsters that dicked over and ripped off the founders of Dragon Systems. They acquired many US speech technology firms in their run up, some that predated L&H, so the idea that the NSA stole US developed and acquired tech in a buyout to advantage American companies sounds bogus.

The Airbus thing rings true, but industrial espionage for L&H tech? Who'd want it? It was hardly a strategic technology unlike Aerospace. At best, the NSA themselves might like to use it for transcribing calls, but given the tons and tons of open academic research on speech, it just sounds like the typical IP bullshit of firms accusing other firms of "stealing" algorithms because someone else independently developed something similar.

Next the French will be claiming the NSA is stealing important tech from DailyMotion.
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>>> Someone made a decision that the lives of American soldiers were worth more than an entire Afghan village

Nobody made this decision. American soldiers were already engaged in the fight with large Taliban force and suffering casualties when the strike was called in. They most probably had no idea where civilians are, since it wasn't exactly home terrain for them (they were called in from Farah when Afghans came under attack) and finding out where civilians are in the conditions of active urban warfare is next to impossible. They only target that makes sense to call air strike on is where the shooting at you originates. Turned out, it was also where the civilians were hiding (read: Taliban was probably firing either from the same or from the nearby places). Common tactics, Hamas is Gaza places rocket launchers near mosques, on the roofs of hospitals and in the school yards for exactly the same reason. If the army new that, they could probably do something else - retreat, regroup and try to resolve it in some other way, but I don't see where could they know it from.
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Tell that to the Taliban.
You should check out some co-working spaces on friday afternoons, they generally chill out and have a few drinks.

Also go to a few meetup groups, but you have to get in quick, meetups fill quickly.
Google Maps is quite useless for navigating in the backcountry, especially now that they appear to be dropping the "terrain" maps. But that doesn't mean all digital maps are useless.
> "but publishing this has nothing to do with preventing such mistakes in the future"

It does, if enabling the public to realize the reality of war (and more importantly, the fallibility of their beloved military) results a society that is less bloodthirsty and eager to start wars.
I'm dubious of some of the language as well. For instance a reference to "Ernest Young LLP" which I presume is meant to be Ernst & Young, not to mention prominent typos such as "PROCEDRUAL".
Nation states are a relatively recent concept and even more so as an identify factor for individuals, and local and national culture did quite well without it. Go back to the 18th century, and most states were much more fluid, driven by changes through inheritance, wars, and indeed the fact that a substantial number of todays large, influential nation states simply did not exist yet, or where the states existed in a substantially different form.

Nationalism itself did not come to prominence until the latter half of the 18th century (the term itself was not even coined until this time), and a lot of the modern nation states that people came to identify with were artificial constructions created largely as a result of the gradual evolution of local governance and culture coupled with the outgrowth of popular political involvement and the growing prominence of national media where culture started becoming more uniform across what we recognise as modern states often because of limitations of language.

Nationalism is not a requisite for local governance or local culture to survive at all - both pre-dated nationalism for millennia.
Does he fear getting droned too?
Unfortunately, probably not with shiny new Apple products to talk about (https://developer.apple.com/wwdc/).

I'd like to think people maintained their vitriol through a distracting spate of new shiny toy releases, but unfortunately I've seen this happen over and over again.

By Monday people will probably be claiming that HN isn't the place for political discussion and we should all just click-off back to Reddit.
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"Islamism" certainly does not mean "Islamic terrorism". It means a belief that Islam should be a force in the public sphere, not just a private religion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamism
Encryption is cheap nowadays; I doubt making it optional would do anything but reduce the effectiveness of the system.
Lack of private variables I can see criticism for. Lack of explicit interfaces seems to be a side effect of being untyped. That doesn't mean it doesn't have data abstraction -- at that point you'd also have to say that Scheme doesn't have data abstraction, yet SICP has a whole chapter dedicated to that topic!

I don't mean to criticize just Liskov. It seems to be a "feature" of a great deal of obviously smart people in our field, as well as some less obviously smart people. I don't get it.
> Interestingly, I found the USA to be the most nationalist 1st-world country there is. By far.

Well, all the other first world countries learned the hard way, first-hand how bad nationalism can get.
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Many things that seem culturally obvious to us have only been around for a couple generations. Ideals around racism, animal rights, age of consent, death, religion, are all things that many well-educated people take for granted.

Would you rather have KKK meetings in public or private? At least in public they are inspiring conversation and debate about the issues. Restricting the first amendment would allow for a secret KKK which everyone speculates about and rumors materialize out of thin air, that wouldn't be good.

Freedom from persecution for speaking your opinion (whether right or wrong) is probably the greatest freedom we have. Discussion leads to ideas which eventually leads to progress.
> As I've stated elsewhere, and as you can find by googling what jihadis actually say about their motives, the motive for 911 included the occupation of Palestine and US enabling of it.

It doesn't matter what they say. It matters what's true, and it matters what's right.

It's as though you defend a child's tantrum because the child explained "my mummy didn't buy me any sweeties".
How much further does the US government want/need to go before they have enough power/security to effectively and efficiently manage and protect its citizens?

I hate the idea of prosecuting whistle-blowers. On the other hand, I definitely realize the importance of protecting national secrets and information in an ongoing investigation.

In my mind, it's not a battle between the US govt and its citizens, this is a battle between nations. Some activists, political party supporters, extremists, criminals, and innocents might be targeted/embarrassed/prosecuted by these programs, that that is not only unacceptable, but disgusting. The US govt simply cannot be as transparent as citizens would like it to because information is available globally. We do still have a significant amount of room to allow for transparency in the govt and we are slowly (too slowly) working on it, but please understand that SIGINT and foreign relations is complicated as shit. The US has it's nose in every other countries business, they befriend questionable sources for information, they deceive (can't deceive another country without deceiving our own citizens), and they do what it takes to maintain world stability and US dominance in all areas (economic, information, military, "freedom").

I don't know of an easy fix-all solution. Online voting might help, that would remove power from congress and give it back to the people.
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Right, nor are the Vietnamese, nor are the Indians blowing themselves up in London, nor are the Gabonese blowing themselves up in Paris.
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> Building large systems in Python requires a lot of discipline becuase it is so easy to violate sound engineering practices in this language. People come out of school without an understanding of how to build large systems and just throw code in until the thing becomes a large sphagetti mess.

I posit that it's the same with any language. I've seen messy Java codebases and messy C++ codebases. I haven't read as much C# as I'd like, but I'm willing to bet it's the same story with those codebases. Python has a very similar object model to all of those languages with the exception that it's untyped.
Yep. It's funny because there was this explicit request to help flag stuff from 'noobstories' to get rid of undesirable content and I did my bit of community service and then some only to see my flagging privileges taken away.

I'm happy with it though, it saves me a lot of time.
I know that your post was sarcastic and that you were illustrating a point (and I agree with you). It is interesting, however, that Plato actually argued the same thing that you outlined in your post!

"for this discovery of yours [writing] will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves." [1]

[1] - http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Phaedrus#On_the_decline_of_Gre....
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After all the snooping revelations I'm looking to move my company email, calendar and drive (Google Docs) away from Google.

I'm happy to pay anything up to $100 a year per user. What is out there?
Basically, knowledge is power. The more knowledge the government have the more power they have over you. We all do something wrong, do drugs, be unfaithful, avoid taxes, bend rules/laws, say things against friends/family/employer, etc, etc, all this can be used to blackmail and control us. We all have something we want to hide from someone.
To me, a secret court of justice is equivalent to a secret amendment of the Constitution: there is no way to protect yourself lawfully against it. Funny that it exists in the US ans nobody seems to care.
Staying at power?
More or less the same here. I made the mistake of upvoting something critical of the /. editors and lost my mod rights permanently. Not sure if mine was "The Post" mentioned there or not, but I definitely got $rtbl'd. :-(
There's a major apparent contradiction between that second quotation and other sources (the NYT, Google itself) - see my other comment https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5847846
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I lost my smartphone about a month ago. I bought a cheap 20 euro dumb phone as a quick replacement until I decided to buy a new iPhone. To be honest, I'm loving the dumbphone. And the fact the battery lasts more than a week in a single charge is just the icing on the cake.

I'll probably end up buying a new iPhone as I develop for it, but for now, I'm quite happy with it.
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That's it then, all hackers are now offically: crackers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSNfQhb8yIU
PRISM is dramatically less interesting than this.
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Well, the things you mention do happen; that's been a long-standing problem with hiring mercenaries throughout history. I should have made it clearer that I'm looking at this from a strictly legal perspective, insofar as I don't think Congress is actually overreaching under the US Constitution.

On general principle, I agree with you that it's far too easy for government to employ private entities as a cat's paw, but those kinds of compromises are unfortunately a common side-effect of war.
Closer to 2, but with the additional restriction that information only gets copied to the NSA on-premises server after the server makes a specific request/demand for it. All the reports seem to be saying that PRISM is a workflow-automation system for FISA orders.
I felt that was happening during the Bush election and recall Al Gore's voice cracking a little as he gave his speech about the rule of law.
I can't wait to see this.
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"found the USA to be the most nationalist 1st-world country there is. By far."

Japan's politicians visiting Yasukuni, and Korean citizens mass-protesting "the japanese" as an abstract concept....
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> Here is how it works: People anonymously send him information, and he releases it.

Not true. It used to be that way. Then he decided to start releasing information according to his own political agenda.
Google has flatly denied that it has fulfilled, or even received, such broad orders http://googleblog.blogspot.ie/2013/06/what.html :

> Until this week’s reports, we had never heard of the broad type of order that Verizon received—an order that appears to have required them to hand over millions of users’ call records. We were very surprised to learn that such broad orders exist. Any suggestion that Google is disclosing information about our users’ Internet activity on such a scale is completely false.

It would also be hard to square Microsoft's statement that

> In addition we only ever comply with orders for requests about specific accounts or identifiers.

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/Press/2013/Jun13/06-06st... with compliance with a Verizon-style broad order.
Correct. A cursory glance at the data used for that graph http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports shows that desktop traffic has actually increased significantly in that time period (+ 25ish% for both windows and mac). For example:

Feb 2012: http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2012-02/Squ...

Feb 2013: http://stats.wikimedia.org/archive/squid_reports/2013-02/Squ...
And yet your government asserts rights of control over them without your granting them any legal recourse. Tell me, how do you think that's gong to play out, ultimately?

He who lives by the sword...
If this is true.
I saw this coming.

The story of Gary McKinnon gave me this feeling.

Also the constant Chinese hacker issue and reports from the Obama administration on how low-tech the White House is added to that feeling.
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If you are using a shitty virt type like OpenVZ, all they need to do is do vzctl enter [your_vps_id] and they are at a root prompt. This is hidden from w/who/last/ps.

Nothing else.
"Global capitalism, for example, isn't particularly concerned about environment damage to any given country."

That's correct, but only because [free market] capitalism reflects the moral values of the individuals that participate in it, and "conserve the world's environment" is not a globally accepted value. If people come to value not trashing other people's homes, then that value will be reflected in the market as a value that competes with "just get me my stuff cheap".

Then there is the Marxist concept of capitalism, which I think reflects the state of our neoliberal society more accuratly - that growth and ownership of capital are values unto itself. And, that system probably cares less about environmental damage, although it is more close to the above form of capitalism than, say, mercantilism, or feudalism, or communism.

What exactly is "global humanism"? And if the humans in this system you're proposing don't value not trashing other people's homes, then how exactly does it solve this problem of environmental damage?
Just to clarify. Prism is separate from the Verizon data dump. We're talking access to information that Google, Facebook, and other internet giants can track about you. Including emails.

China is demonstrably interested in this. When they broke into Google's network, they went straight for the private emails of Chinese dissidents. (With, apparently, much less success than they would like.) When they broke into the NY Times, they went looking for any information about dissidents that the NY times might have.

From the sounds of it, access to PRISM gives them that, all nicely gift wrapped and correlated with other signals of interest, tools to locate known associates, etc.

Why are they interested in this? The Chinese leadership apparently do not see a war with the USA as their top risk. (Though they do prepare for the possibility.) That is because they know that the USA is not in the habit of lightly invading nuclear powers which could easily level multiple US cities in retaliation. But overthrow by revolution is something they are terrified of, with good cause.
Yes. Just ensure that the glasses always show an LED when recording, one that can't be controlled by software drivers.
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Hey everyone, try not to let emotions take over. Downvotes shouldn't be used for disagreement, that's what `reply' is for.

For what it's worth, I agree with you. I think Manning did something truly worthwhile, and he DID break laws in doing so. Unfortunately, he will pay the price for that. I feel conflicted by it.
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it's an oppressive point that every human requires the same sort of government to achieve maximal justice. It is, the very argument that the US has proffered to engage in interventionary invasions of the Maghreb - "we're bringing them democracy".
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Whether they have real information is a seperate issue, who knows, they may have.