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I'm sorry, but is this what passes for academic typesetting nowadays? I felt as if I were sitting in some farcical business presentation as my eyes scanned this typographical travesty! This thing is an affront to the eyes as much as to the mind, utter tripe. Don't the mods have any taste? Hacker News is truly in the pits now.
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The only realistic way to fight untargeted spying is to protect yourself from being made a target.
Well, he actually was a horrible president. He was politically assassinated by himself.
I was being sarcastic with the E-Mail one - but to be honest among younger people, at least in my area, you would never meet someone and say "So, what's your E-Mail address?" - you just ask for their full name and find them on Facebook, or take their number.
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Eat everyone.

Barring that, adhocratic takeover. Loudly proclaim "I AM TAKING OVER THIS WING, IF YOU LOVE ME FOLLOW ME" and start treating the project as if it was only you working on it. See what those who do follow you want to work on, and split tasks according to mesh-management protocols.

This assumes that you care about the project getting done, if you don't, pull a Wally and enjoy all the extra free time. :)
Please don't write comments like this. Knowing your writing here, I can imagine you found the ideas in the parent comment offensive. But your comment contains literally nothing but an attack on the commenter himself.
That's right. Sounds like hype.
By the way, I give this advice after having done this at least once. The product was delivered slightly ahead of the revised schedule, after which the team was disbanded because the higher-ups did not want to deal with the surreal situation. I managed to get 1 out of 6 developers to follow me.
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Phone? Really? Do you know how much international calls cost when you aren't on a Silly Valley wage?!

I just wanted to point out that international calls cost peanuts, if you do it using a VoIP provider instead of your local landline/cellphone.

I call people abroad almost every day and my small balance lasts a very long time.
The dilbert strip in the article was hilarious

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2012-07-29/

Is there some kind of gene which predisposes people to throwing around buzzwords? How is it that human behaviour gave rise to "big data" and "the cloud"?
Cryptography doesn't help at all when your government will require you by law to provide them with a decrypted dump.

That's what they did with Verizon. Verizon could not provide you with privacy no matter how much they wanted.
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I can't tell if you're being ironic or the spirit of this thread flew right over your head.
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Hi HN,

I thought it was nice to open a tread in which people can post their projects and get feedback on it as a better way to gain attention than solely submitting a HN post.

Unthough HN is the best way to get feedback in an honest way, it's hard to gain traction due to their populairity.

Tell me what projects you are working on and don't forget to vote up so, more feedback will be given!
Can you still buy a pre-paid phone and remain anonymous on the phone bill in the states? Or they require ID now when purchasing such device?
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Yet another reason not to use Verizon. To be fair though, this is par for the course for the US government these days, and it wouldn't surprise me at all if other carriers are or will be targeted. Hopefully people are starting to see that our privacy laws are nothing more than cannon fodder for creative Justice Department attorneys. Freedom and privacy in the US have been nothing more than illusions for a very long time. These illusions are quickly being shattered, and that is a good thing because hopefully it will lead to (eventual) change.
The absolute easiest thing? Outrage + phone calls / letters.

It would take a mere 1% of the US population to give a shit, and it would light D.C. up like a Christmas tree. Bury their phones and inboxes in just a few hundred thousand calls and emails per day and every member of Congress would instantly stand to attention and respond positive.

It's such a trivial % of the overall population as to be disgusting that it probably can't be mustered.

Next step down the line, Americans need to start caring about their civil liberties again. They need to start caring about their privacy again. They need to stop buying into the fake war on terror and drugs. They need to elect a President that isn't a fraud, someone who will use executive order powers - if necessary - to aggressively break the police state and domestic espionage racket. The US Federal Government is extraordinarily violent and militarized. It has to be de-militarized, and you could only do that by abolishing the military industrial complex. It'd require a President to openly talk to the US public about what was happening and why, it'd have to be a public conversation. This, realistically, can never happen until there's a collapse (leaving a vacuum of respected authority).

In a word, Americans need to take back responsibility for their own well being, and stop trusting that the government will fix or solve the destruction of the last decade (which the government caused). The key phrase is personal responsibility, it can't start anywhere else.

As an aside... there's always a lot of back and forth discussion here about Socialism vs Capitalism, the concept of big government, etc. You know why America can't emulate the Nordic model? Culturally, to its core, we have an aggressive, violent government (busy waging war 24/7 in a dozen countries). You know what happens when you have a BIG government that is aggressive and violent? It was a fantasy to ever think that aggression would always just point overseas.
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I'm stuck on a bus to BKK with only an iPhone, so I can't watch high-res or zoom. Thanks for answering my Q. Great animation.
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Which nation is resisting these intrusions?
Peanuts would surely be a luxury item if you had none.

Honestly, though, doesn't using VoIP seem way harder than pressing one button on Facebook?

As someone who's never used it, I would have to go through the effort of Googling for a client or an online app, figuring out how to use it, adding my billing information and then actually paying for it, when Facebook is completely free!

Also, this is always a good time to bring up how ridiculous international calls are from the UK for anyone who doesn't know. [1] My 22 minute Facebook conversation with my nan over Facebook last night would have cost me £22 + a small connection charge.

[1] http://www.vodafone.co.uk/discover-vodafone/managing-my-cost...
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Develop new technologies that make this kind of thing impossible.
Freedom is dead in America.
Err... but... anti-establishment... err... fuck PG... err grumble... grumble.
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This is precisely the type of attitude we should all have as hackers.

It's easy to sit back and say "oh government this or corporation that sucks", we need to step up our game as builders of the software sitting on millions of devices.

This is a privacy arms race -- and right now we're losing.
Question from a non-American: if not spying, what are they supposed to do?
i did something like this (ok, not as smooth but it goes in the same direction) in 2010 with canvas/video/css http://www.barbafan.de/html5video?video=tron (was covered by boingboing at that time, lots of traffic, some partnership opportunities (mostly from p_rn sites), some job offers, non any interesting))

cool that somebody now packs a similar idea into a lib, will definitely check it out.
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There's also an accompanying paper with the technical details at http://arxiv.org/pdf/1306.0091v1.pdf.
While this is sound advice there is the problem that if you get very big/popular the government can knock at your door with sealed court orders to enable things like wiretapping.

Case in point: "Microsoft’s tweaks to Skype could facilitate wiretapping" http://www.extremetech.com/computing/132935-microsoft-tweaki...

If that has happened or not under the current system we will never know - which is the exact issue the OP was citing.
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It's not like that, at all. Depressed or overly happy, I'm not productive, I just lose time doing nothing usefull, nor correct... But while stable, I van achieve very nice stuff pretty fast, because I van use my obsessive side tout good end. Trust me, being high or low is as destructive as the other, for you, your project and the people around you.
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"which provides real-time bus and train schedules in just 37 global cities" yeah, sure, global it is!
Dont they teach the meaning of the word global in the US elementary schools anymore?
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That logic is flawed. Some subset of instances of correlation reflect causation. A huge portion of scientific enquiry is based around establishing correlation because prior mechanistic, theoretic and empirical study deems a causative link plausible. Would you wish to do away with the collection of data on correlation? My comment was made in a context in which a causative link is clearly plausible (that American foreign policy makes people angry). Therefore quantitative study of American foreign policy actions and instances of angry foreigners would be a perfectly valid exercise. "Correlation is not causation" is a gentle reminder not to make facile inferences found in undergraduate textbooks -- you appear to be under the impression that it's some sort of death blow to scientific epistemology.
If you do something public there are always going to be negative reactions, always. Because it´s socially much much easier to do it online due to anonymity(even when you have a reputation online, you are pretty much anonymous on you normal live) that grants you no social consequences to your rants (such negativity in real live could make your life quite solitary in no time), don´t expect a majority of positive reviews online.
Just in case there is a global fever around you and people is drown to support you no matter what, just then you´ll have lot´s of supporters. But then the critics will be more fierce and personal also.
Just read them and see if there is something worth to be used to improve your idea now or in the future. Ignore the rest as social noise.
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There are people who don't drink? ;)
That may be the case, but it's still pretty incredible to put the universe (even a small corner of it) into perspective. It was really interesting to me to put some of the larger local structures like the Great Attractor and the Southern Wall into relative context.
Its funny how this will likely be handled by the people in authority. Some narrow minded men with no computer knowledge will sit around a table and decide what action can be taken against the 'hacker' for this 'breach', Ignoring the real issue here.

Websites made by/for government institutions in India are a joke. Most Indian websites are probably still made to work only with IE (IE6 even).
Have Congress pass laws to make such surveillance illegal. Stop using Verizon or any other carrier that complies (economic protest). Only use technologies that don't permit such spying. Pass state legislation that is counter to the federal mandate and create an uproar that way. The list goes on.

We're stil a democracy and when it comes down to it we're still a democracy that gives a lot of power to any one senator. If you have one dog in the fight - if the people in even one state can get their act together enough to elect someone on your side - there are things you can do to have your voice heard.

You really shouldn't feel so unempowered - despite the 1% rhetoric, it's still pretty much the best time in the history of the world for the little guy.
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I'm saying that "largely construed" is weasel words that waste my time and is likely to create more heat than light. If there's something relevant to be learned from a similar scandalous AMDOCS/Mossad connection then by all means, link us to some reliable information.

There has been no shortage of folks on net forums such as this one repeating "The US telcos are largely construed to be supplying data on domestic telephone calls to the NSA". But that just hasn't proven useful without specifics of the sort we saw revealed today.
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Hahhha... some days ago I checked one of my old PHP codes (I was not aware it was written by me) - I was swearing much.. then I saw my name in a comment on the top and then.. I sweared more :-)

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They are using a technique called motor imagery, which looks for small changes in synchrony in the sensory motor rhythms (SMR). SMR is currently only capable of reliably detecting left hand, right hand, and combined foot imagined movement. When they say "raising a hand" they are not finding a pattern of activity that relates to that gesture, they are simply detecting if a left vs right vs both motor action was imagined. As such, you cannot, unfortunately, simply think up another gesture to add.
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I agree with you. I suggested these sites to a friend of mine and after then he really got into javascript and ruby. After learning the fundamentals, books are more understandable and more usable lets say.
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Hey man,

Just wanted to say you're doing an A+ job of responding to people's concerns here in the thread. People usually suck at this, too, but you've really got your shit down. Which, to me, demonstrates that you've been working the product over and over in your head, i.e., the opposite of what everybody else in this space is doing.

Because you're absolutely right. Fuck the Match.coms. Fuck the click click click click model. I'm not 16. I have neither the time nor the inclination.
End-to-end encryption and p2p networks help in that respect.
I can't say I'm surprised. It's well known the NSA is monitoring internet traffic (read this article in Wired, published in 2006: http://www.zdnet.com/blog/ip-telephony/these-photos-illustra...) and they have a massive data center in Utah which they use for foreign data collection (read: phone calls).

Under the FISA guidelines they can gather foreign data, but have to get a warrant for every US citizen they want to spy on. The NSA admitted they have an excess of domestic data because it's hard to filter out. So they have all this data available, and somehow we have to trust them when they say 'Oh, but we won't use it'...

To put a little perspective into things: I live in The Netherlands. A somewhat decently managed country (opinions differ!), with the highest rate of phone taps on civilians in the world. So all's not well on this side of the ocean, too.

The way I see things, there's a gliding scale between security on one end, and privacy on the other. I know the HN crowd generally gravitates towards the privacy end. But realize that a lot of people don't necessarily feel the same way. If you're a law-abiding, middle class citizen with a family, steady job and a mortgage, you're likely to give up a little privacy over security. I don't think there's anything massively wrong with that. What I do have problems with is the fact that they're being so secretive about it.
Not sure if that is what you are asking, but I am tracking my personal things in an Excel table - you can complicate things to the level you want.
I will never understand the inherent distrust America seems to have in their government. Every time a document like this is released, the logic is to assume that the document applies to all Verizon customers (which it does not), then to assume that all telecom companies have been given similar documents, then to assume that the government actually acts on this and randomly spies on people, then to assume that they are using that data for malicious purposes, and suddenly the government is evil.

Perhaps the only thing they use the data for (if indeed it exists) it to programatically uncover underground pedophilia rings?
Perhaps they use it to pre-empt mass shootings?
Perhaps the country with the most powerful government in the world should have a little trust in it now and then?
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To notch up the paranoia a bit, the original court order document looks like it may contain some digital fingerprinting around the edges (either made by a certain class of printer or placed there prior to dissemination) that could lead authorities to the person(s) they originally distributed this specific copy of the court order to.

Of course, I hope that is not the case here but people should be aware these things exist.
Build open-source, encrypted, p2p networks.

Fortunately the 1st Amendment is still mostly respected, at least relative to some of the others.

[Edit] Now, monetizing such software is an interesting problem.

Ripple/OpenCoin may have found one model: include a cryptocurrency that's used as credits in the system, and claim a large portion for yourself, which you can later sell. The problem is if they open source the software too early someone could easily create a new network with the currency allocated to themselves.

[Edit] Perhaps that could be solved with a new open source license that forbids forking the network.
That adive is only for people trying to do something good... It's based on the assumption that you'll probably be forgiven.
America was founded on the distrust of government. It's deeply rooted in its people.
If they can't control said technologies, and put backdoors in them, then they'll make them illegal. That's a non-starter. A solution can only ultimately occur in D.C.
Calling politicians won't work if both sides are called upon. They can work out a message to tell the public about how they're against spying but it will go on regardless. Money trumps everything. If there is economic or military incentive for something to be done - it will be done.

The only hope is to economically empower everyone so that a small elite doesn't form.
There's no expectation of privacy at the service provider level in this case. If Verizon, or any service provider, has access to the unencrypted data or the decryption mechanism, the system is insecure.

However, cryptography does help you as an individual user of a service. There's no reason we can't build systems which are provably secure and retain strict end-user data privacy.
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Yes, but are the 4 letters considered intellectual property?
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There is no other way. I think the "right to privacy" is childish.

"Big Brother" was about controlling behavior but grepping phone records is not.

edit: I'd be more upset about DNA database.
I didn't mean to imply it was unique to America. The sad thing is that it's a negative global shift against privacy. America's outsized influence on the world does bury it in responsibility for being a terrible role model / setting a bad precedent.

Seemingly all industrialized nations are dealing with these exact things at the same time (no coincidence, as it's being spurred by technology that is nearly universally available).
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CBSE[1] officially sends you results via email[2]. Of an entire school and there you get students' names, roll numbers and marks and pass/fail. The you get student's roll number and see the entire result card[3] which also has students' mother's names, father's names and DOB.

All you have to know is two codes of a school: affiliation and school code which is public and schools put it on their websites[4]

[1]https://www.google.com/search?q=CBSE

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information is readily available.
Have you even read the order? It calls for all CDRs to be handed over.

If you had read up on the abuses of the patriot act, including giving telephone companies retroactive immunity so they could not be prosecuted, you would understand some of the distrust.

This is about the government covering up and hiding its actions and how they interpret the law.
Not answering the question, but just saw this related article: http://venturebeat.com/2013/06/03/if-steve-jobs-applied-for-...
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I think it's a mistake to read this (or the book) in order to understand this one person's reasons and motivations. Look at it more generally. It is important to understand what drives people to commit atrocities, if we are to prevent it happening in the future.