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Being open doesn't work if there's an oppressive government suppressing those who disagree with it.

You soon won't have the choice whether you keep things private or not. Everything is going to become public at one point or another. Never underestimate technology.
Or have they already done that
When it's a neutral thing for you, sure, why not. However, most things about nutrition are NOT neutral.

Is salt bad for you? (hint: unless you have a very specific hypertension condition, all the bad things you heard about salt are not relevant to you)

How much is too many eggs per day? (hint: no known limit. Cholesterol from eggs was never shown to be a problem)

Well, how about butter and fat? (hint: right kind of butter is good for you, as is the right kind of fat)

But surely, saturated fat is bad for you! (hint: no proof of that)

But at least bacteria and dirt are bad for you, I'm sure of that! (hint: life span is correlated with eating lots of fermented - i.e. bacteria laden foods. Also, people who work in sewage have higher life span and less illness overall)

You are taking tens or even thousands of bets based on bogus research without even knowing that. It is not unreasonable to assume that washing your hands all the time and keeping your house clean significantly raises the probability of autoimmune disease.

And really, if you go through nutrition literature and try to trace the knowledge to repeatable and demonstrable experiments, you'd agree with "very little". e.g., the calorie marking system used on foods is based on bomb calorimeter experiments (which you can debunk at home) and atwater factors (which have been shown to be grossly inaccurate, as in tens to hundreds of percents).
TLDR : 80yo nun incarcerated for non-violent protest at nuclear weapons facility [ fence cut, graffiti sprayed, prayers said ]

Quote, last sentence :

"In ten months, an 82 year old nun and two pacifists had been successfully transformed by the U.S. government from non-violent anti-nuclear peace protestors accused of misdemeanor trespassing into felons convicted of violent crimes of terrorism."
French here. I don't feel that way at all. USA is probably the most patriotic country (which is an other form of nationalism-like disease), but at least all its states seem to be operating in a relative harmony (from an outer point of view, I may be wrong, of course).

In Europe, nationalism is a real problem. Within the european union, every state fight to bring more benefit to its own nation rather than looking for the whole union to get better.
What country do you live in that doesn't have any thing like warrants that let police look at your private records?
I think it has s lot to offer also. Came across this recently. http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/noflo-two-years/

Check out also the original FBP the article refers to. It seems they had a lot of success with it on the server side of enterprise. seems like it could be ideal for web back end stuff
I don't think that's legal everywhere.
Right, but the article jokes specifically about atheists.

This century they sure are a peaceful bunch - but past record is pretty atrocious.

On the other hand, one could make a case that communists were not 'true' atheists - they just replaced Jesus with Marx-Lenin-Mao, but ostensibly they espoused atheism.
Some of these questions can be guessed at by data mining from your email and social network data.
> There's actually evidence to support that eating fruit is quite detrimental to your health, as modern fruit contain so much sugar. What are you eating fruits for? Water? Vitamins you can get from meat anyway? A lot of people say fruits are bad for you.

Is there?

As far as I know, there is evidence about sugar but not about fruit. And assuming that evidence about sugar translates to evidence about fruit is exactly the kind of sin your first post talks about.

(But if you can point me to experimental evidence specifically about fruit, I'd be very interested in reading that)
I don't understand Spideroak. The first thing you do with Spideroak is type your password into their web site to get started. How is that "trust no one" security?
I won't ever regret saying what I think even if it means some extremist party prosecute me for this. It's better to live an honest life than letting them win by remaining silent.

Let's say some crazy guy kill people that help others. Would you, as a person that help others, regret helping them because it resulted into your death? Nope.
Singapore is good for business but bad free speech. Fortunately, anonymous speech is much more easily done than anonymous business :)
>If it's a conspiracy, what's the common goal?

A conspiracy doesn't have to have a common goal between all parties. What kind of bizarro logic did you use to reach that conclusion? People and companies can conspire with others against their will, you know. E.g I blackmail you in order to conspire with me to steal valuable data from your employeer, etc.

The goals are set by the NSA, and the tech companies could not care less about them. The agree to conspire (ie. help the NSA) though, because there would be other consequences if they did not. From prosecution from the government, to under the table blackmail, etc.
Then your problem is the government. Privacy doesn't make it disappear.
We have no idea what they actually did prevent, and a single case where they failed demonstrates little. Further, pointing out the failure in the Boston bombing is a poor counterpoint given that to many it would suggest that increased surveillance is necessary, not less.

I'm not American, so I can't really speak to the domestic angle. I am immensely concerned about the foreign angle, however -- if the US government can secretly demand information from firms like Google or Apple, that is extremely concerning from an espionage perspective (economic or otherwise). Every government of Canada employee involved in the F-35 procurement process (or the Keystone XL pipeline, or any other multinational discussion), for instance, hopefully don't carrying Android or iOS or Windows OS devices (back when Obama carried a Blackberry, a Microsoft rep pointed out how dangerous this was having the president carrying a foreign device. Every other nation on Earth needs to heed those words). Even if communications were end-to-end encrypted, simply knowing where each of the people were and who they communicated with -- without knowing the contents of those communications -- would provide simply enormous data to effectively flank any position.

It is ironic to look back to when Chinese firms like Huawei see great suspicion, when we know that the free and democratic United States may be just as dangerous.
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Read Top Secret America by Dana Priest. These are among the highest paying government jobs. The strongholds of NSA are in the wealthiest counties in the nation. And we don't even know what they do... I think it's reasonable to call it profiting.
I read this in his Antifragile book.
>Wouldn't Occam's Razor instead suggest that since the Page statement was much earlier that Zuckerberg or whoever wrote this (probably not Mark) just copied the style of Page's statement semi-intentionally? They'd have almost certainly have read it.

No, that's not Occam's Razor. That's "naive believer in government that's willing to ignore all the facts Razor".

Occam's Razor tells us that when some companies participate in a covert secret services program which is brought to light, then the secret services coordinate damage control and tell them what they are allowed to say to the press and what not.
More like torrent network where everyone uses TOR, I think.
Is the NSA outsourcing its domestic spying to Israel?
I think those are actually supporting each other.
One is about getting more power. Other is the demonstration that they are not to be trusted with that power.
Americans seem to prefer to limit the government so they don't have to trust them. Other western nations seem more content to foster a notion of responsibility within government and leave it at that. I don't know which is better, but I think I prefer living under the latter.
More link bait. Charged != turned. The puffed up charges have to hold up in court.

Edit: I somehow missed that they were convicted. Regardless of the semantics of the law I am quite sure they do not support violence.
They could be watching us read this right now!
Tor and HTTPS
Also people whose name was not Adolf were responsible for the greatest amount of death.
You can simply ask them do you go everywhere naked? If not then they have something to hide. Literally.
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According to the Washington Post, "An estimated 854,000 people, nearly 1.5 times as many people as live in Washington, D.C., hold top-secret security clearances."

It's worth noting that having a Top Secret clearance does not automatically mean you have access to all information classified as Top Secret.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classified_information_in_the_U...
You're assuming the defendant's guilt. Instead, consider it just as likely that he didn't commit the murder and that his alibi was legitimate - he really was somewhere else when the murder was committed and his girlfriend is a witness to that fact.

Now make up a false story telling the girlfriend he was cheating on her and even had a baby with another woman. She "goes crazy" and now lies and says he was not with her when the murders were done.

How is this serving justice?

It is not the job of law enforcement to manipulate evidence, it is their job to gather evidence.
The (potential) application of statutes may be outrageous for the kind of infraction. However...

"In the early morning hours of Saturday, July 28, 2012, long-time peace activists Sr. Megan Rice, 82, Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, and Michael Walli, 63, cut through the chain link fence surrounding the Oak Ridge Y-12 nuclear weapons production facility and trespassed onto the property."

Stop right there. You did what? And you didn't expect what to happen? Really? Geeze people.

You seem to mistake exercising your first ammendment with breaking into the property of a government nuclear weapons facility. Contrary to popular belief, you can exercise your first ammendment without running afoul of the law.

Don't be surprised that they do throw the book at you, if you give them the means to do so.
> This century they sure are a peaceful bunch - but past record is pretty atrocious.

Their record within the 20th century is atrocious. Do they have an atrocious record in any other century?
I couldn't help but be struck by the parallels between this case and that of Aaron Swartz, given the significant overreach by the prosection in continuing to add federal charges to the indictment as the case progresses. We have a glimse here as to how the Swartz might have ended; it will be revealing to see how the sentencing in this case pans out.
Right, but in the best case (the content is stored on all neighboring nodes in FN) the only speed difference would be in crypto algorithms used and protocol peculiarities (handshakes, key exchange or something like this). I think? I mean, if the content is not further than one hop, the Freenet functions very similarly to torrent. Or am I mistaken?
It's a pretty ballsy move to martyr these people. It may end up bringing much more awareness to the simple undeniable fact that the people charged with the defense of one of our most sensitive military facilities were totally and utterly incompetent. If they were smart then they would go totally by the book to make the story as unexceptional as possible, anything that draws attention to this case does not look good for them. Of course their incompetence has already been demonstrated on the ground, so why should their PR be any better?
the problem with xonotic and other arena fps is that they lack the killerfeature that would not only lure in a new generation of players, but also shake on the throne of quake3/quakelive, which is arguably the perfect arena fps to date (and yet humps along at under 300k players itself)

what i see is that new players will get crushed for months before they reach their first milestones and become somewhat formidable players in these games.

compare that to the new and popular fps games where you can just jump in, spray some bullets and get some nice looking plates pop up on the screen.

i don't know if there's still room for the unforgiving nature of arena fps aside from hypercompetitive people
>PS: inb4 "but slaves are people too"
Slaves were considered property like cattle, I'm sure there are higher ups who view non-natural born citizens and/or immigrants that way.
If you read the article you'll see they were convicted of the "puffed up charges". They await sentencing.
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Good thing you guys put that denial generator to some good use.
What we're seeing here is the crux of the problem with allowing police (and prosecutors) to lie to a person in order to obtain a confession.

It's unethical.

And once you teach this bastardized ethics to police (and prosecutors), they now think LYING is a perfectly acceptable means to an end.

And then you see crap like this.
Explain to me then what the purpose of collecting all the public data about these people and publishing it would be.
For 99.999% of the US population the totalitarian monitoring won't have any direct consequences in the near future. The real problem IMHO is that it makes impossible to create any kind of opposition to the current political-financial-media elite. Any potential leader of such opposition will be thoroughly studied and profiled. Nothing found to black mail him with? Well he likes to eat at a certain italian restaurant and he likes blonde women. Throw some narcotic in his food, have a 17yo girl seduce him and that guy belongs for life ...
I'm all for people getting their privacy, rah, rah. However, these leaders of companies are not free of obligations. What if you had your entire life savings in Google, Google broke the law by talking about what it is legally not allowed to do, and the stock plummeted due to the CEO being arrested? Or if the government just put a lot of oversight on them in the future and lost them a lot of business and cost them a lot of money verifying everything through lawyers (happens often after privacy violations, amusingly). Even if the leader of a company spoke with a good heart, if he broke the law and got the company in trouble, he is abandoning his duty to the company. I'd hope the board would remove him in this case, but even then there's still be a lot of damage.
One other important thing to recognize: many people have leaked confidential/private info, even without them realizing it.

Example: the SMS messages I send to my wife tend to contain more sensitive info than the Facebook messages I publish for the whole world to see. This is because I trust my wife and when she's the sole recipient of a message, I tend to be more honest and open-minded with her than I am with the rest of the world. Plus, she knows me well enough to interpret my thoughts into context, whereas other people can only interpret my written thoughts out of context. N.B. the recipients of a message do matter for the enclosed content ;-)

And yet another important thing to recognize: even if you know that your communications may be wire-tapped, you still feel safe because why in the world would those in power be interested about your private life?

Example: when I send an SMS message to my wife, I know that my mobile career may record every message I send. It doesn't usually bother me, since I'm not doing or thinking of illegal activities, but then again, this may be a decision that will come back haunting me (and I'll stop here since I'm trying really hard to avoid Godwin's law).
To quote:

"...convicted of violent crimes of terrorism. Now in jail awaiting sentencing for their acts at an Oak Ridge, ..."

They have been convicted, not just charged. The stronger title is justified.
Also depends what kind of mask is used.
Iceland is no better. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/feb/25/iceland-seeks-in...

Governments are made of people.
> You've already called him a scumbag. Thus, you won't trust whatever he provides. If he had provided a list of references you would have accused him of cherry picking.

Good job having a conversation with me all by yourself.

> That this discussion is unlikely to be of any use or interest to me.

Mutual. (The fact that you see pointing out of a logical gap as quibbling.)

> Did you read the meta-study? Did you read any of the original studies?

My point was about the missing reference in the NYT article. Given references, I draw my own conclusions.
What would happen? Well then they'd have an almost unlimited supply of individuals within our institutions whom they could easily blackmail and use to subvert those institutions.

But I don't find it much more terrifying than people in our own government having that power.
My reading is that they would have to be 50000 unique Singaporian IP addresses and that weekly coverage of Singaporian news was required as well.
By doing business in Singapore you're funding this very evil regime.
Yeah, it's really ironic considering wordpress.com is censored here. And a bunch of other blog platforms. RT is disgusting propaganda and shouldn't ever be used as a source for anything.
That's kind of a loaded statement that seems acceptable when taken at face value (and applied to the topic you are likely alluding to), but in reality, cannot be used as a maxim for every circumstance. If what is considered ethical is what does the most good for the greatest number of people, then everything gets much more complicated.

For example, what if you are an elected official who is elected by constituents who are in favor of something you are morally opposed to? Although doing what is morally right (to you as an individual) is one approach and advocated by philosophers such as Kant, it's not the only logical, ethical outcome. In such a case doing what is morally right as an individual could be considered selfish as it hurts more people than it helps (obviously depends on the issue).

A utilitarian approach, where one factors in what is the "greatest good" for the greatest number of people could be an equally valid solution. That "greater good" could be in conflict with the politician's morals as well (as the politician could have been elected by the constituents for certain platforms, but not others). Such decisions could also result in personal loss (as you mentioned) for the subject in question, but are the "right" thing to do when considering more than just an individual.

Nothing is simple about ethics, otherwise we would have solved all of our problems a long time ago with a single, valid approach.
>In a March 2013 statement, Julian Assange said that, while the file was still in their possession, Wikileaks had successfully decrypted the video ... Assange blamed former spokesperson Daniel Domscheit-Berg for taking the video, who said he had deleted it along with 35,000 other files when he left Wikileaks in September 2010.

If it was deleted in September 2010, how was it decrypted and still in their possession in March 2013? Why are the possibly outdated and conflicting events listed after future events?
People are attracted to specific other people at specific times in a variety of ways. I can see how it's useful to define terms for certain categories or patterns of feelings. But why would we expect people to immutably belong to one of these categories of convenience?
Why exactly do you feel obliged to defend those wanna-be tyrants?
I've been playing Xonotic for two years or so now, I'm also an active member of their forums, so if anyone got any question regarding anything please just ask.

Xonotic is an old-school shooter game, mostly inspired by Quake (q3cpma, QW) and Unreal Tournament (UT2k3, UT2k4). It got an active casual community which plays a lot of Overkill/Minsta/Vehicle mods on pub servers. There is also some action on vanilla pub servers. The competitive side of Xonotic is actually quite strong. We got cups every month and there's always pickup matches (private matches organized via IRC, #xonotic.pickup @ QuakeNet) every evening. The best thing about Xonotic is its friendly community of awesome people.
Interesting. But is obsessively eating healthy really tied to political leanings? As far as I can tell it seems to be mostly a upper middle class thing (perhaps coincidentally the class mostly everyone believes they're in).

That said, I suppose I could make the same argument that many people with a certain political leaning do engage in self-mandated food purity by eating vegetarian or vegan. Which sound reasons and very little magical thinking in terms of the economics of food.
http://www.ipo.gov.uk/p-ipsum/Case/ApplicationNumber/GB08034...

Original British filing
Technologists' Role in Oppression
Becoming more common lately? Or it is becoming more apparent to you lately? I would like a citation on wrongful prosecution activities.
It's an analogy really close to "She's walking around in a slutty dress so she asked for it".
This piece is extremely disturbing, are you kidding me? Has the US Gov't and its justice system degenerated so far as to label pacifist as terrorist and incarcerate them? What disturbs me the most, is that I had heard nothing at all about this case, and I consider myself fairly up-to-date on political happenings...
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It doesn't matter if you have nothing to hide. Allowing or encouraging the government to spy without good reason creates a government that spies without good reason. A government that thinks it's your boss. A government made of people, some of whom will take up those tools enthusiastically for their own personal gain or satisfaction or advantage. A government that thinks it has rights, as a separate entity from its citizens.

Fuck that.
You are correct sir. This is entirely the wrong thread. I am deleting the comment.
Israel is the best!
Which is the same nasty logic as if you have nothing to hide routine.
Also completely, blatantly unjust, yet comming straight from US justice system.
this is not a very good news for our future
Looking at just the title, it makes it sound like the government somehow drove former pacifists to violence, which isn't remotely true. It's a story of how the government has been treating those pacifists like violent terrorists; they haven't at all become terrorists.
Ah okay, yeah I have never even seen a diagram of the depths before!
I don't think many people have! ;)
Sadly another example of why irony does not work well in writing. You need the body language and facial expressions to sell it. My sense of humour tends to include a lot of irony and I have had to learn that lesson and now rarely express it on line.
All of these can likely be found out by having access to your financial records, medical/insurance records, telephone metadata, texts, and voicemail records in addition to email and social network data.