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> In June 2012 Congress's Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) released the Draft 2012 Department of Defense (DoD) Authorization Bill, which included references to Apache Accumulo. In the draft bill SASC required DoD to evaluate whether Apache Accumulo could achieve commercial viability before implementing it throughout DoD.[5] Specific criteria were not included in the draft language, but the establishment of commercial entities supporting Apache Accumulo could be considered a success factor

This was actually pleasantly surprising to read...the government actually wants to see if its software is useful and competently designed, rather than just buying it because the contractor has influence and no one will know how crappy it is anyway since it'll be classified.
Alright. Still a bit confusing but we will eventually get used to it.
Oh drat. I meant MVC, wasn't thinking straight when I wrote that.
But it can take a very long time for a case to get before the SC, and the scope of article III is not unlimited. The SC often declines to grant certiorari in cases that have to potential to result in a constitutional crisis.
But the point is:

Society unambiguously recognizes Obama as black. Biology does not. Therefore if you say society is wrong, you are just saying the social construct of race is wrong, and reinforcing the idea that race in our society is socially constructed and independent of any biological idea you can put forward.

The larger question would be for shades that we might accept are "red" but don't necessarily meet the wavelength definition. Additionally human populations are not like wavelengths in that they are dynamically defined. You can find all sorts of populations with identifiable genetic similarities. However, we construct race differently than that. Arguing that society is biologically incorrect in a definition of race is just saying that the social construct is unmoored from the biology.
She'll be 85 in 2018. There's a decent chance she'll retire.
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>>It has experienced reporters who understand the issues involved.

You mean it has experienced reporters who editorialize the leaks. Because that's one of the many benefits of Wikileaks: you get the data in its raw form and can reach your own, independent conclusions if you choose to do so.

>>It has a process through which the public can contact the organization and correct errors.

This is well and good, but the process is not efficient enough to deal with the sheer volume of leaks in a timely manner. Just as an example, Wikileaks released 400,000 leaked documents in October 2010. How much time would it have taken for The Guardian to process them, and would the information still be relevant by the time they were released?
His former post is interesting as well
https://medium.com/what-i-learned-today/be8b2dc0677
I was paying more than twice as much for the landline, which was basically an input device that delivered almost nothing but spam. I definitely miss the lack of constant dropouts in the audio, but it wasn't worth that much money (and annoyance).
Yes, civil-liberties advocates have been on this particular horse since before the term "libertarian" even came into widespread usage. Various kinds of attempts at dragnet surveillance, at various scales, have been an active issue of controversy going back decades (e.g. in the McCarthyist era), and civil-liberties groups like the ACLU have been pretty consistent in opposition.
Emails, here and now.
That's what warrants are for.
Well, FWIW, Glenn Greenwald, the reporter who broke this story, has been a staunch supporter of WikiLeaks.

See: http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2011/4/29/glenn_greenwald_o...
> The administration has now lost all credibility on this issue.

Yes. Fuck you Mr. Obama, Mr. Bush, and everyone who ever voted for the PATRIOT Act. Failed promises on Gitmo, mideast conflicts, drone murders, and civil liberties/domestic spying. I hope they impeach him for failing to uphold the Constitution.

I'm cynical, so I suspected this was probably happening all along. But my anger over this is still white hot. Our whole government is broken when leaders of both major parties blatantly lie and conspire to undermine our Constitution.
Plesk botnet taken down - using the same vulnerability it's exploiting…
Google, Apple and Facebook Outright Deny They’re Helping the NSA Mine Data
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I specifically said in my post that you have to take technical countermeasures to avoid being watched (browse the web with Tor, don't signup with services that require PII, use fake PII, that kind of thing).

Donating to the EFF doesn't change the fact that the CIA/NSA are actively monitoring you now. What the NSA/CIA is doing is arguably illegal, yet they're still doing it.
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"Said Apple spokesman Steve Dowling in a statement today, “We have never heard of PRISM. We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order.”"
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>People below the poverty line are richer than the middle class of the past.

Ah, yes, the ol' "Today's poor people have color TVs and cell phones" argument. Wow. What a strange rationalization.

>You have yet to demonstrate life getting worse for anyone.

Nearly half of all Americans (146 Million) don't earn enough to meet their basic needs (food, shelter, etc.).

[1] http://finance.yahoo.com/news/census-shows-1-2-people-103940...

And, the number of people slipping below the poverty line is increasing. These any many others are simply objective measures of poverty. If you reject facts, then of course nothing can be proven to you.

>Over 10 years it rose from 2.3% to 3.4% of the population.

1.) You're citing the wrong stat for the point you're trying to make but, but even that would be a 50% increase in just a decade. As I said, "rapidly growing"

2.) A decade does not begin to capture the period during which globalization's effects were most profound (i.e. the stat you cited started after the effects had begun to manifest).

3.) You're citing the BLS definition of poor. Many economists (and now the U.S. Census Bureau) better define "poor" so as to provide a fuller picture of poverty in the U.S. (see above re: 146 million such Americans).

>You contradict yourself. People unemployed due to structural reasons are people who have nothing to contribute to the modern economy

Why do they have nothing to contribute to the modern economy? And, how is it that the people to whom their jobs have been outsourced for pennies on the dollar do have something to contribute to the modern economy? No contradiction on my part. You're just talking in circles and failing to make the appropriate connections.
Yeah that could be pretty cool indeed
Exactly how I feel. I've coded like a headless chicken for the last 9 months, its what I enjoy and what I'm good at.

When I show the product to VC's and tell them I need help with marketing, accounting, establishing as a [already profitable] company. They brush me off and almost laugh. "Thats the easy stuff" they say.
I've no idea if this is true - but if it is, it's a) hilarious, b) ironic, and c) highly illegal.
go bitcoin!
Lack of encryption and lack of Google Drive support have held me back from using this as well. Let me know if you find out anything more.
Keep up the great work, I absolutely love you guys!
What if the terms of PRISM means that if asked, the company must deny any knowledge of it or of sharing data... And that the existence of such denial order must also be denied.
They lend their face and their bullshit smile to the government towards which many people have a much more healthy distrust. I agree that this doesn't make them the main culprit, but they don't get to completely wash their hands of it either. Big (monstrously huge, actually) corporations make the job of tyrannical governments much easier; how about we chop them into more manageable bits without having personally hard feeling towards them, and deal with the government(s) at the same time?
I should have added that it doesn't take balls to do what they did. They could have done anything and it would have done great.
I'm perfectly aware of where it comes from, and I interpreted it according to the normal rules of English grammar. Just because it's against the spirit of totalitarian government doesn't alter the meaning of the words. After all, the NSA is not denying you information when it collects records of your phone conversations. It's doing so when it denies engaging inthis practice, but if the NSA (or those delegated to oversee it) were to say 'sure, we totally collect that data!' I doubt you'd be OK with it.
more anecdata:

I attended a small engineering college in the Great Plains. A good number of my classmates ended up at defense contractors after graduation. I did a co-op at a company that does a lot of defense contracting, and I could have accepted a FT position at one, too.

I also have vivid memories of the career fair I attended during the fall of my junior year. I had dyed my hair green at the start of the semester. The only organization who seemed to take me seriously as a candidate was the NSA and I think the haircolor had something to do with that. It was enough to get me to apply for a summer internship there.
Of course they wouldn't know about the project name that the NSA uses internally.
How many times does some one have to say this? I'm sorry, but this sort of comment is getting pretty tiresome.

Yes we all "knew". All of us "knew". Some of us have "known" for something like 15 years. (Which, BTW, is why I'm most sure why Obama is getting so much flack. Its a Clinton - Bush - Obama scandal.)

But none of us, not one, actually did know anything at all. We suspected, or assumed. But we did not know. Not unless one of us is working for the NSA, etc, etc. (Ironic if I have just picked on the one poster who is)

Now we do know. It is absolute. No doubt, no shouting down, we know.

There is a huge difference: Before we were written off as conspiracy nuts jobs. Now we have certain knowledge.

Im not picking on you personally. Your post is one of many in the past couple of days. As such I have not down voted you, that would be unfair. But please, can people stop with this sort of comment? We all know we "knew".
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And then the employers will have to stop abusing their employees to get them back.
Indeed. I some how feel like the internet has just been stained.
Yeah I mean to say you can derive the sin and cosine as abstract functions from their geometrical properties, get the form of their derivatives, and then derive their Taylor series, instead of defining them as infinite series, and then showing that the function looks like their geometric equivalents.
Not so:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_v._Maryland
What a phenomenal idea for a site.
Huh? what you describe (time-based ticketing) already exists, and municipalities don't care that public opinion is against speeding fines.
I like South Beach in Miami as the beach is actually really great for just chilling, there are a lot of attractive people there, the hotels are nice, you can get pretty good food easily, there are usually inexpensive deals, etc.

Waikiki is similar but more a Japanese/Pacific Islander vibe instead of latin/south american. I'm sure more savvy Hawaii promoters will LOL at me for suggesting Waikiki, but I actually think it's nice to be able to go do something else if you get bored of lounging at the beach.

Outside of the USA I've only been to beaches in Mexico, France and Australia. I recommend Australian beaches but it's a long way to go and expensive to get there and stay there. Mexico I'm not so sure about anymore as there's been a lot of serious crime reported recently in the beach areas I'm familiar with. Nice is great but I thought the available accommodation was either super expensive or cheap, but disgusting.
Ham-handed references are the text equivalent to meme images.
Even if they are getting all this data(and they most likely have access), I find it highly improbable that the govt has access to the human resources (R&D/Engineering) required, to produce something useful.

Just think about the teams they have to put together to build even reasonably useful tools.
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Buffett (via Berkshire Hathaway) has made huge amounts of money selling insurance against catastrophes. This includes natural disasters such as earthquakes, tsunamis, and floods, as well as other catastrophic events including terrorism.
Would have you said that if this had happened 6 years ago and Bush was still in office?
Hey, thanks for the framework. I liked Roots.cx, and I found that a lot of the functionality that I really liked therein. Kudos!

My comment probably needed to be more thoroughly thought out before being posted.

My main issue with roots (and the reason I probably will not be using it in the future) is that I need to assume whoever takes over for me in 2 years will understand how to use Roots (and to make sure it is still updated). I can be pretty sure that Bootstrap will still be updated and maintained, but I can't be sure of the same with Roots. It makes it hard to use in a work context for anything major.

I will take a closer look at Roots and your pre-compiled templates for my personal projects, thanks for letting me know about it.
Isn't the specific terminology used very important to help differentiate exactly what type of surveillance is being done?

Language matters.
Oh dear, really? Honestly, that is so far off the mark its insane.

If HN hates google, then it has ninjas after Apple and Facebook.
1. Go to google keyword suggestion tool and check how many people are searching for something you are building. Say, you are building Employee Evaluation Tool - close to 74K searchers are made every month in US and 135K globally. Competition is medium, so there is still some space for new player. So, yes there is some demand for problem I m trying to solve.

2. List down top 10 blog post links which talk about Problem your product will solve and post comment on all those blogs in 3-4 lines : first two lines about the post, next two about your project & link. So, you will start getting some traffic atleast say 20-30 users daily from all those 10 blogs combined.

3. Start creating good relations with people who have given you these emails. Tell them something like : "Hi, Thanks for giving me you email. I am building this product where you will be able to choose pre-made Employ Evaluation forms or will be able to edit them too. What more do you think you will need to solve your problem of Employee evaluation. Thanks."

So, with in 2-3 weeks, you will have really good idea if this thing gonna work or not.

@sharmag88
The Supreme Court may have already ruled NSA phone surveillance is illegal
> ancillary nuances of technical architecture

It's patently ridiculous to call these "ancillary nuances of technical architecture." These are stark distinctions: is the information under your personal control or did you voluntarily give access to and possession of that information to someone else? In this particular case with the NSA, it's even starker: who generated the information? The NSA is collecting information generated by AT&T about activity on AT&T's private network. It strains the imagination to try to define that as an individual's personal information.

> The real question is "what is the intent of the protections afforded by the Constitution and are we upholding that intent"

The intent of the protections was to guard against the invasive physical searches of homes and persons that had occurred under the British. A broader conception of "privacy" is absent from the document. A conception of privacy that is broad enough to encompass information generated by a third party and stored by that third party is purely wishful thinking.
Why? If your ISP is giving you up, what does google matter?
I've met and known people who would love to help the NSA data mine all US communications. I've even known people who would love to help the NSA store all US communications, and help keep the latency low.

By this, I mean that jobs like that would be the perfect, ideal job for some people; they would love it every day, and never leave.

Your experience may be more due to your mix of friends, or where you live, rather than your profession.
They just added "on this issue" to it. Doesn't seem to be a big deal - they are just making bit more explicit what was already implied. It would be different if they had removed the line completely or changed their stance 180 degree.
There's a discussion to be had here. If you're a foreign intelligence agency looking to commit espionage, how hard would it be to get someone inside a Verizon or AT&T? Imagine what type of pervasive data a potential adversary could gather via these means?

Something any major business with foreign competitors should consider before using cloud services or trusting telecom vendors.
I voted "no landline, just a cellphone", which is not _technically_ true, but is true enough in practice. I've got an ADSL internet connection that includes landline service, so I do have a landline phone number, but I have no phone plugged in to it (though there is one in a cupboard) - and I'd have to look up the number to it (and I've never given that number out to anybody).
Which you voluntarily shared with Facebook and not a violation of the constitution. If you want privacy, don't share it on the Internet.
At least with KDE you can define sizes for a whole lot of things, I guess that should help. (I like OpenSUSE by the way, it gets slicker and slicker all the time)
It actually seems a bit roundabout to me. He's proposing that Congress pass a rule of construction for the courts to interpret, in hopes that this will indirectly result in the offending statute being struck down or constrained. But a more direct route would be: propose repealing or amending the FISA authorizing statute.

That would also be more in line with Congress's constitutional duties. It's true that the courts should enforce a robust 4th amendment. But Congress does not need to force them to do so: it could simply not pass laws that violate the 4th amendment, or if it realizes it has done so, it can repeal those laws.
Big data is hard to ignore.
The US is a republic.
Even in California, the defense sector employs tons of engineers, especially in San Diego. In states like Arizona, Raytheon and SAIC are the only places an engineer can get a job.
Exactly this. If you think it's so simple to emigrate from the US, go ahead and try. I'm sure it wouldn't be too onerous for the types that frequent HN, but for the 99.9% of the population that's less affluent and less technically skilled, you're stuck here.
It's the wrong "meme", too, at least I don't see the doublespeak. I'm calling Big Lie instead.
Well, the article says "an entity like WikiLeaks," and appears to be referring to its statelessness and ability (or at least willingness) to stay online despite governmental efforts to take the service down. You may be right that WikiLeaks itself is a low-quality or irresponsible example of such an entity, but I still think it's a valid point that these types of entities are beneficial.
If you're referring to online petitions then you needn't waste your time, there are already petitions to make sure this never happens.

It's called US Senate elections[1].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_elections,...

That bullshit called the Presidential elections? It's a dog and pony show.
It's no coincidence this is called PRISM.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beam_splitter

Some parts of this technology are actual prisms (several patents pop-up via google) , this might remove all parties legally speaking.

Furthermore these can be installed fairly easily without anyone really knowing, though some physical access is required.

The same technique was used in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A and pretty much all over every pipe, including the one this data went throught to show up on Hacker News.
What really shocks me is why wouldn't a technologist/coder / etc - Whisteblow this sort of information. Why would they sit behind a computer, deploy/design such software, and not have some concern, and go public with this?

This is not about the "NSA, CIA, or FBI" - it's about those other companies enabling those gov agencies to gather such information, why doesn't someone from those companies speak up that deploys this software?

Is it really about $$$? Is it the same reason programmers create SPAM bots?

SOOooooo, which one of you geeks wrote the code to track call data, then wrote a script to export the data to the NSA - THEN you didn't tell the rest of tech community.

DISAPPOINTED IN YOU
Exactly. Which is why it would be an ad hominem (or really, ad feminum) to say "How can we possibly trust you as our CFO? You're a woman!" since there is no pertinent relationship between gender and the job's requirements. However, there's nothing illogical about saying "How can we possibly trust you as our CFO? You're a convicted embezzler!"

Indeed, if the personal considerations are this relevant, it would quite illogical not to consider them. Likewise, I someone has established a general reputation for idiocy, slop, and other crimes against lucidity, it's perfectly reasonable to flag their remarks as dubious until proven otherwise. It's actually a perfectly rational conservation of time and energy.
Google flatout says "no backdoors".
The idea of the Panetta leaks were to promote a positive view of the US war on terror.

Speaking of Zero Dark Thirty: I always wondered about the relation between its director Kathryn Bigelow and Robert Bigelow. Is there a connection?
I don't now if the graph is real (http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/audio/video...), but Microsoft bought Skype in 2011. :)
I actually managed that myself for sometime. Accounting can easily be managed if you can dedicate just one night on building a simple app for that with even a bad UI. All you have to do is:
1. Create a table Money with id, name, money, credit/debit (1 or 0), date&time
2. Create a form to enter these values

Below the form, just print values from database order by date&time

This simple thing will take you very long - believe me. Its that easy.

For marketing @ very early stage, you just have to be a hustler. This is something what I do whenever I float some random new project (just posted this comment on HN) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5836395
Well, these are the four constants: 0, 1, i, e and tau.
Yes, that really is four constants.
congrats on the growth guys!
I appreciate the thoughtfulness of your comment. But even if the scope of this program were somehow limited in perpetuity to large-scale terrorism, the massive, centralized storage of every online citizen's Internet history should be frightening to everyone. In other news today, it was revealed that Chinese hackers targeted the Obama and McCain campaigns in '08. What happens when there is a breach in the NSA surveillance database and your individual Google search history is posted openly alongside your browsing history, emails, and Skype chats?
Go back to Techcrunch please.
Question: Isn't Newsdiffs setting themselves up for a lawsuit by re-printing the article?
Or impersonate the NSA and divert their data to your servers.
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>Civil liberties should be as big of an issue (if not bigger) during elections as the economy.

This. Fixing broken economy takes years. Fixing broken civil liberties takes decades, if not centuries.