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I'm certainly tired of the Edward Snowden stories. "Hi, I don't want the conversation to be about me but here I am going public, revealing I have a healthy fantasy life by saying utterly ridiculous things about 'triads' and such, and making the conversation all about me instead of the actually important issues I claim to want to do something about."

On the other hand, I'd happily see the public go back to actually talking about surveillance instead of Mr. I-Read-Too-Many-Spy-Novels-And-Want-To-Be-Famous.
It'll hold up fine.
I do what we did at ticketmaster -- a have a 32-bit day since Jan 1 AD 0 and I have a 32-bit time of day.
And when they found out he was a US citizen (about 6 months after capture), he was transferred to military jails in Virginia and South Carolina. He was in the system for a total of 3 years, and then in exchange for renouncing his US citizenship and agreeing to travel restrictions, etc, he was released and deported to Saudi Arabia where he grew up. Note the phrasing, he wasn't 'transferred' to Saudi Arabia, he was released, and given a plane ticket home.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaser_Esam_Hamdi
I think some politicians (supporters of this policy) are very worried about this, in that it could turn their base against them, and be vote out of office. We will have to wait and see how public sentiment turns.
How do you make the jump from leaking the existence of a massive secret surveillance network within the US to him being a spy?? What reason would a spy have to share this info with the public?? Sounds like FUD to me...
> "that think they possess the truth and are right about everything"

All those things I listed are well-documented. For the sake of keeping my post short I didn't post links to the appropriate Wikipedia articles nor to mainstream US online newspapers that reported the events.
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Absolute power corrupts absolutely, so you're guaranteed to have a 100% fail, a worse outcome than your zero-sum game, which merely fails most of the time.

What's most likely is an oligopoly of multinational corps really being in charge, with a thin veneer of democracy as a marketing message to keep the population under control. "You're not really feudal serfs because you get to vote for your overseer, among two candidates selected by the plantation owner who only differ in minor, yet rabble rousing irrelevancies" Or rephrased, the American system, but worldwide. It may not be a good system, but its a stable system.

We already have it, to some extent. Is there any real ideological/moral/ethical difference between the neo-cons and the taliban other than minor stuff like selection of holy book (said by a former -R who more or less got kicked out by the extremist fundamentalist neos)?
I feel as if you meant to respond to someone else. McArdle's post didn't discuss MBAs at all, why or why not they might not be let into the club. The washington monthly article also doesn't discuss TQM.

You might be right about TQM. This may enable Costco to have an effective process. But neither article under discussion, nor the articles you cite, actually provide any useful information on this.

But yes, this is exactly what I'd love to see. A discussion on using statistics to improve transportation efficiency, details of quality control methods, etc. Those "boring" details are how you build a successful business. They just don't give good linkbait titles.
Not that I'm aware of, unless they use it internally for OS X apps?
Sr. got an airport named after him? Reminds me when they renamed National to Reagan National. I thought Nixon National would be catchier if the bar's that low.
If we trusted Verizon with our data, why should we trust ourselves?
Right: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bansky_one_nation_un...
"The Israeli authorities took George Orwell’s book, Ninteen Eighty Four, and made it in to a master plan."

OMG! The author expands:

"Israeli nationals are always subjected to espionage and surveillance: employers read your email, the state sets up traffic cameras, parking cameras, security cameras and protection cameras"

This, my friends, is the level of hyperbole/ignorance we have to suffer from our media here in Israel.

I'm Israeli. Employers do not read my email. I have no information on whether traffic/security cameras are more prevalent than the average here (traffic, probably so), but I doubt that makes for a "1984" scenario. In fact I seriously doubt the author actually read "1984".

Unfortunately, clowns like him now learned that instead of being seen as a joke by people who actually live here, they can publish in English and get to the front page of news sites worldwide, where people don't know what's going on in Israel and are willing to believe anything.
In addition, of course we have hot wallet/cold wallet setup as well. I think it is the most basic security measure to be taken with bitcoin web wallets.
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Shhhh... don't tell anyone, I'm only sharing this with you:

http://www.google.com/trends/
The great irony though was that what caused the Great Fire was burning tally sticks that were the government's half of tax receipts.

There's something deliciously ironic about trying to dispose of tax receipts causing both houses of parliament to be burned to the ground.

Never, never underestimate the humble tally stick ;-)
Or more importantly, why don't schools teach programming (in high school or earlier)?
All these seem to be within the general level of intrusiveness seem in the US:

Easy access to metadata, security cameras, etc.

You haven't convinced me that the situation is much different in Israel as compared to the US (or the UK, for that matter).
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seems to work for now. Though streaming the previous event for the time being.
The thing about Israel being a surveillance state? It doesn't feel like it. I, as an Israeli, don't feel that the government is going around reading my mail even though it can totally do that.

The thing about democracies isn't that they're less likely to violate your civil rights, it's that they seem like they're less likely to do that. That's a lot of power right there.

All forms of government exists to subjugate the populace and that's easier to do the less rights the population has. The only viable state is one that's afraid of its citizens. We have a lot of power but most people don't know it. We need to spread that knowledge.
devs aren't always the ones deploying the sites they develop! Also, non-standard file extensions for source code is often exposed and should probably be hidden. (e.g. .module for drupal sites).
Then why did the court re-authorize the Verizon order in April 2013?
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It looks like javascript on Canvas. Anyone know how they produced it? Is it hand coded or is there some Flash-like authoring tool at play here?
Luckily, you can use git to rewrite history.

http://git-scm.com/book/ch6-4.html
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Cropping the square, my new Facebook PRISM avatar: presm.png.
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Until they add an ignore rule specifically for this text.
Or that the programs are not being abused widely for surveillance outside of their stated purpose?
Serious question: Now that he's a US citizen on foreign soil, and an enemy of the state, is it now legal to call a drone strike against him?
In 2009 AT&T was found to have systems installed by the NSA in their wiring rooms that made a replica of all data coming into those rooms.

source: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/military/spy-factory.html
encfs. Encrypts each file individually and file name are encrypted.
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I don't know, but you can monitor the status of the network here - http://torstatus.blutmagie.de/
Where are all the street protests?!

The people who went to the streets protesting in 2011 got arrested. You're looking at the maturation of a tyrannical, authoritarian neoliberal regime.
I'm not sure how this manifesto differs from how things work today. Today we get a mix of high level (AppCache) and low level (Touch Events) APIs. Is this manifesto saying always start with the low level ones? There are strengths and weaknesses no matter which way you go. Does this manifesto have a solution for the problems that exist when we don't have high level APIs, namely that the most common scenarios aren't well served, and library support is usually weak for new (less than several year old) APIs? For example in 2013 it's still a pain in the ass to detect a `tap` that works on both a touch screen and keyboard/mouse. The solution for this particular problem is a high level API (Pointer events).

So it's not clear to me that this manifesto is actually the right choice. For every high level API misstep there is a corresponding low level one as well.
Couldn't you use something like this on a small scale to implement a better random number generator for computers?

Looks like all it would take is a tiny speaker, a thin metal plate, and something that reads that metal plate like a QR code. The tone could then be randomized by a psuedo-random number generator, and even though the shapes generated are similar, they are never quite identical.
Ah, didn't know that. Thanks for the information!
This pic cracked me up: http://www.tickld.com/images/content/131246.jpg
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Interestingly enough though, that 'right to bear arms' actually gives zero protection from the government as theorized- even if the gov't is acting in a corrupt manner.

If this guy was in Texas holed up with a small armory, the FBI would still bust in there and arrest him. If he tried to use that small armory (and wasn't killed) it wouldn't have just been him 'exercising his right' of course.
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You're haggling over the definition of "reasonable", probably based on your views of the drug laws. Do you think that in 1800, the framers would have considered it an unreasonable search to enter a home they could hear being burglarized? No. That's why the 4th uses the wiggle word "unreasonable."

I'd bet the reason you think Kentucky is different is that you think drugs are a non crime. I do too, but lots of people do. I grew up in "just say no" suburbia. My mom and lots like her (see the reddit meme: scumbag suburban mom) thinks drugs are the worst thing ever.

In any case, Kentucky is an affirmation of the very simple principle that a warrant is not required. For better or worse, the framers did not give us a 4th amendment that admitted no compromises. They gave us one that asked us to analyze whether a search was "reasonable", asking us to reach compromises.
Hey Gianluca, I was under the impression the latest major revision of Wuala removed all distribution features, so files are no longer split into difference pieces. Instead they are now stored on your central servers.
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Whether there are nukes stored in the Volkel Air Base or not is debatable. But that place surely is more secretive than any other base in the Netherlands.

Here's the official "map" of the base http://www.fas.org/programs/ssp/nukes/_images/volkelmap.jpg

And here is a post highlighting the Base's obscurity
http://theaviationist.com/2013/04/28/volkel/
Note: this is my dog Spencer. Turns out that he really loves listening to electronic music on my iPhone. Took this photo a couple of days ago with my new camera.
If the NSA were not building an enormous computing facility in Utah, we could rightly accuse them of being incompetent.

The government requested three months of Verizon's phone records right after the Boston bombing, not right after say, a derogatory article was published on Michelle Obama.

The government's actions must be viewed in light of the law enforcement agencies continuous drive to use technology to solve crimes and catch perpetrators. Most people celebrate this when they watch the CSI TV shows. Consider how DNA technology has made it more efficient to convict murderers, and how DNA has exonerated people on death row. Now consider how many people are eliminated as potential murder suspects because an early DNA screen clears then and consider how many people are eliminated as potential suspects in other crimes because their phone records put them in another place -- now I know that's a two edge sword, but technology is more illuminating and less bias than eye-witness testimony.
Your response reeks of privilege and ignorance.

If we put aside the ad-hominem attack on the author, which has a record that speaks for itself, you really should look up cases in the past that perfectly exemplify a surveillance society that is prevalent in Israel - most of you which you can find on said author's blog which you are attempting to discredit.
You can hide it very easily with any of the virtual host syntax, and it's easy to deploy that way. I say, why not.
Swatch Internet Time (or Beat) all over again: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swatch_Internet_Time

This idea was simple to understand, but didn't catch on!
Bold title for WWDC day.
Also its members and its decisions.
we see the USA in the same light as China and Russia
when it comes to freedoms

I think I understand where it is coming from. Perception is there, and perception is important. There is however a big difference between China and Russia on one hand and USA on the other: the openness of the US society is, among other things, manifested in noticing and magnifying dirty spots.

Other countries with Western European cultural traditions or influences (this includes Australia and NZ but also Japan and Israel, for example) are on the same "other hand". One reason the focus is often on the USA is how it positions itself in the ideological space, as a pinnacle of liberty and freedoms and so on. Personally, while I avoid ideologies and ideologues as much as I can, I think there is a positive side to it, which is precisely the level of scrutiny typical for the US.
Who live streams on YouTube aside from the occasional celebrity event with connections?
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Not yet, but they're sure putting a lot of effort into laying the sort of infrastructure that would make it easy to become such.
Could that be a suggestive question?

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

(We're solidly in the realm of (bad) meta-puns now...)
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This solves nothing - person X still has to take into consideration the daily routine of person Y on the other side of the planet. Announcing that you're disregarding time-zones does not have the effect of making time-zones irrelevant.

Something like SUT is only really suitable for things which are completely independent of human behaviour (i.e scheduling automated tasks for regular intervals).
This guy is not dumb by any stretch of the imagination. He also didn't make this decision overnight. If I had to guess, he planned this all very well with all considerations in mind .

The fact that he noted his location at all is interesting in that he obviously doesn't want to get caught. So why bring it up? He could have just as easily left that detail anonymous. Makes me wonder if there's a tactic in mind that we might not have seen just yet.
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Not for me. The recent revelations about the NSA have made me realize that these events are largely a distraction from greater issues.
It's outright silly that C wasn't considered for this system utility project.
I think the folks in the Middle East have pretty much demonstrated how this works.
Free Bradley Manning
Distracted by the various opiates of the masses.

And that's the problem, while people have their comforts and believe that bad things only happen to other "guilty" people, or should I say other guilty "Americans", government gets away with what ever it likes.
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The top answer tries to brush off the difference in hardness assumptions as "semi-valid", and I think that's rather odd. Assumptions about hardness are pretty damned important in cryptography, and 25 years is not really all that long for mathematicians to have been thinking about a problem.
Wow that's so much worse than any talk I've ever seen. The weird angle and terrible audio aren't helping but the dude needs to stop talking to the screen.
You are arguing semantics a bit, but it doesn't matter: Military force has been authorized by Congress against Al Qaeda and those who support and enable them (including the Taliban). As Manning was in the military when he did what he did, that aspect of it will not be in doubt.
I tend to take the opposite of the popular HN view on security issues (to my karmatic dismay), but...

"our government regularly classifies things not because they need to be secret, but because their release would be embarrassing." - Agreed.

"but the U.S. government seems to have successfully destroyed it {wikileaks} as a platform." - Agreed.

I don't agree, though, that you should put yourself at personal risk to expose something you don't morally support. I also don't agree that the government shouldn't pursue programs like this. If popular fiction is to be believed, crime is predictable, and the magic answer to finding malicious people is there in the Internet, if we have a superhacker who can bang randomly on a keyboard while making Trekkie-sounding soliloquies.

I say eh, let them have a go at it. Because it will ultimately fail to give the desired results, just as airport body scanners have failed to find badguys, just as DHS security checkpoints have failed. Nothing will replace regular brownshoe investigation, and no brave action on the part of individuals will fix our tendency to build corrupt governments who abuse power.

No, Bruce, I'm going to take care of my family by not being sent to jail, rather than be a martyr to the doomed cause of dismantling the government's ability to use the net to spy on us.
Exactly, this would be a awesome predictions if it started earlier in the production, like at the kernel of the idea or even at the first draft of a script before it's even green lit. Studios have been trying to predict what will be hits since the early part of the 20th century and they still get it wrong. This just seems to draw a correlation to marketing of a movie or buzz to dollars spent at box office, which is the magic behind the studio industry.
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This is available on Apple TV as well.
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30-40% if you include PRISM.

Edit: Ok, fair enough with the down mod, I made a witty remark, but seriously, how do you measure internet traffic? In photons going to designated recipients, as if they were sealed love letters?
Is this essentially the same as a standing wave, except 2-dimensional?
I understand the US media is heavily skewed in support of Israel, but your comparison is not fair at all.

Why is Israel being constantly attacked on its soil? First of all because it's been aggressively expanding its borders to the expense of the local Palestinian population for the past 65 years.

Secondly Israel is a theocratic state, where citizens of different religions have different sets of rights, where the situation has been described by Israeli commentator as bordering apartheid.

It's extremely misleading to say "If Arizonans were to start firing dozens of rockets a day at California…". The Palestinians have not started randomly bombing Israel out of the blue.

Also I wouldn't use the Israeli in Gaza as a paragon of virtue: I don't think that California would start using phosphorus bombs against Arizonan civilians, since it's explicitly forbidden by the Geneva convention. But since the US have actually used phosphorus against civilians in Fallujah in 2004, maybe you're right, they would be less civil.
Well, it looks to me as though internal Israeli politics has spilled out to the pages of Hacker News. It's okay, happens to internal American politics all the time.
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Same here in germany. I've never seen a captcha on Facebook before.
I appreciate that he wrote this up for the general population, but I don't feel this is really worthy of getting on the front page of hacker news.

I mean, is there anything on there you honestly didn't know?
It's an Apple event... why would they want to stream it on Google? Serious question (your 'everyone else' statement is begging for clari-citation-ification).
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I understand the US media is heavily skewed
in support of Israel

My impression is the US media is heavily skewed regarding Israel, however some are skewed one way, others the other. To a smaller extent, the same is true about European media.
Thing is, I am constantly working on concepts to develop a SaaS that could free me from a paid job. I actually do code and do pretty much everything (python (flask...), databases, sql, javascript, css, html, the whole package), because nobody dares to join a "non technical" guy, I have to learn it all.

But you know what's the most difficult thing? The business. Oh yeah. I can code an app from scratch, but I still have to convince people to use it. I still have to plan the financials (by the way, how do start up plans look like? Guess-working?). I still have to market it. I still have to make profits.

Which brings me to the point. I can't stand this bashing of business people 360 degrees. There are bad business people as there are bad developers. There is bad culture in start ups ("you non technical piece of ...") as there is in business. It's all a matter of degrees and looking around.
There are so many proposals for a different, better time system. This one is actually identical to my proposal for a change to O'Harean time (it's based on 20 hours, but for no especially good reason; I suggested changing it to 10). And I too invented my own kind of date/timestamp, which is somewhere midway between readable for humans and computers: https://lucb1e.com/rp/othertimes/lucb1e-time.php
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Yes, and it gets really bad for people who live in places where which day and date it is changes in... the middle of the day, for a lack of a better word.
This is ridiculous.

I don't see much chance of Obama and Biden swapping roles to get round term limits (Russia).

America doesn't also have 1,000s of dissidents in jail and widespread censoring and firewalling of external objectionable content.

Have you even been to America lately? And I'm saying this as a Brit.
I wonder if that could be done at scale with a massive art installation and marbles.

Now that would be mind blowing to watch.
Is Yandex Mail more secure and private than Gmail?
What do you think HN?

Yandex Mail + Thunderbird

https://mail.yandex.com
https://www.mozilla.org/thunderbird/
Speaking out of ignorance here: But aren't TrueCrypt volumes completely changed when you add/remove something? I'm thinking similarly to a hash: The slightest modification changes it completely.
OBL was affiliated with AQ, was he not? While you're right that AQ is not a nation-state in the same way a country would be, it would be completely incorrect to say they're completely unorganized. For crying out loud, they require their "soldiers" to submit expense reports for travel! Someone in that organization has to receive and approve that expense report.

I mentioned that Manning volunteered to fight the war in Iraq to point out that there is a certain lack of nobleness in his actions by your own standard. But the 'enemy' he aided was OBL as the article and myself both mentioned. Note that I never said OBL had anything to do with Iraq, or even that there was any justifiable reason for the U.S. to be in Iraq.

But none of that gave Manning a reason to help AQ or the Taliban.