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>Mr. Snowden has now turned over archives of “thousands” of documents, according to Mr. Greenwald, and “dozens” are newsworthy.

And now we all have to wait until The Guardian is finished analyzing everything, covering its ass while making sure to take in a maximum amount of profits.

That's an issue I haven't heard people complain about yet. Why not make everything public? The information is getting combed... again!
This is the best time to buy consoles. The prices are rock bottom, and there are hundreds upon hundreds of great and really inexpensive games that are pretty widely available.
That is most definitely incorrect. The third party doctrine is shaky judicial construction at best (see, for instance, US v Warshak for the latest example and a case many can now use to justify holding off court orders until the Supreme Court or Congress weighs in on the ECPA), it is not held universally (wiretaps being the longest existent example), and Smith v Maryland would only get you things like call metadata at best anyways. Certainly not server contents. And certainly not with an indefinite gag-order on the service provider.
> [...] this is an objective trend that you're pointing out and it's a legitimate basis to use for predicting the style of any future Apple device.

How is this relevant to a device that no longer needs to be predicted?
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Someone trots this horse out of the barn every time privacy issues come up.

I don't give a fuck what SCOTUS said in 1979. They could have gotten it wrong. Their interpretation could disagree with a plain reading of the Constitution, or they could have based their decision on inaccurate or incomplete data. Even if neither of those things are true, times have changed; issues at hand are wildly different than would ever have been conceivable in 1979.

Going "SHUT UP, SCOTUS DECIDED THIS ALREADY" does nothing for the discussion, and it comes out every single time there's an ECPA or 4th Amendment thread.
Public, in a forum. He wasn't trying to hide it or anything, he knew it was an obvious joke. Well they didn't.
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I did not say everyone - I said it's rare. Sure, if you go specifically looking for something to criticize you'll find it.

But you'll find that most of the people who criticize Israel are obsessed with Israel, who focus only on Israel, and don't care about any other county. Their true motives are pretty obvious.
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Strange, am I the only one who likes it?
I generally agree with you, but to be Devil's Advocate for a moment, what do you think about secret R&D for purposes of defense?

Even some of the most staunch anarcho-capitalists I know believe in centralized national defense as one of the very few legitimate functions of the state.

Would not having planes invisible to radar (B-2), or those that could fly faster than missiles (SR-71) be nice secrets to keep from everyone who's thinking about invading you?
Strip away the accompanying material and the statement reduces to:

"We have never been served with a blanket warrant, or anything close to it, that requires us to give data owned by multiple customers."

Those are the words that need to be examined for loopholes.
Apart from the hardware, market traction/marketing, AAA games.. yes having indie games on the PS4 will make the Ouya obsolete.
Thanks for sharing :) I find Google+ to be useful for sharing photos with people who are not on Facebook, because it still allows you to share with an email address and it works pretty well. Not sure how to do this in FB, but I bet there is a way.

Also, Hangouts is probably the biggest unique thing for Google+. By far the best web-based, free, multi-person video chatting experience IMHO. Not to mention it can be tremendously productive if need be, with in-window document editing and screensharing. It's somewhat based on the video conferencing solution that Google has been using internally for remoting into meetings for a long time.
How do you know Bitcoin is non-malleable i.e. how do you know that a man-in-the-middle attacker cannot modify your Bitcoin messages so that the money is deposited to his account instead of the receiver's? Without a proof of Bitcoin's security, or even a formal security definition, it is hard to say whether or not such a thing is possible. In fact, the Bitcoin community seems to be tangentially aware of such issues:

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Transaction_Malleability

This is one of the reasons I say it is a near-certainty that whoever designed Bitcoin is not a cryptography expert; this sort of issue is well-understood by cryptographers and has been the subject of much research. See e.g. non-malleability in other settings:

http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~rafael/papers/CNMZK.pdf

http://people.csail.mit.edu/huijia/papers/concnmc-owf.pdf
I agree with apple, the world doesn't need another weather app that does nothing more than animate clouds and snow etc. the apple weather app that we all saw today is a world clock, has pinch to summary, a ton of more useful info and was layered both in visual appearance and functionality. By comparison your weather app was highly simplistic and looks like someone concocted in a weekend without being finished. I don't mean to sound harsh, but I wouldn't have given your weather app another look when you put it up against apple's new one one or yahoo's existing one. If anyone should be whining it should be yahoo, they even have the layers idea going on where the scroll panes slide at slightly different speeds. Very much like Apple's accelerometer driven panes.
I would imagine the tech used in the device you linked to has been in use for quite some time. Nothing stated in the Rackspace or other ISPs posts says anything about the routers in place at these facilities. They're all quite careful to say how secure the customer's "stored data" is safe on the "servers" - nothing is said about data flows through routers.
Those are two types of value degradation, and I don't think you can compare those either.

A used game can be sold next to a new game at the same point in time and the used game will be priced cheaper. You will get an identical experience regardless of which you buy, that is to say, the real value of both is identical.

The shop only prices it cheaper to encourage you to buy it, because they have a higher profit margin on used games.

If you drive a car about for 50,000KM and put it back in the shop, now that car is has lower real value than the new one next to it.
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Our weather app YoWindow features computer generated sky just like ios 7 app. Despite of this it was approved by Apple 2 months ago.
https://itunes.apple.com/app/id606193225
Quick link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VtD2VosqX3Y

Alaric, I know it's depressing to see that you idea is copied. But I think in this case Apple didn't sole. Be brave and move on. Eventually you win. Just a bad luck.
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Doesn't the PS4 support unity?
Good work. I think you could make the description of what it does a little clearer as I had to play with a few of your examples before I realized.
Sony dangles these features like candy and they can take them away on a whim, but I don't think it will happen this time. Sony took away Linux because they were scrambling to plug any potential hole that would lead to piracy on the PS3.

Aside from curiosity, the foremost minds that opened up (jailbroke) the PS3 were motivated because of the lack of homebrew support -- the ability for hobbyists to run unsigned software on the PS3. Getting license to and legally develop for the PS3 is simply not a viable avenue for most people. Sony appears to have their bases covered this time in showing their support for indie developers. If it is easy, and most importantly accessible to develop software on the PS4, you won't see nearly the offensive to crack the system open apart from proof of concept, unpublished or artificially limited exploits.
Notice the phrasing. This is how it starts, Edward J. Snowden, media whore. Screwed his country to become a movie star without any remorse.

Possibly a sociopath, right? I mean, who couldn't have any remorse? He planned it so well.
Whoa!

I responded to one point in the Rackspace response I thought was a bit off-base, specifically that their general counsel thinks the fourth amendment applies to them ... "Based on our interpretation of the Fourth Amendment ". It does not.

You may not give a * about what the SCOTUS decided in 1979 but the SCOTUS does, it is called legal precedent.

Times may have changed, but Smith v Maryland is still controlling law.

Please try to be more civil.
This is incredible, the closest thing I've seen to an alien world in real life.
Interesting read, despite the un-neutral tone.

"The word among NSA officials is that if you want to get promoted or recognized, get a transfer to TAO as soon as you can."

This quote (page three) begs one question: If the NSA is being recognized in the american intelligence gathering community as the best place to be, and that TAO is the better place in the NSA, is this not going to attract lesser valuable middle manager with higher social skills to get promoted there, to the detriment of the efficiency of this office?

I mean, as a technical person, I view middle management as a bunch of neds[1] that you have to get along with unless you have suicidal tendencies, I feel naturally concerned for NSA techies in spite of consciously knowing they have highly politicized jobs.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ned_(Scottish)
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> Remember how PS 3 let users load their own Linux then a year or two later they sent out a firmware update that turned it off.

It's unfortunate that the attention span of most users is as short. Aside from the Linux issue, the PS3 was decidedly hostile towards small game companies for a very long time (ridiculous development system costs, year long approval process etc.).
PlayStation 4 will be available for $399 this holiday season
I guess I can understand if java doesn't allow for debugging code similar to this. Being fond of lisp/scheme languages such as racket though, I find this very clear and is of course easy to debug in those languages.
The sixth circuit court of appeals can decide whatever it wants but they can in no way overturn a decision of the Supreme Court.
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Good. What offers and where. Because you know, that matters too.
> Depending on how open this is, this could conceivably make Ouya obsolete.

The Ouya is perfectly capable of making itself obsolete, thank you very much.
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IIRC Sony gives free SDKs to indie stars. The full process is:

1. Develop/release indie game on Windows.

2. Sell a lot of copies (relatively speaking).

3. Sony gives you free SDK.

4. Release indie game on PS3/4.

5. For your second game (e.g. Transistor, The Witness) you can develop for PS4 in parallel with Windows because you already have the SDK.
If Safari Nitro is 3.8x faster, would it make sense to have a node close that uses Nitro instead of V8.
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Agreed, but his point still stands that either:

1) Their budget is an order of magnitude higher;
2) PRISM is just an efficient legal data collection framework, an API that companies are forced to comply with
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The Philistines, who coexisted with Israel.

Casluhim, who were killed during Ethiopic War with Egypt.

Pathrusim - nothing much is known about them.

Caphtorites, also killed during the Ethiopic War.

Canaanites, weakened by Israel and finished off by the Assyrians.

Hittites - unknown.

Perizzites, weakened by Israel, and eventually absorbed by surrounding nations.

There are some others, but nothing is known about them other than a name.

The main takeaway is that none of these exist as a distinct people anymore. Jews are the oldest inhabitants of Israel that still exist as a recognizable group. (i.e. a shared history and culture)
I think it's a welcome wakeup, although it might be too late to affect real change.

I was telling my friends about the USA PATRIOT Act in 2003, and they were unfazed. Maybe some of them are finally waking up.

Although it focuses on Bush, the 10-year-old film "Liberty Bound" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEgvGLlgnqY ) was the proper warning and applies as much today to Obama as it did with Bush. Watch it and see how true it rings today.
NSA Whistleblower Thomas Drake speaks at National Press Club (March 2013)
By that definition, the Manning line doesn't even include Manning.
How much coding do you do in building automated tests?
It amazes me that an attack which cost only a few hundred thousand dollars could provoke a decade of mass paranoia, a widely applauded loss of freedom, trillions of dollars in wasted wealth, billions of hours of wasted time, and many thousands of deaths.

So, yes to more freedom, and please refuse to be terrorized https://www.schneier.com/essay-124.html . Freedom is the absence of coercion, and that is all the security I care to have. The chance of being murdered by a politically motivated hot-head is so low that it doesn't even register on my list of concerns.
On one (massively disproportionate) level, this reminds when the sale of the movie Independence Day suddenly spiked after 9/11.

Also "As of 10:16 p.m. EDT, sales of Orwell's "1984" are up 126 percent on the Amazon list"
It's in the current generation through Thunderbolt.
It only sounds contradictory. In actual fact, neoliberal regimes everywhere have been "libertarian" only in their business laws, and authoritarian in nearly everything else. The US is becoming rather like Pinochet's Chile: money can do what it wants, everyone else has orders to follow.
"For $20M, you can't do what Prism claims to do for $20M."

You seem to be assuming that the equipment budget is tied into that. I may have missed something in the details of this program, but I would guess that the NSA's equipment budget is separate. If I had to guess, I would say that the NSA has many software systems that share supercomputer resources (did you think that big new datacenter in Utah was just for storage?); PRISM is one of these, but probably not the only one.

I am guessing that $20M is the price of developing, maintaining, and improving the PRISM software only. The NSA's main problem is not hardware, it is algorithmic -- they are processing a lot of data, and they need software that can scale well and give good results. $20M is a big budget to pay top computer scientists to solve algorithmic problems.
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Looks very Windows 3.11-ish. Cluttered (crammed, even) screen estate and limited multitasking.
Some Googling suggests that PCIe 4.0 4x is 64Gb/s per direction, Thunderbolt is 10, and Thunderbolt 2 is 20.

Edit: Then again, this thing has 6 Thunderbolt ports. As ugly as it would be, a device could hypothetically be made that uses, say, 5 ports.
I think you mean Unity supporting PS4, and apparently it's coming: http://blogs.unity3d.com/2013/03/21/unity-coming-to-sony-con...
I'm reading this headline as I have iOS integration tests running in another window. That said, at the moment there's a slightly janky test setup and I'm using some ugly semaphores for testing asynchronous methods. I'd love to read about how others are doing this kind of thing though and I am pretty excited about the new stuff in Xcode 5.

Maybe more important than testing, I think support for writing libraries is really lacking. I know cocoapods is working on this but it would be amazing if we had something as easy as npm in iOS land. Any time I notice I'm doing something in one app that would be useful somewhere else, it's really quick to package the module up in an npm module. With obj-c stuff I usually just copy/paste :).
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"You heretic of the great states of America, you doubt our leaders? The very men that lead our children through education, a no child left behind policy. Or the war to protect our freedom from Iraq an Afghanistan how can these men terrorize America, and to say they surrender to Al-Qada, how dare you!" - A likely response from about 70% of America(a guess based off no statistics)

Too bad the statement above confuses me!
That's the exact reason why they commit domestic terrorism... ahh the irony!

It will make for a good story in the future called "The Fall of Advance Humans". It shall be a mere legend as near primitive people will wonder, how this advanced world could destroy itself.

Then 1000 years later, history would have been repeated, and there will be a legend called "The Fall of the Advanced Humans, That Once Wondered How an Advanced World could destroy itself... They found the answer"... etc.

sorry for the rambling. I like your post though I agree 100% that PRISM is an act of terrorism on our freedoms.

“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin
Ok to be fair: that's how judicial rulings work, based on precedence. There may be (and I believe to be) far MORE precedence saying the opposite, but don't dismiss precedence's power.
I can answer that. I used to wonder the same thing, but medical records are a particularly powerful type of information. Data in your medical record is often associated with major life events (serious illness, risk of illness). Often a medical examination can reveal if you participate in certain sexual acts (tearing in the vagina or anus), whether you are at higher risk for cancer, whether you have an illness or disability that would cause others to treat you differently, or would cause employers to sideline you. A medical examination can sometimes identify where you have traveled, even if it's a secret (why do you have anti-bodies for yellow fever or TB?).

Genetic data can (and has been) taken from the medical records relatives of serial killers without their knowledge (with a warrant) in order to get a confirmation that their relative might be a match to semen samples found at crime scenes. This has at least in once case resulted in a warrant being issued and a case being solved in California. http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/familys-dna-led-police-grim-...

With genetic tests, you can also uncover family secrets that can turn said family completely dysfunctional (non-biological mother/father, incest, parents are unwittingly cousins).

Additionally, you need not tell your insurer everything. New rules under the HITECH act are coming into effect that mean that so long as you pay cash at the doctor, you can request that the details of the visit not be forwarded to the insurer.

http://news.aapc.com/index.php/2013/02/know-when-hitech-trum...
I wonder if this is actually a good idea? Seems similar to one of the major things that led to the "Video Game Crash of 1983"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_video_game_cras...
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There is something odd about the PRISM leak, only 5 slides have been published, yet Snowden wanted the full 41 slides released.

Both Glenn Greenwald and Barton Gellman seem to have no desire to publish the rest, Greenwald had this to say about them ..."we’re not publishing NSA tech methods”.

At this point the "tech methods" might be the only truth to this enigmatic subject.

Greenwald is between a rock and a hard place, on one hand the rest of the slides might be too sensitive to publish, and on the other hand none of what has been published makes much sense.
I thought it was nice too until I tried using it on Chrome on Windows. Scrolling is completely broken (have had to reload the page a few times...)
So is your argument that entire reaction has been a vocal minority?

You seem (again, AFAICT) to make the very dangerous assumption that people bought it for streaming media, or, more importantly would buy it for streaming media/social experience, instead of buying it for games and just spend a lot of time vegging out.

The fact that one spends more time using the box to watch streaming media than playing games really doesn't tell you much. It doesn't mean that's what people want to use the box for, it just means it may have been convenient for that purpose. It's primary purpose in most households has been, at least AFAIK, to play games. The fact that it does netflix just makes it nice.

I don't think most houses would buy it the other way around, and that's how they messaged it:
Something great and amazing at social media experience, that also plays games.
Thanks! I've included the corresponding URLs along with the sanitized URLs in the description now, to clear some things up. I'll see if I can make it more intuitive.
I responded to your other comment below (about "identical experiences") and you responded to it, and I think we're closer to being conceptually on the same page than it might appear. But I'll go ahead and respond to this one, too.

I agree, a video game is more an experience than some functional, utilitarian object. (Interestingly, cars are often too sold as "experiences" -- maybe this is why their value decreases so precipitously after they've been driven off the lot, heh). I think that a game's value as an experience rather than "an object", though, is orthogonal to it's actual dollars-and-cents value. The value is the price people are willing to pay, plain and simple.

That is, a brand new, $60 game isn't really worth $60 to most people after it's been out for a couple of months. The used games market is more agile in recognizing this. If the first-party publishers became more agile, they'd wipe out the used games market. Why would I pay, say, $30 for a used, six month-old game, when I can get a brand new copy for the same price? The answer: I can't. The first-party publishers are still charging at least $40 or $50 for that game. The used games shop has recognized that the true value of that game, six months in, is actually $30. The publisher is in denial, or trying to take advantage of some sort of arbitrage by charging $40 or $50.

I think you're also discounting the fact that the first-party publishers do get a portion of that used games sale. That is, when someone buys a brand-new game at $60, and sells it to the used game shop for $30 a month later -- $30 of the original $60 purchase is coming from the used sale. Sure, in some cases the person buying that used copy for $35 or $40 might have bought a brand new copy if no used copies were available, but in many cases, that person might never have bought a copy at all. If the used market is shut down, maybe I stop buying the games when they're $60, because I know I can't get some portion of that money back to spend towards other games.

Anyway, as I noted in another comment, the price of a new car has not only the cost of materials and labor factored in, but also the cost of the probability that someone who buys that car used would have bought a new one instead, had the used car not been available. Video games should also be priced like this (I suspect they are, actually, and all the handwringing by the games industry is really just a misdirection).

TL;DR: In a free market, it doesn't matter if a good is experience-based of utility-based, its' price should reflect its actual value (which is determined by the market). Secondhand games aren't taking food out of developers mouths, inability to quickly adjust price to match actual value is. Shutting down the secondhand games market is a cartel/monopoly tactic, not actually beneficial for the general public.
I thought it was common knowledge that governments actively buy and use 0days? They certainly do, just look at Stuxnet's astounding and ham handed usage of 4 0days (in the first version) for an easy example all the way back in 2010.
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