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The Federal government is has sovereign immunity, so you can only file claims against them to the extent that they allow them to.

You can sue the feds for copyright infringement, but only for reasonable compensaton -- you cannot recover the costs of litigation.
Where are all the impeachments and swift punishments from Congress?

They're all in on it. Note today the GOP saying what interest they have in oversight, while Obama is just continuing what they supported under Bush and what Democrats are supporting under Obama. It's the same thing, the sides just switch based on elections, but the behavior of the government (all of them) remains the same. It's an anti-Constitutional racket.
The problem with foreigners having rights is that it goes against very deep principles in the western tradition. If sovereignty means anything, it means the inherent power to create and enforce borders. Its like one of the defining charecteristics of a biological cell: the establishment of an "inside" and an "outside." Subjecting the inherent power of a sovereign entity to control access through its borders to judicial review upsets that dynamic.

Should the US treat visitors with respect and make the process of entering and leaving predictable and transparent? Yes. But saying foreigners have due process rights goes beyond should into must. And that is incompatible with our traditional views of sovereignty.
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We should do it now before the story is discredited.
If you've ever paid taxes, gotten a state ID/drivers license, signed up for selective service (as a male), or any number of other routine, upstanding citizen activities, the government already has your signature.
Fitting Ferengi Quotes:

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Not even remotely the same beyond for NVIDIA besides upping the clocks. On NVIDIA GPUs, all the cores are active at all speeds. You're not going to see the equivalent of the case where 1 core at 2.6 GHZ beats 2 cores at 1.3 GHz.

Do you really want your processors going full bore 24/7 just to prove they can?
It would also be self-reinforcing if you decided to give all the research funding and facilities to a clique of top universities which had already attracted the best researchers.
I would add some non-fiction books:

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Puzzle_Palace

2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shadow_Factory

In the short story category:

3. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/With_a_Little_Help
i'm more interested in how they made the acrylic case, because that's something i have no idea how to even start.
This is very close to my dream of a user centered modern web enabled platform.
I really like the fact that it promotes sharing by requiring a github account.

Definitely will try it!
I don't know if I would classify the OMAP4 as "old", unless you're Apple and spinning Cortex-A cores on your own silicon.

The OMAP4 is really no different than the Sitara AM335 being used in stuff like Beaglebone Black, with the exception of the video DSP. And I can see why Google would want that DSP on board to do things like hardware video encoding.
I don't really know how to use git, but I am a programmer. I use github a little bit though. To me, this is great.
I'm graduating in two days and blogging instead of job hunting.
About half a million private contractors have access to top-secret info
Good article if you are concerned about emailing
The kind of thing that this article described happened all the time before anyone knew about prism. It just never got much publicity.
It's generally not copyright infringement to simply collect data available on the internet. For example, Google downloads tons of copyrighted information; but that's not considered copyright infringement because using it for a search engine is a "transformative" use. Google is not replacing the copyright owner by redistributing the page, but is instead using it in a completely different way to provide an index of all pages.

The same would be true of the NSA. They aren't redistributing the data they download to anyone who asks, they are instead compiling an index to be searched for intelligence gathering purposes.
I see the state as basically being a _really_ official Mafia. They are the government because they have a virtual monopoly on deadly force.

If more people understood what the wars were actually about then they would have much more realistic expectations (none) in regards to the ethicality or legality of state actions.
Exactly why I posted this, along with many other articles, though only this one stuck :)
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Congress itself has been in on the lie the whole time to at least a small degree. Some willingly, and some perhaps not so much. Don't forget that this is exactly the sort of thing that Americans wanted the gov't to do, "keep us safe from the terrorists" I don't find the material leaked so far to be more compelling or worrying than prior leaks about the subject. The only difference I see so far is that the press suddenly cares, and that we've been promised more in the coming days. I do find it suspicious on the part of the gov't that there has been such a strong immediate effort to focus on and discredit Snowden, where prior leaks were almost ignored. But that's just my initial gut feeling.
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I assume from your comment you never read Atlas Shrugged. If anything it calls out the issues we are seeing today in the NSA and especially the IRS. The threat of, if not use of, government power to regulate, dictate, and confiscate. The intimidation of people and thoughts not acceptable to those in power.

Her books are about personal freedom. Whether the freedom she espoused is too much for some people is another question
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The problem can't just be solved by simply pointing people to (random?) open source software.

We still need servers as rendezvous points, and we can't expect everybody to run their own services. Properly setting up a mail server is hard.

So, everybody who can should run XMPP and/or SIP servers and hand out accounts to their friends. Both telephony/messaging protocols have inherent capabilities for federating with other people's servers similar to what email does. And with OTR and ZRTP we have real end-to-end encryption without relying on (broken) SSL certificates.

The technology is ready, now it's time to make it usable. Let's help people to move their lives back out of the cloud.
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Given that the vast majority of American support this type of surveillance in the name of fighting "terrorism," democracy appears to be working. You should blame the electorate.
The `for … in` statement iterates over the enumerable properties of an object¹. It’s not for arrays.

1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...
That's only social security, there are many, many other programs. Illegal immigrants qualify for some of them, it depends on the state.

Have a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeituni_Onyango

She ignored deportation orders and managed to receive subsidized housing and a disability pension. She's not unique.
I really have trouble believing that the real reason people want a gun is so they can fend off the government. To be honest when you consider the opposition(the American military!) I don't know how anyone can say it with a straight face.
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You have to understand that in the intelligence world they worry about the provenance (source) of the data.

In this case the data comes directly from the company holding the data. There is no wiretap, no cypher breaking, no MITM attack, no bugs planted on suspect computers, no TEMPEST intercepts, no HUMINT concerns, none of that.

The data gets delivered by a secure channel over a point-to-point connection straight to an NSA server, where PRISM goes and makes magic happen from there.

But! Although the data's provenance is direct, there is still the intermediary that delivers it (or not): the company itself, which gets to determine whether or not they will make that SFTP (or equivalent) transfer occur. So the companies can all claim that NSA is not tromping around in their datacenters because the NSA is not. The NSA is asking the company to do the tromping for them.

I realize that sounds disingenuous, but that's the time-honored technique that's also used in OOP: Wrap access to data members around a getter function as part of a defined interface, to allow for modifying the getter later.

NSA may still be able to ask for information on anyone if a FISA warrant is only required after 7 days, and it's not as if many FISA warrants have been disapproved, so that's not to say that there are inherent limits to PRISM's ability to capture data on someone.

But at the same time it's also not like NSA has the ability to do rsync facebook.com:/users nsa.gov:/"$(date)", which is essentially what Greenwald has been claiming this whole time, and what Greenwald refuses to acknowledge even the possibility he might be wrong on.
I've created something to allow you to easily become your own identity provider here: https://persowna.net/

Given the design of Persona, though, your identity provider can't know which site you're logging into, only that you're logging in to something.
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Case in point:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_foreign-bo...
Get the right priorities

https://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/prime-minister-of-ind...
who should be concerned about Prism?

If Mailjet was served a warrant for information in Canada, wouldn't they provide the relevant information?
Accompany one of them for an immigration hearing sometime. You'll realize how wrong you are.
I've started to use Blinkbox, which is buy-and-stream service. The content seems fresher if you don't mind buying versus subscribing.
How does meteor compare to, say derby and/or angular?
Awesome, awesome project, but for the purist please keep in mind that 8-direction joysticks can be a bit tricky on games that were built for a 4-direction joystick. For example, I popped a convertible 4/8 direction joystick into my home cabinet because Ms. Pac-Man is nearly unplayable with a purely 8-direction stick.

Just a caveat though, this project is definitely a great, inexpensive arcade-at-home solution.
Will he still be a hero of historic proportions if it turns out he misconstrued the four power point slides?
At Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, Michigan the story is pretty similar, and we aren't exactly the best known college worldwide.
This article strikes home for me.
I came to the US to go to college, while here I got great grades, a job and eventually married a US Citizen and obtained citizenship myself.
Due to the fact that I followed the rules My sister (Medical Doctor in our country of origin) would get harassed and accused of wanting to stay ("like your brother" they would say) every time she came to visit me (For the record she has never overstayed her visas).
Eventually when it was time to renew her tourist visa she was denied and told to never set a foot at the US embassy again.

Quite sad really but there is no winning against USCIS.
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A 'marriage of convenience'[1] in that sort of situation is typically treated as fraud, with potentially high penalties (deportation for the incoming, jail for the citizen). I've heard from more than one recently married couple that they've been separated and intensively interviewed about their personal lives, marriage, and backgrounds. IIRC one was returning to the US, and another was entering Canada. In both cases one of the couple was a native citizen.

If that were the actual reason, I'd be surprised if there wasn't a standard form letter or actual reason for denial. I suppose 'Go Away, We Can't Talk About It' might get used in marginal cases or when the appropriate authority can't be bothered doing the actual research.

Or they just lost at Top100 Terrorist Names Bingo.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_of_convenience
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A classic example being numeric approximations of ordinary differential equations. Parametric curve fitting, however, is an embarrassingly parallel application of chained ODE solutions.

That is to say, for most strictly serial processes, there's an application where you'll want to run it many times on independent data.
That's why we need to push for popular services like Skype, Hangouts, Gmail and others to implement these technologies to make them mainstream so most people use them.
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No religious objection. The problem for me with GPLv3 is that it is not compatible with (privately) signed code. If it is possible to run unsigned code on my appliance then my proprietary code would not be secure, putting the entire business in jeopardy. If you can square this circle then I'd love to use it.

I'd be interested to see a list of shipping appliances (meaning not open hardware platforms) with GPLv3 if you know of any.
Apple allowing you to sell your own IP and business is great news indeed and should be celebrated.
It took me literally months on the Metro to get through Quicksilver, so it may be another year or so before I add another Stephenson book to my list. But thanks for pointing that out as I'll definitely have to read it at some point.
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Of course we would, but as stated in the post, the process is stricter (an independent Judge is needed...).
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Check your local craigslist, check your local pawn shops. Make sure you know what you want, and how to haggle. Everyone asks for too much, but there should be a flood of used laptops on the market since it's in between semesters.

Otherwise, your best bet would be a chromebook running chrubuntu(not crouton), however, there are some caveats:

1. There won't be a backlit keyboard

2. You won't be able to get a great processor, but it'll be able to handle ubuntu just fine. You may want to consider a slimmer desktop manager than unity.

3. You'll be limited on browser tabs before your memory runs too low and things slow to a crawl. Extensions like The Great Suspender for Chrome[1] allow you to work around this somewhat. It requires some manual tab management, but the alternative is maintaining a bookmarks folder so you can close the tabs and come back to them later.

4. I was able to get an IDE(PyCharm) running, and it worked pretty well, except being slow in code completion.

5. Inkscape runs, though not well. I'd suggest you running the app by itself if you need to use it.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

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You can add email addresses now, this is just for the bridge, so it allows you to use alternate addresses to log in with. It's not specific to Persona, it's just how they designed the current bridge (which they aim to phase out in the long run).
This is as close as you can get to "deleting" your Facebook account: http://www.facebook.com/help/224562897555674

Obviously your data is still stored somewhere on FB servers. I refuse to believe they simply delete your data.
I don't see why technical accuracy would ever be meaningless. I thought we were better than that. If we're smart enough to understand the technical details then we should be smart enough to understand the further implications of those details without having to be lied to by journalists.
I think you missed this bit at the beginning of the article:

"Also keep in mind that sometimes I'm playing stupid, but sometimes I'm actually stupid."

I suspect the author knows exactly how arrays work in JS and is just mucking about to demonstrate one of the "Bad Parts". This is pretty much in the same vein as the WAT video (https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/wat)
I was suggesting the Snowden interview could be intentionally staged to create a distraction from the bigger issue. Which it's done really well. Now everyone is talking about Snowden, whether he's a traitor or a hero, why this inexperienced kid had all this access to "the entire intelligence community", etc.

If he is real, he's going off the radar for his own protection. If he gets picked up by the CIA, he's going off the radar. If he's fake, he's going off the radar too. He's going to disappear regardless.

I think it's an unnecessary distraction from the core issue of the US government having unfettered spying access.
I was hoping they'd leapfrog GitHub and allow you to stage actual commits and use something like CodeMirror to edit.
Also worth trying are Privacy Act requests about data that they have collected on you personally; the Privacy Act is separate from the FOIA, and allows you to request information that they have collected about you.

Of course, there is an exemption for information needed for law-enforcement and counter terrorism. So they may simply deny your request (or provide entirely redacted documents) for that reason. But it's still worth a shot.

Also remember that technically, it's the FBI which conducts domestic operations. While the NSA may provide services to the FBI to help them collect information, it's the FBI which is officially gathering that information. So any requests, either Privacy Act or FOIA, should be made of both the FBI and NSA.
Modern smartphone browsers (at least on Android 4+ including the default browser), allow you to override the website's request to control zoom.

As it should be.

Denying users zoom on a web page with the viewport trick is stupid. Sorry, but it is.

Websites shouldn't "pretend" to be native apps. GOOD native apps that don't respond to pinch and zoom will allow font size change anyway - such as the excellent Falcon Pro Twitter client. Lack of zoom doesn't matter because I can punch in the font size and all is well.
they wouldn't share their key, the complicit CA would generate a certificate for a key generated by the NSA with the CA capability bit enabled.

the NSA could then can use that to MITM sites without explicit pinning.
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Please. make. new. accounts. read-only.
Then I don't feel sorry for him. Two wrongs don't make a right, if you don't want to go to jail for insider trading then don't put yourself, your company, and your customers in a position to be compromised by blackmail. That right there is beyond despicable.
The "profile data" that refers to is the profile data you want to add per-site. It's got nothing to do with Persona.

All Persona knows is your email, a password and the fact that you (maybe) want to authenticate at some point (but it doesn't know where, and it can't be sure you're actually trying to authenticate somewhere even).
No, HSAs aren't like a tax. Quite the opposite, in fact: they are a way to shield the part of your income you might spend on healthcare costs from taxation.

On your more basic point of complexity: yes, things ought to be simpler. So that's why we should move to a flat tax, where everyone pays the same low rate, no exceptions. Looking over the next few decades, such a flat tax should just be a stepping stone to a truly voluntary system, where no one pays any taxes at all. The essential functions of government are those functions that are required to protect individual rights, and no others (other roles violate the rights of some, in order to provide unearned benefits to others). A proper government, consisting only of the police, military, and courts - could be funded by proceeds from the sale of optional contract insurance (which would buy each purchaser faster access to mediation in a civil court). Because such a government would be very small, it could even be funded by voluntary contributions from citizens, without any legal requirement.

Getting there will require a gradual but massive revolution in people's ethical and political views, but I think that this is the only moral way to structure a society, and the only one that is practical, in the long-term.
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Is Edward Snowden's story unravelling?
Or if you're selling an email product and want to get your front page slot by throwing #prism into a headline.
Have you been living under a rock? Look up PRISM. It's been in the news a little.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%2...

"They [NSA] could get most of it, but they couldn't get it all. So in order to get all the data, they had to go to the service providers to fill in the blanks. That's what the PRISM program is for—to fill in the blanks. It also gives the FBI basis for introducing evidence into court."

"PRISM was first publicly revealed on June 6, 2013 [...] The documents identified several technology companies as participants in the PRISM program, including (date of joining PRISM in parentheses) Microsoft (2007), Yahoo! (2008), Google (2009), Facebook (2009), Paltalk (2009), YouTube (2010), AOL (2011), Skype (2011), and Apple (2012)."
Because citizenship and physical presence are both elements. A foreigner on US soil has rights, as does a US citizen on foreign soil. Hence "foreigner not on US soil."

My understanding from the article was that the client was not American, not on US soil, and was not being charged by the US.
It sounds from the tone of the statement that Ron Paul was exaggerating to make a point. The title is sensationalist.
Ubuntu phone, oh really? Where i can buy tomorrow ubuntu phone?
Ubuntu? Why this distro, not openSUSE or Debian? Nothing wrong that by default ubuntu uses Amazon ads?
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"is the idea that a CPU that has to clock higher for a given performance will use more power."

This is like a dog whistle to the EEs, they're going to get all riled up by programmers with screwdrivers. You can model a stereotypical FET gate as a capacitor, all you're really doing is charging and discharging capacitors either in FET gates or the transmission line theoretical capacitance. Right out of the C=Q/V definition of what capacitance is, mushed up against some ohms law and some algebra, and you end up with P=C times V squared times F. So you can see the intense excitement in lowering core voltages, making gates and lines smaller (lowering C) all in a tradeoff to improve the P/F or F/P (whatever) ratio.

The important part is its pretty easy, right outta ohms law and the def of what capacitance is, power is directly proportional to frequency.
It's also great for marketing purposes.

A lot of people will probably be deceived by the high number, thinking that a higher number automatically always is better.
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Universities in general are far to the left of mainstream on these issues.
It'd work better if the embedded video actually was embedded.