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Bow down to me. I am your new king.

God says...
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God says...

18:4 For so the LORD said unto me, I will take my rest, and I will
consider in my dwelling place like a clear heat upon herbs, and like a
cloud of dew in the heat of harvest.

18:5 For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour
grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with
pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

18:6 They shall be left together unto the fowls of the mountains, and
to the beasts of the earth: and the fowls shall summer upon them, and
all the beasts of the earth shall winter upon them.

18:7 In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts
of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from
their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot,
whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the
LORD of hosts, the mount Zion.

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With pruning hooks we will trim and throw the chaff in the fire! Bear fruit motha-fuckers or you go in the fire.
I've come up with answers to hard problems in the shower. Can I say I write software in the shower now?
We all do what we can. I for example would never qualify for a position like the one Snowden found himself in because of my big mouth. But I can talk to my friends and family, to strangers on sites like this. We can see the solidarity forming right here. We can organize.

That is why the internet is the greatest opportunity to free ourselves finally from oppression, and also an opportunity if we let them for authoritarians to clamp down on us if we ignore them.

Some people are born fearful and they cower their whole lives. Others of these fearful seek to control, by any means necessary. It is up to those of us that can stand up, even in small ways, and provide an example to all.

So yeah, it's just some internet posts right now. But it's also much more than that in the aggregate.
RDRAND can do > 500MB/s when invoked by 8 threads running in parallel: http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-digital-rando... the theoretical maximum is 800MB/s

I wrote an x86-64 asm impl as part of my lightweight Java crypto library (https://github.com/wg/crypto) would be easy to drop into any C program: https://github.com/wg/crypto/blob/master/src/main/asm/rdrand...

Intel released an open source library too, though in tests my asm impl was faster ;-) http://software.intel.com/en-us/tags/20757
This story has not and will not die in the tech community, but wilful ignorance has kept people from paying attention to it for the last decade.
Thanks for the info. I was using the default precise64 box from fresh vagrant init. I'll try that box see if the problem persist.
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much of the violence in Vietnam war protests turns out to have been instigated by FBI agent provocateurs.

Oddly like many — if not most — of the "terror plots" that have been "stopped" over the past however many years, that...
Of course. And I'm not that naive to believe otherwise. But that's not the point. The point is to have the petition signed by 100k people and have the Government to say in open they are not willing to request the Supreme Court to rule on it.

They will have to say why.

They make our lives difficult, the point is to make theirs difficult too. Let them worry after we go through the process. Let them tell more lies. Let this resonate with the media and lawyers and so on. Let them piss of more people.
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It's simple. Verizon, Qwest, etc. are not tech companies. They are telecommunications carriers, regulated utilities, who are close to an extension of the government.

The implausible part of the worst PRISM allegations was that Google/Facebook/etc. behaved like that, but telcos have acted as extensions of spy agencies for as long as they've been around -- back to the "Black Chambers".
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Here's what I did. http://www.battle-school.co.uk/Blog/2013/06/08/its-our-own-f...
Got rid of every cloud based service I use.
Not you. You didn't make that.
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Given the current events, namely today's Guardian.. one believes it is worth bringing this old thread back live...
Originally posted here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5850189
I didn't last too long there, and thankfully I wasn't on that team directly. Yeah, pointing out things like 'facts' with 'evidence' doesn't make you a 'team player' very often. Yes, there's the issue that I'm the new guy, but really... there are some things that are objectively true. HTML tables have never been 'deprecated', have their place, and are perfectly fine. DIV-based layouts are fine too, but knowing when to each is key, and displaying hundreds of pages of spreadsheet-style data with inlined styles for each div is... just insane. They had to do inlined styles on each div because some version of IE didn't handle the formatting they wanted properly - some alignment issue - when I pointed out that table cells already supported that formatting... I think that's when I was no longer required to be involved in that project.
Edward, if you happen to be reading this, I just wanted to say "thanks"
Don't worry, this means an awful lot to many out here, even in America
"Do no evil" but do something much worst.
Thanks Jake - I did terrible on the quiz, so I found this really educational. Wish I could forget the quirks and focus on the spec, though...
What consequences do you envision?
Demanding President Obama's resignation by comparing the current NSA scandal with Watergate is an outrageous false equivalence. The Nixon administration was spying on the DNC for political gain. PRISM was built in the name of national security, and with congressional oversight to boot.

I'm as outraged as anyone about the NSA's activities, but this is an overreach that dissipates righteous anger down an unproductive path.
wtf bro, why are rednecks automatically from fly-over states?

c wat I did there? ;)

and for the record, I'm from a fly-over state and a bit of a redneck, and a bit not...
Civil disobedience is a subset of nonviolent protest. The point is you actually have to do something that forces the state's hand. Not sit at home and sign a petition.

For example shutting down a city's infrastructure indefinitely via mass-scale physical sit ins is likely to be much more effective than signing an internet petition. Labor strikes en masse are likely to be much more effective than signing an internet petition. _INSERT_REAL-WORLD_ACTION_HERE_ is likely to be much more effective than signing an internet petition.

If the state knows that it can violate its subjects with the worst backlash being an internet petition, guess what -- the state will continue violating its subjects indefinitely.
Has Obama tried to stop the NSA surveillance program? No, he actually protected telcos from being sued.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9982898-7.html
I know the difference between the two. My point was that the Verizon collection of data very clearly was for the entire customer base of their major subsidiary. Also this 'metadata' has a staggering amount of information, like geocodes, dialed and received numbers, potentially content of SMS, downloaded apps, sites visited, etc. Further if this subsidiary controlled any Internet backbone (which I have no idea if that's the case), the implications are huge.

Edward Snowden's rationale for leaking this info is that people never realized that collection of metadata of phone records and PRISM and other programs had gone so far. Maybe SCOTUS ruled on some of this, but the public never realized the implications, largely because it's all protected by top secret classification.

I used the Verizon story in my comment because those implicated in PRISM said in their carefully crafted PR messages that their warrants were for specific subjects and unlike Verizon's vast dragnet. Anyhow, as other have pointed out, it's not hard to draft a specific warrant for the narrow group of 'every US user 13 years or older' which is what I'd presume PRISM involved. Also, the slides leaked for the PRISM stories showed that PRISM was the improvement on older collection techniques of essentially splicing Internet backbone cables.

Agreed on taking replies here with a grain of salt.
There's a lot of negativity in this thread, so I'll simply say two things.

1) If you do nothing, nothing will change. Protesting might not be the best choice, but it's better than no action at all. This petition will change absolutely nothing, especially if it only reaches the minimum required signatures. There are 311,000,000 people in the United States which means a menial 100,000 signatures accounts for 0.0003215434% of the total population. Not even 0.01%.

2) Martin Luther King Jr changed the course of a nation with civil disobedience. To say it can't be done again is ignorant and foolish.
> use encryption at rest, e.g., encrypt your documents with
> AES before you send them to Google Drive.

Syncdocs http://syncdocs.com does Google Drive encryption at rest with AES256, however, who knows if the NSA has already cracked AES?
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I can't update my original post now, but I stand corrected. I "remembered" uploading the private key with the CSR last time I went through the process, but must have misremembered. Well, that's some good news I guess. The NSA could still easily request the private key from the company, of course.
It's not guaranteed to not die—revelation after revelation has been coming out for nearly the past decade, if not longer, and people always forgot and moved on, or stopped caring—even in the tech community. It's only now, with so much information at once, and putting it all together, that it's gained enough momentum to stay in the spotlight for longer, hopefully.
damn stoked to help Snowden out after the service he's done us all, at significant risk to his own career and liberty
is there really a difference ? i mean if the cops copy your hardrive , what is it ? collecting or seizing ? just because they dont actually look into it is ok ? I agree about your your piracy point , you are spot on ,which show how twisted the government is. They are just legal hackers, that's what they are, but they'll sue you if you do the same.
You could give a one-use password and then revoke access to the app once you're done transferring.
Very misleading. The article says he's in prison for insider trading.
It's a short indictment. Nacchio was convicted along with several other Qwest execs.

http://extras.mnginteractive.com/live/media/site36/2007/0307...

Obviously, the indictment has nothing to do with wiretaps, and concerns itself instead with the millions of dollars Nacchio made selling his stock while demonstrably in possession of material nonpublic information.

But of course, it's hard disprove a negative, so the idea that this conviction alone among hundreds of similar convictions across corporate America at the time is in fact retaliation... well, it'll never die.
Thank you very much for your reply. I think this answers it fully.

So, could I petition them to ask for opinion Congress Judiciary Committee?

I'm desperate for finding a way to make them state aloud that the Patriot Act is not breaking the Constitution.

The law is there. It is bad. Most probably unconstitutional. How do I petition them to make them state in some way constitutionality of the Patriot Act?

Whether they claim it is constitutional or not is not that important as imposing more political pressure on them. Let them lie more, make more people angry, etc.

Are am I naive here too? ;-)
> regulated utilities, who are close to an extension of the government.

This is a good concrete example of something I often point out, which is that an extension of the government is what regulation is.
...for insider trading. What ridiculous link bait.
Very pleased to have spoken to the author of the section on "keys" and locks for a good long while. Seeing the final product, and knowing now how brief he was going to have to be, I am impressed by his committed interest. We talked for at least a solid hour and covered everything from the ancient Mesopotamians to every modern variant of the mechanical lock. That he would want to know everything in order to write a brief synopsis, I think, speaks highly of him.
Doesn't seem very smart to out himself in Hong Kong when Xi Jinping is visiting with Obama. Can you imagine the conversations those two are having right now?

"So...you do it too. hahaha. But seriously, I never want to hear this 'spying on your own citizens' crap again. It was funny before, but now it's pathetic."

"Most favored nations give us a hand, from time to time. I would appreciate it as a personal favor if you would put this guy on a plane."
I think you are in the risk of a man-in-the-middle attack if the website's private key is compromised. Someone forces a proxy server between you and the website, via DNS spoofing or ARP IP take over in the subnet. When you try to go to the website, you land on the proxy which has the website's private key (and the cert) to initiate SSL connection with your browser assuming the website's identity. The proxy then turns around to make another SSL connection to the real website on your behalf, ferrying data back and forth between two connections, capturing all your "secure" traffic.
They were commenting on public events. Not clients or work.
Now think about that in the context of a theoretical "internet and mobile phone profile check".

If you're a marketer you can already buy this data from various vendors. The way it works is since everyone signs up for various services with the same email address, they just figure out what your email address is, then scrape out your data from all the services you've signed up for.
Didn't test that but I don't see a reason why it shouldn't work. Thanks for the heads up!
Do those work if you want cross-browser compatibility for users who don't have certain plugins?

I'm thinking technologies like Skulpt or Pyjamas, that let you use Python in JS, are better. It's been a while since I investigated this situation, does anyone know of other players?
... and shareholders who care more about profits than morals

I think this issue goes against shareholders because they can lose real customers feeling defrauded.

It's realistic to expect legal actions against Google/Microsoft/etc operations outside US, mainly for Government accounts.
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I kept seeing the = in lines such as <a href=...> as - as in <a href-...>, what's with that?
It depends on distribution and packetmanager, I quit using debian based approaches a long time ago for that and some other reasons.
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Did the national security stuff get accentuated by his defense to try to complicate things?
How are you going to get him the money? My guess is he'd rather the money go in his name to the EFF/etc.
Context: https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-J...

The article argues the 'insider trading' charge was related to the gag order.
This entire article creeps me out. The whole system described is to encourage people to have no life outside of work.

No family, no community engagement, nothing like that. Come to work for breakfast, stay until dinner, and only sleep at your apartment. Oh sure, you're not required to, but the workaholics who do it sure love the attention lavished on them, and organizations generally reward them for it.

Honestly, half of the Bay Area has become a dysfunctional ghetto of childless twenty-somethings. Work-wise, this area is the least diverse place I have ever encountered in my life. And the description given of Yahoo exemplifies it.

It's a toxic, and ultimately unsustainable culture.

... and I'm not even going to get started on my opinion of Marissa Meyer.
I find it an oxymoron that you have to sign up for an account to a government website to sign a petition asking for them to stop invading my privacy. Maybe I'm just being cynical.
"On May 20, he boarded a flight to Hong Kong, where he has remained ever since. He chose the city because "they have a spirited commitment to free speech and the right of political dissent", and because he believed that it was one of the few places in the world that both could and would resist the dictates of the US government."

Oh sweet irony
This technically exposes him to somewhat more liability than he had before, right? "Financially benefits from his crime"
> I'm wondering how this piece of n00bishness is at the very top in HN.

Probably because it was interesting enough to stand out against the NSA/PRISM articles that have dominated the front page for the past few days.

Also, was the term 'n00bishness' necessary? I don't see any cause for attacking the author.
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I know HTML pretty well. However, I don't know all the HTML5 JavaScript APIs so I'd wouldn't call myself an expert.
Isn't it illegal to disclose these?
In the spirit of inquiry, if the country is Greece, how likely are the following descriptions?

"A hero of Greece"

"A national hero"

"A hero to the fatherland"

"A hero to the people"
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I'd definitely recommend giving it another try. I'm generally very skeptical about adding another layer of abstraction into my toolchain, but I've found the benefits far outweigh the cost. Syntactic sugar like '@' aside, I've found that working in CoffeeScript enables me to write code that's far clearer and more expressive than when I'm working in vanilla JS.
This article is crap - Joseph P. Nacchio is serving 6 years for Insider Trading.
I think that impression of Microsoft lost its last shreds of credibility with the Skype story 3 weeks ago.

http://www.h-online.com/security/news/item/Skype-with-care-M...
None of what you said proves it's "essential".

If you have liberty guaranteed by a legal system, then the government can't attack you.

I mean they can but they'd be violating your rights, and for the sake of this discussion we're assuming they will not do that (if you do assume they ignore laws then legislating privacy protections is meaningless)

Shouldn't the focus be on making sure the government doesn't have means to attack people? ie. That people are guaranteed rights and the power of the state is limited.

PS: Bringing up Stalin kinda makes my point. Privacy is only important in dysfunctional societies where the state is not going to abide by the laws that constrain it. No first world nation in the past 50 years has regressed to a totalitarian state.
Hopefully ownCloud 5 is better than 4. Large file uploads basically don't work with ownCloud 4.
It's an important point, and one that many people miss. I often see people on the left complain about corporations trying to lobby the government for control, and people on the right complain about the government trying to control corporations, but the reality is that there's basically no distinction between the two.
What makes you think these companies are going to lose any substantial number of customers? Most of the anger here is directed at the government, and it is only a small minority of people who even are angry about this. Only a very tiny minority of people will actually stop using Google or Facebook because of this incident.
The CIA did an extraordinary rendition in Italy a few years ago without telling the Italian government. A magistrate investigated and discovered the real names of a dozen or two CIA officers. That was easy because they gave their real names to the hotel and airlines so that they could collect points and miles. Their real names. This is the quality of CIA tradecraft.

If the CIA is filled with officers who give out their real names to every corporate chain that asks nicely, do you really think they're smart enough to keep their mouth shut in public?
I, too, have had problems. In my case it's an OSX host, Ubuntu client.

Most of my python work isn't webdev so I've never had an issue with it in python but other daemons that do this sort of thing -- Brunch for example -- have given me intermittent trouble. I never did figure it out.
Not too good..23/39..need to learn about peculiar properties and behaviors that I assumed were trivial things but seemingly not. Great puzzle...I really enjoyed it, keep making more.
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Blow the whistle on what? The problem with the "conversation" going on in these threads is that no one is defining that first.

If we're talking about the first leaked version of PRISM, we still don't even know if it exists or how it works. Subsequent revisions have made it seem that if the NSA doesn't have the immediate ability to query the companies' backends, then they have some kind of carte blanche ability to ask for data and immediately receive it. If either of these are true, then certainly, where are the whistleblowers? If not, and there's a very real chance that neither of these are true, then the question doesn't make sense.

If instead we're talking about FISA orders, there's nothing secret to blow the whistle on. Everyone knew what they would allow. Congress was briefed on what they actually have allowed. The EFF has been in court for years (7 and 5 on different cases) to try to just figure out if their clients have standing to sue over FISA. Many of the companies on that PRISM list now have transparency reports that tell you exactly how they disclose data and provide numbers for requests (other than FISA, which you're not allowed to do). There's been tech blog coverage for years by sites like Ars Technica that discuss everything from the flawed ECPA to the attempts by the Obama administration to use national security as a guise to subvert all attempts to find out what these intelligence programs even do, let alone who they do them to. So, what did you expect them to blow a whistle on?

For instance, Google and Microsoft are both now reporting ranges of the NSLs they receive; in effect, a kind of whistleblowing, albeit a legal and vetted one. NSLs are very much like FISA orders, in that they contain gag orders and have minimal oversight (and no public oversight) for their approval. Where's the indignation and action over those?

If we're going for hindsight here, the real question is where the hell were the major news outlets and where the hell were the American people? Or why has Congress been willing to approve this program on multiple occasions? Assuming incompetence in all three of those groups, the usual response to those questions, is not an acceptable answer.

If instead we're actually looking to the future, we need to ask how we're going to hold the Obama administration and Congress's feet to the fire to make sure that this ends, and that any real search beyond basic information (in a very narrow scope!) requires probable cause demonstrated before a judge, and that notification of a warrant can't be gag-ordered and withheld indefinitely.
So, this is just me. The point I was trying to convey is that it is generally a cool place to be and I enjoy it. Staying to 9 or 10 doesn't feel that long to me personally. It isn't like I'm forced to be there that late -- I would say I'm most definitely in the minority of people staying that late.

If I had kids, I'd most definitely want to be home and be with them. Lots of Yahoos leave at more "standard" times and there is obviously no issue.