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I view it as sort of a zombified religion. There's everything there. Institutionalized morality. The concepts of "sin" as an absolute evil even when at best only self-harm is involved. The idea of individual needs and freedoms being subservient to the needs and even desires of the collective. The idea that everyone should live and be bound by the same moral and ethical code.

And, of course, the ideas that true independence, heterodoxy, and privacy are threats to the established social order (they often are) and should be reined in as tight as possible.

A lot of these ideas are still rattling around in the socio-cultural baggage of the west, even after their mooring to organized religion has drifted away and become less relevant. Yet all of these things are problematic for the same reasons they've always been, but without the wires tying it directly to a bunch of stories about an omnipotent sky-being suddenly people have lost the ability to understand or gauge their level of threat to essential personal liberty.
When it says "within five minutes all known" does it mean that the ISP translates the IP address with the name of the person who signed the contract with the Provider?
> Can rayiner obtain my call metadata? They cannot.

That's what we suppose, anyway.

Of course, we don't know whether or not rayiner has acquaintances who work for your carrier who have access to it, or perhaps law enforcement who have access to a portal that the carrier voluntarily provides.

And we don't know if the carrier has freely entered into any private agreements to sell call data to others... which they might be free to do even in the face of aggressive bans on law enforcement or national security organizations ever even breathing at carriers.
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I beg to differ, if you dont make a profit, youre not a business. I dont care if you raised tonnes of money from investors, built a talented team, built an amazing product and sold it to facebook/google/yahoo for a huge sum. Thats failure because you couldnt make more revenue than the costs you had.
I don't really care what Larry Page says. The government says they have to hand over the data and make a way for the government to store it in real time. Of course Google is cooperating with them. Just like everyone else.
Clicking the next slide goes to the next slide fine for me.

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Here's an interesting thought (to me). Supposedly there is a law that forbids NSA from using PRISM to directly spy on Americans. Let's imagine, for a brief, laughable moment, that this law is followed. It would be technically compliant with the law if the NSA could send a request to Dutch authorities, and ask that they send any information they have or can obtain on a US person. The Dutch have access to this system, and would know what the NSA is getting at, so the Dutch would query the system and send the info back. This could all be done via API in a matter of milliseconds.

The NSA could then tell their overseers that they have never used PRISM to spy on Americans, which would be technically true, while they would enjoy unfettered access to intelligence on US persons with absolutely no oversight or authorization from anyone. This seems to be one of only a few logical explanations for giving other countries access to the system.
No, but I bet you would allude to it at the bar.
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Indeed this appears to be the case.

The only thing appears to be going for this mac is that it has nice disk bandwidth.

The Z series workstation is going to be cheaper, and almost twice as fast+. (assuming one buys the correct fusionio card.) it also has the advantage of taking normal pci slot graphics cards, which can be upgraded later.

+owing to having a second CPU
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FUSE is somewhere on the top of my "cool tools I wish I had a use for some day", together with Go, so thanks for posting this!

BTW does anyone know if there is something similar to FUSE, but for block-devices? I've written a rudimentary NBD server to read my old OS X sparsebundles on Linux, but NBD seems a bit over-general for that purpose.
Seriously? I missed that part. That's cheeky...
Here's an attempt at a quick translation for those interested. Note that 'De Telegraaf' is a tabloid-y newspaper, and the Algemene Inlichten- en Veiligheidsdient (AIVD) is the Dutch secret service.

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Dutch secret services also receive information from the United States' internet wiretapping program, PRISM. When the Algemene Inlichten- en Veiligheidsdient marks an American e-mail address as being suspect, within five minutes everything is known, said an AIVD agent this morning in De Telegraaf. According to the paper the agent was working for the department tasked with monitoring Muslim extremists.

According to the agent many companies are actively collaborating in giving access to their data. 'All large commercial internet services are being forced to provide an application with which [secret] services can browse [their data]'. Together these applications make up the American secret service NSA's program for collecting private internet data.

'EVERYTHING IS BEING SHARED BY SKYPE, GOOGLE, AND FACEBOOK'

According to the agent Skype refused for years to provide access [to their data], but since it has become property of Microsoft everything is said to be shared, as is the case with Google and Facebook. Last Saturday the leading men of both companies said not to be aware of the internet wiretapping program.

Dutch companies are said to cooperate willingly as well. 'When a request comes in one is just given direct access to the data, everything on a silver platter.' When a company does not cooperate, an agent is 'activated' that has access to the information at the company. 'Within companies and organizations, everywhere there are agents that can be activated, who are waiting for an information request.'
> Also, if anyone is wondering, this article is actually from one of the most respectable Dutch newspapers.

Nope, it isn't. It is from the website of what used to be a respectable newspaper, which is in fact run independently from the newspaper itself.

And, as has been mentioned elsewhere, all this article is doing is quoting from a highly disrespectable tabloid.

Nothing respectable about this report at all

(though it's probably not untrue either).
An apology in advance is not worth much. Either stand by what you say or don't say it.
true enough, but we're talking about the late 90s here.
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No but it doesn't.

Everyone on the internet has something to hide, and that's their passwords. The problem with the "use normal information for blackmail" case is that its very difficult for the public to understand.

They often have never been bullied, and don't have the imagination where they can see a point where normal conversations can be used against them.

The bank account argument is far easier to explain and grasp
Everyone always goes back to this stupid under cover cop example. It would be possible to allow under cover sting operations (of course, once you legalize drugs the need for most of those goes away) while not allowing the government to spy on the whole internet. Come on.
Some reporting suggested that the NSA and FBI are working together in a way. Perhaps the NSA uses PRISM to spy on foreigners (freely) while the FBI uses PRISM to spy on Americans (with more restraint, hopefully)?
This makes me want to learn Haskell once again and maybe, if I'm super lucky, understand something! :)
The built-in DotA 2 AI is no near being good.
looks pretty cool
a fair criticism. It was de facto closed. Keep in mind during the 90s, the internet was limited (for quite a bit of that time I didn't even have a 2400 baud modem). It wasn't until my second year in college that my friend introduced me to linux, and I still didn't actively start using linux until 2006-ish (I spent 1999-2003 in BeOS and 2004-2006 in FreeBSD)

i guess the part of my complaint that had the most to do with 'closed' was the MFC/developer licensing part. I knew enough to know there were APIs lying underneath that weren't exposed to me that I could do awesome stuff with if I was able to see it. At least with BeOS it "felt" like the most important part of the API were exposed - and with linux I know that they are in principle, even though I never use them.
>what do you think about secret R&D for purposes of defense?

I'm strongly against it. A lot of our breakthroughs are too expensive for dangerous countries to copy in any case.

> be nice secrets to keep from everyone who's thinking about invading you?

When is the last time the US was invaded by anyone? When is the last time any country even tried to invade the US? If all your justifications are about nightmare scenarios that haven't occurred in centuries they're probably not very good justifications.
I haven't seen any video or animation on either FF or Chrome (on Win machine). Any idea what browser does it work in?
Why not just use AMQP instead?
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There is no middle ground. As soon as you give the government the right to secrets (and even if you don't!) they're going to use it to build things like NSA and hide them from you.
Don't forget that this book was written in 1948. It's an astonishingly prescient book.
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You are on a site called "Hacker News". What if by some strange reason you are suspected of some kind of computer related crime. Does it help your case if you visit sites like "Hacker News"? Do you actually want to spend time in a court explaining to them what "Hacker News" is because the government got access to information like what websites you frequent, or would you rather discuss the more damning evidence.
There are competing products with support for installing apps from outside the platform-vendor-run marketplace. There is no law anywhere requiring any class of device to fit some definition of a general-purpose computer. It's through market demand and questionable contract negotiation on IBM's part that general-purpose computers were successful, not any kind of government regulation.
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After Prism would anyone trust icloud keychain?
http://www.apple.com/osx/preview/#icloud-keychain

Not me.
The general public won't install an APK outside of an "App Store" equivalent

True as this may be, it's also not as bad as it sounds. Take a look at what Humble Bundle did -- a very lightweight appstore-like thing, with very clear instructions for installing it once. They seem to have done okay with that.
Good post on a mobile and cant post on every point easily. But i think most of those terms can and will be used to describe what we are and have been seeing the last couple of decades. I think yes while a bit of context has muddied the water but in no way has the players or the game. The terms your bringing up never meant the same thing over all history in all instances but for the most part they all describe the same game to me.
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>How much danger would it need to put us in for you to think it's a bad idea?

There is no number high enough to make me think getting rid of government secrecy is a bad idea. The reason is that there are other methods to deal with these kinds of problems. If other countries want to nuke us, it's probably a better idea to find out why they want to nuke us then to become a police state.

>What if what they're not telling us is that FISA collection orders and analysis has kept people from nuking Manhattan a half-dozen times?

What if they've also kept the big fight between Godzilla and King Kong from us? This is nonsense, they have not stopped anything like that. Pretty much everything terrorists have actually tried to do, they've succeed (or were foiled by their own incompetence). The cases where the government actually managed to "stop" a terror attack were very clear cases of entrapment. If they're actually out there like Jason Bourne saving the US in the last second all the time, why would they chose to show us clear cases of entrapment as their success stories?

But if you really believe they're keeping us safe, then I'd like to give you a great offer on my anti-Godzilla rock. Godzilla has not so much as inconvenienced me on the way to work since I have this rock. I'm willing to make you a great deal on it, $1B. That's less than you're paying for the other charade.
You effectively missed the point of the blog post.

The author isn't suggesting that revenue is insignificant compared to a user base; this is an extreme example of undercutting competitors via price slashing, and it's historically not necessarily a good idea.

That said - Tumblr has so many users that it's difficult not to be valuable. A social network can be a currency of its own - having ownership of a platform that tens or hundreds of millions of people use daily puts you in a position to make revenue in a number of creative ways.

Ev Williams' specific point is such that if you achieve that many users, you will eventually not find it difficult to be profitable. How could you? People wondered about Facebook this way. Then they introduced ads - the number of users only climbed.

Conversely, if Facebook maximized its potential for revenue streams before solidifying organic user base increases, they would have plateaued a long, long time ago. That's the point.
When I started reading your comment said "posted 4 minutes ago."

Now it says 2 hours. I'm a third of the way done.

Thank you.
Thanks for the downvote. The inverted commas mean that I don't actually agree with this, just as the original poster probably does not count themselves in the "we".
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The point of minified JS is for saving bandwidth, with some added (minor) obfuscation, so I don't know why you would call it useless.
I don't see much improvement going on Diaspora's side. I'm with "Own your data" concept but Diaspora has failed to stand upto its promises where as Friendica surpassed every other federated concepts and works out of the box. the developer even went ahead with developing new platform called Red learning from mistakes in Friendica.

Friendica federates well and uses well defined zot protocol so any one wanting to write extension to other services can easily do that. It federates with statusnet and even with propreitary platforms and it can do a lot of more cool stuffs including authenticated zrl's (Zot url's) which will allow only authenticated user to access posts. On the other hand what does Diaspora do other than having nice UX?

People have already invested in Diaspora once but it didn't do very well why do you think people need to invest again? May be providing some strong points other than simply saying "online privacy" will help people to see if its really worth contributing again.
Maybe it's time to compile a list of alternative non-US cloud services? I would be particularly interested in a non-US hosting company comparable to Linode.
Possibly, although FBI tends to be shackled by a much more restrictive set of laws and guidelines. They tend to get warrants and follow the book because they know that in many cases their work will be eventually made public and scrutinized by skilled defense attorneys as part of a trial. They don't want their cases tossed out because they were based on illegal searches ("fruit of the poisonous tree").

By contrast, if NSA were doing what I have theorized above, they would have unfettered access to all PRISM data with no oversight, and it would be entirely legal.
I believe that this was supposed to be how things operate (or at least used to operate during the cold war) between the UK and US. The US outsources domestic spying on the UK, the UK spies on the US in return.
Welp, I know what console I'm buying next. I haven't purchased a gaming console since the very first PS2s that hit eBay before xmas that year, but I think it's once again time.
You think mutually assured destruction is going to keep an Islamic extremist group rational?
And what about the glassy aero inspiration?
He didn't say minified JS was useless, but "posting" minified JS is useless, since we're all going to be looking at the posted code.
In a time when the freedom on internet is top news and highly controversial, he who sells freedom is in a lucrative business.

If Sony does maintains significant advantage on the freedom of its users, they will crush Microsoft. It's not even going to be funny.
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True, but for the entrepreneurs and founders that want to take over the world (so to speak), they're perfect ambitions. While not all founders tend towards that goal, the ones that are most "high risk, high reward" will naturally gravitate to that.

No one founds a successful social network and doesn't end up wealthy. Tumblr, Facebook, Instagram, etc. all leave their founders with significant exits.
You're doubly wrong. Security is not a precondition of freedom, and security does not have to come at a loss of freedom.
The article.
As per founders of Kazaa (and subseq. Skype): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janus_Friis and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Niklas_Zennstr%C3%B6m
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I don't think the access is intentional just the sheer number of companies involved make it easy to have double agents placed who report to more than one intelligence agency.

Just another example of how the program is a complete failure and unnecessary.

All that personal and confidential information available to virtually any half decent intelligence agency.
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You're implying here that the NSA or the US government is somehow bound by laws. I haven't seen any repercussions for the US's inhuman prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, the civilians murdered by the thousands (in total) in Iraq and Afghanistan, or the secret CIA prison facilities where fuck knows what happens.
> The most basic role of government is to protect its own citizens against that

Or perhaps it's to bring wars and genocide to people in other countries.
Most people cannot fund a military via taxation. That's unique to government.
Related:

http://americablog.com/2013/03/facebook-might-know-youre-gay...

One nice point raised in that article is the feeling of encroachment on personal space.

Going somewhat OT, sorry no concrete examples for you...

Like other's have said the thought that you are being watched is like being in a panopticon, or having God looking over your shoulder. Which might of course curb some people from doing wrong, but could stifle exploration and expression of our multiple personas on the web.

Some laws are easy to get on board with, others are not. You could kill your career with something like the exposure of drug taking.

There's the possibility of smear campaigns (if the data falls into the wrong hands). Did anyone hear about the news of the world police bribing scandal in the UK?

You might loose your job, if you are found to have certain political or organisational leanings.

You could find yourself the target of ethnic cleansing.

Those that have nothing to hide, probably feel right now that they are on the right side of the law. Perhaps you could identify 'criminals' by asking for a show of hands for those that 'have nothing to hide', and lock up the rest.

We all have a few skeletons in our closet, it might be nice to get these out there and seek repentence, but sadly some people are just not so tolerant, forgiving, or able to not pass judgment. And sometimes it's best to just bury these things.
>Terrorist attempts become more frequent.

Citation needed. We have no reason to believe that any actual terror attacks have been stopped. People who wanted to use terror against the US have either managed to or failed by their own incompetence. What we do know is that before we started getting insane about security there would be some attack about once every 10 years. Why do you imagine it's any higher frequency now?

And the part that irritates me the most is: if there is more frequency to the attacks, why aren't we trying to find out why and addressing that. If you think the answer is "they hate us for our freedoms" then you're simply an idiot.
That's pretty sweet.

Not to engage in the spergy one-upmanship that usually happens now, but one of the best hackers I know got me building kernels without loadable module support of any kind in the 90s after demoing a similar attack. I build my colo machine kernels without most hardware drivers outside of disk and ethernet. (n.b. that you must also patch to deny writes to /dev/mem and /dev/kmem (even for uid0), as you can use these to insert code into a running kernel even without module support.)

There are ways to resist, still.
Ugh. I think it's beyond awful. Incredibly slow and in many environments (chrome-windows) effectively non-functional. I still haven't made it to the end because of how slow and unresponsive it is.
Diaspora* has more effects today when we have to struggle with surveillance programs like PRISM where privacy, one of the basic needs of man is simply neglected.
Teens are used to posting self genitalia pics to their friends.

They'll begin to value privacy when they need to interview at a company who finds those pics and decides not to hire them.
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Could this be the moment when tools like Citadel take off?
If you don't care what anyone at google says, what would make you believe otherwise?
I find the claims that moles within Google are responsible for this, to be, not impossible, but very improbable. The way Google's internal employee network is setup, the way the code reviews work, the way automated security audits work, the way the data is stored, there are lots of checks and balances that would make it hard to pull off without being noticed.

It's not like an employee can just hack in a device onto the network and start committing code with backdoors, putting trojans on servers, or slurping up network packets.
I wouldn't take detailed technical claims from a Dutch tabloid very seriously. Even Glenn Greenwald, who likes to be meticulous with his facts and who has spent months working on this story, seems to have gotten some details wrong.

(Yes, I said Greenwald is meticulous with his facts, notwithstanding his extremist and not always well-supported OPINIONS. That's one of the juxtapositions that makes him so interesting.)
Read / Listen to this for a complete answer.

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I'm so enjoying this... It's going to be a blood bath for Xbox One.
If we include the fact that the Xbox will be spying on you in the living room and most likely giving the data to the NSA it's obvious what we should all purchase.

I's rather not have the NSA recording my living room.