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It bears repeating: "The problem isn't so much that we haven't set up a legal architecture to preserve our online privacy from the government; it's that we haven't set up a legal architecture to preserve our online privacy from anyone at all. If we don't have laws and regulations that create meaningful zones of online privacy from corporations, the attempt to create online privacy from the government will be an absurdity."

There's also the perverse result that government has little incentive to pass laws protecting personal privacy from corporations.
Also "government surveillance" of "gay men"? When? For who? A few prominent figures people wanted to blackmail?

Police, based on where they socialized. The modern gay rights movement started in the USA with the Stonewall riots, when LGBT people fought back & rioted after yet another police raid of where gay & trans people congreated.
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Besides having a lossless compressed audio file, I often wonder, if one can actually hear the difference between a well compressed mp3 (say, converted from a flac) and the actual original flac?
Is there a real benefit for the average consumer? The problem I see is the quite large file size.
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For some reason I just got a nostalgic warm-fuzzy over this. Not only the site's 1990s look, but that this kind of "misunderstanding" still happens.
Seems it was EmilandDC's idea all along.
> We've had government secrets for hundreds of years, yet lately we seem to have an upsurge in leakers. What has changed? Have "those dang kids" just given up on traditional structures of authority, as Brooks believes?

Well, Brooks come off as a huge blowhard to me, but the government is pretty objectively less evil than it's been in the past (My Lai, COINTELPRO, Syphilis testing on unsuspecting blacks, state-condoned lynching, Trail of Tears, ECHELON, HUAC, Slavery, the Three-Fifths Compromise, the Dred Scott Supreme Court decision, "Separate But Equal", Kent State, Jim Crow laws, Nisei detainment camps, etc. etc. etc.)

I personally feel the reason that leaking is increasing is simply that it's easier to do, and the perceived consequences on national security are much less.

Back in the day you leak nuclear missile plans and you could get the entire world killed by tipping MAD over too far. But even this leak of NSA collection schemes will not drastically change the overall geopolitical picture, even if it does potentially lead to degradation of counter-terrorism capability.

However it's also possible that people are becoming more idealistic faster than the government is becoming less evil, which would IMO explain much of the hysterics over issues like this that can't be explained by their relative impact in an historical context.
Is getting a devkit getting any easier / cheaper? Apple got to where it was by opening up the ios development to everyone and not requiring an arcane process to become an approved developer.
>I don't think they can prosecute after giving official assurance not to in exchange for his return.

Why not? If they then arrested him, what would we do about it? Nothing. And, of course, they could always just use some nonsense charge if they want to pretend they were following their own made up rules.

We grow up wanting to believe that rules, constitutions and so on are firm, solid entities we can depend on, but it's all just an illusion. It's no more real than those in power allow it to be.
A couple of years ago I used to use sshfs quite extensively in FreeBSD and that worked fine. The only problem was the FUSE required root permissions to mount (unlike Linux). But aside that, it worked fine.

Hopefully they've since addressed the user mounting issue. I've not used it recently to check.
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FLAC is intended for music archival storage, so its not really about perceptual loses, but preventing things like generational loss if you are using music for stuff like mixing/re-encoding etc.
Is there a way to connect it to the OSX Address Book or Gmail contacts? Doesn't look like it?
There is an impressive line-up of organizations that have already signed as organizations. This looks like a broad coalition.

[AFTER EDIT: As OP says below, the title was edited for clarity.]
Use the information against your own country and the people in it, which likely includes the people you're closest to?

Since you're not a citizen of that country, use the information in your email in far less scrupulous ways? Perhaps they could blackmail you into being a foreign intelligence asset. Perhaps a corrupt employee could slip your information to a criminal organization who will then steal your identity.

All of these things seem rather unlikely, and chances are you're equally boring to both governments. But your assumption that the government of a country you're not a citizen of will treat you better than the government of a country you are a citizen of seems pretty odd to me.
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Yeah, that seems to be their solution. Actually, it seems like their solution is to pick a GPU that is adequate for 99% of their users at launch time. Which is not ideal, since everyone who buys a Mac Pro is going to be paying for super-premium graphics, even if they are buying the machine for the Xeons.
Ok, so first I am discarding the idea of universal right and wrong and arguing these arise from within a culture as a consequence of cultural structures. In this way I am largely following thinkers from Aristotle and Cicero through anthropologists like Arnold van Gennep, Victor Turner, Claude Levi-Strauss, and Ronald Grimes.

In the past for example, sleeping around might have been seen as morally wrong because it had social implications that may not exist today in the same way. Rights and morality both effectively address proper functioning of society. Other societies draw different lines. The Todas in India for example believed it was immoral for a woman to retain her virginity until after menstruation, and they practiced polyandry too.

The question is what are the social consequences for a given right being restricted or a given immoral action being performed.

Does this make more sense?
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And who cares if pardons don't "exist" anymore? Presidents can still give them and jails will still let people out who get them. They can apply the rules how ever they like. Selective application of rules has been the norm for some time now.
The idea that this is a result of PRISM is, well, specious. You might just as well argue that its due to CoinDesk's article on Apple's iMoney patent which has been read as a statement of intent for Apple to launch a competing digital currency.

Though I think its a lot more likely its a combination of profit taking a short-term weakness tied to the rash of recent government efforts directed at bitcoin-related and other online money exchange businesses based on anti-money-laundering violations. PRISM seems pretty distant (there doesn't really seem to a plausible explanation for why the PRISM revelations would decrease interest in bitcoin, while there is plenty of more directly bitcoin-related news that would explain the effect.)
I'm in the camp of people who literally can't perceive the difference, so why would I download the much larger audio?

In fact I can't even tell the difference between 128kbps MP3 and the CD it's encoded from, let alone superior formats like Opus or AAC or higher-bitrate MP3.
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Done :).
Due process is a cultural thing too. I wouldn't say that aboriginal peoples whose due process is a shaman pointing a bone at someone and uttering curses necessarily is violating anyone's human rights.
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It's pretty ok. It definitely crawls a different part of the web than G and DDG, so that's always refreshing.

I used to like it because it still had a lean, plain HTML no-frills interface, but I see they've added some JS interactivity to it (not much, though).

I thought they had an English version, but I can't find the link :) So all I'm seeing is Russian, which I cannot read.
not even remotely funny :/

some companies have really bad consultants /agencies working for them.
>> Many lines, no gradients, light shadows on the slider handles. What is interactive? What’s not?

Disclaimer: I'm not a designer. But as a user, from the screenshot given I would expect:

- downward arrow collapses it / maybe can slide from that point

- circular buttons are enabled when highlighted in white

- sliders drag left and right

- rewind, play and fast forwards are clickable

- rest of buttons (airdrop, airplay, safari and camera) do something e.g. launch an app

Personally I'd say this flat design looks clear to me.

I don't think yesterday's presentation was revolutionary (rather a catch up to Android) but as a user I do find some of the criticism harsh.
This is a false equivalence. Just the fact that the US government feels compelled to hide a program like PRISM is a strong indication that there is a big difference between the Russian government and the US government (and certainly the Soviet government).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_...
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In my opinion the problem is having an entity like the US. If it were a lot of smaller, less powerful countries this wouldn't be an issue. If one of those countries tried crap like this all businesses could just leave. But the US has such a large market, companies are willing to put up with insane amounts of BS to maintain access to it. And let's be honest; at this point only the opinion of the companies matters to the US government.
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It is nice because it is logical and not philosophical. I remember seeing similar discussions regarding mining for terrorist suspects. The only part of this argument that is up for debate is how accurate the techniques are.
Its not, because Snowden isn't the first person to seek asylum from the US.
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Insider trading is only a crime when people want to find you guilty of a crime. That's why congresscritters are not prosecutable for insider trading. Insider trading is the entire point of trading, you wouldn't make any money if everyone had the same information.
But doesn't this go the other way too? I mean if he makes it worth the while of a foreign state to stay, they have tremendous power over him and can basically hold that over his head forever.
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It was an April's fool.
For the same reason Web-Design-As-A-Service isn't a thing yet. I deal with non-techie friends who have trouble even with Wix and Weebly on a daily basis.
The humor in your reply is that many non-Randians -- especially people in government -- see themselves as essential to society, and give themselves additional power and prestige on that basis.
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So is your target's data"
Perhaps surprisingly, but I also agree with the situation from Russia's perspective.

There's an argument to be made about ABM against small-state actors like Iran and NK, but any system that becomes a serious deterrent to ballistic missiles puts an incredible upheaval in our "balance of power" and potentially leads to an arms race, increase in conflict, proxy wars, etc. Not good news.

I don't agree that Russia should have a say in when NATO would be able to operate such a system, but a notification requirement would be fine, if not actually allowing a Russian liaison to be stationed with the operations center controlling such a system.
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Most of the private data Google collects about individuals is provided freely by the people. (Perhaps not all, and maybe that should change, but the point still stands.) Google and others use it to target advertising. The government uses it to monitor people for perceived wrongdoing and imprison them. There's a difference.

Privacy isn't necessarily about keeping everything private from everyone, it's also about choosing who you reveal information to. It is perfectly legitimate to be willing to reveal private information to Google, but wishing to prevent the government from being able to warrantlessly scoop it up as well.
The other part of that is context. The NSA can't come into your house and read your mail for a week. On the other hand, people let google read all of their email to sell ads.

I think there's the idea of a spectrum of intrusion. Looking in windows of a car is a search, but that stuff is already in plain view. Is that unreasonable? We all know email is plain text and the sender does not control routing. It's more like a postcard than a letter to begin with.

That said, I'm a weeks worth of surveillance without a warrant is horrifying.
I think you have the CIA and NSA's jurisdictions mixed up there.
Even more background.

US decided to be sneaky and said it was to protect against nuclear missiles from Iran and North Korea and other rogue terrorist states. That was to reply to Russia' public objections and accusation of restarting the nuclear arms race.

That was a PR stunt most of all, so Russia replied in like, they offered a an already existing Russian base to be upgraded and used jointly. It would have been even closer to Iran and North Korea. It would have protected Russia and Western Europe from "terrorist rogue states".

US kind of got caught with its pants down ... "oh oh, we can't and ... stuff".

Russia then said ok, put missiles in Poland we'll just put our theater tactical nuclear missiles (Iskander) in Kaliningrad and at first whiff of danger destroy all of Poland.

US backed down and now I think they are courting Romania or the Czech Republic to install systems there. (Presumably out of range of Iskander missiles)
It is easy for them to use info against you outside of the courts in all sorts of ways, from blacklisting to blackmail. Or if you really piss them off the government can just throw you in jail and refuse to prosecute you, like the guys in Gitmo.
Not sure, I wouldn't be surprised if other regions now take action to stop this happening again. I'm not sure what sort of bureaucratic solution the EU will come up with but I'm hoping they're annoyed enough to do something.
Wait, hold on. I want this to come across as respectfully as possible -- I'm not attacking you personally -- but I believe you're falling into the very trap the author of the article is trying to point out. Namely, "... it’s just the solitary naked individual and the gigantic and menacing state."

You construct a scenario with two choices: "those dang kids" and "system itself grown evil"

Well, the first one works to highlight absurdity because "dang kids" isn't a homogeneous group all working towards a coherent end. There's a lot of dang kids around and a lot of them hold different conflicting beliefs and are working towards different conflicting goals.

But the "system itself" isn't a homogeneous group working towards a coherent end either. The "system" is a giant, confused, messy, bureaucracy that doesn't get together Thursday nights for bowling, evil and 10 cent wings. That's why, behind communication intercepts, our favorite topic to bitch about is govt inefficiency and waste.

I don't necessarily agree with the article and I'm not saying that there aren't valid criticisms of the system (giant, confused, messy, bureaucratic) or even of parts of the system (NSA being evil and the President being complicit in that evil).

But if we're going to call the NSA's mass surveillance evil (about which I won't argue), then I'd hazard to say that part of that "evil" is the paternalistic nature of this idea that in order to save our freedom (from TERROR!) we must give up that freedom (to BIG DATA!). In other words, someone else knows what's best.

So we need to be careful that, in fighting this idea that the govt knows best so just trust them to do the right thing for all of us, we don't turn into that govt. You write "Or has the system itself grown evil enough that people view their obligation to their fellow citizen more important than their obligation to the structures created by those citizens?"

If citizens are more concerned with -- and name your own whipping boy here: Reality TV, facebook, buying a new car / bigger house, getting fatter, getting hawter, whatevs -- and they vote in leaders who perpetuate these acts then in a sense we all get what they deserve. It's not fair but it's the nature of living in a society.

Awkward sentence construction aside, you can't save people from themselves. Doing so, in this case, makes you the thing you're fighting. And I think that's what the author in the NYT was saying. It's dangerous to start thinking "I know better than the system" because the person has now internalized some very dangerous assumptions. He no longer sees the world as a place filled with people. He sees the world in very stark, black and white, him vs the system, terms. And the rest of us, we're part of the system (that is, vs him). That kind of thinking leads to some very, very bad places but I'll save that for a different tl;dr comment.

And I hope that doesn't come across as an attack on you. I don't know that I agree or disagree with your comment in it's entirety but you made an interesting generalization from a very specific thing and that's what I was reacting to.
I thought most slides these days print to more 'normal colours'? My university always has slides with dark bgs, images and crazy coloured texts but the PDF slides available to accompany them are always only just the text + any images if they have copyright, and print very well in b&w, if people still feel the need to do that
I'm confident that that will not be the answer. That and "hate us for our freedoms" are popular for war mongers because there is apparently no solution besides continuing to bomb them. But is it possible they have legitimate grievancences? Is it possible that they're human beings who are pissed off about something we're doing or have done?

The saddest part is, we appear to have learned literally nothing since our handling of native Americans. It's disgusting.
If nothing else, it provides a sense to Congress of how many people are angry about this. And at least some in Congress are angry, too. So it may or may not do much, but it's something at least. It is, I believe, a more valuable action than commenting online about how it won't do anything.
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The reproduction or the distribution of copyright material is a felony.

(Who knows, the MPAA and RIAA might be up on Capitol Hill as we speak begging for access to this data.)
Seriously? Whatever you do for a living, it ain't what most of us do. The fact is, almost all of us ARE boring to foreign governments. Almost all foreign governments WILL treat our correspondences better because of this. If I were designing fighter jets, it'd be different, but I'm making luxury yachts. Russia doesn't care. In fact, a few rich Russians own some of our boats.
Stopping the NSA is about as likely as a snowball surviving Jenna Jameson's cleavage.

More probable is renaming PRISM and (if the political heat [sorry] warrants it) splitting it into smaller entities, and then re-mount [ok, I'll stop now] the business-as-usual bike, as though nothing had ever happened.
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The opposite is true. Poland would have been wiped out as the first order of business if anything was about to start. I suspect them being a prime target might have given them some thought.
Do you think you can reasonably predict how history will come to see the government that you refer to?

(I'm thinking that lots of things that seem normal now might not seem so reasonable in 30 years)
By a "former federal prosecutor" who also sued Facebook for a billion dollars for failing to take down an Islamist page on the site.
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Well, true, but many other professions have an oath of their own. Often times the language covered in that oath is supervised by a committee.

Obviously, there are problems with this. But the point that Martin makes is a really good one. Technology is going to dictate a vast majority of our lives going forward, and programmers are the ones that literally make that technology. A lot like a surgeon operating on a person, a programmer can be neglectful or overly intrusive.

I think an oath is a great idea, actually.
Yes probably. Anything that can't be held accountable publicly is just begging for abuse. Governments draw dangerous people to want to work for them so they will be creating illegal secret structures in any case. We shouldn't be making it even easier for them.
It won't have any effect. Most people don't care, so long as they feel safe and aren't inconvienced.
CIA was definitely never 'officially' for domestic intelligence.
Neither the NSA or CIA have jurisdiction inside the US, that's what the FBI is for. I think outside the US, the CIA does human intelligence, while the NSA did signals interception and other electronic intelligence.
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I'll happily sign it, but is this effective?

As a noob developer and someone who cares about online privacy, what tangible things can I do to actually change the system/ make a dent in it?

Suggestions:
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When a multi-billion dollar corporation (X-Mart) forces its employees to go on the dole (for lack of a living wage) and live without health insurance (the providence of which companies directly and indirectly lobby heavily to leave in their hands), well, you have to wonder a bit at the assumption of this series of gently gradated authoritative structures: family, neighborhood, religious group, state, nation and world.

Oh, wait, he didn't mention employer in all that.

Brooks is, for all the controversy surrounding him, a good writer. A good wordsmith.

But sometimes he expresses a perspective that appears to be rather sheltered and privileged.
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No, he's suggesting that it's possible humans digest plants much less efficiently than herbivores do, and less efficiently than humans digest meat. E.g., if the herbivore can capture 90% of the energy in a plant, and we can capture 80% of the energy in the herbivore, that may be a better deal than if we can only capture 10% of the energy in the plant directly. In the case of cows eating grass, that doesn't sound that far-fetched. They have the benefit of multiple stomachs evolved to break down fibers, and we don't. Surely you don't think that every animal digests plants more efficiently than they digest meat? What about obligate carnivores, which can extract roughly 0% of the energy from plants?
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Not trying to throw fuel on the fire, just a curious connection.
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This is one of the exceptions I mentioned. Also known as the "gun show loophole".
You're right. Maybe I wasn't clear in that paragraph but I was saying that the Control Center is probably the most usable element in iOS 7. The questions "What is interactive? What's not?" is probably what a user will ask himself the first time he launches it, but as I say further down "I guess such a heavily used feature as the Control Center will only require a few minutes to get accustomed to".