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Another interesting turn of events. It seems Russia is considering asylum for Snowden:

The head of the foreign affairs committee in Russia's State Duma, or lower house of parliament, predicted "hysteria in the United States," if Russia were to agree to shelter Mr. Snowden, whom he likened to controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

“Having promised Snowden refuge, Moscow is taking up the defense of those persecuted for political reasons. There will be hysteria in the United States,” Alexei Pushkov wrote on Twitter. “In listening to phone calls and tacking Internet activity, U.S. intelligence agencies have violated the laws of their own country. In this sense, Snowden—like Assange—is a human-rights activist.”

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142412788732463430457853...

Note: You can search the URL in Google to get the full story)
Compared to the 300 things I could get sued for daily, I think I'm probably doing just fine odds wise.
Ling is female, btw - https://twitter.com/lingscars

And Lingscars knows what it's doing: http://econsultancy.com/uk/blog/9067-lings-cars-the-art-of-p...
How can that be answered? No one here follows and monitors you 24/7.

However, your luck is in. Now you can just ask the NSA...
Spoiler.
Russia ready to consider asylum for NSA whistleblower Snowden
The hardware would have the backdoor, independent of the software. Think magicpacket http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN but with a hypervisor rootkit. At least that is what I would do.
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Beats it hands down imo.
He'd be a hell of a first astronaut for them.
I could be wrong, or they could be bound by some other statute, but as I understand it, DHS is not exempt because it is neither a division of the Department of Defense, nor is it an "armed service" like the Marines.

The Coast Guard is not bound by Posse Comitatus despite being an 'armed force' because they are members of DHS, and not DoD.

The ATF and FBI are not bound by Posse Comitatus also, as they aren't armed forces (though both probably have some degree of armament; I know the ATF was playing around with getting a few armored cars the last time I was there, and they already had some 'surveillance' trucks based on ambulances), and that is why FBI, DHS and ATF are able to engage local police in an assistive fashion (or take over a case).
Fake it, then. Fake yor location, fake your mac address, fake your time and timezone. &c.
I have a lot of respect for Steve Gibson but I wouldn't take this as anything but his opinion. All he is doing essentially is re-iterating what LastPass themselves claim about their security, so you can only trust this as much as LastPass own claims. If you know Steve Gibson you'll know his TNO (Trust No One) policy. I do choose to trust LastPass claims personally and am a paying customer, but I would much rather use an open source, battle tested alternative if it existed.
This is one of my favorites: http://www.arngren.net/

Arngren started out as an electronics and hobby type store in Oslo, and a catalog, and their website looks pretty much the way their massive catalogue used to look like 20+ years ago, when it had toys and household stuff in between pages of IC's with pinouts.

On one hand the website is horrible. On the other hand, it perfectly captures the brand...
By using logic, reason and common sense.
The ironic part is that I've seen those combined with automatic flush--which has a tendency to go off multiple times anyway as one moves around. How does it know which way to flush, or do I want to know?
Although I'm a self confessed fanboi, I recommend watching Babylon 5. In places it's one hell of a scary prophecy.
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The original title is "Russia may deem civil servants’ use of Gmail, Facebook ‘high treason’", the edited one is a tad more sensationalist.
Always good to see a new desktop client. Hopefully they'll add Kerberos auth, PGP/MIME and read/write LDAP based address books. Until then I'll stick with Evolution for those features.
Quick search for telecom immunity shows me that hn forgot that Verizon, et al are exempt from such prosecutions after the GOP pushed for said immunity in the late aughts. That was a good fight the dems put up against this sort of thing, but alas. Not to mention the fact that no laws seem to have been broken, only the heart of a libertarian redditor.
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Not the OP but I believe it's explained in this video interview he did.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jun/09/edward-snowden-n...
Clicking on the next slide works fine for me, and it was the first thing I tried.
Does the law really restrict what Google can do? Check their privacy policies again. Or those of Microsoft, or Sony. As a condition of using the service at all I'm required to choose to give up those privacy rights.

And either way, according to the EFF a portion of the FISA used to support PRISM and subpoenaing Verizon's records was ruled unconstitutional and here they are doing it anyways.

So certainly there should be legal safeguards, and those need to have the force of law (instead of policy) where those safeguards must survive a change of Administration. But let's not kid ourselves about what the law really prevents, either in practice or in that worst case that civil liberties advocates always mention.
But alas, you do: click the bar chart icon under the view count.
In many ways the most illegal thing you can do with prism is blackmail, right? But with swift boating and birther stuff it's easy to see that it takes a lot less effort to just lie. Actual prosecution of citizens under such a wiretap for domestic crimes would be illegal even under FISAAA but as far as I know that hasn't been tested in court.
Excellent! Now put that information on the web page somewhere so that others don't have to wonder. It doesn't even have to be on the home page, just somewhere. :)

As a downside, I see that it doesn't support Exchange and that pretty much dooms it for me, at least on OS X. I hate Exchange, but I have to deal with it. Luckily, Apple's Mail.app seems to work fairly well with Exchange so at least I'm not forced to use Outlook.
http://pastebin.com/MPpT7xaf

"These documents prove that the NSA is spying on you, and not just Americans. They are spying on the citizens of over 35 different countries."

... not that I can see.

I haven't gone through them all yet, but so far much of it has been documents and presentations about DoD's internal enterprise/master-data infrastructure. There's a couple of very broad scoped pdfs related to GIG, or Global Information Grid, which seems to be an encompassing term for DOD's network-centric-warefare systems. Lots of it is very dry, technical documentation for internal information systems stuff, e.g. roles and responsibilities surrounding software change requests. Nothing that looks secret, and certainly nothing related to covert wiretapping networks. Dates are scattered between 2005 and early 2012.

There is one particularly out-of-place file: a cryptome leak which is ostensibly a list of "NSA spies".

Almost all documents are extremely hard to parse due to the terrifying acronyms-per-sentence ratio.
The best part is her cookie disclaimer:

"EU cookie law. Piss off Von Rumpy. Me... I hammer visitors to death with cookies, so I can find out what they want. Cookies allow my website to serve visitors the content they need. Get used to it. The EU cookie law is an ass. - Ling"
This is a Norwegian classic: http://arngren.net/
I would totally expect that, given that Opera owns Fastmail.
The economics of publishing are such that the authors choose to add every area they can on a given topic so that people won't reject their book for another on the basis of one missing item.

As others point out, it is also a crude proxy that buyers use to evaluate the worth of the book without reading the entire thing.

Of course, there are exceptions. One of the reasons that The C Programming Language by Kernighan and Ritchie is so popular is its conciseness.
If 'you' (not you personally) really thought My Lai was a massacre then there would have been some more serious sentencing around that event.

From the relevant wikipedia page:

"While 26 U.S. soldiers were initially charged with criminal offenses for their actions at Mỹ Lai, only Second Lieutenant William Calley, a platoon leader in Charlie Company, was convicted. Found guilty of killing 22 villagers, he was originally given a life sentence, but only served three and a half years under house arrest."

Putting this event forward as an example of how well the US deals with military excesses is really not clever. See Fallujah for a more recent example.
I seriously doubt that...
Your linking to the laws documenting legal frameworks for eavesdropping implies we can know about them with some confidence. It would be prudent to pick countries where
we can with the most confidence guess that there isn't a PRISM like system.

A reasonable criteria could be: most reputable countries with law-abiding & transparent governments and best privacy laws. A list to start the research might include Swizerland, Iceland, Finland, Norway...
Nevertheless it's what practically everyone does.

Typically the biggest part of an individual books cost are the retailer margin and publisher profit.

It's also important to note that while the publisher profit margin on an individual book might be high, the publishers overall profit margin tends to be lower because the profits of successful books have to cover the costs of all the books that fail to break even.
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There was a soviet saying - "Give me a person, I'll find you an article/a paragraph". Meaning - for any person, finding a law that the person breaks is just a matter of time and resources.

It's interesting to see Americans discover this...
Take a look at the sauce - Ling definitely knows what's up! Epic ASCII art right there!
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I hate to defend the Telegraaf, but comparing the Sun to the Telegraaf is like comparing hardcore porn to the SI swimsuit edition.

Especially when it comes to issues related to security and intelligence, Telegraaf does some serious investigative journalism.
http://www.berkshirehathaway.com/ - Survived the tests of time. I hear it still converts ;]
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Many books are written by multiple authors to reduce the latency to market so there is inherent repetition between the chapters along with the (non-)manditory boilerplate that should be replaced by open content.

More concise, better written content takes longer to write and revise. If I had more time, I would write a better response to you.
You can't fake the IP address you connect from. You can't fake the email address you're sending to. You can't fake the account you're using to send. You can't fake the time that you connect.
The classical text only version of a website in case your bandwidth is limited: http://www.timecube.com/
I wonder why it was changed, that one is bad enough.

I have to say, if I were asked by a business which valued privacy, I'd tell then to contractually and physically block all US services.

I mean, if I were working one some product I wanted to keep secret for reasonable market reasons, like hell would I want my employees using gmail and the like to discuss it. I would also be nervous about employees leaving them selves open to blackmail because of facebook posts. Look at Alan Turing's experience of being gay. Say my lead developer was a member of a "secret" gay group on FB and became compromised? Now imagine I was not a business, but a government.
The current PRISM issue doesn't seem to touch upon encryption much: the companies processing the data have apparently surrendered it to NSA in decrypted form. To use the common example, what good is it for Alice to know that her messages with Bob are encrypted en route to/from Carol (their e-mail provider), when Carol will give the unencrypted messages to Mallory anyway?

And to touch upon your question, I don't think NSA would truthfully pass out this type of information even if it was forced to; so essentially "nobody knows."

(Also, "the CA mess" is also a workable vector for decrypting live connections regardless of encryption strength, see "Etilasat")
Week ago, criminal case against vkontakte.ru's founder Pavel Durov was closed stating that he didn't intent to hit road police officer by a car after traffic jam halted his fleeing.

He did or he didn't, the rumor now is that FSB doesn't need classified intelligence committee hearings to access vkontakte.ru data now.
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Ah but see, I take a near-fatalist attitude to that. Iraq will go down in the history books as a travesty, no doubt about that. But Swartz was treated in accordance with the law, even though the law has been modified over centuries to slowly add more protections.

So the way I see it, if your only goal when considering the law is how you will prevent this new ability from ever seriously affecting anyone innocent you've already locked yourself into a NULL set. Even in our justice system, with warrants and probable cause and the right to remain silent and the works we still lock up innocent people, do we not?

But imagine instead that we take that big huge nasty government and at least point it in a useful direction; perhaps that would be a more effective way to prevent a slide into tyranny in the future.
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It's not just the small players that preserve such excellent retro-design insight. May I introduce the HBO Corporate website:

http://www.homeboxoffice.com/
Then use Tor.

Have a disposable email address.

You don't have to fake the account just make one just for this purpose. Well, time you cannot fake but with just known value of time and many other unknown variables the equation and possible solution would be useless, practically.
I present you http://www.fabricland.co.uk/ - real shop (with a branch near me) and actually a pretty good place, just with a hideous (and genuine, as far as I can tell) web site.
Almost. They aren't discrete things. They need to be laws that can be stretched to include everyone. That way it doesn't actually matter what you do.
I'm not sure he's missing the point - more that he's disagreeing with it.

There's clearly a few high profile examples of companies with massive user bases who have either found a genuine way to monetise their users, or at least sold/floated their companies in a way that's been massively profitable for the initial investors.

But it doesn't automatically follow that it's always going to be easy to monetise them. There's always only ever going to be a handful of social sites that manage to attract huge numbers of users, and even some of those fall flat on their faces when it comes to making real revenue.

Even Facebook is struggling to find a way to get actual ongoing profits out of their users, and the longer it takes them to figure out how to do this, the more nervous investors are going to be about big IPAs for future social media companies.

Working on the assumption that "because site X has managed to monitise their user base, we will automatically be able to" sounds like the kind of baseless assumption that led to the first dot com crash.
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Many of them are dependent on USA directly when it comes to military power maybe this will open their eyes to some extent.
It had overheating issues if your cat sat on top of it, with the side effect of cat fur being sucked into it.

Reference: http://akibjorklund.com/2008/the-cubes-fatal-flaw-cats
It's proof read and edited now, https://medium.com/trends-predictions/c22abbd34df0 So feel free to dismantle the written words in any way that pleases you.

I'll keep trying and failing and eventually succeed.

Sorry to hear that you did consider the article important. I think it's of utter importance that we address this matter so that Apple don't screw with our lives.

Sincerely
Evidence to prove a negative?
Maybe one of these:

* Illegal downloads.

* Forwarding a corporate email.

* Some weird term of service in one of the dozen "I read and accept these terms" check-boxes you clicked.
I see no mention is made of their secret access portal to NSA...
A quick glance seems to indicate they break every rule of modern web design. It's almost too perfect. Like the spec was to to do the exact oposite of what you're supposed to....
Flac is a great format.

I've been making music for years and I often work with samples. Luckily, Ableton Live accepts .flac files. It's important to have high quality samples considering manipulating the sound (especially time-stretching) can easily alter its quality.

Unfortunately, it's still hard to obtain music in Flac format. Few online music stores offer tracks in that format. [1] It's maybe a marketing issue. Everybody knows what an Mp3 is. It also took me some time to learn that such a format as Flac existed. But it's also a size issue. Although the compressing algorithm is incredible, people prefer to download (legally or illegally) a 80 MB album rather than a 500 MB one, regardless of its quality, because they either won't hear the difference or just don't care. And considering iTunes doesn't support Flac (only their own Alac format that is even less known), Flac isn't meant to be widely adopted yet.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_online_music_stor...
First time I saw this I thought: "uhm, what a nice scammy little site..."
emmm, OK but Nintendo has already did that on Nintendo Wii U - inde dev can publish their game (after Nintendo's approval) without coping with any big publisher. It is funny how Nintendo is super innovative but often overlook (similar as Opera on the browsers market).
No, that's what the NSA and CIA is for. :P

I realize it's a circular argument, but MAD is for other nuclear nations (or future nuclear nations).
MP3 itself may not change much, but it's been superseded in the commercial world a long time ago by AAC.
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I wish this was a picture so I could submit it to Cute Overload...
What's a "normal" decline in benefits?
I joined a startup a year ago, getting the "standard" benefits: stocked kitchen, equity, good health care, unlimited vacation time... Obviously these benefits were meant to make up for things like salary shortfalls.<p>Since then, the benefits have declined, two of which I'll speak about because they affect me the most. I'm curious whether this is normal, or whether it's a sign of something worse.<p>Weeks after my hire, we switched from a good health care provider to a much more annoying one (won't get into details). Slowly but surely the kitchen has gone from fully stocked to having a couple of things (was: fresh fruit, cereals, nutrition bars. is: yogurt, milk, OJ and maybe bananas). The good coffee is gone, replaced by your average supermarket coffee.<p>How much of this is normal everyday life over the course of a startup? When I take a step back and review my past year, it definitely feels like the company has taken a big step backwards in this respect. The work is still interesting, and most of the people are great, so I enjoy that, but I start to feel a bit disappointed in the way the company is being run in a day-to-day fashion.<p>Is this even something to bring up to anyone at the company? I don't want to be a malcontent, but at the same time, I start to feel a little less of a bond with the company. I start to lose that feeling of "hey we can't pay you a great salary, but we'll make it up by doing our absolute best in these other areas." I start to feel a bit taken advantage of, actually. It feels like death by a thousand cuts, or the whole "boiling a frog" thing. Is this a normal part of the ebb & flow of a startup? First raise money. Then increase benefits to hire/retain the best people around. Then the money starts to disappear, so the cost cuts start. Then raise more money, rinse/repeat. Or is this something more desperate?
The economics of used games just don't work that way.

Before the player has played the game, the value of the game disk is shown to be at least $60 dollars to that person. They show that by paying that price.

Once a player has completed a single player game, the value of the disk to that person is now zero. Given the opportunity, they will sell the game at any price they can get. They will happily trade the game in for $5.

To a new player coming along, they may still pay $60, but if there is a used (and effectively identical) copy sitting there for $55, why not buy that instead?

A shop will price match a used game down to below any price that a publisher could conceivably wish to charge because they only pay a tiny price for the identical product used.

> That is, two months in, why haven't they dropped the price of the new game enough to make it attractive compared to the used copy?

The comparison is meaningless because they are identical. The cheaper price always wins, and the used game will always have the cheaper price.

Used cars are fundamentally different than digital goods due to the fact that they can be consumed infinitely without devaluing the physical asset.
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MSY, a popular computer parts store in Australia, has always had a pretty dodgy-looking website.

http://msy.com.au/
Yes, and his answer is also carefully crafted to talk about dedicated servers, not Rackspace's 'cloud' service.
> If Facebook or Gmail do fall from public grace, the only certain thing is that their successor won't be run by an american company.

Who's to say we'll ever see a major international company like that again? I foresee a future where DNS root server control is yanked away from the USG and the internet is partitioned.

The pendulum has peaked at globalization and now it's swinging towards isolationism. Whether we like it or not borders have been drawn along the previously wild-west-like internet, and it may take on the form of virtual Berlin Walls.

Hopefully someday we can enjoy the same euphoria that followed Germany's reunification but on a global scale, and that day may take a century to get here.
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Hmm, thanks for that, I watched it (in the background, admittedly), but didn't hear anything like that assertion...
This move is not from Russia (as country/people) but it is from Russian government. They are constantly doing this as it is the only way to make the look better than they actually are.
Awesome. Thanks for the link. Would you be able to say with any reasonable certainty that it is primarily the motherboard that is key for building a Hackintosh? I want to build a Haswell Win7/OS X machine, and judging from this link and the other brief research that I've done, that if one sticks with Gigabyte for the motherboard you're more or less all set.
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I loooove Lings Cars - her "nuclear missile" is parked just round the corner from my house

Watch her on here on dragons den to understand the nuclear missile quip

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cc1ktZRZ5ZM
It's only as good as "you are right till you are not proven wrong". This goes for anyone. Tim Cook, dead Jobs, Obama, dead Hemingway, Confucius, Gandhi, North Korean rulers or CEO of Samsung. Blah blah.

What you said it valid for anyone anything anywhere.
I think you're talking about Ron White and I think the quote is "it's not that the wind blows, it's what the wind blows". The context of the joke was about some old guy who was tying himself to a tree during a hurricane to 'prove' his strength...
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