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From the point of view of any non-resident alien who has US cloud data, this is a very ponderable answer. We know what the Fourth Amendment says. The problem is that apparently (IANAL!) the US courts are upholding the idea that the Fourth Amendment does not apply to the US-based cloud data of non-US-resident non-US-citizens. I've heard a couple of people suggesting that this interpretation is based on the idea of border search, but that's neither here nor there: the upshot is that, unlike for example the US property of non-US-resident non-US-citizens, which is protected by the Takings Clause, the US cloud data of non-resident aliens seems to have no Constitutional protection. This seems to be the Constitutional foundation of FISA http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/STATUTE-92/pdf/STATUTE-92-Pg178... 702 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/110/hr6304/text , the law which allows the NSA to get Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Orders against non-resident aliens. Absolutely the only thing the government has to prove to the FISC court to get one of these orders is that the targets are (more likely than not!) non-resident aliens. No probable cause, no standard of suspicion for anything: the government doesn't even have to state its motivation. And the "Notwithstanding any other provision of law" language in 702 seems to sweep away any other statute law you (or Rackspace etc.) might want to use against the order. (Again IANAL.)

So how are we to interpret

"Based on our interpretation of the Fourth Amendment and ECPA, we are of the view that Rackspace is prohibited from accessing and turning over customer data stored on a customer’s server or other storage device in a U.S. data center without a properly issued, lawful request ( e.g. search warrants, court orders, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Orders) from a U.S. court with appropriate jurisdiction over Rackspace and the data sought."

? Coming right after the recitation of the Fourth Amendment, this gives the impression that Rackspace will only hand out your data in response to a warrant (or warrant-like-thing) that demonstrates probable cause. But in fact, when the customer is a non-resident alien, the order is a FISA 702 order, and the court is the FISC, probable cause never comes into it: the US can (completely properly and lawfully!) get such an order for no stated reason at all. Imagine the following conversation in 1860:

Q: I hear that you have slaves on your Virginia cotton plantation. Is this really true?

A: The Fifth Amendment to the US Constitution states that 'No person shall [...] be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law'. No-one is forcibly detained on this plantation except fully in accordance with the law and the Fifth Amendment.

This answer seeks to suggest that the only prisoners on the plantation are convicted criminals, which is false - the plantation is worked by slaves. But in fact the answer is precisely true though devious: slaves have no rights under the law, while the Fifth Amendment does not apply to slaves. I really hope this isn't the correct way to interpret Rackspace's statement as well.
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It depends on the game. At the other extreme, Borderlands 2 was released in September at $60, was $30 by October and $14 by May. I suspect that the reputation of Aliens: Colonial Marines is so bad that price reductions aren't helping.

I suspect that publishers would love to be able to kill used games and maintain current pricing strategies, but I just don't think it'll work for them. Video game sales are too price elastic and, like you said, for people who would ordinarily buy new at $60 and resell at $30, their video gaming budget would only buy half the games it used to. These people would be more likely to wait until the games were $30.

In a worst-case scenario, if publishers persisted with that strategy, other forms of entertainment may be seen as more appealing and money might disappear from the video games industry.

Like you've said, the free market would take care of it, and I think used games are standing in the way of that being able to happen while allowing maximum compensation for the developers.
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has yet to be determined as illegal by the courts.

We don't yet know whether your statement is true because the courts which might rule on it are secret, and their decisions are not available to the public. This is what has to change - you can't have a real discussion of these programs because the government deems them too secret to discuss or disclose, even for senators or judges:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/06/government-says-secret...
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John Hammond: When we have control again...

Dr. Ellie Sattler: You never had control, that's the illusion! I was overwhelmed by the power of this place. But I made a mistake, too, I didn't have enough respect for that power and it's out now. The only thing that matters now are the people we love. Alan and Lex and Tim. John, they're out there where people are dying.
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The approach they might also be taking is to wait for politicians to really start lying about it, then release a new part exposing the lie. sort of like what happend with the slide PPT slide that seems to contradict all the corporate denials.
Also, CALEA doesn't require any kind of backdoor or automated access, it merely requires that you have the ability to transparently log traffic ("lawful intercept" being the official term).

Any ISP-grade gear will have this function.
To be fair, overhangs add a bit of fun to 3D printing too.
Thanks for your comments. I appreciate the tone and research you have added. I actually am a lawyer, though a bit rusty on con law, having spent the past 10 years working in tech after a stint as a federal criminal defense attorney where the fourth amendment was one of my main weapons.

With that out of the way, the best discussion of this topic and all the nuances that I've found is a "debate" between two law professors on the initial issue I raised: the third party doctrine.

http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the_data_question...

Like you, they argue what they think the law should be. In contrast, I'm stating simply what it is.

I stand by my original assertion that Rackspace is not bound by the fourth amendment. This may be a technical point but an important one. Shaky though Smith v. Maryland may be, it remains the law of the land. Users have no "reasonable expectation of privacy" in data they store on Rackspace servers.

Again, thanks for your comments.
if the xbox one receives more bad press than it already has, some publishers of games might start to think that an exclusive with xbox one is not going to give them a large enough customer base!

I certainly hope this happens. I for one, hate platform exclusive games - it means vendor lock in, and it is anti-consumer.
PS4 more like an appstore, the war of consoles has already been won. Congratulations Sony.

Companies like Halfbrick, Rovio, Firemint, Pixelbite and many many more were made by an open market on mobile. I am excited to see what games will pop up on PS4. They already had better indie exclusives like Joe Danger, Fat Princess and more. Good times ahead for gaming on the PS4.

What I don't get is being open appstores attracts developers and sells more hardware and subsequently more games. Why would Microsoft shut that down? Bigger economies always sell more.
I for one can't make up my mind if this is a blockbuster or a non-story. As many others, I need more details to get a clearer picture.
For anybody who wants to read it now:

http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks01/0100021.txt
imo the Ouya is pretty much obsolete. Current gen smartphones are more powerful and coupled with an HDMI cable and a bluetooth controller (from the PS3 for example) offer the same thing plus are portable.

Ouya is all about its own Store and ecosystem, games built for their system/controller etc and also its low price point. I still think it will have a hard time.
Definitely in my top three of all time, along with Fahrenheit 451. I'd probably put The Fountainhead in my top 3 to round it out.
Edward Snowden: what might China do?
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What is shocking about CALEA is what hasn't happened yet -- the requirement to integrate back-doors in servers providing VOIP services. Notice that VOIP services don't necessarily have to be sending traffic to a central server, it could be peer to peer like WebRTC so now CALEA gets updated and ... well I don't know what happens.

Companies would need to install back-doors on user's machine directly to divert copy of a stream of a audio, get fined or end up moving overseas.
the two are not mutually exclusive. Consider the a the number of former colonial powers is small compared to the number of former colonies.
Lede was buried by a mod, unfortunately. The point of the submission was that LBJ used the NSA and FBI to spy on a member of Nixon's camp.
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I tested many HN clients for Android but this is the best one: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.glebpopov.... (Hacker News Droid)
Are you running the same iOS 7 as I am? "Very speedy" is the last thing I would call it. Every animation seems to have horrible lag on my iPhone 5.

This early build doesn't seem to be optimized very much.
The slide says "collection directly from the servers." If you look at the context it is comparing traditional SIGINT wiretapping with PRISM. Now it seems clear (as you suggested) that this refers not to the method(direct access) but rather to the provenance(where does it come from, directly not indirectly from wiretaps) of the data.

I'm not sure what to make of this article though: http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-com... Everything in this article from the Wash Post directly contradicts what the government and the companies are claiming. It really is real time, direct access to data without any mediation from company staff at all.

The article seems credible as it comes from multiple intelligence sources and executives(!) at the company. I don't really expect executives to lie in a way would raise suspicions about their company like that. If PRISM was really just a dropbox executives would be very happy to say so(in private at least so reporters could calm people down)

It is a lot easier to imagine intelligence sources saying it is just a dropbox than executives at companies admitting they installed a back door for the government.

Right now, I'm undecided.
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I'm really not feeling the music with these, if you know what I mean, which is a shame since it seems as though great lengths have been gone to to make it understandable.

Are there other works you can recommend to learn more from?
I guess my viewpoint is that I am not sure that it is clear what the law is. Smith seems pretty clear as does California Bankers Association, and when you take these two cases together, then dragnet surveillance would not be under different rules and Smith would govern this.

However I am not certain that this is the only way to look at the existing precedents. If you look at Rhenquist's majority opinion in Knotts, for example, he is quite clear that whether widescale tracking is under the same rules is not a question the court was deciding. Knotts is important for the Verizon order because I think one can argue that beeper cases are closer to cell site location information (also disclosed under the Verizon order) than they are to pen registers.

Since Knotts leaves explicitly open the question of whether widespread location tracking is under different rules, I think it is premature to just say that Smith and California Bankers Association control on their face. Additionally it is anything but clear what the Supreme Court said about this in Jones v. United States because it isn't clear how to count the votes. I would argue that Sotomayor and Alito do not control, but the fact that you have 5 justices clearly edgy about such things in their separate opinions (Alito concurring in judgement joined by Breyer, Ginsberg, and Kagan, Sotomayor concurring with Scalia but endorsing Alito's views).

If I had to say what the law is in this case I would say this:

The law is currently unclear. There is, however, a bunch of Supreme Court opinion which seems to give permission to circuit courts to figure this issue out.

Edit: I would also like to point out that the third circuit has held that historical cell site location information is at least potentially protected under the 4th Amendment, and that magistrates have the power to deny ordering disclosure of such on the basis of such 4th Amendment concerns. I don't think the Third Circuit could do this if it was clearly established that these third party business records were outside the purview of the 4th Amendment.
How does owning a gun provide protection against meteors? It doesn't; the question itself is invalid.

If you think the US military will deploy against even one million Americans on American ground, for the sake of shredding the US Constitution, well...you may as well believe orange is violet.

The US military has already said, as have the multitudes of its members under its control, that it will not be marching on the US civilian population. They would throw down their arms and join the other side, that of their friends and families, long before they'd betray everything they'd sworn an oath to.

Now, you might find one or two people, with a handful of soldiers who, for the thirty seconds it would take before they'd be executed (not even court martial-ed) with such an intent. And they'd be buried in a common grave, stripped of name and rank, for their actions.
There video could stand to be a little less unsettling.
NSA facilities are always co-located on military bases. Hawaii is a major hub for the US Navy's communications and intelligence infrastructure.

You might find this an interesting read: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naval_Computer_and_Telecommunic...
I was thinking about Rackspace and PRISM today (I spend > $10K/month at Rackspace) ... and that thread about how all this could harm the startup ecosystem.

If the Govt/NSA wanted access to certain metadata and a company refused (like some claim Twitter did), what's to stop them from going to Amazon or Rackspace and throwing their weight around to get access that way? Or, if that didn't work, they could just keep going up the OSI layers (or tier 1 providers) until they get the access they want OR can force it be threatening to disrupt service.

My point is, even awesome companies like Rackspace are dependent on less-than-awesome companies for some types of infrastructure.
Source? I don't know of any small company that actually paid for devkits either from Sony or MS. Year long approval would cost hundreds thousand that small companies are not likely to afford.
PCIe 4.0 is double the bandwidth of PCIe 3.0, which is about 1 GB/s per lane, or 16 GB/s for PCIe 3.0 x16. PCIe 4.0 x4 would be ~8 GB/s, and x16 would be 32 GB/s. Unfortunately, the spec won't be finalized for another couple years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCI_Express#PCI_Express_4.0
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It's a pity for most people this will be the only Orwell's book they will read, personally I find it one of his weaker ones, I liked "Animal farm", "Down and out in Paris and London" and his essays much more, and his biggest literary achievement is probably "Homage for Catalonia".
Y'all know that there's already a protocol designed exactly for doing this without hacking BitCoin, don't you?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_timestamping
Currently, the old testament.

I am not church-goer or anything, and still I find it quite impressive the amount of surprising stuff (good and bad) you can find in there.
It's actually as cool as the Iliad, and you may even find some good advice in there :).

Hey, who said everything had to be around software/startups.
I’m glad I’m not alone! I made a very very similar that did nothing but show you images of things you searched for.

Apple disabled my account one day, without explaining why to me. Today, they owe me $17,000. I contact them every few months, and never hear anything back but silence.
> You'd tend to notice if someone rebooted your box and installed a service. :D

HBGary's leak included a subcontract involving development of a USB kernel driver exploit to inject a rootkit into kernel memory. Just saying ;)
Sony was the first to support indie development, if you went the official way, not hacked consoles.

Original PS -> Yaroze

PS2 -> PS2Linux with full hardware access, except for some professional APIs.

PS3 -> Here they went downhill with the graphics crippled OtherOS, while removing it altogether afterwards

PSP Vita -> PlayStation Suite

So although they are a bit schizophrenic in supporting vs attacking indies, the company does indeed have a long history already in doing it.
Besides the examples mentioned by others, gradients can arise due to look angle. For instance, looking upon a field of mixed grass and dirt from straight above versus 10 feet towards the horizon will yield a gradient from green/brown to totally green. There are lots of similar examples, for example, look at a mixed asphalt/composite road stretching off into the distance.
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Home? Can you beat your own house's privacy?
You'd be in charge of security, encryption and everything else.
> PCIe 4.0 x4 would be ~8 GB/s

That's what I said, 64 Gbps. :)
My thoughts having never owned a Mac Pro (though on my 2nd MacBook Pro): SAN/NAS + the near uselessness of internal optical drives.

In a "professional" environment, large storage is on the network, redundant, with regular backups (preferably including off-site backup). The more important the data is, the less likely anyone wants it sitting on someone's desktop any longer than necessary for that person to do their job.

The handful of people using Mac Pros in my work environment generate and store massive amounts of data, but they don't store it on their desktop indefinitely.
If it's a problem to know where all the subs are and what they are doing in my name, then I have a problem.

(shrug)
Agreed. The writer example was really telling. The whole syntax around using the function changes when you bring the monad into it. Even the placement of the function calls and the data.
I haven't read all the responses, but Google's seems pretty meaningful and clear. How do you know it is a "downright lie?"
With politicians like Feinstein who needs terrorists?

They're destroying the very foundation of America all by themselves.
> Even some of the most staunch anarcho-capitalists I know believe in centralized national defense as one of the very few legitimate functions of the state.

Really? You or they must be using the term "anarcho-capitalism" in a non-standard way. In the standard usage of the term, the whole point is to be distinguished from pro-government libertarians and minarchists who believe that there are a few legitimate functions of the state. I've never heard anyone use the term to refer to an ideology that accepts any legitimate functions of the state.
No need for the complex analogies.

What we need is to decide whether we, as a society, think what Apple did is OK. That’s it. If we think it’s OK, then we console the developer. And if we don’t, we pass laws to keep Apple (or anyone else in a similar position) from doing that.

All this food court / McDonalds analogizing really can get you only so far.
You do bring up a good point that a MITM attack could change the bitcoin address and trick people to donate there. This really doesn't have anything to do with bitcoin though.

I don't really understand your point on malleability though. The source and destination addresses are very much part of the hash and what is signed into the blockchain, so although you could change trick people into sending bitcoins to the wrong address using a MITM, the receiver wouldn't be tricked, only the sender. (IE, they wouldn't see any transaction coming to their legitimate address)

As to your point on Bitcoin not being 'expert enough', that seems like a troll. Given the monetary incentives that exist to break bitcoin, and the number of rather clever people who have given it a hard look, I think you are vastly underestimating just how solid it is. It may have weaknesses that have yet to be discovered, but they aren't trivial.
Taking a break from tech books and stumbled across...

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Guessed it. I was debating whether to mention it in my post.
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Isn't there an article circulating that that "law" was found "unconstitutional" already, but that that ruling was classified as soon as it was made?

I can't find it now, but I'll keep looking.
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Maybe they'll open an office in Sarnia? /s
I've noticed this too. It's funny because the gaming community tends to be very polarized into fanboy groups for each console. It sort of weird right now because it seems like almost everyone is super pro Playstation. It's like the Xbox fans are pissed off and staying silent, and the Nintendo fans have just given up.
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I can't really tell if I agree with you or not, but that was a hell of a story. I feel like I just watched an episode of Magnum P.I.
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IMO, this is largely an urban legend. The crash of 1983 was almost entirely caused by first party developers (namely Atari), and very non-just-in-time retail inventory practices.
and if the NSA should break the law that makes it illegal to hack networks in this way, what would be its punishment? Do we send the NSA to jail? Do we fine the NSA? Who do you think pays the for the lawsuit (punishment, legal team, etc) when the NSA breaks the law?

As for the agent: two words - qualified immunity
Actually I don't agree with you - I think if humans got used to SUT, they can (in their own time!) easily recognise the shifts around the globe. I.e. 2:00 SUT is the start of the day in Europe, 5:00 SUT is start of the day in US and 7:00 SUT in Asia.

I believe that due to talking about the same time, people can more easy remember the other times.

Compared to time zones, which are based on learning them by heart without a relation to your current time zone (only relates to UTC and your time zone to UTC again -> 2 calculations).
We seem to have created many of the problems that we now need the Defense industry to bail us out of.