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You know, it's funny that they'd say this. I'm a Mac and iOS developer, and I hate the design of Safari 6's web inspector. I find the iconography and general user experience inscrutable, I find the changes to View Source make it infuriatingly difficult to use, and the web inspector seems to hang a lot. I hope the new version improves this.
If the powers that be get desperate enough they'll just burn down the embassy, forcing him to come out.

It will be an "accidental" gas leak or some such.
If anyone shouldn't have a right to privacy, it would be public officials.
The fact that the "libertarian party" is a "thing" in the US is a large sign of what the problem is.

But in any case, what we need to do is get a party going who's only platform is voting reform. The only goal that matters right now is the end of FPTP and the two party system. Once that's done having all these "fringe" parties will be a good thing because my "progressive" parties will agree on a lot of policy with your libertarians (e.g. surveillance, world police force, etc.).
Well, no reason not to request my records then! Thanks!
As usual, thinking of the children.
This is basically exactly the reason why this kind of warrantless spying should be illegal. Politicians can use their position to go on fishing expeditions and publicly persecute whoever they wish with flimsy reasoning.
> also by airbus btw

By its predecessor Sud Aviation and BAC.
Very true. A similar case would be Adobe, who relied way too much on flash for so much time and started working on html5 tools only once iOS got entranched.
He wants to clear any doubt that this information is being used for political purposes by using it for political purposes.
Two-factor authenticator applications should be using UTC, and not the display time. I think that's what the parent comment's point was.
Can someone who has used this search engine compare it with DuckDuckGo?
I don't understand the logic here. It won't be interesting at all. Someone will try to subpoena the info, they will be denied, end of story. The NSA will never give this data away ever, I bet they would destroy it, or pretend to destroy it, before giving it away.
I think you meant it as snark, but I think is brilliant. We know that congress has ongoing insider trading issues with the companies they regulate - lets get some transparency! If they have nothing to hide, they have nothing to fear.
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Only Americans? Or can the rest of us yet to be proven not terrorists apply too?
That's the question about all this thing that I don't know how to anwer. Just extend it a bit...

There are OSs that won't give root access to the NSA, encryption that the NSA won't be able to read and cloud services that the NSA won't be able to access even with cooperation of the CEO. Why none of them are widely used?

And I don't accept the answer on the article as suficient. Yes, a few things are harder when you want any level of security, but not all. There are plenty of applications where security just won't disturb you (like VoIP), and plent of places that put security above all other concerns and should care about this (like non-US military). Yet, nearly nobody chooses the secure path.
There is of course, the ultimate litmus test: Would you trust Nixon with this data?
It's stored client-side, and as a back up on the central server, with a passphrase that is the users responsibility.
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The United States needs any viable third party. Unfortunately, the Republicrats have a lock on our political system, and the only way to get a viable third party is to change the rules about how we vote.

Specifically, first past the post voting provides a disincentive for third parties to compete because they are most likely to harm the candidate who is closest to their own position. Something like score voting, approval voting, or instant runoff voting is needed to break the deadlock.

Approval voting is probably the best bet because people who want to support a third party candidate could also vote for the first or second party who is closest to their position. It's simple, and much easier to support and understand than the other options. This would allow third parties to get a real sense of how well they are really performing before pushing their supporters to actually stop voting for the first and second party candidates.
Through out these arguments during past week, the one thing that bothered me most was that some people supported NSA spying saying they have nothing to hide. I seriously don't understand how they can say that. I wonder if this can be attributed to lack of understanding about data mining considering that most of these comments are on non-tech websites.
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HN wont let me reply to a comment below this one, but to address it:

Yes, the NSA will deny the request. And with any luck, we can have push this into a case in front of Supreme Court before the end of next year.
Fun science fact: Fear causes people to think irrationally.

I find it hard to believe that so many people have jumped out of their wits over this NSA news. After all, there are so many more harder and pressing problems in the world. Global Warming, Child Slavery, Drugs, overpriced health care, mortgage and education loans? But on HN, the most intellectual community I am part of (imo) is so worried about automated programs parsing through their mails and tweets, its surprising. Dude, wake up! Your content is NOT so cool. Its like everybody else's -- emails from mom telling you missed on events, defaulting on payments, failures in relationships, failure in school. Everybody goes through those things, and have records to show it.

When I see an article with the title that makes me believe that a bunch of scared folks are now going to set decision making processes for the future, it makes me worried. Very worried. Such community moods have been known to make the worst choices (always conservative than progressive) for the future generations. Today, people complain about the war US took to Iraq, and what a bad decision that was. Five years from now, it will be privacy policies that were set in, after "57% FEARED NSA will misuse their personal info."

Is privacy important -- yes, it is. But should we blow things out of proportion? No. That's never going to lead to a better world.
Rasmussen has been dinged in the past for having a right-wing bias. It consistently gave higher support for Romney than other posters. The recent Pew poll showed moderately favorable views of NSA snooping. More interestingly, it showed that Democrats had suddenly become a lot more trusting while Republicans were suddenly dubious. A reversal from when Bush was caught spying on us.
Aye, the best we can hope is that they all turn cannibal and consume each other.
This is exactly right. I predict a backlash against the Democrats after Obama's epic failures (that doesn't mean most people will vote Republican, but it probably means a lot of dems simply don't show up next time around).

And you're spot on about pulling a "Tea Party". The fact is, politics is a nasty business. We need a large group of people willing to say whatever it takes to get voted in. Once in, the only goal should be voting reform. If we can get rid of FPTP we can fix everything else eventually.
http://pastie.org/8043348

^the email I received
I remember when that decision first came down, and his show was playing The Kinks "Living on a Thin Line" into and out of break (the first part: "All the stories have been told / Of kings and days of old, / But there's no England now.")

Within a few days, if I recall correctly, he was asking the audience to buy copies of his new book and mail them to whoever it was in England that set the rules in this regard, to send her a message.

I'm on the left edge of the political spectrum, assuming that's 2D, but every time Michael Savage was on and I was doing something where I could listen to talk radio I'd tune in. Guy knows how to put on an entertaining show.
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I didn't say "fringe group" I said "fringe party." The Tea Party organized itself as a faction of the Republican party, which enabled it to get national credibility. In our first past the post voting system, not having an (R) or (D) next to your name basically ensures you'll not get elected, so you have to caucus with one of those parties. Your only concern is about which one.

Now, given that, it makes sense to target the Republican party. The party is in a period of disunity, and as a natural tendency Republicans are more amenable to arguments based on distrust of government. Democrats will oppose government when they dislike negative effects that they can see actually happening (e.g. as the Iraq war dragged on), but arguments along the lines of "we shouldn't trust government with these powers, even if you can't see the negative effects yet" work better on Republicans.

Moreover, people don't care about "privacy." Abstract arguments about "privacy" aren't going to get votes. You have to put those abstract arguments in concrete terms that people understand and that relate to things they care about. Paint the issue as giving the liberal administration the ability to snoop on conservative political organizations ("Obama is reading the Tea Party's e-mails!"). Paint the issue as secularists being able to snoop on religious organizations ("Obama is reading your church's e-mails!"). Figure out how to tie it to something Biblical and you're cooking with fire.

This is not a cynical argument, by the way. The whole reason to be worried about surveillance is because of its chilling effect on freedom of political assembly, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, etc. "Obama is reading your cypherpunk IRC logs!" would resonate with a lot of people on HN--but ordinary people don't care about cypherpunks or pirates or groups like that. But there are groups they care about. The chilling effect of surveillance impacts cypherpunks and pirates and anti-abortionists and religious fundamentalists alike. If you don't caucus with those groups, you'll never establish a coalition large enough to have any political impact.
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One way my answers have improved is when queries are involved; I may give you an answer that works but it would be vulnerable to sql injection . I have learned much from the comments that followed.
"...the agency can charge for the time it takes to search for records and for duplication of those records"

In the spirit of absurdist satirical works such as Brazil locally relevant in light of recent events, here's an immediate lunatic conspiracy theory:

This whole Snowden leak business is an elaborate and wholly orchestrated "make work" scheme to boost the economy by flooding "the agency" with requests for records. In three months four out of every five Americans will be hired in this line of work. Brilliant, government economists, simply brilliant!
Either there are no terrorists, or they are incredibly incompetent
I'm wired to think that I'm the only one responsible of my games. I like to think that in 36 years we will still be able to play our games, like with an Atari 2600. Does I want to still be able to play iPhone games in 36 years? No. You could argue that Microsoft want that too but they have no control over that. They can go bankrupt or they could simply decide that the cost of the infrastructure is higher than the revenue (which will probably be $0 in 36 years because they will probably use a new architecture). Halo 2 is about 6 years old and they already shutdown the multiplayer servers.

Like in the pastebin, you can say it's the same for Steam and you would be right. However in 36 years, I will still have backups, or some competitors will still be in business (Amazon, GOG or any competitor) so I will always be able to find a way to buy it (or even download it on a website like http://www.myabandonware.com/ ).

Also when I buy a game, I always expect to be able to get at least the resell value on it, if needed. It's not possible on a digital market so when I buy it I expect it to cost less. Which is also not the case.

EDIT: Don't you love to be able to read books much older than you? Don't you would love to know that in 100 years, XboxOne game would still be playable?
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Do people benefit from LinkedIn? I know I have been pulling back for a while in terms of the amount of information I share about myself on the internet. I have seen that I don't really benefit from giving Facebook my data - even in terms of personal enjoyment. I have received many LinkedIn invites - they're from people I know personally and/or people I could not potentially have a career-based relationship with. What's the point?
Could somebody explain the Motion to Quash who has an understanding of it? I thought it only applied to a subpoena, and so would not apply without one.
> If the tea partiers can do it

They were backed by the billionaire Koch Brothers. We'd have to get Bill Gates or someone like that to pull off something similar.

I propose something called "The 4th Amendment Party" which directly addresses privacy issues, in the US anyway. An international Pirate Party could be used for hopefully countering the negative effects of multinational corporations.
This sounds Spring-specific. Using Guice, that's not an issue.
Its too bad that it was requested by someone with so little name recognition that "Congressman requests" is a better headline than "Rep. Stockman(R) requests"
I was about to ask you a couple of questions about the book, but details are on your website. For the lazy -

http://withouttheirpermission.com/
But then you have to generate the hash each time the source code changes. And you also have to verify the source code each time yourself because you can't know if it's a regular update from mega (they probably update daily or weekly) or if someone compromised the source code.
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I noticed that the US biggest parties are democrats, and republicans...<p>The democrats, don't push for democracy.<p>And the government is already a republic, thus the republicans do not have to push for republicanism either.<p>Why the parties are not something like progressives and conservatives?<p>Or liberals and nationalists? Or anything else that better reflect their values?
Amazing work! Actually I am not very interested in comic books but definitely I will buy it.
The only goal that matters right now is the end of FPTP and the two party system. Once that's done having all these "fringe" parties will be a good thing because my "progressive" parties will agree on a lot of policy with your libertarians (e.g. surveillance, world police force, etc.).

I agree that voting reform is crucial. Everything else really hinges on that.

The fact that the "libertarian party" is a "thing" in the US is a large sign of what the problem is.

Could you elaborate on that a little more? I think I get the gist of what you mean, but I'm not sure.

FWIW, I'll just point out that the "libertarian movement" (or whatever you want to call it) in the US is bigger than just the "Libertarian Party". There are, for example, the "little l libertarians" within both the Republican and Democratic parties, who espouse and advocate for libertarian views. There are (or have been) multiple "libertarian" parties in the US. There's obviously the "Big L Libertarian" party, but there was also the "Boston Tea Party"[1], for one.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party_(political_par...
Hanging out in /r/redditdev and /r/ideasfortheadmins, you'd be surprised how often ideas come up that could potentially harm users that some admins will either champion or agree with.

I guess it's the same as any small company in that everyone is going to have an opinion, I just wish they had someone more anal about protecting users first on their staff.

I do my best to speak out against anything that could compromise user privacy/security, but in the end it's not up to me!
I'd agree with you, but as you know we have universal health care in Canada which is funded by the government. Therefore, what people do with their body is actually the taxpayers' problem, if anything goes wrong.
In the UK most 3G networks do not give out the time. In Belgium they seem to.

Why NTP is not running as standard I have no idea. You have to root your phone to run it.
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There are encryption levels, practical to use, which require quantities like "all the energy in the universe" to brute force decrypt. Unless the NSA rewrites number theory (which is not impossible, I am forced to say, but it would be orders of magnitude more astonishing than anything we've ever seen them do) that should be pretty safe from brute-force decryption, leaving us only to worry about rubber hoses and leaving the password written on the fridge.
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According to the article you linked, trench foot occurs in temperatures up to 60°F. The water temperature off the cost of Nigeria this time of year is closer to 80°F, so I'm guessing trench foot wouldn't be a problem.
Why not just use GitHub? What format are your models in? GitHub supports STL viewing in browser. While STLs don't carry as much data as you may want, that may be a start.
Speaking only for myself, as a young person who does not vote, it's not a lack of interest in politics or the state of world affairs. I'll vote only once the electoral process is significantly reworked, until then I have better ways to engage civically.
It's been on its head since day one, really. The NSA is coming after Snowden for violating their privacy.
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Yeah the value of a BTC could increase, but it could also stay the same or even decrease, somehow. I'm not sure on the economic theory of this, but the people who pay are basically saying, in X months I will value this device more than I value 1 BTC now.
FFS people, this is called MAPP and the program has been public and a huge security success for the last few years. Microsoft advises lots of security companies about patches slightly before they are issued. That way, everyone has options on day 1 and people aren't scrambling for additional mitigations every Patch Tuesday.

If you want to be outraged, check out all the Chinese companies on the list of partners!

https://www.microsoft.com/security/msrc/collaboration/mapp.a...
Nothing collect or share your information as long as no whistleblower makes it public.
> but the pendulum always swings back against govt over reach.

I don't think there is much evidence of that. Its true that over time some of the expansions of power are clawed back, but the overall trend isn't neutral with a pendulum swinging back and forth with a stationary midpoint of degree of government intrusion.

> You write as if the American Civil Liberties Union has done no good at all and it a hopeless cause.

The ACLU has certainly done some good, and I've never said anything about hopelessness (or even about what is desirable). What I've pointed to is the facts that call into question your presentation of a norm of non-intrusive government that is subject only to occasional "anomalies" followed by reversion to the pre-anomaly "normal" state.

Hope, in terms of realizing political objectives -- whether that's non-intrusive government or something else -- starts with recognizing the realities of the status quo, because without that, you can't tell what the problems are you need to address.
I think that the 'transparent society' idea is that all communication is fully public, rather than just to the nsa. The difference is drastic when considering the balance of power in society.
Had you even heard for PRISM two weeks ago? I'd suggest waiting a while.
"In contrast, when a system has end-to-end encryption, losing a password is catastrophic; it means losing all data in the user’s account."

Um... what? Can't the user just reset his/her password, instead of a website emailing him/her the old password?...
I think it is surprising that the old (Safari 6) inspector UI was not about improving the user experience for web developers but instead it was an effort to align "the design and user experience with Xcode 4."
Java is just not made for quick prototyping. In production, the URL will come from somewhere, not written by hand, so it would need to be checked anyway. Sadly there's no quick-prototyping mode in Java where you can say, just call this URL string an don't bother checking.

Another example is the inability to just read a local file into a string with a simple API call. It's this way, again, because in production the program has to reason about paths and file systems and can't make assumptions about the validity (or size) of the file you just want to load and play with.

In production code, no matter the language, you have to guard against these issues. The nice thing about objects (immutable, anyway), is that once constructed and validated, they do not require tedious validation at every method and client they are passed into. That actually results in less boilerplate, and less test writing.

So just remember, Java always assumes your code is production-bound and requires upfront planning and checking. That's why it's unpleasant to prototype with.
> Unless the NSA rewrites number theory (which is not impossible, I am forced to say, but it would be orders of magnitude more astonishing than anything we've ever seen them do)

Not to minimize the magnitude of the acheivement here, but I do think the NSA exerts considerable effort to avoid being seen doing most of the things -- including the most astonishing things -- they do. Its a pretty key part of their mission.
Generally speaking, most hardware wallets let the end-user re-initialize the device based on a seed (a random number). So as long as you save this seed securely (eg. printed on paper and stored in a safe) you can clone the wallet and recover your coins if you lose it.

I don't know if Trezor has this feature or not.
I think this style is really bad for iOS. Actually, I dislike the way Apple changes its style.
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On the contrary independent candidates do better in larger elections that are given more attention by the media. Smaller local elections are dominated by parties with an established infrastructure that can turn out their members in low turnout elections.
You're asking if I can prove a negative? No, I cannot.

I think that dolphins are actually secret arsonists who set fire to oil rigs. Prove me wrong.
I love that. This should be a pundit's tag-line. You can kill pretty much any pro-government spying argument with this.
The evidence is compelling.

Edit: Oh that's right HN doesn't operate on evidence anymore.