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Yes I thought the kernel API did not look too hard to use; FUSE support is no the TODO list for ljsyscall[1] which is a LuaJIT implementation of the Linux (and partially OSX, NetBSD) kernel API. Implementing against native kernel APIs in a scripting language with an ffi is manageable although the interfaces are large; Go seems to be about the only language that has a real effort to do this, other than my project (do have longer term plans to port to Ruby, Pypy one day once it is abstracted out more).

[1] https://github.com/justincormack/ljsyscall
The word "intelligence" should really not be used to describe this program. In Latin intelligere means "to understand"; an "intelligent" person is a clever person.

What the NSA is doing is gathering ALL possible information in the remote chance that an infinite part of it might maybe be useful some day. At the time of collection, no effort is made to assess the relevance of the information collected.

This is not clever or "intelligent" in any sense of the term.

"Intelligence" for an intelligence agency means doing actual spy work; namely, having agents infiltrate terrorist networks and learn about their plans (and risking their lives in the process).

This is carpet-bombing. This is cowardly. This is despicable.
His example focused on the program return code which in this case is correctly 1
> So because there might be bad people, somewhere, planning to do bad things, we should just let the government run wild and do whatever it wants?

Whoa, you've just gone all straw-man on me. Stop presuming and just answer my question. Somewhere between "nothing happens" and "vaporizes the whole planet" is a consequence that makes the loss of privacy an acceptable option. Where is it?

I didn't make an argument one way or the other.
I wonder if any of the damage done with FCP X has been made up for in the last two years since release. What's the word in the studios?
History also teaches that all governments that did not trust their people (hence had to spy on them) did not survive long. Fighting wars is very different from spying your own people, societies are built on trust after all.
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that's an interesting read. I m about to reform my opinions (pending, since its quite a long read, and i've only skimmed it).
The NRC is actually one of the top-rated newspapers in the netherlands, quite similar to the Guardian and far from a "tabloid". If this were published in the "Telegraaf", you'd have a valid point.

Edit: Seems the story was first published in the Telegraaf, which makes the parent a very, very valid criticism!
> I don't see them going after the every day person with the data they have. For that to happen a lot more bad laws would have to be passed.

You're not making the connection. These people have access to everything without supervision and want to completely destroy online privacy. It only takes one corrupt person to abuse the system and use that information against you. Why, just by going online I can gather about you that-

- Your name is Ryan Cheu and you study Computer Science at MIT (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4735907)

- I have your photo and work history (http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ryan-cheu/13/95a/b69)

- You are a Christian and very vocal about it (http://en.reddit.com/r/atheism/comments/m30cy/to_ratheism_fr...)

- You are attracted to Asian women (http://en.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/j3ogo/girlfriend_l...)

- You play a ton of Starcraft and even run a team at MIT where you can be reached at starleague-officers@mit.edu (http://en.reddit.com/r/starcraft/comments/11iwc5/recruiting_...)

- You didn't want your Reddit account to be linked to your Github but it was easy enough to find: https://github.com/ryancheu (http://en.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/1679go/new_red...)

This is just the information I had access to from a basic search. Imagine what they have.

So, does any of this bother or scare you? Could any of this information be taken out of context and used against you? Are you getting the picture now?
> When is the last time the US was invaded by anyone? When is the last time any country even tried to invade the US?

Why do you think those answers are what they are?

Could it be that the latest public data we have is that we were building planes FIFTY YEARS AGO that could effortlessly outrun SAMs? Can you possibly imagine the shit that is flying out of Groom Lake these days?
>the person in question likes to chase issues the public is currently outraged about.

Sounds like a good strategy. What good is it to invest resources chasing an issue that you can't make anyone care about?
Because non-violent protesters can be a pain in the neck, too. You don't need to hit someone to really piss him of.

In some cases, just following the rules to the letter can be annoying enough to make the powers that be change things.

But yes, having some real threat as a backup has tremendous benefits. 'Nice government you have here; it would be a pity of something happened to it' works better of you have that.
> Note that 'De Telegraaf' is a tabloid-y newspaper

Note that although, yes, De Telegraaf is more sensationalist (and less 'left wing') than other Dutch newspapers such as The Volkskrant and NRC, you should not compare them to the NY Post, The Sun or the Daily Mail.
Why would I believe a company that is bound by law to (a) hand over my data and (b) tell me they're not doing that.

I can't be convinced it isn't happening at this point because we have evidence that it is from the government.
That doesn't seem like a huge stretch of imagination at all. There have been rumors years ago that they're doing this with the UK, too, and probably other countries, too.

I wonder if that's why Germany is the most spied upon in EU. Does Germany have the same deal with US? You spy on us, we spy on you?

It can either be that, or US spies on Germany because they want all sort of information from their politicians, businesses, and so on. I doubt most terrorists reside in Germany. So those can be the only 2 explanations.
This is how they've supposedly done an end-run against these restrictions with Echelon for decades.
Correct. At least a decade. Combined with the 'all-our-apps-for-50-bucks from Adobe has made a lot of studio's jump ship to Adobe Premiere. I mean what was Apple smoking? FCP wasn't even compatible with FCP.
I find that you underestimate the training of top undercover agents.
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Any government will do large-scale surveillance if they can. It's been said a thousand times before: do not use centralized social networks, cloud services, proprietary software if you value your privacy and freedom. This may be inconvenient, but we can't have freedom without paying its price. I had hard time explaining my friends and relatives why I am not on Facebook (or vk.com, which is more popular here in Russia) or why I would not use Skype, but at least I know that am not cooperating with those who are taking our freedom away.
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To paraphrase a famous quote, I have no idea what fascism in US would look like, but I know it will involve the stars and stripes, and not brown/black shirts, Nazi uniforms, Confederate battle flags, Swastikas, or shaved heads. The essence of fascist and other totalitarian thought transcends this simplistic "shell".

Thing is, in the 1920s and 1930s fascism did not carry a strong negative connotation. Mussolini's regime was mostly viewed in a positive light by democracies until the invasion of Ethiopia and adoption of racial laws. This was social context when Brave New World was written (note the "Benito Hoover" character).

I'd suggest reading these pieces:

1) "UR-fascism" by Umberto Eco http://www.themodernword.com/eco/eco_blackshirt.html -- attempts to define salient features of fascism across the different regimes.

2) "Three New Deals", http://www.amazon.com/Three-New-Deals-Reflections-Roosevelts... -- title speaks for itself
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Hey no iPhone 6 so I bought a 5 today :)
Bitcoin has a big problem : the block chain size. Right now it is still quite unknown and still the block chain size is approaching 10GB, which means you can't use it on devices like mobile phones (without a centralized service, which somehow defeats the purpose of Bitcoins, which was supposed to be a decentralized currency). There are techniques to prune unneeded transactions, but they seem inefficient. If Bitcoins were to become popular, for example replace dollars, you could easily expect the block chain to jump to the order of TBs.

About the documentary itself, I honestly don't see its point. But it's not the only Kickstarter project that seems like an attempt to make some money.
Evidence, probably. People say stuff all the time and it's mostly marketing and drivel.
> Developers are now forever beholden to the big corporates.

Same as it ever was...

Through the 90s and the early part of the 2000s, Microsoft had enough control of the market that it could often kill other vendor's products (or proposed products) simply by announcing that it was going to produce something in the same area of the market. So although the system was technically open, economically the market was controlled: there was only one platform that mattered at the time (Windows) and the prevailing view of the tech press, business buyers and consumers was that Microsoft produced the best software for Windows. So if Microsoft announced it was going to ship something in the future the general consensus was generally that the best decision was to wait and see what Microsoft shipped. It's fanciful to suggest there weren't issues with the old style Windows software market.
Sorry, I consider weak this argument. There is no relation between privacy and your "marijuana argument".

Hypocrital laws weren't created because of need for privacy. Neither social stigma has nothing to do with privacy.

I agree that there is a need to change a lot of laws and get rid of social stigmas, but... To try to relate privacy with wrong behaviour (unfair laws, stigmatization) is a false equivalence.

I won't say a thing about brainwave capturing technology. I guess it is not easily feasible without isolating the target person, because all the "brainiac" background noise in crowded areas.
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Haha, I think you watch too much Hollywood. No one has invaded the US because there was no value in doing so. Germany taking over most of Europe made sense. Taking over the US? Not so much. At least not until they had a much larger land holding.

The US' geographical position has had more to do with their safety than any secret they've ever had. But don't let me disrupt your "G.I. Joe" comic book fantasies.
The probability of a bit error on normal RAM is quite high [1]. The more RAM you add the more likely you are to see corruption. Not that ECC fixes everything - I still see uncorrected ECC errors on the older HPC nodes on our grid.

[1] : http://lambda-diode.com/opinion/ecc-memory
This was tried back when Eschelon was made public, didn't do much...
This was pretty much where my mind was going. You don't need direct access or drop boxes if you can just automate the process. It also squares neatly with Snowden's "All I'd need is to know your email address"... it's a search tool.
The Telegraaf may suck but that does not say anything about this particular news item and it would be good to look at the content and to address that instead of just looking at the reputation of the paper.

It wouldn't be the first time that the 'trashy' newspaper broke a story.

Focus on the message, not the messenger.
My point was that it is neither a cure nor solution. It does of course help when combined with other means, but this plugin obviously can't supply those.
Nobody is using this solution either, and setting it up is harder than setting up OTR (provided your conversation partner is already using an app for XMPP).

I can explain my girlfriend and brother how to enable and configure OTR. I would have a hard time getting them to execute the instructions for this addon.
That particular quotation seems prescient, but there's plenty in the book that is nothing like what happens today, at least in a literal interpretation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noe3kR8KqJc

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I still take issue with the idea of "oh we'll worry about making money later" If facebook is the prime example then just take a look at what a piece of crap its become for users. Facebook couldn't find a decent revenue model so now they're cannibalising their users by making the experience terrible. Which in my opinion, long term is going to be their downfall.

Also, getting lots of users and then just slapping ads on your site is also a terrible business model and its what you tend to do if you haven't bothered to think it through clearly before starting.
Killing reporters is not US policy. Yet. Pulling clear diplomatic strings to insinuate a rape accusation and force them into a situation where they require diplomatic sanctuary, on the other hand...
> According to the agent Skype refused for years to provide access [to their data], but since it has become property of Microsoft everything is said to be shared.

I bet people won't think I'm so crazy now for posting before that the only reason Microsoft paid the incredible amount of $8.5 billion for Skype (and 2x as much as Google was willing to pay) for no good reason, is because they already knew they were going to make at least half of that money back from NSA:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/12/nsa_offers_billions_...

Also this: "Microsoft's patent application for Legal Intercept was filed in 2009, well before the company's $8.5 billion purchase of Skype in May":

https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9218002/Microsoft_se...

So they were already preparing to make it a spy technology before they even bought it. Microsoft bought Skype in May 2011. Look at the PRISM slide. They adopted PRISM for Skype in June 2011, a whole month after they bought it (in a hurry much?):

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...
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Actually downandout wasn't implying that the NSA was bound by laws which prevented them from spying on US citizens, in fact downandout went to great lengths to specify that the scenario was hypothetical and unlikely.
pity it does nothing in opera but show the can, and I wore out my mousewheel by scrolling to slide 2 in firefox.

probably just tested in safari. preaching to their own choir I guess.
I think it's been answered here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5853901

Hong Kong currently has a moratorium on extradition of asylum seekers.
I found the text interestingly well written more than anything else.
I guess it indeed won't make any noticeable change.
True, Recent incidents shows the importance of a decentralized system.
MacBookAir4,2 and MacBookPro10,1.

I buy AppleCare and leave the screwdrivers to the Genius Bar. They have copies of them on all of the continents I travel between; I frequently do not.

Furthermore, who wants to be in the laptop repair business? I push bits. For a few hundred bucks they'll fix anything that breaks and I can stop being the Maytag Man and get on with life.
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I think most of us are just too used to Googling a problem instead of looking for help the traditional way. This is certainly a time where RTFM yields better results than Googling.

I typed :help into Vim today and was greeted with the most friendly, comprehensive Vim tutorial yet.
Ninefold (http://www.ninefold.com) push this pretty hard (see the Data Jurisdiction link in their footer), but unfortunately I fear their (and my) local Australian legal system doesn't provide me with any protection against even medium-level US law enforcement "friendly requests".

When you see just how far the New Zealand law enforcement rolled over and violated national law at the request of US copyright enforcement in their shoddily executed raid on Kim Dot Com, I have very little doubt that in spite of Ninefold's marketing using legal jurisdiction nightmares if you use their major competitors AWS or Rackspace - if the NSA showed up even without local law enforcement on their side, me and my data would likley get "thrown under the bus" (especially in the light of stories like this: https://mailman.stanford.edu/pipermail/liberationtech/2013-J... )
Why would anything think you were crazy? That was widely discussed around the acquisition.

Then Microsoft completely altered Skype's design (from supernode/P2P to client-server) making it cost a LOT more to maintain while offering no obvious advantages, which more or less confirmed it.
I'd probably try and downplay the length, but Panama was chosen because it was the narrowest point. It was really important when you had to dig it by hand. A canal in Nicaragua can't be shorter than the Panama canal, but it does have the advantage of being further north. If spending more time going through this canal is still quicker than heading down to Panama and back, you're at a net gain.
> What was the chance of FFx browser winning the browser
> race, when more than 95% computers already had IE pre-
> installed?

Pretty good, because IE development has stopped and the team deisbandled.
The situation in mobile OS market is nothing like that.
...and following the time-honoured Android tradition of platform fragmentation, Mad Catz is also releasing an Android console! http://www.geek.com/android/mad-catz-project-mojo-takes-on-o...

OUYA had the spotlight for a hot minute there, and they kinda blew it with crappy hardware, crappy UX, and crappy games.
No it doesn't, a lot of that info is actually in my Hacker News profile, you can just click on my username. If that did scare me, then I shouldn't have that info up there, right? Because people will have access to it someway or another if you have it online like that. That's my whole point. Just trusting no one will ever find your info is not good practice if you're actually concerned about it, regardless of what laws are in place.

I'll also note that it doesn't take just 1 person to go corrupt, it also takes laws to change to let them act on that info and a court system that sides with them.
Google re-released that feature to the public in the form of Google Takeout in 2011: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Takeout
Because when you think about it installing the app not from app store is the problem, not the other way around.
Pre-2001 from what I've read that is how Echelon worked. The UK would spy on Americans, Americans would spy on the UK, and they would both exchange intelligence to bypass each one's respective laws.

But following 9/11 there would be no way the UK could keep up with the US's new intelligence quantity/demands, so the US started spying on themselves and new laws had to quickly get penned to make that retrospectively legal.
Greenwald has written many things, most extremely valuable. I also am critical of his exchange with Sam Harris but that's one discussion in hundreds or thousands.
Most of the people I know they didn't updagraded their Mac Pros ever in 3 to 6 years of use. I heard people upgrading memory, replacing discs, but the rest it should be intact. The Mac Pro is a nice machine for people who won't upgrade in 3 o 4 years, even more and still having power.

If they didn't release this, I would continue with the idea of making my Hackintosh but this new baby is nice.
https://www.gnu.org/software/social/
"US law" is not a valid justification. Segregation was US law. Slavery was US law. The detention of Japanese Americans during WWII was US law. "It's the law" is a useless moral justification unless the law is grounded in something greater than merely the paper it is written on. Especially when it is written by the government who uses it to defend their creeping invasions of our liberty.

The reason we have a Constitution is to constrain the power of the government to make such laws, and if such laws do exist, they are (or should be) considered invalid.
Cheers for staying focused and honest about the scope of the problem that vagrant solves!
True. Valid point I forgot they have other options.
Oh right, "nothing to hide, nothing to fear." Sure.

> Because people will have access to it someway or another if you have it online like that. That's my whole point.

Yes, the shit you post in public online, not the private (PMs, email, phone calls, logs of your activities, etc). It's private and none of their business. That's my point.

We're not just talking about public posts on reddit profiles here.
Sounds similar to the Double Irish Arrangement [0].

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement
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It's true, but at least an older generation sees any kind of out of band disclosure as a fundamental attack on their views ob punishment. My father, for exmaple, recently retired but still works in the intelligence community. He bloody _hates_ all of the bulk surveillance, and is very careful about what he publishes on the internet.

He routinely complains that current executive orders vis-aa-vis afgan tactics go too far, and never believed iraq made sense excpet to jr.

but once somoone has dropped TS/NOFORN docs all over, he'll never give the guy even one bit of respect. Instead (and just like manning) he's quite riled up about how such a breech (even though he ws shocked and upset to read the lengths of data being hoovered) benefitted none of us. And yet having an official reference for things I'd be prone to rail on after a handful of drinks does us all good. Before the unfortunate listened would have to nod pollitely and meekly suggest, well I'm sur they're jusy looking out for us.

I doubt many will end up seeing iy that way.
It's not really a matter of them fooling their co-workers. The access just isn't there, not to mention intensive logging and cross-checking. Google isn't your run of the mill web application where the Sysadmin/DBA is god.
>In 1984, there is a malevolence at the back of Big Brother.

1984 made it painfully clear that the actual existence of big brother was superfluous.

It wasn't his malevolence that made the system run as it did - it was the nature of the system itself.
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Getting them all to make online friends in foreign countries would do it. Iran, Yemen, Gaza, lots of places would trigger I would think.
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The number of horros stories make a very very very small percent of all the "developed an app" stories.
Apple paid out $10 000 000 000 for the developers, that's pretty big reason to develop for this platform.

> Develop for open systems instead. They will win in the end.

Yeah, sure. They will win what? They will win why?
Why do you constantly forget that the users of high tech are no longer programmers and sysadmins? They have other stuff to worry about not if your platform is open, closed, or punctured.
The things that work will win.
My position all through the last Republican primaries was "yes, I realize many of Ron's policies (e.g. gold standard) are down-right dangerous. But those policies could never be passed in any case so we should vote on the things he can change like no new wars, etc.". I don't know that I got downvoted every time but I was always shot down with more "hope and change".
Does the US constitution really only apply to US citizens in a global marketplace? Perhaps we'll look back on Bush and Obama as presidents who struggled with a dated viewpoint of the world, who tried to change the constitution into 'no rights for anyone' instead of 'freedom for all'?
I love this movie :) It had a totally opposite influence on me. As a kid I wanted to go out there and experience expressiveness of nature in all its glory :)