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One thing that concerns me is that many Americans are adopting what is essentially a Tory/Loyalist attitude towards these events, without understanding the Tory/Loyalist political philosophy of dissidence, which differs from 'civil disobedience' and 'non-violent resistance' (those are the other guys).

Don't get me wrong -- we can't all be Patriots and Revolutionaries -- but our history has ill-fitted us to be good at being Tories and Loyalists. Those were the bad guys in all our grade-school stories ... and now we are those bad guys.

The classical Tory theory of dissidence is called "Passive Obedience." This doesn't mean bending over and being a wimp. It means being obedient to higher authority (God and Constitutional Law), while seemingly disobeying usurpers and tyrants, who are themselves violating the higher Law -- constitutional, moral, and natural. The "Passive" part is an old word meaning suffering (like the Passion of Christ).

Edward Snowden has given us a very good example of Passive Obedience -- if he is correct the programs are indeed unconstitutional. He certainly is suffering for his beliefs, and is fleeing, not resisting or rebelling against the State. Failure to obey the commands of usurpers and tyrants, or to obey bad law in defiance of the dictates of one's conscience, are not required even of Loyalists and Tories.

The fact that Tories and Loyalists, which the American people have become, are condemning his actions, shows only that we have forgotten how to be good Redcoats, as well as most certainly having forgotten how to be good Patriots.

As good Tories (not good Patriots though), Loyal to the American State, we have the right to petition our sovereign -- the American People, not its representative Government -- i.e., to request a constitutional convention to strike down these Star Chamber courts, redress the alleged tyranny, and end the usurpations against our Sovereign's previously constituted declarations, and granted Bill of Rights.

As far as Snowden's flight is concerned, Sir Thomas Hobbes gives a very clear explanation of both Passive Obedience and the right of the dissident to flee, in an attempt to evade the sure punishment he would otherwise receive with or without justice (however if he is caught he must meekly accept his Passion and martyrdom, without resistance -- Civil Disobedience and Resistance are the contrary of the Tory doctrine).

Time to pick sides -- but if we are going to be Tories all, let us not be bad ones. These are the times that try men's souls.
There is a reason I said "identity" with the quotes, not higher functions. I have no doubt a well funded enough project can transplant a human brain into a different body and "weld" the nervous systems to restore basic cognitive and motor functions in the next few decades.

What I mean by identity is an understanding of how "you" as a person are formed by phenomena emerging from very complex biological system. For example, I have a very bad feeling in my stomach when I do something I am ashamed of. I'm 99% certain that the neurons in my stomach have little to do with this feeling and it's "all in my head," but we really know for certain how our brain chemistry, our mood, our reactions are shaped by the chemical and hormonal functions of the rest of the body? You are, afterall, combining two separate genetic lines, is there no possibility for a neural rejection like graft-versus-host?
That's a convenient excuse. Any state, including Ecuador, could just issue him a temporary passport if they wanted to -- but they're not, and it's obvious they've gotten cold feet. I presume some rather large sticks and/or carrots were waved during this call:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/30/world/americas/ecuador-lea...
Well it's quite clear they're a party in the decision-making process if they are able to call up those countries and twist their arms into refusing it, so I don't really understand what point you're making - I guess in theory they're not a relevant party ...but in practice?
Motorola is doing scummy stuff but it's probably better for one's metal health not to sanctify a particular individual. Let's not forget the "nuclear war" waged over rounded corners.
That said, I'm not sure he can complain that a recurring subscription continued to, well, recur.

Yes, I will complain. Intrinsic in the notion that I'm not bothering to update billing information after numerous updates telling me that it will cancel if I don't is the conclusion that the service, and billings, will cease. Credit cards have expiry dates for a reason, and ultimately it is fraud that they effectively manufactured my info for me.
Pedophilia is not a crime (at least in the US).
Yes, that would be good. I suppose it is a pity there is no middle ground between those two possibilities.
Don't worry about SORM-2 in Russia that much. AFAIK it doesn't really work, because it is an ad-hock system and it is primarily developed for certification purposes. It is probably a joke, compared to PRISM.
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Let's unpack that,

rand($.) < 1 && ($line = $_) while <>;

We all know rand and while, but if you don't know perl the rest is hard.

<> is a common way to read stdin, and the value is assigned to the $_ special variable.

The one I didn't know was $., the current input line number. In other words, its your loop index that automatically increments.

http://www.kichwa.com/quik_ref/spec_variables.html
I wrote this the other day, explaining how Obama confirming ubiquitous surveillance in the US (even if it only targets foreigners (which turned out to be a lie anyway)) is a bullet in the head of the US internet industry:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5962529
Assuming Snowden is referring to the UN Declaration of Human Rights, the second part of Section 14 would seem to apply here:

This right may not be invoked in the case of prosecutions genuinely arising from non-political crimes
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Didn't the 9/11 hijackers use this same technique (sharing an email account and communicating via drafts)? It sounds very familiar.
Can't you already screw up DNA testing with a marrow transplant? And fingerprints can change too.
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I agree with your bottom point, Steko. Thinking of Medium as an online newspaper as opposed to a blogging platform seems most correct. Perhaps Medium should further restrict personal customization and branding, like TechCrunch does with its writer profiles.

I found plenty of articles on the pros of writing on Medium but hardly any on the cons; hence, I wrote this to argue the other side and save some people time.
If I am thinking of the same situations as the author, it goes something like this:

Person X experiences a completely mundane situation (a respectful but unwanted sexual advance in an elevator, overhearing a PG-13 discussion at a conference) and writes a blog post about it.

The initial response is an equal mix of "Hurray for you, Person X! You are the bravest person on Earth!" and "Wait, this is a completely ordinary and inoffensive situation."

Later, the person making the advance or having the conversation are fired from their jobs or questioned by the police, and the "wait, this is not a big deal" group of people become very upset.
jerrya: In addition to that, you should check out my comment [1] on that thread.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5973916
I'm guessing that TokenAdult speaks both of these languages better than you do, as he's discussed language skills at some length in education-related threads. An apology seems in order.
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[from the article]

*" I was using my personal phone at work to do some testing related to Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync. In order to monitor the traffic, I had configured my phone to proxy all HTTP and HTTPS traffic through Burp Suite Professional - an intercepting proxy that we use for penetration testing - so that I could easily view the contents of the ActiveSync communication.

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Whoever said that this has nothing to do with ActiveSync; You are being disingenuous.
The OP speaks Chinese.
But that article needs an medium appropriate name! Without going completely overhype, no article can do justice to the medium mediocrity.
Why do you suppose people request asylum from third-party countries? Could you describe a circumstance in which it is a legitimate request should be granted?
Flying is a substantially different activity. It's dangerous in its own way, often more dangerous than driving (if you're flying small planes, and probably fighter jets), but very differently so. In driving, a moment's inattention can kill, but as long as you have that taken care of, you're generally fine. In flying, things rarely go wrong with that kind of speed, but if you're not thinking far ahead, you can find yourself screwed.

A simple thought experiment: while cruising, close your eyes for ten seconds. What happens?

If you do this with a car, you're probably no longer driving when you open your eyes again. If you're on the highway and are unlucky, you never open your eyes again. If you're luckier, you've come to a stop by plowing into something. It's unlikely you're still cruising.

If you do this with an airplane, you're almost certainly still flying along fine. You may be off altitude or heading some, your airspeed may be getting into dangerous territory, but you're generally fine, and haven't suffered anything that can't be immediately fixed. There are things that can go wrong in those ten seconds to kill you, like a mid-air collision, but they're rare and not something you can avoid with confidence even with your eyes open.

This short-term ease is more than made up for with long-term planning difficulty. I can go hop in my car right now and set off for Los Angeles and be pretty sure I'll arrive safe and sound in a few days. Doing the same with an airplane (if I had one capable of making the flight, and the appropriate license) would require substantial advance planning, otherwise I could easily find myself killed by weather or lack of fuel.

In short: that pilots use HUDs is not as informative to their safety in cars as one might think.
"creepy" is just a code word for "unattractive" or "awkward"

i've been called hot, sexy, and creepy in the same hour span on a night out.

speaking up in the conversation at the wrong time, or just having the wrong look on your face can be "creepy". staring off into space while thinking about code? watch out, you could be creeping someone out. overhear something and decide to but in with a "hey i think i know what you're talking about..." - watch out. potential creeper.

it is a word that is rapidly losing meaning due to massive overuse. i'm guessing a lot of people have been called 'creepy' before without knowing why (the accuser NEVER, EVER will tell you why, as it's usually a "feeling" and not a "fact") and that's why the accused are getting upset.
So, the term for someone who behaves in a socially inappropriate and over-reaching way, but isn't literally stalking anyone is.... ?
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Wanting to run from what seem likely to be kangaroo court proceedings doesn't imply guilt in my mind. Innocent until proven guilty isn't just a legal doctrine, it's also a philosophy that citizens of functioning democracies need to believe in fervently.
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Doesn't have the DFW either.
I really feel like the country wouldn't even know San Antonio existed if it wasn't for the Spurs and the Alamo. It doesn't seem like a place people find desirable to move to it seems.
It's a misappropriation of the meaning of forced exile as a punishment.
It would be nice if he explained why...
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This "first-class runtime" distinction you mention doesn't really matter much in practice.

In each case there's some variant of Linux, on top of that is a JavaScript and web browser implementation, and on top of that is the application implemented in JavaScript.

The use of something like PhoneGap in the Android case, to package the JavaScript code, markup, styles and to interface with the native browser, is quite peripheral. The majority of end users won't care, as long as the app works.

In the end, the fact remains that developers can use JavaScript to develop apps for Android. But these Android developers also have numerous other options available to them, including Java, C, C++ and C#. This final part is not true for Firefox OS. That inherently means that Android is a much better platform in terms of language support, contrary to what you're suggesting.
This is still beta page. I can't see list of 70 providers.
Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5777102

From a security perspective, this is a horrible idea, adding a completely untrusted intermediary. OAuth.io will technically have access to all of your user data, and any security flaws that they have will impact your service and user data.
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Google getting even snoopier. Is that to "liberate us," like Google glass?
How can the govt. prevent such an event from happening again or at least attempt to prevent it from happening again?

You don't. The price of freedom is the risk of getting hurt because the bad guys are in advantage. You don't step out of your front door with a gun and shoot everybody on the street because they may rob you - you get robbed and only after that you try to catch, charge and sentence the guy.
You were doing so well until you made a sweeping generalisation about why men are different to women ("testosterone filled to constantly chase women"). The differences between men's and womens sexuality can be put down to a number of things:

1. Women being pressured to follow old ideals how they should behave. (i.e. fear of being a 'slut')

2. Women also feeling pressured to make themselves sexually available and attractive by the media.

3. The perception pepetuated in the media to men and especially geeks that everybody is having more sex than them . This results in a kind of angry justification for bad behaviour that the world is stacked against them and in favour of that douchebag jock from high school.

You will notice that none of these reasons are set in stone, we can change them. Sexual politics does not have to stay this way.

One more thing: Your statement that 50% of the population has done the behaviour in question seems a bit over the top and you seem to be almost implying that it's inevitable. If that were the case then it would be a horrendous statistic. Although I do think that a very high proportion of men have done something resembling harassment of a woman at some point in their life.
This is how relations between countries work. They need to be bilateral by definition. Agreements are weighed on a cost benefit ratio. What country wants to continue to be friends with a country that harbors their fugitives?
That may be your opinion, but I see nothing to back up you r assertion that 'most reasonable people' believe the charges to be trumped up. Why bother trumping up charges through an intermediary instead of just issuing a warrant for Assange's arrest on espionage grounds?
Perhaps. It was arguably baked in to the Constitution though, and adhered to in spirit, if not in deed.
> From a "hacker" perspective, even metadata on the key employees of a corporation is incredibly valuable -- imagine knowing with what firms a company is communicating, giving inside lines of investment-impacting activities like acquisitions. This is enormously valuable stuff.

When Boeing and McDonnell Douglas merged, executives from those companies would fly to different, distinct cities for negotiations and then drive several hours to the actual meeting location. In that case, just knowing that execs from those two firms were flying to the same city repeatedly would be more than enough to start merger rumors.

IIRC, ExxonMobil did the same when acquiring XTO. Exxon didn't want XTO's share price to skyrocket on rumors of an acquisition as it could've made the deal unprofitable.
Even so, the imprisonment would be because he returned per se. He may come back and the jury says "not guilty" and walk off a free man, after all.
I use Firefox, and I had no idea about Shift+F4 either. Firefox also has Ctrl-Shift-K (probably Cmd-Shift-K on Mac) which is much more similar to the Chrome console you're talking about, and is useful for debugging the page you're on.
"Well I do hate to say it but we've always had an "us or them" mentality to the rest of the world. I mean we were so isolationist that we were willing to watch Europe burn from afar rather than do anything. There's no telling what would have happened without Pearl Harbor; the U.S. may never have joined the war against Germany at all, in fact."

The rich would have made more money selling arms to both sides. (In fact some did.)
The blogger in question graduated Harvard Law in 1994, so it's pretty unlikely that he's a "Millenial".
The upper classes were generally privately tutored until they were sent off to "college" afaik. I think college was the first taste of "mass education" that anyone had, and seems to primarily have been a means of certifying the emergent professional class whereas the tradesmen had his guild and standing within the guild to do the same.
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Presumption of innocence is not explicitly enshrined as a right in the US constitution. Rather, it's entered from other rights, like the 5th amendment. In the case of rape, many local US jurisdictions have weakened it in the interest of deterrence.
Chris Hedges on Edward Snowden
Which NSA whistleblower was subjected to solitary confinement?
Google is in crisis because they need 2-3 times more ads than before to keep earnings growth. At some point everything will be ads, even page 2.

Also many users do not know they are seeing ads, imagine if FTC cracked down on shady labeling? People do not like seeing that many ads and Google's revenue and reputation would go down the drain.

>> It takes crazy logic to see good Google search results consistently everyday, and then not trust Google's results for a high value query.

Why, maybe Google manipulates only the high earning keywords? There is no money on "Snowden leaks"

Business owners should band and push another search engine. Google has some guy name Mat Cutts offering "do this and that and your ranking will improve from [update a-z]" but apparently these are lies by Google, Google is actively taking away traffic to send it to ads. Some site that paid $50 for a click, will have to get that money back, and you, the user, will pay for it.
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