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I'm willing to forgive Ezra his hyperbole here; the rest of the article was fairly illuminating.

Your central claim seems to be that our man JR only has authority to appoint federal judges to FISC for 7 year tenures, but cannot alter how FISC itself works, and in any case he can't stop citizens from challenging the surveillance state through all the well-known avenues. Therefore he doesn't have "exclusive, unaccountable, lifetime" power.

I agree that this characterization precludes JR from "exclusive, unaccountable, lifetime" power but I don't think it stops him from exercising a surprising amount of it. I particularly enjoyed this synopsis from Klein:

The FISA court is composed of federal judges. All are appointed by the same man. All but one hail from the same political party. And unlike judges in normal courts, FISA judges don’t hear opposing testimony or feel pressure from colleagues or the public to moderate their rulings.

The power to pick and choose who gets to interpret the laws Congress might set is quite substantial in its own right. It's true that if Congress banned all surveillance the judges would have limited power, and so too would JR's power be limited.

But on the other hand, if Congress chose some other slightly more complicated law to limit surveillance, his power would increase. For any moderately complex legal document, there is substantial latitude in how intelligent people reasonably interpret it. This allows, for example, smart SCOTUS judges to disagree quite substantially in their interpretation of the Bill of Rights. More pertinently, it allows one of the authors of the Patriot Act to ask in confusion how it enabled the current surveillance.

The power to pick and choose those who consistently swing one way or another on the question of surveillance, for whatever benign, intelligent reasons, might not be an "exclusive, unaccountable, lifetime" one, but it's substantial enough to give me pause.

You know I enjoy your comments, and my long disagreement here is a sign of respect, not antipathy.
Yes, I'm quibbling over "lifetime" when the power he has isn't lifetime, "exclusive" when it's a power delegated to him by the discretion of Congress, and "unaccountable" when his role is as an instrument of Congress. Congress cannot effectively recall Roberts from the Supreme Court, but the same majority of Congress that could pass a national fuel standard law could remove Roberts from the FISC.
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I feel really old now, but Adblock Plus was actually forked from the original Adblock. The "plus" part implied it was supposed to improve on the original project.
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Last time I found an anti-SOPA site that said "Enter your email address and location and we'll send you information tailored to your area." That is, it was placed to suggest you'd get information right now, about how to help with the campaign.

Of course, it was a complete lie. You were just added to their mailing list, and all you received was a message confirming that.
I use a browser that blocks nothing and one that blocks almost everything. (when something breaks, sometimes it's easier to load it in a stock browser)
Combined with AdBlock, I use Ghostery[1], which is a nice add-on (Chrome/FF/Safari/Opera/IE) : it blocks any javascript from ads networks, but also from analytics, trackers, socials plugins (and more) , and also cookies from the same trackers. Everything is configurable per-tracker and per-website.

It's quite a must-have if you don't want to be the product on the Internet. And a good failover over Ad-block.

[1]. http://www.ghostery.com/
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Thanks! Consider this: Congress could next week pass a law requiring Roberts to appoint an equal number of judges appointed by Democratic administrations as by Republican administrations. Roberts could do nothing to stop them.
My vote for the key quote (from the bottom of the article):

"Dr. Friedman-Kien said he had tested nine of the victims and found severe defects in their immunological systems. The patients had serious malfunctions of two types of cells called T and B cell lymphocytes, which have important roles in fighting infections and cancer.

But Dr. Friedman-Kien emphasized that the researchers did not know whether the immunological defects were the underlying problem or had developed secondarily to the infections or drug use."
I think the point he (jwz) was trying to make when he used the words "tax" and "lottery" is that they are, on average, not things you want to spend money on. Not that options are an ACTUAL tax or lottery. "Stupid tax" meaning (quoting Urban Dictionary) the price you pay for ignorance.

"Lottery" in the sense that, yes, someone is going to win it. Its just not going to be you, statistically.
Docker is a layer on top of raw containers that makes them more usable. In particular the tools it provides to create and publish containers are extremely useful. It uses LXC under the covers and there is talk about supporting other container implementations as well.
Um, that's dumb unless you plan on clicking their ads. Seriously, just showing a CPC ad doesn't help them. Showing a CPM ad doesn't help much either if they are getting $5-10 CPM. You literally could just pay them $5 or $10 and be more valuable than whitelisting them.
>>> He can and does appoint judges from his own party and ideology

As opposed to the president who never appoints Supreme Court judges from his own party and ideology, right? And unlike FISA judges, those judges have vast powers. If you're worried about politics in court, you're very late to the game - SC judges were appointed politically for a long time.

>>> So, he has been given a lot of power.

Yes, Supreme Court Chief Justice has a lot of power. Is it really news to anybody? He's the head of the one of the independent branches of the government, of course he has a lot of power.
Those people exist?

This world, man ...
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What has justification got to do with anything?

People aren't arguing with you because they like the fact that the government uses force. The argument is that if you eliminated the government, the alternative (private dictatorships) would be even less accountable.

Certainly people are susceptible to a kind of strange loyalty to governments, but if you remove the government that won't just disappear. People will just become loyal to the most powerful mob for protection. That's what happened before. It's up to you to explain why it would be any different now.
I see a lot of "checklist green" projects. Green construction ultimately requires a highly holistic approach, considering far more than just the parts going into the building.

There are a lot of modern (style) homes being built in Austin. They usually have expensive multi-pane glass windows for energy efficiency, which are required to get LEED, Energy-Star, and City of Austin certifications. But they lack any sort of exterior shade on them, so the sunlight just beams straight in. If they had sheltered the glass under an overhang or put an awning over it, they probably would have cut their A/C costs by a third or more. They meet the requirements to get the certificate and be sold as "green", but fail to achieve the real purpose -- reducing monthly energy costs.
Who's got time for that? There's a reason we consider the source. The Bozo Bit works.
"Inside Story Americas, with presenter Shihab Rattansi, is joined by: Nathan White, the national spokesperson for the Restore the Fourth Rally; Julian Sanchez, a research fellow at the CATO institute who focuses on technology, privacy and politics; and Thomas Drake, a former NSA senior executive and a whistleblower."

http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/insidestoryamericas/2013...
No, I've got it 100% spot on.

The proof as they say, is in the pudding.

By the time the world stops letting you get away with massive debt binging, it's too late and you're screwed. Exactly as we are today. Which is why our central bank has to 'print' in order to fund the government or it would instantly be insolvent. The QE programs are primarily about debt monetization (which is what quantitative easing was always about historically) to keep the Federal Government from collapsing.

Net exporting is how you create rapid domestic wealth: you sell manufactured goods to the rest of the world at a profit, and consume less than you earn. Just ask China about their massive increase in national wealth built on the back of net exports.
You aren't helping them unless you actually plan on clicking on the ads. Seriously, if you want to help out sites you like, pay them money.
How exactly are ad blocking extensions a security risk?

Blocking at the domain level gives you no control. What if you need to see what a site looks like without ads blocked? I have a few of my own content sites that use ads. By blocking outside of the browser I wouldn't be able to see what they look like to other users.
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>>Congress can recall any FISC judge
I don't think Congress has an ability to withdraw a judge. The only check on an individual judge is the term limits which has been ruled before not to matter in its determination that the FISA court acts like an article III court. Congress simply couldn't remove a judge except though impeachment.
I think it being a movie may have caused people to overlook the reference. I can see how easy it would be to think that Jenny's mystery disease is actually just a made-up plot device to move the story forward, as opposed to a reference to a real disease. I only caught it because my parents are doctors and I happened to be watching it with them - I asked them if she had AIDS and they said that's probably what it was.
Lotta java haters yet it stays steady. I also remember 1-3 years ago HN was full of RoR fanboys but its been pretty slow since and SO trends aren't good. It's interesting how things change and what becomes more fad like. They're both good languages, I'm just saying this to say there are no magic silver bullets ;)

Personally i think that what happened is that RoR just didn't scale to bigger projects. Java isn't perfect by any means but right now there isn't anything that scales out as well. And by scales out I don't necessarily mean performance, I mean team size.
I took your comment to mean that no button element exists, but I suppose that was not your intention. But I did realize you were referring to links being abused as buttons.

I think the issue is simply that buttons tend to have more default styling you need to override, which is more likely to vary across platforms since the default style is generally chosen to mimic the system's native buttons. Whereas default styling for links is quite simple across all platforms. Besides that, there is no particular problem with using real button elements instead of link elements as far as I'm aware, just a matter of habit and convenience.
Because they could be updated and now your whole browser is pwnd.

This is how sites like Compete.com get their metrics.
Well Fungal cells walls have ergosterol which we humans don't and that is a particular target site for many anti-fungals.

In some cases the fungal treatment is longer than usual eg: Nail infection, because it takes very long for the drug to reach the site. The treatment is around 3 months +

In most common opportunist fungal infections a few doses of anti-fungal does cure and treat the infection.

Also most Healthy individuals don't get infected with Fungus in the First Place even if they eat what ever crap with Anti-fungal substances (in your case lemon with pesticides)

Because our body defense is usually good enough to ward off fungal infections in the first place. Actually a very handful of fungal species are able to infect Healthy people.

And the article is a little Sensationalist as the disease is endemic and common to SW USA.
FISC can not call senators and ask them for anything. NSA has to call FISC and ask them if it is legal, if they confirm, NSA can proceed. FISC has no power over senators - if any senator decides something is wrong with surveillance, he can initiate a bill that says you need more approval than FISC or you can't do certain things at all - FISC only confirms that NSA is acting withing the limits that the senators (and the House of course) set the last time. FISC can not create rules - unlike SC, btw, that to a large measure can interfere with the rules, even though Roberts seem to be rather restrained from doing this in many cases where he had a possibility to do so (see Obamacare decision, for example). FISC can only say if NSA follows the rules - and it is the senator that makes the rules.
>>What Congress did with FISA was insert an administrative check on the NSA. They chose extremely confusing terminology and a confusing structure to do this with; they created a "court", appointed by the Chief Justice, to conduct internal hearings on the legitimacy of individual surveillance efforts. But that "court" functions unlike any other court in the US, because it isn't a court; it's a review board that happens to be staffed by judges.

The FISA court is an article III court(United States v. Cavanagh, 807 F.2d 787, 791-92 (9th Cir. 1987)). It is not a 'regular' article III court but it is absolutely not an administrative tribual or article I court. It has all the regular warrant powers of a court.

Specifically, all its members are confirmed judges under article III procedures and the term limits do not impact the legality of the court.
A simulation is not a building. Before I was licensed, I did a fair number of small residential additions in Florida. For a building permit, a Manual-J calculation in accordance with the Florida Energy Code was required.

At that time, do to market conditions, 1.5 ton (18k BTU) heat-pumps were about 1/3 less than 1 ton (12k BTU) units. However, oversizing the unit to the cheaper size would cause the calculation to fail and permit to be denied.

These were small projects and the difference in up front costs could be relatively substantial and the likelihood of long term payback minimal because the zoning assumptions upon which the calculations were based did not exist in the real world.

So, instead of the default of one occupant for the addition, I would enter two, or three to get the result that was needed.
That's close enough to the standard Lead II. A biphasic T wave in that lead is technically abnormal, but there are a number of benign causes. Certainly wouldn't hurt to check in with your doctor though (and you get to tell him a cool story of how you discovered it)
So sad to read that article especially seeing that they were giving people chemotherapy right away. As if dying from AIDS weren't bad enough. Yet the article did dance around the core problem in talking about a group of promiscuous people, but the connection was not made. I hope medicine has learned better the signs of a viral outbreak.
I will check your repo too. If you have problems due to similar naming let me know and I will change it.

Regarding the selector DSLs, I also went with the string solution, however I translate all selectors to a recursive ADT which could be used directly.

Maybe we should unite our powers ;)
Congress could even change how the whole FISC is done and Robert cannot do anything about that either. Clearly much of the article is hyperbole.
Government bonds and currency are different forms of government debt. One yields interest at a rate of the Fed's choosing, one does not. The net effect of swapping the private sector's bonds for the Fed's cash reserves is to remove interest income from the private sector.
Having to pay bills and feed yourself is not a justification to do anything or to compel someone to do something.

It certainly isn't a justification to coerce people and even less so to demand that people allow themselves to be coerced.
Am I the only one reading most of these comments and thinking that everyone has completely missed the point? That paying back student loans as a percentage of income instantly relieves the crushing burden of paying back a fixed dollar amount per month?

Hasn't anyone else put off starting their own business because even a few hundred dollars a month severely impacted their burn rate? I still owe over $8000 even though I graduated from college in 1999. I could write a check for that today, but there was a period in the early 2000s where I was so destitute that my student loan payment was more than my rent! I would literally be living a different life today if the proposed repayment plan had been mainstream when I graduated. I can't even imagine the ramifications of that, times a million other entrepreneurs. Where has our vision gone?
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The whole point is that Congress CAN change everything about the FISC courts and Roberts CANNOT do anything about that. So the article is wrong on that aspect.
Isn't there two potential locations depending on prospective? Moving the grave above the two trees changes which tree is on the right/left.
Apparently they were running a training drill that included 1300 officers, heavy weaponry and random bag checks.
Ask HN:  What potential innovation would occur with Gigabit internet?
Average speeds now are roughly 15Mbps. What would speeds of 1 Gbps allow to change on the internet?
Stuff in the US is worse than you thought because Chief Justice of Supreme Court has power to appoint judges on a security review panel? Who should appoint them so that you'd thing the things are better - the President (which is a politician)? The Congress - that created FISC and set the rules of appointment?
Because that "feature" existing points to a serious ethical failing and conflict of interest on the part of the author (namely, taking money to help advertisers bypass the plugin)

Firefox plugins auto-update, who's to say the next update won't have something more objectionable?
HN has a few subtle features to deter flame wars. One of them is that, as a thread grows in depth, there's an automatic delay imposed on commenting in greater depth on it. People with decisionmaking power on the HN code base believe this acts as a natural quench for stupidity neutrons, hoping to deprive the conversation of the critical mass of stupid that it needs to sustain itself.
I am pretty sure that Congress could do so a thing. Just because it ACTS like an Article III court doesn't mean it is one and since Congress created the whole thing, they can also change the whole thing.
It's completely, easily supported. The facts of America's economic decline speak volumes.

- National debt skyrocketing to extreme imbalances; it's so extreme now, America can hardly afford 1% interest on the national debt

- A hundred trillion in entitlement liabilities that can never actually be paid for, with social security already bleeding out negative flows, and there is no actual SS trust fund

- Significant erosion in the labor force participation rate, even as the population expands and a lot more households in which both parents work versus in the 1960s or 1970s

- Welfare dependency has soared

- Food stamp usage has soared

- Big surge in part time jobs; and 2nd & 3rd jobs

- U6 (aka real) unemployment has soared, now at 14.3%

- Trade deficits continue at extreme levels

- Federal Reserve has to buy 75%+ of all new US government debt to keep the government from becoming insolvent, leading to a guaranteed fiscal downward spiral that is already happening

- Economy requires permanent 0% interest rates, and trillions worth of QE stimulus just to stay flat lined

- Massive long term manufacturing job losses

- Huge plunge in return on invested capital by corporations over 40 years

- Unsustainable imbalance between consumption and manufacturing, leading to an explosion in consumer debt over 40 years

- Hyper implosion in the savings rate

- 76% of all Americans are now living paycheck to paycheck
http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/24/pf/emergency-savings/index.h...

- A trillion dollars in student loan debt that didn't exist just 20 years ago; larger than all credit card debt, and guaranteed to either drown this generation, or require a massive printed bailout; with no jobs to match the loan debt

- Primary job growth exists in services, specifically the hospitality industry; aka consumption jobs; and that's only doing ok due to the Fed inflating the stock market, so rich people are spending on hospitality

- Significant plunge in full time jobs as a trend; 240,000 were lost last month alone

- Huge shift in financial inequality in every respect

- Minimum wage falling by 70% over 40 years

- Huge decline in real disposable income

- Balance of equity to debt in home ownership

- Balance of equity to debt in car ownership (2nd most expensive thing consumers buy)

- Income per capita, 1960's vs today, relative to all other major industrialized nations

- Massive erosion in the dollar since 1970 has stolen a huge amount of standard of living from the bottom economic tiers who are least able to adjust to even modest amounts of inflation

This list is very long and it keeps going
Yep, see the One More Thing section near the end.
The President merely nominates, it's Congress that appoints via confirmation.
I re-read it and you're right. Woosh.
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Here's a good article about that particular doctor and the discovery: http://nymag.com/health/features/49240/index4.html
Congress MUST change how FISC is done, and this article unintentionally lets them off the hook by framing FISC as if it had any of the same authority as an Article III court, where Congress has far less authority.
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I can't remember anybody busted for "left-wing terrorism" lately... As for Islamic, there's some reason to take them more seriously, given the recent history.
They show up here every so often: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5317157 and http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=231238

There's even a wikipedia page with a horrible URL that made me think wikipedia suddenly had hierarchical categories: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HIV/AIDS_denialism

Gotta keep speaking truth to crazy.
Even if we all believe taxation is theft, we can still talk about which taxes and which expenditures are better than others. Given the choice between the state coercing you using the threat of violence and the state coercing you using the threat of violence in such a way that some public good is achieved, it seems natural to prefer the latter.
I don't have the exact citations at hand, but I believe a key difference with AIDS is that professional epidemiologists themselves are of the opinion that the early stages of the AIDS epidemic were mishandled, primarily due to lack of funds and/or power by the Reagan administration.
I don't think that you have any reason to feel disappointed, unless you have donated a significant amount of money to Adblock Plus. And even then, just disable that feature.

After all that's the way Adblock Plus makes most of its money, needed to develop the browser extension, port it to new platforms, maintaining and hosting the filter lists (which by the way are also used by every other ad blocker). I doubt that if Adblock Plus wouldn't have done this step, it would have ever been ported to other browsers and platforms, and that the filter lists (as mentioned, also used by other ad blockers, like AdBlock), would have been that well curated as of today.

So I don't see anything wrong with that. Or does anybody complain, that most free Android apps show adds, and you have to buy the paid version, to get rid of them? No, everybody understands that this is the way they make money. The only difference in case of Adblock Plus is, that you don't actually have to give them money, but just have to disable a checkbox in the options.