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1) I'm pretty sure that never happened, it's just a hypothetical.

2) The hypothetical is needlessly dramatic. John Woo's point is that the U.S. courts cannot supervise the President's execution of a war on foreign soil, because the Constitution invests the President with sole power, as commander in chief, of how war is conducted. Crushing a child's testicles is a graphic example designed to invoke an emotional response, but it's logically indistinguishable from any other activity, no matter how minor or how egregious, if the premise is that the courts have no authority to second-guess how the President executes a war. And after all, is it really such a controversial concept? Very few people would argue that the President didn't have the authority to vaporize Hiroshima and Nagasaki with nuclear weapons, without consulting Congress and without being second-guessed by the courts. If he can do that, what's left?
It's not even like the soldiers aren't allowed to read it, say, in an internet cafe, right?

It might be a bit petty and bureaucratic, but hey, considering the Streisand effect I say go for it... it's bound to make a few people check it out that weren't interested before, and I doubt it will keep anyone from reading what they were interested in already.
Mark my words, if this keeps going we'll soon see ISPs ordered to block some foreign media sites, and see news sites becoming regulated. You know, just to make sure no one credible publishes leaks anymore, for national security and so on.
Excuse me but...

Isn't With the same argument chinese internet firewalls are "not censorship".
OR With the same argument access to social media or telephone "not censorship".
Then read the original article linked in the first paragraph. It's not that they're trying to pretend the documents weren't leaked. It's that systems are all classified to handle information at a given level, and if you find e.g. TS/SCI information on an FOUO system, then you have to investigate it and take corrective action (which often means wiping or even reclassifying the system). So, rather than deal with a huge mess of pointless investigations of classification violations, they're just trying to keep the data entirely off their systems.
Here is a paper that disproves the USC paper mentioned in the story. http://arxiv.org/abs/1305.4904
Yes, no need to worry about new information as it comes to light if it was in the past. We can't learn anything from history.
While you're right in pointing out that the current blame can be primarily directed at Obama, it is also Bush's fault. Its a slippery slope of diminishing fundamental rights guaranteed by the constitution, and whoever follows Obama as president is likely to just follow it even further..
It does in Australia. It's a work expense. Just because there are other options that are free it doesn't mean it's not deductible. That'd be like telling a carpenter they have to use a tree branch as a hammer. But I'm no tax expert in your region, so it might be worth investigating if you're not certain.
> How do we do that when people don't care about privacy?

the same way governments / politicians / mass media do it: you make them care.

it's a sad fact of humanity that most people will care about whatever they are told to care about, or rather, whatever their peers are perceived to care about.

right now there is a window of opportunity for privacy to stand in the public eye's spotlight, fighting a (very real) fight against the encroaching forces of totalitarianism.

you ask what to do. how about anything you see an opportunity to. educate your friends about privacy, about what is going on, about what the dangers of surveillance are[0], or perhaps educate yourself about using GPG, get the hang of it together with a few other techie friends, so that you can explain it to more people (because it's really not that complex, if someone walks you through it), if you have a brilliant idea write some code, etc. and also, delete Facebook?

[0] http://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/1fv4r6/i_belie...
And using Emacs without remapping your Caps Lock key will cause those fingers to die just a bit sooner....

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Wouldn't you have to encrypt the text repeatedly, once for each recipient?
The statement isn't so much that employees can't read the news source, but that government computers/network/etc must only interact with classified information via proper mechanisms. I work at a DOE lab and they requested that we not view any such material while at the lab or on lab machines because the operator could receive large fines for mismanagement of classified information, but we're free to read whatever we want when off-site on our own hardware.
The saddest thing about it is that they do not even need to explain it anymore. People just assume that it's a thing the government can/will do.

Maybe we need to repeat our errors every 3-4 generations to keep them in our society's consciousness.
The Rayleigh process describes the continous depletion of a reservoir through a fractionationing process - evaporation. It comes from the fact that heavier isotopes need slightly more energy for a phase change and thus get enriched in the fluid phase. In the case of water, it is mainly the stable O18 (as opposed to the abundant O16).

- Lighter isotopes evaporate easier and precipitate down on land. If they don't return to the ocean for a long time due to freezing and glaciation, the ocean has a higher ratio of heavy to light isotopes. More ice means lower ocean level, and since the ratio in the ocean is dependent on the missing water mass, calculations directly give the sea level.

Now how do we know what the isotope ratio was in the past?

In the oceans, there are those small animals (foraminifera) that build the oxigen from water into their shells. The Wikipedia article you found discusses this. (Another fractionation process, add more calculations here. Additional temperature dependance.) When they die, they float to the ocean floor and, in time, form sediments and eventually lime rock, which can be drilled for probes.

Furthermore, different kinds live in different depths, giving us even more information. This can be used for the past 70 million years, since that's the age of the oldest ocean floors. Almost (!) everything older has been subducted again. However, it is not easy to disentangle the temperature effect from the ice volume effect.

You can check those out, if you're interested, they explain more thoroughly than the wikipedia article:

shorter lecture script:
http://www.iup.uni-heidelberg.de/institut/studium/lehre/Aqua...

long looooong version (read this and become a hydroscientist long):
http://www-naweb.iaea.org/napc/ih/IHS_resources_publication_...
Don't congress need to actually declare war before the President gets to execute war powers?

Congress hasn't declared war in ages.
Nope. It's no different than your employer having an Internet filter at work to prevent you from engaging in activities that are unproductive or expose them to liability. You can still do whatever you want on your own computer and your own time.
I'm not an expert in this area, but I think you have a different opportunity than most. People who are maintaining Quicken Home Inventory data to the point that they need to keep the data are hardcore users.

They have data that is valuable and they are using software that really sucks. A better alternative has to be worth $30, but might need some marketing support or some bundling with other solutions that users who keep home inventories need.
STM isn't a commonly used feature. (I believe Stuart Halloway said this? http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Concurrency-Clojure)

Rather, I imagine that in such discussions, one should first focus more on immutable values; then the time model of identities and values (which encompasses the ref types, of which STM is just one); then things like pmap, reducers and stuff you get from Java.

[Disclaimer: I know next to nothing about Scala, and would surely enjoy playing with Scala's Akka within Clojure.]
My problem is that I am invested in vim to the extent that I will need to relearn quite a bit if I give up vim. I can do that but what does ST provide me over vim - that's my main point of debate along with the fact that the $70 price for one version with paid upgrades means things are not in the impulse purchase zone over the long run. (Not upgrading doesn't really work - ST2 might stop working if I upgrade to say Ubuntu 14.04 and I am not sure if ST2 will continued to be supported and how long.)

I would have bought it if it was $29 and proprietary OR $70 opensource donation ware or $49 proprietary with 3 free version upgrades. That's my comfort feel around editors - YFMV of course.
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Scala uses STM and has persistent datastructures by default.

http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/2.1.4/scala/stm.html
Post "secrets" in so many places they have to turn their internet off :-D
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According to someone from NETCOM, it's because the leaks are still classified. Therefore, unclassified networks within the army must block the leaks in order to maintain their operational goals of no classified information on those wires. They have separate classified networks, which surely allow it.

There's an old saying... There's the right way to do something, and then there's the Army way.

The Department of Defense routinely takes preventative “network hygiene” measures to mitigate unauthorized disclosures of classified information onto DoD unclassified networks.

We make every effort to balance the need to preserve information access with operational security, however there are strict policies and directives in place regarding protecting and handling classified information. Until declassified by appropriate officials, classified information—including information released through an unauthorized disclosure—must be treated accordingly by DoD personnel.
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My wife mentioned this in the car yesterday, and I think its apt. Bush was an MBA. He didn't care about the law, he just ignored it. Obama is a JD. He does care about the law, but he's also willing to entertain legal positions that make fine distinctions to go right up against what the law allows. The public, however, can't really tell the difference. To them (the subset of them that care at all) the legal distinction between collecting data and collecting metadata or targeting only non-U.S. persons doesn't resonate, and they can't see the difference between what Obama is doing and what Bush was doing.
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The main difference is that in WWII, Congress gave the president the power to go to war through a declaration of war. In the war on whatever it is that might allow the president to spy on US citizens, Congress has practically abdicated its responsibility. Presidential power has grown significantly since Bush and continues to do so throughout the Obama terms. While that certainly proves your final point is true, I wish Congress would take back some of that power and just maybe, we'd be a little more free.
I am not happy about it, but should I be grumpy?
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It's not petty. Given the laws surrounding classification they're just trying to save themselves a giant mess of pointless work and a tremendous amount of money on reprovisioning systems.
New strategy: Make it about Bush. Obama is at least as culpable b/c he would have had a good excuse to raise a red flag about the improprieties upon taking office.
Because all secrets are assigned codes and, I believe, names and registered through a central secrets database coordinated through all services. Someone has to close the ticket, first, and there may be outstanding issues.
Good. Vim is a great, extremely powerful tool. One of the things that I really couldn't stand about Sublime was that so many users were trying to make it more like Vim. I don't want to use Vim for my daily work. I want to use Sublime. Vim is free, if I wanted to use it for anything more that modifying conf files, I'd use it. But please, don't turn Sublime into Vim... we already have a GREAT Vim.
tweet from Spencer Ackerman

'DOD wants me to know it's not deciding to block the Guardian's website, its automatic classification content filters are. So there's that.'

https://twitter.com/attackerman/status/350597454627995648
The thing is I need to do Itemized Deductions if I want to tax deduct that expense here in the US. The problem is that it many a times comes out less than the standard deduction.
I think it's just a matter of what's deemed important. I posted a bug on the forums, got a reply, and within the next update it was fixed.
Yes and no. Yes, Switzerland (and Norway) are not in the EU and don't want to offically join. However they have special trade deals with the EU, customs union, they have to implement EU law, they have to allow free movement of EU citizens to live and work there, they are in the Council of Europe and have to abide by the European Court of Human Rights, they're in Schengen. Switzerland and Norway are basically in EU in everything but name.
It started under Bush, so this is one instance where I think they are right. However, I blame Obama more because he was supposed to do the opposite.
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Yes, and it appears that America is in need of such a court.
I'd like to see how this compares performance-wise with MongoDB and other JSON-based document stores, especially with data sets that are at a larger scale. I know Mongo tends to start crumbling if it can't fit an entire index in the available memory (which happens when you have a 4GB data set, unfortunately). Have you done any of those comparisons?

That said, this looks really interesting. Though I can't imagine for the life of me why you'd indent such a wonderful project with tabs. ;)
> Why a secret leaked to the public and available to all is still treated as a secret is confusing.

This is standard OpSec. You neither confirm nor deny the leak because it's entirely possible that the information itself is a plant designed to draw out responses that leak more information.
I don't think the issue is he doesn't see the problem but that he has learned is powerless to stop it. People need to realize our democratic system is broken. It's our military and intelligence industrial complexes with the government contacted corporations who benefit from them that really run things.
I would be happy to comment on a newspaper article about the legal opinions expressed in the Obama white house about the legality of the programs Obama has continued or created. Perhaps in another 10 years I will be able to do so.
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The "automatic classification content filters" that can't prevent classified material from getting out, but can prevent it from getting in. What a useless idea.
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Ever get told that you're "just un-fit" when merely standing up causes you to nearly pass out, by a doctor who exudes confidence?

Better to lack confidence than have too much.
This has nothing to do with censorship and everything to do with people keeping their clearances. Viewing classified information in any form even after publication is not allowed. The policy may be misguided because duplication of the content occurs regardless on the web, but the original intent of the policy was to prevent further damage.
It's well-established that Congress need not issue a formal declaration of war in order to authorize the President to use military force. Others here can probably speak better to why our Constitutional order evolved this way. My speculation has always been that many century-old laws are tangled up with special cases for times of formally declared war that are not suited to the era but too much trouble to excise.
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If it gives Obama a scape-goat and lets him turn himself into the restorer, so be it.
Top by what standard?

If it's not objective, they're not top.

The doctor who rescued MY life from a disabling illness is humble, because people who are cocky have something to lose if they admit they don't know the answers.
The only thing the Constitution says about the subject is that "Congress shall have the power to... declare war." It doesn't give a specific format for an "official declaration of war" or anything like that. Congress hasn't declared an official war since World War II, but the actions in Iraq and Afghanistan were backed up by Congressional resolutions authorizing force against those regimes. Congress never declared war against Tripoli during the Barbary Wars (just 12 years after the signing of the Constitution) so at least historically it doesn't seem like the founding generation believed it necessary to pass some "official declaration of war" in order to signal Congress's approval for the President to execute war.
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Are you sure it started under Bush? Accusations that Echelon was being used for industrial espionage date back to the 90s.

This is relevant because a creeping erosion needs to be fought differently than something that had a distinct event that caused it.
One possible theory is that it could be related how the data set deals with (or fails to deal with) Book-Norwegian vs New-Norwegian. Also modern Swedish and Danish grammar only uses two genders while Norwegian still has three, so that could weight in.
The title is very misleading IMO. There have been quite a lot of questions around D-Wave's quantum computing claims. The linked story is about a paper that shows that the D-Wave machine indeed shows signs of quantum entanglement.

The question whether D-Wave's quantum computer can achieve non-linear speed-up WRT classical computers is still not answered (but a lack of quantum entanglement would have ruled out such a speed-up).

The lack of scientific characterization of what the D-Wave machine actually does is quite odd, given that they have been selling these machines as "quantum computers" for quite some time.

As other commenters have pointed out, Scott Aaronson's blog is a very good resource for scientific discussion of D-Wave's claims: http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=1400
I suspect that Obama may actually be more culpable. But I can't read an article in a major US newspaper about the legal opinions in the Obama white house, so I can't start excoriating him for ignoring (and overriding) legal council. I can (and hereby do) excoriate him for conducting the least open and transparent white house I have experienced. As certain top politicians have pointed out[1], this is a terrible way to run a government.

[1] http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOp...
As someone who just purchased a car at a dealer: it really is.

I'm majorly hoping that Tesla paves the way to change that. Once prices come down to the ~$30k range and a larger percentage of consumers have the option of buying through Tesla, I think we'll be seeing a dramatic paradigm shift away from the horrible dealer experience.

Although there's still a long way to go, I'm excited for Tesla.
I think "Trashumans" is a better description than "Transhumans"
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nice, thanks for sharing. still looking for a good alternative ;)
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How does it stand on ACID, joins, redundancy, scaling etc?

Its a hobby project so I'm going to presume the worst, but I want to know what the author intends to do for each of these.
It's the same editor whether you pay to use it or not. The tiny hassle at the beginning of clicking "OK" is just to remind you to finally pay for it when you move from hobbyist to professional. :)

And if you work in a big company, who knows! They might already have a group license you can you.
The reason for that is that classified information doesn't magically become unclassified when it is leaked. It keeps it's classification until it is formally declassified.

This has nothing to do with censorship, it has to do with the zeal of some to follow the rule to the letter, even when it makes no sense.
It's funny hearing the UK people complain about the "democratic deficit" in the EU. The UK voting system (of First Past the Post, single member constituencies and a party whip) is quite weird and appears undemocratic. I'm in Ireland with a party whip system, but Proportional Represetation and multiseat consultancies, so not being able to vote 1,2,3,… appears undemocratic to me.

"Unelected buerocrats"? You mean like the House of Lords which allows someone who wasn't elected to be a cabinet minister? (Lord Mandelson, Baroness Warsi, etc.)

"Haemorrhaging money"? Remember the UK MP expenses?

So ask yourself, is the UK Parliament more or less democratic than the EU?
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One effective and realistic way to get beyond this homogenous internet is for the developers of killer apps to promote the use of proprietary web destinations as opposed to feeding Facebook and the Apple and Android app stores. Open, reliable and real-time protocols like RSS and email can be used to organize the resultant decentralization in a healthy fashion.
Ireland, which is also an island, and even more cut off from the Continent, is less europhobic than UK.
> Maybe we need to repeat our errors every 3-4 generations to keep them in our society's consciousness.

I think that history shows that this is probably closer to the truth than you meant it to be.
> Governments can still gather the metadata of encrypted emails.

True, but don't throw out the baby with the bathwater right away. I know metadata is at least as sensitive as the actual content, but you need to pick your battles. If we get people to widely use GPG to encrypt the content of their emails, that is already a huge win. Why? Because they're now using a public/private key infrastructure. And as you are probably well aware, as soon as everyone involved has secure private keys, implementing all sorts of nifty crypto strategies to hide pretty much whatever you want, is just a matter of adding protocols. And that can be done pretty transparently, if only the intended users would already be using keypairs for identity management. So, IMO, even if just encrypting the content is not quite complete privacy, it's a great step on the way to getting there.

The other way around, hiding the metadata first, or perhaps both at the same time, seem a lot harder to accomplish widely.

So even if you're technically right, getting the public in the habit of using GPG, is not a waste of time, it's just that for some crazy reason common usage of strong crypto is so far behind the times they are going to need several steps to catch up with technology.

> Is there a standard email header that advertises "you can reply back to me with a PGP encrypted email encrypted to key ID X and I'll be able to read it automatically"? If not, somebody should propose one. Public keyservers exist so I see no reason a simple header like this wouldn't suffice.

that's a great idea. anyone know if something like this does not already exist?

(and I'm not entirely sure if those key-ID's are sufficiently unique and/or secure, but you can put more then just the ID in such a header to fix that)
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Saving themselves work, okay. Saving the taxpayer money. nah.. it's not like it's actually their money.

That material isn't just available at that URL, so the only way to be sure is to inspect traffic for the data. So what is this other than a pointless token gesture, or incompetence?

And there are other things other than that material at the Guardian. It's, like, a full blown newspaper. That's what makes it seem petty.
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