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I've always been very curious about "bomb making materials" reported in the news. A reasonably clever person can turn common household items into "bombs" - a rapid exothermic reaction and a containment vessel with "good" failure properties and there you go.

Does anyone realize just what a person could do by just having bleach and ammonia!?

Extra paranoid: Think about how much shrapnel material you are "hiding" in your computer - all those little screws cleverly disguised as "holding it in the right places".
Hell, you didn't need to be an Italian to get "conscripted" into a sharashka. Some of the best Russian aircraft designers (e.g. Tupolev) were contributing to the Russian war (WWII) effort from prison.
Where did your 2012 taxes go?
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Exchanges, for one, in virtually any industry. Recall that one of the primary concerns after 9/11 were the NYSE, Nasdaq, Mercantile Exchange, etc. Banking centers. Oil refineries. Port. Etc.
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You haven't really visited Eastern-Europe or any post-Soviet country, have you? :)

Corruption was always high-scale, but usually with low visibility or even lower accountability (as long as you bribe the watchers too). I think the major change is the visibility of these actions, and the expectations around them: people now hope (and not just dream) for better.
In the Irish case, terrorists achieved their stated objectives by using terrorism. You said that was a good outcome. I don't see how that isn't advocating terrorism.
To all but the first, "yes." If that idea frightens you more than the greater number of murders or accidents or disasters, that kill more people and do more damage, then you have lost perspective - probably because you have fallen victim to fear mongering.

To the first, it depends on what we have to trade away and on what we get in return. There will always be risks, because our resources are finite and the world is occasionally hostile. A 9/11 scale terrorist attack happening every few years is bad, but unless the resources we shift there make a bigger difference in reducing those threats they can make elsewhere, you should be "content" in the sense that that is the result of the policy that you should prefer. In this context, freedom/power can be viewed as an important resource: power in the hands of the security apparatus makes them more effective, but freedom in the hands of the people helps to protect against government abuses (in the extreme, tyranny - but things don't have to get there for it to be important).
What, you don't want free animated smilies?
> scary to repackage food in non-food facilities.

Scary to repackage it for getting sued by everyone involved, but to be honest, not much can contaminate Vodka.
Huh? That's not an article from Yahoo. That's a syndicated reprint from Atlantic Wire. And if you actually read it, you'll see that it contains no original material except, "This is what someone else said."
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The apologist begins to sputter.
Interesting. But don't you think the scores are often drug related or gang related? In which the gangs primary motive is trafficking drugs?
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Regarding your final point, here's a lovely quote that I've found particularly useful recently:

"'National Security' is the root password to the Constitution." -- Phil Karn
Here's a good summary of what happened to K2, the chronometer on the Bounty. It turned out to be essential to the mutiny's settlement on Pitcairn. http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/bounty-mutiny-hal...
Yeah, I was actually a little surprised by that myself. I doubt most average street officers understand much about the notion of "individual sovereignty" or know much anarchist theory. In this case, give the guy even more credit, because my particular "flavor" of anarchism is anarcho-capitalism, and the stickers include a "Read Rothbard" sticker, a "V for Voluntary" sticker, one that shows two stick-figure cops beating another stick figure and has a caption "Government, protecting and serving the shit out of you" and one generic circle-A sticker, mixed in with a bunch of mountain biking and heavy metal band stickers.

OTOH, I know local police and state police do occasionally receive bulletins and notices and training stuff from the feds, and I think at least a few of those have mentioned anarchists and "individual sovereignty"... I think at least one of those got widely circulated on Slashdot, Reddit, here on HN, etc., under a headline like "The FBI Thinks You Are A Terrorist If You Read The Constitution" or something.
Thanks! If we were transferring milk I might be a little more concerned, but we sterilized everything in the dishwasher beforehand, and were using vodka to keep it extra-sterile ;)
A careful compiler could avoid WARs more easily in 3AC than 2AC (by spacing reuse of registers), so an architecture without renaming could still extract ILP.

It's not a general or optimal solution, though.
Remember when the Secret Service visited the 13-year old boy at his school regarding a Facebook post? http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/national_worl...

What about Justin Carter, a 19-year old recently freed on $500,000 bail for another Facebook post?

So we know that Federal (and State) law enforcement spends resources following up very tenuous leads.

As far as burning sources and methods, what else would you have them do to follow up on this specific lead? Six agents interviewing someone for an hour seems less expensive than weeks or months of surveillance.

What does it matter if the account is true or false? It's completely plausible.
Nope, sounds stupid to me and my neighbors were NSA agents.
We were definitely pretty inspired by the Airbnb Obama-O's story
I just think it's naive to believe that Russian regime would not use the information that Snowden has in his possession in exchange for asylum.
Absolutely disgusting.

>When GCHQ does supply the US with valuable intelligence, the agency boasts about it. In one review, GCHQ boasted that it had supplied "unique contributions" to the NSA during its investigation of the American citizen responsible for an attempted car bomb attack in Times Square, New York City, in 2010.

>No other detail is provided – but it raises the possibility that GCHQ might have been spying on an American living in the US. The NSA is prohibited from doing this by US law.

I'd say that's more than a possibility. That's a reasonable inference. And there's nothing that any of the citizens of our respective western democracies can do about it. Our own governments aren't representing our interests. We can't flee to other governments because they're the ones doing our own government's dirty work. It's corruption all the way down to protect us from a nebulous threat, even though the panopticon presents a far more pervasive and persistent threat than any terrorist could ever dream of, and whose motivations are typically a response to our own foreign policies to begin with. It's a nasty positive feedback loop that I want no part in, but have no substantive say in regardless.
Where is the most common place to find a not-insignificant number of novelty accounts on a large-userbase forum? Reddit is the only place that comes to my mind.
Are you complaining about the breastfeeding picture? In which country are you that this is not safe for your place of employment?
... and that post to be in HN front page. Wow.
True. But optimization and improvisation was being thought about for the past century; how much lost opportunity from not doing this in the '50's and '60's?
But how many characters are in a typical line of English?
With all of the recent talk around the NSA, I thought it would be interesting to try to figure out how much what is being done actually costs me as an individual. It looks like defense in general takes up about a quarter of my total income tax... Not sure how that breaks down for intelligence though.
You're not following. Yes, Bayes says that following up on stupid Facebook posts is also a waste of time. But the cost of following up on Facebook posts is low; nobody is surprised that the FBI finds out about stupid threats you post to Facebook, because Facebook is essentially public. The cost of following up on a Google dragnet is very high; the whole artifice of the Internet surveillance program is that it's not used this way.

Note that I'm not saying that Internet surveillance data doesn't get used this way. I'm saying that when it does, the USG sure as shit doesn't advertise the fact. They don't burn sources and methods for no good reason.

It's almost totally implausible.
Haven't seen it at all while logged in, but sometimes incognito SERPs will have the washed out color.
Hmm, depends how you count it. Arguably, hospitals are significant defense against flesh eating bacteria, just not terribly targeted. Likewise, police forces, firearm restrictions, and mental health services all serve to reduce somewhat the risks from "maniacs going postal". I wouldn't be surprised if either of these were in the hundreds of billions, though certainly not all of that is federal money. I don't know enough about meteor defense, but expect you're closer to unequivocally right there.
You never asked me if I would turn you in.
"uncontrolled violent organization". That's a bit of an overstatement, don't you think? And the same or worse could be said of the Russian FSB ( former KGB )
The Stack Overflow Microsoft app contests rewarded people for asking legitimate Stack Overflow questions. In fact some of the contest prizes were hard to obtain because they required X questions/answers with a score X or more votes. Many of the topics were sufficiently covered already, making additional questions/answers duplicative. However, this ensured that the integrity of Stack Overflow was maintained even if it did make the contest more difficult.
Offer him a substantial bonus to change his name.

You could Kickstarter the money with donations from database admins around the world.
I have now decided to change my name to Null Undefined.
My takeaway from this article is that it was a piece of realistic fiction, not reported as fact and thus not a "hoax".

The author, Michele Catalano lists herself as a political writer not a news reporter.

http://michelecat.wordpress.com/about/

Edit: I take it all back, she claims on her twitter that this is accurate and true. I share your reservations on the veracity of this account.
"Tracking can be bad for some people, it can ruin their careers, destroy their marriage, completely upend their life if that sort of information got out. However, for most of us, it's not especially valuable information and any one day will look like any other."

> I think the thing to realize here is life can change very quickly. What if, for one reason or another, you become a celebrity all of a sudden - Or happen to acquire particularly well-connected enemies. When this kind of powerful info is used against you things look quite different.
While, I agree this COULD all be a sham story for someone who may be a bit of an attention seeker ... I would like to counter your arguments anyways to show that this story is actually perfectly believable.

In the article, the 'Task Force' (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joint_Terrorism_Task_Force) probably has a set of "Tasks" that they must accomplish to be ... well ... worth being a department with a budget. And I imagine one of those is following up on "profile-perfect" households or individuals.

So what would make this household 'profile-perfect'? Well it is true that there were searches for Pressure cookers and backpacks but that alone won't mean much due to the massive amounts of searches for these products.

But BOTH searches were done; and yet still I have to agree that the intersection still does not provide an un-biased view.

However, what if we take into consideration the timescale at which these searches (and possible purchases) took place? We know that the searches were made WITHIN the same week. This factor could possibly give us stronger signals for a profile-match.

Now what if we couple that with 'international travel'(e.g. how often a passport was used in a system for out-of-country travel)? The profile match would become higher due to the husbands business trips.

And I don't know where these people live, but location could also be a factor as well (e.g. the closer you live to a major city the greater your risk potential factor).

Now the cross-section for these factors would have such precision that doing a dragnet on this profile-match set would be feasible. And I imagine it would amount to less than 100 households a week (although I think if the story is true that the agent said this just to 'console' the family that this is common practice and there is nothing to worry about).

What do you guys think?

EDIT: Also not to mention that another factor could be 'Copy-cat-syndrome'(made up the term) e.g. how many things were occurring at this household to make them appear like potential Boston-bomber copycats?
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well per replies on the original site, restrict access to those who an Apple ID and associated CC info on file.

The only issue I see with that solution is, is the Genius Bar also there so advise people on which apple products to buy, hence new customers?
IE9 falling is a great thing because Microsoft is pushing IE10 out in its place. IE10 will be below 10% within a year because IE11 will be the new Microsoft standard.

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Half the scumminess here is that they don't understand StackOverflow isn't a general purpose forum, I think. It would be less offensive if they were paying a popular forum member to mention the contest. On StackOverflow, however, you are supposed to post questions about something you are programming, however. So it really isn't valid to just bring up a contest as a contest. I suppose theoretically, if they wanted to do something close to what they want they'd have to pay someone to try using their APIs and post questions they encounter and mention the contest on the side. Although even that is kind of stretching it.
What does that mean, then:

"Yes, I would justify someone forcing you to pay taxes to fund the NSA in that case."

I simply don't understand how "justifying forcing me" is not the same as telling the police. If it is not, what's the moral difference for you?
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...because apparently, Russians have never heard of artificial insemination and families with gay parents. You've got sperms, eggs, and loving parents. What's the problem?
So if I understand correctly this attacks HTTP compression instead of TLS compression - which is what makes it different from the previous CRIME attack.

This means there should be several important practical differences:

1) Things like cookies and other authorization headers are safe. They are not compressed according to the standard and cannot be sniffed in this attack.

2) Components of the URI are also safe.

However, it seems like anyone that uses form-encoded CSRF tokens might be in for a bad time. In fact, any guessable data in a request body is not safe (phone numbers, credit card numbers, SSN numbers, email addresses, etc). Also, I'm not sure what the implications are for SPDY/HTTP 2.0, which IIRC compress headers by default as well.
No, because there would be no proof that the false flag terrorism was having an effect, unlike the case where terrorism led to an obvious change in policy, as was the case in Ireland).

I agree totally that policy changes should be considered on their own merits. Therefore we should defend ourselves against terrorist attacks without regard for their stated goals.
> Finally, 9/11 had an enormous cost, but a lot of the psychological cost is due to fear mongering from people who lack the perspective the numbers bring

What about the psychological cost of fearmongering about the possibility of 1984-style dystopias vs. the reality of violent attacks whether broken up beforehand or not?

I'm not saying the government should have the powers that it has now, but if you can "live with" terrorism then you can just as easily "live with" surveillance.
If I were this company, I would seriously consider taking this article down and not mentioning it in public again. I think it's fairly likely that this conduct it quite seriously illegal. I hope you guys don't get into any trouble.
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Absolutely nothing obligatory about it...
25% on national defense? Holy crap.
My concern right now is that I don't feel mentally up to evaluating the product. If I signed up for this early build I would feel obligated to provide you with meaningful feedback (even if you said, "don't worry, just use it," just because it seems like the right thing to do). Sounds lame, but it is what it is.

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Has any alien invasion ever happened?

Also, you don't know that DoD spends nothing against alien invasions. :)
It's a SOAP request going from a flash client to a coldfusion server. Yeah.
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You're overestimating the competence of government.
Then he might end up stuck when he tries to change his name and discovers the government office that do it also don't escape names properly.
When I type in "pressure cooker", the very first suggested Google query is "pressure cooker bomb"...which means a non-significant number of people have either searched for that query or have written about it.

And this is the first dramatic account we've heard of this? We've heard of several National Security Letters, the disclosure of which is breaking the law...yet none of the presumably hundreds and thousands of people who have been visited by government black SUVs have not made a quip about being erroneously searched? Even though such searches, as the OP describes it, are mostly non-confrontational and end with the agents being non-threatening?

Yeah, I also have to express some skepticism here.
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I think you'll find that the presence of effective, competent governance is pretty strongly correlated with the availability of both food and jobs.

You missed my point, anyway, which is that your comfortable notions of a safe, orderly society will go right out the window once the economy breaks down, which it would if you removed the framework in which it operates, which is basically indistinguishable from government.

"Any society is only three square meals away from revolution"
I suspect similar cooperations are in effect in many countries in Europe. Which would also explain a very compliant reaction in the Snowden case.
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Of course, it's perfectly fine to circumvent a foundational privacy law of your country by paying a foreign spy agency to do it on your behalf. What could possibly be ethically dubious about that?
I find it sad that the correct answer talking about the nil=true attribute is last.