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I would love to give you the long version of this, but here is the answer to your question:

The US became a police state as soon as the CIA did its coup of the executive branch. Now, when this actually occurred is debatable - but my opinion is that they succeeded 100% once GHW Bush took the VP spot as Reagan's handler.

This coup was a LONG time in the making -- and goes all the way back to Prescott, but ever since 1980 - every president has been a puppet of GHW Bush and the CIA.

If you're interested in sources and history, we can discuss further...
I don't know about you, but in the lower class area where I grew up, every teenage boy was expected to know about engines and pistons and cam-shafts and gaskets and whatnot.

Not that they did, mind you. It was enough to know a few makes and models so you could say "Gee look at that bad ass Thunderbird with a hemi!" when something cool drove by. That, and everyone had to pick a side in the Ford/Chevy debate, with a few parroted opinions to back up your choice. Actual mechanical ability was something most people just pretended to have.

To be honest, it's not that different than with computers these days.
Was the person under NDA? Forbidden from filming beforehand?

The most of you seem to be leaping to the defense of the CEO for something that could've been a personal action based on a perceived slight instead of a corporate policy.

Out of the 1,000 or so there, wonder how many others started to record as soon as that went down. To also start recording would've been my immediate reaction.
Apple hasn't had much of an experience for developers recently...
IMHO: Seizure of property is a far greater atrocity than looking through some peoples' emails.
Damn you for making me drafting dashboards for random things now. I had stuff to do.
Rich people got to fly quicker than they needed to and it was created with public tax money, to the tune of over a billion pounds. If Concorde wasn't the poster child of excess, I don't know what was.

Thank heavens we soon discovered we were destroying the planet and environmentalism became a thing.
Yeah but why is that unique to bitcoin? How is this different than if people started showing up at Google employee's houses because they know they're well paid? How is this different than people showing up at any wealthy person's house to kidnap them?

My point is that keeping their address secret isn't how wealthy people protect themselves, so why is this so different for the avalon team?
When it's not following the Constitution and in the BATF's case frequently the law, and the gun owner gets "seized" and imprisoned as well, it's definitely in that direction. And they have regularly and often explicitly decreased the number of legal, licensed gun sellers, that's a pretty big thing, along with a multitude of abusive prosecutions of them.

But as I said, you haven't done your homework, or checked this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6185918 top level comment of mine where I detail some of the more notorious cases:

"Our side can point to kittens killed ("I swear I am not making this up"), pregnant mothers who miscarried, people crippled for life, mothers shot dead while holding a baby (Ruby Ridge, in which the BATF was enlisted to try to force her husband to spy), and many many outright killed (Waco started out as a BATF "ricebowl" operation, they wanted some nice video for their first budget in the Clinton Administration). Plus a constant drumbeat of gun owners ensnared by "flypaper" laws in gun grabbing localities; even NYC has realized it's damaging their tourist industry."

Please do your basic research before making more such howlers.
I pay 90$ for 5 quarts of synthetic oil. Everyone is different.
Because two wrongs make a right? If you're a person with character, you handle the impropriety of others in a mature and professional way.

Then again, if you're a person with character, you don't refer to your business meetings as a "locker room" or use terms like "loserville."
I envy you. I know exactly one "non-geek" person who would really listen to that kind of explanation. Everyone else I've helped was happy that I fixed the issue, but couldn't care less about why it broke or how to fix it.
A video like what?

What about the video contents mandates it shouldn't be recorded?
As someone who's had recruiters find my personal email via my GitHub commits, this is a welcome feature.
Well, because of course it was not a mistake. Inflation is a way to transfer wealth from the general population to the guys with the printing press (The gov friends). The only way to escape this trap is to save money in a hard currency, for example the dol...wait a minute...
For those of you looking for a hosted CI system, I highly, highly recommend CircleCI...we've been using it for continuous deployment, and it's been just about perfect. It's one of those tools that Just Works, and makes your life a little bit easier.
Somewhat off topic, but I found it incredibly ironic the time (at our company, not AOL) I was told not to take pictures of a slide deck being presented at an all hands (I could barely make it out from where I was, and I would use my iPhone to zoom in) - given that every single person (numbering in the hundreds) on the conference call was able to just screen shot each and every page of the presentation.

People are weird about camera's "visibly" in their presence. Have you ever noticed how places like Starbucks will go absolutely batshit if you take out a zoom lens (like a 70-200 on a Canon SLR), but not blink an eye if you snap pictures with your iPhone.

I wonder if anyone in audience was wearing GoogleGlass at the time...
150 rounds a year is probably approaching an order of magnitude too low. You need 1000's of repetitions to achieve conditioning that can overcome combat stress.

I suspect this had lots to do with the Fruitvale Station incident. Taser cartridges cost 30 or more times more than bullets, so the conditioning strength of taser use was a whole lot weaker than the conditioning strength of firing the pistol. I see this as a big problem.
> But to your actual point: we've been a nation that enslaved an entire race, locked up another one because of war, genocided yet another, banned speech against the government, ruined careers of famous scientists and actors because of political affiliations, passed laws against sex acts, shot water cannons and unleashed dogs at protesters, shot others, tore up the shanty towns of veterans, trained our soldiers to be racist so they'd be more effective, classified encryption as munitions, and on and on and on and on.

Yes, and police in US has historically acted to protect the regime and not the citizens regardless of whether the citizen actions were justified and lawful or not. Environmentalists have been dealing with this for decades[1], so it's not something new and probably not getting worse: internet activists' homes could as well have been raided, family members handcuffed and their eyes pepper-sprayed. This is fairly common, unfortunately. The question is what do we do about it?

[1] See the "If a tree falls" documentary for an excellent example.
Exactly! With the exception that most of the artist's I've conversed with don't like the word "formula", but liberally us the word "process". Also anyone is Science seems to favor "methods". They all are talking about the same activity of concentrating on an action their passionate about. Language can be a funny thing.
Not really, no.

For starters, the law creating FISA isn't something that one can "break", necessarily. The only ones who can run afoul of it are agencies like the NSA, not the populace at large.

More importantly though, the public law carves out a niche that they allow the NSA to operate under, with the proviso that the NSA get the activities pre-approved and overseen by the FISA Court, and with reports routinely made to Congress. The FISA Court verifies that the NSA's proposed activities fall within the scope of the FISA (as amendmended) and with normal case law.

For the approved programs (even the secret ones) they are approved because of the fact that they fall within the area laid out by public law (in the opinion of the FISA Court of course, but that issue underlies all of law).

Even in unclassified jurisprudence there are lots of examples of closed-door court sessions, gag orders, etc.

Now I agree that there are problems with the way the FISA Court is staffed and composed, but those problems don't derive from the closed-door nature as much as from the fact that a single person is able to stack that Court as he/she wishes.
I have a VW its a pain in the ass to get to things. I was aiming that comment towards Japanese and American car owners lol
Yes, it's not really "stealing" customers, it's a more nuanced thing and depends on how it was done, that's why I didn't mention it.

And of course the customer has a choice, he's not forced to go to the new company.
You can sneak very nasty yet innocuous things past reviews - you just have to make it out of sane looking parts, and in unrelated commits.
ideally you "invent" your secret source in front of a whiteboard (if you know what i mean), and then choose the language/ecosystem that fits best for the following implementation, and works with your future customers' (eco-)systems.

In terms of processing power, widespread availability and available libraries, JS'ish things are a good bet already. When it comes to choose language and expressions and stuff like this, there are different "meta"-languages available today.
Why are open questions being down-voted? Is there something wrong with the questions?
I would argue there's more to literacy than blindly following instructions.

In regards to computers, sure, it isn't difficult to follow some instructions. The worst that could happen? Maybe you mistype a flag and end up recursively deleting a directory.
However at least most "damage" done on a computer rarely crosses into the physical realm -- anything lost or damaged can often be repaired or restored inside of a few minutes.

So, sure, much of "computer literacy" is simply following instructions that will _usually_ work -- but there's not much hanging in the balance if you mess up.

Working on cars though? I would urge strong caution against simply following instructions. Even a fairly "simple" procedure such as jumping your car's dead battery can end in _serious injury or death._ Many people don't realize that their $70 car battery, such an innocuous looking box, can provide in excess of several hundred amps when the current is demanded. Shorting a battery is a quick way to create such a demand. Such a short could result in burns, electrocution, explosions [discharging lead acid batteries give off hydrogen gas], and could even result in a bit of rather annoying spot-welding.

Working on certain suspension components can easily create enough force to maim or dismember innocent bystanders. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kY56ib3I-ew) (Ditto goes for working on any system with significant amounts of sprung weight -- such as garage doors, another common DIY maintenance item...)

Working on your exhaust often requires knowledge of your vehicle's fueling and vapor recovery system. Lest you start welding while there are flammable vapors near the rear of the vehicle.

"Knowing that you don't know everything" is often a mark of a wise individual. A tutorial may omit some crucial bit of domain knowledge that is commonly taught in the field, but not common knowledge for the average individual.

I certainly agree that people should endeavor to broaden their knowledge and skills using the Internet; but Google is certainly not a substitute for an expert's knowledge, experience, and guidance. Without true literacy, in any field, you may quickly end up doing more harm than good.
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The obvious evolution of this would be to host email and allow users to forward:

username@github.io -> useremail

The fake non-routable emails can be a problem when you have to get in touch with contributors who are no longer active on Github.

Saw this problem in the bootstrap project where we still can't get in touch with ~10% of users to get them to approve the addition of an MIT license:

https://github.com/twbs/bootstrap/issues/2054
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This is sanctioned by the State.
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The fact that Copyright.php is a PHP executable sets off red flags to me before I would even open up the file. Thankfully it doesn't seem like Joomla ships with any files stupidly coerced into being executable. Copyright.php was added to this installation.

This attack is very similar to the one that keeps me up at night knowing a logfile (or worse, an entire directory because of a terrible tutorial) is chmod'ed to 777. ACLs in *nix work, use them.

https://github.com/joomla/joomla-cms
Yes, and that's a problem, but that's not what's at issue here.
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Fun. Clearly I'm behind the times. Either that, or it happened to me as well, and I forgot, but that subconsciously prompted the idea.
This is a really interesting problem that needs to be solved. We need some sort of P2P secure protocol to exchange keys between people. Bypassing all sorts of stuff and connecting directly and sharing over an encrypted channel. This sounds really tough the way the internet works right now but I think solutions will come up now that there is a real need for them.
>> also very American, actually

Given recent (~100yr) history, one of the most ironic things I noticed when I was studying Russian was the odd characteristics that could be equally applied to either culture (another odd one is some kind of fetish for acronyms).
Because they are perceived as wealthy, and are not really wealthy, meaning people will target them for their perceived assets, but they are not wealthy enough to hire extensive private security (And most likely, the parents of that employee don't live in a reasonably safe city either).
I clicked through the purchase flow and noticed the "SSL secured" text.

But the homepage is not served via SSL. I assume the actual purchase form submits through SSL, but an active network attacker could change it to submit anywhere they want, and no one would know.

Everyone makes this mistake, because they think of SSL as being just encryption. It's encryption, but it's also integrity. If a page has security-sensitive functionality at all near it, you want integrity, even if the content is public. (Another example: You have a totally static personal site. Why would that possibly demand SSL? Well, say you want to post your GPG public key so people can send you encrypted email. Someone who can intercept mail bound for you might also be able to MITM your site, so you want SSL to ensure people actually get your real key.)

Just serve everything over SSL always, and you won't have to think about this.
Sorry your interactions have being so rough. I give tech support to my family for free, and people who are looking for a quick fix from me are often willing to pay for the privilege. I've heard stories like this quiet a bit though, but I don't think it is a universal attitude.

and I will grant you, the situations are not entirely symmetric.
Isn't a meeting with 1000 people pretty much public anyway? Media reports aren't making patch look like 'loserville', patch simply is 'loserville'.
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During a gold rush, you better be selling shovels ;-)
I'll bet they also don't use the scroll wheel.
What has Cerf had to say about NSA spying on Americans? Has he expressed outrage? Concern?

No.

As a public spokesman for Google, he has offered no solutions to increase the privacy protections for Americans. Rather, he seems to claim that privacy protections can't be done. (http://gigaom.com/2013/07/09/internet-inventor-no-technologi...)
I don't want transparency into the NSA, I want no NSA. They've lied to us before on what they collect, why should we trust a PR site they put up?
Wouldn't multiple divisions of AOL go ahead and publish the Photo if someone took a similar picture of another company?

Take TechCrunch for example. Wouldn't they publish a Photo of MSFT having layoff's if someone sent them a picture?
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Why not? Is a meeting with 1000 people an off the record sort of thing? Does the CEO not stand behind his words?

Also what kind of non-game plan involves telling people they'll be fired in a week, maybe. You can't reveal game plans when there are none.
That's a pretty lucid description of the power structure. Except I'm not sure there's a "top".... unless you want to simply point at the whole system of US goverment and its culture.
AOL is a public company. It's actions at large events are public unless explicitly noted otherwise.

What is large? Stagehand here, 1000+ is large. I've been made to sign agreements for smaller venues.

Edit: To elaborate, smaller venues can easily close doors. Not so much in auditoriums or arenas. Concession is selling goods, other building customers are milling about right behind your event's curtains. Employees of the building are milling about as well, waiting for your talking to be done with.

Pipe and drape is not a privacy filter. You are often in a private space used by the public.

Rather pissed edit: Now that I think about it, this guy is at the helm of a company that sells out people's privacy to anyone with cash and legal assurances. He is firing someone for using a camera while booming his voice over a PA[1] system much like those my friends and I have handled over the years. Screw him.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_address_system
I'm hopeful this will mean real reform, but if the previous years of Obama's presidency are indicative of the future, it's unlikely this represents material change.

Then again, if we all believed the pass foretold the future we probably wouldn't be building startups, would we?

Cheers to a better tomorrow.
Most of the comments here are missing the obvious point: it's bad form for managers to publicly admonish their subordinates, let alone publicly firing them (always a sensitive topic). The CEO could have said "no filming please" and then fired him later. He could have even asked the executive to be removed from the meeting if he was concerned he was a leaker.

IMO the CEO should have gotten the executive's side of the story before making a decision like that. It's got to hurt morale even more to see how expendable people at any level are.
The counterpoint to this is that the folk understanding of computers is, when you consider it, often more compelling than the expert understanding.

The notion that all the computers somehow mysteriously talk to one another, or that if you can get WiFi you should be able to get to the whole internet, is not crazy. It is The Way Things Should Be! It's our job to rig up the equivalent of headlight switches for computers, so they work the way the folk expectation says. If your headlight switch required you to have a compatible dongle, which of course has exactly the same connector as 15 other types of dongle, and will only illuminate the left half of the road until you flip 50 other switches in the car, it would be crazy. That's what the computer world feels like a lot of the time.

It's definitely true that there is such a thing as digital literacy, that it is crucially important (although harder to get than it ought to be), and that many people mistakenly don't put in the effort to acquire it, for many reasons.
The local police basically failed, but a few years ago the county sheriffs took over. Whereas, as a youngster I had numerous bad encounters with local authorities, now the sheriffs wave to me when I drive through town and I see them with the local kids working more like local cops.

I wonder how much of this can be attributed to the fact that the position of Sheriff is usually directly elected, contrary to other chiefs of law enforcement that typically serve at the whim of other politicians and, consequently, their political parties?
The executive order that Obama mentioned in this speech is a bit misleading(from what I can tell). First, it doesn't protect those individuals from being charged with a crime, it only protects their job. Here are a few thoughts on this executive order[1] which are my own thoughts though I'm not a lawyer and my interpretation could be wrong.

Here is the opening paragraph for Section A:

"Any officer or employee of a Covered Agency who has authority to take, direct others to take, recommend, or approve any Personnel Action, shall not, with respect to such authority, take or fail to take, or threaten to take or fail to take, a Personnel Action with respect to any employee serving in an Intelligence Community Element as a reprisal for a Protected Disclosure. "

And here is what a "Personnel Action" is defined as:

"The term "Personnel Action• means an appointment, promotion, detail, transfer, reassignment, demotion, suspension, termination, reinstatement, restoration, reemployment, or performance evaluation; a decision concerning pay, benefits, or awards; a decision concerning education or training if the education or training may reasonably be expected to lead to an appointment, reassignment, promotion, or performance evaluation; a decision to order psychiatric testing or examination; and any other significant change in duties, responsibilities, or working conditions."

Which means, Snowden couldn't be fired, however, he could still be charged with crimes, nothing about that. But the next sentence can really invalidate all of that:

"The term "Personnel Action• does not include the termination of an employee pursuant to section 1609 of title 10, United States Code."

There are more caveats to "Personnel Action" but this first one is what caught my eye. Looking up 10 USC § 1609[2]:

"(a) Termination Authority.— Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Defense may terminate the employment of any employee in a defense intelligence position if the Secretary—
(1) considers that action to be in the interests of the United States; and
(2) determines that the procedures prescribed in other provisions of law that authorize the termination of the employment of such employee cannot be invoked in a manner consistent with the national security. "

The first section of § 1609 is what really gets me: this is basically a get out of jail free card for terminating the person who blows the whistle.

Even then, the disclosure process is absolutely ridiculous and designed to keep the public uninformed. Obama even said himself that if Snowden had gone the "proper" route, then "we would most likely be in the same place now" but he wouldn't have "put lives in danger". Except that the public wouldn't have known about this invasion of privacy and it would have most likely been shot down by higher ups instead of actually being fixed.

[1] https://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/ppd/ppd-19.pdf

[2] http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/10/1609
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Creating these required huge amount of initial investment. That's why all these companies were taking preorders - to cover up initial expenses. It would of course be ideal for them just to manufacture the machines only for themselves, but if they had money needed for that I doubt they would be interested in some Bitcoin thing in the first place.

Now, I'm pretty sure that they left a considerable amount of chips to theirselves and are mining with them for quite some time.