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> what legal principle can we call upon to make this count in the court?

It's already the case that different kinds of searches have different standards to obtain the information.

The argument lies in convincing them of the truth: that this is a qualitative change in the type of search, not a merely quantitative change, ie, that they're not merely multiplying the number of a certain kind of search by a million (which could be the correct ruling, were the government using the information differently, as the court appears to believe they are), but rather, committing a fundamentally different type of search.

> What you're trying to say is that of course a million people's phone records is totally different from one

Not quite, it's a little more subtle: using a million people's phone records to correlate data and construct a graph not available without processing many of their records together is fundamentally a different activity than merely having a million records and looking through them each as if they were merely individual records.

The NSA is analyzing the edges of the graph, and their relationships, not the node data directly; the court ruled that analyzing a million nodes is no different than analyzing one. I agree - however, it's not a relevant question to this case, and betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of what's happening on their part.
Why would it be a threat? We've multiplied individual worker productivity by fantastical amounts. I think it's vastly more likely that we will have more people who want to work than meaningful jobs in which to employ them.
I had problems with Save As in Photoshop CS6 in early betas, but it's been fine for a while now.
Link was broken; this one worked.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/Laptops-Snowden-...
I'm missing something very funny I suspect. Please elaborate.
Because their workers do go view Facebook. If that's a market you need to target, you need to make it work with IE6.

(There's also the whole "they get infected with everything under the sun and make the rest of us deal with them", but that's not a visual issue.)
Incivility is against the guidelines. Civil arguments and debate are fine. Normally I'd be happy to discuss the nuances of aggression and passive aggression, but the tone of this conversation has become overly hostile and I don't want to participate any more.

I disagree with you as to what passive aggression means, in that you have a narrow view and I have a broad view, but there's likely many mental health professionals who actively rely on the DSM in their work that would agree with you. I will certainly keep that in mind when I use the term in the future, so thanks for pointing it out.
If China were to invade Taiwan, one thing that might happen is that Apple and all the other U.S. and E.U. companies that are outsourcing their manufacturing to China would start moving their business to other countries (maybe even back home). These companies wouldn't be able to justify the economic risk of being dependent on a country that might be subject to a huge political backlash, such as a world-wide trade embargo.

Although it's possible that in 50 years, the cost of labor in China will have increased to the point where other countries are not outsourcing their manufacturing to China any more.
It's also important to note that, while you can get the book for free, most of the profit goes to Amnesty International when you buy it[0].

[0]: http://aosabook.org/en/buy.html
> What on earth is the deal with the culture of these conferences?

It's not just the conferences. I have visited startups that have beer on tap or in the fridge, and some companies even inject alcohol into the interview process[1].

Mixing work and alcohol is a bad idea. Period. There's just too much that can go wrong. Sadly, in some industries, and at some companies, and in much of society at large, alcohol consumption is so strongly encouraged and expected that many individuals who would like to opt out feel uneasy about whether they can do so without consequence.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6518763
No, fuck you. You're getting the rights to the airwaves for free, under the condition that the US people can get the programing over-the-air for free as well. The fact that aereo has prevailed twice now should be a hint -- stop being anti-consumer.
I am just baffled at how many people feel this was an "accident" or that she's somehow partly to blame by her actions. A crime was committed, she didn't need to say "yes" for consent, and it was done in public (Wha?!?). There are at least two witnesses who came forward prior to her post, and yet people are still putting out the "maybe she's lying!" argument. What a sad community this has become.
I guess they used some of that money to pay for a private repo.
Nonsense, we're talking about a word processor here and Office/Word has been heavily criticized for it's interface and incremental features (or lack of reasons to upgrade) in each release. Features? 99% of the time you're either writing a letter/resume, reading some lengthy terms and conditions doc or reading someone else's resume.

Office/Word is what they learn in school (lock-in strategy) and Office/Word is what corporate apathy and only "knowing" MS software leads to in the workplace. You work somewhere, you use Office. Period.
If this were truly the case, it would have been long ago since we had Quake and Unreal on the platform already. Linux gaming is only going to succeed if Steam does.
It's entirely relevant if the expectation of privacy includes the information extracted, but not the underlying individual pieces, but that's somewhat tangential to why I think it's problematic.

> The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

The Fourth Amendment doesn't expressly mention privacy, but it does talk about the specificity of the search - and I'd argue that using instruments meant for the collection of lone records to gather entire sets of social information synthesized from those records likely violates both the specificity (they're fishing, not being targeted) and may violate the reasonable requirement.

It's also a possible violation of the First Amendment, as it has an inherently chilling effect on the right to free association if the government is constructing a database of all your interactions with people, for the purpose of later deciding what you did wrong.
In my school I'm trying my best to push students away from using Word. If they're making quick notes, I ask them to do it in a text editor. If they're presenting work for review I ask them to write it in markdown. This is only for my CompSci classes, but it's a start. My next mission is to break the stranglehold that PowerPoint has on my students.
$500k is not going to ruin the game. That's chump change at the higher ranks. What is going to ruin the game is R* focusing on GTA$ instead of fixing the serious gameplay flaws like keeping your friends in one session and giving worthwhile activities to progress together. And give us heists already.

If anyone has played WoW before, it's like you go into a zone and for the next 20 levels there's literally only 1 quest that's worth doing because all the other quest rewards and xp are terrible. But there's an ability to replay this quest so you do it because that's the only efficient way to level up. So Blizzard nerfs the replaying of the good quest, doesn't add in better quests or scale up rewards, and gives away what seems like a lot of money (because you're low level) to keep people from seeing the real problem.
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It's not about fairness, it's about trying to find the right point to apply pressure and create a public discussion.

Both Apple and Microsoft could not care less about how terrible they are in their (ab)use of patents and they particularly don't care how customers perceive their use of patents. Challenging them gives you a zero percent chance to succeed. In fact, they have a lot of clients and customers who might even cheer them on. In any case, they have spent a lot of time and energy to spin this in the past and they would just repeat that pattern.

There is a very tiny chance that you would have success with Google - even if you don't succeed with them directly, you might get the ball rolling on a public discussion. Trying Apple or Microsoft is a surefire way to kill any such discussion very quickly.
Increased human life expectancy correlates to increase in species extinction
Linkmin an open source url shortner in node
Give me something I can print off and a way to attach it to a movie poster without damaging the theatre owner's display case and I'll visit my local theatres and make sure the URL and QR code to "Mediastan" is visible to all patron who go to see "The Fifth Estate"
'fuck's in Linux
Yep, never ever used fglrx after radeon got usable. Allows me to upgrade kernels whenever I want and now a days it runs cool, has UVD supported and 3D/2D performance is quite decent for desktop use.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4098351,00.html

"According to a study performed by Cambridge University called, "From Chance to Choice: Genetic and Justice," Ashkenazi Jews have a median IQ of 117."

That study does NOT specifically mention American Jews.

Jews in the US are just more dominant/successful because of lack of persecution. But when allowed to, Jews were even more dominant in Soviet Union. For example They comprised 3% of population and 58% of Nobel laureates (total number 26).

Lastly, your point about selective migration is completely hollow. I know A LOT about Jewish history and there was no selective migration of smarter individuals. If anything - smarter/richer Jews would tend to stay in the old country.
At this point I have a hard time seeing how her boss can be considered a victim here. (It’s sad that I have to add this, but this is obviously assuming her account is truthful.)

If you do the stuff described in the blog post you might be sorry, it might have been a mistake you made while you were drunk and you might have had no intentions of committing sexual assault or being in any way malicious but you still committed sexual assault. Having good intentions (which the parent comment was also only speculating about) doesn’t change that, really.

Maybe he is a victim of his brain making stupid decisions? I don’t know. That’s how I sometimes feel when I make mistakes.

He is only a victim if she is falsely accusing him. Are you making that case?
This is thing I hate about SO. Its view of what is on-topic is completely arbitrary and narrow-minded. I understand that Jeff's initial vision was to create a site for objective questions & answers, but over time SO mods have taken it to the extreme.

The list of best programming books may not be totally objective, but the wisdom of the crowds just should be enough to filter out what's good from what's bad. When mods lock the allegedly non-objective questions, they force content to become stale and rot - but still showing up at the top of search engines.
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I was halfway through my rebuttal of your comment before I realized it was satire. Well done. :)
Go read Thomas' dissent in Raich V. Gonzales[1], and tell me whether or not your opinion has changed afterwards.

[1] http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/html/03-1454.ZD1.html
Running a startup is not a roller-coaster ride...
Condensed version of the lessons of the last 4.5 years.
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I don't see the long term value in fighting for it. I publicly criticized privacy many times before. Everything has been said, now we just wait for the unavoidable obsolescence of privacy.
Watch the comments on Ars, they won't be all that outraged. Something funny is going on over there. They are learning to love Statism and its philosophies.
Those titles were easily available, and better supported, on other platforms. Why would anyone switch to Linux to play them?

I bought my first Macintosh just to be able to play Q3Test, before it was released for Linux or Windows.
Upgrading generally works great with OS X; generally the upgrade process blows away the system/OS files and leaves your stuff untouched. In the normal case, "your stuff" is well compartmentalized away from system files so stuff works nicely.

With that said, as a developer sometimes it can be handy to do a clean install. For example, if you have any custom kernel modules, these will certainly be blown away in an upgrade. Additionally, developer tools installed in /usr/ can be interfered with, and in general the probability that something will be incompatible/broken is a bit higher.
I'm not sure what solution you might be proposing but it sounds a little like using foreign power (economic or otherwise) to force the factories to close and send everyone back to subsistence farming at the edge of starvation back at their home village dirt-farms until which time in the indeterminate future we can come up with a better solution for them.

It seems like a common refrain in feel good politics. If not perfect, then none at all. It scales terrifyingly well from closing homeless shelters because they don't have approved handicap bathrooms all the way up to chocking off the economic output of entire countries.
One of the benefits of "social medicine" that some people don't like to talk about is that socialized medicine as practiced in Europe is usually way cheaper for society and works a whole lot better...

You as a rich person might survive with everyone around you obese, depending on low-quality food and low-quality health care, but infectious diseases tend to spread without consulting how much you paid for your health care plans.

Bad health care actually lowers the productivity, and most above-average earners depend on productive below-average earners more than they'd like to know...
There are two steps to the analysis:

1) Is there a reasonable expectation of privacy? This expectation refers to the situation, not the information extracted.

2) If there is a reasonable expectation of privacy, a warrant requiring specific descriptions of what is to be searched is required.

You're right that collecting lots of peoples' information creates a specificity problem in situations where a warrant is required, but if there is no reasonable expectation of privacy to begin with, that prong doesn't even enter into the analysis.
Best resource for keeping up with these issues? I used to use Macintouch but I don't really trust that it gets all the user reports it used to.
I'd argue that heath care for all is a baseline requirement for governments, not businesses. If you run heath care as a business... things happen. However I do agree that in the absence of government action, your solutions are best.
My students _never_ print school papers. Submissions are all by email or the learning platform.
I spent years making all kinds of databases, and I approve your message.

I recently noticed that CouchDB with its notion of map-reduce views can be used as a temporal database - make each change a "document", then make a map-reduce job to roll up the changes to the present state (or "as of" state", if you need it). Nice side effect is that you get free multi-master replication with automatic conflict resolution.

Do you have any other suggestions for a temporal database?
Traditionally, this is not always true. Courts have often been a check on governments rather than an institution of them. In common law (or "case law") republican jurisdictions, courts are supposed to act to restrain government to acts permitted by law.
Naming and shaming? What the hell are you on about? You want victims of crime to shut up. That’s what this boils down to. Plain and simple. Very black and white.
not just allowed, but encouraged.
Whoever's idea the diversion was is bad at PR: if you're trying to get the more patriotic part of the US population to believe that a particular instance of secret-stealing might be justified, the last thing you want to do is to be seen taking the stolen secrets to America's 2 most powerful rivals.
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, the Junior Spies are critical to Minitrue's operation to uncover Thoughtcrime.

Hitlerjugend membership became mandatory for Aryans in 1936.

Indoctrinating children, and especially getting children to spy on their parents, is essential for dystopian governments to function.
> avoided using LaTeX because the workflow is _so_ 80's.

I've never understood this way of thinking. Either it works or it doesn't work -- the age should have nothing to do with it.
Woudn't raising the minimum wage mean less factories being built in Bangladesh and there fore more women that need to work the fields and live the old/worse lifestyle?

I know that for instance in China wages have gone up, and now companies are more reluctant to build new factories there.
Maybe we should get McAfee to go back out to Belize and finish his work on some ultimate drug. Imagine something that gave the highs that heroin/cocaine/meth/whatever users seek, always giving as good a high as the first time and not ruining the user's body. If this 'soma' was really that good at hitting the spot for those that crave then there would be no need to dabble with anything else.

By analogy, the 'high grade' weed is always preferable to the 'squidgy black resin' cannabis that our grandparents used to smoke. There is no longer a market for the less effective stuff even if it is sold at a considerable discount.
>Jews in the US are just more dominant/successful because of lack of persecution.

And East Asians are just less dominant/successful because of the bamboo ceiling.
You have to have a job before you are granted a TN visa at the border.
More related to the product than the startup: Looks like Dispatch was reinventing IRC. While IRC had its mass appeal heyday in the late 90s, nothing has fully replaced it.
The problem with getting any 'killer' app on Linux is that most killer apps, outside of a specialized subset, aren't going to be Linux-exclusive, so there isn't any reason to go for Linux in particular...yet. Steam on Linux may shift the ecosystem enough to make it a prefered platform, but it's too early to tell.
Last time I checked not even Microsoft Office implemented the version of OOXML they forced through ISO which somewhat undermines your point.

http://adjb.net/post/Microsoft-Fails-the-Standards-Test.aspx

Note that post isn't written by some random GNU fanatic, but one of the key figures involved in the standardization.

"The simple validators developed by me (Office-o-tron) and by Jesper Lund Stocholm (ISO/IEC 29500 Validator) reveal, to Microsoft's dismay, that the output documents of the Office 2010 Beta are non-conformant, and that this is in large part due to glaring uncorrected problems in the text (e.g. contradictory provisions). It is also a worrying commentary on the standards-savvyness of the Office developers that the first amateur attempts of part-time outsiders find problems with documents which Redmond’s internal QA processes have missed. I confidently predict that fuller validation of Office document is likely to reveal many problems both with those documents, and with the Standard itself, over the coming years."
Same story as 9 days ago in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6486333
It is a myth. High load has nothing to do with it. However if you configure apache wrongly, it will serve .php files as text. Only connection to load is if you have one broken server among N proper ones, a number of times that the broken one is hit depends on load - I.e. on low load, it may be configured so that it is never hit at all.

I guess the story about apache serving php source under high load came from the idea tha Facebook is a high load site (true) and they couldn't just have made as obvious screwup as misconfiguring a production server (false) so it must be apache/php bug that happens only in high load sites (false)
What? Where is this? I don't think that you're talking about the gas station card readers in the US.
link to your company's website?
Ok, then. How do you propose we fix this "social problem"? The War on Drugs clearly has not worked and D.A.R.E. has been found to be generally ineffective[1]. Throwing money at the problem is not going to fix it, bigger guns and nicer presentations are not going to change the fact that people use drugs, and will use them regardless of the consequences.

Giving people safe avenues to do what they were going to do anyway is the only sane solution. Obviously rehab clinics are here to stay, I am not arguing that drug use is always positive, because it is not. People will and do abuse legal substances, all you can offer is resources to help them stop; people have to make their own decisions.

Prohibition only exacerbates the problem[2].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drug_Abuse_Resistance_Educatio...

[2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prohibition_in_the_United_Stat...
If I want to share something with the world, I'll post it on twitter, facebook, my blog, the off-topic mailing list at work, or another relevant forum for sharing with the people I think may be interested in that thing.

There is no context, zero, wherein I want to share anything with everyone; and I'm certainly not going to categorize contacts into "circles" etc.

FTR, I think I've clicked on +1 buttons perhaps three times, and all of them were in Google Reader. That also had a sharing feature, which is the thing I used when I wanted to share the article. Mostly I used the +1 to add to the existing like count for any given article - and as I said, that wasn't often.

In so far as +1 is for sharing, that's how much I don't use it.
> many countries already end up with taxes that approach or exceed 50%.

I doubt they're that many. Can you give any examples? And in the cases they do, most will be for an exceedingly small number of people.

Even countries people like to consider high tax, like Norway, does not get to 50% other than in extreme outlier examples (if you're an extreme high earner with a shitty tax accountant, has no debts or other means of getting deductions, and spends vast amounts of your money purchasing highly taxed items like alcohol and luxury cars).

If you mean marginal tax rates, then it's a different matter.

But I'd be pretty much nobody has an overall tax bill that approaches the marginal tax rate on their gross income. Norway, for example, has a marginal income tax rate that's 40%, but that only kicks inn on income greater than ~$135,000. Someone who makes $200,000 (about 3 times the national average) still only ends up paying 33% income tax total before deductions. Let's say said person spends $50k/year on stuff that's VAT rated at the full 25% rate (which is frankly unrealistic, and that only adds about 6.25 percentage points to their tax rate, bringing our example person close to 40%.

But if said person pays substantial debt interest (say on a mortgage), they'll also have massive deductions - it'd be fairly unlikely for a person at that kind of income level to end up paying more than about 35% between income tax, VAT and other taxes.
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They also removed the statement on their developer site (https://www.healthcare.gov/developers/) that "EVERYTHING we do will be published on Github." Here's a screenshot of the cached version: http://cl.ly/image/0f0R2x2l0w1t
But the over-65 demographic is far more likely to vote, and with now-aging Boomers, there are far more of them.

http://www.statisticbrain.com/voting-statistics/ (census.gov is currently down)