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Re:Keith Alexander's Statement to the NSA Workforce
on Sunday June 30, 2013 @03:39PM (#5966895)
And if you do start doubting our mission, keep your mouth shut, because we'll ruin your life no matter who you are (that's why they're going after a retired four star general right now over leaks).
That's also why Obama administration has been so hard on leakers and whistleblowers in general. To serve as a clear message to those who would talk about what's been happening at the NSA: we will punish you. The reason for clamping down so hard is because the scope, both in the amount of surveillance and in the sheer number of people who knew (in the military, government employees, contractors, and private companies NSA is collecting data from) had gotten so out of control.
The questions in my mind are:
How much of a systemic change has this program caused to the federal government already (e.g. clamping down on whistleblowers)?
How often have the capabilities of NSA been used to track down whistleblowers of any kind already (ironically employing what's causing the problem in the first place as part of a "solution")?
Have these capabilities been used to settle political scores already? I'm thinking of Petraeus. Interesting how those dots were connected. Interesting also that by then both Obama and Hillary Clinton had reason to be upset with him.
Re:Sublime Text 3 Public Beta
on Friday June 28, 2013 @07:52AM (#5957423)
Been enjoying ST3 during the private beta. Glad others will be able to, too!
Re:New leak shows NSA harvests To, From, and Bcc lines of e-mail data
on Friday June 28, 2013 @02:25AM (#5956582)
Anyone ever hear the rumor that the reason why Google pulled out of China was because Chinese hackers had tapped into a feed of all email metadata? I heard it included subject. This news made me immediately think of that rumor.
Re:On NSA disclosures, has Glenn Greenwald become something other than...
on Monday June 24, 2013 @10:56AM (#5933297)
He has always communicated his own point of view, which I think is fine, even as a reporter. But in the past I feel he has spun yarns and made connections that don't exist for sake of a story and his point of view. That does bug me.
Re:GitHub Got Silly Rich. Next Step: 'Make More Awesome'
on Friday June 21, 2013 @02:24AM (#5916840)
Agree. GitHub is ultimately doomed because not enough people will pay up.
Re:Put Your Commas On the Left Dink-Butt
on Monday June 03, 2013 @12:03PM (#5814001)
This is a great example of how some people will jettison good taste in favor of some pointless metric or supposed problem.
Re:Skout: a devastating privacy vulnerability
on Friday May 31, 2013 @09:19AM (#5798391)
That's a problem generally, but not the fundamental problem here.
Re:Philip Greenspun Reviews “Lean In”
on Sunday May 12, 2013 @11:38PM (#5697068)
Greenplum's mean-spiritedness makes this more a review of himself than the book, which is too bad because he manages a few golden nuggets here and there among all the brown ones.
Re:The Real Story Of How Macklemore Got 'Thrift Shop' To No. 1
on Monday May 06, 2013 @01:33AM (#5661023)
Absurdly lazy reporting.
Re:Eric Schmidt has defended paying just £6m in UK corporation tax.
on Monday April 22, 2013 @11:09AM (#5589591)
Companies pay their taxes until they become big enough to figure out how to avoid them. Problem?
Re:EBay recruits users in push against sales tax legislation
on Monday April 22, 2013 @01:36AM (#5587953)
If that's the only argument then I hope it passes. Why should some minuscule number of small businesses hold everything up?
Re:EBay recruits users in push against sales tax legislation
on Monday April 22, 2013 @12:19AM (#5587750)
You go out of business because your margin was razor thin. Obviously.
Re:Solution Proposed to the CIA's Kryptos k4
on Sunday April 14, 2013 @12:17AM (#5545871)
Not sure if serious.
Re:_why's site is updated
on Saturday April 13, 2013 @01:07AM (#5542636)
His software ended up being too good, actually. It made other people feel embarrassed.
Re:Polychart.js: An Interactive Charting Library
on Wednesday April 10, 2013 @02:02AM (#5523467)
So does Highcharts. Pay attention.
Re:Upcoming Science Based Meditation Workshop in the Bay Area
on Friday March 29, 2013 @12:39AM (#5459264)
Science based? Is that like evidence based? In which case, it's more of a marketing term...
Re:Why Asm.js Bothers Me
on Friday March 29, 2013 @12:36AM (#5459256)
Looks like the asm.js Jedi mind trick didn't work on someone :)
Re:Taking a stand on open source and patents
on Thursday March 28, 2013 @11:28AM (#5455378)
So they've pledged to do what they've already been doing?
Re:The Summly deal makes no sense
on Tuesday March 26, 2013 @09:37AM (#5443119)
Maybe they got some real nice licensing terms from SRI.
Re:Flat UI DMCA Takedown
on Friday March 08, 2013 @02:42AM (#5342434)
Something can be a "rip off" and not infringe.
Re:A List of Bad Words from Disqus
on Tuesday March 05, 2013 @11:48PM (#5329389)
I guess that explains why my comment that mentioned C. A. R. Hoare on a programming blog that uses Disqus never showed up...
Re:Timelike 2: everything fails all the time
on Friday February 22, 2013 @12:04AM (#5262808)
Being meanies to Heroku, basically.
Re:Timelike 2: everything fails all the time
on Thursday February 21, 2013 @12:38PM (#5258725)
Well, sure. Does that make stateless load balancers consistent, though? :) I just don't think the CAP terminology helps.
Re:Timelike 2: everything fails all the time
on Thursday February 21, 2013 @02:20AM (#5255987)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAP_theorem
How does consistency apply here for example?
Re:Timelike 2: everything fails all the time
on Thursday February 21, 2013 @12:10AM (#5255534)
CAP is not applicable here from what I can tell. Glad to know Coda Hale understands it though. Sounds like a real nice guy.
Re:Why Mozilla Matters
on Sunday February 17, 2013 @01:56AM (#5234446)
I serve False Humility!
Re:How to achieve 4 flops per cycle?
on Saturday February 09, 2013 @02:28PM (#5193652)
I'm a bit surprised by your smug attitude.
Re:Use of Goto in Systems Code
on Tuesday February 05, 2013 @11:09AM (#5171363)
Generally with that approach you can end up with a lot of duplicate code. It is more error prone.