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by declan 13y ago
There's much to like in Eben Moglen's talk. But in claiming no whistleblowers have "come to us from industry," he does a grave disservice to Mark Klein, an AT&T technician turned whistleblower who documented illegal
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"Or the California High Speed rail is projected to be twice the budget they thought, and they've barely broken ground on it?" A correction: They've broken no ground on it. An AP article today reports that the "Calif
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People buy life insurance based on price. Whether you're alive or dead isn't generally difficult to establish. People buy other types of insurance based in part on price and in part on reputation. There are plenty of discussions (
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by declan 13y ago
That to me looks broader than Google, Twitter, or Facebook's TOU. I look forward to the impassioned post highlighted here on HN saying: "Wait, wait, wait! Did they say that they may decide to charge me for my Github account in the
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by declan 13y ago
<vrypan> is upset that Google+'s TOU for custom URLs gives the company too much unfettered discretion. In reality, Google+'s overall TOU for the service also gives the company plenty of discretion. As do similar ones from Tw
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by declan 13y ago
Side note: Sec 702 of the FAA gives NSA complete immunity from all federal, state, and local laws, criminal prosecutions, and civil lawsuits when doing this kind of fiber tapping. "Notwithstanding" is an extremely powerful phrase.
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In fact, there are many members of Congress that would be delighted to oppose whatever the ACLU is recommending (and perhaps even put out a press release announcing it!).
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Leahy is the author of CALEA, a surveillance law that is one big reason we're in this situation to begin with. He introduced portions of the Patriot Act under the name EPPSCA a year before the Sep. 11 attacks ( http://thomas.
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If this were actually true then word would get around quickly and insurance companies would lose business as honest rivals emerge. (Hint: This hasn't happened. Because it's not true.) See, from a cancer patient writing three days
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by declan 13y ago
Yep. But that may be understanding the case. If you're part of the anti-drug-war-industrial-complex, the worse thing in the world would be for enforcement to "go way down." Look at state and local cops, federal prison guards
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by declan 13y ago
"They aren't trying to outlaw tobacco but they are trying to stop it's use in a different way" Yep. Also through taxes. In the U.S., taxes on a single pack of cigarettes can be as high as $5.36, depending on where you li
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by declan 13y ago
I'd say the last place to search for "moral leadership" is among the ranks of professional politicians.
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That's not true. Facebook is making a profit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-24751441 "The increase in revenue led to $425m in net profit in the three months to September."
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I would have said "an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal with Tim Cook's byline." Nothing indicates that he wrote it himself (though he may have reviewed it before submission).
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by declan 13y ago
Craig and Mark are owners of companies or sports franchises (or own large amounts of equity in them), but are not CEOs. I'm not aware of the CEO of Craigslist, Jim Buckmaster, blogging. Nor am I aware of 2929 Entertainment's CEO,
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CNET hosting Lavabit's Ladar Levison on Monday in San Francisco(news.cnet.com)
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This is an area where your instincts may say X, but modern First Amendment jurisprudence says !X. The 1A protects expression from state action and comes close, in modern jurisprudence, to prohibiting prior restraint including an order to ki
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by declan 13y ago
"It's still not a case of the New York Times' free speech rights being infringed, because the New York Times does not have a free speech right to use a third party's printing presses to publish newspapers. If the police
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by declan 13y ago
You certainly can buy a BMW or a Porsche if you make $50,000 a year, especially if you're single and living in a cheap part of the country. A used BMW 3-series will in many cases be less than a new Honda Odyssey minivan. But you'l
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by declan 13y ago
In this case, the SF bay area fellow I know works five days a week for a landscape/gardening company and pays taxes on that income. ($25/hour cash is additional off-the-books income.) And, contrary to your research, California has
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by declan 13y ago
Exactly. Also, California is the highest-taxed state in the republic, so adjust that pre-tax salary of $100K downward a bit more in real terms. Consumer goods like cars and laptops and TVs will cost the same, to a first approximation, anywh
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I know a local gardener/landscaper laborer in the SF bay area who makes $25 an hour in cash by working after hours. If a Tesla lease is $600 a month (the website says that, but it's based on some assumptions including where you li
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by declan 13y ago
I like the idea, but I'd rather have a less glossy and more data-focused approach. How about searching for 0-60 times, limit by 4 seats, limit by price, sort by aggregated reviews, etc.? I'm pretty familiar with Porsche's lin
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by declan 13y ago
They absolutely would. As I said above, "the NSA is supplementing its email-and-phone metadata database with... Facebook profiles." The point I was making (perhaps poorly) is that the NSA is surely bulk vacuuming up public Faceboo
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The NYT is using "social network" in the term's pre-Internet era sense, meaning, as the headline and story say, "social connections" and "large-scale graph analysis." Nowhere in their story do the reporter
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Recent: a news app with personalized recommendations(recent.io)
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The FBI director publicly assured Rep. Nadler (D-NY) in June that FedGov needed a "particularized" order from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to target U.S. citizens: https://plus.google.com/1129616075
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by declan 13y ago
Silent Circle CTO Jon Callas has been participating in this G+ thread I started this evening: https://plus.google.com/u/0/112961607570158342254/posts/9uyS... Excerpts: "If you're not afraid of
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Not a national security letter: https://plus.google.com/112961607570158342254/posts/EujgUYbr...
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My initial guess about what the government did to Lavabit that forced Ladar Levison to shut it down: https://plus.google.com/112961607570158342254/posts/EujgUYbr...

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