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by eightyone 13y ago
See my other comment in this thread for more information.
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by eightyone 13y ago
There seems to be some confusion over this story. It did not originate from the Guardian, but from the Observer. The Guardian must aggregate or something stories from the Observer. They've taken down the story while the Guardian editor
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by eightyone 13y ago
It really seems like these companies and the government are seriously underestimating the amount of information that Glenn Greenwald and friends have. This is why I love the strategy of slowly leaking out information. It let's us catch
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by eightyone 13y ago
From the article: "The program is court-approved but does not require individual warrants." So does this mean that the number of government requests released by Facebook, Microsoft, etc. within the last few weeks are essentially m
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by eightyone 13y ago
There are a total of 41 slides related to this particular slideshow. http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/29/4478572/prism-slides-surve...
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by eightyone 13y ago
> Do you think other countries are not hacking US telecoms to spy on US citizens? I'm condemning all massive scale spying on foreign citizens regardless of country. Pretty sure there's a logical fallacy in that sentence of your
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by eightyone 13y ago
It's not ok for the U.S. to hack major Chinese telecoms to spy on it's citizens.
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by eightyone 13y ago
I'm not sure exactly what your referencing, but if you are talking about all the stuff that's been going down in the U.S., Glenn Greenwald said at the Socialism Conference yesterday that a lot of what's going on isn't le
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Greenwald: "Dianne Feinstein is Outright Lying" about NSA Surveillance Abuses(youtube.com)
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CIA Agents Were Embedded With NYPD And Had “No Limits”(news.firedoglake.com)
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by eightyone 13y ago
I never knew that he took a picture of the door to the room. Looking at it makes me sick to my stomach.
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NSA Leak Vindicates AT&T Whistleblower(wired.com)
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by eightyone 13y ago
I made the same connection.
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by eightyone 13y ago
Imagine if every government bill was annotated or available online for the public/scholars to annotate. This would be really cool for terms of service, as well.
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by eightyone 13y ago
For an opposite view point, see the Salon article Tuition is too damn high . It argues for the vast majority of people tuition has increased because government has drastically cut funds to public education. Not because of Pell Grants or &q
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Chris Hayes Nails Hypocrisy On Snowden Leaks VS. Leaks That Advance Gov’t Agenda(mediaite.com)
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by eightyone 13y ago
Maybe it's always been this way and I am just realizing it, but MSNBC has went to hell. Like you said, Chris Hayes is one of the only progressives on mainstream TV to actually standup for Snowden. Rachel Maddow, Lawrence O'Donnel,
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by eightyone 13y ago
"Deposits are made into your account in two business days in most cases." This is awful copywriting. There's not even an asterisk with more information or anything.
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Programmer under oath admits computers rig elections(youtube.com)
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by eightyone 13y ago
Bill Maher has an excellent clip on this. He boils it down to, "Basically we're arming Al Qaeda." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6paYu3GM2Y
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by eightyone 13y ago
I want a framework that is built around security, privacy, encryption, etc.
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by eightyone 13y ago
I would say it depends where you want to get a job. I think most start-ups would weigh you having a kick ass GitHub profile more than a Zend certificate. If you don't have that, then that's what you should work on. If you do alrea
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by eightyone 13y ago
I recently stopped watching everyone on MSNBC but Chris Hayes. He has a great show. He's had Greenwald on a couple times in the past few weeks. Also, Democracy Now! is really great. One of the only programs on TV that talks about Wikil
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by eightyone 13y ago
> "I'll say that you are missing the fact that information campaigns don't reach the very people who are most at risk." We could reach everyone in the country if we spent just a fraction of the trillion dollars we&#
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by eightyone 13y ago
> "That would not change with drugs being legal, it would still be the cause of the destruction of families and communities." The biggest reason why drugs tear apart communities is because they are illegal. Make them legal, g
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by eightyone 13y ago
> "Most of your argument revolves around comparing different substances, while I made a point specifically about crack, though I will allow heroin in the same category" You're not refuting my comment because it's ir
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White House petition backs direct sales of Tesla cars(news.cnet.com)
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A blind, 32 year old modified a Rubik's cube so that he could solve it(reddit.com)
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by eightyone 13y ago
"Today at TechCrunch Disrupt, the Rap Genius founders told me they plan to monetize by building installation of their site for big companies and government agencies. Biz Genius is coming." http://techcrunch.com/201
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by eightyone 13y ago
Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn, has a similar quote, "If you're not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late." I don't know if one came before the other. Reguardless it's a

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