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by ferdo 13y ago
Thus far, government efforts to regulate ones and zeroes haven't met with great success.
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by ferdo 13y ago
Greenwald's response: "Reuters is the absolute worst at tearing comments out of context for sensationalizing headlines. The paraphrase: Q: Will the UK's detention of your partner deter your future reporting? A: Absolutely not
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by ferdo 13y ago
Combine those responses with Michael Grunwald's "I can't wait to write a defense of the drone strike that takes out Julian Assange" and we can see the lines being drawn right before our eyes.
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by ferdo 13y ago
I've known kids that give up on life, not get jobs and play video games all day without weed. Weed isn't the problem here. The kid and/or his family is generally the problem.
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by ferdo 13y ago
Much agreement on smart people doing clever things. In 5-10 years, Bitcoin (or similar systems) will end up being adopted by enough individuals and businesses that critical mass of usage will be achieved and digital currencies will no longe
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by ferdo 13y ago
And one of the foot soldiers of the Powers That Be weighs in: "Glenn, Glenn - did you really think there'd be zero consequences for you and those close to you? I expected Ed to believe WL lies, but you?" - John Schindler (@20
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by ferdo 13y ago
One of the functions of a free press (journalists) is exactly to aggressively report on the malintent of bureaucrats and the maladministration of government power. Actual journalism is and always has been a form of dissent.
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by ferdo 13y ago
> Miranda was then released without charge, but officials confiscated electronics equipment including his mobile phone, laptop, camera, memory sticks, DVDs and games consoles. Thievery and intimidation are good indicators of who and what
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by ferdo 13y ago
By your link, we're also 8 times more likely to get killed by a government employee than by a terrorist.
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Who Gave Hollywood's Representatives the Same DMCA Question?(youtube.com)
1 points by ferdo 13y ago|0 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
Most of the "terror" I've seen in the US in the past 12 years comes from the government and the media scaring the hell out of people.
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by ferdo 13y ago
Facebook should give him a job. The current security team appears to need some help.
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What to say, and not to say, to 'our overseers'(apps.washingtonpost.com)
1 points by ferdo 13y ago|0 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
Just watching as an interested outsider for all these years and partly based on the paper quoted above, much of Google's early energy and innovation was based on the simple idea of extending and applying knowledge of the new field in s
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by ferdo 13y ago
My post in fewer words: Page and Brin have wandered from their roots. That's not "anti-Google propaganda". That's honest criticism from an old geek.
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by ferdo 13y ago
More like shadowy Western intel group attacks outbrain, blames shadowy Middle Eastern group.
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by ferdo 13y ago
I'd point out that Page and Brin predicted the course of their own search engine, and perhaps their own company, in 1998: “The goals of the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users.” “We
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Camden’s RoboCops(my9nj.com)
1 points by ferdo 13y ago|0 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
"Libertarian" used to be the opposite of "authoritarian": "The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians." -George Orwell, 1948 Because of the de
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by ferdo 13y ago
> There is zero competition of ideas in political science. It's hard to compete when the government claims a monopoly on violence and will use it against non-violent citizens.
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by ferdo 13y ago
"I can have no other notion of all the other governments that I see or know, than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who, on pretence of managing the public, only pursue their private ends, and devise all the ways and arts they ca
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by ferdo 13y ago
"It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words." -1984
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by ferdo 13y ago
Many thanks to the mods for improving on my title shortening.
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Deceptions, Misinformation, and Word Games Used to Mislead About Surveillance(eff.org)
144 points by ferdo 13y ago|11 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
"Calling it your job don't make it right, Boss."
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Google: Gmail users ‘have no legitimate expectation of privacy’(rt.com)
20 points by ferdo 13y ago|1 comments
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by ferdo 13y ago
People affected is my bigness metric, in this instance. Nixon got outed for spying on a hotel room. The Executive Branch just got outed spying on pretty much everyone. Watergate was also in a time when people were, by and large, a little mo
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by ferdo 13y ago
Wow. Not any old committee either, but the Senate Committee on Homeland Security. We live in days of high weirdness.
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by ferdo 13y ago
Prosecutors have power to prosecute, not the "right" to prosecute. The evolving history of individual rights is a response to the even longer history of abuses of those powers by little people that get big jobs. Ortiz and Heymann
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by ferdo 13y ago
The NSA spying on all of us is a bigger crime and a bigger scandal than Watergate. I don't see any groundswell for impeachment.

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