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by griffordson 13y ago
I can assure you, Google is no better when you're paying them $35 - 50K per year. I would drop Google Maps instantly if Amazon competed with them and had equivalent imagery. Even if it cost more money. Amazon is a beast. I'd be ne
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by griffordson 13y ago
RDS recently added cross region snapshot copies, and more importantly, cross region replication for at least MySQL. Those were the last two features I was waiting for to jump to RDS. In fact, I was in the process of setting up cross region
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by griffordson 13y ago
It has to be taken with a very large pinch of salt since there is no documentation and no named sources, but in July Jack Murphy reported that his sources in the CIA told him that the "seventh floor" at CIA wanted Petraeus out and
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by griffordson 13y ago
For anyone who doesn't know, he's the guy doing time for the CIA torture program. Not for torturing, of course, but for confirming the fact that it was happening. He was interviewed in January just after being sentenced: http:&#x
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by griffordson 13y ago
Was it this talk? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VUyuFH9CbI
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by griffordson 13y ago
The comment I replied to said this: Just *who* came to the residence beyond some scary looking guys in SUVs who said they were FBI. The Guardian report, which was referred to in the comment I replied to, answered that question wit
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by griffordson 13y ago
Who would the JTTF be made up of?
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by griffordson 13y ago
Did you read the Guardian report? http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/01/new-york-police... Members of what she described as a "joint terrorism task force" descended on Catalano&#x2
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by griffordson 13y ago
Was the same level of skepticism shown when the government claimed that Snowden was lying? Why not? Why is it that a private citizen is automatically doubted when they make a claim that is easily verifiable but when the government makes a c
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by griffordson 13y ago
Sorry, my comment wasn't very clear. I was comparing the behavior of the two audiences more than appearance or socioeconomic status or anything else. When the video comes out, people are likely to be reminded of the people doing Mic Ch
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by griffordson 13y ago
And his detractors look like a bunch of OWS hooligans even if only subconsciously. I haven't actually seen the Black Hat talk yet, but I can imagine the audience does not compare favorably to another recent PR event: https:/&#x2F
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by griffordson 13y ago
How is that relevant to the NSA story exactly? Are you saying that the Government vacuuming up any and all data it can, and granting internal and external analysts easy access to that data, is comparable to the owner of a private server ana
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by griffordson 13y ago
The traditional media is complicit. And it isn't some grand conspiracy either, they just share the same interests as the rest of the establishment, being part of (and/or owned by) the establishment themselves. There is good inde
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by griffordson 13y ago
Here is the video from the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the subject today though: http://www.c-spanvideo.org/program/FISAS
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by griffordson 13y ago
Is there no difference between specifically targeting a suspect and gaining physical access to their hardware vs. any number of government employees/contractors sitting at their desk browsing through anybody's data with little to
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by griffordson 13y ago
The House hearing was canceled several days ago to make time for the House Democrats to meet with Obama this morning. As far as I know they have not been rescheduled yet and I will be surprised if they happen before the August recess. Altho
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by griffordson 13y ago
Thanks, there isn't much funny about any of this, but that got a legitimate laugh out of me. For anyone who doesn't know the reference, a clip from CSI: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hkDD03yeLnU
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by griffordson 13y ago
One such change is coming/has come online in Utah.
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by griffordson 13y ago
Exactly. It has been obvious and widely understood for years to anyone who has ever used a network analyzer that systems like this could be built. The question was always would they be built. Stallman, and others, bet correctly based on
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by griffordson 13y ago
I've been watching the NSA story closely for years and I disagree. Snowden provided documentation. Until now all the whistle-blowers who were telling the same stories were easily dismissed because they couldn't provide solid evide
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by griffordson 13y ago
The House Judiciary Committee was also lied to and they don't seem happy about that either. Most politicians also understand the potential for abuse inherent in these programs. That helps too. It is hard to say if we'll see meanin
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by griffordson 13y ago
Maybe you've already heard Lessig's arguments on the subject, but if you have not, you should give 18 minutes to his recent TED Talk: http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t...
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by griffordson 13y ago
66% of the Judiciary Committee who voted, voted for the Amash amendment. I find that very encouraging. And Sensenbrenner, a principal author of the Patriot Act, is outraged by the secret interpretation being used to justify these programs:
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by griffordson 13y ago
It also gets lots of people on the record making claims about the capabilities of the NSA and how much they are really collecting. Many of these people are on the intelligence committee and have been fully briefed on everything the NSA is d
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by griffordson 13y ago
Sure, it is completely reasonable to stay in a well paying job to avoid the risk of losing money (and sanity since if you only make the same money in your own business you'll likely be much more stressed.) To be clear, I'm not cri
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by griffordson 13y ago
You definitely can sell solutions around saving costs, but you can also sell solutions designed to cut opportunity costs. There often isn't a technical distinction here, but the psychological difference can be huge and the value of cut
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by griffordson 13y ago
This is so true. Also, if you can solve a problem for one such customer in a reasonably sized niche you can earn recurring revenue by selling the same solution over and over again. And reasonably sized is probably much smaller than most peo
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by griffordson 13y ago
I find the crowd that pooh-poohs lifestyle businesses while working for someone else particularly amusing. You are much more likely to accumulate real wealth with a lifestyle business that you own than you are working for someone else.
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by griffordson 13y ago
I wonder the same thing. But I would be really interested in trying a small Mac Air sized screen/keyboard shell that had a port that I could slide such a phone in to. Sort of a portable docking station.
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by griffordson 13y ago
I agree, those releases are meant to cover up more than actually reveal anything. If it stops at that, then they will achieve nothing. But I have hope that it will go farther than that for the first time in a decade. I watched the entire Ju

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