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Obama defends NSA spying program as new Prism details emerge(guardian.co.uk)
3 points by jdp23 13y ago|1 comments
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by jdp23 13y ago
Marc Ambinder, the author, is known for having good sources in the security and defense communities. Government officials often work with him to communicate their perspectives anonymously. His article on "NSA sucks in data from 50 c
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Did Your Senator Vote to Expand the Government’s Spying Powers?(slate.com)
3 points by jdp23 13y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 13y ago
Kind of like the cooking show on CNN Turkey during the protests there last week ...
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Turkey: A guide to the protests(enduringamerica.com)
3 points by jdp23 13y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 13y ago
Somewhat off-topic, but: Her novel "The Bug" is good reading; it captures the frustration of trying to chase down an intermittent impossible-to-reproduce bug.
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by jdp23 13y ago
I've seen a couple other people say that as well.
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Ask HN: What do you think of the new Google+ design?
5 points by jdp23 13y ago|6 comments
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by jdp23 13y ago
you're probably getting downvoted (not by me) for implying that anybody on HN might misinterpret or misread your comment. because obviously IT'S YOUR FAULT FOR WRITING THE KIND OF COMMENT THAT COULD BE MISINTERPRETED YOU LOSER!!!!!!!!!
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The federal sting that cost Google $500 million(wired.com)
16 points by jdp23 13y ago|0 comments
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Man Who Stripped At Airport Still Owes TSA $1K(consumerist.com)
2 points by jdp23 13y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 13y ago
You can submit your own comments (angry or otherwise) at http://www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=TSA-2013-0004
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Angry comments about the TSA's body scanners(motherjones.com)
1 points by jdp23 13y ago|1 comments
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by jdp23 14y ago
The chart shows a steep decline in CD sales starting in 2000 -- several years before iTunes. So "iTunes crushed sales" like seems a real stretch. A different way of looking at it is that there's a pattern of format changes: vinyl to cass
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by jdp23 14y ago
EPIC has recommendations for commenters and a preliminary analysis at http://epic.org/TSAcomment/ Anybody interested in getting involved with an education/activism campaign to get more people to comment? If so, please let me know!
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by jdp23 14y ago
As rayiner points out elsewhere in this thread, they should have had the comment period before they first deployed the technology - but they didni't. EPIC sued and in 2011 the court ruled that DHS needed to adhere to the law and go through
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by jdp23 14y ago
Yes and no. The TSA does have to respond to the comments, but can simply reaffirm the proposed rule without changes after the comment period. On the other hand, a loud public outcry in comments can lead to changes -- both from the regulat
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TSA Accepting Public Comments On Whole Body Airport Screening(yro.slashdot.org)
36 points by jdp23 14y ago|48 comments
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by jdp23 14y ago
"The Administration, however, remains concerned that the bill does not require private entities to take reasonable steps to remove irrelevant personal information when sending cybersecurity data to the government or other private sector ent
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White House threatens veto of CISPA database-sharing bill (news.cnet.com)
4 points by jdp23 14y ago|1 comments
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Reinhart and Rogoff Respond(slate.com)
4 points by jdp23 14y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft aims at Amazon with Azure virtual Windows (and Linux) IaaS(arstechnica.com)
23 points by jdp23 14y ago|32 comments
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Cyprus seeks Russian rescue, EU threatens cutoff(reuters.com)
1 points by jdp23 14y ago|0 comments
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by jdp23 14y ago
Agreed, strongly recommended. My Mom's a librarian, and she's given it to dozens of people over the years; back in the 1990s she even bought a dozen paperbacks on sale and would mail them to friends who were having problems.
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by jdp23 14y ago
Back in 2006, MSN Messenger was one of the world's best-known brands (its logo outscored Mickey Mouse!); in large parts of Asia and Europe it had become a verb -- "I'll MSN you"; and had some clever approaches to ads that got extremely high
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by jdp23 14y ago
Ditto. Flying out of SFO (where they have MMW machines, at least in the terminals I use), there's another person opting out about half the time. If I get a chance, I'll ask them why. It's almost always a matter of principle, as it is with
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by jdp23 14y ago
Do you miss it? I sometimes do ...
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by jdp23 14y ago
PREfix incorporated analysis to identify likely exit functions. This help cut down false positives in situations like if (p == NULL) fatal_error(); *p = 0; With the inference-based analysis we did in PREfix, if we don't r
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Microsoft Surface Could Be a Huge Hit at $199(pcworld.com)
1 points by jdp23 14y ago|0 comments
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Box Raises $125 Million(allthingsd.com)
3 points by jdp23 14y ago|0 comments

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