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by jdp23 15y ago
I took the train across the country rather than flying, and know others making similar tradeoffs. And hey, Congress defunded the next round of scanner purchases. So we are having an impact.
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by jdp23 15y ago
The timing's due to the three-month extension in February. With strong libertarian, progressive, and tea party opposition to the PATRIOT Act, Democratic and Republican leadership both want to remove it as a campaign issue for 2012: the Hou
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by jdp23 15y ago
Sure plenty of people are talking about it -- PATRIOT Act renewal was _the_ biggest topic on blogs and Twitter in February, with opposition both on the right and left. It's just that most of the mainstream media isn't covering it.
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by jdp23 15y ago
Just a reminder: the votes haven't happened yet. So call your Representative and Senators, send them email, write on their Facebook walls, etc. etc. And tell your friends to as well. And then in 2012, remember how they voted on this -- an
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House, Senate leaders agree to four-year extension of Patriot Act surveillance(thehill.com)
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Why Privacy Matters Even if You Have 'Nothing to Hide'(chronicle.com)
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by jdp23 15y ago
Agreed. It's striking how many intelligent, rationally-identified people can't see their shared blind spot even when the evidence is captured on the page. Anybody who was involved in the discussions would do well to go back and reread wha
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by jdp23 15y ago
It's a great point that there aren't any obvious examples in the US of large heterogenous groups with good comments. That said I also am not aware of any attempt to do even Slashdot-like crowdsourced voting (including explanation of reason
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by jdp23 15y ago
Think about how many great discussions there are here, or in the best threads on Slashdot, Reddit, and plenty of other places. So it seems to me there are plenty of great comments that help people think, learn, grow, etc. True, there are
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by jdp23 15y ago
I agree with Ryan -- this is exactly the kind of news I want to see on HN. For that matter, many other HN readers may also be interested in knowing the potential costs of making apparently-exaggerated security claims in today's environment
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by jdp23 15y ago
Yeah really. Great counterexample to the people here who claim that HN voting is primarily about the content of the article. The TechCrunch article had a better headline, broader readership in the HN crowd, and a more techy URL ... so it
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by jdp23 15y ago
The other shoe drops: "Last week, when the Department of Homeland Security leaned on Mozilla to remove a Firefox add-on making it simple to bypass domain name seizures, we wondered at the request. After all, the add-on only made it easier t
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by jdp23 15y ago
Congrats Jim! And here's hoping those in the US who continue to underestimate the power of social network sites for political organizing take notice ...
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by jdp23 16y ago
Really? It's been a top-30 web site for four or five years ... Why do you see it as a failure?
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by jdp23 16y ago
My first reaction was that unlike most Quora questions, the answer summary is quite good on this. When I looked at it more, though, I realized that it didn't distinguish at all between more-popular and less-popular answers: the wisdom of t
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by jdp23 16y ago
Naver, yahoo answers, answers.com, and stackoverflow are counterexamples. You're right though that there are a lot of failures
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Sony says 25 million more users at risk in second data hack(reuters.com)
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by jdp23 16y ago
Yes, newspapers have ready-to-go obits for important people on the shelf, ready for updating with death info for situations like this
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by jdp23 16y ago
Great point (and good story about the prof's reaction too). It's quite possibly a combo: some people have innate ability and just "get it" no matter how bad their teaching is; others get it by a combo of teaching and work. And yes, time to
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by jdp23 16y ago
Our experience with the software engineering tool PREfix in the 1990s was very different. our $4 million site licencse with Cisco depended on customization and so did several other $100k-plus deals. When the customer's needs are slightly
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by jdp23 16y ago
Microsoft's contractors are "orange badges", and their email addresses start with a- or v- depending on what kind of contractor they are. They're very much treated as second-class people, ever since the 1990s class action suit (Vizcaino v.
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by jdp23 16y ago
seems to me there's still plenty of life in the social bookmarking/link-sharing market. Reddit for example seems to be doing quite nicely.
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We are all being tracked now. What should we do about that(redtape.msnbc.msn.com)
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by jdp23 16y ago
True, there's no semantic difference between spelling somebody's name correctly and incorrectly. It's "just" a matter of respect.
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by jdp23 16y ago
Title fix: she spells her name danah Boyd (lower-case letters)
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by jdp23 16y ago
Congrats to Tungle! any info on the acquisition price?
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by jdp23 16y ago
Congrats to WuFoo! As rishi says I was hoping you'd take over the world ... still, it's a great exit, and a real testament to everything you've accomplished -- product, company, and happy customers.
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by jdp23 16y ago
As an activist who's actively engaged in defending for our civil liberties, I see HN as a great forum. True, there are plenty of people who share your and edw519's attitude -- but civil liberties topics always got a lot of upvotes here, so
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by jdp23 16y ago
For example, as I write this, I have 23 upvotes for the parent comment. How does that compare to some of the others? More than the other top-level comments, presumably, but what about the nested comments? Since voting patterns have chang
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by jdp23 16y ago
Alexey, I thought you made that point very clearly in your post. It's in important message, and a huge loss when he intentionally chooses language or brings in other topics that cause it to be unnecessarily marginalized.

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