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by jholman 13y ago
Well, sama, I'm glad to hear that you feel this way, and I'm looking forward to seeing what you do about it. I mean, I never used Loopt, so maybe I'm missing something but it sure looks like an example of what you're cri
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by jholman 13y ago
Hmn. Apparently you are correct.
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by jholman 13y ago
Ah, hmn, that's a more-clever plan than any of mine. BUT I'm still a little skeptical, though maybe the details could be worked-out. I mean, if you send the emails to fake users, then the NSA isn't likely to follow the links
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by jholman 13y ago
Minor quibble #1: Alexander has roles other than the NSA, and techdirt invented the NSA connection without evidence. See my cousin comment about USCYBERCOM. Minor quibble #2: "blanket immunity" and "spying on citizens"
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by jholman 13y ago
Oddly enough, if you read the link that you posted , you'd learn that contrary to your statement, prostitution is illegal in Reno and Las Vegas, and in fact in great swathes of Nevada (in particular, it's illegal in the areas whe
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by jholman 13y ago
Yes, that was my point, though I may have been unclear. There's lots of describing him as the head of the NSA (both by techdirt and by politico), but I suspect that that was misleading, because I suspect that he made these statements
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by jholman 13y ago
I wish this plan of yours made any sense. Btw, IANAL. First of all, I strongly disagree with "enough evidence now". Next, to sue successfully, you need to prove that the thing happened (and that it happened in a way or in a place
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by jholman 13y ago
Argh. Important subject material, crappy article, lots of confusion, argh argh argh. TL;DR: everything about the WAY this story was reported is an obvious deception. First, methodology. This is blogspam that adds nothing to the original a
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by jholman 13y ago
Yes, it is literal. Hanlon's razor is advice about what predictions you should make (or which hypotheses you should advocate, if you like). It says that when you don't know whether something is malice or stupidity, you should nev
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by jholman 13y ago
benbeltrain: How does that work in Discourse? lsiebert: How does that work on Metafilter?
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by jholman 13y ago
IANAL. Yes, and the framing of this article as being about before-versus-after is misleading. It's not before-or-after Miranda that matters. It's when you start talking, when you stop talking, what you say when you stop talking,
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by jholman 13y ago
> "The point isn't how many words you're using, but how repetitiously those words appear." Not under the compression scheme barakm is proposing, which is to fix a universal dictionary (the commonest 1k or 64k Englis
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by jholman 13y ago
And, relatedly.... if I offer to perform allegedly-medically-beneficial surgery for free, am I exempt from all the laws about regulation of medical practice? And relatedly, if I give away viruses for free, am I good to go? Not that I'm
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by jholman 13y ago
Which point of which author? Also, what did you think I was arguing?
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by jholman 13y ago
I strongly strongly agree with you about new-grad Googlers not knowing how good they have it (food/gym/tgif? TECH STOP!), and I agree with you about degrees too. As an amusing joke the article's close enough to home to be f
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by jholman 13y ago
That's right. As a Canadian living in the US, and highly vulnerable to the US government, I am much less outraged by the US spying on me than I would be if I heard about similar offenses from my own government. And I'd be still
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by jholman 13y ago
Just to pick a nit, I assume by "Chief Architect" you mean Yonatan Zunger. He's the chief architect of Google Plus, not of Google at large. While I do value his public statements, he doesn't really have responsibility
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by jholman 13y ago
That quote IS Greenwald walking it back, while saying he's not walking it back. Greenwald is saying, in effect, "Well, I'm not saying the NSA does or doesn't have direct access; I'm just telling you that I saw a pow
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by jholman 13y ago
> "It doesn't matter if they were us citizens or not." Yyyyes and no. It depends on what you're discussing, and in what context. Medical experiments like Tuskegee and MK Ultra, I agree with you entirely. Wiretappi
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by jholman 13y ago
Yaa101's sentiment is that I sound pro-NSA. That's a joke. Why would you agree with that? I strongly agree with you about astroturfing though, and I think it's depressing and reprehensible. And, in case I haven't made
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by jholman 13y ago
Well, these are much more interesting links than your last round. So, if your car has been stolen, and also you have evidence that 100 other cars have been stolen by the same crook, and then you report it to the police, and I go ask the pol
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by jholman 13y ago
If only someone would make real-life versions of those flip-open communicators from Star Trek TOS. Maybe someone at Motorola could do that. Or, on the subject of Snow Crash, if only someone would make that thing in Snow Crash called Earth.
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by jholman 13y ago
I strongly recommend that everyone be highly critical of FISA. The US government at large is a more complicated subject, but criticism there is also a great idea. I think it's obvious in my comment that I admire resistance against FIS
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by jholman 13y ago
Actually, I think the bits you quote exactly show how Greenwald isn't demonstrating a very high standard of integrity here. I really want to take him seriously (although, in honesty, I also really want to believe that my employer, Goo
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by jholman 13y ago
Secret deals with the NSA? First of all, bullshit. Second, that link claims nothing of the kind. Do you even read? The link claims that a group called Consumer Watchdog made those claims, and then goes on to describe a pattern of partisa
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by jholman 13y ago
He's slightly exaggerating, IIRC, but it's conceptually correct. Regarding the share structure, Google has two classes of shares, or maybe three by now. Class C shares don't get to vote, and I can't remember if they exi
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by jholman 13y ago
Also explored at length in God Is An Iron, a short story by Spider Robinson, extended into the novel Mindkiller. Unlike in Ringworld, where wireheading/tasps are a MacGuffin, they're the central plot point in GIAI/Mindkiller
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by jholman 13y ago
Yes, I'm aware that typical Republican voters typically believe a number of obviously-false things, like thinking "big government" doesn't include a bunch of things that it obviously does include. Including spending almo
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by jholman 13y ago
Yeah, but that necessarily pits him against other Congressfolks. Stockman VERSUS EVERYBODY!!!! The move as-he-played-it is smarter, right? He's inviting other Congressfolks to join him in making political hay by trolling the executiv
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by jholman 13y ago
Without speaking to your overall proposal, which may be strategically sound, I have a few questions on the details: > "but arguments along the lines of ['distrust government'] work better on Republicans" Forgive me,

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