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901.
by mpyne 12y ago
> Sure, but while arrest and criminal prosecution may be more problematic (though not impossible) with a foreign citizen in a foreign country, extrajudicial killing is generally less problematic there, largely for political reasons (and,
902.
by mpyne 12y ago
> The reason FedGov has not is left as an exercise to the reader. There's no exercise at all: They'd get pilloried for it in the very same media, on top of what I already mentioned regarding the tension around facilitating a mo
903.
by mpyne 12y ago
> I'm curious why you feel the need to respond to every thread (falsely) repeating that most Americans don't mind being the target of surveillance. He's obviously not repeating his views enough given how greatly your parap
904.
by mpyne 12y ago
> There was a great quote from the Scott Meyers video the other day at DConf, "If we don't do our job right, people could LIVE!" He left out the next part though: "And if those people LIVE, others will DIE!" I me
905.
by mpyne 12y ago
> The end goal of advanced military equipment[0] is to kill people as efficiently as possible. I can't speak for other militaries, but for the U.S. military the goal is peace, without abject surrender (which is no "peace"
906.
by mpyne 12y ago
> But are we sure it's not just nuclear peace we're seeing here? If it is nuclear peace, it's because of the Americans as well. NATO doesn't have nukes, its member nations do. And a nation can't use nukes witho
907.
by mpyne 12y ago
"In a small number of countries the law dictates that specific agencies and authorities must have direct access to an operator's network, bypassing any form of operational control over lawful interception on the part of the operat
908.
by mpyne 12y ago
> But if Snowden violated the Espionage Act, then didn't the small number of reporters he gave the NSA docs to? And the larger number of reporters who reproduced them? And anyone forwarding a Glenn Greenwald article with embedded PD
909.
by mpyne 12y ago
> Snowden is only a traitor if you believe that "the American people" - who are the primary recipients of the disclosed information - are the enemies of the American government. While I don't buy into the "Snowden is
910.
by mpyne 12y ago
> That's what parallel construction is for Parallel construction relies on having other law enforcement agencies available with which to conduct the parallel evidence (re-)gathering. How would that work in a foreign country? It seem
911.
by mpyne 12y ago
> Objectively speaking, the German reaction to the spying scandal is rather subdued and our parliamentary control of intelligence services is laughable. It's just that the situation is worse in all other countries. Worse now , perh
912.
by mpyne 12y ago
Same here. I keep hoping a better Vim will come alone. KDE's Kate gets closer as its Vi bindings improve, but it's still a big enough uncanny valley that I can't switch over (and I'm a KDE dev!).
913.
by mpyne 12y ago
Well, whether tainting or actual legal actions are taken depends on which GPL violation you're talking about. The Busybox developers are quite happy to pursuit legal options when lesser means fail, for instance, and I will certainly no
914.
by mpyne 12y ago
> why are you making a joke out of one of the most serious loopholes in the whole system? Because the rulings are not secret. They just happen to not be public , like many other court rulings that the people are perfectly fine with ac
915.
by mpyne 12y ago
> Their problem is a lack of logical thinking. If you're trying to equate the psychological impact of things like 9/11 to the equivalent number of coal deaths or traffic accidents then I'm not sure the lack of logical thin
916.
by mpyne 12y ago
It was changed pretty quickly, to be honest. PRISM was announced as a system that could "literally read your thoughts as you type". Greenwald said the NSA had direct, unfettered access to Facebook, Google, etc. So naturally I was
917.
by mpyne 12y ago
So if the penalties were reduced to the same penalties for GPL violations, you'd be all for it?
918.
by mpyne 12y ago
I have no clue on how it works other than the linked article. It's not hard to make reasonable guesses based on fundamental systems engineering principles though. E.g. the interface might simply be "Here's a known picture of
919.
by mpyne 12y ago
Well that would be hard to accurately answer by definition, I think...
920.
by mpyne 12y ago
I can't speak for GCHQ, but the Boston bombers were identified by signals intelligence. It was Russia's, but they were identified nonetheless and turned over to the FBI. The FBI failed to properly follow-up with that lead, but t
921.
by mpyne 12y ago
Well somehow I doubt that the NSA has a decent picture on everybody, but for those that they do then yes, it's a way of doing identity matching between pictures of people and data involving those people. Think doing relational SQL jo
922.
by mpyne 12y ago
The U.S. military has long been conducting biometric scanning in Afghanistan, as it was very successful in Iraq in helping identify insurgents and terrorists [1] I would assume this is a major source, possibly along with the attempts to gai
923.
by mpyne 12y ago
That's not an example of "subverting democracy" (though I'll admit I do find it distasteful). Even that has rules, and the rules are on the whole followed. Parallel construction is about finding evidence that can hold
924.
by mpyne 12y ago
> The N.S.A. achieved a technical breakthrough in 2010 when analysts first matched images collected separately in two databases — one in a huge N.S.A. database code-named Pinwale, and another in the government’s main terrorist watch list
925.
by mpyne 12y ago
> The army on foreign land during an invasion has to treat everyone like a potential enemy that can take their lives. That is not true at all. The U.S. Army occupying Germany in 1946 didn't treat the locals as murderous criminals ei
926.
by mpyne 12y ago
> We can't stop the world from innovating the only way to maintain a reasonable balance between privacy and safety is through policy and where to draw the line is definitely something that reasonable people can disagree on. I agree.
927.
by mpyne 12y ago
To the extent that we're relying on "cost" as a way of avoiding otherwise undesirable missions, that's only an "answer by accident"; it should be fixed properly, but that's not a reason to reduce the cost.
928.
by mpyne 12y ago
Many of the arguments you use could be just as easily used to allow GPL works to be derived from and distributed in ways against the license. How do you reconcile that?
929.
by mpyne 12y ago
How would your comments apply to the use case of distributing GPL software derivatives instead of digital movies?
930.
by mpyne 12y ago
> Are sentences from trials ignored in role model countries? Only sentences that we personally consider unjust. That's how the law works, isn't it?

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