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by mpyne 12y ago
Maybe this would be one good thing coming out of Heartbleed: It's easier to design (and more importantly, get people to implement) mitigations for actual disasters that have occurred and can be tested against, than do to the same for t
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by mpyne 12y ago
There was no complete denial. Does anyone really believe the NSA said "We promise we have never received a single email from Edward Snowden"? He'd probably have to send dozens of emails every day in the normal course of his d
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by mpyne 12y ago
> "So how do you explain that you lied before?" (silence) Given that the email they showed does not represent a change to their story (that they never received an emailed concern from Snowden) I'm not sure that it's o
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by mpyne 12y ago
> They said no communications existed - and now suddenly they have one. There's no contradiction at all. He said he sent emails of a certain category. NSA still says they have no emails of that category—but they do have an email of
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by mpyne 12y ago
It's something Snowden claims , but I don't see the justification for it if you actually read Snowden's email. Snowden says his one (instead of multiple emails as he previously claimed) disproved this NSA claim: "after
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by mpyne 12y ago
Indeed, which is why the old video game consoles had to have separate programmable video units to work performantly at all. Consoles like NES, SNES, and Genesis had "hardware-accelerated 2D" because a completely CPU-driven approac
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by mpyne 12y ago
It's not illegal to write that you use weed. But it could be used as evidence against you if the prosecutor were to get charges filed against you that you used weed. Surely the prosecutors will be filing these charges any minute now, s
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by mpyne 12y ago
I've used Mojo for a personal project, and Catalyst yeaaaars before for a simple project I forget. I haven't used either well enough to compare, but I will say that Mojo seemed very easy to get started with, and I say that as some
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by mpyne 12y ago
But here automation is only automating the hard part (doing the collection correctly and in accordance with company policies). Remember, with PRISM each and every request has to be approved by the company in question before it proceeds, whi
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by mpyne 12y ago
> after PRISM People seem to keep forgetting this (I'm sure it's simply unintentional), but PRISM was and still is nothing much more than an automated warrant/NSL compliance system. You're basically saying that Micros
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by mpyne 12y ago
> No legislastion authorizes that program, among many others. No legislation forbids it either. If the NSA is legally able to search/seize a given piece of information why would you think they should not be allowed to forensically a
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by mpyne 12y ago
Is this supposed to be like how the market for screwdrivers is inefficient by definition since I can buy a Craftsman or a Stanley? Either way, allowing your industrial base to atrophy to a sole source is one of the classic ways of increa
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by mpyne 12y ago
Snowden is the source of the data WikiLeaks leaked. It's not as if he only gave it to Greenwald.
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by mpyne 12y ago
As a one-time newish officer who used to be in charge of things with many zeroes, I'd be inclined to agree.
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by mpyne 12y ago
Actually the submarine program in question (the SSN-774-class procurement program) is one of the most successful defense acquisition programs in U.S. history, as far as cost performance and compliance with contractual deadlines and mileston
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by mpyne 12y ago
I honestly thought this was going to talk about the incredible misunderstanding a lot of people seemed to have about the story. Most assumed that the Navy was ordering 10 submarines to be delivered at more or less the same time, which is no
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by mpyne 12y ago
> I see is either outlawing any collection and aggregation of private data outside of that directly needed to provide service, not ads That's close to what Germany does, if I understand their data privacy laws correctly. On the othe
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by mpyne 12y ago
There's a few hundred thousand still in uniform. After all, it's not like he only leaked things he subjectively felt were instances of "domestic surveillance", in which case we might be able to have a different convers
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by mpyne 12y ago
Remember guys... this ("rolling" captured suspects to unwind a large criminal network) is the "good old-fashioned police work" you all say that the NSA should be doing instead of using surveillance.
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by mpyne 12y ago
You mean like Snowden is "saving his own skin" by fleeing to that notable bastion of human rights that is Putin's Russia? I mean, that's the defense of his actions consistently offered up right here on HN, after all. &qu
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by mpyne 12y ago
> They do get to choose whether to sign up to a volunteer military that's engaged in an existing war. There's been 2 very short "wars" and then 2 very long counter-insurgency campaigns. E.g. with Iraq: Even if you jus
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by mpyne 12y ago
What if the dog is phone? What if the sky were buttery? Or, how do you think it works? Week 3 of basic training at the Gotham Fire Academy, and the drill is to go over to Buckytown and set a random building on fire?
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by mpyne 12y ago
> As for my decision, it was definitely not made possible because other people did not make that same decision, you could easily argue by that exact same rhetorical trick that if everybody would act like me that war would be impossible.
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by mpyne 12y ago
> You're essentially implying the Iranians can jam local GPS. Wait, do you think this is difficult? This is old hat, especially if Iran were able to engage the Chinese. Either way, that's only one possibility, you could also pr
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Let's just leave it at that I've seen authority abused So have we all at some point, I'd imagine. Is it your opinion that anything that can be abused should be forbidden? Because no offense, but that's the same lo
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Well, not here and now, but there were certainly times when that was not true. Just like there were times when towns needed to have coopers. But like you just said, these aren't that times, so I'm not sure how that's sup
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by mpyne 12y ago
> SEALs speak proudly of their basic training because they glorify a thing that I abhor: violence. That's not the thing they "glorify" though, any more than surgeons "glorify scalpels". They happen to be very goo
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by mpyne 12y ago
> I think this is an extremely disrespectful and kneejerk reaction to a very thoughtful comment on the parent article. I disagree, given that the comment was in keeping with the spirit of the parent comment (i.e., using the opportunity p
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by mpyne 12y ago
> The entire point of the Nuremberg trials ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_trials ) was that "I was just following orders" is not a defense That's precisely why the relevant articles of the U.S
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by mpyne 12y ago
If Iran is approaching this the same way they have approached "replicating" U.S. aircraft carriers then I don't think the West would have much to worry about with this. So I suppose that's the big question here, what exa

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