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by skwirl 13y ago
I didn't mean for the word to have a negative connotation. The word "regime" is a useful as it covers both the current administration and the system itself. So it would cover both a change in the elected leadership and, say
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by skwirl 13y ago
At this point, Snowden is a pawn in an international strategy game. None of these countries are offering Snowden asylum because they believe in his cause. They are offering him asylum because it is something that they can use against the
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by skwirl 13y ago
Who did you learn your American history from, Lew Rockwell? Because on the subject of Lincoln, it certainly isn't from Lincoln's own writings and statements or the writing and statements of his contemporaries (one example of hund
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by skwirl 13y ago
Just don't imagine that HN is sitting on some moral high ground. Any time there is a story here that could be construed as possibly being negative towards Mr. Snowden, the top comments are overwhelmingly "Why is the media focused
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by skwirl 13y ago
It is a huge leap from the revelations of late and a world where the government goes around killing journalists. When your parents confided to you that Santa Claus wasn't real, you didn't suddenly become adopted too. Chill out a
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by skwirl 13y ago
The short of the news coming out over the last few days is that things are starting to look grim for Mr. Snowden. Ecuador has bowed to U.S. pressure and no longer looks interested in hosting Snowden. Wikileaks admits he is "marooned&
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by skwirl 13y ago
I think that would seriously damage the reputation of the country granting "asylum." I cannot imagine that could possibly be worth it.
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by skwirl 13y ago
Perhaps that is the game. It sounds like the U.S. is successfully pressuring Ecuador and Russia behind the scenes. If Russia wants to give Snowden over while saving face, this is the way to do it. Give him an ultimatum you already know h
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by skwirl 13y ago
According to the PRISM slides, the program costs $20 million per year. This article doesn't mention that, although it should, because it is telling. If the author believes that this program could be implemented at a minimum of $187 m
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by skwirl 13y ago
"Metadata doesn't matter" to me seems to be a really poor strawman. Maybe a small minority of people think that, but I'm pretty sure most people are smart enough to realize that if it "didn't matter" the
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by skwirl 13y ago
Do you carry a cell phone? Because a lot of people believe that carrying and using cell phones over long periods of time will cause cancer due to the long term exposure to electromagnetic radiation. There is no evidence that this is the c
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by skwirl 13y ago
Yeah, I think that that is prevented pretty clearly by the first amendment. And the 14th amendment wouldn't allow for granting one class of citizens rights over/at the expense of another. As for the bigger picture, in my mind the
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by skwirl 13y ago
You seem to read only the lines that you can creatively contort to validate your belief and ignore the rest. I don't think you are intentionally doing this, but it seems quite apparent that it is happening anyway from my vantage point
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by skwirl 13y ago
The 9th amendment seems to me to protect rights not explicitly enumerated in the Constitution by the Constitution itself. It also gives judicial power of the courts to all cases arising under the Constitution (Article 3, Section 2). These
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by skwirl 13y ago
This is an incredibly fanciful interpretation of language. If these reports are correct then Google is simply outright lying. If you have to strain to read a statement to mean the exact opposite if what it plainly says and that opposite i
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by skwirl 13y ago
This was from 1991, not 1981 as the headline here indicates.
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by skwirl 13y ago
Why is the subject of this article Obama? It was a Bush era program that he shut down. But since he didn't do it the day he took office, I guess he is literally Bush Jr. Jr. Great reporting by The Guardian.
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by skwirl 13y ago
Is this a marketing post?
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by skwirl 13y ago
Strongly disagree. The example used in this article is the University of Washington. The government has always been involved in every facet of the University of Washington as it is run by the government. You seem to be claiming that beca
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by skwirl 13y ago
How do we know that they haven't been? His supervisors, by the way, are at Booz Allen, not the NSA. Although certainly the NSA has to take responsibility for the contractors it does business with.
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by skwirl 13y ago
"Can't" here should be read in the same sense as "he hasn't crossed our border" (Russia) and "the extradition request wasn't filled out properly." (Hong Kong/China) Since this is an espiona
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by skwirl 13y ago
Surveillance has kept pace with technology. I doubt Mr. Church really imagined the Internet. Do you really think that China today has nothing like our automation? And do you actually think the way China acts on this information and the w
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by skwirl 13y ago
"The technology that the NSA now wields far exceeds Senator Church’s most excessive dreams of a surveillance state." The author apparently thinks Senator Church didn't have much of an imagination or had never heard of the Sov
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by skwirl 13y ago
Yeah, they could have made the change in C# 3.0. I just don't think anyone really felt the pain until the Task Parallel Library came along in .NET 4. Since the TPL API is lambda heavy people really started using lambdas for asynchron
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by skwirl 13y ago
I'm just echoing what everyone else here said, but they do a great job at adding these features to the language. I believe that if you learned C# as a first language nothing would feel out of place.
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by skwirl 13y ago
An interesting change in C# 5.0 involves the handling of foreach iteration variables when used in closure scope. This is technically a breaking change, although it is really hard to think of a case where the old behavior was legitimately d
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by skwirl 13y ago
http://xkcd.com/1227/
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by skwirl 13y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if he was partly motivated by the fame of Bradley Manning. I also wouldn't be surprised if more followed in his footsteps.
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by skwirl 13y ago
Absolutely what I thought. Now the case could be made that he cherry picked his leaks to cause maximum damage while hiding additional context and wildly misinterpreting things that he saw to fit his predrawn conclusions. This could explai
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Snowden sought Booz Allen job to gather evidence on NSA surveillance(scmp.com)
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