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by skwirl 13y ago
It sounds like this court is saying: A. Abstract and not patentable: "Instead of charging your audience for your service, allow others to advertise to them via your service and charge the advertisers." B. Patentable and not abstra
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The NSA is solidly controlled by the military. Also, my sense is that both the NSA and the CIA have blank checks when it comes to funding, and it is probably a small drop in the water next to the larger defense budget.
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by skwirl 13y ago
You don't think it's possible that he is a stooge for the Illuminati? It is blatantly obvious. His name is Snowden because this is a snow job. Wake up sheeple! "Editor’s note for the literal minded ... this comment is not
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by skwirl 13y ago
It isn't the quantity of Snowden stories that are the problem. It is the tenuous relationship with reality of many of the "stories" that have been posted that is the problem. This morning we had a story at #1 for quite a wh
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by skwirl 13y ago
In my top 10, I have #Snowden, Cuba, Russia, Hong Kong, and Moscow. So for me Snowden is dominating as he currently has half of the trends. People are a little too quick to jump on the conspiracy theory bandwagon.
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by skwirl 13y ago
The claim that governments are not stopping terrorists is ridiculous. There are people who are sitting in jail right now who have pled guilty to plotting terrorist attacks that were prevented. No, you can never stop all terrorist attacks,
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edit: I'm going to tone back my comment a bit and try to assume the best - that this was a simple misunderstanding and not an attempt to trivialize intolerance. I believe the person you are replying to was making a statement about wide
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"And the former National Security Agency contractor claims he has the evidence to prove it." Well... where is it?
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I was replying to someone who wanted to pressure the administration into firing a prosecutor for prosecuting Snowden. It seems unlikely that they will be swayed when the majority of Americans want Snowden prosecuted.
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Perhaps not. In the same poll, 63% said that if Snowden's claims were true, they would feel that their personal privacy has been violated. It just doesn't translate into the public wanting him to walk free.
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No. Most of the major polling organizations call cell phones now, except for automated ones like Rasmussen. This was from Pew. From http://www.people-press.org/methodology/our-survey-methodolo... : "The typical
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by skwirl 13y ago
Keep in mind that 1975 was before FISA, which wouldn't be passed until 1978. Believe it or not, despite its current reputation (thanks to modifications made in the last 12 years), the original FISA was actually a huge step forward as
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The U.S. would waive the death penalty to get him back from any of those countries, as they regularly do. I seriously doubt there is any chance they would seek it, anyway.
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I don't think putting pressure on the government to fire the prosecutor who filed the petition is likely to work. A poll earlier this week found that the majority of Americans want Snowden charged and disapprove of what he has done.
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Thank you. IMO, this is the most factually correct and honest basis for the prevailing sentiment that I think there is. It bothers me, though, that the cause has to be renewed and sustained with misinformation. Where was this outrage whe
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I am very fact based, and when someone makes a claim that " we have renewed, solid evidence that our governments are constructing a global surveillance state" I expect that there are some facts to back it up. Sweeping mass sentim
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This was exposed in 2006. As PRISM claims are walked back, it seems the recently renewed outrage is being pushed to other old stories.
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My point is exactly that we do NOT have renewed, solid evidence that our governments are constructing a global surveillance state. All we have is sensationalism. This is not a "pedantic" point. In fact, we have explicitly learn
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I don't follow. "Information is being stored in advance of it being 'collected'" - what exactly do you mean? Your GMail e-mail is stored with Google. The government can only get it with a FISA request targeted at
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by skwirl 13y ago
What was the point, then? What exactly happened recently that we are supposed to be so upset about? If PRISM was nothing, that leaves the Verizon phone metadata leak, and nothing more.
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"We are appalled to learn of the unprecedented surveillance of Internet users worldwide through PRISM and similar programmes." There has not been a shred of evidence that PRISM gives the government any capability that it did not a
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by skwirl 13y ago
I agree with you, but the statement "you have no reasonable expectation of privacy outdoors" is interesting. If someone were to fence off their back yards with a high privacy fence, would they really have no reasonable expectatio
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by skwirl 13y ago
It would also unfortunately filter out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impostor_syndrome
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No free-for-all, no direct access, no indirect access, no back door, no drop box(openchannel.nbcnews.com)
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Flagged for being a witch hunt. I know the rule about flagging club is you don't talk about flagging club, but this is rather egregious. Even if we decided this was ok, there are two major problems: First, consider that there are seve
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The point wasn't that you should take a congressman at his word that "everything is cool," but when what the issue is (THIS issue - no conflation please) an interpretation of what that congressman said in the first place, the
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by skwirl 13y ago
I appreciate the editor trying to make it sound sinister by implying that it is a government cover-up, but the very person behind the story to begin with, Rep Jerrold Nadler, claims his words were misconstrued by CNet. In a statement today
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by skwirl 13y ago
I suppose this outlook is related to where you grew up. To someone from the north, referring to DC as cold and snowy is preposterous. They had one bad year with snowfall a few years ago, but other than that winter they rarely even crack 1
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by skwirl 13y ago
A great deal of the comments here border on being ridiculous conspiracy theories. I know that when it was "revealed" to us that the NSA had direct access to Facebook, it was a green light for many to share their formerly private
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Let's also not forget why China owns so much U.S. debt. This is the result of many years of amassing U.S. dollars in order to peg the Chinese yuan, in violation of International law. Since spending those dollars on real goods or serv

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