skygazer

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   by skygazer 13y ago

   Because 1) we want as many barriers to tyranny as possible. We should not be relying upon government self-restraint. And 2) "I was only following orders" is not a defense against wrong doing.
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   by skygazer 13y ago

   It will be interesting to see how few or many FISA requests there really are. Google implies its a small number. The government was okay releasing the numbers opaquely, inside an aggregate of all law enforcement requests, which also impli
3. 453.▲
   by skygazer 13y ago

   "Watching your thoughts form as you type" always reminds me of Google searches. You browse through your history of searches and see if you don't recognize thoughts forming, search by search, or perhaps keystroke by keystroke
4. 454.▲
   by skygazer 13y ago

   If "listen to" is something that a person does, does that allow that "speech recognition/transcription" is something a machine can do? If I were servailing en masse, I'd prefer to start with some machine learn
5. 455.▲
   by skygazer 13y ago

   My sympathy erodes as he diverges from whistle-blower to indiscriminate national secret revealer. He's now distracting from, and deminishing the impact of the primary story: the government massively trampling our personal privacy. P