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by uvdiv 13y ago
Yes, the entire rulemaking part. It's true the Verizon spying had a secret-court FISA warrant, but was that warrant required to have "probable cause"?
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by uvdiv 13y ago
'waterphone' -- your comment history appears benign and helpful, I think you deserve to know you've been hellbanned. The automated filter on HN will hide your comments from most users. It is a waste of your time to comment i
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by uvdiv 13y ago
Text of the proposed law: "The Fourth Amendment to the Constitution shall not be construed to allow any agency of the United States Government to search the phone records of Americans without a warrant based on probable cause."
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Rand Paul Bill Would Curb NSA on Phone Records(abcnews.go.com)
119 points by uvdiv 13y ago|35 comments
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by uvdiv 13y ago
http://energyalmanac.ca.gov/electricity/electric_generation_... Time-averaged outputs are 1,045 MW wind, 175 MW solar. (2nd table, in units of gigawatt-hours per year. The 1st table shows peak capacities: 4,967 MW wind
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by uvdiv 13y ago
They're shutting down nuclear power, building an incoherent mixture of coal, solar, and wind, causing both skyrocketing electricity prices and increasing CO2. http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/europea
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by uvdiv 13y ago
France, Finland, Slovakia, and the US: http://www.iaea.org/PRIS/WorldStatistics/UnderConstructionRe...
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by uvdiv 13y ago
and in total, there are FOURTEEN natural gas plants that generate more than 200 MW in the entirety of the United States operating today. California alone has over 45,000 MW of natural gas capacity, including 46 plants over 200 MW. They ad
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by uvdiv 13y ago
I understand it's the content, not "merely" metadata, that's being siphoned. That's what I got from the WaPo article.
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by uvdiv 13y ago
I've flagged this submission. You are welcome! :)
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by uvdiv 13y ago
"The article, which included a link to the order, is expected to attract an investigation from the Justice Department, which has aggressively pursued leakers."
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Blogger, With Focus on Surveillance, Is at Center of a Debate(nytimes.com)
181 points by uvdiv 13y ago|74 comments
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by uvdiv 13y ago
248 percent: The increase in 2012 in the number of Skype communications intercepted via PRISM Is Skype no longer end-to-end encrypted? I'm surprised to see it confirmed (?) that NSA is siphoning up Skype video. How does this MITM work te
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by uvdiv 13y ago
Exactly which data is exposed for each provider? According to slide 2, all of it. You might be confusing this with yesterday's Verizon story, which was "only" metadata -- caller, sender, time, and duration. This one is "actual" data -- em
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by uvdiv 13y ago
Checks and balances are functioning perfectly. Congress voted for Patriot Act §215, President Bush signed it into law, President Obama and his congress reauthorized it, and the courts did not overturn it. The law has sat on the books, very
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by uvdiv 13y ago
Previous discussion (5 hours old, still active): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5829442
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by uvdiv 13y ago
No such thing. IRS won't let you reclassify personal consumption as business losses just by creating an LLC for it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Code_section_... ("hobby loss rule")
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by uvdiv 13y ago
Hold on, he paid $2.5 million in fines over what those photos depict? I think CCC is missing a 'Р'. (edit): Here's a interesting profile of the guy leading this bureaucracy: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/us/09sfcoastal.html?pagewa...
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by uvdiv 13y ago
What physically matters is the pressure difference. 2atm:1atm and 1atm:0atm are the same -- they both exert 1.03 kg-force per square centimeter of wall. If you're asking how does pressure change with depth, it's linear for water. The press
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Google bans porn on Google Glass(cnn.com)
3 points by uvdiv 13y ago|1 comments
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Will the Net Turn Car Dealers into Dinosaurs? [2000](cato.org)
1 points by uvdiv 13y ago|0 comments
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by uvdiv 13y ago
State-sanctioned corruption. If you're looking for the justifications , here's an explanation from a Cato article (pp. 3-6): Why Restrictions on Online Auto Sales? The franchise laws that inhibit the new business models for car sales fr
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by uvdiv 13y ago
After eight years in captivity, she made a life-or-death escape from her guards after being sent to Vienna to promote Kim's latest film. Could someone explain how Austria permitted slaves to be held within its borders? Is this some sort o
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by uvdiv 13y ago
Chrome users need their settings to "allow sites to disable mouse cursor". Just an observation: this wasn't obvious to me.
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Changing the packaging saves thousands of lives(opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com)
1 points by uvdiv 13y ago|2 comments
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by uvdiv 13y ago
Parent is suggesting a 500% increase when AKP was ruling. I wanted to point out that this is a wordplay. You're right on this point, it's only 143% in real terms (after inflation).
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by uvdiv 13y ago
Following your first link, at €429/month Turkey has a higher minimum wage than wealthier European countries (Poland, Czech Republic, baltic nations). OECD says the minimum wage is 71% of the median wage [1] and calls lowering it a priority
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by uvdiv 13y ago
Don't be Evil is still a real value of theirs, and we should be grateful. [...] and most of them would be completely invisible and 100% effective. You realize that these two sentiments are inconsistent? If Google could be evil without an
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by uvdiv 13y ago
These ships burn the most horrible fuel known to mankind: bunker fuel. This stuff pollutes like nothing else. The pollution created by these ships nearly dwarfs that produced by all automobiles in the world combined. If you source this st
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by uvdiv 13y ago
There was a large thread about this yesterday, speculating about what it is: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5796880 I think a "launch loop" is consistent with all of Musk's statements (and nothing else is): https://news.ycombinator

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