pivnicek

Right there in the 1st amendment.

Backed up by the supreme court in the right for group memberships not to be revealed.

You have the right to anonymously assemble and associate with a political group. I hope you don't lose it.

There was a whole popular culture movement back then. I don't see that now, sadly.

That font is garbage, hard to read, it's like they'd been downvoted on HN.

Please end the light text trend, let us read.

With Bitcoin, fraud may be temporarily outside the law; but with JPMC and HNBC, fraud is built into the law.

A great project. RIP AS. HOPE and BUILD HOPE. Thank you.

Self discipline has no relation to generation. It's a human condition problem. This method seems to have some merit and may be a tool that can help people suffering from depression climb themselves out. I look forward to trying it.

Canadian immigration controls can be just as bad, though you may get water. Like someone said above, it's all about people having power over others with zero accountability.

Because these numbers are drawn out of a rabbit's arse?

They don't provide methodology, or any decent description of categorization; this infographic is worse than useless, it obviously has an agenda.

Because these numbers are drawn out of a rabbit's arse. No other way to explain it. Doesn't help that they don't give a description of the categories, or methodology

One imagines that this is the reason Lavabit shut its doors.

This train wreck keeps getting avoided by the community, but the choo bloody choo is pulling in at the station with a big bomb that has already gone off, but people are just slow to notice.

Snowden killed the USA-centric internet.

Let's see what we can make out of the rubble.

This is a great idea. Own your phone. Right now, the phones we have feel like they are the corporation's phone and not ours.

I love this idea, and hope that they get enough interest to make a splash.

The American people simply haven't had the misfortune of living under a totalitarian regime. That said, right now they should be earnestly listening to those who have; but sadly they seem to be brushing those views aside with thinking such as "well, that won't happen here".

Indeed, I came across a last_day_of_the_month SQL implementation today that I showed my colleague who's instinct was that it was shit, but upon closer inspection, it seems quite clever.

Never understood why we needed a boolean type, myself. What is wrong with 1 and 0?

What really is the difference you are achieving? Are you going to redefine zero?

My first encounter, and it would have hit the nail on the head, if I'd bother to spend the 3 weeks developing it.

Every place has their pros and cons. Eastern Europe feels quite free in the context of daily living, but graft and corruption seem to be the mo of the powers that be.

In other news, prostitution legalized.

Does anyone know what kind of encryption was used on those drives that were taken from Miranda at Heathrow? Is it feasible to break that in this little time? That seems to be the angle here, that that info was on those drives. At least that's my wild stab in the dark.

The important question regarding this whole mess is where are the equivalent of the Swiss banks for data?

Sorry to nitpick, but the Guardian US, a subsidiary american company broke the story, and the reporter is an American citizen. Nothing really foreign there.

If you allow your government to declare war on indefinite objects and actions you allow your government to declare permanent war. This is fucking dangerous.

This deserves discussion. The parallels are striking and all but undeniable.

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I suppose the question business owners have to ask themselves is, do they feel that their country is at war in dire enough straights that they feel the need to surrender control of their businesses for the war effort?

We got this warrant to search your house because we've already searched your house.

I'm not sure if a digital universe would necessarily equate to a knowable universe.

My main point of disagreement with the philosophy would lie in the ultimate weakness inherent to a digital explanation: the infinite points in between.

Well, the problem is that you can't have a "guilty people only" filter on a data trawling system. You have no idea who the guilty people are, that is why you are trawling the data. So, I guess what you have to ask yourself, is if the fourth amendment is worth sacrificing in order to catch drug dealers.

I don't think it is, and I hope most Americans agree.

<edit> replacing drug dealer with terrorist doesn't change my view on the matter</edit>

The collection of information of data of innocent people, people with no probable cause they are committing crimes or without a warrant, is not OK.

Aye, there's the rub. The collection of the trawl data invariably will uncover some crimes being committed by people who are not suspected of committing crimes. In other words, search and seizure without probable cause. Now it appears this illegally begotten evidence is being used to point federal law enforcement at targets. Do you really not see a problem with this?

The thing is, as these things come out, it turns paranoia into reality. I preferred being paranoid, rather than correct, myself.

Maybe you are getting downvotes because you seem to be endorsing illegal activities by the federal authorities? It is a crime to fail to divulge the source of evidence, or worse, outright lie about it, is it not?

What is the oath of office is for an attorney general? It can't be anything about upholding the constitution, obviously, otherwise Eric Holder would have been indicted already. Holder could go down as the worst AG in American history. He's even worse than the guy who lost an election to a dead man, and wanted to make dancing illegal.