youngerdryas

I can't delete cookies on my iPad

Hmm. I do it all the time.

Someone should tell them.

You must be Dutch where surveillance is assumed.

Ellsberg was shielded because he was reporting illegal activity by a government official. If what you divulge is not illegal you have no protection.

Who cares if Daniel Ellsberg’s whistle blowing was illegal?

Grown ups.

Can the internet fit in a small box?

Maybe the definition of hero should be required to have more than one datapoint.

This being the top comment on a thread about how HN's new golden boy, Snowden, is just another scumbag says a lot about what HN is now. We have had vapid ranting articles up voted for the last two days in some circle jerk because people who I assume are usually intelligent have temporarily lost all capacity for critical thought in some deluded quest to take down the US. My brother thinks he is taking down the government by not paying taxes but he is only slowly shooting himself in the foot. I am not downplaying the importance of proper oversight of intelligence.

There is no China angle where it is easy to hate America. Not that I blame people, there is no credible peer.

Even better he turns himself over to them in exchange for a Communist party position.

Obviously this is a strawman. Even North Korea does not have 100% compliance.

All that exists so far is four vaguely worded power point slides, although their is allegedly a lot more which is not being released for unknown reasons.

Will he still be a hero of historic proportions if it turns out he misconstrued the four power point slides?

We should do it now before the story is discredited.

Yes, this is definitely better for the users as well as the developers.

Jumping the shark!

This title is not accurate. You could always sell your code and assets but you would have to recompile and resubmit whereas now it stays live through the transfer.

Sarcasm is hard. Do you actually believe David Brooks has "Battered Person Syndrome", or do think it applies to all Americans?

I am upvoting this for spite, and if David Brooks was battered he probably deserved it.

So? America is horrible. Especially how they won't let us in.

So while Google can claim they do not allow the NSA direct access to it's servers

That is the entire story in this case, direct access to the servers.

I really doubt Google is going to play chicken about something so serious as giving away all their user data. Is it incomprehensible to you that they are telling the truth?

Assertions in the press that our compliance with these requests gives the U.S. government unfettered access to our users’ data are simply untrue. However, government nondisclosure obligations regarding the number of FISA national security requests that Google receives, as well as the number of accounts covered by those requests, fuel that speculation.

Sounds suspiciously like they are going to ruin everyone's nerd rage.

Or if Google continued their "Don't be evil" façade.

Find out what really happened before hyperventilating?

Blog spam?

If people steal from you find out why they hate you

This whole blog is gibberish. Juveniles apparently up vote without reading.

So the reverse of never attribute to malice what can be explained by incompetence. Glass half empty.

Are there any grown ups left on HN?

Hey, your bag of stupid is leaking into other threads.