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by intslack 12y ago
You're right, partly. Either way, NSA ha(d|s) direct access to Yahoo and Google's internal networks with MUSCULAR and various other WINDSTOP programs that have collected many more records than MUSCULAR, without requiring warrants
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by intslack 12y ago
The two statements from The Guardian are referencing the documents themselves. If you want to talk about out of context, you missed the headline and the multiple paragraphs framing it as a question of what the providers say versus what the
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by intslack 12y ago
Sorry for the wall of text, but I quoted verbatim from the book below. >Wow, thanks for accusing me of being an NSA goon. I didn't accuse you of being an NSA goon. Stewart is definitely one though. > If there is evidence that the
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by intslack 12y ago
No, but that's their justification the vast majority of the time. They don't limit it to foreign governments or militaries either. They do engage in economic espionage, fact. They do single out anyone they don't like which is
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by intslack 12y ago
Guess I should've been clearer: any equipment they're interested in that ships from the US is at risk. They don't need to go after all equipment. They only need to go after equipment being shipped to backbone providers abroad
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by intslack 12y ago
Anything that's shipped from the US, basically. From the slides released with Greenwald's new book today: https://i.imgur.com/lCM0apx.png Here's the source, but be warned that this is a 90 MB pdf: http:&#x2F
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by intslack 12y ago
'Intellectual Property' doesn't exist at all, people just like to group copyright, trademarks and patents into the same term despite the separate, drastically different sets of laws backing them. Lewis Hyde's Common As
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by intslack 12y ago
It's not going to interfere with anything: sponsored tiles aren't going to replace any of your newtab tiles (pinned or otherwise) in an old profile. This is simply for new users and new profiles, to populate the newtab page with u
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by intslack 12y ago
oh boy, another GPL debate! phk was right, seems we never get tired of this stupid shit. It didn't make itself "deliberately incompatible" with all free licenses before it, for example MIT/X11 is definitely compatible. W
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by intslack 12y ago
The vast majority of distros seem to agree that standardization is a good thing in the switch to systemd. If you don't want to be standardized maintain it yourself, see: GoboLinux. But modularity of Linux doesn't seem to be going
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by intslack 12y ago
>Australis sealed the deal and made them nearly identical in the most critical ways. How is that? Using the hamburger icon, which was used by Mozilla in mockups before Chrome used it, or rounded tabs (which Chrome doesn't actually u
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by intslack 12y ago
History will judge Eich just fine. He's a great technologist, and the Open Web owes a huge debt to him. He's probably done more for equality and inclusiveness than anyone who protested his appointment. That's the real tradged
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by intslack 12y ago
Ah yes, he could've spared himself the trouble by just parroting empty words. The heretic should've just recanted! >there is no reason to believe his vague "stance" on equality. There is: no one at Mozilla Co. publica
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by intslack 12y ago
Phil Donahue is a nice example, I'll concede, but it says more about the corruption of the MSM than anything. >Why should I give money to an organization who's going to turn around and give it to a guy who's going to use i
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by intslack 12y ago
>Liberals get fired by their conservative employers for their views all the time. It's nice to see it work the other way for once. Where's the evidence? And regardless of whether that's true or not, it's not right: yo
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by intslack 12y ago
The left-wing anti-liberalism streak that's fueled this crisis is apalling to me personally. And those who were so insistent on burning Eich, the heretic, because he wouldn't recant will hopefully regret their actions once it happ
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by intslack 12y ago
I asked you if you were equating Eich with homophobic bigots, and you confirmed that you did. And no, I wouldn't feel the same way. As I said in that post, there's no biological basis or objective fact for refusing to accept inter
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by intslack 12y ago
So. to be clear, you're saying Brendan Eich is a homophobe?
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by intslack 12y ago
>My point is that people who opposed interracial marriage thought that they had a rational basis for doing so (even though it didn't make sense); similarly, people who oppose gay marriage today also think they have rational bases fo
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by intslack 12y ago
No: They believe that marriage is a union that's only between a man and a woman, which has long social and cultural roots. Justified by the fact that same-sex couples categorically can't reproduce with each other. Of course these
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by intslack 12y ago
You don't seem to understand: they can be rational and maintain that a relationship between two people categorically incapable of producing children together biologically, two people of the same sex, can’t be a marriage. It's ign
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by intslack 12y ago
That direct comparison doesn't work either: The herd mentality in religious circles is that because same-sex couples can’t produce biological children together, they shouldn't be recognized as marriages. This is rational if you se
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by intslack 12y ago
I agree with Sullivan's take[1] posted yesterday. If this is the gay-rights movement today, a bunch of extremist Social Justice Warriors, I want no part of it. Not only that, but Catlin's reaction to it[2] is also shameful: '
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by intslack 12y ago
>if he put money on an association like the kkk? Great comparison, it's not like the KKK murdered thousands of people or anything.
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by intslack 12y ago
I look at it from a practicality standpoint: abolishing the state-recognized marriage institution and just leaving religions to squabble amongst each other while moving everyone to civil partnerships for the benefits is impractical. So marr
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by intslack 12y ago
That's not concrete evidence, sorry. Your logic is faulty: 1) You're equating his monetary support for Prop 8 as evidence of homophobic bigotry, which by itself it is not. It's quite obvious that Eich is deeply religious: the
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by intslack 12y ago
>had Eich been a white supremacist In this first part, you equate white supremacists with what I assume would be "homophobic bigots," implying that there's concrete evidence of Eich being such a "homophobic bigot.&quo
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by intslack 12y ago
Donating and voting for prop 8, and therefore not in favor of redefining their "institution of marriage" (ignorant as that may be on their part) is not plain and simple hate, it's clear that you didn't even bother to rea
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by intslack 12y ago
>"pro homo"? It appears that Jugurtha is not a native speaker of english, so take that into account before you start taking issue with their word choices instead of their points. >The rest of your post is exactly why people
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by intslack 12y ago
The only crisis here is fueled by people like @nelson who want him to to either spout empty words or resign from a position that he's the most qualified for. Eich is ignorant, no doubt about that, but shaming him into resignation is no

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