throwaway10001

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by throwaway10001 13y ago
When you join the Army etc you largely leave your free speech (and many other) rights at the door, so I fail to see the equivalence. My guess is that that info is still classified, even though it's public, and accessing it might be a t
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
So who the F can we trust? All those denials from everyone and now we see this, which I kinda suspected since Verizon was ordered to hand over the same for phone calls.
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
But Snowden offered them nothing new, so they must trying to avoid detection as much as they can.
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
>> So what? Islam has 1.5 billion "members" and I don't recall any special Ramadan doodles. Not sure if they are any doodles for Mohammed or Ramadan in Arabic and largely Muslim countries but I don't see why they
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
AP - The Official NSA Public Relations Organization Yeah, Al Qaeda didn't know that NSA listens and reads to their communications. That's why Bin Laden used couriers to personally deliver thumbdrives and had no telephone or intern
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
You know what would be inclusive? Acknowledging that not everybody is Christian, and being OK with the Google home page celebrating something other than your Christian holidays on occasion. You know what would be inclusive? Acknowledging
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
No offense but popularity among who exactly, the Silicon Valley crowd? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_opinion_of_same-sex_marr... Christianity has over 2 billion "members" worldwide and Easter is a major
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Somewhat off topic but for Easter Google did what? http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-57577171-1/google-cesar-... It's their site and all but as a business they should be more inclusive. Ironic since billions of
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Judging by what I have read, Pandora is not making much (if anything) so there's a limit on how much they can pay. Maybe the is not a feasible business model, or maybe someone else--other than the artist--is getting the lion share of t
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Bing controls less than 20% in US and probably less than 5% in EU. What I'm surprised is why EU, at least, allowed Google to buy more market share by paying Firefox
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
I notice that the 4th Amendment doesn't factor into it. The 4th doesn't really apply if you're talking about the war on [drugs, terrorism, child molesters, tax cheaters, file sharers] etc. etc. etc. We are always at war
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
I use mainly so I can search with Google. Without adblock, it's a nightmare on many searches, the first screen of my laptop is all ads (not including youtube, maps, Google local etc.
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
You never know unless you doublecheck it. But yeah, with tens of thousands working with NSA /CIA odds are that Russia and China both know a lot
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
FSB, er KGB Jr quite able to add dozens of cameras in any room he may stay, or maybe they can tell by the sound the keys he presses, analyze the light the monitor releases or who the hell knows. Of course they may briefly arrest him to chec
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Russia wins by doing nothing. Russia wins by copying his files and denying it. Espionage is alive and well, just last month a CIA officer was arrested allegedly trying to recruit agents for as much as $1 Mil a pop. The info Snowden has in
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Yes but you work the odds of the robbery happening right after the Skype call and then the thieves taking just the laptop where some of the most valuable pieces of intel are. Anything is possible, but... On another note, if Snowden wasn&#x2
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
But thieves don't just take a laptop once in
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Yeah, because jewelry, cash or electronics have no (resale) value so thieves don't touch them ;)
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Shocking aint it? They are like employees on every corporation with expense accounts. Some or many will abuse it.
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Most startups and founders are like that, either because they want to get the product out yesterday, they are broke as hell or both. So MSFT is not targeting the desperate, but real start-ups.
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
So he remains in Russia, and he probably has problem getting to Ecuador. Maybe no direct flights and other transit countries might arrest him?
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
You mean the promises to arrest him for releasing confidential information? Arrest, a fair trial and humane treatment is different from what Bradley Manning suffered. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/mar&#x2F
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
If there's a will, there's a way. Maybe drop charges and enter a binding non-prosecution agreement?
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Also, "Ex-CIA official: Snowden probably questioned by Russians “The likelihood that there’s either been no conversation with him or they haven’t downloaded stuff from his electronic gear is about zero,” Philip Mudd, a former CIA deput
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Two things: 1. Putin is sick and tired of US raining (or trying to) on his parade. This would tell US to go F itself, increase Putin's cred in Russia and in many other countries. 2. Snowden has a trove of intel that Russia would love t
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Why not? If he's good to try his chance at Google like startups, why not at MSR? Can we agree that having been at MSR does wonders to your resume?
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
I just watched someone turn down one of these breakout companies because Microsoft offered him $30k per year more in salary—that was a terrible decision. He will not build interesting things and may not work with smart people. Interestin
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
would that evidence and fruits of it be admissible in court?
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
Ask HN: Can we please slow down the stories about Edward Snowden? They will, as soon as I finish writing my "How I made $7 billion on an app built while sharing the screen with Snowden stories"
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by throwaway10001 13y ago
IIRC, Google was having problems with licensing some content from media cos on Google Play (?), and then it was solved...as long as Google http://readwrite.com/2011/01/27/google_starts_to_censor_torr...

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