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Investigate Booz Allen Hamilton
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 06:42 PM EDT
Guardian

Impeach DNI Clapper for perjury? What a jolly thought.
No wonder he squealed so loudly at Snowden.

Tinfoil Hat Footnote:
My NZ ISP's dns to the Guardian this morning
gets lost in an infinite loop within Fairfax Media.

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  • nsa & friends - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 09:38 PM EDT
    • cynical view - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 10:59 PM EDT
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson has Died
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 08:55 PM EDT
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/16/us/thomas-penfield-jackson-outspoken-judge-
dies-at-76.html

I had a good laugh during the MS antitrust trial when he said:

"The code of tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a
dead
horse, the best strategy is to dismount.

In law firms, we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the
following: buying a stronger whip; changing riders; saying things like 'this is

the way we have always ridden this horse'; appointing a committee to study the
horse; arranging to visit other firms to see how they ride dead horses;
increasing the standards to ride dead horses; declaring that the horse is
better,
faster, and cheaper dead; and finally, harnessing several dead horses together
for increased speed."

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What is Project Loon?
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, June 15 2013 @ 11:21 PM EDT
Now I know   the name,
I have to check my calendar.

When the news   broke yesterday I wondered ...
These are not thethered balloons.
They drift on the wild winds of the tropopause.
Google really has more money than sense,
unless they're also into climate control...

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Outspoken Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson
Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, June 16 2013 @ 11:51 AM EDT
"Thomas Penfield Jackson, a federal judge who ruled in 2000 that Microsoft was a predatory monopoly and must be split in half, only to see an appeals court reverse his order because he had improperly discussed it with journalists, died at his home in Compton, Md., on Saturday. He was 76. link

Judge Jackson discussed the case with the journalists with the understanding that his remarks would not be released until after the judgement was handed down. It was the Microsoft lawyers who perceiving they were going to lose the case, leaked the discussions, and then requested Judge Jackson be removed for .. leaking the information.

"Judge Jackson agreed to be interviewed several times after testimony in the trial had ended, with the understanding that his comments could not be published until the case had left his courtroom. The discussions, beginning last September, were friendly, informal and unstructured" link June 2000

"The published press accounts indicate that all of the judge’s discussions of the case with reporters occurred after conclusion of the trial, which ended on June 24, 1999. Although the exact number and dates of the press interviews remain unknown, it appears that all but two occurred after the judge entered the findings of fact on November 5, 1999" link< /a>

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Forget PRISM, the recent NSA leaks are plain: Digital privacy doesn’t exist
Authored by: vruz on Sunday, June 16 2013 @ 10:37 PM EDT
Motor vehicle deaths in U.S. in 2011
Total --> 32,367
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in
_U.S._by_year

Deaths in terrorist attacks, *Worldwide* **all time**
Total --> 23,840 (approximate)
Source:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_battles_and_other_viole
nt_events_by_death_toll#Terrorist_attacks

If you actually look at facts "The War on Terror" and the
new Cyberwar that Congress and the Obama Administration want
to sell so badly, it's just nuts, sheer insanity.

Possible solutions: hide all statistics, generate more
sinophobic fear, buy more weapons and give tons of money to
the cyber-military-industrial complex.

Alternatively: Do less of what's not helping anybody's
freedoms at all.


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--- the vruz

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Declassified document claims phone metadata was searched under 300 times in 2012.
Authored by: kjs on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 02:04 PM EDT
that's what they admit to and who cares about the missing 0's at the end of the
number....

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not f'd, you won't find me on farcebook

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Baby BW and filtering data
Authored by: reiisi on Monday, June 17 2013 @ 06:57 PM EDT
The details may be gruesome, but if you want to be able to consider the case in
a meaningful way, you can't skip facts just because they are gruesome.

Learning to be a free person means learning to deal with gruesome facts without
being biased by them.

Ms. Christy's 4th amendment rights were violated by the wording of the second
search warrant. You cannot apply a semantic filter to data without looking at
the data.

That means that the search starts out overly broad.

Then the government must pretend to close its eyes to the data discarded by the
filter. And, at the same time, it has to pretend that the filter will not
produce false positives.

While the legal fiction of ignoring facts improperly brought up is used daily in
court, there is no judge present when the police use the semantic filter in the
search.

The sad thing to me is that the computer was apparently used to try to cement a
case that shouldn't have needed cementing. The facts of the baby's death should
have been enough to convict Ms. Christy of criminal negligence resulting in the
death the baby.

This shows several of the points being ignored by the government in the
discussion of the NSA's actions relative to Prism and similar programs.

A semantic filter requires an overly broad search to start with. You can't
un-infringe 4th amendment rights by a police officer applying a semantic filter
after having performed an un-Constitutional search. A judge could order the
irrelevant facts set aside, but the judge is not present during the search.

This is the reason fishing expedition searches are not allowed, that you have to
start the trial before you start it to prevent abuses. Since you can't start a
trial before you start it, it is impossible to avoid abuses.

Computers are fancy books, but they are books in the end. We have to quit
believing they are magical black boxes that will make the world a perfect place
in spite of our mistakes.

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Do You Have A Right to Remain Silent? Thoughts on Salinas v. Texas
Authored by: jbb on Tuesday, June 18 2013 @ 10:42 PM EDT
link

I appreciate the article for trying to explain this but it still boggles my mind. It seems that you only have a right to remain silent if the cops tell you so which is extremely bizarre especially since the mainstream media has been flooded for decades with cops telling people they have the right to remain silent and that whatever you say can and will be used against you. So someone during a police interrogation wises up and clams up and their silence is used against them. The SCotUS decided that you only have the right to remain silent if you speak up and say "I plead the fifth". Now that we've spent fifty years indoctrinating people with the idea that they have the right to remain silent, let's change the rules on all of them. I guess the SCotUS is dead set on further increasing our already astronomical incarceration rate. We already have more people imprisoned than any other country on Earth. Not just the highest percentage (we have that too) but the highest in absolute numbers.

The obvious take away is to never talk with the police and never be helpful. If you are ever approached or questioned say "I plead the fifth. I want a lawyer" and then shut up. I have no doubt that given the chance, this Supreme Court will find a way to make even these actions self-incriminating. They seem determined to make it impossible for the lower classes to avoid self-incrimination even with silence.

Well, I'm disgusted but I'm not surprised. All of the important parts of the Bill of Rights have been trampled into the dirt.

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Our job is to remind ourselves that there are more contexts
than the one we’re in now — the one that we think is reality.
-- Alan Kay

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