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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 06:08 AM EDT |
| "As of yesterday Photographer.io is now open source. I’ve
been meaning to
release the source code for quite a while
and it’s a great relief to finally
get it out there, even if
it does reveal the currently woeful test suite. You
can find
the source on GitHub under an MIT license." - Robert
May
http://blog.photographer.io/posts/2013/07/08/were-now-open-
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 06:44 AM EDT |
Question: Does the NSA cooperate with other
states like
Israel?
Snowden: Yes, all the time. The NSA has a
large section for that, called the FAD - Foreign Affairs
Directorate.
Question: Did the NSA help to write the
Stuxnet program? (the malicious program used against the
Iranian nuclear
facilities -- ed.)
Snowden: The NSA and Israel wrote
Stuxnet
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 06:58 AM EDT |
"Fears that the 2012 London Olympics opening ceremony
might have come under
cyber-attack have been detailed by
officials for the first time. The concern
was that the lights
could have been turned off during the ceremony. link
Well then, the
solution is to *not* connect
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 07:13 AM EDT |
EPIC is taking the extraordinary legal step of
going directly to
the Supreme Court because the sweeping
collection of the phone records of
American citizens has
created “exceptional circumstances” that only the
nation’s
highest court can address.
The group, based in Washington, also
said it was taking its
case to the Supreme Court because it could not challenge
the
legality of the N.S.A. program at the secret court that
approved it, the
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court,
known as the FISA court, and because
lower federal courts
did not have the authority to review the secret court’s
orders.
In its petition, the group said the FISA court had “exceeded
its
statutory jurisdiction when it ordered production of
millions of domestic
telephone records that cannot plausibly
be relevant to an authorized
investigation.”
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 09:54 AM EDT |
| Another
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 01:15 PM EDT |
| Link
Above video (interview with ES) mentions that the
reason that NSA has "Direct" access is so that the companies can attempt to wash
their hands from it to avoid legal liability.
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 02:06 PM EDT |
| Link
Humpty Dumpty is
smiling.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 02:12 PM EDT |
| Again rejected as incomplete Irish Times, repeated by BBC. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 05:31 PM EDT |
| Link
DOJ argues that secret rulings from a secret
court
that creates it's own secret law is perfectly cool
with the DOJ and
therefore they should be kept secret.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 06:26 PM EDT |
Today in after trial hearing, the defense argued that an animation should be
allowed into evidence. The judge gleefully announced that A Daubert hearing was
necessary, which they are preparing for.
Before the trial the prosecution tried to introduce expert testimony by voice
experts. That resulted in a Frye hearing. On July1 the state changed from a
Frye standard to a Daubert standard
So now we will have a trial where both a Frye and a Daubert hearing have been
held. No wonder the judge was ecstatic. How many other trials have had botha
Frye and a Daubert hearing?
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 06:53 PM EDT |
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NSA Rejecting Every FOIA Request Made by U.S.
Citizens
Apparently every bit that is sucked up is
automagically
classified.
Therefore, your request is denied
because the fact of the existence or non-existence of responsive records is a
currently and properly classified matter in accordance with
Executive Order
13526, as set forth in Subparagraph (c) of
Section 1.4. Thus, your request is
denied pursuant to the first exemption of the FOIA, which provides that the
FOIA
does not apply to matters that are specifically authorized under criteria
established by an Executive Order to be kept secret in the interest of national
defense or foreign relations and are properly classified pursuant to such
Executive Order.
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 07:03 PM EDT |
| "A vocal minority of sub-postmasters have claimed for
years that they were
wrongly accused of theft after their
Post Office computers apparently notified
them of shortages
that sometimes amounted to tens of thousands of pounds. They
were forced to pay in the missing amounts themselves, lost
their contracts and
in some cases went to jail." link
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 07:52 PM EDT |
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Link
A federal judge today rejected the assertion from
President Barack Obama’s administration that the state secrets defense barred a
lawsuit alleging the government is illegally siphoning Americans’ communications
to the National Security Agency.
From the order (found at the
link):
For the foregoing reasons, the Court GRANTS Plaintiffs’
motion for partial summary
adjudication by rejecting the state secrets defense
as having been displaced by the statutory
procedure prescribed in 50 U.S.C. §
1806(f) of FISA. The Court GRANTS Defendants’
motions to dismiss Plaintiffs’
statutory claims on the basis of sovereign immunity (counts 5-16
of the
Jewel Complaint and causes of action 1-3 of the Shubert
Complaint). The Court
RESERVES ruling on the Defendants’ motions for summary
judgment on the remaining, non-
statutory, claims (counts 1-4 of the
Jewel Complaint and the fourth cause of action in the
Shubert
Complaint).
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 09:35 PM EDT |
The ACLU and other public interest groups are trying, yet again, to
get access to some of these key rulings. All along, they've been extremely
careful to note that they're not asking FISC to reveal specific foreign
intelligence issues, operations or targets: merely the parts of the rulings that
identify what the law is -- i.e., how it's being interpreted by the courts.
Because that seems rather fundamental to a functioning democracy.
However,
as you might expect, the Justice Department has now hit back with a new filing
that says, flat out, the public has no right to know what the secret court is
ruling on and how it's codifying secret laws. The argument is, basically, that
because FISC rulings have almost always been secret, then it's perfectly
reasonable that they're secret. In other words, it's perfectly legal for secret
laws to remain secret, because they're secret.
Mike Masnick,
Techdirt[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 10:20 PM EDT |
Top jobs in the new structure are going to a number of longtime
high-ranking execs.
That includes a new cloud computing and business-focused
products unit headed by current Servers & Tools head Satya Nadella; Online
Services leader Qi Lu could add Microsoft Office and other apps to his portfolio
that already includes the Bing search service; Julie Larson-Green, who now
co-heads Windows efforts, is in line to be in charge of all devices from Surface
to Xbox, as well as music and TV services; and Windows Phone chief Terry Myerson
is expected to take over Windows engineering and platforms.
Meanwhile,
Windows CFO and CMO Tami Reller is expected to have a larger marketing job; and
current Skype president Tony Bates gets purview over all of business
development, corporate strategy and M&A, playing the role of outside guy to
Silicon Valley and developers (complete with a giant checkbook for acquisitions
and other investments).
It’s not clear where Microsoft Office president Kurt
DelBene or Microsoft Business Solutions president Kirill Tatarinov could land in
the new set-up, but presumably either out the door or under new units headed by
Qi Lu (DelBene) and Satya Nadella (Tatarinov), respectively.
As to the fate
of COO Kevin Turner, sources expect he’ll stay (at least until he is offered a
tasty and big operationally-heavy CEO job outside the company).
Current CFO
Amy Hood — who was just appointed — is also stay in place, as will HR head Lisa
Brummel, who has played a key role in this reorg effort. Chief lawyer Brad Smith
also seems safely away from the hubbub.
Kara
Swisher, All Things D[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Tuesday, July 09 2013 @ 01:09 AM EDT |
| The important questions
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 09 2013 @ 04:53 AM EDT |
This kind of intensive data collection is just frightening!
It is not correct, that without any systematic approach (and
without permission) is stored – simply everything they can
somehow get their hands on is stored.
Special programs are used, to skim data extensively and
automatically.
Here are ruthlessly own interests first
Found, not thinking about the consequences for the affected.
The smallest spark of wrongdoing in vain, it is
as always, it is Burke, far-fetched arguments are glossed
over one's actions:
- But everything is so bad
- The others are doing it as well
- But no one notices it, etc.
And what happens with the data obtained? Will they
or elsewhere spread further? How big is the circle of
then uses them for its own purposes? All that eludes
any control!
It's a mess ... how the pirate download of music and movies
as well as filesharing harms the entertainment industry
every single day!
<disclaimer: you find irony - you may keep it ;->
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 09 2013 @ 07:20 AM EDT |
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https://hacks.mozilla.org/2013/07/firefox-os-devices-
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| Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, July 09 2013 @ 12:50 PM EDT |
I wrote this poem in a public toilet after my 6 month old baby fell
asleep.
I was in town on my own a lot with her and the first time I fed her
someone commented that I should stay home. Baby's need breastfed every 2-3 hours
often. It's impossible to run home. It's a stupid argument anyway. But I was
embarrassed and for 6 months took her into toilets when I was alone without the
support of boyfriend, friends, mum etc. I hate that I did that but I was
nervous, tired and felt awkward. And now I find it weird that our TVs, media etc
never show breastfeeding in soaps, cartoons, anything. That we and the US are so
bloody scared of it. It's weird.
I find our culture weird and even weirder,
when people are so strapped for cash. It is costing parents a huge amount of
money paying for something which most of us, those of us who are lucky enough
for our bodies to do so, get for free. I have a lot of mates who complain
they're broke but stop breastfeeding cos they feel awkward, and pay for formula.
Why are we paying billionaire companies for something our bodies produce for
FREE. It's really good marketing that we feel so wrong doing something like this
I think. And it makes me sadder every day.
Next we'll be buying sweat in
bottles from Tescos and rubbing it on our skin paying for electronic books to
read nighttime stories. Oh, wait...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiS8q_fifa0[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: artp on Tuesday, July 09 2013 @ 02:36 PM EDT |
| This article on TechDirt: Economist
Explains How Much Innovation Is Being Held Back:
Says We Need
To Fix The Patent System provides some hard numbers for
how
much patents are holding back innovation. ---
Userfriendly on WGA server
outage:
When you're chained to an oar you don't think you should go down when the galley
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