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GoodIntentionson My NSA Records - Submit a FOIA Request or Motion to Quash

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Emery

There are other examples. This is the one that came to mind most readily. I don't smoke up. I don't support Marc Emery. I was however, ashamed at how nut-less my government was in handing him over.

GoodIntentionson US surveillance revelations deepen European fears

And another here. I'll pay more to not touch US soil when I travel and I certainly haven't been there in a long time.

I haven't got anything criminal going on, and don't hail from anywhere 'suspicious'. It's just that I don't trust US customs/TFSA to not ruin my day for no reason whatsoever.

GoodIntentionson Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM

dude, If someone at that level gets jailed, it wouldn't be treason. It'd be insider trading, or perhaps something less palatable.

GoodIntentionson Larry Page addresses PRISM

The last couple lines of his blog post seemed to convey, at least to me, that he was posting truth but perhaps not as much as he'd like.

"We post this information on our Transparency Report whenever possible... ...we understand that the U.S. and other governments need to take action to protect their citizens’ safety—including sometimes by using surveillance. But the level of secrecy around the current legal procedures undermines the freedoms we all cherish."

GoodIntentionson NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utah_Data_Center

Think of it as voice mail for everyone. Except you can't retrieve or delete anything.

GoodIntentionson Finnish MeeGo Startup Jolla Reveals First Phone With Customisable Shells

nope.

I use an N900 to this day, despite having to use a terrible service provider to get support for the phone's frequencies in my area.

Hardware keyboard on a phone I can ssh from or I'm not upgrading.

GoodIntentionson Found at Auction: The Unseen Photographs of a Legend that Never Was

Thanks for the link. Upvote and comment for visibility

The OP post/link wants to run scripts / load stuff from all over the place, which I wasn't gonna OK. This one ( vivianmaier.com ) is OK tho, and hosting some amazing photos.. She had an amazing eye.

GoodIntentionson A plea for better open source etiquette

I see people in this discussion getting wrapped up about manners and expectations. What I'd like to contribute is this:

I think in a position that attracts a pile of daily email, you need to be able to triage what you read, saving some ( hopefully few mails ) for later detailed reply, ignoring junk and hammering out a pile of short acknowledgements as you go. It doesn't take much more time to hit reply with "Thanks, go it, will process as time allows" or similar. If you don't do this, you're treating it as junk mail in my opinion and robbing the sender of any acknowledgement. If you've _got_ to ignore valid mails in this fashion, it points to some other workload related issue.

GoodIntentionson Don't use Linksys routers

My ISP also sent an "all-in-one" device when I hooked up.

All I really wanted was to set it up in bridge mode in front of my pfsense box, but couldn't do this. I cloned their router's MAC, put their router back in the box and used my existing 'dumb' modem.

Perhaps this would work for you as well.

GoodIntentionson VPN Services That Take Your Anonymity Seriously

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Cardinal_Richelieu

GoodIntentionson Person with a long rifle and body armor in the Main Group Building of MIT

>>Could it be a stunt by a particularly intuitive student

If it is a stunt, 'intuitive' is the last way I would describe it.

GoodIntentionson How much is Stairway To Heaven worth?

So I'm wondering - is this mechanism some "Hollywood Accounting" where a band can run a tour at an ostensible loss while paying themselves through a royalties channel? Is it normal to split revenue this way?

Anyone who knows the industry care to educate us?

GoodIntentionson Our service is down because Msft Azure is down. This is how we chose to react.

My impression of that page was not very good TBH. The words are kind, but for me at least, the message boiled down to:

"We're down." "It isn't our fault." "We'll be back up when someone else gets it fixed."

You must be at least _thinking_ about how to avoid/limit this impact in the future. Why not give the user more information along these lines, and thereby position yourself as an active participant in the process at the same time? Polite helplessness is probably not what you want to project as a business, but that is what I took away from it.

GoodIntentionson This is a bit f'd, Quora

Meta filter has been around for years. Usually troll free, decent answers.

GoodIntentionson This is a bit f'd, Quora

10.9 bits, 1 in 1900 some odd.

Running Firefox with no-script/ad-block/request policy + UA string set to IE 8. Sites I enable scripting on will surely get more info.

GoodIntentionson White House Deletes TSA Petition

>> but I think our only hope is for an "incident" that shows how pointless this all is.

That would be held up as proof to clearly indicate that the current measures do not go far enough. More tax$$ would be spent, more rights destroyed.

This is how classic terrorism expects to 'win' - By forcing reactionary measures that oppress the populace to the point they rise up and liberate themselves. It rarely works historically and certainly won't in the US.

GoodIntentionson Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots

so the net result would be the same.

Someone's grandmother miss-clicking and then mashing back is about as useful to the advertiser as a bot. conversions are where it's at. Poor quality traffic / bots / it's all the same. the advertiser quits paying

GoodIntentionson Company withdrawing from Facebook as analytics show 80% of ad clicks from bots

Those are exactly the user agent strings the bot would spoof.

GoodIntentionson Discussion of HN at 4chan's /g/

I think there has been an effective shift in what that word means to anyone born after a certain point say 1970-1975?

I nearly said "that's a good hack" about something the other day, but edited my speech in mid thought - I am sure the audience would have taken "hack" to mean "wtfpwn", which wasn't at all what I meant...

GoodIntentionson How I converted a software thief into a customer

I suspect the page views he got from this story was well worth it.

GoodIntentionson Still running strong after 1,532 days without a code change.

I wrote a manufacturing pull system in VB 6.0 + Access for the application database. That was all they had to work with there ( or more correctly all they wanted to work with.. ) It handled a stupid number of queries per month and was very reliable.

It's important to have good tools, but a robust design beats all imho.

GoodIntentionson Facebook Groups Start Showing Exactly Who Saw Each Post

Perhaps version 2 of this will turn on your mike and web cam to record your reaction to the post?

GoodIntentionson A Dust Over India

When a government created and sanctioned body has the effective ability to make or break players in an industry, and that body becomes utterly owned by the incumbents. It stops representing the public interests and begins defending the incumbents from market forces that motivate those incumbents to compete fairly, offer reasonably current services or even innovate new ones as a means to compete.

In short, they represent corporate interests while ostensibly being the people's governing body. This is imho, corruption. I don't know how exactly you regulate this away - perhaps mandate a percentage of the regulators specifically be from outside the industry.

Edit: for completion of sentence/thought

GoodIntentionson A Dust Over India

>> In what way is regulatory capture corruption?

Try getting a decent mobile data plan in Canada. It will be rapidly apparent to you.

GoodIntentionson Drone hijacked by UT hackers with $1,000 spoofer

ahem:

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20111204/DEFSECT01/112040...

edit: ( I think the real concern in this situation would be reverse engineering with an eye to finding vulnerabilities to be exploited in other drones, not so much reprogramming the one and only they have )

GoodIntentionson SecondLife Didn't Fail

I can sort of second this. I paid for a sub and let it lapse shortly afterwards. The akwardness of trying to do things, the ugliness of the world and the fact that my nieghbour made a huge sky-reaching tower covered in pornography and pictures of borat unimpressed me.

It was about 25% as cool as the hype.

GoodIntentionson Why Showing Your Face at Work Matters

Working from home limits your opportunities to kiss ass

GoodIntentionson Patent troll stalks travel site Hipmunk

There must be hundreds of examples of prior art.

I wrote a split screen sprite editor for dos about 20 years ago. I bet it's still on a 720 floppy some place in my basement. In fact, I think I have a source printout filed away too..