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People can bitch and moan all they want on HN, but how many actually took the time to call her office? I did and the aide wrote down my support of the amendment. If the 1000s of readers of HN had all called, she probably may not have voted against it (but may still have convinced others to do so).

What we need is someone to run against her. Someone sane and not a cuckoo. She's old-school, represents the establishment, etc.; someone young, tech savvy and willing to spend the time could put up a tough fight.

Anyone thinking of running against her: I can promise you that I will work for your campaign for free and pound the pavement like crazy. Let's do it!

> incumbents have a greater than 90% reelection rate

Which is mind-boggling, considering that the Congress' approval rating is 12% ! Thing about it: only 12% of the people think that the Congress is doing a good job, and these people STILL get re-elected! Is it any wonder that we're in this mess?

http://www.usatoday.com/story/theoval/2013/07/24/obama-congr...

Because the SF people vote her in like sheep, again and again. She knows her seat is not threatened, so she'll vote in her _own_ interests.

I refuse to vote for her. I'll vote for the Republican challenger every time.

This. The general public has no idea how much posturing is involved in such votes. These people will even trade votes: the Dem says "Please, I want to appear strong on defence, so I'll vote no, while you (the Republican) can vote yes".

Source: knew a couple of people who had worked as aides to congresscritters

It's not the programs that prevented attacks; it's this magic stone that I have and pray to. It keeps "terrorists and other groups" at bay. But now, since I've divulged its existence, it may not be as effective.

Once in a while, there's a scandal about the Whitehouse pulling up IRS records of opponents (or so it is claimed).

Just wait till the day some jerk in the WH decides to pull up ALL communications of opponents: every phone call, every text, every email. He'd be able to blackmail the Congress into doing anything he wanted.

Thanks! I was thinking of asking the reporters for the data.

Though there's an error in the data. Starting at row #1001 ("Caldwell"), the "base" column seems to have disappeared.

By law, salaries of public sector employees are public knowledge.

I think this is the same data that is seen here: http://www.mercurynews.com/salaries/bay-area?Entity=Bay%20Ar...

Don't get me wrong! I am saying that we need a huge turnout to effect change.

I wish they (FF) would also spend some time on the small annoyances:

Lack of a restart button. Now when I upgrade FF, I have to "kill -9" it from my terminal to get it to restore windows upon restart

Memory leaks. Leave yourself logged in to Facebook for a few days, and watch it take up 2GB of memory.

No way to easily filter sites with cookies like you can in the next tab over, where you manage sites with saved passwords. Why is this? Does FF secretly want you to not muck with cookies?

Now, I'm sure there are addons and plugins for the above. But I should _not_ need addons for basic UX. Save the addons for fancier stuff.

I don't mean to sound like a cynic, but: I don't think much will happen unless the number of protesters is in the many millions. Here's why: think back to Occupy. What did that movement want? A simple prosecution of the criminals who precipitated the 2008 crisis. But till date nothing has happened. Here we're talking about the government itself committing violations; what are the chances they'll do anything, when they did nothing to the bankers?

TL;DR: the only way we have a chance in hell is to have a HUGE turnout.

Now that Motorola is owned by Google, I wonder what Google has to say about this?

Why is this? Why is historical data so hard to find, when in fact the stock market is one of the most computer-heavy operations? These are numerical facts, so I don't think copyright applies either. It just surprises me that the data is so inaccessible.

11 years just stops short of the chaos of Feb 2000, where the NASDAQ lost 50% of value over the course of the year. Every dip, and people bought more thinking it was the bottom; and then lost it all.

1. It's just chalk. Children all over the country grew up drawing with chalk on sidewalks, etc.

2. Paint-based (and hence, more permanent) graffiti is a real problem in big cities. But till date I have not heard of a single case where the vandal was threatened with 13 years of jail. It would be interesting to see the track record of this city attorney, and how often s/he has prosecuted _real_ vandals.

FTA: "One can’t help but infer that the US Department of Justice has become just another security contractor, working [...] on behalf of corporate bidders, with no sense at all for the justness of their actions; they are working to protect corporations and private security contractors and give them license to engage in disinformation campaigns against ordinary citizens and their advocacy groups."

It's happening all over the country. For example: the guy who faces 13 years in prison for drawing in chalk outside a Bank of America branch: http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2013/jun/26/activist-prosecut...

And in 2008, (candidate) Obama said there should be no warrantless wiretapping. Then he started doing it himself.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9845595-7.html

That was a tough one. Finally, at gen 669, one of the cars managed to jump it.

#1: 200.72 d:195.95 h:-5.38/6.55m (gen 669)

True; but this is a PopSci article. Most people who read such media are probably not familiar with the term. They'll probably think of a petting zoo when they read "petabyte".

Also: Firefox seems to discourage you from messing with cookies. For example: I can't select cookies by TLD. I have to painstakingly go through the list, clicking each host and clicking "Remove". Compare the cooking management functionality with the next tab over, password management. There you can filter the list as you want. So it is possible.

"... there is very little income redistribution ... "

Non-Brazilian here, but: doesn't Brazil basically _give_ you money if you're poor[1]?

[1] http://www.guardian.co.uk/global-development/poverty-matters...

It's obvious. Those who know the details don't feel like they need to attend. They know they'll learn nothing new; why waste their time?

Which begs the question: why didn't they speak up earlier? They probably would have, if they cared. The ruling class in this country knows that they won't be affected by these shenanigans. HSBC launders 100s of Billions of dollars for drug traffickers (sometimes literally accepting bags full of cash, and staying open late to do so), and no one goes to jail.

Mozilla seems to have lost focus. Firefox still has massive memory leaks; it's not uncommon for me to come home at the end of the day to find FF using 3.8GB out of the 4GB I have, and my Linux box thrashing like crazy. Typically the culprit is Facebook's homepage. But I'd love to see Mozilla spend their effort on first making Firefox great. Memory leaks in FF aren't a new thing.

So while on the one hand Congress, NSA, etc. are denying what Snowden is claiming; on the other hand, they're calling him a traitor and guilty of treason.

If he's lying, _how_ can he be guilty of "treason"? Don't you have to reveal some classified (and truthful) info to be guilty of treason?

Not to fork the discussion, but: I'm thinking of putting together a new (Linux) PC for my needs (which are mainly number-crunching, photo processing, etc.). How much of the tech in this Mac Pro is available today to build one? I'm not sure I've seen any PCIe SSDs, for example. How about Thunderbolt 2?

This is a great overview (assuming it's based on some knowledge, and not a total work of fiction). It puts things in context, and asks the right questions.

A photocopier is a (scanner+printer), so the problem remains.

Your best bet is large flea markets, where you can buy stuff like WiFi dongles, etc. with cash. Then wait a while before you use them.

I can't believe I'm having to write this, either. This is like giving instructions to a Soviet activist in the Cold War days, but ironically it is in my own country. How did we fall so far?

FTA: "There’s another option I didn’t originally mention here — leaking over mail. Investigative journalist Julia Angwin of the Wall Street Journal points out that physical mail, dropped in a random post-box with a bogus return address, is perhaps the best way for anonymous one-way communication."

DO NOT DO THIS! Every printer leaves a microscopic fingerprint on every printout. The printouts can be traced back to your printer. If it's an office printer, that still narrows it down considerably.

Even electronic documents can have watermarks, etc. For photographs, there's the EXIF information, for instance. If you want to share a photo, pipe it through "djpeg | pnmscale 0.99 | cjpeg -quality 90" first. It will get rid of EXIF, and also re-compress the image, changing its signature.

To follow along, there's also Flickr and a search for "Istanbul" and "Gezi" : https://www.flickr.com/search/?q=istanbul+gezi&s=rec

"- does Yahoo have free IMAP or POP? No"

Hmm... then how does the iPhone client fetch mail from Yahoo?

"- does Yahoo have a decent SPAM filter? No"

I get more spam in my INBOX in my GMail account (which I have protected quite steadfastly) than my Yahoo account.

" - how much free space for storage? Too little "

Are you kidding me? Yahoo went to "unlimited" storage like 5 years ago!

Looks like you have a pretty strong bias. Time to re-think those assumptions...