dkulchenko

Eh? I've been using 2Do for about 7 months now and it's made me immeasurably more productive and less stressed (now that I don't have to keep todo items in my head).

Many people have their own app/site/script/method that works well for them. It's just a matter of finding the right one to match your workflow.

I said no one's challenged the validity of the PowerPoint. What you're quoting is challenging the articles written by the Guardian and the Post.

Is that the entire bill?

Seems extremely narrow-scoped and with no terms defined. IIRC, the ongoing spying is not even warrantless - they're operating under a broad-scope warrant issued by FISC, so this bill would do absolutely nothing.

I'm struggling to make sense of all this. On the one hand, the denials from the companies in question are becoming more and more genuine and convincing - on the other, the NSA PowerPoint did leak which very clearly states the companies' involvement and no one's thus far denied its validity.

Who's lying?

Realistically though, can you imagine there being so many CEOs knowing that this thing is going on and being forced to lie about it, and not one of them spilling the beans?

Even if the gov tries to arrest them for leaking classified information, they'd be near-impossible to convict following the inevitable massive public outcry.

Look at the two writeups (Zuckerberg's and Page's) side by side. Each has 4 paragraphs. Each of the pairs of paragraphs addresses the same thing.

1st paragraph: we wanted to respond to these claims. 2nd paragraph: never heard of PRISM, don't give direct access. 3rd paragraph: each request goes through legal channels. 4th paragraph: encourage governments to be more transparent.

Terrifying.

EDIT: It gets worse. Here's Apple: "We have never heard of PRISM. We do not provide any government agency with direct access to our servers, and any government agency requesting customer data must get a court order."

Here's Paltalk: "We have not heard of PRISM. Paltalk exercises extreme care to protect and secure users’ data, only responding to court orders as required to by law. Paltalk does not provide any government agency with direct access to its servers.”

Here's AOL: "We do not have any knowledge of the PRISM program. We do not disclose user information to government agencies without a court order, subpoena or formal legal process, nor do we provide any government agency with access to our servers."

And here's Yahoo: "We do not provide the government with direct access to our servers, systems, or network."

Microsoft refused to issue a direct denial of involvement in PRISM.

This really is the way to stop this. Support representatives like Mark Udall and Ron Wyden and vote everyone who's supporting PATRIOT and warrantless wiretapping out of office.

Civil liberties should be as big of an issue (if not bigger) during elections as the economy.

Leave where? Everyone always says that, but where would be better (mainly in terms of civil liberties)?

> I hold out hope that this will cause several high-profile firings in the administration.

Why would it? It's pretty obvious Obama's complicit in this - why would he fire those who are implementing policies that he's supporting?

I cancelled mine for an unrelated reason, but was about to anyway once news about the Linode compromise got out. Linode themselves have admitted that the only thing between HTP and the credit card numbers is a passphrase (of unknown quality).

I no longer have any VMs on Linode. It's unfortunate that a company I trusted behaved so oddly and non-transparently over the course of the incident.

I have no problem with the fact that Facebook has to gather and distribute some sort of information on you to get advertiser money, it's just a matter of the way they do it. There's obviously the whole Facebook uploading all your contacts without your permission issue (IIRC, that's still going on) and the fact that for whatever reason whenever I open up the Facebook app on an Android device, the GPS icon in my notification starts blinking that my location is being obtained. Which, if it were a rough network-based location to get my current city for targeted ads is fine - but it's not, and obtaining my exact location without my permission is not okay. (That's one of the things iOS gets right - per-app configurable permissions, it's a shame Android has nothing like it without a custom ROM.)

To clarify, I think Facebook (the app) itself is fantastic. The issue isn't the tech, it's the shady behavior by the company who develops it.

Of the few hundred friends I have on Facebook (almost all under 18), not one is using a pseudonym. Not sure where you heard that.

Teen here.

I'm firmly in the "hate it but can't stop using it" camp. I've tried G+, and for a brief period a few of my friends tried it as well, but we switched back when it failed to reach critical mass. That's all Facebook has going for it, really, is the people using it; I'm sure most of us would switch to a better network if given the chance, but we won't do it unless a significant majority of our friends come along with us.

I don't like Facebook's approach to privacy, I absolutely hate how many permissions the Facebook app requires on my Android phone, but if I cut myself off of Facebook I'm losing out on a huge, huge percentage of social interaction with people who I know but am not particularly close to (which for most people is at least 80% of their friends list). Plus all the history I've amassed on Facebook since grade 7.

For better or worse, teens are stuck on Facebook for the time being, and unlike the move from MySpace, I don't see switching off of it happening any time soon. Sure, there's Twitter, Instagram, etc. which are also heavily used by my age group, but only as secondary networks - Facebook remains the definition of online social interaction.

EDIT: A few more thoughts:

An important part of it mentioned elsewhere in the thread is the fact that Facebook basically acts as a glorified address book/communications hub - if I want Chris to come to my party or add him to a group conversation about something or share a picture with him, all I need is his name. Not an email, not a phone number, just a name. It's pretty incredible if you think about it. Nothing else comes close.

> I'm not a Perl user, I don't consider running sed on my source code to be a "bonus".

That was completely unnecessary.

IIRC, Go does not support importing anything but HEAD (yet, at least).

> I'm wondering if anybody is working on a package manager for Go libs... That would be great.

@aleksi is: http://www.gonuts.io/

.io is now in the list. See http://support.google.com/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&....

Good. But why does Facebook get off scot-free? I feel like their contact-uploading behavior was even more egregious than Path's.

EDIT: I missed when originally reading the post that the fine was for violating COPPA, while the other provisions (privacy assessment every 2 years) are for their privacy violations.

The fact that they didn't write it that way makes it seem like a deliberately misleading headline.

Say, for the sake of argument, that I have an external SSD with 5 partitions, 2 of which are filled with random data (passing a chi-square test), the remaining 3 are TrueCrypt volumes.

The way I understand it, I have plausible deniability that I have any encrypted data on this disk. Failing that, wouldn't being forced to divulge which of the partitions are actual encrypted volumes be self-incrimination?

British TV license = no ads. Cable/satellite = I'm paying $40 a month and getting ads interrupting what I'm watching every 5 minutes.

Also, have you seen British television? The quality of the original programming far surpasses most of the networks we have in the U.S., and is easily on par with premium channels like HBO.

As someone living in the U.S., I'd happily pay the ~$18.50/month to have unlimited access to the programming (plus web streaming) that U.K. citizens do.

Fixed since 3.x: https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=12908#c13

So if I have no databases that start with "-", I'm not vulnerable? Didn't quite understand what they meant by that.

They way it was explained to me is that I had to prove I was capable of providing for myself - not necessarily that I was receiving no financial support from my parents.

The law in WA (http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=13.64&full=...) reads "the petitioner [must indicate] that he or she has the ability to manage his or her financial affairs".

Not really. I still live with my parents to this day - all it means is that I become an adult in the legal sense of the word and any contracts I sign are binding and nonvoidable.

As someone who legally sold a business as a minor (still a minor today), you are mistaken. Take a look at this article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emancipation_of_minors

Wow. How big does your botnet have to be to provide 300 Gbps?

Would be interesting to see an update from CloudFlare - AFAIK, the largest DDoS they've dealt with before has been a tad over 100 Gbps.

How realistic is it really that Sendgrid's official Facebook, Twitter, blog, and status site were all compromised simultaneously?

Previous discussion (all dead posts, all posted within past hour):

Why are all the posts related to Aria Richards getting deleted? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416578

Effective immediately, SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416514

Effective immediately, SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416422

SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416312

SendGrid has terminated the employment of Adria Richards? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5416021