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pvdm··on Sen. Wyden imagines the White House is willing to reconsider surveillance
If you believe this then you believe in "hope" and "change".
pvdm··on Bose founder, Amar Bose, has died at 83
He was an inspiring speaker but I avoided his company's products. Due to no fault of his own, the company that bears his name turned into a marketing driven company rather than engineering driven.
pvdm··on Explanation of the Asiana SF crash by a former UAL captain
Now also deleted.
pvdm··on Google paid AdBlock Plus to get its ads whitelisted
The question to ask is does google allow you to make informed and rational decisions.
pvdm··on Is the term "lifestyle business" an insult?
Only kids in their 20's drink. Know thyself. Think different.
pvdm··on Tools To Help You Hide Online Raise The Ire Of Advertisers
"commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets". - Chomsky
pvdm··on Ecuador says it blundered over Snowden travel document
I'd like to know what the military-industrial complex said to Obama after he got elected.
pvdm··on Keith Alexander's Statement to the NSA Workforce
Heard of wage slavery ?
pvdm··on I Used DuckDuckGo for a Week and Had to Switch Back. Here’s why.
Author is allowed his opinion and choices. I am staying with DDG because I value privacy more.
pvdm··on Facebook security bug exposed 6 million users' personal information
Move fast and break things.
pvdm··on Choosing Hong Kong Is a Brilliant Move by Edward Snowden
Not to mention they missed the whole subprime mortage crisis and never questioned the weapons of mass destruction ruse for invading Iraq.
pvdm··on Members of Congress Go Silent Over Prior False Testimony On Surveillance
"war is peace freedom is slavery ignorance is strength"

We spy on you to keep you free.

pvdm··on Asking the U.S. to allow Google to publish more national security request data
The seed of doubt has already been planted. Sorry, I am looking to secure my data and will not trust any third party ever again.
pvdm··on Sales of George Orwell’s ’1984′ up 69 percent on Amazon
George W Bush
pvdm··on Why we can't go back to business as usual post-PRISM
Turnkey tyranny is the other.
pvdm··on Cloud computing is a trap, warns GNU founder Richard Stallman (2008)
Why now ? The article is old.
pvdm··on Flood Washington with 1984
... and create a Ministry of Truth. We already have a Dept of "Defense".
pvdm··on My Privacy Plan
There are good guys and bad guys in every movie. They are all actors in a movie that gives the illusion that they are actually governing in people's interest. Read Chomsky's Manufactured Consent and see beyond the illusion.
pvdm··on Why didn't tech company leaders blow the whistle?
"Do no evil" but do something much worst.
pvdm··on My Privacy Plan
I think people are beginning to realize that the demorepublican party is two sides of the same coin. Tails you lose, heads they win.
pvdm··on US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program
Dog and pony show where the survellance state media gets paid.
pvdm··on US intelligence mining data from 9 US Internet companies in broad secret program
His body language give him away. That is why we have actors in position of power because they need to perform for the puppetiers in front of the gullible.
pvdm··on Why Finnish babies sleep in cardboard boxes
Nordic countries gets it, in more ways than just this.
pvdm··on The Unexotic Underclass
Why would you want to enter the Oil/Gas industry when you can disrupt them thru Green industries ala Elon Musk ?
pvdm··on Dead bodies on Mount Everest
Yes, life and death is sometimes horrific. Makes you appreciate life even more when you contemplate death.
pvdm··on The Unexotic Underclass
Yes, absolutely. We need to import more H1-B workers to work on these very important problems of food, fashion, 'social' and gaming. Makes me want to delete my facebook account right now.
pvdm··on Dead bodies on Mount Everest
At that altitude, the effort to move a dead body is four times the effort at sea level. If you attempt it, you put your own life in danger.
pvdm··on Sucks to be an old engineer
Read Mr Money Moustache's blog. Live like a grad student even when you are earning six figures.
pvdm··on Why Yahoo Buying Tumblr Is Not Great For NYC's Tech Scene
Jeff Bezos worked for D.E. Shaw before starting Amazon.
pvdm··on Apple becomes latest target of the Beltway Shakedown
Like Willie Sutton, politicians go where the money is.
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