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no wonder why mr.bloomberg never appears in their own billionaire list. makes the rankings inaccurate though.

works well with the latest version of firefox

this is my favorite

Eric.Slocum@mail.house.gov: Fuckface^1

that would make obama score points in the public, but it is his second term as president already.

this would also encourage more whistleblower activity that may get out of hand.

I agree. sadly, i doubt that many people would care about privacy concerns.

Instead of clicking each individual bubble, I wish there was a line which u can drag on top that will show the articles on the right as it passes the bubbles

this is pretty awesome.

This is a great victory (for now)!

This is why we need to separate the judiciary from the government or any politics whatsoever.

I am not so confident that the supreme court would find the same ruling since the president have the power to nominate the justices. I find US practice of the Senate questioning the nominee's ideology awkward.

Justices need to have permanent tenure to prevent political influences to affect their decisions.

I am really curious how this would turn out.

would be awesome if there is a choice to select a collection of music.

eg: feat Eminem feat Snoop dogg feat (any genre of music)

I would be interested to know as well.

Regardless, he is a proven genius that deserves to be funded - given that college dropouts can raise angel easily. I find this to be sad.

1. Can you tell me a bit about pricing in the future?

2. How is this different from your competitors?

Thanks

that is an interesting way to find a co-founder.

out of curiosity: 1) why did you to price bitsy as free? 2) what are the future plans (features) for bitsy?

ps: bitsy blog is down.

This is great. Finally some consequence to NSA's actions against the government directly given that all the checks and balances are not working.

For example: There are now secret courts and secret judgments that lacks binding power (NSA ignores them anyways). Despite the media revealing more and more lies, the congress does not seem to care (half of them did not attend the NSA talks). The rest that do have little power to stop them or even talk about them at all.

wow only 400 ppl stood up for their 4th amendment rights?

most of the people are waving it goodbye by being at home browsing facebook.

"and print money!"

brilliant. i'm stealing that expression from you.

that is pretty cool. don't understand why he put other gifs that increases the size of the site.

price is an important factor as well. try finding a treadmill that supports lateral movement for $300 USD.

Existing investors like Peter Thiel, Reid Hoffman must have influenced fb's decision. Honestly, what kind of VC firm can add value worth up to $250MM.

>(a) kids move on to the next thing The risk is small given fb users's engagement time. "Kids" were spending hours on fb. This is an entirely different beast than myspace and friendster.

Should post the original article that did the research: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-06-23/u-s-surveillance-is...

Snowden's continued media presence is advancing his cause.

For common people to care, we need a victim. A victim creates a story that the media can report on. The moment we lose our victim, people stop caring. Discussions on what the fourth amendments mean will not capture the hearts of the people for a month or half a year to make changes possible.

For example: If you want to rally the gov to legislate a law to make people to seat belt on buses. Discussion of scientific reports or statistics of seat belts in the press will not go very far. In contrast, a story about a 5 year old that lost both her leg will go a long way.

We need stories on Snowden because ultimately this story is not about Snowden but how the government deals with the privacy of individuals.

We are at the intersection of privacy of individuals and technology. The internet made information abundantly available for anyone (including govt) to search. Our entire lives is being tracked and recorded permanently in history. The people ("big brother") that control this information can control our lives (we all have secrets and/or broke the law one way or another without knowing it).

We as the tech community, we have a responsibility to protect the privacy and the rights of individual more than anyone else. Some of us on Hacker News build products that millions of people use. We need people that build these product bring awareness of privacy concerns to their companies. If we will not stand up for the privacy of individuals, who will? the Senators of our country?

We need to make people more aware of privacy issues, not less.

You have to wear clothes to "fit in" with the crowd. It is like camouflaging to your environment: "Sometimes you guys get a bad rap," Alexander said. "From my perspective, what you're doing to figure out vulnerabilities in systems" is great."

It is great because we need to recruit hackers like you to join NSA and find vulnerabilities to gather "intelligence" on everyone!

>The country also needs better sharing between private companies and the government, something that proposed cybersecurity legislation can help fix

Translation: We need to "fix the sharing of data" by forcing private companies, namely, Google, Apple, Facebook, Verizon and Microsoft to hand over all their data on users through legal means.

I'm sure some of them understand the irony but they have to (blindly) obey to authority.

see related: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

heh, the irony.

HK just dodged a bullet. this was the most strategically sound thing to do.

HK govt would just listen to the officials in China on this matter. In the same time, it has to respect the judicial system (if he applies to be asylum seeker). A very careful line must be struck between the two.

since I was the one that called it first, I should be paid.

Instead of paying me, why don't you make a donation to EFF instead: https://www.eff.org/

Any sum is appreciated.

it is called: mary meekers internet trends 2013

http://allthingsd.com/20130529/mary-meekers-internet-trends-...

>Laws may put more requirements than pressing a button. The normal standard in Sweden is to make a written paper and then let both sides sign that. Scrolling past a lot of text and then pressing OK does not pass that hurdle.

That would be an incorrect understanding of the law or at least common law. When you go out to purchase a drink from Starbucks, you have formed a contract with them. Signing is not essential to forming a contract.