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It seems to take an American or a European to be so paranoid that even this can be cast as a sinister activity. They know their history. The possibility that their governments woul…

I am starting to sense some elitism and bandwagoning from the design community. Starting to? That's kind of what the cutting edge of design is all about. When a design advances pas…

Sure, they're fair questions in and of themselves. That doesn't mean they're not used as part of unreasonable or just nonsense rhetoric. Does the person asking them want to start a…

I was surprised on the drive home yesterday when they interviewed his neighbor. He didn't win the local chilli cook-off, dude just revealed multiple gigantic surveillance operation…

I assumed it was the work of the programmer tasked with installing the key for the NSA, not some self-deprecating humor.

Why is it that IRS targeting is not important enough to merit a single post, but Verizon et. al giving the NSA access to all our data is? One is a widespread systematic invasion of…

From what I understand, modern X applications run remotely are just painting a region of bytes to be shot over the wire anyway. I'll borrow X terminology for a second here, what fu…

Giving an inch doesn't mean you want to give a mile. Or perhaps more appropriately to facebook, giving a mile doesn't mean that any passerby who wants an inch is entitled to it. Ma…

There are multiple pages to the article. I missed the navigation buttons at first too.

Anyone with the legal knowledge to help you probably knows better than to do so. Find a lawyer, this type of thing is why they exist.

The government doesn't do anything at market rates. They employ below market rates, and contract external companies above market rates. This is (unfortunately) by design.

Normally I have a kneejerk reaction to someone calling someone else jealous. It always strikes me as someone projecting their own jealousy onto someone who very well may have legit…

let's not pretend that he is an innovator C'mon, this can't be the first time you've noticed that "innovation" has been overused to the point of meaninglessness in tech. "Disruptio…

Isn't Wikia also created by Jimbo Wales? He's pushing the content off of Wikipeida to his for-profit site! Collusion!

Do you seriously believe the female or feminist tech community has the resources to perform DDoS? Take a good hard look in the mirror my friend. You're calling "take your head out …

TechCrunch reporting on misrepresentation of a quote that TechCrunch originally read too much into? This is my surprised face.

Is that what everybody outside the US thinks? Well, considering that whenever the actions of an employer are questioned people on the internet are quick to assert that privacy in t…