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You're right, partly. Either way, NSA ha(d|s) direct access to Yahoo and Google's internal networks with MUSCULAR and various other WINDSTOP programs that have collected many more …

The two statements from The Guardian are referencing the documents themselves. If you want to talk about out of context, you missed the headline and the multiple paragraphs framing…

Sorry for the wall of text, but I quoted verbatim from the book below. >Wow, thanks for accusing me of being an NSA goon. I didn't accuse you of being an NSA goon. Stewart is defin…

No, but that's their justification the vast majority of the time. They don't limit it to foreign governments or militaries either. They do engage in economic espionage, fact. They …

Guess I should've been clearer: any equipment they're interested in that ships from the US is at risk. They don't need to go after all equipment. They only need to go after equipme…

Anything that's shipped from the US, basically. From the slides released with Greenwald's new book today: https://i.imgur.com/lCM0apx.png Here's the source, but be warned that this…

'Intellectual Property' doesn't exist at all, people just like to group copyright, trademarks and patents into the same term despite the separate, drastically different sets of law…

It's not going to interfere with anything: sponsored tiles aren't going to replace any of your newtab tiles (pinned or otherwise) in an old profile. This is simply for new users an…

oh boy, another GPL debate! phk was right, seems we never get tired of this stupid shit. It didn't make itself "deliberately incompatible" with all free licenses before it, for exa…

The vast majority of distros seem to agree that standardization is a good thing in the switch to systemd. If you don't want to be standardized maintain it yourself, see: GoboLinux.…

>Australis sealed the deal and made them nearly identical in the most critical ways. How is that? Using the hamburger icon, which was used by Mozilla in mockups before Chrome used …

History will judge Eich just fine. He's a great technologist, and the Open Web owes a huge debt to him. He's probably done more for equality and inclusiveness than anyone who prote…

Ah yes, he could've spared himself the trouble by just parroting empty words. The heretic should've just recanted! >there is no reason to believe his vague "stance" on equality. Th…

Phil Donahue is a nice example, I'll concede, but it says more about the corruption of the MSM than anything. >Why should I give money to an organization who's going to turn around…

>Liberals get fired by their conservative employers for their views all the time. It's nice to see it work the other way for once. Where's the evidence? And regardless of whether t…

The left-wing anti-liberalism streak that's fueled this crisis is apalling to me personally. And those who were so insistent on burning Eich, the heretic, because he wouldn't recan…

I asked you if you were equating Eich with homophobic bigots, and you confirmed that you did. And no, I wouldn't feel the same way. As I said in that post, there's no biological ba…

So. to be clear, you're saying Brendan Eich is a homophobe?

>My point is that people who opposed interracial marriage thought that they had a rational basis for doing so (even though it didn't make sense); similarly, people who oppose gay m…

No: They believe that marriage is a union that's only between a man and a woman, which has long social and cultural roots. Justified by the fact that same-sex couples categorically…

You don't seem to understand: they can be rational and maintain that a relationship between two people categorically incapable of producing children together biologically, two peop…

That direct comparison doesn't work either: The herd mentality in religious circles is that because same-sex couples can’t produce biological children together, they shouldn't be r…

I agree with Sullivan's take[1] posted yesterday. If this is the gay-rights movement today, a bunch of extremist Social Justice Warriors, I want no part of it. Not only that, but C…

>if he put money on an association like the kkk? Great comparison, it's not like the KKK murdered thousands of people or anything.