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Why buy a computer from a company that has ties to the US government, an authoritarian government that supports dictators in Africa, the Middle-East, South America, and East Asia, …

"“The thing we try to help people acknowledge is that anonymous doesn’t mean untraceable,” says Byttow.

Am about to buy/build PC right now. It will be a six-core socket 2011 CPU with a couple of 780s. All the CPUs are little 1150s. Guess I'm not your target audience?

A response from Jonathan Ellis, via jancona: http://www.datastax.com/dev/blog/how-not-to-benchmark-cassan...

Here's another quote: "For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong." My experience, anecdotal as it is, is that an open space per team is the most…

"TDD creates bad architecture". What is good architecture? I subscribe to the idea that we are doing software engineering and as such there are some "generally" understood principl…

Isn't some part of their culture "be disruptive"? How does that square with "OMG Don't fuck it up!"

Will they start doing that to my phone line too? Selling my call history to third parties?

when someone gets your $197,000 house for $134, they can sell it for $71,000 and take $6000 in legal fees, interest etc, as documented in the article. The owner loses $130,000. Don…

>We have a standardised desktop operating system that is familiar to nearly every computer user on the planet, And then there's Windows 8. Also, while we're on the subject, my 8 ye…

Hi. My team is responsible for the checkout process at a large company. I won't give exact numbers, but more than $100m goes through our teams two pages. >by the time I'm entering …

That's my point.

Yes. This is my point. =) Only by actually working out all these details can we have just laws, and IMHO, we would discover that most of our laws are not just. We want law that pre…

Yes, we should have black and white laws, and unit tests for them. So someone could write a unit test for "Will this allow the NSA to create a secret court that is outside the rule…

From your source: "Illicit drugs were detected in 344 cases (34%)"

>That's exactly it though, lots of people "experience" being roofied, and then are tested and it turns out they were not. Do you have a link for that?

I think there needs to be an acknowledgement that the NSA, the FBI, and the government in general are not staffed by angels or robots, but by human beings, and that some of these h…

Side question: has the State now successfully argued that I can secretly record all conversations provided that I do not listen to them until I later get a warrant or court order? …

FTA: "Take the example of a tester, or a 3rd line support analyst – in the main their ranks are filled with the below-par programmer. They help the process by reduce the programmer…

Belief: >It doesn't produce bad habits or bad intentions, because this is totally dependant on the persons character. Science: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milgram_experiment

>but the U.S. government stepping in to FORCE employers Sounds like you're against the US Government. >Unfortunately, because you are replaceable you don't have pull and SHOULD NOT…

"Lifetime" because his position is a lifetime position. Congress may in future change the law, but for now, his role in "shaping" the security state is Lifetime. Right now, this st…

Seems perfectly accurate to me. You seem to be quibbling over "lifetime" and "power to shape" while at the same time getting bogged down with legal issues. I find this strange sinc…

"Freer"? The number of citizens in prison has vastly accelerated in the last 20 years [1]. This alone is proof that we are not freer. No need to shoot someone in the head when you …