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Reading between the lines: > The Tesla brand name takes this seriously. Question the headlines, opinions, etc. > You are safe using Tesla. What happened to this person won't happen…

Surveillance partner for NSA PRISM program, with Condoleeza Rice on its board. Stopped using DropBox due to ethical concerns years ago.

You are completely right. Adversary is the correct term.

It's a knee-jerk reaction to totalitarian domestic propaganda. Has a tendency to breed confused, alarmist, emotional and untechnical conversation. Here's the truth: Russia isn't ev…

The post-Soviet era is and was not the end of history. Geopolitical competition exists as a human condition. Much of the "communist versus capitalist" competition that "justified" …

They also don't/won't sell Chromecast product. This is the danger of vertical integration. Once upon a time the US government did built and used antitrust and antimonopoly legislat…

Seems punitive to me, rather than 'fair'. US copyright law has no jurisdiction the same as German copyright law, other than by coincidence of geography/volunteer base. I think Proj…

Except that they block world leaders (and other globally important actors) as requested by the US security/power community. PR. No thanks.

Military funded (DARPA's Social Media in Strategic Communication program) to develop the research necessary for running highly automated global-scale social network propaganda camp…

Coworker at Fortune 500 does this. Old housemate at different Fortune 500 did basically this (slept on the floor, only owned cardboard boxes, one week of clothes and a car). Both o…

I would really like to know more about the involvement of the Stanford Research group in enabling these exploits. Speculating on a whim here, but it wouldn't seem like much researc…

I really hope that Wikileaks: A. Works with companies to get these vulnerabilities patched. I know that US media outlets are paid to be hard on Wikileaks when it does this to harm …

"Yes, because we've totally just been nuking or threatening to nuke anyone who looked at us cross-eyed for the last few decades... /s Your nomenclature is a bit hyperbolic." Is qui…

Right, you've just reaffirmed what the parent poster said. The US reserves the right to use it's nuclear weapons in this way. But in no way is this the unique, most important, or m…

That is not the US policy. The US policy is to use the threat of overwhelming force, nuclear and non-nuclear, for leverage in interstate conflict whatever that conflict may be and …

It's interesting. I did not mean this comment as criticism (as you suggest). I'm merely accounting that the point of the article ("in the 1950s, the US policies on use of nuclear f…

First. Strawman. Not helpful. I actually lifted the nomenclature directly from National Security experts. I did not invent or distort any of the nomenclature. Further, it is a very…

Yes official policy is important. This is for several reasons: 1. Official policy communicates expectations. Others derive their behavior from, in large part, the official position…

The US continues, today, to be the only first-strike nuclear nation threatening to (as an explicit policy) destroy civilian population centers in a host of competitor countries as …

Had the exact same thought. The timing of the report is perfectly placed after the Russian president's most recent remarks and the Russian Congress's report on American influence e…

I'm not comfortable with Google having and sharing my data. Very excited about the NVidia chips though. Would be happy to run TensorFlow with them on my own hardware - though I'm m…

The important aspect for the NSA's interpretation is that algorithms can look at and process the data and create metadata or synopsis information from it. Having an intelligence sy…

Yup. Regarding the differences it's important to both compare and contrast. The US likes to try to color Russian propaganda as "evil" or "illegitimate" or "propaganda based on lies…

> To make it all equivalent is... Is your point that you think American propaganda is the truth and non-American propaganda are lies? I stand by our earlier sophisticated conversat…

> I lie, you lie, what's the difference? Definitely not what I'm trying to say. > No, there is truth, it's something to strive for, and it makes all the difference. Absolutely. Thi…