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As opposed to your buddy popehat. lol

The thing where a guy got shot in the neck by one of their fellow travelers.

"Rest in Power #FidelCastro": https://x.com/blklivesmatter/status/802568605212647425 They didn't take the Jordan Neely verdict very well either. Someone joked right after the verdi…

Archived link used to highlight the relevant portion of the article, which is a digression, but worth highlighting. Some HN users will use the ad hominem that the writer, Greer, is…

I'm just glad PRISM is nothing but an extremely expensive Rube Goldberg contraption for responding to warrants. Golly, why did Yahoo bother going to court to fight the notion that …

Right, that just occurred to me.

Worst possibility is folks email are now targets, and there's enough info to get past password reset questions.

The most uncomfortable thing on an SF-86 would probably be your past convictions, but it's unlikely you would get a TS in that case. After that, maybe the names of family members. …

It's too bad The Master has departed, I'm going to miss his words being quoted to "settle any possible HN argument" in the words of this great comment: https://news.ycombinator.com…

Steve Coll, of all people, did a great job with your ususal argument months ago: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/07/nsa-co...

"I don't do work for the USG". Talk about burying the lede. So where did you get this knowledge about the awesomeness of Government training? I DO work for a contractor, one that h…

I think the WaPo should start a section that's full of Hustler style porn. When people complain about porn in their Washington Post, they can just say "That's a separate department…

You seem to think you successfully defended Google and the NSA. My technical chops are just as good as your, if not better, and I found your efforts utterly buffoonish. If you don'…

All of which is happening now, in addition to the activity mentioned in the article. Ever hear of Meles Zenawi rayiner? I know, the New York Times didn't like to talk about him, bu…

'Yonatan Zunger, the chief architect of Google+, wrote in a Google+ post today that: "I can tell you that the only way in which Google reveals information about users are when we r…

Here's what I believe: that quoted "government officials" are self-serving liars.

"Ecuador blah blah blah". Somehow, I feel that wherever Snowden ends up, said country will quickly become the second coming of the Third Reich in US state media. Note to the Vanity…

Yahoo fought Prism and failed: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/06/yaho... . Yahoo now wants us to believe that this was a court order saying, in effect, Yahoo …