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MrRogeron How the FBI Cracked a Chinese Spy Ring

>Snowden was never taken into custody in Hong Kong.

Why would he?

>Anyway, everyone already knows what they need to know: if you're acting against the "interests" of the Five Eyes countries (primarily the US or the UK), don't trust any computers in or from those countries, unless you can reliably examine everything.

Well, that really goes for any country who has the capabilities, I would say.

MrRogeron How the FBI Cracked a Chinese Spy Ring

>Because if they are "heavily" spying on the U.S., they already knew all what Snowden had, and more.

We don't know this, and how would the Chinese know specifically what Snowden has? Do you have anything to suggest that they did?

>How many gov employees + contractors have top security clearances in the US? That's how.

This doesn't say much. Just because you have a clearance doesn't mean you have access to classified documents. In the miltary, for example, almost all aircraft maintainers have a secret clearance and they just fix tires.

MrRogeron How the FBI Cracked a Chinese Spy Ring

I don't understand your question. I never said anything about Snowden knowing more.

MrRogeron How the FBI Cracked a Chinese Spy Ring

I actually asked a question concerning Chinese intelligence gathering on US entities which by extension relates to Snowden. Why would the Chinese spy so heavily in the US, but pass up US secrets that's practically on their doorstep?

MrRogeron How the FBI Cracked a Chinese Spy Ring

I wasn't complaining about being downmodded. There's no complaint there. I'm just aware that what I was going to say is an unpopular opinion on HN.

MrRogeron How the FBI Cracked a Chinese Spy Ring

I'm probably gonna get down voted for this on HN.

For anyone who pays attention to this kind of stuff, you would know China has an aggressive spy campaign against the US primarily for its technology. So I earnestly ask how in the world would China pass up the opportunity to get hold of the documents Snowden held? He was in their territory with the highest US secrets, and they just let him go? For just nothing in return? Just like that? Snowden said they never got anything (other than what has already been leaked), but there's no way I can honestly believe that when China has so much to gain.

MrRogeron Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Visualization is language, but of a different kind. Take those who are born deaf and think in signs.

MrRogeron Who owns the fish? A Common Lisp solution to "Einstein's Riddle" (2004)

http://rosettacode.org/wiki/Zebra_puzzle#Racket

Clojure, using core.logic, is also there for good measure.

MrRogeron Bloodhound – Elasticsearch client and DSL for Haskell

Why you never document your code? You didn't document your Clojure libs and now you're continuing the trend with Haskell. If you're going to make libs, please provide the adequate documentation with examples of usage in the code. I'm not gonna keep going back to the README. I'm going to use Hoogle and Hackage. All those comments in the README could be looking all pretty on Hackage right now.