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I'm not American but from where I sit this guy represents bravery of the highest order and the tenacity(sp?) of the American spirit. I'd be extremely proud to associated with him. He represents what we -the rest of the world- most value about America, freedom of speech, expression and calling out wrong damn the consequences.

Laws that are interpreted in secret can only be subject to massive abuse. The problem isn't the survellance its the lack of public oversight

Cheers, I'll be sure to keep that in mind next time

Anyone esle read this title and think Atlantis?

It's important to remember that we still have a functioning democracy. If you -- Hacker News reader -- decided to run for congress tomorrow, you might not win, but you won't be killed, sabotaged, or secretly blocked. Well the IRS may just decide to target you:D

The problem isn't so much the collection of the data, it's that checks and balances that are in place are completely opaque to public scrutiny. Everything is classified

would you prefer this link instead? http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/us-intelligence...

I wonder how the Obama administration will repond to this other than the usual "Terrorism is bad and you need to trust us that we do all this for your own safety"

Two days, two major reveals, wouldn't be suprised if tomorrow I wake up to find out that they've been switching on the microphones and cameras on webcams and cellphones.

not unsubstantiated: http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/6/6/4403868/nsa-fbi-mine-dat...

I've read somewhere that it's voluntary edit: read it here http://mobile.theverge.com/2013/6/6/4403868/nsa-fbi-mine-dat...

America is democracy, you can bring about change with your votes. Unless of course you also have the same problem we have in Africa;democracies paralysed by idiots with votes

Ah, when you look at it critically the death of 3000 people, 9/11, has lead to 2 never ending wars, the curtailling of people rights all over the world as states rushed to implement broad anti-terror laws to please the US and funnily enough, from where I seat in Kenya, the complete dismissal of the very thing that makes America America; it's constitution

National Security - destroyer of civil and personal liberties everywhere

This is so cool!! I wonder how far off it is to commercial deployment and what licensing plans they may have.

But every bit of power counts with smartphones.

Does DRM usually just mess with people who actually paid for the content? I mean make it inconvient for them to access their content else where?

Thanks!! I'll check then out. Do they start basic enough though?

I'm a third year computer science student from Maseno unversity, I'm really interested in learning about AI and unfortunately we'll only be learning more about machine learning and so on next academic year. We've done a basic unit called Intelligent Systems. So my question is, what next from there? Can someone please recommend what I should read to advance my rather basic knowledge?

It wasn't in the news, atleast that I saw. It wasn't a headlining on TV

Aljezera has had this story in their line-up for a couple f days now, not sure what they said about it because I wasn't overly concerned. Nothing on BBC though. So atleast one international news organisation is getting the word out.

We weren't talking small parts but influence the board/seat on the board parts:)

Whether he founded it or just funded it the basic premise of what he says is true: We can't expect science and technology to advance if we rely on companies whose very business model depends on the status quo remaining as it is.

Proving what my dad is always telling me "The stock market is essentially gambling. If you're going to buy stock do it to own the company not to speculate"

I'd rather have a public entity than a private entity with poor oversight

While the TSA is messed up and all that, Americans shouldn't be too quick to turn to private companies. Private companies would be profit focused, this means that any way to minimise costs will be taken which may compromise security. I give you Blackwater in Iraq as a good example

A little disappointing but not entirely unexpected considering. What's sad is an industry that fails to realise they have a supply problem and will never win that war

Whether it's a PR stunt or not, if the money is used well it'll do a lot of good

Do they really thing this will stop the continuing decline of their newspapers?

Got it: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121117/16492521084/hollyw...