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>"Secret jail time"? Do your loved ones get to know where you are?

No. You have to lie to your family.

and:

"The most likely punishment for defying the secret order would be a hefty fine, although the defendant might have a difficult time explaining the massive payment in the company’s public financial statements, especially if the contempt trial is conducted under seal."

I find it curiously persistent how truth weaves through even `legal' obstacles to be free.

>It's fascinating that the situation is such a mockery of the rule of law, yet it keeps on rolling.

Unable to be aware of the current secret case law history, addressing the FISA secret court, is it intellectually dishonest to still say, `Your Honor?'"

Burn rate?

One other possible new exciting venue?

Sell the truck, get on down to the marinas, walk the docks, ask around, moorage in arrears gets good glass sailboats for the cost of getting them out of there. The Sacramento Delta, `Delta Time' might get you some free anchor out.

Invent new rPi, Ardino sol-powered black boxes for mariners?

You're a good writer too, L.

Loud silence of largest(?) factor why Obama/Putin summit canceled, is a critical topic inversely proportional at 189 decibels, sycophants awkwardly ignoring the big elephant crowding everyone into the corner, cordially with deference exchanging pleasantries.

"Closest to home for many hackers are the government's aggressive prosecutions under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, which has been used against Internet activist Aaron Swartz, who committed suicide in January, and U.S. soldier Bradley Manning, who leaked classified files to anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks."

With also Binney, Drake, Snowden, with the Justice Dept's Eric Holder and Carmen Ortiz prosecuting with trump upped draconian charges, and that we also know the intel/security agencies spokespeople with an eagle logo are consistent prevaricators, it is clearly recklessly dangerous to become directly involved with these federally sanctioned criminals. At least factor that in, while negotiating your compensation.

Flight From The Reich, Dwork, D. 2009

Personal histories of Jews successfully escaping Nazis and not. Remember December, 1939, the border closes, and in that foul month, crossing the Georgia Straight can be hazardous.

This may alert FISA court interdiction. Shutting down a potential `compromised secure' channel frustrates total information awareness and the boundless informant.

Oh no. This may have automatically triggered the Snowden dead man switch doomsday dump.

Agreed, the rogue suicide in the wild is a problem.

and...with theguardian.com currently:

Breaking news: US orders non-essential staff to leave consulate in Lahore, Pakistan, citing terrorist threat. More details to follow ...

you suppose whatever intercepted intel causing all these embassy closures are `tainted' with `barium' so the threat is scanning NSA's global surveillance to see what activates a hwall alert and what does not? Eg, peaking traffic volume, how to do this with a machine generated sustained random crypto-noise spike?

WRONG:

"Other security measures that Alexander has previously discussed include requiring at least two people to be present before certain data can be accessed on the agency's computer systems."

CORRECT:

Before admins or analysts view native text, a preprocessor regex substitutes innocuous synonym barium canaries for parts of speech, puncuation, possibly with Google capable proper noun recognition, places and people too. These substitution events are hashed with each specific tractable viewers, and the viewers, so informed of this preprocessor, know it, so they don't rat.

This is also `panopticonable', say this occurs only 10% of the time.

I hope none of them read The Mythical Man Month.

You are blessed to receive a rare human hand printed letter.

"Restoring Trust in Government and the Internet"

Interesting title, Bruce.

Is this your first `walking in on little kitten feet', getting your tippy-toe wet, capitulating inverted ClapperSpeak, or `Shark Jump' or `Breaking Bad'? Too much recent popularity, and now that you're a street celebrity doyen, you don't want to stampede the restless herd?

You entitle this as a CNN 6 O'clock News headline, sanitized and pleasantly amilorating our bellowing constant surveillance disgruntlement into a Family Hour's "Group hug everyone, let's sing Kumbaya, and `Restore Trust'."

Please, not you too Bruce. Not now.

...and, like a horse, I still can't get on these newfangled things from the starboard side.

The state. Their AG, et al on down allowed this heinous act of gross miscarriage of justice. These innocent youngsters are scarred for life. Being a state conspiracy by the Rico Act these victimized youth could be awarded treble damages. Like the charge of espionage over ES' head with draconian punishment of life in prison, or the inflated charges on Aaron Swartz,arguably to send a message to future whistle blowers and `hackers', the state criminal justice system must live in fear of the punitive consequences of malpractice. Seems to be how everything gets decided today.

"...The Internet is transforming almost every element of the news business: shortening news cycles, eroding long-reliable revenue sources, and enabling new kinds of competition, some of which bear little or no news-gathering costs. There is no map, and charting a path ahead will not be easy. We will need to invent, which means we will need to experiment.

"There is no map" -from a proven visionary worth $25.2B, leaves a whole lot of successful innovations and failures open.

"...would the city still be complaining? Well, the answer is probably yes, because their intent to enforce the law isn't to prevent law-breaking but to raise money.

The Ink-free caught my eye. I would like to be available something like yesterday's `dirty dot' 9-pin dot matrix printer with a stout solenoid print head gun to impact tactile enough like Braille pages for the blind, but alphanumeric. Has this happened, still available?

"...just hours before his death Hastings sent the following email to close friends: “Subject: FBI Investigation, re: NSA -Hey (redacted names) — the Feds are interviewing my “close friends and associates.” Perhaps if the authorities arrive “BuzzFeed GQ,” er HQ, may be wise to immediately request legal counsel before any conversations or interviews about our news gathering practices or related journalism issues. Also: I’m onto a big story, and need to go off the rada[r] for a bit.

Notice the symmetry/irony of:

"...The SURVEILLANCE VIDEO ...captures the final moments of Hastings life and provides intriguing details of the "crash....

We should hope ES and Glen Greenwald have this.

Nice looking guilloche escapement train with complication, but for very long term durability, I'd back the Jura's molecular biologists certifying DNA's proven reliability.

Read his 2010 `The Blast Shack' at:

http://www.webstock.org.nz/the-blast-shack/

"...a massive computer leak is not the kind of sunlight that chases away corrupt misbehavior; it’s more like some dreadful shift in the planetary atmosphere that causes ultraviolet light to peel their skin away.

Expensive `joke`, I was billed about 8k.

k: karma

"And yet the three of them together, they look just amazing. They are fantastic figures, like the promise of otherworldly aid from a superhero comic. They are visibly stronger than they’ve ever been before. They have the initiative in a world afflicted with comprehensive helplessness.

And there’s more coming. Lots, lots more."

Grand theater and great pic, Bruce. You and Vince Gillian I hope are writing the screenplay.

Incarcerated in monolithic interstitial dreck, that forlorn inquisitive youngster in a long empty corridor may grow into a seasoned coder to escape Caracas' concrete war-zone of dread, and this is why here in the states, the preterites get free roam bugged `Obama Phones', with 250 minutes/month, as one of Kieth Alexander's many new worries is that lone savvy `Tuttle' in Brazil, that drones can't even target, and who later retired as 'Jack Burns', ex-florist, in a pleasant home and family circle of trust, recently augmented by a suspicious new pothead son in law, who, unbeknownst to Kieth, Tuttle/Burns has a back story as a NSA-hated CIA field agent to foment global terror to justify US surveillance agencies ever escalating budgets and security cleared retirees' revolving-door golden-parachutes. So the NSA, CIA, and FBI uber-state independent silos all become a patch-quilt of allied targets.

With Corrections Corporations of America, and now the US' most valuable export is manufacturing enemies of sufficient hatred to launch newsworthy sensational acts of terror requiring `Boundless Informant' and `Total Information Awareness', and now taxing the sun, we live in a dystopian grim back story more systemically upside down than any of Hollywood's SCI-FI screenplays.

Europe, and Asia do. Why is it we see all those Germans rallying and we stateside do not?

After acquiring an APPLE ][+ with also a Novation AppleCat][, a few months later I was able to get a super deal on a 64k ram card through a CALL A.P.P.L.E.group purchase for only $110.00. It astonishes me today I can get entire dated 9" netbooks on eBay for less with so much more living room.

CALL A.P.P.L.E.'s Val Golding, lived in a basement with many cats and dreamed 6502 assembly and would welcome anyone's voice calls.

I had the 15(?)th BBS in Seattle listed in the back of that freebie computer newspaper you could find on ferries(NW Computer User?).

Same here, the whole BBS social thing was accumulating vast index rows of copied 5.25" floppies.

The university had the unix shells and emacs, so ftp and telnet about brought us up today facile wise though we watched individual remote characters stream along at 300 baud.

Maybe why my favorite comfort space is still simple monochrome tty console.

I also had H19(~Z21) terminal and a 300 baud wooden phone handset box. The H19 was heavy as a populated desktop, and likely would still be functional if you could find one. I miss that modem handshake babble.

"Microsoft's Surface sales figures are in, and they're hideous"

>Could we please change the headline? No need to scream in HN headlines.

Don't blame the mirror when you see the reality of who you truly are.

On Arctic albedo affected by Box's wildfire hypothesis, I'm wondering if those earlier deep core samples correlate with historic big blasts like Santorini, Krakatoa's red sky for a year, and...is that Yellowstone super blow up recent enough?

>...if every communications device broadcast a constant stream of data and every other communications device received every bit of data and ignored the (nearly 100%) of it that it didn't care about at the moment, you would eliminate the ability to know who was communicating with whom and when, right? The metadata is gone.

Amateur Radio may address this directly or protocols to model, build upon. License requirements are also becoming more relaxed, accessible:

Packet radio is a form of packet switching technology used to transmit digital data via radio or wireless communications links. It uses the same concepts of data transmission via Datagram that are fundamental to communications via the Internet, as opposed to the older techniques used by dedicated or switched circuits.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Packet_radio

SailMail is radio based e-mail system designed for yacht owners operating beyond line-of-sight radio links to the internet. Much of its underlying technology is built upon the Winlink software originally developed by amateur radio enthusiasts .[1] Operation on SailMail network frequencies requires a license for the Marine Radiotelephone Service.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sailmail

SSB as a speech-scrambling technique

SSB techniques can also be adapted to frequency-shift and frequency-invert baseband waveforms. These effects were used, in conjunction with other filtering techniques, during World War II as a simple method for speech encryption. Radiotelephone conversations between the US and Britain were intercepted and "decrypted" by the Germans; they included some early conversations between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Churchill. In fact, the signals could be understood directly by trained operators. Largely to allow secure communications between Roosevelt and Churchill, the SIGSALY system of digital encryption was devised.

Today, such simple inversion-based speech encryption techniques are easily decrypted using simple techniques and are no longer regarded as secure.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single-sideband_modulation#SSB_...