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He'll certainly continue his elections work for ESPN's sister network, ABC.

There might be more worthwhile things he could work on, but sports and politics are what interests him.

In those instances, you might spend a few hours or the night in a jail cell, that's true. It's a bit different than what they do in Venezuela, or say, Egypt.

The federal government does still utilize the death penalty, but it's very rare these days. Only three times since 1963, whereas Texas has executed 500 people since 1982.

I'll say it's another stain on this country as well, but not particularly relevant to the issue of political imprisonment.

Sure, I'll agree that Guantanamo's a stain on this country.

And while we have entirely too many prisoners in this country, they aren't 'political prisoners'. People aren't thrown into prison for protesting the government. (Or not generally, you did have McCarthyism and such in the past)

That's rich.[1]

[1]: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10...

He did more than just 'mention' it, he stoled government property and disseminated classified information to the public. I'm not saying what he did was 'wrong', but it is illegal and not particularly a free speech issue.

I'm not sure how anyone could say Russia's 'way more open' with a straight face[1].

[1]: http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/24/world/europe/russia-free-speec...

I don't think it's all that fair of an assumption, and even so, he's only delaying the inevitable. He will be brought back and tried eventually.

If he wasn't, he would have simply turned himself in and faced trial.

All his globe-trotting and statements just detract from the issues he's raised re: surveillance.

The man is desperate for attention, but doesn't want to appear so. I guess.

You can argue about whether they're unjust laws or not, but they still exist and if you break them, you should face the consequences. That's what the civil rights leaders in this country did, among others.

But honestly, from my reading, I'm mostly okay with what the NSA's doing and most of what he revealed isn't all that new or surprising (others reported on PRISM long ago, local governments have kept track of phone records for decades, it only makes sense the feds would as well). This is also what many citizens want their government to be doing, hence the many complaints about the Boston bombers not being adequately tracked beforehand.

The one part that troubles me is the storing of 'inadvertently' collected communications from US citizens for five years without a warrant. That seems wrong. Other than that, I only think there should be a bit more transparency. If Snowden's leaks lead to that, that's a good thing.

They do when they knowingly break the laws and run away from the consequences like Snowden and Assange have (Assange's even more appalling given the rape allegations he also ran away from). Manning, at least, didn't do that.

I stand corrected about Wikileaks role in this particular aspect of the story as they do seem to actually be helping him elude justice. But they seemed to have nothing to do with his actual leaks, yet I've seen multiple 'statements' from them on the matter that seemed to only serve as a way to remind people of their existence. At least now they have an actual reason, I guess.

So cute how Wikileaks is always trying to insert themselves into this story.

Jaguar does (or did when my parents had one). I think other luxury car dealers typically do as well.

For people who've found the prior 7-minute workout[1] too time consuming, I guess.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5704485

Well, after the two years, you're T-Mobile bill goes down by ~$20/line a month while your bill on the other carriers stay the same.

This assumes, of course, that you don't buy a new phone and start the process all over again.

Yeah, there's not much saving for me either. It'll cost $200 less over the course of two years if I go with 2 lines and T-Mobile's unlimited data plan (compared to the 2 lines and 6GB share everything plan I have from Verizon).

But, as you say, the Verizon plan lets tethering be as much as that xGB as you want. And for me, T-Mobile only offers very slow 2G service in my area while I get LTE from Verizon.

After those first two years, you do start to save real money ($40 every month, in my case), but that assumes you don't then upgrade to the latest iPhone or whatever and start all over again.

I really don't understand how people get sucked into these for-profit (scam) schools. Or why the federal government provides student loans for students going to such places.

Presuming Ms. Parker lived in Georgia, in-state tuition at most public universities there would've cost her much less, and provided a better education. (and that's not including things like Georgia's Hope scholarship program)

You can request a file on any deceased person, and they'll give it to you in most cases.

Social security numbers of the deceased are also public information. Helps to prevent identity theft issues.

Apple gets more attention because of their size, but Samsung has recently caught some notice on these labor issues[1].

[1]: http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/14/3767272/samsung-htns-supp...

It could break much sooner than that. All Twitter would need to do is cut off access to it, like they just did with [Tweetie](http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/10/11/rip-tweetie-for-mac-w...)

I think we can expect third-party clients to be allowed for a while more, maybe even a year or two, but who knows.

That would be very nice.

I primarily read Instapaper (Marco's more well-known creation) on my Kindle rather than my tablets or phone.

They were still selling the 3GS until just a few weeks ago; it would have annoyed many customers if iOS 6 wasn't released for the device. The first-gen iPad, on the other hand, stopped being sold when the iPad 2 was released in March 2011.

iOS 5 also doesn't run all that great on the iPad, so I'm sure that played into the decision not to offer iOS 6 as well. The 256MB of RAM paired with the large screen seems to be the biggest cause for this. The 3GS' hardware isn't great, but it's only powering a 320*480 display

The primary reason I upgraded from a 3rd gen Kindle to the Kindle 4 rather than the Touch was the latter's lack of page-turn buttons. But I've been using the Paperwhite for a week now and it's not been a problem at all.

I just rest my thumb on the bottom right corner and move it about as much as I did with the actual button on prior models.

I was excited about the new fonts when I saw them announced, but will agree with Gruber that none of them are great. I still prefer Caecilia Condensed.

My Paperwhite also suffers from some unevenness in the lighting on the bottom, but I quickly forgot about it. Amazon's product description promises an evenly illuminated display, so it would be better if they actually delivered, of course.

This provides that you're a) a nerd, b) comfortable voiding your warranty by rooting the phone and c) that your phone is even popular enough for there to be things like Cyanogenmod to install on it.

Sure, I did that with my HTC Incredible, but I shouldn't have had too and most people won't.

No, it's still being built and is probably months away[1]

[1]: http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/25/3407614/apple-over-a-year-...

Not really a fan of Moleskine's notebooks, but this is interesting.

But, Evernote's Page Camera feature that was added to the iOS app does seem to work just fine with other paper (I tested Field Notes w/ graph paper). It's just 'optimized' for the paper in these notebooks, whatever that means.

I wouldn't mind the requirement to have cable so much if that was all it was.

I have cable, but my cable provider does not offer a package with MSNBC so I'm out of luck.

Tennis fans regularly suffer this same nonsense from NBC every year with the French Open and Wimbledon[^1]. I can't see them changing anytime soon.

Relatedly, their whole cable TV package requirements for online streaming is also very annoying. It requires having a package with both CNBC and MSNBC to get access. I still actually have a cable TV package, but my provider does not offer MSNBC on any of their packages so I'm out of luck.

Thankfully, there's the Yankees/Red Sox this weekend so I'll watch that instead.

[^1]: Thankfully ESPN bought the rights to Wimbledon starting this year. Maybe they (or parent, Disney) could do the same with the Olympics once the rights are up for grabs again.

Why do you feel so strongly about this but not about Motorola (and by extension, Google) trying to do the same thing to Apple's devices?[1]

Not that I like any of this, just saying Apple's hardly the only company that does this, they all do it.

[1]: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-25/google-s-motorola-w...