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suredoon Rand Paul wants to lead a Supreme Court challenge to Feds' tracking of Americans

I heard my neighbor making bomb threats against the goverment (not me, my neighbor) although I am mad at my government..

suredoon Rand Paul wants to lead a Supreme Court challenge to Feds' tracking of Americans

Do I need a warrant to get Obama's data for my data analysis project?

suredoon Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM

but they are not lying because according to terms of service, you licensed your content to them..... so they are not sharing your content.... they are sharing their content

suredoon RetroShare: For the Paranoid in You

maybe some prisoners of Guantanamo could be proofs of this

suredoon Data intelligence complex is the real story

while the education budget is less then 70 billions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Ed...

suredoon Mark Zuckerberg addresses PRISM

A leak from one of the companies involved would be nice.

suredoon Obama’s Remarks on NSA Controversy

what is the reason for this being classified? so that people don't stop using Verizon?

suredoon Obama’s Remarks on NSA Controversy

with great powers comes great responsibilities.... and I thought he could handle it...

suredoon Obama: No warrantless wiretaps if you elect me (2008)

One way to see that a democracy doesn't work is to look at the rate of voters.... if it is really low, I would say that it fails.

suredoon Obama administration defends massive phone record collection

I hope they are this stupid and their plan to spy on all Americans fails.

suredoon How likely is the NSA PRISM program to catch a terrorist?

There is only one reason for collecting this data, to analyze it... and the biggest obstacle is the gathering of that data.

suredoon NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’

they could label them as terrorists and it becomes alot easier...

suredoon NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’

maybe they should attack the perpetrators instead??

suredoon NSA Monitoring Includes Three Major Phone Companies, ISPs, Credit Card Providers

Obama's administration said that this isn't anything brand new and that we should not worry about it, but he also said that he would not sign extensions of the PATRIOT act either.. which allowed a lot of this...

suredoon NSA chief: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’

Keith Alexander, NSA Chief, once blamed his late arrival at a Washington event to a DDoS (distributed denial of service) hacking attack on city street lights.... Wow.

suredoon Sen. Mark Udall: I knew about the NSA spying, did everything but leak to stop it

http://www.ted.com/talks/lawrence_lessig_we_the_people_and_t...

suredoon Sen. Mark Udall: I knew about the NSA spying, did everything but leak to stop it

"... was broadly securing tens of thousands of Americans’ phone records ..."

make that millions?

suredoon Machine Learning Cheat Sheet for scikit-learn

comment from the author: "2) if you need a flow-chart to know what to do, I don't think you will be successful in working with structured models ;)"

suredoon Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans

Too bad they didn't release the court order which allows them to record the conversations..

suredoon Facebook is just fine

Hiding what most people post on Facebook is how I spend a minimum amount of time on Facebook too..

suredoon OpenCola Soft Drink

maybe they figured it was the best option? if you want to experiment and find a better solution, you are welcome

suredoon OpenCola Soft Drink

100g of sugar for 100ml of water? that would be way too sweet... coke for example has only ~40g per 355ml (or about 11g per 100ml)

suredoon The Banality of ‘Don’t Be Evil’

To me, Google is becoming more evil since Google+... but more importantly since the removal of the + and - operators for Google searches.

suredoon Probability of acceptance of pull requests

switch X and Y? I can't read this without turning my head 90 degrees