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Comment Re:Look, been spying on US citizens in US since 70 (Score 1) 52

The 1770's...

I can't speak to that from any personal knowledge, even if my dad was in a precursor to the NSA since before I was born.

But the British Empire did spy on Americans then, one of the reasons why we have three specific Rights that are in the Constitution not permitting such actions against US citizens in the US.

Comment Re:You mean like the one by CENTCOM? (Score 1) 125

Well, we saw what happened in Canada when they had a new law about Copyright and "rights holders" tried to pretend they could get $500,000 for a music violation when the law said $5000 max - the Feds there cracked down on the litigants.

But, the concept of a 30 day deadline is to force people to disclose it in the US. Admirable goal. Might be needed as a blanket requirement, because there are always excuses for not reporting.

Comment Specific overseas targets? (nope) (Score 2) 52

No, it was very specifically overseas targets, and the NSA put a lot of effort into hand filtering to ensure that no information on a "US Person" (citizen, permanent resident or corporation) was included in the information passed to the FBI. But, that part doesn't grab the headlines.

This is not a factual statement.

We have been spying on American citizens in America for a lot longer than that, and without warrants.

A lot longer.

Submission + - OpenSSL Patches Eight New Vulnerabilities (itworld.com)

itwbennett writes: Server administrators are advised to upgrade OpenSSL again to fix eight new vulnerabilities, two of which can lead to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Although the flaws are only of moderate and low severity, 'system administrators should plan to upgrade their running OpenSSL server instances in the coming days,' said Tod Beardsley, engineering manager at vulnerability intelligence firm Rapid7.

Submission + - What happened to all the hot tech of CES 2014? (dailydot.com)

MollsEisley writes: Making an impression at CES is only the first step. Sustaining any of that momentum is the real challenge. So how did the showstoppers of CES 2014 hold up over the course of the year? Where are they now?

Submission + - Fewer grants for young researchers causing brain drain in academia.

BarbaraHudson writes: Johns Hopkins University President Ronald J. Daniels has written about the decline of research grants to younger researchers. "For more than a generation, grants for young scientists have declined. The number of principal investigators with a leading National Institutes of Health grant who are 36 years old or younger dropped from 18 percent in 1983 to 3 percent in 2010. Meanwhile, the average age when a scientist with a medical degree gets her first of these grants has risen from just under 38 years old in 1980 to more than 45 in 2013. The implications of these data for our young scientists are arresting. Without their own funding, young researchers are prevented from starting their own laboratories, pursuing their own research, and advancing their own careers in academic science. It is not surprising that many of our youngest minds are choosing to leave their positions.”

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