Comment I smell a lawsuit (Score 0) 250
I wonder if this means I can legally defend my assault against my coworker the next time he passes gas next to my cubicle?
Comment The Grateful Dead knew it... (Score 0) 347
It's common knowledge that psychedelics enhance sensitivity to light, among other things. The pupils dilate wider than the Missippi. All those references to people "shining", I think, were literal as much as metaphorical. The acid-eaters knew this 50 years ago.
Comment Good news... (Score 0) 484
If we ended the war in Iraq today, we could have the money for this by July.
Submission + - AT&T whistleblower: NSA collecting everything (washingtonpost.com)
Sean writes: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/07/AR2007110700006.html
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 7, 2007; Page D01
His first inkling that something was amiss came in summer 2002 when he opened the door to admit a visitor from the National Security Agency to an office of AT&T in San Francisco.
"What the heck is the NSA doing here?" Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician, said he asked himself.
A year or so later, he stumbled upon documents that, he said, nearly caused him to fall out of his chair. The documents, he said, show that the NSA gained access to massive amounts of e-mail and search and other Internet records of more than a dozen global and regional telecommunications providers. AT&T allowed the agency to hook into its network at a facility in San Francisco and, according to Klein, many of the other telecom companies probably knew nothing about it.
By Ellen Nakashima
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 7, 2007; Page D01
His first inkling that something was amiss came in summer 2002 when he opened the door to admit a visitor from the National Security Agency to an office of AT&T in San Francisco.
"What the heck is the NSA doing here?" Mark Klein, a former AT&T technician, said he asked himself.
A year or so later, he stumbled upon documents that, he said, nearly caused him to fall out of his chair. The documents, he said, show that the NSA gained access to massive amounts of e-mail and search and other Internet records of more than a dozen global and regional telecommunications providers. AT&T allowed the agency to hook into its network at a facility in San Francisco and, according to Klein, many of the other telecom companies probably knew nothing about it.
