Aren't there like three actual sins against humanity, all of them including domination of the weak or innocent?
Sure, the abuse of government warrantless searches in spite of that being directly prohibited by the Fourth Amendment. Let's call that number three and for a fourth let's take the paramititarized police forces using extrajudicial methods to suppress dissent from ordinary American citizens.
Apparently, nobody has ever done a single environmental impact assessment or a performed an inspection related to a fracking operation.
Why bother? There's no point to it. The oil and gas companies have explicit exemptions and exceptions to most EPA oversight.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exemptions_for_hydraulic_fracturing_under_United_States_federal_law
It matters not a whit how damaging their actions are to the environment when there is no possible recourse available.
Obviously, what the world needs is a suite of server-less, p2p communication protocols that would cover our basic communication needs without any centralized points of failure (like NSLable mail server operators) and with all communication encrypted.
We have one, it's called Freenet. The technology exists, but people aren't using it.
Unfortunately, there is a countdown timer telling them the light will change to yellow in 4 seconds, so they know they need to speed up to make it through.
But a yellow light does not mean speed up, it means slow down and prepare to stop, as the light is about to turn red.
If drivers reinterpret the meaning of traffic signals to mean the opposite of what is intended then you are going to have some problems.
He also was a criminal with criminal intent in every action he took.
Or he was practicing non-violent civil disobedience, which until recently was considered a virtuous American value and taught to school children.
Do you revile Henry David Thoreau as much as you do Aaron Schwartz?
It was only after he was repeatedly blocked from doing that by wireless access (being blocked should have been a clue to him) that he snuck into the closet.
OOoooh. Did he sneak in on his belly like a cobra or on tippy-toes like the spy-vs-spy cartoon? Seems like that would just draw undo attention. Or maybe he just walked in, and you are making shit up.
He could have downloaded the data from his own desk in his own office. Instead he went to the library and entered a wiring closet that was clearly not supposed to be open to the public.
If you were going to download a lot of data, would you choose a node with many hops to the server or just a few? I would pick the one closest to the server.
They already are.
This. Each an every NSL needs to be challenged.
I tried running emacs from the emacs shell and got the error
emacs: Terminal type "dumb" is not powerful enough to run Emacs.
I am somber.
Am I confused, or is this the same amoral sack of shit who lied to Congress with a straight face about NSA activities???
Yep. Circumventing the law, lying to Congress, sounds like a perfect match for the banking industry.
The Commonwealth's motion to compel decryption does not violate the defendant's rights under the Fifth Amendment because the defendant is only telling the government what it already knows.
The thing that gets me is that the government doesn't know the password so he is telling them something they don't already know.
Again, where do you get the contracts from if you lack the network?
From the gettin' place.
Disclaimer: You may or may not find that amusing depending on whether you've seen "No Country For Old Men"
"I've seen it. It's rubbish." -- Marvin the Paranoid Android
