It is true, most of the population went along with the Third Reich, Michael Hayden is in the class of "Doers" who turned idea into project plan.

Previous court cases were thrown out because no one could prove they were being spied on. PERFECT ! Either: A) FBI can install equipment using by citing authorizations which gives ISPs and customers grounds to sue ...or... A) FBI cannot install equipment because they have cited no authorization to do so. SO which is it FBI? Are you, or are you not installing equipment? ** Fuck sports. GO TEAM EFF !!!! **

And PG year after year is much, MUCH easier to install,backup,and maintain.

Candidate Obama debates President Obama on Government Surveillance
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BmdovYztH8&feature=youtu.be

This is more about democratic process than privacy.

Tice (NSA whistleblower to NYT in 2004) claims that the NSA is wiretapping members of congress, federal judges, FISA judges, appropriations committees, .... etc.

Lets hope this is all one elaborate lie or we have a KGB in america.

Not sure what to make of this. Any thoughts other than hopelessness?

As an NLP Bioinformatics guy, I believe the real crime Aaron Swartz committed was being in the news.

He isn't the first to have that dataset and he wont be the last.
We write papers using massive NLP scans of publications rather routinely.

Most of the time, the papers are downloaded from PubMed (public funded) so they can't even complain about bandwidth costs, etc.

For anyone who didn't know already, most subscription Publishers don't **DO** anything.
They are only slightly better than patent trolls, and in some cases, worse.

After their comeback, they will HIRE Time Berners Lee. Their focus is on the Semantic Web.

Why would the inventor of the WWW work for Yahoo?
Because you give him ALL the resources to make his dream a coherent reality.

Long shot for sure, but its what I would do.

"nobody wants hierarchical web directories" Tim Berners Lee sure does ('inventor' of WWW) -- to the degree that he is spending all his political capital on the Semantic Web.

First inter-racial kiss. First nerd cult classic en mass. Agreed.

CANT or WONT? The variable is named $box_office and has a default value of $MAX_PROFIT.

This pissed me off so much I just registered FactCheckScience.org Currently finishing PhD thesis writing (bioinformatics) so I dont have time to invest in a domain. If anyone has a stellar idea, I'm an Open Source supporter and happy to share the domain. This has to stop.

Long time slashdot reader. This is the most insightful comment I have ever seen.

The "Too Big To Jail" story is the greatest threat to democracy and world stability. If we come crashing down, it will be banks not terrorists. Honestly, I consider banks to be more hostile to me than terrorists. Truly -- I mean that. Terrorists bomb you when you spend a decade in their country installing puppets. Banks do it to their own neighbors for the thrill of success. That's much more hostile, IMHO.

"Any scientist these days is going to have to be proficient with computers and analyzing data" IAMA phd bioinformatics person with a CS background and love for math. The biological problems are increasingly requiring graduate level math and computer science training, for example gene network analysis, biological structure and binding prediction, and bayesian analyses, to name a few. While the biology is obviously not simple, it can be more easily learned as "on the fly" (though this is still very difficult). Why? Because biology is more QUALITATIVE and computer science/math is more QUANTITATIVE. FWIW, 1 opinion + 1 more = 1.