It was also illegal for Rosa Parks to sit on the bus where she did.

If your arguing you need to respect terrible laws %100 of the time, with no alotment for mitigating circumstances, then you are seriously out of touch with reality.

>Personally, I would like to see Snowden prosecuted for the crimes he's accused of and given a trial by his peers.

you know damn well he'll never been given a fair trial. The attitude of both parties and the government in general for the last 25 years was to milk the system for everything you can get, bend every rule, then hiring some PR hack to convince everyone that its for the better good.

There is actually a code audit underway, and so far they've found nothing.

the concept of anonymitty means nothing, because we live in an age where reputation can be bought.

all that matters is if the source code can be inspected, and if the source code matches the binaries.

who actually makes it does not matter as long as its audited properly.

stop with the FUD.

Trust me, if could have done something else with my life I would have.

my parents bought a computer when I was 5, and made me learn it.

They also were super paranoid about the outside world, "modern rock music", and pop culture, and because of their rants, raves, paranoia, and emotional abuse I had a hard time fitting in. I was not allowed to leave the house in my early teenage years alternating between being perpetually grounded over small slights, and my mom's irrational fear of pedophiles and predators

my only window to the outside world not controlled by my demeaning, paranoid, controlling parents was the computer. So learned. Its all I had. I found the internet, and online culture, and it warped my fragile little mind.

If could have done something else with my life I would have.

welp, have fun trying to fuck with the murican public and the world without us.

most of us looser burn out lowlifes live quit comfortably.

so why does the FBI have trouble recruiting people that don't smoke pot to work their computers?

I mean if potheads can't do anything useful with computers it'd be a non-issue right?

>Again, nobody said the guns should be networked... That's is just speculation.

its based on RFID, which is wireless. Thats how the technology works. thats interuptable by a wide variety of devices.

>Because when there is a protest the police is always the bad guys? That is a messed up world view...

I dunno, just about every protest ever. They basicly keep the status quo the status quo by enforcing not the laws verbatim, but the opinions and direct will of the ruling class.

>Yeah, if you want to solve poverty without spending money, that is going to be hard.

again, pure speculation on what you think my ideas are and are not.

>On the other hand you could make higher education free, provided free healthcare and wealthfare that covers housing and food for a family in need.
Social mobility is key, it's not enough that there is a slight possibility of making it. It's about making it easy to make it into the middle class.

and if you backed off gun control, more people just might take you seriously. Vermont has the loosest gun laws in the nation, with one of the lowest problems with gun crime. As you've noted, violent crime has little to do with the availability of guns, or the smart guns, or anything else like that.

>As it'll make it harder to use an officer's gun against him.

it also gives the government the ability to disable people's guns at will. This is very scary. You trust them to use this responsibly ignores just about all history of the US government.

as for the officer, its only time before these things are hacked, and it gives hackers an ability to disable any cops gun. On second thought, that sounds pretty appealing. Imagine a protest where we could simply disable all firing mechanisms of police firearms.

> Or maybe you should just reduce the classes of weapons available to normal people for other than sports with appropriate safety measures...

or mabey we could tackle larger social issues that drive shootings in the first place, but that seems to be too hard.

the bigger question.

What happens when cars are mandated to have a government backdoor that allows the government, any government to give them orders at any time.

imagine what this could do for dissent if your car simply is programed to drive to a specific location, lock doors, and then wait for someone to arrive and kidnap/arrest you, then drive back, unattened, somewhere unsuspicious, and delete log files.

Wait a second, I thought potheads were worthless burnouts who will never amount to anything?

Looks like one bullshit stereotype driven war is affecting our ability to fight another bullshit stereotype driven war.

The irony is fucking killing me.

about a decade ago, IBM first wanted to implement something like Secure-Boot. They went to the open source community, wrote a FOSS Linux driver, but we told them to take a hike. They did.

Later, MS did it, with much secrecy, and it was rammed down our throats.

I don't like DRM one bit, but this seems like good damage control.

the worst huh?

Its certainly not the worst.

again, I could argue the problem is not funding but methods and entreched beurocracy. Sure a district like Newark might have had funding problems, but it also had other problems.

the major problem is when we talk about education, we talk about budget.

>world-class music program.

to me, this is as relivant as the sports program.

the lang program might be useful. I'd like a good electronics lab.

both are a giant culture bias

There IS no such thing as a free lunch.

Free as in speech, not as in beer.

There are many advantages to Free software, such as Freedom, being the microsoft doesn't have leverage over you. If your a large enough corp, you can write whatever features MS will never give you, or pay red hat to make them for you.

if google and wikipedia as per company policy can blackout their sites to protest SOPA/PIPA.

Then what is so far fetched from the heavy hitters of the internet doing the same?

We, not just indivudals, but companies, and the entire IT community needs to make a stand.

I am willing to be 90% of those games a crap no one would miss if they disappeared. Thats how I feel about the android app store in general.