I think it's deeply sick that our government or anyone would equate our foreign, Congressionally declared, military enemies locked in nearly unrestrained warfare with the private effects and papers and their electronic equiavlents of it's peaceful citizens.

As do I, yet our government has proven over many decades it's inability to not overreach, many times has it been caught red handed in the cookie jar.

If you want to believe they can be trusted then good on you, however I don't trust them as far as I could throw them.

If terrorism is such the threat that every communication needs monitoring and archival why are good old fashioned letters not opened and scanned then sent on about their way, you know in case terrorists are using pen and paper to coordinate.

With your last two paragraphs I fully agree with.

I fear my government removing my liberties more than I fear losing my life in a terrorist attack.

The interesting thing is that people who think it is "clearly" unconstitutional seem to think things are innately or inherently constitutional or unconstitutional, ignoring incredible and fantastic complexities that already exist in interpretations of the Fourth Amendment, to say nothing of the rest of the Constitution and Bill of Rights.

This is the exact reason when the document was written it was written in plain English.

For your quote there see the 10th Amendment.

To be clear I am not so much concerned with anyone collecting my metadata, I am concerned with someone having the ability to indiscriminately read an encrypted private communication between myself and a second party on a witch hunt for "reds under the bed".

This is the slippery slope. In fact tinfoilhat>this would go a good ways to why the gov didn't do away with ISIS when presented the opportunity. /tinfoilhat> They would lose the threat of "to fight terrorists".

People should wake up, the real terrorists are in Washington. We elected some of them, the rest were appointed.

I am glad to hear that if I had wads of cash that you completely are ok with my lobbying whomever in Washington for whatever purpose I wanted just because I had pockets deep enough.

You are attempting to compare metadata to an encrypted communication between two private parties.

That's like comparing an abacus to a modern computer.

You're are naive to think they won't use this to spy on US citizens.

I can completely understand this, but was it to the same scale?

Politicians not understanding

Article the sixth... The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

That's what I took away from it.

Officials said the six terrorists who stormed the school in Peshawar were using cellphones registered to one woman who had no obvious connection to the attackers.

What? You mean something intended to curb or stop this altogether is known to not be effective? Then other than having the national database of fingerprints why do it? NVM answered my own question, to have a national database of fingerprints.

It's good to read that the rest of the world is as screwed as my country when it comes to citizens privacy.

Tell me which of your local stations play Skrillex, or Deltron3030, or insert any random obscure or indie artist here?

Benchmarks show that SLI 970's outperformed a single 980 in every aspect.

As the purchaser of a 970 I could agree with that had my only reason for buying the card been the advertised 4GB VRAM, which it wasn't.

The game I bought the card specifically to play allows me to specify how much VRAM the game will use.

Today I'll never see that problematic .5GB of memory.

I bought a 970 and it was based off site benches, it seemed for the price it would suit my needs. It fully does, I did run into issue with one game where on the command line I was forcing launch using all 4gb of ram on the card, it didn't work out as well. I ended up backing off until I found the magic number and all works well.

In the end I have a card I thought I paid a decent amount for, for the performance I receive. Even after all this has come to light I'm still happy with my purchase.

I have the card and actually did run into issues from specifying my game to use the full 4gb for textures. Ended up having to back it down to 3gb. No significant loss in performance maybe -10 fps, since it's still pegging at +60 I'm happy with the purchase.

I purchased the card based on performance reviews and the price point of the 980. The 970 seemed to offer performance my wallet could justify spending the money on vs not dropping the cash for the latest and greatest card.

I'd be for the type healthcare other govs have Canada for example, I realize what they have is more like single payer, I'd be for that vs this colluded crap bomb we have now.