But that's how it's always been, hasn't it? Pfft! I thought this article was NEWs, but I guess it really isn't. I admit I didn't read it all (skimmed thru the rest)... it was loooong & I didn't have enough time. So I guess I got the wrong idea from the blurb & the parts of the article I read.

If speaking and not speaking can both result in incriminating yourself, then would this mean that the only way to use your 5th amendment right of not incriminating yourself, be to lie to the police & court?

That would make things insane, 'cause if you get busted for perjury, you can claim innocence 'cause you did it under your 5th amendment right since it's the only way to avoid incriminating yourself. Then they legally can't prosecute you for it without going against the constitution. I'm sure they'll probably still try to prosecute you.

If you have a decent enough lawyer to get you off, then could it mean a mistrial in the original court case where you perjured, since none of the testimony from you (or anyone else) could be considered legitimate? After all, the people testifying against you could also be lying in order to avoid incriminating themselves.

This could get really sticky really fast.

I've been using NewsBlur for the past 2-3 weeks. I like it, & I totally recommend it to my fellow Google Reader exiles. It's not perfect, but it's close enough for me.... 'til something better shows up. I'm still surprised Google shut down Reader. They really didn't "get it" did they? They could've used that to make a tidy profit on the side, if not a big profit right down the pipe. They could've used it to combine with their social stuff, and made a sort of twitter/news hybrid. I really think that could've been huge, so I think they missed the boat on this. Good news tho... now the feed reader "market" can get competitive & inventive again.

I can't help but wonder if this is all just disinformation. See, it would be to the U.S's great advantage to let the Chinese steal stuff & make them think that what they're stealing is genuine. Why else would they actually go public about something like this? Why would they want to admit publicly that this was real, when they redact so many less sensitive things in FOIA requests? This is either warmongering or an attempt to convince the spies that something extremely valuable was really stolen, and I highly doubt the U.S. military is interested in going to war against China.

We'll make robots, of course. What other productive thing to do is there, in a society where robots do everything else. Of course, that's only until we make robots to make the robots, then we're in Matrix and Terminator territory. So at that point, then we're going to start defending ourselves and using Go (the game, not the programming lang) strategy against the Chess strategies of the robots.

I think you're talkin' about them finding out who was involved after the fact, but I'm talkin' about prevention.

Historically, whatever tech is in the public view, there's usually much more advanced stuff that's classified. Considering the U.S. government has been pounding the anti-terrorism drums for a dozen years now, it's not beyond reason to think they've developed some incredible stuff we have no clue about. Years ago, they already had a lot of this capability. There's also Duqu/Stuxnet, which the public only found out about after it was active for a few years. So I'm sure they've found enough storage space, perhaps even using companies like Facebook & Google to help them keep it. The real question is, what's their reaction time? How quickly is the gov't capable of responding to what's being said digitally. There's a ton of data every day, but it doesn't matter if you can cache it all if it'd still take you a couple days to detect what you need/want to find in it and react to it.

...perhaps in 10 years, USB lightbulbs will be the norm and young teenagers will be telling their little siblings about when we used to screw in light bulbs. Oh man, that would mean all those "how many ___ does it take to screw in a lightbulb" jokes will be outdated.

if they were all 14 year old's, you'd think he'd refrain from dismissing their opinions.... since they'll be voting in just 4 more years, the length of one term in office for Mike Rogers.

And it's another reason to temporarily lock out an account from logging in, if there's too many wrong guesses at the password in a very short period of time. There might be a Wordpress plug-in for something like that, but I don't think it's in Wordpress's core, and it really should be in the core of any web system. It adds tons of security all by itself.

I fail to see how the concept of justice comes anywhere near making someone to pay $7,500 for "stealing" something worth $20 or so.

This is insanely stupid. According to this legal precedent, Chevrolet should be in huge trouble next time someone's drunk driving in a chevy and kills a pedestrian.

Yeah, Anonymous Coward, you're right! I've seen a whole lotta impersonations of you. This is an epidemic that needs to be fixed!