It this story an ought right lie? Yes, I believe so. Why?

Why are we learning about this? Well, obviously the NSA is simply trying to justify itself against the backdrop of everything Snowden exposed.

Imagine the NSA, etc. actually intercepted this order. What does that mean? If it's real intel, then they burned both that intel, and their ability to decode future communications form Iran. Alright, maybe Iran sends blustering bullshit messages to Iraqi Shiites all the time, but even if so the NSA should want to ability to gain some sense and intel from that bluster.

We therefore conclude that, if they are not lying here, then they're directly placing our Iraqi allies in harms way, as well as American security contractors, merely to earn themselves political points. I'd consider that treason if they were endangering American solders. It's not treason endangering allies, but it's still extremely despicable behavior and very short sighted. I therefore choose to believe this story is an ought right lie because the alternative paints the administration and NSA as far worse.

Now why fabricate or tell this story now? In fact, the Department of Defense claims the NSA "does ***not*** engage in economic espionage in any domain, including cyber" (asterisks in original quote), but Greenwald says :

"One big problem the NSA and US government generally have had since our reporting began is that their defenses offered in response to each individual story are quickly proven to be false by the next story, which just further undermines their credibility around the world. That NSA denial I just excerpted above has already been disproven by several reports (see, for instance, the letter published in this article, or the last document published here), but after Sunday, I think it will prove to be perhaps the NSA's most misleading statement yet.

So tonight or tomorrow we likely learn that the NSA conducts economic espionage against friendly nations.

Could we please get a reputable source to respond to this conviction by creating a free* online course on beating a polygraph?

* Yes, you must buy or make your own polygraph machine to take the otherwise "free" course.

I soo need to switch to CyanogenMod for exactly this reason. Avoid closed source apps!

Agreed. I think people know that Prosecutors Stephen Heymann and Carmen Ortiz are the ones who need to pay for Aaron Swartz death by losing their jobs. Any MIT and JSTOR employees involved should be penalized by people remembering them and obstructing their promotion within those organizations, but tempers have cooled enough that they shouldn't be getting death threats now.

In any case, these documents will help focus anger back on Heymann and Ortiz. Example :

Prosecutor Stephen Heymann Compared Aaron Swartz To Rapist

Aliexpress and Ebay are always cheaper than say Amazon, assuming you're fine waiting one month. 3D printers get you the part now though.

Also, these house hold items could usually be improvised for free, like using a coat hanger for a shower ring or super gluing the old ring back together.

I missread the title as Anus CEO ..

I'm glad a company of Asus' stature is abandoning Windows RT. :)

I saddened there is no knock off brand called Anus. :(

Is the haskell compiler actually generating the shader code?

They should ask five-ish specific questions like :
(1) Was the driver on time? If no, how late?
(2) Did the driver and vehicle seem safe? If not, explain.
(3) Was the driver polite?
(4) Was the vehicle clean?
(5) Was the driver friendly, curt, etc.?

Some questions like (1-4) are used to qualify drivers. Any personality questions like (5) are used to match up people with drivers they'll like more, but influence the qualification only minimally.

Down side, if they're matching up curt drivers with curt people, and bubbly drivers with bubbly people, then when they occasionally cannot make that match, they might need to warn the user : "Apologies. We think you're an anti-social bump, so usually we trying pairing you with similar drivers, but we just kicked out our only surly driver here for not bothering to remove the jagged rusty metal spikes from his passenger doors. So today all we got is the bubbly flower child who'll drone on about chakras and vegetarian recipes. I hope you don't mind. She's very safe. Ask her were to buy weed during your visit."

There are sellers on ebay who create sock puppets to bid up the second highest bid. If they hit your bid ceiling they retract their previous bid, so you still win the auction, but near the highest price you considered. Always abandon the auction by retracting all your own bids if you observe suspicious bidding or retractions.

Too bad Clapper wasn't under oath the first time so they could nail him for perjury.

Agreed, if even a few well connected people get executed for environmental crimes, then others will shape up. I'm unsure if it'll have any immediate effect though. Will powerful Chinese business people just tell themselves : I'm too important and too far-removed from day-to-day operations for this to happen to me.

Yeah, bitcoins are mostly all owned by a very small group, so using them effectively centralizes the money supply in a few hand. And that ultimately increases wealth inequality and decreases the velocity of money. I.e. bitcoin is bad for the economy.

If however you create a bitcoin alternative with a permanent constant inflation that pays out through mining then that constant inflation reduces the transaction costs below bitcoin's and serves to redistribute wealth slightly, making the currency very good for the economy.

We need new standards to minimize cross site scripting throughout the web, like maybe :
- If you want to run code from a site other than your own then you need that code to jump through various obnoxious approval hurdles, which suck so bad that people abandon cross site scripting.
- Restrict all off site cookie access massively as well.

We need better cross site script blocking apps. Ghostery is a nice start, but you must block facebook connect and may other's too. And then it starts getting complicated.

Every try using stackexchange sites with javascript blockers blocking cross site scripting? Very tricky!

TLS is useless against PRISM which simply takes records from the server.

You need end-to-end encryption like OTR over XMPP. Afaik all the good XMPP clients like Adium and Jitsi include OTR be default. Of course OTR does nothing against traffic analysis. Worse, OTR is not a mandatory part of the protocol.

TorChat is resistant to traffic analysis, but nobody uses it. Also, it's badly designed so that, if many people did use it, then it'd be hard on the Tor network.

Pond is a new attempt traffic analysis resistant messaging and email over Tor, but Pond is in pretty early stages of development.