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How about 100 gig triple-layer Blu-rays?

Surprised at how the NSA got so deep into France/EU and was able to take over their domestic telco system for generations.
For that you would need a Vichy "tech" to actively help and collaborate to hide foreign telco tech within France/EU.
The UK, Italy, Germany is understandalbe as client or defeated nations. France and other more tech savvy EU nations should have been able to understand their own internal (global) telco networks. How is the NSA getting all the data out?
Is France and others looping the bulk of its calls via NSA friendly countries to save in domestic telco interconnect fees?
The US message back is http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57608909-83/intelligence-chief-le-mondes-allegations-against-nsa-false/
The French and other EU nations are just talking about weapons of mass destruction too much on the phone? Just a list of US/UK keywords and French people chatting on the phone the wrong way?

I'm not going to help edit, because I have little or no use for what common consensus is. I'm interested in fact and truth, not public opinion.

Q.E.D., you are, then, part of problem, and have no right to whine or complain because you can't be bothered to help fix it. Go use Britannica, then... which was found as late as 2005 to be generally no more accurate or reliable than the Wikipedia, with broadly similar error levels. Or how about Nature, who themselves state that retractions in their journal have risen ten-fold in the last decade, even while the number of submissions has only increased 50%. Because they're utterly reliable and the peer-review process can't be subverted, right? How many times was that now-discredited MMR vaccination study reprinted as golden gospel, for how many years? How many times has an outsider to academia and private industry journals made a stunning breakthrough that might have come sooner if only some critical bit information had been publicly available, instead of buried in a back-issue of a private publication? How many millions or billions of dollars have been wasted re-reviewing science that was based on something once taken for truth by the major journal in its field, only to later be proven false?

Like any other information source, Wikipedia will only be as correct and factual as the people contributing to it can muster, and without the help of subject matter experts determined to make sure the truth is told, it will be bottomed on the knowledge available; the Wikipedia, however, has a much larger pool of knowledge and experience available to it - if people choose to take part - than any journal or trade magazine. If people who have and can source/prove/demonstrate the facts on developing, highly technical or contentious subjects would commit to contributing as much to making sure the Wikipedia is accurate as they do to closed academic journals that no one but academics ever read, then we'd be in a much better place, with a better educated populace, as a result of access to true and up-to-date information, as opposed to last year's conjecture and common wisdom. For that matter, how many times did Britannica, for example, choose not to cover a subject - or not cover one in as much detail as was available - in order to conform to demands of governments and corporations, which do not affect the Wikipedia? Somehow I doubt they'd have ever penned more than a footnote - much less an entire article - about FOGBANK... oh wait, look, not even a footnote.

What would lead you to believe that a group of 10 supposed experts in a field editing at a journal are infallible and never make mistakes, but 100 or 1000 people - some of whom may also be just as expert, or even the same experts - cannot come just as close to truth and fact? What makes you think the scientific and history communities have more than a few dozen things they can all settle on as incontrovertible, accepted fact that no one can reasonably debate? Let me guess, you're the same anonymous coward that was arguing a few weeks ago that nobody can make money on making open-source software and that all FOSS sucks because only large corporations get anything done?

How about show me an established article in the Wikipedia - and not a revision someone is vandalizing - that is purporting something to be "fact" that is provably just "public opinion", and wrong at that... and I'll show you an article you should have just fixed, assuming you can demonstrate said fact from a reliable, neutral source. Otherwise, I'm going to have to conclude you're just mad because someone reverted your edits on an article when you tried to assert a claim on a debatable subject and couldn't back it up.

I'd also really like to se

Since /. staff, we're talking about timothy and Soulskill who seem to be working for Google and not /., don't want to cover objectively, here's some real news.

SEC clears Apple's tax strategy... all that "Holy grail of tax avoidance" talk was bullshit and lies.

Apple's tax strategy passes SEC inspection: The technology giant brushed off claims it had the "Holy Grail of tax avoidance" by senior US politicians. Now the US Securities and Exchange Commission has the company's back.

Let's look at who the real evil company is:

‘Dutch sandwich’ grows as Google shifts €8.8bn to Bermuda

Ahh, so that's where the money is.

Concern about Irish tax reflects disquiet about Google

or this:

Google's UK division paid £12m in corporation tax in 2012 - Google paid only £11.6m in corporation tax in the UK in 2012, despite revenues of £506m, it can be disclosed.

But you won't see this on /. because timothy and Soulskill won't get checks from Google if they post about the real evil.

wrong. if your check box is off that merely means you disabled it prior to this announcement, probably when you joined, but look it up, FACT the default has always been for that setting to be ON when you joined gooogle+. it is ON by default..

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57607100-93/google-wants-to-sell-more-ads-using-your-name-and-profile/

google: do evil

that just means you disabled that setting, likely when you joined google+. that doesn't change the fact that the default is for it to be on. look it up.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57607100-93/google-wants-to-sell-more-ads-using-your-name-and-profile/

Ah, didn't realize they didn't support toro. That sucks. Hopefully they will support the nexus 5 shortly after it comes out, and I hope I can buy one off contract like the nexus 4.

Why boycott Sony?

I don't boycott Sony, but I refuse to buy anything electronic from them, the bastards rooted my PC ten years ago. It was vandalism against thousands of people and someone should have gone to jail for it.

Then they pitched OtherOS and removed it after the poor suckers bought it (should have learned from XCP). Like your car dealer taking out your cars AC after you've paid for the car.

Boycott? Nope, I just don't buy and laugh wildly when I see someone that does. No good can come from buying a Sony product, they've proven time and again that their customers can't trust them.

And like Sterling Ball* says about Microsoft, I refuse to do business with someone who treats me badly.

* CEO of the Ernie Ball company, who make the famous guitar strings used by everybody.

I live near Lowell, MA and every community around Lowell has FIOS except Lowell. Boston is the same. Those that managed to get FIOS in Boston probably were only able to get it because they near another community where it was rolled out.

Verizon started rolling out FIOS in Massachusetts and did deploy it to a number of communities but then just stopped. I read somewhere that supposedly Verizon decided to switch their concentration away from land connections to rolling out better wireless because they see it as the future. Supposedly, and I have no proof of this other than innuendo, Verizon was using the FIOS roll out as a bargaining chip for spectrum space from Comcast. Whether this is true or not, Comcast did agree to sell spectrum space to Verizon.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57500149-94/what-$3.9-billion-verizon-cable-spectrum-deal-means-to-you-faq/

I'm in one of those towns near you that DOES have it. Methuen.

The jobs just moved over seas - it's as simple as that. The final assembly step of smartphone devices are usually done by hand because really it is just a menial job, probably like most of the jobs when Kodak was at its peak employment.

Instead of Kodak doing the r&d work and assembly now companies like Apple do the product r&d and Foxconn does the assembly - employing more than 500k people with goals to reach over 1 million.

So there are lots of jobs globally, just not here.

I live near Lowell, MA and every community around Lowell has FIOS except Lowell. Boston is the same. Those that managed to get FIOS in Boston probably were only able to get it because they near another community where it was rolled out.

Verizon started rolling out FIOS in Massachusetts and did deploy it to a number of communities but then just stopped. I read somewhere that supposedly Verizon decided to switch their concentration away from land connections to rolling out better wireless because they see it as the future. Supposedly, and I have no proof of this other than innuendo, Verizon was using the FIOS roll out as a bargaining chip for spectrum space from Comcast. Whether this is true or not, Comcast did agree to sell spectrum space to Verizon.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57500149-94/what-$3.9-billion-verizon-cable-spectrum-deal-means-to-you-faq/

yes hydrofoil, "infiltrate existing nodes" via fronts or tame turned users.
The classic thinking was always a total http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A like mastery of the US telco network - telco brand, OS, software would not save your message on their 'network'.
Any message in was seen before the first ip changing hop, let travel the "world" and then seen on its final destination ip connection (lets say US to US or US friendly nation).
The other aspect was a bulk of instant front groups running existing quality nodes in cities, suburbia to catch people on average, in bulk trying to use TOR.
This new news puts the US at a Russian or China level of been detected. The US has the network we call the internet as its own plaything in its totality - why mess around/even consider risking what smart admins might just stumble over one day?
The admins would tell friends, outside (non US) antivirus vendors would blog/research any new threats in very public ways.
The other sort of related computer use hint was "Senator: Let's monitor P2P for illegal files" and some unique string per discovered computer and files.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9920665-7.html
This feels like disinformation - watch your system not the brands, not the networks - watch your file system, your code while the wider network and any encryption sold/gifted is junk. TOR is not "crypto" hard, why the dedicated per end user efforts?
Thats a lot of cleared staff needed to spy on a lot of unique computers and keep the hidden software running and review the results :)

it scares the crap out of me that I would have continued to defend the US as the savior and guardian of the open and free internet if it wasn't for a single guy leaking some stuff.

Well then you were INCREDIBLY uninformed and a DECADE behind, because the US government's mass surveillance has been made public several times in the previous years.

* In December 2005, U.S. District and FISA court judge James Robertson resigned in protest over warrant-less wiretapping on US citizens. -- http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1429647

* "News reports in December 2005 first revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been intercepting Americansâ(TM) phone calls and Internet communications."

* "a USA Today story in May 2006 and the statements of several members of Congress, revealed that the NSA is also receiving wholesale copies of American's telephone and other communications records."

* "In early 2006, EFF obtained whistleblower evidence from former AT&T technician Mark Klein showing that AT&T [...] makes copies of all emails web browsing and other Internet traffic to and from AT&T customers and provides those copies to the NSA."
-- https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying

There were well-publicized lawsuits over this issue:
-- http://news.cnet.com/ATT-sued-over-NSA-spy-program/2100-1028_3-6033501.html

And even if you missed all of that:

* "In 2008, [the US] Congress granted telecoms immunity for cooperating with the government's intelligence-gathering activities." Obviously, you only need "immunity" from prosecution if you were complicit in committing criminal acts.
--http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=26717

Hell, what did you think Barak Obama's 2008 presidential campaign promises about surveillance and government secrecy reforms were all about? -- http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9845595-7.html

If you only found out about all of this recently, you'd have to been locked in a cave, or be a drooling moron.

I really didn't get the point of Snowden's leaks, or the public outcry after the fact, since this stuff has been public knowledge for many years now. I will say he had a decidedly positive impact, as the EFF's lawsuit (above) that was halted on national security grounds, was allowed to proceed after Snowden made enough of the program public knowledge that the state secrets excuse was laughable.

it scares the crap out of me that I would have continued to defend the US as the savior and guardian of the open and free internet if it wasn't for a single guy leaking some stuff.

Well then you were INCREDIBLY uninformed and a DECADE behind, because the US government's mass surveillance has been made public several times in the previous years.

* In December 2005, U.S. District and FISA court judge James Robertson resigned in protest over warrant-less wiretapping on US citizens. -- http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/story?id=1429647

* "News reports in December 2005 first revealed that the National Security Agency (NSA) has been intercepting Americansâ(TM) phone calls and Internet communications."

* "a USA Today story in May 2006 and the statements of several members of Congress, revealed that the NSA is also receiving wholesale copies of American's telephone and other communications records."

* "In early 2006, EFF obtained whistleblower evidence from former AT&T technician Mark Klein showing that AT&T [...] makes copies of all emails web browsing and other Internet traffic to and from AT&T customers and provides those copies to the NSA."
-- https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying

There were well-publicized lawsuits over this issue:
-- http://news.cnet.com/ATT-sued-over-NSA-spy-program/2100-1028_3-6033501.html

And even if you missed all of that:

* "In 2008, [the US] Congress granted telecoms immunity for cooperating with the government's intelligence-gathering activities." Obviously, you only need "immunity" from prosecution if you were complicit in committing criminal acts.
--http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=26717

Hell, what did you think Barak Obama's 2008 presidential campaign promises about surveillance and government secrecy reforms were all about? -- http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9845595-7.html

If you only found out about all of this recently, you'd have to been locked in a cave, or be a drooling moron.

I really didn't get the point of Snowden's leaks, or the public outcry after the fact, since this stuff has been public knowledge for many years now. I will say he had a decidedly positive impact, as the EFF's lawsuit (above) that was halted on national security grounds, was allowed to proceed after Snowden made enough of the program public knowledge that the state secrets excuse was laughable.

Remember the Apple maps problems.

Pepperidge Farm Remembers And they're still having issues...like last week.

It's taking a bigger bite than just the customer service type jobs. Of course in any budget dispute the more visible jobs and services are cut first. But even the Defense Department and intelligence agencies are taking a hit.

NSA, intelligence workers 'stretched to limit' by shutdown, official says
400,000 DOD Civilians to Get Shutdown Furloughs
US shutdown: Bad for Pentagon workers, not so much for defense firms

As I write this, I don't see a single mention on cnn.com of this story.

As if CNN is the only news outlet.
In our opinion: Make the NSA accountable
NSA maps some Americans' social connections, says report
N.S.A. Gathers Data on Social Connections of U.S. Citizens

I first heard about it on Good Morning America this morning. It was an AP story. Getting your news from a single source isn't very smart.

In 2000 I used an Amazon service known as Greenlight.com that was supposed to provide you with a no haggle car buying experience. I had just graduated from college, got married and wanted my first "real" car (at the time that real car was to be a VW Passat). I had never bought a car from a dealership before and the idea of no haggle had a lot of appeal. My experience was a total disaster. I picked our my car, color, options and they connected me with a local dealer that had the vehicle in stock. The model and trim I wanted was popular at the time so inventory was low and the local dealer wanted an additional $500 over the pre-negotiated price. I told them to get bent. $500 over the life of a car loan isn't much but it was the principal of the matter. I got real noisy with Amazon regarding their no-haggle "guarantee." I was blown off but vindicated a few months later when the service was killed. Here's to a better go at it this time. I'm saving my pennies for a Tesla. Amazon also had a state in Kozmo at the time, I hear that is coming back as well.

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/consumer/autos/mauto779.htm
http://news.cnet.com/Amazon-invests-in-car-retailer-Greenlight/2100-1017_3-235946.html

We need to get something out of the way. Croatia is not Belgium. Neither is it in Belgium. Nor was it ever, in some strange historical time before America existed, Belgian in any way. This does not seem to have prevented a Belgian lady from trusting her GPS enough to end up in Zagreb, Croatia's capital, when she was actually trying to go 90 miles from her home in Hainault Erquelinnes to Brussels. Both, remarkably, are in Belgium. http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-57563958-71/gps-sends-belgian-woman-to-croatia-810-miles-out-of-her-way/

Stupidity is universal and not limited to users of any specific brand. But if you really want to have a cheap shot at iPhone users I'd recommend that you aim at the ones that fell for the waterproof iOS 7 prank and sent their devices to an early demise as at least this one is brand specific (for now) in difference from GPS fuck ups caused by ignorant drivers since the first GPS hit the market.

The details are of no interest to anyone in power, but patterns are.

It has already been made public that huge volumes of email, actual phone conversations are recorded.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589495-38/nsa-spying-flap-extends-to-contents-of-u.s-phone-calls/
http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/15/yes-actually-the-nsa-says-they-can-eaves
http://www.dailyfinance.com/on/irs-audit-emails-warrant-aclu/

And further, the NSA leaks content to local and state law enforcement.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/10/the_nsa_dea_police_state_tango/

So the this whole discussion about meta-data is moot. When you can archive, transcribe and catalog content, who needs metadata?

The drinks mostly fill on their own in response to a button and IIRC, the fries are now on a timer.,

In some areas of Europe, McDonalds order-takers have been replaced with touch screens. As you would expect, automation tends to be higher in places with higher wages.

Or take away their ability to block tracking as they can currently do with cookies?

That's the basic idea. CNET covered this a few days ago. "The AdID would be transmitted to advertisers and ad networks that have agreed to basic guidelines, giving consumers more privacy and control over how they browse the Web,"

Expect meaningless, easy to evade "basic guidelines", like TrustE.

This conflicting report says that the M7 is from NXP and separate from the A7.

Didn't they do that some years ago already? And having an ad campaign where they spray-painted sidewalks (and was fined for the "graffiti").

In 2006 BEA had this kind of bad idea, with a VMware based hypervisor hosting a JVM/OS hybrid to run Weblogic processes.

Original article found: there

Re technical means and what was Operation Fairplay back in ~2005~2008:
Senator: Let's monitor P2P for illegal files
http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9920665-7.html
"for purposes of longer-term tracking, the software captures "unique serial numbers" from the person's computer "
Tor seemed to be the next step or was on the list with irc and any other method of moving files?

I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders

Yeah! Those 109,000 employees can just go fuck themselves.

http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-203937.html

And at the Gartner Symposium and ITxpo97 here today, the CEO of competitor Dell Computer added his voice to the chorus when asked what could be done to fix the Mac maker. His solution was a drastic one.
"What would I do? I'd shut it down and give the money back to the shareholders," Michael Dell said before a crowd of several thousand IT executives.

I'm sure Michael Dell really really cared about those thousands of Apple employees too. No one is shutting down, but as a high-profile public figure, he ought to have thought twice before he said shit that was destined come back to bite him.

Flashback 1997 Micheal Dell says he would shit down apple and give the money back to the shareholders..
http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-203937.html

Well MIkey, perhaps you should do the same thing.

Maybe you're too young to remember but... to put you back in context: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-203937.html In essence, I made a funny.

No, I got the attempt at humor. Its just that Steve laughing ruined it. If anything he'd be jealous. I think Steve wished he could have ditched Wall Street as Dell is doing.

Maybe you're too young to remember but... to put you back in context: http://news.cnet.com/2100-1001-203937.html

In essence, I made a funny.

Save your scorn for Michael Dell - it's a direct quote.

Android models with similar memory, without a keyboard, also get up towards $500 as well.

http://reviews.cnet.com/best-tablets/best-5-android-tablets

haswell makes full windows with 100% backwards compatibility in a tablet device a desirable thing

Actually, if I'm not mistaken, the Atom line has been the one championing x86 tablets. Also, it is the line Intel feels is their best bet for entry into the tablet and phone market: http://www.anandtech.com/show/7263/intel-teases-baytrail-performance-with-atom-z3770-cinebench-score

The end result is the same, though:
RT is destined for the bin.
ARM SoCs are getting competition from SoCs made by a very potent behemoth.
x86 will rise in the mobile market.

To further support the latter I'd like to note that Intel is also putting effort into getting Android x86 working on the Atom, with success:
http://reviews.cnet.com/tablets/asus-transformer-book-trio/4505-3126_7-35827211.html

Also:
http://www.pcworld.com/article/2044617/new-intel-chief-sees-150-atom-tablets-this-year.html
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/tablets/tablets-atom.html

Seriously, when I had an iPhone, the one thing that annoyed me more than anything was the lack of a notification led.

http://howto.cnet.com/8301-11310_39-20122525-285/ios-5-tip-how-to-enable-led-flash-alerts/

You're Welcome.

Hmmm - all of a sudden this looks interesting again:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31921_3-20025767-281.html

Maybe you should choose the Snapdragon option if you don't want your phone to function as a space heater

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57601611-94/xiaomi-miphone-3-offers-choice-tegra-or-snapdragon-processor/

"When four sit down to conspire, three are fools and the fourth is a government agent."

Far more than that.

One in 4 are FBI informants - and that's just a single agency inside the DOJ. And DHS and DOD spend far more on this kind of work.

When 4 Anons get together, I suspect it's most likely this combo:

1. 1 DoJ (FBI)
2. 1 DHS (United States Cyber Command)
3. 1 DoD (NSA or CIA)
4. 1 Chinese Military.

And once they figure out that they can't bust each other, they recruit some script kiddies instead.

And either way if they're not bothering with the actual content of the call but just who called who when

Sad to see someone so far out of touch with reality.

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589495-38/nsa-spying-flap-extends-to-contents-of-u.s-phone-calls/
http://www.breitbart.com/InstaBlog/2013/07/29/Greenwald-NSA-Listens-to-Your-Phone-Calls
http://thehill.com/blogs/hillicon-valley/technology/305803-report-nsa-admits-listening-to-phone-calls-without-warrants
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2342579/NSA-listen-U-S-phone-calls-warrant-according-congressman.html
http://www.macobserver.com/tmo/article/the-nsa-can-listen-to-skype-calls-thanks-to-microsoft
http://www.heavy.com/news/2013/07/microsoft-nsa-skype-outlook-skydrive-snowden/
http://www.heavy.com/news/2013/07/microsoft-nsa-skype-outlook-skydrive-snowden/

I know someone so willfully ignorant won't read any of those links, so the short answer is that the NSA can and does listen in to your calls on the phone, on skype, and with this new routing, they will be able to listen in on Facetime as well, in spite of Apple's self serving denials.
Remember that Apple is not above outright bold faced lies to the press./

And Apple buys a chip company, Google buys map capability, Red hat buys its core business mind that nearly every opensource project, including the Linux kernel is innovating by integrating someone else's code.

Innovation is the end result, not the "how".

I wonder when 1984 will become a forbidden book. It is, after all, a terrorism guidebook in disguise!

Did you read the same 1984 that I did? Because, mine explained how such works wouldn't become forbidden, just editorialized and/or deleted then forgot.

What's interesting is considering that your 1984 really is a terrorism guidebook, and yet the discussions about its censorship would still make sense to you as an inciting anti-government book -- As if my version was actually the same as yours... We would even both agree that it's a freedom of speech issue for the book to exist even if it's critical of the government, even if yours proscribes suicidebombs while mine describes despotism.

If your 1984 is a terrorism guidebook then that proves the point and explains the reasoning behind its seemingly forgotten status in the common culture. It need not be forbidden then, eh? Everyone can see that a pro-terrorist book is doubleplusungood and should not be re-printed, or seen as extreme satire... Some may even agree that the violent acts in your version warrant all copies of the book's exposure to 451 degrees of Fahrenheit, or at least dismissal as insane paranoia.

At least 1984 would make a perfect test for society's censorship thresholds -- As an e-book today, how would people react if the very book describing such secret information warfare were dumbed down to merely thought policing or just terrorist acts, and then experimentally deleted right from under people's noses? Perhaps if there were not much outrage, Big Brother would know it safe to proceed with plans for their Prismatic Digital Panopticon? Indeed it may be construed a guidebook, but for governments not terrorists.

Tell me, in your 1984 are the people ever wakened from their despotism? In the face of such a powerful government agency do the protagonists in 1984 win a hard yet inspirational victory or is your copy hopelessly defeatist? Interesting...

Orwell would be laughing in his grave... In incredulity, amazement, or like a terrorist gone mad? What does your copy tell you?

Google never said you could stream local content

Say my brother is in a band. How should I play this band's music? Besides, Google never explicitly said that users of Android phones could do specific things with the phones that apps eventually enabled.

Clearly, they should have uploaded to YouTube and/or G+ ... because everyone does that, right? I mean, it's not like it's common to see the music industry or government [1] to issue takedown requests, right? And it's not like these things can be faked or sent improperly [2].

But since every one is posting to YouTube and since YouTube is clearly a safe place to post almost anything, that's all Google needs to support. QED. Not sure why anyone is still complaining... it's as good as local!

[1] http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-57581399-93/google-more-government-takedown-requests-than-ever-before/
[2] http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2013/08/01/the-increase-in-false-takedown-requests-calls-for-more-checks-and-balances.html

The MP3 thing was a war attrition, Companies were offering DRM free on other platforms before Apple.

Steve Jobs was calling on the record labels about how music should be DRM-free before those other platforms existed (which presumably is Amazon you are referring to). It only lagged behind some of those other stores because they had legacy contracts, not because they actually wanted DRMed music.

TL;DR: Old School McCarthyism

You don't know how right you are.

"Why do so many countries want to attack us?" the person asked.

The general replied that America stands in the way of them reaching their objective, which is to force everybody to comply with sharia law.

That general is Keith Alexander, head of the NSA
Yes, the head of the NSA is a fox news nutbag.
McCarthy is alive and well.

Obama the senator was always in favor of warrantless wiretapping, even voting to grant telcos immunity for their illegal cooperation with the government. He was NEVER on our side.

Some things he was disingenuous about. Single payer health care for one. Respecting state laws on marijuana is another. Being the "most transparent administration in history" is yet another. But he was always forthright about his lack of respect for the 4th amendment.

IF reviewers actually take the time to use one they tend to enjoy the experience..,

http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-6452_7-57584791/forced-to-live-with-bb10-and-kind-of-liking-it/

I love mine, that's all I know.

The same things a national security letter could, and almost certainly did, demand from Groklaw.

(A) All emails
(B) All account information for every account
(C) IP-addresses and any other data on hand that can be used to track ever Slashdot user
(D) to install a surveillance box on the network to scan and log every packet of everyone who views Slashdot (regardless of whether they post)

The would probably also demand (E) to copy the entire database of all posts by every user and all other publicly available information. Category E is stuff anyone can get merely by scanning the site over the internet, but doubtless they'd take it because they can and because it saves them a lot of work trying to crawl the entire website themselves.

And based on what happened with TOR recently, and based on the available information on the Lavabit situation, it seems very possible the government has moved beyond "passive listening" and has moved into the realm of forcing active code onto websites to attack/subvert visitors' machines. As I understand it, Lavabit was set up in such a way that the Lavabit servers literally didn't have access to the information the government would need to access the mails... that the only way the government could obtain useful information would be to hijack the Lavasoft servers and use them to actively extract the required information from visitors.

Note that the government has already beenhacking into cellphones and car ONSTAR type systems to turn on the microphones an use them as "roving wiretaps". Those aren't even National Security Letter level stuff, those are court cases of regular law enforcement doing it.

So yeah, no big shocker if they're demanding websites host attack code to trace people who's true IP address is hidden behind TOR or a proxy or otherwise hard to trace.

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Boycott Netflix. They don't want the business, don't give them money. Send the message DRM is unacceptable.

Is Netflix the right target though? What makes you think they want to have DRM in their product? The answer is, they don't. Netflix was forced by its content providers to use DRM.

Setting aside the debate around the value of content protection and DRM, they are requirements we must fulfill in order to obtain content from major studios for our subscribers to enjoy.

Netflix is not the only online delivery service forced to use DRM. Lovefilm, which operates in the UK was also forced to switch from using flash to Silverlight by the studios.

We’ve been asked to make this change by the Studios who provide us with the films in the first place, because they’re insisting – understandably – that we use robust security to protect their films from piracy, and they see the Silverlight software as more secure than Flash.

I agree that as customers, we should not have DRM forced on us. And yes, a consumer boycott is a way to show our displeasure. But to be consistent, target the true masterminds behind the DRM scheme, the movie studios by refusing to watch their movies on any medium. Consider this -if you boycott and kill Netflix, the studios will be happier because they earned more from the old system pre-Netflix.

Now, contrast the studios' dismal quarterly numbers with Netflix's performance during the same period. The video-rental service, which mails DVDs to subscribers as well as streams films and TV shows over the Web, added 3 million subscribers in the quarter--largely on the growing popularity of its streaming service, the company said.

It's not an apples-to-apples comparison, but it shows significant numbers of consumers are moving to Netflix, a service that all but eliminates the need to own movies.

Google complies with local laws and regulations. Remember their previous venture in China:
"The new local Google site, expected to be launched Wednesday at Google.cn, will include notes at the bottom of results pages that disclose when content has been removed, said Andrew McLaughlin, senior policy counsel for Google. "Google.cn will comply with local Chinese laws and regulations," he said in a statement. "In deciding how best to approach the Chinese--or any--market, we must balance our commitments to satisfy the interest of users, expand access to information, and respond to local conditions.""
http://news.cnet.com/Google-to-censor-China-Web-searches/2100-1028_3-6030784.html

When a legal order to turn over info is received they will do it. The only question is what constitutes a legal order.

I actually own a Windows phone, and it sucks that Google's acting like jerks. But really, what goes around, comes around.

Yes, MS has never used it's on secret API's in it's own OS, while leaving less efficient ones for everyone else to use. http://venturebeat.com/2012/07/18/microsoft-secret-api-mobile/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Microsoft#Copyright_enforcement

Or like MS isn't suing Google various ways. https://www.google.com/#bav=on.2,or.r_qf.&fp=10e5a3add6d6d99c&q=microsoft+suing+google&safe=off (too many different ones to list)

Or that MS CEO said they would kill google http://news.cnet.com/2100-1014_3-5846243.html

So yes, Google are acting like the jerks here. (yes, this is sarcasm)

How long until Google lawyers will claim that Android users have no expectation of security?