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You know what? I agree with you.

That is why it is so important to stamp out signs of genuine oppression and actual thuggish behavior immediately when they are identified, and have good oversight over the rest. That is why I find the indifference on Slashdot to the admitted political oppression engaged in by the IRS to be so appalling.

I'm guessing you are talking about the IRS investigating political tax-exempt groups. Number one, political groups shouldn't be able to get a tax exemption to start with. Number two, one of the IRS's mandates is to vet these groups, number three, they were investigating progressive as well as conservative groups.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/20/us-usa-tax-liberals-idUSBRE97J0V820130820
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-07-13/news/sns-rt-usa-taxfundraisingl2e8icenx-20120713_1_tax-exempt-status-tax-exempt-organizations-ofer-lion
http://gawker.com/irs-didnt-just-hunt-the-tea-party-liberal-churches-al-504685119

Just another non-issue drummed up as a scandal by an increasingly desperate & irrelevant GOP.

In 2007 he was busy banging a journalist, writing her wikipedia entry for her, and embezzling money from Wikimedia Foundation.

http://gawker.com/362814/the-goodbye-email-from-jimmy-waless-girlfriend

http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/3/is-wikipedia-s-jimmy-wales-really-an-embezzler-

The constitution specifically says congress has the right to regulate.

There's only one place in the entire US Constitution where any government body has the "right" to do anything. It's not the Second Amendment.

Nor does the Second Amendment give Congress the authority to regulate firearms and their use. That is implied to some degree by other parts of the Constitution.

There's no question about the meat of the Second Amendment " the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed." "The people" is a well defined term that means everyone who lives in the US. "keep and bear Arms" is only uncertain as to what sort of weapons are considered "Arms". And "shall not be infringed" is pretty self explanatory.

As to the question of what "Arms" are allowed, the guidance of the justification phrase "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State" seems to indicate that normal infantry weapons like the M-16 rifle, common issue hand grenades, pump action shot guns, 9mm Beretta pistol, M-50 machine gun, maybe some of the more exotic weapons like wire guided missiles would. After all, how can you readily serve in a modern US flagged infantry militia if you aren't acquainted with the weapons that US infantry currently use?

I suppose the modern compromise is based on an expected training period. So the more advanced and dangerous weapons can be considered unnecessary for a militia to know going into a potential conflict. Hence, the legal definition of Arms for Second Amendment purposes is constrained somewhat from the above.

Gun registration need not be an infringement on the right to keep and bear Arms, but in practice it usually is. For example, in NYC gun registrants were public information. That was glaringly abused when the Journal News made it into an easily searchable data base. Making gun owners the public targets of thieves and witchhunters throughout the NYC area is an infringement of their Second Amendment rights.

He is such a douchebag. I love his line about school overcrouding: "it's a nice problem to have that our kids want to go to school".

http://gawker.com/michael-bloomberg-says-lack-of-affordable-housing-is-a-1448327223

4 Points
1) Diversity is good, but... You must keep in mind that is not sufficient reason to read a source. A 'diversity' of falsehoods is worthless.
2) You can't read everything. Choose the areas that mean the most to you (international affairs, economics, national or local politics, etc) and try to find 2-3 sources that seem to do good work in those areas.
3) Be aware who is paying the bills. The consumers/adverisers in typical newspapers? Purely advertisers as in television/online reporting? Government in state funded broadcasting? I don't believe reporters will bend their views to match the person paying the bills. Instead reporters with unsympathetic views will often not get hired in the first place (probably not a lot of leftwingers in Fox or rightwingers on MSNBC). I'd strongly recommend reading Manufacturing Consent for more information.
4) Let your choices evolve. The editors today may not be the editors tomorrow. Companies get bought out, new ones arise. How much longer will the Guardian's editor remain?

My recommendations:
The guardian -- You already have your reasons. I think their dissimenating the NSA leaks and wikileaks info when no one else would is justification enough.
al jazeera -- Particularly foreign viewpoint, high quality.
Democracy Now -- Not the best quality but clearly believe what they say and is run off donations. Also provides an American (important to me as I am one) viewpoint on things.
Their are others I think are probably good and have seen other posters mention already but I'm not experienced enough with them to know.

The term limited hangout http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limited_hangout, there was also this early on http://gawker.com/naomi-wolf-is-a-snowden-truther-513470303
http://cryptome.org/2013/10/questioning-snowden-truth.htm

Holy how, your trying to claim that Apple has a "level of integrity" and want them to "remain honest" in selling the iPhone? Are you on crack, willfully ignorant, a simple idiotic fanboy, or a paid shill?

http://betanews.com/2008/11/26/apple-claiming-iphone-3g-is-really-fast-deemed-false-by-uk-regulators/

http://www.tomsguide.com/us/apple-iphone-3g,news-2422.html

http://www.businessinsider.com/apples-iphone-4-retina-display-claims-are-false-marketing-2010-6

http://forum.sdx-developers.com/index.php?topic=19901.0;wap

http://gawker.com/5042380/misleading-iphone-ad-banned-in-the-uk

Read some of the comment stories from gawkers post yesterday, being chased by wasps, jumping in a pool, having to rip them off you underwater, seeing the swarm above, waiting for you to breathe.

http://gawker.com/this-hornet-will-be-the-last-thing-you-see-before-you-d-1428724767

The more we "learn" about this the more it sounds like Naomi Wolf was right, that Snowden was a plant designed to create a chilling effect on the US populace. After all you can't have a chilling effect if you don't know you are being watched, can you? And you can't have the government just come right out and tell you, there has to be at least some deniability to make the most loyal go with the "if you have nothing to hide" line of bullshit, so by having some "disgruntled employee" do the leaking you have a perfect scenario, all the intelligent ones are spooked and afraid to speak out while the "Joe Six Pack" type just ignores it and goes back to their day to day struggle for survival.

No matter what your feelings on Snowden this possibility at least deserves to be discussed and if it turns out he was a plant? Then you have to give the gov credit, it was well played as talking to customers the smarter ones are worried about even saying this or that politician sucks for fear they will end up with a file while the more clueless ones go back to their reality shows and don't care.

If try to get what's best for your kid, you're an evil person and won't be able to get what's best for your kid . . . ?

Uh . . .

Also, public school is rife with violence, teachers banging their students, ancient text books, teachers and systems that don't care and let intelligent students fall through the gaps of mundanity, teachers and administrators that allow violence to happen under their nose, because they don't want to be involved, teaching to tests instead of educating students...

If your local school stinks, by the time you quit your job and dedicate your life full-time to improving your local school district, your child will have graduated (or dropped out). Not to mention, working to improve your local school district is about as fantastical an idea as "instead of doing anything else to improve your life, focus all your time on voting, because you can totally change the system, brothers and sisters!".

Anyway, why are we even discussing some idiot's blog post on Slate of all fucking places?

For fuck's sake, her husband works at Gawker. These are a couple brain-dead link-baiters (oh, by the way, here is a Gawker story her husband wrote about how private schools should be banned): http://gawker.com/5943005/theres-a-simple-solution-to-the-public-schools-crisis

Why do you paint bricks and fake keyholes on your door when you leave the house?

There, fixed that for you. Obfuscation is more like dazzle painting. It works somewhat, but don't expect it to work well.

No. It's much more like Vajazzling and less useful.

> Serious question here. What if you do not have a Facebook account?

It indicates that you are NOT a dumb fuck... http://gawker.com/5636765/facebook-ceo-admits-to-calling-users-dumb-fucks That should be a plus for you.

• He had a lot of tension with his Paypal investors: http://gawker.com/227491/sequoia-erases-elon-musk : "Musk was a charismatic chancer, backed by the venture capital firm, with an online bank which wasn't going anywhere. He was involved in Paypal only in so far as he managed to talk his way into a 50-50 merger with the successful online payments service, and served as CEO until his wayward management style provoked a staff revolt."
• He had tensions with his wife(s): http://boycotttesla.wordpress.com/2013/06/04/the-problem-with-elon-musks-women/
• He had tensions with Tesla's founder: www.wired.com/autopia/2009/06/eberhard : "Teslaâ(TM)s Founder Sues Teslaâ(TM)s CEO"

Still brilliant - but (like many brilliant people) he can be quite the blowhard too.

Or plastic surgery: http://gawker.com/plastic-surgery-blamed-for-making-all-miss-korea-contes-480907455

Sorry, Pluto is no longer a planet and assburgers is no longer a disease. Which must be maddening to Autism Spectrum Disorderers.

As far as the RPG there was no RPG and there was no firefight in the area until they started massacring civilians at least

The sources I have disagree:

From being in the perspective of the Apache helicopter crew, I can see where a group of men gathering, when there’s a firefight just a few blocks away, which I was involved in, and they’re carrying weapons, one of which is an RPG

--Soldier who arrived after the fight

In fact, after calling Robert Gates a liar regarding the firefight, Assange himself admitted to having classified reports of small arms fire immediately prior to this incident:

"we have classified records to show that all there was... was a report of small arms fire," Assange said. "28 minutes later, after circling around the suburbs of Baghdad, the helicopters identified these men and killed them."

For the RPG, I would direct you to that wikipedia article, second paragraph; there are 4 citations for the weapons found.

Or better yet acted like actual human being and try to take them prisoner instead of kill them.

From a helicopter, vs a supposed enemy who is not in the habit of surrendering but rather detonating suicide bombs when US forces close in. Right.

As much as you may want to make this into another Mai Lai, its not. Even Stephen Colbert-- not one you would expect to defend the military against wikileaks-- offered this fairly spot-on assessment:

The army described this as a group that gave resistance at the time, that doesn’t seem to be happening. But there are armed men in the group, they did find a rocket propelled grenade among the group, the Reuters photographers who were regrettably killed, were not identifiedYou have edited this tape, and you have given it a title called ‘collateral murder.’ That’s not leaking, that’s a pure editorial.

I personally have no sympathy for somebody who believes a job at McDonalds is ever below them

1) McDonald's own advice to their employees is to get two jobs. Think about that and the direction that is going.
http://gawker.com/mcdonalds-to-employees-get-a-second-job-or-drop-dead-803511522

2) There are already burger making robots, warehouse robots. There'd be no need for many people if there are robots making $4 lunches for those with the money.

There are just so many items a rich person can choose to spend on, so if you're not already in their "operating expenditure" good luck getting in their "capital expenditure".

If the reporters for the Washington Post and New York Times whom he initially approached had done their fucking jobs, he would never have went to WikiLeaks. The reason he had to release the whole cache is because no journalist gatekeeper would take him seriously (the way Glenn Greenwald did with Snowden).

The story here, as usual, is that Apple is no better than anybody else. And everybody seems to know this except you.

Next step is to realize that Apple is actually worse than the others. Ever heard of the Apple Police?. Make no mistake about it, Apple didn't fire him because he did wrong, Apple fired him because he got caught.

Then there are the lockdowns. A company accustomed to abusing its own employees obviously does not bat an eye at having a contractor abuse their own.

http://gawker.com/5800990/did-florida-accidentally-ban-sex So, what is there left to do in Florida? Die?

>The response has often been that I'm over-reacting

Because you are.

No he isn't.

See http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-teens-spied-on-chats

in at least four cases, Barksdale spied on minors' Google accounts without their consent, according to a source close to the incidents. In an incident this spring involving a 15-year-old boy who he'd befriended, Barksdale tapped into call logs from Google Voice, Google's Internet phone service, after the boy refused to tell him the name of his new girlfriend, according to our source. After accessing the kid's account to retrieve her name and phone number, Barksdale then taunted the boy and threatened to call her.

In other cases involving teens of both sexes, Barksdale exhibited a similar pattern of aggressively violating others' privacy, according to our source. He accessed contact lists and chat transcripts, and in one case quoted from an IM that he'd looked up behind the person's back. (He later apologized to one for retrieving the information without her knowledge.) In another incident, Barksdale unblocked himself from a Gtalk buddy list even though the teen in question had taken steps to cut communications with the Google engineer.

Google has a remarkably good track record regarding security. They may be the best company (of Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Yahoo) in their industry, and if they aren't #1, then they aren't far behind.

Did anything like this happen at the other companies?

http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-teens-spied-on-chats

Contrast that to Alec Baldwin, who was making a direct threat: Alec Baldwin Melts Down On Twitter, Threatens To 'F*ck Up' Reporter

http://gawker.com/alec-baldwin-melts-down-on-twitter-threatens-to-fuck-604856776

I wonder if the rich still have their rights?

"I did not read the first article about the Google employee who monitored chats of teenagers. However as I recall, he was fired and convicted."

He was promptly filed for unethical use of his acces but no criminal wrong doing was found.
http://gawker.com/5637234/gcreep-google-engineer-stalked-teens-spied-on-chats

I know it sounds more sensational to say he was convicted even though completely false. +5 Informative to the AC!

From the employees violating their privacy rules andspying on children (to whats amount to having sex with them) to Google forwarding phone sex, banks info and email, Google is violating your rights left and over.

The only way to stop this is just stopping using their services. In fact, not even that - but we need industry players to stop supporting Google and get everyone on our side. Google is made of creeps.

... Obamaphone ... Obamaphone ... Obamaphone ...

The 'Obama Phone' Program Has Nothing to Do with Obama

Yes, I did notice it. I'm not sure if you are familiar with police practices, but "assault on an officer" is often used as a blanket crime by police to arrest people in any situation where the police use force, especially if they use improper or excessive force. It is completely logical to me that both would drop by 60% because very often they are the same thing.

That is, often a police officer will aggress against a person for whatever reason and then later claim that the person they aggressed against was the agressor. It basically allows an officer to arrest or even beat anyone up for anything and is a much more common tactic than you think. When the citizen gets to court, do you think a judge or jury will believe the police officer or the citizen?

We hear a lot about the minority of cases where a bystander taped the scene and the police did something wrong, but you don't hear about the majority where nobody was there to video tape it.

The union says in other jurisdictions where police officers are equipped with point-of-view cameras, the use of force by officers and assaults on officers drops by as much as 60%.

This sort of tells us what we already knew. That basically most of the force police use already is applied illegally applied or over-applied. The camera is forcing police to act more ethically, which reduces their use of force, but also hints that they widely act unethically at present. It isn't unique to Canada.

Worthy idea. Just did that. Turned this up. Friday night, and I'm on a thread about standards. Makes me want to pound myself and tear things limb from limb.

-- I'm quite frankly surprised there hasn't yet been a massive class action suit against the manufacturer.
  We're still in the boycotting phase.

And don't forget the FBI doing things like requesting (and who knows what they're doing when they're not politely requesting) to send an email with a payload that would jack the customer's computer (in one case, an anonymous email account that they wanted to infect the owning computer so they could use the webcam/skype/etc to view the identify of the person using it -- and don't forget, doing that would circumvent encryption since you could gather data on the computer pre-encryption).

http://gawker.com/judge-tells-fbi-they-cannot-use-webcams-to-spy-on-peopl-483855078

The concept of privacy is over and people who think you're being monitored "retroactively, down the road" are behind the times. It's real-time and it's across the board (and, as per recent cases apparently, can also be retroactive so you can go back and retrieve information like phone calls in-full that occurred prior to when you had the wire tap to record them).

is finding college to be a bit of an adjustment, too.

" both of whom have had immeasurable impact on issues surrounding technology over recent years.""

Eric Schmidt is just some guy the VC suits FORCED on Larry and Sergei when Google was trying to get funding. Larry and Sergei DRAGGED THEIR FEET and delayed capitulating to this "adult supervision" requirement as long as they could. Since Eric Schmidt is basically just a stand issue schmuck without insight, without vision, they figured they'd be able to "get along" with him - read: roll over him on all important decisions, and they were right.

Schmidt spent his time cheating on his wife ( who is well compensated and probably a little relieved) and chasing after 10s of the sort that had ignored him in high school, but now needed help with their coke addictions, taking them to Burning Man, playing the role of Dr. Strangelove then paying for their rehab

No, seriously.

http://gawker.com/5475332/

http://gawker.kinja.com/5499121/photos-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-at-burning-man-with-his-ex+mistress

Schmidt is the guy with a knack for the anti-quote - things Google would wish he'd never said, oh like

"With your permission you give us more information about you, about your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches [...] We don't need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about."

and

""If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

and

" "most people don't want Google to answer their questions. . . . They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next."

and

"One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try to predict the stock market. And then we decided it was illegal. So we stopped doing that."

Even the curated collection of things which appear on quotes pages like this one and presumably are intended to show him in his best light merely range from the pedestrian:

" Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it. "

and

"We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power. "

to the weird:

"A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it. "

"If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear. "

to the creepy:

"In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about."

This guy and the pile of money that's been shoved under him is the ultimate expression of the American elites' fear of everything which is not mediocre, not "regular" , not tame and predictable. They couldn't have the brains of Google also presume to be the captains of Google because who knows what kind of idealistic fantasies they might become obsessed with and worse, actually realize.

You can read all about how Eric "Lucky" Schmidt washed up on the shore of Tropical Paradise Google and all the other details in Ken Auletta's book . It's just as I described.

http://www.amazon.com/Googled-End-World-As-Know/dp/0143118048

" both of whom have had immeasurable impact on issues surrounding technology over recent years."" Eric Schmidt is just some guy the VC suits FORCED on Larry and Sergei when Google was trying to get funding. Larry and Sergei DRAGGED THEIR FEET and delayed capitulating to this "adult supervision" requirement as long as they could. Since Eric Schmidt is basically just a stand issue schmuck without insight, without vision, they figured they'd be able to "get along" with him - read: roll over him on all important decisions, and they were right. Schmidt spent his time cheating on his wife ( who is well compensated and probably a little relieved) and chasing after 10s of the sort that had ignored him in high school, but now needed help with their coke addictions, taking them to Burning Man, playing the role of Dr. Strangelove then paying for their rehab No, seriously. http://gawker.com/5475332/ http://gawker.kinja.com/5499121/photos-google-ceo-eric-schmidt-at-burning-man-with-his-ex+mistress Schmidt is the guy with a knack for the anti-quote - things Google would wish he'd never said, oh like "With your permission you give us more information about you, about your friends, and we can improve the quality of our searches [...] We don't need you to type at all. We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about." and ""If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place." and " "most people don't want Google to answer their questions. . . . They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next." and "One day we had a conversation where we figured we could just try to predict the stock market. And then we decided it was illegal. So we stopped doing that." Even the curated collection of things which appear on quotes pages like this one and presumably are intended to show him in his best light merely range from the pedestrian: " Success is really about being ready for the good opportunities that come before you. It's not to have a detailed plan of everything that you're going to do. You can't plan innovation or inspiration, but you can be ready for it, and when you see it, you can jump on it. " and "We have an opportunity for everyone in the world to have access to all the world's information. This has never before been possible. Why is ubiquitous information so profound? It's a tremendous equalizer. Information is power. " to the weird: "A mind set in its ways is wasted. Don't do it. " "If you forgo your plan, you also have to forgo fear. " to the creepy: "In a world where everything is remembered and everything is kept forever, you need to live for the future and things you really care about." This guy and the pile of money that's been shoved under him is the ultimate expression of the American elites' fear of everything which is not mediocre, not "regular" , not tame and predictable. They couldn't have the brains of Google also presume to be the captains of Google because who knows what kind of idealistic fantasies they might become obsessed with and worse, actually realize. You can read all about how Eric "Lucky" Schmidt washed up on the shore of Tropical Paradise Google and all the other details in Ken Auletta's book . It's just as I described. http://www.amazon.com/Googled-End-World-As-Know/dp/0143118048

I can't seem to play the video and there's no transcript but I was impressed with Jon Stewart's drawing and quartering of CNN's coverage. He hit the nail on the head of what "journalistic integrity" has fallen to. Jon Stewart was saying CNN had an 'exclusive' story on the arrest ... exclusive because there was no arrest.

Get on Twitter, say some stuff that sounds legit. Sit back and watch it retweeted, then it'll hit the blogs and finally the 'news.' And all they have to do is try to track down the original source (you) but they seldom do. And that's what "crowdsourced" news has come to. Whenever someone heralds the amazing results from crowdsourced news, it's always post hoc cherry picked results of an actual first hand account or someone who got it right. They seldom look at the entire volume of tweets prior to what we know is true and what is conjecture/wrong.

For the disabled to be harassed equally, they would need to be tackeled to the ground when they refused to stop talking.

But all kidding aside, I think there is a real sickness in the TSA, It doesn't take long to find articles and more articles showing the TSA's abuse of disabled people.

hopefully you have ample examples of men receiving death threats

Sure. Here are a few that come up on Google:

This guy pissed off some animal rights activists and they threatened to use pliers on his testicles, disembowel him and use napalm on him. Among other things. Incidentally, it was a woman who ran the organization that sent the threats, and was sentenced to jail for it. That one isn't even anonymous!

Gay blogger gets death threats.

This guy tracked down the sender of his death threats.

Here's a story about a guy who sends death threats to people who debunk the paranormal. Some blog authors, mostly male, were targeted.

Here's a guy who pissed off 4chan by making a movie. Here's one who wrote a book. If you want to do an experiment go post something they find offensive there and see how many death/rape/mutilation threats you get.

A Slashdot story about a guy getting death threats from some scammers he exposed.

Browsing Slashdot at -1 can be pretty enlightening too.

If you want to really get some threats, piss off some religious people.

* http://www.aclu.org/blog/free-speech-technology-and-liberty/political-speech-facebook

* http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/jul/06/facebook-apologises-free-speech-syria

* http://gawker.com/5885714/

* http://www.boingboing.net/2011/04/19/richard-metzger-how.html

* http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/feb/21/facebook-nudity-violence-censorship-guidelines

I could keep pasting these all day long but I think I made my point.

That's not a drone. That's an R/C model plane.

Probably one of these, or similar model. Probably trying to get a photo. Or a plausibly deniable dry run.

But sounds like something that could easily be blown out of proportion. TSA getting funds sequestered? Not any more.

http://cache.gawker.com/assets/images/4/2009/12/091217-drone-03.jpg

"...drove the EV something like 2 miles into the heart of a major city with huge traffic congestion issues where it could take 45 minutes to move a mile..."

FTFY

Case in point:
http://gawker.com/5789444/guy-proves-childs-big-wheel-bike-is-faster-transportation-than-a-nyc-bus

A grown man riding a freaking big wheel went one mile in NYC in less time than the city's fleet of buses take to go the same route and distance. He not only beat the bus, he did so by two minutes. On a big wheel. That two miles looks a bit bigger now doesn't it?

But that isn't as much the point, is it? Per Musk's data from the Model S driven, the guy undercharged the car three separate times, sped like a maniac with the heat cranked up, and drove it around in circles in a parking lot trying to kill off the battery. He then responded to the accusations with basically a "nuh uhhhh!" when they had a freaking black box recording every single thing done in the entire vehicle.

This is the kind of crap you catch 10 year olds trying to pull on their parents.

Or, you can be bluntly honest.

for "rehabilitation"

https://gawker.com/5475332/the-google-ceo-and-his-mistress-the-tell+all-blog

Sucks to be p0wned, doesn't it Dr. Feelgood.. er, Eric?

Google employees weren't reading the email

Actually, they were. http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/web/09/15/google.privacy.firing/

And it's happened more than once. http://gawker.com/5638874/david-barksdale-wasnt-googles-first-spying-engineer

... and Newt Gingrich has 1M of Twitter followers.

Hasson wrote that her staff had received "hundreds of threats" after the list's publishing. Staff members' addresses were published, death threats were issued, and, consequently, a branch of the paper hired armed guards.

Hasson also mentioned the new gun legislation, writing "we do not endorse the way the legislature has chosen to limit public access to gun permit data. The statute is very broad and allows anyone who meets certain criteria within qualifying categories to keep their permit information private...But we are not deaf to voices who have said that new rules should be set for gun permit data." In a statement to the New York Times, Hasson said, "While the new law does not require us to remove the data, we believe that doing so complies with its spirit."

The map was viewed over 1.2 million times in 27 days, according to The Journal News.

http://gawker.com/5977304/the-journal-news-took-down-its-controversial-map-of-gun-owners

By Taylor Berman:

On Friday, The Journal News took down its controversial, interactive online map of licensed gun owners in Westchester and Rockland counties in New York. According to Journal News publisher Janet Hasson, the move was in response to recently passed gun legislation in New York, which includes a provision prohibiting the release of information about gun owners, and not because of the firestorm of criticism the paper's received since publishing the list four weeks ago. From publisher Janet Hasson's statement on the Journal News' website:

"Today The Journal News has removed the permit data from lohud.com. Our decision to do so is not a concession to critics that no value was served by the posting of the map in the first place. On the contrary, we've heard from too many grateful community members to consider our decision to post information contained in the public record to have been a mistake. Nor is our decision made because we were intimidated by those who threatened the safety of our staffers. We know our business is a controversial one, and we do not cower."

http://gawker.com/5977304/the-journal-news-took-down-its-controversial-map-of-gun-owners

You're right, more gun laws would just turn America into a police state.

1984. It was a novel published in 1949 written as entertainment and perhaps as a warning against the suppression and manipulation of free thought, but today it is the most popular textbook in the world's top business schools. If you want to know why the Koch brothers were the ones behind OWS you should read it.

In all seriousness, the largest single donor to the movement was former New York Mercantile Exchange vice chairman Robert Halper, who was noted by media as having also given the maximum allowable campaign contribution to Mitt Romney.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occupy_Wall_Street

http://gawker.com/5850730/the-single-largest-benefactor-of-occupy-wall-street-is-a-mitt-romney-donor

For a while Steve Jobs made his living peddling "blue boxes" that got free long distance calls by hacking the telco switching equipment. He even stole money from his friend Steve Wozniak. And made a habit of parking in the handicap space. And smelled bad, which is some kind of crime against those in the immediate vicinity.

Um your quite wrong according to this site. Goatse Security obtained its data through a script on AT&T's website, accessible to anyone on the internet. When provided with an ICC-ID as part of an HTTP request, the script would return the associated email address, in what was apparently intended to be an AJAX-style response within a Web application. The group wrote a PHP script to automate the harvesting of data. Since a member of the group tells us the script was shared with third-parties prior to AT&T closing the security hole http://gawker.com/5559346/apples-worst-security-breach-114000-ipad-owners-exposed Running a script is a whole lot different then just typing in a web address which most of the apologist here would have us think.