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Newsflash! Slashdot already has been targeted by NSA!!

Don't take my word for it: Link 1 and Link 2.

1. There is no motive for a conspiracy.
2. There is no evidence of a conspiracy.

We should be honest in our assessment of what these people think, even if we disagree with their conclusions. The predominant theory holds that MH370 was hijacked to Diego Garcia for future use as a false flag operation (motive). They point to things like the window configurations being the same in the MH17 wreckage and MH370 but different in ground shots of MH17, or rotten corpses in the wreckage (evidence, if it were true).

Their theories have trouble more on the level of "OK, so what happened to the real MH17 then?" and other logical inconsistencies, or even just showing evidence that "evidence" is in fact true ("why do you think that window configuration photo is MH17, because somebody said so? - where's the wide shot with the tail number?").

It doesn't help them much that Joe Biden's son just got appointed to the board of Gazprom in Ukraine or that Israel launched a ground invasion of Gaza as soon as MH17 went down - the willingness of certain groups of people to do evil, nefarious things isn't in question.

You are not buying stuff at the same price as 6 years ago, maybe you should actually pay attention to the receipts.

beef, pork, avocado, fruits, veggies, almonds, pinenuts, walnuts, mozarella, cheddar, other cheeses, seafood, grains, soy, soy, palm oil, milk, gasoline, beer and more beer, limes, canadian bacon, barley, restaurants, restaurants, restaurants,electrical energy, car rentals, hotel rooms, cab fairs,

air travel and air travel gets more expensive in many other ways, various extra fees, less room, more seats on planes

aluminium,

"The more items Amazon sells to Prime members, the more money it loses." What bookshops have been saying for a decade is that Amazon is selling books at a loss, which used to be illegal as anti-competitive monopoly activity.

Much better than the opaque NYT article linked is this December article from IBT: "Amazon: Nearly 20 Years In Business And It Still Doesn't Make Money, But Investors Don't Seem To Care" http://www.ibtimes.com/amazon-... It has the quote above, and the historic profit/loss graph I was looking for. Revenues have risen at a 45 degree angle, but profit/loss hovers around zero.

This problem should solve itself as downloading and cloud-based games take over and game stores disappear. GameStop is closing 120 more locations. Game retailers are going the way of record stores and video rental outlets.

They've already been successfully sued in California for spying on students after they said they wouldn't.

Cite?

Based on what I found, that seems to be a pretty serious mischaracterization. First, "successfully sued" normally implies that the suit has reached some sort of conclusion, but from what I can see all that's been successful is the filing. Google has made a motion to dismiss which hasn't been ruled on, AFAICT. Even if that motion fails, it just means that the judge doesn't think the suit is so ridiculous it should be tossed without a further look. That's a long way from saying it actually has merit. Second, all Google said was that ads were turned off for edu accounts by default. Plaintiffs allege that Google still uses the data in other ways, but I don't see that there is any evidence about that one way or another.

Crazy ants use formic acid and are impervious to fire ants. Do they get it from CO2? How much CO2 does a crazy ant sequester? If you've never seen a crazy ant they don't bit or sting but they are FAST and they are MANY.

http://www.ibtimes.com/crazy-a...

Didn't you hear? There's a revolution going on.

http://www.ibtimes.com/minimum...

Nuff said.

Interestingly enough, the Swiss voted against creating a ~$25 (Ã18) minimum wage. Their reasoning? It's not enough. From the article:

While there is no formal minimum wage, median income in Switzerland is $37 an hour and 90 percent of Swiss make more than the proposed minimum wage. Switzerland has a 3.2 percent unemployment rate, the second lowest in Europe behind Liechtenstein.

Seems like we could learn something.

I believe Apple just pushed a patch to mavericks with better 4k support. http://au.ibtimes.com/articles...

Here is one link, and should get you started.

The climb up was under Jobs' leadership. Cook's turn at the helm seems to be the slide back down again. It's slow, but it's happening. The magic is gone, and the products are no longer technically superior to the competition.

It's already been long enough to see that. They ditched Jobs' "one true tablet size" pretty quickly. The iPhone 5/5s were both extremely "meh" and a year or two behind the competition. iOS 7 seems to have borrowed heavily from the flat look of Android and Windows, but still lacks basic stuff like widgets that make them great. Their in-car stuff is already eclipsed by MirrorLink and didn't generate much buzz when announced... Can you imagine how Jobs would have gone to town with that? Even the new Mac Pro was a bit of a damp squib once people realized that the GPUs were crippled versions of the full size cards.

Sorry, but Apple has lost it's reality distortion field generator, and the field itself is collapsing. They could still turn it around, but at the moment they are reduced to producing misleading charts to pretend everything is going well.

yes it has, its missed plenty, you clearly just don't want to know. Start here: http://www.ibtimes.com/apple-k... Then use a search engine to avoid looking like an anonymous dick

Hail Zontar The Mindless, court jester and tormenter of the just!

I take it that you cannot imagine a European hospital or clinic not fully staffed for continuous 24x7 operations, with resources sitting idle just waiting to be put to use?

Doctor shortage reaching crisis, study warns

The German Medical Association (BÄK) and the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KBV) announced the results of a study showing that medical care is becoming harder to find in some parts of the country, particularly rural areas.

The study made it clear “that the doctor shortage is not a phenomenon anticipated for some time in the future, but is an urgent threat,” said KBV head Andreas Köhler. ...

In hospitals, about 5,000 positions were unfilled, the groups said. A decade from now, nearly 20,000 senior physicians and head physicians will have retired.

Medical Leave: Romanian Doctors Fleeing Poor Pay, Corruption For Western Europe

UK has fewer doctors per person than Bulgaria and Estonia

Spanish doctors and nurses emigrate for work

French government fights doctor shortage in rural areas

Europe’s ageing population will face doctor shortage

It is estimated that by 2020, 230,000 doctor‘s roles and 590,000 nursing positions will need to be filled. In less than a decade, there will be a professional shortfall of 1 million jobs in the health sector (including all roles). This means that about 14% of the total demand for health services may not be covered. This prediction is reflected in Italy, where almost 42% of national health service doctors are over 55. There are 14,280 aged over 60 compared to 13,196 aged 30 to 39. This vacuum of personnel is destined be filled increasingly by immigrants. Already in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and Poland, 30% of foreign doctors are from non-EU countries. This percentage rises to 60% in France and Italy and even 80% in Ireland and the UK. These findings are a report prepared as part of the project “Health Workers 4all“.

Reminds me of a map about the Maidan tweets here: http://www.ibtimes.com/ukraine...

One may wonder, how many of those UK and US tweets were from Ukrainians living in these countries (US has a rather large Ukrainian diaspora, the UK doesn't) and how many were associated with intelligence agencies. Interesting are the blips on the map from Bahrain at the crucial moments.

You can't go to jail in the US just for illegal use of the internet.

Yes you can, google up Justin River Carter. He made a hyperbolic, sarcastic comment on Facebook, and he's looking at up to 10 years in jail. Another case is Cameron D'Ambrosio's. The magic word is terrorism: if anyone is scared by what you say or says they are, you are fornicated.

You can for looking at kiddie porn, or threatening somebody, but those things were illegal before we had an internet.

Same you can say about any country with the imprisonment mark. It was illegal to mock Mohammed in Pakistan before the Internet, and now too. The imprisonment icon means, "you can go to jail after unwarranted, sweeping wiretapping of your Internet connection".

In recent news, a state senator from Montana (R) was arrested, and a tea-party-republican-congressman from Florida was also arrested. A Republican from Montana and a Republican from Florida. Who would have guessed that. It has nothing to do with Sacramento or party. Like I said, all politics are local. Especially corrupt politics.

First, whatever source you are getting 41% from, were they there? Did they actually count the votes? Or are you getting this information from western media, who logically did not even have access to Crimea at the time of vote? To recap you don't know who is lying (Russians or the West), but the source that you choose to believe literally has no way of knowing the truth in either case.

Gallup did opinion polls in 2011 and 2013

http://www.ibtimes.com/gallup-...

Incidentally doesn't it seem a little suspicious to you that western media ' did not even have access to Crimea at the time of vote'? The reason for that being that the Russian army and pro Russian militias wouldn't let anyone into Crimea from Ukraine or the West - the whole country was under lockdown with anyone who wasn't repeating the mantra that "you're either with Russia or you're a Nazi" was either kept out or beaten up.

Second, I have seen pictures of ballots (I also happen to read Russian since I was born in Ukraine, thought it was USSR at the time). The choices are "Would you like to join Russian Federation" or "Would you like Crimea to stay an autonomous republic as part of Ukraine".

If you look at the ballot here you can see one option is to join Russia and one is to restore the 1992 constitution.

What does that mean?

http://www.reuters.com/article...

According to a format of the ballot paper, published on the parliament's website, the first question will ask: "Are you in favor of the reunification of Crimea with Russia as a part of the Russian Federation?"

The second asks: "Are you in favor of restoring the 1992 Constitution and the status of Crimea as a part of Ukraine?"

At first glance, the second option seems to offer the prospects of the peninsula remaining within Ukraine.

But the 1992 national blueprint - which was adopted soon after the collapse of the Soviet Union and then quickly abolished by the young post-Soviet Ukrainian state - is far from doing that.

This foresees giving Crimea all the qualities of an independent entity within Ukraine - but with the broad right to determine its own path and choose relations with whom it wants - including Russia.

With the pro-Russian assembly already saying it wants to return Crimea to Russia, this second option only offers a slightly longer route to shifting the peninsula back under Russian control, analysts say.

The option of asking people if they wish to stick with the status quo - in which Crimea enjoys autonomy but remains part of Ukraine - is not on offer.

Like I say you can vote to join Russia or restore the 1992 Crimea Constitution. Under which, incidentally the Crimean Parliament could decide to join Russia without another referendum.

Third, I have friends living in Crimea. They would rather be part of Russia, because they would rather have stability than being a part of a failed and corrupt state where revolutions occur every 3-4 years. Also, since you believe that all Ukrainians are held at gunpoint here's a Ukrainian (me) telling you that Russia did the right thing. I assure you nobody is holding me at gunpoint.

I've got friends in Russia and they would rather Putin - who they call 'the Russian Mugabe' loses this gamble because it means he's likelier to lose power.

But hey anecdotes have a small sample size. If you want a decent sample size look at the Gallup polls. And note that the most popular option with 53% support in 2013 - autonomy inside the Ukraine - wasn't even on offer. Also note that 97% in favour is a very unlikely number to get in any referendum.

Because they almost certainly don't? Objective polling before the election put only 41% of Crimeans in favour of becoming part of Russia. Russia invaded, installed a puppet Crimean government (kicking the democratically elected one out) took over the airwaves, spread propaganda everywhere, refused to allow impartial international observers in and then called an election which they "won" with 97% support - the jump from 41% to 97% isn't within any sane margin of error.

It's less than 41% actually. In 2011 it was 33% and in 2013 it was 23%

http://www.ibtimes.com/gallup-...

Also the leader of the puppet government - a Russian gangster nick named Goblin - was from a party which got 4% of the vote in the last elections. And it's not even clear that the votes in Parliament making him PM and organising the referendum were quorate. Also Parliament was surrounded by gunmen who only let in MPs who would vote the right way

http://time.com/19097/putin-cr...

So far, the most revealing aspect of his time in power has been the way he came to possess it. Before dawn on Feb. 27, at least two dozen heavily armed men stormed the Crimean parliament building and the nearby headquarters of the regional government, bringing with them a cache of assault rifles and rocket propelled grenades. A few hours later, Aksyonov walked into the parliament and, after a brief round of talks with the gunmen, began to gather a quorum of the chamber's lawmakers.

It is not clear whether the parliament was seized that day on his orders. On the one hand, the masked gunmen identified themselves as members of Crimea's "self-defense forces," all of which are, according to Aksyonov, directly under his control. On the other, he claims the seizure of the buildings was done "spontaneously" by a mysterious group of fighters. "We only knew that these were Russian nationalist forces," he tells TIME in an interview Sunday. "These were people who share our Russian ideology. So if they wanted to kill someone, they would have killed the nightwatchmen who were inside."

Instead, they let the guards go, sealed the doors and only allowed the lawmakers whom Aksyonov invited to enter the building. Various media accounts have disputed whether he was able to gather a quorum of 50 of his peers before the session convened that day, and some Crimean legislators who were registered as present have said they did not come near the building. In any case, those who did arrive could hardly have voted their conscience while pro-Russian gunmen stood in the wings with rocket launchers. Both of the votes held that day were unanimous. The first appointed Aksyonov, a rookie statesman with less than four years experience as a local parliamentarian, as the new Prime Minister of Crimea. The second vote called for a referendum on the peninsula's secession from Ukraine.

Oh and the referendum offered people a choice between independence (and joining Russia later) or joining Russia immediately - "yes, now" or "yes, later". There was no way to vote for the status quo of staying inside the Ukraine.

https://www.kyivpost.com/conte...

The ballot for March 16 Crimean referendum gives two choices, to join Russia or become independent.

Voters in Ukraine's Russian-occupied Crimea who vote in the March 16 referendum have two choices - join Russia immediately or declare independence and then join Russia.

So the choices are "yes, now" or "yes, later."

The referendum took place only two weeks later dur

Most laptaps these days are sold with OSX actually

Citation needed that over 50 percent of laptops are MacBooks. Last year freaking Chrome OS outsold OS X (source: Google macbook laptop market share).

We're going to need a bigger shark.
Quick, someone dig up some DNA and bring back Megalodon!

Traditional college is vastly overrated and a waste of huge amounts of resources. Most grads don't end up having jobs related to their major.

It's just a matter of time before most classrooms will be replaced by remote learning . Leaving only the lab-work to be completed in some rented facility.

Instead of trying to find new ways(taxes) to prop up a overpriced, obsolete, low ROI, educational system, we should go forward and cost reduce the whole Enchilada. Deploy a national fibre network to every occupied structure within reason, similar to the old rural electrification act brought electricity to most farms.

Besides educational aspects of a national fibre network. I will bet their will be large number of societal fringe benefits, reduced travel needs, lower levels of communicable diseases, reduced crime, reduced infrastructure requirements, etc. Remember the benefits that occurred when President Clinton removed SA from GPS sats, that act spawned entirely new industries overnight.

So don't look at patching up our backwards educational system, go forward into the future.

What Google does DC to DC is probably not that naieve but sent over encrypted tunnels, so intercepting the traffic isn't that easy.

I understood they did not did it so wisely. They had a program to improve encryption, which has been sped up after NSA revelations

If that operation had gone poorly, it would have been Obama's ass.

Nope. Since it went well, Obama claimed full credit. But he was all set to blame everything on Admiral McRaven if it was FUBAR.

http://www.ibtimes.com/cia-memo-released-obama-relied-admiral-bill-mcraven-kill-bin-laden-transcript-693506

I will give Obama this much and no more: it does appear he didn't try to micro-manage the op.

But he absolutely would not have taken any blame if things had gone FUBAR. (If you disagree: name even one important policy point that Obama has admitted blame.) And the media would have backed him up on it to the hilt and beyond.

As for the rest of your rant^H^H^H^H post, it doesn't really make sense. You believe that a self-signed certificate will somehow "protect" you from the NSA? Who is somehow incapable of a MITM? Well, this, this and this may prove... enlightening. And while we're on the topic of "additional reading", may I also recommend "Alice in Warningland" - a study showing 70+% clickthrough rates for SSL warnings.

There are some other issues, like you mentioning wireless traffic. With WPA2 being the default, and with many modern wireless NICs no longer supporting promiscuous mode, it is often more difficult to sniff wireless traffic than to mount a MITM on a wired network (especially when the target is the victim's router - again, see the links above).

Security means encryption + integrity + authentication. Period. Anything less is no longer secure.

If it is not competitive why are the Saudis (and other gulf states) investing so much money in it? After all, they have cheap oil to burn...

http://au.ibtimes.com/articles...

I think you will find PV would be a hell of a lot more competitive if governments did not subsidise alternatives - nuclear and hydro by indemnifying against disaster, fossil fuels by subsidising infrastructure (and in Australia by exempting them from diesal fuel tax) and not requiring mining companies to rectify sites after they have trashed them.

FFS you can see the damage that shale oil mining is causing in Alberta from space.

How about this? Edward Snowden Reveals 'Quantum Insert': NSA And GCHQ Used Fake LinkedIn And Slashdot Pages To Install Spyware?!?!

German newspaper Der Spiegel reported that documents leaked by Snowden show that the GCHQ used a method called “quantum insert” to redirect employees of Belgacom, Belgium’s largest telecommunications company, to fake websites that contained spyware. The program targeted higher-level employees that had “good access” to Belgacom’s infrastructure.

2. Joseph Stalin's mass collectivization
3. Other policies of Stalin

Obama did not order the parks closed. The national park office already posted on their website that they were going to close the parks in the event of a shutdown. The parks were also closed in the shutdown of 1995. Also sequestration did have a noticeable effect. It cut funding for NSF, NIH, FAA, etc. Also it resulted in lower job growth during a recessionary time, when the macroeconomic analysis shows that increased government spending leads to increased hiring. http://www.ibtimes.com/cost-se...

Excellent post and as far as I'm aware you're quite right, Neo-Nazism simply hasn't become a real problem in Western democracies.

As you say, "awareness" is part of the problem. You aren't aware, and neo-Nazism is a problem in Europe.

'Like 1930s Germany': Greek Far Right Gains Ground

Nowhere else in Europe are neo-Nazis and right-wing extremists profiting as greatly from the financial crisis as in Athens. As they terrorize the country with violence, the police stand back and prosecutors are powerless.

Marian Kotleba: Slovakia’s New Neo-Nazi Governor Only Latest of Right-Wing Extremists Emerging In Eastern Europe

Kotleba, whose organization has long agitated against Slovakia’s Roma (Gypsy) minority, branding them as “parasites,” once belonged to the now-outlawed Neo-Nazi Slovenská Pospolitos (Slovak Community) movement that praised the Nazi puppet government that ruled the country during World War II. Bloomberg reported that Kotleba openly admires praised Jozef Tiso, president of the Nazi satellite state in Slovakia during World War II, which dispatched thousands of Jews to Nazi concentration camps. Kotleba, a 36-year-old former high school teacher, has been notorious for sporting Nazi-style uniforms in public, and also repeatedly arrested and sued for spreading racism and hate (no such charges have ever stuck, however).

Russia: Far-Right Nationalists And Neo-Nazis March In Moscow

Neo-Nazis form expanding networks beyond national borders

The cooperation between right-wing extremists from different countries is gaining strength. Experts warn that this phenomenon could have dangerous consequences.

Neo-Nazi parties on the rise in Europe, Jewish group warns

BUDAPEST, Hungary -- The World Jewish Congress said Tuesday it is greatly concerned about the emergence of what it called neo-Nazi parties in Europe, singling out Greece's Golden Dawn, Hungary's Jobbik, and Germany's National Democratic Party.

A study presented at the congress's assembly in Budapest, the Hungarian capital, highlighted the links among the growing strength of such extremist groups, the European economic crisis and latent Nazi-type tendencies in Europe.
 

Porn may tip the favor for a particular coin but there is one market that can make Bitcoin or any given altcoin an huge (relative to current) market.

Marijuana is a Schedule I drug no matter what any State's laws say. This Federal classification means that banks cannot do direct business with dealers, transporters, processors or growers of it. Several publications have covered this problem.

People in the trade are either working in very grey banking situations or dealing with large amounts of cash. Having to pay your $20,000 taxes this quarter with a duffle bag of twenties is a perfect situation for robbery. Pot dispensaries on Colorado, USA are starting to figure out that they don't need banks to deal with Bitcoin or other altcoins. Right there could be a real Business-to-Business revolution for digital currency.

Sure, today a digital coin is mostly useful for transactions. A business would have to convert between cash and coin at the ends. And even when you can go bitcoin from customer to suppliers for your business you'll still need to get out cash.

Redundancy is good. What's more, the US-controlled GPS system can be crippled at will by the US military - and was for the longest time, until fairly recently. Do you trust the US to provide service with full accuracy to the entire world forever? Do you trust the US to have the capacity to replace failing GPS satellites? Heck, the US isn't even capable of keeping enough essential weather satellites up there anymore...

The United States is going more and more decrepit. I for one am glad there's Russian, European and Chinese alternatives to fall back onto if the GPS system becomes useless for one reason or another.

If I'm driving on the freeway, holding the gas pedal steady, and suddenly notice the car is speeding up, I don't think "gee, it must be the small fluctuations in the pressure I'm applying to the pedal, since the engine is the primary source of energy". I start looking at other factors, like a downward slope.

So, how does "no warming in the last 15 years" fit into your analogy? Remember that we're talking about the sun right now in this conversation because of the fact that there's been no warming for some years - breaking the various computer models - and some folks are saying the sun is the reason. There's also the fact that solar radiation has been dropping for some time:

http://www.ibtimes.com/recurring-drop-solar-radiation-possible-reason-cold-weather-322355

People envy him?

Yes, but most people does the same thing as you and think that competitive gaming is remotely similar to gaming for entertainment.
For most of these players it is hard work, long days and very little pay for everyone except for the absolute top players.
The best players on the other hand can get pretty lucrative sponsorship deals and a reasonably sized audience.

I find video games boring (unchallenging), nauseating, and lonely.

That is because you don't play against other players and what you do have nothing to do with competitive gaming and e-sports.
As for loneliness that doesn't appear to be a problem, there are plenty of fangirls around. Enough for the girlfirends of players to complain about it.

And yes most video game players ARE overweight. It's one of the MAJOR causes of obesity in our US society.

Again, you are confusing competitive gaming with the way you play games.
These guys have access to physical therapists and exercises on regular basis. Those who don't can't handle hour-long games where you have to keep your concentration every second.

An interesting tidbit from the e-sports conference in Valencia 2011 was that the representative from CBSi mentioned that e-sports in general generates more viewer-minutes every month than super-bowl does under its entire season.

Let me help you follow the timeline progression:

2010:

http://www.ibtimes.com/china-russia-currency-agreement-further-threatens-us-dollar-248338

2012:

http://www.examiner.com/article/dollar-no-longer-primary-oil-currency-as-china-begins-to-sell-oil-using-yuan

2013:

http://news.slashdot.org/story/13/10/15/0243230/chinas-state-press-calls-for-building-a-de-americanized-world

Venezuela's approach doesn't appear to be sustainable.

Venezuela's President Maduro to rule by decree
Ghost of Chavez Can't Stop Hyperinflation
Inflation, Shortages And Economic Turmoil: Venezuela On The Brink
2013 Index of Economic Freedom - Venezuela

Jobs said.... "There is not a straight piece of glass in this building. It's all curved. We've used our experience making retail buildings all over the world now, and we know how to make the biggest pieces of glass in the world for architectural use. And, we want to make the glass specifically for this building here. We can make it curve all the way around the building ...It's pretty cool."

Excerpted from an International Business Times report on the new building. Ka-ching!

Using that logic it would be mad for Saudi Arabia to be investing in solar power. But they are doing so big time http://au.ibtimes.com/articles/486391/20130704/saudi-arabia-renewable-energy-solar-power.htm#.UoBN_icho-U

IIRC Opec quotas are based on stated reserves. Given this there is every reason to over state reserves, which means there is probably much less of the stuff left in the ground than people think.

But the main point is that this corporate officer is twisting company policy to his personal benefit of $77 million/yr and the majority of owners of the company don't like him screwing around with their investment that way.

What? A CEO abusing the system to get more pay? Say it isn't so. Who would ever do that? Certainly no one as saintly as Steve Jobs?

This one with security/encryption built in from the ground up this time. Would be more interesting that instead of the comments of Microsoft (with deep ties with the NSA), yahoo and google (both may not be very happy with the NSA, but still must give them their users accounts info by law) the article focused on comments from people from i.e. the IETF for implementing it as an standard in a more worldwide (even personal) way.

Alright smartypants,
Did you look at picture of them?
Here is sony's smartwatch: http://www.digitaltrends.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Sony-SmartWatch-2.jpg

Here is samsung's smart watch: http://s1.ibtimes.com/sites/www.ibtimes.com/files/styles/v2_article_large/public/2013/09/05/samsung-galaxy-gear.jpg

Here is a moschino square (not smart) watch: http://www.the-watch-store.com/shop/3042-11914-large/moschino-cheap-and-chic-unit-square-watch-mw0275.jpg

Ok, the camera on the samsung gear is a little strange and I'd rather it not be there. But overall, it does not look much different. If you just google "square watch" you will find plenty of classical watch which look quite similar to the smartwatches.

>Next they will start to shoot journalists
That's so last century. There are more exciting high-tech to dispose of pesky journalists.

Things are already in progress.

If this trend continues the only people which the NSA will be able to spy on will be Americans. Precisely the populace it said it would not be spying on in the first place.

Texts that feature their favorite fictional character?

http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/09/15/20026512-chinas-7-million-recent-graduates-compete-in-toughest-job-market-ever?lite

http://www.ibtimes.com/future-chinese-college-graduates-bleak-more-half-will-have-take-blue-collar-jobs-2020-1298875

http://www.theatlantic.com/china/archive/2013/05/why-chinese-college-graduates-arent-getting-jobs/276187/

The development conjures up memories of so-called "company towns" at the turn of the 20th century, where American factory workers lived in communities owned by their employer and were provided housing, health care, law enforcement, church and just about every other service necessary.'"

Hey, hopefully they'll get some tips from the Chinese companies that make the technology that support Facebook....

This is not a "new threat"; this is extremely common. A quick google comes up with at least 5 similar incidents in 2011 and 2012.

http://www.ibtimes.com/jellyfish-invade-four-nuclear-reactors-japan-israel-scotland-photos-707777
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/04/27/11432974-diablo-canyon-nuclear-plant-in-california-knocked-offline-by-jellyfish-like-creature-called-salp?lite

Yeah, major drug cartels and especially Iceland have massive data centers that rival what the US has. Right. That must be why so many of the job postings for those with related skills are in Columbia and Iceland.

Iceland is building a 50 to 70 acre data center. And they're hiring tons.

The mexican drug cartel has a massive national wireless network. They're hiring too, but you have to apply in person; They don't take online resumes.

Look, we know that the NSA hires shills to mock all of us who are concerned with this stuff. You're probably not one of them. You probably just do it for free.

Well, you got one thing right: I do this for free. I suppose 1 out of 6 is better than your usual average though.