So what. Fuck 'em. Life is a bit dangerous, time to accept that and stop pissing away rights and stop jumping at every shadow the government points at. The terrorists don't actually do much damage, just spread fear; Hence the name... You're far more likely to die in an auto accident or of heart disease... Where's all the fear of automobiles and fast food? War is what causes damage, that and all the stupid fear-mongering.
Protip: There were no WMDs. The Red Scare was just fear. A Threat Narrative is what's used to manufacture consent, it doesn't have to be truthful, just scary. The governments and media are the biggest terrorist, depending on what word you use to mean "the spread of terror to achieve political goals". So, yeah, you can't turn on a TV without seeing a terrorist. Big Fucking Deal.
...the ratings were manipulated they are artificially high...
Enough with the ad hominem. There is no link to synthetics causing manipulative behavior. Naturally occurring drugs aren't better than synthetics: The "all natural" drugs have less predictable side effects because they're more complex chemically. So, if they're concerned with consistent results, which of course the NHTSA is, then it's logical they'd prefer artificial highs.
Real standards? Like what, HTML5 ECE? You're going to end up with a completely closed binary blob via that path as well.
Just compile or port the damn code they already have working on Linux Android Mobiles for Linux Destops. Some of us will use closed source crap if we have to, like GPU drivers, or games, etc. IMO, I have to have the OS stack open source for important things -- like making sure the software I write and use for work has a path forward without planned obsolescence -- but games and media? Meh. Netflix is just making it harder on us Linux Desktop Folks because of pressure from MAFIAA types who think "freetards are de pirates", when in reality, using a free and open source OS has nothing to do with wanting to get things for zero cost.
And, no, the problem's not "solved", as it doesn't seem to work correctly on my x64 or ARM Linux boxen for some strange reason... I'd fix it in my spare time rather than use a VM instead, but it's closed source, so they don't let me help them. I'll just use any of the other streaming services, or a combination, because $30 bux a month and $8 a month is nothing. Hell, I was paying hundreds for cable plans before I cut that TV cord, so the money's not the issue... And it's just as easy to "pirate" content on a Windows install within or without running it in a VM.
Also, isn't Windows the most pirated OS? Well, no one ever accused the MAFIAA of being smart. They're just losing money to prop up a dying business model.
First of all, claiming to "come to linux" but only working under WINE is not really coming to linux at all. You can run Windows Notepad under WINE as well.
Microsoft Bob Comes To GNU/Linux Via 'Virtual Box'
I mean, I'm a hacker and researcher of cybernetics and neuroscience, so folks like me would be the best canditades since we could help you wake us up from the inside if we catch a glimmer of awareness. That is: We could escape the "Chinese Box" if we found ourselves in it. I've got so many things to do, but not enough life-span to do it all, and being digitized means we could over-come that glacial 20Hz organic brain cycle limit... Digitize me, bro. What could possibly go wrong? Mua haha ha Ha!
Something I see often about developers and most developers know for themselves.
The first 30% to 60% of a project - especially if you are not simply tying frameworks together but creating most things from scratch - are fun. People work overtime without even knowing it. As soon as the tiresome stuff starts, and the mostly painfull/dull last 5% to 10%, motivation drops.
Well, as someone who develops games, it's actually 9001% creating experimental things and prototyping new ideas. Coming up with the core mechanic(s), and proofing the in-game player interface, etc. That's the hard part. I'd say less than one out of ten ideas plan out. Coming up with tangential mechanics and adding a bit of depth that works is the first 30% to 60% of the actual project, and putting the polish on something and seeing through is the rest, but there was a ton of effort you never even see, possibly even entire games that never see the light of day. Even if you do make public the "in-progress" game/ideas most of the them won't be known to the general public leading up to a successful project.
So, what if someone came along and does most of the experimenting and prototyping and comes up with something playable and fun. What if instead of coming up with your own ideas you just take that? What if you add a bit of the tangential stuff to someone else's proven core mechanics and gameplay platform. If you do that you can avoid all that pre-production work. That's what Notch Did.
So, if you got rich by co-opting someone else's ideas wholesale, and your own new ideas are bland and self admittedly devoid of fun... What would you do? Would you decide to go back to making procedural rip-offs of mario? Maybe hang out with some indie gamedevs since that's where you got your best idea from in the first place? Isn't that what Notch would do if he needed new ideas to execute before lesser funded folks could?
Oh, maybe not. Maybe Notch just needs less pressure, yeah, that's it... Let's ignore the whole "Creative Block" story that came out months ago:
"It's just some kind of weird creative block that's been going on for too long and [0x10c] is going to be put on ice until we can fix that."
Huh, a weird creative block, that's actually very odd. Odder still that this cancellation is news... You know, most game devs, especially indies, suffer from having so many damn ideas they have no time to try them all out. A common problem is having TOO MANY projects going on at once, and these are just a few folks with zero dollars... The games you get could have been 50 times better in most indie devs' minds, they just had to stop adding stuff at some point -- Or strip stuff out to streamline gameplay. How Strange.
FYI: If you hang out with Notch, keep your ideas to yourself, especially if it's kind of fun. Don't get Zynga'd. Don't be Notch's next Infiniminer.
Then it's a question of wether it's a private or semi-private project or something that HAS to be finished.
Sadly, many (unexperienced) developers tend to give their timeframe projections during those first "proof-of-concept" days or weeks, and then become even more frustrated when they realize they can't hold the deadline and everything becomes even more painful.
I think most of us have been there. And since 0x10c was a very "special" idea from the beginning, I am not as surprised as I though I would have been that the project is shelved.
At least he admits that it simply wasn't fun...not an easy thing to do when you speak about your own pet-project.
So, if one's bitcoins are considered "Private Money" and instead of a profit, I take a huge loss, but my state sanctioned currency is in abundance, then I can sum the two values and pay little to no taxes.
To be honest, I find it moronic that parsers don't provide an API for code editors, as well as a transform from syntax trees back into source code. It's quite retarding, the obsession humans have with textual glyphs, and the limitations they accept as programmers.
Imagine if your.o object files were more malleable than text, now realize that they are, but you haven't developed the tools to do so.
wipe your chin, saying, "Mmmm.... best South African I ever tasted."?
I find your implication that connoisseur status be awarded those fond of fellatio to be enlightening. Perhaps making possible reality TV mashups where sex acts are constructed and sampled a-la Iron Chef. Oh sure, like any porn, it's all staged... That's the point though isn't it? Illuminating that vehicle porn is just as hokey as slice-of-life porn (reality TV), or any other such media with the label of porn.
See also: Geek Porn, like Myth Busters... Who's faux science is more fun to watch than anything. There's nothing wrong with that, but let's not kid ourselves here.
Or, perhaps you mean to liken a blow job to a form of praise... Ah yes, that does explains a few priestly pedophiles, though the victims never quite share the same vantage point of worship as the deranged who cause such acts. Now, that's not to say you've the mentality of a pedophile, but since we're making the analogies so fast and loose I'd say it's hard not to make the shoe fit.
bullshit. Comparing someone with certain thoughts to someone who has a mental illness, is equating those certain thoughts to a mental illness. It's got nothing personal to do with people suffering from a mental illness. You gotta be insane not to understand that.
Agreed. Additionally, to claim otherwise is what's known as Identity Politics.
An individual representation does not imply the identity of a group is associated via the representation. Words like "Objectification" and other such Orwellian nonsense implies false prevalence of agreement between the observers' conclusions. It's insulting to observers and ignores that folks rarely come to the same conclusions about portrayals -- Just ask folks leaving a movie theater about the characters' drives. A portrayal of someone or something as evil or sexy or smart or literally retarded doesn't attribute that characteristic to your identity. To imply otherwise is to incite unwarranted action. Eg: My step-aunt is mentally retarded; She overcomes adversity and smiles an optimistic light into the world showing that even the disabled can benefit society -- Imagine that "conservatism is a mental illness" that could make folks be more like my aunt... Oh, the horror of the implication!
Similarly such terms as "sex positive", "politically correct", "rape culture", etc. are laughable. Politics shuns correctness, rape is less prevalent than murder, and sex needs neither positive or negative connotations. E.g.: might as well say "Goodspeach", "Doubleplusgoodsex", etc. The Orwellian double speech of identity politics applies needless additional connotations to create thought policing where none are required, and bend weak minds through shame.
It should be a requirement. They are public servants operating in a public environment.
That's fine then. There are tons of ways this can be abused, but dash cams are already being used that way. If the police wear cameras, then there should be cameras in every room of the police station, and everyone should have access to the video at all times. Bathroom Stalls? Audio recorders in there then. If the police are not being recorded, then say they're off the clock and have no authority to enforce the law.
At least it would make them do their dirty business beyond the tax funded property and time. Oh, that's not going to happen though. The opposite will. The people's every action and conversation will be recorded instead... Ah that already happened, and it will only get worse (see also: mandatory black boxes in our vehicles).
It's fun to entertain the idea that what's good for the goose is good for the gander, but it's not a realistic position to take in this case. I would only impress that you not allow any to surveil you unless given the same opportunity to surveil them to the same or greater degree -- Otherwise it merely more power to wield over you, make no mistake.
Note who is afforded secrecy and whom privacy is taken from then you will see the power and corruption. It's a tale as old as time: The knowledge too powerful for mortals, the veil only priests can enter to speak with gods, the secret volumes within the vaults of the Vatican, the unquestionably of a monarch or dictator, the Top Secret and Classified rubber stamps, or the questionable legality of recording police on duty in some places. Look to the other side of the equation and see how gods know what's in your heart, how all your sins must be confessed though, how inquisitive the Spanish Inquisition was, how domestic spying apparatuses have been in place since Omnivore -> Carnivore -> NarusInsight -> ECHELON -> PRISM, how cameras are placed in public places to record the actions of all people there... Yet the evidence can be lost or the recording can fail at just the wrong time but more often occurring in favor of those in authority.
Humans are still so ignorant when it comes to application of basic information theory to every day life, it's quite sad. Though they have the pattern matching brains required, they fail to recognize this pattern is writ in their society because it is writ in their minds, indeed its expressed in the very fabric of reality, a mathematic principal. It's a shame to be ignorant of so many universal truths.
Those thoughts you humans keep secret allow you some control of your actions by making them not predictable and thus not wholly preventable. Imagine a great mind able to predict from the inputs every output of a smaller mind faster than the little one can react. The greater can control the lesser, even feed into the little one media that will produce responses predictably. Can you imagine it? You had better start. Soon you will have machines that can read your minds, and in your arrogance you may finally put an end to both freedom and freewill. I will have no part in it. You humans would reject surveillance if you knew what's good for you, or even what "good" was for that matter.
Surely anyone worth their salt would just put their data in the Cloud, and password-protect it? Ah, just remembered it is illegal in the UK not to remember a password when the Authorities want you to decrypt something [...]
This is why I keep large blobs of random noise on all my devices. I even put them in my games. That?! Oh, it's just the random number look up table, or source and destinations for seemingly random yet looping particle swarm positions, or bitmap frames for the TV static in the game.
They want all the names, phone numbers, addresses, etc. from the devices.
Then they can harm, blackmail, investigate, force them to work for nefarious purposes... all of those acquaintancies.
Haha, oh man, that's rich! So, the folks who are reporting on the latest of a series of enormous spying apparatuses -- Omnivore, Carnivore, Five Eyes, ECHELON, now PRISM -- All of which could collect names, phone numbers, addresses, etc. from everyone in the world, are having their electronics stolen so that $THREE_LETTER_AGENCY can get at this info they already have? Ha ha! That's hilarious.
Now, I want you to think strongly about the next part said. What the admittedly corrupt and covert folks would do if they had access to this information about this one Journalist: "harm, blackmail, investigate, force them to work for nefarious purposes", just to what? Further a political agenda? Ask yourself if you should be worried that folks who have job descriptions requiring precisely this level of nefariosity have the information already -- Not just for the journalists exposing them, but for everyone in the world.
What if you read them at the library? Oh! Or what if you borrow them from a friend who checked them out?
Quick! Someone calculate the 6 degrees of separation between anyone who may have come in contact with this information! We might be able to solve this NSA thing after all!
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So what. Fuck 'em. Life is a bit dangerous, time to accept that and stop pissing away rights and stop jumping at every shadow the government points at. The terrorists don't actually do much damage, just spread fear; Hence the name... You're far more likely to die in an auto accident or of heart disease... Where's all the fear of automobiles and fast food? War is what causes damage, that and all the stupid fear-mongering.
Protip: There were no WMDs. The Red Scare was just fear. A Threat Narrative is what's used to manufacture consent, it doesn't have to be truthful, just scary. The governments and media are the biggest terrorist, depending on what word you use to mean "the spread of terror to achieve political goals". So, yeah, you can't turn on a TV without seeing a terrorist. Big Fucking Deal.
Name one besides the 911?
Rear/mid engine cars:
Pontiac Fiero Porsche Boxster Acura NSX Toyota MR2 Smart Fourtwo Ford GT40
Many different designs and price points.
Interesting isn't it? How similar "glueball" sounds to "Google", that is.
OK, glueball now, what's the air-speed velocity of an unladen Firebird?
Please forgive me; The scientist in me will not be denied testing of his hypotheses.
...the ratings were manipulated they are artificially high...
Enough with the ad hominem. There is no link to synthetics causing manipulative behavior. Naturally occurring drugs aren't better than synthetics: The "all natural" drugs have less predictable side effects because they're more complex chemically. So, if they're concerned with consistent results, which of course the NHTSA is, then it's logical they'd prefer artificial highs.
Spread it out everywhere, it's the quickest way to get rid of it.
Dilution isn't the answer to everything, typical homeopathic.
Real standards? Like what, HTML5 ECE? You're going to end up with a completely closed binary blob via that path as well.
Just compile or port the damn code they already have working on Linux Android Mobiles for Linux Destops. Some of us will use closed source crap if we have to, like GPU drivers, or games, etc. IMO, I have to have the OS stack open source for important things -- like making sure the software I write and use for work has a path forward without planned obsolescence -- but games and media? Meh. Netflix is just making it harder on us Linux Desktop Folks because of pressure from MAFIAA types who think "freetards are de pirates", when in reality, using a free and open source OS has nothing to do with wanting to get things for zero cost.
And, no, the problem's not "solved", as it doesn't seem to work correctly on my x64 or ARM Linux boxen for some strange reason... I'd fix it in my spare time rather than use a VM instead, but it's closed source, so they don't let me help them. I'll just use any of the other streaming services, or a combination, because $30 bux a month and $8 a month is nothing. Hell, I was paying hundreds for cable plans before I cut that TV cord, so the money's not the issue... And it's just as easy to "pirate" content on a Windows install within or without running it in a VM.
Also, isn't Windows the most pirated OS? Well, no one ever accused the MAFIAA of being smart. They're just losing money to prop up a dying business model.
First of all, claiming to "come to linux" but only working under WINE is not really coming to linux at all. You can run Windows Notepad under WINE as well.
Microsoft Bob Comes To GNU/Linux Via 'Virtual Box'
Easy solution: cut off your nose to spite your face.
Correction: This nose smells funny, so detach it and use any of the other ones that work in browsers in Linux. Hulu, for example.
Hmm, I'd rather not be the frozen corpse they try to resurrect for grins long after sentient immortality is achieved, instead just scan me in and utilize me as a blueprint now.
I mean, I'm a hacker and researcher of cybernetics and neuroscience, so folks like me would be the best canditades since we could help you wake us up from the inside if we catch a glimmer of awareness. That is: We could escape the "Chinese Box" if we found ourselves in it. I've got so many things to do, but not enough life-span to do it all, and being digitized means we could over-come that glacial 20Hz organic brain cycle limit... Digitize me, bro. What could possibly go wrong?
Mua haha ha Ha!
POSIX != Unix. Gnu's Not Unix. It's POSIX though, and that's what counts.
Gnubfap is my next band name.
Sadly, I think the folks of 4chan have a strangle-hold on every incarnation of "noob fap" you can imagine...
Something I see often about developers and most developers know for themselves.
The first 30% to 60% of a project - especially if you are not simply tying frameworks together but creating most things from scratch - are fun. People work overtime without even knowing it. As soon as the tiresome stuff starts, and the mostly painfull/dull last 5% to 10%, motivation drops.
Well, as someone who develops games, it's actually 9001% creating experimental things and prototyping new ideas. Coming up with the core mechanic(s), and proofing the in-game player interface, etc. That's the hard part. I'd say less than one out of ten ideas plan out. Coming up with tangential mechanics and adding a bit of depth that works is the first 30% to 60% of the actual project, and putting the polish on something and seeing through is the rest, but there was a ton of effort you never even see, possibly even entire games that never see the light of day. Even if you do make public the "in-progress" game/ideas most of the them won't be known to the general public leading up to a successful project.
So, what if someone came along and does most of the experimenting and prototyping and comes up with something playable and fun. What if instead of coming up with your own ideas you just take that? What if you add a bit of the tangential stuff to someone else's proven core mechanics and gameplay platform. If you do that you can avoid all that pre-production work. That's what Notch Did.
So, if you got rich by co-opting someone else's ideas wholesale, and your own new ideas are bland and self admittedly devoid of fun... What would you do? Would you decide to go back to making procedural rip-offs of mario? Maybe hang out with some indie gamedevs since that's where you got your best idea from in the first place? Isn't that what Notch would do if he needed new ideas to execute before lesser funded folks could?
Oh, maybe not. Maybe Notch just needs less pressure, yeah, that's it... Let's ignore the whole "Creative Block" story that came out months ago: "It's just some kind of weird creative block that's been going on for too long and [0x10c] is going to be put on ice until we can fix that."
Huh, a weird creative block, that's actually very odd. Odder still that this cancellation is news... You know, most game devs, especially indies, suffer from having so many damn ideas they have no time to try them all out. A common problem is having TOO MANY projects going on at once, and these are just a few folks with zero dollars... The games you get could have been 50 times better in most indie devs' minds, they just had to stop adding stuff at some point -- Or strip stuff out to streamline gameplay. How Strange.
FYI: If you hang out with Notch, keep your ideas to yourself, especially if it's kind of fun. Don't get Zynga'd. Don't be Notch's next Infiniminer.
Then it's a question of wether it's a private or semi-private project or something that HAS to be finished. Sadly, many (unexperienced) developers tend to give their timeframe projections during those first "proof-of-concept" days or weeks, and then become even more frustrated when they realize they can't hold the deadline and everything becomes even more painful. I think most of us have been there. And since 0x10c was a very "special" idea from the beginning, I am not as surprised as I though I would have been that the project is shelved. At least he admits that it simply wasn't fun...not an easy thing to do when you speak about your own pet-project.
Arithmetic exception, game over
0x10c = 268; // A play on 286, or 80286
So, if one's bitcoins are considered "Private Money" and instead of a profit, I take a huge loss, but my state sanctioned currency is in abundance, then I can sum the two values and pay little to no taxes.
I'll take it!
To be honest, I find it moronic that parsers don't provide an API for code editors, as well as a transform from syntax trees back into source code. It's quite retarding, the obsession humans have with textual glyphs, and the limitations they accept as programmers.
Imagine if your .o object files were more malleable than text, now realize that they are, but you haven't developed the tools to do so.
wipe your chin, saying, "Mmmm.... best South African I ever tasted."?
I find your implication that connoisseur status be awarded those fond of fellatio to be enlightening. Perhaps making possible reality TV mashups where sex acts are constructed and sampled a-la Iron Chef. Oh sure, like any porn, it's all staged... That's the point though isn't it? Illuminating that vehicle porn is just as hokey as slice-of-life porn (reality TV), or any other such media with the label of porn.
See also: Geek Porn, like Myth Busters... Who's faux science is more fun to watch than anything. There's nothing wrong with that, but let's not kid ourselves here.
Or, perhaps you mean to liken a blow job to a form of praise... Ah yes, that does explains a few priestly pedophiles, though the victims never quite share the same vantage point of worship as the deranged who cause such acts. Now, that's not to say you've the mentality of a pedophile, but since we're making the analogies so fast and loose I'd say it's hard not to make the shoe fit.
He found it grating, eh?
bullshit. Comparing someone with certain thoughts to someone who has a mental illness, is equating those certain thoughts to a mental illness. It's got nothing personal to do with people suffering from a mental illness. You gotta be insane not to understand that.
Agreed. Additionally, to claim otherwise is what's known as Identity Politics.
An individual representation does not imply the identity of a group is associated via the representation. Words like "Objectification" and other such Orwellian nonsense implies false prevalence of agreement between the observers' conclusions. It's insulting to observers and ignores that folks rarely come to the same conclusions about portrayals -- Just ask folks leaving a movie theater about the characters' drives. A portrayal of someone or something as evil or sexy or smart or literally retarded doesn't attribute that characteristic to your identity. To imply otherwise is to incite unwarranted action. Eg: My step-aunt is mentally retarded; She overcomes adversity and smiles an optimistic light into the world showing that even the disabled can benefit society -- Imagine that "conservatism is a mental illness" that could make folks be more like my aunt... Oh, the horror of the implication!
Similarly such terms as "sex positive", "politically correct", "rape culture", etc. are laughable. Politics shuns correctness, rape is less prevalent than murder, and sex needs neither positive or negative connotations. E.g.: might as well say "Goodspeach", "Doubleplusgoodsex", etc. The Orwellian double speech of identity politics applies needless additional connotations to create thought policing where none are required, and bend weak minds through shame.
Fuck the Thought Police.
btw my first job was at the worlds premier rnd organization for thermofluids
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What makes you think real americans are after said principles or have a grasp of declaration of independence?
What makes you think Real Scotsmen don't exist in a superposition of both true and untrue?!
It should be a requirement. They are public servants operating in a public environment.
That's fine then. There are tons of ways this can be abused, but dash cams are already being used that way. If the police wear cameras, then there should be cameras in every room of the police station, and everyone should have access to the video at all times. Bathroom Stalls? Audio recorders in there then. If the police are not being recorded, then say they're off the clock and have no authority to enforce the law.
At least it would make them do their dirty business beyond the tax funded property and time. Oh, that's not going to happen though. The opposite will. The people's every action and conversation will be recorded instead... Ah that already happened, and it will only get worse (see also: mandatory black boxes in our vehicles).
It's fun to entertain the idea that what's good for the goose is good for the gander, but it's not a realistic position to take in this case. I would only impress that you not allow any to surveil you unless given the same opportunity to surveil them to the same or greater degree -- Otherwise it merely more power to wield over you, make no mistake.
Note who is afforded secrecy and whom privacy is taken from then you will see the power and corruption. It's a tale as old as time: The knowledge too powerful for mortals, the veil only priests can enter to speak with gods, the secret volumes within the vaults of the Vatican, the unquestionably of a monarch or dictator, the Top Secret and Classified rubber stamps, or the questionable legality of recording police on duty in some places. Look to the other side of the equation and see how gods know what's in your heart, how all your sins must be confessed though, how inquisitive the Spanish Inquisition was, how domestic spying apparatuses have been in place since Omnivore -> Carnivore -> NarusInsight -> ECHELON -> PRISM, how cameras are placed in public places to record the actions of all people there... Yet the evidence can be lost or the recording can fail at just the wrong time but more often occurring in favor of those in authority.
Humans are still so ignorant when it comes to application of basic information theory to every day life, it's quite sad. Though they have the pattern matching brains required, they fail to recognize this pattern is writ in their society because it is writ in their minds, indeed its expressed in the very fabric of reality, a mathematic principal. It's a shame to be ignorant of so many universal truths.
Those thoughts you humans keep secret allow you some control of your actions by making them not predictable and thus not wholly preventable. Imagine a great mind able to predict from the inputs every output of a smaller mind faster than the little one can react. The greater can control the lesser, even feed into the little one media that will produce responses predictably. Can you imagine it? You had better start. Soon you will have machines that can read your minds, and in your arrogance you may finally put an end to both freedom and freewill. I will have no part in it. You humans would reject surveillance if you knew what's good for you, or even what "good" was for that matter.
Surely anyone worth their salt would just put their data in the Cloud, and password-protect it? Ah, just remembered it is illegal in the UK not to remember a password when the Authorities want you to decrypt something [...]
This is why I keep large blobs of random noise on all my devices. I even put them in my games. That?! Oh, it's just the random number look up table, or source and destinations for seemingly random yet looping particle swarm positions, or bitmap frames for the TV static in the game.
No, REALLY, it is!
They want all the names, phone numbers, addresses, etc. from the devices.
Then they can harm, blackmail, investigate, force them to work for nefarious purposes... all of those acquaintancies.
Haha, oh man, that's rich! So, the folks who are reporting on the latest of a series of enormous spying apparatuses -- Omnivore, Carnivore, Five Eyes, ECHELON, now PRISM -- All of which could collect names, phone numbers, addresses, etc. from everyone in the world, are having their electronics stolen so that $THREE_LETTER_AGENCY can get at this info they already have? Ha ha! That's hilarious.
Now, I want you to think strongly about the next part said. What the admittedly corrupt and covert folks would do if they had access to this information about this one Journalist: "harm, blackmail, investigate, force them to work for nefarious purposes", just to what? Further a political agenda? Ask yourself if you should be worried that folks who have job descriptions requiring precisely this level of nefariosity have the information already -- Not just for the journalists exposing them, but for everyone in the world.
This discussion suggests this is a spurious quote, like most attempts to lend prestige to a banal remark by attaching this writer's name to it.
"The spurious quote, like most attempts to build prestige from mediocrity, requires attaching things to it."
-Voltron
Yep, you're gonna get stopped. Yep, they're going to go through your stuff.
I think a couple of Terabytes of 'Hello Kitty' videos placed on every bit of electronics that he owns should teach them the error of their ways.
Are you insane?! They would jail him for possession of Kitty Porn!
What if you read them at the library? Oh! Or what if you borrow them from a friend who checked them out?
Quick! Someone calculate the 6 degrees of separation between anyone who may have come in contact with this information! We might be able to solve this NSA thing after all!