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  1. Re:This is why we have a first amendment. on Judge Rules In Favor of Volkswagen and Silences Scientist · · Score: 1

    Until the authors paper is subpoenaed.

  2. Re:not a state on Massachusetts Enacts 6.25% Sales Tax On "Prewritten" Software Consulting · · Score: 1

    There is no difference in the US. A commonwealth is a state.

  3. Re:States really need revenue on Massachusetts Enacts 6.25% Sales Tax On "Prewritten" Software Consulting · · Score: 1

    Nice way to try and start start something there AC. The rain tax does not charge you for the amount of rain that falls on your property, but for how much surface area is impervious to taking in the rain water.

  4. Re:Bonneau's paper on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 1
    Couple things, just because he has to do though those steps does not mean there are not others who dont have to go through those steps. In addition that requirement is because it would be a potential HIPPA violation.

    At some point in a company there is someone who you must trust with the access to the data, or you dont keep the data.

  5. Re:Shill much? on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 2
    If google is leading in the best record for privacy race and they and everyone else support a bill that goes directly against it than google is still leading, because it was leading before. So if you are going to attack its record you have to do it on a issue that not everyone else backed.

    Just because it is not apparent who you are shilling for does not mean you are not shilling.

  6. Re:Don't forget on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It is not illegal to spy on other countries, just in other countries. I expect China to spy on us, I dont expect my own government to do it.

  7. Re:Is everybody scared of the NSA ? on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 2

    Because you can, and sharing information is beneficial to public knowledge

  8. Re:The height of irony... on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 1

    Google, has fought several times however.

  9. Re:The height of irony... on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 0

    you lost because you had to resort to a logical fallacy to give yourself a belief that you "won".

  10. Re:Shill much? on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 2

    And so did MS, Yahoo, and virtually every other internet group out there who collects data. Personally I would suspect an AC of being a shill before a person who is not an AC.

  11. Re:Don't forget on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 2

    Because it is not enshrined in our laws that we dont spy on you, but it is enshrined in our laws and society that we dont spy on ourselves.

  12. Re:The height of irony... on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    When you cant win, ad hominem. Right?

  13. Re:Shortsighted techie ... on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Neither. There should be no warrentless spying of American citizens. Putting forth the forth the question who should do it tries to put me into a choice between people who can do it at varying levels of efficiency.

  14. Re:Don't forget on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 2

    Again you still have a choice to use that service or not. It is trivial to find out if a site you are using is using google services. If you chose not to figure it on it is your fault not google's.

  15. Re: Don't forget on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 1

    You still have a choice. You can either make your own version of those sites, or dont use those specific services. With the NSA your only choice is to be a hermit to use them.

  16. Re: Don't forget on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 1

    I did not state google will tell you every time they do something, but that they will tell you what they are doing. Nice strawman.

  17. Re:Communication is sometimes the only trace on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Even if doing so is in violation of your oath to defend the constitution? Isnt this how the corrupt cops think?

  18. Re:The height of irony... on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 1

    Because there is no reason to.

  19. Re:too much (underlying) left-wing bias for my tas on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 1

    The ability to capture it is not the issue, it is who they are capturing it from that is the issue.

  20. Re:Detriment to science on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 2

    I know at the Uni I work for we have a couple labs dedicated to their projects. They give a great deal of funding to Unis and students specifically to work on projects. Just look up the NSF grants.

  21. Re:The height of irony... on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 1

    you dont know Google is collecting data on you, or are you just incapable of operating a computer without the help of Google?

  22. Re:Bonneau's paper on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 2

    As someone I assume is in the tech industry, you should know that some people in companies have access to the passwords the company stores, right?

  23. Re:Shortsighted techie ... on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Fallacy. Just because you feel the NSA is overboard, and not conducive to a free society, does not mean you dont work on crytography and the such. The problem US citizens have with the NSA is not that they have the capability to capture data, but who they are capturing it on violates their oath.

  24. Re:Google is part of the NSA... on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 2

    He wrote the paper for IEEE.

  25. Re:Don't forget on Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be Abolished · · Score: 4, Informative
    You have no clue the difference do you?

    1.Google first is not spying on you. Partly because you actually know what they are doing, and spying requires secrecy, and google will tell you what they are doing.

    2. Google cannot ruin your life like the NSA can.

    3. You have no idea who collects more data.