http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11212323508/how-knowing-government-is-spying-you-changes-how-you-act.shtml#c795 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:18:31 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11212323508/how-knowing-government-is-spying-you-changes-how-you-act.shtml#c795 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130612/12373623425/mpaas-chris-dodd-will-be-chair-free-speech-week.shtml#c1490 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:18:16 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130612/12373623425/mpaas-chris-dodd-will-be-chair-free-speech-week.shtml#c1490 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/14341223521/google-without-admitting-it-gets-fisa-orders-files-lawsuit-to-challenge-fisa-gag-orders.shtml#c24 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:16:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/14341223521/google-without-admitting-it-gets-fisa-orders-files-lawsuit-to-challenge-fisa-gag-orders.shtml#c24 The government then gave "permission" in a way that actually further obfuscated things, only allowing the release of numbers when combined with all sorts of other government requests.

Is there anything preventing them from releasing just the other requests? I promise not to math.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11212323508/how-knowing-government-is-spying-you-changes-how-you-act.shtml#c771 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:16:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11212323508/how-knowing-government-is-spying-you-changes-how-you-act.shtml#c771 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c368 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:14:52 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c368
* education costs so much

Actually, more people are more educated than at any other point in history.

* legal fees costs so much

Lawyers were always ridiculously expensive, good ones even more so. But because the university factories keep churning them out in record numbers despite a demonstrated lack of demand, they are actually getting cheaper all the time.

* healthcare costs so much

While it is more than say, the 80s, the amount of things they can do to save and prolong lives and improve quality of life combined with the number of people that have access to health care (which far exceeds the 80s levels), it really isn't THAT bad. And certainly better than 100 years ago, where you would DIE from 90% of the things you go to the doctor for now.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/00483923515/nsas-lockbox-has-no-lock.shtml#c687 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:14:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/00483923515/nsas-lockbox-has-no-lock.shtml#c687
Right now, there isn't. That's an even bigger problem than any individual program, as the lack of oversight is what allows these egregious individual programs to persist.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130612/16480623431/us-chamber-commerce-bollywood-is-so-successful-without-strong-copyrights-that-it-will-fail-unless-india-strengthens-its.shtml#c411 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:11:06 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130612/16480623431/us-chamber-commerce-bollywood-is-so-successful-without-strong-copyrights-that-it-will-fail-unless-india-strengthens-its.shtml#c411
You can use your weasel words, but you still have not shown any proof that you do not cheat on all of your exams. What are you scared of, what have you got to hide?

Went wont you answer my simple questions?

I Guess this means that I win.

You are to gutless to show proof.

Go back to your Mommies basement and try to find a life you loser.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130616/20142123500/games-war-designer-cliff-bleszinski-used-games-must-be-killed-order-unsustainable-aaa-development-to-live.shtml#c1569 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:10:28 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130616/20142123500/games-war-designer-cliff-bleszinski-used-games-must-be-killed-order-unsustainable-aaa-development-to-live.shtml#c1569
Here's an interview w/ Jack Tretton & he's evasive on if there is DRM built into the PS4 that 1st Party games just aren't going to use: http://www.gametrailers.com/videos/ulnvnz/playstation-4-e3-2013--jack-tretton-drops-the-mic

Noone outside of Sony & their partners knows for sure if PS4 has dormant restrictions or not, nor what form they take.

Nintendo said in an interview at E3 no such technology exists in the Wii U.

I have not gone online w/ the few games I have that can for Wii or Wii U (I never got into the online stuff; I'm used to being in the same room w/ my friends for multiplayer), so I don't know if there any codes for those. However, I read my instruction manuals (games are really complex now), & haven't come across anything that talks about an online code.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/01573323504/senator-lindsey-graham-defends-nsa-surveillance-arguing-about-something-entirely-different.shtml#c604 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:10:06 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/01573323504/senator-lindsey-graham-defends-nsa-surveillance-arguing-about-something-entirely-different.shtml#c604 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/06292823517/nypd-boss-angry-over-secret-nsa-surveillancebut-only-because-it-was-secret.shtml#c76 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:10:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/06292823517/nypd-boss-angry-over-secret-nsa-surveillancebut-only-because-it-was-secret.shtml#c76 There are some seriously odd things going on in your head. Something you should work out with a trained professional.

This isn't a flame. I'm not kidding.

Remember: the only people who are positive they are sane are the crazy ones.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c350 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:07:53 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c350
When that is said, the judgement about if a leak is compromising national security is not for politicians or secret services to make. In Denmark we had a case about a special troop writing a book about his missions in Afghanistan. The secret service found the book to involve too specific informations and he lost his contract with publishers. A newspaper published the book and the cases were running for treason. Some right wing politicians were calling for his blood etc.

The end result? Two higher officers of the secret service were fired and sued for fabricating evidence and the court found it to be completely unreasonable to withhold the information... Sure the court was not secret which is why the fabrication of evidence was revealed at all, but that is another story.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11212323508/how-knowing-government-is-spying-you-changes-how-you-act.shtml#c737 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:05:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11212323508/how-knowing-government-is-spying-you-changes-how-you-act.shtml#c737 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c330 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:05:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c330 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/13482623512/discovering-names-secret-nsa-surveillance-programs-via-linkedin.shtml#c610 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:02:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/13482623512/discovering-names-secret-nsa-surveillance-programs-via-linkedin.shtml#c610 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/06292823517/nypd-boss-angry-over-secret-nsa-surveillancebut-only-because-it-was-secret.shtml#c73 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 15:00:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/06292823517/nypd-boss-angry-over-secret-nsa-surveillancebut-only-because-it-was-secret.shtml#c73

Lying scumbag.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/06292823517/nypd-boss-angry-over-secret-nsa-surveillancebut-only-because-it-was-secret.shtml#c57 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:59:33 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/06292823517/nypd-boss-angry-over-secret-nsa-surveillancebut-only-because-it-was-secret.shtml#c57
I think anyone should have the right to petition a court for information from the NSA database. Imagine the ramifications. You want to prove your spouse was having an affair? Get a warrant for the content of that sneaky phone call they made during your honeymoon, and use it as evidence of fault in your divorce proceedings.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c320 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:55:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c320 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11212323508/how-knowing-government-is-spying-you-changes-how-you-act.shtml#c712 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:52:59 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11212323508/how-knowing-government-is-spying-you-changes-how-you-act.shtml#c712 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/06292823517/nypd-boss-angry-over-secret-nsa-surveillancebut-only-because-it-was-secret.shtml#c21 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:52:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130618/06292823517/nypd-boss-angry-over-secret-nsa-surveillancebut-only-because-it-was-secret.shtml#c21 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c283 Tue, 18 Jun 2013 14:51:57 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130617/11500923509/its-come-to-this-commentators-arguing-that-press-commits-crime-exposing-nsa-surveillance.shtml#c283