http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c956 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:23:37 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c956 Room 641A is located in the SBC Communications building at 611 Folsom Street, San Francisco, three floors of which were occupied by AT&T before SBC purchased AT&T.[1] The room was referred to in internal AT&T documents as the SG3 [Study Group 3] Secure Room. It is fed by fiber optic lines from beam splitters installed in fiber optic trunks carrying Internet backbone traffic[3] and, as analyzed by J. Scott Marcus, a former CTO for GTE and a former adviser to the FCC, has access to all Internet traffic that passes through the building, and therefore "the capability to enable surveillance and analysis of internet content on a massive scale, including both overseas and purely domestic traffic."[4] Former director of the NSA]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c952 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:21:48 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c952 One method of interception is to place equipment at locations where fiber optic communications are switched. For the Internet, much of the switching occurs at relatively few sites. There have been reports of one such intercept site, Room 641A, in the United States.

so they just tap into the fibre feeds and TAKE EVERYTHING.. including Goolag]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c931 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:21:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c931 steganography are better. Hide the message in plain site.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130404/03230222574/new-evidence-homeland-security-spied-peaceful-protestors-worried-about-protests-getting-news-coverage.shtml#c1303 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:20:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130404/03230222574/new-evidence-homeland-security-spied-peaceful-protestors-worried-about-protests-getting-news-coverage.shtml#c1303 Both movements are fighting a common enemy: The merger of big-government and big-business (pretty much the definition of corruption).]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c918 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:18:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c918
this show you have NO understanding of the internet, childlike or not.

If you believe NSA who scoops up EVERYTHING on the internet, including google and facebug then you are dreaming.

NSA simple splices the data feed into ALL the major hubs and servers, and reads EVERYTHING, dumps it all into the farms of supercomputers and do word and pattern searches.

Email, Warcraft, Google, WWW, whatever information that passes over the internet in packet form (EVERYTHING) is simply copied on mass, and searched.

Get over it, it's been there for years, just about as long as the internet itself.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101209/09504712210/dailydirt-taking-another-look-nuclear-energy.shtml#c80 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:14:22 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101209/09504712210/dailydirt-taking-another-look-nuclear-energy.shtml#c80 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101209/09504712210/dailydirt-taking-another-look-nuclear-energy.shtml#c71 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:13:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101209/09504712210/dailydirt-taking-another-look-nuclear-energy.shtml#c71 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c894 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:10:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c894 Step out of line, and YOU could be next."

A good message to send too, I would say.

If by stepping out of line you mean breaking the law..]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c872 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:09:21 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c872
WOW,, amazing, they only suspect someone of a crime AFTER that crime has been committed !!!!! OMFG..... !!!!!!!

Next time, THINK before you talk.. far less people will think you are a moron then.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130313/10343422312/rejection-pirate-bay-founders-appeal-sets-dangerous-precedent-liability-free-expression.shtml#c1578 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:05:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130313/10343422312/rejection-pirate-bay-founders-appeal-sets-dangerous-precedent-liability-free-expression.shtml#c1578 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130514/14283523085/interesting-move-peter-sunde-pirate-bay-flattr-to-run-eu-parliament.shtml#c390 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:59:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130514/14283523085/interesting-move-peter-sunde-pirate-bay-flattr-to-run-eu-parliament.shtml#c390 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130514/14283523085/interesting-move-peter-sunde-pirate-bay-flattr-to-run-eu-parliament.shtml#c386 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:58:08 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130514/14283523085/interesting-move-peter-sunde-pirate-bay-flattr-to-run-eu-parliament.shtml#c386 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c823 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:56:00 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/16464823123/swedish-prosecutor-claims-registrar-se-domains-being-accomplice-infringement-because-pirate-bay-domain.shtml#c823 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/18051923103/footage-lethal-beating-deleted-seized-phone-sheriff-asks-fbi-to-take-over-investigation.shtml#c1096 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:52:44 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130515/18051923103/footage-lethal-beating-deleted-seized-phone-sheriff-asks-fbi-to-take-over-investigation.shtml#c1096 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101209/09504712210/dailydirt-taking-another-look-nuclear-energy.shtml#c48 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:46:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20101209/09504712210/dailydirt-taking-another-look-nuclear-energy.shtml#c48
Even including Chernobyl, wind power has caused more fatalities per watt-hour than nuclear.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/15490323152/intellectual-property-mess-holding-up-tpp.shtml#c38 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:41:24 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/15490323152/intellectual-property-mess-holding-up-tpp.shtml#c38 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c280 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:29:25 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/12190223151/prendas-paul-hansmeier-asks-appeals-court-to-delay-sanctions-appeals-court-says-no-try-again.shtml#c280
I want to buy a chair. I go see the chair. I might even sit in the chair. If I like it, I can buy it. If it's rubbish, I don't buy it. The risk that someone doesn't want to buy it is always with the seller. The way to mitigate that risk is to make a product that people want to buy.

If I hire a car, book a hotel, or buy a train ticket I have a certain level of expectation of the quality of service that will be provided. If that service does not meet that expectation, I ask for a refund and get my money back.

The risk is always with the seller.

Go away and come up with a better argument.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c1470 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:21:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130517/08324323118/trade-group-representing-many-large-companies-claims-that-exceptions-blind-would-cast-aside-copyright.shtml#c1470
1. He's actually too stupid to understand anything that's not spelt out in small words in a few sentences easy enough for him to digest. He therefore doesn't understand the pretty clear positions that everybody else understands very clearly, hence the childish whining and attacks when he doesn't get what everyone else can see he already has. He literally won't be able to understand unless Mike writes a post detailing exactly what he things, and since that won't simply say "I hate copyright and want to destroy it" or "here's a completely rewritten law ready to go", he won't understand or accept it.

2. He thinks he knows what Mike's position is, but has wrongly assumed that it's a position that wishes to remove copyright entirely, or give everything to pirates directly to those who didn't create anything. Therefore, he thinks that if he can debate Mike he can trick him into admitting what he "truly believes". That is failing because Mike's confirmed his actual position in previous discussions as opposed to the fictional version he wants, so he keeps pretending that nothing has been said in the hope that he'll be told what he wants.

3. He's paid to sit on here attacking every word that's said that might put his employers' actions in a bad light. Unlike others who are in a similar position, he's trying to make it about him and his "mistreatment" rather than what's actually being said.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c715 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:19:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11552823150/major-hollywood-studios-all-sent-bogus-dmca-takedowns-concerning-pirate-bay-documentary.shtml#c715 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/15490323152/intellectual-property-mess-holding-up-tpp.shtml#c13 Tue, 21 May 2013 02:16:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/15490323152/intellectual-property-mess-holding-up-tpp.shtml#c13