http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130404/03230222574/new-evidence-homeland-security-spied-peaceful-protestors-worried-about-protests-getting-news-coverage.shtml#c1328 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:34:30 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130404/03230222574/new-evidence-homeland-security-spied-peaceful-protestors-worried-about-protests-getting-news-coverage.shtml#c1328
Is it right to kidnap your neighbor because you disagree with his speech?
No, but the State can send costumed men to his house and "detain" him indefinitely.

Is it okay for you to claim your neighbor owes you part of his food whenever he goes shopping? Would it be okay if you wrote it down? Would it be okay if 50 friends agreed?
No, but the State can "tax" him and all of us and you would be okay with it as long as it appeared to have the "majority" of the vote.

Is it correct for you to walk into his yard and punch your neighbor because he looked at you funny?
No, but the State bombs&invades other countries for less.

So, who works for who now?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c992 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:33:15 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c992
makes sense in Mansicks world.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c980 Tue, 21 May 2013 03:31:39 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130520/11200723149/war-journalists-doj-claimed-fox-news-reporter-was-aider-abettor-co-conspirator-with-leaker.shtml#c980 And that is total bullshit for I am not legally obligated either to keep this governments' secrets secret.

Yes, in fact YOU ARE..

also you are NOT legally obligated to acquire said information.

Think of it like illegal drugs, you may not have taken any, but that does not mean having it in your possession is allowed.

You are also not allowed to acquire it, buy it or sell it, own it, keep it, or use it.

Or have it on any property that is in your responsibility.
It does not even matter if you know it is there, if it for example found in your car, and it's your car, you are responsible and liable.

Same with classified information.]]> 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.]]>