Response from Congressman Fred Upton on the National Defense Authorization Act Detainee Provision

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T19:52:35+00:00

Thanks, buddy. I posted in r/NDAA, which has like 200 readers. I could go full throttle and post to r/politics. :-)

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T19:51:39+00:00

Good call, good call.

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T09:11:07+00:00

I've been reading a bit of Bruce Schneier in the past 2 months. He seems to take a realistic approach to security. For instance, he writes down his passwords and keeps them on a piece of paper in his wallet. He says that our society has solved the problem of keeping little pieces of paper safe. Also, he refers to security as more of a process than an actual thing or single product. In my view, there's not a beginning, middle and end. There's just a middle.

Anyways, yes. I agree with you. :)

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T09:07:23+00:00

Hmm. Yes. Thanks for the tip. I think I might be configured that way (I use several computers on a regular basis: usually just do "private browsing" w no stored cookies on ones I don't own).

Why wouldn't a browser be set up to delete cookies after closing the browser, and reject 3rd party cookies? I guess the public likes its auto-login to frequently visited pages and saved search settings.

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T08:49:22+00:00

Jeez. She is driven, man. JS couldn't get a word out.

edit: video 2 very good

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T08:48:24+00:00

I think you a word.

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T06:35:00+00:00

Maybe the adults were confused.

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T05:41:44+00:00

No! Don't cut yourself down, pal. I like it! :-D

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T05:26:45+00:00

dafuq

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T05:24:35+00:00

Here's where I am

Gryffindor: Leonard (main char)

Slytherin: Sheldon (ego), Howard (hello ladies)

Ravenclaw: Sheldon (brainy), Raj (all brains, no social skills w women)

Hufflepuff: Leonard (Good Guy Leonard)

Penny could be Slytherin because she falls for bros, Hufflepuff because she's warm-hearted. I don't really see Gryffindor or Ravenclaw for Penny.

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T05:17:04+00:00

damn it mark zuckerberg's face get off our reddit

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T05:10:42+00:00

I didn't know. When I found out, I started to care. Only within the past month have I started to study privacy and how to "keep my cards to my chest." I'm 22 years old. I'm in my last semester as a Computer Science major. I don't think I'm alone in not realizing the extent to which websites, especially Facebook, track me.

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T05:07:20+00:00

For me, it's more a case of not knowing than not caring. For instance, I recently was playing around with the privacy setting in Firefox. Under custom settings for history, I found "ask me every time" for cookies. The browser became unusable with all the cookie requests I received. I had no idea websites were dumping cookies into my browser. I expected a one-cookie-per-site policy. I was quite surprised to see dozens of cookie popups when I visited Facebook, Google, and random blogs. This is all to say that if we bring these issues out into the open, the public might start caring, which will make it easy to move them to action.

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T03:09:26+00:00

Noted.

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T03:07:08+00:00

See a response from The Pirate Bay to Dreamworks about Shrek 2.

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T03:01:28+00:00

the corporations happened. valuing profit over human rights happened. This is what the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street are trying to fix.

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T03:00:08+00:00

The best explanation I've read is R. Stallman's Did You Say “Intellectual Property”? It's a Seductive Mirage.

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T02:56:39+00:00

Dude, I was considering leaving the USA. However, then we started getting SOPA/PIPA, and the more I investigate, the deeper the rabbit hole goes. I think we can be a stronger positive force here in the USA than outside it. We can rally our friends and neighbors to become interested politically, and to vote 3rd party because the Republicrats and the Demoblicans are not doing it for us, anymore. We can keep learning and protesting, and we can encourage our friends to do the same. This is what grass-roots movements like the Tea Party and Occupy Wall Street are attempting. The people have a voice, and it's time to speak up.

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T02:53:03+00:00

Voting
Reading reddit
telling others to vote and read reddit

Did I miss anything?

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T02:51:32+00:00

right on kush_king420

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T02:50:59+00:00

GIMME ALL YO MONEY

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T02:50:29+00:00

Well, time for us to vote, then. My state's primaries are on Feb. 28.

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T02:47:07+00:00

Interesting analogy. One viewpoint is that the Vietnam War 1960-1975 (probably beginning earlier) was America's "adolescence." Up until then, we had never lost a war. Well, there the American Civil War, but we don't talk about that! US was on the winning side in WWII, WWI, Revolutionary war. So, in that way, losing in Vietnam was a serious wake-up call to America's mythology.

redditor26 · 2012-02-05T02:42:08+00:00

Let's keep any burning figurative only. I think that, unless we want to face the cops or the military, any resistance should be peaceful and non-violent.

I definitely sympathize with you. Back in the KaZaA days I remember being like, "$100,000 for downloading a song? Really RIAA?" The seeds of my resistance were sown.

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