Clientside Java has always been unreliable and radically different/bugged with every minor update..

Just keep in mind that now it works on your computer, you probably broke it for everybody else

Now try wireshark to see what the java plugin actually receives.

<object code="F.class" archive="applet.php?gid=448" width="800" height="600" type="application/x-java-applet;version=1.5">
<param name="java_arguments" value="-Djnlp.packEnabled=true" />
<param name="cache_option" value="no">
</object>

I'm all on the stasi side of the argument, but I'd never quote FoxNews on... well... anything.

1,250,000 million disks spread over 5,000 servers, that's 2,500 disks per server.

Nuff said.

Shouldn't this forum migrate to a more modern forum ?
This one feels quite retro I might say.

The main problem with this is that the "technically can do it" part in regards to collect, analyze, and store everything that comes through the wire aspect. To give an idea of the amount and size of average traffic over the Internet, I'll refer you to http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/VNI_Hyperconnectivity_WP.html. No matter how you cut it, the amount of data becomes impractical to collect, much less analyze and warehouse, rather quickly. Currently there is more speculation than hard evidence which is usually a good sign that the sky probably isn't falling.

This top-secret data warehouse could hold as many as 1.25 million 4-terabyte hard drives, built into some 5,000 servers to store the trillions upon trillions of ones and zeroes that make up your digital fingerprint.

Some reports have suggested the data center could hold as much as 5 zetabytes, an astronomical sum equivalent to 62 billion stacked iPhone 5s. King called that number "difficult, if not impossible to conceive.”

http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2013/06/11/inside-nsas-secret-utah-data-center/

And just what am I insinuating other than someone who is listed as being from Iceland may not have quite the grasp on what it was like to actually live under the Stasi in East Germany? Is my pointing out that the comparison between the Stasi and NSA is not exactly an apples to apples comparison really running the risk of offending German members on the board? I find the ease of which labels such as N@zi (apparently a no-no word on the board), or Stasi, or here in the good old USofA, racist are used far more offensive since their overuse and context of use tends to gloss over the very serious actions and genuine evil of their origins. I say this as the grandson of immigrants from Prussia by the way.


Are you really advocating a "Hitler wore pants" equivalnecy here? You're not saying "this is the Stasi", you're declaring "this is worse than the Stasi". Similar does not mean equal not worse than, nor even better than. Water and liquid cyanide are very similar. They're both clear, and wet, and used in industrial settings, but the similarities don't put them on the same hazard level.

So tell me, how much data exactly is being collected by the NSA (feel free to round to the nearest Terabyte or Petabyte). Here's an easier one, how much of your data has been collected by the NSA. The answer is, neither you, nor I know. So what evidence do we have. Looking at the Prism slides, I don't see evidence that everything is being collected en masse. As I've mentioned before, the word "request" is a big give away that that they're not as deeply entrenched as you think. I need not make a request for something that I control; I simply do what I want and believe it or not, Google and the rest don't tend to care for government intrusion into it's data centers any more than you do.

I'm aware of what the Stasi was. The Stasi also existed with the complete endorsement and support of the East German and Soviet government. In the case of the NSA, abuses can be and are often called out by other members of the government. Funny thing about a co-equal form of government, none of the branches wants to cede it's authority to the other branches. In this case it's the judicial branch and the legislative acting as a check on the executive branch. As for the repeated statement that the NSA keeps tabs on everyone, please present some actual hard evidence to back up your blanket assertion.

The main problem with this is that the "technically can do it" part in regards to collect, analyze, and store everything that comes through the wire aspect. To give an idea of the amount and size of average traffic over the Internet, I'll refer you to http://www.cisco.com/en/US/solutions/collateral/ns341/ns525/ns537/ns705/ns827/VNI_Hyperconnectivity_WP.html. No matter how you cut it, the amount of data becomes impractical to collect, much less analyze and warehouse, rather quickly. Currently there is more speculation than hard evidence which is usually a good sign that the sky probably isn't falling.

Google gets money from ads, that's the majority of its earnings.

Nothing else you listed is free

http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/?c=1&more=1&pb=1&tb=1&title=why_i_don_t_give_a_rip_about_cispa_and_w
sums it up.
The government doesn't have enough analysts to read through your lunch emails.

STASI as in that organization under the DDR?  Umm...maybe a little history review is required, unless I'm missing the important part of this story.

Which one would you describe as being better? And why Annotation injections? They seem to be some kind of hacky...

Before the judges submit their final scores, they should be able to view a sorted list of their individual results.  Or, why not let the judges simply order the games as oppose to assigning a number to them?  The ordering itself could establish a score.  For instance, if there were 50 games, the lowest in the sequence would be assigned 0% and the highest 100%.  Everything else would be, in this case, 2% higher than its predecessor.  I think that would have prevented Frog Solitaire and Rainbow Road from sharing the coveted 20th place.