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The Supreme Court's refusal today to rule on the NSA spying program means that the telecom lawsuits are the last remaining hope for finding out what happened and determining its legality.
  • Robots are everywhere...

    and they eat old people's medicine for fuel.

    ondelette said,

    If we allow all the data to be collected and analyzed, and then only require a warrant to read the conclusion, have people been spied on or not?

    If I make a robot that hunts down and kills people who are dancing to Phish, has anyone really been killed? Have I really committed murder if I don't ever see the robot again?

    I agree we are heading to this argument and I have heard it actually offered a few times but it is absurd on its face.