Medium: The medium that you can post in where it will get upvoted no matter what because the text is formatted to be pretty.
This Medium thing is getting out of hand. I think I've read possibly two or three articles that were legitimately good, informative, and offered new thoughts.
Cute, yes. I'm honestly confused on why some others are complaining about the satirical nature of the piece. Seems just what some people might need at this point...
When I look at the multi-billion dollar NSA datacenter in Utah... I can't help but realize that the annual IT budget at Google or one of the big financial companies dwarfs that number, and does so every year.
I've been using this service for a while now, but haven't been able to get a restore to work. My data comes back with large parts of it blacked out -- no idea why. Has anyone else been able to do a successful restore?
Not that I condone the NSA's practices in any way but it's interesting to think of how some of this data might serve as a historical record of our daily lives in the future.
Never before have there been such detailed records of public and private communications, websites, photos and who knows what else the NSA has flagged for "permanent storage." Archive.org could only dream of having so much ephemeral data and the capacity to store it.
Interesting example of how not having the title in the url hurts share-ability (even though that was originally done for seo). I pasted this link to friends, but had to provide a followup paste of the title.
a lot of my friends knew nothing about the NSA illegalities going on. if they read this, they probably wouldn't get that it's a joke. They'd start searching for the sign up page online... i need new friends
What's next? "Obama Goes 'All the Way' to Prove to Americans Just How Wrong the Bush Administration's War on Terror Is: NSA Scandal a Lesson in Absurdity".
[+] [-] cemerick|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] methehack|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] rfnslyr|12 years ago|reply
This Medium thing is getting out of hand. I think I've read possibly two or three articles that were legitimately good, informative, and offered new thoughts.
[+] [-] ddoolin|12 years ago|reply
[+] [-] ck2|12 years ago|reply
Apparently the NSA has been buying every platter available via unlimited taxpayer dollars.
Sounds like a joke but think about it...
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[+] [-] mtgx|12 years ago|reply
Right. I know it's a joke, but this type of joke is starting to get on my nerves, considering how far from reality it is.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/07/06/1221694/-NSA-Reject...
[+] [-] haxxorfreak|12 years ago|reply
Never before have there been such detailed records of public and private communications, websites, photos and who knows what else the NSA has flagged for "permanent storage." Archive.org could only dream of having so much ephemeral data and the capacity to store it.
[+] [-] krapp|12 years ago|reply
Jason Scott must have the most awkward boner right now...
[+] [-] ChrisAntaki|12 years ago|reply
That beta program went live in 2006. http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/05/mark_klein_docu/
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What's next? "Obama Goes 'All the Way' to Prove to Americans Just How Wrong the Bush Administration's War on Terror Is: NSA Scandal a Lesson in Absurdity".
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