Hacker News: sampsonjs

New comment by sampsonjs in "Trump designates anti-fascist Antifa movement as a terrorist organization"

sampsonjs — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 03:33:28 +0000

As opposed to your buddy popehat. lol

New comment by sampsonjs in "Trump designates anti-fascist Antifa movement as a terrorist organization"

sampsonjs — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 03:30:40 +0000

The thing where a guy got shot in the neck by one of their fellow travelers.

New comment by sampsonjs in "Trump designates anti-fascist Antifa movement as a terrorist organization"

sampsonjs — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 03:29:06 +0000

"Rest in Power #FidelCastro": https://x.com/blklivesmatter/status/802568605212647425

They didn't take the Jordan Neely verdict very well either. Someone joked right after the verdict on Twitter that we should brace for more riots. Whoever runs the account said that sounded like a good idea.

New comment by sampsonjs in "[dead]"

sampsonjs — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 14:55:06 +0000

Archived link used to highlight the relevant portion of the article, which is a digression, but worth highlighting.

Some HN users will use the ad hominem that the writer, Greer, is a wack job. Well, as Greer points out, William of Ockham was a medieval theologian. What does that make everyone who still (incorrectly) cites him?

Given the contempt media writers have for Western religion these days(and most HN users as well), it's amusing that a 14th century religious propagandist is treated as if he was capable of making such a broad claim about the nature of the universe. Maybe not all old philosophers were good enough thinkers to be worth citing.

Some HN readers will want a more mainstream source on this topic. How about the magazine whose owner was friends with Ghislaine Maxwell, and whose editor was a big pusher of the "Iraq still has an active WMD program" narrative in 2002? Great, here's an Atlantic piece: https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/08/occams-r...

Sources claim the AWS of a Sony studio was accessed via exploits in PS3 games

sampsonjs — Tue, 05 May 2020 07:32:40 +0000

Article URL: https://kotaku.com/hackers-are-likely-responsible-for-the-last-of-us-ii-le-1843230805

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23077448

Points: 1

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New comment by sampsonjs in "Feds Threatened to Fine Yahoo $250K Daily for Not Complying with NSA's PRISM"

sampsonjs — Fri, 12 Sep 2014 04:19:05 +0000

I'm just glad PRISM is nothing but an extremely expensive Rube Goldberg contraption for responding to warrants. Golly, why did Yahoo bother going to court to fight the notion that when a court issues a warrant ...

"Yahoo also felt that warrantless requests placed discretion for data collection 'entirely in the hands of the Executive Branch without prior judicial involvement' thereby ceding to the government 'overly broad power that invites abuse” and possible errors that would result in scooping up data of U.S. citizens as well.'

Oh.

New comment by sampsonjs in "Chinese Hackers Pursue Key Data on U.S. Workers"

sampsonjs — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:36:27 +0000

Right, that just occurred to me.

New comment by sampsonjs in "Chinese Hackers Pursue Key Data on U.S. Workers"

sampsonjs — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:35:59 +0000

Worst possibility is folks email are now targets, and there's enough info to get past password reset questions.

New comment by sampsonjs in "Chinese Hackers Pursue Key Data on U.S. Workers"

sampsonjs — Fri, 18 Jul 2014 16:26:06 +0000

The most uncomfortable thing on an SF-86 would probably be your past convictions, but it's unlikely you would get a TS in that case. After that, maybe the names of family members. It also would have your current address and foreign investments, but nothing extremely personal.

New comment by sampsonjs in "Rob Pike's Rules of Programming"

sampsonjs — Sun, 06 Jul 2014 19:35:05 +0000

It's too bad The Master has departed, I'm going to miss his words being quoted to "settle any possible HN argument" in the words of this great comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1716028. Also going to miss all the pearl clutching about "this comment/thread is horrible", okay maybe not. I assume work was never finished on the Lisp AI that would block comments he disagrees with, any of the mods still working on that?

New comment by sampsonjs in "U.S. spy agency bugged U.N. headquarters: Germany's Spiegel"

sampsonjs — Sun, 25 Aug 2013 20:41:55 +0000

Steve Coll, of all people, did a great job with your ususal argument months ago:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/comment/2013/07/nsa-co...

New comment by sampsonjs in "NSA revelations could hurt collaboration with 'betrayed' hackers"

sampsonjs — Sat, 10 Aug 2013 07:43:09 +0000

"I don't do work for the USG". Talk about burying the lede. So where did you get this knowledge about the awesomeness of Government training? I DO work for a contractor, one that hires from the same market as everyone else, with lower salaries. We're not all morons, but I was unaware we were turning substandard hires into geniuses. I must have missed the training program.

New comment by sampsonjs in "Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos"

sampsonjs — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 06:56:29 +0000

I think the WaPo should start a section that's full of Hustler style porn. When people complain about porn in their Washington Post, they can just say "That's a separate department!". TLDR: if you disgrace your sub-organization, you disgrace the entire organization.

New comment by sampsonjs in "HN is Becoming 2005 Slashdot"

sampsonjs — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 04:06:37 +0000

You seem to think you successfully defended Google and the NSA. My technical chops are just as good as your, if not better, and I found your efforts utterly buffoonish. If you don't like people disagreeing with you or criticizing the gov, time to pack it in.

Presenting XKeyscore: What the N.S.A. Is Still Hiding

sampsonjs — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 03:48:35 +0000

Article URL: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2013/07/presenting-xkeyscore-what-the-nsa-is-still-hiding.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6164691

Points: 7

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New comment by sampsonjs in "Leaked report shows high civilian death toll from CIA drone strikes"

sampsonjs — Tue, 23 Jul 2013 19:34:02 +0000

All of which is happening now, in addition to the activity mentioned in the article. Ever hear of Meles Zenawi rayiner? I know, the New York Times didn't like to talk about him, but that doesn't mean he didn't exist. If the US started shipping arms to the reincarnation of Suharto tomorrow, I image Mr. Rayiner would be here arguing: "Guns are so much more humane than missile strikes. A bullet can kill at most two, three people. So much more precision!" Also: cruise missles were designed to take out installations. The relative payload of a weapon is an issue of cost and weight ratios, not mercy.

4 New Slides Of The NSA's PRISM Spying Program Have Been Published

sampsonjs — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 09:08:54 +0000

Article URL: http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/4-New-Slides-Of-The-NSA-s-PRISM-Spying-Program-4638662.php

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5976593

Points: 6

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Snowden, NSA, PRISM — the “direct access” question

sampsonjs — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 07:30:47 +0000

Article URL: http://my.firedoglake.com/edwardlyle/2013/06/30/snowden-nsa-prism-the-direct-access-question/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5976325

Points: 1

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New comment by sampsonjs in "Court Order told Yahoo that Prism does not require a warrant [pdf]"

sampsonjs — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 05:08:07 +0000

'Yonatan Zunger, the chief architect of Google+, wrote in a Google+ post today that: "I can tell you that the only way in which Google reveals information about users are when we receive lawful, specific orders about individuals -- things like search warrants."'

From the court order: "We add, moreover, that there is a high degree of probability that requiring a warrant wound hinder the government's ability to collect time-sensitive information and, thus, would impede the vital national security interests that are at stake." Cough

Court Order told Yahoo that Prism does not require a warrant [pdf]

sampsonjs — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 05:06:05 +0000

Article URL: http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/fiscr082208.pdf

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5950796

Points: 202

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