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Scrum the government? Priceless

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Developers to Congress: Scrum and Get Us Out of This Mess!
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The day they shut down government was the day wonderland stood still.

#governmentshutdown2013   #shutdown   #shutdown2013   #government  

The Day Wonderland Stood Still…

This time-lapse was inspired by the “Empty America Series” by Ross Ching and the Nibiran jungle

Handing over to the court a decryption key on 11 pages printed in 4point – priceless.

Edward Snowden’s E-Mail Provider Defied FBI Demands to Turn Over Crypto Keys, Documents Show | Threat Level | Wired.com

Image: Courtesy of the Guardian The U.S. government in July obtained a search warrant demanding that Edward Snowden’s e-mail provider, Lavabit, turn ov

One of the finest #oculusrift  reviews read so far.

First impressions from the Oculus Rift dev kit | Doc-Ok.org

Outward appearances. The Oculus team went all out on production values. The dev kit comes in a custom fitted black plastic carrying case (see Figure 1), and the unit itself looks much more refined than I would have expected of a dev kit. It’s black matte plastic all the way around, …

"The public now has to think about the fact that anybody in public life, or person in a position of influence in government, business or bureaucracy, now is thinking about what the NSA knows about them. So how can we trust that the decisions that they make are objective and that they aren't changing the decisions that they make to protect their career? That strikes at any system of representative government."

Caspar Bowden, former Chief #Privacy Advisor for #microsoft from 2002-2011

Former Microsoft Privacy Chief Says He No Longer Trusts The Company – HotHardware

Microsoft’s onetime Chief Privacy Advisor, Caspar Bowden, has come out with a vote of no-confidence in the company’s long-term privacy measures and ability or interest to secure user data in the wake of the NSA’s PRISM program. From 2002 – 2011, Bowden was in charge of privacy at Microsoft, …