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Interview: Ask SoylentNews Staff Anything

posted by mattie_p on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the no-really-do-it dept.

By now, you have had the chance to read the updates of both NCommander and Barrabas. Nonetheless, you may still be wondering quite a few things about the site and its staff. Here is your chance to ask us anything. These questions can be general in nature, in which case the staff will select a spokesperson to answer it, or it may be specific to an individual. If the question is for an individual, please ensure you identify that person specifically enough.

We will select the best questions from the thread and provide answers to the community. These questions may not be the highest rated, although we will probably use those first.

In keeping with tradition, ask as many as you'd like, but please, one question per post.

 
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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by halcyon1234 on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:34PM

    by halcyon1234 (1082) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:34PM (#2642)

    Have you been contacted by the NSA yet to install a blackbox on the site? If not, what will you do when they come around?

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by ragequit on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:37PM

    by ragequit (44) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:37PM (#2646) Journal

    What if there's a gag order that they not disclose they have been contacted...

    Along those lines, could you put a dead man icon on the site so we know whether or not the above has happened?

    Oh! and a transparency report?

    and hookers
    and blackjack

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    • (Score: 5, Funny) by youngatheart on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:59PM

      by youngatheart (42) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @05:59PM (#2676)

      Yes, I want the same thing, except I don't care about the dead man icon or transparency report.

      • (Score: 1) by modecx on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:37PM

        by modecx (1925) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @09:37PM (#2885)

        Can we get a mashup going and just make it a dead hooker?

    • (Score: 1) by dast on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:37PM

      by dast (1633) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:37PM (#2713)

      Free beer, free as in free. Or freedom. Whatever.

    • (Score: 1) by sfm on Thursday February 20 2014, @12:17AM

      by sfm (675) on Thursday February 20 2014, @12:17AM (#2995)

      Actually, a better way to do this might be to include wording on the info page that indicates the system is not currently acting in cooperation with the NSA (or other TLA-type organization). Should the conditions change the text could go away, similar to a dead-mans switch ??

      Could this work?

      • (Score: 1) by unitron on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:43AM

        by unitron (70) on Thursday February 20 2014, @03:43AM (#3137) Journal

        I has that idea a while back on the grounds that the government preventing you from speaking about something is one thing, but it would be a lot harder for them to go into court to argue that they have a right to compel you to lie.

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  • (Score: 5, Interesting) by dilbert on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:24PM

    by dilbert (444) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @06:24PM (#2695)
    If SoylentNews implements a canary.txt similar to rsync, they won't have to "do" anything :)

    http://www.rsync.net/resources/notices/canary.txt [rsync.net]

  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Wednesday February 19 2014, @07:07PM

    by Gaaark (41) on Wednesday February 19 2014, @07:07PM (#2739) Journal

    Nods head.

    "No."

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