A lot of people have known about the surveillance the whole time. I found out through friends working at ISPs many years before any Binney went public.
I told a lot of people. I don't think many of them believed me at all. Even after room 641A was documented by the New York Times, talking about the surveillance programs I personally knew of in an online discussion was always met with demands for proof or ridicule.
Only after Snowden does the general public accept the truth.
Yea. It was common knowledge to me just as the sky is blue. Seeing where we were at with technology, it's a matter of fact that the "government", (which ever of the 3 letter divisions we are talking about) would have the tech and the want, to do this.
Isn't it common in Restaurants to leave the money in a tray?
Something much more weird I think is the money envelopes. I once took classes by a Japanese lady who, the day before we would pay for the next month, gave us these envelopes the size of a bill and asked us to bring the money in them, said that Japanese never hand money directly, always in envelopes. The next day she took the envelopes and didn't even open them to count the money.
I guess the projects that can't be on github won't mind the GUI challenges as long as they have some way to have a central repository without having to maintain a server on their own.
I'd say gmail labels are more like premade searches (with the added bonus of the unread count). I tend to move every email I expect into it's own label with filters and the "inbox" is just for the unexpected stuff.
