NSA is an agency of the Department of Defense. CIA is an independent organization. FBI is counted among the set of US "Intelligence" organizations, but if there's one thing media and memoirs tell us, it's that organization in different Departments have a history of not playing nice. Case in point, all the finger pointing around organizations not sharing information pre 9/11.
DOD and DOJ in particular I don't think have such a close buddy-buddy relationship.
They have limited access to some intelligence databases and information. That doesn't mean that they can just pop random selectors through PRISM for the lulz though - nor does it mean that the FBI and NSA share everything they have on everybody, or at least they don't for now.
As to the point about selectors, if a selector has an even remotely domestic terrorism related component, and is authorized by the FISA court, the FBI can and does see that information.
That depends. At ProPublica we've done a bunch of visualizations with canvas and SVG in the past, and they are powerful tools. However, as part of our investigation into Hurricane Sandy flooding we knew we wanted to make a 3D visualization of NYC of show the storm surge:
If your data is inherently 3 dimensional I'd say it is worth the effort to dive in, but the majority of visualizations that we do are charts and plots which don't really need to be 3D.
The Chicago Tribune has a good series about how Big Tobacco and chemical companies have pushed for more flame retardants in everything despite health concerns:
Are you serious? "Generate some copy?" Copy doesn't just appear out of nowhere. Someone wrote that, and meant to write that, you're kidding yourself if you think they didn't.
I have no idea what you are on about to be honest.
Surely in this context generate == produce. I don't really get how you could take what I wrote as 'these guys made content "magically appear" in their event description'.
I went to UCSB as an undergrad for 2 years. I can guarantee if you ask -- and really listen! -- to women at UCSB, every single one would find this unwelcoming. Sexism isn't a 'culture' it is disgusting. Way to go 'bro'.
Not really, though I'd say it's smaller than Mapnik. TileMill (backed by Mapnik) is an amazing GUI for styling maps, and TileStache is an awesome caching server. But, really at it's heart all SimpleTiles does is convert spatial data into an image, and does that by relying on GDAL and Cairo as much as possible.
I've seen terrible assembly but I've seen much worse C. Most programmers have relatively no sense of organization, and when unleashed with C create things far more nasty than their assembly counterparts.
But you get the idea. I'm merely pointing out that compilers are tricky and complicated beasts. And especially in the rewriter CS has to jump through hoops to disambiguate.
I dont know if I would call CS complicated, but yeah you'll get that all the way down. Noobs will write their js, bigger noobs write CS, smarter people off writing C, and even smarter people writing ASM. Most will still write nasty code regardless but the ambiguity in CS makes this far more painful to consume
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/04/25/us/25stellarwi...
A key part of the FBI's mission is "to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats" after all:
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/faqs