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There was nothing terribly chilling about the story.

Having a machine that is completely locked down and only runs 'authorized' software is chilling indeed.

I suspect I'll get downvoted for this, but for some reason, I find this quote chilling, Children are a financial drain, Merrill wrote. The time investment of raising a child is immense.

It is an embarrassment to Paul T. Crayton and the State of California, and this "default deny" stance on innovation has just as much chilling effect as patent trolls.

It's really chilling when you realize this is your government you're talking about. It sounds like some dystopian future where normal citizens have to hide from their government's eye, but it's here and now.

There's a definite chilling effect at work here. An internet mob has forced out a major company's CEO over a political issue.

It we start naming and shaming the coder for each flaw instead of working on fixing the process that allowed it to sneak through, we'll see a chilling effect on open source software. There's a reason we have tests and code reviews and security audits...

~ The real discussion--I posit--is somewhat darker and more chilling: In order to field a drone army, you need capital. You need factories to build the devices, you need command and control infrastructure to deploy them, and you need bright minds to develop them.

I don't have any particular loyalty to Samsung but these cases set a chilling precedent for the platform that looks likely to dominate the computing industry for at least the next decade. There's much more at stake here than a few billion dollars and a few icons and scrolling techniques.

>>The Edward J. Snowden affair finally raised a chilling question for the whole world: How much privacy do citizens have to give up for the sake of public security? For us Chinese, this question is slightly different: How much privacy do we have to give up for the sake of the government’s security?

There is a really sort of chilling feeling when you get really good head tracking and high DPI visual input, it fools your brain enough to move your sense of place. The absolute creepiest thing I've experienced with this was put the goggles on and have the screens showing the view of a pair of cameras mounted on a telepresence robot in the same room.

Some needs are simply private in that way a vulnerable person needs secure anonymity lest the public light itself become a chilling effect, of which health concerns are a common example. The architecture of Google+ is such that it is inherently inhuman in its disregard for privacy and for applying different "pen names" to the various situations of life.

It really grinds my gears when I see stuff like this: "While this could bring more licensing revenue for journalism, it may also produce a phenomenon like what is occurring in France and Germany where publishers are treating copyright like a tax to protect outdated industries and chilling online innovation in the process." Gee, how outdated can an industry be when you're fighting for the right to use its original content for free?

The outcome should be immediate, and will have a chilling effect on new frivolous litigation -- while simultaneously providing an incentive to current frivolous plaintiffs to drop their cases sooner or on better terms. BTW, one other thing to note: most of the chatter is about non-practicing entities, aka patent trolls -- but the decision isn't limited to cases brought by NPEs. Frivolous patent plaintiffs, even if they're active competitors in the market, are in a much weaker position thanks to this decision.

It's chilling that they explicitly mention parallel construction on page 12: When a complete set of CDRs are subpoenaed from the carrier, then all memorialized references to relevant and pertinent calls can be attributed to the carrier's records, thus "walling off" the information obtained from Hemisphere. In other words, Hemisphere can easily be protected if it is used as a pointer system to uncover relevant numbers.

Whether you agree with Julian Assange or not, the fact that democratically elected leaders in a democratic country tried to force a democratic society to _NOT_ support a cause by telling MasterCard "don't process these donations" was an incredibly chilling event.

Revoking a lawyer's visa because he is representing a particular client is equally outrageous, especially due to the chilling effects it causes upon the legal community making it much more difficult for suspects of serious crimes to find good legal representation.

A fascinating interview with the NSA whistleblower, which ends with a chilling prediction of where the logic of manifest destiny and exceptionalism will lead the United States: There will be a time where policies will change, because the only thing which restricts the activites of the surveillance state are policy, even our agreements with other sovereign governments; we consider that to be a stipulation of policy, rather than a stipulation of law. And because of that, a new leader will be elected, they'll flip the switch, say that because of the crisis, because of the dangers that we face in the world, some new and unpredicted threat, we need more authority, we need more power, and there will be nothing the people can do at that point to oppose it.