According to Paul's office, the senator "didn’t think it went as far as it should" and wasn't comfortable signing the letter when his changes weren't adopted.
President Rafael Correa responding to the leak [of the Snowden asylum document] by the newspapers has accused the media of spying on Ecuadorean officials. He also stressed that the corrupted media power is the worst weapon that mankind has invented.
Isn't this the explicit purpose of the NSA, to spy on the communications of foreign governments? And aren't EU members' governments doing the same thing against the US?
these are the same people who blew the whole "we could listen to osama's cell phone" thingthe same people who screwed us on wiretappingover and over and over againThank god they're going out of business.
Referring to the NY Times. "Screwed us on wiretapping" in the sense that they reported about it, thus tipping off terrorists and making it less useful. (Snowden's interpretation, not mine).
Paraphrased: defining such a function over a symmetric subset of the reals X is equivalent to partitioning the positive (>0) elements of X into disjoint pairs (a,b). This uniquely describes a satisfying function f, under whose action:
f: 0 -> 0
f: a -> (-b) -> (-a) -> b -> a
And conversely, any such function is uniquely described by such a partition. That's all there is to it!
There is no such partition on the set of int32_t's, because the # of nonzero int32_t's is odd.
For the set of all integers Z, the "obvious" partition is {(1,2), (3,4), (5,6)...}. This is what many of the answers are getting at with even/odd tests.
This also works for some subsets of the integers, such as {-2,1,0,1,2}. These are the symmetric ones with an even number of positive elements. These have 4n or 4n+1 elements total, depending on whether they include zero. [-2^31, 2^31] works (this has one more element than int32_t). As does [-2^31 + 2, 2^31 - 2] -- the largest such subset of int32_t.
This has a natural extension to the rationals, the reals, etc. Namely: (a,b) is a member of the partition iff (floor(a), floor(b)) is a member of the partition for integers, and their fractional parts are equal.
There is no such function on the reals that is (analytically) continuous. Any such f must be bijective (a != b implies f(a) != f(b)). If f : R -> R is both continuous and bijective, it is monotonic, and therefore so is (f . f), which is incompatible with the requirement that (f . f)(x) = -x.
An unnamed senior Administration official joined the Snowden-bashing
chorus, telling reporters, “Mr. Snowden’s claim that he is
focussed on supporting transparency, freedom of the press, and
protection of individual rights and democracy is belied by the
protectors he has potentially chosen: China, Russia, Cuba, Venezuela,
and Ecuador. His failure to criticize these regimes suggests that his
true motive throughout has been to injure the national security of
the U.S., not to advance Internet freedom and free speech.”
This wasn't some "unnamed senior Administration official"; it was the White House spokesman, Jay Carney, speaking in this afternoon's press briefing. It's an official statement of the White House. Here's the video and transcript:
MR. CARNEY: Let me say this about that question, which is that Mr. Snowden’s claim that he is focused on supporting transparency, freedom of the press, and protection of individual rights and democracy is belied by the protectors he has potentially chosen -- China, Russia, Ecuador, as we’ve seen.
His failure to criticize these regimes suggest that his true motive throughout has been to injure the national security of the United States -- not to advance Internet freedom and free speech.
I think that with regards to the first part of your question, I’ve made the point that the unauthorized disclosure of classified information -- the kind of information that has already been disclosed -- has an enormous negative impact and there are ongoing damage assessments being done. But, certainly, it would be our assumption that any information -- any further classified information that he has that has not yet been divulged publicly would be compromised, or has been compromised.
The White House rather unambiguously threw Snowden under the bus:
"Mr. Snowden's claim that he is focused on supporting transparency, freedom of the press and protection of individual rights and democracy is belied by the protectors he has potentially chosen - China, Russia, Ecuador, as we've seen [...] His failures to criticize these regimes suggests that his true motive throughout has been to injure the national security of the United States, not to advance Internet freedom and free speech."
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