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I just saw this: http://money.cnn.com/2016/10/2.... Maybe Fossil didn't get the memo?

Or how about the police that has militarized to the point where they are an occupying force?

Hyperbole much? An occupying force? That's where you're going? Have you ever been under occupation? Do you have any idea what conditions are like under occupation? Here's a hint: go ask the Palestinians what occupation is like.

Or how about police in neighborhoods that regularly target minorities?

You do realize those neighborhoods most likely have a high percentage of minorities (which is odd since they then wouldn't be minorities)? Would you like the police to turn a blind eye to the crimes? Look at what happened in Baltimore when police stopped patrolling.

because there is obviously a middle ground between giving the police 'new toys' and giving them pillows.

This is the middle ground. Police won't be shooting at criminals. They'll be using less lethal means to do their jobs.

Of course all of this wouldn't be necessary if criminals wouldn't be criminals. But lets us blame the police for doing their job, not the criminals for committing the crimes, for putting their lives on the line to protect the whiners, who think nothing of going into the line of fire in domestic disputes or go out in miserable weather to rescue asshats who drive around signs warning people of flooded roadways, thereby endangering themselves in the process.

It seems they care about the plight of your brothers and sisters more than you imagine in your fantasy world of oppression.

And what possible difference would it make if we did? Do you have any idea what you're chances are against a modern, mechanized army?

Police are needed to maintain a police state. And no matter how many police you have, they are always greatly outnumbered by the people, which is why it is vital for police in a police state to have automatic weapons and for the oppressed people to have nothing but their limp dicks.

An armed populace makes enforcement of a police state impossible by default.

Don't you think if he was going to do it he would have?

Apparently you haven't noticed his constant attempts to do just that. Which would make you either uninformed or willfully ignorant. As a college-educated NRA member, I am neither. Please remember this the next time you deign to talk down to us.

And what possible difference would it make if we did? Do you have any idea what you're chances are against a modern, mechanized army?

Police are needed to maintain a police state. And no matter how many police you have, they are always greatly outnumbered by the people, which is why it is vital for police in a police state to have automatic weapons and for the oppressed people to have nothing but their limp dicks.

An armed populace makes enforcement of a police state impossible by default.

Don't you think if he was going to do it he would have?

Apparently you haven't noticed his constant attempts to do just that. Which would make you either uninformed or willfully ignorant. As a college-educated NRA member, I am neither. Please remember this the next time you deign to talk down to us.

We have seen the West push for Russia and the week of posts on Slashdot repeating its Russia and only ever Russia.
Time of day, ip ranges, code litter, emoji.
From UK and US, contractors, ex intelligence service people find language and emoji so quickly.
"How Russia Pulled Off the Biggest Election Hack in U.S. History" (OCT 20, 2016 ) http://www.esquire.com/news-po...
Every aspect of the litter seems to have been left to point at Russia and be easy to find and be media for "open source intelligence" groups.
Would any other intelligence service make sloppy mistakes or risk real time discovery with such well understood skills?
Or was the trail left knowing the West and its media had no skills to look no further than ip ranges, code litter and the time of day?
Iran and North Koran have very few pipes to the West that are free of the NSA and GCHQ.
South Korea and Japan have huge listening stations, expert staff and with the help of global reach of their 5 eye nations supporters would know of any Korean internet movements globally in real time.
Miho, Tachiarai and other sites do track everything Korea and have done for a while.
The GCHQ and NSA have Iran surrounded. Overseas Processing Centre, like CIRCUIT, Troodos in Cyprus pick up everything in the Middle East, Iran and into the Caucasus.
The NSA and GCHQ would know if Iran or North Korea acted as a nation and would keep such methods out of the media so they could track, alter material in real time or counter them without comment from contractors, ex intelligence service workers or "open source intelligence" groups reporting on such efforts in real time.
The need for it to be Russian fully, early and often in the Western press is the 'tell'.
If its not secret, been mentioned by method and been tracked its cover for a :
A US internal, domestic walk out, someone gave a package of data and its been covered with "Russia" did it for party political reasons.
Anyone then reading or commenting on or using the material is "Russian" and the leak is reduced.
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07...
Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections
""Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment some people may have egg on their faces. But to exclude certain actors is to make it easier to find out who our sources are,""
Or as mentioned on slashdot
US intelligence had GAMMA material issues as a totally internal domestic issue. (3 August 2016)
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

If anything we need more 'right wing hack jobs' as you put it, to uncover and expose more of the lies like the one used to blame the cause of Benghazi on a youtube video and pin it on some poor patsy, that in turn led to the discovery of the secretary of state storing SAP level top information on private servers and being proved a complete liar, and the DOJ and FBI being DNC pawns rather than being committed to the public's interest.

We definitely need another 'right wing hack job' to uncover the extent of the role that Bob Creamer had in the conspiracy to commit violence at political rallies, and why exactly he was such a regular visitor to the white house, and who he was taking his marching orders from. We need to know the extent at how the DNC provoked the riots in Chicago, as well as the rioting in places like Ferguson via their BLM attack dogs, and the campaign to stir up racial tension to the point where innocent police officers are being gunned down and ambushed and killed. Furthermore, we need another 'right wing hack job' to uncover the extent that the DNC violated campaign finance laws, as shown by the DNC leaks, to funnel money directly to Clinton's campaign.

Why? Because as seen by how not one single Congressional Democrat voted to find Brian Pagliano in contempt of congress, for being a no show to a congressional summons, it is clear they have no interests whatsoever in policing their own. People wonder why there had to be half a dozen congressional inquiries into Benghazi to get anywhere at all, well, that's why, because the partisan hacks are on both sides, including the media, leaving those of us with an interest in the truth to have to fend for ourselves.

Bottom line, if Trump gets in, we get Trey Gowdy as attorney general, who is completely unlike this passive aggressive, tarmac-meeting weasel that won't even commit to saying that speeding is illegal, who might get to the bottom of some of these questions. There's your reach around for you.

if people start getting blackballed, hired or fired for having expressed mere support for X political party or Y viewpoint.

What do you mean, start getting blackballed? Too young to remember the wholesale blackballing of actors because of their supposed views?

This doesn't even begin to touch the surface of the obvious and hidden blacklisting which goes on every day. Numerous studies have shown your name alone can get you blacklisted from a job.

States have had to pass laws to prevent all kinds of people and groups from blacklisting people for whatever reason.

They have contracts with the US gov, mil to worry about. Just reading a site with a codeword that gets stored on their computer is an issue. They know their work and home internet is been logged as part of work "security".
They know that for the next promotion their internet logs might be looked into for the term "polygraph" over years. Other terms might be of interest to a gov or mil trying to find staff who can still think for themselves and "read" about events.
They get told not to read sites. All part of working for and protecting "freedom".
"The most vocal" is usually just faith based or virtue signalling or need to push a political tech narrative to gain as a contractor.
The sale of more security products, services due to super "hackers" from other nations got pushed a lot over the past weeks.
The idea that leaks got "faked" vs actual staff having to quit. Staff don't quit over fake news.
"Will reading WikiLeaks cost students jobs with the federal government?" (December 9, 2010)
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/CR...
"Don’t Look, Don’t Read: Government Warns Its Workers Away From WikiLeaks Documents" (Dec 4 2010)
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12...
US blocks access to WikiLeaks for federal workers (4 dec 2010)
https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
The other aspect is just domestic US gov/mil propaganda been allowed in with the relaxing of the Smith–Mundt Act. A lot of sock puppet accounts.
The next step will be a flood of US gov workers pushing a "story" under ideas like 'H.R. 5181: Countering Foreign Propaganda and Disinformation Act of 2016"
https://www.govtrack.us/congre...
So wait for a new big US bureaucracy with a fun name like "Information Analysis and Response" to really get vocal and create prolific posters :)

Why wonder? Let's check. According to CNN/Money, as of February, Comcast had 27.7MM total subscribers. According to Comcast's most recent proxy statement, CEO Brian Roberts made $36.2MM in total compensation. That works out to $1.31 per subscriber per year, or 11 cents per bill.

If we factor in the remainder of the executive team--CFO Michael J. Cavanagh, Neil Smit, President & CEO of Comcast Cable Communications, Sr. Executive VP David L. Cohen and (apparently still collecting a paycheque for 2015) former Chairman & CFO Michael J. Angelakis, and excluding NBCUniversal CEO Stephen B. Burke--we get total executive compensation of $142.9MM, which still works out to only $5.16/year, or 43 cents per bill.

Now, as only $9.7MM of that (7%) is "salary," is that an awful lot of job-well-done payout for a company with such consistently dismal customer satisfaction ratings? Sure. But it's not a major line item per bill.

Interestingly, the biggest golden parachute Roberts can get comes if he's disabled on the job: $133MM. $70.6MM to his next of kin if he dies in office, and barely cab fare home of $27.5MM if they fire his ass. So the (no doubt also well-paid) cleaning staff of Comcast HQ had better be very careful with those Wet Floor signs.

This particular scuffle is everything to do with banks wanting to keep all the 2-5% transactions fees rather than share it with a phone vendor who has developed moderately secure payment hardware that is in the hands of millions of people.

Right. Because the banks are SO greedy (which they are), they can't even stomach someone else like Apple getting a whole 0.15%, for which people would have to pay for $451 BILLION dollars of stuff to even affect Apple's earnings by 1%. That's ridiculous of them. Right after we kill-off the lawyers, let's go after the bankers...

Keep drinking your PeeCee kooolaid while ignoring the truth dude.

http://fusion.net/story/17321/...

http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/fbi...

And as for banning all muslims, why is it you lefties "conveniently" never quote what he ACTUALLY said:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/07/...
"Donald J. Trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on," a campaign press release said.

Can you even now see the "until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on," part" or are you morons always gonna live in denial and keep leaving it out in a lame attempt to divisively make it sound like he meant it to be permanent?

In my opinion, a good president should put Americans first and is what the anyone filling the role of President is MORALLY OBLIGATED to do. History has already proved that the whole notion of putting Americans first is something that Hillary cant even get her head around (other than in well-rehearsed sound bites) let alone actually do. Lets not even put Hillary and Morals in the same sentence because even you must see how absurd that is. Pretty much everything she's already done as Secretyary of State comes down to to putting American lives second for her own personal convenience, power, or financial gain, most usually but not always through the Clinton Foundation.

This is demonstrably false; developed nations have much lower reproduction rates than the undeveloped nation. Once the risk of childhood mortality is eliminated, our species preferred reproductive strategy appears to be to use additional resources to improve the quality of our offspring rather than the quantity.

For the most part, all countries now have access to modern medicine, even the poorer ones with huge birth rates.

What drives population growth(/decline) is simple economics. In a poor rural society, the more hands the family has, the more farm work can be done. Often having children is their only "social security" when a person becomes too old to work.

In a modern first world economy, children are nothing but a gigantic family money sink. CNN Estimates a kid will cost you over $250,000 over 18 years in the USA now.

In another article on Slashdot, we have people boycotting a Silicon Valley business associated with a CEO who has dared to donate to Trump.

That's freedom of association and it's at least as fundamental a right as free speech. If that's how they choose to stand up for what they believe in, that's their business. You and I, in turn, may use this information to decide whom we want to associate with. I don't see the problem.

And we have a GOP office being firebombed just the other day.

That's a crime. That is a problem. I hope whoever did it is caught and does hard time.

Don't you dare pin this all on the right.

More to the point, don't pretend that "the right" or "the left" is a heterogeneous mass. In both cases, we're talking about a loose association of different individuals and groups with different agendas, some of whom are extremists.

To paraphrase a friend of mine:

It's okay to be a conservative; some values are worth preserving and defending. It's okay to be a progressive; the times they are a-changing. It's okay to be a radical; sometimes the joint needs to be shaken up. It's okay to be all three, perhaps on different issues. But it's never okay to be a fundamentalist.

It almost seems to me that some peoples' ideal free society is where certain people can literally say anything they want, and no one is ever allowed to call what they say into question. Again and again, what I see from the Trump camp and the Alt-right isn't the notion of freedom of speech, but rather freedom from consequences.

In another article on Slashdot, we have people boycotting a Silicon Valley business associated with a CEO who has dared to donate to Trump. And we have a GOP office being firebombed just the other day. But hey, it's all good because those are evil Republicans, right?

Don't you dare pin this all on the right. I've seen more than plenty from the left as well. Fascist assholes who simply want to silence their opposition are all over the spectrum, sadly.

The jobs aren't going away because people here are being replaced by better technology, the jobs are going away here because people are being replaced by workers in other countries who can work for less. These actions are of course being rewarded by the boards of the companies who are doing this.

Simply not true. Improvements in automation have made it more economical to automate than to send jobs overseas.

Also, the world doesn't have an endless supply of people willing to work for pennies. Sooner or later, people in developing countries will demand a higher standard of living. When that happens, labor costs increase dramatically.

“It's very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it.”

That was a cute joke, but Clintons have certainly beaten Trump to it. Unless you think, Bill and Hillary Clinton receiving hundreds of thousand of dollars per speech can be explained by anything other than his past presidency and, more importantly, the "inevitability" of her future one.

Having left the White house "dead broke" by their own admission, the couple are now worth tens of millions of dollars. What exactly have they sold in 15 years, that is that valuable?

That original quote is totally misunderstood... Trump said the first candidate to "run" and make money on it. I.e. - make money on RUNNING, not having anything to do with winning. Remember that once donors and the party started picking up the tabs he jacked up the rates on the offices and rooms in his own properties they were using? And now he plans to launch a TV network, etc? He doesn't need to win. He is saying he will be the first one to run, lose, cost the Republican party their shot at succeeding after Obama AND make off like a bandit anyway.

I'm amazed more people don't see through it all.

“It's very possible that I could be the first presidential candidate to run and make money on it.”

That was a cute joke, but Clintons have certainly beaten Trump to it. Unless you think, Bill and Hillary Clinton receiving hundreds of thousand of dollars per speech can be explained by anything other than his past presidency and, more importantly, the "inevitability" of her future one.

Having left the White house "dead broke" by their own admission, the couple are now worth tens of millions of dollars. What exactly have they sold in 15 years, that is that valuable?

>> I would not be surprised if the experimental driverless cars are in the top 1% of the top 1% of drivers in the world.

  Keep drinking the koolaid. Self driving cars have had plenty of accidents, such as these:
http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/2...
And they can't drive at faster than 25mph.
I drive consistently faster than the speed limit and haven't had a car accident in the last 30 years or so. Does that make me better than the 1% of the 1% (presumably of that 1%)?

"Note that the liberal media and Hillary are entirely ignoring the attack, probably because they know they bear some of the blame."

That, sir, is a lie, and you are a liar.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/16/...
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10...
http://abcnews.go.com/US/north...
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/po...

Statements by 'anonymous government sources' don't count.

The Russian hacks of the state election systems were not announced by "anonymous sources". They came directly from the FBI, as well as election officials in Arizona (red state) and Illinois (blue state). Oh, and Florida (red state).

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/12/...

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

Remember tho' - these Einsteins believe that the FBI is in on the Fix, cuz you know, they didn't put Grandma in a pantssuit in front of a firing squad.

Statements by 'anonymous government sources' don't count.

The Russian hacks of the state election systems were not announced by "anonymous sources". They came directly from the FBI, as well as election officials in Arizona (red state) and Illinois (blue state). Oh, and Florida (red state).

https://www.washingtonpost.com...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/12/...

https://www.theguardian.com/te...

That is true of every smartphone in existence. So what that means is that Apple copied my Nexus phone, so they are more guilty of copying.

They look nothing alike, you are just too pro Apple to even see the differences.

They all look alike, because they have been copying the iPhone (which was quite different from every other phone, and especially every other Android phone when it debuted) since the original iPhone in 2007. You are just too anti-Apple to see that. But maybe this will jog your memory. Or maybe this.

Why must I re-litigate this every other WEEK on Slashdot, when the evidence, dated nearly a YEAR after the iPhone debut and nearly 6 months after its RELEASE, regarding who-copied-who is right there in black and white? Heck, Android didn't even HAVE touch-input capabilities AT ALL until more than a YEAR after the first iPhone debuted!

So please, just stop. You're just embarrassing yourself.

Thanks to the incompetence of the US not being able to figure out the right group to back in Syria,
Anyone who is against the dictator Assad is a good place to start. Since Russia is actively engaged in supporting said dictator, anyone who is against Russia is also one to support.

I would suggest to watch this video to get an idea of what is really going on. You should also take a good look at Iraq and Libya to see what killing dictators actually gets you, i.e. major sources of terrorism and certainly not more freedom for the people, unless, of course, you consider getting killed by Islamists a "freedom" you actually want to achieve for these people.

and now the Russians have to figure out a way to get them downed.
Considering all the hospitals Russia is bombing, it sounds like Russia is substantially more incompetent.

Just like the the US and US backed Saudia Arabia, I guess.

Third, it's safe to assume Google tracks revisions to their pages, so yes, they would soon know who made the 'mistake'. Also, a letter like this should be shared with extremely few people within the company, so it shouldn't be hard to follow the chain until suspicious activity is found. Punishment for this sort of mishandling would be limited to a fine, however, so the FBI would go after Google's deep pockets rather than try to pin the crime on an individual. The employee should be safe from criminal charges, though not, presumably, from Google discipline.

Also, it's very likely that the set of people with access to the letter and the set of people with access to the systems to publish the letter are disjoint.

"Affordable" in the Affordable Care Act is very much akin to "unlimited" in unlimited bandwidth in a mobile phone contract. It's not so much an adjective as it is a branding label.

Still. Every insurance plan has an out-of-pocket maximum and the law prevents life-time limits on benefits. While it's possible for deductibles and out-of-pocket maximums to be quite high, I'm dubious about the claim, "depleted his savings and insurance benefits" -- unless he's not good at managing his own money. To be fair, the summary did say this happened over 18 months, so there could be some cost build up due to his case exceeding a calendar year and the deductible and out-of-pocket fees being reset (I don't know if it works that way for a continuing treatment).

Universal single-payer health plans don't (for the most part) have deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses.My first encounter with an out-of-pocket expense was last week - $5 for a DVD with a copy of my dental x-rays. First time in 60 years. I've literally spent months in hospitals, had a bunch of operations, dozens of treatments, and there's never been a co-pay or a deductible. The only time I ever saw even a copy of any bill was when Workman's Compensation sent me a copy of the bill they paid for one workplace accident tht required surgery - and that was strictly advisory - big notice saying "DO NOT PAY THIS!".

As for the universal drug plan, the maximum amount is $87.16. It's $0 for children under 18 (or 25 if they're attending classes), welfare recipients, and people receiving at least 94% of the old age guaranteed income supplement.

Your "Affordable Care Act" is not affordable, same as your "Transportation Safety Administration" screeners are useless because you don't need protection from a family-sized tube of tooth paste - they catch that, but they miss 95% of weapons and wasting more than half a billion on machines that have a lower success rate than dogs.

It doesn't have to be this way. Thank both parties for being in the hip pocket of the insurance companies.

First, Google has been released from the gag order on this NSL, so as I understand it Google could publish the letter now with no penalty.

Second, the constitutionality of these gag orders has been seriously challenged, so if Google was willing a fight they could probably publish any NSL they wished. Gag orders have historically been the purview of courts, and judges take a dim view of other people doing their job for them.

Third, it's safe to assume Google tracks revisions to their pages, so yes, they would soon know who made the 'mistake'. Also, a letter like this should be shared with extremely few people within the company, so it shouldn't be hard to follow the chain until suspicious activity is found. Punishment for this sort of mishandling would be limited to a fine, however, so the FBI would go after Google's deep pockets rather than try to pin the crime on an individual. The employee should be safe from criminal charges, though not, presumably, from Google discipline.

Don't take his word for it

http://gizmodo.com/an-iphone-i...
http://www.cultofmac.com/29186...
http://www.ubergizmo.com/2016/...
https://www.cnet.com/news/ipho...
http://www.pcr-online.biz/news...
https://9to5mac.com/2014/02/22...
http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/02/...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/09/29/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/09/30/ipho...
http://bgr.com/2016/10/03/ipho...

And those are just the first two pages of Google links. It's not just Apple - all phones do this. All phones with lithium batteries have a chance of entering thermal runaway. It's inherent in the materials. That said, the Note 7 was close to two orders of magnitude above what a consumer device really should be in terms of spontaneous combustion. Still low probability, but too high for the disruptive nature of and heat generating device on an operating aircraft.

1. SSN cited as evidence the govt is terrible at detecting and eliminating document frauds, mismatches, etc.

2. We already have a national ID standard. It was made law after 9-11 and all states are required to have compliant driver's licenses which include very clear indications of the holder's citizenship status. States like CA are currently in violation and the DHS has issued several warnings that their drivers licenses may soon not qualify as ID for boarding flights

3. even lazy journalists have been able to find that dead people are still voting, ineligible people get registered to vote, and people are registering and voting in multiple districts

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/11/...

A most delightful exposition of the prose a true artist can craft with language. +10, would read again.

Reality has a fascist bias.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/11/...

Speaking of facts getting in the way it wasn't dick Cheney who leaked Valerie Plame's name. There are plenty of things to go after Cheney for but this isn't one of them.

I think everyone is a little confused about how the justice system works. As it stands, a secret committee can sign a secret death warrant to be executed by the president against American citizens abroad, and the US attorney general Eric Holder wouldn't rule out the possibility of said extra-judiciary process being used on Americans on US soil. So I don't blame Trump for thinking that maybe the POTUS can rule like an emperor from time to time.

Trump may understand however that the justice system is compromised, as demonstrated by Email-gate where Clinton has already promised to keep Lynch as the attorney general. This is why Trump is choosing senator Trey Gowdy to be attorney general, and if you've actually watched the house judiciary meetings you'd see that if anyone is capable of cutting through the bullshit to get to answers when in an actual position of power, it would be Gowdy. It could be the one good thing that comes from a Trump presidency.

Bush unveils vision for moon and beyond - Jan 15 2004.

Washington (CNN) -- Computer technicians have recovered about 22 million Bush administration e-mails that the Bush White House had said were missing, two watchdog groups that sued over the documents announced Monday.

They were 'found in December, 2009.

re 'was remotely as sophisticated."
Recall the early "Julian Assange: 'A lot more material' coming on US elections" (July 27, 2016)
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/07...
"Perhaps one day the source or sources will step forward and that might be an interesting moment some people may have egg on their faces. But to exclude certain actors is to make it easier to find out who our sources are,"
Insider walk out like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... or Watergate like help https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/....
The US has a long history of insiders contacting the press, whistleblower laws and press publication protection.
Getting into any network from another nation's ip range is hard work. Staying in undetected, gathering data and then transferring it out in bulk without any discovery in real time is not safe using well understood tools that the wider public knows about.
US politics as normal, data walks the waiting press offers its full supports.

Samsung has sold millions of these things. Three of them have caught fire. That makes the odds of a device catching fire less than 1 in 1,000,000. Business Insider says that 17 cars catch fire every hour. Where are the cries for recalling cars?

I'm going to keep a copy of your post for safe keeping. This "what about y" device is constantly being invoked as justification for everything from mass surveillance to red rum so often in so many different contexts it usually makes me cringe/sigh Al Gore style whenever I encounter it.

Boldly inquiring about cries for recalling products that catch on fire takes it to a whole new level.

http://www.reuters.com/article...

http://q13fox.com/2016/09/30/s...

http://abcnews.go.com/Business...

http://www.techtimes.com/artic...

http://jalopnik.com/5935974/fi...

http://www.autonews.com/articl...

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/01/...

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04...

http://www.popularmechanics.co...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/...

http://www.streetdirectory.com...

https://www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2...

If you want to hear cries from victims themselves click keywords and enter fire. http://www-odi.nhtsa.dot.gov/o...

No. It doesn't work that way. Governments don't get to interfere in other country's elections without repercussions. Full stop. Especially covertly - if their motives are so noble why are they all cloak and dagger? Is it because they think people wouldn't like it if they started running ads on TV saying "Russia thinks you should vote for Trump"? You know, the last time the Russians interfered in our elections, people got kind of annoyed about it.

If you think saying this is locker room banter, stay the FUCK out of my locker room. I've heard some stuff in locker rooms and it didn't come close to this. You just don't get it, do you? There's a difference between "wow, she's hot, I'd like to fuck her, look at those boobs, think they're real?" and "I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything"

One is vulgar appreciation for hot women, which (while in poor taste perhaps) certainly qualifies as locker room banter. Guys think women are hot and would like to have sex with them - news at 11. Talking about how you, as a celebrity, get to "grab 'em by the pussy" and KNOWING that you get away with it is a whole other level. It's not abstract, it's not hypothetical, and there's mounting evidence that this has actually happened more than once.

You are what is wrong with this country. And you don't even understand why! Clinton's "basket of deplorables" comment was a pretty awful thing to say about her countrymates, but damn it all you just keep trying to prove it, huh?

Clinton is a damaged candidate in a lot of ways and I doubt she'll be seen as one of history's great presidents. Trump represents an existential threat to this country. And if you don't see why, you are the existential threat. Because the problem isn't Trump - it's you who have brought him to the cusp of power and given him the support he requires. Without you and your cohorts he has nothing but money. When he loses, you will still be there.

I have made it a point of pride to respect people I disagree with politically. I understood Mitt Romney and his supporters, I knew John McCain was a decent man, and thought Paul Ryan was looking out for the best interests of the country. I knew they saw the world and the country and its problems differently than I did, but that seems like a silly thing to lose respect over. This year that all went out the window. I can have no respect for the Trump supporter. It's that simple. You've allowed yourself to become so wound up over a bogus set of facts that you can't even see where you're going, and you can't be allowed to take the country with you. Even Trump campaign staffers have had enough!

"It's appalling. It's just flat out appalling," a Trump adviser said.

Asked about the reaction at a campaign field office, a Trump field staffer told CNN there were "gasps. Collective gasps. We're trying to get our heads around it right now, but there's no way to spin this. There just isn't."

Don't bother replying, I really don't care what you think. Instead take the time to ask a woman in your life what she thinks about someone famous and powerful grabbing them by the pussy because he knows she won't be able to do anything to him. You at least have a mother or aunt or sister or something so ask her.

Trump controls over 500 businesses. How many have gone bankrupt? 5 or 10? Seems like a pretty good record to me.

Yahoo (YHOO) said it recently identified a coordinated effort by hackers who tried to log into many email accounts with stolen usernames and passwords.

While chip alone may not be as secure as chip and pin, it is still more difficult to skim than the magnetic stripe.

New Security Flaw in Credit Card Chip System Revealed
by Jose Pagliery
August 5, 2016: 1:04 PM ET

Computer researchers claim to have found yet another flaw in the upgrade to the chip-based credit cards in the United States.

The chip on these credit cards have been praised for making them nearly impossible to counterfeit. While the cards also contain a magnetic strip, that strip is supposed to tell the payment machine to use the chip.

But there's a relatively easy way to knock down that safeguard.

Computer security researchers at the payment technology company NCR demonstrated how credit card thieves can rewrite the magnetic stripe code to make it appear like a chipless card again. This allows them to keep counterfeiting -- just like they did before the nationwide switch to chip cards.

They presented their findings at the Black Hat computer security conference on Wednesday.

This claim of a glaring hole in EMV, the chip-based system, is possible because of the way many retailers are upgrading their payment machines: They're not encrypting the transaction.

"There's a common misperception EMV solves everything. It doesn't," Patrick Watson, one of the researchers, told CNNMoney.

On Thursday, a banking and retail industry group that monitors the EMV system cast doubt on the theory.

"If the data on the magnetic stripe is altered it might fool the terminal," said U.S. Payments Forum director Randy Vanderhoof. But on the back end, the system would "reject the transaction."

But the discovery of this possible flaw bolsters the retail industry's complaints against the upgrade, which was forced upon shops by banks.

The National Retail Federation has long complained about the upgrade, which is estimated to cost American retailers $25 billion.

This latest research shows that retailers could spend millions of dollars upgrading to EMV and still not protect their customers from a massive credit card theft like the Target and Home Depot hacks two years ago.

Adding to the problem, payment terminal makers keep producing machines that don't have the encryption by default.

And vendors who sell and install these machines at shops don't simply flip the switch and turn on encryption. Retailers have to pay extra for basic security.

The major machine makers, Verifone and Ingenico, both asserted they offer point-to-point encryption on retailer's machines -- but it's up to retailers and their partners to turn it on.

Currently, retailers focus on protecting the computer network that support their payment system. But that leaves the actual conversation between your credit card and the machine in plain text, readable to any hacker who breaks into the system.

It's a mistake, said Mike Weber, vice president at the IT auditing firm Coalfire.

"They're assuming the environment is okay," he said. It's not.

During their presentation, the NCR researchers advised shops to "encrypt everything" in a transaction. They also said consumers should pay with special apps on their phones and watches whenever the high tech option is available.

CNNMoney (Las Vegas)
First published August 3, 2016: 9:02 PM ET

It's funny how Apple fanbois genuinely think Apple invented everything and support Apple's idiotic notion that everybody is copying them

THIS is what we were talking about. As you can plainly see, it is just a BIT more than a single feature or two.

Now STFU.

His first list of picks were way to the right, stock full of anti-abortion, anti-gay marriage zealots; and worse, politicians.

His new list seems like it was meant to appeal more to the center, this time including minorities. However, I wouldn't be surprised to later find he had no intention of really choosing any of these.

http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/23/...

The lack of backups is the result of thinking that gave the US the pager outage
"Why did satellite Galaxy 4 go off course?" (May 20, 1998)
http://edition.cnn.com/TECH/sp...
Most nations just buy into one direct to consumer network. Like one phone line, one satellite was seen as enough.
A lot of basic vital infrastructure around the world is just used all day, everyday with no thought to any backup.

First, I think this is an exceptional situation - there's a stupid, childish, hotheaded racist demagogue close to taking the White House. If we don't take exceptional (but legal) steps to stop this exceptionally bad situation from happening, then the lessons of history have been wasted.

Next, even though the rules have changed in an undesirable way, BuzzFeed is playing by the new rules, they're not doing anything the other side isn't. While it would be morally admirable to abstain from the newly legal behavior, if you're going to admonish them for playing by the rules then you should be consistent - you're the one showing selective, partisan outrage by singling out BuzzFeed.

Finally, Hillary has promised to overturn Citizens United within her first 30 days in office. Trump, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have a real position on campaign finance reform. On one hand, he implies that he doesn't like corporate money in politics in his campaigning, but on the other he's put forth far-right judges as potential supreme court picks, which would serve to maintain the status quo or even make it worse if possible. So, Buzzfeed's actions could serve to ultimately reduce corporate money's interference in politics, if Hillary keeps her promise.

If you don't like the loopholes, change the laws

That doesn't work. Rich people are mobile, and so is their money. Change the laws enough and they all leave your country and take most of the wealth with them. What you have to do is realize that the more you squeeze, the less you get. The higher taxes go, the more people find loopholes or out and out cheat. So stop turning people into criminals or scaring them out of your country and deal with the other end - the end that creates 2 BILLION dollar websites and fails to account for trillions (6.5 trillion - give or take a few hundred billion) without even a shrug let alone a scandal.

Yeah who am I kidding. As if taxation would even begin to cover the budget deficit in the first place.

Please cite your long list of examples of these toys being used in such a dangerous way

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-drone-near-miss-lax-20160318-story.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/07/08/two-drones-nearly-collide-with-nypd-helicopter-operators-arrested/#1294615f1db8
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/travel/unmanned-drone-danger/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/dec/23/champion-skier-marcel-hirscher-has-near-miss-as-drone-falls-out-of-sky
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/europe/uk-drone-near-miss/index.html
http://www.wsj.com/articles/faa-reports-more-aircraft-drone-near-misses-1417025519
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/29/ny-bound-pilot-swerves-to-avoid-collission-with-drone.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251543/Drone-owners-forced-register-devices-tracking-database-four-near-misses-aircraft-past-month-alone.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12180261/Number-of-near-misses-involving-drones-and-aircraft-quadruples-in-one-year.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-37042796
http://gothamist.com/2016/09/20/man_maybe_arrested_drone_crash.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/us/white-house-drone.html?_r=0
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/05/25/drone-crashes-hits-2-people-during-marblehead-parade/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/world/drug-drone-crashes-us-mexico-border/index.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/drone-crashes-stands-u-s-open-article-1.2348324
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/07/02/drone-crashes-in-brighton-mans-backyard/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/07/drone-crashes-into-yellowstone-hot-spring/13721055/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/drone-crash-university-kentucky-football-game-could-land-student-hot-water/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/drone-crashes-empire-state-building-man-arrested/story?id=36729221

Please cite your long list of examples of these toys being used in such a dangerous way

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-drone-near-miss-lax-20160318-story.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/07/08/two-drones-nearly-collide-with-nypd-helicopter-operators-arrested/#1294615f1db8
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/travel/unmanned-drone-danger/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/dec/23/champion-skier-marcel-hirscher-has-near-miss-as-drone-falls-out-of-sky
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/europe/uk-drone-near-miss/index.html
http://www.wsj.com/articles/faa-reports-more-aircraft-drone-near-misses-1417025519
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/29/ny-bound-pilot-swerves-to-avoid-collission-with-drone.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251543/Drone-owners-forced-register-devices-tracking-database-four-near-misses-aircraft-past-month-alone.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12180261/Number-of-near-misses-involving-drones-and-aircraft-quadruples-in-one-year.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-37042796
http://gothamist.com/2016/09/20/man_maybe_arrested_drone_crash.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/us/white-house-drone.html?_r=0
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/05/25/drone-crashes-hits-2-people-during-marblehead-parade/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/world/drug-drone-crashes-us-mexico-border/index.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/drone-crashes-stands-u-s-open-article-1.2348324
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/07/02/drone-crashes-in-brighton-mans-backyard/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/07/drone-crashes-into-yellowstone-hot-spring/13721055/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/drone-crash-university-kentucky-football-game-could-land-student-hot-water/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/drone-crashes-empire-state-building-man-arrested/story?id=36729221

Please cite your long list of examples of these toys being used in such a dangerous way

http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-drone-near-miss-lax-20160318-story.html
http://www.forbes.com/sites/gregorymcneal/2014/07/08/two-drones-nearly-collide-with-nypd-helicopter-operators-arrested/#1294615f1db8
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/09/travel/unmanned-drone-danger/index.html
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2015/dec/23/champion-skier-marcel-hirscher-has-near-miss-as-drone-falls-out-of-sky
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-30369701
http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/11/europe/uk-drone-near-miss/index.html
http://www.wsj.com/articles/faa-reports-more-aircraft-drone-near-misses-1417025519
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/05/29/ny-bound-pilot-swerves-to-avoid-collission-with-drone.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3251543/Drone-owners-forced-register-devices-tracking-database-four-near-misses-aircraft-past-month-alone.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12180261/Number-of-near-misses-involving-drones-and-aircraft-quadruples-in-one-year.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-37042796
http://gothamist.com/2016/09/20/man_maybe_arrested_drone_crash.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/28/us/white-house-drone.html?_r=0
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2015/05/25/drone-crashes-hits-2-people-during-marblehead-parade/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/01/22/world/drug-drone-crashes-us-mexico-border/index.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/drone-crashes-stands-u-s-open-article-1.2348324
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2014/07/02/drone-crashes-in-brighton-mans-backyard/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/08/07/drone-crashes-into-yellowstone-hot-spring/13721055/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/drone-crash-university-kentucky-football-game-could-land-student-hot-water/
http://abcnews.go.com/US/drone-crashes-empire-state-building-man-arrested/story?id=36729221

Peasant, don't you realize that Mylan is run by a Democratic Senator's daughter? Your lowly kind is not allowed to criticize the royalty of the exulted overclass! Grandees like Manchins or Clintons are not subject to your grubby "laws," nor are their gets.

Know your place!

Samsung is far-and-away the leader in that technology, and has the Patent Portfolio to prove it. So, they have had a merry old time, DENYING Apple their AMOLED parts (or pricing them so they are deliberately out-of-the-question).

How do you expect a supplier to act when you sue them for something as stupid as rounded corners? They brought that on themselves.

Let's dispel (once again!) that meme.

It was OBVIOUSLY a lot more than just "Rounded Corners".

So, kindly take your meme and STFU.