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I'm perfectly willing to believe, the authors of the Symantec software and the owners of the company want to have to provide a good anti-virus and do not want to cooperate with United States' spies. But the decision may not be up to them — US government has many more instruments at their disposal to convince businesses and individuals to "cooperate", than do the governments of free(er) countries.

Yes, Russian government has some such instruments as well — just pick, who you trust more...

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How many believed the many stories that some of the older bands had really powerful protection that always worked and that was beyond the funding any city, state or federal contractor could work with per case?
It was like Enigma, quick, easy and connected.
The face database is also interesting https://www.muckrock.com/news/...
".... larger database of between one million, twenty million, or potentially a billion faces to instantly identify in the field"

> Everything else you wrote is bullshit conspiracy theory

Everything else? Not going to be specific, just going to write off everything?

I said we don't know who killed him and why. Surely you're not actually contradicting that part? Look at the police report, there's just not much there.

Are you contradicting the part where I said there are security cameras in the area? Here's a nice list of them and maps. You can walk all around Flagler Place & W St. NW and look at them if you want. The linked thread has a picture of each one. Feel free to post your own photos showing the cameras aren't where they are shown to be.

Now if you're saying the killer(s) were found on camera, contrary to what I said above, well, the only source I can find claiming that is Fox News and there's been nothing public about it since then as far as I know. Should I be taking their word for it? Is that the point you want to argue?

I can go over DKIM cryptography if you want or pull the keys for you directly from the relevant DNS servers (they're still there... for now). Anyone who tries to tell you they've modified those has apparently hacked both Google and Hillary, or broken DKIM's cryptography. Do you need a lesson in exactly how to pull the keys from the DNS servers? Would you like to look at the RFC? Should we discuss what non-repudiation means and why it's important here?

But it's probably the Wikileaks thing, right? All I've said is "this is what Wikileaks said and why." I can only really go on what they've said, which is that they don't know who their sources are exactly. This implies that the only way they know a source is gone is that they cannot contact them any longer. There are surely many ways for this to be purely coincidental and I've said as much. But that puts you in the position of not disagreeing with something I said, but something I said someone else said. And they certainly did say what they said, you can go read it on the Wikileaks Twitter account if you wish.

Perhaps you are you disagreeing with the parts where I said Clinton didn't actually lie? You weren't very specific, you know. I pretty much have to guess here.

So please identify the specific item(s) you're disagreeing with here. I have specific, public sources that I have linked to. And if you're going to natter on about conspiracies based on "literally no evidence" please actually talk about the evidence I have presented instead of pretending you can't see it. Or make sure you disagree with claims I've actually made, not something someone else said.

As you may note, my posts above did not say that Clinton did anything to Seth Rich, nor have I alleged any direct evidence thereof, I just pointed out that people, like Wikileaks, have been suspicious, which is demonstrably true however much you hate them for it.

I work a few blocks from the proposed HQ site and there are construction cranes in all directions, & there is plenty of demand for office space in Fort Point and excellent freeway access due to Big Dig exit at convention center. We already have enough Internet of Things meetups believe it or not.

Muckrock and the Boston Institute of Nonprofit Journalism tried to raise $1700 demanded by the mayor's office for reproducing the GE emails. But who needs emails when the charm offensive has begun? BINJ did a five-part series on the scheme.

These crony style one-off deals are always terrible economics. The "free market" certainly will fill that space very soon. There is no lack of demand, instead tons of local money already develops this area. In Jan 2015 a parking ramp in Fort Point sold for $56 million or $106,500 per spot!

As noted above many in the population are furious #MakeGEpay protesting in the freeze of last weekend's clipper. (Mayor Walsh was elected with 52% on 38% turnout). The schools are facing a $50 million shortfall, students walked out just a few days ago partially protesting this.

In this deal they don't have to pay regular taxes, instead they get to muck around in the local school system with all the purse strings attached as the press release makes clear. Instead of letting the city get normal tax revenue and the School Board allocate money for programs GE gets to basically do what it likes, as the press release clearly specifies.

Sen. Sanders said they are "destroying the moral fabric" of the USA. Boston Magazine reported in January:

"GE isn't exactly a shining model of corporate conduct. The company is one of most notorious abusers of offshore tax havens, with $119 billion stashed away across 18 overseas locations as of 2015. Democratic presidential hopeful Sen. Bernie Sanders once named GE the nation's top corporate tax avoider. From 2002 to 2011, GE eliminated a fifth of its U.S. workforce while its offshore profits multiplied sixfold to $92 billion."

Do you really think that some of these Beacon Hill luminaries haven't been looking forward to a taste of that offshore $119,000,000,000?? The centralization of decisionmaking in the schools, by withholding program revenue, is unfolding in parallel to this incredible offshore tax scam. Maybe they want Ft Point Channel access to float in barges of cash, why not? I am disappointed none of this important info is in the story summary.

Why would anybody believe that the ATF is even investigating illegal grease dumping into municipal sewers?

I and received e-mails that show Seattle City Light staff requesting that ATF install a camera on an SCL pole. Why would they go to ATF? Because ATF owe them a favor or two for all the times SCL let ATF secretly install cameras on SCL poles for ATF's purposes. SCL security manager Doug Williams keeps a list of those. I've received an improperly-redacted installment of my request for present and past versions of that list.

Why would anybody believe that the ATF is even investigating illegal grease dumping into municipal sewers?

I and received e-mails that show Seattle City Light staff requesting that ATF install a camera on an SCL pole. Why would they go to ATF? Because ATF owe them a favor or two for all the times SCL let ATF secretly install cameras on SCL poles for ATF's purposes. SCL security manager Doug Williams keeps a list of those. I've received an improperly-redacted installment of my request for present and past versions of that list.

ATF and others have multiple surveillance cameras on Seattle City Light poles. In the 2011 grease-dumping investigation, SCL contacted ATF to request that they install cameras so that SCL could catch the dumpers. I learned this by reading e-mails to and from SCL, mostly to security manager Doug Williams, I received via Public Records Act request.

Would that be, before or after she said she doesn't play video games?

This is the no. 2 big lie, after the Quinn accusation, that GamerGate likes to maintain. She very clearly never said that. Watch the whole thing in context, she said that while she has been playing games since she was a young child she isn't a hardcore fan that pre-orders every new release and wallpapers their bedroom with WoW/Halo/DoA posters.

It wasn't a review, it was favorable coverage.

Oh, so you admit that the review was a lie? I'm glad we all agree on that now.

She got mentions over a pile of other indie games, not once but several times.

A partial screenshot of her game was used to head a list of 50 indy games once, before she got together with the journalist who assembled said list. That's it. Again, if you think otherwise, please provide links. I note that you did't provide any in this post, despite being challenged to.

Of course one can't forget the amount of harassment that she's engaged in

Unfortunately links to Reddit GG boards prove nothing. Reddit, and especially KotakuInAction, is not a reliable source of information. Do you have, for example, a police report or evidence of an on-going FBI investigation to back up these claims? We do.

PC gamer deleted all of Tyler Wilde's articles

Well done, a year of abuse and harassment and that is the greatest triumph of the GamerGate movement. Some coverage articles, not even reviews, were removed after complaints from a shitty video game mag. What a massive win for journalistic ethics, and surely it justifies all the other grief.

Since there have been at least a dozen confirmed bomb threats where GG has had their talks, panels and so on in the past

Again, where is your evidence? Why was this not reported to the police or the on-going FBI investigation of GG? If these threats have been "confirmed" then surely you have enough evidence to get the perpetrators arrested and charged, right?

Stop with the innuendo and making wild claims as if they were matters of fact, and post your irrefutable evidence. The onus is on you to prove all this shit, not on us to prove a negative.

There is an open investigation of GG by the FBI. No need to start one, it began a year ago.

Look, it's even documented on the shitty GG wiki: http://gamergate.wikia.com/wik...

Muckrock has some proof: https://www.muckrock.com/news/...

Well, it's whatever amount they need to charge to try to quash the request.

$52,000 for an initial FOIA search that other departments provide free.

Reasonless denial of fee waiver for non-commercial FOIA request by Techdirt for reporting purposes

I don't think the Department of Education has an enforcement division

Actually, I was recently surprised to learn that the Department of Education does have an enforcement division, and that they are armed with Glock 27s and Remington shotguns.

Here's an article with some of DOE's purchase orders over the past several years:
https://www.muckrock.com/news/...

Those lovely human beings who've published training manuals educating agents in the practice of systematically perjuring themselves to uphold false narratives? Or maybe those jovial policemen who budget for hypothetical asset forfeitures years from now?

They'd never go that far.

The intelligence agency has done this before to help the DEA and domestic law enforcement. Parallel construction has been proven for other investigations. It's unlikely any of them will give it up until they are forced to do so. https://www.muckrock.com/news/... http://www.reuters.com/article...

With the help of Michael Morisy and Muckrock, the FOIA request has been updated with an appeal to the NSA. https://www.muckrock.com/foi/united-states-of-america-10/request-for-information-on-government-programs-6022/

How many would ya like? I literally have 100's of posts catalogued on ANDROID security issues of ALL KINDS (hence, my point) year, after year, since I don't KNOW when (start of ANDROID really in 2005):

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/22/android_trojan_maytyr/

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/12/21/0058235/gaining-a-remote-shell-on-android

http://blogs.cio.com/mobile-security/16704/android-app-permissions-may-spark-false-sense-security

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/12/16/2039237/sprint-orders-all-oems-to-strip-carrier-iq-from-their-phones

http://www.bgr.com/2011/12/14/more-than-1-million-stolen-from-android-users-in-2011-mobile-threats-to-increase-in-2012/

http://www.muckrock.com/news/archives/2011/dec/12/fbi-carrier-iq-files-used-law-enforcement-purposes/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/12/android_market_malware/

http://blogs.computerworld.com/19391/mobile_security_at_takedowncon_hackers_handing_out_a_healthy_dose_of_paranoia

(Hey - I'll post even more current examples, as many as /.'s homegrown board engine will let me pack into another single post (I'll have room for more too, Too TOO MANY TIMES, lol!)).

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* PLEASE /. "CONTROLLERS": FIX THE FORUMS ENGINE: It only let me pack in 8 posts per post for examples that were requested of me... that's beat! What is this 8 links per post I just hit?? A hard-imposed limit by you, or just limits in your code??? String data parse problem??? Get rid of it.

(It leaves room for improvement of a post of mine here, as it would others, ones I could do right away, instead of having to multiply post data as evidences... & added backing)

Yes - where as you know? Hey - I always, deliver, perfectly, & accurately (pats self on back!!!), blowing the doors off of your best technically, in your trolls! Most are cowards & post AC - something they can never take credit for IF they somehow managed to "completely get the better of me" (impossible), technically in computing: Never has happened since I started posting here in late 2004, & never will! LOL...

* So that all "said & aside", by request no less? LMAO - "What's 4 Lunch @ APK's today?

Yes, kids - that's right, you guessed it: A truly, "SMOKED TROLL" named 'burning-toast' (lmao - rather aptly named, wouldn't you say? LOL!)

APK

P.S.=> "Next" (to whatever Pro-*NIX troll wants a shot @ the title of most technically excellent @ /., reigning champion APK on all levels)... lmao!

... apkb

You may not have noticed that the FOI Request was filed on 13-Aug and that the OSHA download page was only created on 27-Oct to satisfy it.

The "quality of the code" was one of the things that started it all. It couldn't even correctly report the temperature.

Anyways, here's the source code of the app in question disclosed per FoIA.

Didn't yet really look in it, but it's 2k SLoC of what seems to be moderately shitty Java for Android version, for example.

FTA:

The other issue is the source code. In my opinion, since we taxpayers paid for the development of this piece of shit, we should at least be able to modify and redistrubute the code. Apparently though, the Government doesn't have to supply any information which it considers to be a "trade secret," and OSHA has determined that this crappy source code is somehow a privileged secret. This means that the company which wrote the application was allowed to object to the release of the source code, since the time limit on their objection time has since lapsed and OSHA hasn't sent the source code, I can only assume that they have filed such an objection, making this $200,000 worth of broken proprietary software which the public isn't even allowed to fix.

Or he could do a bit of fact-checking Fuck, the source is not only available on a OSHA's Web site, it's also available on site the article itself links to.

Looking at the iOS version, there is very little code, and essentially no graphic or custom UI design. According to the original iOS developer's blog, there were indeed a lot of change requests that "began to add up." In light of the public outcry, I'd feel bad for the guy even if he had made the full $56,000 for his work on the app, which he clearly didn't.

Finally, compared to the requirements churn I've personally experienced subcontracting on similarly "trivial" projects in the private sector, a "mere" $56K sounds like a good deal. Taking salaries into account, I've seen Fortune 500 companies easily drop $50,000 on what amounts to a two-page proposal for a project with similarly trivial scope.

So even if "government" is the problem, returning to the trees sounds like a more promising solution than "business."