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  1. Prior whistleblowers did not go through proper channels, and were prosecuted. The proper channels are there to provide a method that is allowed within the NDAs signed. Snowden decided to publish rather than go through proper channels. He purposely committed treason and espionage when he had options available to him that did not break these laws.

  2. Apparently, they were perfectly ok with the breach and reporting he did until the video hit (after they told him they corrected the issue).

    He is only getting time because he made Sharon Harrington look bad.

  3. Re:Political stunt as it may've been... on Researcher Gets 20 Days In Prison For Hacking State Websites As Political Stunt (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    If they instead pick the lock on your car, filming it the whole time, tell you about it, and wait for you to fix it before posting the video on youtube?

    He informed them of the vulnerability and waited for it to be fixed before posting the video. They didn't have an issue with it until it made the lady in charge look bad.

  4. Re:Bad security is NOT an invitation to break in on Researcher Gets 20 Days In Prison For Hacking State Websites As Political Stunt (softpedia.com) · · Score: 1

    If someone picks your lock while filming it, tells you how they picked your lock, and gives you the chance to fix it before posting the video, would you really lock them up for trespassing when they didn't actually enter your house?

  5. Re:merely a simple matter of engineering... on Costa Rica Has Gone 76 Straight Days Using 100% Renewable Electricity (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    It works in Minecraft.

  6. Re:gasoline == old fashioned?? on Costa Rica Has Gone 76 Straight Days Using 100% Renewable Electricity (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    The heat and AC on EVs are the same system.

    The heater is actually more complicated in an EV. ICE heaters utilize the heat of the engine, EV heaters need to be electrically powered, which uses tons of power to produce heat. EV also have additional heaters on the batteries to prevent freezing in the winter (at least around here that would be required, and Maryland isn't exactly a northern state).

  7. Re:gasoline == old fashioned?? on Costa Rica Has Gone 76 Straight Days Using 100% Renewable Electricity (vox.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm wondering how they are defining geothermal as renewable. It isn't like the Earth will always produce that heat, and locally, they can actually shut down the heat source pretty easily. Most of the internal heat in the Earth comes from radioactive decay, which will slow down at some point.

  8. Re:Need to do two things on FCC Chief To Unveil Revised Plan To Eliminate Cable Boxes (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Unless they have a well and deal with their own water needs.

  9. Re:I have my own plan to eliminate cable boxen. on FCC Chief To Unveil Revised Plan To Eliminate Cable Boxes (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Get a AP or Wifi router with removable antennas and put a yagi antenna on it, configure it as a wireless client (rather than AP) and plug your computer into the wired port. That should allow you to access the city AP by pointing the yagi at the city's AP.

    Or something like this should do what you need:

    https://smile.amazon.com/Ubiqu...

  10. Re:A more useful measurement on A Small Asteroid Buzzed Earth Wednesday, But Everything's Cool (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    You do realize that all modern sports that aren't done on horseback could be named football, right? Foot referred to the sport being played on foot.

  11. Re:Game the system like everyone else, Cuba on Cuba Is Blocking Text Messages That Contain Words Like 'Democracy' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all the rest.

    Please, name a single form of government that has been better in practice than Democracy.

  12. Have you ever received a text message from Cuba with the "banned" words? There is your evidence. /s

  13. Are there any capitalist dictatorships?

  14. Re:Democracy Is A Failure on Cuba Is Blocking Text Messages That Contain Words Like 'Democracy' (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Democracy is the worst way to run a government, except for all the other types of government that have been tried.

    Name one form of government that has turned out better in practice than Democracy.

  15. Re: This almost makes me want to move to Canada... on Canadian Telecoms Will Try to Justify Their 'Ripoff' TV Plans Today (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    That's nice. I am glad it works for you, for a sample of how it would work in the US, take a look at any recent story about medicare/medicaid or the VA health system, as those are examples of socialized medicine in the US.

  16. Re: Great firefighters on Dutchman Dies in Tesla Crash; Firefighters Feared Electrocution (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Or for that matter the risk from 10-20 gallons of extremely flammable gasoline.

  17. Re:WE'RE ALL GONNA DIE! on Dutchman Dies in Tesla Crash; Firefighters Feared Electrocution (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yup, roughly the same level of risk of any other car on the road. In fact, it has less risk than 90% of the cars on the road, but let's not pick nits.

  18. Re:Is using a dead womans voice... on Star Trek's LCARS Could Become Your Virtual Assistant (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    As far as I recall, Angel had an ending. Was the ending just not good enough or something?

  19. Re:Feels a bit ... too much on Star Trek's LCARS Could Become Your Virtual Assistant (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

    I found one mistake!

  20. Re:Feels a bit ... too much on Star Trek's LCARS Could Become Your Virtual Assistant (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically, Musk is an African-American, but generally not what people mean by that term.

  21. Re:Its all peaceful, till the ships chase you off on China Plans To Build A Deep-Sea 'Space Station' In South China Sea (huffingtonpost.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Sometimes, when you're facing a mad rabid dog, foaming at the mouth and blind from hatred, you have to put it at bay by growling too and being ready to deal it a fatal blow.

    So, you are suggesting that the US should growl at NK instead if the current policy of ignoring the childish idiot?

  22. There is a moron involved, but it is not of the oxy type.

  23. Re:Lots of skepticism over this one on China Plans To Build A Deep-Sea 'Space Station' In South China Sea (huffingtonpost.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Because of course the Hague and all international agreements are nothing compared to historic claims of ownership. We should all bow down and accept that China illegally annexed that territory.

    http://www.aljazeera.com/news/...

  24. Re:Diffe rent engineering reqs on China Plans To Build A Deep-Sea 'Space Station' In South China Sea (huffingtonpost.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I think the power generation might be slightly different as well. Most space habitats have been solar powered, and under the sea, I just don't see solar working terribly well.

  25. Re: like mcse and ccna on ITT Tech Is Officially Closing (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    When I took the MSCE in 2000, you had to know (among many other subject) how to super and subnet a network segment. Like actually how to do the math and figure out the broadcast and network addresses, and what the subnet mask should be.

    I don't think you know what the MCSE ever took to achieve, as it is far more in depth than you would expect.