> the fact that the US Federal government is spending billions of dollars to try to repair some of the damage from Snowden's theft and leaks
They are choosing to spend the money, but they haven't demonstrated the damage.
I see many benefits. The security community and users have a better understanding of the risk landscape and have been changing their behavior as a result.
And bouncing a person into court before they can get a lawyer to represent them that they couldn't afford anyway, so they can dismiss their appeal on procedural rules he wasn't qualified to navigate. Yay! A win for justice!
In comparison, I'm a Brit living in the US, with a green card.
The UK government wanted tax filings for a couple of years after I moved. The first year because I still has prorated taxes in the UK, the second because they didn't understand I was gone, I filled in the "I don't live here any more" excuse section. After the second year I had a call with a tax inspector in the UK to explain. They didn't want any more tax filings from me.
No. We all love to hate on OpenSSL because it's a pile of poo.
There are vested interests who make a living because they have write permissions to OpenSSL and they can charge companies to do it and the barrier to entry to others is really high because it's a undocumented, over complex pile of source.
I used to think Turbotax was a device for chopping flat fish.
Regardless, I use Turbotax through inertia and laziness. My taxes are a little complex - wife has a business, home office and all that malarky. I have stocks and options and RSUs and the broker never reports it correctly.
The inertia and laziness bit comes in where TT remembers the numbers from last year and displays them next to this year's. This is a good thing because it shows you the ballpark number you're looking for. If your home office utility costs are half of last year's, you've missed something.
The business (retail store, we live above it) tax logic is complex and TT has no clue how to handle that. You cannot throw a year of transactions are TT and have it work it out. It cannot distinguish a sale-of-goods from a class-registration-fee from an asset. Intuit would have you enter it all into Quickbooks manually (the import/export does not work, deliberately so), but QB sucks donkey balls. So the business tax logic is untangled in spreadsheets I developed.
When I get that automated and integrated into the point-of-sale software (that I wrote in python+curses for retro/modern geek points) my life will get simpler. But this requires the bank to use a consistent format so transactions can be tallied.
I have not heard of Lucas Nussbaum or Neil McGovern before, but if retaining Lucas Nussbaum at the helm means Debian will continue to release what is IMO the best Linux server distribution out there, then there are no complaints from me.
I wholeheartedly agree. Also, McGovern puts the -Mc in Govern, so he's probably the man for the job.
Alas Senator McGovern, in his counter-scientific war on fat, has probably killed more Americans than any war.
Don't take the McGovern name as a true test of good governance.
I'd put a random distribution of holes in his worthless head!
I believe you mean psuedorandom. (*bang*)
Would they get the same distribution with the same initial conditions? No, of course the wouldn't because quantum uncertainty underlays the interactions between component particles of the experiment. So it's a nondeterministic random distribution, not a pseudorandom distribution.
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> You mean like Chicago?
I change in Chicago when flying to the UK you insensitive clod!
Come back and say "I told you so" when we get invaded by an aggressor nation empowered to do so by the Snowden leaks.
Until then, all you are arguing is that embarrassment of the government constitutes damage to national security. That is purest, top quality bullshit.
BDB for the win, but only the version before the license change.
So is your orthograph.
I think he was just writing in one of those Proprietary Oracle SQL variants.
> the fact that the US Federal government is spending billions of dollars to try to repair some of the damage from Snowden's theft and leaks
They are choosing to spend the money, but they haven't demonstrated the damage.
I see many benefits. The security community and users have a better understanding of the risk landscape and have been changing their behavior as a result.
>They're probably one of the last competent police forces on the planet
Is that because they're mounted or despite their superequine status?
And yet you haven't shown a single detrimental results from the Snowden leaks. Not one, unless you count the forced travel plans of Mr Snowden.
>It will cost billions to fix for the US and the taxpayers will foot the bill.
I haven't noticed the sky fall in yet. Maybe that information didn't need to be secret.
Read TFA. It suggests otherwise.
So the judge ruled in his favor because of Gideon? Oh wait..
And bouncing a person into court before they can get a lawyer to represent them that they couldn't afford anyway, so they can dismiss their appeal on procedural rules he wasn't qualified to navigate. Yay! A win for justice!
That's what's great about the legal system. Procedural rules trump right and wrong.
Why not?
In comparison, I'm a Brit living in the US, with a green card.
The UK government wanted tax filings for a couple of years after I moved. The first year because I still has prorated taxes in the UK, the second because they didn't understand I was gone, I filled in the "I don't live here any more" excuse section. After the second year I had a call with a tax inspector in the UK to explain. They didn't want any more tax filings from me.
No. We all love to hate on OpenSSL because it's a pile of poo.
There are vested interests who make a living because they have write permissions to OpenSSL and they can charge companies to do it and the barrier to entry to others is really high because it's a undocumented, over complex pile of source.
The evidence suggests that 'quantum' has a lot to do with it.
I used to think Turbotax was a device for chopping flat fish.
Regardless, I use Turbotax through inertia and laziness. My taxes are a little complex - wife has a business, home office and all that malarky. I have stocks and options and RSUs and the broker never reports it correctly.
The inertia and laziness bit comes in where TT remembers the numbers from last year and displays them next to this year's. This is a good thing because it shows you the ballpark number you're looking for. If your home office utility costs are half of last year's, you've missed something.
The business (retail store, we live above it) tax logic is complex and TT has no clue how to handle that. You cannot throw a year of transactions are TT and have it work it out. It cannot distinguish a sale-of-goods from a class-registration-fee from an asset. Intuit would have you enter it all into Quickbooks manually (the import/export does not work, deliberately so), but QB sucks donkey balls. So the business tax logic is untangled in spreadsheets I developed.
When I get that automated and integrated into the point-of-sale software (that I wrote in python+curses for retro/modern geek points) my life will get simpler. But this requires the bank to use a consistent format so transactions can be tallied.
I have not heard of Lucas Nussbaum or Neil McGovern before, but if retaining Lucas Nussbaum at the helm means Debian will continue to release what is IMO the best Linux server distribution out there, then there are no complaints from me.
I wholeheartedly agree. Also, McGovern puts the -Mc in Govern, so he's probably the man for the job.
Alas Senator McGovern, in his counter-scientific war on fat, has probably killed more Americans than any war.
Don't take the McGovern name as a true test of good governance.
I'd put a random distribution of holes in his worthless head!
I believe you mean psuedorandom. (*bang*)
Would they get the same distribution with the same initial conditions? No, of course the wouldn't because quantum uncertainty underlays the interactions between component particles of the experiment. So it's a nondeterministic random distribution, not a pseudorandom distribution.
I know of no other interpretation. It is the only one that came to mind.
>make XFCE behave itself
Please elaborate on how XFCE isn't behaving itself.
> taking any kind of IP and running away with it, which would basically kill the industry
How do you get from 'taking IP' to 'killing the industry'?
The free flow of ideas and techniques is what drives technology and industry.
>And IP theft.
I think you mean copyright infringement.
As the sigmas go up, the so does the probability that your experiment was flawed.
Economics isn't the dismal science, statistical inference is.
Look what happened to polio culture. Not cool, man. Not cool.
This? https://www.youtube.com/watch?...