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  1. There is an expectation that you are not being monitored by the police state, up until this point. Technology is invasive the moment it becomes pervasive. I have no ability to OPT out of state surveillance, and the state has no expectation that they can monitor me without a court order. I would consider this a violation of 4th Amendment "Unreasonable" search ....

  2. Re:Stop the presses! Someone in IT fucked up! on US Homeland Security Employees Locked Out of Computer Networks (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    All News is fake depending on who is reporting and who is the reader/viewer.

    Kind of like "Planned Parenthood doesn't use public funding for abortion services". Technically "accurate", but really not even close to being accurate.

    A woman comes in for an abortion, but gets six other "tests" and diagnostics done. Pregancy test, Pap smear .... etc. All those other "tests" are paid for by government money, none of which are part of the actual "abortion" procedure. Since that Planned Parenthood clinic provides mostly abortion related services, they are "government funded" and would fold if they didn't get any other funding. They subsidize the Abortion with federal monies, using loopholes.

    Technically it is "true" that PP doesn't use federal dollars for "abortion". Realistically it is fully subsidized procedure using loopholes. Both sides are considered "alternative facts" by the other side. And the reason we can't have civil discourse about anything any more.

    And watch this get modded "Troll" since I used the inflammatory "Planned Parenthood / Abortion" example by people who can't actually debate the actual topic.

  3. Re:Doing more with less.. on US Homeland Security Employees Locked Out of Computer Networks (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    There are several issues with most systems that require certificates to work correctly.

    1) Certificates Expire, on a regular basis, have a plan to update them (Auto renew)
    2) Notifications should be sent to a "group" email address, not an individual.
    3) We have these things called "Calendars" use them
    4) Documentation is key, even if 1-3 fail you should have a searchable document that has they dates listed for key events.

    The problem is, nobody ever documents shit like this, because actual documentation process takes more time than actually doing the Cert updates.Except when you measure the failure to renew it in time.

  4. I prefer shortwave ham. Get off my lawn.

  5. Re:Linus is a dumb ditch digger on Linus Torvalds: Talk of Tech Innovation is Bullshit. Shut Up and Get the Work Done (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    I will answer it this way. What file system are you using? How many other file systems have you used in the past 20 years on Linux? That is one small bit of the Operating System known as Linux, which has nothing to do with what Unix was doing 35 years ago.

    Because Unix/Linux has been highly modularized, the innovation you fail to see is happening in all sorts of places. Usually followed by 99% perspiration in getting implementation working. And it appears and small increments in a huge ecosystem.

    Heck, I would even suggest to you that Linus Choosing GPL was "innovation" (even the GPL was innovative)

  6. Re:Dams, too on Nearly 56,000 Bridges Called Structurally Deficient (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    This is what I hear from the Democrats in Sacramento ...

    Help 'Not our President', we need Federal Funds to fix Calexit infrastructure that has nothing to do with federal anything!

  7. Re:Dams, too on Nearly 56,000 Bridges Called Structurally Deficient (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I wouldn't be surprised if a different environmental group was opposing spillway repairs because some subspecies of Meadowfoam lived nearby. Or some tree infestation beetle. Or fairy shrimp.

    You think I am joking? All three of those have been used to obstruct repairs and infrastructure projects in Butte County. They will literally classify same thing as a "endangered subspecies". I wouldn't be surprised if some local Environmental Group was protesting anything. They do that a lot around here.

  8. Re:Linus is a dumb ditch digger on Linus Torvalds: Talk of Tech Innovation is Bullshit. Shut Up and Get the Work Done (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    There is plenty of innovation in Linux. There is also 99 times more perspiration than innovation.

  9. Re:Dams, too on Nearly 56,000 Bridges Called Structurally Deficient (usatoday.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    I partially blame the Environmental groups involved, because of previous hyperbole used in previous reports. That being said (and being a nearby resident), I can assure you that most of the issue was due to the FAILED Primary Spillway not being maintained. The topover caused by the failed spillway was fully preventable, had the DWR and ACE and the rest done their job the last 7 years.

    But, instead, we have more infrastructure projects proceeding even though we can't maintain what we got. After all, we need a High Speed Rail Train between Fresno and Bakersfield ASAP!!!!

  10. 1) a young human being below the age of puberty or below the legal age of majority.
    synonyms: youngster, little one, boy, girl; More
    2) a son or daughter of any age.
    3) an immature or irresponsible person. "she's such a child!"

    #1 is the primary definition, and #3 is a reflection of #1. Technically everyone is a "child" according to Definition 2, and therefore that term is meaningless.

    Fake News because the framing of it was intentionally misleading "alternative facts"

  11. How old is a "child"? 27 year old woman isn't a child. So, yes, words have meaning, and ... Fake News

  12. THIS!!!

    Seriously, taking responsibility and putting it elsewhere only breeds more irresponsibility.

  13. Heavy Framing is fake news. This was an Op Ed piece at best.

  14. And "Nazi" and "Homophobic" and "Islamophobic" and "hate" and ... because they don't like it.

    It seems to me that you're under the impression that only one side has this problem, which indicates the extent of the problem.

  15. The entire story here is nonsense. It is a "non-story". Should have been relegated to a single short paragraph

    A 27 year old woman and her passenger died today in a single vehicle accident. The driver's BAC was .21, or nearly three times the legal limit

    Everything else is sensationalism and "fake news". Dad, Tesla, speeds, everything else is irrelevant or subjective. Opinion dressed up like news. And why Journalism is dead.

  16. And she was 27, and while she was the "child" of the man, she wasn't a "child" in society. This article was written in such a way to make it seem like "Tesla Bad" and "little girl playing with toys died", when the facts were almost exactly the opposite.

  17. You want "fake news" ? This is a great example of framing the story in such a way to cause distortion of emotion to elicit a particular result. Using words like "daughter / child" in combination is designed to make the person seem younger than 27 age that she was. Its like when we want to treat an 18 year old as an adult "Man/Woman" or as a child "Boy/Girl/Teenager". Man accused of murder .. one emotion, boy/teen accused of murder is quite a different one.

    It is all about creating the correct sensationalism and it is all part of the "fake news" that people are complaining about.

  18. Re:We already have mass surveilance on Face Recognition + Mandatory Police Body Cameras = Mass Surveillance? (siliconvalley.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, I really don't think the political left has thought this through. They want "civil war" but don't really understand how well armed the other side actually is. This civil war would last no more than a few minutes.

    Of course, they will run crying to their "safe spaces" and then wonder why they were all shot like fish in a barrel.

  19. Re:Arrest him and throw him into Gitmo on US-Born NASA Scientist Detained At The Border Until He Unlocked His Phone (theverge.com) · · Score: 2

    It isn't an illegal search, because he was transiting onto US Soil. There are special cases where 4th and 5th Amendment protections do not apply, and the border is one of those. Yes, even for US citizens. This is why Customs can search your luggage when you are entering in the country.

    My suggestion (check with your attorney first) is to offer to "unlock the phone" and navigate anywhere on the phone that the Customs people want to see, to verify that there is no dangerous material on the phone, but never relinquish the custody. There is much easier ways to smuggle info that could be in a phone across the border, like encrypted Email or files storage.

    As a libertarian, the whole specter of security theater is ludicrous on just about every level, except for the statists who want to control everyone else's lives.

  20. "What's Chrome?"

    "What's Firefox?"

    "Whats IE?"

    "Is that like AOL?"

    "I'm on Compuserve is that like the Internet?"

  21. Why would I want them to stop? There is nothing more fulfilling than playing dumb while walking them through the long line of stupid questions, wasting their time. We should all waste as much of their time as we can, that is the only way to make them stop. Cost of finding a victim goes way up, the profits go way down.

  22. Lions and Tigers shouldn't eat our friends either! And kitties, they shouldn't have any animal protein either*!!!!

    *Cats actually will die if they don't eat animal protein. Ever see what happens to a vegan cat? It is horrifying.

  23. Re: No man is an island on NYC Fines Airbnb Hosts For 'Illegal' Home Rentals (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    It doesn't mean we throw up our hands at assholes, which is ... what we see ... in places like ... Berkeley. That is what happens when there are enough assholes, and enough people supporting assholes, that they actually reverse the rule of law, commit acts of violence and anarchy and destroy property because ... like all assholes believe ... they can.

    Instead of dealing hard on the first guy that overturns the trash can or punching them in the face, we allow it to happen because they were "Just Protesting".

    So, what is the difference between the Black Bloc "Protest" and the Woman's March on DC "Protest" if they are both classified the exact same way?

    Sorry, but assholes are always the problem, but like pornography, everyone knows what one looks like, you just can't define it.

  24. Re:Because it's a totalitarian government on Why Has Cameroon Blocked the Internet? (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    "Love Trumps Hate"

    "Pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon"

    "Not my President"

    "I am a nasty woman" ...

    You object to Trump's use of Twitter, when the entire left is catchy sloganeering. They are reaping what they have sown. And not learning the lesson in the process.

  25. Re:Because it's a totalitarian government on Why Has Cameroon Blocked the Internet? (bbc.com) · · Score: 0

    Rule 19 is specific, and she violated it. Framing it around a letter from LSK is just a dodge. Get your news from somewhere else besides MSM.

    If you don't like rule 19, then by all means rail against that. Or if you don't like the hypocrisy in debates on the floor of the Senate, rail against that. But Pocahontas clearly violated that rule.