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  1. Re:Military funding to thwart this threat? on Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables Concerns US (nytimes.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    God, the same tired old comments from Russian trolls and those that have bought into their sophistry.

    The US took almost no part in the Ukrainian uprisings. And your Mexico analogy clichéd and tired as it is, is just wrong. Ukraine was pivoting to the EU. You know that economic alliance almost literally right next door to Ukraine.

  2. Re:Military funding to thwart this threat? on Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables Concerns US (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    The only interest in the US with Ukraine was a semi-formal agreement when they gave up their arsenal to protect them. I'm not sure where you get the CIA drivel from. RT maybe?

  3. Re:Military funding to thwart this threat? on Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables Concerns US (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Or because a crumbling Soviet Union with nukes is a recipe for chaos. And packing up and going home wasn't an option to make sure things stayed secure. Ironically, until Russia's actions back in '06, the US was drawing down in Europe, etc.

  4. Re:More American propaganda on Russian Presence Near Undersea Cables Concerns US (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1, Insightful

    1. Shout tropes and memes about government spending
    2. Dismiss legitimate concern
    3. Get paid for troll comment.
    4. Rinse, repeat.

  5. Re:Good for him on 'Clock Kid' Ahmed Mohamed and His Family To Leave US, Move To Qatar · · Score: 1

    Well yeah, taking apart clocks is serious business in the middle east.

  6. Re:I'm going to make this easy for you! on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Here's some substance for you.

    18 USC 793 subsection F

    (f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
    Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

    There was classified information in those emails and she should've known given her position. Also, as far as classified email is concerned, "conventional email" isn't used. You can't just forward or email classified information to a private email like that.

  7. Re:Don't trust the gov to use good technical solut on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    18 USC 793 subsection F (bold added by me for emphasis)

    (f) Whoever, being entrusted with or having lawful possession or control of any document, writing, code book, signal book, sketch, photograph, photographic negative, blueprint, plan, map, model, instrument, appliance, note, or information, relating to the national defense, (1) through gross negligence permits the same to be removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of his trust, or to be lost, stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, or (2) having knowledge that the same has been illegally removed from its proper place of custody or delivered to anyone in violation of its trust, or lost, or stolen, abstracted, or destroyed, and fails to make prompt report of such loss, theft, abstraction, or destruction to his superior officer—
    Shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.

    https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...

  8. Pro doesn't have as many issues from what I can tell.

  9. Re:I'm going to make this easy for you! on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    It's a wonder you were modded insightful... others have thoroughly explained why you're wrong here.

  10. Re:Don't trust the gov to use good technical solut on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    At that point she has a duty to report the spillage. Failing to report those things is also an offense.

  11. Re:Here here! on Happy Ada Lovelace Day (findingada.com) · · Score: 2

    No they aren't, rates are climbing.

  12. Re:Why is this about security? on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Of course... on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Keep repeating the lie.

  14. Re:Don't trust the gov to use good technical solut on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 0

    You're an idiot if you think her server was more secure.

  15. Re:Don't trust the gov to use good technical solut on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    Governor Sarah Palin wasn't privy to classified information.

  16. Re:Don't trust the gov to use good technical solut on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 1

    None of what you said was true.

  17. Re:I'm going to make this easy for you! on Clinton Home Servers Had Ports Open (ap.org) · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    *TL&DR - I'm biased and choosing to stick my head in the sand on this issue.

    There you go.

  18. Clean up your code! on Danish Bank Leaves Server In Debug Mode, Exposes Sensitive Data In JS Comments · · Score: 2

    Seriously, clean up your code before committing or signing off on a task.

  19. Re: Enlightenment on Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer · · Score: 1

    Well the original intention was to point out that not tolerating Galileo doesn't mean not tolerating science. Galileo was person not a concept.

    As for church doctrine. There was no church doctrine about or against the heliocentric theory. He was excommunicated for attempting to preach alterations to the understanding of scripture based on his research. Research that at the time lacked enough evidence too. While doing this he was also offending all those that lodged valid criticisms to his hypothesis. He not only had the Church against him for the above, but also his fellow academics who actually helped push the Church to act against him. I'm simplifying here, but ironically it wasn't simply over his scientific theories.

  20. Re:Enlightenment on Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer · · Score: 1

    Probably because Nicholas wasn't saying that Hermetism was the one true religion or because he worshipped the Egyptian god Thoth.

  21. Re:International Association of Exorcists on Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer · · Score: 1

    It's a good thing the Spanish Inquisition wasn't an official inquisition of the Catholic Church.

  22. Re:Brother Guy rocks: on Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer · · Score: 1

    No you don't, it's irrelevant. In fact you're bolstering his argument that religion didn't impede science.

  23. Re: Enlightenment on Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer · · Score: 1

    Galileo != science.

  24. Re:Enlightenment on Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer · · Score: 1

    Also see number four in this: http://thefederalist.com/2014/...

  25. Re:Enlightenment on Talking Science and God With the Pope's New Chief Astronomer · · Score: 1

    Servetus was burned as a heretic by Protestants. Someone else already touched on Galileo.

    Bruno was not persecuted for his scientific research either.

    From http://www.theguardian.com/sci... :

    The answer, it seems, is yes (a bit) and (mostly) no. In the first episode, a rather hefty portion of airtime (11 out of 43 minutes) is devoted to an animation on the life of Giordano Bruno. Burnt at the stake by the Roman Inquisition in 1600, he was there to play the role of scientific hero and martyr. It is an ill-fitting part for this idiosyncratic Dominican monk.

    Laudably avoiding any temptation to snark, Meg Rosenburg took the sudden interest in this reasonably obscure figure as an opportunity to help those who might Want to Know More About Giordano Bruno. While Bruno’s cosmological poetry and mystical thought included heliocentrism, he was not, of course, a scientist, nor was he sentenced to death for “scientific” ideas or anything like “the nice-mannered, doe-eyed dissenter” that appears on the screen.

    From http://motherboard.vice.com/bl... :

    But the truth is that Bruno's scientific theories weren't what got him killed. Sure, his refusal to recant his belief in a plurality of worlds contributed to his sentence. But it's important to note that the Catholic Church didn't even have an official position on the heliocentric universe in 1600, and support for it was not considered heresy during Bruno's trial.

    On top of that, his support for Copernican cosmology was the least heretical position he propagated. His opinions on theology were far more pyrotechnic. For example, Bruno had the balls to suggest that Satan was destined to be saved and redeemed by God. He didn't think Jesus was the son of God, but rather “an unusually skilled magician.” He even publicly disputed Mary's virginity. The Church could let astronomical theories slide, but calling the Mother of God out on her sex life? There's no doubt that these were the ideas that landed Bruno on the stake.