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  1. Re:Compuserve / AOL on Ask Slashdot: Living Without Social Media In 2015? · · Score: 1

    Don't forget Geocities.

  2. Re:Transparency on EFF Questions US Government's Software Flaw Disclosure Policy · · Score: 1
  3. Re: EFF IT UP SOME MORE! on EFF Questions US Government's Software Flaw Disclosure Policy · · Score: 1

    Wrong. No matter what, a Republican or a Democrat will be elected. The difference between the GOP and DNC on mass surveillance is exactly 0.

    Yes, I'll vote 3d party, but I know the score.

  4. Re:*sigh* on Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad Thinks He Doesn't Use E-mail · · Score: 1

    Start at 11:14 -- if you take her later comments around 13:29 out of context, it sounds like she is criticizing GWB's push for war. If you put it in context, it is exceptionally clear she is criticizing cutting taxes during war and that her opinion is that getting rid of Saddam is equivalent to whatever went on in Bosnia and that we should do it. She doesn't care if the world community is against war in Iraq -- she thinks we should go alone, but she also thinks GWB should have tried harder to get world support.

    So... she supports the war (increases costs) but does not support tax cuts. That's about exactly what the GP said. To mean the opposite, she would have to have said war with Saddam is a bad idea. Period. What she did say is that war in Iraq was a _good_ idea AND taxes should not be cut. Seriously, explain how she didn't say that.

  5. Re: *sigh* on Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad Thinks He Doesn't Use E-mail · · Score: 1

    That's the way it always is with an adverse inference. For example, one party requests discovery, the other party destroys it -- adverse influence instruction. Nobody knows for certain what was destroyed (if they did, it would be actual evidence because there'd be a copy or something like that) -- but the jury is allowed to infer (i.e guess) that it would be damaging. That's the whole point of the adverse inference instruction -- by destroying possible evidence, it is presumed you are destroying evidence that would be damaging, even if in actual fact the evidence would not have been damaging. It's the best we can do in that circumstance and the evidence destroyer, whether Olly North or HRC, should get fucked hard over it.

  6. Re:*sigh* on Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad Thinks He Doesn't Use E-mail · · Score: 1

    The fact that I recognize HRC for a neo-con warmonging surveilling Democrat makes me a Republican? Funny -- I can't tell the difference between the New GOP (aka Democrats) and the Old GOP (aka parody of itself). If Nixon had a godchildren, they'd be named GWB, Obama, and Clinton. These latter three get to do way more than he ever did, and Obama even got Nixon's health care plan passed.

    Anyway, go take your partisan bullshit and fuck yourself with it in the eye. I hate them both, GOP and DNC alike because they are exactly alike.

  7. Re:*sigh* on Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad Thinks He Doesn't Use E-mail · · Score: 1

    But if a Clinton get's elected again, I know at least one thing for sure, that is that she won't start approving tax cuts while boosting spending (gotta boost that Military industrial complex or they might not get their checks at election time) like the Republicans want.

    When HRC was agitating to get a war started in Iraq back in the early 2003, she said exactly that, which is awesome if you consider starting a war in Iraq a good thing:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

    • 1:40 HRC enters room
    • ~ Code pink intro: war in Iraq will harm American and Iraqi families and cost a lot.
    • 6:30 HRC parrots the WMD arguments, blames the danger to Iraqis on Hussein, ignores harm to Americans, financial costs, and the fact that Iraq was not a threat to the US nor involved in 9/11.
    • 8:52 HRC lies about careful review of WMD info. HRC never even read the National Intelligence Estimate which while suggesting WMDs existed, also contained significant disagreements with that conclusion that a reader not interested in a particular outcome would have agreed called the whole thing into question.
    • 10:00 Audience member: not up to the US to disarm Hussein, up to the world community, Iraq has no connection to terrorism, not only are Iraqi people in danger, so are US people, and will harm the economy. It's reckless.
    • 11:14 HRC: The world community would not take on difficult problems without US forcing the issue. Goes on and on about Bosnia. Segues into how GWB tax cuts are a bad idea.
    • 13:29 Interesting note on the negative effect of the tax cuts: "Here at home, this administration is bankrupting our economy forcing us to make the worst kinds of false choices between national and homeland security, which they don't fund ..."
    • -- IOW, HRC would have preferred GWB raise taxes for more war and domestic surveillance. --
    • 14:12 HRC is given a pink slip
    • 14:20 HRC goes off: "I am the Senator from NY I will never put my people at risk ..."
    • -- Yeah, like Saddam had anything to do with 9/11
  8. Re: *sigh* on Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad Thinks He Doesn't Use E-mail · · Score: 1

    However, destruction of evidence leads to an inference that the information would be damaging.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A...

  9. Re:*sigh* on Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad Thinks He Doesn't Use E-mail · · Score: 1

    Astroturfer, and a bad one.

    Clinton is PUBLIC official.

    I am a PRIVATE citizen.

    That a public official should be required to save absolutely everything says absolutely nothing at all about what a private person like me can do with my email. Even the spam. Who knows, they could be be making deals with cleverly spam-appearing emails and so those need to be stored for analysis too.

  10. Re: *sigh* on Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad Thinks He Doesn't Use E-mail · · Score: 2

    Obama has had almost 8 years to stop being Bush III. He obviously is much of a police-state neo-con as the one who went before.

  11. Re:*sigh* on Iowa's Governor Terry Branstad Thinks He Doesn't Use E-mail · · Score: 2

    None of them were subject to the draft, so your point may have value actually.

  12. Re:Suck it Millenials on Millennial Tech Workers Losing Ground In US · · Score: 1

    I was just thinking this. I'm a gen-Xer, had a TRS-80 CoCo when I was a kid, went through DOS (including DR-DOS), and all that. I never had to learn to solder -- switching jumpers maybe but that was it.

    Anyway, I've been fooling around with arduinos recently and it's been a lot of fun and frustration. Arduino lowered the barrier to using tiny low power microchips but it hasn't yet been lowered so far that people are just button pressing on apps. As a result, the youth of today have a great opportunity to learn some very interesting skills at a price point bordering on free, at least compared to the cost of computers when I was a kid in the 80s.

    Mostly, I think articles like this are just generational click-bait. I would suspect that millennial's issues are in part due to there being a glut of other millennials. Of course, gen-X had its own issues in the other direction, there being a glut of boomers ahead of us and that glut creating different problems we got stuck with.

  13. Re:Is it time for a nationwide class-action lawsui on Comcast's Incompetence, Lack of Broadband May Force Developer To Sell Home · · Score: 0

    Are you fucking high? The same SCOTUS that ruled corporation are people and opened the floodgates for same corps to buy elections?

  14. Re:Fuck those guys on Online "Swatting" Becomes a Hazard For Gamers Who Play Live On the Internet · · Score: 1

    They could always try a telephone or bullhorn and ask some questions including permission to enter.

  15. Re:Your government at work on Islamic State Doxes US Soldiers, Airmen, Calls On Supporters To Kill Them · · Score: 2

    The difference between ISIS and the USA, is that when the USA tortures or murders innocent people, it forces news organizations to sue under the FOIA for pictographic or video evidence. When ISIS does that stuff, it posts the evidence to youtube. Either way, the actions are despicable, ISIS is just less media savvy (the US having learned from Viet Nam the importance of limiting what gets published).

  16. Re:Shit! on How 'Virtual Water' Can Help Ease California's Drought · · Score: 1

    That makes sense for tomatoes, but nuts store really well.

  17. Re:Shit! on How 'Virtual Water' Can Help Ease California's Drought · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You jest, but why has it become such a novel concept to grow nut trees where there is no need to water them at all, that it can be seen as joke? I don't know about almonds -- maybe they need hot weather -- but walnuts grow fine over large swathes of the country without ever being watered by anything but the rain.

  18. Good for what kind of life? on Greenpeace Co-Founder Declares Himself a Climate Change Skeptic · · Score: 1

    Gazzilions of years ago or whenever it was, when the oil we use now was floating around in the form of giant mats of algae, some belching deadly hydrogen sulfide as they decompose, there was a lot more life on the planet. But do we really want to live on a world choked with so much scum? Over time, that algae turned to oil and the carbon really was sequestered -- but now we're putting it all back into circulation -- I suppose it could become more animals, more corn, more people, but it could also become massive amounts of stinking toxic slime.

  19. Re:WE ARE SLASHDOT on "Hello Barbie" Listens To Children Via Cloud · · Score: 4, Insightful

    This is marked funny, but think about it for a minute. Our computers, phones, tablets -- even watches -- are collecting way more information than this Barbie is and yet how many people think these ubiquitous machines are creepy? Not many. The lesson here might be this: the shape of the surveillance device doesn't make it creepy -- what it collects is what makes it creepy. Oddly though, very few people are creeped out by their own phone.

    Two conclusions based on "shape irrelevant":

    1) Barbie, phones, computers etc. etc. have become extremely creepy surveillance devices (this is where I am, which is depressing, because I've loved technology for so long).

    2) Barbie, phones, computers etc. etc. are surveillance devices and surveillance is totally not creepy -- just don't care.

    To mix and match 1 & 2 though, making barbie creepy and siri not, is inconsistent and illogical.

  20. Re:Arduino hardware = Dead on arrival on Fight Over Arduino Name Pits Originators Against Contract Manufacturer · · Score: 2

    I've been studiously buying official boards because that means money went back to Arduino in some way (http://arduino.cc/en/Main/FAQ , scroll down a little to the official board part).

    However, if they're just going to be burning their time and money on litigation -- well, I'm not so keen on supporting that and I think I'll just start buying clones.

  21. Re:This sucks. on Sir Terry Pratchett Succumbs To "the Embuggerance," Aged 66 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I'm not religious, but curiosity got the best of me so looked up all your citations and I just don't see it:

    Luke 1:41-44:
    https://www.biblegateway.com/p...
    We all know Mary has a magic fetus, and the fact that it's nearness to another fetus, which jumps in the womb in response, seems a special case. Most fetuses aren't exposed to gods.

    Psalm 51:
    https://www.biblegateway.com/p...
    "Shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin" -- so sex is a sin that sets in motion a chain of events that leads to people. That seems pretty thin, especially when the writer near the end talks about how god doesn't care about burnt offerings, and then four lines later about all the burnt offerings he is going to give god. If sex is a sin, so are the products of it. Doing an abortion would be a corrective action and should have god's support.

    Psalm 139:
    https://www.biblegateway.com/p...
    This one seems basically at odds with 51 which decried conception as a dirty nasty sin. Now we're hearing how the writer was "knit together in my mother's womb" and how awesome god is at knitting. When does a ball of yarn become a sweater? That isn't answered here. Is a partially completed garment the same as the marvelous completed garment? That isn't answered here either. What is jarring though, is that right after explaining how god is the uber-knitter, he goes into talking about how much he wished god would help him kill and destroy all his enemies. Psychotic.

    Jeremiah 1:5
    https://www.biblegateway.com/p...
    Sounds like god is talking to a specific person who will be a prophet to all nations. I'm guessing Jeremiah was that dude? Is there any evidence that all people in all times and places were getting this special attention from god, to be prophets to each other? If they all know the same stuff -- why would they have to be prophets to all nations?

    Hosea 12
    https://www.biblegateway.com/p...
    So this sounds like a denunciation of some dude name Ephraim who became rich using scales calibrated in his favor, made a treaty with Assyria, trades with Egypt, and by the way, the people who live in Gilead really suck, they sacrifice bulls! About the only part I can see related to abortion is that Gilead grabbed his brother's heel while in the womb (I assume they are twins, else this gets really crazy), but it comes in this long stream of insults, kind of like calling him a motherfucker even if not literally true. I don't really some much on topic here -- it's just a big long insult and people say all kinds of shit when insulting people.

  22. Re:The Big News on CIA Tried To Crack Security of Apple Devices · · Score: 4, Informative

    For the most part, the fire department doesn't drive around stripping off insulation from electrical wires or drilling little holes in gas pipes under your house. Sure they _theoretically_ could, but the CIA is actually at this very moment doing this exact thing.

    The biggest part of this story is a poisoned Xcode, and it's not even mentioned in TFS. WTF?

    The security researchers also claimed they had created a modified version of Apple's proprietary software development tool, Xcode, which could sneak surveillance backdoors into any apps or programs created using the tool. ...

    The modified version of Xcode, the researchers claimed, could enable spies to steal passwords and grab messages on infected devices. Researchers also claimed the modified Xcode could "force all iOS applications to send embedded data to a listening post." It remains unclear how intelligence agencies would get developers to use the poisoned version of Xcode.

    https://firstlook.org/theinter...

  23. Re:if that were true on Obama Administration Claims There Are 545,000 IT Job Openings · · Score: 0, Troll

    I think a lot of people aren't expecting a handout from their own gov't, but at the same time, aren't expecting to actively thwart and hamper their ability to be self-sufficient. The whole H1-B thing is like workfare for foreigners coupled with forced unemployment or reduced wages for locals.

  24. Re:I know it is a bit late in life... on Number of Legal 18x18 Go Positions Computed; 19x19 On the Horizon · · Score: 2

    Ignoring the assholes making fun of you for being interested and explaining why, you can start learning right now:

    igs: http://pandanet-igs.com/commun...
    kgs: https://www.gokgs.com/

    I know you can play the Gnu Go Server on kgs, if you want to avoid playing with a person for a while. You can also install it on your computer: https://www.gnu.org/software/g...

  25. Re:What a crappy article on China's Arthur C. Clarke · · Score: 1

    You are correct, however, if the GP wants to uses sakes, he could write it "for fucks' sakes".