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  1. Re:Are they wrong? on How Wiretaps Actually Work (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    I quoted their term, I don't necessarily prefer it but understand it's usage and don't necessarily disagree. A more apt term would be "useful idiot" as coined by Leninist's. I agree it's not that many, but that minority is receiving hundreds of millions in funding from people like Soros and receiving tons of positive media attention. Several prominent former Democrats have groups that collect cash and organize for them. Yesterday in SF for example, the woman's day march had very few women marching for "women's rights". There were communist flags and slogans, anti-Trump signs, anti-capitalism signs, signs demanding an end to private property, pro-abortion signs, and a smattering of the BLM. The worst of the signs were being carried by the typical face covering cowards.

    Where I vehemently disagree with you is that they are not calling for America to be disbanded. When the majority of their demands require squashing the US Constitution and wealth redistribution (from the middle class to them of course) that _is_ disbanding America. We are founded on individual Liberty.

    No, they won't leave because the goal is not to move to a place with their so called utopian model of Government. Their goal _is_ the destruction of the USA and a conversion of the USA to be a Communist country. You can claim "nuh uh" if you like, but plenty of history (including various biographies) and journalists have proven the point for you.

  2. Plenty of choices does not equate to the number of companies in Silicon Valley. So it's simple mathematics. Good people are constantly being courted by other companies. It is not just the big companies here, it's many tens of thousands of small companies covering San Jose to San Francisco and Oakland..

  3. Re:Are they wrong? on How Wiretaps Actually Work (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Which is why my post gets down modded.

  4. Re:Are they wrong? on How Wiretaps Actually Work (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    You would like a citation from nearly every history book written since the early 1900s? Such a pathetic troll.

  5. Complete distortion of reality and a generalization fallacy. The majority of Americans are not imperialist war mongering bigots as you claim, the majority want to be left alone to pursue a career, family, and make their lives a little better. They don't care who their neighbors are as long as they respect Liberty in the same way they do. That is the majority, and what is represented in Congress and Senate. We protested the wars in Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, and demanded no action in Syria. What was done in Yemen and Syria were not voted on Congress (see 4th paragraph) and most wars gain support by dishonesty. Once US Citizens find out, protests get more severe and people lose offices.

    If you were correct that Americans as a whole wanted imperialism, what exactly would have stopped the US after the USSR collapse? The US could have thrown Iraqis out of their Government after Gulf 1 or Gulf 2 and simply absorbed a 51st State. The US could do it in Afghanistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and any country in Africa. There are no Countries that are a military match for the US, and there is no need for the US to use Nukes on any of those countries to take them over.

    Most countries have military bases because they asked the US to put them there for protection. The DPRK will not attack South Korea simply because of that reason. Pull the US out and the DPRK would have been free to start a conflict and South Korea lacks the military to defend itself. We maintain bases in Germany because it helps to serve their defenses.

    The only thread of truth in your post is that there is a very tiny number of people who are abusing power for mostly personal gain and an ideology that most people don't accept. Global World Government. It was that ideology that caused Hillary to lose much more than anything else. It was that ideology that caused the EU, and that ideology that people like Farage and LePenne are fighting against.

    I'll further state that there is a whole lot of shit in US politics that "we" the people need to clean out. That is not an "America" issue, because countless governments have been infested with that same world domination ideology at all levels of their Governments too. The UK is a great example, and Nigel Farage is seen as an enemy of people like Soros who spend billions of dollars a year pushing that ideology (there are others, but he's an easy target to track down).

  6. Are they wrong? on How Wiretaps Actually Work (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 0

    Are you attempting to claim that there are no "libtard snowflakes" who hate America? Those people out in the streets carrying not just pro communist slogans, but communist flags from China and the old USSR are not anti-American showflake libtards? How about the people who were so upset about the victory of Trump that they wish to ignore the US Constitution and install a President nobody wanted? How about the people that were violently protesting just just after, but all through the election demanding "free stuff"?

    The amount of people in the US who have actually been convinced that Communism is better than America is quite staggering. America is not perfect, but it's still the best form of Government the world has ever seen. The people playing identity politics, lying, rioting, and demanding "free" stuff are absolutely free to renounce citizenship and leave. Hell, numerous people claimed that they would and lied about that too. The amount of people completely impervious to facts is similarly quite staggering.

    President Trump may not be "the" President to restore the Constitution, but he was the only choice we had back in November. We, meaning the people who are supposed to be represented in Government are supposed to support our Politicians but also direct them. I don't see tantrums anywhere in our founding documents as a method of change.

  7. Static compile on Ask Slashdot: Should You Use Password Managers? · · Score: 1

    Load the app on the same usb as you keep your DB. Execute from the USB. Loading a keylogger which opens Keepass is not too complex. *think NSA and CIA snooping*

  8. Malta reports DDOS? on Malta's Azure Window Collapses Into the Sea (timesofmalta.com) · · Score: 1

    Video won't load, I'm guessing we crashed their server.

  9. Way to take a bit of humor and turn it into a shitty political rant.

  10. Not quite on Tech's Ruling Class Casts a Big Shadow (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Microsoft, IBM, and Apple were not tech innovators outside of their main fields for any measurable amounts of time, they were monopolists (each to a degree). Google if you remember came about because Search Engines were not that good and all trying to generate clicks and ad revenue, where Google was supposed to do away with that. Facebook had so much free advertising that it was impossible for a business like MySpace to compete, and Facebook still receives huge amounts of free advertising. Amazon was competing with tons of people until patents and licensing put the others out of business.

    Now that the IT market is well monopolized, we see a different thing. Innovation is being bought up by one of the big guys, and if you don't sell you will see yourself in court facing litigation for Copyright or Patent infringement. Many startups plan on the "buy out" and cater to just that. I hate to break it to you, but there are no young "Google" companies on the horizon.

    The only place you can see any growth is in the services side, and even much of that is being brought in-house today.

  11. What do you idiotic ramblings have to do with Time Crystals?

    Duh! He wants to go back using "Time Crystals" so he can answer his own question..

  12. Re:Real or Fake News? on California Government On the Dangers of Cellphones (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Absolutely incorrect, because you ignore the quantity of RF currently being broadcast.

  13. The Editor is not the only one on Developer Proclaims Death of Cyberfox Web Browser (ghacks.net) · · Score: 0

    I realize this is pedantic, but how can the lead developer not know the difference between "a lot" and "allot". I don't see him divvying up the software to give chunks out, I see him disbanding the project..

    /end_pendantic

  14. Re:Theory number one: on Americans Are Having Less Sex Than 20 Years Ago, Study Finds (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Hand lotion sales begs to differ with the report.

  15. Re: Not surprise in the least... on WikiLeaks CIA Files: The 6 Biggest Spying Secrets Revealed By the Release of 'Vault 7' (independent.co.uk) · · Score: 2, Informative

    Apparently, a first grader has a better understanding of "Context" than you do. Frankin's question was specific to Trump surrogates communicating with Russian officials. Here is a working analogy for the genuinely handicapped who can't understand the context.

    Senator Al Frankin: We have reports that people like you were firing guns into a crowd, and that you were near the crowd.
    Jeff Sessions: Senator Frankin, I was there but never fired a gun.

    Buffoons : We have reports that while hunting in the woods a few months ago, Attorney General Sessions did in fact fire a gun. He is a liar! PERJURY!

  16. Was this around 1984 or so?

    Well before that, around the time that Atlas Shrugged.

  17. Can't wait for full analysis on Payments Giant Verifone Investigating Breach (krebsonsecurity.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    All breaches start out being reported small, but tend to reveal much more. It's completely possible that this was an isolated breach, but as a security expert I'll wait for the full release and report. If they were in, they may have much more access than the initial report claims. Perhaps not individual credit card data, but bigger sets of data belonging to vendors.

  18. Re:Real or Fake News? on California Government On the Dangers of Cellphones (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    You missed something critical: In your opinion.

    There are no long term studies on overall impact, because much of the RF we are getting today is technology that's less than a decade old. There simply are no studies.

    You can play with your own health as you see fit, but should not try to influence others based on a position of ignorance.

  19. that is the game here on New York State To Launch Electric Vehicle Rebate (foxnews.com) · · Score: 1

    A subsidy for you is a tax on everyone else. It's not like the Government of NY produces money, everyone else in your State pays for it.

  20. HAHA! on Ask Slashdot: Best File System For the Ages? · · Score: 1

    Thanks for that one!

  21. Re: Tech bashing, not gossip on Uber's Silicon Valley Employees May Be Looking to Jump Ship (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    You are either too new here, didn't pay attention then, or simply forgot.

  22. Not just "wasted" on Social Media 'Increases Loneliness', Says Study (bbc.co.uk) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A huge issue with social media is that you are locked into your own beliefs, creating a cult like atmosphere. This is not just time being wasted, it's time being used to self destructive ends. A person can not grow intellectually living in an echo chamber surrounded by controlled thoughts. Companies know this, and cash in on it. This is "The Allegory of the Cave" in action.

  23. Tech bashing, not gossip on Uber's Silicon Valley Employees May Be Looking to Jump Ship (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Uber is the new favorite whipping boy. IBM, Microsoft, Google, HP, they have all had their time in the mud too.

  24. Re:Real or Fake News? on California Government On the Dangers of Cellphones (cbslocal.com) · · Score: 1

    Radar, transponders, radio, and microwave communications. One thing people neglect is that RF is cumulative. The power from a phone may be low, but if you believe that is the only RF flying into your head you are sorely mistaken.

  25. I break all the eggs and blame the robot so they get fired... :)

    Seriously though, I would not buy food online. Food is one of those things that is always better seen and checked first hand before buying. Depending on what foods look like (freshness/color) I change my recipe planning on the fly. Long ago I went to culinary school for 3 years and I love to cook. I'm very picky about what I cook and eat.