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  1. Re:I think it's pretty obvious on Snowden Questions WikiLeaks' Methods of Releasing Leaks (pcworld.com) · · Score: 0

    K, now control for media appearances outside articles and tv bits discussing lawsuits.

  2. Re:Anything to steal someone else's work on Movie Studios 'Take Down' Popular KAT Mirror · · Score: 3, Interesting

    14/14 or bust. Copyright is badly broken. Do you know what happens to laws that people don't respect? They ignore them. The content holders have no one but themselves to blame.

  3. Moron. Armitage leaked the info. Libby was convicted of perjury for not remembering the exact date of a phone call.

  4. To be even more specific he was jailed for getting a date 'wrong' and thus lying to the court about the date, not content of, of a conversation that happened 18-24 months prior to the testimony in question. A call which was neither in his calendar nor was anything written down about said phone call afterwards. He was not allowed to introduce expert testimony at his own case pointing out that the human memory is, in point of fact, quite fallible.

  5. How many of those embassies were in areas that fellow allied countries explicitly pulled out of because the security situation was 'untenable' and had multiple requests from the ambassador at the post for MAJOR personnel and site upgrades?

  6. The blaming a Youtube video part happened pretty fucking definitely. The prior part was either criminally negligent unwillingness to deploy a rescue team in time to save an ambassador doing WH mandated arms deals under the table with AQ affiliated Syrian rebels, or complete and utter incompetence in not properly reinforcing the building and people there after any of the MULTIPLE requests Ambassador Stevens made for help given that 6 months prior the Brits pulled out of Benghazi EXPRESSLY because the security situation was complete shit. Either way, it demonstrates rather conclusively that Hillary shouldn't be in charge of a kindergarten, let alone the country.

  7. Except the cyber attack would have already occurred. So either the Russians already have the info, or they would need to hack somebody else who has the info and I'm pretty sure at this point the FBI files aren't on a networked server. Sooo, not treason.

  8. Re:Cheesy 80's movie excuse on Clinton Campaign: Russia Leaked Emails to Help Trump (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hmmm, apparently the Russians found the DNC emails important enough to obtain but completely ignored Clinton's email server. Odd cyberwarfare priority that.

  9. Re:I hate it when companies decide what's good for on Starbucks and McDonald's Announce Porn Blocks On Their Wi-Fi Networks (cnn.com) · · Score: 2

    No it's not, it's perfectly rational. Violence is, by and large, something to be avoided throughout your life. As such, fictional depictions of violence will not, by and large, change behavioral patterns. Whereas sex is something the vast majority of society will participate in, and there have been plenty of cases shown where porn consumption changes expectations of sexual experiences and relationships, generally for the worse.

  10. Re:Good news! on Seagate Fires 6,500, Or 14% of Workforce, Stock Soars (zerohedge.com) · · Score: 1

    Because keeping employees on and never cutting them always works out in the end, just look at the union bakers that made Twinkies. Oh wait, that company went bankrupt and the recipes were bought by a company that automated 80+% of the process.

  11. Re:It *is* tokenism that they chose Sulu! on George Takei Opposes Gay Sulu In 'Star Trek Beyond' (hollywoodreporter.com) · · Score: 1

    If they were going to do hat they should have just cut a deal with the BBC to bring in Cpt. Jack Harkness. Course, that would interfere with Kirk's own tail chasing exploits.

  12. Which doesn't matter since primarily all Nixon did was consolidate the drug enforcement arms of the US govt. into their own little agency and state to the public that it was an enforcement priority. It was Johnson who passed the laws in question. The fact of the matter is the authoritarians on both sides of the aisle loved the Drug War, and anybody who says otherwise is either ignorant or lying through their fucking teeth.

  13. Re:#BlackLivesMatter on Using a Bomb Robot to Kill a Suspect Is an Unprecedented Shift in Policing (vice.com) · · Score: 2

    Yeah, sorry, but the classical usage of the term liberal in the US was murdered in the 30's by FDR.

  14. Of course he did. on FBI Director: Guccifer Admitted He Lied About Hacking Hillary Clinton's Email (dailydot.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Was this before or after you offered him a better plea deal Mr. Comey?

  15. Re:Not surprising.... Whooah There Cowboy! on DOJ Will Not File Charges Against Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (politico.com) · · Score: 1

    Different record keeping laws at the time and handled entirely in house by competent IT people with no public facing web server access. They were not running all government communications through the server and none of the material was thought to be classified at any level..

  16. Re:Radiation Proof Cables? on Google's 'FASTER' 9000km, 60Tbps Transpacific Fiber Optics Cable Completed (9to5google.com) · · Score: 1

    Is this how Skynet is born?

  17. Re:How much was this advertisement? on AMD RX 480 Offers Best-in-Class Performance For $199/$239 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only way you'd need to replace the card in 1-2 years is if you're pushing out 4k. More like 4-5 for 1080p As 66+% of people running games on Steam are still at 1080p with one or two monitors, with the vast majority of the rest being below that that it is a perfect price point to sell a shitload of cards.

  18. That's... insane. I could build a top of the line gaming computer for that sort of cheese, peripherals included.

  19. The majority of wear and tear on vehicles happens when their fluid and tire rotations/changes are neglected. Keep those things constant, realign the suspension every 3-6 months, and a car would last a long time as a taxi. The issue is companies see those costs as an issue up front, even though long term they would get 2-4 times the use out of it with minimal repairs.

  20. Re:Meaningless on High IQ Countries Have Less Software Piracy, Research Finds (torrentfreak.com) · · Score: 1

    14/14 or bust. Hmm, wonder if i could get into national office with that slogan.

  21. Re:More likely idea: unbalanced and violent on FBI Director Comey: 'Highly Confident' Orlando Shooter Radicalized Through Internet (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    Either that or like a surprising number of the Jewish Mosaic laws it was a health thing. Male homosexual sex is pretty consistently tied to increased STD rates.

  22. Re:Radicalized through Islam on FBI Director Comey: 'Highly Confident' Orlando Shooter Radicalized Through Internet (cbsnews.com) · · Score: 1

    McVeigh was direct vengeance for RR and Waco. Choice of target was idiotic, as he really should have hit the regional FBI and BATFE offices, but there was a clear instigation with innocent bodies flambéed by govt. action, all, in the end, because the ATF wanted to justify its budget and the FBI couldn't be seen as ineffectual. Brevik attacked because he was whining about an insult to his culture, and Howell was about as far right as Orlando boy was a US democrat, whatever his voting registry might say.

  23. Re:Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    An American citizen whose naturalized father glorified the Taliban on his Youtube channel. No chance for radicalization there, no siree Bob.

  24. Re: Omar Saddiqui Mateen? on World Reacts To The Worst Mass Shooting In U.S. History (cnn.com) · · Score: 1

    Interestingly, the Golden Rule is the core of the generalized form of the Prisoner's Dilemma's best practice. Namely, you always cooperate until your partner betrays you for the first time then you betray them several times in a row until they get the message that's a bad idea, and go back to cooperation.

  25. Re:Just plant more trees! on Pilot Test Of Storing Carbon Dioxide In Rocks Shows Impressive Outcome (theaustralian.com.au) · · Score: 1

    What happens if you cut down the trees, waterlog them, band them in lead, and drop them in the Marianas trench?