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  1. Re:Politics on FBI Employees Face Criminal Probe Over Patriot Act · · Score: 1

    Please Please Please, let one of the FBI agents be working on request of the whitehouse staff. I'd hate to see it be just average schmoes just stalking their ex-girl/boy friends.

    I'm not sure I agree with this. For most of us, truth be told, we won't be spied on by some big government conspiracy. Most of us just aren't important enough.

    But I worry about some jackass I went to high school with (for example) getting a job at the FBI and then going to town on everyone he had a grudge against. *That* type of abuse will directly affect a lot more people rather than the indirect effect that most would experience by a high level White House surveillance system.

    The problem with this kind of power is that it gets abused *at all levels*...

  2. Re:That's great, but... on x86 Linux Flash Player 9 is Final · · Score: 1

    I get an "ERROR: Your architecture, \'x86_64\', is not supported by the Adobe Flash Player installer." when I run the installer. However, manual installation (copying *.so and *.xpt into ~./mozilla/plugins) works just fine...