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  1. The FBI doesn't go around granting immunity unless they need information to justify the immunity grant.

    The person who is getting the immunity deal was probably told by his attorney to hold out for a book and movie deal. Every IT tech wants to be hero. Here's a wonderful opportunity for 15 minutes of fame!

  2. Re:Will she pardon here self and him once she gets on Justice Dept. Grants Immunity To Staffer Who Set Up Clinton Email Server (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: -1, Troll

    Well, hopefully, if they find enough evidence, they'll indict her BEFORE she wins any election.

    Don't count on it. The emails were classified after the fact. If the emails were properly classified and someone knowingly moved the emails off a classified network to a non-classified network, that person could face criminal charges. From what I read and heard so far, Hillary is in the clear.

  3. Re:What about "Import Grade" on FREAK, Logjam, DROWN All a Result of Weaknesses Demanded By US Gov't (csoonline.com) · · Score: 2

    I keep seeing this statement to import crypto from outside the US but I haven't seen any download links.

  4. BTW Welcome to ten years ago. :-)

    I was referring to the "hard drive" comment, which the iPhone doesn't have but the iPod Classic used to have.

  5. Re:Same goes for all other skills on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    A practical film education class would be more useful.

    I was misdiagnosed as being mentally retarded due to an undiagnosed hearing loss in one ear. I spent eight years in special ed and we had a film every afternoon. I graduated the eighth grade with fifth grade writing and math skills. The only reason I had a college-level reading comprehension skill is because I read everything I could get my hands on to relieve my boredom in class and at home. That permitted me to skip high school to go to community college and get an General Education associate degree in four years (two years for remedial, two years for degree).

  6. Re:As long as.... on The Case Against Algebra · · Score: 1

    I will agree to this as long as they remove foreign language requirement for engineers!

    When I was looking at college catalogs in the early 1990's, some colleges allowed substituting a programming language for the foreign language requirement. My problem wasn't with the foreign language requirement, but the biology with lab requirement. The last thing I wanted to in college was to dissect a frog. I managed to talk a counselor into substituting an electronics with lab course for that requirement. I prefer my experiments to blow up in smoke rather than splatter in blood

  7. Otherwise known as a vulnerability.

  8. Re:Not everyone is technically savvy on iOS 9.3 Will Tell You If Your Employer Is Monitoring Your iPhone (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    I'm going to sue for intentional infliction of emotional distress and get 10 million in damages!

    Good luck in finding an attorney since you don't have a case. Your employer provides the tools that are adequate to get your job done. If pen and paper gets the job done, you have nothing to complain about.

  9. Re:Not everyone is technically savvy on iOS 9.3 Will Tell You If Your Employer Is Monitoring Your iPhone (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    And the corporation gets to find another employee, eat the recruiting costs, eat the on-boarding and ramp-up costs, etc.

    Which is cheaper: keeping an employee who can't follow corporate policies or finding a employee who can follow corporate policies?

  10. Re:can they get in to your phone with out your pin on iOS 9.3 Will Tell You If Your Employer Is Monitoring Your iPhone (mashable.com) · · Score: 2

    Geez, the phone was not issued or owned by the FBI, it was owned by a county.

    The FBI ordered the county technician to change the iCloud account password, doing the exact opposite of what Apple told them to do. In short, FBI stands for Fumbling Bumbling Idiots.

  11. Re:Not everyone is technically savvy on iOS 9.3 Will Tell You If Your Employer Is Monitoring Your iPhone (mashable.com) · · Score: 1

    If you get something from your employer, they get to monitor it. If it's something you yourself provided, then you call the shots.

    As an IT tech at Fortune 500 companies, I had this argument with users all the time. Most users believe that the PC on their desk belongs to them and them only. They will fight tooth and nail to prevent anyone from accessing their PC. I've explained to many users that their PC belonged to the corporation. If the corporation decides to replace their PC with pen and paper, they must use pen and paper — or find another job.

  12. There's always a workaround... on iOS 9.3 Will Tell You If Your Employer Is Monitoring Your iPhone (mashable.com) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I worked at a company where the management team got very insecure about their positions and thought that the regular employees were out to get them. So they got a program to remotely monitor desktops. One morning my manager came running over to my cubicle to inform me that I wasn't allowed to look at Amazon on company time. And then he discovered that I had a breakfast burrito from the roach coach in hand, which meant I was on my break and I'm allowed to look at the Internet on my break time. So I told him to bugger off. Since the company next door had an open wireless access point, many of my coworkers used their PDA's to browse the internet to avoid using their PCs.

  13. Re:Inconvenient truths the liberals won't address on FCC Complaints For the 2016 Primary Debates (muckrock.com) · · Score: 2

    Is it my fault if I believe the rest of the world is populated by bare-breasted women because I've only ever watched the national geographic channel?

    FTFY

  14. Re: That is one bad thing about living in Seattle on FCC Complaints For the 2016 Primary Debates (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    Seattle has been owned by the Democrats since forever. What do Republicans have to do with it?

    Six corporations own 90% of the U.S. media markets. Corporations tend to be conservative rather than liberal.

    http://www.businessinsider.com/these-6-corporations-control-90-of-the-media-in-america-2012-6

    Even MSNBC is moving away from being a source of liberal news.

    http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/02/msnbc-and-the-move-away-from-left-wing-tv/385798/

  15. Re:Diseased agencies on FCC Complaints For the 2016 Primary Debates (muckrock.com) · · Score: 1

    Their man Obama benefited from the same corrupt media treatment in the last 2 elections.

    Let me guess... because he's a... millionaire?

  16. Re:Ain't gonna stop a hellfire missile.... on ISIS Supporters Abandon U.S. Encryption Tools As Apple-FBI Fight Rages · · Score: 2

    How about if they start posting selfies with geotags spoofed with the location of the nearest MSF hospital?

    Analysts will double check the location to verify that the target is legit before sending off a drone. After all the blown up wedding parties in Afghanistan, the military is trying to avoid those mistakes.

  17. Re:Ain't gonna stop a hellfire missile.... on ISIS Supporters Abandon U.S. Encryption Tools As Apple-FBI Fight Rages · · Score: 1

    Especially if the terrorists are posting geo-tagged selfies from a bunker on Twitter.

  18. Seems like... on FBI Should Try To Unlock iPhone Without Apple's Help, Lawmaker Says (csoonline.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Someone is confusing the iPhone with the iPod Classic.

  19. Re:HOW ABOUT FUCK THAT. on Japanese Court Demands 'Right To Be Forgotten' For Sex Offender (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    It's nice to see you defending child predators because animal abusers also outrage the public.

    Citation please?

  20. Re:HOW ABOUT FUCK THAT. on Japanese Court Demands 'Right To Be Forgotten' For Sex Offender (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    In his defense, the bitch was ASKING FOR IT!!!

    The pooch was male and subsequently died from its injuries.

  21. Re:HOW ABOUT FUCK THAT. on Japanese Court Demands 'Right To Be Forgotten' For Sex Offender (thestack.com) · · Score: 1

    Child predators should ONLY be forgotten after their limbs are torn off from the indecipherable flesh pile that remains.

    I was listening to talk radio show on Christmas Eve in 2011 about a man who got more prison time for screwing a pooch than he would have gotten for screwing a child. Animal rights activists and parents went after each other throats. When someone demanded the death penalty, the capital punishment crowd came out of the woodwork. That's America for you.

  22. Re:Bad enough with humans... on People Will Follow a Robot In an Emergency - Even If It's Wrong (gatech.edu) · · Score: 1

    Conditioning people to NOT act in the event of a fire alarm is morally bankrupt.

    The fire alarms routinely went off in the hospital all the time. The fire warden for the department is suppose to declare a evacuation if circumstances warranted it. A broken fire extinguisher in lightly trafficked hallway and isolated behind closed doors in the basement didn't warrant an evacuation.

  23. Re:Severance contract on Laid-Off Disney IT Workers Decry Offshoring At Trump Rally (computerworld.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Didn't Disney end up reverting a good portion of the layoffs?

    Disney cancelled planned layoffs in New York and California after the earlier layoff of 200+ workers in Florida became public. The way the PR announcement got worded, those layoffs could still happen at a later date.

  24. Bad enough with humans... on People Will Follow a Robot In an Emergency - Even If It's Wrong (gatech.edu) · · Score: 1

    I was working at a hospital when the fire alarms and the hallway doors automatically closed in the basement. A thick cloud of "smoke" filled the far end of the hallway from floor to ceiling. I went into the IT department and asked them if we should evacuate, as we typically ignore the fire alarms for being false alarms or undergoing testing. Everyone in the IT department came out to peer through the windows of the hallway doors. Someone behind us cried out that we needed to get out of the building. So we all headed for the stairs. A half-hour later we were told to come back downstairs. The "smoke" was from a fire extinguisher that fell and broke the nozzle to unleash its content. Facilities set up fans to blow it out of the building. Management was furious that we abandoned our posts and wanted to know who called for an evacuation. Everyone gave them same answer: we heard a voice behind us to evacuate. Some tried to put the blame on me — a contractor — but I only asked what we should do, as I was never given training on the evacuation procedures.

  25. How many nimrods does it take to make hydrogen?