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  1. Which US government? on Should Kaspersky Lab Show Its Source Code To The US Government? (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    The Russian apparatchiks in the White House?

    Or the freedom fighters in Deep State?

  2. Re:no malware on Sony Will Start Pressing Vinyl Records After 28-Year Hiatus (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Not even sony can deliver malware on a vinyl record.

    Hold my Kurin!

  3. Re:Truth is not what you think it is on The Age of Distributed Truth (eugenewei.com) · · Score: 1

    Do you really want to know how deep the rabbit hole goes?

    Yes, in fact I do.

    I don't want claims and allegations. I want verifiable facts and details.

    You're not cleared for that.

  4. Truth is not what you think it is on The Age of Distributed Truth (eugenewei.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    For example, some of you incorrectly think Russia hacking the US election is "fake news". This is incorrect.

    Some of you think Russia interfered on social media in the US election. This is true, but it is not true, in that it was far worse than that, and at a scale you would find difficult to believe.

    Some of you think Russia may have hacked 15 states and only looked at data in a few counties in those states. This is not true, as it is far far worse.

    Some of you think Russia hacked 39 states and only looked at data and gave it to certain individuals they controlled. This is not true, as it is far worse.

    A very very few of you know that Russia attempted to hack every state, managed to disable specific precincts voting machines, created large scale disruption, and altered reporting systems for electronic-only non-paper-trail counts, and also maintained large scale social media attacks. This is very true, but most people, sadly, think it's false.

    Do you really want to know how deep the rabbit hole goes?

  5. Re:Ukraine is a partner of the US? on Hacks Raise Fear Over NSA's Hold on Cyberweapons (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's why NATO troops are there, and why Russia attacked them with cyberweapons which then spread to India, Pakistan, and other countries.

    Russia is not our friend.

    And the easiest way to defeat them is to triple or quadruple Renewable Energy usage, cutting off their supply lines at the knees.

  6. Binding your own hands behind your backs on Mayors of 7,400 Cities Vow To Meet Obama's Climate Commitments (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    You're just making your states and cities less efficient by avoiding green energy.

    Why are jobs growing so fast in Blue cities?

    Because we build. We invest. We make more efficient products, goods and services, using LESS energy, and we use CHEAPER green energy.

    Wind and solar are - wait for it - CHEAPER.

    The Invisible Hand of Capitalism cares nothing for your failed fossil fuel religion.

  7. This is Fake News on Mayors of 7,400 Cities Vow To Meet Obama's Climate Commitments (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not 7400 cities.

    It's 7500 now.

  8. Re:Go outside the USA on Mozilla Employee Denied Entry To the United States (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1, Funny

    Man, I told him not to leave the comment in his code about Tiny Hands.

    The God Emperor is very sensitive about that, and also all the face lifts He has had.

  9. I hear Canada is Free on Mozilla Employee Denied Entry To the United States (gizmodo.com) · · Score: 1

    In case you wanted to avoid the Russian colony down in the USA.

  10. Re:The bottom line: 3.1% on Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage May Be Hurting Workers, Report Finds (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    It is true people beg on the streets, but for housing or for drugs/alcohol.

    That happens no matter where you live in America.

  11. As I walk down the street in Seattle on Seattle's $15 Minimum Wage May Be Hurting Workers, Report Finds (usatoday.com) · · Score: 1

    I see store after store with Help Wanted signs.

    Sometimes for just one job.

    Sometimes for two jobs.

    Sometimes for 3-5 jobs.

    yeah, sure, we believe you ... NOT!

    (study done in six neighborhoods of Seattle, but not done amongst the super-rich gated neighborhoods which tend not to have any stores)

  12. This is why Canada is enforcing Privacy on Google on Facebook's Secret Censorship Rules Protect White Men From Hate Speech But Not Black Children (propublica.org) · · Score: 0

    In addition to the current (today) ruling on Google in regards to Privacy for all Canadians worldwide, this is why FB will be the next American corporation up against the wall.

    Protecting White Men is a direct violation of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

    First Nations deserves equal protections. So do black or Jewish Canadian musicians like Drake.

    So do little kids.

    Discrimination is not ok.

  13. Re:jurisdiction or why beavers rule everywhere on Google Must Delete Search Results Worldwide, Supreme Court of Canada Rules (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's about the rights of Canadians not to have pervy Americans spying on them, and indexing the results, and then warehousing the result sets in Ireland.

    Why do you think we created the Internet in the first place? It was so we could get beam time and send ASCII and EBCDIC jokes to each other on our ribbon LEDs.

    Not for your amusement.

  14. Re:jurisdiction or why beavers rule everywhere on Google Must Delete Search Results Worldwide, Supreme Court of Canada Rules (fortune.com) · · Score: 1

    Technically, the Canadian Constitution, and the British Columbian subset, give all Canadian citizens rights throughout the world.

    Including the innate right to Privacy, ennumerated in the actual Constitution as part of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

    In fact, it applies in space as well.

    Don't mess with Canada. They have far better snipers than you do. And they don't waste scarce loonies and toonies on nuclear weapons, which are pretty much useless.

  15. About time Canada showed it owns the Internet and the satellite connections it uses.

  16. this sounds so PreCrime on Police Use Lyft As 'Trojan Horse' To Capture Suspect In Murder of Tech CEO (myajc.com) · · Score: 1

    when will we have to present our papers while traveling within our own country?

    or has that already happened with the Stasi ..?

  17. Face it, there are illegal and unconstitutional camera loadings of American citizens into facial recognition databases without permission occurring at all federal buildings and most airports right now. They even use bus depots.

    Fun Fact: still easy to defeat. Still incredibly inaccurate in real world situations.

  18. My 98 FB avatars are celebrating! on Facebook Crosses 2 Billion Monthly Users (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    An email is not a person.

    Even adding cell phones won't work, if you control the swtich.

  19. Re:Just America? Please.. on Who Americans Spend Their Time With (theatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    Actually, most people end up fairly happy as they age. Unless they disconnect from family and friends they started with, by moving far away.

  20. Not all sweetness and light, however on Who Americans Spend Their Time With (theatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    While this study may appear to show friendships grow back after retirement, they don't always.

    There are well know problems with people with extensive work and research and travel related relationships having trouble adjusting in retirement, as they have to replace the extensive non-family or work-related relationships with other ones. Especially prominent among men.

    Shows up during job change too.

  21. This will work as well as FB chat on Google Replaces Gchat With Hangouts Today (axios.com) · · Score: 1

    Look, I used FB chat when it first came out, and then realized 90 percent of it was people not reading my FB post, so I stopped using it, other than for family and a few individuals.

    Same will happen with Gchat and G hangout. I used Google circles, but they just get in the way.

    Same take home message: Stop Being Pervy.

  22. How is it legal for AU 2 ban US posts? on Australian Officials Want Encryption Laws To Fight 'Terrorist Messaging' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    Seriously, I just don't get how Australia thinks it can censor the posting of comments from America, just because we're a nation of law-avoiding terrorists?

  23. Next time, listen.

    I blame the router and modem manufacturers for this, actually.

    "Oh, what harm could ever come from releasing source code to the Russians, it's not like they would subvert the elections in all Western nations"

    Sure.

    oh, and you should totally trust your anti-virus security to Russian firms too.

    The surprising thing is you've pretty much only realized the tools we designed a few decades ago, until we realized how deeply the Russians had burrowed into you.

  24. Re:Tech employee here on Tim Cook Told Trump Tech Employees Are 'Nervous' About Immigration (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    They're screened out by HR before they even get to the tech review stage.

  25. My toaster cries at midnight! on If It Uses Electricity, It Will Connect To the Internet: F-Secure's CRO (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    In the long dark teatime of the soul
    My toaster cries at midnight.
    It has no port to connect to others
    No mouth to voice it's desire to toast to perfection.

    It remains, as before,
    Metal heating element bars.

    Which merely
    toast.

    Cry toast and let loose the IoT, fair Horatio!