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Some of the best hackers I know are in India, and they don't use Microsoft products... I'm talking truly gifted people.

I myself am a BSD fanatic, but I recommend Linux based systems to all of my Windows using friends.

  Today every terrorist with access to a pocket Constitution

The above sentiment leans towards labeling any who dare possess a pocket constitution as potential terrorists, which is absurd.

Do people in the IC assume that terrorists want to harm us because our freedoms?

Does the wholesale interception of electronic communications based upon the premise of someone might be a terrorist make us any safer?

The Ft. Hood shootings, the Boston bombings, and other evil acts, were not prevented by any of the un-American spying by the alphabet gangs, furthermore, when viewed with an objective eye, acts of terror have actually decreased in the last few decades. Some may argue the point that this reduction is a direct result of the omnipresent intrusions by the Five Eyes crew, and if so I'd like to hear some reasonable explanations as to why some rather major attacks have occurred in spite of the spying.

http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/terrorism/wrjp255a.html

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Terrorism/terror...

Seriously, is the article supposed to be a joke? How can any part of a covenant between a government and its people be considered to be Top Secret?

Sadly, it seems that the majority have become inured to the offensive over reach of agencies such as NSA, GCHQ, etc.

The only way to play it as if the country where the system is being employed is your own.

Yes, I said it... I wouldn't be surprised to learn that the aforementioned country is the USA.

Screw Netflix!

$7.99 per month and they don't even have the last half of season 5 - Breaking Bad.

Many movies are unavailable to US viewers, as services such as https://hola.org/ have shown us.

Large selection? It seems like every movie I want to watch is "Unavailable for streaming..." or is viewable for an additional $10 fee through their DVD service.

I like Popcorn!

Ah... You beat me to it!

Interestingly, several months ago I came across the following 1953 training video dealing with this same subject.

http://youtu.be/s1i-dnAH9Y4

You took the words right out of my fingers!

It just goes to show how accurate and prescient many "news" organizations really are.

   If people can just take their technology and grow it again themselves, there is no way for them to recoup their investment and we simply won't have better crops.

Thousands of years of selective breeding refutes the above statement.

It's not always about ROI. Some of us just like variety. I do agree with your sentiment, it's just the legal aspects that I dislike.

Oh for a world without money & greed!

Some of us come back from our twisted versions of personal hell...

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

Aloha!

I see the patenting of life forms as being insidiously evil.

In the past we had heirloom seeds which, although proprietary, were not patent protected, so people who shared their superior seed stock didn't run afoul of courts and lawyers.

Call me a pitchfork bearing loon but I find patenting life forms to be egregiously reprehensible.

I had a somewhat similar issue with an Acer Aspire Aspire One ZG5 netbook, except my problem was that the device would power off after about 1.5 minutes from powering on.

Apparently a thermal cutoff switch needed some recalibration/replacement, so my fix was 2 hours in the freezer followed by a few more hours waiting for condensation to evaporate before attempting to power the netbook on again...

I used the above method for nearly a year before acquiring my present laptop, relegating the netbook to my growing pile of disfunctional hardware.

How many linux based servers are online right now? More than Apple devices? Less?

A few years ago I had an old Thinkpad which I had not used in a few months when one day I decided to fire it up, but when I opened the lid it was an ant farm!

Not sure of the ant variety, but I'm in Hawai'i and we have little red fire ants in some areas.

Damn! I finally got an acceptable deal from Oceanic Time Warner @ $60 a month for "up to 30 Mbit/sec" with no data cap. (I often see speeds over 50 Mbit/sec)

I hope this deal doesn't throw a wrench in my net connection. I live in a rural area with few options.

Claiming that Snowden has aided al Qaeda et al is as ridiculous as the notion that if you smoke cannabis you're funding terrorists!

  The Comal County District Attorney's Office did not intend for Carter to suffer what happened next, 
  Flanary says, but it was reasonably foreseeable: He was sexually assaulted.

The fact that prisoners are commonly subject to sexual assault, and that this consequence is trotted out as an acceptable deterrent to crime, illustrates just how uncivilized the US prison-industrial-complex is in this, the year 2014. Failure to protect vulnerable and, or, weaker inmates from other inmates shows negligence on the part of the government. This is completely unacceptable as it constitutes cruel & unusual punishment, and is yet another blatant disregard for the rights of We the People.

Then there's the fact that the context of the offensive speech was excluded from evidence.

Disgusting!

I like the idea, but I only see options for mobile devices, no "app" for Linux or BSD variants.

I agree that the current paradigm is flawed, especially when PSK authentication is so easily implemented.

I always strive to use correct spelling and punctuation regardless of the media used and tend to view people who fail to do so as being less educated than those who take the time to do as I do.

So fuck off if you misconstrue a properly placed bit of punctuation.

  “turns out I’m really good at killing people.”

  The president added, “Didn’t know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine.”

Ironic words for a Nobel Peace Prize winner.

  Error 503 Service Unavailable

  Service Unavailable
  Guru Meditation:

  XID: 1422544503

  Varnish cache server

Hacker News Effect?

[edit] Scratch that, the page finally loaded for me.

I agree with the article. The last thing I want to do is add another layer of complexity to an already complex application.

More layers of software equals increased chances for vulnerabilities and/or bugs.

Why can't they just give SSH access into a chroot'd environment, or something like that? I hate having to add more stuff to address needs which are already met by commonly used software. (SSH client)

I guess that's why I use VPS instead of Linode.

JSOC answers directly to the POTUS, and acts outside the normal channels of the US military.

So, yes, the POTUS can, and does, decide who JSOC will be going after next.

How about drone strikes which target and kill a US citizen and his teenage son?

I know a guy who used to write technical manuals for Sun Microsystems and he said that he usually ended up working about 3 or 4 months to earn his annual salary. Sounds like a good gig to me!

Sorry. You lost me at Install Java app.

This is why I have dogs. An 80 pound bull dog (or 2, or 3) can be a good deterrent, as well as an alarm, which helps me to sleep well at night.

    Asked today to elaborate on his reasons for alleging that Snowden “had help,” Rogers, through a press aide, declined to comment. 

Typical unaccountability from one of our elected public servants. How about letting your constituents know the truth?

     there was no Google to aggregate and sort through the depths of the World Wide Web
     

Hmmm, that's funny, I was using WebCrawler, AltaVista, and Google, in 1999.