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The La Posada hotel in Winslow,AZ is gorgeous and is slowly being restored to its former glory. A great place to stay if you want to check out Meteor Crater and the Petrified Forest

I try to keep Bob Elbing in mind when I ask if I should say something or not. Thankfully none of my work has ever had a single life, much less 7, depending on what I do. Still, I try to do the right thing and speak up.

Often lost in the Peter Norton mystique was the efforts of Brad Kingsbury who wrote many of the utilities as Peter's first programmer.

Agreed. At the time I was with Symantec it was bandied about that the cost of having him on the box was becoming a pain point. They had been trying to phase his image out for years.

Props for owning up

To be fair when I posted it autocorrect changed it to "defends" and I had to change it back

I love that someone stowed away on the ship. Worst luck of 1915.

I wonder if Van Halen gets these letters

Hey they were recently acknowledged for their use of cutting edge technology!

http://www.irvingisd.net/site/default.aspx?PageType=3&Domain...

Not really an insightful comment but I first read that as Brigham Young University which makes it all that more impactful... and funny

The comments, for me, definitely add to the discussion but it is still the headline/link that catch my attention to read in the first place. My normal rule on the net, especially for things I write, is 'do not read the comments' except for HN... and Deadspin when the article is about a sport not widely played in the US. I learn a lot about the sport that way.

I was hired in a large corporation to 'bring an entrepreneurial spirit' to the organization. After a year and a half of being pounded on for trying innovative things and attempting to move fast I left. On my way out one of the people on the hiring team said "I think I know why we do not have any entrepreneurial spirit; you get punished for it"

Devotion to the internet is a bad thing?

What?! Canada does not have to follow US laws? I am sure there are some whackdoodle-nutjobs in the US government working on changing this somehow.

And the LAPD has NEVER shown itself to be in contempt of the laws that govern them. I mean it is a paragon of virtuous conduct that can be trusted with advanced technology like this.

I am glad this happened for a number of reasons. But the crowning moment for me came when reading his Alias list:

ANDREW AUERNHEIMER, a/k/a Weev a/k/a Weelos a/k/a Escher

I hate myself. My first thought was being happy my version of Rails was not vulnerable to this one.

Oh this is going to end so well

Always a little suspicious of 'crack' and 'chronic'. I understand the clean use of the name but the vernacular use of each...

I am sure someone proposed the .meow or .cat domains. I just wonder how far they got

A good github repo does go a long way. I have one project I did as an interview 'test' that I leave up there simply because it shows my thought process etc. It was not a proprietary thing so no sensitive information is in it.

This is tied to their own Mortgage operations rather than those they bought with Countrywide (disclaimer: I worked at Countrywide for six years).

As the article notes though:

"The bank’s acquisition of mortgage giant Countrywide Financial in 2009 gave it an edge in the housing market and endless legal headaches. Analysts estimate that Bank of America has lost nearly $40 billion on mortgage litigation and repurchases of soured loans linked to Countrywide."

So an $850 million deal resulting in litigation is rather small considering the $40 bil they have already lost due to CW.

I find it interesting that so many people have a hard time comprehending Freelancing yet support entrepreneurs. An insurance or mortgage broker is ultimately a Freelancer who can sell their output to a corporation and I doubt any of them face the same strange stares.

Admittedly it is theater but even a symbolic defunding like this can help. If nothing else it is impressive to see that this issue has so much bipartisan traction in the most divided House since before the Civil War.

What is interesting is that if the bill passes with a 2/3 majority Presidents are unlikely to use the Veto. Nothing stops them from vetoing it but they usually take the passing with that strong of a margin as an indication that the veto would be overridden anyway.

I cannot imagine being that age and having that sort of media scrutiny much less while dealing with potentially losing both parents. I do not excuse the actions and certainly the adult in his life played a role. But to have Walker Cronkite call me out on the news, wow.

From the article: "But it’s worth noting that names of third parties are already redacted from documents produced under FOIA."

So it would appear that the names are already redacted

I think it is because they live in a world where secrets are to be kept no matter the cost in the end. This article is just another step in the progressive revelations that have totally destroyed their credibility yet they do not care.

"Neckbeards sending FOIA requests isn't serving any purpose."

Could you be more judgmental? Whomever is sending these requests, shaving habits aside, may not adhere to your premise that 'The best outcome here is to get them to stop collecting the data'. It could very well be that they just want to know what has been collected on them.

If I lived in San Diego I would be tempted to organize a chalk-in at BofA branches