JamisonM

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by JamisonM 13y ago
Your edit: ..having so little impact on it's primary revenue driver.. Sorry, you are still wrong. The BBC is specifically in the business of video content and their failed system was a video content management system. You can not get
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by JamisonM 13y ago
The warped mind of Timothy McVeigh as well.
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Real headline: Publicly funded broadcaster makes same mistake most large private enterprises make in more or less the same way. It seems to me that months or years of auditing and hearings and cries for heads to roll are probably wasted. Ju
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Army? Give me a break! We developed our own morality in a vacuum.. Sorry, there are plenty of old-timey hackers I worked with at telcos that were happy to look up phone records and just generally mess with stuff, including people's p
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by JamisonM 13y ago
What you wrote here is exactly what sprung to my mind upon reading the headline, never mind the story itself. But then after reading it I got to thinking of all the developers that I have met that are absolutely resolute in their belief tha
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I emphatically disagree on the photo app example. The only folders I use for my photos is by date and the only reason I do so is because of the limitations of the design of the computer on which those files are stored. Photos do not particu
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I think you are being a bit disingenuous in this response, finish the quote: > We definitely do not live in a system of chattel slavery, but that's only because chattel slavery is so much less efficient.. This statement makes it sou
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by JamisonM 13y ago
This is a false equivalence. Just the fact that the US government feels compelled to hide a program like PRISM is a strong indication that there is a big difference between the Russian government and the US government (and certainly the Sov
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by JamisonM 13y ago
There are an absurd number of things that it makes sense for the government to keep from the public and not divesting that information but keeping the people who have that information accountable is what elections are for. You want to kno
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I am more or less aware of these scenarios and they certainly raise some concerns about potential for abuse, but the problem is that the opposite scenario where federal agents or LEOs of any kind can not lie is not feasible. I asked another
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I am baffled too, given that Ecuador offered Assange asylum wouldn't that be the most logical choice? I quick "vacation" down to Costa Rica and overland to Ecuador if you want to avoid raising suspicions and travel restrictio
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I would suggest that tracking former employees or contractors that had security clearance and did not misbehave while working for the NSA would be a pretty low priority to keep track of - and fairly numerous. Particularly since any informat
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Do you have an example of its application in that manner? I am unaware of one.
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by JamisonM 13y ago
The headline "Has the US Government's History of Acting Against its own Stated Values in the Protection of Civil Liberties and Privacy" is not nearly punchy enough to attract the desired clicks though. The window ain't j
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by JamisonM 13y ago
While that double-standard is unfortunate I do not see how their ability to lie to someone should make that person tell lies. Is the alternate universe where the police are not allowed to lie to you is also one where if an officer makes a f
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I don't know if the real problem is that Congress has abdicated its power. I think the real, real problem is that many of the sensible people in congress realize they have many colleagues who are either excessively partisan or incompet
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I do not understand why it is terrifying. In the case cited the person was being interviewed and knew the people he was talking to were FBI agents. It seems like misleading the police at any level should be a crime, should it not? If you ar
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Well, the behaviour you are describing just sounds like Microsoft's anti-virus software - and they have a datacenter in Georgia - something to consider. If you are genuinely concerned I think it is pretty simple to contact real profess
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by JamisonM 13y ago
How do you tie these things back to a domestic botnet controlled by "authorities" local to the US?
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by JamisonM 13y ago
If you do not deny the science behind vaccines then you probably have a moral responsibility to make sure you and your children are vaccinated. I know how bad it is to have vaccinated people in the population but you only believe or suspe
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I am not the poster who becomes enraged about vaccine-deniers, in case you've got that mixed up. Though I generally find that vaccine-deniers are people such that they have little interest in becoming better informed or having their op
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Vaccinations and treatment are completely different things and vaccines and antibiotics are also completely different things. There are plenty of resources on the Internet that explain these matters - if you can get past the anti-vaccine ps
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Your comment seems to misunderstand the difference between vaccinations and antibiotic treatments. Herd immunity disallows an organism a foothold in a population, it is not present to become immune - it is something entirely separate from t
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I agree. He likely understood that a separate south was likely to support slavery for much longer than a south that was part of a union that tolerated slavery in the south for a time, even if the civil war had not occurred. In which case pr
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Wait.. are you being sarcastic or you really don't realize that Obama was making a joke when he said that? I remember when he said it and certain media outlets sort of went crazy - but the audience just laughed.
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The average German, Russian, or Brazilian probably thinks about the importance of their relative privacy with respect to their government even less than the average US citizen does. And the average US citizen does not really care. (This NSA
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Unfortunately such a social network would probably be so dominated by tinfoil-hat crazies that it would be unusable. The thing about social networks is of course that the people you want to socially network with need to be there. On the oth
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by JamisonM 13y ago
I think it is pretty clear that not everyone is equally biased or that every bias is equally bad or good. It does not seem like a useful question unless you plan on engaging in a lengthy exercise it justifying Wikipedia from first-principle
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by JamisonM 13y ago
No, I have not. That is completely false. I think I made one edit to correct a typo. You removed the first line of your original posting that indicated that you thought that the protests were anti-secular and you added content that "address
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by JamisonM 13y ago
Extremist Muslims are bad. Terrorists are bad. I do not support terrorism, Islamic or otherwise. What you think you are writing and what you are actually writing appear to be two different things. You should work on that.

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