LLWM

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by LLWM 12y ago
Cold warriors said the NSA spying on domestic targets was the worst possible scenario? Not, say, global thermonuclear annihilation?
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by LLWM 12y ago
The point is that the claim does match and is not extraordinary in any way.
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by LLWM 12y ago
If someone claimed the sky was blue, would you require them to provide proof before believing them?
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by LLWM 12y ago
Until there is a serious reform of the courts, either by active effort or by sufficient replacement with younger judges, taking things to court is likely only going to bring about the opposite.
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by LLWM 12y ago
And that's a satisfactory outcome for you?
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by LLWM 12y ago
Because his definition of a fair trial is one where classified information is made public.
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by LLWM 12y ago
If you're going to commit treason, be prepared to accept the consequences for treason. To commit the crime and then flee the country to avoid prosecution is complete cowardice.
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by LLWM 12y ago
Sure. As long as absolutists like you are willing to accept that maybe "moral" doesn't necessarily mean to other people something you are going to personally agree with.
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by LLWM 12y ago
I wouldn't. Modern judges have done a terrible job of keeping up with technology. It's as likely as not that the judge would rule something crazy like all EULAs are binding contracts and then we'd all be fucked.
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by LLWM 12y ago
Just because you think something is wrong means that other people "must know that it's wrong?" If anything, they have access to much more privileged information than we do. For all we know, they're fighting the First Wav
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by LLWM 12y ago
Why should the hard drive manufacturer send you a free replacement just because the hard drive firmware has changed? For all they know, you modified it yourself. Or are just lying about the problem.
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by LLWM 12y ago
I'm not talking about legal requirements. I'm talking about taking responsibility.
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by LLWM 12y ago
Unlikely to be relevant here, then. Any business customers would likely have been buying Thinkpads, which were unaffected, and using their own images, not the ones with Lenovo's bundled crapware.
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by LLWM 12y ago
Fining vendors for which software they choose to bundle is a terrible precedent to set and a terrible idea in general. Firefox uses its own cert store too.
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by LLWM 12y ago
Because the Russian Mafia is an external party to the transaction, while the large international company is the one selling the computer in the first place. As unfortunate as it may be, it's accepted as normal these days that discount
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by LLWM 12y ago
He has to come back and face justice first. After he's found guilty, he can be pardoned. He's too much of a coward to go that route though.
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by LLWM 12y ago
There's a big difference between an enemy combatant in a war zone and a journalist going to an awards ceremony.
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by LLWM 12y ago
It's almost as if people don't see it as misuse! How disturbing!
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by LLWM 12y ago
If you're worried about someone inferring data from seeing files with leading names like "potential microsoft buyout.ppt", perhaps you should give your files less conspicuous names? Pretty much every organization concerned wi
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by LLWM 12y ago
If so, then it's hard to imagine how you could distinguish between those in such a way that labels the methods described in the article as dragnet surveillance, rather than non-dragnet.
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by LLWM 12y ago
If you're not going to trust the developers when they tell you that's not the case, why would you trust them enough to use TrueCrypt?
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by LLWM 12y ago
No you don't. The scenario you have concocted is ridiculous.
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by LLWM 12y ago
It disturbs you that other people have different political views than you do?
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by LLWM 12y ago
If they can, they would be stupid not to. And the NSA should be doing everything in their power to stop them from doing so.
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by LLWM 12y ago
Assigning people unchangeable and public UUIDs is worth doing regardless and has nothing to do with espionage. Please don't damage such proposals by associating them with controversial topics like this one.
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by LLWM 12y ago
It's also the definition of someone who doesn't want to be attacked by expressing their opinions with an account tied to their real identity.
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by LLWM 12y ago
That's not exactly the same wording, and there are many expressions of the same sentiment in different words. Why insist on believing that this is some nefarious conspiracy rather than the simpler explanation that some - perhaps even m
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by LLWM 12y ago
Perhaps because it's pretty obvious that the US is a force for good in the world and only crazy people would deny that.
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by LLWM 12y ago
Joke's on you, my living room IS my office!
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by LLWM 12y ago
Surveillance is situationally justifiable. Torture is not. This isn't a complex problem.

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