Vivtek

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by Vivtek 12y ago
Man, if they'd just add fax they'd have basically every possible telephonic service there is.
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by Vivtek 12y ago
The CEO of a global firm did get put in prison in the telecommunications version of this sordid story - Joseph Nacchio of Qwest (a phone company that was driven into bankruptcy for refusing to play the NSA's game). All the Serious Pe
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by Vivtek 12y ago
I had the same intuition, actually, and I can't really articulate it either. Interesting that someone else had the same notion. To the extent that I can back it up at all, it seems to be something to do with the concern George has with
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by Vivtek 12y ago
Incredibly good news! I emailed earlier this year and got no response, and I was afraid the whole thing had gone away. It's like Christmas in August!
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by Vivtek 13y ago
You've obviously never worked at a large corporation.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Everybody I've ever talked to cared - but the news networks can only carry so much news and 23:59 of the day needs to be devoted to missing planes and whether the President of America or Russia is more manly.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Sure. Everybody knows that federal employees are exempt from taxation.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
I'm keeping my Chase account on the theory that eventually it will be sold to somebody else anyway, probably Deutsche Bank because the rule seems to be that when my bank is bought, it's from somewhere even further away. Eventually
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Sounds like OP has already tried that approach and it's not working.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
My hand's up. In 1996 there was of course no choice, and after that I just never had real cause to switch. Eventually I probably will. All new domains, of course, go through Joker. I like their hapless Deuglish.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
"This capability was put in place after 9/11 for a good reason," said a senior administration official who asked not to be identified discussing sensitive deliberations. "We can't tell you exactly what those reaso
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by Vivtek 13y ago
4 cases against 4 people involved in one actual attempt by a cab driver to send $8500 home to Somalia. So allowing a figure as high as 1.8 percent is really, really generous.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Hungary doesn't. I live here.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
And the dude in question is in Australia. None of this happened in the United States at all - it's amazing! Non-Americans also have businesses!
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by Vivtek 13y ago
And they sat on the decision until he pestered them. Not good at all.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
You mean that Prezi, a Hungarian company, would prosecute the author, an Australian, under an American law? The Internet isn't just something happening in the United States.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
By means of ... negotiated content contracts?
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Tomorrow? My kids right now! And they're 19 and 14, mind you.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Uptick in the tech sector today, eh?
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by Vivtek 13y ago
"Compelled", not "complied"... Ugh. Posting before breakfast: always a mistake.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
How likely is it that Fastmail data could be obtained without anybody at Fastmail noticing? And the key point is that Fastmail cannot be complied to keep such an attempt secret - which is not the case for a US company.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
You realize that was fifty years ago, right? This is like saying computers are impractical because their vacuum tubes require too much power - here in the 21st century, Sweden has actually run out of combustible garbage because it's wo
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by Vivtek 13y ago
He isn't very prolific, but each thing he writes is incredible.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
This is actually Chapter 8 of the punishment book from Anathem, right?
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by Vivtek 13y ago
So if anything, there's a metabubble? A widespread, intense belief that there may or may not be a bubble?
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Neither did anybody. I remember the first time I saw a URL on a truck and realizing the world had changed pretty thoroughly.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Oh! I hereby stand corrected. I should have said (and checked) that the provision as described is useless. I know there's reason for cynicism when it comes to Congress, but maybe I'm overdoing it. Thanks for the link!
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Representative Rush Holt, Democrat of New Jersey, has introduced a bill that would, among other provisions, bar the government from requiring software makers to insert built-in ways to bypass encryption. What a useless bill. The governmen
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by Vivtek 13y ago
Appears to be broken this morning. I see the template briefly, then nothing, in Chrome and IE. Which is sad because it sounds really great.
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by Vivtek 13y ago
This is ludicrous. I have a value system. It consists of me feeling like a better person when I'm a better person. I feel no need to prove my value system as though it were a theorem - what an odd fetish. I've never understood t

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