ccarter84

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by ccarter84 13y ago
D*mmit. Guess I finally should break down and burn a linux bootdisk for banking.
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by ccarter84 13y ago
I would as well - old econ reading is a little rusty, so layperson is probably the right level to restart my brain at. ccarter84 (at) the all-surveilled google mail Thanks!
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by ccarter84 13y ago
I think anyone who actually cares about this stuff has two simultaneous responses here. 1. Do you actually care if you get it? 2. Go f * yourselves
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by ccarter84 13y ago
I'd be quite surprised if they went at this guy with anywhere near the ferocity they went after that idiotic IRS chief's testimony.
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by ccarter84 13y ago
Glad the NYT Editorial board has stepped up and been so blunt. "But Americans should not be fooled by political leaders putting forward a false choice. The issue is not whether the government should vigorously pursue terrorists. The qu
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by ccarter84 13y ago
BoingBoing points to Muckrock ( http://boingboing.net/2013/06/11/howto-foia-the-nsa.html ) But it seems like Muckrock has done this sort of thing before, and the take-away I am getting is: ----make sure to requ
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FOIA the NSA (via Doctorow)(boingboing.net)
2 points by ccarter84 13y ago|0 comments
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by ccarter84 13y ago
Yea sorry about that - In retrospect I shouldn't have included a brain-deadening link
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(Maybe) We asked for this(m.techcrunch.com)
17 points by ccarter84 13y ago|4 comments
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by ccarter84 13y ago
POTUS v leakers & press. Infants in Congress. Finally have legit gripes
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by ccarter84 13y ago
Interesting theory about helping recipients of large numbers of subpoena's streamline their responses / minimize workloads. Personally I think that's giving the government too much credit as if they cared about the burdensome
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by ccarter84 13y ago
But...but they're helping us secure our home networks! "The Information Assurance Directorate (IAD) at NSA recently released a new technical guide entitled Best Practices for Securing a Home Network." - http://www.
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by ccarter84 13y ago
It's amazing how often government seems to act like a vengeful ex.
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by ccarter84 13y ago
On timeline: "After he consulted with Legal, he refused. As a result, NSA canceled a bunch of unrelated billion dollar contracts that QWest was the top bidder for. And then the DoJ targeted him and prosecuted him and put him in priso
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by ccarter84 13y ago
Well...on the upside at least we're not making more mice glow in the dark
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by ccarter84 13y ago
There's gotta be some kind of organizational size:responsiveness inverse metric for stuff like this
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by ccarter84 13y ago
That last one is where they get ya
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by ccarter84 14y ago
Great - Austin households get two giga-bit networks competing to get first to their doorsteps and the rest of the country gets to watch in wonder.
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by ccarter84 14y ago
Ah, agreed - congrats on getting out of the rat race and properly compensated yourself
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by ccarter84 14y ago
cool story bro'
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by ccarter84 14y ago
Awesome - this could be great for helping reduce cooling related energy use / slowing global warming, but control of a relatively benign chemical will be hard to force since and it's 280-320x worse than CO2 in terms of Global Warming effect
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by ccarter84 14y ago
Someday we'll be fondly remembering with our leaders weren't all secluded deep indoors, behind EMP fields, or stuck riding around in popemobiles.
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by ccarter84 14y ago
So you're saying they won't sell us down the river? I'm sold