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by finid 10y ago
> so I want to know if it's being attacked for legitimate or political reasons. Why would California attack ITT for political reasons? The problem with ITT is the same problem with all such schools - profit above all else. Whether t
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by finid 10y ago
> Though his age is impressive, Mr Gotho told a regional news network: “What I want is to die.” Who cam blame the old man ...
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by finid 10y ago
Whether that threat is real, imagined or made up.
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by finid 10y ago
> Gabriel's comments contrast with those of Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said last month that TTIP was "absolutely in Europe's interest." Just as the French will someday regret the day they elected both Sarkozy and H
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by finid 10y ago
If you want to enjoy the benefits of a FreeBSD desktop without all the hassle of making it to just work, take PC-BSD for a spin. http://pcbsd.org
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by finid 10y ago
> I'm surprised that the original warrants were signed in the first place. No, no surprise there. Cops/Sheriffs are not the only corrupt arm of the criminal justice system. The whole system is messed up.
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by finid 10y ago
> On August 15, Larpenter was supposed to be honored for his service to the community by being inducted into the Louisiana Justice Hall of Fame. That says it all! and this one instance is the only one we know of that Larpenter oversteppe
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by finid 10y ago
> because he asked a neighbor to borrow a ladder By that I take it to mean that they were neighbors. So if your neighbor stops by to borrow a ladder, would you call the cops on him/her?
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by finid 10y ago
Trying to run Docker on your own to do anything meaningful can be a very painful exercise. I gave up after trying to spin up a cluster on DigitalOcean using v1.12. Like the author, I couldn't get my containers to see each other, someth
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by finid 10y ago
“Gartner asserts that applications deployed in containers are more secure than applications deployed on the bare OS” Gartner is like a financial ratings agency. I wouldn't rely on their recommendation if I were concerned about the secu
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by finid 10y ago
If they can have a backdoor in Lotus Notes, what else can't they have a backdoor into? Do a search for "ibm lotus backdoor" or start from http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html
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by finid 10y ago
To make it easier to invade your privacy.
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by finid 10y ago
> After so many years of debate and study, the question of moving remained an emotional topic And it will always be an emotional topic. It's tough to let go in these situations.
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by finid 10y ago
That's like asking me for evidence for the existence of the Sun. All I can do is shake my head...
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by finid 10y ago
State-sponsored backdoors have been mainstreams for decades. Practically every major piece of software and hardware that's not open source has a backdoor embedded. Even popular anti-virus programs on Windows have been jimmied to allow
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by finid 10y ago
Finding somebody to team up with might be the way to go. Perhaps somebody who can motivate you would be the perfect match. Reach out to me if the idea of teaming up with somebody sounds appealing.
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by finid 10y ago
While I have no doubt that Russia, like the USA, carries out targeted assassinations, perhaps the NYT should do another piece on some of the suspected victims of a recent US administration. An article about Paul David Wellstone will be an e
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by finid 10y ago
> Other countries, notably Israel and the United States, pursue targeted killings, but in a strict counterterrorism context. So all those attempts at eliminating Fidel Castro and Muammar Gaddafi were in a "strict counterterrorism co
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by finid 10y ago
The state wants to play Robin Hood. Hey! Why don't they give the money to me. I can use it. Next they will want to take money from the likes of Facebook and give it to struggling newspapers.
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by finid 10y ago
So Russian conventional forces are 3rd rate? Your assessment is based on what? Listen to what Obama said after calling Russia a regional power: “Obviously a bunch of rebels are not going to be able to compete with the hardware of the second
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by finid 10y ago
You have to take "what US intelligence knew to be true" with a grain of salt. Just recently, Obama dismissed Russia as a 3rd-rate military power. You have to believe that was based on intelligence briefings. That tune changed quic
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by finid 10y ago
It's how the empire sustains itself, until it's no longer able to sustain itself. Let's hope the transition to another empire does not happen by force.
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by finid 10y ago
There were knuckleheads on both sides who thought they could get away with a first strike. During the Russian-Georgian war, the Bush administration actually toyed with the idea of striking Russia. Bush was given the option, but he declined.
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by finid 10y ago
I'm not saying that it's the best arrangement, but that's how it works now. Most university research are publicly funded via the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH). So without such f
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by finid 10y ago
Decisions like the one I'm referring to are made at the very top level, so the "MS is a large organization, and can't be expected to act like its decisions are as simple as one person's" line does not hold water.
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by finid 10y ago
> No matter that US v MS was 15 years ago when he was 10. US v MS is an ongoing thing. It's never been over... So MS is releasing OSS stuff, but making it hard to run Linux alongside their OS on the same hardware. It's like a g
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by finid 10y ago
This has always been the case. Researchers are free to take the results of their publicly-funded research and run. The govt. sees it as a win-win. It's money well spent because of the jobs created. Taxes from those jobs and profits fro
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by finid 10y ago
Right thing to do, but at the state level, that will be a tough fight. Knowing the group of people that are most likely to be imprisoned, tough chance.
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by finid 10y ago
> Yates said the Justice Department would not terminate existing contracts but instead review those that come up for renewal. She said all the contracts would come up for renewal over the next five years. Which means that over the next f
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by finid 10y ago
Folks, Microsoft blatantly disregarding user choice and privacy is not news. What else do you expect from a company that ships at least one backdoor in every software they've ever made? If you understand the true nature of Bill Gates a

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