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Comment Re:where is the illegality? (Score 1) 52

As a Canadian I don't feel. I just expose facts and logic. (sorry for that)

Obama interfering with an Israeli Election is legal in the US.

(I think.. Why would US legislate about stuff happening in another country's election?) If they did make a law against it, then yes it would be illegal.
If they did not legislate, then it would be "unethical", but not illegal. Israel might have a law against it and it would be up to them to put pressure on the American government to stop.

"A 2016 study by Dov Levin found that, among 938 global elections examined, the United States and Russia combined had involved themselves in about one out of nine (117), with the majority of those (68%) being through covert, rather than overt, actions."

Russia, because yes Russia has a big probability of being the main actor here, don't care if a Donkey, an Elephant or the Easter Bunny is POTUS. They're playing a game and using disruption fits their goal.

Comment Re:where is the illegality? (Score 3, Interesting) 52

I think the wrongdoings is that a UK company interfered with an US election.

The issue is that Palantir technology (and probably data) was used by Cambridge Analytica. And THIS is what's scary. A UK based control of a US "Weapon of Mass Disruption".

Read up the details on Bloomberg. https://www.bloomberg.com/feat...

Comment Re:Canadian government payroll. (Score 1) 49

What is epic is that the EXACT SAME STORY happened to Australia's Health workers.
IBM Makes a payment system.
System is delivered on time, so public service managers get their bonuses.
Workers are not getting paid.
Government sues IBM.
IBM wins lawsuit, plus legal fees, because it followed the specifications in the contract.

http://www.theaustralian.com.a...
"the government was not able to define and stick to a scope”
This is what's happening at the Canadian Government right now too. IBM made a "perfect" system for 37.5 hours a week, full time employees, who do not change jobs or get temporary assignations, and who do not go on parental or disability leave.
It's Hell. And we're all paying for it.

Comment Butt phones! (Score 1) 76

Seen on Boingboing. There are phones marketed for their "discretion", but the 3110 doesn't look "comfortable".

The "Beat the Boss phone" is an £27 micro-telephone built into a Bluetooth headset with only trace amounts of metal in its construction; it is lozenge-shaped and is designed to be rectally smuggled into prisons, jails and courtrooms.

The reviews are pretty excellent, as you might imagine: "The person this was bought for is very happy with it, as to whether it will beat the boss, time will tell"; "Trust me the smaller the better", etc.

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