Let us set the wayback machine to 1929.
"Gentlemen do not read each others' mail." - Henry Stimson, U.S. Secretary of State.
Which brings us to another useful quote by George Santayana back in 1905 -- "Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it."
The NSA needs to give up the concept of domestic, drag-net style data gathering. Pick a target, don't just gather everything and sift for potential targets.
They probably disable iptables because they don't use system-level firewalls on servers, regardless of the OS.
And they disable SELinux because they probably don't have anyone who understands how to use it, much less use it well. MAC is great for security, but requires a depth of knowledge of your systems that most places just don't have.
I've seen both actions at several government agencies for those exact reasons.
Slashdot doubles as a Turing Test for AI blog bots. Crowd reaction is used as a measure for passing. The problem is, what happens when most of the crowd at Slashdot is comprised of AI blog bots?
Yes, I do. I have two. I wiped off Chrome for Chrubuntu, but eventually put it back. Chrome is faster to boot, runs smoother and works better. Google did a lot to find tune it.
http://slashdot.org/journal/598315/six-months-with-a-chromebook
About six months ago my main PC died and I needed a new one. Not having a lot of cash, and not really having a lot of free time to spend on the computer, I decided to get an Acer C7 Chromebook to hold me over.
Unfortunately I don't have the skill set and there doesn't seem to be any other way to support them.
If you have a machine that supports it, Coreboot could be a very interesting solution.
Yes.
An interesting post is here on how to create a forum from scratch. The use of foreign keys to control this sort of referential deletion is part of the article. A pretty good primer, actually.
Data Modification/Deletion. You can delete your account by contacting us. Alternatively, you can delete most types of individual Content items. Deleting your account will delete all Content you provided, except that we may choose to retain Content incorporated into the neighborhood's conversations (and, as applicable, nearby neighborhoods); and we may attribute that Content to your name even after you depart. If we allow you to change neighborhoods on our site, we may retain your conversation contributions in your old neighborhood and nearby neighborhoods (and keep the attribution to your name) but allow you to move your profile to your new neighborhood. If you are the subject of an unauthorized profile, please contact us.
I can see where discussion sites don't allow for deletion as it is a royal PITA to maintain site integrity, threads, etc. if a user disappears.
Take Slashdot for example...
My Nokia N800 had a built-in FM tuner that only worked when the earphone cord was plugged in and that was back in 2007. I know it wasn't the first to do that because it was a feature in one of the chipsets included in the device.
I never knew anyone actually used this feature.
You lose. That was a simple theft of the secret seeds used to generate the randomness on the tokens. Nothing super spy worth. Just some noob pulling an infected e-mail out of the quarantine folder and opening the un-asked for Excel file.
...you sound like you are howling at the moon.
This is the Internet. That is what they do here.
That being said, your civics lesson left out the large role lobbying and campaign contributions play in the decisions and actions of both Congress and the Executive. While the President can safely ignore the ranting of Internet dogs, he and the other players can't just blow off the leaders of some of the largest, most profitable corporations in the world. Mr. Obama may not be seeking re-election, but anyone looking for $$ from that crowd would do well to notice that they don't give a damn about the ACA and are up in arms about the NSA.
Note: That wiki summary was from the entry on "Understatement of the Year, 1996-2013 inclusive"
Thanks. Mine were from Walmart, but were very similar in cost to those at my local Lowe's and Home Depot. I'll have to check Costco for future purchases.
I'm not the only one, then. I can't stand the yellowish light by standard incandescent bulbs. We switched everything in our house to the 6000K range. Most are CFLs, but the specialty lights (chandelier and recessed spots) are LEDs.
What? Where?
I just picked up some 40w equivalent dimmable LEDs (note the lack of the apostrophe
"Who alone has reason to *lie himself out* of actuality? He who *suffers* from it." -- Friedrich Nietzsche
