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Comment Re:Key theft != cracking encryption (Score 1) 268

If Windows notifies programs about suspends/shutdowns (not sure it really does), TrueCrypt needs to dismount immediately and do whatever it needs to do to protect its key.

It does. Just make sure the options "Dismount all when: Entering power saving mode" and "Wipe cached passwords on auto-dismount" are checked in the TrueCrypt settings (Settings -> Preferences) and you should be good. This will automatically dismount all TrueCrypt drives and wipe any cached passwords from memory when sleeping or hibernating.

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Submission + - School District Threatening Newspaper Over Article Detailing Money Mismanagement (themonitor.com)

FutureDomain writes: The Weslaco Texas School District is threatening the Monitor, a local newspaper for running a story detailing financial mismanagement by the school district. According to the Monitor, investigations by state authorities and a confidential memo reveal that the school district siphoned off $2 million dollars from the school employee's health insurance fund and used it to build a press box at a high school stadium, violating Texas labor law. The school district has threated to take “any legal action necessary to preserve its rights.” unless the Monitor removes the article.

Comment Re:Why? (Score 0) 627

Ron Paul tried that very technique, but he got stonewalled by the party establishment and had the rules changed at the last minute to exclude him. People are beginning to realize that changing the parties from the inside out doesn't work as long as there are power hungry people controlling the rules and making decisions for the party.

But this only works if you try and work within the party. Once Tea Party Republicans realize that they can't beat the powerful and corrupt using their rules, than we'll see a mass exodus followed by a party collapse rivaling the Whig party.

Comment Re:Ah! How to Shut Down 3D Printing 101... (Score 1) 570

Rather, you are willing to give a gun to a complete non-government stranger because complete non-government strangers have never done anything illegal, or the achieve his agenda.

Yes, not because you know he hasn't done anything illegal, but because the probability that he's wrongly killed someone is extremely low. On the other hand, an armed governmental stranger (especially a cop) is much more likely to have wrongly killed someone. It probably wasn't illegal (since the government makes the laws in the first place) or if it was it was ignored, but they have a much higher tendency to wrongfully kill someone because they have done it before and gotten away with it or they know they can.

Comment Re:This won't really affect anything. (Score 1) 250

What's the point in using 2.0 in the first place if 1.9 will do?

If you'll read TFA, they're doing it so that jQuery will be much faster and more modular. If you just use 1.9, you're punishing everyone who has a sane browser. Their code will run slower so that it won't break for the drones using ancient versions of IE. By offering both and choosing server side, you have the speed and support of the new versions and still support grandpa's Windows XP computer. Eventually Windows XP will die a long deserved death and version 1.9 can go with it.

Comment Re:Cant stop a moving train (Score 2) 234

Actually if they really looked at things, which they don't, I don't think it's good for the %1 at all to suppress freedom.

It all depends on how they got their money and power. If they got it by producing the best things that people want, then it's not good for them. But if they got their money by regulating away their competitors, enriching themselves through subsidies, or empowering themselves through controlled media then it's in their best interests to restrict freedom. Allowing Internet freedom could threaten their guaranteed profits (by circumventing restrictive copyrights and patents) or threaten their power to influence people (by allowing the free flow of information). That's why they keep trying to pass these bills. Instead of trying to innovate their way to more profits, they turn to forcing people either directly or indirectly to give them more profits through government action.

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