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Comment Feinstein (Score 1) 504

Perhaps adding more fuel to the fire...but Senator Feinstein was also the one who shortly after Sandy Hook was attempting to disarm the populace as well. So her perfect world is an unarmed populace with 24/7 government surveillance. Did she sleep through US Heritage classes in college?

Comment Re:Yes it is (Score 1) 398

The problem is thinking the existing whistleblower mechanisms would work in this case. Had he reported this to IG, IG would have responded that the judicial (FISA) has signed off on it and Congress (Patriot Act) authorized it. It would have never reached the public and there is no oversight as all 3 branches were working together against the people's wishes. How about we do a referendum on this for the midterm elections next year? I am sure the House and a few Senators would love to be a ballot with this uncomfortable question next to them.

Comment Hints at infrastructure? (Score 1) 404

So it seems that Healthcare.gov's "data services hub" is all built with Oracle, using RHEL app servers? Other reports mentioning them bring in Amazon and Google people as well...I am guessing for the cloud scaleability part. Funny that some nontraditional private sector companies are getting the lucrative contracting gigs. Usually it goes to companies whose revenue is 90+ percent from the government.

Comment Re:As a canadian.. (Score 1) 390

Is it just that they have that little keyboard on there?

Which oddly enough my Motorola Android phone also has...except it is bigger and more practical as a slider. I am not sure what Blackberry has that is a "business feature" that you cannot get elsewhere. Or perhaps people don't know how to use MS Activesync over BES?

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