Because I'm so sure that ...

Your suspicions are not citations. Next.

Remember that the military put out an effort to secretly recruit bloggers back in 2008: http://www.wired.com/dangerroo...

Bzzz! A lie! The article makes no mention of "an effort". It only describes a discussion within the military, on whether such recruitment might be a good idea. Paying such bloggers — the way Russia pays its trolls as discussed in TFA — is a separate topic too.

This is the second time in this very thread, that I catch you misrepresenting the contents of the links you are offering. So I am not interested in continuing the discussion, liar.

In this particular case, I was simply being pedantic. This is slashdot after all.

If that were all there was to it, a Constitutional scholar like yourself would not have missed an opportunity to correct the earlier poster, who claimed, that Hastert was "2nd in line to the presidency"...

Obviously, Speaker of the House is the 3rd in line — vice-President is the 2nd. And this difference — though still irrelevant to the point made — is much more "material" than the exact numbering of the Amendments.

There aren't many appliances sold today, that would accept the DC input directly. Ripping the converting power-supply out from each one to wire it directly into your DC-circuit will void warranties and ultimately cost a lot more than the "20% losses".

I do find the ability to charge USB-devices without the annoying "black bricks", but that's easily achieved by simply replacing the power outlets with something like this (I have four such in my house already).

If he simply runs CAT6 (or better) Ethernet cables to every room, he can later use some of them as simple DC-electricity conductors...

However that doesn't make the laws bullshit. If you have a better way to catch criminals engaged in money laundering

The primary objection to these laws — and the reason they are considered "bullshit" — is that they allow confiscation of funds without having to prove anything. The government does not even need to file a suit!

None of the victims are "criminals" — because nobody is a criminal until found guilty in a court of law — and your above-quoted excuse for the law is thus automatically invalid.

Worse, the practice — and the bullshit laws "authorizing" it — are in direct violation of the Fifth Amendment, which purports to protect us against this exact practice (emphasis mine): "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated".

First of all, I do agree, that neither bank-withdrawals (in whatever "pattern"), nor lying to anyone (unless under oath) should be a crime. Absolutely not.

But, as long as it is a crime, people like Dennis Hastert — who had the power to do something about these laws, but did not, absolutely must be prosecuted under them. To the fullest extent and without mercy. (I argued the same thing about Spitzer — whose case was even worse, for he not only kept the laws he broke on the books, he strengthened them.)

He is not a regular citizen — employee, student, businessman. He had the power — and more of it, than even an "average" Congressman.

All that said about him, I find it disturbing, that the ruling party would prosecute the opposition's politicians. It does not look good. At all... They should be focusing on their own — like the aforementioned Mr. Spitzer, whose sole "punishment" for breaking federal laws, was resignation...

Facebook and Twitter by troops using military computers

That seems to be for the troops' recreation and communications, not propaganda.

Military's 'sock puppet' software creates fake online identities [...] http://www.guardian.co.uk/tech...

That's the same article, that the AC above linked to, while making an allegation I rebutted. Your description of it is misleading — at the time it was written, the software did not exist. Only the contract to develop it is actually asserted as existing. Moreover, that is the article, from which I quoted the following: "none of the interventions would be in English, as it would be unlawful to "address US audiences" with such technology". You are citing that same link again to "prove", that "US audiences" were targeted after — and even before — the law banning the practice was abolished? Wow...

phony fan club websites, were set up to disparage USA TODAY reporters [...] Camille Chidiac, admitted to setting up some of the sites

So, it was not done by a government program, but by one guy — seemingly at the behest of one private tax-evading company. And he got punished for it...

Slim pickings — your earlier bold claim, that "the domestic propaganda has been going on since before 2013" is not supported... At all.

In which case people would just use putty or cygwin or openssh instead

Or they'll expect remote servers to implement whatever changes Microsoft will require for interoperatibility. We've been through this in the 1990-ies, when Microsoft's Internet Explorer was introduced with subtle incompatibilities in HTML-rendering...

Firstly I can see why you had to write "attempts", because it seems none of those actually killed anything

Well, a successful attempt is still an attempt: Netscape died. Kerberos survived because the world wised up by then — this very site had helped by hosting an anonymous coward's post documenting Microsoft's "extensions" to Kerberos so developers world-wide could implement them without signing an NDA of their own.

if they create an incompatibility here it is going to completely break their system making it such that Linux, BSD, iOS, Android, etc... can no longer connect to it.

Or not — depending on the nature of incompatibilities and the marketing/advertising... For example, the regular connections will work, but compressed ones will not (either at all, or requiring client to support some new compression algorithm). Or port-forwarding will be disabled (or not working at all). Or WINCH will not be sent to the remote servers, when the local window is resized — or, in the other direction, arriving WINCH will be ignored or misinterpreted. The possibilities for both honest errors and deliberate breakage are immense...

But let's not kid ourselves: the domestic propaganda has been going on since before 2013.

Citations? Given how enthusiastically US media supports the party currently in power, I doubt, you'll find any.

Not until there is another regime-change and dissent becomes patriotic (rather than racist) again.

PuTTy is already an incompatible mess all of it's own. It even has it's own special format for keys

The second sentence implies some other incompatibilities, in addition to special format for keys. I'm not aware of anything else — could you list examples?

Well fuck me, time to look up the command to convert that stupid shit again

PuTTY's entire source-code is , whereas Microsoft's own implementation of Kerberos was binary-only and developers had to sign an NDA to learn, how to interoperate with it. I linked to that above — the story was all the rage right here on /. 15 years ago...

I have no idea why no one bothered porting OpenSSH to Windows before

Probably, because, PuTTY provided a perfectly satisfactory solution...

What exactly are you scared about?

That, for example, in order to ssh into a remote Windows system you'll have to use Microsoft's ssh-client — because they'll use some funky cipher/digest combination or some other "extension". They did it to Kerberos before...

Or that interactive logins will only work on certain terminal emulators — because nothing else will be able to properly emulate powershell's window — just imagine the termcaps entry...

In the link I gave there is a large list of Microsoft's earlier attempts to kill a standard by first adopting it — read it up...

For a job as an Internet Troll that would probably be counted as a benefit.

Huh? You must be thinking of sincere volunteer trolls trolling for fun. That's not, whom we are discussing here. These folks are hired to spread the "party line". And to a recipient any message seems more convincing, when expressed well and by someone, perceived to be a person of quality.

The article I read (itself in Russian) mentioned a older man hired by the "troll-factory" to help improve the language and grammar of rank-and-file workers — and how depressingly difficult he found his job to be.