Comment A lie of the highest order (Score 1) 546
- He didn't bring the documents into Russia. He left them with reporters
The only sources of that statement are individuals that were involved with the incident.
Comment All forms of contingent employment, incl. MSP's (Score 1) 135
You're the first to go and the least likely to be treated with any respect.
Comment That was a lockstep cleansing due to GamerGate (Score 1) 474
FARK.com went through a similar "cleansing" a while back, again motivated by the desire for advertising revenue. I moved to IMGUR as an alternative to FARK.
That was done with a few other sites in an attempt to contain the GamerGate controversy. It failed.
Comment The SJW sector of Reddit cant help but harass here (Score 1) 474
For those coming from the SJW-friendly sectors of Reddit (such as SRS,Ghazi):
Quit trying to harass the non-SJW population while you're still behind.
Reddit Removes Communities To Address Harassment, Users Respond 474
New submitter sethstorm writes: As a change to their community management, Reddit administrators have banned multiple communities (known as subreddits) in a bid to remove harassment. In response, users have responded in different ways — some have pointed out the bias of Reddit admins for leaving known harassers alone such as those in the "SRS" subreddit, others have attempted to re-create the banned subreddit "FatPeopleHate", and many have gone to overwhelm Voat (a competitor).
Submission + - Reddit Removes Communities To Address Harassment, Users Respond (reddit.com)
sethstorm writes: As a change to their community management, Reddit administrators have banned multiple communities (known as subreddits) in a bid to remove harassment. In response, users have responded in different ways — some have pointed out the bias of Reddit admins for leaving known harassers alone such as those in the "SRS" subreddit, others have attempted to re-create the banned subreddit "FatPeopleHate", and many have gone to overwhelm Voat (a competitor).
Submission + - Reddit Removes Communities To Address Harassment, Users Respond (reddit.com)
sethstorm writes: As a change to their community management, Reddit administrators have banned multiple communities (known as subreddits) in a bid to remove harassment. In response, users have responded in different ways — some have pointed out the bias of Reddit admins for leaving known harassers alone such as those in the "SRS" subreddit, others have attempted to re-create the banned subreddit "FatPeopleHate", and many have gone to overwhelm Voat (a competitor).
Comment Nope, but actual evidence exists for PRC & Nor (Score 1) 144
Scratch Huawei anything and you'll see Nortel & PRC military markings under it.
Comment China did it, end of story. (Score 1) 144
The requisite denial by China says it all.
Comment Left out the important part of that police quote (Score 1) 535
A police spokesman tells the Salem News the way things are in today's society, "you can't have that" and said Cross "used bad judgment."
I don't normally say this, but in this case I will:
Fuck the police.
Comment They're all Apple users. (Score 2) 179
I have lots of people in my life that need ZERO ports on their laptop.
Comment It also screws with the IT staff too. (Score 1) 94
The workers that actually have to deal with it are further screwed - contract labor makes things as healthy and stable as being next to a malfunctioning nuclear reactor. Long-term anything goes out the window and compensation is made on worse terms.
Comment Interesting callousness towards those maintaining (Score 1) 94
The promise of the cloud is that your storage and computing problems will be abstracted away from messy physical objects that you need to maintain, taken care of far way by other people that are not well treated for their work.
At least the first mainframe era had some respect for the people involved in the infrastructure. These days, globalization has killed it in favor of mistreatment and abstraction of the workforce.
Comment Re:Nonsense (Score 1) 389
is reformed in the House bill, which does away with it over six months and instead gives phone companies the responsibility of maintaining phone records that the government can search." Obama criticized the Senate for not acting on that legislation, saying they have necessitated a renewal of the Patriot Act provisions.
You are right, as it ended up being the House Patriot Act extension in the name of the USA Freedom Act was not a real reform. Requiring a warrant to gain access to the information was the real issue.
Although if they simply required the companies to retain the data for a period of time AND required the government to get a constitutionally valid search warrant to access particular records directly related to a terrorism case then that would be the reform we need. The companies have these records anyway, it is the search warrant part that is what we need.
Comment Re:Those who would give up.. (Score 1) 389
In secret... and illegally! There is a big difference between walking up to the front door and demanding cooperation from a business and covertly gaining access to those records. It is a several order of magnitude difference in effective ability to collect information about people
Having fourth amendment protections honored and respected means that the police can't just knock down the door of your business to search your records because of the remote possibility that someone that you do business with could be a terrorist.
Having a Patriot Act provision that says the the government doesn't need a constitutionally valid warrant to get business records is far far different than covertly collecting information via hacking or by purchasing the information. To have the freedom to choose companies that will honor their privacy agreements is itself an important step. To have the recourse to sue those companies when they voluntarily sell the government your private information in violation of your privacy agreement is important.
What is at stake is the government being able to walk into a company with a secret order demanding they hand over all the records the government wants without a constitutionally valid warrant. Having a law to point to that says companies can be forced to cooperate makes a big difference to the ease at which the government can collect mega data and conduct unconstitutional drag net surveillance.
Billions and billions of records about everyone's communications with which you can monitor their movements, their political affiliations and activism, monitor all their recorded financial transactions and purchases, determine their race, infer their sexual activity, and otherwise find exploitable personal weaknesses, affinities and affiliations en masse.
Oh and then put that in a giant database which is exploitable by America's adversaries.
Yes, this matters. Let the Patriot Act expire!
