Add to that the percentage of the population that actuall is a spy is incredibly small and the percentage of the population that gets squeamish under interrogation is really high and you have a total classification disaster on your hands. I mean, of the thousands of NSA or CIA or FBI employees, how many of them are spies? Sure, some of them probably are. But I'm guessing it's single digits in each agency.

I love watching a dog lose its shit whenever it sees something new. Dogs have a highly tuned, "That ain't right," sense and they love to share it with all of us.

"That's the tallest guy I've ever seen. That ain't right."

"That person has wheels instead of using his legs. That ain't right."

"A big person carrying a little tiny person in a bag? That ain't right."

What you are offering up is no different than the *I was just following orders* routine.

No, he's not saying that the hitman is innocent. He's saying that the hitman and his employer are both guilty.

Here in freedomland we have something called HD Radio. I guess its like DAB but I've never seen an actual physical receiver or known a person who has one.

The feds are saying they need more campaign donations and more guaranteed jobs with Comcast when they quit Uncle Sam.

For pirate FM stations to fly their flags.

Give it up already. You really think there are paid shills on this poor excuse for a website? How many visitors does Slashdot get per day compared to some place like Reddit? I'm sure Linux will be the dominant desktop OS any decade now.

Have you met anybody involved in a multi-level marketing scam? The comparison is actually not that far off.

Did you forget about kHTTPd?

Exactly. Good encryption makes cloud backup a perfectly safe option. Encrypt your stuff something good and secure like GnuPG, stick it in one or more cloud providers, and then just worry about backing up your keys. Keys are small enough that you can even keep your backups as hard copies, and you only have to do the physical backup once instead of every week or whatever. It's a pain in the ass to type hard copies in correctly, but printed paper survives a lot better in a fire safe than digital media. Keep one easy to use digital copy and one heat-resistant paper copy in your fire safe and do the same in a safe deposit box somewhere.

I've been emailing myself important encrypted documents for years and letting gmail index them for easy retrieval. I can't imagine going back to dealing with having to regularly get physical media backups somewhere off-site and safe. It's just bits. Use computers to move them.

I rather suspect it's the Vineans using magma to create artificial land for themselves.

...as long as they're cool with all of our multinational tech companies doing the same favor for the Chinese government. I mean, laws are laws, right?

Properly stored tape has a lifetime of decades. See if your hard drive will spin up after sitting for one decade.

When I was 7 years old I learnt Basic on a Ti99/4A, and that didn't stop me from running through the woods, climbing trees, riding bicycles, etc.

This. And it's way scarier than brutality. If the cops don't cover for each other and they can't file false reports, you can usually avoid getting roughed up or shot by not getting physical with them (although recent videos show for certain that even that's no guarantee--it just protects you from malice, not incompetence). Once they start filing false reports and backing up each other's lies, they're effectively beyond any control. They can do literally anything and get away with it, and a force that has unlimited power and no oversight will attract and eventually be dominated by people who will abuse it. That kind of culture is what turns healthy democracies into pre-industrial hellholes and keeps pre-industrial hellholes from ever developing into healthy democracies.

I'm willing to cut the officer a (very) small amount of slack here. People are calling it a "cold-blooded" shooting. It looks like more of a hot-blooded shooting. They'd been struggling and he was amped up. Hitting the guy with the TASER and having him not fall probably scared the hell out of him. He wasn't able to handle himself properly and he did a very wrong thing. He should answer for that just as any of us would answer for it if we shot somebody after a fight. But falsifying the report? That's fucking cold-blooded. Planting evidence (if that's what that object is)? Terrifying. I watched the video and was distrubed by the shooting, but casually dropping an object next to the body and calling in that he had a weapon? That gave me chills. That's the sort of thing that should be a capital offense if anything should. That's a direct, premeditated attack on civilization. None of us are safe.