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Comment: Iran? (Score 1) 350

by Quila (#38879881) Attached to: WikiLeaks To Ship Servers To Micronation of Sealand?

The only way to be safe from the US shutting it down would be to host it in a country willing to stand up against the US to protect it. I don't think there are very many countries on that list.

Iran would gladly host that information. However, WikiLeaks would have to stick to anti-Western information. If anything embarrassing to the Iranian government gets posted, then anybody in Iran associated with WikiLeaks would be strung up after a quick show trial.

I know, dual WikiLeaks. WikiLeaksEast, WikiLeaksWest. The one in the West only publishes info about the East, and vice versa. The US would likely claim "First Amendment" if dirt on Iran were dished within our jurisdiction and Iran demanded it be taken down. Iran would claim interference by the Great Satan if the US claimed likewise.

Comment: I've wondered where the cumpulsory line is (Score 2) 452

For example, a talk show radio host. He plays various intro and exit music, definitely covered under payments.

But what if he picks a song as his theme song and plays it constantly? I wouldn't think that would be covered under ASCAP any more than someone wanting to use a song in a movie.

Sounds like Newt's using it as his theme.

Comment: He was probably aghast at the Democrats' racism (Score 4, Insightful) 452

At the time, the Democrats were the party of racism, trying to keep the blacks in their place. The Republicans were the party fighting racism, in large part originally founded on the abolitionist platform.

This whole supposed flip-flop on who's racist only happened with Nixon's Southern Strategy. Until then, the Democrats were the party of the KKK. Remember Robert Byrd saying you couldn't be in Democratic politics down South unless you were KKK?

Comment: We geeks concentrate on the machine aspect (Score 1) 238

by Quila (#38435526) Attached to: How Does the CIA Keep Its IT Staff Honest?

In reality it's an interview with a security officer who has done this hundreds or thousands of times and knows how to manipulate people. You've done this zero to a few times. You're not likely to win in hiding dishonest intent when he's trying to pry it out of you.

The machine is just a tool he has, it's not the arbiter of truth.

Comment: Re:Just examples (Score 1) 910

by Quila (#38412034) Attached to: Christopher Hitchens Dies At 62

NO one! is disputing here that killing people is wrong, that forcing women to wear and do stuff they as individuals dont want is WRONG!

Slashdot has no Muslims?

labling people and their views not on an individual case but collectively.

In case you haven't heard, adherents to a religion by definition have a collective set of views. Sure, if the religion is fragmented then there will be several collective views that differ from the original in various ways, but they still are collective views.

Comment: Risk/reward (Score 4, Informative) 238

by Quila (#38411996) Attached to: How Does the CIA Keep Its IT Staff Honest?

Just think of a payoff: They'll pay you a million dollars for X information. You get caught, go to prison for 20 years at least. That's only $50,000 a year. You could have made a lot more than that as a cleared admin, and avoided a romantic relationship with Bubba.

In reality, they don't usually pay that much for a run-of-the-mill information passer. Jonathan Pollard got $1,500 a month from the Israelis, and got life in prison. Robert Hanssen was a very high level spy, not just an admin, so he got $1.4 million over 22 years, and the rest of his life in prison (where he will die).

And if you think you're so smart that you have a very low chance of getting caught, then you're an idiot. Hanssen himself was a counterintelligence agent, and that helped him go for as long as he did, but he still got caught.

BTW, one of the things they check is unaccounted indicators of wealth, and they do ask friends and neighbors, and check your financials. I remember a new soldier was investigated back in the 80s because he showed up one day with a new BMW 7-series. This wasn't even caught during a reinvestigation, they just noticed. Turns out dad was rich and gave him the car as a reward for joining the Army. With such a clear reason he was okay, but had he not been able to show a solid source for the money he would have been in a whole heap of trouble.

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