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Comment: Re:There is no such thing as "Security"... (Score 1) 472

by donb3 (#44791967) Attached to: Ask Slashdot: Linux Security, In Light of NSA Crypto-Subverting Attacks?

or "Privacy" anymore. Perhaps there hasn't been for the last decade or so. .

Relatives of mine who are really smart software engineers do not have Facebook accounts and little to no web presence. They are over 50, so some of this may be generational, but for years, I wondered what they knew that they couldn't tell me. Now, I know.

+ - AT&T/T-Mobile Merger: Why DOJ Hates It.->

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donb3 writes "Ever wonder why the Department Justice filed suit against the T-Mobile/AT&T Merger? One possible explanation is the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. The Herfindahl Index measures how mergers and acquisitions change the competition in a market. Here is a brief explanation of how the Department of Justice measures this index: The Herfindahl-Hirschman Index. Several other proposed mergers have conflicted with this index, including the Mentor/Cadence Graphics merger. Once regulators perform the math, proposed mergers often hit the skids. A brief explanation of the Index is here on Wikipedia, and for those of you who are masochistic, a calculator of your proposed merger is here on the Andrew Chin University of North Carolina School of Law web site."
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