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Comment history ala comedy central (Score -1) 279

Clearly you learned your American history from comedy central. For example, federal revenue INCREASED under Reagan. Debt? Republicans racking up debt? Almost half the federal debt has was incurred under one president - Barak Obama. He overspent by as much as all other presidents combined for the previous 200 years.

Your conclusions would be sound if the "facts" you've based them on were true, but they aren't. Your factual basis is pure fiction.

Comment degrees vs schools. Art history degree? (Score 3, Insightful) 295

TFA and TFS don't make it quite clear - would the SCHOOL lose eligibility, or a specific degree plan? If a student gets a degree in art history or women's studies that probably won't do much for their employment prospects, regardless of whether the school is good or not.

Comment they're called "social circles". Facebook 2011 (Score 3) 260

> Is your social dynamic interest-driven or is it friendship-driven? Are you going there because there's this place where other folks are really into anime, or is this the place you're going because it's where your pals from school are hanging out?

I believe those different groups are called "social circles", and Facebook started supporting the concept in 2011, after Google+ made it central to their interface. Facebook is the MEDIUM for different grugroups to communicate. Facebook is not the group.

Yes, it would be weird if every group gathered at the same physical location. It would not be weird if they all drove in cars to get there. Facebook isn't a physical space that crams everyone together. It's a method of getting to different groups a person belongs to.

Comment flip the breaker = high degree of technical knowle (Score 0) 436

This article repeats an error that bugs me in so many "whodunit" cases. Disabling the transponders would require flipping a circuit breaker, so whoever did so had "a high degree of technical knowledge", the article says. Really? Flipping a circuit breaker off is that hard? The piece must have been written by a Yankee.

I notice the same thing in other cases - the bad guy built a pipe bomb, so he must have had explosives training. He connected it to a clock, so he must be an expert in electronics. I have yet to see any of these "must have been trained" bad guys do anything I didn't do when I was twelve years old.

Comment where are all the /.ers who said Obama didn't want (Score 0) 279

I'm wondering what happened to all the ./ers who argued that Obama would NOT actively try to remove the US from its unique superpower position. All those who said "he doesn't dislike America, that's ridiculous. His wife misspoke when she said they've never been proud of their country."

Comment save the data, don't depend on anyone (Score 2) 52

ANY company or service can go away or change.
That's why you keep a copy of the data, coordinates, etc. Then you can display that data with Google maps, openstreetmap, or a dozen other ways and you're not dependent on anyone.

If you keep a copy of your data, you don't need to decide based on one option having a 0.01% chance of going away versus another with a 0.02% chance.

Comment boiled frogs, would be my guess as a security prof (Score 3, Insightful) 154

My guess, as a security professional who could have been recruited for a three-letter agency, is that many of them are boiled frogs. There are technical challenges that smart geeks love, plus the whole hacker mystique, but you don't want to be criminal, so you go white-hat, hacking bin Ladin. That adds the whole "international spy" thing into it and maybe you help catch some really bad guys. That would be awesome, spying on al Qaeda. Hmm, if you expanded that technique you could catch a lot of bad guys. So you expand it to log calls to and from Iraq, Afghanistan, and Syria. After a few years, you end up in a place you never would have knowingly sought to go.

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