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Comment Re:Defund the police (Score 1) 87

All joking aside, a few years ago defunding the police was a policy that was seriously pushed in many cities throughout the US. A few actually tried it. Not only did it have the rather obvious effect of increasing crime rates

Except you are incorrect about the result. https://247wallst.com/special-...

The results are not cut and dry in either direction but the cities that did the best are the ones that used to the money to help the poor. It's almost like failing to address to need of the poor is a surefire way to drive crime. Of course, that kind of insight requires critical thinking which is something you may not be familiar with.

Comment Lashing out (Score 4, Insightful) 14

Media decoder ring time:

"Lashed out" = Filed a lawsuit with the European court
"Attacked" = Issued a press release detailing their court case.

Coming soon:

"Murdered" = Made a compelling argument in open court
"Nuked from orbit" = Motion for continuance "Slaughtered" = Won a court motion
"Destroyed" = Favorable court ruling
"Strangled" = Disagreed with loosing a motion

Comment Re:wait... weren't government entities supposed to (Score 1) 57

That's not right either. Advertising and reference manuals should be on the internet. Probably some other stuff that I haven't thought of too. But nothing that needs to be private. If you MUST have it remotely available, give it its own phone line, and put protections on that. Dial-up access has its place.

Comment Re:wait... weren't government entities supposed to (Score 1) 57

1- wait... weren't government entities supposed to get first crack at patches? 2- And how in the fuck do you go unpatching a security vulnerability for so long?

Assumably the people who chose Microsoft don't a firm grasp on how to manage a secure system, and their leaky skillset obviously include keeping patches up to date (and apparently managing a firewall is hard for them, too).

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