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Comment Re:9V, AA and AAA Lithium (Score 1) 38

NiMH also doesn't eat shit immediately if you deep discharge it once and leave it that way for a few days, which is my favorite thing about it. A lot of chargers are too dumb to recharge deeply discharged cells, though. Of my three NiMH chargers, only one will do it. I love eneloop batteries, but the eneloop bundled charger is trash...

Comment Re:uh (Score 1) 71

The only reason he'd need all that would be for some nefarious shit

Or they needed to bribe or hire a bunch of people.

That's not an "or".

everything the CIA does is nefarious. Doing dastardly deeds on our behalf is their job.

I am not paying taxes for the purpose of having feds violate the law, national or international.

Comment Re:IBM "and" Red Hat? (Score 1) 47

In some ways, it feels like IBM buying Red Hat was as much about keeping anybody else from buying them (and changing them).

Yes, because IBM wanted to change them — from not violating the GPL, to violating the GPL. And that's exactly what they are doing by placing additional restrictions on the redistribution of sources delivered to customers.

Comment Re: Why do we need a giant publicly funded moon ba (Score 3, Informative) 52

IIRC Kennedy originally wanted to do something spectacular to show the world how advanced the US was, and things like desalinating water were considered. But he also wanted to improve relations with the USSR, and when he proposed going to the moon he then started putting forward the idea of a joint mission.

It was still in the early stages when he was assassinated, so the mission profile hadn't been decided upon and most people were expecting there to be a moon orbit rendezvous between a crew capsule and lander launched separately. So the thought was that the US and USSR could send their own crew capsules, and then both board a joint lander, and go down together. Presumably they would have had to figure out how to have an astronaut and cosmonaut step onto the surface at the same time.

So it was a dick measuring contest, but there was also the possibility of it fostering cooperation. Shame it didn't happen until Apollo/Soyuz.

Comment Re:uh (Score 1) 71

Maybe I'm just naive enough to believe that checks and balances have to work this way, but this is the first example in a while where it seems to me like the system is working.

They're the CIA. They don't need the FBI to wipe their ass for them, they chose not to wipe it. But the more important point is how was this considered a legitimate request to begin with? The only reason he'd need all that would be for some nefarious shit, like when the CIA imported cocaine in USFS planes.

Comment Re:There it is (Score 1) 47

The disconnect for Local ID10T is their assumption that IBM/Red Hat won't share the code with the upstream project, the people on the service just get the immediate backported patch before it has a chance to trickle down the usual channel from the upstream. Not that the code won't be shared.

Yeah, we thought IBM/Redhat followed the GPL, but then they started placing additional restrictions on the software sent to subscribers, which is a direct violation of the GPL. It is not a defense that they are doing it in a separate license either, because that's the only place where they could do it as the GPL is copyrighted, so they can't legally just add a clause permitting it there because they'd be creating an unauthorized derivative work.

Given that they used to not do this, but they are doing it now, what's to stop them from making the next step not contributing the sources upstream?

Comment uh (Score 3, Interesting) 71

From last November to March, the court papers say, Mr. Rush asked for, and received, "a significant quantity of foreign currency and tens of millions of dollars in gold bars for work-related expenses."

The problem with the CIA is not necessarily that they exist, but that they apparently operate without oversight. What the fuck is this?

Comment Re:local private tools are good (Score 0) 58

I hate to defend the UK, and there have been some serious mistakes made, but nobody is in jail for hate speech. It's always something like harassment or credible threats. In fact, a recent case demonstrated that even criminal damage, throwing someone's phone on the ground, isn't a crime anymore, unless there is very strong evidence that it was damaged by that specific action. That incident was preceded by months of harassment too, and the guy got away with it.

Comment Re:adblock and privacy badger (Score 1) 106

That's how it works.

The browser has two filesystem APIs. The older one just lets it display a file chooser, and then the browser gives it access to that one file that the user picked, sandboxed, and nothing else. Any writes are cached until all security checks are passed, and then the browser copies the data out of the sandbox.

The problem with that is performance. So there is a second API which creates an isolated, sandboxed, quota enforced filesystem just for that one website. The quota counts for everything the site stores, including cookies and other stuff. It gets cleared when th user clears site data, e.g. automatically on closing the browser. The benefit is performance for cached data.

I know you hate it, but a lot of people use web apps. Office apps, CAD apps, games, IDEs, all sorts of things. I'm sure one of the reasons why Linux has been able to make gains lately is because so many popular apps only require a web browser now, not a compatible OS.

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