Here's a solution: open borders. That would stop people from violating our immigration rules by entering surreptitiously.

Most of what you say is so much xenophobic ranting, e.g., the fallacious argument that people fleeing horrific conditions in their home countries are likely to engage in criminal conduct in the US merely because they were willing to violate immigration laws to get here. Absurd. However, perhaps accidentally, you allude to a valid point about race versus class. Racism and xenophobia certainly are rampant, but the even more fundamental division is class. People on the left -- or pseudoleft -- often make the mistake of overemphasizing identity, to the detriment of the class struggle. So say I, your friendly neighborhood Marxist.

The story itself is such bullshit, it borders on fake news.

circa 1996, started teaching myself Perl in order to write CGI scripts to hook up a data source to an HTML form.

My wife is as non-technical a user as you'll find, and she uses Ubuntu every day without knowing or caring or needing to care about anything technical. OK, sure, now and then she asks for my help, and in well over 99% of those cases it's a trivial thing to resolve and move on.

When I have a problem, I hit a search engine and usually find solutions quickly and easily. Often I'm amazed at how easily.

do I correctly understand that with either PHPMailer or SwiftMailer, if you are using SMTP for your transport rather than PHP's native mail(), you are not vulnerable?

except war propaganda, if you can call that a the substance. I urge you to read this carefully: http://www.wsws.org/en/article...

I'll back you up on that. I have a ASUS C200 Chromebook refurb that cost me I think $140, with crouton running Debian Jessie. There are a couple rough edges with the Debian installation -- but so minor I can't remember at the moment what they are. Battery life is absurdly good, and it would be an exaggeration to say it weighs nothing so let's just say it's really light. The original post didn't emphasize cheap, but if you want really good in proportion to price, this is hard to beat.

Although you gotta admit -- the scene from the TV show Homeland in which they assassinate a guy (who had it coming) by hacking his pacemaker was pretty cool.

When I heard about https://github.com/dnschneid/c... I got an inexpensive chromebook and ended up quite satisfied running Debian 8.4 a/k/a Jessie with xcfe in a chrooted envinroment under Chromium OS. I use it offline alot and it's fine. But it would be cool if there were a Peppermint crouton thingy for this because it sounds like it's well-suited to this type of use and my Debian, overall satisfaction notwithstanding, has some clunkinesses.

Dumb question: how did these password lists come to be unencrypted?

As long as we're sharing: I've been a consistent sitter for 9 years, rarely missing a day. I started with a couple years of Zen training at a lay zendo in New York City before going my own way. Has meditation made me a happier, more stable, more equanimous and clear-minded person? I don't know. How could I? But I suspect (based on all the neuroscience and anecdotal evidence) that it probably has. I think it probably makes it possible for me to see what my mind is doing, at least some of the time, rather than just being dragged around by it -- and that makes the world a better place, albeit only slightly.

But here's the thing: I don't really care whether I or anyone else benefits from my practice, because after doing it for so long i do it with no expectation of reward. This in itself is liberating.

Can't help but suspect that the reason LSD is classified as Schedule I, way out of proportion to its dangerousness and potential for abuse, is that it emancipates the mind. And we can't have that, can we?

sorry, I meant: "...quasi-religious faith in capitalism..."