I am sometimes surprised at how little people understand the secret service. Protecting the president is really their sideline. Their primary business is acting as cops for the treasury department.
"So why is any rational court going to let Facebook just change the terms of the deal at will, but not let a Facebook user change the terms of the deal"
Research may (or may not) be less expensive than development, but it's a far, far cry from cheap. It's just that drug companies aren't footing a lot of that bill.
"Sexism shown by some was never excusable, nor did any sane human attempt to excuse it"
Oh, baloney. The "gamergate movement" started off as being pure sexist harassment of the most extreme nature, and that sexism was cheered on by its members.
That later on everyone realized how awful this was and started to try to reframe the whole thing doesn't change that.
If "cyber" is used to describe something done online (like "cyber violence", for example), whoever is using it has an unacceptably high bullshit ratio.
"It was also a religious symbol that had nothing to do with Aryan ideals."
Is, not was. Last year a got a wall hanging as a gift from a friend in India. It depicts Ganesh and has swastikas in the corners. Those swastikas are being used in their religious context and have nothing to do with Nazis.
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No, the alternative was, and is, to use a real email program rather than a third party webmail service.
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Just like Digicel.
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They can. They just shouldn't.
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Not me. ISPs shouldn't even be looking at the traffic I'm paying them to carry for me, let alone modifying it.
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I agree if by "friendlier" you mean "dishonest."
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Because the law says doing that is permissible.
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You know something's wrong when
You know something's wrong when the investigator is making an argument you'd expect to hear from a defense attorney.
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Clearly
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Oh, baloney. The "gamergate movement" started off as being pure sexist harassment of the most extreme nature, and that sexism was cheered on by its members.
That later on everyone realized how awful this was and started to try to reframe the whole thing doesn't change that.
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Another example of the "cyber" rule
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What computers are you using that doesn't let you use https? I even have a CP/M machine from early 80s that does https.
"For everyone else, encryption means that their machines are running hot"
No, not everyone. For the vast majority of people, the additional load that https introduced amounts to a rounding error.
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I just don't go to websites that are designed that way.
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Re: Homophobia?
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Is, not was. Last year a got a wall hanging as a gift from a friend in India. It depicts Ganesh and has swastikas in the corners. Those swastikas are being used in their religious context and have nothing to do with Nazis.
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Why not? I have no problem arguing against both things, since they are really the same thing.
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