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Rude people suck plain and simple. I was once young and overbearing, and since then I've been on the receiving end of that and it's total bullshit.

I'm not saying we should coddle people in the professional world, but we sure as shit shouldn't have to deal with coworkers psychological and anger management issues.

"Obviously, the Department would like to engage with the private sector in exploring solutions that will provide lawful access. While we remain open to a cooperative approach, the time to achieve that may be limited. Key countries, including important allies, have been moving toward legislative and regulatory solutions. I think it is prudent to anticipate that a major incident may well occur at any time that will galvanize public opinion on these issues. Whether we end up with legislation or not, the best course for everyone involved is to work soberly and in good faith together to craft appropriate solutions, rather than have outcomes dictated during a crisis. "

Did he basically just announce a false flag operation?

Did he basically just announce a false flag?

"Obviously, the Department would like to engage with the private sector in exploring solutions that will provide lawful access. While we remain open to a cooperative approach, the time to achieve that may be limited. Key countries, including important allies, have been moving toward legislative and regulatory solutions. I think it is prudent to anticipate that a major incident may well occur at any time that will galvanize public opinion on these issues. Whether we end up with legislation or not, the best course for everyone involved is to work soberly and in good faith together to craft appropriate solutions, rather than have outcomes dictated during a crisis. "

I only skimmed the article, but it's always been my understanding that apple trees are extreme heterozygotes and that a seed from any given apple can produce a wholly new varietal.

> While I disagree with the pervasive surveillance state the west is creating for itself...

The West? Really?

I think your overlooking the elephant in the room, who just happens to be Chinese and is concerned about his "social credit".

The most illuminating thing about this is that the system that doesn't work for them is about filling/responding to FOIA requests.

Secrets are just that, secrets. Not some legally protected object. If you don't want your secrets getting out, then don't tell people them, or better yet - don't do bad things. Making secrets legally protected for those that have not signed an NDA and do not participate in government inner-workings or aren't even citizens of that country is a dangerous precedent that erodes the first amendment.

What would stop a government from making something "classified" ex post facto just to silence and/or jail nay-sayers, political opponents, or oppressed peoples? The answer is nothing, and this is exactly why this cannot stand.

The OP's point is that many people have flipped their positions on this topic - particularly when it suits them politically.

You can build a lot of PC for $800.

Don't forget the updated RFC: "IP over Avian Carriers with Quality of Service"

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549

The answer is tongue-in-cheek. Basically, don't write JavaScript, write TypeScript and transpile.

TypeScript

> That's not true but I don't have time to run through an exhaustive legal explanation of why. In a nutshell: the source is responsible for maintaining security of information, because third parties like journalists don't know the bounds of what is covered by confidentiality.

Guess what, your wrong and here's why: all gov't info is bound by confidentiality unless it's on a press release page.

The problem is not the secrets. It's the misuse of that word to protect information that does not deserve that protection.

These protections you list are weak, biased, and have been proven to fail time after time.

> There are lots of people in the US that believe strongly in the rule of law.

You mean like the First and the Fourth amendments?

Yes. Government lawyers may try to say otherwise, but the Constitution is very clear on this.

Nearly every activity I've seen reported that has been leaked has been, IMHO, illegal in some way. Warrantless wiretapping, war crimes, or violations of international law. The rest have been things that are simply embarrassing, which are by statute, prohibited from being classified in the first place.

Classification has been completely misused in the second half of last century and particularly in the first two decades of this one.

Yeah, I feel like a lot of religious practices (burial being one of them) originated from things that were a detriment to society or seen as "unclean" and that caused infection, diseases, or maybe just a bad stench. I wonder if long ago our ancestors learned a lesson about this that they codified in religion, but forgot the "why" part and now we are just going to repeat history.

So Google Chrome running on Google Android doesn't use the correct Android APIs but Firefox does? Why is Chrome "the standard" again?

So this red Android logo works on my moto x4 running Pie in Firefox, but not in Chrome. Uhhh.

I find it amusing how many devs accept climate change science but deny the inordinate amount of work done on SQL.

> I suppose it's a shame that GiB and such never took off

It sort of did. This is what OSes use to report storage sizes.

Libraries and tooling. And a pretty good track record.

The things we are spending money on (besides arguably defense) have next to nothing to do with working at international scale. Furthermore, while I'm not advocating we return to the era of AoC, the power granted via the current Constitution does not bestow the power, size, and scope of things that the current federal government has embraced.

> A failing public education system and increasingly consumerist culture that encourages bad spending habits using psychological advertising tricks, to start. Go look at how little savings Americans have currently as well, which has been covered ad nauseam by most news outlets in the past few years.

While these may play a small part in why people couldn't budget for it now, I think a bigger part of it is that income tax just did not apply to most people in as large of sums that it does today.

For example. The lowest tax bracket in 1940 was 4% and went from $0-4000. Median income at that time in the US was about $950.

The point isn't so much that people are taxed. It's that they are taxed by a monolithic out-of-control bureaucracy that has grown much to large for anyone's good. To add to this, I'd be 100% ok if my tax bill was flipped such that the federal government got what my local government had gotten and my local government got what the federal government had gotten.

Some things require an eloquent rebuttal to be taken seriously. To others, just saying "Fsck that" should be enough.

$200k in Silicon Valley != $200k in a small east coast market. Hell, it doesn't even compare to the DC Metro area.

From talking to friends and family that live out there, plus a few folks who used to live in the Bay Area, someone earning $120k here would have to earn at least $200k out there to get the same standard of living.

Agree. Copyright and the patent system are leftover vestiges of monarchical rule.