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• On the post: Feds Say It's Classified Info To Say Who We're At War With

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2013 @ 12:51pm

  Re: Re: Hang on!

  Last war Congress declared was World War II. Food for thought.

• On the post: Feds Say It's Classified Info To Say Who We're At War With

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2013 @ 12:48pm

  Re: Classified Allowed in a List

  Technically those lists exist, but due to the fact that "national security" is an extremely nebulous category and the prevailing notion that any bit of information could potentially be the final piece of the puzzle for an enemy people err heavily on the side of caution.

• On the post: Feds Say It's Classified Info To Say Who We're At War With

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2013 @ 12:46pm

  Re: Re: Treason

  Because political promises and charisma aren't worth shit compared to actions to back them up. Frankly, Obama hasn't done even a minute fraction of what he promised to do, and has more often done the complete opposite.

• On the post: Feds Say It's Classified Info To Say Who We're At War With

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2013 @ 12:44pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Correction: The Marshall Plan had nothing to do with war, it was an economic recovery plan after WWII. Granted, it could be used as a way for the US to be involved in western European policies from thence forward, but nothing about it was war-related.

• On the post: Russia To Ban Swearing On The Internet

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 29 Jul, 2013 @ 12:29pm

  Re: Re: Re: Disappointed...

  No, it's "in Soviet Russia, the internet will swear at you!" (the idiots proposing this legislation)

• On the post: Obama Promise To 'Protect Whistleblowers' Just Disappeared From Change.gov

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2013 @ 01:25pm

  Re: Re: The veil has been lifted

  Because the most likely fire-back would be "it's because he's black, isn't it?" Seen it happen too many times elsewhere.

• On the post: Two New Reports Confirm: Best Way To Reduce Piracy Dramatically Is To Offer Good Legal Alternatives

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2013 @ 12:20pm

  Re:

  As a former pirate, they actually DO leave the IRC channels alone. Safety in obscurity.

• On the post: What Edward Snowden Has Given Us

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2013 @ 09:48am

  Re: Re:

  But Snowden is a civilian. With Manning they could hide behind the military's rules of procedure. It will be much more difficult to do the same for Snowden.

• On the post: How To Thwart Broad Microsoft Patent App Using Microsoft's Own Prior Art In Just 15 Minutes

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2013 @ 08:41am

  Re: Nice Example, But...

  While that may be true, in the context of screen display resolution is a universal term and the possible confusion between per unit distance and total count is irrelevant.

• On the post: DOJ Tries, But Fails, To Delay ACLU Lawsuit Over NSA Spying

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 26 Jul, 2013 @ 08:03am

  Re:

  Yes, because NASA has genuinely been one of the least corrupt agencies in the entire US government and a force for the progress of science and society since its inception.

• On the post: Irony Alert: Obama Opposes Amash Amendment Because It's A 'Blunt Approach' And Not A Product Of 'Open' Process

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2013 @ 08:14am

  Re: Re: Re:

  Scientology doesn't advocate/assist the wholesale slaughter of political dissidents and minorities.

• On the post: Irony Alert: Obama Opposes Amash Amendment Because It's A 'Blunt Approach' And Not A Product Of 'Open' Process

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 24 Jul, 2013 @ 08:08am

  Re: Re: You get back what you give out

  The amendment doesn't strip the NSA of all funding, it merely strips all funding from the call metadata program.

• On the post: Court Finds Apple Guilty Of Conspiring To Raise Ebook Prices

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 10 Jul, 2013 @ 01:48pm

  Re: Re:

  Price fixing isn't terrorism and generally helps the rich anyway, so it wouldn't be investigated.

• On the post: Brazilian Politicians Want To Offer Snowden Asylum After Learning Of US Spying On Brazilians

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2013 @ 08:24am

  Re: Re: Re:

  I must not be American then, because I do not accept the US government taking away my right to privacy and the expectation that my stuff, digital or otherwise, will remain unsearched and unseized without a properly served warrant.

• On the post: Judge Tells Homeland Security To Shut Up And Release Aaron Swartz's File

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2013 @ 08:18am

  Re:

  Dang sequestration...

• On the post: Your Tax Dollars At Work: How Commerce Dept. Spent $2.7 Million Cleaning Out Two Malware-Infected Computers

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2013 @ 08:06am

  The effects of ignorance

  We allow computers to be everpresent while not informing actual users of how to use them in anything but the most basic contexts. If someone who WASN'T CIRT (and preferably in EDA itself) had had a tech-inclined brain at all they would have thrown up a red flag about inconsistencies in this situation and dug up the same thing the IG did without the accompanying waste.

• On the post: Former NSA Director On Privacy Vs. Security Balance: Would 'Shave Points' Off Effectiveness For 'Public Comfort'

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2013 @ 11:13am

  Re:

  Him and Orwell have got to be viable energy sources now with the amount of rolling they're doing in their graves.

• On the post: Former NSA Director On Privacy Vs. Security Balance: Would 'Shave Points' Off Effectiveness For 'Public Comfort'

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2013 @ 11:11am

  Re: Up in arms

  I'm 35 years your junior and thinking the exact same things. All I worry is that the 2nd Revolution might not be as successful as the first one was.

• On the post: Snowden's Constitution vs Obama's Constitution

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2013 @ 09:35am

  Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:

  Yes, we are. Capitalism by nature eventually consolidates into monopolies and only intelligent government regulation and destructive breakups (read: the original intention of breaking apart Standard Oil and Ma Bell) can keep that in check.
  
  The problem is that government is lured by money just as much as any properly self-interested capitalist is. So instead of being the dispassionate arbitrator to stall the ultimate ends of human greed (and capitalism is harnessing human greed to society's end gain), they are enhancing it.

• On the post: The NSA Turns Everyone Into A 'Threat To National Security' By Instantly Classifying All Data It Scoops Up

  

  TaCktiX ( profile ), 08 Jul, 2013 @ 01:48pm

  Weasel Words in the Extreme

  I am greatly irritated that the NSA is essentially using weasel words to cover up the fact that while obeying the letter of that executive order, they aren't obeying its spirit, or the letter and spirit of any higher laws (namely, the Constitution and its 4th Amendment). Classifying intelligence on known terrorists I'm fine with (because such things would require some form of probable cause that is establishable), but classifying everything IN CASE it deals with terrorists or terrorism in general is both sloppy and flaunting the spirit of the law.

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