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xyno commented on the diary post White House issues policy directive granting national security employees whistleblower protections by MSPB Watch.
No mention of authorized congressional committees either. This appears to be an attempt to keep things contained within a limited part of the executive.
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xyno commented on the blog post Munoz, Public Face of Secure Communities Program, Elevated to Policy Position in White House
“On the other hand, supposedly, illegal immigrants don’t vote in large numbers.”
No, but their friends and relatives who are citizens do.
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xyno commented on the blog post Ad Agencies, PR Firms Try to Co-Opt Bloggers
So, judging by their extremely sparse website they claim to be a service connecting writers wishing to write blog entries (presumably for pay) with established blog owners needing content.
But based on their pitch to you, it appears there’s more to it – they’re also pitching content, presumably for paying customers.
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xyno commented on the blog post Occupy Oakland and the “Post Racial” Repression of Obama Era
Yes, they were “forced” to gas the whole crowd, beat people, destroy property, and shatter one person’s skull because someone spattered some paint on a few of them.
Pffffttt.
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xyno commented on the blog post Department of Justice Files Writ of Mandamus Against Judge in Dan Choi Case
This petty hatefulness on the part of the prosecutor is an embarrassment to the DOJ – or at least it should be.
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xyno commented on the diary post NYT’s Sorkin: The Titanic Has Enough Life Boats for the Rich, So What’s the Problem by Scarecrow.
Simple prioritization:
First to be cut is all funding for congressional salaries and benefits, congressional staff salaries and benefits, utilities and security for the Capitol and congressional offices.
Second to be cut is all funding to red states.
Third to be cut is all funding to red districts in blue states.
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xyno commented on the blog post Decision in Julian Assange Extradition Appeal Postponed: Sweden Created This Standoff, Says Assange Lawyer
Indeed, it’s shameful that falling afoul of American “justice” is now a legitimate fear for people who have done no wrong.
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xyno commented on the blog post Welcome to FDL’s The Dissenter
Looking forward to it big-time!
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xyno commented on the blog post Decision in Julian Assange Extradition Appeal Postponed: Sweden Created This Standoff, Says Assange Lawyer
I really don’t know what to think about this …
On the one hand, it’s hard to see why the risk of extradition to the US from Sweden should be any higher than the risk of extradition from the UK. On the other hand, the Swedish prosecutor’s insistence on extraditing him for questioning rather than simply questioning him in the UK is very odd. It sure isn’t to save money, since they’ve got to be spending a ton more on this whole process.
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xyno commented on the blog post LIVEBLOG & LIVE FEED: Obama Speaks at 11:00 am About Debt Ceiling Talks
Wow …
Supports much of Bowles-Simpson, but says that he differs with that because as Commander and Chief, he can’t support the savings they got from cutting defense spending.
So he opposes the one good part of Simpson/Bowles and supports all the bad parts. Just great.
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xyno commented on the blog post IMF Blames State Actor for Hack
Wait … so once you were authenticated for one account, you were authenticated for any account?
That’s an astonishingly basic fuckup in design.
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xyno commented on the diary post Millennial Budget Offers Hope, Ideas for Progressives by The Roosevelt Institute.
As I understand it, states could form a pool by agreeing on a common set of regulations and a common enforcement mechanism.
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xyno commented on the blog post Why Didn’t We Ask China to Find Scooter Libby’s Missing Plame Leak E-Mails?
Why does Issa assume that Chinese hackers would only be interested in official business? There’s a longstanding practice in intelligence of using embarrassing details of people’s personal lives as leverage. The Chinese hackers could well have been fishing for that kind of stuff.
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xyno commented on the blog post About the Lockheed Martin Hack
Yeah, the folks at RSA certainly know that security through obscurity isn’t.
And given that, a back door seems about the only plausible reason for doing it.
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xyno commented on the blog post Chat with David House About New ACLU Lawsuit
Bribe offers? Attempted entrapment, maybe, or just an effort to get something on you that could be used as blackmail in the future.
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xyno commented on the blog post Yemen’s Head of Al Qaeda Scrambles to Make Anwar al-Awlaki Al Qaeda’s #3
I don’t know about thumb drives identifying the computers they’ve been plugged into. That may be true in special circumstances, but in general it’s not.
Regarding erasing thumb drives, even “military-grade overwrite programs” quite possibly won’t do the job unless used very carefully (overwriting the full address space multiple times,) since the drives do not have a fixed mapping from logical to physical addresses. See Reliably Erasing Data From Flash-Based Solid State Drives (pdf) if interested.
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xyno commented on the blog post Grey-Bearded Osama Watching Videos of His Youth
I think your “signal” is just some kind of menu showing up in response to him clicking the remote.
As you say, hardly palatial surroundings.
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xyno commented on the blog post White House Considered Bombing Bin Laden Compound
I read that as they wanted physical evidence to assure themselves he was dead.
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xyno commented on the blog post So, anything at all Cathartic happen last night?
Bhutto was itemizing someone’s terrorist associations. How would being associated with the person “who murdered Osama bin Laden” bolster that case?
Isn’t it more likely she mis-spoke? I’m not saying there aren’t lots of lies and conspiracies in the world. Just that a single odd statement isn’t necessarily evidence of lies and conspiracies.
I can’t count the number of public figures who have said “Obama” when they meant “Osama.” Is that proof that the two are actually the same person?
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xyno commented on the blog post US Tomahawk Missiles Fired at Tripoli
Did I miss the part where congress voted to authorize this military action?
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