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I saw the following two headlines next to each other in the CP "Daily News" yesterday:
Tech coalitions pen open letter to Burr and Feinstein over bill banning encryption
Microsoft rolls out new programs to incent IT pros to go cloud
OK, we know that Feinstein and Co. have produced something that is DOA all the way around, but still, the juxtaposition of these two headlines made me ask the question: Would any company or any responsible IT pro put their stuff out on the web without some decent encryption to protect it?
It seems to me that the current concept of "cloud" that Microsoft is betting so heavily on would become instantly dead in the US if anything like the Feinstein/whoever bill came into effect. I know that (as written) "Feinstein" contains "Einstein", but it sure seems like the spelling is all they share...
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I think removing encryption in the US would be an excellent idea. I'm pretty sure Senators in the US have a lot more money than most people do, and they would soon find out how important encryption is when the situation was reversed within hours of the banks complying... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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As I noted in the Insider News:
Feinstein is an idiot. Even by political standards.
And I now note:
She makes GW Bush look like a genius.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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dsrich01 wrote: "Feinstein" contains "Einstein", but it sure seems like the spelling is all they share
I read that as "Fake Einstein"
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I hope nobody steals my identity
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I am not a number, I am a free username!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Sends in a big bubble to take you back home.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Pulls out a big pin...
I always wondered why he was supposed to be scared of a big bubble? A kitchen knife and ten seconds, and he strolls off into the sunset...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I used to watch The Prisoner in French as a child(5-7) and I found that big bubble to be really really scary.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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There was a wonderful Spitting Image sketch where they parodied that but using the Royal Family, specifically Charles in the main role which led to this dialogue:
"You are number 5"
"One is not a number!"
"Yes it is!"
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Don't you need a license to be an anesthesiologist?
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I guess I'm 24601...
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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But have you learnt the meaning of the law? 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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I know the meaning of those nineteen twentyeight years - a slave of the law. 
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- ++>+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
If you think 'goto' is evil, try writing an Assembly program without JMP. -- TNCaver
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Integers? Whole Numbers? Decimal? Float?....What kind of numbers are we talking here?
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If ever threatened my job, I have a script to refactor all variables to variations of "l1ll11l1" Ls and 1s
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Way ahead of you sunbeam. Way ahead of you!!!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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That's the latest one.
Aren't they going a bit too far with the nagging? Doesn't everybody already use it?
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Are you talking about Google search results? Looks more or less the same for me on FireFox.
If the brain were so simple we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't. — Lyall Watson
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