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Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by School-Cotton »

joemi wrote: post #183
School-Cotton wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who cares? Literally what point are you making? Dude, do you think this is a football game? That scoring a point against your opponent negates points scored against you? I suspect a big chunk of the people complaining about this would have complained even harder when Bush did it (if what you say is true), if they had been old enough to be aware what was going on, and had social media like we do now. So, what is your…

Is it possible that by Bush setting a precedence, it being done now is OK?

Why would that be the case? How do you think the law works? Just because the President breaks the law doesn't magically change the law...

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by jpfed »

skylan_q wrote: post #72
kevhito wrote: post #60

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I was getting ready to point out that Hillary really has a large lead, even if the day-to-day talking heads insist on making this and every race/issue seem as if it is 50/50 split. Then I checked 538.com [1]: they have her at 60% chance of winning -- pretty strong lead and hardly a normal time to throw someone under the bus -- but those graphs should be terrifying team Hillary. [1] http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com…

Don't use that site for any insight. Nate Silver had Trump at a "1%" chance of winning the GOP primaries. He then admitted that he got the call wrong because he really didn't have any models and was just spitballing with friends. His accuracy in the previous general election was based on the fact that he had visibility into private polling (WAY more accurate) and other forecasters didn't.

He did have models, and they correctly predicted Trump's victory. He chose to disregard them. Then he wrote a mea culpa article explaining his mistake, which he is unlikely to repeat.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by generj »

Judson wrote: post #141
losvedir wrote: post #42

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> I assume it would be embarrassing and/or problematic to share the email addresses of various ambassadors and other government officials in public records. You could also read something nefarious into it if you want. That's what I'm trying to understand here. Was it the case that they were just going to hand over the whole DB regardless, and are trying to keep personal info private (but still, e.g., leave the name s…

> Was it the case that they were just going to hand over the whole DB regardless According to Wikipedia, they turned over 30,000 pieces of paper. I'm amazed that it isn't a requirement that documents be turned over in an electronically searchable format in most legal scenarios.

It's a pretty common tactic, especially in discovery for civil cases. Law firms routinely pay people to type up printed documents so they can be keyword searched.

I agree it should be a matter of contempt of court when clearly used as a delaying tactic.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by Pxtl »

icantdrive55 wrote: post #186
mindcrime wrote: post #44

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I honestly can't understand how anybody is considering voting for Clinton or Trump. If this world was anything close to reasonable, Gary Johnson would win in a landslide. shrug

I really wanted to like Gary Johnson, but didn't. I was going to vote for Hillary, but after Sander's success, she started making promises that just mimicked his. She is not going to bring jobs back to the United States. I might not vote for a president this year. I feel kinda dizzy just writing that last sentance. There's a small part of me that thinks if the right third party candidate/person, back by a ton of mone…

Bill Maher is an antivaxxer. Sorry.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by danso »

MichaelMoser123 wrote: post #129
AnOscelot wrote: post #23

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People really should learn to not reuse usernames. Unique password per site, and unique name as well. This won't protect anyone from government agents, but it will make it harder for an Internet mob to determine your identity.

>People really should learn to not reuse usernames. another person who asked questions on stackoverflow was Ross Ulbricht; it didn't quite help him. http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2013/10/02/silk_road...

I was initially confused as to how the FBI were able to track that StackOverflow post in which Ulbricht changed the appearance of his account name...that wouldn't show up in the public edit log for a question, right?

Then reading through the complaint, it seems like Ulbricht was undone by registering on Stack Overflow using his GMail account, which the FBI had tracked his Comcast IP to (didn't hurt that the gmail address was his real name), and then asked StackOverflow for the records relating to that GMail address: https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/801103-172770276-ulb...

sidenote: The Slate article links to the complaint on Scribd, and now it's deleted from Scribd for some reason.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by MichaelGG »

slantedview wrote: post #135
MichaelGG wrote: post #120

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Curious, do you have a handful of racist Trump quotes? Not stuff about illegals, but actual racist stuff (like not wanting to rent to blacks or something)? Trump aside, electing someone that's openly corrupt (DNC Wikileaks show they went against Bernie, against rules) seems to be far more dangerous to the future of the US and worldwide democracy. Up until now, corruption was sort of assumed, but if a publicly corrupt…

Quotes here: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/...

I don't see quotes on that page, just a few opening paragraphs and "Loading..." where I'd expect content to be. The opening paragraph is has a misquote/misstatement of its own so I'm a bit suspicious. The linked articles from the opening are also all-headline, little substance.

I don't mean this as a defence of Trump, but people seem to read into statements to determine his racism/bigotry/whatever. AFAIK he has not technically made a racist statement in any of his campaigning, for instance.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by gjolund »

mcphage wrote: post #96
School-Cotton wrote: post #53

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Who cares? Literally what point are you making? Dude, do you think this is a football game? That scoring a point against your opponent negates points scored against you? I suspect a big chunk of the people complaining about this would have complained even harder when Bush did it (if what you say is true), if they had been old enough to be aware what was going on, and had social media like we do now. So, what is your…

> Literally what point are you making? The point I'm making is that I don't think you, or anybody else actually cares about the emails—they care it's something they can criticize Clinton for. Before her, nobody gave a shit. After her, nobody will give a shit. They don't matter, except that they can be used to criticize Clinton. So of course nobody complained about it with Bush, because nobody cares about them. > I su…

I ran IT for a financial firm that went through an FBI investigation, if i had done this (like they asked repeatedly) I would have gone to jail.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by EpicEng »

imron wrote: post #47
EpicEng wrote: post #36

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Under a freaking user name that can be easily traced back to them. I mean, seriously?

And this is why the NSA collecting all data on everyone should have people worried. Sure, it's just pictures of your cat and 'my life is boring, they can spy on me all they want because they won't find anything interesting" And then 2 years later your post on an internet forums about your missing dog helps tie you the destruction of evidence.

I mean, yeah, but first and foremost you should probably strive to avoid committing felonies.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by gjolund »

mcphage wrote: post #96
School-Cotton wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who cares? Literally what point are you making? Dude, do you think this is a football game? That scoring a point against your opponent negates points scored against you? I suspect a big chunk of the people complaining about this would have complained even harder when Bush did it (if what you say is true), if they had been old enough to be aware what was going on, and had social media like we do now. So, what is your…

> Literally what point are you making? The point I'm making is that I don't think you, or anybody else actually cares about the emails—they care it's something they can criticize Clinton for. Before her, nobody gave a shit. After her, nobody will give a shit. They don't matter, except that they can be used to criticize Clinton. So of course nobody complained about it with Bush, because nobody cares about them. > I su…

I ran IT for a financial firm that went through an FBI investigation, if i had done this (like they asked repeatedly) I would have gone to jail.

Re: House panel looking into Reddit post about Clinton's email server

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Post by throwaway2016b »

mindcrime wrote: post #44
takeda wrote: post #40

And she still will be elected, because this year we had to have joke candidates on both sides. I guess it's probably the best time to vote 3rd party.

I honestly can't understand how anybody is considering voting for Clinton or Trump. If this world was anything close to reasonable, Gary Johnson would win in a landslide. shrug

What is Aleppo?
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