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foolshdropout | 10 years ago | on: The All-Black Utopian Ghost City That Lost Its Soul

I grew up in the county west of Soul City. It didn't go bankrupt all on it's own. The adjacent townships and cities are pits of disrepair and hardship (Warrenton and Henderson). The only industrial type (large scale employment business centers) are two or three counties away from Soul City. So moving away from there starts to become a lucrative prospect the longer you stay.

foolshdropout | 10 years ago | on: Angela Merkel agrees to prosecution of comedian over Erdoğan poem

Typical spineless bureaucratic political BULLHOCKEY, my condolences to fellow Germans.

foolshdropout | 10 years ago | on: Encryption Needs a Side Door

Here's a short list I compiled just for you Aaron, but you have to do your own reading.

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/may/01/encryption...

http://reason.com/blog/2016/02/18/4-reasons-to-fear-encrypti...

https://www.servint.net/university/article/keep-the-back-doo...

https://pando.com/2013/12/19/the-nsa-review-panel-says-encry...

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-government-mandated-...

http://www.newsweek.com/why-we-need-encryption-even-nsa-cant...

https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2016/02/wordfence-supports-st...

https://www.rt.com/usa/319236-no-encryption-backdoor-apple-c...

http://www.techrepublic.com/article/encryption-you-cant-put-...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/mar/04/backdoo...

https://www.yahoo.com/tech/defense-secretary-favors-strong-e...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3395743/posts

BTW Aaron, a sidedoor is just a backdoor on an adjacent wall...

foolshdropout | 10 years ago | on: Encryption Needs a Side Door

I agree, the author is clueless on so many fundamental levels it's a travesty.

foolshdropout | 10 years ago | on: Ubuntu’s bash and Linux command line coming to Windows 10

Cygwin has been around for at least a decade or more.....

foolshdropout | 10 years ago | on: Ask HN: Why are programmers so unfriendly?

It takes a special kind of project member persona to handhold a newcomer from the "asking questions phase" of wanting to be a programmer, to the "seeking answers for themselves" stage of being a programmer and if you're lucky you'll have a member of your project that excels at handholding a new user all the way up to the "gives answers to newcomers" stage, thus completing the unicorn life cycle. But these are rare and in only one instance have I actually meet such a member of a project.

foolshdropout | 10 years ago | on: Obama Wants to Create a “Find My iPhone” for Stolen Guns

Firearm technology is incredibly simple. I've seen firearms made from pipe bought at a hardware store and parts from toy cars. The point is, it would be incredibly easy to override "any" technological advancement in firearms that renders them inoperable. If we want a safer society, we need to make a better society. Not more control of the people, but more people in control. In the end, this is a brain dead idea.

foolshdropout | 10 years ago | on: Goldman Sachs guide to being a man

this is disgusting

foolshdropout | 10 years ago | on: British Police Arrest 21-Year-Old Man in VTech Hacking

You know what's interesting? How, what was it last week or so, this story was "Look how unreliable this company is with your child's information" to this week's "We caught the big bad haxor" sheeesh what knobs

foolshdropout | 10 years ago | on: Why I Left College to Start Learning

It's not for everyone, if only "to learn" is your goal then it's the appropriate path. I know, I've walked down it too. I'm not famous, or rich, but I am fulfilled more than... than words can describe. "Complete" fits nicely I think.