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    11/20/09

    In reply to Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
    The NSA has a long history in advising to non-government security standards. Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" notes that several of the fundamental constants of the DES algorithm were contributed by the NSA; they were viewed with some suspicion until many years later, when it was discovered that they made the algorithm suspiciously resilient in the face of a cryptanalytic attack that was not publicly known at the time of the standard's creation.

    More recently, there was this: [en.wikipedia.org]

    The purpose of this collaboration is unknown, but it is not new news.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
    Seeing as the bulk of Windows IT and development is outsourced and offshored, how is this a bad idea?

    Corps and end users really don't care where their data will end up -- at least our wonderful government *does*.

    This evolutionary move just warms my blackened heart.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Regretsy Book to Be Not Quite as Good as Regretsy.com
    I had no idea this existed. Now I'm newly obsessed.
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    Image of Foster Kamer Foster Kamer
    11/20/09

    @scroll_lock: Oh, just wait. I freaked out about this recently.

    [gawker.com]
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    11/20/09

    @Foster Kamer: I had seen the catnip fetus but not the nativity meerkats. I'm in love.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
    apart from the privacy aspects - and I have no doubt the collaboration did not enhance privacy - why does the government cooperate with some companies and not others? Why does the NSA get to choose which ventures to provide its expertise to? This is just the powerful helping the powerful, on our dime and at our expense.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
    Based on the 'takes one to know one' principle, I reckon the NSA should have had some important insight on maintaining privacy. Maybe they also collaborated with Microsoft in planting a few 'backdoors' for national security purposes...
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Microsoft Let NSA Spooks 'Enhance' Windows 7
    Oh sure, like Gawker hasn't had a long, tawdry relationship with SIS.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Regretsy Book to Be Not Quite as Good as Regretsy.com
    #Yes. But also, I kind of do want to mail April Winchell a check. Regretsy is awesome. #ThingsWeActuallyLike
    #BookDealsWeCanGetBehind
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Yahoo's Lesbian 'Don Juan' Backhands Lindsay Lohan
    If the `spawn of a former Yahoo CEO' demands of a bouncer "just fucking Google me, you dumb fuck" then the search wars are already lost, and Microsoft is like yesterday's cavalry.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Yahoo's Lesbian 'Don Juan' Backhands Lindsay Lohan

    Ok, I admit it. I want to see her sex video. You know there's at least one out there, and it has to be good. That mouth was designed for one thing.
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    11/20/09

    In reply to Yahoo's Lesbian 'Don Juan' Backhands Lindsay Lohan
    As my grandmother said; You get the face you deserve.
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Yahoo's Lesbian 'Don Juan' Backhands Lindsay Lohan
    She always looks like a really mediocre tranny Mariah Carey impersonator.
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Why Google's New OS Is For Losers
    Look, netbooks already suck. Why not have an OS that's designed to suck in the exact same way? At least it won't have additional, completely useless forms of sucking.
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Twitter's New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In
    My friend Yam says that soon the prompt will be "Sup?"
    [twitter.com]
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Why Google's New OS Is For Losers
    They're right about Chrome; it would suck, but you have to reset your Options to get the suckage to work.

    Also, Mediate needs a Tumblr so it has no excuse for missing what the Tumblerati say. Which is still mostly in lolspeak.
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    11/19/09

    In reply to Yahoo's Lesbian 'Don Juan' Backhands Lindsay Lohan
    She's quite the Yahooligan!
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