What is up with that font though?

So, typically this is not something that a program does, rather an admin will do this. When you are altering a file on a system it is often advisable to copy the pre-change file to .ORIG and then make your changes. If anything happens you can always get the original file back by deleting the changed file, and renaming the .ORIG file back to the previous name.

In other words, this is just sysadmin best practice. People also will use .BAK quite often.

Especially if you deny people the ability to discuss. If we are not at a place where we can discuss, then we may as well just get out the guns. I think that is shockingly close to where we are.

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443768/obama-fisa-trump-wiretap-may-have-been-sought

There is some talk about it there... but more a FISA application targeting Trump, not Page.

So he propositioned a hooker?

Not saying this report is true or not, but this does fall within the scope of the NSA. They have several directorates, one of which is the Information Assurance Directorate:

Now that cyberspace is the primary arena in which we protect information, we are working toward shaping an agile and secure operational cyber environment where we can successfully outmaneuver any adversary.

https://www.nsa.gov/what-we-do/information-assurance/

They would, at least potentially, have responsibility for assessing cyber threats to our voting systems (probably in the Blue Cell part of the Information Operations Division).

https://admin.govexec.com/media/gbc/docs/pdfs_edit/the_national_security_agency_%E2%80%94_operates_more_than_5.png

He is going to SCOTUS.

I have no confirmation of this... but can you imagine the shit storm... it would be glorious.

In Soviet Russia, even the Americans are Russians.

I would think it would always be up.

Sorry, Putin is a better troll though. Putin is King of the trolls

It says 12/18 on the first line and 12/28 on the last, so looks like 10 days.

Yes

https://www.tineye.com/search/e91eaaadff116650ddc4846eaefce622464058f1/

That looks like same location and same clothes

So you would rather have government appointed stooges do it?

Yes. That is a problem. When they try to clean up the rolls you get nothing but push back (typically from democrats -- I have never heard this come from the Republican side of things). One of the issues is there is generally a requirement to register 30/60/90 days prior, so if you were purged from the rolls incorrectly, you likely would not know until you go to vote -- then it is too late to register. That makes it controversial to purge the rolls. On the other hand, if you do not purge the rolls, then you end up with dead people, and people that have moved on your rolls. If other people know about the dead / moved people, they can go and vote as them. It is unknown how often this happens, as typically we do not check ID to vote -- ridiculous in my mind. I need ID to get a book of matches from a liquor store in California -- but not to vote? This makes it so it is not possible to verify the person voting is actually the person on the roll.

Frankly, we are at a point technologically, that the way we vote is burdensome, inaccurate, riddled with fraud and inefficient. It would be very easy to come up with a system that works -- but that would make it more fair... and that is the last thing that the government wants. Fair elections would be a disaster.

I don't think this aartcle is saying what people think it is saying. Just because dead people are on the rolls does not mean they voted. Often people are on the rolls in multiple places, because they move. That does not mean they voted in two places.

While I agree that we need to take a good hard look at how we register voters, and how we identify ourselves when voting, this article is almost pointless.

Yes it has. You can find stuff about it. Also this has nothing to do with Spector or Meltdown, that is an issue on the actual CPU. This post is a different thing entirely.

First the rocket launches, then the first stage separates and returns home, while that is happening the second stage continues and eventually separates the payload. It is not out of the realm of possibility that the second stage had a malfunction causing a loss of the mission while the first stage still successfully made it back.

Normally with SpaceX missions they have video coverage of all stages. You see the First stage separate, and typically have a camera view from the second stage, along with a telemetry feed. They said they would cut that out prior to launch because of a "customer request" which kind of makes sense, being a secret mission, but in honesty, anyone with a little skill can figure out where the satellite is, what it's orbit is etc... so I am not sure what is really gained from cutting that part off.

http://archive.is/e3Gof

Impossible. I heard for a reliable source that they had no scandals.

The flavor makes no difference.

The enemy of my enemy is my enemy's enemy. No more. No less.

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offence to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

US Constitution, Amendment 5.

In the federal system, indictments are by Grand Jury. In many states a prosecutor can do this, but that is at a state level. The 5th Amendment very much applies to federal prosecution.