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Obama ran on the "We Want Change" theme. Well, we got change alright....-Tinman57 (August 02, 2013, 04:55 PM)
Thanks for that... I'm checking it out... but I think I'm all in.-wraith808 (August 01, 2013, 08:46 PM)
Oh yeah, I'm ALL IN with the non-refundable $1000. Now for the hard part, waiting for it to come off the assembly-line.....-Tinman57 (August 02, 2013, 03:43 PM)
^^ Thanks for the explanation.
Sheesh. I don't know how the electorate cope with such "ambiguity" in an elected President's mandate.
The thing seems to have more twists than an Agatha Christie thriller.-IainB (August 02, 2013, 12:18 PM)
This is why witch-hunts are considered to be bad.-Stoic Joker (August 02, 2013, 11:21 AM)
And it's a brilliant move on the Russians' part because there is not all that much the US can do about it. Cancel Obama's visit? It would just call further attention to the cause of that cancellation, which is again the NSA, spying on US citizens etc., etc. Bad PR move.
Plus the US seems to need Russia more than the other way round:But senior State Department officials said they don't expect the meeting to be canceled because the U.S. wants to address with the leaders a "broad range of topics that are important to U.S. national security interests," including Afghanistan.
Officials say that the U.S. can push Moscow only so far without jeopardizing U.S. interests in other areas. The U.S. needs Russia to help keep pressure on Iran over its nuclear program, including maintaining sanctions, for example. "We can't go overboard," a senior administration official said.-dr_andus (August 01, 2013, 07:25 PM)
The Sheremetyevo chapter may be over, but the saga itself will continue. Already, there have been calls by US congressmen that Russia should be held accountable for granting Snowden asylum. There is also little doubt that US president Barack Obama will now cancel his planned trip to Moscow in September.
With Snowden, the Kremlin did the moral thing – and the moral thing also happened to be the only thing the Kremlin could do in this instance. Essentially denied safe passage to Latin America, Snowden was marooned, and letting him languish in Sheremetyevo indefinitely would have dented the Kremlin's credibility at home and abroad.
In recent years, Moscow has excelled at snubbing Washington over anything it could, but the Snowden situation was different from the start. It prompted unusually cautious words from Russia's president, Vladimir Putin, who said that Snowden could remain in Russia provided he would do no more damage to the US government, which Putin referred to as the Russian government's partner.
Other prominent members of the government have pointed out that Russia was left with little choice in the matter. The head of the State Duma committee on international affairs, Alexei Pushkov, said: "Even though Obama said that he wouldn't ground a plane over some '29-year-old hacker', they trapped Snowden after they grounded the Bolivian president's plane."
"Any other decision would have meant that Russia would lose face," deputy Vyacheslav Nikonov told Kommersant. "If we didn't give Snowden asylum, no one would take us seriously – and the Americans would be the first to do this."
On such specious evidence, it seems strange that his former workplace called the police, however...Yes, probably, but if the ex-employee left the company on very unfriendly terms, the ex-employer could have feared retaliation in the form of a bomb.-wraith808 (August 02, 2013, 10:36 AM)-cyberdiva (August 02, 2013, 11:03 AM)
I find this confuzzling.-IainB (August 02, 2013, 09:30 AM)
) that he received "The Speech" after he came into office, and he chose to listen and act accordingly.Best tampon commercial ever.
http://www.policymic...-you-d-seen-as-a-kid-app103 (August 01, 2013, 09:44 PM)
Is there such a thing as a desktop reader that has a "mini web server" built in to host a web-based version of the feeds for accessing remotely? I could see use in something like this. I had many issues getting TinyTinyRSS to auto-refresh when I wasn't logged in, and in fact it still does not work. Something along these lines would be perfect!-Josh (July 31, 2013, 02:20 PM)
You need to set a cron job type thing, it is in the ttrss wiki. It works when you set it up. TTrss does not do refreshing by its own.-kartal (August 01, 2013, 01:38 PM)
Simple background updates (since 1.7.0)
If all else fails and you can't use any of the above methods, you can enable simple update mode where tt-rss will try to periodically update feeds while it is open in your web browser. Obviously, no updates will happen when tt-rss is not open or your computer is not running.
To enable this mode, set constant SIMPLE_UPDATE_MODE to true in config.php.
Addendum 1: In a Twitter discussion, tech policy reporter (and libertarian) Declan McCullagh suggests that the visit may not have been a result of the couple's Google history. Tweets McCullagh: "Tip from nosy neighbors is likely source, or IP datadump from http://buypressurecookers.com."
I'm not sure I'd want to deal with virtualizing anything on a NAS. But outside of that overkill probably should be kept to a minimum. I got the impression 40 was leaning towards two different boxes...each purposefully built to its specific task.-Stoic Joker (July 31, 2013, 06:07 PM)
So, Akismet is probably hiding the spam from me, and some of these are probably bots... Mmm... sounds about right.-kyrathaba (July 31, 2013, 04:52 PM)
I mean, that's fine -- great, even, I suppose. Bloggers need subscribers, right? I'm just surprised at how quickly -- that's averaging 9 new members per day. I emailed Perry to see if he could help me on another issue. I have a few people wanting signed printed copies of my book. I spent two frustrating hours on CreateSpace the other night. Everything was fine but I could not get the cover image for the jacket to suit them.-kyrathaba (July 31, 2013, 03:15 PM)
At any point in time I'm actively monitoring a list of between 100 and 150 feeds. About a third of the feeds in this list change periodically depending on what I'm interested in staying on top of.
It doesn't take much to skim through them using the Sage extension in Firefox and mark the articles I want to read later. Anything I want to keep can be filed either in Scrapbook or online in my Pocket account.-40hz (July 31, 2013, 02:19 PM)
Again, stunned at the frequency of ppl joining the blog; up for 72 hours and 27 members already? Where are these ppl coming from? Most of them have outlook.com email addresses...-kyrathaba (July 31, 2013, 02:37 PM)
I have pages of members, but the only ones that I know are you, Ath, and one other person. Google Reader went away and I moved all my feeds to ... something else. I'm not even sure what. But it was a desktop application. And just like that I forgot to keep checking the feeds. And I don't miss it. It's nice not having so much stuff to catch up on every day. I guess I needed to simplify.-Deozaan (July 31, 2013, 12:44 PM)
