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    twig: The NSA has a long history in advising to non-government security standards. Schneier's "Applied Cryptography" notes that several of the fundamental ... more »
    Drunken Economist: 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 the... more »
    scroll_lock: I had no idea this existed. Now I'm newly obsessed. more »
    daveyjonesisdead: apart from the privacy aspects - and I have no doubt the collaboration did not enhance privacy - why does the government cooperate with some companies... more »
    DTurkin: 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 collab... more »
    Uncle_Billy_Slumming: Oh sure, like Gawker hasn't had a long, tawdry relationship with SIS. more »
    Foster Kamer: #Yes. But also, I kind of do want to mail April Winchell a check. Regretsy is awesome. #ThingsWeActuallyLike #BookDealsWeCanGetBehind more »
    Tremonius: 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 Microsof... more »
    random_play: 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. more »
    nicepony: As my grandmother said; You get the face you deserve. more »
    raincoaster: She always looks like a really mediocre tranny Mariah Carey impersonator. more »
    CumaeanSibyl: 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 f... more »
    raincoaster: My friend Yam says that soon the prompt will be "Sup?" [twitter.com] more »
    raincoaster: 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 e... more »
    Magister: She's quite the Yahooligan! more »
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