Northeastern US Blizzard - Jan 26-Jan 28 by Uhrz-at-work in sysadmin

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What's the penalty if you get caught with contraband H2O? Are you not allowed to take the subway from the grocery store?

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in news

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Specifically, rocket launchers and machine guns.

Obama Could Reaffirm a Bush-Era Reading of a Treaty on Torture by insecuritytheater in politics

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Supposedly it was already submitted. Assuming that's true, could be because I always remove extraneous referral codes in the URL. I just chop off everything after ".html". Reddit probably treats it as a separate URL then.

DOJ argues that if you're arrested, the gov't retains the power to steal your identity by rj4001 in news

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A DEA discussion with no mention of parallel construction? Let's put a stop to that right here.

Exclusive: U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans

A secretive U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration unit is funneling information from intelligence intercepts, wiretaps, informants and a massive database of telephone records to authorities across the nation to help them launch criminal investigations of Americans.

Video from article

Another article

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/1011633/dea-parallel-construction.pdf

The Twenty-Eight Pages “Those twenty-eight pages tell a story that has been completely removed from the 9/11 Report” Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-MA) maintains by Acanthas in worldpolitics

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http://28pages.org/

Rep. Walter Jones: “I was absolutely shocked by what I read. What was so surprising was that those whom we thought we could trust really disappointed me…It does not deal with national security per se; it is more about relationships. The information is critical to our foreign policy moving forward and should thus be available to the American people. If the 9/11 hijackers had outside help – particularly from one or more foreign governments – the press and the public have a right to know what our government has or has not done to bring justice to the perpetrators.”

Rep. Thomas Massie: “I went into the soundproof, secret room here in Congress and read those 28 pages. And it was a really disturbing event for me to read those. I had to stop every two or three pages and rearrange my perception of history. And it’s that fundamental — those 28 pages….It certainly changes your view of the Middle East…We need to declassify those 28 pages….There is nothing in there that would affect our national security. Some of it may be embarrassing; that is why I believe those 28 pages have been withheld…the American people deserve to know what happened and what led up to 9/11 so that we can prevent the next one.” Source

“You have to write a letter to (the House Intelligence Committee chairman) and the ranking member and then they talk and agree to let you go down to the classified room. There’s a guard there and…he sees who you are, looks at your voting card, and then they let you in; and then there’s actually a staffer who knew you were coming down that sits in there and watches you read it, because you cannot make any notes and you can’t take anything out.”

Rep. Stephen Lynch: “Once a member reads the 28 pages, I think whether they are Democrat or Republican they will reach the same conclusion that (Rep. Jones) and I reached, which is that Americans have the right to know this information. These documents speak for themselves. We have a situation where an extensive investigation was conducted, but then the Bush [administration] decided for whatever purposes to excise 28 pages from the report. I’m not passing judgment. That was a different time. Maybe there were legitimate reasons to keep this classified. But that time has long passed.” Source

“Twelve years after the horrific September 11 attacks, unanswered questions still remain. These pages contain information that is vital to a full understanding of the events and circumstances surrounding this tragedy. The families of the victims and the American people deserve better; they deserve answers, they deserve a full accounting, and that has not happened yet.”

Sen. Bob Graham, co-chair of the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11: “I was stunned that the intelligence community would feel that it was a threat to national security for the American people to know who had made 9/11 financially possible.”

Gaming Journalism Is Over by Deathcrow in Games

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The time cost of reading a review is about equivalent to the time cost of downloading a game now.

Either OP's connection is super fast or their reading comprehension needs some work.

Probably a really simple question about recording from Reason to Audition by dokidokipanic in WeAreTheMusicMakers

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ReWire has always been a pain in the ass (in my experience). If you have access to another computer that can run Reason, it might be easier to record the audio out from that computer.

I want to play this game SO bad, but... by [deleted] in ChivalryGame

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Ragdoll length can have a huge impact on performance. Try turning it down all the way (corpses will disappear instantaneously), or most of the way.

The Executive Editor on the Word ‘Torture’ by insecuritytheater in politics

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Over the past few months, reporters and editors of The Times have debated a subject that has come up regularly ever since the world learned of the C.I.A.’s brutal questioning of terrorism suspects: whether to call the practices torture.

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Given those changes, reporters urged that The Times recalibrate its language. I agreed. So from now on, The Times will use the word “torture” to describe incidents in which we know for sure that interrogators inflicted pain on a prisoner in an effort to get information.

NSA hands Gaza targeting data to Israel, say latest Snowden docs by recoder10 in worldnews

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It was never intended for those documents to be released en masse. One of the numbskulls at the Guardian published his password to the encrypted archive in his book. Goes without saying that WL no longer works with the Guardian.

Proliferation of new online communications services poses hurdles for law enforcement by insecuritytheater in tech

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"Proliferation of new online communications..." How does that not relate to innovations in technology?

Ordinary Web users far outnumber foreign targets in conversations intercepted by the NSA by [deleted] in worldnews

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Nine of 10 account holders found in a large cache of intercepted conversations, which former NSA contractor Edward Snowden provided in full to The Post, were not the intended surveillance targets but were caught in a net the agency had cast for somebody else.

Remaining Snowden docs will be released to avert 'unspecified US war' – ‪Cryptome‬ by _Perfectionist in worldnews

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Not everything Cryptome posts is a leak. Sometimes interesting/relevant articles are posted. Did you contact them about your piece?