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Nemesisghost wrote to us with a story about attempts to reform the 1986 Electronic Communications Privacy Act. Under the act, messages left on a server are considered abandoned after six months and are trivially subpoenaed by law enforcement. A group of ISPs is lobbying to extend the protections afforded to locally stored messages to messages stored on third party servers, but the Obama administration is urging Congress not to reform the law.
Obama Brought back Jobs and Growth (Score:4, Informative)
Look at this chart. [washingtonmonthly.com]
That chart shows that Barack Obama saved the economy from the Republican engineered disaster.
A decade of Republican policies brought us an economic disaster. Barack Obama brought us back to growth and put us on the path for prosparity.
We may wish it was faster, but every competent software developer already has a job, and the economy is only getting better. Err.. it was until the Republican party decided to shut down the government for the second time in as many decades.
The people who complain that our recovery isn't fast enough advocate the policies (of insane deregulation) that brought us the economic disaster in the first place. And now of course they are doing their best to kill the recovery before it reaches the rest of the country.
Just like they want to kill health care reform before it saves to many lives.
Re:Obama acomplishments (Score:4, Informative)
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He graduated magna cum laude from Harvard Law School.
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Re:One good reason to avoid webmail. (Score:5, Informative)
I was astounded to find out the other day that on yahoo mail servers, the word delete doesn't mean what you think it means. It just ticks a bit in a db field which prevents the email showing in your inbox and being counted in your quota.
However, the yahoo coders were too incompetent to leave the emails out of the search function.
Imagine my surprise when I performed a search recently, and emails I had deleted and emptied from my trash in 2007 showed up!!!
Are those emails considered abandoned (since I marked them as deleted) and available under this new legislation?
There is no privacy in the cloud.
Re:Obama acomplishments (Score:2, Informative)
No, sorry, that little bit of evil was brought to you by the late Ted Kennedy (D) Chappaquiddick.
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No, it was a Mitt Romney idea.
Wow, the doublethink in your head must be staggering.
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BMO
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