WASHINGTON — The FBI warned on Friday that Russian computer hackers had compromised hundreds of thousands of home and office routers and could collect user information or shut down network traffic.
The U.S. law enforcement agency urged the owners of many brands of routers to turn them off and on again and download updates from the manufacturer to protect themselves.
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The Secular Jurist 
This isn’t a war we’ve lost. It’s one we never even bothered to fight. Way to go Congress! Way to focus on real issues and threats. I guess made up shit like spygate is far more important.
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Trump is so brainless and maniacal that even members of his own party are shaking their heads in disbelief.
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And then the DOJ caves in to the idiots conspiracy nonsense. Sad.
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But what are they doing about it?!!? Maybe I’m missing something, but I don’t recall any notable results being created simply by “shaking one’s head.”
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Not much, but did you see today’s story about congressional backlash against Trump’s new deal with the Chinese telecom giant?
BTW, have you figured out what rawgod is up to? I’ve seen that “blogger” recently on other sites as well.
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Yeah … saw something on the Chinese thing last night. Haven’t checked on the latest.
I don’t have much to say about rawgod except that he rambles a lot, making it difficult to follow what he’s trying to say. After moderating him, I did approve one of his last comments because he actually made sense.
In case you haven’t noticed … I closed comments on that post.
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Since I haven’t tried to comment further, I didn’t notice that you had closed that post. I see clearly now, though.
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Is he , or she, a nutter, too? I didn’t catch that. Someone needs to replace SoM. Haven’t seen him in ages. Hopefully nothing horrible has happened.
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Jeff, I know you addressed your inquiry to Nan, but here’s the post: https://sayitnow.wordpress.com/2018/05/20/now-in-the-ring-theist-vs-atheist/
The blogger in question is “rawgod” – judge for yourself.
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Thanks.
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Ah, yes. he’s a troll. Took awhile for that to come out. I’ve seen him around here and there and didn’t pick up on his trollness until reading the comments on Nan’s blog. Yep. Troll.
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I’m beginning to realize the effectiveness of trolls. A growing number of people are susceptible to their simplistic rhetoric designed to undermine public confidence in our institutions such as government, science, etc. It does work to a certain point, otherwise major players like Russia wouldn’t put so much effort into trolling social media. It seems that some people just can’t resist the purity of the message no matter how absurd it really is (e.g. “… facts are only facts until they are disproved.” – rawgod). Folks who are religiously inclined seem especially susceptible.
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Absolutely. There’s this “all opinions are just opinions and they’re all equal” idea that’s prevalent in the thinking of far too many who read the trolls and identify with them. While everyone has an equal right to an opinion, all opinions, or statements about how the world works, are NOT equal. Ken Ham’s “opinions” on climate change and the age of the earth are not in any way equal to those of Bill Nye’s. Nye’s “opinions” are based on facts and evidence, and painstaking research, not simply, “THE BIBLE SAYS SO!” Too many people are unable, and/or unwilling, to develop the skills to think critically and skeptically of their OWN thought processes. “I might be wrong. Perhaps Bill Nye really does know more than I do on climate change. I need to listen to him.” It’s SO much easier to base our beliefs on our “gut” instinct and on what we WANT to be true. The lack of education, decent, liberal, education in our country is destroying us. No one knows how to think, yet everyone thinks they’re absolute right in what they believe. Trump is in power because of it, IMO.
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Wow, you said it way better than me! That’s exactly right. Our egos get the better of us. I told my wacky evangelical neighbor once: “You wouldn’t try to tell an airline pilot how to fly the plane, would you?” She answered: “Yes, I would!” How can we deal with stupidity like that?
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