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but I'm baffled where all the Trump supporters came from.

There are a few different groups. Lets get the KKK, Nationalists, etc out of the way. Yes they voted for him (Like they would have voted for Clinton) but their numbers are so small they're really not worth discussing on a national scale.

In the Midwest:

In large part it's blue collar salt of the earth people in the middle. Come out and visit 'us'. (I didn't vote trump but my state and county did). If you make a joke about flyover country you'll probably get punched the 10th time you say it. Most of the people out here are the nicest people you'll meet. If you ever needed anything (Flat tire, etc) they'll be the first to stop and lend a hand. Everyone has had a job that was affected by NAFTA. (Real or perceived, most people think they were affected by NAFTA)

50% of household earning less than $35k don't have Internet. Some townships are on Dialup alone. [Despite having our tax money go to help fix that]. Our infastructure is literally falling apart around us. We don't have enough population in any single county to warrant people paying attention to us. When it comes to 'social' issues most of us are "I don't see it I don't care". When asked where a transgendered person pees it's probably in the woods like everyone else. But we really, really hate being dictated to about 'how it is' from the coasts.

Some of us tried the high road, my county went very Bernie in the primaries. Polls had both WI and MI completely wrong. We saw Bernie as the democratic way to 'make america great again' and were told, literally, "You aren't needed in November" despite filling stadiums and waiting in lines to see Sanders.

Republican votes per county have held flat 2008-2012-2016. Jill stein saw a 'huge' jump between 2012-2016. And Democratic voters more or less just stayed home.

The second group is a bit more entertaining to watch:

It's /r/The_Donald. It's the angry, contrarian young male vote. It seems to be a melting pot of RedPill, 4Chan, and a bunch of other places that demographic hangs out, online equivalent of a bag of cats.

Milo Yiannopoulos seemed to gain a lot of traction and followers out of the GamerGate. They have less in common other than they really really hate the "SJW" type and saw trump as the anti PC candidate. I'm fascinated by people watching so I've dug through some profiles. Most are just 18-25 year old males that feel something about Obama or Clinton gave them the short end of the stick.

The recruiting techniques are pretty much follow gang recruiting techniques that have been used for centuries and are used now to radicalize people for ISIS. "Did those people wrong you? It's this persons fault. Join us and we'll "fix" it".

Beyond that there's really nothing that binds them. (Other than some don't know how to create new Reddit Profiles).

For example one user is a ~20 year old 2nd generation Muslim Indian immigrant. Follows soccer and Cricket, loves cats, smokes cannabis lives in NY, drives around a BMW 435i and used to drive an Audi S5. And is all on the trump train ... because.

Welcome to 21st century slavery.

http://www.vice.com/video/the-...

Pffft! I have them as ASCII art. A thousand frames to a file. Hold down the PageDown button, and watch the action. ;^)

A sample. https://vice-images.vice.com/i...

Those macedonians must have heard about that kid who fleeced a bunch of trumpkins for a million dollars.

I am not making it up: Some Guy Snagged $1 Million from Trump Fans with a Fake Dinner Contest

http://motherboard.vice.com/re...

"The metadata in the leaked documents are perhaps most revealing: one dumped document was modified using Russian language settings, by a user named âoeÐÐÐÐÐÑ ÐÐмÑfнÐоÐÐÑ,â a code name referring to the founder of the Soviet Secret Police, the Cheka, memorialised in a 15-ton iron statue in front of the old KGB headquarters during Soviet times. The original intruders made other errors: one leaked document included hyperlink error messages in Cyrillic, the result of editing the file on a computer with Russian language settings. After this mistake became public, the intruders removed the Cyrillic information from the metadata in the next dump and carefully used made-up user names from different world regions, thereby confirming they had made a mistake in the first round. "

Good enough?

And there's the Russian troll. How's St. Petersburg? The weather getting chilly over there?

A commercial flight had flown over the exact same area several hours before without incident. Since the Russians hadn't had the Buk missile system in place at that time the flight flew on its way without incident.

Once the Buk system was in place Russian troops, with the help of their terrorist allies, shot down MH-17. They bragged about shooting down a "Ukrainian" plane, even posted videos of themselves celebrating the act. Their joyous phone calls and postings on social media were also recorded.

Only after they realized they had shot down a commercial airliner did they then frantically try to deny they're the ones who shot it down. They tried to remove their videos and postings but copies had already been made. When the plane fell to the ground the Russians and their terrorist allies then disturbed the crime scene by going through the passengers personal belongings, including taking people's credit cards and cash.

To further try and cover up their crime they refused access to the Dutch investigators for several days.

Unfortunately for the Russians, all the evidence pointed to them shooting the plane down, including pictures of the Buk system which came into Ukraine with all its tubes filled, then leaving immediately after the shoot down with at least one empty tube.

This video shows MH-17 falling to the ground after the shooting, being filmed by either a terrorist or Russian troop. Also, near the end of the video, at the 6:25 mark, a recording of a Russian newscaster reporting on the shoot down and stating the terrorists had shot the plane down. Since you speak Russian you will be able to understand her words and may even recognize her from your daily propaganda newscasts.

Of course you'll deny what she's saying but it doesn't matter. The world knows the truth. Russia is supporting the terrorists in Ukraine and Russia was involved with, if not responsible for, the shooting down a civilian airliner.

is now a crime along with studying privacy and encryption software?
Given the flow of "Russian" related stories on slashdot, would studying Russian not now be the trending language to get a promotion in the NSA?
Or at least have some skills on show to fend off been replace by a contractor?
Is the NSA and GCHQ now tracking educational Russian language sites like it did crypto sites?
How the NSA Targets Tor Users (July 4, 2014)
http://motherboard.vice.com/re...
Was XKeyscore or its upgrade now tasked to watch Russian language sites?

http://motherboard.vice.com/re...

Assange has stated that if he had stuff to leak on Trump he would do that, too. But I guess Trump was a bit harder to hack.

erm.. apparently not... and the white hat that reported on it.. Trump is trying to have arrested!..LOL http://motherboard.vice.com/re...

How many stories have we had on this topic?
Lets go back down the stories and their new Bear related findings, spies, moles, data diodes and the private sector.
Starting with "How Hackers Broke Into John Podesta and Colin Powell’s Gmail Accounts"
https://motherboard.vice.com/r...
"It’s unclear why the hackers used the encoded strings, which effectively reveal their targets to anyone."
and finally "None of this new data constitutes a smoking gun that can clearly frame Russia"
So the first hint of something that is not very spy like?
Lets try the other link:
https://theintercept.com/2016/... (September 14 2016)
"https://theintercept.com/2016/09/13/colin-powell-emails/"
has "a hacker that many allege to have ties with Russian intelligence." and thats all.
Finally past the two slashdot links and down at
"How Russia Pulled Off the Biggest Election Hack in U.S. History" (OCT 20, 2016 )
http://www.esquire.com/news-po...
Lets keep reading past the 56k modems and 1950's see whats new.
"immediately discovered two sophisticated groups of spies" They are not great spies if they are "immediately discovered" by the private sector.
"soon able to reconstruct the hacks and identify the hackers." If the entry was so easy to reconstruct, it could be anyone with the skills.
"each of the attackers seemed unaware of what the other was doing" so more than one group used methods out in the wider public at random times?
Sounds like a few different groups are active.
So groups with "immediately discovered" methods must be the GRU and KGB?
"But several sloppy mistakes"... Do spies make so many "sloppy mistakes"? Use of their own language and emoji?
The Germans added their support to 'Fancy Bear" from years ago. Well understood methods by "different" groups that the private sector was well aware of?
The "hackers forgot to set" - that sounds like spies? Such a "rapid public reconstruction" and in public so the media could follow along?
Then onto the NSA, data diodes, and a small hint at a real spy could be in play with "an old-fashioned mole passed on the tools."
How did the other data get out? "Using commercial cloud services to "exfiltrate" data out"
So we are back to ip ranges? "Confident" in URL's and all that code litter that expert "spies" left for the media, private sector and "open-source counterintelligence" to find. Don't forget the easy to find emoji as part of the litter :)

This was the worst.

True. France has even outdone the USA however with terrorist over-reaction... They have suspended democratic principles for over a year and even passed their own "Patriot Act on Steroids"...

https://news.vice.com/article/...
"France's state of emergency legislation allows the government and the police to search and detain people without a warrant, place suspects under house arrest without prior judicial clearance, block certain websites, and ban public gatherings."
"UN experts expressed alarm that environmental activists in France have been under house arrest in connection with the state of emergency invoked following the November attacks."

http://rare.us/story/france-ha...
"The fact is that France already has a latitudinous surveillance law—call it the PATRIOT Act on steroids. At least in theory, [the US's FISC is] a layer of accountability. France’s power of oversight, on the other hand, is vested in a committee chaired by [the Prime Minister], who can singlehandedly override the other members’ objections.The French law also forces Internet Service Providers to install “black boxes” that vacuum up metadata and make it accessible to intelligence agencies. It contains a “sneak-and-peek” provision similar to the PATRIOT Act, which allows government operatives to break into suspects’ homes and monitor them. And it green-lights the use of ISMI catchers—essentially incognito cell towers, they sweep up all phone communications within a given area, including, if needed, people’s locations. Even worse, while the PATRIOT Act is explicitly limited to terrorism, the French law applies to other cases, including those of “organized delinquency.” It can also be activated to protect the country’s “economic, industrial and scientific interests,” which is so elastic as to include just about everything. Senator Rand Paul was absolutely correct to call the French law “a thousandfold more invasive” than anything on the books in America."

Silly Ethiopians. Don't they know if they want to decree a human-rights-violating state of emergency, they also have to ban public gatherings?! Come on! France has been oppressing the right way for a full year now...

https://news.vice.com/article/...
"France's state of emergency legislation allows the government and the police to search and detain people without a warrant, place suspects under house arrest without prior judicial clearance, block certain websites, and ban public gatherings."

"Under the state of emergency, all expressions or communication that could incite violence have been banned... Authorities can search and detain citizens without prior approval."

They would just need to add a ban on public gatherings to have the same conditions as France's state of "emergency" that has been in place for a full year now and been condemned [repeatedly] by the UN human rights council. As disturbing as such a thing is in Ethiopia, it is even more shocking in a "western democracy."

https://news.vice.com/article/...
"France's state of emergency legislation allows the government and the police to search and detain people without a warrant, place suspects under house arrest without prior judicial clearance, block certain websites, and ban public gatherings."
"They criticized France for imposing 'excessive and disproportionate restrictions on fundamental freedoms.'"

http://www.un.org/apps/news/st...
"In a list of concerns... regarding several state of emergency and surveillance laws that relate to the legitimate rights of privacy and freedoms – of expression, peaceful assembly and association."
"The UN experts also expressed alarm that environmental activists in France have been under house arrest in connection with the state of emergency invoked following the November attacks."

I'm still not sure how this points to the Russians... How do we not know that it isn't some dude sitting on the beach in Tahiti and bouncing it off a server or VPN in Russia?

Because they weren't simply working with SRC and DST packets, Donald. They did actual analysis, and found that the intrusion tools were the same as those used, among other things, to hack the German Bundestag (Parliament). They found Russian language bits mistakenly left in the leaked materials—which disappeared and never emerged again once their presence was pointed out. A shared SSL certificate also implicated the Russians.

Tor Project and Mozilla Making It Harder for Malware to Unmask Users

Big change is coming "with the support of 'Unix domain sockets', and some other tweaks. A Unix domain socket is basically a way for two programs on the same computer to talk to each other without using an underlying network protocol. With that, the Firefox half of the Tor Browser should no longer need network access, Barnes continued.

âoeThat means that you could run it in a sandbox with no network access (only a Unix domain socket to the proxy), and it would still work fine. And then, even if the Firefox half of Tor Browser were compromised, it wouldnâ(TM)t be able to make a network connection to de-anonymize the user,â he said.

This project is a collaboration between the Tor Project and Mozilla, according to Barnes. He said it started when the Tor Project did some work on adding Unix domain socket capabilities to the Tor proxy and browser. After that, Mozilla added a general capability to Firefox allowing it to talk to proxies over Unix domain sockets. And now, the Tor Browser team is working on putting this general capability into the Tor Browser, and Mozilla is helping to fix any bugs that come up, Barnes said."

Full Article: https://motherboard.vice.com/r...

I thought it came out that the authors basically got sick of supporting it and went all scorched earth. That said people should have moved on from TrueCrypt when this was disclosed last year. The VeraCrypt project has that fix as well as taking care of what was found during the limited TrueCrypt audit.

Re "Why would any cell phone be allow in a sensitive meeting for that matter?" so they can be tracked?
"VICE News Investigation Finds Signs of Secret Phone Surveillance Across London" (January 15, 2016)
https://news.vice.com/article/...
"... were found at several locations in the British capital, including UK parliament, a peaceful anti-austerity protest, and the Ecuadorian embassy. "

The ability to find languages, crypto, images, draft accounts been logged into and shared.
A site next door or in the same city or at the first big telco hub was not selected.
Re " or any other entity to do their bidding in this manner and some /.er has pointed this law out several times."
The ability to suggest help can be worked on:
"The Telecom Exec Who Refused to Let the NSA Spy Is Out of Prison, and He's Talking" October 1, 2013
http://motherboard.vice.com/bl...
"His was the only company to resist handing over access to customers' phone records to the NSA without permission from the FISA court."

Is there any actual evidence that "the scary russians" are to blame for this?

Disregard everything else. Is there any evidence?

Yup. The main points are:

1. In this case it is possible to tell that the same group (or groups, there seem to be two Russia agencies at work) had committed previous hacks. They often used the same tools, the same control IP, and even the same encryption keys.

2. These other hacks included attacks on the German parliament, as well as a French TV station. Things that make more sense for Russia.

3. When they hacked the French TV station they claimed to be ISIS.

4. Guccifer 2.0 looks a lot like a committee. He claims to be Romanian but can't really speak Romanian (only Russian) and he's fluent in English when talking politics but not technology.

Is it absolute proof? No. But it's a pretty damn convincing case.

Is there any actual evidence that "the scary russians" are to blame for this?

Disregard everything else. Is there any evidence?

Yup. The main points are:

1. In this case it is possible to tell that the same group (or groups, there seem to be two Russia agencies at work) had committed previous hacks. They often used the same tools, the same control IP, and even the same encryption keys.

2. These other hacks included attacks on the German parliament, as well as a French TV station. Things that make more sense for Russia.

3. When they hacked the French TV station they claimed to be ISIS.

4. Guccifer 2.0 looks a lot like a committee. He claims to be Romanian but can't really speak Romanian (only Russian) and he's fluent in English when talking politics but not technology.

Is it absolute proof? No. But it's a pretty damn convincing case.

McDonald’s has been repeatedly accused of failing to provide healthy food to employees. In accordance with Brazilian law, employers have to provide a “healthy and varied” lunch for their workers. This is commonly accomplished through distribution of meal tickets that can be redeemed at restaurants and grocery stores, giving employees the optionof bringing their own lunch or eating out. Last year a state labor court in Pernambuco ordered the company to pay $15 million in damages to employees who were not allowed to bring their own lunch to work and were obligated to eat McDonald’s. In São Paulo a pregnant employee who was ordered by her doctor to stop eating McDonald’s food filed charges when her employer refused to cooperate

http://www.vice.com/read/mcdon...

Obviously If this is indeed a fake data dump, certainly people shouldn't keep looking for evidence of crimes in it.

What makes you think any evidence you find is actually true? It is a fake datadump after all... even if the evidence was 100% solid, you'd still want at least several other sources before trusting anything you find in here.

Also, the reason this is considered "tampering with the election" is that Guccifer is considered by numerous people to be an intelligence service, most probably Russia's FSB (http://motherboard.vice.com/read/guccifer-20-is-likely-a-russian-government-attempt-to-cover-up-their-own-hack). Whether it's true is hard to tell, but the indications do point in that direction. So tell me: do you really want to look for evidence in a collection of garbage provided by a hostile intelligence agency? Would you like to publish that evidence under your own name? If no, why do you think anyone else would do so?

There are several *independent* documentaries that provide not only photos, but -- much to your heart's desire -- actual video footage of said patches. I'd recommend starting with the film Plastic Paradise (the film isn't that great, but it will provide what you seek). There's VICE's TOXIC: Garbage Island (also available on YT in 3 parts), which provides actual footage, and Midway: A Message from the Gyre.

What you'll see in all the documentaries is not an island of floating trash, but water that is actually filled with plastics and other crap, mostly under the water line. In 2 of the 3 I linked above, you'll see them essentially using a sieve though small spots only to get a large sum of trash, a lot of which can't degrade fast enough, thus harming sea life in several ways.

As with all information, take from this what you wish.

http://motherboard.vice.com/re... (June 21, 2016 )
The "login records" get tracked :)
"Surveillance and Security Lessons From the Petraeus Scandal" (Nov 13, 2012)
https://www.aclu.org/blog/surv...

I realize you're joking but the truth is actually not that different with many in the north relying on snail mail for internet.

Re: "Could be a honey pot"
Yes. Recall the watch on onion routing using XKeyscore.
"How the NSA Targets Tor Users" (July 4, 2014)
http://motherboard.vice.com/re...
"... and logs the IP address of people searching for various other privacy and encryption software."
NSA classifies Linux Journal readers, Tor and Tails Linux users as "extremists" (July 4, 2014)
http://www.in.techspot.com/new...
"... program marks and tracks the IP addresses of those who search for..."

An elevator goes up and down in a finite space and that's ALL it does

Which is why were able to automate them first — decades before coming for automobile drivers.

Some trains were also automated decades ago, though wider adoption is still met with fierce opposition from organized labor and their idiotic sympathizers. Even replacing the "conductors" with video-cameras was deemed to violate labor-agreements in NYC, getting rid of the nice, well-groomed and jovial motormen would've been a non-starter.

it's not in any way shape or form comparable to an automobile

Automobile is comparable in that it is increasingly possible to automate its functioning.

Trains and ships could've been automated even before automobiles, but the cost of crew in those is a relatively minor share of the overall cost of operation, so there was not as much incentive to fight Labor Unions on that. Humans are still involved, though, perhaps, not for much longer.

I never tried to "explain the causes" of female-to-male trans, because we just don't have enough information (and it's irrelevant to the discussion of Chelsea Manning anyway).

Also, your figures for spontaneously deciding against it are based on fraudulent studies, including those at CAMH, where one of the leading proponents of "reparative therapy" was fired and his clinic shut down. He (Kenneth Zucker) made quite the killing over the years milking parents financially by interpreting ANY behaviour that was even slightly outside gender norms as "your kid needs therapy or else". Of course they "grew out of it", they were never properly diagnosed as transsexual in the first place.

Zucker and those like him played upon people's fears, and with support from the religious right that reparative therapy could "fix" someone who might be gay or lesbian or trans. His techniques are now under government ban in many places, including the province he practiced in (Ontario). In New York, such crap was banned under consumer protection laws because it doesn't work as claimed (it doesn't work at all). Many researchers and practitioners who wanted to believe that they could "repare" people (for a buck, of course) did everything to try to justify their actions, which have a long history of fraudulent claims about being able to change people's gender identity. Probably the worst was John Money of Johns Hopkins, who faked all his research, and was only caught out after a post-doc did a review, and his "success" had never actually been happy living as a girl despite Money's claims that he had succeeded in changing David Reimer's gender identity after Reimer lost his penis in a botched circumcision. Reimer detransitioned as soon as he found out what had been done to him, got married, and eventually killed himself. Some success. The gender you identify with simply isn't mutable.

Unfortunately, it took a long time for people to realize that.

Way more than 90% of those who get a sex change don't revert back to their birth gender. The pressure from society, the lack of acceptance, is why some do. Others may do so, or delay, to preserve contact with their minor children. Still others may because of money - m2f trans take a real pay hit, to the point that it's either go back to presenting as male or selling sex, and while many go into the sex trade for this reason, not everyone is willing to risk HIV/AIDS. All this in no way means that they wanted to detransition, just that society doesn't accept them, so they pay the price.

If you read the above link, you'll find that Manning was one who detransitioned at one point because of the inability to fit in in her new role, but finally decided that if you're going to be miserable anyway, might as well be your true self.

Obama said at least 5 times that the use of chemical weapons by Syria was a red line. Why not say that Syria was an internal affair? In retrospect, since many of the rebels were al Qaeda, arming the rebels against the Syrian regime wasn't exactly a smart move. This has been inevitable since George W Bush and co. invaded Iraq on the pretext of weapons of mass destruction, evidence that Colin Powell knew was bogus before he spoke at the UN.

Former CIA Officer: President Obama Should Pardon Edward Snowden

Barry Eisler spent three years in a covert position in the CIA’s Directorate of Operations and is the author of 12 novels, including The Detachment

He let Americans evaluate omniscient domestic surveillance for themselves

This week, Edward Snowden, multiple human rights and civil rights groups, and a broad array of American citizens asked President Obama to exercise his Constitutional power to pardon Snowden. As a former CIA officer, I wholeheartedly support a full presidential pardon for this brave whistleblower.

All nations require some secrecy. But in a democracy, where the government is accountable to the people, transparency should be the default; secrecy, the exception. And this is especially true regarding the implementation of an unprecedented system of domestic bulk surveillance, a mere precursor of which Senator Frank Church warned 40 years ago could lead to the eradication of privacy and the imposition of “total tyranny.”

That today we are engaged in a meaningful debate about whether such a system is desirable is almost entirely due to the conscience, courage and conviction of one man: Edward Snowden. Without Snowden, the American people could not balance for themselves the risks, costs and benefits of omniscient domestic surveillance. Because of him, we can.

For this service, the government has charged Snowden under the World War I-era Espionage Act. Yet Snowden did not sell information secretly to any enemy of America. Instead, he shared it openly through the press with the American people.

For this service, Snowden has been accused of having “blood on his hands“—the same evidence-free cliché trotted out every time a whistleblower reveals corruption, criminality or anything else the government would prefer to hide. That this charge is being aired by the very people responsible for wars that have led to thousands of dead American servicemen and servicewomen; hundreds of thousands burned, blinded, brain-damaged, crippled, maimed and traumatized; and hundreds of thousands of innocent foreigners killed, is more than ironic. It’s also a form of psychological projection, or propaganda, intended to distract from where true responsibility for bloodshed lies.

And for this service, the usual suspects have claimed Snowden has caused “grave damage to national security.” As always, the charge is backed by nothing but air, and ignores—in fact, is intended to distract from—the real damage caused by metastasizing governmental secrecy. This includes not only disastrous government mistakes and cover-ups (see the Bay of Pigs, the “missile gap,” the Gulf of Tonkin, Iraqi wea

You gotta remember, liberals love to justify bad behavior, by pointing to (often unrelated) ... bad behavior.

You're using that word, "liberals", but who you're really referring to is right wingers who lie to themselves a lot.

It is as if they are four year olds getting in trouble, and saying "but Billy's Mom lets him drink beer/smoke dope".

Did your self-awareness at least tickle a little bit when you wrote that?

You mean, like when Bill Clinton said "Make America Great" is racist, even though he used that same exact phrase a number of times during his own presidential campaign?

Was he being a raving racist moran towards latinos and muslims when he was saying it? No? Then your lazy false equivalency is duly noted.

Actually, there are plenty of benefits that Illegals get, that Citizens don't get. The lack of proper "documentation' gets them a lot of linenacy in criminal situations that I do not get.

Is that what Santa told you? Cuz believing in that jolly old elf is just as rational as this alternate universe you've constructed for yourself. Both cops and the DHS have quotas, and busting anyone they can for deportation helps boost those numbers, even if they have to deport American citizens to do it.

While not "free stuff" there are a lot of Tax Payer resources that are available, expressly for Undocumented people, that I do not qualify for, such as legal support and help.

That was you in Missouri in 2003, wasn't it? Immigrants without documents subsidize your ignorant ass by paying into benefits they will never try to collect on, least they get deported.

And quite frankly illegal immigration is affecting the suppression of wages

Responsibility for which you are laying at the feet of businesses and capitalists eager to exploit these workers, yes?

While researching this more, I found this article explaining the issue and reasoning:

http://motherboard.vice.com/re...

Thank you. I was sifting through legal documentation and trying to find out where I had an opportunity to work around the loosely-worded portion "... or by unreasonable use..."

You are a gentleman and a scholar. Etc. etc. Thanks.

While researching this more, I found this article explaining the issue and reasoning:

http://motherboard.vice.com/re...

Has it become Slashdot official policy to not mention Microsoft windows in relation to remote access trojan malware?

"Spencer .. said he and his team .. examined BarıÅY Pehlivanâ(TM)s computer using a technique they developed to deal with sophisticated tampering of evidence."

'It's called "Anchors in Relative Time," which means putting events logged by computers such as startups and shutdowns in chronological order, regardless of any associated dates and times that might had been altered by attackers'. ref

The FAA has already said no to ridesharing. http://www.bloomberg.com/news/...

The FAA has already said no to "Uber in the sky". http://motherboard.vice.com/re...
And http://marginalrevolution.com/...
And https://fee.org/articles/how-t...

The reason for it is that the FAA has different rules for carrying yourself as a private pilot, carrying others for commercial gain, fare-sharing, etc. The regulations for fare-sharing mean you actually ALL have to be going TO GO DO the same thing, not just going to the same place. https://www.tnooz.com/article/...

The FAA has a higher requirement of pilots, equipment, and maintenance when used to carry passengers (other than private pilots who are NOT getting reimbursed).

Ehud
OB DISC: I'm an FAA certificated commercial helicopter pilot

It would be nice if the media would 1. dig more into the content of the leaks and 2. investigate the source of the leaks and give us facts rather than try to spin some kind of "Trump is a Russian plant" conspiracy theory.

Like these? http://motherboard.vice.com/re...
http://arstechnica.com/securit...
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

Disagree with the conclusions all you like, but there's certainly not a lack of facts or investigation going on. I also haven't seen any serious suggestions of Trump being a Russian plant (outside of biased partisan stuff at least). I have seen lots of speculation that Russia/Putin have a strong interest in backing Trump, or that Trump is favorable towards Russian interests, but that's hardly the same thing.

The only evidence the DNC was hacked as opposed to the target of a whistleblower is from the security firm the DNC hired themselves.

I keep seeing this quoted, but Crowdstrike's conclusions were also confirmed by Fidelis and Mandiant/FireEye, i.e. their competitors:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...

The evidence that the hacks originated in Russia is circumstantial, and there is no evidence it was state sponsored.

Definitively and absolutely making an attribution call is very difficult, but this is hardly the case of using one indicator to state "Well it was Russia." The research, evidence, and conclusions are all clearly laid out, and while they didn't point to a smoking gun, there's a reasonably clear case that the majority of the signs point to Russian APT activity as being behind the intrusion:
http://motherboard.vice.com/re...

Conspiracy or not, I take the whole "the Russian's did it" with a grain of salt. I would love to know how they determine who was responsible, since I am pretty sure that any state sponsored group would be able to hide their origin.

Russia has a ton of seriously black-hat hackers, so it's not hard to believe the hackers were Russian.

Here's the original story from Motherboard: http://motherboard.vice.com/en...
which discusses this interview with "Guccifer2.0": http://motherboard.vice.com/re...

And, for reference, here's the slashdot story: https://it.slashdot.org/story/...

since I am pretty sure that any state sponsored group would be able to hide their origin.

Unlike "Mission Impossible," in the real world nobody is perfect, not even Russians. Everybody tends to leave bits and pieces of evidence behind. But: whether they were Russian government, or just freelancers, remains to be seen.

Conspiracy or not, I take the whole "the Russian's did it" with a grain of salt. I would love to know how they determine who was responsible, since I am pretty sure that any state sponsored group would be able to hide their origin.

Russia has a ton of seriously black-hat hackers, so it's not hard to believe the hackers were Russian.

Here's the original story from Motherboard: http://motherboard.vice.com/en...
which discusses this interview with "Guccifer2.0": http://motherboard.vice.com/re...

And, for reference, here's the slashdot story: https://it.slashdot.org/story/...

since I am pretty sure that any state sponsored group would be able to hide their origin.

Unlike "Mission Impossible," in the real world nobody is perfect, not even Russians. Everybody tends to leave bits and pieces of evidence behind. But: whether they were Russian government, or just freelancers, remains to be seen.

The NSA had a few neat tricks overcome that short distance issue
Let's Play NSA! The Hackers Open-Sourcing Top Secret Spy Tools (November 17, 2014)
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NIGHTWATCH, RAGEMASTER, and SURLYSPAWN

Here's a link to the story. Sadly it doesn't include any more detail than the summary.

And if you squint really hard you'll see that this is the link to the right of the story's headline.

So while the link was there all along, slashdot once again shows how clueless it is with regards to usability. (That plus the link in the TFS is a circular reference).

Here's a link to the story. Sadly it doesn't include any more detail than the summary.

Department of Justice Official Tells Hundred Federal Judges to Use Tor

"In a recent hearing related to the FBI's mass hacking campaign, a judge revealed that a Department of Justice official had recommended Tor":

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Well, perhaps we could find a better way to hand out grants to scientists, so we don't end up wasting it. I mean there's the Replication Crisis to consider, and the Decline Effect, and then somewhere north of 40,000 neurology papers that were a waste of time (not all British of course).

Those things pretty much demonstrate that funding of this "science" is mostly empty waste of money. Acquiring funding and doing science are two totally different skillsets and this pretty much guarantees that people doing actual (that is replicable) science will get jack shit. I see nothing bad about those pseudo-scientists, whose only "productive" contribution to society is to elicit citations from other such pseudo-scientists in endless circlejerk, to get a tiny bit less grants which are mostly wasted anyway.

Well, perhaps we could find a better way to hand out grants to scientists, so we don't end up wasting it. I mean there's the Replication Crisis to consider, and the Decline Effect, and then somewhere north of 40,000 neurology papers that were a waste of time (not all British of course).

I think Ford are closing plants all over the place. Their sales are weaker in the USA and China too, which is absolutely nothing to do with Brexit, although Brexit is a wonderful excuse for useless executives to hang their poor performance on.

Then there is this http://motherboard.vice.com/blog/chernobyls-trees-wont-decay-increasing-risk-of-nuclear-forest-fire/.

The chart specifically mentions "civil liberties" being impacted. Does that mean we can get the Patriot Act classified as a terrorist document?

the RCMP snooping through your phone https://news.vice.com/article/...

Consent and twitter EULA has nothing to do with it

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