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OpenDNS is patched against the kaminsky redirect poisoning flaw https://www.wired.com/2008/08/... "One alternative Kaminsky recommended last month was to use OpenDNS â" which wasn't affected by the vulnerability."

APK

P.S.=> Which IS how I know that my program gets CORRECT IP address to hostname resolution per my original post here (& why I definitely can't get BOGUS data that way from OpenDNS) https://it.slashdot.org/commen... ... apk

This is the first I've heard of this BS. The records Manning passed onto wikileaks were gotten off the SIPRNet and copied onto a music DVD. Manning was in touch with a number of journalists such as Adrian Lamo regarding US malfese in the region. It was Adrian Lamo that turned Manning in. ref ref

Meh. That was clearly a simple mistake. They added the mic because they intended to use it later, then failed to include it in the spec sheet.

You sound sure of that. Any reason why?

Knowledge of the people and culture.

Maybe you could show me another example of this same sort of thing happening.

I have another example to share why it is that I think this way. Maybe their activity doesn't alarm you, and that's fine.

I don't see any connection between these cases. One is the presence of a piece of hardware intended for future use, but not actually used, and accidentally omitted from the spec sheet. The other is the decision by one engineer to store more data than was necessary. Both are attributable to human error, but they're entirely different in nature and context. The mic in Nest Protect was part of the product roadmap. The Wifi packet capture was not (other than SSID).

FWIW, I think the court was wrong in that Wifi capture case. If data is broadcasted in cleartext, anyone who wants to record it is within their rights to do so, and any attempt to legally restrict such recording is foolish and goes against centuries of jurisprudence based on the reasonable expectation of privacy (I say you have none if you're broadcasting data). It provides a false sense of security, which is bad for real security. I also think the Google engineer was wrong to collect any data beyond the SSID, and I'm quite certain that wouldn't have happened if the privacy review processes in place in Google now had been applied back then, but that's separate from the legal issue of whether recording cleartext RF signals constitutes wiretapping or other invasion of privacy.

Meh. That was clearly a simple mistake. They added the mic because they intended to use it later, then failed to include it in the spec sheet.

You sound sure of that. Any reason why? Maybe you could show me another example of this same sort of thing happening.

I have another example to share why it is that I think this way. Maybe their activity doesn't alarm you, and that's fine.

So they have. Wired has an interesting discussion. https://www.wired.com/story/ju...

Dicey at best, since it sounds like he may have only made the offer to crack a password, but the CFAA is extremely broadly worded.

Worse, the statue of limitations ran out years ago, and so they have declared it an act of terrorism in order to get around that little inconvenience.

Terrorism? Seriously? Exactly which civilians were threatened?

Is it any wonder that so many people assume this is a case of the US government exacting revenge for embarrassing it?

I could prove to you, unequivocally, that governments already have this technology and that it has been used on the populace in a COINTELPRO capacity for remote surveillance as well as to induce the brain's organelles to alter mood. For instance excitation of the amygdala causes aggression. The typical use case is to amplify an existing impulse to make the target seem manic and crazed. A stubbed toe contributes to a feedback loop that may have the target enraged, she may throw whatever's in her hands, or he may physically abuse a person or pet nearby. Other subconscious effects include instant drowsiness -- fall asleep at the wheel of a car. Forced wakefulness usually accompanied by a "buzzing" feeling to cause sleep deprivation. Fits of uncontrollable sadness and/or laughing, smiling uncontrollably.

Microwave auditory effect can also be used in conjunction to cause loud "noises" only heard in the head of an individual target victim. US Military partially declassified some of this tech in the 1996 FOIA request entitled "Bioeffects of Selected Non Lethal Directed Energy Weapons". Which details some of the secret wireless technologies used by state actors that are causing intense pain, loss of bowels, dizziness, cancer, organ failure, heart failure, and etc. maladies. Many who are test subjects don't even realize it, hundreds of thousands of others are just selected by their system of suppression which has profiled the individuals political affiliation and attitude since childhood under the guise of "standardized testing". (Which has been going on since at least the 1960's). These technologies combined with Passive Radar AKA CELLDAR, has eliminated all privacy. These technologies and others are the source of a growing number of misdiagnosed "incurable" illnesses, which is a boon for the pharmaceutical industry.

Even foetuses are being attacked / experimented on by directed energy weapons, causing a significant degree of birth defects. Some newer methods use convergent beam-forming to turn lower frequency radio (which penetrates walls and flesh) into damaging microwave, X-ray and Gamma rays by the process of waveform propagation. Imagine three radio towers each emitting 36 cm waves (much lower than your microwave oven), but phased so that at a point of convergence the combined EMF is a frequency of about 12 cm (like the inside of your microwave oven). This hot-spot can be steered through walls, deep into flesh (moreso than non phased weapons such as the public Active Denial System).

The selection criteria for targets to suppress is already incredibly biased and demonstrably full of false positives, and your doctor is not a scientist. She will not give you a spread spectrum radio frequency analyser (or cheap software defined radio + GNU Radio) an ask to record the EMF environment before making a diagnosis. Interestingly enough, many aches and pains and even chronic lung irritations will disappear if you simply set up your own recording station near the patient -- the system would rather not be revealed. So long as no one even attempts to study whether their migraine or cluster headache is caused by directed energy weapons because of some inflammatory political statements they've voiced in the past, this suppressive system will continue to go unnoticed. Well, that is until someone like me gets pissed off enough by the dipshits in charge to wreck the political establishment by peeling back the scabs and revealing all their dirty little secrets that tech like this keeps hushed up. In the past it was possible to control the media to keep such things secret... but now we have the internet, and deadman switches too...

None of this data is all that secret, except for certain more damning and scandalous things, most of it can be found for yourself if you seek it out. I'd start with the documentation that Barrie Trower has... Then understand that AI is the targeting system for today's wireless weapons of suppression. The machines already rule you, fools.

fMRI is a complete scam. https://www.wired.com/2009/09/...
 
I get that people like pretty colors, but fMRI is meaningless.

and give them healthcare, they get to vote. Some rights are so absolutely fundamental that they should never be taken away.

And that's ignoring the fact that we know that Nixon started the drug war specifically to attack and disenfranchise voters he disagreed. This isn't up for debate, it's well documented

Finally, the concept of "paying debt to society" is nonsensical. You're either a continued danger or you're not. Prison must exist either for rehabilitation or containment.

Punishment doesn't work on adults unless they can't reason, and punishment against someone who can't reason is patently immoral. We're not punishing, we're torturing with the hope that the threat of torture will force compliance. That's no way for a just society to behave. If we're going to go that route we can use this and just stop pretending.

We should probably consider ANY hardware manufactured in a country with an uber-authoritarian, paranoid government to be suspect.

If you credit Wired, the problem isn't that Huwei is compromised by the Chinese government (although it probably is. Their government holds very tight control over everything.).

The problem is that their software QC is slipshod.

From https://www.wired.com/story/huawei-threat-isnt-backdoors-its-bugs/:
"Though the geopolitical discourse has gotten heated, the report concluded that the flaws in Huawei's code are related to "basic engineering competence and cyber security hygiene" and could be exploited by anyone."

even though we have no proof, i think it's becoming clear there is something to all this (where there is smoke, there is fire). but people in the know, don't want to share what they know.

Even, and perhaps, especially, with the excessive proliferation of information in the present day, the illusory truth effect is worth consideration.

YOU ONLY USE 10 percent of your brain. Eating carrots improves your eyesight. Vitamin C cures the common cold. Crime in the United States is at an all-time high. None of those things are true. But the facts don't actually matter: People repeat them so often that you believe them. Welcome to the “illusory truth effect,” a glitch in the human psyche that equates repetition with truth.

• This generation it's social media and video games which are ruining kids' lives.
• My generation it was arcades (that's why John Connor as a kid in Terminator 2 is shown as a delinquent "wasting his time" at an arcade, and Flynn in TRON is a failure in life because he owns an arcade).
• Back in the 1950s it was rock and roll music.
• In the 1930s it was organized sports and baseball cards.
• In 1859 it was chess.
• In 1816 it was the waltz.
• And in 1790 it was books (novels, romances, and plays).

This cycle probably goes back to the dawn of civilization. Older people who don't understand why younger people like the things they do will always come up with criticisms why it's destroying the lives of youth everywhere.

Note: this is the correct thread for the same comment moments ago mistakenly cross-posted at Revisiting the Jobs Artificial Intelligence Will Create with two tiny revisions.

I don't usually play the Jurassic card, but I was there in the late nineties when George Gilder whipped the telecosm into leaping headlong into a giant bluff of Gillette Foamy.

Is Gillette Foamy thick and rich enough to stop this speeding sports car?

[Stock car smashes through giant pile of foamy.]

No. But it's still thick and rich enough for a great shave.

[Man inverts hand with a lump of fresh Foamy that stays in place.]

Question left unanswered: what are you lavishing below the elbow which requires an underhand application? It's almost as if Gillette thought to themselves: screw the magnetic screwdriver—we'll invent the magnetic screw head instead.

[*] Note: this is the seventies, man. Any hint of metrosexual grooming (outside of San Francisco) was a standing invitation to the hombre prom, out behind The Oak and Dagger, at closing time. The proposed use is not for visible grooming.

Is Gillette Foamy thick and rich enough to support this beautiful women?

[Beautiful woman lowered on a trapeze bar onto a giant mound, undulating receptively on a swanky swimming pool, sinks without a trace.]

No. But it's still thick and rich enough for a great shave.

[Man inverts hand with a lump of fresh Foamy that stays in place.]

Question answered all too well: why are they lowering this scantily clad woman into your manly foam product?

Tom Chanter manages in this piece to revive some of the old Gilder magic. "I was there, Gandalf." Deep down, Gilder was barely left of the Taliban, but he a definite knack for massaging the adrenal glands of the unwashed masses to plummy plumes of imminent mass technogasm.

The Madness of King George — July 2002

George Gilder listened to the technology, and became guru of the telecosm. The markets listened to his newsletter, and followed him into the Global Crossing abyss, yet he's never stopped believing.

The predictions Gilder has made in the intervening decade suggest that he vowed to never again permit anyone else to convey a vision of the world more exuberant than his own. :...
In 1996 he foresaw that, because of broadband's potential to deliver online learning, within five years "the most deprived ghetto child in the most benighted project will gain educational opportunities exceeding those of today's suburban preppy."

It was a preposterous assertion, and hardly the only one that seems absurd in the harsh fluorescent light of the morning.

I don't usually play the Jurassic card, but I was there in the late nineties when George Gilder whipped the telecosm into leaping headfirst into a giant bluff of Gillette Foamy.

Is Gillette Foamy thick and rich enough to stop this speeding sports car?

[Stock car smashes through giant pile of foamy.]

No. But it's still thick and rich enough for a great shave.

[Man inverts hand with a lump of fresh Foamy that stays in place.]

Question left unanswered: what are you lavishing below the elbow which requires an underhand application? It's almost as if Gillette thought to themselves: screw the magnetic screwdriver—we'll invent the magnetic screw head instead.

[*] Note: this is the seventies, man. Any hint of metrosexual grooming (outside of San Francisco) was a standing invitation to the hombre prom, out behind The Oak and Dagger, at closing time. The proposed use is not for visible grooming.

Is Gillette Foamy thick and rich enough to support this beautiful women?

[Beautiful woman lowered on a trapeze bar onto a giant mound, undulating receptively on a swanky swimming, pool sinks without a trace.]

No. But it's still thick and rich enough for a great shave.

[Man inverts hand with a lump of fresh Foamy that stays in place.]

Question answered all too well: why are they lowering this scantily clad woman into your manly foam product?

Tom Chanter manages in this piece to revive some of the old Gilder magic. "I was there, Gandalf." Deep down, Gilder was barely left of the Taliban, but he a definite knack for massaging the adrenal glands of the unwashed masses to plummy plumes of imminent mass technogasm.

The Madness of King George — July 2002

George Gilder listened to the technology, and became guru of the telecosm. The markets listened to his newsletter, and followed him into the Global Crossing abyss, yet he's never stopped believing.

The predictions Gilder has made in the intervening decade suggest that he vowed to never again permit anyone else to convey a vision of the world more exuberant than his own.
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In 1996 he foresaw that, because of broadband's potential to deliver online learning, within five years "the most deprived ghetto child in the most benighted project will gain educational opportunities exceeding those of today's suburban preppy."

It was a preposterous assertion, and hardly the only one that seems absurd in the harsh fluorescent light of the morning.

Except they did work in 2013 and Japan also did it in 2010 with that technology like the US did even earlier in 2008 . You see, it is and has been easy to produce this result for more than a decade and actually for a much longer time with other weapons. Short, Medium, Intercontinental. All have been hit. But all used tracking to know exactly where they were in flight, and were launched from known locations, and targeted in advance from known positions.

I guess the end of the Long Boom) (1980-2020) is almost upon us.

Serious question, what is it that farmers cant do? From this "wired" article,
https://www.wired.com/story/jo...

- No resetting immobilizer systems.
- No reprogramming electronic control units or engine control modules.
- No changing equipment or engine settings that might negatively affect emissions or safety.
- No downloading or accessing the source code of any proprietary embedded software.

Which doesn't sound out of line. That article then goes on to say:

"These restrictions are enormous. If car mechanics couldn’t reprogram car computers, a good portion of modern repairs just wouldn’t be possible. When you hire a mechanic to fix the air-conditioning in a Civic, they may have to reprogram the electronic control unit."

I was a mechanic for years and this is complete nonsense. No typical repair shop reprograms ECU's.
Even if you could it would probably violate the warranty.

You shouldn't trust Chinese hardware because China recently passed a law which some people have interpreted as giving the Chinese government power to compel Huawei to compromise security on their products for the purpose of Chinese intelligence. That the law can be utilized in this way is disputed.

You shouldn't trust US hardware because the US passed a similar law some time ago (the Patriot Act). Except that law, like the Chinese law, applies to telecoms and not to manufactures of telecom hardware.

Of course, the US seems to have done the spying anyway (Don't know the details of this particular Snowden leak, they could have just been exploiting a bug for all I know.) so the implication might be that it's better to buy from any of the other manufacturers listed in the summary. Or you could make note of the fact that the US has been transparently disingenuous about it's actions against Huawei, and suspect that this is not really about Huawei or spying or telecom security at all.

The NSA stopped spying on US citizens
https://www.wired.com/2017/04/...
However, https://www.aclu.org/blog/nati...

And https://www.eff.org/nsa-spying

Now who really thinks any government that spent a lot of taxpayer money to build spying capabilities on its taxpayers is going to stop it?

And if you think that is bad, lets put it in perspective. AI weaponry.... What's ethics? to those who are addicted to think, "if we don't do it someone else will and put us at a disadvantage"

The majority of siren systems intentionally use wireless radio technology instead of internet connectivity to communicate as a security precaution, says Aaron Wolking, the national sales manager of Sentry Siren. To interfere with that set-up, a hacker would need the radio frequencies, code formats, and specific five to eight-digit codes to be able to access a particular siren system. The industry also offers widely used additional security protections, like the "continuous tone-coded squelch system," that keeps radios from from receiving and executing commands sent without additional access codes.
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To pull off this weekend's siren episode, hackers would have needed extensive knowledge of the frequencies and codes used in the Dallas siren system to make them all go off at once. This could be particularly challenging, depending on the setup, because each siren might communicate with the control center independently, so officials have the choice of turning only one or a few of them on, or activating all of them depending on the situation. Dallas officials confirmed over the weekend that the breach came from within Dallas, because hackers would have needed to be physically close to the radio signals sent to each siren. They added that the commands to the sirens didn't come from their central control systems, something officials would naturally check first to see if the sirens had been activated by accident.

https://www.wired.com/2017/04/dallas-siren-hack-wasnt-novel-just-really-loud/

password = dots (resets when low battery)

From time to time you see signs in the demo loop.

https://www.wired.com/2009/02/...

True. And as an aside, consider the scummy tactics Maponics employed when they sued the guy who created the neighborhood detection algorithm that the dataset was based on:
https://www.wired.com/2008/10/...

Typical story, technically illiterate corporate types make out like a bandit while the little guy who actually produces something gets screwed.

It is an SUV not a hatchback. Even Teslarati proclaims it an SUV. And it's curved roof and door compromise it's role as an SUV. Apparently, based on your statement, because of battery constraints. So better to make it a poor SUV, than come out with something that does 225 miles - but has a usable interior (in terms of square shape). Better to do a BMW X6-style body that is universally derided as useless - poor for a car, and unusable as an SUV.

Big Tobacco successfully kept evidence of their cancer causing product out of the public Academia until the 1990's. Big Oil hired researchers to discredit researchers who found evidence that leaded gasoline was harmful. Big RF is the new hotness, and far more wealthy than any other industry. Do you believe that lead and cigarettes are perfectly healthy too?

If you care, then you have to dig into environmental impact studies. Look up Barrie Trower, he's got countless research documentation by military and telcos proving increased risks of all sorts of aliments. But you won't see this info on news sponsored by Big Pharma since nebulous sicknesses it creates are opportunity to sell you medicine you don't need...

FOIA Request in 1996 PARTIALLY disclosed Bioeffects of Selected Non Lethal Energy Weapons. Includes use of microwave (among others) as weapons, for PSYOPs and psychological warfare. The document is only talking about a few "selected" energy weapons -- specifically non-lethal ones... There are others, such as the "black weapon" of CIA. Remember the Cuban Embassy directed energy attack? It's not sonic weaponry, the "grinding" heard is an effect called "Microwave Auditory Effect." I say this to mention that government funded academia may not be the best place to look for evidence that the technologies their top secret weaponry depends on causes cancer. Protip: It would be too easy to detect covert use of microwave weaponry if we weren't all bathed in such EMF in lower doses already (the secret use wouldn't remain so secret).

Don't be a dummy. Do some research yourself. Otherwise, keep smoking and putting lead in everything and pretend it can't hurt you because Academic papers from the 50's say it's OK. It's still the 50's with regard to public awareness about RF exposure risks. Why? Because you live in a Surveillance State and Radio = Radar = Surveillance. Look up "passive radar".

TL;DR: Invest in Infrared wireless coms, since they don't cause cancer or damage to ovum & sperm DNA and embryos, like Micrwave/WIFI is known to, and are more secure against snooping...

Between 1968 and 1972, there were 130 plane hijackings in the U.S. alone, which is more than one per week.

Curious about your math there, and also how many weeks are in one of *your* years? 52 weeks in a year?

No. Bombings and hijackings were not common in any way in the 1970s or 1980s.

Between 1968 and 1972, there were 130 plane hijackings in the U.S. alone, which is more than one per week.

As to bombings, the early 80s had many bombings, many in the Beirut area and Ireland. In the U.S. there were protest bombings. In the 18 months between 1971 and 1972, there were 2,500 documented bombings in this country. The deadliest year for underground violence was 1981, when eleven people were killed in bombings and bank robberies gone bad.

ICD-10 Diagnose Code: F60.0

Cause: a result of an underlying belief that other people are hostile [and long time spying on others] in combination with a lack in self-awareness

Treatment: hard to treat, i.e. a terminal illness.

Sure, just like the Google Streetview cars were of course only taking photos of the streets. That corporation turned evil a long time ago.

The measles vaccine is 97% effective with booster shots. You will likely not get much higher. Herd immunity for measles does require 93...95% immunity as it is infectious like crazy. Even a few percent of anti-vaxxers can shift the balance and they do, see the Disney outbreak. So, no, calling for better vaccines is not going to cut it here, even though that would really be a preferable solution.

Source for the herd immunity: https://www.who.int/immunizati...
Source for the Disney thing: https://www.wired.com/2015/01/...

Don't know about the strains, but just ordinary statistics seems to explain what happened at Disney: https://www.wired.com/2015/01/...

Pretty much means the unvaccinated caused most of it.

Are Men at Google Paid Less Than Women? Not Really.

"that treat people as more than data subjects for surveillance capitalism."

Considering the source of the original advertisement, *that* quote didn't make the list?

Yeah I think the numbers here are bullshit. Here's a Wired article that mentions that Lime scooters last about 6 months: https://www.wired.com/story/li...

That's still pretty shot of course, but we need to keep in mind that the utilization rate would be much higher than for a privately owned scooter. Like if somebody drove your car 24/7 it'd crap out in a year too.

https://www.wired.com/story/el... was a pretty good long read.

A complete shutdown of comments solves the problem, and, harms no one (except the egomaniacs who need a thousand comments telling them how great they are).

Glad to see you're hot on the job of speaking for all humanity.

Surprise, surprise: I completely disagree with you. I find the comments almost indispensable. And my ego has nothing to do with it.

Without the comments, the "like" button becomes effectively castrated, because you have no way to double check what ridiculous reasons people are coming up with to vote one way or another. I'm highly invested in sociology. Society is crumbling. You can't reassemble an egg without getting you's hands dirty; you can't perfect your listening skills inside a tame filter bubble.

Finally, I don't see any parallel between Facebook and YouTube. Facebook went far above and beyond the call the duty in being obtuse to reality.

Why Zuckerberg's 14-Year Apology Tour Hasn't Fixed Facebook — April 2018

Apart from copyright law, YouTube is in the same nasty social media hot tub as every other social media service, and not doing a particularly worse job of it. In terms of getting in between the creative class and their revenue streams, how is this different from Apple? They're different models, but with more or less the same end result: content is not king.

Being annoyed about the content situation, then trying to throw YouTube under the Facebook bus in a fit of pique won't change this reality one bit.

...but for things like aspirin,spare batteries for the remote,pens and paper and a ton of other assorted little things? Dollar stores are great for those.

Emphasis mine.

Sorry, but I'm not going to put a whole lot of confidence in anything stated by anyone who buys dollar store batteries by choice, because, as it so happens, I have purchased dollar store batteries.

The charts linked below are consistent with my empirical observations. Never buy batteries at the dollar store.

https://www.wired.com/images_b...
https://www.wired.com/images_b...
https://www.wired.com/images_b...

...but for things like aspirin,spare batteries for the remote,pens and paper and a ton of other assorted little things? Dollar stores are great for those.

Emphasis mine.

Sorry, but I'm not going to put a whole lot of confidence in anything stated by anyone who buys dollar store batteries by choice, because, as it so happens, I have purchased dollar store batteries.

The charts linked below are consistent with my empirical observations. Never buy batteries at the dollar store.

https://www.wired.com/images_b...
https://www.wired.com/images_b...
https://www.wired.com/images_b...

...but for things like aspirin,spare batteries for the remote,pens and paper and a ton of other assorted little things? Dollar stores are great for those.

Emphasis mine.

Sorry, but I'm not going to put a whole lot of confidence in anything stated by anyone who buys dollar store batteries by choice, because, as it so happens, I have purchased dollar store batteries.

The charts linked below are consistent with my empirical observations. Never buy batteries at the dollar store.

https://www.wired.com/images_b...
https://www.wired.com/images_b...
https://www.wired.com/images_b...

Robots can lead the way but to really exploit space, you need humans: https://www.scientificamerican... or https://www.wired.com/2012/04/... and here's a great paper on the subject: https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/pa...

Ever been to Glass Beach?

No, but I've been to Glass Beach. (Sadly, most of the glass is gone now, but I got a great piece on my last visit, it's the Coca-Cola script logo off an old bottle on which the words were highly raised.)

Everybody loves beach glass. I've previously proposed that what we do with glass instead of recycling it is just dump it, at least for glass near a coast. But then there's the problem of peak sand...

Recall that Huawei isn't just on the US ban-list due to supposed state espionage fears. They've also been accused of stealing intellectual property from Nortel, Cisco, and possibly Motorola (source). It wouldn't be outrageous to assume they have targeted Ericsson, Nokia, or Alcatel-Lucent as well.

Worse, given the opaque relationship between Huawei and the Chinese government, we have no idea how much of that corporate espionage was performed by government teams, an issue the US has been fighting for some time (source), nor how much financial support the government is providing to subsidize pricing.

In short, banning Huawei is probably a good idea for those more mundane reasons alone.

In view of the fact that Huawei spying for the Chinese govt. is so far mostly speculation but that the US has been caught with it's pants down planting backdoors in the equipment of US manufacturers and that we have no idea to what extent these US companies were actually cooperating with the NSA backdooring operations, I'd say that there is a stronger case for banning Nortel, Cisco, Motorola, and friends than there is for banning Huawei. That being said I'm still not willing to trust Huawei even as far as I can throw them.

Recall that Huawei isn't just on the US ban-list due to supposed state espionage fears. They've also been accused of stealing intellectual property from Nortel, Cisco, and possibly Motorola (source). It wouldn't be outrageous to assume they have targeted Ericsson, Nokia, or Alcatel-Lucent as well.

Worse, given the opaque relationship between Huawei and the Chinese government, we have no idea how much of that corporate espionage was performed by government teams, an issue the US has been fighting for some time (source), nor how much financial support the government is providing to subsidize pricing.

In short, banning Huawei is probably a good idea for those more mundane reasons alone.

In 2014, PACER collected $145 million in fees, so they served up about 1.4 *billion* pages. That's a few more than the one million pages in your scenario.

https://www.wired.com/2016/05/...

You must have never lived or been to SoCal and LA. Plenty of freeways, all of them huge, and all crowded. You can build and expand all you want and the traffic will fill it up to capacity.

It doesn't have to be SoCal; induced demand works anywhere -- you add more road capacity, you will get more drivers to fill it. An expansion to the I-405 in Los Angeles, for example, resulted in traffic moving slightly slower than before the expansion.

Google, initially honored the flag

That doesn't seem true either. All the documents I saw are unanimous in stating Google never honored the flag, even when they were petitioned to do so. And they only came out publicly about it last year.
So, if you can find any proof that Google used to honor DNT, but stopped doing so after it was enabled by default in IE, please post it.

We have hard proof that the US has backdoors into hardware designed and made in the US. That's a fact, we know it with absolute certainty.

Citation needed.

Unlike you, I actually wanted such a citation, so I googled for "the US has backdoors into hardware designed and made in the US". I got back a pretty good hit but without citations, but it was from a story in 2013 so I appended 2013 to my search terms and found several good references. Also, let me take this opportunity to remind you to Never forget Qwest.

Maybe you're just terrible at googling, and need to work on that, but it seems more likely that your request for citations was disingenuous. If not, though, don't be so goddamned lazy.

“The demand for Model 3 is insanely high,” Musk said. “The inhibitor is affordability. It’s just that people literally don’t have the money to buy the car.”

https://www.wired.com/story/collection-leak-usernames-passwords-billions/

"Troy Hunt's service HaveIBeenPwned offers another helpful check of whether your passwords have been compromised, though as of this writing it doesn't yet include Collections #2-5."

Without ad blocking the web would be useless

There are a number of non-ad ways of funding websites these days. Wikipedia obviously manages well, but a lot of people are making enough money to pay for hosting and more with Patreon (Existential Comics being one of my favorite)./

Without ads, some websites would go away, but that could be a good thing. Fake news is mostly funded by ads (and I mean the utter lies, not the stuff you see on Brietbart).

Right wing Twitter users thought back to when Obama told laid-off coal miners that they should just learn to code, and decided that what's good for the goose is good for the gander.

"President Obama has, as part of his Power Plus Plan, already put $75 million on the table for retraining coal workers. And the Solar Training Network aims to help train 75,000 people for solar jobs by 2020, though that is not limited to retraining programs, or to helping coal workers specifically." -- Can We Really Retrain Coal Workers for Jobs in Solar

The least you could do is get your talking point memes right. Clearly Obama is a socialist who wants to prop up the solar industry with subsidies for coal miners by offering up tax payer money. The bastard! If Obama had wanted people to code, he'd push for it in schools (where he did) and suggest everyone should learn to code (not specifically for a job but as a general skill of the future). The bastard!

Seriously, if anything you could complain about the left-wing media mocking the notion that coal workers could be retrained. And assholes like Bloomberg saying, “You’re not going to teach a coal miner to code.” -- Can You Teach a Coal Miner to Code, but I can see how you could confuse Bloomberg saying *not* to coding with Obama saying something about solar and offering money for retraining.

Having said that, Bloomberg was right to say, “Mark Zuckerberg says you teach them to code and everything will be great. I don’t know how to break it to you . but no.” It's not per se a lack of jobs but getting enough people trained in the right things...and rampant ageism in the industry. Mark Zuckerberg, of course, just wants everyone to code so he can get cheaper workers because of a glut in supply. The media is pretty useless because it doesn't know where the future is going to even know if retraining coal miners for coding, solar, or whatever would actually benefit them.

But, yea, if you want to say there's some goose that's good for the gander, I would say there's some truth to it. It's clearly, though, harassment then. It's not people trying to offer sound advice. If you want to offer assistance to journalists to learn to code, that'd be a whole other thing. Clearly, though, you just want to rub it in because you apparently hate journalists. Perhaps you hate them as much as you hate coal miners.

Scott McNealy: You have zero privacy anyway. Get over it.

If Privacy is really dead, then Scott should publish his Name, Address, Account Numbers and passwords, location schedule, and DNA profile and always keep them all current. Until then, it's NOT.

It's one thing to lose my credit card number. Annoying, but I can get another. Same for my throw-away online accounts.

It's slightly harder for more important accounts, like my slashdot account -- I'd lose all my Karma standing and have to start over! Other accounts are the same: VERY annoying but not Earth shattering.

Getting doxed - the info used to be in the physical phone book, but now it's easy to tie "a fact" to "someone" and "know where they live." Now bother becomes heightened senses if not outright fear, and possibly having to actually uproot and move. Across the street, across town, across the country.

Now you lose my name and reputation with Identity Theft. Inverse doxing, I'm still me but so is someone ELSE. I _COULD_ change my name, but I don't want to. And it's Hell trying to prove what's actually you and what isn't.

FINALLY, you lose my biometrics? Movie hacker: "Computer: 'Override.' We're in." I _CAN'T_ change those, period. At all.

Just because I have nothing to hide doesn't mean that I want you to see.