Anyone at NSA who is participating in this is committing an act of war against a sovereign nation without any declaration of war.
-jcr
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but the united states does that like every other week. Noticed Ukraine lately? We started that. Everyone seems to forget there was a fucking US backed coup before Russia stepped in. It's not like they randomly decided to invade.
The First Amendment protects us from prosecution by the government. It doesn't protect us from civil matters with private companies. This Pérez guy should know that.
It does a lot more than that. There have been many legal precidents set since the constitution which expand it's protections. For example, a person is protected by the 1st amendment from Liable suits unless they can prove you intended malice with your statement. i.e. You lied about a Doctor prescribing the wrong medication just to hurt his business.
Personally, I think the 1st amendment should apply in all cases. You should not be able to give up the right. Gag orders and NDA's should be illegal.
It's a little over 50 miles away if you just Google the address. It's just outside the exclusion zone set by the US government for US citizens.
It's INSIDE what was once the companies clean room. So it's distance from the reactor is irrelevant. The point of what they're doing is that they can grow food irrelevant of the conditions outside. Year round. The plants they are growing are specialized for people who have kidney diseases. The lower potassium makes them easier on the liver and the lower nitrates make them for palatable to children and likely people undergoing chemo. i.e. It costs a lot to grow food this way, so they picked a food people were more willing to pay a premium for.
During the course of a worldwide investigation, creators, sellers and users of BlackShades malware were targeted by judicial and law enforcement authorities in 16 different countries.
So they didn't go after people that bought it. They went after the people that wrote it, sold it or used it. If you bought it but didn't use it, they aren't going after you... yet. I suspect that what happened here was the authors put a backdoor into their backdoor software... which the users should have expected... lol. When they got raided, either law enforcement found it or they made a deal with the authors.
Hey, at least its real data that hasn't been blown completely out of proportion. Normally a story like this would have a headline that read "Noah back from the dead to rebuild Ark! God said he wouldn't do it again but now he's just mad at republicans!" etc...
There are at least 8 people sitting in prison right now, because they were waring this watch when captured. It's a $5 watch. I'm waring it until they're set free. It's so cheesy, I get asked about it, which gives me the opportunity to inform people just how corrupt and unjust what we're doing is.
1) Don't care. This isn't English class. 2) Make that argument while getting tortured by the Pakistani intelligence service. I'm sure they'll be sympathetic. 3) Oh really? And you have lots of evidence to support that? See #2 and keep in mind these very same people have sent hellfire missiles into the living-rooms of American citizens with no court oversight, no real evidence and nothing more than the order of the president. If they can murder a US citizen without a trial, forcing Cisco to install some software seems to pale in comparison.
Right, so BT is almost always going to be at fault. That's funny that they separate it out like that... as if the ISP could ever do anything.
I suspect what was going on is what we have here with the ILEC/CLECs. The hardware connected to your home is owned and maintained by the ILEC. But you're paying the CLEC. So if you try to open a ticket with the ILEC they say "you're not our customer, go away" which is accurate. The CLEC has to open the ticket with the ILEC. If you're in the US and you're having a chronic service issue with a CLEC you might as well just give up. Trying to get something difficult like that fixed while working through 2 totally different bureaucracies is an exercise in futility.
Really? That's almost two miles of wire. No-one notices that stuff going missing? Can't the tech be fired for this indefensible waste of resources, not to mention deliberately worsening a customer's service out of petty personal spite?
Maybe I think too much of 'the system'...
Plus, if the tech didn't like that customer, surely they'd want to avoid going back on account of connection issues...
You've got to understand how these things work. There are DSA's every 30k feet (or less) in a telecom network. That's the limit of DSL so they need a DSA every 30k feet. DSL requires equipment in each DSA. Recently they've come up with DSA's that are just small unmanned boxes but anything built prior to a few years ago was a building... usually about the size of a construction trailer. They are plain, steel buildings with no address or signs. These make a natural place for the phone company to store things... like wire. You're mad at a customer? You've got Cat5 hanging on the wall... you just run it over to the spool hanging on the wall and then back to their card. Without close inspection or trying to use the wire you'd not even notice it. I saw it a few times, so it was clearly something that techs did there when they were mad.
In other cases they don't even try to hide it. After I worked for ATT I worked for a CLEC that operated inside ATT's territory. So we had colo's in AT&T's DSAs. The wires that crossed from their side to ours literally connected to big spools hanging on the cage before coming into our cage. We could clearly see what they were doing, and there was nothing we could do about it. But that wasn't hatred for the customer, that's because we weren't union and they considered us "scabs" Or at least that's what I surmised from the sign hanging next to the spool that said "scabs" on it. When we complained, they took the sign down. But not the wire.;-) Eventually ATT got the FCC to let them raise the rates they charged CLECs to the point that we just dumped that side of the business and I moved on. There's not really a CLEC industry anymore because of the rate increases and the ILECs making it as difficult as possible.
My problem is that BT owns the copper line going to my house, and it is broken. It only works for voice, ADSL2 can barely scape 5Mb/sec with constant drop-outs. BT don't care, they only guarantee that the line works for voice.
In other words I have only one ISP available to me: Virgin. I am tempted to try BT Infinity since apparently they replace most of the wiring, but only if I can cancel it within a month if it proves unusable.
So, I work in the industry... but in the US. So I'm not positive how your field techs do things but I can give you the advice I'd give here.
A lot of times, it's hard for the tech to know what's up. You complain about drop-outs and slow speeds. The Tech shows up, and it tests good. Techs like to fix stuff, that's why they're in the industry. So saying they don't care likely isn't accurate. But DSL issues can be incredibly difficult to diagnose and a lot of consumers use services that are garbage and then blame it on their DSL. So they have to deal with a lot of bogus issues and likely think you're another one.
If I were you, I'd get a notebook and keep a log of when the line stops working, and what is going on when that happens. The classic example is what we here call a "Wet line" You have older twisted pair that works well when dry, but the insulation has cracked and when it rains water literally gets into the insulation and causes the inductance of the wire to change. It's not a strait short, if it were the card would fail or error. But the change in inductance will make the signal flutter all over the place. Generally this problem comes and goes with the rain. It takes a while for the water to seep in so it usually starts a few hours after the rain starts and then it takes a while for the line to dry out, so it will last a while after the rain stops. This makes it very hard for the customer to make the connection in their head. If you figure out that your outages are in fact related to the rain, then your next step is to convince the techs. Now you could just flat out say that... but your best bet is to get the tech out WHILE its raining. Even if he's a complete tool, if he plugs in his test set and it fails, he's going to have to do something about it. So figure out when it's going to rain for a few days strait and then call your trouble ticket in. Therefor increasing the likelyhood of a failure when they test.
There are plenty of other issues that are similar. So if its not the rain, just keep track. Does it happen every friday at 8pm? Maybe your DSA is congested. Is it only in the mornings? Only when its bellow freezing? etc... all this will help them diagnose the problem. Try to predict when the problem will happen based on the data you collected, then try to get the tech there when you suspect it will. If you can, schedule an appointment and show the tech your data. If you can't schedule an appointment, write the tech a letter and leave it hanging on your NID (where your telephone line enters your house)
Make it nice and friendly. Over here, I've literally seen AT&T techs install 10k foot spools of wire between a customers card and their house out of spite. So ticking off the tech is not a good idea.
Why does NSA have to do this? Can't they just order Cisco to install this in their factory?
Actually, no. They can ASK Cisco to do this, but they have no legal power to order them to do this.
Now, they may quietly PRETEND they have the legal power to order this, and phrase their request as an order. But they really can't do much if Cisco ignores them.
Except, you know, throw them in prison without a trial. An agency with no oversight, who's "requests" cannot be questioned openly without charges of treason, has the power to do anything they want to anyone they want.
If you spent HALF that on your network you'd crush your competition! What a crock of shit.
Again with the "I know how to run a billion dollar business!" nonsense. You've no idea what you're talking about.
If they spent 24 billion on their network, what could they do at best? Their entire revenue from residential customers is $5.7 billion. http://about.att.com/story/att... even if they'd have to increase their customers by 500% just to get revenue close to that kind of money. That's not even including all the added cost to support it. Residential broadband is not profitable. No one wants to expand it because it's just bad business sense. All the money is in services and commercial products. Residential networks are just a liability they have to take on to get first shot at the commercial customers.
The kind of money it would cost to improve our countries network to the standards you likely want would NEVER be profitable. Ever. They'd be bankrupt in a few years.
Oh come on... is anyone going to sit here and seriously believe this garbage? The climates what? 1 degree warmer maybe?
The wild fires are caused by man. But not through global warming. For decades western states forest services put out every fire. As a result underbrush and dead trees build up. 1/4 of the country is a tinder box just waiting to go off now. They've since realized their folly and have more controlled burns now, but there's still a lot of fuel out there. But global warning? No wonder so many people think climatologists are idiots.
lol, they wrote a wrapped for another companies plugin. That's it. You don't have to use or install the DRM. All they're doing is giving you a "Safer" way to install it. They're taking lemons and making lemonade. This idea that open software shouldn't be open to closed software is misguided and arrogant. The one thing open source needs to avoid is giving corporate management the idea that when they use open source they're going to be somehow pigeon holing themselves. It needs to be REALLY open. Eventually people will come around because choosing open really is the correct decision. Give them an excuse to not use it, like you can't use the software to access a major portion of the content out there, and they really will not chose it.
How long will it take to crack this DRM? 6 months at most. Probably more like 6 days. Why are we pretending like this is even remotely a big deal? It will be abandoned in short order.
Free speech is a hell of a two edged sword aint it? Despite that, I'll take it over the rest of th "Free world" any day. As much as there is wrong with my country, at least I can bitch about it and anyone in it publicly without fear of repercussions.
So... donating to the campaigns of congressmen that'll vote for things you want is now bribery?
Look at their own god damned quoted data: http://maplight.org/us-congres... They donated to 397 members of the house out of 435 members which is 91%
Letter 1 was signed by 4 Letter 2 was signed by 20 Letter 3 was signed by 4 So we have a total of 28 signers. So just random statistical chance would mean 91% * 28 = 26 of them would have received contributions. 27 received contributions, so the total is only off by 1 member or 3%. Give me a break. Arstechnica is worse than FoxNews. Why does anyone even read that garbage?
I despise ALL politicians, and I fully support net neutrality, but this "story" is a joke.
The inflation rate as reported by the federal government is complete shit. It's likely closer to 10% The equipment they're talking about is vastly different than the equipment in the previous year. How many people switched from SD to HD in that time? That was one of the peak years for HD adoption. Internet speeds across the industry jumped drastically in 2012 due to DOCSIS 3 rollouts. I, personally, went from 15mb/s to 50mb/s over night with no cost increase to me at all. In 2012 most cable companies introduced the new pay as you go plans which allowed you to pay a slightly higher rate in exchange for no contract.
Sorry AMD, you're heading in the completely wrong direction. CPUs are already plenty fast. They have been for years. 3D gaming is starting to look like just another "Gold plated speaker wire" guy hobby as everyone moves to mobile devices.
The real winners in the future are going to be the very cheap, very efficient chips. Do you want one very powerful computer to run everything in your house? Or do you want everything in your house to have its own dedicated, highly efficient CPU that does just what that device needs?
Ask any cop. The best home security is a Dog. Especially one of the crazy breeds like a Border Collie (I have one) or German Shepard. They're so wired they'll bark when someone is on the sidewalk across the street. Burglars avoid houses with dogs. It's just too much of a pain to deal with. They're trying to be quiet and dogs are anything but.
Because you're talking about taking away my constitutional freedoms. That's a big deal. You need to give me some idea of what I'm being protected from. A terrorist attack? Because, the chances of that are 1 in 9,138,785. I'm willing to take that risk if it means I get to remain free.
Banks. They rat you out to the government in every which way. Any given transaction is sent to the DEA and IRS just for starters. And of course the NSA gets everything by hook or by crook.
Banks are required by federal law to do this. They're under very strict regulations to report this sort of thing. The government knows if they control your wallet, they control you.
Not that the banks are the good guys, but in this regard they have very little choice.
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The Bahamas already knew about it?
How else did the DEA have access?
We sold them their equipment...
Anyone at NSA who is participating in this is committing an act of war against a sovereign nation without any declaration of war.
-jcr
I'm not sure if you've noticed, but the united states does that like every other week. Noticed Ukraine lately? We started that. Everyone seems to forget there was a fucking US backed coup before Russia stepped in. It's not like they randomly decided to invade.
The First Amendment protects us from prosecution by the government. It doesn't protect us from civil matters with private companies. This Pérez guy should know that.
It does a lot more than that. There have been many legal precidents set since the constitution which expand it's protections. For example, a person is protected by the 1st amendment from Liable suits unless they can prove you intended malice with your statement. i.e. You lied about a Doctor prescribing the wrong medication just to hurt his business.
Personally, I think the 1st amendment should apply in all cases. You should not be able to give up the right. Gag orders and NDA's should be illegal.
It's a little over 50 miles away if you just Google the address. It's just outside the exclusion zone set by the US government for US citizens.
It's INSIDE what was once the companies clean room. So it's distance from the reactor is irrelevant. The point of what they're doing is that they can grow food irrelevant of the conditions outside. Year round. The plants they are growing are specialized for people who have kidney diseases. The lower potassium makes them easier on the liver and the lower nitrates make them for palatable to children and likely people undergoing chemo. i.e. It costs a lot to grow food this way, so they picked a food people were more willing to pay a premium for.
During the course of a worldwide investigation, creators, sellers and users of BlackShades malware were targeted by judicial and law enforcement authorities in 16 different countries.
http://www.eurojust.europa.eu/...
So they didn't go after people that bought it. They went after the people that wrote it, sold it or used it. If you bought it but didn't use it, they aren't going after you... yet. I suspect that what happened here was the authors put a backdoor into their backdoor software... which the users should have expected... lol. When they got raided, either law enforcement found it or they made a deal with the authors.
Hey, at least its real data that hasn't been blown completely out of proportion. Normally a story like this would have a headline that read "Noah back from the dead to rebuild Ark! God said he wouldn't do it again but now he's just mad at republicans!" etc...
Every day I ware a Casio F-91w watch. I don't even like watches...
But...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U...
There are at least 8 people sitting in prison right now, because they were waring this watch when captured. It's a $5 watch. I'm waring it until they're set free. It's so cheesy, I get asked about it, which gives me the opportunity to inform people just how corrupt and unjust what we're doing is.
1) Don't care. This isn't English class.
2) Make that argument while getting tortured by the Pakistani intelligence service. I'm sure they'll be sympathetic.
3) Oh really? And you have lots of evidence to support that? See #2 and keep in mind these very same people have sent hellfire missiles into the living-rooms of American citizens with no court oversight, no real evidence and nothing more than the order of the president. If they can murder a US citizen without a trial, forcing Cisco to install some software seems to pale in comparison.
Right, so BT is almost always going to be at fault. That's funny that they separate it out like that... as if the ISP could ever do anything.
I suspect what was going on is what we have here with the ILEC/CLECs. The hardware connected to your home is owned and maintained by the ILEC. But you're paying the CLEC. So if you try to open a ticket with the ILEC they say "you're not our customer, go away" which is accurate. The CLEC has to open the ticket with the ILEC. If you're in the US and you're having a chronic service issue with a CLEC you might as well just give up. Trying to get something difficult like that fixed while working through 2 totally different bureaucracies is an exercise in futility.
10k foot
Really? That's almost two miles of wire. No-one notices that stuff going missing? Can't the tech be fired for this indefensible waste of resources, not to mention deliberately worsening a customer's service out of petty personal spite?
Maybe I think too much of 'the system'...
Plus, if the tech didn't like that customer, surely they'd want to avoid going back on account of connection issues...
You've got to understand how these things work. There are DSA's every 30k feet (or less) in a telecom network. That's the limit of DSL so they need a DSA every 30k feet. DSL requires equipment in each DSA. Recently they've come up with DSA's that are just small unmanned boxes but anything built prior to a few years ago was a building... usually about the size of a construction trailer. They are plain, steel buildings with no address or signs. These make a natural place for the phone company to store things... like wire. You're mad at a customer? You've got Cat5 hanging on the wall... you just run it over to the spool hanging on the wall and then back to their card. Without close inspection or trying to use the wire you'd not even notice it. I saw it a few times, so it was clearly something that techs did there when they were mad.
In other cases they don't even try to hide it. After I worked for ATT I worked for a CLEC that operated inside ATT's territory. So we had colo's in AT&T's DSAs. The wires that crossed from their side to ours literally connected to big spools hanging on the cage before coming into our cage. We could clearly see what they were doing, and there was nothing we could do about it. But that wasn't hatred for the customer, that's because we weren't union and they considered us "scabs" Or at least that's what I surmised from the sign hanging next to the spool that said "scabs" on it. When we complained, they took the sign down. But not the wire. ;-) Eventually ATT got the FCC to let them raise the rates they charged CLECs to the point that we just dumped that side of the business and I moved on. There's not really a CLEC industry anymore because of the rate increases and the ILECs making it as difficult as possible.
Is there anyone living in Florida that hasn't been to prison? It's illegal to blink there... lol
My problem is that BT owns the copper line going to my house, and it is broken. It only works for voice, ADSL2 can barely scape 5Mb/sec with constant drop-outs. BT don't care, they only guarantee that the line works for voice.
In other words I have only one ISP available to me: Virgin. I am tempted to try BT Infinity since apparently they replace most of the wiring, but only if I can cancel it within a month if it proves unusable.
So, I work in the industry... but in the US. So I'm not positive how your field techs do things but I can give you the advice I'd give here.
A lot of times, it's hard for the tech to know what's up. You complain about drop-outs and slow speeds. The Tech shows up, and it tests good. Techs like to fix stuff, that's why they're in the industry. So saying they don't care likely isn't accurate. But DSL issues can be incredibly difficult to diagnose and a lot of consumers use services that are garbage and then blame it on their DSL. So they have to deal with a lot of bogus issues and likely think you're another one.
If I were you, I'd get a notebook and keep a log of when the line stops working, and what is going on when that happens. The classic example is what we here call a "Wet line" You have older twisted pair that works well when dry, but the insulation has cracked and when it rains water literally gets into the insulation and causes the inductance of the wire to change. It's not a strait short, if it were the card would fail or error. But the change in inductance will make the signal flutter all over the place. Generally this problem comes and goes with the rain. It takes a while for the water to seep in so it usually starts a few hours after the rain starts and then it takes a while for the line to dry out, so it will last a while after the rain stops. This makes it very hard for the customer to make the connection in their head. If you figure out that your outages are in fact related to the rain, then your next step is to convince the techs. Now you could just flat out say that... but your best bet is to get the tech out WHILE its raining. Even if he's a complete tool, if he plugs in his test set and it fails, he's going to have to do something about it. So figure out when it's going to rain for a few days strait and then call your trouble ticket in. Therefor increasing the likelyhood of a failure when they test.
There are plenty of other issues that are similar. So if its not the rain, just keep track. Does it happen every friday at 8pm? Maybe your DSA is congested. Is it only in the mornings? Only when its bellow freezing? etc... all this will help them diagnose the problem. Try to predict when the problem will happen based on the data you collected, then try to get the tech there when you suspect it will. If you can, schedule an appointment and show the tech your data. If you can't schedule an appointment, write the tech a letter and leave it hanging on your NID (where your telephone line enters your house)
Make it nice and friendly. Over here, I've literally seen AT&T techs install 10k foot spools of wire between a customers card and their house out of spite. So ticking off the tech is not a good idea.
Actually, no. They can ASK Cisco to do this, but they have no legal power to order them to do this.
Now, they may quietly PRETEND they have the legal power to order this, and phrase their request as an order. But they really can't do much if Cisco ignores them.
Except, you know, throw them in prison without a trial.
An agency with no oversight, who's "requests" cannot be questioned openly without charges of treason, has the power to do anything they want to anyone they want.
If you spent HALF that on your network you'd crush your competition! What a crock of shit.
Again with the "I know how to run a billion dollar business!" nonsense. You've no idea what you're talking about.
If they spent 24 billion on their network, what could they do at best? Their entire revenue from residential customers is $5.7 billion. http://about.att.com/story/att...
even if they'd have to increase their customers by 500% just to get revenue close to that kind of money. That's not even including all the added cost to support it. Residential broadband is not profitable. No one wants to expand it because it's just bad business sense. All the money is in services and commercial products. Residential networks are just a liability they have to take on to get first shot at the commercial customers.
The kind of money it would cost to improve our countries network to the standards you likely want would NEVER be profitable. Ever. They'd be bankrupt in a few years.
Oh come on... is anyone going to sit here and seriously believe this garbage? The climates what? 1 degree warmer maybe?
The wild fires are caused by man. But not through global warming. For decades western states forest services put out every fire. As a result underbrush and dead trees build up. 1/4 of the country is a tinder box just waiting to go off now. They've since realized their folly and have more controlled burns now, but there's still a lot of fuel out there. But global warning? No wonder so many people think climatologists are idiots.
lol, they wrote a wrapped for another companies plugin. That's it. You don't have to use or install the DRM. All they're doing is giving you a "Safer" way to install it. They're taking lemons and making lemonade. This idea that open software shouldn't be open to closed software is misguided and arrogant. The one thing open source needs to avoid is giving corporate management the idea that when they use open source they're going to be somehow pigeon holing themselves. It needs to be REALLY open. Eventually people will come around because choosing open really is the correct decision. Give them an excuse to not use it, like you can't use the software to access a major portion of the content out there, and they really will not chose it.
How long will it take to crack this DRM? 6 months at most. Probably more like 6 days. Why are we pretending like this is even remotely a big deal? It will be abandoned in short order.
Free speech is a hell of a two edged sword aint it? Despite that, I'll take it over the rest of th "Free world" any day. As much as there is wrong with my country, at least I can bitch about it and anyone in it publicly without fear of repercussions.
So... donating to the campaigns of congressmen that'll vote for things you want is now bribery?
Look at their own god damned quoted data: http://maplight.org/us-congres...
They donated to 397 members of the house out of 435 members which is 91%
Letter 1 was signed by 4
Letter 2 was signed by 20
Letter 3 was signed by 4
So we have a total of 28 signers.
So just random statistical chance would mean 91% * 28 = 26 of them would have received contributions.
27 received contributions, so the total is only off by 1 member or 3%.
Give me a break. Arstechnica is worse than FoxNews. Why does anyone even read that garbage?
I despise ALL politicians, and I fully support net neutrality, but this "story" is a joke.
Better hope they're not like these Geese:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
I hate geese.
The inflation rate as reported by the federal government is complete shit. It's likely closer to 10%
The equipment they're talking about is vastly different than the equipment in the previous year. How many people switched from SD to HD in that time? That was one of the peak years for HD adoption.
Internet speeds across the industry jumped drastically in 2012 due to DOCSIS 3 rollouts. I, personally, went from 15mb/s to 50mb/s over night with no cost increase to me at all.
In 2012 most cable companies introduced the new pay as you go plans which allowed you to pay a slightly higher rate in exchange for no contract.
Sorry AMD, you're heading in the completely wrong direction. CPUs are already plenty fast. They have been for years. 3D gaming is starting to look like just another "Gold plated speaker wire" guy hobby as everyone moves to mobile devices.
The real winners in the future are going to be the very cheap, very efficient chips. Do you want one very powerful computer to run everything in your house? Or do you want everything in your house to have its own dedicated, highly efficient CPU that does just what that device needs?
Ask any cop. The best home security is a Dog. Especially one of the crazy breeds like a Border Collie (I have one) or German Shepard. They're so wired they'll bark when someone is on the sidewalk across the street. Burglars avoid houses with dogs. It's just too much of a pain to deal with. They're trying to be quiet and dogs are anything but.
What that tells me is we're at greater risk.
Risk of what exactly?
Because you're talking about taking away my constitutional freedoms. That's a big deal. You need to give me some idea of what I'm being protected from. A terrorist attack? Because, the chances of that are 1 in 9,138,785. I'm willing to take that risk if it means I get to remain free.
Because itworld likely submitted the story? lol
Banks. They rat you out to the government in every which way. Any given transaction is sent to the DEA and IRS just for starters. And of course the NSA gets everything by hook or by crook.
Banks are required by federal law to do this. They're under very strict regulations to report this sort of thing. The government knows if they control your wallet, they control you.
Not that the banks are the good guys, but in this regard they have very little choice.