I see in many of the comments that the probable method of attack was sniffing the outbound traffic... but w hat if the hack was embedded in a firmware update on all the cash registers? The cash register gets the CC number from the POS keypad, right?
The NSA operates at the direction of the President. When they overstep their bounds, it is the President's duty to stop it, and fire those responsible. It is long past the time to actually start blaming the person responsible for the NSA's actions.
.....unless that president happens to be named JFK and then the agency stops him.
We'll have martial law before the 2016 election. All it will take is a small tweak to the SNAP welfare system and there'll be riots. Once we have riots in multiple cities, the natural progression will be martial law. Good thing the DHS has been "giving" away MRAPs to a bunch of cities... just in time too.
The constitution says that the Congress shall have the power: "To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;" which sounds a lot like "war powers" to me. I must have missed the part where the Article I grants the president the power to declare war (hint, it doesn't).
The problem with the president going to war without congress having declared it is that Congress has two lines of recourse... 1)Impeach, 2)defund the military. Thanks to political ideologues, impeaching the current president would be impossible, and 2)defunding the military is political suicide when it is sold to the public as not supporting the troops.
You may recall from the vietnam era that congress enacted the war power act that gave the president the authority to dispatch the military w/o congress declaring war, but he had to answer to them within 60-90 days. BHO has all but snubbed his nose at this and said it is unconstitutional. Funny how he seems to pick and chose what is and is not constitutional.
He's technically right. It was stupid of the government to save GM the way they did. This too big to fail mentality has got to stop. If GM had failed, someone would have bought up the pieces and they would have gone forward under a new name. Shame on the government for saving them. At this point, "we" should heed the addage "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me".
The schools encourage it since they get money for children with disabilities. Some disabilities cost a lot of money to accomodate, some like ADD don't cost much at all. My favorite "low budget" accommodation is giving a child more time to take a standardized test. Yes, that test which makes the school sink or swim according to NCLB.
Seems like everyone is on some kind of happy/dopy drug these days. And, is it me, or has the workplace changed significantly as a result? Seems like way too many people are walking around today smiling and happy all the time for no fucking reason.
It's like we don't have any crummugeons any more! Get off my lawn!
What I love is that when a Snowden or an Assange comes along, they cue up the character assassinations. Why didnt you know Snowden's girlfriend was a stripper? That he made little ladies at the local bingo parlor say the F word by yelling BINGO at inappropriate times?
It's to the point that I tend to believe a person is morally right as I hear more and more dirt on them.
Cell towers tilt the antennas downward a few degrees. This brings the horizon in artifically closer than the real horizon. Years ago, when travelling on mountaintops. cell phones would jump to a distant tower for a brief instant and then drop the call. The solution was to make sure the towers didn't see any cellphones past the horizon. Since the antennas are pointed downward, if you are above them you won't get service, never mind the fact that you are switching between towers so rapidly.
The fun part about this is that if I leave my phone on, I could get texts which cost me a roaming fee. This will really usher in an entirely new reason for "airplane mode" on the cell phones.... to avoid unexpected telco fees.
1)Encourage FAA and FCC to permit cell phones on airplanes
2)Provide a microcell that charges exorbitant roaming fees
3)Wait for any of 300 people to get texts or push notifications
The cell tower antennas are actually tilted downward at a slight angle to force the signals to an actual point on the ground at the horizon. You can't use a cell phone if you wanted to on a terrestrial tower if you are 5 miles up. You'll have to use a microcell in the airplane itself.
Why not complementary duct tape too? I love seeing pretty MILFs tied up and mouths duct taped. That reminds me, I've got a girl in my basement I need to feed.
I was kept awake on a recent flight to the EU by a woman who had a little too much wine and came back to stand in the aisle and yap with the woman in the row in front of me. Trust me, you can hear the next row up.
Perhaps that bonus is that they don't have to charge their car at home... it's used and refilled by quitting time so they can return to work the next day w/o hooking up at home.
I agree completely with you... but the blind follower cell phone radiation fanatics will have a field day. And , yes , I know the difference between ionizing and nonionizing. My process gauging job requires me to know;-)
Did we have computers 100 years ago? Perhaps a better headline would have been more students learn cs in 3 days than past 1000 years OR more students learn cs in 3 days than since the dawn of mankind.
Article one, section 8 of the constitution says that congress can't allocate monies for AN army for longer than two years. The idea there is that we don't have a standing army.... yet we do.... every year money is allocated. Have you noticed that since WW2 we've had some skirmish or another at least every other year? After the fall of USSR in 1989, it only took us until 1991 to find Saddam Hussein.
Now, given that we are not supposed to have a standing army, then the militia would be made of citizens. And those citizens cannot be deprived of the tools they would need to form a militia.
It's really quite simple. Where it gets complicated is when the government doesn't follow it's own laws. For example, Miller v US 1939 says that if I can demonstrate that a weapon has a use in a militia, the government can't tax said weapon. Yet, people continue to be taxed, arrested and further unconstitutional laws continue to be passed. A felon can never own a gun again, despite having completed his sentence and can only apply to vote but not own a firearm.
Old fashioned detective work? Surely you jest. (Stop calling me shirley). You actually expect that we can do real detective work when we can't profile people? The PC crowd keeps poking at us when we look at a given group, say, arab men ages 18 to 40. So in order to show how "fair" we are, we need to look at everyone's metadata. After the have the data, we can filter it as we see fit and no one will know we're profiling. Oddly enough, when looking for a needle in a haystack, you need more hay.
Isn't providing telecom services like internet a prima facie indication of being a telecom provider? Oh, I see they haven't gotten official recognition as a telecom. Never mind.
Pretty simple.... the bus system example showed that power was not applied to the loop until the bus approached. So you ID the car as it's travelling down the road, and turn on the loop under it. Profit! ha! Hey, no tailgating on my power loop!
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I see in many of the comments that the probable method of attack was sniffing the outbound traffic... but w hat if the hack was embedded in a firmware update on all the cash registers? The cash register gets the CC number from the POS keypad, right?
The NSA operates at the direction of the President. When they overstep their bounds, it is the President's duty to stop it, and fire those responsible. It is long past the time to actually start blaming the person responsible for the NSA's actions.
.....unless that president happens to be named JFK and then the agency stops him.
We'll have martial law before the 2016 election. All it will take is a small tweak to the SNAP welfare system and there'll be riots. Once we have riots in multiple cities, the natural progression will be martial law. Good thing the DHS has been "giving" away MRAPs to a bunch of cities... just in time too.
The constitution says that the Congress shall have the power: "To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;" which sounds a lot like "war powers" to me. I must have missed the part where the Article I grants the president the power to declare war (hint, it doesn't).
The problem with the president going to war without congress having declared it is that Congress has two lines of recourse... 1)Impeach, 2)defund the military. Thanks to political ideologues, impeaching the current president would be impossible, and 2)defunding the military is political suicide when it is sold to the public as not supporting the troops.
You may recall from the vietnam era that congress enacted the war power act that gave the president the authority to dispatch the military w/o congress declaring war, but he had to answer to them within 60-90 days. BHO has all but snubbed his nose at this and said it is unconstitutional. Funny how he seems to pick and chose what is and is not constitutional.
He's technically right. It was stupid of the government to save GM the way they did. This too big to fail mentality has got to stop. If GM had failed, someone would have bought up the pieces and they would have gone forward under a new name. Shame on the government for saving them. At this point, "we" should heed the addage "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me".
The schools encourage it since they get money for children with disabilities. Some disabilities cost a lot of money to accomodate, some like ADD don't cost much at all. My favorite "low budget" accommodation is giving a child more time to take a standardized test. Yes, that test which makes the school sink or swim according to NCLB.
Seems like everyone is on some kind of happy/dopy drug these days. And, is it me, or has the workplace changed significantly as a result? Seems like way too many people are walking around today smiling and happy all the time for no fucking reason.
It's like we don't have any crummugeons any more! Get off my lawn!
It's to the point that I tend to believe a person is morally right as I hear more and more dirt on them.
The do not call registry hasn't stopped telemarketers from calling.... but it works great for me.... it means that ANY company I get a call is a scam.
... unless the airline charges a high fee to use their micro cell.
Cell towers tilt the antennas downward a few degrees. This brings the horizon in artifically closer than the real horizon. Years ago, when travelling on mountaintops. cell phones would jump to a distant tower for a brief instant and then drop the call. The solution was to make sure the towers didn't see any cellphones past the horizon. Since the antennas are pointed downward, if you are above them you won't get service, never mind the fact that you are switching between towers so rapidly.
1)Encourage FAA and FCC to permit cell phones on airplanes
2)Provide a microcell that charges exorbitant roaming fees
3)Wait for any of 300 people to get texts or push notifications
4) profit!
....except for the DING each time that teen girl beside you gets a text or snapchat.
The cell tower antennas are actually tilted downward at a slight angle to force the signals to an actual point on the ground at the horizon. You can't use a cell phone if you wanted to on a terrestrial tower if you are 5 miles up. You'll have to use a microcell in the airplane itself.
Why not complementary duct tape too? I love seeing pretty MILFs tied up and mouths duct taped. That reminds me, I've got a girl in my basement I need to feed.
I was kept awake on a recent flight to the EU by a woman who had a little too much wine and came back to stand in the aisle and yap with the woman in the row in front of me. Trust me, you can hear the next row up.
I certainly hope your drink isn't > 16 ounces.
I don't like the idea of someone yaking on the phone next to be in an airplane, but do we need a law for *everything*?
Perhaps that bonus is that they don't have to charge their car at home... it's used and refilled by quitting time so they can return to work the next day w/o hooking up at home.
I agree completely with you... but the blind follower cell phone radiation fanatics will have a field day. And , yes , I know the difference between ionizing and nonionizing. My process gauging job requires me to know ;-)
Did we have computers 100 years ago? Perhaps a better headline would have been more students learn cs in 3 days than past 1000 years OR more students learn cs in 3 days than since the dawn of mankind.
Now, given that we are not supposed to have a standing army, then the militia would be made of citizens. And those citizens cannot be deprived of the tools they would need to form a militia.
It's really quite simple. Where it gets complicated is when the government doesn't follow it's own laws. For example, Miller v US 1939 says that if I can demonstrate that a weapon has a use in a militia, the government can't tax said weapon. Yet, people continue to be taxed, arrested and further unconstitutional laws continue to be passed. A felon can never own a gun again, despite having completed his sentence and can only apply to vote but not own a firearm.
Old fashioned detective work? Surely you jest. (Stop calling me shirley). You actually expect that we can do real detective work when we can't profile people? The PC crowd keeps poking at us when we look at a given group, say, arab men ages 18 to 40. So in order to show how "fair" we are, we need to look at everyone's metadata. After the have the data, we can filter it as we see fit and no one will know we're profiling. Oddly enough, when looking for a needle in a haystack, you need more hay.
Isn't providing telecom services like internet a prima facie indication of being a telecom provider? Oh, I see they haven't gotten official recognition as a telecom. Never mind.
Pretty simple.... the bus system example showed that power was not applied to the loop until the bus approached. So you ID the car as it's travelling down the road, and turn on the loop under it. Profit! ha! Hey, no tailgating on my power loop!