If you use directional "point to point" radio communications then bandwidth isn't shared, so everyone can use as much as they want. It's only because of our wasteful omnidirectional radio usage that we've got spectrum shortages. You can have a hundred road side billboards operating at the same time in the same area on the same frequency (visible) without issues.
Sure it will happen. The nice Democrat candidate will come down to skid row with a truck of booze and a computer and "help" the poor downtrodden cast their vote. Or the Republican business manager will invite everyone to come into his office and cast their votes, and don't worry about that Christmas bonus- those that don't get laid off will do well.
The third party doesn't matter theory. Not true. When lots of people vote for a third party the big two look for ways to change their policies to snatch those votes. So votes for a third party are not wasted after all, even if they have no hope of winning the election.
They don't have the manpower to listen to everything. It can't be done. Even with computer filtering most of this stuff is just stored away and never touched. There are two very good questions you need to ask about this massive spying database: 1-Who has access to it? 2-Is that access logged? If Obama spends each election going through the phone calls of the Republican party then you know it's not terrorists he's looking for. Mandating a log and having a publicly accessible list of who -HAS- access (but without knowing to what) would eliminate most peoples issues with this spying.
Any time the government publicly declares that you can't talk about something or they will arrest you, that idea becomes widespread. This happens because those who support the idea can lie, and those who know the truth can't object or debate the matter. Since mccarthy the USA has adopted a great many Communist ideas like massive government bailouts of key industries, government subsidies of profitable industries, special rules for their friends, free speech zones, warrant-less spying, abducting people and holding them without trial- and much more.
Sensitive material should never be discussed on the phone or via email. The internet is an unclassified communications medium. If you want/need to handle classified materials you offline encrypt and send that.
We know the NSA feeds intel to other agencies. They are the Google of the intelligence world. They don't actually DO anything with it all except hand it out to those who want it. I suppose that's not a bad thing, it makes a single point where we can apply government checks and balances at some future point in time.
Too many cooks in the kitchen here. You want 1 agency for domestic police/spying, and 1 for foreign stuff. When you have many of them it becomes impossible to hold them accountable.
Corporations want to take your money. that is a measurable harm, in the short term. The government wants to (catch terrorists, catch file sharing, reduce crime, influence elections, manipulate public opinion/behavior) a whole lot of hard to measure stuff, that mostly has no short term harm to you. Corporations are therefore demonstrably a greater short term threat than government.
It's not the LEGAL consequences that Obama is afraid of, it's the loss of influence. If the people of the world decide the USA can't be trusted, then they will stop buying American stuff, they will stop buying into American stuff. What happens when America declares a war on someone and ALL the allies decide to stay home? What happens when allied intelligence refuses to hand over phone intercepts? What happens if foreign (allied) countries start enforcing their laws against American spying and rendition? It is vital to the National Defense of the USA that the president of the USA deal with this issue, before it has long term consequences. (and the safest way to do this is drag the whole thing out in public and let the people decide how to deal with it. Pick some respected public figures to run hearings, and have a national referendum leading to a constitutional amendment. Maybe even have some show trials for the worst stuff. And then let the NSA continue on in secret as before.)
His current NSA team has shown themselves to be incompetent. They didn't stop 9/11, they didn't stop Snowden, they didn't recover the stuff Snowden stole and the press reported on, they didn't stop the pressure cooker pair at the marathon, they have no terrorists in jail for Obama to use in a press conference. If you don't punish failure, you are rewarding it.
Obamacare is a sellout to the right wing. By forcing people to buy healthcare but not implementing cost controls on the system they jack up the profit margins for the corporations that provide healthcare for profit. He has no intention of implementing Universal Healthcare, as that would involve cost controls- and that would limit profit margins. His employers would never allow that.
No large American corporation would choose to fight the government of the USA, that's why the NSA can get access to your phone meta-data without a warrant. You could put some pictures that you made, however. And then sue for copying your data without legal cause or permission.
The Constitution recognizes fundamental rights of all men. This means the CIA/NSA can't spy on foreigners legally, right? They would have to get a search warrant in order to listen to foreign communications, and you can't do that without probable cause. How do you get probable cause against a foreigner who isn't breaking your laws because they are outside your legal jurisdiction and therefore can't break your laws?
The government defines "The Border" as being within a hundred miles of an airport, not just a line in the Mexican sand. There is very little land you can stand on and not get searched without probable cause now.
If you're flying and the aircraft diverts to anywhere they control, then they follow US law. I find it interesting that the US government is allowed to violate copyright without cause. Isn't hacking your laptop and copying all your itunes without probable cause a clear breach?
If some contractor (Snowden) can get access to such a huge quantity of secrets then so can the terrorists. If I can think of a dozen ways a terrorist could use that information to harm America, I'm sure the terrorists could think of a thousand. Spending Billions of American taxpayer dollars just to have the bad guys use it to harm your country is not safer.
It very much was perfectly legal for other countries to ignore American law like copyright and DMCA- and then they got a treaty. When you violate an American copyright in another country you're not breaking American law, you're breaking the law in whatever country you are in (to honour the American copyright).
How many spies are caught after many years siphoning America's secrets? They must outnumber the Snowden's by a hundred to one or more. You can reasonably assume that "they" have had everything Snowden spilled in their possession for many years, but we didn't know.
If the hardware design is compromised, then the NSA can get into everything. There are only a small number of chip fabs in the world, it wouldn't require recruiting that many people to compromise all the chip sets. On the bright side, this should push open hardware.
The NSA doesn't like anonymity. Maybe they have been leaning on web sites to use real names only. It certainly fits with the trend of scooping up every drop of intel they can find/beg/borrow/steal.
The power grid has four major components. 1-the generators, 2-the power sub-stations, 3-the wires, 4-the control system. Guarding 4 is easy (small, hidden), guarding 3 is doable(small targets with redundancy), guarding 1 is easy(remote locations). Guarding 4 (over half a million miles, just for the major lines) is impossible. In this attack the damage to the power grid was the least of their worries. Having snipers waiting for the repair crews, and the damage to the phone grid are what keeps the government up at night.
What I want to know is why they need a warrant for my data, but not for the phone company data. How exactly is corporate data less worthy of protection?
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If you use directional "point to point" radio communications then bandwidth isn't shared, so everyone can use as much as they want. It's only because of our wasteful omnidirectional radio usage that we've got spectrum shortages. You can have a hundred road side billboards operating at the same time in the same area on the same frequency (visible) without issues.
Sure it will happen. The nice Democrat candidate will come down to skid row with a truck of booze and a computer and "help" the poor downtrodden cast their vote. Or the Republican business manager will invite everyone to come into his office and cast their votes, and don't worry about that Christmas bonus- those that don't get laid off will do well.
The third party doesn't matter theory. Not true. When lots of people vote for a third party the big two look for ways to change their policies to snatch those votes. So votes for a third party are not wasted after all, even if they have no hope of winning the election.
They don't have the manpower to listen to everything. It can't be done. Even with computer filtering most of this stuff is just stored away and never touched. There are two very good questions you need to ask about this massive spying database: 1-Who has access to it? 2-Is that access logged? If Obama spends each election going through the phone calls of the Republican party then you know it's not terrorists he's looking for. Mandating a log and having a publicly accessible list of who -HAS- access (but without knowing to what) would eliminate most peoples issues with this spying.
Any time the government publicly declares that you can't talk about something or they will arrest you, that idea becomes widespread. This happens because those who support the idea can lie, and those who know the truth can't object or debate the matter. Since mccarthy the USA has adopted a great many Communist ideas like massive government bailouts of key industries, government subsidies of profitable industries, special rules for their friends, free speech zones, warrant-less spying, abducting people and holding them without trial- and much more.
Sensitive material should never be discussed on the phone or via email. The internet is an unclassified communications medium. If you want/need to handle classified materials you offline encrypt and send that.
We know the NSA feeds intel to other agencies. They are the Google of the intelligence world. They don't actually DO anything with it all except hand it out to those who want it. I suppose that's not a bad thing, it makes a single point where we can apply government checks and balances at some future point in time.
Too many cooks in the kitchen here. You want 1 agency for domestic police/spying, and 1 for foreign stuff. When you have many of them it becomes impossible to hold them accountable.
Corporations want to take your money. that is a measurable harm, in the short term. The government wants to (catch terrorists, catch file sharing, reduce crime, influence elections, manipulate public opinion/behavior) a whole lot of hard to measure stuff, that mostly has no short term harm to you. Corporations are therefore demonstrably a greater short term threat than government.
It's not the LEGAL consequences that Obama is afraid of, it's the loss of influence. If the people of the world decide the USA can't be trusted, then they will stop buying American stuff, they will stop buying into American stuff. What happens when America declares a war on someone and ALL the allies decide to stay home? What happens when allied intelligence refuses to hand over phone intercepts? What happens if foreign (allied) countries start enforcing their laws against American spying and rendition? It is vital to the National Defense of the USA that the president of the USA deal with this issue, before it has long term consequences. (and the safest way to do this is drag the whole thing out in public and let the people decide how to deal with it. Pick some respected public figures to run hearings, and have a national referendum leading to a constitutional amendment. Maybe even have some show trials for the worst stuff. And then let the NSA continue on in secret as before.)
His current NSA team has shown themselves to be incompetent. They didn't stop 9/11, they didn't stop Snowden, they didn't recover the stuff Snowden stole and the press reported on, they didn't stop the pressure cooker pair at the marathon, they have no terrorists in jail for Obama to use in a press conference. If you don't punish failure, you are rewarding it.
Obamacare is a sellout to the right wing. By forcing people to buy healthcare but not implementing cost controls on the system they jack up the profit margins for the corporations that provide healthcare for profit. He has no intention of implementing Universal Healthcare, as that would involve cost controls- and that would limit profit margins. His employers would never allow that.
No large American corporation would choose to fight the government of the USA, that's why the NSA can get access to your phone meta-data without a warrant. You could put some pictures that you made, however. And then sue for copying your data without legal cause or permission.
The Constitution recognizes fundamental rights of all men. This means the CIA/NSA can't spy on foreigners legally, right? They would have to get a search warrant in order to listen to foreign communications, and you can't do that without probable cause. How do you get probable cause against a foreigner who isn't breaking your laws because they are outside your legal jurisdiction and therefore can't break your laws?
The government defines "The Border" as being within a hundred miles of an airport, not just a line in the Mexican sand. There is very little land you can stand on and not get searched without probable cause now.
If you're flying and the aircraft diverts to anywhere they control, then they follow US law. I find it interesting that the US government is allowed to violate copyright without cause. Isn't hacking your laptop and copying all your itunes without probable cause a clear breach?
If some contractor (Snowden) can get access to such a huge quantity of secrets then so can the terrorists. If I can think of a dozen ways a terrorist could use that information to harm America, I'm sure the terrorists could think of a thousand. Spending Billions of American taxpayer dollars just to have the bad guys use it to harm your country is not safer.
It very much was perfectly legal for other countries to ignore American law like copyright and DMCA- and then they got a treaty. When you violate an American copyright in another country you're not breaking American law, you're breaking the law in whatever country you are in (to honour the American copyright).
How many spies are caught after many years siphoning America's secrets? They must outnumber the Snowden's by a hundred to one or more. You can reasonably assume that "they" have had everything Snowden spilled in their possession for many years, but we didn't know.
If the hardware design is compromised, then the NSA can get into everything. There are only a small number of chip fabs in the world, it wouldn't require recruiting that many people to compromise all the chip sets. On the bright side, this should push open hardware.
Also it's easier to sell a "Labeled" product. Once you put a name on it, the advertisers pay more.
The NSA doesn't like anonymity. Maybe they have been leaning on web sites to use real names only. It certainly fits with the trend of scooping up every drop of intel they can find/beg/borrow/steal.
The power grid has four major components. 1-the generators, 2-the power sub-stations, 3-the wires, 4-the control system. Guarding 4 is easy (small, hidden), guarding 3 is doable(small targets with redundancy), guarding 1 is easy(remote locations). Guarding 4 (over half a million miles, just for the major lines) is impossible. In this attack the damage to the power grid was the least of their worries. Having snipers waiting for the repair crews, and the damage to the phone grid are what keeps the government up at night.
What I want to know is why they need a warrant for my data, but not for the phone company data. How exactly is corporate data less worthy of protection?
If renting is good enough for the 4th, then renting a server for your data should be good enough for the 4th.