Horses are largely self maintaining, throw a bail of hay out or give them a pasture and water you're good most of the time. Of course there's usual vet visits and horse shoes etc. but A horse doesn't need a set of shoes every month. They also have limited range and emissions problems. Also when they truly come to end of life, it takes a lot of effort to clean up the mess.
The NSA could admit that they break the law every day of the week, murder Americans on american soil, steal millions of dollars, destroy companies and even the entire economy, and do you know what will happen?
Absolutely nothing.
A bit over the top but most clandestine operations carried out by our government usually wind up the same way. Anybody remember "Iran-Contra", "Bay of Pigs" or "Guatemala?" Other than the Watergate conspirators, nobody ever really did hard time for any of those.
They believe they are above the law. And heck, most of the legislative branch believes they are above the law. The judicial and executive branches are more than willing to look the other way, so as a result, the NSA gets a free pass to do whatever they want.
Because.... national security... and boogyman terrorists... and something, something mumble mumble. Whatever the fear flavor of the week is. 1984 was an instruction manual.
The legislative branch has been a puppet of both political parties as long as anybody can remember. We'd like to think that judges are impartial and only interpret the evidence and the laws and administer decisions in an unbiased way. To a large extent that's why we have an appeals process that allows other judges to review the rulings or proceedings of lower courts. Ultimately that winds up in the Supreme Court in some cases. All of these courts however are bound by laws and the constitution all of which are under the perusal of the third branch, the legislative branch meaning congress. So when you have legislation that's not "clear" a judge will use his/her discretion and rule on what's known or how they feel, those judges are considered "activist" and are frowned upon by whichever party isn't in the majority. But you'll never change that just like you'll never be able to prove a pubic hair was on a can of coke. In the case where the law is clear however a judge does have to follow the law if the plaintiffs or prosecution have proven their case and despite what we do think about judges, most take their role solemly and with great respect for the laws they have to apply to cases. The problem with the FISA system and the laws around it, it's been too easy for the DOJ to yell "National Security" and the lower court judge has to yield to federal law. The problem with FISA, which was established by congress, is that it has no public review and the judges are appointed by the Supreme Court Chief Justice, again not an open or vetted process by any stretch of the imagination. To solve this we have to abolish the FISA court and start to allow "Sealed Proceedings" to occur in Federal Court where evidence could compromise national security is locked out of public view but the case still proceeds.
Also remember this, you have no constitutional right to privacy. You have a right to your home, a right to free speech, a right to have guns, a right against self incrimination but nowhere does the constitution say that you have a right to not having your communications, your movements and your transactions with third parties monitored.
Well ultimately that's up to the judge. Destruction of evidence in a case can have certain criminal penalties but most of the time it winds up being at the discretion of the judge to sanction or in some cases hold the willing party in contempt. We'd all like to believe that the legal system is fair and balanced but we know differently. For example, In a criminal case where prosecution destroys evidence this usually means the judge will throw the case out. I presume now that the judge is thoroughly pissed off at the DOJ/NSA in this case for violating his order but will probably wait from the opposing council's statement of the facts before ruling. We're supposed to have three branches of government here and the DOJ/NSA fall under the executive branch so the judge here if he agrees with the EFF arguments should throw the book at the DOJ/NSA and whoever did this. The DOJ could argue that this is a matter of national security blah blah we had to prevent evidence from terrorists blah blah FISA court blah blah.. Who knows.
FCC CIO David Bray noted last night that the system is more than 10 years old and pointed to an article on how the FCC is trying to modernize infrastructure badly in need of upgrades.
So the FCC, the folks who are supposed to regulate our communications activities is in the technical stone age? Maybe they just need more of Ted Stevens' pipes?
Sorry, calling or dealing with somebody as a dummy or an idiot is not constructive. If other team members look down on an individual because their skills aren't the same then that's the teams problem and it's basically representative of an obnoxious mentality. While we all might laud our own abilities, in someone's eyes they're less than competent because it's all a matter of perspective.
Sure, there's people with deficient skills and that's a training issue. There's also my old favorite from WWII: "First you instruct, then you advise and if that doesn't work, you hospitalize."
Yeah, this is great, a botnet taken down! W00H00! USA! USA! Wait, we can't get the perp because he's in Russia? Oh shit! He'll be labelled a hero and put up in the Snowden wing at the Hotel Moscow.
Yeah, been there, done that. Of course this means on systems where fixes have been made available. This doesn't cover Wireless Routers and other systems that use EAP unless those vendors have already done their own open vulnerability assessment. Hear that Cisco, Aruba, Linksys, NetGear et al?
NO, they weren't trying. They bought Motorola for the patents it had, the cellphone business was a secondary thing.
Google and Motorola Mobility together will accelerate innovation and choice in mobile computing. Consumers will get better phones at lower prices.
Motorola Mobility’s patent portfolio will help protect the Android ecosystem. Android, which is open-source software, is vital to competition in the mobile device space, ensuring hardware manufacturers, mobile phone carriers, applications developers and consumers all have choice.
There was no Consumer benefit here because the Moto-X was priced competitively with Samsung, HTC and Apple. If they'd been priced more competitively then you'd see more uptake. The Moto-X is a great phone, Google botched it.
health insurance companies are bureaucratic nightmares even with Obamacare. It's worse now than it was a year ago but we also have to look at why it's that way and start simplifying things, also start barring the health care industry from charging laissez faire prices for everything, that's the root cause here outrageous prices that outstrip inflation and have no bearing in reality. If healthcare is critical to an economy it's time to start regulating it and break up these damn health care/hospital consortiums that do nothing but eliminate competition and drive up costs. You have hospital administrators making over a million a year at some hospitials, how does that scale with what their service delivery is?
Last November I had to take my wife into the emergency room for a minor rash, It was a night so an urgent care facility wasn't open. Anyway for 30 minutes of work, doctor charged $1200, Hospital $1300 and all they did was give her the RX equivalent of of OTC meds, about $40, that's what the bill showed. Insurance covered most of it (fucking deductibles) but at most she was seen for no more than 5 minutes by the doctor. They even stuck on a $200 "after hours" fee on the bill, it's an emergency room for Christ sake! It's this kind of highway robbery that's killing the economy and single payer won't fix it, what'll fix it is for all of us to stop considering doctors/hospitals as above market forces and start some RICO law enforcement!
This satellite does not even have a computer; it is all 'hard-wired.'"
A lot of early computer systems were hard-wired in terms of instructions and logic paths. It didn't make them unusable, just arcane considering newer technologies like SoCs. We have come a long way.
The point is you're getting spied on by a lot of organizations, not just governments or their agencies. That's a fact, not hyperbole. If everybody suddenly became astonished when Snowden leaked a bunch of shit, then we have a bunch of people around the world who have been living in a fantasy world. Sure the Snowden affair has put a new light on the subject, but lets face it this shit has been going on for decades and even the EU in the 90s recognized the fact that spying on citizens was going on.
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You're not defending the practice of Google or the NSA -- you're saying "Everyone is doing it so what is the big deal?"
No, I did not say that. I value my privacy, what's left of it that is and right now I feel that large aspects of our lives is being tracked, some under the guises of commerce or "credit reporting" but a lot of it is out of fear of terrorism or just because we have weak leaders who cower behind the mantra of "patriotism." Your privacy is being eroded daily not only by overt activities but also by inadvertent activities such as license plate/ toll tag scanning which has some validity but now with indeterminable uses for the data and no retention period policies or legislation governing it. I did indicate that the only way to solve it was with a Constitutional Amendment that would guarantee the right to privacy. You have no right to privacy under the constitution, what we have has been cobbled together by multiple court rulings. Merely passing legislation means that eventually that legislation will itself become amended, watered down and most likely abolished by subsequent congresses and administrations.
Even though about 80% of what Snowden "leaked" is hyperbole meant to stir up shit? After listening to the interview I'm convinced that a ton of this information is utter crap. "ooh I'm a spy" "ooh I was trained by the CIA" Does the NSA have a bulk collection program? Yes. Do the US Federal Courts screw us over on privacy issues? Yes. Do the FISA courts represent a black hole in the justice system? No more than the IRS' Tax Courts but both are invalid "justice" systems meant to screw over Americans. Was any of this known before Snowden? To a large extent no, but programs like ECHELON were known to be gathering bulk intelligence for years including spying on Americans using our allies. This has been known since the 90s folks, it's nothing new! All the NSA/spy community did was extend ECHELON into the Internet realm. Cellphones and the patriot act did more to let the government in on your movements more than anything else, all in the name of "fighting terrorists."
With the progress in technology affecting our daily lives, are we that naieve to assume that the government isn't making the same kinds of leaps in tracking us when organizations like Google, Equifax, the US Postal Service even your TV with ToS like LG watching what you watch. Wake up and smell the cat shit folks, Snowden is the Inspector Clouseau of the espionage world.
What we need is a Constitutional Amendment enforcing the right to privacy in this country, also forcing an end to spying on US citizens and to secret/out of due process courts/legal systems.
You know the chickenpox vaccinations is one of those that I always thought was a bit unnecessary considering how mild it was. I guess if your fighting something else it can be a real bugger but I guess in this kid's case, Flu could have also been as deadly or a cold.
Try registering your kids for public school or enroll in a college in the US and you'll find that you have to have vaccination records. Many states also have public health laws that require doctors/nurses to keep records or notify the state when a patient has had a specific vaccine. If you're in the healthcare industry you also are tracked at a statewide level on your vaccination history.
ahh the old "when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." issue huh? You need to ask yourself if something can be prototyped in Excel, that's fine. There are tools out there, open source if you have zero budget. If you have to prototype out a solution or create a solution that's robust, that can be documented and reviewed, it's more often easier to use something like "R".
While you can get easy answers from a spreadsheet you may not necessarily get the right answer and that's where their abuse becomes apparent. I've seen railroads actually use Excel to manage daily consist for trains and when they started using it was for an emergency, but then every day suddenly had an emergency/exception and then it became operationally necessary. That was until the guy who based his whole job/career around maintaining the spreadsheet finally retired, then it was WTF? for the rest of the operation because nobody could make sense out of it.
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Horses are largely self maintaining, throw a bail of hay out or give them a pasture and water you're good most of the time. Of course there's usual vet visits and horse shoes etc. but A horse doesn't need a set of shoes every month. They also have limited range and emissions problems. Also when they truly come to end of life, it takes a lot of effort to clean up the mess.
The NSA could admit that they break the law every day of the week, murder Americans on american soil, steal millions of dollars, destroy companies and even the entire economy, and do you know what will happen?
Absolutely nothing.
A bit over the top but most clandestine operations carried out by our government usually wind up the same way. Anybody remember "Iran-Contra", "Bay of Pigs" or "Guatemala?" Other than the Watergate conspirators, nobody ever really did hard time for any of those.
They believe they are above the law. And heck, most of the legislative branch believes they are above the law. The judicial and executive branches are more than willing to look the other way, so as a result, the NSA gets a free pass to do whatever they want.
Because.... national security... and boogyman terrorists... and something, something mumble mumble. Whatever the fear flavor of the week is. 1984 was an instruction manual.
The legislative branch has been a puppet of both political parties as long as anybody can remember. We'd like to think that judges are impartial and only interpret the evidence and the laws and administer decisions in an unbiased way. To a large extent that's why we have an appeals process that allows other judges to review the rulings or proceedings of lower courts. Ultimately that winds up in the Supreme Court in some cases. All of these courts however are bound by laws and the constitution all of which are under the perusal of the third branch, the legislative branch meaning congress. So when you have legislation that's not "clear" a judge will use his/her discretion and rule on what's known or how they feel, those judges are considered "activist" and are frowned upon by whichever party isn't in the majority. But you'll never change that just like you'll never be able to prove a pubic hair was on a can of coke. In the case where the law is clear however a judge does have to follow the law if the plaintiffs or prosecution have proven their case and despite what we do think about judges, most take their role solemly and with great respect for the laws they have to apply to cases. The problem with the FISA system and the laws around it, it's been too easy for the DOJ to yell "National Security" and the lower court judge has to yield to federal law. The problem with FISA, which was established by congress, is that it has no public review and the judges are appointed by the Supreme Court Chief Justice, again not an open or vetted process by any stretch of the imagination. To solve this we have to abolish the FISA court and start to allow "Sealed Proceedings" to occur in Federal Court where evidence could compromise national security is locked out of public view but the case still proceeds.
Also remember this, you have no constitutional right to privacy. You have a right to your home, a right to free speech, a right to have guns, a right against self incrimination but nowhere does the constitution say that you have a right to not having your communications, your movements and your transactions with third parties monitored.
Well ultimately that's up to the judge. Destruction of evidence in a case can have certain criminal penalties but most of the time it winds up being at the discretion
of the judge to sanction or in some cases hold the willing party in contempt. We'd all like to believe that the legal system is fair and balanced but we know differently. For example, In a criminal case where prosecution destroys evidence this usually means the judge will throw the case out. I presume now that the judge is thoroughly pissed off at the DOJ/NSA in this case for violating his order but will probably wait from the opposing council's statement of the facts before ruling. We're supposed to have three branches of government here and the DOJ/NSA fall under the executive branch so the judge here if he agrees with the EFF arguments should throw the book at the DOJ/NSA and whoever did this. The DOJ could argue that this is a matter of national security blah blah we had to prevent evidence from terrorists blah blah FISA court blah blah.. Who knows.
graft and corruption?
New York City is far from broke. It's one of the most taxed cities in the country. In fact it's the highest.
FCC CIO David Bray noted last night that the system is more than 10 years old and pointed to an article on how the FCC is trying to modernize infrastructure badly in need of upgrades.
So the FCC, the folks who are supposed to regulate our communications activities is in the technical stone age? Maybe they just need more of Ted Stevens' pipes?
Sorry, calling or dealing with somebody as a dummy or an idiot is not constructive. If other team members look down on an individual because their skills aren't the same then that's the teams problem and it's basically representative of an obnoxious mentality. While we all might laud our own abilities, in someone's eyes they're less than competent because it's all a matter of perspective.
Sure, there's people with deficient skills and that's a training issue. There's also my old favorite from WWII: "First you instruct, then you advise and if that doesn't work, you hospitalize."
Yeah, this is great, a botnet taken down! W00H00! USA! USA! Wait, we can't get the perp because he's in Russia? Oh shit! He'll be labelled a hero and put up in the Snowden wing at the Hotel Moscow.
In the case of EAP negotiation the Access Point is a server in some configurations/networks. I'm more worried if RADIUS servers are vulnerable.
Yeah, been there, done that. Of course this means on systems where fixes have been made available. This doesn't cover Wireless Routers and other systems that use EAP unless those vendors have already done their own open vulnerability assessment. Hear that Cisco, Aruba, Linksys, NetGear et al?
NO, they weren't trying. They bought Motorola for the patents it had, the cellphone business was a secondary thing.
There was no Consumer benefit here because the Moto-X was priced competitively with Samsung, HTC and Apple. If they'd been priced more competitively then you'd see more uptake. The Moto-X is a great phone, Google botched it.
health insurance companies are bureaucratic nightmares even with Obamacare. It's worse now than it was a year ago but we also have to look at why it's that way and start simplifying things, also start barring the health care industry from charging laissez faire prices for everything, that's the root cause here outrageous prices that outstrip inflation and have no bearing in reality. If healthcare is critical to an economy it's time to start regulating it and break up these damn health care/hospital consortiums that do nothing but eliminate competition and drive up costs. You have hospital administrators making over a million a year at some hospitials, how does that scale with what their service delivery is?
Last November I had to take my wife into the emergency room for a minor rash, It was a night so an urgent care facility wasn't open. Anyway for 30 minutes of work, doctor charged $1200, Hospital $1300 and all they did was give her the RX equivalent of of OTC meds, about $40, that's what the bill showed. Insurance covered most of it (fucking deductibles) but at most she was seen for no more than 5 minutes by the doctor. They even stuck on a $200 "after hours" fee on the bill, it's an emergency room for Christ sake! It's this kind of highway robbery that's killing the economy and single payer won't fix it, what'll fix it is for all of us to stop considering doctors/hospitals as above market forces and start some RICO law enforcement!
Sex Toys! Yes, Sex Toys are the real 3D Printing market!
Any law that makes collection of terrestrial citizens information from external sources makes all this pretty much moot.
So we have extraterrestrial citizens? They should phone home.
This satellite does not even have a computer; it is all 'hard-wired.'"
A lot of early computer systems were hard-wired in terms of instructions and logic paths. It didn't make them unusable, just arcane considering newer technologies like SoCs. We have come a long way.
The point is you're getting spied on by a lot of organizations, not just governments or their agencies. That's a fact, not hyperbole. If everybody suddenly became astonished when Snowden leaked a bunch of shit, then we have a bunch of people around the world who have been living in a fantasy world. Sure the Snowden affair has put a new light on the subject, but lets face it this shit has been going on for decades and even the EU in the 90s recognized the fact that spying on citizens was going on.
also
You're not defending the practice of Google or the NSA -- you're saying "Everyone is doing it so what is the big deal?"
No, I did not say that. I value my privacy, what's left of it that is and right now I feel that large aspects of our lives is being tracked, some under the guises of commerce or "credit reporting" but a lot of it is out of fear of terrorism or just because we have weak leaders who cower behind the mantra of "patriotism." Your privacy is being eroded daily not only by overt activities but also by inadvertent activities such as license plate/ toll tag scanning which has some validity but now with indeterminable uses for the data and no retention period policies or legislation governing it. I did indicate that the only way to solve it was with a Constitutional Amendment that would guarantee the right to privacy. You have no right to privacy under the constitution, what we have has been cobbled together by multiple court rulings. Merely passing legislation means that eventually that legislation will itself become amended, watered down and most likely abolished by subsequent congresses and administrations.
Even though about 80% of what Snowden "leaked" is hyperbole meant to stir up shit? After listening to the interview I'm convinced that a ton of this information is utter crap. "ooh I'm a spy" "ooh I was trained by the CIA" Does the NSA have a bulk collection program? Yes. Do the US Federal Courts screw us over on privacy issues? Yes. Do the FISA courts represent a black hole in the justice system? No more than the IRS' Tax Courts but both are invalid "justice" systems meant to screw over Americans. Was any of this known before Snowden? To a large extent no, but programs like ECHELON were known to be gathering bulk intelligence for years including spying on Americans using our allies. This has been known since the 90s folks, it's nothing new! All the NSA/spy community did was extend ECHELON into the Internet realm. Cellphones and the patriot act did more to let the government in on your movements more than anything else, all in the name of "fighting terrorists."
With the progress in technology affecting our daily lives, are we that naieve to assume that the government isn't making the same kinds of leaps in tracking us when organizations like Google, Equifax, the US Postal Service even your TV with ToS like LG watching what you watch. Wake up and smell the cat shit folks, Snowden is the Inspector Clouseau of the espionage world.
What we need is a Constitutional Amendment enforcing the right to privacy in this country, also forcing an end to spying on US citizens and to secret/out of due process courts/legal systems.
Same here, get it and never worry again.
There's no vaccine for Plague.
You know the chickenpox vaccinations is one of those that I always thought was a bit unnecessary considering how mild it was. I guess if your fighting something else it can be a real bugger but I guess in this kid's case, Flu could have also been as deadly or a cold.
Try registering your kids for public school or enroll in a college in the US and you'll find that you have to have vaccination records. Many states also have public health laws that require doctors/nurses to keep records or notify the state when a patient has had a specific vaccine. If you're in the healthcare industry you also are tracked at a statewide level on your vaccination history.
ahh the old "when all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail." issue huh? You need to ask yourself if something can be prototyped in Excel, that's fine. There are tools out there, open source if you have zero budget. If you have to prototype out a solution or create a solution that's robust, that can be documented and reviewed, it's more often easier to use something like "R".
While you can get easy answers from a spreadsheet you may not necessarily get the right answer and that's where their abuse becomes apparent. I've seen railroads actually use Excel to manage daily consist for trains and when they started using it was for an emergency, but then every day suddenly had an emergency/exception and then it became operationally necessary. That was until the guy who based his whole job/career around maintaining the spreadsheet finally retired, then it was WTF? for the rest of the operation because nobody could make sense out of it.
Well I guess I'm a Carlinite on that because the Earth's fine, the people are fucked.
Who are the lucky contestants?
naw, just blame the formaldehyde. What do you expect from all of these retarded "studies" nowadays with per-conceived, sponsored "facts?"