So guns can be locked if it doesn't recognize the user. Can anyone imagine a scenario where the legal owner is unable to use his/her gun in an emergency? Either because the forgot a critical step in the authenication process or some unspecified fatal error in the technology. God help us if Microsoft gets into the smart gun market
Written communication by an American cannot possibly be distinguished from written communication by a foreigner. Grammar? 2nd languages? How are they able to tell who's who?
If they accidentally targeted even one American, they've just breached the constitution and are in violation of US laws that came before their grandfathers making them criminals. Why has nobody in the government been arrested over this?
Because they think they can get away with anything. Scary stuff.
It's not that they think they can get away with anything, it is they CAN get away with anything. If you read the constitution there is a clause that exempts them from arrest. Article I Section 6 and I am sure that they have made other laws giving them greater immunity than what the constitution offers.
Why did the people who wrote our constitution include a clause granting citizenship to those who are born here? Had *they* already perverted the idea?
When I was a schoolboy we were taught to take pride in the fact that we were and always had been a melting pot. Somehow we've run off the rails since then.
Actually the framers of the constitution didn't include such a clause. The 14th Amendment changed that when it was ratified in 1868.
I don't understand how this can be legal - fees for withdrawals is basically a pay cut. I guess this is what you get when you believe unions are evil...
Unions are evil. Like any other big business the only thing they actually care about is the bottom line. When you get hired on to a nonunion job that later becomes union and you have to join just to keep working and pay the union for the privilege to work. That is evil. I can live with unions supporting political views that differ from my own, but I will be damned if I am going to pay some schmuck to represent me when I can damn well tell my employer to go to hell my self for free. Most people can't just change jobs at will and I guarantee that a person can get screwed just as easily under the union yoke as with a regular nonunion job.
The rainbow is part of the Bifrost bridge connecting Midgar (Earth) to Valhalla. Any alternate interpretation is vile propaganda spread by Christian heretics trying to sap our precious bodily fluids and turn us away from honor.
Actually the Bifrost connects Midgard to Asgard. Valhalla is akin to a castle or palace for the Allfather a.k.a. Odin. Only one-half of the souls of the slain go to Valhalla the other half go to Freya's field called Folkvangr. Both at located in Asgard. I would mod you down but since I posted here I can't do that. Norse Mythology lesson concluded, carry on.
So the guy is lying? Perhaps. Or just exaggerating. But I doubt there isn't more than one data center for this very purpose. The question is what kind of hardware would be necessary to compress all the data live.
Certainly some communications are being captured and recorded but all of them. Highly unlikely. The sheer volume of communications has to be unfathomable to the average person. That alone would make the task so daunting even with the best software programmed by the best programmers in the world. You have landlines, cell phones, text messages, instant messages, emails, blog posts, social media posts, file transfers, blah blah blah.
Even if you could convert the voice communications into text in real time you are still talking about a shit-ton of data that has to be sorted and compiled into some sort of meaningful file that somehow is associated with a person, place or thing. Then it has to be analyzed in some fashion and it all has to be stored. And that is just one days worth.
All digital communications being recorded? I seriously doubt it. I would believe that some of them are but not all.
This is easily avoided by simply refusing to participate in facebook and other social media. Actually, that solves a lot of really stupid problems. I highly recommend it.
It is more easily solved by simply not engaging in criminal activity, even still there is the 4th Amendment issue here. My reply to my boss would be to get a warrant and maybe I will cooperate. Better yet grow a damned brain and figure a way to see my facebook page with out my password, it's not exactly rocket science you moron (the moron being my boss and not anyone here). I am not easily cowed by threats, ultimatums or the like a fact that my last CO in the Army found out the hard way. I pulled the religion card on him and brought that Southern Baptist to his knees. I found that having never been trained in the subtle art of Psy Ops that it was quite easy to get under his skin and quite impossible for him to do a thing about it.
Ok 4th amendment issues aside, why not have a little fun at HLS expense? Cross the boarder with an electronic device that contains an encrypted file. Set the password to something really vulgar and insulting. Do what's ever is necessary to get searched and when they ask you for the password you give it to them. By the time those over paid halfwits figure it out and view the file you will either have a funny story for the papers or never be heard from again.
Too late, I have already infected all of Madagascar and evolved the bacteria to the point that finding a cure in time to prevent discovery a cure before global annihilation, which will begin momentarily.
If I were human, I believe my response would be go fuck yourself. Oh wait I am human, Prenda...Go fuck yourself! If you don't like it, tough. I am an American Vet and I am not afraid to use my first or second amendment rights. Note the later is not a threat but a statement of fact that I am not afraid to exercise said rights. I earned them.
As an American citizen, born and raised, and a registered voter I consider every single politician corrupt until proven otherwise. If this senator were in my state I would straight up tell him to get fucked.
I am Duke Nunya, I live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Somewhere, WA, my phone number is 509-555-1212 and I approve this message.
No need to buy anything when a few simple router configurations may do the trick.
a. Unplug the router from the internet
b. log in to your router setup and do the following: Stop broadcasting your SSID, change your SSID, Change any and all passwords on the router including the WEP key or whatever encryption protocol you are using, finally setup MAC filters so that only approved devices can log in.
c. plug the internet back in and reboot the router.
d. configure your authorized devices to connect to the router.
"I don't see how her ex knowing she has a gun puts her life in danger. If anything, it would probably act as deterrent to the jealous ex."
Just means the ex gets a gun as well and shoots first and asks questions later.
As a former member of the US Armed Forces, (with an honorable discharge) I was always taught that even the most seemingly innocuous information can prove to be valuable to someone and potentially be harmful. The more pieces of the puzzle you have the more of the picture you can see.
Knowing how to drop a precision F-strike at the appropriate time is one thing. Indiscriminately carpeting the place with cluster F-bombs is a waste of perfectly good shock ammunition.
No one uses furlongs. Inches, feet, yards, and miles. Crap - there's probably not more than 1 in 1000 Americans who knows what a furlong is. Most will start fishing in their pants, wondering what the "fur" is all about.
A furlong is 1/8 of a mile and is commonly used at horse racing tracks in the US. There are 5280 feet in one mile that means there are 660 feet in 1 furlong. Anyone that bets on horses knows this and that is quite a few. Now everyone or nearly so knows that the Metric System is a much better system but the question as to why we stubborn Americans don't use it is quite simple. It has nothing to do with economics, we simply do not want to nothing more to it than that.
I personally don't give two sh*ts which system is used. Most everything has both measurements on the packaging. The auto industry has already converted to the metric system and so too has the military have been for decades. The only thing I would like to see happen is the use of the 24 hour clock most commonly known as military time amongst the uninformed.
If GMOs are really so safe, why the tremendous resistance to putting a simple label on the food?
Because it would further perpetuate the irrational fear of GMO's and could feasibly cause more people who would otherwise be blissfully ignorant to not buy the GMO's. If enough people with the irrational fear of GMO's don't buy them the producers of said GMO's lose money and possible GMO's go the way of the Twinkies. Granted it would be a long shot but the short answer is money.
Is Westboro protected by the first amendment? Absolutely.
Is it destroying or otherwise hindering their abuse of that freedom by disagreeing with them and expressing that disagreement? Absolutely not, freedom is a two way street. The Government can not and should not interfere until there is a breach of peace but only to the extent of the the law allows.?
Did Anonymous do something illegal? Sure. Do I care? No.
Westboro is nothing but a group of hate mongers and do not have one ounce of common decency about them. They are not Christians in the truest sense of the term, they are agents of Satan period. Anyone that has an opinion about then are just as free to express that opinion. The government cannot by law tell them to stop their stupidity but the common citizen sure as hell can. It is as much their right to protest Westboro Satanic Church as it is for those morons to spout their garbage.
We shouldn't fear every time some new technology is employed to fight evil. Don't just have a knee jerk reaction to this. I know people who have worked on this project and I trust them and their work.
I know governments that have worked on much more serious projects and I don't trust them or their work.
Fight evil? Don't make me laugh. Keep contractors in jobs and bureaucrats in bribes more like.
Now we all know it picks on Arabs who pay cash all the bad guys have to do is legally change their name from Mohammed to Hank, apply for a bank card, and order the standard in-flight meal.
The software isn't the problem, it's the assholes using the software that is the problem. With the right information inputted into the program it could be made to profile a cute fuzzy bunny as a terrorist threat.
They were found guilty not primarily for failing to predict the earthquake, but for releasing a statement saying there was probably not going to be one. They are accused of giving people a false sense of security resulting in them not taking necessary precautions.
"I am a geologist, certainty is a big word. " (Volcano)
However you slice it the Italian courts made the wrong decision. People made bad decisions to carry on as before because it's easier to pretend that so-called experts know better than they do. The only crime committed that day was apathy and now a handful of innocents have to suffer for it.
Why not just make smoking illegal? The policy seams to be that it is bad and that should not do it, so maybe it should be enforced.
They tried that with alcohol, it didn't work and there is no reason to suspect that it will work with tobacco. It is human nature to want what they are told they can't have. Marijuana is illegal and that hasn't stopped its use. All arguments for or against aside, this will come back to bite them in the ass. "For those that refuse to learn from history, they are doomed to repeat it.".
Why are we hiring incompetent civilians to guard nuclear facilities? We have people already on the government payroll that can do the same job and may just possible be more dedicated to the security of such facilities. They are the men and women of the US Military.
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So guns can be locked if it doesn't recognize the user. Can anyone imagine a scenario where the legal owner is unable to use his/her gun in an emergency? Either because the forgot a critical step in the authenication process or some unspecified fatal error in the technology. God help us if Microsoft gets into the smart gun market
Written communication by an American cannot possibly be distinguished from written communication by a foreigner. Grammar? 2nd languages? How are they able to tell who's who?
If they accidentally targeted even one American, they've just breached the constitution and are in violation of US laws that came before their grandfathers making them criminals. Why has nobody in the government been arrested over this?
Because they think they can get away with anything. Scary stuff.
It's not that they think they can get away with anything, it is they CAN get away with anything. If you read the constitution there is a clause that exempts them from arrest. Article I Section 6 and I am sure that they have made other laws giving them greater immunity than what the constitution offers.
Whose idea?
Why did the people who wrote our constitution include a clause granting citizenship to those who are born here? Had *they* already perverted the idea?
When I was a schoolboy we were taught to take pride in the fact that we were and always had been a melting pot. Somehow we've run off the rails since then.
Actually the framers of the constitution didn't include such a clause. The 14th Amendment changed that when it was ratified in 1868.
I don't understand how this can be legal - fees for withdrawals is basically a pay cut. I guess this is what you get when you believe unions are evil...
Unions are evil. Like any other big business the only thing they actually care about is the bottom line. When you get hired on to a nonunion job that later becomes union and you have to join just to keep working and pay the union for the privilege to work. That is evil. I can live with unions supporting political views that differ from my own, but I will be damned if I am going to pay some schmuck to represent me when I can damn well tell my employer to go to hell my self for free. Most people can't just change jobs at will and I guarantee that a person can get screwed just as easily under the union yoke as with a regular nonunion job.
The rainbow is part of the Bifrost bridge connecting Midgar (Earth) to Valhalla. Any alternate interpretation is vile propaganda spread by Christian heretics trying to sap our precious bodily fluids and turn us away from honor.
Actually the Bifrost connects Midgard to Asgard. Valhalla is akin to a castle or palace for the Allfather a.k.a. Odin. Only one-half of the souls of the slain go to Valhalla the other half go to Freya's field called Folkvangr. Both at located in Asgard. I would mod you down but since I posted here I can't do that. Norse Mythology lesson concluded, carry on.
So the guy is lying? Perhaps. Or just exaggerating. But I doubt there isn't more than one data center for this very purpose. The question is what kind of hardware would be necessary to compress all the data live.
Certainly some communications are being captured and recorded but all of them. Highly unlikely. The sheer volume of communications has to be unfathomable to the average person. That alone would make the task so daunting even with the best software programmed by the best programmers in the world. You have landlines, cell phones, text messages, instant messages, emails, blog posts, social media posts, file transfers, blah blah blah.
Even if you could convert the voice communications into text in real time you are still talking about a shit-ton of data that has to be sorted and compiled into some sort of meaningful file that somehow is associated with a person, place or thing. Then it has to be analyzed in some fashion and it all has to be stored. And that is just one days worth.
All digital communications being recorded? I seriously doubt it. I would believe that some of them are but not all.
And my personal fav, the Thunderbolt II - much more fondly known as the Warthog. God what a delicious tidy package of mayhem it packs....
Not as delicious as the AC-130 Spectre.
This is easily avoided by simply refusing to participate in facebook and other social media. Actually, that solves a lot of really stupid problems. I highly recommend it.
It is more easily solved by simply not engaging in criminal activity, even still there is the 4th Amendment issue here. My reply to my boss would be to get a warrant and maybe I will cooperate. Better yet grow a damned brain and figure a way to see my facebook page with out my password, it's not exactly rocket science you moron (the moron being my boss and not anyone here). I am not easily cowed by threats, ultimatums or the like a fact that my last CO in the Army found out the hard way. I pulled the religion card on him and brought that Southern Baptist to his knees. I found that having never been trained in the subtle art of Psy Ops that it was quite easy to get under his skin and quite impossible for him to do a thing about it.
Ok 4th amendment issues aside, why not have a little fun at HLS expense? Cross the boarder with an electronic device that contains an encrypted file. Set the password to something really vulgar and insulting. Do what's ever is necessary to get searched and when they ask you for the password you give it to them. By the time those over paid halfwits figure it out and view the file you will either have a funny story for the papers or never be heard from again.
Too late, I have already infected all of Madagascar and evolved the bacteria to the point that finding a cure in time to prevent discovery a cure before global annihilation, which will begin momentarily.
If I were human, I believe my response would be go fuck yourself. Oh wait I am human, Prenda...Go fuck yourself! If you don't like it, tough. I am an American Vet and I am not afraid to use my first or second amendment rights. Note the later is not a threat but a statement of fact that I am not afraid to exercise said rights. I earned them.
As an American citizen, born and raised, and a registered voter I consider every single politician corrupt until proven otherwise. If this senator were in my state I would straight up tell him to get fucked.
I am Duke Nunya, I live at 1313 Mockingbird Lane, Somewhere, WA, my phone number is 509-555-1212 and I approve this message.
No need to buy anything when a few simple router configurations may do the trick.
a. Unplug the router from the internet
b. log in to your router setup and do the following: Stop broadcasting your SSID, change your SSID, Change any and all passwords on the router including the
WEP key or whatever encryption protocol you are using, finally setup MAC filters so that only approved devices can log in.
c. plug the internet back in and reboot the router.
d. configure your authorized devices to connect to the router.
"I don't see how her ex knowing she has a gun puts her life in danger. If anything, it would probably act as deterrent to the jealous ex." Just means the ex gets a gun as well and shoots first and asks questions later.
As a former member of the US Armed Forces, (with an honorable discharge) I was always taught that even the most seemingly innocuous information can prove to be valuable to someone and potentially be harmful. The more pieces of the puzzle you have the more of the picture you can see.
If you are posting AC, Press Alt-F4 and it moderates your score to +5.
LOL now if anyone believes that they need their geek card pulled.
Knowing how to drop a precision F-strike at the appropriate time is one thing. Indiscriminately carpeting the place with cluster F-bombs is a waste of perfectly good shock ammunition.
Not to mention just plain bad fucking grammar.
No one uses furlongs. Inches, feet, yards, and miles. Crap - there's probably not more than 1 in 1000 Americans who knows what a furlong is. Most will start fishing in their pants, wondering what the "fur" is all about.
A furlong is 1/8 of a mile and is commonly used at horse racing tracks in the US. There are 5280 feet in one mile that means there are 660 feet in 1 furlong. Anyone that bets on horses knows this and that is quite a few. Now everyone or nearly so knows that the Metric System is a much better system but the question as to why we stubborn Americans don't use it is quite simple. It has nothing to do with economics, we simply do not want to nothing more to it than that.
I personally don't give two sh*ts which system is used. Most everything has both measurements on the packaging. The auto industry has already converted to the metric system and so too has the military have been for decades. The only thing I would like to see happen is the use of the 24 hour clock most commonly known as military time amongst the uninformed.
If GMOs are really so safe, why the tremendous resistance to putting a simple label on the food?
Because it would further perpetuate the irrational fear of GMO's and could feasibly cause more people who would otherwise be blissfully ignorant to not buy the GMO's. If enough people with the irrational fear of GMO's don't buy them the producers of said GMO's lose money and possible GMO's go the way of the Twinkies. Granted it would be a long shot but the short answer is money.
As a responsible citizen, it's up to you to ensure that whatever you do doesn't violate any patents.
Ignorance of the law is no excuse.
Enjoy!
Ignorance of the law may be no excuse; however, ignorance of common sense is no excuse for the law.
"If I were human I believe my response would be, Go To Hell...If I were human."
(Spock, Strek VI The Undiscovered Country)
Is Westboro protected by the first amendment? Absolutely.
Is it destroying or otherwise hindering their abuse of that freedom by disagreeing with them and expressing that disagreement? Absolutely not, freedom is a two way street. The Government can not and should not interfere until there is a breach of peace but only to the extent of the the law allows.?
Did Anonymous do something illegal? Sure. Do I care? No.
Westboro is nothing but a group of hate mongers and do not have one ounce of common decency about them. They are not Christians in the truest sense of the term, they are agents of Satan period. Anyone that has an opinion about then are just as free to express that opinion. The government cannot by law tell them to stop their stupidity but the common citizen sure as hell can. It is as much their right to protest Westboro Satanic Church as it is for those morons to spout their garbage.
We shouldn't fear every time some new technology is employed to fight evil. Don't just have a knee jerk reaction to this. I know people who have worked on this project and I trust them and their work.
I know governments that have worked on much more serious projects and I don't trust them or their work.
Fight evil? Don't make me laugh. Keep contractors in jobs and bureaucrats in bribes more like.
Now we all know it picks on Arabs who pay cash all the bad guys have to do is legally change their name from Mohammed to Hank, apply for a bank card, and order the standard in-flight meal.
The software isn't the problem, it's the assholes using the software that is the problem. With the right information inputted into the program it could be made to profile a cute fuzzy bunny as a terrorist threat.
I say let them be offended.
They were found guilty not primarily for failing to predict the earthquake, but for releasing a statement saying there was probably not going to be one. They are accused of giving people a false sense of security resulting in them not taking necessary precautions.
"I am a geologist, certainty is a big word. " (Volcano)
However you slice it the Italian courts made the wrong decision. People made bad decisions to carry on as before because it's easier to pretend that so-called experts know better than they do. The only crime committed that day was apathy and now a handful of innocents have to suffer for it.
Why not just make smoking illegal? The policy seams to be that it is bad and that should not do it, so maybe it should be enforced.
They tried that with alcohol, it didn't work and there is no reason to suspect that it will work with tobacco. It is human nature to want what they are told they can't have. Marijuana is illegal and that hasn't stopped its use. All arguments for or against aside, this will come back to bite them in the ass. "For those that refuse to learn from history, they are doomed to repeat it." .
For the record I am a non-smoker..
Why are we hiring incompetent civilians to guard nuclear facilities? We have people already on the government payroll that can do the same job and may just possible be more dedicated to the security of such facilities. They are the men and women of the US Military.