How and Why are you turning a patent/television/broadcasting thread into a advertisement to vote republican ?
And since you brought up voting for republican's as the 'sensible party', did you know that all this forced upon us by the government TV signal stuff all happened as the republicans were in power over the last 8 - 12 years or so ?
As well as the crash of the economy - do to ignoring and striking down regulations designed to prevent such a crash ?
( Never a sensible idea to put the rich in charge of even more money, is it ? )
And let's not forget about the republicans getting all fired up about starting a war against a country that hadn't attacked us ? Whilst the person responsible for attacking us is still at large, and not in the country that we decimated and occupied ?
BTW, I am an independant. I vote for who I believe will do the best job, regardless of their 'good ol boy party' affiliation.
Just had to ask you if you there isn't a section in/. for politics and voicing your support for your favored party ?
Do you think that you actually voicing a new revelation to slash doters reading this article ?
Cause your post added nothing to the topic at hand in my opinion.
Have you considered writing oped columns for Fox news or Rush ? For the good of all people, of course.
http://www.globalmotion.com/ - ( GlobalMotion Media, Inc. develops applications that bring together the best of online, mobile and location-aware technologies. The company operates EveryTrail the leading online community for GPS trip sharing, and licenses its technology platform to corporate customers. GlobalMotion is located in Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley ).
These are just afew websites that'll let you post your trvels, some with geo tags. If you must create panoramic shots, you can stitch your photos together with the information / software from the above mentioned posts.
It seems to me that they could have a system set up such that you buy something and you can request a code for minutes of WiFi, maybe every dollar you spend on their product gets you a bonus of five minutes internet time.
Good idea, but I don't know how well it would work.. since I believe that many AT&T DSL customers get AT&T WiFi at McDonalds locations as part of their home DSL plan. These customers shouldn't have to purchase McD's food since they already pay for the WiFi with their AT&T plan.
AT&T put this plan together to entice more customers to their DSL plans, and McD's wanted more people in their restaurants ( at the time they embraced this idea, anyway ).
BTW, these AT&T WiFi Hotspots are also available at Starbucks and other places.
And Before Sept 10, 2001, exactly zero terrorist driven passenger aircraft had flown into the World Trade Centre. And that is BEFORE all citizens became suspected terrorists and thus are now all automatically spied upon.
The real question is, Do you really feel safer now that you are being spied on ? Will 9-11 Really Never Happen Again ?
Maybe the plaintiffs in the suit have come upon something that will rip the RIAA to shreds, and the Defendants and the Judge had to meet in secret to ask each other what they can possibly do to reduce the damage and discredit the plaintiffs.
This is Great !
Between drones and ipods, before long we won't even have to send one foot soldier into a country to invade it and wage war !
War by remote control !
From what I understand, all ISP's get money from the feds to continuously improve, upgrade, and expand their services. Said money comes by way of fees added to all current customers monthly bills. So we're already paying for better, faster, and more service, that we aren't getting.
I for one am sick of seeing that money disappear while the biggest and greediest ISP's cry that they need to raise costs and limit bandwidth. They are lying. And Stealing. And Cheating.
Seen how insecure web browsers are, what would be a good way to surf under Linux?
I have an account that I use only for GMail and my bank's website (the latter using a physical device answering cryptographic challenge so nobody is abusing that [when wiring money to a new account number, the account number of the recipient itself is part of the cryptographic challenge, there's no MITM, no nothing that can work against that]).
Then I have an account only for browsing. The user owning this account on my machine has user ID 1007.
This user is not even allowed to connect to localhost. I don't want to know. All he can do is surf the web, using iptables like this:
Are there others simple things I could do to deal with security hazard that these browsers are?
Things I could do about this user's home directory permissions? Disable his SSH? etc.
Basically I think I'd like to have an account that can "do nothing but run Firefox".
Or is there an easy, lightweight (lightweight as in "I don't necessarily want to virtualize a full OS just to run a browser", way to sandbox a browser?
In other words, I consider the "security" of all the browsers to be a bad joke and I regard running a browser basically the same as executing "omgWindozeServer2012Crack.exe" on my machine and I'd like any hint from people who are surfing in a "safer" way.
Wow, if you're that paranoid, here's something you might want to try.
Install PCLinuxOS 2007 onto a hard drive. Now update it, install your your favorite programs, tune your personal settings, add your bookmarks, email accounts, software updates, and such.
When you get it to where you like it, then
( in PCLinuxOS ) do a remaster onto a CD or DVD.
( sudo, remasterme )
When finished, remove your remastered CD/DVD and shut your machine down.
You now have a live cd version of your operating system, WITH all of your personal settings and preferences.
For all subsequent boots and browsing sessions, you can now just pop your remastered CD/DVD into your machine, boot into the LiveCD ( or DVD ), and browse to your hearts content. You'll have your bookmarks, email account settings and all right there on the CD / DVD, which can't be over written. Viruses and trojans have not figured out how to write to a burn once CD or DVD yet, so anything you get exposed to will not infect your system, As long as you do not mount any of your hard drives.
As you use your LiveCD/DVD, Put any changes you want to keep ( emails you want to keep, new bookmarks, etc ) onto a flash drive.
Once a week, or once a month, update your LiveCD/DVD with the info you've been saving on the flash drive, and then remaster a new CD/DVD with your updates.
So now you have a Operating System that works well, has all of your personal settings, bookmarks, emails and account settings, is portable ( you can most likely boot your LiveCD/DVD in most any other computer with a reboot ), can't be over written by malware since it's burned onto a CD/DVD, can be updated as often as you like, or not, and if you do update and remaster weekly, you now have weekly backups on the older remasters.
Just an option for you that should keep your browser and OS fairly safe.
As a former Charter customer all I can say is that they should just sell off all that company's assets wholesale. There's a reason why this company is hemorrhaging money, it's not just because of their massive amounts of debt, it's the crappy way they treat their customers.
Of Course !
Charter let's you know right from the start that the customer doesn't mean crap to them. Before you can even start an account with Charter they let you know that they do not trust you, and that they can break federal laws before they open your account. They do this by insisting that you provide your social security number and running a credit check on you to see if you are worthy of their service.
Last I knew, it was against federal laws to insist on obtaining ones social security number before providing a service.
Your SSN is your bank account number for the day you retire. It is NOT supposed to be handed out to a cable company for month to month service.
Before you can even become a customer, Charter, and it's ilk, are letting you know that they do not trust you to pay your monthly bill, nor are you worth a damn to them, they just want to insure that you can and will always send your money to them regardless of the service they provide. Service which they can deny or reduce at any time of their own discretion. Like throttling your connection at their discretion.
When I moved into my new home 4 years ago and went to open an account with my local cable service, and they asked me for my SSN to do a credit check, I refused. I reminded them of the law they were breaking, which I discovered that they were aware of, and, in the end, I never gave them my SSN, and I did not open an account with them.
Just Screw them faster than they will screw you.
And steer well clear of such an ignorant company.
Sounds like these two are just hoping to be rewarded millions from a Jury for their anguish.
I hope the judge fines them for being greedy as he kicks them and the case out of the courtroom.
The internet is clearly "interstate". People pay money for it. Accordingly, it falls within the purview of interstate commerce as it has come to be defined.
Contrariwise, the most outrageous extension of the commerce clause that was upheld by the Supreme Court was back during the depression and one of the great legacies left by the FDR administration. Crop controls were placed upon farmers through a federal bill limiting the amount of grain that a farmer could grow. A farmer in Illinois, if I recall correctly, grew more than he was permitted, but he didn't sell it or anything. He just grew the grain for his own use on his own farm.
The Supreme Court at the time opined that because the farmer grew more than he was permitted, he would buy less from the general market decreasing the interstate demand for grain. Accordingly, his actions on his own private land for his own private needs and uses affected interstate commerce and the law was enforceable.
The point is: the use of the internet is clearly within the purview of the interstate commerce clause and is subject to regulation by the federal government. While I don't like this idea in the least, technical limitations aside, I would prefer it if the individual users maintained the logs instead of the ISPs. That way, the Feds have to get a warrant to get your logs instead of just asking your ISP nicely.
That'd be good, until the Feds decide that they don't need a warrant to come crashing into ones home and grabbing ones logs, as they've apparently decided that they don't need a warrant to grab the logs from the ISP's.
As to the farmer growing extra crop, don't the Fed's pay farmers for not growing the extra crop ? I believe so.
So if they pass this law, if they are going to require everyone with a router to keep logs for them, then they can pay everyone with a router to keep said logs for them...
just like they pay the farmers to have idle land.
IMHO.
So, I'll figure the cost for configuring MY router to keep logs, and then my having to save said logs on a regular basis, backing up those logs, and of course the use of My space on My hard drives to save and backup these logs, should come to, oh, $50,000.00 a year.
My time isn't cheap. And if they want to turn every average user with a router into a forced partial sysadmin now, they should have to pony up the cash.
In my opinion.
I'm personally longing to find some billionair-head gullable enough to fund an expedition and pay me for months to cruise the oceans.
the dialogue I imagine would run as follows:
"hey guy, I found amelia earheart on mapquest"
"here's ten million dollars and a barge"
"sweet"
That thought crossed my mind as well.
It wouldn't take much for somebody to post such an article in preparation of asking for funding to go check it out personally. The requirements would be a Research ship with hot tubs and an open bar, scuba suits, and a neat little mini sub for those deep, hard to reach places.
This one wasn't me though.
Too cold for my tastes.
If I were to ask for funds to swim around and look for artifacts, I'd want to be funded to research the Caribbean for a long term, 15 year study.
The water there is so much warmer:)
Pictures are never deleted off disk. Their storage infrastructure doesnt do it as they use a custom filesystem (There was a talk about it published a while ago).
Replace.
Overwrite.
Overwrite using pictures of nursing babies.
That should get pics deleted and account closed.
That's definitely not true. The recorded statements of public figures are edited up in order to muddle the context all of the time. Not everyone who hears the result has the time/resources to find and understand the actual context.
Also, as any politician running for office can tell you, the first person who gets a muddled, out of context piece on the airways is the winner.
That is all most people will ever remember.
That point is unconscienable.
Justice demands that one be responsible for the laws of the land at any given time.
That Mr Bush broke laws during a certain time frame, and should now be excused because he later caused those laws to be changed to his benefit, is wrong. As I mentioned in my post above, breaking a law that is in effect at the time is still criminal. That the law gets changed at a later date does not preclude anyone of guilt. This requires an investigation of anyone, regardless of wealth, position, or power.
That America would allow it's leaders to break their oath to uphold our laws and Constitution, and later change the laws and offer immunity to those who broke the laws to begin with, is holding an entire class of people above the law, and above the rest of the countries citizens.
That is completely against the American ideal of all people being created equal.
Not to mention what kind of government and nation we would be dealing with if this became the announced norm for the United States. Yes, there are many 'classes' of people in America. But the laws and prevailing spirit of America would that not be so. Especially when it comes to the laws of our Nation, and who should be beholden to such laws.
If this was all so perfectly legal, why has the ex-Bush Administration blocked all attempts for lawyers, Judges, and the courts to see what actually happened, thrown monkey wrenches into lawsuits about this issue, and issued blanket telcom immunity ?
Seems to me that there was so much illegal activity going on that Mr. Bushes Administration went to extraordinary lengths to keep it all out of the court system and away from the curious eyes of it's citizens.
I understand what you are saying, you and others believe that Mr Bush acted in accordance with current law as it was then understood, or broke the law in accordance with the never ending war
( on terror )powers that a President may wield, and that when current law was broken, it was either later changed to cover his ass, or it is supposedly a mute point now.... but I disagree that any of that should be above review. I believe he stepped way out of bounds and broke the law, even though the law was later re-written to allow for some of his activities.
I am led to believe laws were broken because of that administrations actions to cover their asses since, and because of the few men ( such as Mr Tice ) with the balls to step up and say publicly, 'Hey, this wasn't legal'.
And I want to know why these accusations are being kept from judicial review to glean the Real Truth.
As the Article above this thread states, the depth and scope of the eavesdropping has resulted in accusations of the Bush Admin stepping WAY over the bounds of legality, and may include Constitutional infringement.
Yet instead of offering a solid defense of these accusations in a court of law, said Bush administration has tried, successfully, to bury what it can, forestall court proceedings and open review, and blanket accomplices with immunity, which, in itself, is likely illegal, and certainly highly suspect.
My position is that Mr Bush did not uphold the United States Constitution as he swore to do when he took the oath of office. He broke the law.
And he has since manipulated the laws to cover his actions.
If I broke even a state law 10 years ago, I would be arrested, tried, and put to penalty if found guilty.
So, is it true, then, that position and money can be exempted from judicial oversite when laws are broken by our leaders ?
And isn't that just the scenario that our Constitution and our 3 branches of government are designed to avoid, thus making the entire fiasco Constitutionally illegal ?
How will we know ? Do we need even more whistleblowers to come forward to effectively serve Justice before an investigation can begin ? Or can we take all the evidence we now have, find those missing White House emails, and actually investigate the depths of these infractions ?
Keeping in mind that this whole wiretapping thing is just one of Many suspect issues regarding the outgoing administration, I would hope that these allegations can be treated at least as seriously as those of a President getting a blow job some years ago.
I imagine in the future we will end up with a revolution and lots of people will die, that's typically what happens when the ruler is doing something the majority of the populace doesn't agree with. Before you shout that the majority of the population are sheeple and just "think of the children / terrorists" I think the real problem is that they aren't well informed and very time poor and if they knew what was going on and they would disagree strongly.
It appears that half of America seems to be amiable to being wiretapped... the 'I have nothing to hide' crowd combined with the 'government knows what they are doing' and 'I trust them to do what is necessary to protect us' crowd.
So I don't see any 'revolution' happening. It should have already happened.
All we had was a few small groups of demonstrators that promptly got arrested.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=demonstrators+arrested+protesting+wiretapping+or+iraq&spell=1
Even the big banner years ago displayed for Mr Bush stating " You lied, You're Fired" had no effect.
The biggest protest came from the Iraqi people themselves, in Iraq.
And one Iraqi journalist who had the balls to throw his shoes at Mr Bush. A true revolutionary must not exist in America anymore.
but rather about spying on domestic threats to the Bush Administration and plugging leaks
I've always thought that the warrantless wiretapping was one means by which Bush kept Congress so thoroughly cowed, even when the Democrats were in charge of it. By means of all that snooping, Bush probably had the dirt on practically all the key members of the House and Senate, which gave him unholy amounts of leverage over them. (Remember what happened to Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who was brought down by a wiretap.)
I'd been wondering how they kept Congress cowed.
After the 2006 elections when Republicans got tossed out of majority in then shocking numbers, and the new Democrat led Congress had made promises to investigate and impeach and all, it got suddenly quiet in Congress. I knew that the executive branch had threatened the new Congress, I figured maybe the Exec. branch used the 'shut up or you'll be arrested as a terrorist/traitor' method.
But I can see the possibility wherein the Exec branch could have blackmailed Congress through wiretaps. Assuming each and every one of them has some major skeletons in their closets. What are the odds of that ?
And, wasn't it some arcane wiretap out of the blue that nailed Illinois Gov Blagojevich trying to sell Obama's Senate seat ?
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heavy stuff.
Or maybe TripleStuffedTaconium.
TakesADecadeToNameium.
I have more !
This could be fun. :)
How and Why are you turning a patent/television/broadcasting thread into a advertisement to vote republican ? And since you brought up voting for republican's as the 'sensible party', did you know that all this forced upon us by the government TV signal stuff all happened as the republicans were in power over the last 8 - 12 years or so ? As well as the crash of the economy - do to ignoring and striking down regulations designed to prevent such a crash ? ( Never a sensible idea to put the rich in charge of even more money, is it ? ) And let's not forget about the republicans getting all fired up about starting a war against a country that hadn't attacked us ? Whilst the person responsible for attacking us is still at large, and not in the country that we decimated and occupied ? BTW, I am an independant. I vote for who I believe will do the best job, regardless of their 'good ol boy party' affiliation. Just had to ask you if you there isn't a section in /. for politics and voicing your support for your favored party ?
Do you think that you actually voicing a new revelation to slash doters reading this article ?
Cause your post added nothing to the topic at hand in my opinion.
Have you considered writing oped columns for Fox news or Rush ? For the good of all people, of course.
You might want to look at Panaramio as well..
http://www.panoramio.com/
Or these alternatives
http://www.globalmotion.com/ - ( GlobalMotion Media, Inc. develops applications that bring together the best of online, mobile and location-aware technologies. The company operates EveryTrail the leading online community for GPS trip sharing, and licenses its technology platform to corporate customers. GlobalMotion is located in Palo Alto, the heart of Silicon Valley ).
http://www.wolpy.com/ - ( Track yours and your friends' travels ).
http://www.mapyro.com/ - ( Put your Trips, Treks and Tours on the Map ).
These are just afew websites that'll let you post your trvels, some with geo tags.
If you must create panoramic shots, you can stitch your photos together with the information / software from the above mentioned posts.
should give new meaning to the term "WonderBra".
It seems to me that they could have a system set up such that you buy something and you can request a code for minutes of WiFi, maybe every dollar you spend on their product gets you a bonus of five minutes internet time.
Good idea, but I don't know how well it would work.. since I believe that many AT&T DSL customers get AT&T WiFi at McDonalds locations as part of their home DSL plan. These customers shouldn't have to purchase McD's food since they already pay for the WiFi with their AT&T plan.
AT&T put this plan together to entice more customers to their DSL plans, and McD's wanted more people in their restaurants ( at the time they embraced this idea, anyway ).
BTW, these AT&T WiFi Hotspots are also available at Starbucks and other places.
And Before Sept 10, 2001, exactly zero terrorist driven passenger aircraft had flown into the World Trade Centre.
And that is BEFORE all citizens became suspected terrorists and thus are now all automatically spied upon.
The real question is, Do you really feel safer now that you are being spied on ?
Will 9-11 Really Never Happen Again ?
Tape your now half laptop to the windshield of your car.
Now, when-ever you drive to the airport, your half laptop will be there to remind you to NEVER Check Your Laptop Again
Maybe the plaintiffs in the suit have come upon something that will rip the RIAA to shreds, and the Defendants and the Judge had to meet in secret to ask each other what they can possibly do to reduce the damage and discredit the plaintiffs.
War by remote control !
Well, ok, maybe War by iRemote control.
Courtesy of Apple Computer.
"So now, we will refer to anyone who does anything we don't like as "pirates"?"
Yeah, The Feds have overused the term 'terrorists" so much lately that it has little effect anymore.
'Pirates' is the new 'terrorists'.
Where do I sign up for their service ?
From what I understand, all ISP's get money from the feds to continuously improve, upgrade, and expand their services.
Said money comes by way of fees added to all current customers monthly bills.
So we're already paying for better, faster, and more service, that we aren't getting.
I for one am sick of seeing that money disappear while the biggest and greediest ISP's cry that they need to raise costs and limit bandwidth.
They are lying. And Stealing. And Cheating.
IMHO, They are fired.
Maybe it was MSDOS.
Would that make Microsoft officially Evil ?
Seen how insecure web browsers are, what would be a good way to surf under Linux?
I have an account that I use only for GMail and my bank's website (the latter using a physical device answering cryptographic challenge so nobody is abusing that [when wiring money to a new account number, the account number of the recipient itself is part of the cryptographic challenge, there's no MITM, no nothing that can work against that]).
Then I have an account only for browsing. The user owning this account on my machine has user ID 1007.
This user is not even allowed to connect to localhost. I don't want to know. All he can do is surf the web, using iptables like this:
iptables -I OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 1007 -j REJECT iptables -I OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 1007 -p tcp --dport 80 -j ACCEPT iptables -I OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 1007 -p tcp --dport 443 -j ACCEPT iptables -I OUTPUT -m owner --uid-owner 1007 -p udp --dport 53 -j ACCEPT
Are there others simple things I could do to deal with security hazard that these browsers are?
Things I could do about this user's home directory permissions? Disable his SSH? etc.
Basically I think I'd like to have an account that can "do nothing but run Firefox".
Or is there an easy, lightweight (lightweight as in "I don't necessarily want to virtualize a full OS just to run a browser", way to sandbox a browser?
In other words, I consider the "security" of all the browsers to be a bad joke and I regard running a browser basically the same as executing "omgWindozeServer2012Crack.exe" on my machine and I'd like any hint from people who are surfing in a "safer" way.
Wow, if you're that paranoid, here's something you might want to try.
Install PCLinuxOS 2007 onto a hard drive. Now update it, install your your favorite programs, tune your personal settings, add your bookmarks, email accounts, software updates, and such. When you get it to where you like it, then ( in PCLinuxOS ) do a remaster onto a CD or DVD. ( sudo, remasterme )
When finished, remove your remastered CD/DVD and shut your machine down.
You now have a live cd version of your operating system, WITH all of your personal settings and preferences.
For all subsequent boots and browsing sessions, you can now just pop your remastered CD/DVD into your machine, boot into the LiveCD ( or DVD ), and browse to your hearts content. You'll have your bookmarks, email account settings and all right there on the CD / DVD, which can't be over written. Viruses and trojans have not figured out how to write to a burn once CD or DVD yet, so anything you get exposed to will not infect your system, As long as you do not mount any of your hard drives.
As you use your LiveCD/DVD, Put any changes you want to keep ( emails you want to keep, new bookmarks, etc ) onto a flash drive.
Once a week, or once a month, update your LiveCD/DVD with the info you've been saving on the flash drive, and then remaster a new CD/DVD with your updates.
So now you have a Operating System that works well, has all of your personal settings, bookmarks, emails and account settings, is portable ( you can most likely boot your LiveCD/DVD in most any other computer with a reboot ), can't be over written by malware since it's burned onto a CD/DVD, can be updated as often as you like, or not, and if you do update and remaster weekly, you now have weekly backups on the older remasters.
Just an option for you that should keep your browser and OS fairly safe.
As a former Charter customer all I can say is that they should just sell off all that company's assets wholesale. There's a reason why this company is hemorrhaging money, it's not just because of their massive amounts of debt, it's the crappy way they treat their customers.
Of Course ! Charter let's you know right from the start that the customer doesn't mean crap to them. Before you can even start an account with Charter they let you know that they do not trust you, and that they can break federal laws before they open your account. They do this by insisting that you provide your social security number and running a credit check on you to see if you are worthy of their service. Last I knew, it was against federal laws to insist on obtaining ones social security number before providing a service. Your SSN is your bank account number for the day you retire. It is NOT supposed to be handed out to a cable company for month to month service. Before you can even become a customer, Charter, and it's ilk, are letting you know that they do not trust you to pay your monthly bill, nor are you worth a damn to them, they just want to insure that you can and will always send your money to them regardless of the service they provide. Service which they can deny or reduce at any time of their own discretion. Like throttling your connection at their discretion. When I moved into my new home 4 years ago and went to open an account with my local cable service, and they asked me for my SSN to do a credit check, I refused. I reminded them of the law they were breaking, which I discovered that they were aware of, and, in the end, I never gave them my SSN, and I did not open an account with them. Just Screw them faster than they will screw you. And steer well clear of such an ignorant company.
Sounds like these two are just hoping to be rewarded millions from a Jury for their anguish. I hope the judge fines them for being greedy as he kicks them and the case out of the courtroom.
The internet is clearly "interstate". People pay money for it. Accordingly, it falls within the purview of interstate commerce as it has come to be defined. Contrariwise, the most outrageous extension of the commerce clause that was upheld by the Supreme Court was back during the depression and one of the great legacies left by the FDR administration. Crop controls were placed upon farmers through a federal bill limiting the amount of grain that a farmer could grow. A farmer in Illinois, if I recall correctly, grew more than he was permitted, but he didn't sell it or anything. He just grew the grain for his own use on his own farm. The Supreme Court at the time opined that because the farmer grew more than he was permitted, he would buy less from the general market decreasing the interstate demand for grain. Accordingly, his actions on his own private land for his own private needs and uses affected interstate commerce and the law was enforceable. The point is: the use of the internet is clearly within the purview of the interstate commerce clause and is subject to regulation by the federal government. While I don't like this idea in the least, technical limitations aside, I would prefer it if the individual users maintained the logs instead of the ISPs. That way, the Feds have to get a warrant to get your logs instead of just asking your ISP nicely.
That'd be good, until the Feds decide that they don't need a warrant to come crashing into ones home and grabbing ones logs, as they've apparently decided that they don't need a warrant to grab the logs from the ISP's.
As to the farmer growing extra crop, don't the Fed's pay farmers for not growing the extra crop ? I believe so.
So if they pass this law, if they are going to require everyone with a router to keep logs for them, then they can pay everyone with a router to keep said logs for them... just like they pay the farmers to have idle land.
IMHO.
So, I'll figure the cost for configuring MY router to keep logs, and then my having to save said logs on a regular basis, backing up those logs, and of course the use of My space on My hard drives to save and backup these logs, should come to, oh, $50,000.00 a year.
My time isn't cheap. And if they want to turn every average user with a router into a forced partial sysadmin now, they should have to pony up the cash.
In my opinion.
I'm personally longing to find some billionair-head gullable enough to fund an expedition and pay me for months to cruise the oceans. the dialogue I imagine would run as follows: "hey guy, I found amelia earheart on mapquest" "here's ten million dollars and a barge" "sweet"
That thought crossed my mind as well.
It wouldn't take much for somebody to post such an article in preparation of asking for funding to go check it out personally. The requirements would be a Research ship with hot tubs and an open bar, scuba suits, and a neat little mini sub for those deep, hard to reach places.
This one wasn't me though. :)
Too cold for my tastes.
If I were to ask for funds to swim around and look for artifacts, I'd want to be funded to research the Caribbean for a long term, 15 year study.
The water there is so much warmer
I like the Alien probe tracks better http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&t=h&ll=75.027664,40.473633&spn=3.07016,21.357422&z=6
Pictures are never deleted off disk. Their storage infrastructure doesnt do it as they use a custom filesystem (There was a talk about it published a while ago).
Replace. Overwrite. Overwrite using pictures of nursing babies. That should get pics deleted and account closed.
That's definitely not true. The recorded statements of public figures are edited up in order to muddle the context all of the time. Not everyone who hears the result has the time/resources to find and understand the actual context.
Also, as any politician running for office can tell you, the first person who gets a muddled, out of context piece on the airways is the winner.
That is all most people will ever remember.
That point is unconscienable.
Justice demands that one be responsible for the laws of the land at any given time.
That Mr Bush broke laws during a certain time frame, and should now be excused because he later caused those laws to be changed to his benefit, is wrong. As I mentioned in my post above, breaking a law that is in effect at the time is still criminal. That the law gets changed at a later date does not preclude anyone of guilt. This requires an investigation of anyone, regardless of wealth, position, or power.
That America would allow it's leaders to break their oath to uphold our laws and Constitution, and later change the laws and offer immunity to those who broke the laws to begin with, is holding an entire class of people above the law, and above the rest of the countries citizens. That is completely against the American ideal of all people being created equal.
Not to mention what kind of government and nation we would be dealing with if this became the announced norm for the United States. Yes, there are many 'classes' of people in America. But the laws and prevailing spirit of America would that not be so. Especially when it comes to the laws of our Nation, and who should be beholden to such laws.
Seems to me that there was so much illegal activity going on that Mr. Bushes Administration went to extraordinary lengths to keep it all out of the court system and away from the curious eyes of it's citizens.
I understand what you are saying, you and others believe that Mr Bush acted in accordance with current law as it was then understood, or broke the law in accordance with the never ending war ( on terror )powers that a President may wield, and that when current law was broken, it was either later changed to cover his ass, or it is supposedly a mute point now.... but I disagree that any of that should be above review. I believe he stepped way out of bounds and broke the law, even though the law was later re-written to allow for some of his activities.
I am led to believe laws were broken because of that administrations actions to cover their asses since, and because of the few men ( such as Mr Tice ) with the balls to step up and say publicly, 'Hey, this wasn't legal'.
And I want to know why these accusations are being kept from judicial review to glean the Real Truth.
As the Article above this thread states, the depth and scope of the eavesdropping has resulted in accusations of the Bush Admin stepping WAY over the bounds of legality, and may include Constitutional infringement.
Yet instead of offering a solid defense of these accusations in a court of law, said Bush administration has tried, successfully, to bury what it can, forestall court proceedings and open review, and blanket accomplices with immunity, which, in itself, is likely illegal, and certainly highly suspect.
My position is that Mr Bush did not uphold the United States Constitution as he swore to do when he took the oath of office. He broke the law. And he has since manipulated the laws to cover his actions.
If I broke even a state law 10 years ago, I would be arrested, tried, and put to penalty if found guilty.
So, is it true, then, that position and money can be exempted from judicial oversite when laws are broken by our leaders ?
And isn't that just the scenario that our Constitution and our 3 branches of government are designed to avoid, thus making the entire fiasco Constitutionally illegal ?
How will we know ? Do we need even more whistleblowers to come forward to effectively serve Justice before an investigation can begin ? Or can we take all the evidence we now have, find those missing White House emails, and actually investigate the depths of these infractions ?
Keeping in mind that this whole wiretapping thing is just one of Many suspect issues regarding the outgoing administration, I would hope that these allegations can be treated at least as seriously as those of a President getting a blow job some years ago.
I imagine in the future we will end up with a revolution and lots of people will die, that's typically what happens when the ruler is doing something the majority of the populace doesn't agree with. Before you shout that the majority of the population are sheeple and just "think of the children / terrorists" I think the real problem is that they aren't well informed and very time poor and if they knew what was going on and they would disagree strongly.
It appears that half of America seems to be amiable to being wiretapped... the 'I have nothing to hide' crowd combined with the 'government knows what they are doing' and 'I trust them to do what is necessary to protect us' crowd.
So I don't see any 'revolution' happening. It should have already happened. All we had was a few small groups of demonstrators that promptly got arrested.
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&ct=result&cd=1&q=demonstrators+arrested+protesting+wiretapping+or+iraq&spell=1
Even the big banner years ago displayed for Mr Bush stating " You lied, You're Fired" had no effect.
The biggest protest came from the Iraqi people themselves, in Iraq.
And one Iraqi journalist who had the balls to throw his shoes at Mr Bush. A true revolutionary must not exist in America anymore.
but rather about spying on domestic threats to the Bush Administration and plugging leaks
I've always thought that the warrantless wiretapping was one means by which Bush kept Congress so thoroughly cowed, even when the Democrats were in charge of it. By means of all that snooping, Bush probably had the dirt on practically all the key members of the House and Senate, which gave him unholy amounts of leverage over them. (Remember what happened to Gov. Eliot Spitzer, who was brought down by a wiretap.)
I'd been wondering how they kept Congress cowed. After the 2006 elections when Republicans got tossed out of majority in then shocking numbers, and the new Democrat led Congress had made promises to investigate and impeach and all, it got suddenly quiet in Congress. I knew that the executive branch had threatened the new Congress, I figured maybe the Exec. branch used the 'shut up or you'll be arrested as a terrorist/traitor' method.
But I can see the possibility wherein the Exec branch could have blackmailed Congress through wiretaps. Assuming each and every one of them has some major skeletons in their closets. What are the odds of that ?
And, wasn't it some arcane wiretap out of the blue that nailed Illinois Gov Blagojevich trying to sell Obama's Senate seat ?