Ever wonder just what those 100 emails with classified information might have contained? How it would have destroyed our country if those secrets had been compromised?
Take a look other classified information that has leaked. What you see are the things our own government is required to tell us, but won't, and if not that, then things that make politicians and bureaucrats look bad.
No, the state department does not get OPSEC, OPLAN, or SCI materials. They get stuff like whose diplomats are vulnerable to being compromised, who they are having affairs with. They do not get things like troop strength. They do not get operational security information. They do not get a lot because they are diplomats - people that get paid to talk a lot. Like anyone is going to give a bunch of gas bags a lot of hot security information.
Another telling point is that there is no criminal prosecution of Hillary Clinton, nor will there ever be. See? Total red herring and it fooled one hell of a lot of people.
The trick of politics isn't to tell the truth. The trick is to tell your voters what they want to hear regardless of fact.
It really doesn't matter to me who "won". None of them are going to make my life any easier and none of them have the least interest in increasing my paycheck. I found this to be true for several decades now.
I've noticed over the last 15 years that news reporting appears to deliberately incite rage in it's consumers. I conclude the reason is because happy news doesn't cause interaction that can be measured, while outrage causes people to post comments, link, and send to friends. These actions can be tracked, and if it can be tracked, it can be monetized. An example is Info Wars site. Most of their news is extremely slanted and almost seems to jerk the froth out of their average reader's mouth, while simultaneously reporting things dishonestly. When one bothers to fact check and independently confirm their stories, it is my opinion that they are almost without exception false to fact or put in the worst light possible. Nor is it confined to such fringe lunatic sites, this is found in Fox, Breitbart, Drudge, and to a lessor extent in CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, PBS, and NPR.
TL;DR: News is worthless. They all have an agenda and they all push it.
I'm still waiting for that flying car I was promised in the 1960s.
Farming isn't planting a seed and jumping out of the way before it sprouts and knocks your eye out. Things like market conditions, projected harvests, government regulations (try planting cotton without letting the USDA know about it!), how a field drains, where the culverts have a habit of overflowing, and heck, what field the boys around will ride their ATVs in or their families make an impromptu road though change the factors in how a field is maintained.
Sure, a tractor that drives itself is handy. In fact, it is a tremendous help in preventing "greening" (running over your own crops). However, a human will always be needed on any farm of a meaningful scale (anything more than a few thousand acres). The unpredictable things around will simply make complete robotic farming impossible. Things like (happened last month) thieves stole the diesel out of the fuel dump. 170K gallons of diesel vanished in a 47 hour period. That's about 20 truck loads. (we all thought they were -delivering- it, not hauling it away!)
Will it help? Yes. Will it eliminate the need for a human? Nope!
As I see it, the issue of trustworthy sources really isn't the issue. In my opinion, the real issue is that many simply don't believe even trustworthy sources if the news they report is disagreeable to the person consuming it.
In other words, many now reject any reality that they do not wish to believe. This is tantamount to insanity.
An example is the recent election. If one supported President Elect Trump, then all the reports of his personal and business conduct were "liberal media". If one was a supporter of Secretary Clinton, the issues with multiple congressional investigations were "right wing propaganda, old fat chewed endlessly".
This is not to take a stance of any of them. I'm pointing out the situation. I don't have any opinion on a Fix for it either. If the world is going crazy, let me off at the next stop please. I'm not enjoying the ride.
Orifice De Pot doesn't read the news I see. Otherwise they'd know what happened to Wells Fargo when they pulled the same crap. On the other hand, why on earth would anyone trust Office Depot with a computer? They didn't fill my paper order correctly so I stopped using them. Hey, if you can't get paper right, why on earth would you expect me to believe you can get a computer right?
Try reading a book or getting a hobby. I live where there's very good reception (the station's transmitters are less than 8 miles from my home) and that doesn't tempt me to turn on the TV. There isn't anything, nothing, zero, zip slant zilch, nada I want to see - not now that I've reclaimed my life and stopped drooling in front of the box.
We keep hearing one political party chant "free markets" and "get big government off our backs!" - yet, where are their actions to implement their words?
Cancel service. That's what I did years ago. I don't watch TV. I only watch what I am interested in. No more "shove that crap down their thoughts and they'll pay LOTS for it" programming.
Professional sports has gone from some reasonable charge to "holy cow you want HOW MUCH to watch?" Turn them off too.
Internet gets too expensive? Investigate alternatives such as Zip, ViVent, and other terrestrial microwave ISPs.
I am so sick and tired of databases not being properly protected. One thing you can do is to monitor outbound traffic. If you suddenly see a huge stream from the DB server to somewhere it doesn't normally go, a banshee cry should come from your monitoring system.
You can also include "trap" data in the DB and have pattern matching set up (on the system, in the network, on the routers). See the pattern, alarms and cell phones should start ringing.
Most Americans would rather die than actually use their brains. Most Americans believe whatever their choice of "news" they choose to consume tells them. Most Americans think that by hard work and diligence, they can get ahead. Most Americans think they are living in a democracy. Most Americans never visit other countries, and if they do, I'm ashamed of how they act for the most part.
Back on topic: Does anyone remember when Yahoo account credentials were the defacto "Single Sign on"? They didn't track failed logins, so it was fairly easy to bruit force an account.
Actually, I deactivated (not deleted, since you can't really do that) my facebook account some time ago. I've no time for it. Got programs to write, don't cha know?
I'm not sure myself, and unfortunately, it is starting to look like it's something I'll need to know for myself.
However - retirement: If you have a 401K or such, there really isn't any way for a company to "reach in" and take it. If it's a company run plan, or if it is company stock, there is a possibility of loosing it.
As for training replacements: Yeah. Right. I may teach them something, but I don't promise it'll be useful in the current role. And it's really a shame how much older folks start to "forget".
I don't understand what drives C level officers to H1B folks. It almost never, ever turns out well. Look what happened when IBM off shored, or how some other well known companies experimented and dropped it like a hot rock.
Heinlein's books that have been made into movies strayed a long way from the master's works. The movies are nothing more than a money grab. The books are much better.
Yahoo account? Really. I generally use them to open an account I know is going to be spam slammed then ignore it after I'm fished with whatever system is trying to get a email account. pwgen is good for making passwords you don't intend to remember.
I have many email accounts. Some only for family, some for friends, some for business... and some for spam or folks I'm pretty sure will spam. I have one account with aliases that are good for 24 hours, 72 hours, 1 week, then are never used again. It's a pain in the neck, but once you've set up mail servers all day long, you get to the point where puppet or salt can set up your server, configure it, and cron maintains the throwaway accounts.
The biggest issue is family or friends that get hacked, or servers that don't do SPF. DKIM I refuse to use. It does nothing SPF doesn't do (that I care about) and it does break mail lists and legitimately forwarded emails. DKIM is needlessly involved and needlessly breaks things I do care about.
"does better in a socialist economy than in a capitalist one, because nuclear energy prefers to have the public do the cleanup, do the insurance, cover all of the losses and it only wants the profits."
This is precisely why the calls for "A free and open market with big government off our backs." is disastrous. In addition to little things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... just think what it would be like if there were no regulation of meat, fuel, roads, drugs, doctors, chemical manufacturing, transport, storage, access, and I could go on and on.
The point being that if we want democracy, there has to be some way for limiting those stronger, richer, with more friends from becoming an issue for the less rich, less powerful, less popular. A society without limits is one with warlords and thugs running it.
Fine. Can I send you the bill for these multi-million dollar routers you want to turn in to boat anchors? I have two or three dozen I'll need to replace.
The key here is "$170 printer". This is not the cost of the unit; it's right at or below. The reason is because printer manufacturers have gotten used to being able to pick customers pockets once the purchase of the unit is made, counting on the consumer to have "Sunk cost fallacy".
That being said, I have advocated for simply throwing out HP equipment in my employment. I won't go into details (NDA and I don't want my opinion getting me sued) but I won't purchase HP if I have any say in the matter at all.
Tons of people blow their stack over Snowden's leaks. They are misguided and wrong in my opinion. What I've seen does not detail or risk named people (I may have missed something) but does bright line where our own government is breaking the law, and not just a little bit.
Look, crazy people will be able to harm us, no question. It's not giving away our own liberty and justice in the process of trying to stop them that makes the difference between an oppressive, unjust government and one that we say we want.
My only question is will the B&M Amazon stores be as over priced as their on line store? When I price compare, Amazon is usually about 15% or more higher than other on line retailers.
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Ever wonder just what those 100 emails with classified information might have contained? How it would have destroyed our country if those secrets had been compromised?
Take a look other classified information that has leaked. What you see are the things our own government is required to tell us, but won't, and if not that, then things that make politicians and bureaucrats look bad.
No, the state department does not get OPSEC, OPLAN, or SCI materials. They get stuff like whose diplomats are vulnerable to being compromised, who they are having affairs with. They do not get things like troop strength. They do not get operational security information. They do not get a lot because they are diplomats - people that get paid to talk a lot. Like anyone is going to give a bunch of gas bags a lot of hot security information.
Another telling point is that there is no criminal prosecution of Hillary Clinton, nor will there ever be. See? Total red herring and it fooled one hell of a lot of people.
The trick of politics isn't to tell the truth. The trick is to tell your voters what they want to hear regardless of fact.
It really doesn't matter to me who "won". None of them are going to make my life any easier and none of them have the least interest in increasing my paycheck. I found this to be true for several decades now.
I've noticed over the last 15 years that news reporting appears to deliberately incite rage in it's consumers. I conclude the reason is because happy news doesn't cause interaction that can be measured, while outrage causes people to post comments, link, and send to friends. These actions can be tracked, and if it can be tracked, it can be monetized. An example is Info Wars site. Most of their news is extremely slanted and almost seems to jerk the froth out of their average reader's mouth, while simultaneously reporting things dishonestly. When one bothers to fact check and independently confirm their stories, it is my opinion that they are almost without exception false to fact or put in the worst light possible. Nor is it confined to such fringe lunatic sites, this is found in Fox, Breitbart, Drudge, and to a lessor extent in CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, PBS, and NPR.
TL;DR: News is worthless. They all have an agenda and they all push it.
I'm still waiting for that flying car I was promised in the 1960s.
Farming isn't planting a seed and jumping out of the way before it sprouts and knocks your eye out. Things like market conditions, projected harvests, government regulations (try planting cotton without letting the USDA know about it!), how a field drains, where the culverts have a habit of overflowing, and heck, what field the boys around will ride their ATVs in or their families make an impromptu road though change the factors in how a field is maintained.
Sure, a tractor that drives itself is handy. In fact, it is a tremendous help in preventing "greening" (running over your own crops). However, a human will always be needed on any farm of a meaningful scale (anything more than a few thousand acres).
The unpredictable things around will simply make complete robotic farming impossible. Things like (happened last month) thieves stole the diesel out of the fuel dump. 170K gallons of diesel vanished in a 47 hour period. That's about 20 truck loads. (we all thought they were -delivering- it, not hauling it away!)
Will it help? Yes.
Will it eliminate the need for a human? Nope!
Two words:
Republican Congress.
'Nuf said.
As I see it, the issue of trustworthy sources really isn't the issue. In my opinion, the real issue is that many simply don't believe even trustworthy sources if the news they report is disagreeable to the person consuming it.
In other words, many now reject any reality that they do not wish to believe. This is tantamount to insanity.
An example is the recent election. If one supported President Elect Trump, then all the reports of his personal and business conduct were "liberal media". If one was a supporter of Secretary Clinton, the issues with multiple congressional investigations were "right wing propaganda, old fat chewed endlessly".
This is not to take a stance of any of them. I'm pointing out the situation. I don't have any opinion on a Fix for it either. If the world is going crazy, let me off at the next stop please. I'm not enjoying the ride.
Orifice De Pot doesn't read the news I see. Otherwise they'd know what happened to Wells Fargo when they pulled the same crap. On the other hand, why on earth would anyone trust Office Depot with a computer? They didn't fill my paper order correctly so I stopped using them. Hey, if you can't get paper right, why on earth would you expect me to believe you can get a computer right?
Try reading a book or getting a hobby. I live where there's very good reception (the station's transmitters are less than 8 miles from my home) and that doesn't tempt me to turn on the TV. There isn't anything, nothing, zero, zip slant zilch, nada I want to see - not now that I've reclaimed my life and stopped drooling in front of the box.
All those wasted hours, gone forever...
We keep hearing one political party chant "free markets" and "get big government off our backs!" - yet, where are their actions to implement their words?
Cancel service. That's what I did years ago. I don't watch TV. I only watch what I am interested in. No more "shove that crap down their thoughts and they'll pay LOTS for it" programming.
Professional sports has gone from some reasonable charge to "holy cow you want HOW MUCH to watch?" Turn them off too.
Internet gets too expensive? Investigate alternatives such as Zip, ViVent, and other terrestrial microwave ISPs.
I am so sick and tired of databases not being properly protected. One thing you can do is to monitor outbound traffic. If you suddenly see a huge stream from the DB server to somewhere it doesn't normally go, a banshee cry should come from your monitoring system.
You can also include "trap" data in the DB and have pattern matching set up (on the system, in the network, on the routers). See the pattern, alarms and cell phones should start ringing.
Most Americans would rather die than actually use their brains.
Most Americans believe whatever their choice of "news" they choose to consume tells them.
Most Americans think that by hard work and diligence, they can get ahead.
Most Americans think they are living in a democracy.
Most Americans never visit other countries, and if they do, I'm ashamed of how they act for the most part.
Back on topic: Does anyone remember when Yahoo account credentials were the defacto "Single Sign on"? They didn't track failed logins, so it was fairly easy to bruit force an account.
I feel fine!
Actually, I deactivated (not deleted, since you can't really do that) my facebook account some time ago. I've no time for it. Got programs to write, don't cha know?
I'm not sure myself, and unfortunately, it is starting to look like it's something I'll need to know for myself.
However - retirement: If you have a 401K or such, there really isn't any way for a company to "reach in" and take it. If it's a company run plan, or if it is company stock, there is a possibility of loosing it.
As for training replacements: Yeah. Right. I may teach them something, but I don't promise it'll be useful in the current role. And it's really a shame how much older folks start to "forget".
I don't understand what drives C level officers to H1B folks. It almost never, ever turns out well. Look what happened when IBM off shored, or how some other well known companies experimented and dropped it like a hot rock.
Heinlein's books that have been made into movies strayed a long way from the master's works. The movies are nothing more than a money grab. The books are much better.
Yahoo account? Really. I generally use them to open an account I know is going to be spam slammed then ignore it after I'm fished with whatever system is trying to get a email account. pwgen is good for making passwords you don't intend to remember.
pwgen -sy 16 1
No need to do that. They scan them in flight (where encrypted tunnels or TLS is not in use).
I have many email accounts. Some only for family, some for friends, some for business... and some for spam or folks I'm pretty sure will spam.
I have one account with aliases that are good for 24 hours, 72 hours, 1 week, then are never used again.
It's a pain in the neck, but once you've set up mail servers all day long, you get to the point where puppet or salt can set up your server, configure it, and cron maintains the throwaway accounts.
The biggest issue is family or friends that get hacked, or servers that don't do SPF. DKIM I refuse to use. It does nothing SPF doesn't do (that I care about) and it does break mail lists and legitimately forwarded emails. DKIM is needlessly involved and needlessly breaks things I do care about.
"does better in a socialist economy than in a capitalist one, because nuclear energy prefers to have the public do the cleanup, do the insurance, cover all of the losses and it only wants the profits."
This is precisely why the calls for "A free and open market with big government off our backs." is disastrous. In addition to little things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... just think what it would be like if there were no regulation of meat, fuel, roads, drugs, doctors, chemical manufacturing, transport, storage, access, and I could go on and on.
The point being that if we want democracy, there has to be some way for limiting those stronger, richer, with more friends from becoming an issue for the less rich, less powerful, less popular. A society without limits is one with warlords and thugs running it.
Fine. Can I send you the bill for these multi-million dollar routers you want to turn in to boat anchors? I have two or three dozen I'll need to replace.
113 million dollars to fix.
49 million dollars for the death and destruction costs.
Ford chose death and destruction over the lives of customers.
To this day I won't own Ford.
http://www.popularmechanics.co...
is still a rose.
s/rose/screwing/g
The key here is "$170 printer". This is not the cost of the unit; it's right at or below. The reason is because printer manufacturers have gotten used to being able to pick customers pockets once the purchase of the unit is made, counting on the consumer to have "Sunk cost fallacy".
That being said, I have advocated for simply throwing out HP equipment in my employment. I won't go into details (NDA and I don't want my opinion getting me sued) but I won't purchase HP if I have any say in the matter at all.
Tons of people blow their stack over Snowden's leaks. They are misguided and wrong in my opinion. What I've seen does not detail or risk named people (I may have missed something) but does bright line where our own government is breaking the law, and not just a little bit.
Look, crazy people will be able to harm us, no question. It's not giving away our own liberty and justice in the process of trying to stop them that makes the difference between an oppressive, unjust government and one that we say we want.
My only question is will the B&M Amazon stores be as over priced as their on line store? When I price compare, Amazon is usually about 15% or more higher than other on line retailers.
Oh Ghu, please please do.
While I do think we have a bit of too much Government in many cases, I also think we shouldn't throw baby out with the bathwater.