That is *ALL* they're allowed to do. By law, the CIA is prohibited from spying on US citizens. Not that that stops them, of course, they weasel around that restriction.
(Think about it: if there was, wouldn't it be used to totally eradicate crime?)
This gets the award for "most naive statement of the week." The most fascistic regimes THRIVE on crime. Without crime, there would be no fear. Without fear, the sheeple could not be manipulated into ratting out their family members. Without rats, even the most hardened tyrant cannot last.
I have about a hundred email aliases. I get about three genuine spams per day - and a lot of "junk email" from vendors who I've done business with, but that stuff is, strictly speaking, legit. It's just kind of annoying in its volume.
So I ask again -- what's wrong with three spams a day? BFD.
And right after the election, the talking heads on CNBC were telling their viewers that the sell-off of the dollar was due to "politics". Not because the big currency traders (most of them institutions) were making rational investment choices. Incredible.
Interesting that this didn't happen back before software patents were legal.
It wasn't too long ago that you COULD NOT get a patent on software algorithms because they were considered mathematics.
Once you can patent the tiniest bit of software, it's like patenting nails and screws.
It wouldn't be a problem except for all of the zillions of carpenters out there that can no longer be self-employed because they can't afford to negotiate exhorbitant licensing fees for nails.
I have about a hundred email aliases that I use on a regular basis (for spam control - so I can see if any of my vendors divulge my address).
I have made numerous postings to Usenet and public email lists with some of those addresses.
I have a few email addresses in mailto: links on web pages.
I have about five times as many credit cards and bank accounts as the average person.
Some of my email aliases are six years old -- I don't think that any of my email addresses from > six years ago still forward to me.
I never get any of these phishing emails. I can't remember the last time I received an email virus/trojan/worm. I get a fair bit of spam, but it's manageable.
Am I living in a different universe from the technology journalists?
Just for the sake of respectful discourse, why don't you try posting statements based on things you *know* to be true, rather than random inflammatory guesses?
Frequently, there are NOT 100 other people waiting for an airplane where ever I am. In some airports, I've gone looking for a quiet corner away from everyone to make a few phone calls, or do some paperwork. I can always find a deserted gate -- no travelers, no staff, no nobody. But there's always that verdammt TV running a LOUD loop of the same crap over and over. And yeah, I have the balls to stand up and turn it off, except it's 12 feet off the ground and I'm not Michael Jordan.
What right does the airport have to impose that on me? They're not truly private property, they're only "technically semi-private autonomous authorities" for political reasons, but they're publically funded, built, and partially staffed by political appointees.
A phototypesetter, no. But a daisy-wheel Wangwriter, perhaps. All the talk about the authenticity of these documents focusses on whether they could have been produced on a typewriter, however, there were other options besides that. Wang's biggest customers were governments and military services.
it takes more exposure than that to cause cancer, and the uwave rad levels wouldn't be high enough to actually cook him either. When uwave ovens were first commercialized, people were afraid of the radiation. I knew an appliance salesman that defeated the safety interlock and used to put his hand in the oven while he ran it for a little bit just to demonstrate the safety. Not too swift, sure, but it didn't cook him instantly.
I think you'd find that if it had ever operated, it would set something in the car on fire long before the driver got cancer.
There's no way you could generate enough electricity from pv cells to power your own house, lighting, air conditioning, whatever, AND your automobile. Do the math.
The explosive fill in the munitions is fabricated from a mixture that has the consistency of toothpaste. The mixture is cast into the carbon-fiber case and cured. This process allows the munitions to be created in a variety of shapes for use in many different applications.
So, cool... Here we are, all worried about terrorists sneaking on airplanes with bombs disguised as banal objects, and yet, it's the US government is doing the research to make construction of such weapons possible.
We always seem to be in an arms race with ourselves. First, we were doing advanced research on nuclear weapons, much of which was stolen and sold to the USSR and China. Now, we're doing advanced research on terrorist weapons. Y'know, "the enemy" wouldn't get nearly as far with construction of his weapons if we weren't doing all the grunt work first.
Well, duh! It's not a wiretap, after all. As it is, they can get your billing data without a warrant, it's also called a "pen register". Since it's "just a list of who you've called" and not the actual content of the calls, no warrant is required.
This would just be more of the same.
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the efficiency of conversion of biomass to energy by the human metabolism is very, very, poor. It's not that the oxidation of glucose is so inefficient, it's that there's so much energy spent digesting food to glucose in the first place.
Chickens and rabbits do much better. But then, what kind of a movie would it be if Keanu Reeves was trying to free acres and acres of penned hens? I know, it's about his speed. He'd probably get an Oscar for best supporting actor.
Er, as I was saying, the human body is not a very efficient producer of energy, and the amount of fossil fuels used to produce our food is staggering.
What would be more useful, in terms of the worlds energy demands, is if these guys could *reverse* the process... By putting energy IN to the metabolism, synthesise glucose from H20 and C02. Ideally, the energy source would be good old solar insolation on exposed skin.
So, lay around in the backyard naked for a few hours and save the money you would have had to spend on doughnuts.
This isn't too incredibly speculative, plenty of organisms do this already. The downside is, you'd probably be green, but if everyone was green, it wouldn't be so bad.
I think these are both fine policies. I've seen far too many abuses of corporate travel policies so that managers can accumulate miles, and I know too many people that have left a company in disgrace because the IT staff were snooping on their emails to their goat lovers.
Back in the day, there was no such thing as personal email addresses, but times have changed. Keep your personal stuff off the company's computers, you'll be better off for it in the long run.
Didn't anyone else think it was kind of ridiculous to focus any attention at all on the choice of middleware in the non-existent IT organization of a non-existent "virtual" automobile company? As if the choice of.NET or not is really going to make more than the teensiest smidgen of difference whether this company survives or not. There are SO SO SO many other things that matter SO much more.
Though I have to say, ruling out *any* technology, be it a computer technology, or a welding technology, simply because it's ten, twenty, or a hundred years old, sounds like the kind of decision either a teenager or a PHB would make.
Most of the replies are of the form "yeah, it's frank, that's what the military does".
But they're missing the point.
The complaint is not that it is "frank", the complaint is that it's flippant, and it implies that the speaker ENJOYS the process.
Someone said "oh, you're one of those people who eats beef but doesn't want to talk about slaughterhouses".
Not so. I think the parent poster is someone who eats beef but thinks the cow should be treated humanely nonetheless.
The complaint was about a tacky and tasteless manner of speech.
Anyone who "fully supports killing" with no ambivalence or hesitation, is a sociopath and a menace to society.
Fortunately, I don't believe that these posters really stand behind those words. I think they're just immature and inexperienced, but enjoying the power trip of harsh rhetoric.
okay, it's only 40-bit DES, which isn't super secure. But it's damned easy to use, and is plenty good enough for keeping my wife and kids from finding the naked pictures of my girlfriend.
What? "broken"?? My god, referring to the correct, as-designed intended use of the protocol as BROKEN!
I know, let's just forget about Host Requirements, and about a richly-interconnected fully-reachable peer-to-peer network. That old Internet stuff is just "broken". Let's build us a hierarchical circuit-switched network, and then appoint a monopoly to manage it!
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That is *ALL* they're allowed to do. By law, the CIA is prohibited from spying on US citizens. Not that that stops them, of course, they weasel around that restriction.
Technically, Ruby shot Oswald in an alleyway while Oswals was in police custody, not while he was in a jail.
I have about a hundred email aliases. I get about three genuine spams per day - and a lot of "junk email" from vendors who I've done business with, but that stuff is, strictly speaking, legit. It's just kind of annoying in its volume.
So I ask again -- what's wrong with three spams a day? BFD.
Which means that they'll have plenty of funds to pursue their evil agenda :(
And right after the election, the talking heads on CNBC were telling their viewers that the sell-off of the dollar was due to "politics". Not because the big currency traders (most of them institutions) were making rational investment choices. Incredible.
Interesting that this didn't happen back before software patents were legal.
It wasn't too long ago that you COULD NOT get a patent on software algorithms because they were considered mathematics.
Once you can patent the tiniest bit of software, it's like patenting nails and screws.
It wouldn't be a problem except for all of the zillions of carpenters out there that can no longer be self-employed because they can't afford to negotiate exhorbitant licensing fees for nails.
I have about a hundred email aliases that I use on a regular basis (for spam control - so I can see if any of my vendors divulge my address).
I have made numerous postings to Usenet and public email lists with some of those addresses.
I have a few email addresses in mailto: links on web pages.
I have about five times as many credit cards and bank accounts as the average person.
Some of my email aliases are six years old -- I don't think that any of my email addresses from > six years ago still forward to me.
I never get any of these phishing emails. I can't remember the last time I received an email virus/trojan/worm. I get a fair bit of spam, but it's manageable.
Am I living in a different universe from the technology journalists?
Just for the sake of respectful discourse, why don't you try posting statements based on things you *know* to be true, rather than random inflammatory guesses?
Frequently, there are NOT 100 other people waiting for an airplane where ever I am. In some airports, I've gone looking for a quiet corner away from everyone to make a few phone calls, or do some paperwork. I can always find a deserted gate -- no travelers, no staff, no nobody. But there's always that verdammt TV running a LOUD loop of the same crap over and over. And yeah, I have the balls to stand up and turn it off, except it's 12 feet off the ground and I'm not Michael Jordan.
What right does the airport have to impose that on me? They're not truly private property, they're only "technically semi-private autonomous authorities" for political reasons, but they're publically funded, built, and partially staffed by political appointees.
A phototypesetter, no. But a daisy-wheel Wangwriter, perhaps. All the talk about the authenticity of these documents focusses on whether they could have been produced on a typewriter, however, there were other options besides that. Wang's biggest customers were governments and military services.
it takes more exposure than that to cause cancer, and the uwave rad levels wouldn't be high enough to actually cook him either. When uwave ovens were first commercialized, people were afraid of the radiation. I knew an appliance salesman that defeated the safety interlock and used to put his hand in the oven while he ran it for a little bit just to demonstrate the safety. Not too swift, sure, but it didn't cook him instantly.
I think you'd find that if it had ever operated, it would set something in the car on fire long before the driver got cancer.
terrorism will not stop when oil is no longer strategic.
the terrorism of the future will be about control of fresh water supplies.
There's no way you could generate enough electricity from pv cells to power your own house, lighting, air conditioning, whatever, AND your automobile. Do the math.
So, cool... Here we are, all worried about terrorists sneaking on airplanes with bombs disguised as banal objects, and yet, it's the US government is doing the research to make construction of such weapons possible.
We always seem to be in an arms race with ourselves. First, we were doing advanced research on nuclear weapons, much of which was stolen and sold to the USSR and China. Now, we're doing advanced research on terrorist weapons. Y'know, "the enemy" wouldn't get nearly as far with construction of his weapons if we weren't doing all the grunt work first.
Well, duh! It's not a wiretap, after all. As it is, they can get your billing data without a warrant, it's also called a "pen register". Since it's "just a list of who you've called" and not the actual content of the calls, no warrant is required.
This would just be more of the same.
the efficiency of conversion of biomass to energy by the human metabolism is very, very, poor. It's not that the oxidation of glucose is so inefficient, it's that there's so much energy spent digesting food to glucose in the first place.
Chickens and rabbits do much better. But then, what kind of a movie would it be if Keanu Reeves was trying to free acres and acres of penned hens? I know, it's about his speed. He'd probably get an Oscar for best supporting actor.
Er, as I was saying, the human body is not a very efficient producer of energy, and the amount of fossil fuels used to produce our food is staggering.
What would be more useful, in terms of the worlds energy demands, is if these guys could *reverse* the process... By putting energy IN to the metabolism, synthesise glucose from H20 and C02. Ideally, the energy source would be good old solar insolation on exposed skin.
So, lay around in the backyard naked for a few hours and save the money you would have had to spend on doughnuts.
This isn't too incredibly speculative, plenty of organisms do this already. The downside is, you'd probably be green, but if everyone was green, it wouldn't be so bad.
I think these are both fine policies. I've seen far too many abuses of corporate travel policies so that managers can accumulate miles, and I know too many people that have left a company in disgrace because the IT staff were snooping on their emails to their goat lovers.
Back in the day, there was no such thing as personal email addresses, but times have changed. Keep your personal stuff off the company's computers, you'll be better off for it in the long run.
Didn't anyone else think it was kind of ridiculous to focus any attention at all on the choice of middleware in the non-existent IT organization of a non-existent "virtual" automobile company? As if the choice of .NET or not is really going to make more than the teensiest smidgen of difference whether this company survives or not. There are SO SO SO many other things that matter SO much more.
Though I have to say, ruling out *any* technology, be it a computer technology, or a welding technology, simply because it's ten, twenty, or a hundred years old, sounds like the kind of decision either a teenager or a PHB would make.
Most of the replies are of the form "yeah, it's frank, that's what the military does".
But they're missing the point.
The complaint is not that it is "frank", the complaint is that it's flippant, and it implies that the speaker ENJOYS the process.
Someone said "oh, you're one of those people who eats beef but doesn't want to talk about slaughterhouses".
Not so. I think the parent poster is someone who eats beef but thinks the cow should be treated humanely nonetheless.
The complaint was about a tacky and tasteless manner of speech.
Anyone who "fully supports killing" with no ambivalence or hesitation, is a sociopath and a menace to society.
Fortunately, I don't believe that these posters really stand behind those words. I think they're just immature and inexperienced, but enjoying the power trip of harsh rhetoric.
The fact that there are so few truly malicious worms has given me renewed faith in the basic goodness of human nature.
The only other explanation is that malice and laziness are inextricably intertwined.
okay, it's only 40-bit DES, which isn't super secure. But it's damned easy to use, and is plenty good enough for keeping my wife and kids from finding the naked pictures of my girlfriend.
This is precisely the problem which MIT solved in their public access labs by inventing Project Athena.
TWENTY GODDAMNED YEARS AGO!
Kerberos, remember? All that good stuff? Because
YOU CAN'T TRUST THE SOFTWARE ON PUBLIC ACCESS SYSTEMS
(it was presumed that you could trust the hardware because the labs were monitored for tampering)
What? "broken"?? My god, referring to the correct, as-designed intended use of the protocol as BROKEN!
I know, let's just forget about Host Requirements, and about a richly-interconnected fully-reachable peer-to-peer network. That old Internet stuff is just "broken". Let's build us a hierarchical circuit-switched network, and then appoint a monopoly to manage it!
And EVERY utility had a man page.
Heck, AIX even has documentation for the KERNEL.