the hack of stratfor was aided and abedded by the FBI. they provided the servers to store the data. they 'flipped' Sabu. they were monitoring him the whole time he was running the anonymous hacks of various companies. the FBI just stood by while they did it.
for their system? because that is what they are moving towards - a system where you can only install software purchased from the Windows Store or wahtever they will call it. thats what Metro is moving to.
they did not invent the ipod, they did not invent buying music online, they did not invent video phones, they did not invent the mouse, they did not invent the internet, nor the web, they did not invent ethernet, they did not invent LCD, they did not invent smartphones, they did not invent Siri, they did not invent liquid polymer batteries, they did not invent outsourcing to dictatorships
then companies will switch. it simply won't matter. companies with HIPPA requirements will have to have updated anti-virus stuff. when that stops on XP, the companies will be forced to upgrade by law.
and if the earth sped up by a huge amount, things would 'weigh' a lot less. in fact, some things would go flying off into space... if earths outer edge somehow managed to reach escape velocity (in some unimaginable cataclysm). gravity itself wouldn't have changed though.
i.e. they are specifically claiming that 'gravity is different due to the spin'. but the spin is only relevant in that the earth's "geoid" shape is thought to be due to the spin. the spin itself doesnt change how gravity works. at least not that i am aware of. if the earth stopped spinning all of a sudden, but remained a geoid... then the gravity at the poles wouldn't change, nor would the gravity at the equator. the only thing gone would be the centripetal acceleration due to spin. things would 'weigh less' because they lacked centripetal acceleration not because gravity suddenly changed.
an interesting question about your point is this - if you take stuff to the top of a mountain, does it weigh 'more' or 'less' than at sea level?
1. card creation center makes card 2. retailer stocks card on shelves 3. user picks card of shelf 4. user pays cashier 5..... pays cashier with what? there is no cash anymore. 6. user pays cashier with electronic device, which is tracable 7. user takes 'cash card' and gives it to drug dealer 8. drug dealer passes it through 'laundering chain' 9. organized crime underground 'prepaid visa card' center collects cards and launders money 10. oops, its all tracable to the original retailer.
"1. An intelligence service cannot be effective if its sources, methods, capabilities, and techniques are known to the adversary. Intelligence processes must be kept secret, even in an open society. This has been true for the history of our nation."
The NSA did not exist before the 1950s. The CIA did not exist before the 1940s. The idea of "classified information" did not exist before the early 1900s. The Espionage Act did not exist before 1917. The Computer Espionage law did not exist before 1986. The Espionage Act was not used against people for talking to reporters until the 1980s, and it was not used 6+ times by one president until Obama.
'2. Inasmuch as "monitoring rooms" are alleged — because their existence, capabilities, and numbers are NOT KNOWN beyond the assertions of a whistleblower with an admitted anti-war agenda — NSA is authorized to monitor foreign communications WITHIN THE US, and must be able to identify, discern, and target such communications within the sea of digital communications.'
The existence of the AT&T monitoring is known because of a guy inside of AT&T who spilled the beans. The larger monitoring program, whose real name we don't even know, was revealed by the New York Times. This revelation caused the Bush administration to start an FBI manhunt for the 'leaker' that used dozens of agents and spent untold amounts of money looking for the 'leak' for years on end. They never arrested anyone related to the leak, but they did find Thomas Drake, a scapegoat, who talked with a reporter about a boondoggle IT system that was failing to do it's job (something that Congress agreed with). He was not 'anti-war', he was 'anti boondoggle'. But he was also against the idea of spying on American citizens - and he clearly states that his involvement in whistleblowing was directly related to this activity at NSA. The government then had FBI agents raid his house and the house of his friends (almost all conservative republicans by the way), who they tracked down because they had filed an Inspector General complaint internally with the DoD several years prior (something, which by the way, is supposed to remain confidential so that the internal complaint process will not be hindered by anonymous tipsters fearing retaliation). His friends have stated that the technology they built was having its privacy controls stripped out and that they felt it was being used to spy on Americans. This is one of the fundamental reasons some of them told their stories.
Then, of course, there is James Bamford's book "The Shadow Factory", in which he interviewed people who worked at the Georgia NSA building - one specifically mentions listening on on conversations of US citizens overseas talking to loved ones back home, and the other person he interviewed wouldn't comment on it. I know you claim this is 'just journalists embedded with soldiers'. OK, so they are spying on soldiers then? Who is in charge of the military, the NSA? Because I thought that it was supposed to work the other way around.
Then there is the history of the NSA and/or the US military (in Bamford's other books, and in scattered sources like The Asylum by Leah McGrath Goodman) where they have pathways into organizations like Western Union, ITT, and the New York Mercantile Exchange.
"3. See 1. 4. How is what you assume NSA to be doing "vital to the interest of a dying empire"? Do you think the world would be a better place without the US, the West, and the ability to project and protect principles of freedom and liberal democracy, even if imperfectly? Would China, Russia, or a chaotic mix of Mideast states and transnational radials really be a better global steward?"
China - which owns US debt and is the US's manufacturnig base. The Mideast - which produces US's oil supply. Russia - which produces natural gas that our ally Europe depends upon for survival. Sorry I don't see how we are a 'steward' of anything, when any one of these countries could pull the plug and bring us down. If you read Henry Pau
the mass of the earth is the same whether it's spinning or not. the spin causes centripetal acceleration, which is in the opposite direction of the acceleration due to gravity. i.e. the 'centrifugal force' cancels out a little bit of the 'gravitational force', but the gravity force itself is only slightly different because of shape, not because of the spin itself.
it seems to me that he might experience some problems with part of his body having supersonic shockwaves forming on it before other parts of his body, thanks to the non-aerodynamic shape of his head, shoulders, etc.
similar to airplanes breaking up at the sound barrier before they were designed to fly through it.
every article written about 'the decline of american labor x' needs to wake up and realize that 'american labor x' ceased to have meaning when corporations became globalized. NYSE is not the New York Stock Exchange. it is NYSE-Euronext, with its tentacles in pies all over the world. They can have their headquarters anywhere. Companies like IBM are not 'American Companies'. They are companies that happen to have a lot of managers in the United States, but they really don't need to.
There is only one 'STEM labor supply', and it covers the face of the Earth, and that is where corporations and governments get their labor from. We are all in the same boat. The only way to 'save American labor X' is to save global labor x, and that means fighting against corrupt, repressive governments like China, where STEM people are thrown in prison if they criticize the system.
john c dvorak had an article in the early 90s
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predicting the end of the $40 computer game.
people say we are logical, and we have science, and we no longer rely on witch doctors and shamanism and we dont believe in magic.
but pundits are our shamans, and we throw bones trying to predict these things that are not only unpredictable, but dont really matter that much, but we love to do it.
something about the mysticism is there in all of us , and which part of it is good, and which is bad?
the really interesting moments when you realize you were wrong, and you were wrong for wrong reasons.
the diff with encyclopedia britannica etc is that we had a whole social system called 'libraries' that were based around the idea of storing those things for decades or centuries.
having a few dozen random people with copies in dark corners is interesting, but is it really equivalent? in some ways it may be better, but in other ways, it may not be better.
i have had edits 'disappeared' from wikipedia. the technical capability is there, and it wouldnt be there if it wasnt used, and it has been used.
furthermore, the tracking of this usage is not good, its not transparent, and the wikimedia administrators are loathe to do so.
now granted, , its a very tiny subset that is censored, and it typically revolves around crap like decryption codes. (my edits were discussing the Sony playstation3 keys... ironically the stuff i was posting had little or nothing to do with the actual keys that could actually jailbreak it... but someone thought it might so they 'wiped it' away.)
the point is that there is no guarantee wikipedia 2010 will always be wikipedia 2010. but if you have encyloepdia britannica 1960, it will almost always be encyclopedia britannica 1960. now, the JSTOR organization found out that even paper editions of periodicals are not always consistent, and archives are not always definitive, but still, the point is, its much harder to go back and censor a book than to censor electronics.
my favorite example is 'Mein Kampf'. you can find paper versionf ot hsi book that mention Hitler's admiration of Henry For.d You can also find editions where this passage has been removed. eraseed. in an all electronic world, the versions with henry ford included are... going to be found on archives, but not necessarily.
as someone with 6000 wikipedia edits, i would hope in my dream of dreams that every single one of them was directly attributable to the writings of an expert.
wikipedia is not the 'wisdom of crowds', rather it is the liberation of facts from the academic institutes , the translation of those facts into somewhat simple language, and their arrangement together for easy access. something libraries should have been doing a long time ago.
also a good article will present the work of various experts, and indicate which expert holds which point of view.
i do not always meet my goal on wikipedia, but basically, without experts, wikipedia would be a gigantic pile of worthless trash.
and the major banks 'allocated resources' to mortgage securities that were basically garbage, and housing got built that immediately started to rot because nobody could afford to buy it at the artificially inflated prices of the housing bubble.
'oh thats wasnt capitalism it was backed by the govt and evil regulations'.
yeah, well, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Deutschebank, BNP Paribas, AIG, all the monoline insurance companies, a couple hundred hedge funds, mutual funds, etc etc etc, all decided to 'allocate capital' to this "evil govt program". They weren't objecting to Fannie and Freddie, they were aping fannie and freddie. all of these private businesses then benefitted from the govt bailout too.
in other words, these are the 'bastions of capitalism'. these are the guys who fund the Ayn Rand institutions and the theoretical economists and think tanks to push "capitalism" whatever that means. what it has actually meant in reality is some kind of unholy alliance with the govt to bilk taxpayers out of money, and has very little to do with a 'free market'.
that if he hadn't been born and raised in a socialist country, he probably never would have open sourced the linux kernel. it was on the 'fresh air' show with Teri Gross.
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when i actually payed a bunch of people to pay another bunch of people to build it.
the hack of stratfor was aided and abedded by the FBI. they provided the servers to store the data. they 'flipped' Sabu. they were monitoring him the whole time he was running the anonymous hacks of various companies. the FBI just stood by while they did it.
the FBI is responsible here. it went too far.
millions-of-dollars research projects, are underway right now. in fact, a guy from the l0pht, named Midge.
see
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyber_Insider_Threat
im sure theres no coincidence between 'experts' pushing this and the industry about to 'provide the solution'.
nevermind that they are basically, built around theories like "maybe a guy changes the time he eats lunch".
and that 'insider threats' also = whistleblowers.
for their system? because that is what they are moving towards - a system where you can only install software purchased from the Windows Store or wahtever they will call it. thats what Metro is moving to.
they did not invent the ipod, they did not invent buying music online, they did not invent video phones, they did not invent the mouse, they did not invent the internet, nor the web, they did not invent ethernet, they did not invent LCD, they did not invent smartphones, they did not invent Siri, they did not invent liquid polymer batteries, they did not invent outsourcing to dictatorships
then companies will switch. it simply won't matter. companies with HIPPA requirements will have to have updated anti-virus stuff. when that stops on XP, the companies will be forced to upgrade by law.
Think of all extra kilobytes!
and if the earth sped up by a huge amount, things would 'weigh' a lot less. in fact, some things would go flying off into space... if earths outer edge somehow managed to reach escape velocity (in some unimaginable cataclysm). gravity itself wouldn't have changed though.
changes gravity.
i.e. they are specifically claiming that 'gravity is different due to the spin'. but the spin is only relevant in that the earth's "geoid" shape is thought to be due to the spin. the spin itself doesnt change how gravity works. at least not that i am aware of. if the earth stopped spinning all of a sudden, but remained a geoid... then the gravity at the poles wouldn't change, nor would the gravity at the equator. the only thing gone would be the centripetal acceleration due to spin. things would 'weigh less' because they lacked centripetal acceleration not because gravity suddenly changed.
an interesting question about your point is this - if you take stuff to the top of a mountain, does it weigh 'more' or 'less' than at sea level?
1. card creation center makes card .... pays cashier with what? there is no cash anymore.
2. retailer stocks card on shelves
3. user picks card of shelf
4. user pays cashier
5.
6. user pays cashier with electronic device, which is tracable
7. user takes 'cash card' and gives it to drug dealer
8. drug dealer passes it through 'laundering chain'
9. organized crime underground 'prepaid visa card' center collects cards and launders money
10. oops, its all tracable to the original retailer.
id like a little more confidence than "its not likely to happen" lol
"1. An intelligence service cannot be effective if its sources, methods, capabilities, and techniques are known to the adversary. Intelligence processes must be kept secret, even in an open society. This has been true for the history of our nation."
The NSA did not exist before the 1950s. The CIA did not exist before the 1940s. The idea of "classified information" did not exist before the early 1900s. The Espionage Act did not exist before 1917. The Computer Espionage law did not exist before 1986. The Espionage Act was not used against people for talking to reporters until the 1980s, and it was not used 6+ times by one president until Obama.
'2. Inasmuch as "monitoring rooms" are alleged — because their existence, capabilities, and numbers are NOT KNOWN beyond the assertions of a whistleblower with an admitted anti-war agenda — NSA is authorized to monitor foreign communications WITHIN THE US, and must be able to identify, discern, and target such communications within the sea of digital communications.'
The existence of the AT&T monitoring is known because of a guy inside of AT&T who spilled the beans. The larger monitoring program, whose real name we don't even know, was revealed by the New York Times. This revelation caused the Bush administration to start an FBI manhunt for the 'leaker' that used dozens of agents and spent untold amounts of money looking for the 'leak' for years on end. They never arrested anyone related to the leak, but they did find Thomas Drake, a scapegoat, who talked with a reporter about a boondoggle IT system that was failing to do it's job (something that Congress agreed with). He was not 'anti-war', he was 'anti boondoggle'. But he was also against the idea of spying on American citizens - and he clearly states that his involvement in whistleblowing was directly related to this activity at NSA. The government then had FBI agents raid his house and the house of his friends (almost all conservative republicans by the way), who they tracked down because they had filed an Inspector General complaint internally with the DoD several years prior (something, which by the way, is supposed to remain confidential so that the internal complaint process will not be hindered by anonymous tipsters fearing retaliation). His friends have stated that the technology they built was having its privacy controls stripped out and that they felt it was being used to spy on Americans. This is one of the fundamental reasons some of them told their stories.
Then, of course, there is James Bamford's book "The Shadow Factory", in which he interviewed people who worked at the Georgia NSA building - one specifically mentions listening on on conversations of US citizens overseas talking to loved ones back home, and the other person he interviewed wouldn't comment on it. I know you claim this is 'just journalists embedded with soldiers'. OK, so they are spying on soldiers then? Who is in charge of the military, the NSA? Because I thought that it was supposed to work the other way around.
Then there is the history of the NSA and/or the US military (in Bamford's other books, and in scattered sources like The Asylum by Leah McGrath Goodman) where they have pathways into organizations like Western Union, ITT, and the New York Mercantile Exchange.
"3. See 1. 4. How is what you assume NSA to be doing "vital to the interest of a dying empire"? Do you think the world would be a better place without the US, the West, and the ability to project and protect principles of freedom and liberal democracy, even if imperfectly? Would China, Russia, or a chaotic mix of Mideast states and transnational radials really be a better global steward?"
China - which owns US debt and is the US's manufacturnig base. The Mideast - which produces US's oil supply. Russia - which produces natural gas that our ally Europe depends upon for survival. Sorry I don't see how we are a 'steward' of anything, when any one of these countries could pull the plug and bring us down. If you read Henry Pau
i searched through and not once, not even once, does he mention linux.
the mass of the earth is the same whether it's spinning or not. the spin causes centripetal acceleration, which is in the opposite direction of the acceleration due to gravity. i.e. the 'centrifugal force' cancels out a little bit of the 'gravitational force', but the gravity force itself is only slightly different because of shape, not because of the spin itself.
or am i missing something?
it seems to me that he might experience some problems with part of his body having supersonic shockwaves forming on it before other parts of his body, thanks to the non-aerodynamic shape of his head, shoulders, etc.
similar to airplanes breaking up at the sound barrier before they were designed to fly through it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Area_rule
every article written about 'the decline of american labor x' needs to wake up and realize that 'american labor x' ceased to have meaning when corporations became globalized. NYSE is not the New York Stock Exchange. it is NYSE-Euronext, with its tentacles in pies all over the world. They can have their headquarters anywhere. Companies like IBM are not 'American Companies'. They are companies that happen to have a lot of managers in the United States, but they really don't need to.
There is only one 'STEM labor supply', and it covers the face of the Earth, and that is where corporations and governments get their labor from. We are all in the same boat. The only way to 'save American labor X' is to save global labor x, and that means fighting against corrupt, repressive governments like China, where STEM people are thrown in prison if they criticize the system.
either they are direct govt employees, or they are employed by companies that exist maily because of government contracts.
on captain kirk's love life
predicting the end of the $40 computer game.
people say we are logical, and we have science, and we no longer rely on witch doctors and shamanism and we dont believe in magic.
but pundits are our shamans, and we throw bones trying to predict these things that are not only unpredictable, but dont really matter that much, but we love to do it.
something about the mysticism is there in all of us , and which part of it is good, and which is bad?
the really interesting moments when you realize you were wrong, and you were wrong for wrong reasons.
a good wikipedia article will cite every paragraph at least. when writing about the holocaust, it is a good idea to cite every last sentence.
now, if you want to cite wikipedia, instead just copy the citations, go find those works that were cited, and use them in your paper.
the diff with encyclopedia britannica etc is that we had a whole social system called 'libraries' that were based around the idea of storing those things for decades or centuries.
having a few dozen random people with copies in dark corners is interesting, but is it really equivalent? in some ways it may be better, but in other ways, it may not be better.
i have had edits 'disappeared' from wikipedia. the technical capability is there, and it wouldnt be there if it wasnt used, and it has been used.
furthermore, the tracking of this usage is not good, its not transparent, and the wikimedia administrators are loathe to do so.
now granted, , its a very tiny subset that is censored, and it typically revolves around crap like decryption codes. (my edits were discussing the Sony playstation3 keys... ironically the stuff i was posting had little or nothing to do with the actual keys that could actually jailbreak it... but someone thought it might so they 'wiped it' away.)
the point is that there is no guarantee wikipedia 2010 will always be wikipedia 2010. but if you have encyloepdia britannica 1960, it will almost always be encyclopedia britannica 1960. now, the JSTOR organization found out that even paper editions of periodicals are not always consistent, and archives are not always definitive, but still, the point is, its much harder to go back and censor a book than to censor electronics.
my favorite example is 'Mein Kampf'. you can find paper versionf ot hsi book that mention Hitler's admiration of Henry For.d You can also find editions where this passage has been removed. eraseed. in an all electronic world, the versions with henry ford included are... going to be found on archives, but not necessarily.
as someone with 6000 wikipedia edits, i would hope in my dream of dreams that every single one of them was directly attributable to the writings of an expert.
wikipedia is not the 'wisdom of crowds', rather it is the liberation of facts from the academic institutes , the translation of those facts into somewhat simple language, and their arrangement together for easy access. something libraries should have been doing a long time ago.
also a good article will present the work of various experts, and indicate which expert holds which point of view.
i do not always meet my goal on wikipedia, but basically, without experts, wikipedia would be a gigantic pile of worthless trash.
and the major banks 'allocated resources' to mortgage securities that were basically garbage, and housing got built that immediately started to rot because nobody could afford to buy it at the artificially inflated prices of the housing bubble.
'oh thats wasnt capitalism it was backed by the govt and evil regulations'.
yeah, well, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, Deutschebank, BNP Paribas, AIG, all the monoline insurance companies, a couple hundred hedge funds, mutual funds, etc etc etc, all decided to 'allocate capital' to this "evil govt program". They weren't objecting to Fannie and Freddie, they were aping fannie and freddie. all of these private businesses then benefitted from the govt bailout too.
in other words, these are the 'bastions of capitalism'. these are the guys who fund the Ayn Rand institutions and the theoretical economists and think tanks to push "capitalism" whatever that means. what it has actually meant in reality is some kind of unholy alliance with the govt to bilk taxpayers out of money, and has very little to do with a 'free market'.
that if he hadn't been born and raised in a socialist country, he probably never would have open sourced the linux kernel. it was on the 'fresh air' show with Teri Gross.