ProtectDicks will just take a lesson from the e360 playbook, go to Illinois and have some idiot judge slap an 11 gazillion dollar civil suit on Slysoft in their absence, and then try to have ICANN delete their SOA records.
Even with proper control and restriction in place, imagine if just one person were to pull an "inside job" and walk off with a few drill bits. Can't exactly do that with a rack of servers. Currently, one would have to actually copy the data to something portable like a USB key.
Not just control and restriction, but imagine the "convenience factor" of it. Look at all of the high profile laptop thefts in recent years where some imbecile from the IRS or Department of Veterans Affairs takes some work home and ends up risking the exposure thousands or millions of individuals' private records when their laptop gets stolen. Imagine if it were as simple as palming a drill bit and sliding it into your pocket! I suppose you could tag all of your drill bits with RFID and have security buzzers go off, but then you would have privacy advocates breathing down your neck for using RFID.
Anonymous Coward thus spake: How do I gain entrance to your magical world where sarcasm has no meaning?
Answer: Applications are available at your nearest Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council and have been on display on Alpha Centauri for many years.
All kidding aside, I know the parent post was in good fun but wanted to point out that "because they told me to" is no longer a valid defense regardless of whether you're joking or serious. If you'll notice, I even implemented a rendition the parent post's Dick joke in my reply. Ha ha... funny... laugh.
"Following orders", eh? There were plenty of people in my time who were sent up for court martial simply because they were "following orders". They went to prison for following "unlawful orders". In other words, they should have known better... tsk tsk tsk.
Conversely, I also know plenty of Marines who went up for court martial because they did not follow orders. Their defense? It was an "unlawful order". They got off without so much as a scuff on their records, and the person or persons who gave the unlawful orders are the ones who ended up in the hotseat.
Soble Row Krichbaum LLP should know better regardless of whatever Dick is running the show.
I think a subscriptionless comic site is a great idea. I hope he gets the content to get it kicked off.
While I understand that some Slashdot nerds like comics, I'm wondering a) who this guy is, and b) how many/. readers actually know who he is. So the question remains... who is Warren Ellis and why does he rate to be on the front page of/.?
... how many RSS readers are actually going to heed the advice and include a function to strip the tag (or any other tags that could potentially be harmful) and enable it by default? Given the number of RSS readers out there (both web and desktop based), I don't see this happening en masse anytime soon. Pity though... obviously it's a risk that can be avoided.
... my friend and I decided to open up our own computer manufacturing/marketing/support corporation with the following guarantees:
1. When you call for support, your call will be answered by a tech support person in your own country and not by some hard-to-understand person from another country (i.e. your call will never be routed to India).
2. Your support contracts will be straight forward, to the point, and easy to understand. In addition, they will represent the best value we can offer for your well-spent support dollars.
We won't be the cheapest, but at least you'll get what you pay for. If Dell wants to support everything from India, then let them capture the PC market there. We'll take care of everyone here in the U.S. and expand slowly outwards to make sure we maintain outstanding support levels without having to outsource it to some third world country.
Any takers? We're looking for the following (in this order):
Yes... 2005 was the best year in gaming for me. It's the year Sony, in their infinite idiocy, ruined Star Wars Galaxies with their New Gay^H^H^HGame Enhancements and I found out that there was a much better game out there with far more activity and fewer bugs that I should have been playing all along. WoW > SWG. Maybe Lucas will give the SWG2 contract to Blizzard and save the day.
... with the American legal system, here is what I wrote as a comment on his blog entry:
Write the decision maker(s) a little love letter. Not a blog post... not an email... a real letter with an address and signature. Carbon copy the administrators, pertinent teachers, the school board, the PTA, your attorney, your parents, the newspaper, etc. etc. You must write, sign, and send this letter (via U.S. Postal Mail) after school hours to ensure the "action" stays "out of school." Here's a little text to get you started:
[your name/address]
[their name(s)/address(es)]
Dear Sir/Madam, (or "Ladies and Gentlemen" if there's more than one)
Thank you for your attention regarding my after-school blog posts on my website at http://www.xanga.com/Heckler3672bro/. I hope this letter sheds some light on the current situation regarding my recent activities on my website. The incident is now internationally known thanks to the power of the Internet. Words of support and suggestions of legal action are pouring in from around the globe on well-known websites like http://digg.com/ and http://slashdot.org/. Several individuals recently brought some very enlightening facts to my attention. Specifically, they were quick to point out that your idle threats of expulsion are baseless. Your feeble attempts to control my extra-curricular behavior are not only illegal from a civil law standpoint, but I have been instructed to investigate filing criminal charges against you for your ridiculous attempts to infringe upon my rights. As it turns out, I could wait until the school day is finished and stand across the street from the school with a big sign reading "I think principal [INSERT PRINCIPAL'S LAST NAME HERE] is a homo", and the principal's only recourse would be to paint a sign saying "I'm not a homo" and stand next to me. Any attempts to quell such activities would be in violation of my right to free speech.
Luckily, this same protection of speech currently applies to the Internet as well. The website in question is my personal site, so I will post whatever I feel like saying. If I want to call the school system "bullies", I will. If I feel like one or more of my teachers or school administrators are acting in a manner unbecoming a professional educator in the employ of the public school system, I will gladly bring this topic to the public eye. Consider me the "National Enquirer" investigative reporter of the school. Regardless of how well I research and write my articles or posts, it doesn't change the fact that this method of expression is completely protected by my rights as a citizen of the United States. This is, of course, provided I do not post during school hours or from a school computer (which I do not).
Since this situation has, until now, been controlled by you or your duly appointed representatives, I am writing to let you know that you are no longer the bully and thus no longer in control. From this point forward, I will be bullying you at a matter and time convenient to me. I will be controlling the situation from this point forward. Hopefully this will allow you more time to concentrate on what it is you're supposed to be doing at the school which is educating your students (as opposed to threatening them). I, after much deliberation and consideration, decided that I will not rest until I destroy the career and livelihood of every culprit involved in this atrocious attack upon my personal freedoms. Your actions will not go unpunished. I intend to seek competent legal counsel and instruct them to fight on my behalf until you, your family (or families), and the school system as a whole are financially destroyed and unable to support themselves. This letter is not a threat. It is simply a notice of what is to come in hopes that it will allow you ample time to prepare yourself and your conscience for the humbling you are about to receive. Please don't feel like any acti
As a parent, I'm pretty strict. I was a Sgt. in the Marine Corps, and my wife and I run a pretty tight ship. Discipline is strictly enforced. We punish severely for infractions as simple as "not listening to mommy and daddy." My daughter is pretty smart for her age (likes to read the encyclopedia and she just turned four), so she is capable of understanding what is right and what is wrong. Immediate and unquestioning response to orders... I learned it, so are my children. That being said...
99% of the time running across the street without looking will not be a problem.
The one time she goes to run across the street and stops dead in her tracks when I yell "FREEZE!" just before that truck rolls through at twice the speed limit, it's worth it.
In most cases, people should act their age by shutting up and doing as they're told without the "Fuck that". If you want to question something, question it after you (hopefully) avoid whatever mistake it was someone was trying to help you avoid. As the old proverb goes, "The fool speaks while the wise man listens." If someone is dishing out orders or advice, think twice before you decide not to keep your mouth shut and show a little respect and/or obedience.
In many cases, it's a simple case of "work smarter not harder". Learn to learn from others' mistakes without having to make your own. Why lose a [limb/life/loved one/opportunity of a lifetime/etc.] because you chose to not heed the advice or instruction of someone who had already been there, done that?
Didn't the Russians already perfect this in the novel Firefox? Thought patterns were used to control the missiles off of the Mig-[whatever it was]. I can remember the movie version where Clint Eastwood's handler explained to him that he would have to "Think in Russian" to get the weapons control systems to work.
Youtube? Wouldn't that be more appropriately named "Darl'stube"?
Makes sense for a service organization to do this
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Red Hat to Acquire JBoss
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· Score: 4, Informative
Red Hat already had some enterprise Java stuff, but the middleware component just puts the icing on the cake. I think Red Hat is simply using this purchase to officially add this to their portfolio. By portfolio, I don't mean "software products", I mean their service offerings. The software has been, and will continue to be, free. It's the brains behind the operation that cost companies money. In fact, Red Hat probably already had engineers who were paid to support customers running Jboss, but now they are the "unofficial official" place to go when you want enterprise, corporate support for Jboss.
It's past time to stop looking at Red Hat as a software company and start looking at them as a service organization. This isn't surprising considering the success their RTP neighbor, Cisco, had as a service organization (and you probably thought they were a network hardware vendor all this time).
Bah... don't block them out. That will only make them try harder. If you really want to get their panties in a bunch...
Hire a rage-o-holic as the network administrator or IT director
Give the new hire free reign to ridicule, yell, threaten, humiliate, and otherwise scare the holy crap out of any and all RIAA employees, representatives, and/or legal counsel who call and try to get information about students using the network (threaten to ring them up on racketeering charges or DMCA violations)
Be sure to put in (confidential) writing that your rage-o-holic has every right do this without repercussion from the college or university no matter what they say or do
Have the rage-meister keep it down to pure verbal abuse (no hitting, swearing, or cussing)
Make it so that the people from the RIAA are scared to pick up a phone knowing that the "Rage Machine" is on the other end of the line
When the RIAA cronies call Rage Machine's boss to complain, make sure you act serious and as if you'll be getting to the bottom of this matter straight away. Try not to burst out into laughter while still on the phone with the RIAA stooge.
Make sure you record all of the conversations so you can publish them as a comedy CD
As a sinister plot twist, sell the CD for profit via an RIAA record label and have the RIAA go after anyone who tries to infringe on your copyright.
The one class of PDAs I know to be on the rise is... analog!
I just splurged and dropped ~$20 on a new PDA. This PDA I purchased is great! The batteries never run out, it is almost totally immune to shock from being dropped, I can transfer data easily between home and office, and the format is universal so I never have to worry about incompatibilities, and it is so fast and easy to use that even my parents can understand it. I went ahead and purchased an add-on module for it so I could have the advanced calendaring to track my gigs and rehearsals. Luckily, I already had a docking station for it with extra storage capacity as well as a variety of other add-ons, so it fit right into my daily routine.
I consider it one of the best investments I've made in years. Spending $20 to successfully replace a $300 device may not sound realistic, but I've never been more organized than I am now. All I had to do that I got rid of my old PDA systems (Palm OS based devices) and find something that fit better with my new filing system.
Big deal. Sales!? This is an absolutely horrid metric by which to measure industry-wide success of any given operating system. We should expect Windows server sales to ALWAYS be higher than UNIX server sales. Everyone knows that windows servers need upgrading and replacing more often. Must be part of their whole "better TCO" argument. "When it breaks, you just throw it out and buy a new one!". UNIX servers are usually put in place for the long haul.
Primary UNIX web server: www ~ # uptime
12:49:10 up 141 days, 12:31, 4 users, load average: 0.62, 0.93, 1.10 www ~ # Actual uptime (barring scheduled maintenance) 2.5 years.
Primary Windows Server: Replaced with a UNIX server because it was constantly hanging and had to be rebooted (unscheduled). Longest uptime recorded was 17 days.
AC wrote: If Echelon exists then why did Bush need to order illegal wiretaps of U.S. citizens calling overseas?
If you've read up on Echelon, you know it is designed to catch everything. It's almost like a huge crop harvest. You grab all of the crop and then pick out your prize specimens to enter in the county fair. Likewise, you sift through an enormous mish mash of communications traffic looking for something that stands out as informative and/or requiring some sort of action. If you've ever worked in the intel world, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You get to the office in the morning and sift through 100 fricken pages of varying levels of stuff to come up with a three paragraph summary brief that fits a) the importance level, b) the focus, and c) the security clearance level of your intended audience. It's not easy.
The wiretaps Bush's administration signed off on were concise and targetted, just like the ones mentioned in the article. All incoming and outgoing international calls to and from the U.S. are, and have been for quite time (loooooong before Bush's dad was even elected Vice President), legally monitored or recorded by U.S. intelligence agencies. Anyone with any common sense can figure that out. These particular orders were just narrowing down the scope of focus, that's all.
COMINT and SIGINT are, and always have been, a big hit with the alphabet soup guys that make up the US intel community. Why the media is making such a big deal about it now and crying "IT'S ILLEGAL!!" is beyond me. They must have a grudge against that idiot liberal we elected to the oval office. Next thing you know, they'll start crying about recon satellites flying in orbital patterns above the US. I can hear it now: "If they're flying in space above us, they might be taking pictures of us on our own U.S. soil...[gasp] oh noes!!! ILLEGAL!! [insert crafty way to blame whatever administration occupies the White House here]"
I mean... c'mon. Everyone knows that at least one third party was already listening in on those conversations anyways. What's the surprise that someone else figured out a cheaper way to do it? That's just good geeks at work trying to impress the bean counters over at the GAO.
Note to self: two tinfoil hat posts in one sitting... I need to cut back on the Mt. Dews after lunchtime
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ProtectDicks will just take a lesson from the e360 playbook, go to Illinois and have some idiot judge slap an 11 gazillion dollar civil suit on Slysoft in their absence, and then try to have ICANN delete their SOA records.
Even with proper control and restriction in place, imagine if just one person were to pull an "inside job" and walk off with a few drill bits. Can't exactly do that with a rack of servers. Currently, one would have to actually copy the data to something portable like a USB key.
Not just control and restriction, but imagine the "convenience factor" of it. Look at all of the high profile laptop thefts in recent years where some imbecile from the IRS or Department of Veterans Affairs takes some work home and ends up risking the exposure thousands or millions of individuals' private records when their laptop gets stolen. Imagine if it were as simple as palming a drill bit and sliding it into your pocket! I suppose you could tag all of your drill bits with RFID and have security buzzers go off, but then you would have privacy advocates breathing down your neck for using RFID.
Does this open up AnyDVD to a possible DMCA lawsuit for breaking encryption stuff?
Tonight at Ocho on the Ocho... North American Squares Showdown. Stay tuned afterwards for the Tetris Triathlon at nine.
Anonymous Coward thus spake: How do I gain entrance to your magical world where sarcasm has no meaning?
Answer: Applications are available at your nearest Galactic Hyperspace Planning Council and have been on display on Alpha Centauri for many years.
All kidding aside, I know the parent post was in good fun but wanted to point out that "because they told me to" is no longer a valid defense regardless of whether you're joking or serious. If you'll notice, I even implemented a rendition the parent post's Dick joke in my reply. Ha ha... funny... laugh.
"Following orders", eh? There were plenty of people in my time who were sent up for court martial simply because they were "following orders". They went to prison for following "unlawful orders". In other words, they should have known better... tsk tsk tsk.
Conversely, I also know plenty of Marines who went up for court martial because they did not follow orders. Their defense? It was an "unlawful order". They got off without so much as a scuff on their records, and the person or persons who gave the unlawful orders are the ones who ended up in the hotseat.
Soble Row Krichbaum LLP should know better regardless of whatever Dick is running the show.
How did they figure that out
Triangulation?
I think a subscriptionless comic site is a great idea. I hope he gets the content to get it kicked off.
/. readers actually know who he is. So the question remains... who is Warren Ellis and why does he rate to be on the front page of /.?
While I understand that some Slashdot nerds like comics, I'm wondering a) who this guy is, and b) how many
... how many RSS readers are actually going to heed the advice and include a function to strip the tag (or any other tags that could potentially be harmful) and enable it by default? Given the number of RSS readers out there (both web and desktop based), I don't see this happening en masse anytime soon. Pity though... obviously it's a risk that can be avoided.
... my friend and I decided to open up our own computer manufacturing/marketing/support corporation with the following guarantees:
1. When you call for support, your call will be answered by a tech support person in your own country and not by some hard-to-understand person from another country (i.e. your call will never be routed to India).
2. Your support contracts will be straight forward, to the point, and easy to understand. In addition, they will represent the best value we can offer for your well-spent support dollars.
We won't be the cheapest, but at least you'll get what you pay for. If Dell wants to support everything from India, then let them capture the PC market there. We'll take care of everyone here in the U.S. and expand slowly outwards to make sure we maintain outstanding support levels without having to outsource it to some third world country.
Any takers? We're looking for the following (in this order):
1. Investors
2. Employees
3. Customers
Drop me a line at insourced@gmail.com
Yes... 2005 was the best year in gaming for me. It's the year Sony, in their infinite idiocy, ruined Star Wars Galaxies with their New Gay^H^H^HGame Enhancements and I found out that there was a much better game out there with far more activity and fewer bugs that I should have been playing all along. WoW > SWG. Maybe Lucas will give the SWG2 contract to Blizzard and save the day.
... with the American legal system, here is what I wrote as a comment on his blog entry:
Write the decision maker(s) a little love letter. Not a blog post... not an email... a real letter with an address and signature. Carbon copy the administrators, pertinent teachers, the school board, the PTA, your attorney, your parents, the newspaper, etc. etc. You must write, sign, and send this letter (via U.S. Postal Mail) after school hours to ensure the "action" stays "out of school." Here's a little text to get you started:
[your name/address]
[their name(s)/address(es)]
Dear Sir/Madam, (or "Ladies and Gentlemen" if there's more than one)
Thank you for your attention regarding my after-school blog posts on my website at http://www.xanga.com/Heckler3672bro/. I hope this letter sheds some light on the current situation regarding my recent activities on my website. The incident is now internationally known thanks to the power of the Internet. Words of support and suggestions of legal action are pouring in from around the globe on well-known websites like http://digg.com/ and http://slashdot.org/. Several individuals recently brought some very enlightening facts to my attention. Specifically, they were quick to point out that your idle threats of expulsion are baseless. Your feeble attempts to control my extra-curricular behavior are not only illegal from a civil law standpoint, but I have been instructed to investigate filing criminal charges against you for your ridiculous attempts to infringe upon my rights. As it turns out, I could wait until the school day is finished and stand across the street from the school with a big sign reading "I think principal [INSERT PRINCIPAL'S LAST NAME HERE] is a homo", and the principal's only recourse would be to paint a sign saying "I'm not a homo" and stand next to me. Any attempts to quell such activities would be in violation of my right to free speech.
Luckily, this same protection of speech currently applies to the Internet as well. The website in question is my personal site, so I will post whatever I feel like saying. If I want to call the school system "bullies", I will. If I feel like one or more of my teachers or school administrators are acting in a manner unbecoming a professional educator in the employ of the public school system, I will gladly bring this topic to the public eye. Consider me the "National Enquirer" investigative reporter of the school. Regardless of how well I research and write my articles or posts, it doesn't change the fact that this method of expression is completely protected by my rights as a citizen of the United States. This is, of course, provided I do not post during school hours or from a school computer (which I do not).
Since this situation has, until now, been controlled by you or your duly appointed representatives, I am writing to let you know that you are no longer the bully and thus no longer in control. From this point forward, I will be bullying you at a matter and time convenient to me. I will be controlling the situation from this point forward. Hopefully this will allow you more time to concentrate on what it is you're supposed to be doing at the school which is educating your students (as opposed to threatening them). I, after much deliberation and consideration, decided that I will not rest until I destroy the career and livelihood of every culprit involved in this atrocious attack upon my personal freedoms. Your actions will not go unpunished. I intend to seek competent legal counsel and instruct them to fight on my behalf until you, your family (or families), and the school system as a whole are financially destroyed and unable to support themselves. This letter is not a threat. It is simply a notice of what is to come in hopes that it will allow you ample time to prepare yourself and your conscience for the humbling you are about to receive. Please don't feel like any acti
As a parent, I'm pretty strict. I was a Sgt. in the Marine Corps, and my wife and I run a pretty tight ship. Discipline is strictly enforced. We punish severely for infractions as simple as "not listening to mommy and daddy." My daughter is pretty smart for her age (likes to read the encyclopedia and she just turned four), so she is capable of understanding what is right and what is wrong. Immediate and unquestioning response to orders... I learned it, so are my children. That being said...
99% of the time running across the street without looking will not be a problem.
The one time she goes to run across the street and stops dead in her tracks when I yell "FREEZE!" just before that truck rolls through at twice the speed limit, it's worth it.
In most cases, people should act their age by shutting up and doing as they're told without the "Fuck that". If you want to question something, question it after you (hopefully) avoid whatever mistake it was someone was trying to help you avoid. As the old proverb goes, "The fool speaks while the wise man listens." If someone is dishing out orders or advice, think twice before you decide not to keep your mouth shut and show a little respect and/or obedience.
In many cases, it's a simple case of "work smarter not harder". Learn to learn from others' mistakes without having to make your own. Why lose a [limb/life/loved one/opportunity of a lifetime/etc.] because you chose to not heed the advice or instruction of someone who had already been there, done that?
How does this work again? You just write "/roll" on a piece of paper with a pencil and then the DM shouts out numbers between 1-100?
Didn't the Russians already perfect this in the novel Firefox? Thought patterns were used to control the missiles off of the Mig-[whatever it was]. I can remember the movie version where Clint Eastwood's handler explained to him that he would have to "Think in Russian" to get the weapons control systems to work.
Wow... that hit the nail on the head. Thanks for the link, Pixel. Mod parent up
Any Aperture users out there know what the problems were or perhaps have a link to a list of the problems?
Youtube? Wouldn't that be more appropriately named "Darl'stube"?
Red Hat already had some enterprise Java stuff, but the middleware component just puts the icing on the cake. I think Red Hat is simply using this purchase to officially add this to their portfolio. By portfolio, I don't mean "software products", I mean their service offerings. The software has been, and will continue to be, free. It's the brains behind the operation that cost companies money. In fact, Red Hat probably already had engineers who were paid to support customers running Jboss, but now they are the "unofficial official" place to go when you want enterprise, corporate support for Jboss.
It's past time to stop looking at Red Hat as a software company and start looking at them as a service organization. This isn't surprising considering the success their RTP neighbor, Cisco, had as a service organization (and you probably thought they were a network hardware vendor all this time).
The one class of PDAs I know to be on the rise is... analog!
I just splurged and dropped ~$20 on a new PDA. This PDA I purchased is great! The batteries never run out, it is almost totally immune to shock from being dropped, I can transfer data easily between home and office, and the format is universal so I never have to worry about incompatibilities, and it is so fast and easy to use that even my parents can understand it. I went ahead and purchased an add-on module for it so I could have the advanced calendaring to track my gigs and rehearsals. Luckily, I already had a docking station for it with extra storage capacity as well as a variety of other add-ons, so it fit right into my daily routine.
I consider it one of the best investments I've made in years. Spending $20 to successfully replace a $300 device may not sound realistic, but I've never been more organized than I am now. All I had to do that I got rid of my old PDA systems (Palm OS based devices) and find something that fit better with my new filing system.
Big deal. Sales!? This is an absolutely horrid metric by which to measure industry-wide success of any given operating system. We should expect Windows server sales to ALWAYS be higher than UNIX server sales. Everyone knows that windows servers need upgrading and replacing more often. Must be part of their whole "better TCO" argument. "When it breaks, you just throw it out and buy a new one!". UNIX servers are usually put in place for the long haul.
Primary UNIX web server:
www ~ # uptime
12:49:10 up 141 days, 12:31, 4 users, load average: 0.62, 0.93, 1.10
www ~ #
Actual uptime (barring scheduled maintenance) 2.5 years.
Primary Windows Server:
Replaced with a UNIX server because it was constantly hanging and had to be rebooted (unscheduled). Longest uptime recorded was 17 days.
AC wrote: If Echelon exists then why did Bush need to order illegal wiretaps of U.S. citizens calling overseas?
If you've read up on Echelon, you know it is designed to catch everything. It's almost like a huge crop harvest. You grab all of the crop and then pick out your prize specimens to enter in the county fair. Likewise, you sift through an enormous mish mash of communications traffic looking for something that stands out as informative and/or requiring some sort of action. If you've ever worked in the intel world, you know exactly what I'm talking about. You get to the office in the morning and sift through 100 fricken pages of varying levels of stuff to come up with a three paragraph summary brief that fits a) the importance level, b) the focus, and c) the security clearance level of your intended audience. It's not easy.
The wiretaps Bush's administration signed off on were concise and targetted, just like the ones mentioned in the article. All incoming and outgoing international calls to and from the U.S. are, and have been for quite time (loooooong before Bush's dad was even elected Vice President), legally monitored or recorded by U.S. intelligence agencies. Anyone with any common sense can figure that out. These particular orders were just narrowing down the scope of focus, that's all.
COMINT and SIGINT are, and always have been, a big hit with the alphabet soup guys that make up the US intel community. Why the media is making such a big deal about it now and crying "IT'S ILLEGAL!!" is beyond me. They must have a grudge against that idiot liberal we elected to the oval office. Next thing you know, they'll start crying about recon satellites flying in orbital patterns above the US. I can hear it now: "If they're flying in space above us, they might be taking pictures of us on our own U.S. soil...[gasp] oh noes!!! ILLEGAL!! [insert crafty way to blame whatever administration occupies the White House here]"
I mean... c'mon. Everyone knows that at least one third party was already listening in on those conversations anyways. What's the surprise that someone else figured out a cheaper way to do it? That's just good geeks at work trying to impress the bean counters over at the GAO.
Note to self: two tinfoil hat posts in one sitting... I need to cut back on the Mt. Dews after lunchtime