The USA Constitutional interpretation only counts at the USSC. So, IMO never counts, but I am allowed to express an interpretation.
The USA Constitution provides freedoms only to the citizens and visitors (equally to each person) to the USA. The USA Constitution allows any and all persons (individuals) responsible speech that does not seek to illegally replace/terminate the rights assured individuals by the Constitution. The USA Constitution allows a person reasonable (no human sacrifices) religious freedom to practice a/o be an atheist without fear of government or groups interference/harm. The USA Constitution enfranchises people with freedoms/rights.
The USA Constitution assures governance by the people (not religious, corporate, special groups, cults, institutions...).
The last and this century We The People of the USA are governed by religious, corporate, special groups, cults, institutions....
The two latest lines are stating that "We The People" governance of the USA is marginal/failing. As you said; "Government control over how people...," The right to govern in a democracy is vested in the people/public not "religious, corporate, special groups, cults, institutions."
Government control of reasonable people/citizens in any way is totalitarian. Governance of institutions, business, religion... for the common good of "The People" is IN FACT the purpose of government for raising and maintaining a military to protect the citizens from foreign and domestic cults/institutions.
Government that protect the special interest of cults/institutions is evil.
Also, government (not institutional) management has driven expansion of affordable broadband, in a competitive market place, to homes and schools. This is why out of the developed economic nations around the world (EU...Japan, SKorea... most with national health-care and far better public schools) the US has far less affordable broadband, in a far less competitive market place, to homes and schools.
If you do not fully agree with Net-Neutrality, then you support the Corporate Welfare State and Net-Nepotism.
Vorizon, ATT, Comcast... are all Internet Access Providers (IAP). You pay for access. WikiPedia, Google,/., Yahoo, Microsoft, Sony PS, eTrade, Amazon... are all Internet Services Providers. You pay for services and/or view advertising for freebees.
Corporate, religious, or special interest control of access to content, information, news media is un-American and conflicts with The USA Constitutional freedom to speak, practice a religion, obtain information on science, weapons and/or art.
If you are against Net-Neutrality, then you are against US and all folks who stand for patriotism and the American way of life.
Professional implicit information application will always define real smarts. Elitist explicit information regurgitation will always define idiots.
The ability to regurgitate is a valuable testing cognitive skill. The ability to regurgitate is not a significant indicator of intelligence.
The person that can apply Training, Experience, and Knowledge (TEK) to solve novel/anomalous problems is of far greater importance than the pitiful delusional cognitive elite with puking memory skills.
Education pedagogy is evolving with technology well beyond the ancient wrote-learning paradigm that recognizes fact-vomit as interesting, but of little value in solving atypical a/o asymmetric problems. IOW: If you cannot think and apply to create, innovate and build, then expect excellent memory skills to relegate you, at best to a reference catalog/secretary (not even a librarian).
If they put aside $50M, then the real value to them was at least $150M. So, they made at least $100M on the settlement.
Not bad business, not a crime, not ethical..., but it is good business for many of the big-bro-companies.
RIAA protects the wealthy from the artist. Patents protects the wealthy from scientist, engineers, inventors.... Copyright protects the wealthy from all the other crap. Congress protects the wealthy from US.
This is what corporate welfare and protectionism is all about for US, EU... Global Domination by Fiat.
Does the USA have the right to determine the course of another people/nation?
The Nationalists, were corrupt, and Mao are Chinese. Taiwan and Tibet are independent nations.
The USA is an independent nation, most citizens speaking English look like Europeans or Africans, but are neither. USA citizens are US Americans.
Taiwan and Tibet being independent nations, is not a problem for Chinese, but is a problem for Governments.
We were right when we let mainland Chinese decide their destiny. China (Government) is wrong for inciting violence and aggression towards Taiwan citizens, South Korea people (by proxy NK) and occupying the nation of Tibet.
We were right in the past. Today CN and US (Governments) are both wrong.
Wikileaks is the news recovering from decades of chicken-shit ownership and/or FuckUS Plutocratic Corporate Souls controlling the news in the USA.
The USA Congress could have increased protection for whistle-blowers, but decided the real enemy of the STATE is any public-responsible press sustaining our citizen right to know when politicians, diplomats, generals, C*Os, clergy commit crimes, lie, steal, murder, and/or act stupid by personal nature/whim.
As long as the politicians... cannot, or refuse to, protect The USA Constitutional interest of our nation, then they should be greatly concerned the every USA Warrior and Civil Servant swears an oath to "protect and defend The USA Constitution (as TOP priority) from all enemies both foreign and domestic." IOW-IMO all USA Warriors and employees must consider that their sworn oath, prison, and death will all to frequently define a path of life, honor, and authentic-self. If I am ever on a jury in such a big-brother STATE propaganda trial I will acquit our heroes and indite Big-Brother.
There are far to many good citizens protecting US on our streets and remotes battlefields, while a proportional very few (know it all) megalomaniacs and sociopaths seek to manage and control US Citizens with extortion and exploitation policy and law.
"Students are understandably occupied with memorizing details of processes without focusing on the principles that govern and connect the processes."
I have noticed that the less science/music, math/art, and language based a student's field of study, the greater their scope of unknown.
Regurgitation of information sustains simple and safe dogmatic thinking that fills in the gross-gaps in understanding factual-reality. Business, clergy, politics, athletics majors will react fast with plausible pseudo-reasons (guesses) and respond poorly.
Yes! There are some business, clergy leaders that can respond well to the anomalous, atypical, and asymmetric reality, but most are witless reactionaries in unusual or stressful situations. Hence, most are born followers always seeking to be the leader. The leaders of religion, industry, politics reminds me of primitive specialized species living in a controlled environment.
We should all be concerned, because we are allowing/following their controlled environment survival methods, which do determine the flexibility of our reality and ability to introduce positive and evolutionary change.
This is the state of the corporate-welfare state. Incompetent C*Os moving to the next failing company for more retirement benefits. Investment backers/bankers hedge-funds paying politicians for special nepotist market privileges and bailouts for more failures.
Insurance, Medical, and Drug companies manage longterm health-care treatments for profits without cures for US, EU.... Energy/Oil thugs.... Means-testing to cut middle class benefits and increase corporate-welfare for the wealthy....
Military Industrial Complex [AKA: Defense Industry], but I cannot agree with some criminal legal logic of "two wrongs making a right" expressed by others.
The point of my rant is as you present. Pragmatic Missions with Practical Security and Logistics.
MISSION FIRST! Security helps make it happen. Security must enable mission performance and success, but never mitigate mission. Mission success will always require the best practical security support.
Making security easier can inadvertently mitigate security and mission success.
C*Os (post disaster reactive) want the best solution, then post-post disaster mitigate the hardest to administer, manage, and implement solution into the lowest price CYA easy solution. Easy to hire and fire grounds-patrol, and automating sensors and network security to avoid 24/7 Security personnel cost always provides the predictably easy to bypass and hack. If you will not afford a real security solution, then you will fund your competitions/enemies asymmetric espionage/insurgence success.
Security (street-physical...virtual-infrastructure) is a very hard too impossible, and thankless job, with resources (too frequently) one step above reception staff.
Authoritarian Governance is totalitarian, which is draconian.
Governance by US, EU, RU, CN citizens is democracy.
Governance of citizens is tyranny in the US, EU, RU, CN.
Governance of the many by the few (aristocracy, politicians, clergy) is plutocratic tyranny.
Governance of the many by institutions (C*Os, congress, RIAA) is oligarchic despotism.
The difference grows ever dimmer between US, EU, RU, CN governance.
Before the time of the next plutocratic or oligarchic dark-ages, one great thing is my old ass will be dead by a decade or more (I hope). I’ve got something positive to look forward too.
Business does what it thinks is good for its bottom line not national interest? On one hand we have an organization that is a critical part to sustaining our civilization with some truth (politicians are mouthy fools) as we have never been allowed to know it and on the other, we have pseudo-capitalism as usual ignoring The USA Constitution for profits. Think I will consider it a piss-poor decision on this one. WikiLeaks does not think they are trying to report and leave the thinking up to the citizens of a democracy. So far, I have seen the corruption of freedoms for avoiding embarrassment and lies that hurt USA security.
Bing part of a HOSTS file at the time was a problem. @IPv4 was always better, because host files/tables would magically change, but the @IPv4 was always reliable, much the same as it today. If you know how to use IPv4 or 6, then DNS, net-nepotism... control you far less.
Mission Security is part of reality. Mission Performance is part of actuality.
Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest C*Os and IT tunnel vision savants know that everything is solved by more security and more security makes IT admin/management a plush-position for Luddites.
You can plan the best "ToDo" fantasy reality, but actuality means you "CAN" or "CANNOT" do.
Org/Ops that focus on security are always reactive, never proactive; hence, mission failure is assured.
The mission needs your folks: What do your folks need to do the job? How do you provide security?
The mission always dictates, C*Os/GOs cannot afford to be Security-Losers/Fools.
DO NOT allow security to mitigate mission performance!
More silly proof that patent laws are broken, the folks at the patent office are overworked, and/or frequently the obvious is patented, re-patented, and the maybe patented by someone for later legal-lotto filings.
When something is very old and always proven to be broken, maybe it cannot be fixed, maybe we all need to buy into a new economic model for patents, copyrights.... FORGET IT! Corporate welfare/socialism works better with a total economic FUBAR for US and EU.
Some would say the "RU Boss Tweed" or "CN Big Brother" are the best economic models for world domination. %~P
I guess, the important NSA stuff ain't on the internet. Layers and boxes compartmentalized into private networks. I suspect there are honey-pots and null-spots where information is fully qualified disinformation. In the world of games, the rules are made by the OEMs/OSDs/OSPs..., and some rules you will play by even when you had no idea there was a rule.
So, Are they asking for more money? Are they gaming the game? Do you want to play?
Does the public (A PERSON) have the right to know when: Stupidity rules decision making, Security (TS/SBI+) is used to hide wrong-doing and criminal activity, and/or death, destruction, and economic collapses have far more private-interest, than national security. Wikileaks tells US, EU, RU, CN, Arab and Persian citizens/people how totally fycked-up are their governments.
Wikileaks says that folks are good and gullible around the world, and leaders globally should be held accountable for their actions.
Wikileaks should be protected by The USA Constitution as a great source of truth, because the US and global press/news is totally pwned by dogmatic irrational plutocrats.
Save Wikileaks in the interest of all humanity and integrity in governments, religions, militaries....
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The USA Constitutional interpretation only counts at the USSC. So, IMO never counts, but I am allowed to express an interpretation.
The USA Constitution provides freedoms only to the citizens and visitors (equally to each person) to the USA. The USA Constitution allows any and all persons (individuals) responsible speech that does not seek to illegally replace/terminate the rights assured individuals by the Constitution. The USA Constitution allows a person reasonable (no human sacrifices) religious freedom to practice a/o be an atheist without fear of government or groups interference/harm. The USA Constitution enfranchises people with freedoms/rights.
The USA Constitution assures governance by the people (not religious, corporate, special groups, cults, institutions...).
The last and this century We The People of the USA are governed by religious, corporate, special groups, cults, institutions....
The two latest lines are stating that "We The People" governance of the USA is marginal/failing. As you said; "Government control over how people...," The right to govern in a democracy is vested in the people/public not "religious, corporate, special groups, cults, institutions."
Government control of reasonable people/citizens in any way is totalitarian. Governance of institutions, business, religion... for the common good of "The People" is IN FACT the purpose of government for raising and maintaining a military to protect the citizens from foreign and domestic cults/institutions.
Government that protect the special interest of cults/institutions is evil.
Also, government (not institutional) management has driven expansion of affordable broadband, in a competitive market place, to homes and schools. This is why out of the developed economic nations around the world (EU...Japan, SKorea... most with national health-care and far better public schools) the US has far less affordable broadband, in a far less competitive market place, to homes and schools.
If you do not fully agree with Net-Neutrality, then you support the Corporate Welfare State and Net-Nepotism.
Vorizon, ATT, Comcast... are all Internet Access Providers (IAP). You pay for access. /., Yahoo, Microsoft, Sony PS, eTrade, Amazon... are all Internet Services Providers. You pay for services and/or view advertising for freebees.
WikiPedia, Google,
Corporate, religious, or special interest control of access to content, information, news media is un-American and conflicts with The USA Constitutional freedom to speak, practice a religion, obtain information on science, weapons and/or art.
If you are against Net-Neutrality, then you are against US and all folks who stand for patriotism and the American way of life.
Professional implicit information application will always define real smarts.
Elitist explicit information regurgitation will always define idiots.
The ability to regurgitate is a valuable testing cognitive skill.
The ability to regurgitate is not a significant indicator of intelligence.
The person that can apply Training, Experience, and Knowledge (TEK) to solve novel/anomalous problems is of far greater importance than the pitiful delusional cognitive elite with puking memory skills.
Education pedagogy is evolving with technology well beyond the ancient wrote-learning paradigm that recognizes fact-vomit as interesting, but of little value in solving atypical a/o asymmetric problems. IOW: If you cannot think and apply to create, innovate and build, then expect excellent memory skills to relegate you, at best to a reference catalog/secretary (not even a librarian).
If they put aside $50M, then the real value to them was at least $150M. So, they made at least $100M on the settlement.
Not bad business, not a crime, not ethical..., but it is good business for many of the big-bro-companies.
RIAA protects the wealthy from the artist. Patents protects the wealthy from scientist, engineers, inventors.... Copyright protects the wealthy from all the other crap. Congress protects the wealthy from US.
This is what corporate welfare and protectionism is all about for US, EU... Global Domination by Fiat.
I would take neither at any time.
A person of reason and compassion on /.. MFG what the hell will happen next?
Does the USA have the right to determine the course of another people/nation?
The Nationalists, were corrupt, and Mao are Chinese. Taiwan and Tibet are independent nations.
The USA is an independent nation, most citizens speaking English look like Europeans or Africans, but are neither. USA citizens are US Americans.
Taiwan and Tibet being independent nations, is not a problem for Chinese, but is a problem for Governments.
We were right when we let mainland Chinese decide their destiny. China (Government) is wrong for inciting violence and aggression towards Taiwan citizens, South Korea people (by proxy NK) and occupying the nation of Tibet.
We were right in the past. Today CN and US (Governments) are both wrong.
My point is whats good for one is good for all, but governance and law these days make exceptions for casinos, CEOs, Hedge Funds....
What is good for the very few is not considered good for the many.
By proxy or law/policy?
Wikileaks is the news recovering from decades of chicken-shit ownership and/or FuckUS Plutocratic Corporate Souls controlling the news in the USA.
The USA Congress could have increased protection for whistle-blowers, but decided the real enemy of the STATE is any public-responsible press sustaining our citizen right to know when politicians, diplomats, generals, C*Os, clergy commit crimes, lie, steal, murder, and/or act stupid by personal nature/whim.
As long as the politicians... cannot, or refuse to, protect The USA Constitutional interest of our nation, then they should be greatly concerned the every USA Warrior and Civil Servant swears an oath to "protect and defend The USA Constitution (as TOP priority) from all enemies both foreign and domestic." IOW-IMO all USA Warriors and employees must consider that their sworn oath, prison, and death will all to frequently define a path of life, honor, and authentic-self. If I am ever on a jury in such a big-brother STATE propaganda trial I will acquit our heroes and indite Big-Brother.
There are far to many good citizens protecting US on our streets and remotes battlefields, while a proportional very few (know it all) megalomaniacs and sociopaths seek to manage and control US Citizens with extortion and exploitation policy and law.
http://www.opednews.com/articles/Whistleblower-Protections-by-Joan-Brunwasser-101229-343.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-devine-whistleblower-20110110,0,5483256.story
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-985
http://www.whistleblowersblog.org/
"Students are understandably occupied with memorizing details of processes without focusing on the principles that govern and connect the processes."
I have noticed that the less science/music, math/art, and language based a student's field of study, the greater their scope of unknown.
Regurgitation of information sustains simple and safe dogmatic thinking that fills in the gross-gaps in understanding factual-reality. Business, clergy, politics, athletics majors will react fast with plausible pseudo-reasons (guesses) and respond poorly.
Yes! There are some business, clergy leaders that can respond well to the anomalous, atypical, and asymmetric reality, but most are witless reactionaries in unusual or stressful situations. Hence, most are born followers always seeking to be the leader. The leaders of religion, industry, politics reminds me of primitive specialized species living in a controlled environment.
We should all be concerned, because we are allowing/following their controlled environment survival methods, which do determine the flexibility of our reality and ability to introduce positive and evolutionary change.
This is the state of the corporate-welfare state. Incompetent C*Os moving to the next failing company for more retirement benefits. Investment backers/bankers hedge-funds paying politicians for special nepotist market privileges and bailouts for more failures.
Insurance, Medical, and Drug companies manage longterm health-care treatments for profits without cures for US, EU.... Energy/Oil thugs.... Means-testing to cut middle class benefits and increase corporate-welfare for the wealthy....
Just more fyckUS, fyckEU....
Military Industrial Complex [AKA: Defense Industry], but I cannot agree with some criminal legal logic of "two wrongs making a right" expressed by others.
I agree.
The point of my rant is as you present. Pragmatic Missions with Practical Security and Logistics.
MISSION FIRST! Security helps make it happen. Security must enable mission performance and success, but never mitigate mission. Mission success will always require the best practical security support.
Making security easier can inadvertently mitigate security and mission success.
C*Os (post disaster reactive) want the best solution, then post-post disaster mitigate the hardest to administer, manage, and implement solution into the lowest price CYA easy solution. Easy to hire and fire grounds-patrol, and automating sensors and network security to avoid 24/7 Security personnel cost always provides the predictably easy to bypass and hack. If you will not afford a real security solution, then you will fund your competitions/enemies asymmetric espionage/insurgence success.
Security (street-physical...virtual-infrastructure) is a very hard too impossible, and thankless job, with resources (too frequently) one step above reception staff.
Authoritarian Governance is totalitarian, which is draconian.
Governance by US, EU, RU, CN citizens is democracy.
Governance of citizens is tyranny in the US, EU, RU, CN.
Governance of the many by the few (aristocracy, politicians, clergy) is plutocratic tyranny.
Governance of the many by institutions (C*Os, congress, RIAA) is oligarchic despotism.
The difference grows ever dimmer between US, EU, RU, CN governance.
Before the time of the next plutocratic or oligarchic dark-ages, one great thing is my old ass will be dead by a decade or more (I hope). I’ve got something positive to look forward too.
Dude, just drop the "-H" from you handle.
Business does what it thinks is good for its bottom line not national interest? On one hand we have an organization that is a critical part to sustaining our civilization with some truth (politicians are mouthy fools) as we have never been allowed to know it and on the other, we have pseudo-capitalism as usual ignoring The USA Constitution for profits. Think I will consider it a piss-poor decision on this one. WikiLeaks does not think they are trying to report and leave the thinking up to the citizens of a democracy. So far, I have seen the corruption of freedoms for avoiding embarrassment and lies that hurt USA security.
Bing part of a HOSTS file at the time was a problem. @IPv4 was always better, because host files/tables would magically change, but the @IPv4 was always reliable, much the same as it today. If you know how to use IPv4 or 6, then DNS, net-nepotism... control you far less.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)
Mission Security is part of reality. Mission Performance is part of actuality.
Dumb, Dumber, and Dumbest C*Os and IT tunnel vision savants know that everything is solved by more security and more security makes IT admin/management a plush-position for Luddites.
You can plan the best "ToDo" fantasy reality, but actuality means you "CAN" or "CANNOT" do.
Org/Ops that focus on security are always reactive, never proactive; hence, mission failure is assured.
The mission needs your folks: What do your folks need to do the job? How do you provide security?
The mission always dictates, C*Os/GOs cannot afford to be Security-Losers/Fools.
DO NOT allow security to mitigate mission performance!
I have been sending emails sence 1984, pre-DNS with email servers identified by IP.
My first email address was like ohabcdef@IPv4.
The referenced article is a fictional spin that would be reasonably probable with a FCC regulated Internet.
The wild-wild-west is always best for innovation.
Corporate-Draconia/Welfare will always support oppression of competition, in favor of sustaining customer-hostages, with little or no innovation.
More silly proof that patent laws are broken, the folks at the patent office are overworked, and/or frequently the obvious is patented, re-patented, and the maybe patented by someone for later legal-lotto filings.
When something is very old and always proven to be broken, maybe it cannot be fixed, maybe we all need to buy into a new economic model for patents, copyrights.... FORGET IT! Corporate welfare/socialism works better with a total economic FUBAR for US and EU.
Some would say the "RU Boss Tweed" or "CN Big Brother" are the best economic models for world domination. %~P
More FyckUS, FickEU, and RU and CN applaud the controlling effort of the "Corporate Communist World Order (CCWO). %~P
I guess, the important NSA stuff ain't on the internet. Layers and boxes compartmentalized into private networks. I suspect there are honey-pots and null-spots where information is fully qualified disinformation. In the world of games, the rules are made by the OEMs/OSDs/OSPs..., and some rules you will play by even when you had no idea there was a rule.
So,
Are they asking for more money?
Are they gaming the game?
Do you want to play?
Information sharing is essential to mission performance, and security is always in the support (never control) role, unless you're idiots.
Thumb-drives/SSD are an excuse not the problem.
Fix the security problems or perpetuate the mistakes.
911 was a failure in information sharing. Field security folks (CIA, FBI...) did their jobs, but C*Os parochialism caused failures.
Do you address the excuse or the failure. To fix the problem you must rationally troubleshoot the failures, and not address reactionary excuses.
Does the public (A PERSON) have the right to know when: Stupidity rules decision making, Security (TS/SBI+) is used to hide wrong-doing and criminal activity, and/or death, destruction, and economic collapses have far more private-interest, than national security. Wikileaks tells US, EU, RU, CN, Arab and Persian citizens/people how totally fycked-up are their governments.
Wikileaks says that folks are good and gullible around the world, and leaders globally should be held accountable for their actions.
Wikileaks should be protected by The USA Constitution as a great source of truth, because the US and global press/news is totally pwned by dogmatic irrational plutocrats.
Save Wikileaks in the interest of all humanity and integrity in governments, religions, militaries....