Doesn't it worry you at all that the FBI investigation so close to the vote most likely lost it for Clinton? Wikileaks and the FBI turned nothing into a Trump victory.
Sounds like John Podesta complaining that FBI Director Comey cost Hillary the election. http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... No, this did not cost Hillary the election. The damage had been done long ago when the DNC and Hillary screwed over Bernie Sanders. The DNC did not listen to others who told them the selecting Hillary was a mistake, that she was almost unelectable. https://theintercept.com/2016/... Then top it off the Democrats got the opposing candidate they wanted in Donald Trump. Come election day Bernie Sanders supporters stayed away on election day in key states. This is attributed to the DNC email dumps in the weeks leading up to the election. Many voters in the rust belt, who voted for Obama in '08 and '12 voted Trump this time around. Most said Hillary was an insider and part of the problem, they wanted change and Trump offered that. As for me, no I did not vote for Trump. I also did not give Hillary my vote. She carried my state and got the biggest prize of all, as the Democrats always do. The announcement from Comey didn't change my mind, I wasn't going to vote for her from the start. Her previous actions and mishandling of classified information did it for me. She should NEVER hold a security clearance again. Now it looks like she never will need one again. That is a good thing for this country.
With Trump being elected, the one thing I am thankful for is that the TPP is DOA. It may be the only thing good that may come from the Trump presidency but it is a start.
This program has been in existence since 1991. The professor has been in charge of the program since 2007. Please enlighten us as to how all of the data can be his when he has only been in charge of the program for 7-8 years of it's 24 year existence. If anything he would only have a right to the past 7-8 years worth of data not the other 17 years of data that was collected before he joined the project.
Yep... Just ask Microsoft about the Justice Department getting the US COURTS to tell them they have to violate EU law and hand over a EU citizen's email stored on a server in Ireland.
Um, the US is on UTC -5:00 (ET) through UTC -8:00 (PT). My money is on those pesky Greenlandic uber-hackers.
Um, the UTC is -4:00 (EST) through UTC -7:00 (PST) when on Standard Time. The UTC offset is -5:00 through -8:00 when the US is on Daylight Time. The exception to this is the majority of Arizona which doesn't change at all.
Whoops...Standard is -5 through -8 and Daylight is -4 through -7, my bad.
Further, when examining the metadata on the malware files, they found the modification timestamps were almost always consistent with an 8-5 workday in the UTC-3 or UTC-4 timezones, consistent with work based in the eastern United States
Um, the US is on UTC -5:00 (ET) through UTC -8:00 (PT). My money is on those pesky Greenlandic uber-hackers.
Um, the UTC is -4:00 (EST) through UTC -7:00 (PST) when on Standard Time. The UTC offset is -5:00 through -8:00 when the US is on Daylight Time. The exception to this is the majority of Arizona which doesn't change at all.
Actually when AT&T, Ma Bell, was broken up there were seven baby bells formed. They were:NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, Bell South, Ameritech, USWEST, SouthWest Bell and Pacific Telesis. NYNEX and Bell Atlantic are now part of Verizon, USWEST became QUEST. SouthWest Bell bought Bell South, Ameritech and Pacific Telesis. They first renamed themselves to SBC and later changed the name again to AT&T. So the AT&T of today is not the AT&T of yesterday. So as the parent AC stated, we were renting phones from AT&T for over 80 years.
According to the FBI they don't need a warrant when using a sting ray, as anyone that they might pick up using it has "No Expectation of Privacy". That statement was made a few weeks ago by the FBI no less.
Comcast inspecting traffic would be the biggest dumbshit move they could make. They do that, they loose safe harbor. No way they can claim safe harbor if they are inspecting the traffic traversing their network. That wonderful piece of legislation that the media companies shoved down our throats called the DMCA is very specific when it come to the "Safe Harbor" provision. Go ahead comcast start inspecting traffic, then get sued by the MAFIA.
I have been so opposed to SOPA due to the shift in who has to scan and check. The content companies got what they wanted with the DMCA. They then found out it was to much of a problem for them to check. Bad enough they did not know what others inside the same content holder were doing. (VIACOM v GOOGLE) Now they want to shift the responsibility over to the internet operators, eliminate safe harbor. In addition this gives the government even broader powers to shut down "infringing" internet sites, remove or change DNS. Some of these are legal in the country that the sites operate in. The US/Content companies are yet again trying impose there will on the rest of the world. Now several prominent members of congress have come out against it. This includes the former speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi. Hopefully enough of them will realize this is bullshit and come to there senses.
Unfortunately SCOTUS has ruled the binding arbitration clause in the contract prohibits you from filing or joining a class action suit against the carrier. So if the carrier is transmitting the data collected by CIQ and counting it against your data cap, which they probably are, you might stand a chance of winning an arbitration case against the carrier. After all they are using data from the data plan you are paying for that you can't use. You could always try a criminal complaint against the carrier, I doubt if that would work, but technically they are depriving you of data that you paid for. It would be interesting to see how much data they are transmitting each time CIQ phones home.
Are you referring to the accidentally on purpose fire in the Japanese memory factory in the 90's? The very next day memory prices just about doubled. Absolutely nothing was done about it even though everyone knew that the retailers were price gouging. I remember one retailer quadrupled their prices and made a killing. Never dealt with them again. Supply and demand is one thing deliberate gouging is another. What is happening now is NOT supply and demand it is plain and simple greed, price gouging is a side effect.
So according to the AUP above Cyberbunker is in effect claiming to be one of those"bullet proof" hosting facilities, they do not care what you do so long as it has nothing to do with kidde porn or terrorism. If you have an account with them you can run a server that does nothing but send SPAM 24/7/365 and Cyberbunker will never shut you down. This would also imply that if the IP you are using gets blocked you can get another one and another one and another one and so on and so on. If the upstream provider for Cyberbunker does not have the balls to pull the plug on them, then sorry but tough shit.
Just because your customer is willing to throw money at you to keep the connection live does not give you the right to just look the other way. Yes, you can take the money, but you had better be prepared for the consequences of your actions. If you wind up on someones blacklist don't come crying to me about it, fucking deal with it. This type of thing happened a couple of years ago to a place, they were hosting a C&C farm for a BOT NET, amongst other things. The upstream provider one day, after waring them several times, just pulled the plug and the place fell off of the internet. Yes, some innocents got caught up in it but if you want to deal with shady operations shit like that happens. This is what A2B should have done to start with, IMHO.
to a nicer bunch of assholes.I hate the fucking bank!!
Too big to FAIL my ass, they should have let it go down in flames, same with CITI bank.
This lets institute a $5.00 monthly charge to let you use your money, cause the big bad government won't let us rape the merchants anymore. We gotta screw someone and now it is our suckers er I mean customers we are gonna screw. What a great fucking idea.
But hey we can still afford to hand out billions, yep billions with a B, of bonus money to the guys who drove this place into the ground, er I mean made all those smart business decisions. In the past year they have paid out over 4 billion in bonus money.
The purchase of country wide mortgage and merrill lynch were gonna make us billions, at least that's what we told the shareholders.
Oh and lets not forget the 35,000 people who will be members of the unemployed, cause we just have to be able to keep giving ourselves those big bonus's.
Yep couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of scumbags.
Maybe next time that fucking bank is on the verge of collapse the congress of baboons will just let if fail.
But if you want government unlike the status quo, a potentially significant start would be to elect Ron Paul President. Whether he'll really be able to accomplish much I don't know, but he's not your typical republicrat.
Funny, I thought that was what Obama was going to do. After all he ran under the "Change you can believe in" and the "Yes, we can" slogans.
So far I have not seen any change in the way the assholes in DC operate. Same old bullshit from politicians "I will make a difference in DC". Although it looks like he finally figured out that "Yes, we can" is really "No, we can't"
What really blows my mind is how many people actually bought his bullshit and voted for the lying SOB. Yes, he is a lying SOB. There are numerous instances that prove it. This country would be much better off without 546 lawyers in DC.
Democracy is a government that is afraid of it's citizens, Tyranny is the citizens afraid of the government.
Which one we have is an exercise left for the reader.
The funny part is that I read it as "we need $8 billion to buy off the politicians for the deal to go through".
Didn't you mean to say "We need $8 billion to buy off the politicians we don't already own for the deal to go through."?
They already own enough politicians for the deal to go through, they just want to make sure the ones they don't own stay out of the way.
I have known since the merger was announced that AT&T was blowing smoke up the FCC's ass. One less competitor, one step closer to total domination. AT&T along with Verizon will watch as Sprint dies a long slow painful death and then they both can really begin to screw the consumer. Not like they both don't already but it will be much worse when they are the only game in town.
As Lilly Tomlin put it a long time ago "Sir we are the phone company. We don't have to care." Sad part is it is just as true today as it was back then.
However I would not advise doing that as you are gong to get a horrific beat down once he gets the cuffs on you. In addition to more charges.
There has not been a trial. They just want their property back, which is what this was about. ICE took the domain without due process, they have not been criminally charged with anything yet.
It was a poor argument from the get go. Saying that their free speech rights are impeded because people might have trouble finding the site or have trouble accessing the forums is a bit of a stretch.
That is correct. What they should have argued is that the seizure violated the 5th amendment, specifically the due process clause "No person shall... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." ICE has deprived them of their property, a domain name is property, without due process.
Where is the due process? That inconvenient thing that is in the constitution that ICE and others seem to forget about. Not that they really care, if the Obummer administration had it's way the constitution would be gone, which would resolve a bunch of their problems.
Aside from that, since when does US Law apply to a person or persons or in this case a company that is not located in the US?
This company is located in Spain and as I recall what they are doing does not violate Spanish law.
I also remember not that long ago a US judge specifically ruled that linking to something did not violate copyright law
The Obummer administration has sunken to even new lows with this. I am not surprised by any of this. Obummer has to keep his bosses in Hollywierd happy else he won't get any campaign money from them for the next election.
Yep the US government the best government money can buy!
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Doesn't it worry you at all that the FBI investigation so close to the vote most likely lost it for Clinton? Wikileaks and the FBI turned nothing into a Trump victory.
Sounds like John Podesta complaining that FBI Director Comey cost Hillary the election.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
No, this did not cost Hillary the election. The damage had been done long ago when the DNC and Hillary screwed over Bernie Sanders.
The DNC did not listen to others who told them the selecting Hillary was a mistake, that she was almost unelectable.
https://theintercept.com/2016/...
Then top it off the Democrats got the opposing candidate they wanted in Donald Trump.
Come election day Bernie Sanders supporters stayed away on election day in key states.
This is attributed to the DNC email dumps in the weeks leading up to the election.
Many voters in the rust belt, who voted for Obama in '08 and '12 voted Trump this time around.
Most said Hillary was an insider and part of the problem, they wanted change and Trump offered that.
As for me, no I did not vote for Trump. I also did not give Hillary my vote.
She carried my state and got the biggest prize of all, as the Democrats always do.
The announcement from Comey didn't change my mind, I wasn't going to vote for her from the start.
Her previous actions and mishandling of classified information did it for me. She should NEVER hold a security clearance again.
Now it looks like she never will need one again. That is a good thing for this country.
With Trump being elected, the one thing I am thankful for is that the TPP is DOA.
It may be the only thing good that may come from the Trump presidency but it is a start.
Next time you're caught speeding, try telling the cop, "I didn't intend to speed" and see where it gets you.
I did. After the officer stopped laughing he gave me a ticket anyway and said "Nice try Hillary"
They should use the hillary defense. "We didn't intend to commit a crime."
I tried that...
The cop still gave me a ticket for speeding, after he stopped laughing.
This program has been in existence since 1991. The professor has been in charge of the program since 2007. Please enlighten us as to how all of the data can be his when he has only been in charge of the program for 7-8 years of it's 24 year existence. If anything he would only have a right to the past 7-8 years worth of data not the other 17 years of data that was collected before he joined the project.
Yep... Just ask Microsoft about the Justice Department getting the US COURTS to tell them they have to violate EU law and hand over a EU citizen's email stored on a server in Ireland.
Um, the US is on UTC -5:00 (ET) through UTC -8:00 (PT). My money is on those pesky Greenlandic uber-hackers.
Um, the UTC is -4:00 (EST) through UTC -7:00 (PST) when on Standard Time. The UTC offset is -5:00 through -8:00 when the US is on Daylight Time. The exception to this is the majority of Arizona which doesn't change at all.
Whoops...Standard is -5 through -8 and Daylight is -4 through -7, my bad.
Further, when examining the metadata on the malware files, they found the modification timestamps were almost always consistent with an 8-5 workday in the UTC-3 or UTC-4 timezones, consistent with work based in the eastern United States
Um, the US is on UTC -5:00 (ET) through UTC -8:00 (PT). My money is on those pesky Greenlandic uber-hackers.
Um, the UTC is -4:00 (EST) through UTC -7:00 (PST) when on Standard Time. The UTC offset is -5:00 through -8:00 when the US is on Daylight Time. The exception to this is the majority of Arizona which doesn't change at all.
You mean Bell ... AT&T was one of the baby Bells.
Actually when AT&T, Ma Bell, was broken up there were seven baby bells formed. :NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, Bell South, Ameritech, USWEST, SouthWest Bell and Pacific Telesis.
They were
NYNEX and Bell Atlantic are now part of Verizon, USWEST became QUEST.
SouthWest Bell bought Bell South, Ameritech and Pacific Telesis. They first renamed themselves to SBC and later changed the name again to AT&T.
So the AT&T of today is not the AT&T of yesterday.
So as the parent AC stated, we were renting phones from AT&T for over 80 years.
According to the FBI they don't need a warrant when using a sting ray, as anyone that they might pick up using it has "No Expectation of Privacy".
That statement was made a few weeks ago by the FBI no less.
Comcast inspecting traffic would be the biggest dumbshit move they could make. They do that, they loose safe harbor. No way they can claim safe harbor if they are inspecting the traffic traversing their network. That wonderful piece of legislation that the media companies shoved down our throats called the DMCA is very specific when it come to the "Safe Harbor" provision.
Go ahead comcast start inspecting traffic, then get sued by the MAFIA.
I have been so opposed to SOPA due to the shift in who has to scan and check.
The content companies got what they wanted with the DMCA.
They then found out it was to much of a problem for them to check.
Bad enough they did not know what others inside the same content holder were doing. (VIACOM v GOOGLE)
Now they want to shift the responsibility over to the internet operators, eliminate safe harbor.
In addition this gives the government even broader powers to shut down "infringing" internet sites, remove or change DNS.
Some of these are legal in the country that the sites operate in.
The US/Content companies are yet again trying impose there will on the rest of the world.
Now several prominent members of congress have come out against it.
This includes the former speaker of the house, Nancy Pelosi.
Hopefully enough of them will realize this is bullshit and come to there senses.
I doubt it, but there is always hope.
Unfortunately SCOTUS has ruled the binding arbitration clause in the contract prohibits you from filing or joining a class action suit against the carrier.
So if the carrier is transmitting the data collected by CIQ and counting it against your data cap, which they probably are, you might stand a chance of winning an arbitration case against the carrier. After all they are using data from the data plan you are paying for that you can't use. You could always try a criminal complaint against the carrier, I doubt if that would work, but technically they are depriving you of data that you paid for. It would be interesting to see how much data they are transmitting each time CIQ phones home.
I was talking about the retailers in my area that pulled this crap.
Nothing, absolutely nothing was done to them.
Are you referring to the accidentally on purpose fire in the Japanese memory factory in the 90's?
The very next day memory prices just about doubled.
Absolutely nothing was done about it even though everyone knew that the retailers were price gouging.
I remember one retailer quadrupled their prices and made a killing.
Never dealt with them again.
Supply and demand is one thing deliberate gouging is another.
What is happening now is NOT supply and demand it is plain and simple greed, price gouging is a side effect.
This is /.
Do you really expect people to RTFA.
Good to see cash is still good for some things.
Does this mean that the legislators of Louisiana can no longer accept cash for the bribes they get?
So according to the AUP above Cyberbunker is in effect claiming to be one of those"bullet proof" hosting facilities, they do not care what you do so long as it has nothing to do with kidde porn or terrorism. If you have an account with them you can run a server that does nothing but send SPAM 24/7/365 and Cyberbunker will never shut you down. This would also imply that if the IP you are using gets blocked you can get another one and another one and another one and so on and so on. If the upstream provider for Cyberbunker does not have the balls to pull the plug on them, then sorry but tough shit. Just because your customer is willing to throw money at you to keep the connection live does not give you the right to just look the other way. Yes, you can take the money, but you had better be prepared for the consequences of your actions. If you wind up on someones blacklist don't come crying to me about it, fucking deal with it. This type of thing happened a couple of years ago to a place, they were hosting a C&C farm for a BOT NET, amongst other things. The upstream provider one day, after waring them several times, just pulled the plug and the place fell off of the internet. Yes, some innocents got caught up in it but if you want to deal with shady operations shit like that happens. This is what A2B should have done to start with, IMHO.
to a nicer bunch of assholes.I hate the fucking bank!! Too big to FAIL my ass, they should have let it go down in flames, same with CITI bank. This lets institute a $5.00 monthly charge to let you use your money, cause the big bad government won't let us rape the merchants anymore. We gotta screw someone and now it is our suckers er I mean customers we are gonna screw. What a great fucking idea. But hey we can still afford to hand out billions, yep billions with a B, of bonus money to the guys who drove this place into the ground, er I mean made all those smart business decisions. In the past year they have paid out over 4 billion in bonus money. The purchase of country wide mortgage and merrill lynch were gonna make us billions, at least that's what we told the shareholders. Oh and lets not forget the 35,000 people who will be members of the unemployed, cause we just have to be able to keep giving ourselves those big bonus's. Yep couldn't have happened to a nicer bunch of scumbags. Maybe next time that fucking bank is on the verge of collapse the congress of baboons will just let if fail.
Because the people that do have the power to stop this royal screwing of the consumer can't. They are already owned by AT&T.
But if you want government unlike the status quo, a potentially significant start would be to elect Ron Paul President. Whether he'll really be able to accomplish much I don't know, but he's not your typical republicrat.
Funny, I thought that was what Obama was going to do. After all he ran under the "Change you can believe in" and the "Yes, we can" slogans.
So far I have not seen any change in the way the assholes in DC operate. Same old bullshit from politicians "I will make a difference in DC". Although it looks like he finally figured out that "Yes, we can" is really "No, we can't"
What really blows my mind is how many people actually bought his bullshit and voted for the lying SOB. Yes, he is a lying SOB. There are numerous instances that prove it. This country would be much better off without 546 lawyers in DC.
Democracy is a government that is afraid of it's citizens, Tyranny is the citizens afraid of the government.
Which one we have is an exercise left for the reader.
The funny part is that I read it as "we need $8 billion to buy off the politicians for the deal to go through".
Didn't you mean to say "We need $8 billion to buy off the politicians we don't already own for the deal to go through."?
They already own enough politicians for the deal to go through, they just want to make sure the ones they don't own stay out of the way.
I have known since the merger was announced that AT&T was blowing smoke up the FCC's ass. One less competitor, one step closer to total domination. AT&T along with Verizon will watch as Sprint dies a long slow painful death and then they both can really begin to screw the consumer. Not like they both don't already but it will be much worse when they are the only game in town.
As Lilly Tomlin put it a long time ago "Sir we are the phone company. We don't have to care." Sad part is it is just as true today as it was back then.
Yes, you do.
However I would not advise doing that as you are gong to get a horrific beat down once he gets the cuffs on you. In addition to more charges.
There has not been a trial. They just want their property back, which is what this was about. ICE took the domain without due process, they have not been criminally charged with anything yet.
It was a poor argument from the get go. Saying that their free speech rights are impeded because people might have trouble finding the site or have trouble accessing the forums is a bit of a stretch.
That is correct. What they should have argued is that the seizure violated the 5th amendment, specifically the due process clause "No person shall... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." ICE has deprived them of their property, a domain name is property, without due process.
So are you saying that this is OK?
Where is the due process? That inconvenient thing that is in the constitution that ICE and others seem to forget about. Not that they really care, if the Obummer administration had it's way the constitution would be gone, which would resolve a bunch of their problems.
Aside from that, since when does US Law apply to a person or persons or in this case a company that is not located in the US?
This company is located in Spain and as I recall what they are doing does not violate Spanish law.
I also remember not that long ago a US judge specifically ruled that linking to something did not violate copyright law
The Obummer administration has sunken to even new lows with this. I am not surprised by any of this. Obummer has to keep his bosses in Hollywierd happy else he won't get any campaign money from them for the next election.
Yep the US government the best government money can buy!