If you're going to start pointing fingers at an administration, at least cite your source/provide evidence. What groundwork was laid during the Reagan administration?
It's been mentioned many times, but I guess you didn't see it. Executive Order 12333, signed by Ronnie in 1981. 9/11 simply gave Bush Jr. enough national fear of enemies who may walk among us to broaden it. Despite a stated goal of preserving civil rights and right to privacy, Section 1.4 (a), (b), (g) & (i) are sufficiently vague to cover what has been going on.
So to be perfectly honest, and in all practicality, it might as well just be perfectly legal, since they are just going to do it anyways... and telling them it's illegal won't make them stop.
The phrase: fait accompli comes to mind.
The worst of it is, it has been coming for over 20 years, beginning in the Reagan administration, when the groundwork was laid - the technology has evolved to the point it is considered a bummer of sufficient magnitude for people to raise a fuss over.
I remember thinking "too little, too late" when IBM launched its x86 line (the IBM 5150 PC with 8088 CPU) in 1981.
Damn, over 30 years later and we're still stuck with a variant of that architecture!
Too little, too late? You missed the target methinks. They dictated the architecture which is on desks these days, and made Microsoft unbelievably rich with that little oversight, letting Gates sell his version of DOS, too.
Where they utterly blew it, though, was in pursuing the regrettable PS/2 line up. Horrible machines which locked you into horrible upgrade paths. It was shortly afterwards they began shedding people so fast I didn't know which salesman I was talking to from week to week when we were acquiring an RS6000 for some stupid purpose.
I wouldn't say Net Neutrality is dead, only the attempt by the FCC to enforce it without the congress's say-so. Net Neutrality by law instead of arbitrary regulation is still an open door. Of course, that will involve democracy, and thus it would have to be popular (ie.e, actually matter to most people). Right now, most people don't care, but if the problem ever because actual, not theoretical, they would.
Most people don't understand. And even if you were to dedicate a half hour show on prime time television explaining it and why it's important to preserve liberties, people's eyes would glaze over and they still wouldn't understand. Though if some demagogue on radio or TV told them how they should feel about it, tens of thousands would queue right up behind whatever the position is.
And yet when an attacker can recover their plaintext password is doesn't really matter how "secure" the password was. I could have the strongest, most random password possible but if an attacker can steal it from you in plaintext, so what?
Indeed. I keep waiting for retina scan or DNA analysis, but it hasn't happened, yet.
and when it does the NSA will store all of that, too
I don't quite understand why auto popups like Livejasmin or 888casino can be allowed to popunder (I find them on client machines all the time) but when ever I ask one of my firewall to display me a log, update firmware or whatever (sophos & pfsense) the browser blocks it. I 'king clicked a button and the browser blocks it. Users do apparently 'nothing' and gambling and porn appear.
That said, uninstalling Chrome Browser and returning to firefox has been a great release.
I've had to return to Firefox just to get away from recent bugs in Chrome. Chrome as a pretty good browser in its time, but it's heading towards the shark on greased water skis.
Everyone is using "password." We need to stop that.
Create a password containing both letters and numbers: password1
Everyone is using "password1." We need to stop that.
Create a password containing numbers and both capital and lowercase letters: Password1
Everyone is using "Password1." We need to stop that.
Create a password containing numbers, both capital and lowercase letters and a special symbol: Password1!
And so it goes.
I was on an information system a few years back, if it didn't like your password, you couldn't use it and had to choose something more arcane. The downside of that is really nasty passwords, with changes of case, numbers and symbols end up written on Post-it notes and stuck on the fronts of computers.
If your password for Adobe is Adobe123, and Adobe leaks your password (AGAIN), nobody is going to be getting into your email, or your facebook account, or your bank account, etc., etc.
Even if the user is stupid, it's not like the site author couldn't dedicate a few minutes to to code evaluation of the password and tell the user 'Not good enough, not even secure in the least, do you want to see a picture of people who think that password is secure?' and display some of those Faces of Meth people.
The bit about the gold is very disingenuous. Largest gold mine in the US is in Nevada. Though gold is a commodity, it's not like some supply isn't local.
This is a very good example of people who like to call them selves "Liberal" not being very liberal. Technology will advance and apparently some people don't like it in the same way some other people don't like gay marriage or pot smoking.
People are liberal or conservative, depending upon the issue. A preponderance of issues one aligns with one side or the other of the political spectrum is where they will likely place themselves politically. Though there are also people who are ignorant or living in denial (sometimes to preserve connections, position and power) who side against their own personal interest.
There are gay conservatives and conservatives who smoke pot (lots of then actually) so it's all really a mixed bag.
San Francisco is Contrary City - Whinge - whinge, whine - whine, protest at the drop of a hat. "What are we protesting today, Fred?" "I don't know, Dave, I just looked up in the sky and saw the Protest Signal." The crazy thing is as screwed up as The City seems to be, it still works and people like living there. (It is a fine place to visit, just don't bring your car!)
The real problem here is the mobility of workers has caught up with the ability for them to get to work. 101 is a rotten old road, which seems to always be under repair in some stretch and those work zones play havoc with the dense traffic. I-280 is a pretty good bet for a sprint, until you get near Redwood City, where it begins to clob up (and there's just no good way of getting through these bay area cities and to the campus along Shoreline. Google should just open a campus in SFO (or expand whatever they have already.)
This moving people about in cars, when you are a tech company at the forefront of communications is an anachronism.
in the 1920s in rural USA when it was being connected to the power grid. "He took r jobs!!!!". When society no longer values your skillset, its time to upskill of GTFO.
The protesting slime seem to think they have a god given right to be where they are.
Yes, evil microbrewers all over America are taking the bread out of the mouths of megaswill brew workers. Shameful!
I started thinking to myself, "Wow, I only live a mile from where they pick folks up, and they drop me off about a mile from work" Maybe SF should take into consideration that non-goog-app-fac employees might want to ride on the same line. These companies should consider allowing non-employees to pay a fare to use the busses.
Better yet, have these tech titans fund some Bay Area high speed commuter rail.
but are actually seeing things through the eyepiece and getting some of the science explained first hand.
I can't see through a monocular eye piece, you insensitive clod.;-)
Actually, that part is true... when I try to look through a telescope eye-piece all I see is a blob, but strangely, I can see through my DSLR (which seems to have a larger eyepiece than most telescopes do). But I've literally never seen anything through a telescope, which kinda bums me out, because I'd like to.
I strongly suspect that means I'm either an idiot, or looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Of course, the latter could be a symptom of the former.
Years ago I invested in a motorized Reverse Crayford Focuser (from Jimsmobile) for my telescope. It's been the single best investment - no more motion on distant, high magnification objects from contact with the scope and I can hand the little control unit to anyone to adjust the focus best for their vision. Can't imagine doing these big star parties without one.
Type Ia supernovae are used to measure dark energy, so seeing one nearby is a huge boon to astronomy.
I love Astronomers... sure, 12 million light years away can be construed as 'nearby' on some scales.
Obviously galaxies tend to be a little further away, but it's definitely a relative use of the term 'nearby'.
Having said that... go science! This is pretty cool.
I always get a kick out of the title "The Local Group", which means stars in our relative vicinity, 12 ly or so. Big distances, but if you can't handle 'relative' then it's tough sledding doing anything with astronomy.
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If you're going to start pointing fingers at an administration, at least cite your source/provide evidence. What groundwork was laid during the Reagan administration?
It's been mentioned many times, but I guess you didn't see it. Executive Order 12333, signed by Ronnie in 1981. 9/11 simply gave Bush Jr. enough national fear of enemies who may walk among us to broaden it. Despite a stated goal of preserving civil rights and right to privacy, Section 1.4 (a), (b), (g) & (i) are sufficiently vague to cover what has been going on.
This.
What is the point of saying it is illegal at all?
So to be perfectly honest, and in all practicality, it might as well just be perfectly legal, since they are just going to do it anyways... and telling them it's illegal won't make them stop.
The phrase: fait accompli comes to mind.
The worst of it is, it has been coming for over 20 years, beginning in the Reagan administration, when the groundwork was laid - the technology has evolved to the point it is considered a bummer of sufficient magnitude for people to raise a fuss over.
Surveillance Watchdog Concludes Metadata Program Is Illegal, "Should End"
Any rational person with half a brain would come to the same conclusion.
Sadly, more people are spending the morning texting each other over last night's arrest of a rich kid with poor self discipline.
I remember thinking "too little, too late" when IBM launched its x86 line (the IBM 5150 PC with 8088 CPU) in 1981.
Damn, over 30 years later and we're still stuck with a variant of that architecture!
Too little, too late? You missed the target methinks. They dictated the architecture which is on desks these days, and made Microsoft unbelievably rich with that little oversight, letting Gates sell his version of DOS, too.
Where they utterly blew it, though, was in pursuing the regrettable PS/2 line up. Horrible machines which locked you into horrible upgrade paths. It was shortly afterwards they began shedding people so fast I didn't know which salesman I was talking to from week to week when we were acquiring an RS6000 for some stupid purpose.
Is IBM just "Global Services" now?
Yep. If you have one of those big, spinny carbord globes, they'll come by and polish it up a treat for you.
One day I'll be driving past a strip mall and see the familiar blue sign. It will now be the trademark of a shoe store.
And not Washington. Holy crap, the map would just be red, highlighted by ultra red around congress.
Yeah, yeah. But seriously, have you been in a big city and seen the swarms of rats? Chilling.
I wouldn't say Net Neutrality is dead, only the attempt by the FCC to enforce it without the congress's say-so. Net Neutrality by law instead of arbitrary regulation is still an open door. Of course, that will involve democracy, and thus it would have to be popular (ie.e, actually matter to most people). Right now, most people don't care, but if the problem ever because actual, not theoretical, they would.
Most people don't understand. And even if you were to dedicate a half hour show on prime time television explaining it and why it's important to preserve liberties, people's eyes would glaze over and they still wouldn't understand. Though if some demagogue on radio or TV told them how they should feel about it, tens of thousands would queue right up behind whatever the position is.
It's like a return to the 1920s.
And yet when an attacker can recover their plaintext password is doesn't really matter how "secure" the password was. I could have the strongest, most random password possible but if an attacker can steal it from you in plaintext, so what?
Indeed. I keep waiting for retina scan or DNA analysis, but it hasn't happened, yet.
and when it does the NSA will store all of that, too
I don't quite understand why auto popups like Livejasmin or 888casino can be allowed to popunder (I find them on client machines all the time) but when ever I ask one of my firewall to display me a log, update firmware or whatever (sophos & pfsense) the browser blocks it. I 'king clicked a button and the browser blocks it. Users do apparently 'nothing' and gambling and porn appear.
That said, uninstalling Chrome Browser and returning to firefox has been a great release.
I've had to return to Firefox just to get away from recent bugs in Chrome. Chrome as a pretty good browser in its time, but it's heading towards the shark on greased water skis.
I mean, besides the few that were just rolled out? Seriously, it's getting more like IE* every day.
*The bad ol' IE, unlike the rather slow and inept IE of today, which probably still has lots of bugs, too.
Create a password: password
Everyone is using "password." We need to stop that.
Create a password containing both letters and numbers: password1
Everyone is using "password1." We need to stop that.
Create a password containing numbers and both capital and lowercase letters: Password1
Everyone is using "Password1." We need to stop that.
Create a password containing numbers, both capital and lowercase letters and a special symbol: Password1!
And so it goes.
I was on an information system a few years back, if it didn't like your password, you couldn't use it and had to choose something more arcane. The downside of that is really nasty passwords, with changes of case, numbers and symbols end up written on Post-it notes and stuck on the fronts of computers.
If your password for Adobe is Adobe123, and Adobe leaks your password (AGAIN), nobody is going to be getting into your email, or your facebook account, or your bank account, etc., etc.
Even if the user is stupid, it's not like the site author couldn't dedicate a few minutes to to code evaluation of the password and tell the user 'Not good enough, not even secure in the least, do you want to see a picture of people who think that password is secure?' and display some of those Faces of Meth people.
even this lolcat is smarter than you
The bit about the gold is very disingenuous. Largest gold mine in the US is in Nevada. Though gold is a commodity, it's not like some supply isn't local.
This is a very good example of people who like to call them selves "Liberal" not being very liberal. Technology will advance and apparently some people don't like it in the same way some other people don't like gay marriage or pot smoking.
People are liberal or conservative, depending upon the issue. A preponderance of issues one aligns with one side or the other of the political spectrum is where they will likely place themselves politically. Though there are also people who are ignorant or living in denial (sometimes to preserve connections, position and power) who side against their own personal interest.
There are gay conservatives and conservatives who smoke pot (lots of then actually) so it's all really a mixed bag.
Ahem..
BART!?
Needs to be bigger, faster and fewer strikes.
San Francisco is Contrary City - Whinge - whinge, whine - whine, protest at the drop of a hat. "What are we protesting today, Fred?" "I don't know, Dave, I just looked up in the sky and saw the Protest Signal." The crazy thing is as screwed up as The City seems to be, it still works and people like living there. (It is a fine place to visit, just don't bring your car!)
The real problem here is the mobility of workers has caught up with the ability for them to get to work. 101 is a rotten old road, which seems to always be under repair in some stretch and those work zones play havoc with the dense traffic. I-280 is a pretty good bet for a sprint, until you get near Redwood City, where it begins to clob up (and there's just no good way of getting through these bay area cities and to the campus along Shoreline. Google should just open a campus in SFO (or expand whatever they have already.)
This moving people about in cars, when you are a tech company at the forefront of communications is an anachronism.
in the 1920s in rural USA when it was being connected to the power grid. "He took r jobs!!!!".
When society no longer values your skillset, its time to upskill of GTFO.
The protesting slime seem to think they have a god given right to be where they are.
Yes, evil microbrewers all over America are taking the bread out of the mouths of megaswill brew workers. Shameful!
I joined a Facebook group in protest, so I'm good.
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I started thinking to myself, "Wow, I only live a mile from where they pick folks up, and they drop me off about a mile from work" Maybe SF should take into consideration that non-goog-app-fac employees might want to ride on the same line. These companies should consider allowing non-employees to pay a fare to use the busses.
Better yet, have these tech titans fund some Bay Area high speed commuter rail.
This fanatical "activism" needs to be stopped.
Boycott them!
If that doesn't work, organize a vocal protest.
Being a Luddite is fashionable?
Apparently so. They must have driven themselves, taking such an awful risk, when a self driving car would have been safer.
Wait until the Great Firewall of The United States, as carried out by business interests now that Net Neutrality is all but dead.
This site has been blocked by your content provider. If you feel this is in error, it is you who are terribly, terribly wrong.
I can't see through a monocular eye piece, you insensitive clod. ;-)
Actually, that part is true ... when I try to look through a telescope eye-piece all I see is a blob, but strangely, I can see through my DSLR (which seems to have a larger eyepiece than most telescopes do). But I've literally never seen anything through a telescope, which kinda bums me out, because I'd like to.
I strongly suspect that means I'm either an idiot, or looking through the wrong end of the telescope. Of course, the latter could be a symptom of the former.
Years ago I invested in a motorized Reverse Crayford Focuser (from Jimsmobile) for my telescope. It's been the single best investment - no more motion on distant, high magnification objects from contact with the scope and I can hand the little control unit to anyone to adjust the focus best for their vision. Can't imagine doing these big star parties without one.
I love Astronomers ... sure, 12 million light years away can be construed as 'nearby' on some scales.
Obviously galaxies tend to be a little further away, but it's definitely a relative use of the term 'nearby'.
Having said that ... go science! This is pretty cool.
I always get a kick out of the title "The Local Group", which means stars in our relative vicinity, 12 ly or so. Big distances, but if you can't handle 'relative' then it's tough sledding doing anything with astronomy.