Yep. Us citizens do not get a pass if we "accidentally" break the law. The NSA should not get one either. Plus their definition of "accidentally" is pretty lame and not really that far removed from intentional.
Occidental.. we meant to say all our spying was 'occidental'!!
An app that randomly broadcast packets with new mac addresses constantly would be quite effective at flooding databases with crap and hiding the individual.
Only if the snooping was on your lan and at layer 2. MAC addresses do not make it past your first router.
We have been blithely feeding bits of our privacy to corporations for years. Neilsen, survey companies, members discount store cards, google, facebook, mobile phone providers. The list goes on and on. The data is there and we GIVE it away for things we ostensibly want.
Is it any surprise now that the government wants the same and more? Google is an advertising company. They have show how much can be made in this way, and the data that can be gathered. They give us the tools that we need in order to be able to better serve their customers. Government is supposed to protect the people, and as is often the case, has taken it to far. The individual NSA analyst may think he is doing a greater good sifting through your 'metadata' and believe it whole-heartedly. However he is really just feeding the military-data complex, which is simply an offshoot of the military-industrial complex. It is tied up with money galore, corporate greed and self interest, and kickbacks and graft, um I mean campaign donations, to grease up the politicians who feed it to us if they don't buy it for free
This thing has inertia, it is armed, and comes with more power than even a large group of 'regular' joes can easily fight. Especially since most of the country is apathetic and/or splintered of bullshit issues like gay marriage. This has been a long time coming, and people have fought, but they get swept up and under by the machine. People like Manning, Snowden, Assange, they are doing the things that Patrick Henry and Ben Franklin would likely be proud of. They have stood up against a government that enables people to steal away little by little the wealth that this country and its people generate. They have stood up to say, no, this is not what america is supposed to be. And whether you agree with their methods or motivations, have you stood up? Have I? Or have we both sat down to watch the Cowboys game again?
Unfortunately it will end one of two ways that I see. The continuing downhill slide until finally comes to a bloody crash, or a bloody crash now. And by bloody, I mean bloody. And after? Brave words will be said, changes may be made, some deep some superficial, but sooner or later those near the top will realize...
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"
None of these manufactures could see the writing on the wall? The market was saturated with iThings and chinese droids, plus kobos, kindles, nooks, nexuses (nexi??), etc...
In addition, win8 was universally panned by everyone PRE RELEASE!.
Could they not see that the ARM version... RT, meant "Really Terrible"?
This argument is spurious at best. There are millions of malware hosting, email relaying, bot net infected machines out there. Having some (even a lot) of home servers of various ilks spewing crap is no different.
If some cracker wants to host infected wares or ransomware, there are plenty of places to do it for free or cheap, especially out of the US. Hell though, even spawning, tearing down AWS instances are used to constantly move the hosting of crapware, as long as the person perpetrating it has some method of updating the links to it, or a redirector that does so for him from static email links, he is gold.
You also speak of inexperienced home admins. Do you think every mom and pop small business on a 'business class' account with 5 computers and a nephew that setup their internet presence is any more secure? If so, I have some prime swampland for sale in Antarctica you may be interested in.
For those that are interested here is a little more info. As you may know, the larger the diameter of the telescope, the more light gathering power it has. Similar to a bucket catching rain, the wider the bucket the more it catches.
Refractors have two main disadvantages, one, the larger the aperture, the thicker the lens has to be as well, making the lense heavy. IIRC it also requires longer and longer tubes to focus the light.
A reflector mirror on the other hand can be much shorter for the aperture size and the mirror can be lighter than a similarly sized lens, as it only needs to be a reflective film or coating on a lighter substrate, as long as it has minimal imperfections.
Really good and large mirrors are expensive though. Here is a place that will sell you good mirrors if you want to make your own. http://zambutomirrors.com/mirrors.html
As one who disagrees with capital punishment in ANY form, this research is interesting. Part of the premise of lethal injection it that it is humane.
So now, aside from the amazing hypocrisy that killing for killing implies, we have evidence that the brain is not just active under very similar circumstances (put to sleep, then heart stopped, only thing missing is stopping breathing)
It seems no surprise to me that when the brain senses a sever lack of oxygen or blood flow that it in a sense panics. A lizards tail keeps moving after detachment. These are nerve impulses and prove that nerves can fire for a long time without oxygen. While not as complex perhaps as the nerve structures in a mammalian brain.
While some people may overcome their fear of death (buddhist monks, and some others), many, regardless of what they say do not. This is evidenced by the massive amounts of resources spent on end of life care.
So now, we have a system that is steeped in societal and political hypocrisy, causes severe fear for long drawn out periods of time as appeals wear on and on, and now seems to not be as 'humane' as it was made out to be.
I know someone will counter with the usual arguments, these people are sick, murders, it costs more to house them for the rest of their life, the crime rate will skyrocket with no deterrent. Let me refute those:
These people may be sickos, murderers, but they are people. Condoning killing them makes you just as complicit in murder as they are, even if you delegate the pulling of the switch elsewhere. As Neddard Stark would say, if you are willing to sentence a man to death, you should be willing to swing the blade. In addition, there are people who have been executed that were not the guilty party. Mistakes and malfeasance -happen-, and preventing one wrongful death outweighs just about any other justification
The ongoing costs of nearly endless appeals almost always outstrip the cost of incarceration.
Countries with no capital punishment have no higher crime or murder rates than those that do.
The logical process that leads one to believe capital punishment is just, no matter how well couched in legal or logical terms is just a guise for ow own vengeful and violent nature. It proves that those who think so could and would kill with the right justification. A murder thinks he has justification too, even if it is incorrect.
I have digressed quite a bit from the primary topic, but I hope this research will shine some light into the stupidity and inhumaneness in capital punishment. In fact, while you cannot kill people to test that this is true in humans, you can use those that are being executed as such. All it takes is a portable EEG unit at the execution. I bet many would volunteer, but the states would block it in some fashion.
The Internet has no oceans. Yet they still think that dividing the world into regions is still viable.
From another:
We need to move to global licensing for music, but I can't see how that will ever happen because of the wide variations in laws and licensing rules between countries. Europe would never accept the US system and vice-versa, and China has completely different ideas.
I submit that -this- is the ocean we must cross now. There are no real physical boundaries on the internet, but we must still span the sea of greed and sail the oceans of unfairness and lack of understanding.
If the defense budget is slashed, programs like this are first. God forbid we stop building drones fa18s and other killing machines. Of course right now I am at a country (trace adkins) concert with my girl, most people here think we should kill more terrists and this country is the shiznot. The chickfila right wing gay hating food truck has the longest line. This country deserves someone like chine to come in and really 'tea bag' something.
Explosives are monitored. Brake line failure is easily survivable, especially since a driver is likely to notice the brakes when first applying them in a low speed parking lot type situation. In addition a trained driver (often employed by those with power and privilege), know how to use parking brakes and engine braking to stop a vehicle, hell I do.
So, it is not paranoid fantasy, it is a viable attack method.
In addition, my method could be installed during routine maintenance/service of the vehicle (no pesky getting caught tampering with the vehicle), for use later.
Also, in a forensic investigation, who is going to notice the cell phone in the wreckage and think it was the cause? Especially if you sent it a remote wipe/reset signal.
I personally do not think this is long out for use. maybe not in america, but among drug cartels, and rival warlords in poorer countries, certainly. It is unique, new, and unexpected.
And nowhere in my post did I make IT security folks look like nutjobs, I simply pointed out a blind spot they were not seeing. Is it going to be likely or common, probably not, but then again neither is dynamite or cut brake lines. It does however have the advantage of being less likely to be noticed or caught. But, since you want to make personal attacks against my intelligence and sanity, and your original post sides against TFA, I can guess where you you get your bread buttered.
In addition, if you are one of the first 100,000 to sign up, we will give you an expedited TSA search pass to use when you travel.
(Good for a single one-way trip only, limit one per citizen.)
Does anyone have replacement recommendations for people who used these services?
Citizen, we welcome you to use the new service at secure.nsamail.com. This will ensure that no terrorists, paedophiles, or drug dealiers co-opt your email account for their nefarious purposes.
It requires sitting in the car for now. What about when you build the hack in to an APK and put it on a $30 used android device hiding under the seat?
Breaking into most cars is relatively easy, and could be done in a couple of ways.. the diversionary snatch and grab where you steal a radio and hide the device well somewhere, or a more complex break-in that is unnoticed.
Either way, you now have physical access to the vehicle, without having to be seated in it. You could control over 3g/4g, or for the really paranoid, simply be nearby in another vehicle with bluetooth or wifi.
The leap to make it a remote exploit is not difficult.
This is a perfect example of why left-wing politics are so unsuccessful.
You say that as if right-wing politics is so much more successful.
The problem is neither right or left wing. The problem is that our politicians make a side show out of hot-button but ultimately not very important issues, so they can appear to differentiate themselves and 'take a stand for/against x'. In reality, they are sold to the highest bidder, working for an almost mutually shared agenda that is hidden behind all the bluff and bluster. Not many really bother to look deep when their standard of living is okay at least, and they have the lotto/tmz/vh1/football/whatever to keep them distracted.
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Welcome my son, welcome to the machine.
Yep. Us citizens do not get a pass if we "accidentally" break the law. The NSA should not get one either. Plus their definition of "accidentally" is pretty lame and not really that far removed from intentional.
Occidental.. we meant to say all our spying was 'occidental'!!
All of the problems? Do I need a TN3270 terminal emulator to access the cloud?
And no its not in their list.
"Mr. Watson, come here. I need you."
You forgot the rest...
"Mr. Watson, come here. I need you. Instructions unclear, penis stuck in acid jar."
This is the U.S. Military and government. That wrench probably cost $5000.
Dixlecys Untie!
An app that randomly broadcast packets with new mac addresses constantly would be quite effective at flooding databases with crap and hiding the individual.
Only if the snooping was on your lan and at layer 2. MAC addresses do not make it past your first router.
Sorry girlintraining, I typically like your posts, but this one is woefully misinformed. Perhaps this time it should be girlintrainginbra?
We have been blithely feeding bits of our privacy to corporations for years. Neilsen, survey companies, members discount store cards, google, facebook, mobile phone providers. The list goes on and on. The data is there and we GIVE it away for things we ostensibly want.
Is it any surprise now that the government wants the same and more? Google is an advertising company. They have show how much can be made in this way, and the data that can be gathered. They give us the tools that we need in order to be able to better serve their customers. Government is supposed to protect the people, and as is often the case, has taken it to far. The individual NSA analyst may think he is doing a greater good sifting through your 'metadata' and believe it whole-heartedly. However he is really just feeding the military-data complex, which is simply an offshoot of the military-industrial complex. It is tied up with money galore, corporate greed and self interest, and kickbacks and graft, um I mean campaign donations, to grease up the politicians who feed it to us if they don't buy it for free
This thing has inertia, it is armed, and comes with more power than even a large group of 'regular' joes can easily fight. Especially since most of the country is apathetic and/or splintered of bullshit issues like gay marriage. This has been a long time coming, and people have fought, but they get swept up and under by the machine. People like Manning, Snowden, Assange, they are doing the things that Patrick Henry and Ben Franklin would likely be proud of. They have stood up against a government that enables people to steal away little by little the wealth that this country and its people generate. They have stood up to say, no, this is not what america is supposed to be. And whether you agree with their methods or motivations, have you stood up? Have I? Or have we both sat down to watch the Cowboys game again?
Unfortunately it will end one of two ways that I see. The continuing downhill slide until finally comes to a bloody crash, or a bloody crash now. And by bloody, I mean bloody. And after? Brave words will be said, changes may be made, some deep some superficial, but sooner or later those near the top will realize...
"All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others"
In addition, win8 was universally panned by everyone PRE RELEASE!.
Could they not see that the ARM version... RT, meant "Really Terrible"?
If some cracker wants to host infected wares or ransomware, there are plenty of places to do it for free or cheap, especially out of the US. Hell though, even spawning, tearing down AWS instances are used to constantly move the hosting of crapware, as long as the person perpetrating it has some method of updating the links to it, or a redirector that does so for him from static email links, he is gold.
You also speak of inexperienced home admins. Do you think every mom and pop small business on a 'business class' account with 5 computers and a nephew that setup their internet presence is any more secure? If so, I have some prime swampland for sale in Antarctica you may be interested in.
Refractors have two main disadvantages, one, the larger the aperture, the thicker the lens has to be as well, making the lense heavy. IIRC it also requires longer and longer tubes to focus the light.
A reflector mirror on the other hand can be much shorter for the aperture size and the mirror can be lighter than a similarly sized lens, as it only needs to be a reflective film or coating on a lighter substrate, as long as it has minimal imperfections.
Really good and large mirrors are expensive though. Here is a place that will sell you good mirrors if you want to make your own. http://zambutomirrors.com/mirrors.html
Every so often you still post an article that makes my sojourn here worthwhile.
As one who disagrees with capital punishment in ANY form, this research is interesting. Part of the premise of lethal injection it that it is humane.
So now, aside from the amazing hypocrisy that killing for killing implies, we have evidence that the brain is not just active under very similar circumstances (put to sleep, then heart stopped, only thing missing is stopping breathing)
It seems no surprise to me that when the brain senses a sever lack of oxygen or blood flow that it in a sense panics. A lizards tail keeps moving after detachment. These are nerve impulses and prove that nerves can fire for a long time without oxygen. While not as complex perhaps as the nerve structures in a mammalian brain.
While some people may overcome their fear of death (buddhist monks, and some others), many, regardless of what they say do not. This is evidenced by the massive amounts of resources spent on end of life care.
So now, we have a system that is steeped in societal and political hypocrisy, causes severe fear for long drawn out periods of time as appeals wear on and on, and now seems to not be as 'humane' as it was made out to be.
I know someone will counter with the usual arguments, these people are sick, murders, it costs more to house them for the rest of their life, the crime rate will skyrocket with no deterrent. Let me refute those:
These people may be sickos, murderers, but they are people. Condoning killing them makes you just as complicit in murder as they are, even if you delegate the pulling of the switch elsewhere. As Neddard Stark would say, if you are willing to sentence a man to death, you should be willing to swing the blade. In addition, there are people who have been executed that were not the guilty party. Mistakes and malfeasance -happen-, and preventing one wrongful death outweighs just about any other justification
The ongoing costs of nearly endless appeals almost always outstrip the cost of incarceration.
Countries with no capital punishment have no higher crime or murder rates than those that do.
The logical process that leads one to believe capital punishment is just, no matter how well couched in legal or logical terms is just a guise for ow own vengeful and violent nature. It proves that those who think so could and would kill with the right justification. A murder thinks he has justification too, even if it is incorrect.
I have digressed quite a bit from the primary topic, but I hope this research will shine some light into the stupidity and inhumaneness in capital punishment. In fact, while you cannot kill people to test that this is true in humans, you can use those that are being executed as such. All it takes is a portable EEG unit at the execution. I bet many would volunteer, but the states would block it in some fashion.
The Internet has no oceans. Yet they still think that dividing the world into regions is still viable.
From another:
We need to move to global licensing for music, but I can't see how that will ever happen because of the wide variations in laws and licensing rules between countries. Europe would never accept the US system and vice-versa, and China has completely different ideas.
I submit that -this- is the ocean we must cross now. There are no real physical boundaries on the internet, but we must still span the sea of greed and sail the oceans of unfairness and lack of understanding.
Yo ho ho, anybody got any rum?
No, because no one is seeding thr rum torrent. Filthy leeches. Seed pls.
If the defense budget is slashed, programs like this are first. God forbid we stop building drones fa18s and other killing machines. Of course right now I am at a country (trace adkins) concert with my girl, most people here think we should kill more terrists and this country is the shiznot. The chickfila right wing gay hating food truck has the longest line. This country deserves someone like chine to come in and really 'tea bag' something.
I said 90 as that's what the article said was the amount for cuts. That and at least its a start.
How about REDUCING 90% of the ILLEGAL data tapping instead?
So, it is not paranoid fantasy, it is a viable attack method.
In addition, my method could be installed during routine maintenance/service of the vehicle (no pesky getting caught tampering with the vehicle), for use later.
Also, in a forensic investigation, who is going to notice the cell phone in the wreckage and think it was the cause? Especially if you sent it a remote wipe/reset signal.
I personally do not think this is long out for use. maybe not in america, but among drug cartels, and rival warlords in poorer countries, certainly. It is unique, new, and unexpected.
And nowhere in my post did I make IT security folks look like nutjobs, I simply pointed out a blind spot they were not seeing. Is it going to be likely or common, probably not, but then again neither is dynamite or cut brake lines. It does however have the advantage of being less likely to be noticed or caught. But, since you want to make personal attacks against my intelligence and sanity, and your original post sides against TFA, I can guess where you you get your bread buttered.
In addition, if you are one of the first 100,000 to sign up, we will give you an expedited TSA search pass to use when you travel. (Good for a single one-way trip only, limit one per citizen.)
Does anyone have replacement recommendations for people who used these services?
Citizen, we welcome you to use the new service at secure.nsamail.com. This will ensure that no terrorists, paedophiles, or drug dealiers co-opt your email account for their nefarious purposes.
Thank you for your cooperation.
Breaking into most cars is relatively easy, and could be done in a couple of ways.. the diversionary snatch and grab where you steal a radio and hide the device well somewhere, or a more complex break-in that is unnoticed.
Either way, you now have physical access to the vehicle, without having to be seated in it. You could control over 3g/4g, or for the really paranoid, simply be nearby in another vehicle with bluetooth or wifi.
The leap to make it a remote exploit is not difficult.
This is a perfect example of why left-wing politics are so unsuccessful.
You say that as if right-wing politics is so much more successful.
The problem is neither right or left wing. The problem is that our politicians make a side show out of hot-button but ultimately not very important issues, so they can appear to differentiate themselves and 'take a stand for/against x'. In reality, they are sold to the highest bidder, working for an almost mutually shared agenda that is hidden behind all the bluff and bluster. Not many really bother to look deep when their standard of living is okay at least, and they have the lotto/tmz/vh1/football/whatever to keep them distracted.