wow you guys are really coming out on this one. James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, claimed that "[PRISM] cannot be used to intentionally target any US citizen." The White House said "This law does not allow the targeting of any US citizen or of any person located within the United States." Apparently even though it's "not allowed", per the White House, and is a direct violation of the 4th amendment...
Honestly, I don't even know why we (the people here on/. who are actually logged in) are even feed you trolls. You guys know your wrong, and are just being a bunch of asshats.
Many of us understand the idea of countries spying on each other, even if it's "bad" it's pretty much a fact of political life. The problem is that US citizens are supposed to be outside of the NSA's jurisdiction. If this was the FBI instead...it would be pretty crappy, make people mad, but is at least within their sphere. The NSA knows their not supposed to be collecting our info, do it anyway, and lie repeatedly about it. That's the problem here.
Personally, I feel Obama should give his Nobel to Snowden. He deserves it far more, and is risking his life to let the world know what's going on. And I'm in the same boat too...finally the "it's not paranoia when they really are after you" has been proven to be true to the rest of the population.
Apple also did something that totally hosed exchange/AD. For the past few months we've gotten more and more "account lockout" issues. I kinda traced it down to something to do with Activsync protocol, and it's getting stupid. So far the only solution implemented has been Airwatch...and the other major company still has XP on their laptops, so their upper-level IT isn't even aware it's an issue yet.
Personally I hate the snap window. Often I want a window half off the screen, or on two different screens...or some other type of alignment that 7 doesn't really like with the snap on. Same thing with "pinning" stuff on the task bar...the icons are 2-5 times larger than in the quick launch, do not stay in the same place...on all my 7's I turn off snap, enable quicklaunch...
your absolutely correct! I haven't had malware on my network in years, until a friend was over and clicked on a "java upgrade" from a site at java.info...installing a worm that spread to two other computers, both XP, but didn't get into anything else. v Took a bit for cleanup, he's not allowed to get on any of my computers anymore, and I've upgraded them to win7 now anyway with restricted users...but the java.info looked EXACTLY like Sun's updates.
I think the biggest problem is this: the millions of copies of XP in other countries, which many are already running unpatched. It's already been established that black hats and cybercriminals are just salivating at the chance to test the upcoming non-xp patches to look inside of XP for said unpatched (and now will never be patched) vulnerabilities. Once the ball drops, 99% of XP machines across the planet will be owned. It could be horrifying to the Net, when suddenly a large part of the nodes start attacking the rest. Microsoft's final implementation of this could crash the Net itself.
This could turn into a world-wide issue of cyber-security. One of my clients (National Grid US) is just starting their field refresh but I have yet to actually see one, they haven't even upgraded the VMs. There is SO much "critical software" that has to work is insane, and what I work on isn't even associated with control systems. My last call was some guy from IBM India who had a 1.8ghz thinkpad with 1gb of RAM, working on projects on three continents. On the opposite side of that coin is a major pharma who deploys new tech so fast that the apps go up and down like ocean waves in a hurricane. iOS 7 broke three apps overnight. They are always pushing new apps and new tech out, but when it breaks it doesn't cause gas plant explosions.
Those magazines and such probably don't exist, combined with import controls. The high-quality gunpowder could be difficult to reliably reproduce if you couldn't just go down the street and buy it. Not sure how many people could accurately make a "ether-alcohol colloid of nitrocellulose" smokeless gunpowder that would work in modern guns. It's not just the chemistry but all the proper amounts too depending on the ammo itself...putting homemade black powder into a modern gun is just a quick trip to the hospital.
Australia also lacks a huge, mostly unguarded border with a country practically ran by people profiting to bring illegal items in. If we viewed all the cartel activity on a war map it looks like we're literally being invaded. Many of these people have little reserves about using said weapons inside the US, but aren't citizens. Since they bring their guns with them...and it is impossible to secure that border...even if the populace gave up all their weapons they would still pour in and be used, just mostly by the cartels.
Unless you ambushed my parents, they would shoot back.
It would suck and be sad and angering and all, but death comes to us all eventually. Just by living in the USA, you are part of a social contract that includes an armed populace. We suck at perspective due to two things: the huge distances that separate most of us from the gun deaths and the 150 person limit on the monkeysphere. Basically, I don't personally know them and it's far away. Of course if it happened to me my life would either be over or really messed up - but people 3,000 miles away in New York would never even know.
Your biggest problem is when you carry it at chest level, pointed outward, unsheathed. For some reason people seem to freak out! It's not like I'm making "stabby eyes" at them!
Legalize psyclobin and DMT too and there would be a major change...allow LSD and MNDA back into medical therapy and reward doctors who utilize it. We evolved over the past several thousand years with these natural substances being in our minds, bodies, and cultures. When the US removed it and cracked down, we destroyed part of the system that made us...all we have is one side of the loop now. What your witnessing is humanity slowly loosing it's "soul".
These particular school shootings are highlighted because they are the same social / "race" as those doing the reporting.
Not every teacher needs to be armed. Just enough to provide first-response capabilities...and even then only those that are properly trained and equipped to co-ordinate with the police. This policy, if implemented correctly, might give a potential shooter second thoughts - or at least make them wait. If this was combined with 10x the consoling capabilities, social media monitoring, and a far better way to reach out to these students BEFORE it gets to that point...but that would also require doing something about the bullies too.
The movie V for Vendetta explains it...all the people wanting a "civilized adventure" came here, this is just a result of breeding those genetics. Transplanting and abusing a huge slave population didn't help much either, even though that slavery has ended there is still much bitterness from both sides. We celebrate violent competition in sports, movies, business, and religion. 200+ years of social rewards, eugenics, and a vast territory of near-lawlessness expansion areas (at the beginning) have created this culture. Without an external enemy we turn against each other...even OBL wasn't enough to keep us from murdering each other for long, murders here still occurred during both world wars.
it's only incorrect because their "definition" of a child isn't large enough! Only 19? Might as well to go 21...with no avalible age breakdown, sounds fishy.
Probably because most people in Switzerland are related to each other far more frequently than Americans. Combine that with a much smaller size and far less guns...and it's not a violation (even if just perceived) of their founding documents and majority religious beliefs. Even those that aren't armed still (mostly) demand that the 2nd Amendment be upheld.
We have the capabilities to make our own ammo. Ammo presses are all over the place, in people's garages. The high-quality gun powder might be more difficult to re-create, but still easily within reach of many people. Clubs and societies of people exist here for just those reasons, even making black-powder guns and ammo for war re-enactments.
I sometimes feel people that espouse these ideas want the US to go through another Civil War. Any attempts to remove the populace at large of massive amount of armament, dismantle the entire industry built up around the Constitution "right to bear arms", and so forth would result in a bloodbath. Our country is so huge, I doubt the entire US Army could effectively disarm the populace, and they would refuse to do it anyway.
It would take some massive social engineering to convince everyone to do it willingly, and I highly doubt that is even possible. It's so ingrained in our culture here, and guns are the natural extension of our fight-or-flight response...and most of our major religions are quite violent in their history and are often commanded by their Gods to attack and destroy the "evil". The USA wouldn't be the same country without the guns; whether that is good or bad is left up to the imagination of the reader. If this had always been the US's policy the Allies would have lost WWII.
"The Purge" is an interesting idea; it might even work.
Just remember, this is kinda what John Titor said would happen eventually. Red vs Blue until Europe, Russia, and China nuke us to keep us from destroying humanity. I really am disturbed by the level of venomousity of people around me towards the feds, I only hope my location in the center of the US is biasing everything. People who where mostly normal 5, 10 years ago are arming themselves waiting for some trigger.
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wow you guys are really coming out on this one. James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence, claimed that "[PRISM] cannot be used to intentionally target any US citizen." The White House said "This law does not allow the targeting of any US citizen or of any person located within the United States." Apparently even though it's "not allowed", per the White House, and is a direct violation of the 4th amendment...
/. who are actually logged in) are even feed you trolls. You guys know your wrong, and are just being a bunch of asshats.
Honestly, I don't even know why we (the people here on
is that even possible? How can someone identify something that isn't known?
Many of us understand the idea of countries spying on each other, even if it's "bad" it's pretty much a fact of political life. The problem is that US citizens are supposed to be outside of the NSA's jurisdiction. If this was the FBI instead...it would be pretty crappy, make people mad, but is at least within their sphere. The NSA knows their not supposed to be collecting our info, do it anyway, and lie repeatedly about it. That's the problem here.
Shut up, big nose!
Personally, I feel Obama should give his Nobel to Snowden. He deserves it far more, and is risking his life to let the world know what's going on. And I'm in the same boat too...finally the "it's not paranoia when they really are after you" has been proven to be true to the rest of the population.
Our has that one it, but they left out the whole saying:
"In God we Trust; all other must use cash"
Apple also did something that totally hosed exchange/AD. For the past few months we've gotten more and more "account lockout" issues. I kinda traced it down to something to do with Activsync protocol, and it's getting stupid. So far the only solution implemented has been Airwatch...and the other major company still has XP on their laptops, so their upper-level IT isn't even aware it's an issue yet.
Personally I hate the snap window. Often I want a window half off the screen, or on two different screens...or some other type of alignment that 7 doesn't really like with the snap on. Same thing with "pinning" stuff on the task bar...the icons are 2-5 times larger than in the quick launch, do not stay in the same place...on all my 7's I turn off snap, enable quicklaunch...
your absolutely correct! I haven't had malware on my network in years, until a friend was over and clicked on a "java upgrade" from a site at java.info...installing a worm that spread to two other computers, both XP, but didn't get into anything else. v Took a bit for cleanup, he's not allowed to get on any of my computers anymore, and I've upgraded them to win7 now anyway with restricted users...but the java.info looked EXACTLY like Sun's updates.
I think the biggest problem is this: the millions of copies of XP in other countries, which many are already running unpatched. It's already been established that black hats and cybercriminals are just salivating at the chance to test the upcoming non-xp patches to look inside of XP for said unpatched (and now will never be patched) vulnerabilities. Once the ball drops, 99% of XP machines across the planet will be owned. It could be horrifying to the Net, when suddenly a large part of the nodes start attacking the rest. Microsoft's final implementation of this could crash the Net itself.
This could turn into a world-wide issue of cyber-security. One of my clients (National Grid US) is just starting their field refresh but I have yet to actually see one, they haven't even upgraded the VMs. There is SO much "critical software" that has to work is insane, and what I work on isn't even associated with control systems. My last call was some guy from IBM India who had a 1.8ghz thinkpad with 1gb of RAM, working on projects on three continents. On the opposite side of that coin is a major pharma who deploys new tech so fast that the apps go up and down like ocean waves in a hurricane. iOS 7 broke three apps overnight. They are always pushing new apps and new tech out, but when it breaks it doesn't cause gas plant explosions.
As a fellow ADHD sufferer, what are your mitigation techniques?
Those magazines and such probably don't exist, combined with import controls. The high-quality gunpowder could be difficult to reliably reproduce if you couldn't just go down the street and buy it. Not sure how many people could accurately make a "ether-alcohol colloid of nitrocellulose" smokeless gunpowder that would work in modern guns. It's not just the chemistry but all the proper amounts too depending on the ammo itself...putting homemade black powder into a modern gun is just a quick trip to the hospital.
It's a small country and they are mostly all distantly related, surrounded by (for now) mostly peaceful allies. That's the major difference.
we keep ours under our pillow at night, fully loaded.
Australia also lacks a huge, mostly unguarded border with a country practically ran by people profiting to bring illegal items in. If we viewed all the cartel activity on a war map it looks like we're literally being invaded. Many of these people have little reserves about using said weapons inside the US, but aren't citizens. Since they bring their guns with them...and it is impossible to secure that border...even if the populace gave up all their weapons they would still pour in and be used, just mostly by the cartels.
Unless you ambushed my parents, they would shoot back.
It would suck and be sad and angering and all, but death comes to us all eventually. Just by living in the USA, you are part of a social contract that includes an armed populace. We suck at perspective due to two things: the huge distances that separate most of us from the gun deaths and the 150 person limit on the monkeysphere. Basically, I don't personally know them and it's far away. Of course if it happened to me my life would either be over or really messed up - but people 3,000 miles away in New York would never even know.
Your biggest problem is when you carry it at chest level, pointed outward, unsheathed. For some reason people seem to freak out! It's not like I'm making "stabby eyes" at them!
my toolkits always have at LEAST one knife.
Legalize psyclobin and DMT too and there would be a major change...allow LSD and MNDA back into medical therapy and reward doctors who utilize it. We evolved over the past several thousand years with these natural substances being in our minds, bodies, and cultures. When the US removed it and cracked down, we destroyed part of the system that made us...all we have is one side of the loop now. What your witnessing is humanity slowly loosing it's "soul".
These particular school shootings are highlighted because they are the same social / "race" as those doing the reporting.
Not every teacher needs to be armed. Just enough to provide first-response capabilities...and even then only those that are properly trained and equipped to co-ordinate with the police. This policy, if implemented correctly, might give a potential shooter second thoughts - or at least make them wait. If this was combined with 10x the consoling capabilities, social media monitoring, and a far better way to reach out to these students BEFORE it gets to that point...but that would also require doing something about the bullies too.
The movie V for Vendetta explains it...all the people wanting a "civilized adventure" came here, this is just a result of breeding those genetics. Transplanting and abusing a huge slave population didn't help much either, even though that slavery has ended there is still much bitterness from both sides. We celebrate violent competition in sports, movies, business, and religion. 200+ years of social rewards, eugenics, and a vast territory of near-lawlessness expansion areas (at the beginning) have created this culture. Without an external enemy we turn against each other...even OBL wasn't enough to keep us from murdering each other for long, murders here still occurred during both world wars.
it's only incorrect because their "definition" of a child isn't large enough! Only 19? Might as well to go 21...with no avalible age breakdown, sounds fishy.
well, if they had 290,000,000 guns that might have made a difference.
Probably because most people in Switzerland are related to each other far more frequently than Americans. Combine that with a much smaller size and far less guns...and it's not a violation (even if just perceived) of their founding documents and majority religious beliefs. Even those that aren't armed still (mostly) demand that the 2nd Amendment be upheld.
We have the capabilities to make our own ammo. Ammo presses are all over the place, in people's garages. The high-quality gun powder might be more difficult to re-create, but still easily within reach of many people. Clubs and societies of people exist here for just those reasons, even making black-powder guns and ammo for war re-enactments.
I sometimes feel people that espouse these ideas want the US to go through another Civil War. Any attempts to remove the populace at large of massive amount of armament, dismantle the entire industry built up around the Constitution "right to bear arms", and so forth would result in a bloodbath. Our country is so huge, I doubt the entire US Army could effectively disarm the populace, and they would refuse to do it anyway.
It would take some massive social engineering to convince everyone to do it willingly, and I highly doubt that is even possible. It's so ingrained in our culture here, and guns are the natural extension of our fight-or-flight response...and most of our major religions are quite violent in their history and are often commanded by their Gods to attack and destroy the "evil". The USA wouldn't be the same country without the guns; whether that is good or bad is left up to the imagination of the reader. If this had always been the US's policy the Allies would have lost WWII.
"The Purge" is an interesting idea; it might even work.
Just remember, this is kinda what John Titor said would happen eventually. Red vs Blue until Europe, Russia, and China nuke us to keep us from destroying humanity. I really am disturbed by the level of venomousity of people around me towards the feds, I only hope my location in the center of the US is biasing everything. People who where mostly normal 5, 10 years ago are arming themselves waiting for some trigger.