Wikileaks has always sought to protect the identity and lives of the people who reveal the secrets of corporations and governments who would seek to harm them.
I'm sure Bradley Manning would agree with you. The least Wikileaks could have done is shown him how to use Tor.
When a single movie ticket costs more than buying a Filet Mignon at the grocery store, I vow to stay at home and enjoy a juicy steak while reading the Wikipeida synopsis of movie "xxxxxx"
But if it's made up of a bunch of ex-navy seals, can you really trust that it's going to be secure against american intelligence access? And if it *IS*, what does that say about these EX-SEAL personnel? The old 'loyalty to your job' versus 'loyalty to your country':D
Jesse Ventura was also a Navy Seal and he hates the United States Government. He's as Libertarian as they come. The oath he swore was to support and defend the Constitution, as the U.S. keeps straying away from that, they will loose cooperation from people who take that oath seriously.
OMG no. Some extremely bright people can manage to do the job with less than a Computer Science degree... for example, 3 years of MIT or Stanford. Normally it takes people with a BS degree and a decade of low-level experience, or an MS degree and a half dozen years of low-level experience.
First, if you had any guts you wouldn't post AC. Second, you obviously do not know any military folks who are in an IT job. That's what military folks in the IT field already have! I don't know a former military person who worked in IT that had less than 60 college credits and knew how to program at least one language. Add in the 6-10 years experience (which is harder than anything encountered in the civilian sector, so probably the equivalent to 8-12 years in the civilian world). We aren't dumb grunts, we know what we are doing. It's the Generals, politicians, and contractors that have no idea what they are doing.
Leave it to the government to use outside contractors which demand a ridiculously high salary for this, when they could just develop more offensive capabilities with the people they already have. There are hundreds of military people who could perform this task with a little training and education, but the Pentagon, in their infinite wisdom, would rather those people sit on mountain tops playing Guitar Hero.
Even in my short 8 years in the Army, I saw a complete brain dump of technical jobs. The people who replaced me keep getting more incapable, because all the capable ones get out and take contracting jobs. Then the Army can't fulfill their mission, so the contractors hire back the same former military people to fill their previous slots, with 3x the salary and benefits.
Does that make the guys on the beaches any less heroes? No... But it does make them tools for another mans cause.
As a former soldier, I do appreciate the sentiment. Lots of haters on here.... I knew before I joined that I would be used by some rich politician to further their career, happens every day in every country, and every soldier feels the same way. Many folks like to blame the soldier for the war, not the person ordering them to fight the war.
Your definition of "a whole lot" seems to be wrong. Yes, they all contributed. But if they accomplished so much, why did it take the US Army to establish a European beach head? Why did it take the US Marine Corp to take back the conquests of Japan?
I would never doubt their contributions, however the Nazi's were winning until the U.S. stepped in.
I didn't hear anyone complain about the USA "policing" the world during World War I, World War II, Korean War, or Operation Desert Storm.
We could always give Europe back to the Nazis, the entire Korean Peninsula back to the Kim Jong-un, and give Kuwait back to the Ba'ath party. Until you find those terms acceptable, don't complain.
First, you obviously know nothing about the military. A unit doesn't keep secrets amongst itself. If it happened, everyone would have known about it.
Second, only the maintainers would have access. The world is not like "Hackers," where a few cd and ls commands will magically crack a password. What's DOD standard now, 15 characters, 2 upper case, 2 lower case, 2 numbers, 2 symbols? Let's also throw in the 5 or so layers of physical security, multiple alarms, internal surveillance footage, server logs, independent server logs, network analyzers. On top of that, most Army systems are old SPARC-20 computers with Solaris 5, a.k.a. slow as shit.
So yeah, put on your tin foil hat and keep thinking they are watching you. It's a waste of your time.
1. Keep in mind that the UAV operators are lower ranking people, usually E-2 to E-5, that really just want to go home and drink or play WoW. We usually pick some random car, read the license plate, then test the auto-follow feature for a few minutes, then test it again. It is really anti-climactic. Training flights are the worst, 16 hours of nothing happening gets old really quick.
2. The information is basically stored until the drives are full. Nobody really pays attention to it until the maintainers (former me) come along and format the drive. Yes, I will admit that UAV's have caught the occasional nude sunbather in the backyard and such. Since I was in Georgia, it was not nearly as common as some other areas. So I cannot speak to the efficacy of peeping-tom drones in the San Diego area.
3. I'm sure the CIA, FBI, or local police could get the information, but first they would have to know the drone was even up there. Flight schedules for military aircraft are considered secret and are not published on a bulletin board or anything. UAV flight schedules are kept decently secure, because of their sensitive equipment. If they call the military asking if there were any drones in the air, they are really grasping at straws. Second, with a camera range of 30+ miles, there's a lot of area to cover. Third, during my 3 years at one of these "drone" bases, we never heard anything from any law enforcement or spy agency.
While you say that I implied it, I merely stated that these are environmental issues that have been/are overhyped by environmentalists and the media in order to pursue an agenda. I never said that ozone or global anything was true or false, only that often times environmental theories are crammed down our throats with a "if you disagree or question our theories than you are Satan."
CFC's were a problem, they were banned, and now the ozone layer has recovered. Science proven. Global warming has a lot further to go, and the "scientists" need to start publishing their data in whole to allow for peer review instead of keeping it tight-lipped and sending out climate-gate e-mails that get hacked and released to show their data purge of anything which does not agree with their theory.
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Actually I read about global cooling on the Time's website from 1974. Oh right, you environmentalist nutbags were looking for an excuse to stop fossil fuel use, so came up with global cooling. When that failed, you came up with global warming. Now that the globe really isn't warming, it is global climate change.
I have a better solution for all this. Methane is actually the #1 greenhouse gas emission from people. So if you believe in global warming, put a plastic bag over your head to capture all the methane coming out of your digestive system. (Since your environuts are kind of stupid, I'm saying that your buttocks is actually located on your head) Make sure you duct tape it real tight to make a strong seal and keep that evil global warming gas inside the bag. Then you can pay me $10,000 to dispose of your methane so that you feel better about yourself.
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That's actually more ironic, that a whistleblower got caught by talking too much.
You do realize that Chuck Schumer is a Democrat, right? Definitely not a Tea Party guy.
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Wikileaks has always sought to protect the identity and lives of the people who reveal the secrets of corporations and governments who would seek to harm them.
I'm sure Bradley Manning would agree with you. The least Wikileaks could have done is shown him how to use Tor.
Irony is an organization based on the premise of revealing secret information to create a website that protects your personal secret information.
It is hardly enough to cover the bare necessities in the US.
That's the entire point of minimum wage, cover the necessities. Not have a cell phone, X-Box, HBO, chrome rims, etc.
It's easier to just assume they see everything that everyone does.
When a single movie ticket costs more than buying a Filet Mignon at the grocery store, I vow to stay at home and enjoy a juicy steak while reading the Wikipeida synopsis of movie "xxxxxx"
Better to take them down than receive a subpoena for the information of everyone who viewed them, whatever their reason for viewing them may be.
But if it's made up of a bunch of ex-navy seals, can you really trust that it's going to be secure against american intelligence access? And if it *IS*, what does that say about these EX-SEAL personnel? The old 'loyalty to your job' versus 'loyalty to your country' :D
Jesse Ventura was also a Navy Seal and he hates the United States Government. He's as Libertarian as they come. The oath he swore was to support and defend the Constitution, as the U.S. keeps straying away from that, they will loose cooperation from people who take that oath seriously.
OMG no. Some extremely bright people can manage to do the job with less than a Computer Science degree... for example, 3 years of MIT or Stanford. Normally it takes people with a BS degree and a decade of low-level experience, or an MS degree and a half dozen years of low-level experience.
First, if you had any guts you wouldn't post AC. Second, you obviously do not know any military folks who are in an IT job. That's what military folks in the IT field already have! I don't know a former military person who worked in IT that had less than 60 college credits and knew how to program at least one language. Add in the 6-10 years experience (which is harder than anything encountered in the civilian sector, so probably the equivalent to 8-12 years in the civilian world). We aren't dumb grunts, we know what we are doing. It's the Generals, politicians, and contractors that have no idea what they are doing.
Leave it to the government to use outside contractors which demand a ridiculously high salary for this, when they could just develop more offensive capabilities with the people they already have. There are hundreds of military people who could perform this task with a little training and education, but the Pentagon, in their infinite wisdom, would rather those people sit on mountain tops playing Guitar Hero.
Even in my short 8 years in the Army, I saw a complete brain dump of technical jobs. The people who replaced me keep getting more incapable, because all the capable ones get out and take contracting jobs. Then the Army can't fulfill their mission, so the contractors hire back the same former military people to fill their previous slots, with 3x the salary and benefits.
Does that make the guys on the beaches any less heroes? No... But it does make them tools for another mans cause.
As a former soldier, I do appreciate the sentiment. Lots of haters on here.... I knew before I joined that I would be used by some rich politician to further their career, happens every day in every country, and every soldier feels the same way. Many folks like to blame the soldier for the war, not the person ordering them to fight the war.
Your definition of "a whole lot" seems to be wrong. Yes, they all contributed. But if they accomplished so much, why did it take the US Army to establish a European beach head? Why did it take the US Marine Corp to take back the conquests of Japan?
I would never doubt their contributions, however the Nazi's were winning until the U.S. stepped in.
cat /dev/urandom >> file1.txt >> curl http://some.british.web.site/
"My Aimbot totally pwned your Aimbot!"
I didn't hear anyone complain about the USA "policing" the world during World War I, World War II, Korean War, or Operation Desert Storm.
We could always give Europe back to the Nazis, the entire Korean Peninsula back to the Kim Jong-un, and give Kuwait back to the Ba'ath party. Until you find those terms acceptable, don't complain.
Solaris 5, to be specific. Lots of Red Hat too.
Do you need some more aluminum foil for a larger hat?
First, you obviously know nothing about the military. A unit doesn't keep secrets amongst itself. If it happened, everyone would have known about it.
Second, only the maintainers would have access. The world is not like "Hackers," where a few cd and ls commands will magically crack a password. What's DOD standard now, 15 characters, 2 upper case, 2 lower case, 2 numbers, 2 symbols? Let's also throw in the 5 or so layers of physical security, multiple alarms, internal surveillance footage, server logs, independent server logs, network analyzers. On top of that, most Army systems are old SPARC-20 computers with Solaris 5, a.k.a. slow as shit.
So yeah, put on your tin foil hat and keep thinking they are watching you. It's a waste of your time.
Might as well put up a sign that says: Come flame me if you hate America!
1. Keep in mind that the UAV operators are lower ranking people, usually E-2 to E-5, that really just want to go home and drink or play WoW. We usually pick some random car, read the license plate, then test the auto-follow feature for a few minutes, then test it again. It is really anti-climactic. Training flights are the worst, 16 hours of nothing happening gets old really quick.
2. The information is basically stored until the drives are full. Nobody really pays attention to it until the maintainers (former me) come along and format the drive. Yes, I will admit that UAV's have caught the occasional nude sunbather in the backyard and such. Since I was in Georgia, it was not nearly as common as some other areas. So I cannot speak to the efficacy of peeping-tom drones in the San Diego area.
3. I'm sure the CIA, FBI, or local police could get the information, but first they would have to know the drone was even up there. Flight schedules for military aircraft are considered secret and are not published on a bulletin board or anything. UAV flight schedules are kept decently secure, because of their sensitive equipment. If they call the military asking if there were any drones in the air, they are really grasping at straws. Second, with a camera range of 30+ miles, there's a lot of area to cover. Third, during my 3 years at one of these "drone" bases, we never heard anything from any law enforcement or spy agency.
While you say that I implied it, I merely stated that these are environmental issues that have been/are overhyped by environmentalists and the media in order to pursue an agenda. I never said that ozone or global anything was true or false, only that often times environmental theories are crammed down our throats with a "if you disagree or question our theories than you are Satan."
CFC's were a problem, they were banned, and now the ozone layer has recovered. Science proven. Global warming has a lot further to go, and the "scientists" need to start publishing their data in whole to allow for peer review instead of keeping it tight-lipped and sending out climate-gate e-mails that get hacked and released to show their data purge of anything which does not agree with their theory.
And across the Arctic in the Barents and Kara Seas the ice levels have been extraordinarily low this year. Overall the level of ice in the Arctic has been slightly below average for this time of year. I have my doubts that "the longest it has ever been present." is accurate too.
So I guess this entire article is a lie?
Marketing department: They are not ads, they are conversation starters. Therefore you should read every one, click on them, purchase something from the site, then talk to your friend on Skype about how great they are!
Actually I read about global cooling on the Time's website from 1974. Oh right, you environmentalist nutbags were looking for an excuse to stop fossil fuel use, so came up with global cooling. When that failed, you came up with global warming. Now that the globe really isn't warming, it is global climate change.
I have a better solution for all this. Methane is actually the #1 greenhouse gas emission from people. So if you believe in global warming, put a plastic bag over your head to capture all the methane coming out of your digestive system. (Since your environuts are kind of stupid, I'm saying that your buttocks is actually located on your head) Make sure you duct tape it real tight to make a strong seal and keep that evil global warming gas inside the bag. Then you can pay me $10,000 to dispose of your methane so that you feel better about yourself.