Cutting the cables doesn't serve any purpose... but perhaps repairing them does. It would be a good time to insert monitoring equipment, no?
Not that I think that's what's happening... far too obvious, in a supermarket-checkout-line-pulp-techno-thriller kind of way. I'm sure they can (and have) tapped such lines in a less clumsy way.
But how many companies are equipped for these kinds of repairs? It would be fairly easy to predict which one(s) would be used and stock them with agents. Dunno.
McConnell, a retired vice admiral and former director of the National Security Agency, is the current director of defense programs at Booz Allen Hamilton.
With revenues of $3.7 billion in 2005, Booz Allen is one of the nation's biggest defense and intelligence contractors. Under McConnell's watch, Booz Allen has been deeply involved in some of the most controversial counterterrorism programs the Bush administration has run, including the infamous Total Information Awareness data-mining scheme. As a key contractor and advisor to the NSA, Booz Allen is almost certainly participating in the agency's warrantless surveillance of the telephone calls and e-mails of American citizens...
Booz Allen, along with Science Applications International Corp., General Dynamics, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, CACI International and a few other corporations, is one of the dominant players in intelligence contracting. Among its largest customers are the NSA, which monitors foreign and domestic communications, and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, an amalgamation of the imagery divisions of the CIA and the Pentagon that was established in 2003. . ..
Buried deep on the company's Web site, however, I recently found an explanation of a Booz Allen I.T. contract with the Defense Intelligence Agency, which carries out intelligence for the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the secretary of defense. It states that the Booz Allen team "employs more than 10,000 TS/SCI cleared personnel." TS/SCI stands for top secret-sensitive compartmentalized intelligence, the highest possible security ratings. This would make Booz Allen one of the largest employers of cleared personnel in the United States.
Among the many former spooks on Booz Allen's payroll are R. James Woolsey, the well-known neoconservative and former CIA director; Joan Dempsey, the former chief of staff to CIA Director George Tenet and recently executive director of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board; and Keith Hall, the former director of the National Reconnaissance Office, the super-secret organization that oversees the nation's spy satellites. . . ..
And in a relationship that has been completely missed in media coverage of his appointment, McConnell is the chairman of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, the primary business association of NSA and CIA contractors. As INSA chairman, I've been told, McConnell is presiding over an initiative to enhance ties between the intelligence agencies and their contractors and domestic law enforcement agencies.
Greenwald comments: "McConnell's ties to these companies are so deep and numerous that it really rises to the level of conflict of interest for him to demand -- on national security grounds, no less -- that they be granted full immunity from liability for past illegal acts. He is, in essence, demanding immunity for vast numbers of his former partners, clients, associates and scores of business interests in which he had, if not still has, a substantial stake. This conflict is glaring and extreme, but Democrats said nothing about it when granting prospective immunity to this industry at his insistence. Thus far, they have also said nothing in the face of McConnell's demands that this immunity now be made retroactive as well."
Not to mention, with more spent on education (and less on propaganda) perhaps the daughter would've been "introduced" to cocaine and it's dangers BEFORE the party.
Furthermore, tell THIS to the father: next time you have a daughter, you might want to DO YOUR JOB AS A PARENT and educate your daughter about drugs (and other things she might encounter) BEFORE LETTING HER GO TO PARTIES.
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In first grade I was pulling all-nighters, seeing how many times I could flip Asteroids (forget). In middle school it was the BBS, calling and operating. Melatonin notwithstanding, my internal "wind down" clock shows little if any regularity.
Fast forward. This is how I do it now: sleep when sleepy, wake when refreshed; repeat. My work (composer) fits comfortably in my waking hours. I cannot imagine a more efficient way to structure it. My body follows it's own natural, organic rest schedule; I've no difficulty significantly extending my awake time as needed; when my immune system requires greater rest in which to fight off a virus, it gets it, and sooner rather than later.
My sleep patterns slide around, but overall, 4 up and 4 down is close a description as any.
The Uberman deal sounds pretty hardcore. Google Answers http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=41 3131 has some links to scientific research on that method.
I can't recommend my sleep habits to anyone, not knowing how they'd work for you. But I have "converted" a couple of people, and while perhaps lacking the freedom I have, don't know how they put up with the hassle of the conventional schedule.
Whatever works, like always.
Maybe this means someone (anyone, please!) will be able to bring ViaVoice up to date on the Mac, which hasn't been updated for more than a couple years, and with every OS X update becomes more and more broken.
Let's try not to make too much of the fact that organizations outside the gov't having to do with voting (Diebold, Omega, et al) support conservatives moreso than liberals, politically.
This is largely because the right is much more pro-business and -capitalism than the left, who are typically seen to increasingly resent the wealth builders and creators with the more wealth they build and create.
If some organization seemed intent on taxing and regulating me out of business, I probably wouldn't support them much, either.
What party a business supports in a moot point, regardless. If someone is paranoid enough to have visions of conspiracy by right-supporting businesses, then the same untrustworthiness must therefore be assumed about all left-supporing organizations as well. While I don't understand paranoia all that well, maybe in the minds of those so afflicted, these two opposing conspiracies would cancel each other out...?
Very true. The hypocrites were also shown up when iTunes hit. You could go back and see the people who made the argument "$xx is just TOO MUCH for a CD when all I really want are ONE or TWO songs on it". Now these are the people who would presumably be first in line to be able to pay $1.99 for their two songs. Right?
Hardly. Their new argument became, "$.99?! Too damn much. I'd go for it if it were maybe $.50."
Uh-huh. Sure you would. There are certainly arguments to be made against the methods of the RIAA et al, but those making inane excuses, and those showing themselves to be liars, have only one driving motivation:
Uhm, maybe because the number of online thieves compared to the number of shoplifters, and the amount of online theft one person can conduct compared to the amount they can run out of Target with?
It might make someone feel warm and fuzzy fooling themselves into believing they're pirating music _on principle_ of, what--CD prices too high? Fine, don't buy them. But last I checked, the consumer doesn't set the pricepoint for the goods they purchase (sans Priceline, haha). The "principle" is reduced to--can't afford it so I'll steal it 'cos it's easy.
Case in point, Apple's new distribution system. You saw the threads, both here and at MeFi: "$1 a song?...Easy, Painless?...Should I pay?.... NAAAAW". Some had the pinhead audacity to suggest if they were only $.50, why, then, THEN I'd _definately_ pay, yesirree. Riiight. You'd find some other excuse to steal.
People shouldn't throw around a word like "principle" until they know what one is.
Let me get this right: someone breaks into a home and steals lots of personal property. Then they give it to a fence who tries to get rid of it by selling it, but has a hard time because the police, knowing the fence deals in stolen property, keep tabs on the store and bust the fence when they catch him selling stolen property. So, the thief decides to go about it his own way, and holds a yard sale of the stolen goods, selling what he can and giving away a lot of it. Then he finds that there's lots of other thieves doing the same thing, so they decide to get together in one location and just trade all the property they've stolen between themselves. "Oh, I need a leather recliner. I'll trade you three car stereos (slightly damaged) and this gold jewelry for that couch." The police, when hearing about this twisted swap meet, show upand begin looking around, confiscating what stolen property they can identify.
Says the thieves: "Wah! Our rights are being infinged! Swap meets are PERFECTLY legal! We're being persecuted! We should display the shit we ripped off for everyone to see, but the cops shouldn't be able to look, too! What is this, friggin' Communist Russia?!"
The moral is, don't confuse stolen property with rightful property, and don't be surprised when the rightful owners look when you display all your thieving to the world.
Slashdot Mirror
I've been saying this about WL from day one.
WL > Tunisia uprising > Middle East firestorm
They don't want to make a phone, just an OS (for other companies to put on their phones).
Go back a few months...
They don't want to make an OS, just a browser (to run on other OSes).
See a pattern?
Both mirror and Wikileaks are still unaccessable. Could we get more mirrors or caches or torrent, before it's all wiped clean? 8)
Cutting the cables doesn't serve any purpose... but perhaps repairing them does. It would be a good time to insert monitoring equipment, no?
Not that I think that's what's happening... far too obvious, in a supermarket-checkout-line-pulp-techno-thriller kind of way. I'm sure they can (and have) tapped such lines in a less clumsy way.
But how many companies are equipped for these kinds of repairs? It would be fairly easy to predict which one(s) would be used and stock them with agents. Dunno.
Greenwald comments: "McConnell's ties to these companies are so deep and numerous that it really rises to the level of conflict of interest for him to demand -- on national security grounds, no less -- that they be granted full immunity from liability for past illegal acts. He is, in essence, demanding immunity for vast numbers of his former partners, clients, associates and scores of business interests in which he had, if not still has, a substantial stake. This conflict is glaring and extreme, but Democrats said nothing about it when granting prospective immunity to this industry at his insistence. Thus far, they have also said nothing in the face of McConnell's demands that this immunity now be made retroactive as well."
Hasn't Google already been doing this for a couple years now?
-- and that they believe in god and consider themselves a Christian.
What's your point?
Not to mention, with more spent on education (and less on propaganda) perhaps the daughter would've been "introduced" to cocaine and it's dangers BEFORE the party.
Furthermore, tell THIS to the father: next time you have a daughter, you might want to DO YOUR JOB AS A PARENT and educate your daughter about drugs (and other things she might encounter) BEFORE LETTING HER GO TO PARTIES.
Sheesh.
Wrong. Read the report before commenting on it.
Wow.
The gentleman doth protest too much, methinks.
Some of us are glad he did... saved me the effort of looking it up.
Actually, it's:
You can use Add or Remove Programs to view Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications, but you cannot use Add or Remove Programs to remove the notifications.
You can temporarily disable Windows Genuine Advantage Notifications. To do this, right-click the Notifier icon in the notification area and select Change Notifications Settings. Then, follow the prompts. This will disable the Notification Prompts until a new release of the Notification Update is released.
In first grade I was pulling all-nighters, seeing how many times I could flip Asteroids (forget). In middle school it was the BBS, calling and operating. Melatonin notwithstanding, my internal "wind down" clock shows little if any regularity. Fast forward. This is how I do it now: sleep when sleepy, wake when refreshed; repeat. My work (composer) fits comfortably in my waking hours. I cannot imagine a more efficient way to structure it. My body follows it's own natural, organic rest schedule; I've no difficulty significantly extending my awake time as needed; when my immune system requires greater rest in which to fight off a virus, it gets it, and sooner rather than later. My sleep patterns slide around, but overall, 4 up and 4 down is close a description as any. The Uberman deal sounds pretty hardcore. Google Answers http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=41 3131 has some links to scientific research on that method.
I can't recommend my sleep habits to anyone, not knowing how they'd work for you. But I have "converted" a couple of people, and while perhaps lacking the freedom I have, don't know how they put up with the hassle of the conventional schedule.
Whatever works, like always.
They can kill Google by incorporate search that's equal or better than Google's into Windows/desktop.
People 'google' because it works. If something else works just as well and is easier to use...
Maybe this means someone (anyone, please!) will be able to bring ViaVoice up to date on the Mac, which hasn't been updated for more than a couple years, and with every OS X update becomes more and more broken.
Let's try not to make too much of the fact that organizations outside the gov't having to do with voting (Diebold, Omega, et al) support conservatives moreso than liberals, politically.
This is largely because the right is much more pro-business and -capitalism than the left, who are typically seen to increasingly resent the wealth builders and creators with the more wealth they build and create.
If some organization seemed intent on taxing and regulating me out of business, I probably wouldn't support them much, either.
What party a business supports in a moot point, regardless. If someone is paranoid enough to have visions of conspiracy by right-supporting businesses, then the same untrustworthiness must therefore be assumed about all left-supporing organizations as well. While I don't understand paranoia all that well, maybe in the minds of those so afflicted, these two opposing conspiracies would cancel each other out...?
There's no substitute for thinking.
It sounded vaguely interesting until half-way down I see:
"Low Latency."
At which point I left to feed the cat and water my cactus.
J.Konrad
Very true. The hypocrites were also shown up when iTunes hit. You could go back and see the people who made the argument "$xx is just TOO MUCH for a CD when all I really want are ONE or TWO songs on it". Now these are the people who would presumably be first in line to be able to pay $1.99 for their two songs. Right?
Hardly. Their new argument became, "$.99?! Too damn much. I'd go for it if it were maybe $.50."
Uh-huh. Sure you would. There are certainly arguments to be made against the methods of the RIAA et al, but those making inane excuses, and those showing themselves to be liars, have only one driving motivation:
Free sh!t.
Uhm, maybe because the number of online thieves compared to the number of shoplifters, and the amount of online theft one person can conduct compared to the amount they can run out of Target with?
Go RIAA, go!
It might make someone feel warm and fuzzy fooling themselves into believing they're pirating music _on principle_ of, what--CD prices too high? Fine, don't buy them. But last I checked, the consumer doesn't set the pricepoint for the goods they purchase (sans Priceline, haha). The "principle" is reduced to--can't afford it so I'll steal it 'cos it's easy.
Case in point, Apple's new distribution system. You saw the threads, both here and at MeFi: "$1 a song?...Easy, Painless?...Should I pay?.... NAAAAW". Some had the pinhead audacity to suggest if they were only $.50, why, then, THEN I'd _definately_ pay, yesirree. Riiight. You'd find some other excuse to steal.
People shouldn't throw around a word like "principle" until they know what one is.
Cute. But "trade" doesn't refer to illegal trading of things like stolen property, cocain, child porno, etc.
Let me get this right: someone breaks into a home and steals lots of personal property. Then they give it to a fence who tries to get rid of it by selling it, but has a hard time because the police, knowing the fence deals in stolen property, keep tabs on the store and bust the fence when they catch him selling stolen property. So, the thief decides to go about it his own way, and holds a yard sale of the stolen goods, selling what he can and giving away a lot of it. Then he finds that there's lots of other thieves doing the same thing, so they decide to get together in one location and just trade all the property they've stolen between themselves. "Oh, I need a leather recliner. I'll trade you three car stereos (slightly damaged) and this gold jewelry for that couch." The police, when hearing about this twisted swap meet, show upand begin looking around, confiscating what stolen property they can identify.
Says the thieves: "Wah! Our rights are being infinged! Swap meets are PERFECTLY legal! We're being persecuted! We should display the shit we ripped off for everyone to see, but the cops shouldn't be able to look, too! What is this, friggin' Communist Russia?!"
The moral is, don't confuse stolen property with rightful property, and don't be surprised when the rightful owners look when you display all your thieving to the world.
My best,
Jasper