My favorite thing to do is dress up in a gorilla costume, sit in a trash can at the end of the driveway, and jump out at unsuspecting trick-or-treaters.
Editing them into questionably accurate videos with misleading titles while their founder flexes his e-peen about how he's "busy ending two wars" is another.
Well, since Wikileaks would likely publish any and all classified information it could get its hands on
Which they're not even consistent about, since apparently they'd rather hold back certain files to try and blackmail the US government rather than follow through on "the public's right to know."
... at least once a month, I get an e-mail informing me that there's a commander's call, or some such event.
It never actually says this in the e-mail body, though. The actual date, time, and location, is in a single-slide Powerpoint file, attached to the e-mail.
Powerpoint isn't the problem, people's over-reliance on it is the problem.
Uh, wouldn't it be more responsible to maintain limited logs, but only for a reasonable period of time, and with the stipulation that they'll only be surrendered when ordered by a court? We already have plenty of ISPs out there that just don't care about the conduct of their users (I'm looking at you, HiNet), and half their assigned IP ranges are in a blacklist somewhere. But I guess being deliberately irresponsible just to annoy the MPAA/RIAA is okay by Slashdot.
Seriously, the last thing the Internet needs is another abuse haven ISP.
It occurred to me the other day that "terrorism" could arguably be applied to both the people who blow up cars/buses/buildings, and to the people who make hyperbolic posts on the Internet about how voyeurs from three-letter agencies want cameras installed in your home bathroom. (Or, in the case of one of my friends, that a NWO cabal wants to eliminate 90% of Earth's population.) Both groups want (or don't want) something, and attempt to inspire fear in other people in order to cow them into supporting (or opposing) something.
As the stated objective of al-Quaeda and such groups is to push the US into withdrawing its support from Israel and its troops from various sandy countries, no, they haven't succeeded.
Not to say that civil liberty activists are terrorists, but the perspective is something I found interesting.
"The Federal Mafia is a book written in prison[18] by Schiff. In the book, Schiff contended that the income tax system and Internal Revenue Service were illegal. On August 9, 2004, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction issued by a U.S. District Court in Nevada under 26 U.S.C. 7408 against Irwin Schiff and associates Cynthia Neun and Lawrence Cohen, against the sale of this book by those persons.[19] This prohibition does not extend to other sellers of the book. The court rejected Schiff's contention on appeal that the First Amendment protects sales of the book, as the court found that the information it contains is fraudulent.[20]
Schiff, Neun and Cohen are currently barred under the preliminary injunction from selling or advertising material advocating nonpayment of tax, preparing a tax return for others, and from otherwise providing assistance or encouragement to others in violating tax law. Schiff and his associates are additionally required to provide a copy of the injunction to each of their customers, to post it on their website, and to provide the government with a customer list.[21]
Schiff and his associates have responded by giving the book for free on their website.[22]"
There's another aspect to be concerned about when more people get nuclear weapons.
I am an Air Force missileer. The US nuclear arsenal has an unbelievable amount of safeguards and fail-safes - procedural, physical, and technical. I dislike saying that anything is "impossible", but for anyone unauthorized to get access to one of our nuclear weapons and manage to use it (that includes us) is the closest thing to impossible that I can think of.
I am not nearly as confident that the rest of the nuclear world has safeguards anywhere nearly as good, and that's what worries me.
I used to work for a mid-sized drugstore chain that's since been bought out. I have a lasting memory about this very subject...
At my store, it was practice for us that if someone was buying an item and didn't know there was a weekly coupon out for it, we would tell them about the coupon and scan it for them. (This, despite guidance from our district management that "coupons are intended to attract new customers, not lower prices for existing customers, coupons should not be offered to people who don't know about them.")
One time, when I did this for an elderly woman who was shopping with a friend, she turned to her friend and said "That's why I love coming to this store. They look out for you here."
It has nothing to do with "the cloud", other than that the datacenter affected happened to host one. It could've been a dedicated server and it would've had the same problem.
Here is a list of companies who have attempted to cripple our national defense with their products..." show that with images of US soldiers around the world...
At least once a day, I see a commercial on CNN showing IED attacks in Iraq, and warning that our gas money eventually ends up (by way of Iran) paying for EFPs (Explosively Formed Penetrators) and other such things, but I haven't seen all that many people switching to bikes.
If you're going to argue uninformed points of view, I suggest arguing them with someone who hasn't spent the better part of the last year studying airpower.:)
The Army is incapable of establishing air superiority; their aviation assets consist entirely of cargo, recon, and rotary-wing aircraft. While the Navy and Marines operate fighter-type aircraft, the Marines focus more on close air support of Marine units, and the Navy focuses more on fleet defense. (The Navy has the capability of performing SEAD missions, but it's not one of their primary functions.)
By the way, I take it you've never heard of USAF Combat Controllers? The guys who go behind enemy lines and set up airfields?
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FWIW, Landsat and Terra AM are operated by civilian agencies (NASA/NOAA/USGS), not by the military.
My favorite thing to do is dress up in a gorilla costume, sit in a trash can at the end of the driveway, and jump out at unsuspecting trick-or-treaters.
Don't trust Google and Facebook with your personal information! Store it with Anonymous instead!
one of the oldest, largest, and _most respected_ UFO investigation organizations in the world ... and how respected is that, exactly?
PenFed is not affiliated with the Pentagon, except that the majority of their members are Pentagon employees.
Just publishing documents and files is one thing.
Editing them into questionably accurate videos with misleading titles while their founder flexes his e-peen about how he's "busy ending two wars" is another.
Well, since Wikileaks would likely publish any and all classified information it could get its hands on
Which they're not even consistent about, since apparently they'd rather hold back certain files to try and blackmail the US government rather than follow through on "the public's right to know."
"whoever in his right mind would want to listen to binary files loudly?"
About as many people who want to listen to source files, I imagine.
The majority of the population does NOT want to see this pass, yet it made it through the Senate with NO opposition?
I thought the government was for the people by the people. What a fucking joke.
No, it made it through the Judiciary Committee.
Then again, I don't have a lot of hope that the remainder of the Senate will do much better.
"Without porn the internet would still be a dry and barren wasteland where only the most computer savvy could tread." ... those bastards!
... at least once a month, I get an e-mail informing me that there's a commander's call, or some such event.
It never actually says this in the e-mail body, though. The actual date, time, and location, is in a single-slide Powerpoint file, attached to the e-mail.
Powerpoint isn't the problem, people's over-reliance on it is the problem.
Uh, wouldn't it be more responsible to maintain limited logs, but only for a reasonable period of time, and with the stipulation that they'll only be surrendered when ordered by a court? We already have plenty of ISPs out there that just don't care about the conduct of their users (I'm looking at you, HiNet), and half their assigned IP ranges are in a blacklist somewhere. But I guess being deliberately irresponsible just to annoy the MPAA/RIAA is okay by Slashdot.
Seriously, the last thing the Internet needs is another abuse haven ISP.
... lasers which, peculiarly, eject spent shell casings from the rear of the cannon.
It's not technically a violation if they asked nicely and the host complied voluntarily.
It occurred to me the other day that "terrorism" could arguably be applied to both the people who blow up cars/buses/buildings, and to the people who make hyperbolic posts on the Internet about how voyeurs from three-letter agencies want cameras installed in your home bathroom. (Or, in the case of one of my friends, that a NWO cabal wants to eliminate 90% of Earth's population.) Both groups want (or don't want) something, and attempt to inspire fear in other people in order to cow them into supporting (or opposing) something.
As the stated objective of al-Quaeda and such groups is to push the US into withdrawing its support from Israel and its troops from various sandy countries, no, they haven't succeeded.
Not to say that civil liberty activists are terrorists, but the perspective is something I found interesting.
"Banned" is a bit of a stretch.
"The Federal Mafia is a book written in prison[18] by Schiff. In the book, Schiff contended that the income tax system and Internal Revenue Service were illegal. On August 9, 2004, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld an injunction issued by a U.S. District Court in Nevada under 26 U.S.C. 7408 against Irwin Schiff and associates Cynthia Neun and Lawrence Cohen, against the sale of this book by those persons.[19] This prohibition does not extend to other sellers of the book. The court rejected Schiff's contention on appeal that the First Amendment protects sales of the book, as the court found that the information it contains is fraudulent.[20]
Schiff, Neun and Cohen are currently barred under the preliminary injunction from selling or advertising material advocating nonpayment of tax, preparing a tax return for others, and from otherwise providing assistance or encouragement to others in violating tax law. Schiff and his associates are additionally required to provide a copy of the injunction to each of their customers, to post it on their website, and to provide the government with a customer list.[21]
Schiff and his associates have responded by giving the book for free on their website.[22]"
There's another aspect to be concerned about when more people get nuclear weapons.
I am an Air Force missileer. The US nuclear arsenal has an unbelievable amount of safeguards and fail-safes - procedural, physical, and technical. I dislike saying that anything is "impossible", but for anyone unauthorized to get access to one of our nuclear weapons and manage to use it (that includes us) is the closest thing to impossible that I can think of.
I am not nearly as confident that the rest of the nuclear world has safeguards anywhere nearly as good, and that's what worries me.
I used to work for a mid-sized drugstore chain that's since been bought out. I have a lasting memory about this very subject...
At my store, it was practice for us that if someone was buying an item and didn't know there was a weekly coupon out for it, we would tell them about the coupon and scan it for them. (This, despite guidance from our district management that "coupons are intended to attract new customers, not lower prices for existing customers, coupons should not be offered to people who don't know about them.")
One time, when I did this for an elderly woman who was shopping with a friend, she turned to her friend and said "That's why I love coming to this store. They look out for you here."
Verizon might take a hint from this.
I seriously wish I could mod this higher than 5.
Solution: Gay rockets.
Just in case, you know, somebody was confused about whether "California" referred to the US state or the city in El Salvador.
"social networking sites"
"private"
Yeah?
It has nothing to do with "the cloud", other than that the datacenter affected happened to host one. It could've been a dedicated server and it would've had the same problem.
Here is a list of companies who have attempted to cripple our national defense with their products..." show that with images of US soldiers around the world...
At least once a day, I see a commercial on CNN showing IED attacks in Iraq, and warning that our gas money eventually ends up (by way of Iran) paying for EFPs (Explosively Formed Penetrators) and other such things, but I haven't seen all that many people switching to bikes.
If you're going to argue uninformed points of view, I suggest arguing them with someone who hasn't spent the better part of the last year studying airpower. :)
The Army is incapable of establishing air superiority; their aviation assets consist entirely of cargo, recon, and rotary-wing aircraft. While the Navy and Marines operate fighter-type aircraft, the Marines focus more on close air support of Marine units, and the Navy focuses more on fleet defense. (The Navy has the capability of performing SEAD missions, but it's not one of their primary functions.)
By the way, I take it you've never heard of USAF Combat Controllers? The guys who go behind enemy lines and set up airfields?