But to the NSA, certainly *EVERYONE* inside the United States of America is suspicious.
I read a line from TFA with disbelieve...
"This argument is completely counter to our criminal justice system, in which we assume law enforcement will not conduct an investigation unless there are some indicia of criminal activity"
How naive the author of TFA can be !
The author should have known that the so-called "criminal justice system" of the United States of America is no longer the same one under the Constitution of the United States of America !
Under the "Patriot Act", under the Bush and Obama Administration, United States of America has essentially become the United Soviet of America.
There is no longer the presumption of innocent until proven guilty.
Nowadays, *EVERYONE IS A SUSPECT* no matter what you have done.
Nowadays, It is *UP TO THE DEFENDANT* to prove himself/herself innocent.
Yesssirreee, that's the USA that we've gotten, the United -freaking-SOVIET of America.
That is certainly an issue, but not the huge gaping security flaw the summary makes it sound like
A security flaw is a security flaw. Whether or not it's a "gaping hole" it still can be exploited.
For that, I sincerely thank Microsoft for so kindly pointed out that security flaw.
No matter what's the ultimate intention / agenda of Microsoft in this case, with this security flaw exposed, let us hope that Google can do something to plug it, and make those "Billion Android Devices" just a little bit more safer.
For some of us, our brains refuse to stop going overdrive until our mission / project is over.
Since my college days, whenever I am in a mission for something, my brain kicks up to the overdrive, and even if I sleep, it still keep churning and churning, resulting in me having really lousy sleeps, with imageries of what I was doing, what I am going to do, what I ought be doing (some times they are "hints" from the sub-conscious) kept on flashing up in my dreams.
For example: I may be in the middle of a very difficult and confusing debugging job.
After non-stop eyeballing the codes, countless re-and re-re-running of the resulting compilations, I get tired and hit the sack.
But in my dreams, images of the screens popping up, with texts (source code) scrolling up and down and sideways, with my "dream self" doing the "virtual debugging" inside my dreams.
It's a goddamn fucking torture, man.
That is why sometimes I rather pull an all-nighters to get the job done, rather than having those un-ending-loop of imagery invading my sleep.
As has been portrayed to all of us, lying to the congress, even under oath, is not a crime, as long as you can proof that you are part of the spook network, and/or in charge of the "security" of the nation.
We have become a country where the laws no longer apply to certain *special privileged* people.
Snowden is the gift that keeps on giving... if you want to turn rational people into a stupid mob
Making the people stupid is what every government in the world is busy doing, including the government of the United States of America.
And NSA, being a part of the government of the United States of America, knows that the more stupid the Americans are, the more easier their job will become.
But NSA is soooooooooooo unlucky, for there are _still_ a portion of the Americans who prefer to use their brains, yes, the ones in between their ears, rather than believe in everything that came down from the White House and the Congress.
With Snowden's revelation, at the very least, we have proofs that our government, the government of the United States of America, has turned rogue.
Our Constitution, the Constitution of the United States of America, have been violated.
Our rights, as defined by the Bill of Rights, have been purposely ignored.
And luckily for America, we, whom still manage to keep our rationality (unlike those who soak in everything Obama / Feinstein said) know that we not only have the right, but it is *OUR DUTY" as Citizens of the United States of America, to stand up against this goddamn rogue regime.
What is far more scary is the trajectory of all of this - they are light years ahead of where we thought they were in the inevitable decent into a police state. If you had made such claims about the NSA a few years ago on slashdot you would have been ridiculed and marked a troll. It would have been unbelievable to most.
But where will they be in 5-10 years when they are better at hiding their activities? I am not saying I know and I am not a conspiracy theorist but to be honest whatever it is it looks pretty grim.
You are way too optimistic.
What we know *NOW* is what what Snowden has leaked out, and what "people in the know" decided to share.
It does not mean that the picture is complete. Far from it !
There *could be* far more devastatingly advanced infrastructure already there, and/or being built, that even Snowden does not know about - and/or something so sensitive even the people in the know dare not share with us.
I am not saying that we should let our imagination run wild and speculating everything and anything.
What I am saying is that I no longer have no idea how wide, how deep and how extensive the NSA surveillance program has covered.
And I am not kidding to you when I say I am scared, for I can no longer foresee what type of future all of us (and our children, and their children) gonna have.
On another site (the alt site) I've outlined the bribe that Dianne Feinstein took back in the 1980's and the way she took it and from whom she received the bribe.
I wasn't the only one on the dock when Feinstein and her entourage arrived. The Taiwanese Kuomingtang people were there too.
My target wasn't Feinstein. I was merely interested in the struggle between two groups of people from Taiwan that took place on the American soil.
In the course of my own investigation Dianne Feinstein's name kept popping up.
In other words, if the Kuomingtang people has the info on Dianne taking bribes (and I know they still keep that dossier) I will not be surprised that information will somehow "fall" into the hands of the CIA operatives.
Right now CIA is keeping a very low key, but once CIA obtains what they need on Feinstein, sparks will fly, investigation will be launched, justice department will be involved, court hearings (secret and/or open courts) will held, and Feinstein will find herself on the roasting pole very very soon, if she thinks she can take on the mighty CIA.
Fact is, our country, the United States of America, was founded by a bunch of idiots, idiots who cared about their liberties.
The problem we are facing right now is, most of the Americans have grown so "smart" that they willy-nilly give up their liberties in exchange for some pie-in-the-sky promise of "security".
For me, I rather stay as an idiot than being so smart that I end up losing all my liberties.
In other words, it's a showdown between the scumbags and the assholes.
Assholes accusing scumbags of torturing people, but in the meantime it was the assholes who defended the scumbags when they violated the Constitutions, ignoring the Bill of Rights, invading the privacy of Hundreds of Millions of the American Citizens, and billions more people outside of America.
As this is Slashdot, and most people who come to Slashdot are geeks, I'll say this -
We geeks comes in all color, size and hairstyle (some without hair), and work in many professions. But most of the geeks I that know are makers.
It's us that crank our brain, outline the possibilities, do the design, create the prototype, and only after we are satisfied with what we have create, we let the world enjoy the fruit of our labor.
True, $100K may be a lot of money, if it's the price you pay to put a device into your $10K car.
But we are talking about a jet plane that is worth $100M and up.
What is the ratio of $100K to the original plane pricetag of $100M ? 1: 1000
Allow me to put it in the context of your car - Let's say your car's price tag is $10K, What will that device cost you, if it's 1000th of your car ? $10 ??
I ain't as famous as Larry but I can tell you this one thing -
As a geek, I equate my time spent on sitting through a board meeting as worse than hell.
Regarding the "wheeling and dealing on the phone", I do not do that.
I still go down to the face-to-face level.
No matter if the other fella happens to be a big shot like that Larry fella or a wide-eyed young entrepreneur-in-training looking for a seed funding, a face to face session can gain me a lot of valuable info (mostly subliminal / body language) that I can't get from either teleconference (or worse, over the phone).
A guy with a low 5-digit and a guy with a lower than mine 4-digit UID were having their parties back in '99 and I was working my ass off pulling cables trying to fulfill Al Gore's "Information Superhiway" prophecy.
... because after 40 years in the military, getting a pension check means you're a "Taker"
There should not be any stigma, whether it be positive or negative, attach to the word "taker".
Just like anything else, there are good and bad in every category.
If a person has served his/her country for the past 40 years in the military, of course that individual (and his/her spouse) ought to enjoy the fruit of his/her lifelong endeavor.
A check from the gov is insignificant, in the light of the contribution that has been paid forth, in advance.
Now... we got to be realistic here and admit that there are way too many who have abused the system.
Way too many of them lazy fuckers who just do not have that urge to make themselves better are sucking the gov dry.
We, as the taxpayers, should not bear the cost of paying those lazy fuckers to continue to be lazy fuckers.
Let's be clear - there are some who are down on their luck (I was very poor before, I know the physical and emotional stresses extreme poverty brings) who needs temporary assistance. I have no qualm of giving them a hand.
But we should draw a limit somewhere - and should not continue in paying those who claim they can't find any work a monthly check just because they tell us they can't find a job.
Are there no job or are those people being too choosy ?
There are millions of illegal aliens in America who can find jobs - the claim of there is no job in America just won't fly.
If those who are getting monthly checks from the gov refuse to work, then they should be on their own.
As I said, I had been poor before, so poor that I didn't even have a place to stay in winter (yes, I did spent some winter nights sleeping on a bench in a park) but at least once I got a chance I grab it and no matter how tough/dangerous that job was, how miserable the pay was, as long as the pay could get myself back to the society, I grabbed it.
And so the NRA's smear campaign continues to influence idiots like you
I am a card carrying member of both the NRA and the ACLU.
I am an American who treasure the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and am willing to do anything and everything to protect my country from traitors such as that asshole Feinstein.
If doing so makes me an "idiot", so be it, and I hope that America has more "idiots" like me than "geniuses" such as your kind.
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Laws are for the commoners, not the elite. You should know that by now
Now you know why Steve Jobs' cars had no license plate ?
http://www.thewire.com/technol...
Not necessarily everyone in the world.
But to the NSA, certainly *EVERYONE* inside the United States of America is suspicious.
I read a line from TFA with disbelieve ...
"This argument is completely counter to our criminal justice system, in which we assume law enforcement will not conduct an investigation unless there are some indicia of criminal activity"
How naive the author of TFA can be !
The author should have known that the so-called "criminal justice system" of the United States of America is no longer the same one under the Constitution of the United States of America !
Under the "Patriot Act", under the Bush and Obama Administration, United States of America has essentially become the United Soviet of America.
There is no longer the presumption of innocent until proven guilty.
Nowadays, *EVERYONE IS A SUSPECT* no matter what you have done.
Nowadays, It is *UP TO THE DEFENDANT* to prove himself/herself innocent.
Yesssirreee, that's the USA that we've gotten, the United -freaking- SOVIET of America.
.... fart ?
Naval bases must be protected from bad, or accident prone drivers!
Since its existence is to "protect" something, I guess this database of everything is better than what the German Stasi used to keep.
That is certainly an issue, but not the huge gaping security flaw the summary makes it sound like
A security flaw is a security flaw. Whether or not it's a "gaping hole" it still can be exploited.
For that, I sincerely thank Microsoft for so kindly pointed out that security flaw.
No matter what's the ultimate intention / agenda of Microsoft in this case, with this security flaw exposed, let us hope that Google can do something to plug it, and make those "Billion Android Devices" just a little bit more safer.
Let's say I robbed you, and because of that, I found that you've got a gun.
And because of that, *YOU* are dangerous !!!
You, Sir, have a weird sense of humor !
Not all of us like to pull all-nighters.
For some of us, our brains refuse to stop going overdrive until our mission / project is over.
Since my college days, whenever I am in a mission for something, my brain kicks up to the overdrive, and even if I sleep, it still keep churning and churning, resulting in me having really lousy sleeps, with imageries of what I was doing, what I am going to do, what I ought be doing (some times they are " hints " from the sub-conscious) kept on flashing up in my dreams.
For example: I may be in the middle of a very difficult and confusing debugging job.
After non-stop eyeballing the codes, countless re-and re-re-running of the resulting compilations, I get tired and hit the sack.
But in my dreams, images of the screens popping up, with texts (source code) scrolling up and down and sideways, with my "dream self" doing the "virtual debugging" inside my dreams.
It's a goddamn fucking torture, man.
That is why sometimes I rather pull an all-nighters to get the job done, rather than having those un-ending-loop of imagery invading my sleep.
... people can claim that they did not know how to do witchcraft, but they could point out to the judge which person were witches which were not.
In the 21st century, people can claim that they do not know how to hack, but they can tell the court who are the hackers and who are not.
As if people never learned any lesson from what had transpired three long centuries ago.
As has been portrayed to all of us, lying to the congress, even under oath, is not a crime, as long as you can proof that you are part of the spook network, and/or in charge of the "security" of the nation.
We have become a country where the laws no longer apply to certain *special privileged* people.
Snowden is the gift that keeps on giving... if you want to turn rational people into a stupid mob
Making the people stupid is what every government in the world is busy doing, including the government of the United States of America.
And NSA, being a part of the government of the United States of America, knows that the more stupid the Americans are, the more easier their job will become.
But NSA is soooooooooooo unlucky, for there are _still_ a portion of the Americans who prefer to use their brains, yes, the ones in between their ears, rather than believe in everything that came down from the White House and the Congress.
With Snowden's revelation, at the very least, we have proofs that our government, the government of the United States of America, has turned rogue.
Our Constitution, the Constitution of the United States of America, have been violated.
Our rights, as defined by the Bill of Rights, have been purposely ignored.
And luckily for America, we, whom still manage to keep our rationality (unlike those who soak in everything Obama / Feinstein said) know that we not only have the right, but it is *OUR DUTY" as Citizens of the United States of America, to stand up against this goddamn rogue regime.
What is far more scary is the trajectory of all of this - they are light years ahead of where we thought they were in the inevitable decent into a police state.
If you had made such claims about the NSA a few years ago on slashdot you would have been ridiculed and marked a troll. It would have been unbelievable to most.
But where will they be in 5-10 years when they are better at hiding their activities? I am not saying I know and I am not a conspiracy theorist but to be honest whatever it is it looks pretty grim.
You are way too optimistic.
What we know *NOW* is what what Snowden has leaked out, and what "people in the know" decided to share.
It does not mean that the picture is complete. Far from it !
There * could be * far more devastatingly advanced infrastructure already there, and/or being built, that even Snowden does not know about - and/or something so sensitive even the people in the know dare not share with us.
I am not saying that we should let our imagination run wild and speculating everything and anything.
What I am saying is that I no longer have no idea how wide, how deep and how extensive the NSA surveillance program has covered.
And I am not kidding to you when I say I am scared, for I can no longer foresee what type of future all of us (and our children, and their children) gonna have.
RR Malaysia denied it, making it debunked
If RR world HQ denied it, may be I'll believe it to be debunked.
RR Malaysia ? How much weight does RR Malaysia has ??
Would IBM's Armonk HQ tell IBM Moscow everything ?
Would Boeing Chicago world HQ tell Boeing Beijing everything ?
Are you a troll or are you just stupid ?
NSA ?
GCHQ ?
Or their equivalent from South Korea ?
... and has been very actively posting from that other account.
And he has been posting a lot under the AC moniker too.
On another site (the alt site) I've outlined the bribe that Dianne Feinstein took back in the 1980's and the way she took it and from whom she received the bribe.
I wasn't the only one on the dock when Feinstein and her entourage arrived. The Taiwanese Kuomingtang people were there too.
My target wasn't Feinstein. I was merely interested in the struggle between two groups of people from Taiwan that took place on the American soil.
In the course of my own investigation Dianne Feinstein's name kept popping up.
In other words, if the Kuomingtang people has the info on Dianne taking bribes (and I know they still keep that dossier) I will not be surprised that information will somehow "fall" into the hands of the CIA operatives.
Right now CIA is keeping a very low key, but once CIA obtains what they need on Feinstein, sparks will fly, investigation will be launched, justice department will be involved, court hearings (secret and/or open courts) will held, and Feinstein will find herself on the roasting pole very very soon, if she thinks she can take on the mighty CIA.
"Yes, there is a club. No, you(*) are not a member."
If it was 50 years ago, yes, even I want to join that club.
But this is year 2014. That club has lost all its luster, and people are leaving.
Many people have left, including me, since 2003.
I only go back once a while on business trips. That's all.
Whew ! And I was feeling so lonely.
Fact is, our country, the United States of America, was founded by a bunch of idiots, idiots who cared about their liberties.
The problem we are facing right now is, most of the Americans have grown so "smart" that they willy-nilly give up their liberties in exchange for some pie-in-the-sky promise of "security".
For me, I rather stay as an idiot than being so smart that I end up losing all my liberties.
They are of the same kind, not dupes.
On one side we got scumbags.
On the other side we got assholes.
In other words, it's a showdown between the scumbags and the assholes.
Assholes accusing scumbags of torturing people, but in the meantime it was the assholes who defended the scumbags when they violated the Constitutions, ignoring the Bill of Rights, invading the privacy of Hundreds of Millions of the American Citizens, and billions more people outside of America.
As this is Slashdot, and most people who come to Slashdot are geeks, I'll say this -
We geeks comes in all color, size and hairstyle (some without hair), and work in many professions. But most of the geeks I that know are makers.
It's us that crank our brain, outline the possibilities, do the design, create the prototype, and only after we are satisfied with what we have create, we let the world enjoy the fruit of our labor.
Nevertheless, $100k is a lot of money...
True, $100K may be a lot of money, if it's the price you pay to put a device into your $10K car.
But we are talking about a jet plane that is worth $100M and up.
What is the ratio of $100K to the original plane pricetag of $100M ? 1: 1000
Allow me to put it in the context of your car - Let's say your car's price tag is $10K, What will that device cost you, if it's 1000th of your car ? $10 ??
I ain't as famous as Larry but I can tell you this one thing -
As a geek, I equate my time spent on sitting through a board meeting as worse than hell.
Regarding the "wheeling and dealing on the phone", I do not do that.
I still go down to the face-to-face level.
No matter if the other fella happens to be a big shot like that Larry fella or a wide-eyed young entrepreneur-in-training looking for a seed funding, a face to face session can gain me a lot of valuable info (mostly subliminal / body language) that I can't get from either teleconference (or worse, over the phone).
Damn !
A guy with a low 5-digit and a guy with a lower than mine 4-digit UID were having their parties back in '99 and I was working my ass off pulling cables trying to fulfill Al Gore's "Information Superhiway" prophecy.
Man, I totally missed the damn boat !!
... because after 40 years in the military, getting a pension check means you're a "Taker"
There should not be any stigma, whether it be positive or negative, attach to the word "taker".
Just like anything else, there are good and bad in every category.
If a person has served his/her country for the past 40 years in the military, of course that individual (and his/her spouse) ought to enjoy the fruit of his/her lifelong endeavor.
A check from the gov is insignificant, in the light of the contribution that has been paid forth, in advance.
Now ... we got to be realistic here and admit that there are way too many who have abused the system.
Way too many of them lazy fuckers who just do not have that urge to make themselves better are sucking the gov dry.
We, as the taxpayers, should not bear the cost of paying those lazy fuckers to continue to be lazy fuckers.
Let's be clear - there are some who are down on their luck (I was very poor before, I know the physical and emotional stresses extreme poverty brings) who needs temporary assistance. I have no qualm of giving them a hand.
But we should draw a limit somewhere - and should not continue in paying those who claim they can't find any work a monthly check just because they tell us they can't find a job.
Are there no job or are those people being too choosy ?
There are millions of illegal aliens in America who can find jobs - the claim of there is no job in America just won't fly.
If those who are getting monthly checks from the gov refuse to work, then they should be on their own.
As I said, I had been poor before, so poor that I didn't even have a place to stay in winter (yes, I did spent some winter nights sleeping on a bench in a park) but at least once I got a chance I grab it and no matter how tough/dangerous that job was, how miserable the pay was, as long as the pay could get myself back to the society, I grabbed it.
Do you agree with the Slashdot Beta program ?
And so the NRA's smear campaign continues to influence idiots like you
I am a card carrying member of both the NRA and the ACLU.
I am an American who treasure the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and am willing to do anything and everything to protect my country from traitors such as that asshole Feinstein.
If doing so makes me an "idiot", so be it, and I hope that America has more "idiots" like me than "geniuses" such as your kind.