Read the Exec, Order. This is not about monitoring specific communication, it's about maintaining the integrity of the communication network so that in the event of an emergency communication doesn't go down.
For those of us in NYC, we should remember core telephone, pager, and cellular infrastructure going down back on 9/11...circuit congestion was through the fucking roof, and someone is turning a "must make communications possible" into "BB is watching you."
The spin is disgusting, and the brainless will never actually read the executive order and understand it anyway. Da govment gona take my phone! Dey do this in E-jupt and Ly-bia. Fucking retards, the lot of you.
You forgot to quote the part where they are empowered to seize civilian facilities. I'm guessing that was just an oversight or you didn't want to mention it. Whatever the reason. That sent a chill in the air. Sounds a lot LIKE other countries during THEIR instances of 'maintaining the integrity of the communication network' doesn't it.
This is my only holdup with polygamy. Maybe I'm being selfish not to support it but it's not as clearly harmless as most "alternative" forms of marriage.
How so?
There are people practicing polygamy who are breaking laws that are already established in most countries (underage marriages and so on). However these are not issues that are only found in polygamy. They are found in many other alternative forms of marriage as well. And since it seems people are willing to allow alternative forms of marriage, then polygamy isn't something that shouldn't be legalized as long as everyone is of age and consenting to it.
Beyond that the arguments against polygamy are rather weak IMO.
Thats a good question. There are arguments for and against both polygamy and polyandry. The biggest problem with legalizing polygamy is that it is associated with certain religious cults that like to forcibly marry underage girls.
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That's easy enough to fix. it's already illegal to forcibly marry anyone and underage marriages are also illegal. So I'd say since that's the case I'm curious what other issues people have with the practice of polygamy itself.
I hear people say it's immoral but by who's standard? If it's adults and everyone wants it then I don't see the issue.
Personally I'm not interested in Unity. Gnome 3 has issues and KDE was my only option for Ubuntu. If dropping it makes sense for the company then I'm looking at switching to Mint. Too bad too. I rather enjoyed running Kubuntu and my family did also. I could build it but then I'm doing something i wanted to get away from in the first place. Sticking with Debian Linux distro's so Mint here we go!
I seem to recall reading a number of products approved by the FDA which were 'unlikely to post a health risk" to people. At least until after people starting dying or were harmed beyond help. Diet drugs and other items approved for human consumption. We were told they were safe after many studies. Until we've had a LOT more research how does anyone really know?
And yes I've read their reports. I'm not a scientist or play one on TV however I believe their conclusions are premature...
Interesting you mention Babylon 5. Seems DHS and the TSA must have been avid fans of B5 and paid a great deal of attention to seasons 3-5 where similar government groups were discussed in the show. At least it feels like that to me:-)
"From the article: 'Cherie Anderson runs a travel company in southern California, and she's convinced the federal government is reading her emails. But she's all right with that. "I assume it's part of the Patriot Act and I really don't mind," she says. "I figure I'm probably boring them to death."'
I recall reading something like this in the beginning of a book I recently finished reading. It was called "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"
Very insightful book I must add.
This is a very slippery path we're walking down. There is a reason we have the fourth Amendment.
"Ubisoft has gotten itself into such a complete knicker-twist over the PC games market via its groteseque DRM efforts that it wishes to give up on the whole affair as a bad job. But, like the classic stroppy teenager, it wishes to make clear to all and sundry that it's not being sent home in disgrace, it's making its own decision, for its own reasons, to take its ball and go home."
and that's the reason I don't purchase Ubisoft games. Period.
Their DRM has more than once caused my computer to freak out and force me to reinstall everything over again. I did purchase one years ago and I traced it back to their DRM solution. I gave up and today won't purchase any of their games. If one is a gift I go back to the store and with an unopened product replace it with something else (or just get the refund or credit).
Too much of a pain and not worth my time troubleshooting their crap.
Looking for gurus seems like a needle-in-a-haystack proposition. Would it not be easier to take some of your current employees and train them on Hadoop? Assuming your employees are homo sapiens, they could be trained to deploy, develop applications with, and maintain Hadoop installations.
It is interesting. I've been messing with Hadoop a bit before speaking to my employer about it. We were using Sensage at the time performing data mining which it was sorta able to handle (they have a SQL like environment available). But performing joins has never worked properly (one of a few peeves I've had about the product).
About a year ago I went out to Hadoop training and built two small clusters of 10 data nodes each for work. Hive and some HBase running (and yes we can do joins in Hive). Pretty cool stuff.
The last few months I've been contacted through linkedin by several recruiters asking if I'd be interested in an interview. They notice my Hadoop cert from Cloudera and it doesn't matter that I said I'm not currently looking. They seem to be very interested in finding people.
Hadoop isn't the silver bullet for all big data needs however it does plug a big hole in my current job. Companies are willing to send people out for training (as in my case). But there definitely is a growing demand:-)
Wasn't AT&T one of the ISPs that decided to cooperate with the NSA on traffic monitoring? That would make it a good, politically correct, provider for GOP supporters.
And Concast was the other one who terminates people's internet access for a year because they were experiencing a full and rich media experience from the internet. That's what happens when people watch shows like "The Event" from web sites like NBC.com (and yes I know NBC.com is now a Concast company::grinz::)
I could but I don't want to. I want them to provide the service they advertise. Internet access, not this some ports of the internet bullshit.
Agreed. This is why the government (I know.. nasty word but..) needs to get involved and finally protect the consumer. Today these guys can do whatever they want (just about) and get away with it.
In 2007 when Concast terminated my families internet we were shocked. The contract says we had purchased unlimited use for a flat monthly fee. It was even on their web site when we signed up. But after 4 years while they still said they were unlimited, they didn't mean it. That's why I started my blog to document for everyone what kind of a mess we're in today.
Today we're on CenturyLink. The TOS and AUP are the same as we remember under Concast however we are monitoring the hell out of our usage. I'm running a linux firewall server with all sorts of cool bells and whistles. I know what we are doing and how much bandwidth we're using. Even though CenturyLink says we're unlimited usage (sounds familiar?) I don't believe it for one second.
We can't run any servers which sucks. I'd love to setup a Team Fortress 2 or Counterstrike Source game server. But the risk of being terminated for violating a TOS/AUP is too high.
For some reason I'm convinced that the timing of this resignation isn't a coincidence. I'd wager that someone got drunk and proclaimed that he would resign from Slashdot as soon as Steve Jobs leaves Apple (again).
So ideology is incapable of causing corruption, but money is always an indication of corruption, right?
Whenever I perform an investigation I first look at who benefited or where the money came from in a case. Generally it's helped in establishing who's guilty as I follow the evidence.
Money is a great place to start if you want a clearer understanding of who's guilty. Depends on the case of course:-)
What's really amusing is the TSA are using less effective techniques for checking for explosives. My representative (Jason Chavetz) and I have had an interesting conversation about this recently. He mentioned the pentagon's latest report on explosives detection stated that dogs were still the number one method of choice today in detection.
But the TSA still insists on using something less effective.
Like I've been saying for years, they are highly under trained if they still believe they are doing the best job possible.
Would it be okay to give a good reason why my privacy is more important than the appearance of airline security?
Depends. First, think about whether you would still object if these machines were 100% effective. If the answer is "yes", then don't bother. Otherwise go ahead, but be ready to support your argument with statistics from a credible source.
I find it amusing that the TSA continually argues that the scanners are effective in detecting not only weapons such as knives and guns but their number one argument has been in detecting explosives. The latest lawsuit against the TSA basically was thrown out because the Judge said the search for explosives in the TSA's argument was more important than our right to privacy.
Amusing. Then why not use a proven tech and get dogs into the airports to check ??
Just received a letter from my representative (Jason Chaffetz) on the subject. He received a Pentagon report recently which they say dogs are the most effective way of detecting explosives.
When is a company that produces ANDROID-based phones going to stand up to MS and tell them enough is enough, ANDROID is Linux-based, and Linux is not Windows.
Has Micro$oft ever come out and EXPLAINED what their 235 patents that Linux violates were?
I'm curious if this is where the rational comes from. Not that I agree ( I don't ) but I'd love to see their explanation for this. And if they owe anyone a refund!
So I drive to Nevada and make a purchase, drive back to California and need to pay the California tax on that purchase. Did I hear this right? Dual state taxation on the same purchase?
Something sounds very very wrong with that concept.
Seriously guys. Unity? This was the popular UI of choice?
Playing with the classic desktop instead or maybe I'll checkout kubuntu. Hopefully they didn't butcher it too badly in 11.04. I've met one online who likes Unity. And I think he was a bot actually. Go figure;-)
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Read the Exec, Order. This is not about monitoring specific communication, it's about maintaining the integrity of the communication network so that in the event of an emergency communication doesn't go down.
For those of us in NYC, we should remember core telephone, pager, and cellular infrastructure going down back on 9/11...circuit congestion was through the fucking roof, and someone is turning a "must make communications possible" into "BB is watching you."
The spin is disgusting, and the brainless will never actually read the executive order and understand it anyway. Da govment gona take my phone! Dey do this in E-jupt and Ly-bia. Fucking retards, the lot of you.
You forgot to quote the part where they are empowered to seize civilian facilities. I'm guessing that was just an oversight or you didn't want to mention it. Whatever the reason. That sent a chill in the air. Sounds a lot LIKE other countries during THEIR instances of 'maintaining the integrity of the communication network' doesn't it.
This is my only holdup with polygamy. Maybe I'm being selfish not to support it but it's not as clearly harmless as most "alternative" forms of marriage.
How so?
There are people practicing polygamy who are breaking laws that are already established in most countries (underage marriages and so on). However these are not issues that are only found in polygamy. They are found in many other alternative forms of marriage as well. And since it seems people are willing to allow alternative forms of marriage, then polygamy isn't something that shouldn't be legalized as long as everyone is of age and consenting to it.
Beyond that the arguments against polygamy are rather weak IMO.
Thats a good question. There are arguments for and against both polygamy and polyandry. The biggest problem with legalizing polygamy is that it is associated with certain religious cults that like to forcibly marry underage girls.
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That's easy enough to fix. it's already illegal to forcibly marry anyone and underage marriages are also illegal. So I'd say since that's the case I'm curious what other issues people have with the practice of polygamy itself.
I hear people say it's immoral but by who's standard? If it's adults and everyone wants it then I don't see the issue.
Just saying...
Personally I'm not interested in Unity. Gnome 3 has issues and KDE was my only option for Ubuntu. If dropping it makes sense for the company then I'm looking at switching to Mint. Too bad too. I rather enjoyed running Kubuntu and my family did also. I could build it but then I'm doing something i wanted to get away from in the first place. Sticking with Debian Linux distro's so Mint here we go!
I seem to recall reading a number of products approved by the FDA which were 'unlikely to post a health risk" to people. At least until after people starting dying or were harmed beyond help. Diet drugs and other items approved for human consumption. We were told they were safe after many studies. Until we've had a LOT more research how does anyone really know?
And yes I've read their reports. I'm not a scientist or play one on TV however I believe their conclusions are premature...
I misread that as "Death By A Thousand Cats".
Which would be a lot more fun to watch.
Also thought it was a Babylon 5 reference
Interesting you mention Babylon 5. Seems DHS and the TSA must have been avid fans of B5 and paid a great deal of attention to seasons 3-5 where similar government groups were discussed in the show. At least it feels like that to me :-)
"From the article: 'Cherie Anderson runs a travel company in southern California, and she's convinced the federal government is reading her emails. But she's all right with that. "I assume it's part of the Patriot Act and I really don't mind," she says. "I figure I'm probably boring them to death."'
I recall reading something like this in the beginning of a book I recently finished reading. It was called "The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich"
Very insightful book I must add.
This is a very slippery path we're walking down. There is a reason we have the fourth Amendment.
"Ubisoft has gotten itself into such a complete knicker-twist over the PC games market via its groteseque DRM efforts that it wishes to give up on the whole affair as a bad job. But, like the classic stroppy teenager, it wishes to make clear to all and sundry that it's not being sent home in disgrace, it's making its own decision, for its own reasons, to take its ball and go home."
and that's the reason I don't purchase Ubisoft games. Period.
Their DRM has more than once caused my computer to freak out and force me to reinstall everything over again. I did purchase one years ago and I traced it back to their DRM solution. I gave up and today won't purchase any of their games. If one is a gift I go back to the store and with an unopened product replace it with something else (or just get the refund or credit).
Too much of a pain and not worth my time troubleshooting their crap.
Looking for gurus seems like a needle-in-a-haystack proposition. Would it not be easier to take some of your current employees and train them on Hadoop? Assuming your employees are homo sapiens, they could be trained to deploy, develop applications with, and maintain Hadoop installations.
It is interesting. I've been messing with Hadoop a bit before speaking to my employer about it. We were using Sensage at the time performing data mining which it was sorta able to handle (they have a SQL like environment available). But performing joins has never worked properly (one of a few peeves I've had about the product).
About a year ago I went out to Hadoop training and built two small clusters of 10 data nodes each for work. Hive and some HBase running (and yes we can do joins in Hive). Pretty cool stuff.
The last few months I've been contacted through linkedin by several recruiters asking if I'd be interested in an interview. They notice my Hadoop cert from Cloudera and it doesn't matter that I said I'm not currently looking. They seem to be very interested in finding people.
Hadoop isn't the silver bullet for all big data needs however it does plug a big hole in my current job. Companies are willing to send people out for training (as in my case). But there definitely is a growing demand :-)
Just last year I was contacted by a headhunter demanding 5 years of Exchange 2010 experience...
Did you offer him a +1 Funny or -1 Troll? :-)
I have two choices for ISP: ATT and Comcast.
Wasn't AT&T one of the ISPs that decided to cooperate with the NSA on traffic monitoring? That would make it a good, politically correct, provider for GOP supporters.
And Concast was the other one who terminates people's internet access for a year because they were experiencing a full and rich media experience from the internet. That's what happens when people watch shows like "The Event" from web sites like NBC.com (and yes I know NBC.com is now a Concast company ::grinz::)
Ironic...
I could but I don't want to. I want them to provide the service they advertise. Internet access, not this some ports of the internet bullshit.
Agreed. This is why the government (I know.. nasty word but..) needs to get involved and finally protect the consumer. Today these guys can do whatever they want (just about) and get away with it.
In 2007 when Concast terminated my families internet we were shocked. The contract says we had purchased unlimited use for a flat monthly fee. It was even on their web site when we signed up. But after 4 years while they still said they were unlimited, they didn't mean it. That's why I started my blog to document for everyone what kind of a mess we're in today.
Today we're on CenturyLink. The TOS and AUP are the same as we remember under Concast however we are monitoring the hell out of our usage. I'm running a linux firewall server with all sorts of cool bells and whistles. I know what we are doing and how much bandwidth we're using. Even though CenturyLink says we're unlimited usage (sounds familiar?) I don't believe it for one second.
We can't run any servers which sucks. I'd love to setup a Team Fortress 2 or Counterstrike Source game server. But the risk of being terminated for violating a TOS/AUP is too high.
because we'll know when they are lying.. Oh wait! I've mistakenly suggested they tell the truth now and then. Silly me :D
For some reason I'm convinced that the timing of this resignation isn't a coincidence. I'd wager that someone got drunk and proclaimed that he would resign from Slashdot as soon as Steve Jobs leaves Apple (again).
Rumor has it CmdrTaco is the new CEO of Apple.
Truth? :-)
So ideology is incapable of causing corruption, but money is always an indication of corruption, right?
Whenever I perform an investigation I first look at who benefited or where the money came from in a case. Generally it's helped in establishing who's guilty as I follow the evidence.
Money is a great place to start if you want a clearer understanding of who's guilty. Depends on the case of course :-)
Go shill for Google somewhere else you whore.
Steve Ballmer, is that you?? ;-)
Interesting... My LG Vortex running Android came with BING as it's default search engine....
Not sure how much water these complaints against android are holding but I intentionally switched out BING for an alternative search engine :-)
Doesn't that usually require explosives?
What's really amusing is the TSA are using less effective techniques for checking for explosives. My representative (Jason Chavetz) and I have had an interesting conversation about this recently. He mentioned the pentagon's latest report on explosives detection stated that dogs were still the number one method of choice today in detection.
But the TSA still insists on using something less effective.
Like I've been saying for years, they are highly under trained if they still believe they are doing the best job possible.
It's more likely than you think!
Why would someone write a virus that is targeted at 10% of the user base when they can target 90?
Actually they are targeting the other 89.1%. I'm running linux :-)
Would it be okay to give a good reason why my privacy is more important than the appearance of airline security?
Depends. First, think about whether you would still object if these machines were 100% effective. If the answer is "yes", then don't bother. Otherwise go ahead, but be ready to support your argument with statistics from a credible source.
I find it amusing that the TSA continually argues that the scanners are effective in detecting not only weapons such as knives and guns but their number one argument has been in detecting explosives. The latest lawsuit against the TSA basically was thrown out because the Judge said the search for explosives in the TSA's argument was more important than our right to privacy.
Amusing. Then why not use a proven tech and get dogs into the airports to check ??
Just received a letter from my representative (Jason Chaffetz) on the subject. He received a Pentagon report recently which they say dogs are the most effective way of detecting explosives.
So much for the TSA's argument. . .
When is a company that produces ANDROID-based phones going to stand up to MS and tell them enough is enough, ANDROID is Linux-based, and Linux is not Windows.
Has Micro$oft ever come out and EXPLAINED what their 235 patents that Linux violates were?
I'm curious if this is where the rational comes from. Not that I agree ( I don't ) but I'd love to see their explanation for this. And if they owe anyone a refund!
So I drive to Nevada and make a purchase, drive back to California and need to pay the California tax on that purchase. Did I hear this right? Dual state taxation on the same purchase?
Something sounds very very wrong with that concept.
Get rid of Unity. Nuff said ...
Seriously guys. Unity? This was the popular UI of choice?
Playing with the classic desktop instead or maybe I'll checkout kubuntu. Hopefully they didn't butcher it too badly in 11.04. I've met one online who likes Unity. And I think he was a bot actually. Go figure ;-)
It's because they didn't upgrade to Windows 7 yet isn't it :-)
http://it.slashdot.org/story/11/05/02/0055250/NSA-Advises-Upgrade-To-Windows-7
You knew that was coming right ;-)