But i'm sure there are plenty of options out there if you need phone access. Now, i'm not saying these options will be provided with a simple device you plug in, there might be building/soldering/crafting involved. Not everything cool comes pre-packaged, right!
The Abu Graube thing was a small number of individuals who abused their authority. They were discovered and punished by the US, not any outside group. That should tell you the US did not find it acceptable behavior.
No one is arguing that even insurgents have to be treated fairly. Torture is very hard to redefine.. are you being coerced by pain?
You have no idea the ammount of restraint that is required to comply with ROE and laws of war. Could you imagine that your buddy gets stabbed in neck in a crowd, you point your weapon at the attacker and he puts his hands up in surrender... your buddy is bleeding out and you have to flexicuff his murderer... so he can ultimately be tried in court. In afghanistan, the Taliban boil people alive for not warning them when the allies are coming... not joking. Bleh, sorry, i'm starting to rant.
Short story! Guy from Jordan parks a VBIED in a market, kills around 200 and injures many more. We found and captured him, gave him to the local police. Man disappears from jail with rumors of... horrrrible things done to him. Right? Wrong? who gets to decide?
Not me... and 900 a month is a home payment! Unless you are extremely finacially secure, 900$ a month on personal phone usage is a waste of income. You could buy an acre of land a month out in the middle of nowhere... then retire to your new kingdom after a few years.
Sen. Mitch McConnell wrote me back and said some things you might like.. very close to your concerns.
"... So while both parties recognize that serious reform of our health care system is needed, we must also recognize the importance of getting it right. Americans want reform. The question is what kind of reform. Reform is necessary, but not all so-called reforms are necessarily good. Taking the wrong course would leave millions of Americans worse off by taking away coverage they already have and like." and so on. It was a good letter!
But he isn't going to vote for a giant bill that he doesn't even have time to read through. Even though the reform needs to happen, he wants it to be done right.. and done right the first time.
He realizes that most of the state wants/needs better healthcare. By that i don't mean the level of care available.. i mean fixing the costs and so much more. If your pre-existing conditions can't carry over to a new provider.. you are effectively stuck with your current one. Locked in.. no options. Anyways, i'll stop before this becomes a rant:)
As far as i know there is no US government take over of healthcare? A US government run health insurance company, yes. Don't want it? ok.. don't use it.. it's voluntary.
The Geneva Convention isn't up for edit, only 7x US Army FMs. I looked but couldn't see which 7 were up. I'll log in on monday to look but i'm sure they are already well polished manuals. Anyways, as far as i know Field Manuals are never rules, just guidelines.. like FM 7.0. Army Regulations are rulebooks though, like AR 670-1. You can access almost all of the US Army manuals (google will turn them up). If you compare an FM to an AR you'll see the big difference. ARs are very formal and written like legalese. FMs are laidback and talk to the reader in a very informal matter.. like a nice teacher instructing a student.
Also, i should point out that every unit has an SOP as well.. their own sub-set of rules and guidelines. These are crafted and edited by members of that individual unit and usually never get outside of that unit. This will allow all the best parts of those SOPs to be added into the Army-wide knowledge base.
The CAC card has your fingerprints, a public/private key-pair, and all kinds of goodies on it.. i have no doubt the CAC will be used to authenticate and track contributors to this wiki. It will be very easy to find out where contributions came from.
The US has pretty much always been fighting someone, i agree. But can you imagine a world where the US military sat entirely within the confines of the US Borders?
The World Wars are a good example of the US military powers being used in a good way. In both World Wars the US had to stretch supply lines incredibly far, having many bases dotting the world is excellent planning for a future world war, imo. But the US doesn't occupy or lord over other counties like some kind of fiefdom.
In many ways i think the smaller conflicts the US becomes involved in are to maintain the global Status Quo. The spice must flow! right? I have no doubt that if all nations kept thier borders and governments maintained good internal order, and the global economy was stable... why would the US military ever need to deploy?
I don't think you understand the military very well. They NEED freethinkers. A soldier who can look at facts and make a decision based on the knowledge at hand (not tied down to racial/religious bias and a lot of other baggage) is a key part of military leadership. Not all thoughts can be acted upon however. The action itself must adhere to the current regulations, SOP, and ROE. But that doesn't mean they can't express that opinion, by all means do so.
The biggest goal for any military unit is "mission accomplishment" and many times you have to get their via unconventional means. Freethinkers can only advance that front.
I admit, i'm one of the problems you mentioned. I routinely drive my jeep 50mph in a 55mph zone. Don't know why, i just do. Usually i'll speed up to 55 if someone approaches from behind.. but if they're going 65+? ffttt, i'll keep going 50mph:) The roads i drive on are typical winding/hilly country roads and only an idiot would attempt to pass (you can't see more than 150meters ahead). But i never attempt to block someone passing, i slow down to assist.
Stories like those make me love the US gov. How cool is that, seriously? To plan something like that? That's Dr. Evil's genius plans being paid for by the US gov and aimed at other nations. As long as the plans are are targeted at problems and not just for evil's sake, i'd say keep it up!
Thanks for mentioning EVE-Online. CCP, the parent company, has worked almost non-stop to improve and expand the game. They also remade every model to bring them to today's standards (and they are damn sexy ships too).
I think people in general have always laughed at eve and compared it to an excel spreadsheet (which is, honestly, very funny). But Ambulation will change the public's perception of the game a lot. I think everyone will be amazed.
You're not seeing the whole thing yet. He DID setup a vote to redo the constitution, it looks like that whole vote was rigged. He was arrested two days before the vote was supposed to take place. The vote to redo the constitution was illegal, how does a president say "Hey guys, we're all going to vote on 28 June to completely rewrite the constitution from scratch." The citizens had no part in this decision to vote, but they were supposed to participate in it (although it now appears to have been rigged).
After he was physically removed from office by order of the Supreme Court and Supported by the Military, his immediate successor was sworn in as president. The new president was the previous speaker of parliament and was next in line for the presidency should anything happen to Zelaya. The government did the RIGHT thing by protecting the Constitution. Zelaya could not justify a rewrite of the constitution and had no right to call for a vote on one.
If the vote was legit, i think there wouldn't be as much of a problem. But it was rushed and legally dubious. The fact that there is evidence now of a rigged vote makes Zelayas return nearly impossible (imo!).
Wasn't paper money introduced as checks for travelers between two distant locations? That way when they were robbed five times during the trip they didn't lose all the gold. Or was it an IOU type deal?
I think that in the end, you'll trade all your gold for usable materials. I have always felt that gold was a virtually useless material. The only reason it holds value is that enough people have been convinced it's important and rare. It can't keep you warm, it can't feed or protect you. It can (currently) however be traded for another currency with someone who also values it. Atleast local currency can be directly used to purchase something.. but in the end it'll be just toilet paper (or possibly to keep you warm). But paper money in the form of an IOU/Debt is useful because it's like a contract. It can be backed by cows, gold, wood, whatever.. it doesn't matter. Gold is backed by nothing but the belief that it's valuable.
All my opinion of course! Please don't be offended by my comments. I think anyone who can capitalize on gold right now should jump on it! It will definitely survive one (or more?) currency crashes.. anything short of apocalypse and gold owners should be just fine.
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I was bringing up physical keyloggers because they would take seconds to install and in the case of the power one... they don't even have to be in the same room (or apartment!). I was staying ontopic with keyloggers only, not other physical attacks.
I read your comment and i know you said to use malware detection, i did not ignore that, i addressed it. Keyloggers are not considered hostile to anti-virus and anit-malware programs.
Most data transmission is done via irc, email, im, and even http put/gets. This sort of thing happens dozens of times on your computer, i'm sure.. itunes update check, FF update check, windows update, usage polling, lots of programs report back home without triggering anything hostile.
You should write a keylogger in C# and see for yourself, i think you'll be amazed. Then take an hour and make it autolaunch from a thumbdrive and copy itself onto other portable media. All under the watchful eye of your anti-virus.. it's scary!
I think if Google ever does decide to go after Windows directly, they'll find that a real full-featured modern operating system (not just a glorified web browser) is a lot more difficult to create than they think.
They are going to use the Linux kernel with their own Xserver and windowing system (afaik). Using the linux kernel is going to save them untold amounts of development time. So they are basically making a Distro and not an OS. This gives google a huge application pool to draw from. They can pick the applications they like and rework the UIs or whatever they want to suit their own needs (provided they follow the lisense and publish modified code or whatever). It also means google will ensure that their apps will run inside a linux environment (Chrome Browser and whatever else comes along). This is a very exciting time for linux fans.
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I recently read about a keylogger that plugs into your powergrid and can read keypresses up to 15 feet away via groundwire. There are even physical keyloggers that sit between the keyboard and box.. how easy would it be for the wife or friend to do this while you take a bio break? Software keyloggers can be very benign and go undetected for long periods of time too. Lots of programs use "global hotkeys" and similar features which function in the background to monitor all keyboard input and trigger zero anti-malwar/virus warnings.
This is because of maintenance costs, right? Costs too much to resupply and refuel it. I was reading about Ion thrusters in wikipedia and they sound like an excellent way to keep the ISS from falling into the earth without the costly fuel. Ion drives do use a lot of power though.. WP says 2-140kW and the ISS generates what, 100kW? Some exact numbers on the ISSs rate of decent and how much thrust would be needed to keep it in orbit would give the no/go for an ion drive. They could even just burn off all excess solar power with the ion drive.. it would go to waste otherwise.
Does your browser inform the server it will be blocking all the ads? If your browser did inform the server and more websites refused to display their content to you... would you continue or lie and say "yes, i'll be viewing ads" and block them anyways? I think your position will fail when skipping the ads becomes impossible and you'll have to choose between "no content" and "content + ads".
I agree that people should be kept in the loop, for judgment calls. I also agree that abuse is unlikely to be caught immediately and could even go on for a long period of time. This is why i believe institutional moral values are important. When working with important and potentially sensitive information a highly professional and strict work environment is a MUST.. no slacking or cutting corners. This leads to unkept logs, lack of oversight, and opens the door for unmonitored abuses.
Don't forget that those government agents are your neighbors and subject to the same rules. Most government employees don't deal with classified secret (or above) stuff and would be happy to talk to you about their job.
All of this domestic monitoring seems aimed from law-enforcement.. speeding tickets, high-crime zones, cell tracking/monitoring of known offenders, thermal cams on Heli's for detecting drugs. If government resources are used for political or personal reasons it's abuse, plain and simple. The abuser's Punishment should be harsh and public (as in transparent and viewable by the pulic, not put on TV).
I've only recently known the civilian side of government and i find it lacking in institutionalized morals and principles.
it WILL be tested in real life.. AFTER it's been tested in a smaller controlled environment. Half-assing stuff is building expensive systems and full-scale deploying them as a test phase. Guess what, if they work but have some problems.. that company won't be addressing those problems because they aren't worth the redeployment costs.
Also, a real-life environment won't go through the full range of capable scenarios during the limited test phase. You need to try out all kinds of odd-ball stuff that happens in real-life but just not very often (ie: hurricane).
Being able to install a prototype drive-train and go through the motions of testing without lengthy installation/setup times is important!
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Just googled buying land, found a bunch of great looking places for sale: http://www.landandfarm.com/lf/asp/search_results.asp?landstateid=24
Most on that page are between $1000-2000 an acre. If a quick google can turn that up, i'm sure you can find 900$ land or negotiate down to that.
man, for $900 you can buy a Satellite phone.
For $900 you can buy a cell repeater, just googled one with ~30 mile range: http://www.repeaterstore.com/products/repeaterkits/digital-antenna/pdf/4KSBR-50M-tech-specs.pdf
But i'm sure there are plenty of options out there if you need phone access. Now, i'm not saying these options will be provided with a simple device you plug in, there might be building/soldering/crafting involved. Not everything cool comes pre-packaged, right!
The Abu Graube thing was a small number of individuals who abused their authority. They were discovered and punished by the US, not any outside group. That should tell you the US did not find it acceptable behavior.
No one is arguing that even insurgents have to be treated fairly. Torture is very hard to redefine.. are you being coerced by pain?
You have no idea the ammount of restraint that is required to comply with ROE and laws of war. Could you imagine that your buddy gets stabbed in neck in a crowd, you point your weapon at the attacker and he puts his hands up in surrender... your buddy is bleeding out and you have to flexicuff his murderer... so he can ultimately be tried in court. In afghanistan, the Taliban boil people alive for not warning them when the allies are coming... not joking. Bleh, sorry, i'm starting to rant.
Short story! Guy from Jordan parks a VBIED in a market, kills around 200 and injures many more. We found and captured him, gave him to the local police. Man disappears from jail with rumors of... horrrrible things done to him. Right? Wrong? who gets to decide?
Not me... and 900 a month is a home payment! Unless you are extremely finacially secure, 900$ a month on personal phone usage is a waste of income. You could buy an acre of land a month out in the middle of nowhere... then retire to your new kingdom after a few years.
Sen. Mitch McConnell wrote me back and said some things you might like.. very close to your concerns.
"... So while both parties recognize that serious reform of our health care system is needed, we must also recognize the importance of getting it right. Americans want reform. The question is what kind of reform. Reform is necessary, but not all so-called reforms are necessarily good. Taking the wrong course would leave millions of Americans worse off by taking away coverage they already have and like." and so on. It was a good letter!
But he isn't going to vote for a giant bill that he doesn't even have time to read through. Even though the reform needs to happen, he wants it to be done right.. and done right the first time.
He realizes that most of the state wants/needs better healthcare. By that i don't mean the level of care available.. i mean fixing the costs and so much more. If your pre-existing conditions can't carry over to a new provider.. you are effectively stuck with your current one. Locked in.. no options. Anyways, i'll stop before this becomes a rant :)
As far as i know there is no US government take over of healthcare? A US government run health insurance company, yes. Don't want it? ok.. don't use it.. it's voluntary.
Real Daleks do not climb stairs, they level the building.
The Geneva Convention isn't up for edit, only 7x US Army FMs. I looked but couldn't see which 7 were up. I'll log in on monday to look but i'm sure they are already well polished manuals. Anyways, as far as i know Field Manuals are never rules, just guidelines.. like FM 7.0. Army Regulations are rulebooks though, like AR 670-1. You can access almost all of the US Army manuals (google will turn them up). If you compare an FM to an AR you'll see the big difference. ARs are very formal and written like legalese. FMs are laidback and talk to the reader in a very informal matter.. like a nice teacher instructing a student.
Also, i should point out that every unit has an SOP as well.. their own sub-set of rules and guidelines. These are crafted and edited by members of that individual unit and usually never get outside of that unit. This will allow all the best parts of those SOPs to be added into the Army-wide knowledge base.
The CAC card has your fingerprints, a public/private key-pair, and all kinds of goodies on it.. i have no doubt the CAC will be used to authenticate and track contributors to this wiki. It will be very easy to find out where contributions came from.
There is a minimum age as well, usually 21.
The US has pretty much always been fighting someone, i agree. But can you imagine a world where the US military sat entirely within the confines of the US Borders?
The World Wars are a good example of the US military powers being used in a good way. In both World Wars the US had to stretch supply lines incredibly far, having many bases dotting the world is excellent planning for a future world war, imo. But the US doesn't occupy or lord over other counties like some kind of fiefdom.
In many ways i think the smaller conflicts the US becomes involved in are to maintain the global Status Quo. The spice must flow! right? I have no doubt that if all nations kept thier borders and governments maintained good internal order, and the global economy was stable... why would the US military ever need to deploy?
I don't think you understand the military very well. They NEED freethinkers. A soldier who can look at facts and make a decision based on the knowledge at hand (not tied down to racial/religious bias and a lot of other baggage) is a key part of military leadership. Not all thoughts can be acted upon however. The action itself must adhere to the current regulations, SOP, and ROE. But that doesn't mean they can't express that opinion, by all means do so.
The biggest goal for any military unit is "mission accomplishment" and many times you have to get their via unconventional means. Freethinkers can only advance that front.
I admit, i'm one of the problems you mentioned. I routinely drive my jeep 50mph in a 55mph zone. Don't know why, i just do. Usually i'll speed up to 55 if someone approaches from behind.. but if they're going 65+? ffttt, i'll keep going 50mph :) The roads i drive on are typical winding/hilly country roads and only an idiot would attempt to pass (you can't see more than 150meters ahead). But i never attempt to block someone passing, i slow down to assist.
Stories like those make me love the US gov. How cool is that, seriously? To plan something like that? That's Dr. Evil's genius plans being paid for by the US gov and aimed at other nations. As long as the plans are are targeted at problems and not just for evil's sake, i'd say keep it up!
I agree, it's an unbelievable mistake..
but if it was intentional, that my friend, is believable. An excellent backdoor.
Thanks for mentioning EVE-Online. CCP, the parent company, has worked almost non-stop to improve and expand the game. They also remade every model to bring them to today's standards (and they are damn sexy ships too).
I think people in general have always laughed at eve and compared it to an excel spreadsheet (which is, honestly, very funny). But Ambulation will change the public's perception of the game a lot. I think everyone will be amazed.
You're not seeing the whole thing yet. He DID setup a vote to redo the constitution, it looks like that whole vote was rigged. He was arrested two days before the vote was supposed to take place. The vote to redo the constitution was illegal, how does a president say "Hey guys, we're all going to vote on 28 June to completely rewrite the constitution from scratch." The citizens had no part in this decision to vote, but they were supposed to participate in it (although it now appears to have been rigged).
After he was physically removed from office by order of the Supreme Court and Supported by the Military, his immediate successor was sworn in as president. The new president was the previous speaker of parliament and was next in line for the presidency should anything happen to Zelaya. The government did the RIGHT thing by protecting the Constitution. Zelaya could not justify a rewrite of the constitution and had no right to call for a vote on one.
If the vote was legit, i think there wouldn't be as much of a problem. But it was rushed and legally dubious. The fact that there is evidence now of a rigged vote makes Zelayas return nearly impossible (imo!).
Wasn't paper money introduced as checks for travelers between two distant locations? That way when they were robbed five times during the trip they didn't lose all the gold. Or was it an IOU type deal?
I think that in the end, you'll trade all your gold for usable materials. I have always felt that gold was a virtually useless material. The only reason it holds value is that enough people have been convinced it's important and rare. It can't keep you warm, it can't feed or protect you. It can (currently) however be traded for another currency with someone who also values it. Atleast local currency can be directly used to purchase something.. but in the end it'll be just toilet paper (or possibly to keep you warm). But paper money in the form of an IOU/Debt is useful because it's like a contract. It can be backed by cows, gold, wood, whatever.. it doesn't matter. Gold is backed by nothing but the belief that it's valuable.
All my opinion of course! Please don't be offended by my comments. I think anyone who can capitalize on gold right now should jump on it! It will definitely survive one (or more?) currency crashes.. anything short of apocalypse and gold owners should be just fine.
I was bringing up physical keyloggers because they would take seconds to install and in the case of the power one... they don't even have to be in the same room (or apartment!). I was staying ontopic with keyloggers only, not other physical attacks.
I read your comment and i know you said to use malware detection, i did not ignore that, i addressed it. Keyloggers are not considered hostile to anti-virus and anit-malware programs.
Most data transmission is done via irc, email, im, and even http put/gets. This sort of thing happens dozens of times on your computer, i'm sure.. itunes update check, FF update check, windows update, usage polling, lots of programs report back home without triggering anything hostile.
You should write a keylogger in C# and see for yourself, i think you'll be amazed. Then take an hour and make it autolaunch from a thumbdrive and copy itself onto other portable media. All under the watchful eye of your anti-virus.. it's scary!
I think if Google ever does decide to go after Windows directly, they'll find that a real full-featured modern operating system (not just a glorified web browser) is a lot more difficult to create than they think.
They are going to use the Linux kernel with their own Xserver and windowing system (afaik). Using the linux kernel is going to save them untold amounts of development time. So they are basically making a Distro and not an OS. This gives google a huge application pool to draw from. They can pick the applications they like and rework the UIs or whatever they want to suit their own needs (provided they follow the lisense and publish modified code or whatever). It also means google will ensure that their apps will run inside a linux environment (Chrome Browser and whatever else comes along). This is a very exciting time for linux fans.
I recently read about a keylogger that plugs into your powergrid and can read keypresses up to 15 feet away via groundwire. There are even physical keyloggers that sit between the keyboard and box.. how easy would it be for the wife or friend to do this while you take a bio break? Software keyloggers can be very benign and go undetected for long periods of time too. Lots of programs use "global hotkeys" and similar features which function in the background to monitor all keyboard input and trigger zero anti-malwar/virus warnings.
This is because of maintenance costs, right? Costs too much to resupply and refuel it. I was reading about Ion thrusters in wikipedia and they sound like an excellent way to keep the ISS from falling into the earth without the costly fuel. Ion drives do use a lot of power though.. WP says 2-140kW and the ISS generates what, 100kW? Some exact numbers on the ISSs rate of decent and how much thrust would be needed to keep it in orbit would give the no/go for an ion drive. They could even just burn off all excess solar power with the ion drive.. it would go to waste otherwise.
You sir, are a professional ass.
Does your browser inform the server it will be blocking all the ads? If your browser did inform the server and more websites refused to display their content to you... would you continue or lie and say "yes, i'll be viewing ads" and block them anyways? I think your position will fail when skipping the ads becomes impossible and you'll have to choose between "no content" and "content + ads".
I agree that people should be kept in the loop, for judgment calls. I also agree that abuse is unlikely to be caught immediately and could even go on for a long period of time. This is why i believe institutional moral values are important. When working with important and potentially sensitive information a highly professional and strict work environment is a MUST.. no slacking or cutting corners. This leads to unkept logs, lack of oversight, and opens the door for unmonitored abuses.
Don't forget that those government agents are your neighbors and subject to the same rules. Most government employees don't deal with classified secret (or above) stuff and would be happy to talk to you about their job.
All of this domestic monitoring seems aimed from law-enforcement.. speeding tickets, high-crime zones, cell tracking/monitoring of known offenders, thermal cams on Heli's for detecting drugs. If government resources are used for political or personal reasons it's abuse, plain and simple. The abuser's Punishment should be harsh and public (as in transparent and viewable by the pulic, not put on TV).
I've only recently known the civilian side of government and i find it lacking in institutionalized morals and principles.
it WILL be tested in real life.. AFTER it's been tested in a smaller controlled environment. Half-assing stuff is building expensive systems and full-scale deploying them as a test phase. Guess what, if they work but have some problems.. that company won't be addressing those problems because they aren't worth the redeployment costs.
Also, a real-life environment won't go through the full range of capable scenarios during the limited test phase. You need to try out all kinds of odd-ball stuff that happens in real-life but just not very often (ie: hurricane).
Being able to install a prototype drive-train and go through the motions of testing without lengthy installation/setup times is important!