I think what this boils down to is you want to punish DropBox for some things that Rice did 10 years ago that you disagree with.
Rice was part of criminal administration. We aren't talking about philosophical differences, they were crimes. Rice may not have been robbing the bank but she was still part of the gang.
Any company putting Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld or Rice on their board is going to lose my business.
Maybe you missed it but she was also the National Security Advisor at the helm when the US was attacked on 9/11. If that represents the clarity and competence she brings to her job on the board, this is not a positive development for Dropbox.
Or maybe he doesn't want to listen to the right wing scream and holler about him leaving America unprotected, how he's inviting another terrorist attack by hobbling the agencies trying to protect us. Frankly, given the piss poor treatment the president receives, I don't blame him one bit for not sticking his neck out.
I guarantee if did that by executive order Fox News would have Dick Cheney on the air every day grumbling about how he's playing right into the terrorists plans and Sarah Palin would be whining about how much the president hates America.
Don't like it, then give the president some cover by making it an issue with your Congressman. Oh, that's right, they don't actually work for you anymore. Too bad.
So, yes, if you fuck with the clocks like an inconsiderate fucking fucker, I'll lose an hour of sleep.
I don't have to set an alarm and I still hate that damn time change. There's no reason for it anymore. Thanks to lights on tractors and a GPS system that actually steers the harvester, farmers can work all night if necessary.
I'm going to take a wild guess that claim is going to get bounced out of court. Sounds more like a stalling tactic than a real defense. Unless the L.A. PD is going to try and make the case that everyone in L.A. is suspicious, in which case they might have a point.
The problem is not the database, the problem is who's running it. The military has zero business spying on civilians. The CiA doesn't like the competition.
We were coming back from dinner and it was on a trailer being towed by a white truck with Tesla stenciled on the side. It was a grey Model S with a roof rack.
Some lucky dog right in our neighborhood getting their delivery today. I bet they're excited.
I love my Android tablet, it does 90 percent of what I used to need a laptop to do. The only minor niggle is no Flash support. I get why Google doesn't want to support it but so many sites still use it.
That and Chromecast is great for streaming Netflix content on TV.
OK... then.... her daughter violated the terms of their settlement.
If the daughter's not 18, how can she be bound by the settlement? It doesn't seem reasonable that the father would be responsible for any thoughtless comment by a family member, regardless of the medium.
and the amazingly effective Tit-for-Tat strategy...
In politics we have one party that spews whatever unscientific nonsense bubbles up to the surface of their collective consciousness on a particular day. The other party tries to the be adults in the room and, if we've learned one thing over the last 30 years, that doesn't work.
It's counter-intuitive but the way to deal with irrational people is to match crazy with crazy, with forgiveness. So, if they want to stop the crazy and work on something sane, you're also willing to do that. But also willing to match crazy statement with crazy statement.
I picked up maintenance of an application that had been built by one of the military business units. For the longest time I couldn't figure out how it was passing user credentials and session state, until I found it all contained in a 2,000 character URL string. That string included the administrator username and password, in plain text.
Instead of being grateful that I raised a red flag on the application security, they tried to insinuate that I was blaming the previous developer. They also insinuated I was being unethical.
That's what happens when you try to do the right thing.
'The agency, from top to bottom, leadership to rank and file, feels that it is had no support from the White House even though it's been carrying out publicly approved intelligence missions,' says Joel Brenner, NSA inspector general from 2002 to 2006.
Which "public" was that? Spying on foreign leaders, collecting unlimited data on US citizens, tracking cell phones...I think I'm seeing the problem. They know they're doing wrong and still feel justified. Now they want the president to make them feel better.
It's like the phone companies wanting retroactive immunity for cooperating with spying. They want Congress to pass new laws making everything they've done legal.
Nevermind all the spying didn't stop the Boston Marathon bombers or the Sandy Hook shooter or any of the more common threats.
I thought those GOP freedom fighters were the ones who don't like government interference? They want the government out of their lives...except for abortion, religion in public schools, and secret compartments in your car.
Good thing we have a party that wants to keep the government out of our lives or things would really be messed up.
The driver has only been arrested and charged, not convicted.
Too bad the driver still has to pay a lawyer and fight the charge. His arrest record has now been sent out to a 100 background check databases and that he'll have to go through, one at a time, to get it cleared off if he wins. He probably had to post a bond to get out of jail.
Get a Google Voice number and just disconnect the landline for a while. You can program how incoming calls are handled, screen calls, block numbers, and set up individual voicemail boxes for people you know.
I had nearly an identical situation with a bill collector looking for the person who used to have that number and refused to take us off the list unless we identified ourselves. I switched over to Google Voice and they all went b-bye.
Except it's halfway around the world for us and in their backyard. If the world needs policeman, then the world should put up the money to pay for them.
From those who kill it in the name of defending it.
Oh get off your high horse. Society has a right to regulate things that are inherently dangerous like chemicals, drugs, vehicles, and firearms. This is no different.
What seems to be at issue here is the convenience. I can make a suppressor out of a few hand tools and basic parts but it's still illegal. With some basic machine tools I can make homemade firearms, cannons and lots of illegal things. Machine shop, 3D printer no difference.
It's great they have these contests and architects stroke each other with awards, but they never seem turn up in any actual neighborhoods.
Sometimes it's because concept houses can't get FHA or mortgage approval. The government could help drive innovation in housing by backing the mortgages of energy efficient and solar powered homes.
Maybe one of these days we'll see an award for a design that's innovative and practical and the FHA will agree to finance borrowers.
The bill would reduce the time the logs could be kept, require public reports on how often it is used, and require FISA court review of the numbers searched.
Riiiight. The organization that lied to Congress, lied to the FISA Kangaroo Court, and then lied to the public when they got caught is going to suddenly be cowed by tweaking the law.
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I think what this boils down to is you want to punish DropBox for some things that Rice did 10 years ago that you disagree with.
Rice was part of criminal administration. We aren't talking about philosophical differences, they were crimes. Rice may not have been robbing the bank but she was still part of the gang.
Any company putting Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rumsfeld or Rice on their board is going to lose my business.
Maybe you missed it but she was also the National Security Advisor at the helm when the US was attacked on 9/11. If that represents the clarity and competence she brings to her job on the board, this is not a positive development for Dropbox.
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They always reminded me of Yoyodyne Industries from Buckaroo Banzai, where the future begins tomorrow.
Or maybe he just doesn't want it to stop.
Or maybe he doesn't want to listen to the right wing scream and holler about him leaving America unprotected, how he's inviting another terrorist attack by hobbling the agencies trying to protect us. Frankly, given the piss poor treatment the president receives, I don't blame him one bit for not sticking his neck out.
I guarantee if did that by executive order Fox News would have Dick Cheney on the air every day grumbling about how he's playing right into the terrorists plans and Sarah Palin would be whining about how much the president hates America.
Don't like it, then give the president some cover by making it an issue with your Congressman. Oh, that's right, they don't actually work for you anymore. Too bad.
So, yes, if you fuck with the clocks like an inconsiderate fucking fucker, I'll lose an hour of sleep.
I don't have to set an alarm and I still hate that damn time change. There's no reason for it anymore. Thanks to lights on tractors and a GPS system that actually steers the harvester, farmers can work all night if necessary.
Stop the insanity.
I'm going to take a wild guess that claim is going to get bounced out of court. Sounds more like a stalling tactic than a real defense. Unless the L.A. PD is going to try and make the case that everyone in L.A. is suspicious, in which case they might have a point.
The problem is not the database, the problem is who's running it. The military has zero business spying on civilians. The CiA doesn't like the competition.
We were coming back from dinner and it was on a trailer being towed by a white truck with Tesla stenciled on the side. It was a grey Model S with a roof rack.
Some lucky dog right in our neighborhood getting their delivery today. I bet they're excited.
The not so obvious explanation is hypoxia-induced dementia in the pilots.
There's precedent for that scenario. But it's hard to see that happening on a modern jetliner which has cabin pressure warnings.
I love my Android tablet, it does 90 percent of what I used to need a laptop to do. The only minor niggle is no Flash support. I get why Google doesn't want to support it but so many sites still use it.
That and Chromecast is great for streaming Netflix content on TV.
OK... then.... her daughter violated the terms of their settlement.
If the daughter's not 18, how can she be bound by the settlement? It doesn't seem reasonable that the father would be responsible for any thoughtless comment by a family member, regardless of the medium.
Seems this ruling seems overly broad.
and the amazingly effective Tit-for-Tat strategy...
In politics we have one party that spews whatever unscientific nonsense bubbles up to the surface of their collective consciousness on a particular day. The other party tries to the be adults in the room and, if we've learned one thing over the last 30 years, that doesn't work.
It's counter-intuitive but the way to deal with irrational people is to match crazy with crazy, with forgiveness. So, if they want to stop the crazy and work on something sane, you're also willing to do that. But also willing to match crazy statement with crazy statement.
I picked up maintenance of an application that had been built by one of the military business units. For the longest time I couldn't figure out how it was passing user credentials and session state, until I found it all contained in a 2,000 character URL string. That string included the administrator username and password, in plain text.
Instead of being grateful that I raised a red flag on the application security, they tried to insinuate that I was blaming the previous developer. They also insinuated I was being unethical.
That's what happens when you try to do the right thing.
This story reminds me why I don't use GoDaddy and, if you haven't already done so, activate two-factor authentication on your Gmail account.
It's not bulletproof (what is?) but it's an extra layer of security that keeps a hacker from getting control of your email account.
'The agency, from top to bottom, leadership to rank and file, feels that it is had no support from the White House even though it's been carrying out publicly approved intelligence missions,' says Joel Brenner, NSA inspector general from 2002 to 2006.
Which "public" was that? Spying on foreign leaders, collecting unlimited data on US citizens, tracking cell phones...I think I'm seeing the problem. They know they're doing wrong and still feel justified. Now they want the president to make them feel better.
It's like the phone companies wanting retroactive immunity for cooperating with spying. They want Congress to pass new laws making everything they've done legal.
Nevermind all the spying didn't stop the Boston Marathon bombers or the Sandy Hook shooter or any of the more common threats.
Maybe they deserve to feel bad.
I thought those GOP freedom fighters were the ones who don't like government interference? They want the government out of their lives...except for abortion, religion in public schools, and secret compartments in your car.
Good thing we have a party that wants to keep the government out of our lives or things would really be messed up.
The driver has only been arrested and charged, not convicted.
Too bad the driver still has to pay a lawyer and fight the charge. His arrest record has now been sent out to a 100 background check databases and that he'll have to go through, one at a time, to get it cleared off if he wins. He probably had to post a bond to get out of jail.
Whew, lucky him they haven't proven intent.
Get a Google Voice number and just disconnect the landline for a while. You can program how incoming calls are handled, screen calls, block numbers, and set up individual voicemail boxes for people you know.
I had nearly an identical situation with a bill collector looking for the person who used to have that number and refused to take us off the list unless we identified ourselves. I switched over to Google Voice and they all went b-bye.
Except it's halfway around the world for us and in their backyard. If the world needs policeman, then the world should put up the money to pay for them.
From those who kill it in the name of defending it.
Oh get off your high horse. Society has a right to regulate things that are inherently dangerous like chemicals, drugs, vehicles, and firearms. This is no different.
What seems to be at issue here is the convenience. I can make a suppressor out of a few hand tools and basic parts but it's still illegal. With some basic machine tools I can make homemade firearms, cannons and lots of illegal things. Machine shop, 3D printer no difference.
the primary reason for a search cannot be to generate evidence for law enforcement purposes.
So, we don't have any evidence now so we'll attach this GPS tracker to their car and then we'll have evidence that justifies tracking their car!
Law enforcement logic.
It's great they have these contests and architects stroke each other with awards, but they never seem turn up in any actual neighborhoods.
Sometimes it's because concept houses can't get FHA or mortgage approval. The government could help drive innovation in housing by backing the mortgages of energy efficient and solar powered homes.
Maybe one of these days we'll see an award for a design that's innovative and practical and the FHA will agree to finance borrowers.
...then we can pout and claim that Americans don't want electric cars.
Americans don't want your crappy electric cars, they want a Tesla.
When GM does something like this it just advertises that they're a dinosaur stuck in the tar pits of history.
Windows Mobile is the Zune of wireless technology. Who would want to junk up perfectly good storage space on a mobile device with windows?
Quit trying to make Windows Mobile happen, it's not happening.
The bill would reduce the time the logs could be kept, require public reports on how often it is used, and require FISA court review of the numbers searched.
Riiiight. The organization that lied to Congress, lied to the FISA Kangaroo Court, and then lied to the public when they got caught is going to suddenly be cowed by tweaking the law.
They should call this the Whitewash Amendment.
*If* such a mechanism was coded in, the nature of open source would mean it would be found by others
If it were built right it could be very hard to detect, even looking right at it.