How this ended up on/. frontpage is still a mystery to me...
Apparently its a way to seek fame (if not fortune) for the less ambitious.
I saw this come across my BreakingNews app and was stunned that people would actually give a rats ass about anonymous twitter accounts spewing rubbish. Hell I have 4 or 5 anonymous twitter accounts left laying around from old cell phones and I assure you nothing but rubbish ever was tweeted from these.
But to make this headlines on the NewY orker is par for the New Yorker, they have been navel gazing for decades.
(Also gave me a new perspective of Breaking New. As a company, they seem to have become nothing but navel gazers and and an Obama quote mill.)
The Air Force doesn't test Navy Drones. Edwards is closed air space. All testing by Lockheed carried transponders until they were in closed air space. White Sands is closed air space.
So four for four, you're just wrong on all points.
If I'm reading this correctly, it seems very possible that any children born in space would grow up to look like jabba the hut, since the whole gravety issue would no longer be a problem.
Judging from what I see at Walmart, you don't have to go to space the see Jabba. The gravity problem is in evidence there as well.
Except that it is easy to generate artificial gravity by rotating the space station.
Yes, its easy. So easy that all of our space stations rotate to create gravity. Oh, wait. No they don't, because that only works on extreme diameter ships.
The technology that Google Voice uses, and that Android phones use, and even iPhones use to convert voice to text would allow them to grind away at those recorded conversations and weed out the "Honey pick up some milk on the way home" conversations and dump these to save space.
Meanwhile any talk of interesting subjects would get added to the text database for searching, and the audio saved.
Nobody "listened" to that call. But a computer did, and translated it, and cataloged it and made it searchable. And a human will listen to it, and so will the judge and jury any time the government wants to hang you out to dry for getting an ounce of weed, or a stock tip, or any little discrepancy on your taxes.
Now that these abuses are known, I actually expect to see the data used more often. Because they don't need to worry about disclosing a secret project any more. We will be treated to all sorts of "see how surveillance is good for you" stories cherry picked and praises sung when the meth dealer gets caught or the pedophile gets outed. We are all in for the "Frogs in a kettle" treatment.
Nope: None of those activities require the aircraft to be INTENTIONALLY NOT showing a big electronic signature. Even war games are flown with transponders on.
Stealth in an air frame is TOTALLY overcome by a transponder or an active radar.
Again, I state, there is no reason the US Air Force (or anybody else) needs to fly in stealth mode over the US in peace time. Not a manned craft, and certainly not an unmanned craft.
But if you had bothered to even give those links a cursory look, you would find that they DO CARE what you said, and if the NSA doesn't personally care, they know agencies that do, and they freely share what they learn.
The story is fairly straightforward. A unit of the DEA known as the Special Operations Division has been receiving and distributing vast levels of intelligence from agencies such as the NSA, CIA, and Department of Homeland Security. Upon receiving information about a particular transaction or meeting place, DEA agents go make arrests, using traffic stops as pretext.
There is nothing "beneath them". In order to hold that view, you have to subscriber to the whole "Defenders of America" flag wrapping nonsense. These agencies have ceased working for YOU.
You can't worry about the consequences will have on the people, and ignore the fact that some how, somewhere along the line, this government has taken it upon itself to vet every communication, be party to ever conversation, and monitor every action, and watch every person. Where did that idea of government EVER come from?
It is that easy? and a good script to read the output
I can't see a single reason for the Air Force to be flying stealth drones in US airspace. So putting radars on them makes sense.
For combat use, having an active radar can be come a liability, especially if you are on stealth air-to-ground missions. For future air-to-air combat use, you probably need the radar anyway.
Customs and Boarder Patrol drones were equipped with GA-ASI's Lynx synthetic aperture radar, but that is almost certainly designed for ground observation, and not aircraft avoidance.
The weight and size penalty can't be the only thing the Air Force is worried about. They must be resisting reliance on radars mostly from the stealth perspective. Why would they need their drones to be stealthy over US territory?
Found anywhere else than beside a very busy freight airport, you might be tempted to believe they have been there all along. But finding Four new species right next to an airport (and as yet, nowhere else), you have to allow for the possibility that they arrived in cargo.
You don't know much about this new cable/connector.
Apparently I know more than you:
The plug itself incorporates a processor which detects the plug's orientation and routes the electrical signals to the correct pins. Official Lightning connectors contain an authentication chip that makes it difficult for third-party manufacturers to produce compatible accessories without being approved by Apple.
I've also seen Skype work when it shouldn't - behind corporate firewalls that are supposed to be blocking traffic. Probably via a peer that somehow has better access...
That said, yes I still believe Microsoft has made skype easier to spy on.
Skype has always had great firewall piercing technology, even before Microsoft bought them.
Skype makes outbound connection(s) to the server. Its as easy as that. When a call comes in, the outbound connections are used for bidirectional traffic.
It can do this on any port, and your corporate firewall can't block all ports and still allow things like web browsers work.
But you have to admit, putting smarts in an otherwise dumb as a hammer cable instead of the devices it connects is an ingenious money grab.
Astoundingly, brazenly, mercenary, but, when you have logic-blinded fanbois as customers who will buy anything you hand them just to look cool, what kind of behavior do you expect?
What's next, a box you have to register? A warning booklet that you need an unlock code for?
I've never seen any examples of negative press from government sources.
More likely the US simply developed an entire line of dedicated processors that can crack almost any code. This probably happened about the same time they dropped their designation of encryption as a munition. They already had the solution in hand.
However, when real time continuous encryption started to be the norm, (like encrypted Skype, VPNs in routers, and SSL everywhere) they simply bought their way into the companies doing it, and induced them with money and contracts.
I've stated more than once here that I believe it will be eventually revealed that the NSA fully funded Microsoft's acquisition of SKYPE. Probably because EBay was incompetent and not terribly interested in ripping out the un-traceable routing via small remotely distributed groups of nodes and many volunteer notes. Even if Ebay did provide access to the encryption technology, they couldn't circumvent the routing issues to provide taps.
The first thing Microsoft did was route all traffic through their servers. No more routing via anonymous "volunteers" or off-shore peer-to-peer technology. It now goes direct to Microsoft and then to the other party. There was never a business case to do this. It was working just fine, and hasn't improved since Microsoft took over. There was ONLY ever an intelligence case to make this change. Why would Microsoft take on that expense for free? Because the NSA bought Skype for them.
“We find they are forming spiral arms,” explains D’Onghia. “Past theory held the arms would go away with the perturbations removed, but we see that (once formed) the arms self-perpetuate, even when the perturbations are removed. It proves that once the arms are generated through these clouds, they can exist on their own through (the influence of) gravity, even in the extreme when the perturbations are no longer there.”
No mention of Shock waves, or even a hint of what might cause such shock, or how such shock could be transmitted in the vacuum of space.
Density waves, (shock waves) another term for Stochastic Star Formation theory, is no longer the leading theory of the existence of spiral arms. Its not the 1960s any more.
This shock wave theory suggest that stars are relatively uniformly distributed, even in the inter-arm gaps, but because of density waves inducing star birth at their leading edge and star death at their trailing edge, the arms simply appear brighter. Hubble pretty much put that theory to bed. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_1300 The inter-arm gaps are real.
Further the so called shock wave theory (Stochastic Star Formation) postulates that stars on average do not actually leave their "arm", and the visual effect of the arm at any give place pretty much spans the life of a star. (born on the leading edge, dead by the trailing edge). Yet this story suggests the Sun has wandered through the arm(s) several times.
Further, even when perturbations from a passing galaxy might have triggered them via gravity, the arms persist. and in some galaxies even after the perturbations disappear. So what is driving these? What would cause "shock waves"?
The 60's are calling, and they want their theory back.
And even more troubling, it would be a serious violation of the law in many states to do so. Just because you learn both my email address and password doesn't give you authority to log in.
If Google can prove they did log in, that alone might be enough for a huge lawsuit.
Personally I suspect the Linkedin Android App slurps your addresses from the phone, but I'n not about to install it and find out. My spam folder is full of Linkedin invitations.
Whats the chances you use the same password for all these throw away accounts? You claim you don't, but since you claim use throw away accounts often, it seems likely you would have to consolidate your password list to something very short.
If you did that, chances are you also used the same password for your LinkedIn account. Just sayin.
Slashdot Mirror
How this ended up on /. frontpage is still a mystery to me...
Apparently its a way to seek fame (if not fortune) for the less ambitious.
I saw this come across my BreakingNews app and was stunned that people would actually give a rats ass about anonymous twitter accounts spewing rubbish. Hell I have 4 or 5 anonymous twitter accounts left laying around from old cell phones and I assure you nothing but rubbish ever was tweeted from these.
But to make this headlines on the NewY orker is par for the New Yorker, they have been navel gazing for decades.
(Also gave me a new perspective of Breaking New. As a company, they seem to have become nothing but navel gazers and and an Obama quote mill.)
The Air Force doesn't test Navy Drones.
Edwards is closed air space.
All testing by Lockheed carried transponders until they were in closed air space.
White Sands is closed air space.
So four for four, you're just wrong on all points.
If I'm reading this correctly, it seems very possible that any children born in space would grow up to look like jabba the hut, since the whole gravety issue would no longer be a problem.
Judging from what I see at Walmart, you don't have to go to space the see Jabba.
The gravity problem is in evidence there as well.
Except that it is easy to generate artificial gravity by rotating the space station.
Yes, its easy. So easy that all of our space stations rotate to create gravity.
Oh, wait. No they don't, because that only works on extreme diameter ships.
The technology that Google Voice uses, and that Android phones use, and even iPhones use to convert voice to text would allow them to grind away at those recorded conversations and weed out the "Honey pick up some milk on the way home" conversations and dump these to save space.
Meanwhile any talk of interesting subjects would get added to the text database for searching, and the audio saved.
Nobody "listened" to that call. But a computer did, and translated it, and cataloged it and made it searchable. And a human will listen to it, and so will the judge and jury any time the government wants to hang you out to dry for getting an ounce of weed, or a stock tip, or any little discrepancy on your taxes.
Now that these abuses are known, I actually expect to see the data used more often. Because they don't need to worry about disclosing a secret project any more. We will be treated to all sorts of "see how surveillance is good for you" stories cherry picked and praises sung when the meth dealer gets caught or the pedophile gets outed. We are all in for the "Frogs in a kettle" treatment.
Nope:
None of those activities require the aircraft to be INTENTIONALLY NOT showing a big electronic signature.
Even war games are flown with transponders on.
Stealth in an air frame is TOTALLY overcome by a transponder or an active radar.
Again, I state, there is no reason the US Air Force (or anybody else) needs to fly in stealth mode over the US in peace time.
Not a manned craft, and certainly not an unmanned craft.
I can't see a single reason for the Air Force to be flying stealth drones in US airspace.
Really? Not even for pilot training? Not even for equipment validation? What about air shows? Demonstration flights? Wargames?
Your imagination needs a workout, I think.
Which one of the things you have listed require them to be stealth?
They can carry Transponders and Active Radars for those activities.
But if you had bothered to even give those links a cursory look, you would find that they DO CARE what you said, and if the NSA doesn't personally care, they know agencies that do, and they freely share what they learn.
The story is fairly straightforward. A unit of the DEA known as the Special Operations Division has been receiving and distributing vast levels of intelligence from agencies such as the NSA, CIA, and Department of Homeland Security. Upon receiving information about a particular transaction or meeting place, DEA agents go make arrests, using traffic stops as pretext.
There is nothing "beneath them". In order to hold that view, you have to subscriber to the whole "Defenders of America" flag wrapping nonsense. These agencies have ceased working for YOU.
You can't worry about the consequences will have on the people, and ignore the fact that some how, somewhere along the line, this government has taken it upon itself to vet every communication, be party to ever conversation, and monitor every action, and watch every person. Where did that idea of government EVER come from?
The details are of no interest to anyone in power, but patterns are.
It has already been made public that huge volumes of email, actual phone conversations are recorded.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589495-38/nsa-spying-flap-extends-to-contents-of-u.s-phone-calls/
http://reason.com/blog/2013/06/15/yes-actually-the-nsa-says-they-can-eaves
http://www.dailyfinance.com/on/irs-audit-emails-warrant-aclu/
And further, the NSA leaks content to local and state law enforcement.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/05/us-dea-sod-idUSBRE97409R20130805
http://www.salon.com/2013/08/10/the_nsa_dea_police_state_tango/
So the this whole discussion about meta-data is moot. When you can archive, transcribe and catalog content, who needs metadata?
It is that easy? and a good script to read the output
I can't see a single reason for the Air Force to be flying stealth drones in US airspace.
So putting radars on them makes sense.
For combat use, having an active radar can be come a liability, especially if you are on stealth air-to-ground missions.
For future air-to-air combat use, you probably need the radar anyway.
Customs and Boarder Patrol drones were equipped with GA-ASI's Lynx synthetic aperture radar, but that is almost certainly
designed for ground observation, and not aircraft avoidance.
The weight and size penalty can't be the only thing the Air Force is worried about. They must be resisting reliance on radars
mostly from the stealth perspective. Why would they need their drones to be stealthy over US territory?
You might be right.
Google a sentence out the the beginning of some chapter that looks kind of unique. Google it in quotes.
If the book shows up somewhere on the web, trash it.
You are not doing humanity any favors by keeping those fibers out of the recycle chain.
(If you are worried about the apocalypse start saving gardening books, not computer books.)
They are harbingers of the end times!!!
Or the harbinger of planes.
Found anywhere else than beside a very busy freight airport, you might be tempted to believe they have been there all along.
But finding Four new species right next to an airport (and as yet, nowhere else), you have to allow for the possibility that they
arrived in cargo.
Your average observer would probably call it a snake and ignore it.
But its eyelids, jaws and the fact that it can shed its tail in an emergency makes it a lizard, and not a snake.
http://science.howstuffworks.com/zoology/reptiles-amphibians/legless-lizard-vs-snake1.htm
Maybe all the people versed in MySQL who have no scruples already work for Facebook?
You don't know much about this new cable/connector.
Apparently I know more than you:
The plug itself incorporates a processor which detects the plug's orientation and routes the electrical signals to the correct pins. Official Lightning connectors contain an authentication chip that makes it difficult for third-party manufacturers to produce compatible accessories without being approved by Apple.
I've also seen Skype work when it shouldn't - behind corporate firewalls that are supposed to be blocking traffic. Probably via a peer that somehow has better access...
That said, yes I still believe Microsoft has made skype easier to spy on.
Skype has always had great firewall piercing technology, even before Microsoft bought them.
Skype makes outbound connection(s) to the server. Its as easy as that. When a call comes in, the outbound
connections are used for bidirectional traffic.
It can do this on any port, and your corporate firewall can't block all ports
and still allow things like web browsers work.
But you have to admit, putting smarts in an otherwise dumb as a hammer cable instead of the devices it connects
is an ingenious money grab.
Astoundingly, brazenly, mercenary, but, when you have logic-blinded fanbois as customers
who will buy anything you hand them just to look cool, what kind of behavior do you expect?
What's next, a box you have to register? A warning booklet that you need an unlock code for?
I've never seen any examples of negative press from government sources.
More likely the US simply developed an entire line of dedicated processors that can crack almost any code.
This probably happened about the same time they dropped their designation of encryption as a munition.
They already had the solution in hand.
However, when real time continuous encryption started to be the norm, (like encrypted Skype, VPNs in routers, and SSL everywhere)
they simply bought their way into the companies doing it, and induced them with money and contracts.
I've stated more than once here that I believe it will be eventually revealed that the NSA fully funded Microsoft's acquisition of SKYPE.
Probably because EBay was incompetent and not terribly interested in ripping out the un-traceable routing via small
remotely distributed groups of nodes and many volunteer notes.
Even if Ebay did provide access to the encryption technology, they couldn't circumvent the routing issues to provide taps.
The first thing Microsoft did was route all traffic through their servers. No more routing via anonymous "volunteers" or off-shore
peer-to-peer technology. It now goes direct to Microsoft and then to the other party. There was never a business case to do this.
It was working just fine, and hasn't improved since Microsoft took over. There was ONLY ever an intelligence case to make this change.
Why would Microsoft take on that expense for free? Because the NSA bought Skype for them.
I think its a Slashdot thing, usually mentioned by the same people who talk in terms of Gravity Wells, and such.
They do wind up.
Don't tell me you are still thinking in terms of fixed radial arms?
“We find they are forming spiral arms,” explains D’Onghia. “Past theory held the arms would go away with the perturbations removed, but we see that (once formed) the arms self-perpetuate, even when the perturbations are removed. It proves that once the arms are generated through these clouds, they can exist on their own through (the influence of) gravity, even in the extreme when the perturbations are no longer there.”
No mention of Shock waves, or even a hint of what might cause such shock, or how such shock could be transmitted in the vacuum of space.
Density waves, (shock waves) another term for Stochastic Star Formation theory, is no longer the leading theory of the existence of spiral arms. Its not the 1960s any more.
This shock wave theory suggest that stars are relatively uniformly distributed, even in the inter-arm gaps, but because of density waves inducing star birth at their leading edge and star death at their trailing edge, the arms simply appear brighter.
Hubble pretty much put that theory to bed. see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NGC_1300 The inter-arm gaps are real.
Further the so called shock wave theory (Stochastic Star Formation) postulates that stars on average do not actually leave their "arm", and the visual effect of the arm at any give place pretty much spans the life of a star. (born on the leading edge, dead by the trailing edge). Yet this story suggests the Sun has wandered through the arm(s) several times.
Further, even when perturbations from a passing galaxy might have triggered them via gravity, the arms persist. and in some galaxies even after
the perturbations disappear. So what is driving these? What would cause "shock waves"?
The 60's are calling, and they want their theory back.
You say that, but provide no evidence.
And even more troubling, it would be a serious violation of the law in many states to do so.
Just because you learn both my email address and password doesn't give you authority to log in.
If Google can prove they did log in, that alone might be enough for a huge lawsuit.
Personally I suspect the Linkedin Android App slurps your addresses from the phone, but I'n not about to install it and find out.
My spam folder is full of Linkedin invitations.
Whats the chances you use the same password for all these throw away accounts? You claim you don't, but since you claim use throw away accounts often, it seems likely you would have to consolidate your password list to something very short.
If you did that, chances are you also used the same password for your LinkedIn account. Just sayin.
That's already happening.
Brazil is pulling away from doing business with US tech firms.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-19/nsa-spying-gives-advantage-to-brazil-s-local-tech-firms.html
Germany is pissed:
http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/08/14/german-backlash-to-nsa-spying-gets-stronger/
EU in general is looking elsewhere for technology:
http://gigaom.com/2013/06/07/nsa-spying-scandal-fallout-expect-big-impact-in-europe-and-elsewhere/
Business world wide is starting to look elsewhere:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2013/09/10/how-the-nsa-revelations-are-hurting-businesses/
Cloud Computing was just sentenced to death by NSA
http://techcrunch.com/2013/07/04/spying-bad-for-business/
The NSA revelations will prove to be one of the biggest detriments to US computer technology business in decades.