Who is a terrorist that can end up at gitmo, etc? "Under the Constitution, a jury makes the determination, both for foreigners and for Americans accused of terrorism. But under the "wartime" powers assumed by the President and the Pentagon, they make the determination".
So to answer your question it's current King George and the guys with guns.
Where's the second chances for those hurt by illegal actions? Qwest told the feds to screw themselves if they didn't have a warrant. This cost Qwest a 2 billion dollar Pentagon contract. We should feel sorry and give a pass to major players in the legalized monopoly which is the telecommunications industry?
A second chance would be to claim in a trial that it wasn't their fault, it was the suits. Then if the telcos lost some lawsuit, sue the suits who asked them to knowingly break the law for whatever damages they've incurred.
When Pelosi said impeachment was off the table I guess she meant the Dems were to give complete and utter immunity to any legal problems the white house may have been at the heart of.
Nah, it was given freely as part of the routine. I guess the clients never thought we'd figure out what they had been doing if they used a lame excuse.
Customer: You know in web browsers how it remembers where you've been? Well I was looking for an engagement present for my wife and I don't want her to find out...
While working Internet support years ago I had numerous people call asking how to remove websites from a history and use the "I was shopping for a gift" excuse. Uh huh, suuuure. Amazing how it was always married males who called asking how to remove the history...
Man, you sound like the southern states - I thought we took care of state rights with that little civil war of Northern Aggression? Some say Lincoln was the father of big government.Big Business won, state's rights lost, and further rights have kept slipping ever since.
The founders really didn't want an all powerful central government - good intentions and paving the way have taken care of the original design.
Be careful, bad jokes can get you punched. Although this is/. so I'd assume bad jokes probably would get you hacked, Denial of serviced, spammed, or fragged before we'd bother to haul our butts out of a basement and physically exert ourselves.
Oh yeah, let's not forget about the executive branch failing to follow the laws such as the Federal Records Act, Our Energy policy was set in secret - we don't even know who attended the meeting. Let's not forget that Bush and Cheney's friends have made untold millions off the latest war.
"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience... In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic process."
-- President Dwight Eisenhower, farewell speech to the nation, January 17, 1961
A more fascist gov't makes it easier to make money and gain power for those in control and that's what we're seeing. No tin foil hat needed for such blatant examples.
You don't need a marker, just a line drawn in dirt with a finger will work fine.
I had various farmers tell me that you can put a chicken's head under a wing upside down, swing them 180 degrees right side up and sit them on the ground. Then they stay hiding their head. I tried a few times but never got it to work.
As an aside, for a kickass prank mail order some chickens and have them delivered to someone. Nothing like getting a box of chickens arriving in the mail. Mine arrived on tax day, the post office called at 5am and asked me to please, as quickly as possible, to come get my loud chickens.
Caveat - only 1 HTTPS per IP. But that really isn't that big a deal either
Maybe a few of the Class A holders like Apple or IBM should give up some of their blocks. Take IBM as an example - they subclass internal networks so they have very very few 'real IP's routable.
Or maybe if they use the evil bit within packets we could double our existing IP4 range!
For some further support of #1 I'd suggest looking at the Indie games conferences. Small group, Indie games may be the future of 'real games'. Game Developer Magazine just had an article about the potential demise of 'real gaming'. Compared to the financial success to non-games like Audition live, Habbo hotel, second life it may be hard to keep plopping down 20 million to create a triple A game if you could get a larger audience base doing something far less 'traditional'.
As an aside, one of the more fun 'what can one guy accomplish alone' would be Minions of Mirth. A complete MMORPG - albiet older style gameplay and graphics it's actually impressive.
You're forgetting that the cover your ass applies to forgiving people of the other party just as well. Kucinich wanted to impeach Bush and Cheney, it got buried in a subcommittee. The Dem leadership has stated there will be no impeachment hearings, period.
Oral sex in the oval office gets impeachment hearings. Destroying millions of emails and other records that a Presidential Records act states you must keep? Not handing over paperwork the courts have ordered you to? Bah, forget about it.
Ordered warrantless, illegal wire taps? Get the Dems happy to kiss ass for some retroactive laws put in so the lawsuits won't end up pointing at the white house.
It's not just protect your party, it's protect the system before anything else.
actually if you provide the 'last mile' in the USA, YOU are responsible for CALEA. Look it up, it's a damn scary law. If the first hop to the Internet is through you, it falls on your shoulders. This includes neighborhood wifi projects, the local coffee shop that offers free wifi, etc. Forget if it's infeasible and expensive, forget that some wifi gear is impossible to do what they ask (Meraki, I'm looking at you), it's the law and you're responsibility. Not the ISP you're connecting to, but YOU. What's this mean?
YOU must notify the feds you are providing the last mile
YOU must be able to real time duplicate traffic and send it in a wacky format to them if they request.
If they request this and you can't, it's a 10,000 a day fine.
You can't notify anyone you've gotten a CALEA request. It's a secret
If requests, you CAN NOT quit doing it, as they've ordered you to duplicate the traffic.
Big Brother exists and is able to tap everyone's intenet at the snap of a finger.
how long before it's ubiquitous when websites just start including banners, animated graphics, flash etc hosted on the same domain as the webpage. A transparent ad proxy so to speak to bypass the typical ad blockers or 3rd party websites. As hosting bandwidth keeps getting cheaper and blocker usage grows it will start.
I've seen a theory that the reason for invading Iraq was that in late 2000 Saddam switched to using the Euro. Iran's promoting the same switch, and the talk of war with them keeps popping up.
Scarily enough, that makes more sense than most every other theory for the 'real reason for invading Iraq'. Either I need to get some tinfoil, or the world is really that convoluted.
I recall some DEC NICS that when they started to fail, all got the same MAC. Talk about a fun thing to troubleshoot on a network! If it was a plain old switch using MAC switching, you can cause havoc pretty easily.
I have to agree with you on the cheaper it is, the less stable it is.
Take any high end wireless gear like real cisco branded gear and you don't have issues. I have never had issues with point to point wifi gear made by breezecom (Whatever they're called nowadays). But those are far from cheap.
I also have about a dozen meraki units in use. Cheap and they require rebooting about once a week. Bittorrent will make them need a reboot even faster. Meraki is a linux based system, I'm also thinking it has problems with the DNS it uses.
I have a gmail account, I get a handful of spam a week slipping through. I don't ever advertise my gmail account, however it's a common enough username with no numbers so dictionary attacks would hit it.
I have a private email server, with clamav running spamassassin and postfix tuned to prevent spam (Simple settings really), I get even less spam than my gmail. This address has been published for years on multiple websites, I use for just about everything, in cleartext on websites that are spidered.
In my experience you can do just as well or better than gmail without any headaches and a simple setup. Expect a few hours initial setup, and maybe an hour every 6 months to check if you're missing something the auto-updates can't update. It's been like this for a few years so far.
My local congressman Fred Upton was head of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications. While he recently moved on to the Energy subcommittee here's what I think is a the reason why he strove to strike down the '96 Telco Reform act.
2006:
SBC Communications $15,500
National Assn of Broadcasters $14,000
Comcast Corp $12,500
National Cable & Telecommunications Assn $12,50
Total Telecom Services & Equipment $43,999
He's a fixture in Southwest Michigan so I don't see him leaving anytime soon. Let me tell you, it really sucked owning an ISP in his district and having him supporting the big telcos so strongly.
The point is to make sure there is never a lawsuit claiming Bush et al as defendents. If the immunity didn't go through, the lawsuits against the telcos would turn against the white house.
Pelosi doesn't want that, it'd hurt the way they're all covering each other's back. There are a few mostly straight shooters who get labeled as kooks when they try to follow the constitution. Kucinich, Paul, they're all labeled as nutjobs
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Who is a terrorist that can end up at gitmo, etc? "Under the Constitution, a jury makes the determination, both for foreigners and for Americans accused of terrorism. But under the "wartime" powers assumed by the President and the Pentagon, they make the determination".
So to answer your question it's current King George and the guys with guns.
Where's the second chances for those hurt by illegal actions? Qwest told the feds to screw themselves if they didn't have a warrant. This cost Qwest a 2 billion dollar Pentagon contract. We should feel sorry and give a pass to major players in the legalized monopoly which is the telecommunications industry?
A second chance would be to claim in a trial that it wasn't their fault, it was the suits. Then if the telcos lost some lawsuit, sue the suits who asked them to knowingly break the law for whatever damages they've incurred.
When Pelosi said impeachment was off the table I guess she meant the Dems were to give complete and utter immunity to any legal problems the white house may have been at the heart of.
Nah, it was given freely as part of the routine. I guess the clients never thought we'd figure out what they had been doing if they used a lame excuse.
Customer: You know in web browsers how it remembers where you've been? Well I was looking for an engagement present for my wife and I don't want her to find out...
While working Internet support years ago I had numerous people call asking how to remove websites from a history and use the "I was shopping for a gift" excuse. Uh huh, suuuure. Amazing how it was always married males who called asking how to remove the history...
Because the telco companies have one of the strongest lobby forces out there.
You forgot the best limit - Free Speech Zones. I grew up thinking that the free speech zone was anywhere on American soil... silly me.
Man, you sound like the southern states - I thought we took care of state rights with that little civil war of Northern Aggression? Some say Lincoln was the father of big government. Big Business won, state's rights lost, and further rights have kept slipping ever since.
The founders really didn't want an all powerful central government - good intentions and paving the way have taken care of the original design.
Be careful, bad jokes can get you punched. Although this is /. so I'd assume bad jokes probably would get you hacked, Denial of serviced, spammed, or fragged before we'd bother to haul our butts out of a basement and physically exert ourselves.
The US isn't totally fascist - yet. But the gov't sure is working on making it so.
We currently have our emails read, our phones are wiretapped without warrants, habeas corpus has been revoked for non-citizens, U.S. citizens could be tossed into Gitmo if they're deemed a terrorist. Waterboarding was a reason to execute a few japanese in WW2 for crimes against humanity but we say it's not torture.
Oh yeah, let's not forget about the executive branch failing to follow the laws such as the Federal Records Act, Our Energy policy was set in secret - we don't even know who attended the meeting. Let's not forget that Bush and Cheney's friends have made untold millions off the latest war.
"This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms industry is new in the American experience ... In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic process."
-- President Dwight Eisenhower, farewell speech to the nation, January 17, 1961
A more fascist gov't makes it easier to make money and gain power for those in control and that's what we're seeing. No tin foil hat needed for such blatant examples.
We all saw how far a 10th level US Senator goes.
You don't need a marker, just a line drawn in dirt with a finger will work fine.
I had various farmers tell me that you can put a chicken's head under a wing upside down, swing them 180 degrees right side up and sit them on the ground. Then they stay hiding their head. I tried a few times but never got it to work.
As an aside, for a kickass prank mail order some chickens and have them delivered to someone. Nothing like getting a box of chickens arriving in the mail. Mine arrived on tax day, the post office called at 5am and asked me to please, as quickly as possible, to come get my loud chickens.
Do you realize that according to the court and the FCC 'real news' can distort or blatantly lie all they want?
I'd rather trust a fellow geek than some guy in a suit on TV.
Caveat - only 1 HTTPS per IP. But that really isn't that big a deal either
Maybe a few of the Class A holders like Apple or IBM should give up some of their blocks. Take IBM as an example - they subclass internal networks so they have very very few 'real IP's routable.
Or maybe if they use the evil bit within packets we could double our existing IP4 range!
You bring up some excellent history and titles.
For some further support of #1 I'd suggest looking at the Indie games conferences. Small group, Indie games may be the future of 'real games'. Game Developer Magazine just had an article about the potential demise of 'real gaming'. Compared to the financial success to non-games like Audition live, Habbo hotel, second life it may be hard to keep plopping down 20 million to create a triple A game if you could get a larger audience base doing something far less 'traditional'.
As an aside, one of the more fun 'what can one guy accomplish alone' would be Minions of Mirth. A complete MMORPG - albiet older style gameplay and graphics it's actually impressive.
You're forgetting that the cover your ass applies to forgiving people of the other party just as well. Kucinich wanted to impeach Bush and Cheney, it got buried in a subcommittee. The Dem leadership has stated there will be no impeachment hearings, period.
Oral sex in the oval office gets impeachment hearings. Destroying millions of emails and other records that a Presidential Records act states you must keep? Not handing over paperwork the courts have ordered you to? Bah, forget about it.
Ordered warrantless, illegal wire taps? Get the Dems happy to kiss ass for some retroactive laws put in so the lawsuits won't end up pointing at the white house.
It's not just protect your party, it's protect the system before anything else.
actually if you provide the 'last mile' in the USA, YOU are responsible for CALEA. Look it up, it's a damn scary law. If the first hop to the Internet is through you, it falls on your shoulders. This includes neighborhood wifi projects, the local coffee shop that offers free wifi, etc. Forget if it's infeasible and expensive, forget that some wifi gear is impossible to do what they ask (Meraki, I'm looking at you), it's the law and you're responsibility. Not the ISP you're connecting to, but YOU. What's this mean?
Big Brother exists and is able to tap everyone's intenet at the snap of a finger.
Don't forget 3001. Actually you can forget it, for a grand finale it was pretty bland. Not even any meeting of the Europa life forms.
how long before it's ubiquitous when websites just start including banners, animated graphics, flash etc hosted on the same domain as the webpage. A transparent ad proxy so to speak to bypass the typical ad blockers or 3rd party websites. As hosting bandwidth keeps getting cheaper and blocker usage grows it will start.
I've seen a theory that the reason for invading Iraq was that in late 2000 Saddam switched to using the Euro. Iran's promoting the same switch, and the talk of war with them keeps popping up.
Scarily enough, that makes more sense than most every other theory for the 'real reason for invading Iraq'. Either I need to get some tinfoil, or the world is really that convoluted.
I recall some DEC NICS that when they started to fail, all got the same MAC. Talk about a fun thing to troubleshoot on a network! If it was a plain old switch using MAC switching, you can cause havoc pretty easily.
I have to agree with you on the cheaper it is, the less stable it is.
Take any high end wireless gear like real cisco branded gear and you don't have issues. I have never had issues with point to point wifi gear made by breezecom (Whatever they're called nowadays). But those are far from cheap.
I also have about a dozen meraki units in use. Cheap and they require rebooting about once a week. Bittorrent will make them need a reboot even faster. Meraki is a linux based system, I'm also thinking it has problems with the DNS it uses.
I have a gmail account, I get a handful of spam a week slipping through. I don't ever advertise my gmail account, however it's a common enough username with no numbers so dictionary attacks would hit it.
I have a private email server, with clamav running spamassassin and postfix tuned to prevent spam (Simple settings really), I get even less spam than my gmail. This address has been published for years on multiple websites, I use for just about everything, in cleartext on websites that are spidered.
In my experience you can do just as well or better than gmail without any headaches and a simple setup. Expect a few hours initial setup, and maybe an hour every 6 months to check if you're missing something the auto-updates can't update. It's been like this for a few years so far.
So we can hope that every telco will now leave the country now that they have immunity?
My local congressman Fred Upton was head of the House Subcommittee on Telecommunications. While he recently moved on to the Energy subcommittee here's what I think is a the reason why he strove to strike down the '96 Telco Reform act.
2006 :
SBC Communications $15,500
National Assn of Broadcasters $14,000
Comcast Corp $12,500
National Cable & Telecommunications Assn $12,50
Total Telecom Services & Equipment $43,999
He's a fixture in Southwest Michigan so I don't see him leaving anytime soon. Let me tell you, it really sucked owning an ISP in his district and having him supporting the big telcos so strongly.
The point is to make sure there is never a lawsuit claiming Bush et al as defendents. If the immunity didn't go through, the lawsuits against the telcos would turn against the white house.
Pelosi doesn't want that, it'd hurt the way they're all covering each other's back. There are a few mostly straight shooters who get labeled as kooks when they try to follow the constitution. Kucinich, Paul, they're all labeled as nutjobs