Obama: "We are already aware of your concerns regarding surveillance. You don't think we didn't hear you muttering amongst yourselves beforehand, do you?"
What are the fucking electrical engineering doing???
We're trying to figure out how to keep your fucking lights on when you don't like nukes, hydro, coal, or natural gas and the wind stops blowing at night.
Near where I live (Bellevue, WA), they have installed speed cameras in school zones. When they enable the school zone signals (flashing yellow lights), the speed limit is dropped to 20 MPH and violators are photographed. Great. Think of the children.
Except that one of the most notorious school zones is switched on on a whim. In the middle of the day, no kids around (not even recess play on school grounds). It appears to be done at random at times other than school starting and ending. Just an FU to drivers to see if they can't catch one not paying attention.
And then, when they do use the school zone at the beginning of the day, they turn it off at 9:00AM on the dot (school starts at 9). I've seen a number of times when kids were 5 minutes late for class trying to dodge 35 MPH traffic, against the crosswalk signals to keep from getting the inevitable dunce cap (or whatever they hand out) for tardy kids.
... by the 1996 Telecom Act. Telephone metadata was changed from being the property of the caller* to that of the telecom. And that has subsequently been tested in courts, with decisions reaffirming the ownership of metadata by Ma Bell and her vile progeny.
*With a statement in phone service tariffs of the need to access this data solely for billing purposes.
1: Keep an eye on the Russians' communications.
2: Keep an eye on the Chinese communications.
3: Keep an eye on the Syrian's communications.
4-31,000: Keep an eye on these Americans' communications.
The NSA doesn't do the analysis. That's the job of the Pentagon/State Department/IRS/DEA/CIA. So they wouldn't go looking for an individual piece of information. They just hoover it all up and let the customer sort it out. Given that they are listening to 31,000 of anything, countries probably represent a small portion of that.
From other parts of the government. This is how bureaucracies weasel around the rules. The NSA is only investigating 60 US persons. Everything else is fulfilling data requests made by other organizations, from the FBI to the IRS. Ask these organizations and they can say, "We aren't spying on anyone."
I would expect the NSA to have copies of 31,000 properly signed FISA warrants on file justifying their services. Of course, the exception claimed would be a US person 'communicating' with a foreign entity, revealed by their link analysis. I wonder how many 419 scams are set up as a pretense to demonstrate overseas communications.
Btw, tinfoil is useless shit for blocking radiation emissions, and it doesn't protect your brain or nervous system from remote access. MIT found it actually amplified signals sometime ago, and I'm sure that based on my experience, their technology cannot be blocked by any object, let alone some flimsey tinfoil.
The best approach is to jam transmissions with noise.
Its due to people voting their social beliefs. The social conservative movement has been quite successful in maintaining a faithful voting block which maintains a wealthy minority in power at the expense of their political base by exploiting their religious beliefs.
Yes. But which ones? If they don't know what has been compromised, they'll have to replace everything. If they get a list of documents, they can target their efforts.
I guess the question the NSA needs answered is: "Is it safe?"
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All this makes me feel like the drummer for Spinal Tap.
100 billion flies can't be wrong!
Popcorn will be $1.3 million extra.
Obama: "We are already aware of your concerns regarding surveillance. You don't think we didn't hear you muttering amongst yourselves beforehand, do you?"
Wait!? That was a password?
The pharmacy figured that scribble was a prescription and they've been having me stuff strange suppositories up my ass for weeks.
What are the fucking electrical engineering doing???
We're trying to figure out how to keep your fucking lights on when you don't like nukes, hydro, coal, or natural gas and the wind stops blowing at night.
1. They'll put the bugs in and tell me where to look.
2. I'll report the bugs.
3. We split the $150,000.
4. ????
5. Profit!
Speed enforcement cameras as well.
Near where I live (Bellevue, WA), they have installed speed cameras in school zones. When they enable the school zone signals (flashing yellow lights), the speed limit is dropped to 20 MPH and violators are photographed. Great. Think of the children.
Except that one of the most notorious school zones is switched on on a whim. In the middle of the day, no kids around (not even recess play on school grounds). It appears to be done at random at times other than school starting and ending. Just an FU to drivers to see if they can't catch one not paying attention.
And then, when they do use the school zone at the beginning of the day, they turn it off at 9:00AM on the dot (school starts at 9). I've seen a number of times when kids were 5 minutes late for class trying to dodge 35 MPH traffic, against the crosswalk signals to keep from getting the inevitable dunce cap (or whatever they hand out) for tardy kids.
Its not about the kids, its about the cash.
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TFW when searching the pet food aisle for Iams Mouse-flavored cat food.
write reports and research papers for me.
No. They'd go on line and download copyrighted music, order kiddie porn and the components for IEDs on your credit card.
sometimes I want to yell bullshit as I whack someone upside the head with a baseball bat.
But McLaren is a British firm. And a baseball bat just wouldn't be cricket, old chap.
Yep. Just as fast as they can make the "Pew, pew, pew" sound.
*With a statement in phone service tariffs of the need to access this data solely for billing purposes.
Come on, folks. Are we certain this wasn't done by design?
Right. And the Micronesians invented fractions.
Or,
1: Keep an eye on the Russians' communications.
2: Keep an eye on the Chinese communications.
3: Keep an eye on the Syrian's communications.
4-31,000: Keep an eye on these Americans' communications.
The NSA doesn't do the analysis. That's the job of the Pentagon/State Department/IRS/DEA/CIA. So they wouldn't go looking for an individual piece of information. They just hoover it all up and let the customer sort it out. Given that they are listening to 31,000 of anything, countries probably represent a small portion of that.
From other parts of the government. This is how bureaucracies weasel around the rules. The NSA is only investigating 60 US persons. Everything else is fulfilling data requests made by other organizations, from the FBI to the IRS. Ask these organizations and they can say, "We aren't spying on anyone."
I would expect the NSA to have copies of 31,000 properly signed FISA warrants on file justifying their services. Of course, the exception claimed would be a US person 'communicating' with a foreign entity, revealed by their link analysis. I wonder how many 419 scams are set up as a pretense to demonstrate overseas communications.
Well, that's exactly the skill set they were looking for. No wonder he passed.
Btw, tinfoil is useless shit for blocking radiation emissions, and it doesn't protect your brain or nervous system from remote access. MIT found it actually amplified signals sometime ago, and I'm sure that based on my experience, their technology cannot be blocked by any object, let alone some flimsey tinfoil.
The best approach is to jam transmissions with noise.
Thinking about porn, thinking about porn, ......
Its due to people voting their social beliefs. The social conservative movement has been quite successful in maintaining a faithful voting block which maintains a wealthy minority in power at the expense of their political base by exploiting their religious beliefs.
Low tax rates.
The NSA is sure to develop new schemes
Yes. But which ones? If they don't know what has been compromised, they'll have to replace everything. If they get a list of documents, they can target their efforts.
I guess the question the NSA needs answered is: "Is it safe?"