Not really a good point at all. Bedbugs don't hide in the sheets. They hide in the crevices of the mattress, box-springs, bed frame, and surrounding areas. You might find a few bugs crawling the bedsheets, but it's not where they lay their eggs.
Case in point, I got infested when a friend gave me a chair for my computer desk.
So placing a sticky card under your bed won't work?
Is there a place where a normal person can buy the chemical attractants?
They also use some sort of Pine Spray. My unit got bedbugs before, took 2 cleanings to finally get rid of them all, but they sprayed some Pine Smelling crap around.
Haven't had any since the last spraying, a year or so ago.
Hate bedbugs. Made me paranoid for months afterwards, every little spec i think i see move...
... Look around at pop music and what's being created today. Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber style music is all that anyone can make money doing nowadays....
This is why you aren't taken serious. Only a few musicians actually get rich making music. Their record companies though get very rich off them and other musicians they sign. It has always been this way, and they are fighting hard as hell to keep it that way.
Buy a dash cam and you could have saved money on the attorney. When the rookie cop goes through his list ask him if he wants to add any more to the list, then remark that he's on your cam as well as his so his job will be on the line and he'll end up a mall cop, and then follow through with it. There are excellent officers but bad cops like that make them ALL look bad.
Yes, tell them you have a Dash Cam, so while you are taken to jail, the car is impounded to the police lot, where the police will search it to remove the dash cam and the delete the video it's recorded.
In some ways the U.S. government is the most violent that has ever existed.
I am not a fan of US foreign policy either, but these sorts of exaggerations are just ridiculous. Is the US government really more violent than the Roman Empire or the government of Genghis Khan? In the middle ages you were 35 times as likely to die as a result of violence from another human being (murder, war, etc) than today.
The US may be a violent (or maybe even the most violent) nation by today's standards, but it is certainly not anywhere close to being the most violent that ever existed. This is a gross overstatement.
Ask people in Afghanistan if they feel safe from Americans.
There's precedent for that. Colin Baker was a villain before he was a doctor, and "Romana" was a supporting character before she was recycled as an assistant.
Don't forget Nicholas Courtney, Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, played a bit roll in Doctor Who as a security agent in 1965.
... sleeping on the ground outdoors isn't really comfortable.
Hammock. Sleeping bag and some sort of trap over you. Maybe a mosquito net depending on where you are. Most comfortable, lightest, best way to sleep unless you go where there are no trees.
Once we got behind on traveling to where we were camping, so it was like midnight, moonless night when we got to the spot (2 mile hike). While everyone else was cursing in the dark trying to get their tents set up, I had my hammock, and tarp taken care of in 10 mins.
Uhhh...I thought it was common knowledge that the search engines and the feds are all buddy buddy? Not that it would have really mattered since we now know about the wiretap they have on the AT&T trunks which everything goes through at one time or another.
What I find ironic about all this is if they EVER catch a single terrorist thanks to all this big brother crap? It'll be the kind too fucking dumb to have been any good at being a terrorist, your Richard Reid "useful idiot" kind of Muslim extremist. Any terrorist that could actually do any damage, your Abu Nidal mean motorscooter types aren't gonna be so damned retarded as to Google for instructions with zero obfuscation, not when you have multiple free anonymizing services and search engines that don't log like DuckDuckGo and Scroogle.
So once again we have the government wasting huge piles of money and infringing the rights and privacy of everyone for a program that won't work...must be Thursday.
The Feds are fishing, nothing more. If they have to go to houses because "pressure cooker" and "backpack" was searched for, then it shows how much they suck at their job and are grasping at straws.
It's funny, because when I was a kid & teenager, this is something the government tells us that the communist do, check up on what you are buying or looking to buy. Yet here we are doing it in America, "The land of the free".
Free to get visited by the Feds when you do web searches.
DuckDuckGo is mostly an front-end to Bing, providing shallow anonymization. It would be a lot of work to figure out what https query to some DDG server matched what bing query. Yes, you could probably get the answer by capturing all metadata for the internet, and putting the pieces together, but even with the data it's non-trivial. I'd say DDG gives pretty good privacy.
I assume the case in TFA was just the feds telling Google long ago: "send us the IP address of anyone who makes any of the following queries" and more recently adding "pressure cookers and backpacks" to that list.
third choice if you type in Pressure Cooker (before you hit enter) is Pressure Cooker bomb. Thanks google!
The first step to solving a problem, is identifying it. I find the fact that Nintendo was willing to blame it self for its failure in the market place encouraging.
Rather than a bunch of executives playing CYA and concocting some narrative full of nonsense about macro economic headwinds or something, they actually named something they will be expected to do something about.
Ya, it's refreshing to not hear poor sales being blamed on pirates.
Mainly if that Screen doesn't go back farther. I picked up one of my gamepads to see how it would be if I had a screen at the same place, and i have to bed the gamepad down to see a screen like that. Really uncomfortable to play like that. But i see form pictures the buttons and pads are more flat then normal gamepads.
I understand that at first glance this looks like overreach, and depending on who had access and how often it was used, perhaps it is. But the NSA does not do law enforcement, they do threat detection.
Imposing a suspicion-based, after-the-fact scheme would mean terror cells could (and probably already do) host their own encrypted SMTP servers with no archive, thus thwarting any attempt to trace messages sent before a target is identified. So even if a judge finds probable cause and some kind of targeted hack/trace could be established, it would be too late to look at data created before the warrant was issued. Why would we hobble our first line of defense against real, plausible threats in order to avoid theoretical abuses? Wouldn't it make more sense to keep the programs intact and ensure safeguards against abuse?
Even if you are afraid of some hypothetical future fascist regime that has plans to abuse this apparatus on a large scale, please explain why such a regime would have any interest in respecting the Constitution at all? In other words, if things got so bad that the NSA started spying on you because you wrote something to a friend they didn't like, citing the lack of a warrant is not going to help.
Of course there are many (actually just some, but they like to think they are many) who believe the US is already some kind of fascist state, but I would suggest you talk to people living in places like Russia or China before establishing a "Big Brother" standard against which to compare the US.
As for the legality, IANAL, but some obvious observations:
- The Constitution protects citizens from illegal search and seizure. It does not protect non-citizens.
- Collecting data is not the same thing as using it in a prosecution. See: Miranda Rights
- According to this leak (and common sense when you consider the sheer volume of data we're talking about), the NSA is not keeping this information for more than a few days. That means they are effectively creating a buffered cache of information that can be accessed quickly when necessary. This is akin to local law enforcement keeping CCTV video around for a short period of time for post-crime analysis (see: Boston Marathon bombing). If we're worried about them keeping this information for longer than they need it, put a law in place that restricts it - although I would suggest that it is physically impossible to keep up with all the data generated on the web.
- The NSA claims that there are multiple fail-safes in place to prevent unauthorized access - most likely including access logs, credential checks, etc - similar to the ones used by the FBI, local police, etc. This could of course be partially or completely false, and the NSA does not exactly deserve our unwavering trust at the moment. But assuming for a second that it is true, why exactly is this any different than giving certain analysts access to satellite imagery or CCTV cameras?
We need to protect ourselves against government overreach and abuse - we are after all a nation of laws, not men. But the notion that the NSA keeping a few days worth of 1s and 0s just in case they are needed is anathema to our way of life is ludicrous. We keep medical, criminal, travel, financial and many other records for years and years. Why is this any different except that its a convenient vector of attack against an arm of government that is charged with doing exactly what XKeyScore is designed to do - seek out and neutralize threats to national security.
Did this great system tell them that the Boston Marathon was going to be bombed? No, it didn't. It should have, after all, that was what it is for. But it and the NSA have failed miserably. The NSA has been lying under oath to the American People. They can not be trusted with a DB like this. And the fact that a low level employee could walk out with copies of their data only shows how incompetent they are.
When I first got onto the Internet in the early 1990's, there were three things that were made quite clear to me when given my account:
Don't put anything onto the Internet you wouldn't want seen on the front page of the New York Times; it will be available for all to see and it will never be deleted;
The Internet is a public space and there is no expectation of privacy in public; and
The packets that make up your communications are not letters but postcards -- anyone on the way between you and the destination can read everything.
The NSA claims they are simply collecting Call Detail Records (CDRs) and packet headers, although likely more is being collected. But seeing CDRs and IP headers is no different than watching me when I'm walking around the street. Seeing the packets to my Google session is no different than knowing that I walked from my house to the nearest pizza shack. Everybody and anybody could see me do it, but it doesn't mean my privacy was violated -- I did all of these actions in public!
People should not be surprised or upset that this information is available to be collected because that is the cost of using the Internet. You are intentionally sharing information with third-parties in the interest of obtaining a service. Even the snooping of email in GMail or Yahoo should not be surprising because you shared that information with a third-party (the service provider) and the provider has different legal requirements than if you simply shared that information directly and exclusively with your interlocutor.
If you are upset about the Internet being public, then you should stop wasting your breath complaining about how what you thought was private is actually public and instead start advocating for the wide-spread use of encryption algorithms and always-on SSL. You should start advocating for the ability to run servers (mail and web) on residential connections so you don't have to share "private" information with third-party providers. You should advocate for rolling out IPv6 instead of being lazy and claiming that unencrypted NAT-ed IPv4 is good enough security.
And when your done advocating, lead by example and use these technologies yourself.
Just because you think something is private and secure doesn't mean that it is.
The NSA is in control of this database. The NSA has been lying under oath about it's existance. The NSA has been lying under oath about the capabilties of what they could do. Snowden should us that not only the NSA is lying to us, but that security access to the database is very bad, as low level employees can copy data from it to take with them.
Currently, this db is being abused and lied about. Which usually means some people are using it to do some bad things and don't want you to find out about them.
This is about the "land of the free and the brave" and our constitution. This is about holding our government accountable for it's actions.
Batman listened to everything through everyone's cellphones. Barrayaran Imperial Security monitors everything. BBC-America's MI5 (or Spooks, for original BBC wachers) seemed to be able to access every webcam ever made. Jack Ryan survives through signal intercepts.
Google and Bing and Yahoo are scanning all your base all your time. How else can they find whatever you want whenever you want it?
This is one of those things that seems like a good idea when applied to OTHER things and OTHER people. Search engines on the web? Of course, anybody putting something online *wants* it to be found. Fictional security agents hunting the bad guys hiding among the solid citizens? Of course, that's what we fictionally pay them for.
For arguments' sake: How do you debug a problem? Probably trace everything and look for anomalies, right? So why be surprised that the NSA thought any different?
Okay, the first shit was movies dude. Movies. Not reality. Yes, Google, yahoo & MS have search engines, they search the internet for data. They track our online movement to make money off us. Does MS & Yahoo scan my Gmail email account? No. They don't. Does Gmail scan my emails? I do not know, and I do not care. See, I understand that the internet isn't safe. That gmail has access to my gmail account. If i really wanted to send info I didn't want others to read, I'd encrypt it first. Probably like most any fucking terrorist would do, because it puts a layer of security on your email that YOU control.
The NSA has been compiling a database on everyone. Forcing corporations to give up security keys, open holes in the system, etc to get info about everyone in the world. While claiming it wasn't. Not only was this done on tax payers money, it was done in secret, while we were being lied to about it. It is a system that is being abused, and will continue to be abused unless we do something about it.
When the story first broke, Obama, Boehner, Pelosi, Fienstein, McCain, all formed a wall around the Agency.
"It's all legal! We've been briefed!"
Which group looks like they have the power in that situation?
If Obama said "Ice cream is tasty" Boehner would hold a press conference about how only secret muslim communists with plots to install sharia law like ice cream, and real, honest, hard-working middle-class Americans eat pie.
But the one thing Obama, Boehner, Pelosi, Fienstein, McCain, and Dick fucking Cheney can all agree on is the legality, Constitutionality, appropriateness and necessity of collecting, analyzing and storing forever every phone call and email my 13-year old niece makes. For national security.
(repeat of something I posted last month)
Scarier part: why aren't they blaming each other for this "serious overreach?" That they will then investigate, have some hearings, and then go right back to biz as usual? That's all politicians do. Make vague, meaningless statements and take no responsibility, blame everyone else, then do nothing. Instead they're making firm, direct statements. "Legal!" "Constitutional!" "Full oversight!"
Why are they so far off script? Here's how the script is supposed to go:
Snowden: "They doin' teh snoops!" Democrats: "Bush started it!" Republicans: "Saint Bush never would have authorized this! This must be part of a secret communist Muslim plan to install sharia law!" Obama: "No, really it was just the Cincinnati branch of the NSA!" Senate committee: "Thank you for your service, Mr. Snowden for bringing this overreach to our attention. We've got top men working to correct it. Top. Men." Snowden: "No prob, I'll go rot in obscurity now." Clapper: "Ow. My wrist. From the slapping. Wheeeeeelp, back to the shadows for biz as usual."
The mask isn't just slipping. It's on the floor. The man behind the curtain is doing a tap dance. Just what the fuck is going on?
The problem is the NSA paid all this money to it's congress & senate peeps to support the NSA, and that is what they are doing. Fortunately for the American people Snowden tipped us off to what was really going. And the NSA wasn't smart enough change with what was going on.
The congressmen & senators all did what they were paid to do by the NSA. It's just this is the internet age and nothing stays hidden on the internet. NSA should of known that.
The real elephant in the room here is how this is really very dangerous for democracy.
I have yet to hear any politician discuss the REAL threat here, in the long run...the threat to American Democracy itself.
Imagine the following scenario: A guy like Snowden, hired by a Republican/Democratic senator, gets a job with Booz Allen, and proceeds to use these tools to spy on the political campaign of either their direct opponent in a campaign, or the opposing candidate in an election campaign. They are able to make up an excuse and take this information out, and pass it on to their candidate.
And then one day this information gets out, that someone was spying, ala Nixon-style on everything the opponent was doing. If you think the sh** is hitting the fan now, just you wait until THAT happens. Hell hath no fury like a politician who has been spied upon.
Um, I'm going to point out the peeps like Snowden are rare. People are abusing the database, because there is no one to stop them from it. Until Snowden were didn't really know/have proof that it existed. Now we know. A secret DB with info on everyone, that has lax enough security measures that a low level employee walked out with copies of data. So if you have access to it, you have access to information almost no one else has. I would be shocked if there wasn't NSA employes using this to make money/get info they shouldn't.
You unblock guadian with noscript, but then you have a list of 20+ other sites and no idea which one leads you to the article. I wanted to see the slides, but fuck it, I don't want to keep guessing on which sites to unblock.
Absolutely everything? To start with, there is the fact I'm going to pay tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands, probably) of dollars into it and won't see a single dime of it back, because it will be bankrupt a decade or more before I'll even come closer to considering retiring. The system is inherently and utterly broken in a world were people are living longer and having fewer children. It cannot remain viable unless there are far fewer people retired than working, which, with the modern birthrate and age of living, is impossible. The only people who will benefit from the system are those who are already retired or relatively close to it. People under 30 or so? Won't see a dime from it. People in their 40s are likely to retire, only to discover the money drying up soon after.
Social Security was devised in a world with radically different demographics than the current one. Unless our society undergoes a massive reversion (which would have negative impacts in other areas), it's a totally non-viable system.
You know, when I was a kid that said we'd run out of gas by the time I was an adult. And guess what? We haven't yet.
Quit fucking crying, SS will be there when you get older.
in fact, you are more likely to get Flying Cars then a collapse of SS.
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Not really a good point at all. Bedbugs don't hide in the sheets. They hide in the crevices of the mattress, box-springs, bed frame, and surrounding areas. You might find a few bugs crawling the bedsheets, but it's not where they lay their eggs.
Case in point, I got infested when a friend gave me a chair for my computer desk.
While it infected my bed, it wasn't the source.
So placing a sticky card under your bed won't work?
Is there a place where a normal person can buy the chemical attractants?
They also use some sort of Pine Spray. My unit got bedbugs before, took 2 cleanings to finally get rid of them all, but they sprayed some Pine Smelling crap around.
Haven't had any since the last spraying, a year or so ago.
Hate bedbugs. Made me paranoid for months afterwards, every little spec i think i see move...
... Look around at pop music and what's being created today. Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Justin Bieber style music is all that anyone can make money doing nowadays. ...
This is why you aren't taken serious. Only a few musicians actually get rich making music. Their record companies though get very rich off them and other musicians they sign. It has always been this way, and they are fighting hard as hell to keep it that way.
Administration Seeks To Make Unauthorized Streaming A Felony
Which administration would that be?
For the sense-of-humour impaired, I'm being facetious.
The one bought and paid for with the entertainment cartels money.
Buy a dash cam and you could have saved money on the attorney. When the rookie cop goes through his list ask him if he wants to add any more to the list, then remark that he's on your cam as well as his so his job will be on the line and he'll end up a mall cop, and then follow through with it. There are excellent officers but bad cops like that make them ALL look bad.
Yes, tell them you have a Dash Cam, so while you are taken to jail, the car is impounded to the police lot, where the police will search it to remove the dash cam and the delete the video it's recorded.
Police are experts at fabricating lies
Police are allowed to lie to any suspects, which is oddly what they consider you if you talk to them.
In some ways the U.S. government is the most violent that has ever existed.
I am not a fan of US foreign policy either, but these sorts of exaggerations are just ridiculous. Is the US government really more violent than the Roman Empire or the government of Genghis Khan? In the middle ages you were 35 times as likely to die as a result of violence from another human being (murder, war, etc) than today.
The US may be a violent (or maybe even the most violent) nation by today's standards, but it is certainly not anywhere close to being the most violent that ever existed. This is a gross overstatement.
Ask people in Afghanistan if they feel safe from Americans.
So, older people don't have sex?
If they are married, of course not.
There's precedent for that. Colin Baker was a villain before he was a doctor, and "Romana" was a supporting character before she was recycled as an assistant.
Don't forget Nicholas Courtney, Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart, played a bit roll in Doctor Who as a security agent in 1965.
Now we have a Doctor Who, who has been a real Doctor Fan for a long time!
What, David Tennant doesn't count? Getting into acting was practically an accidental by-product of his life-long quest to be the Doctor.
If it was his life long quest to be the doctor, why did he quit after 5 years?
Sorry, have to be said.
... sleeping on the ground outdoors isn't really comfortable.
Hammock. Sleeping bag and some sort of trap over you. Maybe a mosquito net depending on where you are. Most comfortable, lightest, best way to sleep unless you go where there are no trees.
Once we got behind on traveling to where we were camping, so it was like midnight, moonless night when we got to the spot (2 mile hike). While everyone else was cursing in the dark trying to get their tents set up, I had my hammock, and tarp taken care of in 10 mins.
Uhhh...I thought it was common knowledge that the search engines and the feds are all buddy buddy? Not that it would have really mattered since we now know about the wiretap they have on the AT&T trunks which everything goes through at one time or another.
What I find ironic about all this is if they EVER catch a single terrorist thanks to all this big brother crap? It'll be the kind too fucking dumb to have been any good at being a terrorist, your Richard Reid "useful idiot" kind of Muslim extremist. Any terrorist that could actually do any damage, your Abu Nidal mean motorscooter types aren't gonna be so damned retarded as to Google for instructions with zero obfuscation, not when you have multiple free anonymizing services and search engines that don't log like DuckDuckGo and Scroogle.
So once again we have the government wasting huge piles of money and infringing the rights and privacy of everyone for a program that won't work...must be Thursday.
The Feds are fishing, nothing more. If they have to go to houses because "pressure cooker" and "backpack" was searched for, then it shows how much they suck at their job and are grasping at straws.
It's funny, because when I was a kid & teenager, this is something the government tells us that the communist do, check up on what you are buying or looking to buy. Yet here we are doing it in America, "The land of the free".
Free to get visited by the Feds when you do web searches.
DuckDuckGo is mostly an front-end to Bing, providing shallow anonymization. It would be a lot of work to figure out what https query to some DDG server matched what bing query. Yes, you could probably get the answer by capturing all metadata for the internet, and putting the pieces together, but even with the data it's non-trivial. I'd say DDG gives pretty good privacy.
I assume the case in TFA was just the feds telling Google long ago: "send us the IP address of anyone who makes any of the following queries" and more recently adding "pressure cookers and backpacks" to that list.
third choice if you type in Pressure Cooker (before you hit enter) is Pressure Cooker bomb. Thanks google!
The first step to solving a problem, is identifying it. I find the fact that Nintendo was willing to blame it self for its failure in the market place encouraging.
Rather than a bunch of executives playing CYA and concocting some narrative full of nonsense about macro economic headwinds or something, they actually named something they will be expected to do something about.
Ya, it's refreshing to not hear poor sales being blamed on pirates.
Mainly if that Screen doesn't go back farther. I picked up one of my gamepads to see how it would be if I had a screen at the same place, and i have to bed the gamepad down to see a screen like that. Really uncomfortable to play like that. But i see form pictures the buttons and pads are more flat then normal gamepads.
I understand that at first glance this looks like overreach, and depending on who had access and how often it was used, perhaps it is. But the NSA does not do law enforcement, they do threat detection.
Imposing a suspicion-based, after-the-fact scheme would mean terror cells could (and probably already do) host their own encrypted SMTP servers with no archive, thus thwarting any attempt to trace messages sent before a target is identified. So even if a judge finds probable cause and some kind of targeted hack/trace could be established, it would be too late to look at data created before the warrant was issued. Why would we hobble our first line of defense against real, plausible threats in order to avoid theoretical abuses? Wouldn't it make more sense to keep the programs intact and ensure safeguards against abuse?
Even if you are afraid of some hypothetical future fascist regime that has plans to abuse this apparatus on a large scale, please explain why such a regime would have any interest in respecting the Constitution at all? In other words, if things got so bad that the NSA started spying on you because you wrote something to a friend they didn't like, citing the lack of a warrant is not going to help.
Of course there are many (actually just some, but they like to think they are many) who believe the US is already some kind of fascist state, but I would suggest you talk to people living in places like Russia or China before establishing a "Big Brother" standard against which to compare the US.
As for the legality, IANAL, but some obvious observations:
We need to protect ourselves against government overreach and abuse - we are after all a nation of laws, not men. But the notion that the NSA keeping a few days worth of 1s and 0s just in case they are needed is anathema to our way of life is ludicrous. We keep medical, criminal, travel, financial and many other records for years and years. Why is this any different except that its a convenient vector of attack against an arm of government that is charged with doing exactly what XKeyScore is designed to do - seek out and neutralize threats to national security.
Did this great system tell them that the Boston Marathon was going to be bombed? No, it didn't. It should have, after all, that was what it is for. But it and the NSA have failed miserably. The NSA has been lying under oath to the American People. They can not be trusted with a DB like this. And the fact that a low level employee could walk out with copies of their data only shows how incompetent they are.
As much as I'd love to see this database d
Hmm? I am running noscript and dont have anything else on that page allowed but their own domain. Not even googleapis, and it is working fine for me.
http://www.theguardian.com/world/interactive/2013/jul/31/nsa-xkeyscore-program-full-presentation
talking about this link, ya, a further up link had the pages in smaller form.
When I first got onto the Internet in the early 1990's, there were three things that were made quite clear to me when given my account:
the destination can read everything.
The NSA claims they are simply collecting Call Detail Records (CDRs) and packet headers, although likely more is being collected. But seeing CDRs and IP headers is no different than watching me when I'm walking around the street. Seeing the packets to my Google session is no different than knowing that I walked from my house to the nearest pizza shack. Everybody and anybody could see me do it, but it doesn't mean my privacy was violated -- I did all of these actions in public!
People should not be surprised or upset that this information is available to be collected because that is the cost of using the Internet. You are intentionally sharing information with third-parties in the interest of obtaining a service. Even the snooping of email in GMail or Yahoo should not be surprising because you shared that information with a third-party (the service provider) and the provider has different legal requirements than if you simply shared that information directly and exclusively with your interlocutor.
If you are upset about the Internet being public, then you should stop wasting your breath complaining about how what you thought was private is actually public and instead start advocating for the wide-spread use of encryption algorithms and always-on SSL. You should start advocating for the ability to run servers (mail and web) on residential connections so you don't have to share "private" information with third-party providers. You should advocate for rolling out IPv6 instead of being lazy and claiming that unencrypted NAT-ed IPv4 is good enough security.
And when your done advocating, lead by example and use these technologies yourself.
Just because you think something is private and secure doesn't mean that it is.
The NSA is in control of this database. The NSA has been lying under oath about it's existance. The NSA has been lying under oath about the capabilties of what they could do. Snowden should us that not only the NSA is lying to us, but that security access to the database is very bad, as low level employees can copy data from it to take with them.
Currently, this db is being abused and lied about. Which usually means some people are using it to do some bad things and don't want you to find out about them.
This is about the "land of the free and the brave" and our constitution. This is about holding our government accountable for it's actions.
Batman listened to everything through everyone's cellphones. Barrayaran Imperial Security monitors everything. BBC-America's MI5 (or Spooks, for original BBC wachers) seemed to be able to access every webcam ever made. Jack Ryan survives through signal intercepts.
Google and Bing and Yahoo are scanning all your base all your time. How else can they find whatever you want whenever you want it?
This is one of those things that seems like a good idea when applied to OTHER things and OTHER people. Search engines on the web? Of course, anybody putting something online *wants* it to be found. Fictional security agents hunting the bad guys hiding among the solid citizens? Of course, that's what we fictionally pay them for.
For arguments' sake: How do you debug a problem? Probably trace everything and look for anomalies, right? So why be surprised that the NSA thought any different?
Okay, the first shit was movies dude. Movies. Not reality. Yes, Google, yahoo & MS have search engines, they search the internet for data. They track our online movement to make money off us. Does MS & Yahoo scan my Gmail email account? No. They don't. Does Gmail scan my emails? I do not know, and I do not care. See, I understand that the internet isn't safe. That gmail has access to my gmail account. If i really wanted to send info I didn't want others to read, I'd encrypt it first. Probably like most any fucking terrorist would do, because it puts a layer of security on your email that YOU control.
The NSA has been compiling a database on everyone. Forcing corporations to give up security keys, open holes in the system, etc to get info about everyone in the world. While claiming it wasn't. Not only was this done on tax payers money, it was done in secret, while we were being lied to about it. It is a system that is being abused, and will continue to be abused unless we do something about it.
When the story first broke, Obama, Boehner, Pelosi, Fienstein, McCain, all formed a wall around the Agency.
"It's all legal! We've been briefed!"
Which group looks like they have the power in that situation?
If Obama said "Ice cream is tasty" Boehner would hold a press conference about how only secret muslim communists with plots to install sharia law like ice cream, and real, honest, hard-working middle-class Americans eat pie.
But the one thing Obama, Boehner, Pelosi, Fienstein, McCain, and Dick fucking Cheney can all agree on is the legality, Constitutionality, appropriateness and necessity of collecting, analyzing and storing forever every phone call and email my 13-year old niece makes. For national security.
(repeat of something I posted last month)
Scarier part: why aren't they blaming each other for this "serious overreach?" That they will then investigate, have some hearings, and then go right back to biz as usual? That's all politicians do. Make vague, meaningless statements and take no responsibility, blame everyone else, then do nothing. Instead they're making firm, direct statements. "Legal!" "Constitutional!" "Full oversight!"
Why are they so far off script? Here's how the script is supposed to go:
Snowden: "They doin' teh snoops!"
Democrats: "Bush started it!"
Republicans: "Saint Bush never would have authorized this! This must be part of a secret communist Muslim plan to install sharia law!"
Obama: "No, really it was just the Cincinnati branch of the NSA!"
Senate committee: "Thank you for your service, Mr. Snowden for bringing this overreach to our attention. We've got top men working to correct it. Top. Men."
Snowden: "No prob, I'll go rot in obscurity now."
Clapper: "Ow. My wrist. From the slapping. Wheeeeeelp, back to the shadows for biz as usual."
The mask isn't just slipping. It's on the floor. The man behind the curtain is doing a tap dance. Just what the fuck is going on?
The problem is the NSA paid all this money to it's congress & senate peeps to support the NSA, and that is what they are doing. Fortunately for the American people Snowden tipped us off to what was really going. And the NSA wasn't smart enough change with what was going on.
The congressmen & senators all did what they were paid to do by the NSA. It's just this is the internet age and nothing stays hidden on the internet. NSA should of known that.
The real elephant in the room here is how this is really very dangerous for democracy.
I have yet to hear any politician discuss the REAL threat here, in the long run...the threat to American Democracy itself.
Imagine the following scenario: A guy like Snowden, hired by a Republican/Democratic senator, gets a job with Booz Allen, and proceeds to use these tools to spy on the political campaign of either their direct opponent in a campaign, or the opposing candidate in an election campaign. They are able to make up an excuse and take this information out, and pass it on to their candidate.
And then one day this information gets out, that someone was spying, ala Nixon-style on everything the opponent was doing. If you think the sh** is hitting the fan now, just you wait until THAT happens. Hell hath no fury like a politician who has been spied upon.
Um, I'm going to point out the peeps like Snowden are rare. People are abusing the database, because there is no one to stop them from it. Until Snowden were didn't really know/have proof that it existed. Now we know. A secret DB with info on everyone, that has lax enough security measures that a low level employee walked out with copies of data. So if you have access to it, you have access to information almost no one else has. I would be shocked if there wasn't NSA employes using this to make money/get info they shouldn't.
You unblock guadian with noscript, but then you have a list of 20+ other sites and no idea which one leads you to the article. I wanted to see the slides, but fuck it, I don't want to keep guessing on which sites to unblock.
or just F-Drive; C and D are your disk drives; E is the USB drive; so F-Drive is the Cloud storage drive letter.
I don't use a USB drive, what is this, the 90's?
What is wrong with social security?
Absolutely everything? To start with, there is the fact I'm going to pay tens of thousands (or hundreds of thousands, probably) of dollars into it and won't see a single dime of it back, because it will be bankrupt a decade or more before I'll even come closer to considering retiring. The system is inherently and utterly broken in a world were people are living longer and having fewer children. It cannot remain viable unless there are far fewer people retired than working, which, with the modern birthrate and age of living, is impossible. The only people who will benefit from the system are those who are already retired or relatively close to it. People under 30 or so? Won't see a dime from it. People in their 40s are likely to retire, only to discover the money drying up soon after.
Social Security was devised in a world with radically different demographics than the current one. Unless our society undergoes a massive reversion (which would have negative impacts in other areas), it's a totally non-viable system.
You know, when I was a kid that said we'd run out of gas by the time I was an adult. And guess what? We haven't yet.
Quit fucking crying, SS will be there when you get older.
in fact, you are more likely to get Flying Cars then a collapse of SS.