And yet, it's Hillary's cronies who are picking a fight with Russia right now in order to attempt to embarrass Trump (and deflect attention from themselves)...
As a moderate conservative raised in the Cold War, I'm very alarmed by Trump being in bed with the Russians and the Republican Party looking the other way.
We had 21.5 million Federal employment and personnel files hacked (including SSNs, and other personal information), just back in early 2015.
Tell me about it. The Chinese has my background investigative file for my security clearance.
[...] and the President wants to take us to war.
Kicking out spies was done on a routine basis during the Cold War. That's not an act of war. If it was, nuclear winter would be a bigger concern than global warming.
BTW, I think it speak volumes that you cannot find other work-related things to do while waiting for your scripts to run.
I'm involved in an all day chat group while running scripts, responding to tickets and commenting on Slashdot. If someone needs my assistance, I'm immediately available. I'm the top performer in my department.
All those countries HE spied on, and tried to influence national elections within.
Everyone spies on everyone.
After all, if he's so upset about rumored Russian involvement (and it is rumored - not a single shred of evidence yet, and the people who leaked the actual stuff, Wikileaks, state unequivocally it wasn't the Russians) then he should get on his knees and crawl across Europe asking for forgiveness from Merkel et al.
Funny. The Germans are worried that Russia — not Obama — will interfere with their elections.
Citing Russian IP addresses as proof is the opposite of proof; it means the only "evidence" they actually have is worthless.
You're assuming that's the only evidence the administration has. Since the FBI called the DNC when the attacks started, it would imply a higher level of awareness as to what was happening at the time.
Your sarcasm doesn't erase the fact that you immediately twisted my statement into a "Obama lovers vs. Trump lovers" type of statement.
That your interpretation, not mine.
That you and others of your type think you're being smug and insightful, but that everything you spew out is about hatred, polarized viewpoints, and about bullying those who you don't see eye to eye with.
I'm going to assert my opinion. You don't like it isn't my concern. If you feel like I'm bullying you, you need professional help.
I looked at your post history.
Then you know that I love trolling the trolls on Slashdot to keep me amuse while waiting for a script to finish at work.
You continue to prove my point with every response.
That's because you're closed minded. Nothing I post will change your mind. But I do appreciate your attempts to me amuse.
I haven't looked at my Twitter feed in years. When I did recently, I was shocked to discover I'm following a ton of porn bots. I spent a few hours removing those.
On January 6, 2017, when the last step of the process is completed. Assuming, of course, it doesn't get thrown into the House of Representative. If that happens, the fun begins.
Don't make any important life decisions in the meantime.
I'm stuffing my mattress with cash. After eight years of slow growth, the economy is overdue for a recession.
If you or I get hacked, and our computers are held for ransom, the FBI acts like, "Meh. We don't know who did it. Just pay the ransom."
IP addresses in the logs will indicate the origin of the attacks. Most hacking attempts originate from Eastern Europe, Russia and Southeast Asia. I had personal website that got 4,000+ hacking attempts per day. After I switched to a static website that doesn't use PHP and MySQL, the hackers went away.
But if the DNC gets hacked, suddenly we know exactly who did it, and we're expelling diplomats and what not.
The FBI called the DNC when the attacks started but the IT person thought it was a hoax.
It's been time enough - you should really be past Denial and in Anger by now.
The election isn't over yet. Congress has to finalize the results on January 6, 2017. Although slim to none, the results could be challenged and the outcome thrown to the House of Representatives.
Trump consistently playing the down Russian interfering, defending Russia against Obama and praising Putin at every opportunity. Most Trump's appointees have some kind of relationship with Russia. Trump's casual disregard for every rule put into place to prevent another Watergate scandal 40 years ago. If the Russian connections weren't bad enough, the Nixon connections might be scarier.
I wonder what sort of actions they're going to take against Democrat campaign staffers for having such terrible email security practices?
I'm curious about that too since I work InfoSec. The Transcender blog summarizied the problems that the DNC IT person had: he ignored the FBI phone calls as a hoax, told staff to change passwords using the link from a phishing email, and had no InfoSec training whatsoever. Just mind boggling.
The parallels between Trump's Friends of Putin Club and Hitler's pre-WWII Germany are great and very disturbing.
FTFY
Yet the extremely ignorant and uneducated left insist and saying, "literally Hitler" when speaking about Trump.
As a college-educated moderate conservative, I can reassure that Trump is clear and present danger to the U.S. Constitution and the country. Sticking your hand up your ass isn't going to change that.
You never felt hope after Obama pulled the economy out of another Great Depression that, like the Great Depression in 1930's, resulted from failed Republican policies? I feel sorry for you.
The stimulus was too small, it should have been two to three times bigger. States were allowed to use the money for other things than "shovel ready" jobs.
(2) Living in an RV is not what I consider homeless.
After my mother passed away from breast cancer, my father sold everything and bought a trailer home for $10,000. His lot rent with utilities was $400 per month. He lived there for eight years before passing away. I had no problems with his modest lifestyle and the quirky neighbors he had in the trailer park. My older brother was embarrassed that our "poor" father lived in a trailer home. That didn't stop him from driving off with the truck and leaving me stuck with the bills after the funeral.
I lived with 12 guys in a five-bedroom Victorian house when I was in college. Rent was cheap at $200 per person. But everyone had to pay $500 in unclaimed long distance phone calls every month. It worked out quite well until the city decided that three garbage cans per household was enough when we put seven trash cans. No one wanted to pay for dumpster service. We had 300+ people at our moving out party. Good times!
Silicon Valley is not a geographical description. It is a nickname for an area in California.
When Silicon Valley was still a bedroom community to San Francisco, orchards kept the canneries running, and every store had a fish-and-game department, it was known as the Valley of Heart's Delight.
Silicon Valley is bounded by the Sierra Nevada mountains on the West Side.
Uh, no. The Santa Cruz (green) mountains are on the west side. The Central Valley (yellow) mountains on the east side.
The super wealthy get to build their rach houses there, then object to developers building tract home subdivisions
You may be thinking of the Central Valley. Silicon Valley is quite different. The super wealthy build their homes up in the hills. But there is very little open space left on the valley floor for tract housing. Mixed developments with stores on the ground floor and four stories of apartments/condos along the major public transit routes are more common.
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And yet, it's Hillary's cronies who are picking a fight with Russia right now in order to attempt to embarrass Trump (and deflect attention from themselves)...
As a moderate conservative raised in the Cold War, I'm very alarmed by Trump being in bed with the Russians and the Republican Party looking the other way.
We had 21.5 million Federal employment and personnel files hacked (including SSNs, and other personal information), just back in early 2015.
Tell me about it. The Chinese has my background investigative file for my security clearance.
[...] and the President wants to take us to war.
Kicking out spies was done on a routine basis during the Cold War. That's not an act of war. If it was, nuclear winter would be a bigger concern than global warming.
They'd love to create a constitutional crisis and embroil Trump et al. in a world class scandal.
Trump et al will put the Nixon and Reagan administrations to shame when it comes to controversy, scandals and prison terms.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2016/12/donald-trump-corruptible-214541
A bunch of political fake news garbage that suckers like you want to lap up.
Sorry, I don't watch Fox News.
BTW, I think it speak volumes that you cannot find other work-related things to do while waiting for your scripts to run.
I'm involved in an all day chat group while running scripts, responding to tickets and commenting on Slashdot. If someone needs my assistance, I'm immediately available. I'm the top performer in my department.
Something else for my boom stick to shoot at.
All those countries HE spied on, and tried to influence national elections within.
Everyone spies on everyone.
After all, if he's so upset about rumored Russian involvement (and it is rumored - not a single shred of evidence yet, and the people who leaked the actual stuff, Wikileaks, state unequivocally it wasn't the Russians) then he should get on his knees and crawl across Europe asking for forgiveness from Merkel et al.
Funny. The Germans are worried that Russia — not Obama — will interfere with their elections.
http://fortune.com/2016/11/16/germany-russia-elections/
Citing Russian IP addresses as proof is the opposite of proof; it means the only "evidence" they actually have is worthless.
You're assuming that's the only evidence the administration has. Since the FBI called the DNC when the attacks started, it would imply a higher level of awareness as to what was happening at the time.
Your sarcasm doesn't erase the fact that you immediately twisted my statement into a "Obama lovers vs. Trump lovers" type of statement.
That your interpretation, not mine.
That you and others of your type think you're being smug and insightful, but that everything you spew out is about hatred, polarized viewpoints, and about bullying those who you don't see eye to eye with.
I'm going to assert my opinion. You don't like it isn't my concern. If you feel like I'm bullying you, you need professional help.
I looked at your post history.
Then you know that I love trolling the trolls on Slashdot to keep me amuse while waiting for a script to finish at work.
You continue to prove my point with every response.
That's because you're closed minded. Nothing I post will change your mind. But I do appreciate your attempts to me amuse.
I haven't looked at my Twitter feed in years. When I did recently, I was shocked to discover I'm following a ton of porn bots. I spent a few hours removing those.
I little ironic, posting a cybersecurity article on a wordpress site.
WordPress is used for 25% of the websites on the Internet.
Tempted to go edit that, to say something else.
It's not Wikipedia.
You will all get to acceptance eventually.
On January 6, 2017, when the last step of the process is completed. Assuming, of course, it doesn't get thrown into the House of Representative. If that happens, the fun begins.
Don't make any important life decisions in the meantime.
I'm stuffing my mattress with cash. After eight years of slow growth, the economy is overdue for a recession.
Like I said to MoJo: it's been time enough - you should really be past Denial and in Anger by now.
Not until the process is over. Then, and only then, will we know for certainty who the next POTUS.
If you or I get hacked, and our computers are held for ransom, the FBI acts like, "Meh. We don't know who did it. Just pay the ransom."
IP addresses in the logs will indicate the origin of the attacks. Most hacking attempts originate from Eastern Europe, Russia and Southeast Asia. I had personal website that got 4,000+ hacking attempts per day. After I switched to a static website that doesn't use PHP and MySQL, the hackers went away.
But if the DNC gets hacked, suddenly we know exactly who did it, and we're expelling diplomats and what not.
The FBI called the DNC when the attacks started but the IT person thought it was a hoax.
It's been time enough - you should really be past Denial and in Anger by now.
The election isn't over yet. Congress has to finalize the results on January 6, 2017. Although slim to none, the results could be challenged and the outcome thrown to the House of Representatives.
Another child posts.
Another AC talks out of his ass. How tiresome.
Provide some proof.
Trump consistently playing the down Russian interfering, defending Russia against Obama and praising Putin at every opportunity. Most Trump's appointees have some kind of relationship with Russia. Trump's casual disregard for every rule put into place to prevent another Watergate scandal 40 years ago. If the Russian connections weren't bad enough, the Nixon connections might be scarier.
I wonder what sort of actions they're going to take against Democrat campaign staffers for having such terrible email security practices?
I'm curious about that too since I work InfoSec. The Transcender blog summarizied the problems that the DNC IT person had: he ignored the FBI phone calls as a hoax, told staff to change passwords using the link from a phishing email, and had no InfoSec training whatsoever. Just mind boggling.
https://transcender.wordpress.com/2016/12/23/politihack-or-how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-about-russians-influencing-the-us-election-and-learned-to-love-cybersecurity/
aren't I witty for using his middle name?
Trump is no Ronald Wilson Reagan (666) either.
Your hatred is all over that statement.
If I have hated you, I wouldn't have felt sorry for you.
Thank you for proving my point!
What point would that be?
The parallels between Trump's Friends of Putin Club and Hitler's pre-WWII Germany are great and very disturbing.
FTFY
Yet the extremely ignorant and uneducated left insist and saying, "literally Hitler" when speaking about Trump.
As a college-educated moderate conservative, I can reassure that Trump is clear and present danger to the U.S. Constitution and the country. Sticking your hand up your ass isn't going to change that.
You never felt hope after Obama pulled the economy out of another Great Depression that, like the Great Depression in 1930's, resulted from failed Republican policies? I feel sorry for you.
Shovel ready never happened as Obama admitted...
The stimulus was too small, it should have been two to three times bigger. States were allowed to use the money for other things than "shovel ready" jobs.
(2) Living in an RV is not what I consider homeless.
After my mother passed away from breast cancer, my father sold everything and bought a trailer home for $10,000. His lot rent with utilities was $400 per month. He lived there for eight years before passing away. I had no problems with his modest lifestyle and the quirky neighbors he had in the trailer park. My older brother was embarrassed that our "poor" father lived in a trailer home. That didn't stop him from driving off with the truck and leaving me stuck with the bills after the funeral.
I was homeless when I went to college.
I lived with 12 guys in a five-bedroom Victorian house when I was in college. Rent was cheap at $200 per person. But everyone had to pay $500 in unclaimed long distance phone calls every month. It worked out quite well until the city decided that three garbage cans per household was enough when we put seven trash cans. No one wanted to pay for dumpster service. We had 300+ people at our moving out party. Good times!
Silicon Valley is not a geographical description. It is a nickname for an area in California.
When Silicon Valley was still a bedroom community to San Francisco, orchards kept the canneries running, and every store had a fish-and-game department, it was known as the Valley of Heart's Delight.
Silicon Valley is bounded by the Sierra Nevada mountains on the West Side.
Uh, no. The Santa Cruz (green) mountains are on the west side. The Central Valley (yellow) mountains on the east side.
The super wealthy get to build their rach houses there, then object to developers building tract home subdivisions
You may be thinking of the Central Valley. Silicon Valley is quite different. The super wealthy build their homes up in the hills. But there is very little open space left on the valley floor for tract housing. Mixed developments with stores on the ground floor and four stories of apartments/condos along the major public transit routes are more common.