As we all know, the NSA metadata, combined with their other data collection methodology, easily allows them to track all interactions by people at gun shows and gun stores, based on your cell location and interfaced with video feeds.
According to other news stories, PRISM is the name of the analysis side and the collection/wiretap side, which is presumably much more expensive, is called BLARNEY. You can't assume that the slides are indicating the entire costs of the entire NSA dragnet system.
Additionally, we're only talking the NSA component. The FBI and the other TLD mil-side agencies have their own programs, which are not included. But they do share data.
It's too late, the local Seattle paper The Stranger is already using drones in public, under both the First Amendment (free press) and Second Amendment (Right To Bear Drones).
Wake up and smell the privacy-disabled future!
(caveat - Canadians have privacy rights, and technically the Washington State Constitution has strong privacy rights - but there are still drones)
"usually evolutionarily conserved fallback from when you were a fish or ratlike creature - kicks in."
There is no reason to believe that natural selection will preserve unused gens so long. Random mutation would have likely destroyed the genes a long time ago without any selective pressure to preserve them. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that we all share a common ancestor. I know these views are unpopular around here but it doesn't make them any less valid.
Oh, silly silly anti-evolutionist. Tell that to your fuel-producing mitochondrial DNA that we stole millions of years ago and inherit from our mothers.
Oh, wait. If that fails, your brain won't have the energy to talk.
I beg to differ with the "conclusion" that most DNA is "junk" DNA.
As we learn how DNA is used to create RNA, mRNA, siRNA, miRNA, circRNA, microRNA, etc - by folding, spindling, adapting to environmental messages and signals, we find that a lot of what you think is "junk" DNA is in fact... NOT.
Some is, of course, but the conclusion is... WRONG. Most of the actual junk is actually viral rewrites (true junk), but a lot of the other stuff is boostrap shifted code designed to handle various conditions that may or may not be present.
For example, if you take a drug that shuts down a primary biochemical pathway, the cells turn on a second biochemical pathway - which may or may not be optimized. If the secondary biochemical pathway is shut down by drugs or damage, a tertiary - conserved, usually evolutionarily conserved fallback from when you were a fish or ratlike creature - kicks in.
You think it's junk. It's just code that turns on when you mess with the program or force certain conditions to occur.
Seriously, all the people that came back into WOW really don't care about raids.
LFR, etc just bore the tears out of us.
What was missing was some major auto quest line for Pandas after they got back to Ogrimmar and Stormwind - stuff for us to do that wasn't same old same old.
I can't tell you how many accounts I have with pandas just sitting in their 20s and 30s doing nothing because it is boring to level them up to 85 just so I can get back to Pandaria so I can have fun again.
Give us a Monk Meditation Montage storyline that lets us have some fun after we leave the turtle until we return.
Yes, I know, all you hardcore WOW people are gung ho for raids, but the rest of us just don't care. At all.
The black side of our government already has this, we just don't admit it in public, just like we don't (usually) admit we record all Internet and phone (land, sea, air, cell) and Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest data we have on you.
Pinterest is the most interesting, as we're looking for embedded messages from in-country terrorists stored in images.
They're talking about added funding from outside the UW and WSU for additional positions.
Which, to be frank, we've heard lots of promises about added faculty and added undergrad positions, but this is the first real addition I've seen that wasn't just a promise but was funded.
Again, nobody said we told you which ones they are, or how we 'read' their signals.
Pretty much, though, you're wasting your time. The exposure period where you could hack them is fairly short and random and it's not like they are complicated devices. We don't tend to do massive ops, if you look historically, except against nation states for brief early periods. You'd have to know when and where and why and how - and if you knew that, we most likely would have lost a long time ago.
It took decades before people even knew about some of the systems from the 80s and you only now found out about the NSA listening shack after it was decommissioned. So, good luck with that.
You assume we use the same satellites you use. Most circuitry uses a wider bandwidth, and error correction protocols for authentication which we don't tell you about. We are just not jamming (adding in a fuzzy offset) the original source signal as we used to, but we do use other signals to authenticate that they are the correct ones, and we usually get at least 5 signals, not the 3 you use, to target. If one goes off, we ignore it.
More worrying, what about instead of taking out satellites and drone control towers, an enemy takes over them with a virus.
Sure the average foot soldier might not use or encounter very many networked devices. But what if the guidance system in every smart bomb was redirected back at our own troops, ever Predator drone was reprogrammed to search and destroy all humans.
Nice fiction. Actually, what you think of as smart bombs are actually very cheap bombs that just have a cheap add on to improve targetting.
They still drop and explode. It's called gravity. And that's what sets them off - contact with the ground.
To disable the stealth bomber, you'd have to get thru the shielding, and if the bomb loses GPS it keeps on last known trajectory.
I tried to warn people that this wasn't like their usual 8-12 hour devices, and that they had to trade off battery weight for comfort.
Seriously, if we could use wearable clothing that would power this, or even a solar cap with battery units woven in, we might be able to make it "wearable tech".
We're not quite there. Energy has to come from somewhere, and video really burns up watt hours.
The other way to go is hipster retro sunglasses, Mad Men bulky style, and use the stems plus the ear hooks to store battery power.
The military versions are way cool, but they make soldiers carry a lot of weight already.
Actually, women don't perform any better than men at multitasking. Within both sexes, about 2-5% can really multitask, and everyone else basicly sucks at it. It's just that somehow upbringing and social roles allow women to still try multitasking and be content with the less-than-average productivity and quality.
I think the commenter is confusing the correct sentence: Women have more lifetime experience in multitasking with multiple conflicting voice inputs
With the incorrect sentence: Women can multitask safely.
Multitasking doesn't work. Women are just better at handling it, due to constant lifelong experience. But it does impact their driving skills.
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As we all know, the NSA metadata, combined with their other data collection methodology, easily allows them to track all interactions by people at gun shows and gun stores, based on your cell location and interfaced with video feeds.
What second amendment?
Have to agree with you there.
But you assume there's only one set of doors.
No matter what illegal laws or treaties that PM Harper signed, Canadians have a specific right of privacy spelled out in the Canadian Constitution.
Which makes these actions illegal no matter what justifications were given.
Yeah! I'll move to a mail service in the UK! The government *never* spies on you in Britain!
In news today, it was admitted the UK government processes information that the NSA and FBI are not allowed to process and vice versa.
STASI had beating chambers and used coercion as well though.
And GITMO is?
According to other news stories, PRISM is the name of the analysis side and the collection/wiretap side, which is presumably much more expensive, is called BLARNEY. You can't assume that the slides are indicating the entire costs of the entire NSA dragnet system.
Additionally, we're only talking the NSA component. The FBI and the other TLD mil-side agencies have their own programs, which are not included. But they do share data.
Just pop a few of those employers in jail for a couple of decades and your rate of compliance will change overnight.
It's too late, the local Seattle paper The Stranger is already using drones in public, under both the First Amendment (free press) and Second Amendment (Right To Bear Drones).
Wake up and smell the privacy-disabled future!
(caveat - Canadians have privacy rights, and technically the Washington State Constitution has strong privacy rights - but there are still drones)
I think you're trying to write something in another language.
Please check English in your browser for posting, and hit the refresh key.
Thanks!
"usually evolutionarily conserved fallback from when you were a fish or ratlike creature - kicks in."
There is no reason to believe that natural selection will preserve unused gens so long. Random mutation would have likely destroyed the genes a long time ago without any selective pressure to preserve them. There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that we all share a common ancestor. I know these views are unpopular around here but it doesn't make them any less valid.
Oh, silly silly anti-evolutionist. Tell that to your fuel-producing mitochondrial DNA that we stole millions of years ago and inherit from our mothers.
Oh, wait. If that fails, your brain won't have the energy to talk.
(dang - sorry, meant bootstrap not boostrap)
I beg to differ with the "conclusion" that most DNA is "junk" DNA.
As we learn how DNA is used to create RNA, mRNA, siRNA, miRNA, circRNA, microRNA, etc - by folding, spindling, adapting to environmental messages and signals, we find that a lot of what you think is "junk" DNA is in fact ... NOT.
Some is, of course, but the conclusion is ... WRONG. Most of the actual junk is actually viral rewrites (true junk), but a lot of the other stuff is boostrap shifted code designed to handle various conditions that may or may not be present.
For example, if you take a drug that shuts down a primary biochemical pathway, the cells turn on a second biochemical pathway - which may or may not be optimized. If the secondary biochemical pathway is shut down by drugs or damage, a tertiary - conserved, usually evolutionarily conserved fallback from when you were a fish or ratlike creature - kicks in.
You think it's junk. It's just code that turns on when you mess with the program or force certain conditions to occur.
What most people don't want to admit is that only 30 percent of engineering students end up finishing with a degree in Engineering.
Obviously, many switch to other programs and finish those degrees, but these are not easy courses, for the most part.
(not just here, nationwide)
Seriously, all the people that came back into WOW really don't care about raids.
LFR, etc just bore the tears out of us.
What was missing was some major auto quest line for Pandas after they got back to Ogrimmar and Stormwind - stuff for us to do that wasn't same old same old.
I can't tell you how many accounts I have with pandas just sitting in their 20s and 30s doing nothing because it is boring to level them up to 85 just so I can get back to Pandaria so I can have fun again.
Give us a Monk Meditation Montage storyline that lets us have some fun after we leave the turtle until we return.
Yes, I know, all you hardcore WOW people are gung ho for raids, but the rest of us just don't care. At all.
I don't see why there is such a fuss.
The black side of our government already has this, we just don't admit it in public, just like we don't (usually) admit we record all Internet and phone (land, sea, air, cell) and Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest data we have on you.
Pinterest is the most interesting, as we're looking for embedded messages from in-country terrorists stored in images.
I mean, seriously?
They're talking about added funding from outside the UW and WSU for additional positions.
Which, to be frank, we've heard lots of promises about added faculty and added undergrad positions, but this is the first real addition I've seen that wasn't just a promise but was funded.
Glad they're doing it.
Again, nobody said we told you which ones they are, or how we 'read' their signals.
Pretty much, though, you're wasting your time. The exposure period where you could hack them is fairly short and random and it's not like they are complicated devices. We don't tend to do massive ops, if you look historically, except against nation states for brief early periods. You'd have to know when and where and why and how - and if you knew that, we most likely would have lost a long time ago.
It took decades before people even knew about some of the systems from the 80s and you only now found out about the NSA listening shack after it was decommissioned. So, good luck with that.
You assume we use the same satellites you use. Most circuitry uses a wider bandwidth, and error correction protocols for authentication which we don't tell you about. We are just not jamming (adding in a fuzzy offset) the original source signal as we used to, but we do use other signals to authenticate that they are the correct ones, and we usually get at least 5 signals, not the 3 you use, to target. If one goes off, we ignore it.
(caveat - that I will admit in public, that is)
More worrying, what about instead of taking out satellites and drone control towers, an enemy takes over them with a virus.
Sure the average foot soldier might not use or encounter very many networked devices. But what if the guidance system in every smart bomb was redirected back at our own troops, ever Predator drone was reprogrammed to search and destroy all humans.
Nice fiction. Actually, what you think of as smart bombs are actually very cheap bombs that just have a cheap add on to improve targetting.
They still drop and explode. It's called gravity. And that's what sets them off - contact with the ground.
To disable the stealth bomber, you'd have to get thru the shielding, and if the bomb loses GPS it keeps on last known trajectory.
(based on my old Boeing mil side work)
Oh be quiet grandpa.
Only old fogies use tech that has a battery life of under 5 hours during normal use.
Ha ha, Slashdot.
Trying to trick us by pretending there was something called Blackberry.
Nice try.
Oh, just had another thought. Anyone remember Star Wars and the City in the Clouds?
That form size would have enough battery life.
I tried to warn people that this wasn't like their usual 8-12 hour devices, and that they had to trade off battery weight for comfort.
Seriously, if we could use wearable clothing that would power this, or even a solar cap with battery units woven in, we might be able to make it "wearable tech".
We're not quite there. Energy has to come from somewhere, and video really burns up watt hours.
The other way to go is hipster retro sunglasses, Mad Men bulky style, and use the stems plus the ear hooks to store battery power.
The military versions are way cool, but they make soldiers carry a lot of weight already.
Actually, women don't perform any better than men at multitasking. Within both sexes, about 2-5% can really multitask, and everyone else basicly sucks at it. It's just that somehow upbringing and social roles allow women to still try multitasking and be content with the less-than-average productivity and quality.
I think the commenter is confusing the correct sentence: Women have more lifetime experience in multitasking with multiple conflicting voice inputs
With the incorrect sentence: Women can multitask safely.
Multitasking doesn't work. Women are just better at handling it, due to constant lifelong experience. But it does impact their driving skills.