I read a lot. I read on a large number of topics. I'm constantly reading. I never stop, in a practical sense.
I do read books. I'm now reading The Smear by Sharyl Attiksson. I just don't have the time to dedicate to reading a set or large number of books every month.
It is nothing but an uninformed doj, an uneducated doj, an ignorant doj that is pushing this dangerous agenda.
When the doj outlaws certain levels of encryption, which is what this will disintegrate into, this will both put everyone at risk (no one can truthfully say otherwise) as well as drive criminals to use encryption outside of the control of the manufacturer.
They will begin regulating our computer operating systems while all along the criminals will just use software tailored to bypass the government regulation.
Again, someone with mod points seems to be showing their agenda. Remember, mod points are for promoting good points. Modding down just highlights you and those you are modding against.
No matter how you look at it he's right. The amount that we'd reduce the temperature by is only a fraction of a degree and that's through continued effort for 80+ years.
The US, through renewable energies, has pretty much already met the goals that they would have agreed to with the accord. The only thing lacking is the money that the US would be paying other countries.
That's bogus logic. If Trump was that bad the US would be nosediving.
Maybe the politicians and the religious aspect of politics sets others off, sometimes radically (now moreso than in the past), but it doesn't justify saying that pissing off the establishment and their supporters is a bad thing.
Frankly, aside from pissing off the establishment and their supporters I don't see him doing much wrong. He's not presidential? So be it. He pisses off his party and the democrats? So be it. The American people hired him to drain the swamp. That's going to piss a lot of people off.
Don't give me that shit about racism or treason or whatever. I've followed this from before the primaries. Trump wasn't a racist nor was he treasonous before the election and he isn't now. It is clear that the establishment (including the media) is attempting to run the presidency through extortion (ala, play ball or we'll impeach you).
The President can negotiate a treaty but he can't ratify it. Only congress can. Obama just avoided congress by calling it an accord, and then committed the US to billions a year in support of it.
What he is saying is 100% true and hence he should not be marked as a troll.
I think what people dislike is the part of his comment about fact fracking is benefiting us. It is. That's undeniable. However fracking causes other side effects, some of which are undeniably bad.
I would disagree. The honorable thing is to keep Americans from being put in an unfair position. Trump tried to renegotiate but that attempt was rejected. We'd likely be a participant had they agreed to renegotiate.
Syria's commitment, though is momentarily noteworthy, is really just a matter of paperwork. They will monetarily benefit from the accord more than their commitment to reducing climate change.
Trump didn't deny climate change as these media outlets would have you believe, not as it relates to the climate accord. He simply reversed the Obama era commitment to pay billions of US tax dollars unless the powers that be agreed to a renegotiation. They rejected it.
Obama ran an end run around congress and committed the US to billions every year. I read numerous articles talking about congresses' dissatisfaction to Obama committing the US to the accord without their consent. They were even looking for a way to defund the program.
In the end, China (a country that pollutes twice as much as the US) is allowed to continue to 2050 and will receive money from the fund. India, which is also heavily polluting will also be allowed to continue and even increase their pollution while still receiving payment from the fund. The US is responsible for only a few percentage points more in pollution than the EU, yet the US would have to carry the largest burden. According to numerous sources the US has already met the goals set forth in the accord through renewable energies.
Some even considered the fund to be a massive wealth distribution program coming at the expense of the American taxpayer.
Nothing is keeping the other countries from stepping up their commitment in order to meet the shortfall cause by the US pulling out.
Or they can feign ignorance and claim X did it just to get into X entity's systems.
Let's not forget that when these entities are hacked it is because they had no one paying attention to the vulnerabilities which resulted in their failure to apply patches.
Corporations need to hire someone that acts as a security officer that reviews and implements patches.
They should be required to follow the law as any individual would be required. The last thing we need is for businesses to be above the law or rather to have laws applied differently to businesses than they are to individuals. If businesses can hit back then individuals suffering attacks should be able to hit back too.
I'm not using a hosts.txt file. The pihole uses dnsmasq's features.
It is a nice implementation of ad blocking and tracking. It provides far more than just blocking sites with a hosts.txt file. Your raspberry pi is turned into a dns server. It also analyzes the log file and then shows you which sites are being accessed.
It is a similar implementation to the features of the pfsense pfblockerng.
I run the pihole software on an early raspberry pi.
This allowed me to watch dns activity. With what I saw, which was the tv constantly accessing certain addresses, I blocked those addresses with the blacklist feature of the pihole.
This allows me to use things like netflix, etc while keeping the data collection to a minimum. This allows me to get updates to the tv's firmware while terminating the tracking and spying on my daily activity.
The pihole can be used for a lot of other reasons too.
I don't believe it was a human error for a moment, simply because it is unrealistic that any Twitter employee would even remotely be looking at President Trump's data. What are the damn odds that this was just done inadvertently? Twitter does have a political bias itself, so I don't doubt that a cover up (however minor it is) is going to occur.
That employee had no business being there at all.
That employee likely should be fired. This isn't some employee curious and hit the wrong button on some celebrity that she was interested in. This is someone that deleted the account of the President because of her political agenda and/or she wanted to be a footnote in history.
I'm saying she because we so often just assume it was a "he" so it is only equal to assume "she" now. You don't have to be a "he" to be dangerous in today's world.
For decades the music and video industry has claimed that copyright violations are costing them untold millions in sales. This has never been proven. There's no proof that a person copying a song or a video would have purchased anything.
A recent report that the industries hid said that copyright violation had no impact on the industries in question.
Please stop repeating what the industry is parroting.
First, there's no such thing as artificial intelligence, not in the true sense of the word "intelligence". The machines are just good at interpretive and predective logic. AI's definition was changed. In the true sense AI means artificial and intelligent. Artificial is true, but intelligence is missing.
Second, why are Universities calling these guys scientists? They are just a specialization in the field of comp-sci. Technically you could call them scientists, but you'd need to call anyone graduating with a comp-sci degree a scientist.
Third, they can't compete? You mean they spend so much money on other areas, such as their education of the students, that they can't afford to pay the high prices? Or is it that the students that they are taking advantage of are leaving for private business?
So 100,000 dollars nets you 120 million influnces. Facebook is going to sell a lot more ads in the near future. I didn't see the ads as I dumped Facebook during the primaries due to what I perceived as inherent bias on the part of Facebook itself.
I had no likes, entered no work or education history, rarely followed anyone but tech pages, and I was being inundated with pro Hillary and anti-Trump rhetoric.
District Court Judge Posner ruled that streaming copyrighted material isn't a copyright violation, it is no more a copyright violation than sneaking I to a theater. He said it may be something else, but it is not a copyright violation.
Primarily I use it to view YouTube videos. Using the Firefox addin called "send to kodi" I can load a YouTube page in Firefox and then send the video to kodi. In conjunction with my tablet I can fine tune my viewing experience.
There's an enormous amount of legitimate freely accessible content that using kodi to view is perfect.
According to the US Supreme Court if the device has a legitimate use then it isn't illegal. Wired knows this. It is fraudulent of Wired to misreprent how people are using the kodi software by implying it has no legit use.
A VPN to your own home shouldn't have a cost except the internet bill and the costs such as the equipment and the time to set it up, but you'd have those costs anyway.
Openvpn running on your router should do the job, if you have a router capable of running it. It's not that hard to set up pfsense with openvpn, or even swap the firmware in a retail router.
No, need for a paid VPN service, unless you don't have ownership of the exit point.
Basically protection of your privacy is the main reason for a VPN. Protecting that is more than VPN use, unless he uses it wisely and thoroughly. What I mean by thoroughly is to ensure you have the tools to stop the tracking and the advertising whether you are on the vpn or not. One cheap tool is pihole. With pihole, pfsense, and a VPN you can essentially stop all that shit in its tracks.
He needs to do it now. Now is when he saves privacy. Now is when he stops the advertisers and all those trackers from building a profile. Now is when he makes the data they collect inconsistent and thus less valuable to them. Using a VPN is part of that.
I don't like using the word "hide". Instead I say protect and guard. He should be protecting his privacy now and guard the value of his property.
It is always best to not give into to the invasions of entities that just want to use you to make money.
Actually it is just more conspiracy on their part, so your claim that they are just rubblizing other conspiracies is just more conspiracy. All they are doing is using their podium to push their narrative in a way others can't challenge.
What we want are facts, even if that results in boring news.
Prior to Edward Snowden all talk about government mass surveillance was conspiracy. Now we know the government used the "you're a conspiracy nut" tactic to delegitimize anyone questioning them.
The mainstream media has been promoting the unproven conspiracy that Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the election.
We had hollywood elites claiming that "the hacking of 21 election agencies" allegedly hacked by the Russians, was enough to prove to us US citizens as it was enough to prove to the likes of Rob Reiner (a founder of the investigaterussia.com) to claim that with that new evidence they can successfully invalidate the 2016 election and place Hillary Clinton into the presidency where she belongs, only to have that story fall apart days later in stories by the not so mainstream media.
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I read a lot. I read on a large number of topics. I'm constantly reading. I never stop, in a practical sense.
I do read books. I'm now reading The Smear by Sharyl Attiksson. I just don't have the time to dedicate to reading a set or large number of books every month.
We are not talking about a house. Only ignorance would allow people like this to make that corollary.
Breaking encryption with backdoors or weakened technology puts everyone at risk all at once.
Criminals don't follow laws so no amount of regulation will change that.
It is nothing but an uninformed doj, an uneducated doj, an ignorant doj that is pushing this dangerous agenda.
When the doj outlaws certain levels of encryption, which is what this will disintegrate into, this will both put everyone at risk (no one can truthfully say otherwise) as well as drive criminals to use encryption outside of the control of the manufacturer.
They will begin regulating our computer operating systems while all along the criminals will just use software tailored to bypass the government regulation.
Most apps are programmed for the 140 characters. I'm pretty sure most people, for the time being, will be tweeting at the 140 characters.
Again, someone with mod points seems to be showing their agenda. Remember, mod points are for promoting good points. Modding down just highlights you and those you are modding against.
No matter how you look at it he's right. The amount that we'd reduce the temperature by is only a fraction of a degree and that's through continued effort for 80+ years.
The US, through renewable energies, has pretty much already met the goals that they would have agreed to with the accord. The only thing lacking is the money that the US would be paying other countries.
That's bogus logic. If Trump was that bad the US would be nosediving.
Maybe the politicians and the religious aspect of politics sets others off, sometimes radically (now moreso than in the past), but it doesn't justify saying that pissing off the establishment and their supporters is a bad thing.
Frankly, aside from pissing off the establishment and their supporters I don't see him doing much wrong. He's not presidential? So be it. He pisses off his party and the democrats? So be it. The American people hired him to drain the swamp. That's going to piss a lot of people off.
Don't give me that shit about racism or treason or whatever. I've followed this from before the primaries. Trump wasn't a racist nor was he treasonous before the election and he isn't now. It is clear that the establishment (including the media) is attempting to run the presidency through extortion (ala, play ball or we'll impeach you).
The President can negotiate a treaty but he can't ratify it. Only congress can. Obama just avoided congress by calling it an accord, and then committed the US to billions a year in support of it.
What he is saying is 100% true and hence he should not be marked as a troll.
I think what people dislike is the part of his comment about fact fracking is benefiting us. It is. That's undeniable. However fracking causes other side effects, some of which are undeniably bad.
I would disagree. The honorable thing is to keep Americans from being put in an unfair position. Trump tried to renegotiate but that attempt was rejected. We'd likely be a participant had they agreed to renegotiate.
Syria's commitment, though is momentarily noteworthy, is really just a matter of paperwork. They will monetarily benefit from the accord more than their commitment to reducing climate change.
Trump didn't deny climate change as these media outlets would have you believe, not as it relates to the climate accord. He simply reversed the Obama era commitment to pay billions of US tax dollars unless the powers that be agreed to a renegotiation. They rejected it.
Obama ran an end run around congress and committed the US to billions every year. I read numerous articles talking about congresses' dissatisfaction to Obama committing the US to the accord without their consent. They were even looking for a way to defund the program.
https://www.washingtontimes.co...?
In the end, China (a country that pollutes twice as much as the US) is allowed to continue to 2050 and will receive money from the fund. India, which is also heavily polluting will also be allowed to continue and even increase their pollution while still receiving payment from the fund. The US is responsible for only a few percentage points more in pollution than the EU, yet the US would have to carry the largest burden. According to numerous sources the US has already met the goals set forth in the accord through renewable energies.
Some even considered the fund to be a massive wealth distribution program coming at the expense of the American taxpayer.
Nothing is keeping the other countries from stepping up their commitment in order to meet the shortfall cause by the US pulling out.
Or they can feign ignorance and claim X did it just to get into X entity's systems.
Let's not forget that when these entities are hacked it is because they had no one paying attention to the vulnerabilities which resulted in their failure to apply patches.
Corporations need to hire someone that acts as a security officer that reviews and implements patches.
They should be required to follow the law as any individual would be required. The last thing we need is for businesses to be above the law or rather to have laws applied differently to businesses than they are to individuals. If businesses can hit back then individuals suffering attacks should be able to hit back too.
I'm not using a hosts.txt file. The pihole uses dnsmasq's features.
It is a nice implementation of ad blocking and tracking. It provides far more than just blocking sites with a hosts.txt file. Your raspberry pi is turned into a dns server. It also analyzes the log file and then shows you which sites are being accessed.
It is a similar implementation to the features of the pfsense pfblockerng.
I'm not saying a massive jump, but certainly not immeasurable by any means. It grows every day.
I run the pihole software on an early raspberry pi.
This allowed me to watch dns activity. With what I saw, which was the tv constantly accessing certain addresses, I blocked those addresses with the blacklist feature of the pihole.
This allows me to use things like netflix, etc while keeping the data collection to a minimum. This allows me to get updates to the tv's firmware while terminating the tracking and spying on my daily activity.
The pihole can be used for a lot of other reasons too.
I don't believe it was a human error for a moment, simply because it is unrealistic that any Twitter employee would even remotely be looking at President Trump's data. What are the damn odds that this was just done inadvertently? Twitter does have a political bias itself, so I don't doubt that a cover up (however minor it is) is going to occur.
That employee had no business being there at all.
That employee likely should be fired. This isn't some employee curious and hit the wrong button on some celebrity that she was interested in. This is someone that deleted the account of the President because of her political agenda and/or she wanted to be a footnote in history.
I'm saying she because we so often just assume it was a "he" so it is only equal to assume "she" now. You don't have to be a "he" to be dangerous in today's world.
For decades the music and video industry has claimed that copyright violations are costing them untold millions in sales. This has never been proven. There's no proof that a person copying a song or a video would have purchased anything.
A recent report that the industries hid said that copyright violation had no impact on the industries in question.
Please stop repeating what the industry is parroting.
First, there's no such thing as artificial intelligence, not in the true sense of the word "intelligence". The machines are just good at interpretive and predective logic. AI's definition was changed. In the true sense AI means artificial and intelligent. Artificial is true, but intelligence is missing.
Second, why are Universities calling these guys scientists? They are just a specialization in the field of comp-sci. Technically you could call them scientists, but you'd need to call anyone graduating with a comp-sci degree a scientist.
Third, they can't compete? You mean they spend so much money on other areas, such as their education of the students, that they can't afford to pay the high prices? Or is it that the students that they are taking advantage of are leaving for private business?
Also extremely biased.
So 100,000 dollars nets you 120 million influnces. Facebook is going to sell a lot more ads in the near future. I didn't see the ads as I dumped Facebook during the primaries due to what I perceived as inherent bias on the part of Facebook itself.
I had no likes, entered no work or education history, rarely followed anyone but tech pages, and I was being inundated with pro Hillary and anti-Trump rhetoric.
District Court Judge Posner ruled that streaming copyrighted material isn't a copyright violation, it is no more a copyright violation than sneaking I to a theater. He said it may be something else, but it is not a copyright violation.
Read all of the linked article:
https://www.techdirt.com/artic...
Primarily I use it to view YouTube videos. Using the Firefox addin called "send to kodi" I can load a YouTube page in Firefox and then send the video to kodi. In conjunction with my tablet I can fine tune my viewing experience.
There's an enormous amount of legitimate freely accessible content that using kodi to view is perfect.
According to the US Supreme Court if the device has a legitimate use then it isn't illegal. Wired knows this. It is fraudulent of Wired to misreprent how people are using the kodi software by implying it has no legit use.
Kodi did nothing of the sort. That's like saying VCRs took over piracy. Kodi is a tool.
Why is wired misrepresenting this? The general public likely doesn't understand the nuance here.
A VPN to your own home shouldn't have a cost except the internet bill and the costs such as the equipment and the time to set it up, but you'd have those costs anyway.
Openvpn running on your router should do the job, if you have a router capable of running it. It's not that hard to set up pfsense with openvpn, or even swap the firmware in a retail router.
No, need for a paid VPN service, unless you don't have ownership of the exit point.
Basically protection of your privacy is the main reason for a VPN. Protecting that is more than VPN use, unless he uses it wisely and thoroughly. What I mean by thoroughly is to ensure you have the tools to stop the tracking and the advertising whether you are on the vpn or not. One cheap tool is pihole. With pihole, pfsense, and a VPN you can essentially stop all that shit in its tracks.
He needs to do it now. Now is when he saves privacy. Now is when he stops the advertisers and all those trackers from building a profile. Now is when he makes the data they collect inconsistent and thus less valuable to them. Using a VPN is part of that.
I don't like using the word "hide". Instead I say protect and guard. He should be protecting his privacy now and guard the value of his property.
It is always best to not give into to the invasions of entities that just want to use you to make money.
Actually it is just more conspiracy on their part, so your claim that they are just rubblizing other conspiracies is just more conspiracy. All they are doing is using their podium to push their narrative in a way others can't challenge.
What we want are facts, even if that results in boring news.
Prior to Edward Snowden all talk about government mass surveillance was conspiracy. Now we know the government used the "you're a conspiracy nut" tactic to delegitimize anyone questioning them.
The mainstream media has been promoting the unproven conspiracy that Trump colluded with the Russians to steal the election.
We had hollywood elites claiming that "the hacking of 21 election agencies" allegedly hacked by the Russians, was enough to prove to us US citizens as it was enough to prove to the likes of Rob Reiner (a founder of the investigaterussia.com) to claim that with that new evidence they can successfully invalidate the 2016 election and place Hillary Clinton into the presidency where she belongs, only to have that story fall apart days later in stories by the not so mainstream media.