Doubt any civilian has the means to stop them. Most real authority comes from the barrel of a gun. And even though the USA is almost totally made their once respected police officers into para-military goons, with balaclavas, blacked out badges and no name tags, armed with fully automatic weapons in many cases, with an arsenal of armored vehicles, grenades, sniper teams and trained tactical response units, they still are not the match of a average military combat unit. The police still get a minor amount of instruction and training in holding their fire and less than deadly responses.
You would be extremely surprised what civilians can do when they are united against tyranny. When India gained independence from Britain, they stood up against the British military machine. Many got killed and imprisoned but they ultimately won. Philosophically speaking, if defending your freedom costs you you're life before being imprisoned, you have won!
The president cannot declare martial law 'whenever he feels like it'. It requires the approval of congress.
The trigger for this bill is also very specific.
As to the trigger in this bill, from TFA:
"In order for the President to declare such an emergency, there would have to be knowledge both of a massive network flaw — and information that someone was about to leverage that hole to do massive harm. For example, the recent “Aurora” hack to steal source code from Google, Adobe and other companies wouldn’t have qualified, one Senate staffer noted: “It’d have to be Aurora 2, plus the intel that country X is going to take us down using that vulnerability.”
Look how easily George W. Bush went to war with Iraq. He fabricated evidence of WMD and pushed congress very hard and started a war. Since Bushy duped our elected representatives into that, how hard would it be for Obama's administration to come up with "evidence" of a pending massive cyberstrike and coercing congress to approve martial law?
I don't have a problem with this. This is worded in such a way that they can't just quietly come in and take control of the infrastructure. It would require a presidential declaration to start this in motion. Hardly something you can hide. It will also protect the rest of the internet that we control in the event of a cyberattack. I agree with the parent. This is a logical step to secure critical infrastructure in the event of an attack. Not some paranoid bill that will allow big brother to sneak in unaware and monitor/control every aspect of the internet. It is very specific in it's target and implementation trigger.
The funny thing about words and laws is that they are always open to interpretation. They could cite some other obscure law to override any protections that this one would provide. There are ways of using laws against each other to get what you want. Its best off just to not even give the government the power at all. Oncce you give them the power, your freedom is gone forever.
Bush and the DHS remind me of Roald Dahl's General in his book, The Great Glass Elevator. Roald Dahl depicted this general as a boy in a man's body pulling a little wagon with a toy bunker bomb. This general would whine when he would not get his way to blow things up, snivel, and wheel his little toy around.
The only way the Feds will control anything on my network is when they do it over my cold, dead ass! This ain't China! This is supposed to be the United States, land of the free.
Uh, yeah.... whatever. I'd say security has improved, albeit by a decent margin but it has a long way to go. I won't be convinced until Microsoft, Apple, and the Penguin can go toe to toe with OpenBSD. I have heard of would-be intruders performing OS fingerprinting, finding an OpenBSD machine, and moving on as if it is not even worth their time to try. If you need to protect a network, set up OpenBSD as your bastion host and you can rest easier at night.
Most companies can effectively use an entirely linux or bsd environment. The only hiccup tends to be in accounting software and engineering software. But for basic retail, legal, and doctor's offices, linux works superbly. Couple linux for the desktop with openbsd for routing and security and you have a money-saving, high-reliability solution.
RTFM, they are not moving from Windows to Macs, they are offering Mac and Linux as options but totally phasing out Windows. And Windows still has security flaws and leaks memory like an old, wooden boat leaks water.
I wonder what Google uses for an accounting package?
Very hard to find accounting programs that do not require Windows OS.
I could not begin to speculate what Google uses for its financial reporting software but my guess is that it is a home grown system given that they have a surplus of software engineering talent. It might even be a mainframe based system. There is a Linux-based, enterprise grade accounting package called ACCPAC.
Well, what happens if she had Google give her the information in kilometers? Such an option does exist. You cannot immediately jump to the conclusion that the story is made up.
Perhaps I should make the subject "Common sense absent"? Am I the only person left on the planet who can assess a situation and determine whether it's safe or not, and take appropriate actions to safeguard myself? On second thought I call bullshit; I cannot believe anyone is so stupid as this, this woman must be looking for a payday.
Could not have said it better myself. A woman, ostensibly this means she is an adult, should have been able to make a judgement call based on her surroundings. Should Google really be responsible for this? NO
Both long jail sentences and fines for such flagrant disregard is in order! On a side note, and this is not in any way designed to lessen the severity of the environmental impact, this might just create the impetus necessary for real alternative engery developement and exploration - not just paying token homage to it. It is a royal shame for a major environmental catastrophe to make this happen, but I think a large amount of the inertia toward alternative energy has been or will be overcome in the following months.
Correct me if I am wrong but one of Ebola's nasty features is its ability to mutate efficiently to offset its achilles heel. It's achilles heel is that it tends to kills its victims too quickly to adequately reproduce and spread itself. This might be why outbreaks are not long lasting but are particularly lethal.
A good point has been raised about the lack of detail. If David really bring down Goliath, one would think that the author would have included a reference to her case so everyone could read of the victory.
Since it is a court proceeding, the judge's opinion should be published. Unfortunately, we kind of need to know what state and district the case was filed in. Plus, the rules of Small Claims Court are somewhat fast and loose. In some states, like Pennsylvania, a small claims court judge (also known as a district court judge) is not even required to have a law degree and is an elected position. In fact, I knew someone running for this position that only graduated from high school. Ostensibly, they are given some training in the field of rules of evidence. Still, when you think about the above situation, your odds are pretty long on winning and it will not take much technical jargon to confuse a judge into siding with big brother.
I wish they had this for airports. A lane for people walking from security to the gate and another for people walking from the gate to security and baggage claim. It makes it very difficult to get where you are going and implementing a lane would be a good idea, enforcing it is a whole different ball game.
Open source, in of itself, is somewhat agnostic to these quintessentially biblical terms. Open source is neither good nor evil, it just exists in a neutral state and it is up to the mind of the user whether it will be used for beneficial purposes or harmful purposes. Early FUD spreaders tried to capitalize on the fact that something open source would be less secure because source code could be examined for flaws and exploited by those wishing to do harm. The counter argument goes that security weaknesses are inherrent because software is a human innovation and thus error-prone and source code availability can lead to faster patching of flawed code because more people are examining it. The same can be said for biology - there are always people that will try to engineer a harmful life form based on what is out there but the more knowledge there is in the public space, the faster the harm can be subverted.
If facebook gave you a cut in the revenue, it might be worth something to give up privacy. But, it is solely beneficial to the corporation and its stakeholders.
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Doubt any civilian has the means to stop them. Most real authority comes from the barrel of a gun. And even though the USA is almost totally made their once respected police officers into para-military goons, with balaclavas, blacked out badges and no name tags, armed with fully automatic weapons in many cases, with an arsenal of armored vehicles, grenades, sniper teams and trained tactical response units, they still are not the match of a average military combat unit. The police still get a minor amount of instruction and training in holding their fire and less than deadly responses.
You would be extremely surprised what civilians can do when they are united against tyranny. When India gained independence from Britain, they stood up against the British military machine. Many got killed and imprisoned but they ultimately won. Philosophically speaking, if defending your freedom costs you you're life before being imprisoned, you have won!
The president cannot declare martial law 'whenever he feels like it'. It requires the approval of congress.
The trigger for this bill is also very specific.
As to the trigger in this bill, from TFA:
"In order for the President to declare such an emergency, there would have to be knowledge both of a massive network flaw — and information that someone was about to leverage that hole to do massive harm. For example, the recent “Aurora” hack to steal source code from Google, Adobe and other companies wouldn’t have qualified, one Senate staffer noted: “It’d have to be Aurora 2, plus the intel that country X is going to take us down using that vulnerability.”
Look how easily George W. Bush went to war with Iraq. He fabricated evidence of WMD and pushed congress very hard and started a war. Since Bushy duped our elected representatives into that, how hard would it be for Obama's administration to come up with "evidence" of a pending massive cyberstrike and coercing congress to approve martial law?
I don't have a problem with this. This is worded in such a way that they can't just quietly come in and take control of the infrastructure. It would require a presidential declaration to start this in motion. Hardly something you can hide. It will also protect the rest of the internet that we control in the event of a cyberattack. I agree with the parent. This is a logical step to secure critical infrastructure in the event of an attack. Not some paranoid bill that will allow big brother to sneak in unaware and monitor/control every aspect of the internet. It is very specific in it's target and implementation trigger.
The funny thing about words and laws is that they are always open to interpretation. They could cite some other obscure law to override any protections that this one would provide. There are ways of using laws against each other to get what you want. Its best off just to not even give the government the power at all. Oncce you give them the power, your freedom is gone forever.
I guess it is time to superimpose a hammer and sickel onto the American flag. The United States of Communist America!
Bush and the DHS remind me of Roald Dahl's General in his book, The Great Glass Elevator. Roald Dahl depicted this general as a boy in a man's body pulling a little wagon with a toy bunker bomb. This general would whine when he would not get his way to blow things up, snivel, and wheel his little toy around.
The only way the Feds will control anything on my network is when they do it over my cold, dead ass! This ain't China! This is supposed to be the United States, land of the free.
Uh, yeah .... whatever. I'd say security has improved, albeit by a decent margin but it has a long way to go. I won't be convinced until Microsoft, Apple, and the Penguin can go toe to toe with OpenBSD. I have heard of would-be intruders performing OS fingerprinting, finding an OpenBSD machine, and moving on as if it is not even worth their time to try. If you need to protect a network, set up OpenBSD as your bastion host and you can rest easier at night.
Most companies can effectively use an entirely linux or bsd environment. The only hiccup tends to be in accounting software and engineering software. But for basic retail, legal, and doctor's offices, linux works superbly. Couple linux for the desktop with openbsd for routing and security and you have a money-saving, high-reliability solution.
RTFM, they are not moving from Windows to Macs, they are offering Mac and Linux as options but totally phasing out Windows. And Windows still has security flaws and leaks memory like an old, wooden boat leaks water.
I wonder what Google uses for an accounting package?
Very hard to find accounting programs that do not require Windows OS.
I could not begin to speculate what Google uses for its financial reporting software but my guess is that it is a home grown system given that they have a surplus of software engineering talent. It might even be a mainframe based system. There is a Linux-based, enterprise grade accounting package called ACCPAC.
Is an open-source, unencumbered one that could allow us to have an ebook on a PC as well. I am tired of closed source, patent encumbered shit.
LOL!! I never would have believed it. They did actually did suggest kayaking across the Pacific!!!!!!!
If Google tells you to jump off a cliff, are you going to do it?
Fred, I am going for it! Bonzzzzaaaaiiii!
Well, what happens if she had Google give her the information in kilometers? Such an option does exist. You cannot immediately jump to the conclusion that the story is made up.
she didnt press "im feeling lucky" button so
If she had, maybe she'd have faired better.
Perhaps I should make the subject "Common sense absent"? Am I the only person left on the planet who can assess a situation and determine whether it's safe or not, and take appropriate actions to safeguard myself? On second thought I call bullshit; I cannot believe anyone is so stupid as this, this woman must be looking for a payday.
Could not have said it better myself. A woman, ostensibly this means she is an adult, should have been able to make a judgement call based on her surroundings. Should Google really be responsible for this? NO
Both long jail sentences and fines for such flagrant disregard is in order! On a side note, and this is not in any way designed to lessen the severity of the environmental impact, this might just create the impetus necessary for real alternative engery developement and exploration - not just paying token homage to it. It is a royal shame for a major environmental catastrophe to make this happen, but I think a large amount of the inertia toward alternative energy has been or will be overcome in the following months.
Untill the balloon goes "pop" ... LOL!
Correct me if I am wrong but one of Ebola's nasty features is its ability to mutate efficiently to offset its achilles heel. It's achilles heel is that it tends to kills its victims too quickly to adequately reproduce and spread itself. This might be why outbreaks are not long lasting but are particularly lethal.
A good point has been raised about the lack of detail. If David really bring down Goliath, one would think that the author would have included a reference to her case so everyone could read of the victory.
Since it is a court proceeding, the judge's opinion should be published. Unfortunately, we kind of need to know what state and district the case was filed in. Plus, the rules of Small Claims Court are somewhat fast and loose. In some states, like Pennsylvania, a small claims court judge (also known as a district court judge) is not even required to have a law degree and is an elected position. In fact, I knew someone running for this position that only graduated from high school. Ostensibly, they are given some training in the field of rules of evidence. Still, when you think about the above situation, your odds are pretty long on winning and it will not take much technical jargon to confuse a judge into siding with big brother.
I wish they had this for airports. A lane for people walking from security to the gate and another for people walking from the gate to security and baggage claim. It makes it very difficult to get where you are going and implementing a lane would be a good idea, enforcing it is a whole different ball game.
People have already installed Linux on badgers.
And badgers suddenly get the desire for freezing cold weather and doing strange belly movements!!
Open source, in of itself, is somewhat agnostic to these quintessentially biblical terms. Open source is neither good nor evil, it just exists in a neutral state and it is up to the mind of the user whether it will be used for beneficial purposes or harmful purposes. Early FUD spreaders tried to capitalize on the fact that something open source would be less secure because source code could be examined for flaws and exploited by those wishing to do harm. The counter argument goes that security weaknesses are inherrent because software is a human innovation and thus error-prone and source code availability can lead to faster patching of flawed code because more people are examining it. The same can be said for biology - there are always people that will try to engineer a harmful life form based on what is out there but the more knowledge there is in the public space, the faster the harm can be subverted.
If facebook gave you a cut in the revenue, it might be worth something to give up privacy. But, it is solely beneficial to the corporation and its stakeholders.