Posts by Don Jefe 5059 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Nov 2011
Surprisingly it was about abuse of terrorism laws in the UK, but I'm fairly certain they'll eventually segue off that into how the US isn't as bad as the UK in abusing power so everything we're doing is 'OK'!
Interestingly enough even the semi-literate, gay bashing asshats at Fox News had the class to say 'Greenwald partner' not boyfriend or lover in their articles...
A Telegraph piece, citing Greenwald, said there were Snowden related files on the seized memory sticks but they were encrypted, for whatever that's worth.
I think traveling with the stuff was either intentionally crazy to scare the spooks with what they had or possibly just to be hilarious & give them several gigs of encrypted cat pictures and cookie recipes.
We next day FedEx our encrypted stuff when we travel abroad. It's expensive but it gets hustled through customs and the packages have inspection measures that let us know if they've been opened/compromised. I can't believe Greenwald & Friends wouldn't take similar precautions.
Voting in the US is really screwed up. The last armed insurrection in the US was about voting fraud. In 1946 a bunch of WWII vets in Tennessee seized the National Guard Armory and laid siege to the jail where crooked politicians had absconded with the ballot boxes to destroy the ballots supporting the opposition.
I'm originally from where this all took place and the families are still alive; everyone is waiting for natural attrition of involved parties so the movie can be made. My family was involved in the original incidents and provided interviews and pictures to a big name producer several years ago.
Here's the TL;DR Wikipedia summary: http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_(1946)
Sad part is that people aren't willing to defend their rights anymore. This probably never would have happened if it wasn't a bunch of battle hardened WWII vets who had been home from the war less than a year.
I truly believe that Humans are innately curious by default, especially as their brains and bodies mature to the point where they notice they really have an effect on the natural world and the world has an effect on them. But then 'the real world' comes along and for various reasons, almost always about money, people sacrifice that curiosity to support their version of reality.
It is sad, but I don't know what to do about it. I can almost guarantee someone will comment on this article about how science funding could be better spent on (x); all the while blind to the fact that those funds could be used to alleviate (x) if politics and religion weren't so disproportionatly weighted in our society.
This was a great article!
You are absolutely wrong. People do get to judge.
Just as models are free to sell sex and exhibit lunatic fascination with fancy accoutrements in order to pump up their self worth, people are free to laugh at them and their shallow behavior. Absolutely no different than laughing at a geek for their raging iPhone or Galaxy S4 boner.
It is far more likely that the reason there aren't many women in IT is because there is a surplus of egos and easily offended individuals who are so full of their own contradictory bullshit that no one, especially an intelligent woman, would want to be around them. So they sit, lurking in the basements and dark bedrooms of the world, ready to pounce on whatever concept thy believe will make them seem worldly and attractive but that they manage to wholly misunderstand.
No. As a regular on the DC scene I can assure you that there is nothing worth putting under surveillance there except possibly drug buys by members of Congress and the DC City Council. But that's not scandalous or interesting because they passed laws that make it illegal to request they be screened for drug use.
People go to DC to be seen and distribute money, all the real business takes place away from that festering ass boil of a town.
In all seriousness, the calling code thing seems like the only slightly believable part of all this. People do make mistakes, but that's also why letting people have this much power is a really bad idea.
Conservatives support growing government too. They just want it to grow in a way that puts money into their programs. Don't ever buy that bullishit about the conservative platform being for smaller government, it isn't; their platform is greater control.
A study of their own policies prove it, it's just that the conservatives are also known for completely ignoring their own facts if it'll get them what they want.
The really scary part of this is that these violations are at the consolidation and analysis center so they only reflect errors that escaped redaction at the collection centers, where the majority of the work gets done.
So what we're looking at here is a system that is so broken the presence of ~2500 constitutionally illegal procedures slip through the curtains to be reported, the rest are squashed hidden suppressed corrected before they get reported to HQ.
This is old news. People have been providing Backend As A Service with 100% uptime guarantees forever: Ask your Congressman or MP where to find service providers in your area.
Virus and infection measures are the responsibility of the client, so use common sense and follow best practices when interfacing with your chosen service provider.
To help prevent inadvertent collection of personal data, as reported in earlier stories; the NSA and Google are proud to unveil the new Fast Updatable Collection Keystone Utilities (FUCKU) system which went online at 21:53 Friday, August 16th.
Fully integrating the new system required a brief restart of the Internet our systems. We do not anticipate further interruptions of service.
They don't have to provide updates at all period, unless the product does not function based on the published minimum system requirements.
In the US you can't even advertise it as 'going to be updated' in the future: US law prohibits companies from listing 'partial or incomplete' products as sales in their financials. You get what you get when you buy it and the goodwill of the company keeps the updates coming.
It sucks, but that's the way it is.
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Used to be people couldn't see using cars instead of horses. They were just too many challenges.
Used to be people couldn't see using electricity in every home. Just too many challenges.
Used to be people couldn't see flying around in airplanes. There were just too many challenges.
Used to be people couldn't see having moving picture shows at home. There were just too many challenges.
Used to be people couldn't imagine speaking in real time to someone across the Atlantic. Too many challenges.
Used to be people couldn't see having computers in every home, or a global information network, or mobile phones or the ability to make cocks 8===> appear on screens all over the world and even on the surface of Mars.
For every challenge there is a solution, it may not be what's expected, but a solution exists. I don't have the answers, and neither does anyone else, yet, but the solution(s) will be found. Found by someone who didn't quit because of naysayers or silly things like science as it was/is understood. Those people do come along and we all ride on the backs of their ideas.
Yep, no Shuttle and the distance to the device make fixing it technologically and financially impossible.
There was also a lot of politics going on around Hubble with a lot of people embarrassed and going to be more embarrassed if it wasn't fixed. Their support for the fix turned them into 'heros'.
The current Congress, being comprised of 75% of members who hate science and the rest too impotent to push any agenda means Kepler will never get any help.
Yep, no Shuttle and the distance to the device make fixing it technologically and financially impossible.
There was also a lot of politics going on around Hubble with a lot of people embarrassed and going to be more embarrassed if it wasn't fixed. Their support for the fix turned them into 'heros'.
The current Congress, being comprised of 75% of members who hate science and the rest too impotent to push any agenda means Keppler will never get any more support.
All digital cameras from that era were horrendous, Kodak had no monopoly on that. Besides, Kodak didn't even provide much of the equipment, the licensed it from Sony, Nikon and a few other specialty manufacturers. They did some great work with color processing software embedded in the cameras, but they were held back by the limitations of the hardware.
I didn't drop my Mamiya medium format film stuff until 2011. Digital cameras have only recently caught up with what a real film camera and film could do. Most people have just never seen what an ultra high quality transparency looked like so digital has suited them well. I still prefer to view transparencies on a light box, but the film is simply too hard to find anymore. It's sad really.
There were activists shareholders at Kodak. They were loudly opposed to a strong move into digital photography and wanted the company to break up and return the investment dollars, with a nice profit on top of course.
They ended up destroying not only the company, but any return they might have seen were it not for their interference. Now they're whinging because their own actions cost them money. The judge is absolutely correct in this.
There's an SR-71 at the USAF Armament Museum at Eglin AFB in Florida. The museum is open to the public as it's just outside the base. The plane is cool, you can climb all over it, touch it, etc. Nice that they allow the public to come in contact with it. Seems to make it more real somehow.
Both the U-2 and the SR-71 are excellent examples of not only aerospace design but high speed, high resolution photography and photography processes and logistical support. They were full of complicated engineering problems and keeping them flying was a constant challenge: I'm afraid the abilities to bootstrap engineering solutions on the fly is a lost art these days.
Everyone wants no risk guarantees and assurances these days, not forward thinking. Look at the F-35 for a great example of trying to design around every possible problem and coming up with a big pile of shit that can't do anything, instead of recognizing the need for in the field solutions.
Also, the aliens and their technology are kept at the Mt. Weather facility in Virginia not Area 51.
There is no magic number for the ignition temperature of 'paper'. Ignition temperature is a function of the materials something is made from and any chemical processes it undergoes in order to become the finished good.
There are about 1.7 zillion officially standardized types of 'paper', some of which ignite much lower and some much higher that 451F.
Duck Duck Go already went for me. I truly appreciate what they're doing, but the results simply aren't as useful as Google's.
Even with the overall drop off in quality of Google searches they've still got the best search offering out there. As long as that remains the case people will keep lining up to give Google all their information.
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