Posts by Mark 85 12884 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Nov 2012
And the storm won't be hitting along party lines. With all the crap floating to the top, it looks like the guy who appointed/approved the commissioners will end up taking the flack with trickledown. Given how this affects darn near every voter it could change the shape of Congress. I would hope that the Congress would listen to the voters for a change and not the lobbyists since they seem to forget who voted them in.
Indeed... correct on all counts. On top of all that, they sell us to those who seek our business. Some of those companies are on the up and up and others are shady as hell. I think they have the same business model as FB.. we are the product but there's no opting out.
Here in the States, we've had weather like that and cars/trucks stuck on the interstates for days or longer depending on the blizzard. I've passed through a few blizzards before they got bad and at least with a gas/diesel powered machine you might be able to keep warm for a few days with careful use of the available fuel. An electric? I don't think so.
Just because the attackee says it was "advanced, persistent" doesn't make it so. If no one was checking the fortress walls, how would they know if they were breached by a hammer or high tech equipment? We've seen/read about the mess of various unsecured servers in the civilian world, so why doesn't that apply to governments? IIRC, the US government has been hit due to similar "misconfigurations" and inadequate safeguards.
Journalists doing profiles of people will check Google, but they'll also search their own news archives - which of course aren't redacted/corrected. But then journalists are supposed to be trained in things like sub judice and spent convictions.
This is it right there. In the print days, there were archives of articles and indexes for virtually every news paper. That function today has been taken by Google (but only for the web). If he wants to fight this, Google is the wrong target. He'd need to go to the individual news medias, IMO.
Blaming Google is an easy fix but the sources of the original articles would still have the info and that won't be forgotten.
Let's ignore email for a moment and consider an exchange of information via snail mail. If one destroys the mails, can they be held accountable? With deleiting email, obviously one can. With snail-mail, you have the mails I sent and I have the mails you sent. With email, it seems like every Tom, Dick, and Harry along the path has a copy.
As an aside, I wonder what would happen if say a Russian company had a data center in the US and their government would want some data from it....things are going to get messier real fast.
Bob,
Serious question here... have you ever fired a weapon "in anger"? Military style anger... at an enemy who's out to kill you? Yes, shooting back is a reaction but it's nothing to gloat over, it something one takes (usually) very seriously without yelling and screaming it at the whole world. You're post makes me think of a 10 year old playing cowboys and Indians. Being involved in a gun battle is very sobering indeed and not recommended because "Whoop!!!!".
The distinction is they never created much trouble, and very few flown them irresponsibly <G>.
Probably because flying a model aircraft is usually far more difficult than flying a drone, and it attracted mostly aviation enthusiasts which usually abode to existing flying rules, and it was better to fly them when the risk of damaging or losing them was minor.
Since model aircraft are usually built as a labor of love and many of the builders spare no expense on detail, engines, and radio gear, they don't want to lose them to a crash or flying away. Drones... relatively cheap with minor assembly required.
I worked with a lad who was an "experienced" coder in C. All of his programs were one long document. No spaces, no line breaks. His reason: It does two things.. speeds up compile time and the machine code is "clean" since it doesn't have to process white space. Needless to say, he was the only one who could maintain his code.
Face palm for obvious reason.
Yes, it's easy for us techies who have a bit of deserved paranoia. But what about the average "Joe User" who hasn't clue or isn't one of us? They have no idea what's being slurped and most don't care. If they did, FB wouldn't have ever been a "thing". And let's not even get into "smart" devices that send everything back to the mothership.
Gee... Norton is still around? But then again, I guess that was one way to get business. As a former member of the NRA (years ago), I figured why bother with all BS they were shoveling at the time and they're just getting worse. Well, this is a low point for them. I do understand some people's views on the age thing... we went through that with voting and in some places alcohol sales since for those fights, veterans were used as signpost... "can die for their country at 18 but can't.... (fill in blank: vote or drink). I'm a bit surprised that the NRA didn't or hasn't trotted this one out yet.
Ok... seriously... what is wrong with raising the age limit to 21? Part of me says someone will say that some 18 year old with a grudge will wait 3 years and then go get his/her revenge. But still... 21 is not the end of the world.
Why should we count indicting people who will never see a day in court, much less jail, or testify as resolving an investigation
Many times, people take a plea bargain to avoid a trial and much more than the charges coming out, I'm thinking Rick Gates struck a deal to provide more info in return for a lighter sentence and possibly to avoid more charges which seems to happen in these kinds of cases.
It's very possible Manafort is going to take a big fall or he'll see the light, do a deal on his own and end up providing testimony/evidence on someone else.
Popcorn anyone?
The banks probably trust the "big kids" who have power and influence more than the rest of us. And they see a big profit for large (<$1,000,000) loans. Let's not even get into the implications that political types (or those on the edge or hangers on) can give them some influence for future favors or legislation.
What we did for some of those (we only had a few luckily) was a piece of stickyback with "Power" and an arrow pointing to the switch stuck to the appropriate place. Save us a lot of calls to marketing of the "my PC won't turn on" variety. Marketing being marketing, there were/are special and have lots of non-company standard equipment.
You're playing the odds quite a bit though. You could try bumping somebody off by chucking a PP3 into the bath, but when it really matters the old reliable toaster works every time. (yes - it's been a tough week)
Just be sure to toss a couple slices of bread in the tub, have an open jar of marmalade or jelly, and a butter knife within reach of the tub.
Nice idea. The problem with this is "log in with a browser in private mode.". Most places I've worked at, keep track of and check the access logs on the firewall. Porn sites stick out like a sore thumb. Basic rule... never hit a porn site at work. Now usually, in some places, a personal laptop can use the "guest" wifi many companies have without being tracked. Caveat emptor or some other relevant Latin phrase applies.
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