Didn't you read the news. They are chasing down Snowden as quickly as they can to shut him up. As soon as they can get their hands on him they will try him and lock him up. Who else could you be talking about.
Well That Certainly Explains the "No Rooting" Stance
With the DMCA, no one is allowed to "root" their phone and take control away from the provider. No wonder AT&T and Verizon fight that so much. They would lose all that free money coming their way from the government to put spyware on everybody's phone. It's a WIN-WIN for the government and the cell phone company. Who cares if the citizens and customers lose out. They're not supposed to know what's going on. Once the phones are rooted, though, some folks are going to notice the malware and take it out.
If the "rights holders" can identify the "alleged bad guys" why can't they go get them taken down instead of everybody else needing to play "whac-a-mole" to try to hide them?
"There's no illegal spying here. The criminal you want is Edward Snowden over there. Go look over there. There is no illegal wiretapping going on, we pardoned them and made it legal with a new law." Ignore that man behind the curtain and pay attention to me repeating "There is no illegal spying going on, you really should be paying to the secret trial of Bradley Manning because we told you he is bad." STOP LOOKING AT ME, look over there at the whistleblowers for the REAL bad guys.
because I'd like to see proof that no "person of Asian Descent" ever made a joke about a non-asian person. Start here which has a list of many slurs including ones that asians use for non asians: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ethnic_slurs. Somewhere I remeber a caution about throwing that first stone.
You mean something different than issuing takesdowns to Google? You know, the company that finds the infringing material and POINTS to it. Kinda like telling you where the stuff is! No, don't go over there and get rid of it, send a DMCA notice (or a million) to Google. Yeah! That's a good idea. Don't get the actual material taken down, just tell Google to stop pointing to it. That makes a lot of sense. Now, Google, here is the next set of a million DMCA notices for the new names for the same old places..... repeat repeat repeat repeat ... - there is no end to this merry-go-round
That argument (I was just doing what I was told) has failed for years with parents of preschoolers and with following the generals' orders in the military. EVERY government organization and law enforcement agency is responsible for supporting the Constitution. End of discussion. This country is founded on those principles and no organization is exempt. What you are really saying then is that the President of the United States has violated his Oath of Office by ordering the violation of the Rights of the Citizens of the United States by ordering the NSA to violate the rights of the US Citizens. You know, that part where the president swears to uphold the Constitution of the United States!:
“I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States, and will to the best of my Ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.”
See here for reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_office_of_the_President_of_the_United_States#Oath_mishaps.
An illegal order does not make anything the NSA did now legal. They SHOULD know better. No agency of the US Government should be exempt from supporting the Constitution or any laws in support of the Constitution. The President, both Houses of Congress and all law enforcement agencies are specifically bound to not change the Constitution. Only the people of the United States by a two thirds majority vote may change the Constitution. Unless so changed, ALL agencies of all of the governments in the United States must abide by the Constitution.
You have to look at their "approach" to the problem and the insidious misdirection that come with it. They are "protecting the people". The trouble is that the Trade Center bombing played right into their hands. It resulted in a public outrage (by the news services) to "save us from those bad people". Now, by removing our constitutional rights they can now "save us" from those bad guys. You see, they did it at "our request". The trouble is that they have moved into the "bad guys" slot. At least Hitler and Mussolini didn't have to bother with that pesky Constitution and the Bill of Rights. The NSA has just taken one little step at a time to erode away those pesky rights until now they feel the "piss and vinegar" and can do anything they want because they have a secret court that will pass any ruling they want to make it legal with no Congressional or public oversight. Of course they didn't count on so very many whistleblowers who would feel the righteous weight of the Constitution pressing on their conscience. So much so that they have given up even more of their freedoms because of being in the wrong place at the right time to uphold our freedoms as guaranteed by the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.
It sounds like these are the types of recruits we (the people of the US, you know run of the mill Americans) would want to be running the NSA. Unfortunately, after this recruiting trip they will probably have one of those dossiers that says "ruin their lives" instead of "quick let's hire them".
These companies are only allowed to present the national security requests mixed in with other numbers, you know, for obfuscation purposes. Is there a way to get the "other" numbers without the obfuscated national security numbers? Because, you know, analysing the "other stuff" without the obfuscation is important too.....
How exactly does he prove that he was in possession of the phones when this happened AND that he wasn't there. It seems that if the location of my phone will prove I'm not in the area of a crime, then just have a friend in another part of town with my phone at the time of the crime. If a phone is needed during the crime, use a burner.... BUT, BUT I wasn't there judge check my mobile phone location. I was across town talking to my girl.....
Way back in the last century when I had a Motorolla Star-Tac flip phone (this is important) I always turned it off. In order to save the battery I even found the setting to turn off the little flashing light that indicated that it was on. However; when the pilot walked out of the cockpit to go to the bathroom, his Star-Tac phone was flashing. I pointed this out to the flight attendant. Her response was "Are you sure?" So, I took out my phone (which was off) and showed her the I had the same phone and knew what I was talking about. She was very happy. She said as soon as he returned to the cockpit she was going to give him a "raft of Sh*t about it". That was in 1998 to be exact. The pilots didn't care even back then. I "mostly" turn the power off so that my battery doesn't go dead looking for towers when none are around. If I forget "oh well". So far, none of the planes I've been on have crashed when we're on the ground and I go to turn it on and find out that I left it on because I was distracted at the time they said to turn it off.
Wow, New York is well on the way to implementing the Pre-Crime bureau but without the 3 future readers in the pond. Authorities have become so preoccupied with stopping crime before it happens that they have become blind to the fact that they are the ones committing the crimes by stomping on the Constitution they swore to protect. If it wasn't so pathetic it would be funny.
Last time we wrote about it, it had been shelved following some aggressive work by lobbyists.
Please be more clear. Were these the good lobbyist or the bad lobbyists. It is rare that only one side is doing any lobbying. If lobbying is bad, then neither side should be doing it. Like many of the discussions here, lobbying is a "tool" that is used by both/all sides of the argument. Are these the evil purble lobbyist, the orangtuan underground lobbyist, or ones who happen to be working toward the side you like. Please stop villifying lobbying/lobbyist since "it is a tool"/"they are tool users" that can support either/any side of a proposal/argument. Otherwise, the next time there is a call to "lobby your local government representative" to support "XYZ" good position that you like, supporters will need to get over the bad lobbyist picture that has been painted. Please correctly state the position you want to support and the one you want to defeat and stop villifying the tools of the trade since you will want to use them to support your position as well to fight the good fight.
What it seems Bloomberg and many other politicians would like is to put everyone in a pen like good sheep and keep out the rest of that nasty world for us. However; being in the pen means eating, working and pooping on his schedule to his drummer. Unfortunatly, in the real world where we live, the only way to stop terrorists is to show that that "its not working". It used to be that people died in a plane hijacking. Then everyone just followed orders and nobody died. Now planes don't even get hijacked anymore. The problem seems to be that the "powers that be" want to stop all the bad stuff from happening before it happens (remember the perfect FBI record of stopping all of their own terrorist attacks). Unfortunatly, what we need is better ways for all of the various police forces to catch up (once again) to the bad guys. It will always be an effort to catch the criminals after the crime is done. There will never be a way to herd a group of free people into the pen and protect them from the big bad world. As I remember from the movie "An American President", "Democracy is hard work. You have to work at it every day" (probably a bad paraphrase). There is no hope for the maintenance of our freedom by taking it all away. IT JUST DOESN'T WORK THAT WAY.
When searching for flights, clearing cookies is mandatory. I searched for flights once. Got called away to do some work. Went back to the saved flights and the prices on the flights had gone up 75%. It was only two hours later. I cleared the cookies for that web site, and the prices went back down. Another fun thing is the "Buy Now only x+1 seats left" scam. I was looking for flights for my family (the 4 of us) but got tired up changing it to 4 seats, 2 adults and 2 children. So I started leaving the default of just 1. On every list of flights was a note to "hurry up, only 2 seats left at this price". So, after I found the fligts I was interested in, I cleared the cookies and specified 2 adults and 2 children. It was amazing, now there were "only 5 seats left". So, I thought, let's stretch it some. Cleared the cookies again and entered, 8 adults and 8 children. It was truly amazing. In the 5 minutes since the last search, 12 people canceled their flights and now only 17 seats were left at that price (same price per seat per flight as the other searches). So, now I just ignore the "only x seats left" because it is a flat out lying scam most of the time because some people will hurry up and book because they don't want to miss out on that 1 remaining seat.
I only know this because I have learned a lot about computers and browsing the Internet, plus I traveled every week for 15 years for work. I could more easily "see" all the flights online rather than listen to a travel agent give me their limited selection of flights. So, I started looking for flights myself (especially non-stops) and just told the travel agents the flights I wanted.
Knowledge is power, as with many, many other things in life, it is important to learn as much as you can and not necessarily rely on the "experts" that you trust to pull the wool over your eyes.
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Re: I'm wondering also......
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Need more Sand .... NEED MORE SAND
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Yeah, because the US can't get to the servers elsewhere
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Nope, they just don't care. Can't you hear their thoughts "more data, more data, "MUST HAVE MORE DATA on those damned citizen/enemies".....
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Well That Certainly Explains the "No Rooting" Stance
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But Still One Big Question
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With a slow wave from Uncle Sam
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Too Bad You Can't Prove a Negative
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Something Different
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Re: Re: Re: Live with Themselves
See here for reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oath_of_office_of_the_President_of_the_United_States#Oath_mishaps.
An illegal order does not make anything the NSA did now legal. They SHOULD know better. No agency of the US Government should be exempt from supporting the Constitution or any laws in support of the Constitution. The President, both Houses of Congress and all law enforcement agencies are specifically bound to not change the Constitution. Only the people of the United States by a two thirds majority vote may change the Constitution. Unless so changed, ALL agencies of all of the governments in the United States must abide by the Constitution.
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Re: Live with Themselves
On the post: NSA Recruiters Get Smacked Down By University Of Wisconsin Students
On the Other Hand
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presenting the counts
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Re: The Phones
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I'm a non-believer
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Re: Re:
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When Does Tom Cruise Step into the Picture
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Stop "Villifying" the Tool
Please be more clear. Were these the good lobbyist or the bad lobbyists. It is rare that only one side is doing any lobbying. If lobbying is bad, then neither side should be doing it. Like many of the discussions here, lobbying is a "tool" that is used by both/all sides of the argument. Are these the evil purble lobbyist, the orangtuan underground lobbyist, or ones who happen to be working toward the side you like. Please stop villifying lobbying/lobbyist since "it is a tool"/"they are tool users" that can support either/any side of a proposal/argument. Otherwise, the next time there is a call to "lobby your local government representative" to support "XYZ" good position that you like, supporters will need to get over the bad lobbyist picture that has been painted. Please correctly state the position you want to support and the one you want to defeat and stop villifying the tools of the trade since you will want to use them to support your position as well to fight the good fight.
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The Pre-Police are not here yet
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Re: cookies
I only know this because I have learned a lot about computers and browsing the Internet, plus I traveled every week for 15 years for work. I could more easily "see" all the flights online rather than listen to a travel agent give me their limited selection of flights. So, I started looking for flights myself (especially non-stops) and just told the travel agents the flights I wanted.
Knowledge is power, as with many, many other things in life, it is important to learn as much as you can and not necessarily rely on the "experts" that you trust to pull the wool over your eyes.
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