I must say that General Dynamics (Designed the F-16 Fughting Falcon), Northrup Grumman, and Lockheed Martin are the least of our worries on that list...but seeing 3Com on that list troubles me to the bone considering how 3Com Corporation is a digital electronics manufacturer best known for its computer network infrastructure products.
Problem is that the Intelegence Subcommittee was lying to the rest of Congress and keeping it a secret from them...politicians often don't watch the news very much or very rarely read from politically biased sources because there is a fuckton of pressure that can come from the average unnecessary nitpicking some of the major media like CNN, MSNBC, and FoxNews can get to your head..
So the severe disconnect on this case is quite understandable from McCain when you consider how he's not at all happy with how this was handled.
Now...as you can see...just because I did not say "and said NO" does not at all make my statement untrue or "wrong" as you put it...the Oversight Comittee's job is in fact to look into things...so in a literal sense we are both correct :-)
Second...I never specified Manning or Snowden did I? Really the simple idea is that in order to prevent "leaks", the NSA has to be held accountable on illegal things it has done and McCain is seemingly quite livid that it was bad enough of an abuse of power by the NSA and the Intelegence subcommittee to make it necessary for a whistleblower to come out with the truth...Chelsea Manning's case is a whole other ball of wax from Snowden because of the type of intel she leaked...which had nothing to do with the unethical and illegal policies and procedures the NSA had put into place...We know who leaked what type of information..Honestly I would be quite livid too if people who were supposed to say and do something honest weren't doing their jobs of overseeing the NSA's activities to make sure that they did things accordingly with the Constitution..
As for your last pontification about saying it once and again...that is EXACTIY the point McCain is trying to raise.
He blamed lack of oversight of the NSA's activities and basically stated that the whole thing concerning Snowden and others would not be necessary if the Oversight committee and the NSA had been doing their jobs.
McCain: There has not been sufficient congressional oversight, and there has been an absolutely disgraceful sharing of information that never should have taken place. For many years, we had an absolute provision that any classified information, which was going to be shared, is based on need-to-know information. I was a Navy pilot and had Top Secret clearance because I was in a squadron that in case of war with Russia would carry nuclear weapons. But that did not mean that I was privy to everything to do with all of our war plans in case of a nuclear war.
He also states that he knows the meaning of national security a whole hell of a lot better than the NSA does...and what he means by "Low Level" merely indicates security clearances that Snowden and Manning didn't have, but easily gained access...
So to put it short.
1. He's not at all happy about the NSA spying (remember he voted to pass the Smith/Amash Act...)
2. The situation with Snowden as a whistle blower would not have happened if it were not for the lack of oversight to the NSA's activities...
3. He had top secret clearance or better when he was in the US Air Force.....a High Level security clearance.
AOL has a history of not getting basic concepts of pretty much everything...they missed the idea of a free and open internet by making their own crappy BBS service...then when people opted out, they kept charging them for an extra 2 years of service.
In short, McCain is basically saying that there are two things that shouldn't have happened...First, the Congrssional Intel. Oversight Committee should have looked into the spying and that the head of that committee needs to be fired...
Second, the NSA is supposed to be using gvt employees, not private contractors, to screen security issues and that if people had been doing what they are supposed to do, the "leaks" wouldn't have to happen.
He basically knows what can and should be classified and his stating his war history says that. Remember this is the same guy that introduced a bill to allow cable packages to be more customizable...
"A recent sleep learning study shows that it's possible to modify a person's behavior while awake by training them while they're asleep. Sleeping subjects were presented with certain (pleasant or offensive) odors and audible tones at the same time, and when they were awake, playing the tones altered the trained person's sniffing and breathing behavior -- eg. people exposed to unpleasant odors would take shallow breaths after hearing the tones."
"They say that when you go into cryo sleep, everything shuts down in your brain except the primitive animal side..huh, no wonder I'm still awake."
Re: Re: Re: Re: Response to: horse with no name on Nov 5th, 2013 @ 8:24pm
I kind of think of extortion as making a threat and demanding compensation to prevent you from following through on the threat...Prenda merely threatened people who downloaded the videos that Prenda had uploaded itself...so it's a honeypot civil legal action...Racketeering perhaps?
Re: Re: Response to: horse with no name on Nov 5th, 2013 @ 8:24pm
Prenda set up an account to sting people...you can sue people for entrapment on a civil level...piracy is considered a crime..and if you had been following these articles concerning Prenda...you would realize that they would get discovery granted of thousands of doh's in court and upload the porn themselves (check my submitted articles section under my user name to see who did grant them discovery)...just stop doing as you do.
Response to: horse with no name on Nov 5th, 2013 @ 8:24pm
Prenda purposefully uploaded porn to the Internet to bust people...this is legally known as entrapment...which is illegal...What makes you think that Prenda didn't commit piracy by uploading said porn? *sarcasm* Clearly for copyright protection for sure...
I will say this once...I'll say it again...the reason 9/11 had the chance to occur was because the NSA refused to hand data over to the FBI that the FBI needed...It happened not due to the lack of surveillance, but due to a lack of transparency between agencies...
I'm surprised Ohio's Riverside Methodest Hospital isn't mentioned..My father got a cancer of the appendix involving malignant carcinoma with mucinin...it webbs the tissue surface of his organs like the Zerg have that goup they must use to grow on to spread... Anyway, my dad got a very new procedure that only 4 hospitals in the world perform...Hot Chemo Bath...
I was going to write about how proper preparedness for such situations is a good thing...but I found a lot of these methods completely ludicrous. They are trying too hard to traumatize the students into thinking they need to stay calm...as a psychologist, I find the use of blood caps and firing blanks quite a lot more distressing, which only causes the human brain to fear the situation more rather than tell it to prepare should the occasion actually arise. There is a very simple way to drill...you don't need actors, you don't need police involvement, you only need the steps to be carried out to secure the situation...that's all.
Scared Straight failed because it used typical prison euphemisms in order to show how scary it was to be in prison rather than actually tell the students what the convict's life was actually like before and in prison.
"Second, the documents Mr. Godfread proposes to file are inadmissible because they are not authenticated. Mr. Godfread claims that the exhibits "appear" to be financial records of Prenda Law, Inc. Perhaps he is right, but I have not reviewed Prenda Law's financials and neither, presumably, has he. Until he can authenticate the documents, they are inadmissible;"
No? How about now?
"Second, the documents Mr. Godfread proposes to file are inadmissible because they are not authenticated. Mr. Godfread claims that the exhibits "appear" to be financial records of Prenda Law, Inc. Perhaps he is right, but I have not reviewed Prenda Law's financials and neither, presumably, has he. Until he can authenticate the documents, they are inadmissible"
Lets shorten that shall we?
"The documents Mr. Godfread proposed to file are inadmissible because they are inadmissible!"
Prenda's practices are totally illegal because they are totally illegal :-P
First...all one has to do is take a crash course in basic US High School Geology to learn how fracturing shale can destablize the terrain at least 3 miles above it.
Second...TRADE SECRETES MY FUCKING ASS...Fracking is FRACKING...the basic method of extracting petroleum and natural gas products from shale through fracking is virtually the samw no matter what you do.
Here's a thought that will blow your minds...when they say "It's trade secret that varies with each company", what they're really saying is "We don't have a standardized method of doing this". That's the danger in it...it's not regulated as much as oil drilling or mining is....
As for the trademark on methods...look at Chesapeake Energy's website on fracking...it shows EXACTLY how they're doing it!
The fact that the government was scanning way too much has been a statistical constant...the prevented attacks some view as nonexistant actually did exist...At that time, the search was narrowed to only spying people on foreign soil.....
I think because of this mass of statistical data the NSA has does a lot of bad math for "good" intentions...
I see where they could easily think that the metadata collected can easily create a psych profile for pretty much every smart phone user on Earth.
Bear in mind I'm putting rights aside for a moment as it is fairly obvious that the 4th Amendment was violated...I'm here to talk about math:
The mathamatical flaw, it seems, isn't in the data collected about us creating a good psych profile..it's the quantity in which it was collected. When collecting metadata (variables in statistics and marketing) it's alwats good to have good quality data in small organized chunks...The NSA gets an F in Statistics and Marketing...which deals in predictable outcomes...too much data can cause issues when data is actively being sought out...
In short...mathematically, the NSA had good quality data...but they now have so much data that a super computer has trouble finding crorelation data...
Now in my profession, when a correlation study is run, we try to do a narrowed search about the specific data we need...the term "terrorist" is extremely broad in my opinion as psych classification metadata because there are so many things to look at and collect for to match thay profile...The NSA failed so badly to narrow the data they needed that the abnormalities could not be spotted sufficiently...
I can now conclude that the entirety of the NSA completely failed in preventing Behngazi and Boston.
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Re: Re:
Problem is that the Intelegence Subcommittee was lying to the rest of Congress and keeping it a secret from them...politicians often don't watch the news very much or very rarely read from politically biased sources because there is a fuckton of pressure that can come from the average unnecessary nitpicking some of the major media like CNN, MSNBC, and FoxNews can get to your head..
So the severe disconnect on this case is quite understandable from McCain when you consider how he's not at all happy with how this was handled.
Now...as you can see...just because I did not say "and said NO" does not at all make my statement untrue or "wrong" as you put it...the Oversight Comittee's job is in fact to look into things...so in a literal sense we are both correct :-)
Second...I never specified Manning or Snowden did I? Really the simple idea is that in order to prevent "leaks", the NSA has to be held accountable on illegal things it has done and McCain is seemingly quite livid that it was bad enough of an abuse of power by the NSA and the Intelegence subcommittee to make it necessary for a whistleblower to come out with the truth...Chelsea Manning's case is a whole other ball of wax from Snowden because of the type of intel she leaked...which had nothing to do with the unethical and illegal policies and procedures the NSA had put into place...We know who leaked what type of information..Honestly I would be quite livid too if people who were supposed to say and do something honest weren't doing their jobs of overseeing the NSA's activities to make sure that they did things accordingly with the Constitution..
As for your last pontification about saying it once and again...that is EXACTIY the point McCain is trying to raise.
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McCain: There has not been sufficient congressional oversight, and there has been an absolutely disgraceful sharing of information that never should have taken place. For many years, we had an absolute provision that any classified information, which was going to be shared, is based on need-to-know information. I was a Navy pilot and had Top Secret clearance because I was in a squadron that in case of war with Russia would carry nuclear weapons. But that did not mean that I was privy to everything to do with all of our war plans in case of a nuclear war.
He also states that he knows the meaning of national security a whole hell of a lot better than the NSA does...and what he means by "Low Level" merely indicates security clearances that Snowden and Manning didn't have, but easily gained access...
So to put it short.
1. He's not at all happy about the NSA spying (remember he voted to pass the Smith/Amash Act...)
2. The situation with Snowden as a whistle blower would not have happened if it were not for the lack of oversight to the NSA's activities...
3. He had top secret clearance or better when he was in the US Air Force.....a High Level security clearance.
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Second, the NSA is supposed to be using gvt employees, not private contractors, to screen security issues and that if people had been doing what they are supposed to do, the "leaks" wouldn't have to happen.
He basically knows what can and should be classified and his stating his war history says that. Remember this is the same guy that introduced a bill to allow cable packages to be more customizable...
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"They say that when you go into cryo sleep, everything shuts down in your brain except the primitive animal side..huh, no wonder I'm still awake."
~Riddick.
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Re: Re: Response to: horse with no name on Nov 5th, 2013 @ 8:24pm
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Response to: horse with no name on Nov 5th, 2013 @ 8:24pm
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Anyway, my dad got a very new procedure that only 4 hospitals in the world perform...Hot Chemo Bath...
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Bat-shit crazy..
Scared Straight failed because it used typical prison euphemisms in order to show how scary it was to be in prison rather than actually tell the students what the convict's life was actually like before and in prison.
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Redundant Arguement is Redundant
"Second, the documents Mr. Godfread proposes to file are inadmissible because they are not authenticated. Mr. Godfread claims that the exhibits "appear" to be financial records of Prenda Law, Inc. Perhaps he is right, but I have not reviewed Prenda Law's financials and neither, presumably, has he. Until he can authenticate the documents, they are inadmissible;"
No? How about now?
"Second, the documents Mr. Godfread proposes to file are inadmissible because they are not authenticated. Mr. Godfread claims that the exhibits "appear" to be financial records of Prenda Law, Inc. Perhaps he is right, but I have not reviewed Prenda Law's financials and neither, presumably, has he. Until he can authenticate the documents, they are inadmissible"
Lets shorten that shall we?
"The documents Mr. Godfread proposed to file are inadmissible because they are inadmissible!"
Prenda's practices are totally illegal because they are totally illegal :-P
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Trade Secrets my ASS!!
Second...TRADE SECRETES MY FUCKING ASS...Fracking is FRACKING...the basic method of extracting petroleum and natural gas products from shale through fracking is virtually the samw no matter what you do.
Here's a thought that will blow your minds...when they say "It's trade secret that varies with each company", what they're really saying is "We don't have a standardized method of doing this". That's the danger in it...it's not regulated as much as oil drilling or mining is....
As for the trademark on methods...look at Chesapeake Energy's website on fracking...it shows EXACTLY how they're doing it!
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Statistics...
I think because of this mass of statistical data the NSA has does a lot of bad math for "good" intentions...
I see where they could easily think that the metadata collected can easily create a psych profile for pretty much every smart phone user on Earth.
Bear in mind I'm putting rights aside for a moment as it is fairly obvious that the 4th Amendment was violated...I'm here to talk about math:
The mathamatical flaw, it seems, isn't in the data collected about us creating a good psych profile..it's the quantity in which it was collected. When collecting metadata (variables in statistics and marketing) it's alwats good to have good quality data in small organized chunks...The NSA gets an F in Statistics and Marketing...which deals in predictable outcomes...too much data can cause issues when data is actively being sought out...
In short...mathematically, the NSA had good quality data...but they now have so much data that a super computer has trouble finding crorelation data...
Now in my profession, when a correlation study is run, we try to do a narrowed search about the specific data we need...the term "terrorist" is extremely broad in my opinion as psych classification metadata because there are so many things to look at and collect for to match thay profile...The NSA failed so badly to narrow the data they needed that the abnormalities could not be spotted sufficiently...
I can now conclude that the entirety of the NSA completely failed in preventing Behngazi and Boston.
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