"Stay strong people..."
Can I be in your next movie? I want to be as FUCKed as BETA.
Since I cannot add this much to my signature, and the fact that signature isn't visible unless you are a logged-in user, this will have to do...
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If history is any sort of an indicator, any rights we sell today, our children must buy back with blood tomorrow.
Title says it all. Is this recent?
I kinda feel I've been told to shut up.
"Dice, do you have the slightest inkling of what you are about to destroy?"
Yes, they know exactly what they are about to destroy.
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President of Shmuckovia (yelling from the presidential balcony): "People! People! Relief is here! I am taking the extraordinary measure of canceling the debt of the People! All debts are null and void! No longer will you be crushed by debt as a result of..."
President's Advisor (in hushed and secretive tone): "My President! What are you doing! This is just a peace rally! Gah! We're doomed, you fool!"
President of Shmuckovia (obviously confused): But...but...I HAD TO DO SOMETHING! You said the peasants were revolting!"
Spiegal Online apparently did a full release of images from each of the two document leaks--far more complete than the Wikipedia pages.
Scroll down for the images and "straight from the horse's mouth" descriptions of capabilities.
http://leaksource.wordpress.co...
Example---"NIGHTSTAND: Portable system that wirelessly installs Microsoft Windows exploits from a distance of up to eight miles" (I have a feeling it's been updated for Win7/8 by now)
http://leaksource.files.wordpr...
And....the guys developing and putting to use these capabilities.
http://leaksource.wordpress.co...
Make sure to check out the links at the bottom of that last page.
"BTW, that same database the cops used to stalk other cops? Also used to stalk political candidates."
And that is just the databases that the cops are allowed to use.
Did anyone pay attention to the full contents of the latest Snowden document release, aside from the Angry Birds articles that The Guardian and The New York Times focused on? There was significantly more important information in the latest leak. Mind-blowing, really.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N...
THINK about these capabilities. When you start taking into account such things as RF/Pulsed communication technologies built into the electrical grid, and combine them with the technologies listed in the latest leak, the true extent of surveillance is far more than most people would imagine possible.
http://www.landisgyr.com/webfo...
Now you know why Google recently purchased Nest--sensing technology that can be tied directly into existing Landis-Gyr communications.
This isn't future tech, it's already out there and has been for awhile.
"...and then having to dig through your memory to try to remember who they are (failing miserably) while acting like you know exactly who they are."
I'd rather trust my own memory then out-source it.
For fuck sake people, are you listening to yourselves? This is a corporation literally trying to turn people into mobile data gathering devices. You are either deluding yourself about your own level of intelligence, or suffer from a serious lack of morality, if you think any of this is acceptable. Every person on this planet values privacy to some degree--What, exactly, do we really get in exchange for the loss of this privacy? Knowledge we could get by simply asking that person?
THINK, PEOPLE. If history is any sort of an indicator, any rights we sell today, our children must buy back with blood.
Not picking sides, but there is an awful lot of bullshit in this thread--from both sides of the table.
On another note, anyone notice that almost all of the many train derailments that have occurred since the first Snowden leak have happened directly on top of rail switches?
"The oxygen in the CO2 is atmospheric oxygen, not fossil oxygen. I'd just as soon not get rid of it."
Excellent point. I concur. Some way to crack the elements apart would be required, but even then the loss of carbon might not be a good idea, nor would it be retrievable.
But, there still remains the question of this happening spontaneously, without benefit of a space-elevator. Is it possible this process of limnic eruption could occur on a global scale (rather than a lake)? Perhaps a closer look at the evidence from Ceres would help answer that question.
"... we already do this on a smaller scale, only it is used to prevent a catastrophic spontaneous degassing (is this a possible outcome of us enriching the atmosphere with CO2?!?"
Perhaps the recent eruptions of water on Ceres are a result of the same limnic eruption phenomenon seen at Lake Nyos. To be honest, this is somewhat worrying--could this same process occur, here on Earth, if we push the CO2 saturation level too high? A sudden degassing of the atmosphere, into space? Has this happened before, in the Earth's history?
Steps 1 and 2 got me thinking of a possible solution (as they outline a potential problem as well!) to our CO2 accumulation in the atmosphere.
If one combines the idea of a "Space-elevator" with a thin-walled tube reaching from a base-station/pumping station all the way out of the atmosphere, degassing would take place. The base of the tube would extend into the earth, surrounded by a sleeve that is keep full of atmospheric CO2 and open to the atmosphere at ground level. As CO2 is heavier than other atmospheric gasses, this sleeve would prevent a mixture of gasses from being drawn into the "elevator".
Before you dismiss the idea offhand, let me point out that we already do this on a smaller scale, only it is used to prevent a catastrophic spontaneous degassing (is this a possible outcome of us enriching the atmosphere with CO2?!?). See linked article on degassing.
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The diagram provided in the article is a suitable representation of what I just described, the low pressure area being space, and the high pressure area being the sleeve located at the base station/anchor.
Food for thought.
"I wonder how desperate for attention one must be to confess a security breach just to be in some news."
Do you really think that was the goal? Advertising a security breach? It isn't really anything novel these days--everyone is doing it. We've become bored with the very idea.
More than likely, they are simply trying to determine who is using which account. They release this sort of announcement to get users to simply interact in any way, be that changing your password or even trying to do so. This way, they can tell which accounts are active, and by whom. A complete data refresh keeps the data valuable.
""Honey? Your dad's on the phone again..."
Maybe in a few years I'll be able to download George Carlin, fire him up on my iPeople, and chew the fat for awhile.
I miss George.
A computer scientist is someone who fixes things that aren't broken.
