Somehow I think a few Admirals and part of the Ukraine Navy would disagree with your statement, "Pooty hasn't actually 'done' anything." He has radically repositioned his forces all around the Ukraine, now overflies the country to the point of violating normally observed sovereign airspace, and "stolen" a number of Navy ships. Most countries would take exception to this. You have to keep in mind that in Russia, private individuals are not treated much differently from the state-ran institutions. If you have a couple hours to burn, read a number of articles on the fraud, contracting, and money trail during the Sochi build up for the recent Winter Olympics. It might start to make sense to you why.

I definately thought that. NATO was losing relevence. Also, it's on the surface completely counter to Putin's apparent goal: reduce NATO and West influence. So what's happening? A few stragglers no one wants jump on the Russian train, but a majority who had put NATO plans on hold are now seriously reconsidering. This will in effect bring NATO closer and from more directions. Actually, not just in effect, it's already happening: US troops are now rotating through Eastern Europe to appease allies. This also might long term strengthen ties to US missile defense systems. Keep in mind the Russians signed a treaty with Ukraine saying they would respect soverign rights of the Ukraine in return for their former nuclear missiles. You have to think any future countries who bargain with Russia will take this into account...meaning, any agreement is barely worth the paper it's written on as long as Russia has a standing army.

However, I'm NOT drinking the looney Cool-Aid to the point I'd actually believe some similar plot as the idi0ts who think Bush/Israel/BoogeyManInc planned 9/11.

Please list for me ONE country that doesn't have double standards. I think most refer to this as a "domestic" versus international agenda. States do the same, hence why we had to invent "interstate commerce" federal protection laws. You couldn't buy a car in Nevada and drive it into California (and register it) without economic hurdles (number of miles driven, $300 "environmental impact fee") as little as 2 decades ago.

The only state sponsored news in the US is PBS. Ironically it's also the best quality news versus any "mainstream" media we have.

Yes, but the link you provide also shows there are NO GPS monitoring stations in Russia. Ascension and Kwaj Islands, Diego Garcia, Colorado Springs, Hawaii, and Cape Canaveral. Ground Antennas are about 5 of those (drop Hawaii, Cape, and Colo Sprngs). Hence, none of the sites that affect GPS are Eastern Europe or Russia. Remember, GPS was originally built during Reagan's years, before the Cold War ended.

As one of about 3 operators who turned it off in early 1990s, your information is a bit dated. The signal isn't degraded, but the mathmatical solution WAS. However, after the Russians shot down a civilian airliner (aren't Russians AWESOME!) President Reagan made the decision to turn it off, and it was implmented a few years later. We sent the "SA/AS = 0" (or turned it off) and "Bias=0" (or turned any bias amount to zero) commands around 1993. SA is Selective Availability. AS is Anti-Spoofing. Spoofing is the process where someone pretends to be GPS to throw your solution off, or they might jam to just outright deny usage. Your keys comment might also confuse as we (the US) can also encrypt GPS signals. Meaning AS turns on keys, SA turns on bias. They are mutually exclusive, as AS denies usage (aka, encryption) and SA denies precision (aka, dilution of precision).

See, that's the trick: He doesn't have to sign anything he disagrees with.

I know that it is not uncommon for Congress to send "poison pills" to the President (whoever it happens to be at the time). Bush the Younger got many from Congress, and he wasn't the first. He won't be the last. It's one of the reasons I favor giving the President some form of line-item VETO power. If there's a reason he doesn't like a bill, he can go on record as not liking a portion by striking it and send it back to Congress to re-consider.

Better yet, I would like to see some responsibility in Congress. Something that requires "riders" to a bill actually be related to the bill would be nice. "But that's the only way some things can get passed," I hear someone say. My reply is, "Yeah. Do you suppose there might be a reason for that?"

It would also be nice if Congress would spend more time reviewing laws that have been on the books for a while and consider repealing those that are deemed to be no longer relevant. I would rather they do that than sit around wondering what else they could do to micromanage my life.

The problem is, the CEO's job is to be the figurehead for the company. He's not the President -- he's not in an operational position, his sole job is to represent the company to the board and the public. His inability to do so effectively is absolutely grounds for removing him. Its a fine line to walk when you get arcane labor laws into the picture, but the fact is, with the uproar he wasn't capable of doing the singular thing his job exists to do. If he was the President of the company, I doubt he would've been pressured to resign. (Its very much like the laws against things like weight or sex discrimination -- when someone's job is specifically related to their fitness or gender, its been shown repeatedly that laws like these don't apply.)

Diversity does not mean tolerating bigotry directed at minorities. It's crazy that you talk about tolerating disagreement when Eich is the one who donated money to criminalize what he disagrees with.

Then do work at work, and non-work at home.

Note: this is a gross oversimplification, but accurate relative to this story and what you're asking ...

HIPAA has to do with patient data, not medical data. If you're not a patient of the company doing the deep inspection, then there's no issue, and there's still no issue if you signed an appropriate HIPAA waiver, even if you ARE a patient and the company in question IS a hospital. If you go to HealthVault or some other site with *your* health records in it, and they are decrypting it, that's not HIPAA in the sense you're talking about.

Hell, even if they were shuffling the SSL traffic to a cloud service hosted by a 3rd party to do the scanning, AND you were a patient, AND the 3rd party was decrypting the data, that is just fine as long as the right paperwork is in place between the two companies.

The bug was found due to observed behavior, not due to a code review.

I've been laid off 3 times since my last real update here on /. Also, volunteered for Afghanistan 3 times, and deployed those 3 times to various organizations. Still married here, have a second kid now, a girl. I don't post their names on line (or pics) so I'll just say older boy and younger girl :) I'm working now in Saint Louis but looking to get back to San Diego for work. Starting to get tired of working for government/military circles because of constant funding pressures, but I earn an exceptional income due to my experience, education, training, etc. It's funny you posted this as I just stopped in to see if an old friend was on here. DexterPexter I think was her name. She has a EE and ME background, worked robotics and last I heard went to work for a "three-letter agency" on unmanned sensors.

Glad you found RUU Wuvv here :) I made friends gaming on XBOX Live who later found me here (very similar alias) and so it was funny comparing posts, interests, etc.

35 messages on this thread as I read it, and only ONE says in any detail anything that shows the issue and what the vulnerability has as an underlying assumption. Here it is for those who did read the article (RTFA), you have to install a rogue app. So, someone who's breaking the ToS (not being rogue) has to put an app out, then you have to install it, and then it's scraping inputs. This isn't a security vulnerability as most responses on here opine about. My car has a gas pedal. Does the ECM for engine management have a "security vulnerability," because I can press hard on the right pedal and do 180mph (illegal by federal law)?? No. It's functioning as designed. Press hard on gas, go faster. App installed and running in background, can accept device inputs. For example, have a GPS app? It is allowing inputs from other applications (e.g. you can listen to music on the GPS app I have without kicking out to Music app) and inputs (buttons).

Nothing significant to see here. Yeah, more restrictions from Apple development guidelines coming due to asshats being asshats. *sigh*