Attkisson's 'Hack' In a nutshell, Attkisson claims the government hacked her computers in December, 2012 and she reported it to CBS at the time. She claims a PC and her personal Mac were hacked, and the media has accepted this claim with no skepticism. Mediaite went with the assumption that she shot it in December, 2012.

But a sharp-eyed commenter over at Media Matters observed that Attkisson's video was shot during the Valerie Harper debut on Dancing With the Stars in September, 2013. Here's what WiscoJoe observes:

Attkisson shot this video on or sometime after September 16, 2013. The episode of "Dancing with the Stars" that is playing in the background features Valerie Harper dancing a Foxtrot to "Some Kind of Wonderful" and first aired live on the evening of that date.
According to Attkisson's own timeline her computer was 'hacked' in October 2012, she came forward with this allegation in May 2013, but then waited until September 2013 to take video 'evidence.'

Has Ms. Attkisson provided an explanation of when this video was taken or why she waited for a year, and until after she went forward with public allegations, to take video documentation of her computer being 'hacked'? Is this the standard of investigative journalism that she was doing while at CBS? If that's the case it may explain why she no longer works there.

Where are they? Here on Slashdot. That's what I was saying.

Yes, slashdotters aren't typical Republicans Unlike most Republicans, their hatred of the word "government" isn't just a euphemism for racial bias.They actually believe it.

I would still argue that they're wrong. As organized power is the most effective form of power. you're going to get a government one way or the other. So it might as well be one that is beneficent. But their positions are at least understandable.

But I agree, there is really no substance to this post. Hell, in many countries, Australia for instance, voting is mandatory. It's a crime not to. (You don't have to vote for anyone, but you must turn your ballot in.)

But heaven forfend that anyone be asked why they didn't vote in an election, that's so.. so... so! A first-world problem to be truly outraged about.

Yes, there is one more thing that needs to be said: If the scientists who have studied this are even remotely correct, your great grandchildren will look upon your memory in a manner somewhat akin to the way that people speak of southern slave owners, and the way Germans remember the NAZIs

(I remember the days when Slashdot still had intelligent, intellectual, technically minded, conversations. And even when people disagreed, they brought facts to the table, not childishness.)

You're looking for a solution "the political, economic, and technological realities of today"?

Let me quote Albert Einstein for you:

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."

No matter how "unlimited" a data cap supposedly is, if the bandwidth is limited, then there is only a limited amount of data you will ever be able to pull through it over a monthly period. So therefore it's limited, QED.

To posit an absurd example to prove the point, if AT&T advertised an "unlimited bandwidth" connection that could only download one byte per minute, your effectively monthly data cap would be: 60 (seconds) * 60 (minutes) * 24 (hours) * 31 (days) = 2.67 Mb per month.

Artificially throttling bandwidth is imposing a lower data cap, period.

Let me leave a part of the remarks of Senator Ron Wyden (D), Oregon here:

Vote by Mail offers additional advantages that may not be readily apparent. For example, on Election Day in 2006, Tillamook County, Oregon, experienced a deluge of 13 inches of rain. Roads were closed, parts of the county became unreachable, and a State of emergency was declared. Even so, 70 percent of the voters in Tillamook County cast their ballots. Vote by Mail ensured that lack of access to polling places because of a natural disaster on Election Day was no impediment to voting.

In vote by mail, you sign your ballot. This is checked against a database of your legal registration by people trained to recognize signatures. The County Clerk will call you up if there is any discrepancy (sometimes people just change the way they sign, sometimes it happens due to strokes). So there is no possibility of voter fraud either.

This is the big question. Because, to riff off the 14 years old discussion, wireless has progressed leaps and bounds since then. So simply putting the PC inside a waterproof chest and using a combination of WiFi, Bluetooth, and a few wireless display technologies. This is what is presently on Intel's product roadmap anyway.

Your biggest problem is likely to be the monitor. Every means we have to produce significant amount of light (especially required for outdoor viewing), requires dissipation of heat. That means venting. Which means air holes. Which can get spray in it.

So really the question can't be answered unless you explain the purpose of the PC. Is it there to do things like take measurements? Can it be controlled from a mobile phone? (they're much easier to seal) This is what is needed to know how to give further advice.

1. Assange has a meeting with a few government officials and Schmidt from google; the meeting is boring from Assange's point of view, and he looks down on Schmidt.
2. Later, he's publishing a leaks book and tries to give the White House a courtesy call about it. He gets a call back from one of the arrangers of the original meeting, calling to verify that it was actually him, and not someone pulling a hoax. Assange suddenly realizes that the government officials that Schmidt was coming along with might mean he "had been keeping some company that placed him very close to Washington, D.C"
3. Later, in processing some leaked/hacked emails from a Texas company named Stratfor, he find out that a google employee, Julian Cohen, travels to various governments in turmoil. He went to Egypt, to meet Wael Ghonim, the Google employee who was arrested and imprisoned on political charges. He was also planning to talk to people in Iran. And talk to moderate opposition to Hezbollah. And tried to get Bollywood (Indian) movie producers to put in "anti-extremist content" in their movies. Then went to Ireland for a summit with ex-gang members to try to addresses the causes of extremism. Assange thinks this is a terrible idea: "What could go wrong"? He asks sarcastically
4. Assange then launches into a screed that could be more or less summarized as "lame-stream media and sheeple are being subjugated". He says he thought Schmidt was a dupe in all this.
5. Now he concludes that Schmidt is an evil authoritarian, associating himself with prominent "imperialist" politicans like Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama, and other terrible conservative groups like the Bono's ONE Foundation, George Soros, and the Rockefeller foundation.
6. He doesn't like google talking to high ranking officials in foreign governments, and decries US soft power
7. He ends with: A “don’t be evil” empire is still an empire.

They're wearing out. Yes. Nuclear warheads have a lifespan, even if they sit around unused. There is a lot of radioactive decay to them.

Not only are the warheads not working, we also have launch facilities that don't secure. The airforce has a silo where they have to prop open a blast door with a crowbar. The weapons maintenance facilities are even in worse shape. The NYT article talks about a Tennessee facility so decrepit, its roof is caving in and they have people wear hard hats to stay relatively safe. Not exactly the place I want spent nuclear materials to be reprocessed in.

Ironically, it is precisely because we're not on hair-trigger alert for nuclear war, that we've let things get so bad. We just kind of forgot about it. But just because we're no longer worried doesn't mean the stuff is safe. We need to spend money to keep it that way.

We've been working on a very involved website redo, including service oriented architecture, RESTful interfaces, responsive design on the front end, a number of integrated Hadoop clusters on the back end, etc., and it's been nearly two years, and it still isn't done.

One of our directors said, "I just hope when we finally get this thing open for business, it's at least as good as Healthcare.gov".

He wasn't being ironic.

Slashdot has gone terribly downhill. Apparently instead of software engineers, it's filled with partisan morons who only know how to cut-and-paste spin and blatant falsehoods cribbed from FOX, or on the other side, absurd cynicism because their radical-left vision of unicorns and rainbows isn't possible in the real world. Neither seems to have any appreciation, or intellectual capability, to understand the complexities of large-scale architecture and systems design, much less able to offer any cogent commentary on it.

So the government is basically conceding for this to fail.