You know who has trouble with "bad cops?" The people who don't respect authority in the first place.

Maybe you can do a little research (Google) on cops accused of rape.

Or just look at cops sentenced to life imprisonment.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Eppolito_and_Stephen_Caracappa

I am still here, still free, and still have my privacy.

No, you do not.

Not being interesting to the authorities is not the same as having your privacy intact.

And I would rather not die.

If you live in the USofA, you are in more danger of being killed by someone in your family than by a terrorist.

But there comes a point where I need to balance that with other things such as seeing my daughter grow up.

The question is whether you believe there are more terrorists in the USofA or more bad cops/contractors/other-people-with-access-to-track-your-daughter.

Once you sign away her privacy she probably won't be getting it back.

And she will still be in more danger from her boyfriend/husband (and ex-boyfriends/husbands) than she is from any terrorist in the USofA.

Thor is in jail because he's a hacker. But the bad guys are doing bad things and Thor is the only one who can stop them.

So people who want to help Thor stop the bad guys get Thor out of jail.

And a really hot Asian woman falls in love with Thor.

And Thor and the Asian woman race around the world fighting the bad guys. Literally fighting. Thor kicks physical ass. And he has a hot Asian girlfriend.

No "restore from backup" or "patch your servers" or "fix your firewall's DMZ". This is REAL hacking.

It's a step in the right direction.

Now, instead of just posting a graphic of a flag, how about posting some justification? Explain what you are objecting to and why you find it objectionable.

You have the attention of the media.

Unless you're a bunch of teenage script kiddies doing this for the lulz.

From TFA:

The Meitivs say that on Dec. 20, a CPS worker required Alexander to sign a safety plan pledging he would not leave his children unsupervised until the following Monday, when CPS would follow up. At first he refused, saying he needed to talk to a lawyer, his wife said, but changed his mind when he was told his children would be removed if he did not comply.

I think the whole family just learned that.

The important part is use this as part of YOUR plan for YOUR education. Like you did.

Community Colleges are great for taking care of the 100 level pre-requisites prior to University.

Community Colleges are great at expanding your knowledge WITHOUT going for a degree.

Community Colleges are great for bringing up your Grade Point Average (GPA) if you had problems in High School but still want to pursue an advanced education.

Etc.

This program should NOT be the FINAL step in your education.

And people like you will evidently give it to them under the guise of political correctness.

So first you make claims about what Islam teaches because you know more about it than a million Muslims living in the USofA right now.

Then you make claims about what I believe. You don't know me any more than you know any Muslim living here.

After all, you don't want to Offend a Muslim, or he might cut your head off or shoot you while you're in a meeting.

Again, you don't know me any more than you know any Muslim. I spent 7 years in the Army. I've watched people whose job it was to shoot me watching me. As it was mine to shoot them.

And because I understand math, I know that if a million of them have not tried to shoot me yet then they probably won't. Because despite your claims, they do NOT believe what you claim they do.

And you 'd know that if you knew any Muslims.

However, it is blind political correctness that is allowing most liberals to cede their ideals in the name of tolerance.

What ideals have been ceded?

Because the fact remains, Western values are not valued by Muslims.

Except for the million Muslims who live here right now.

I've heard it all before. It's always about "them" and how "they" are "bad" because of "their" culture or religion or whatever.

Whether "they" are Muslims or blacks or Hispanics or "gooks" or "Japs" or ...

Maybe you should read George Takei's writings on his experience in an internment camp.

If you're in the local minority, it is wise to shut up and nod.

So you're saying that the GP was wrong about Islam and it actually teaches a pragmatic approach to democratically elected representative government?

Muhammad Ali is a Sunni. He refused to fight in Vietnam as a conscientious objector. Yet he was given the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Bush in 2005. So .... bad Muslim? Or maybe your understanding of Muslims could be expanded upon by meeting more of them?

If you remain silent, because of fear, they have already won.

Yes.

1) Islam, is not a peaceful religion. There is no major Muslim outcry over any of the acts committed by Muslims. I didn't say there was none, I said there was no major outcry.

Just because you haven't seen them does not mean that they haven't happened. Have you gone looking for them? The media usually skips them because blood gets more views.

2) Islam, does take offense at things that Western Culture deems acceptable for the purposes of liberty, even tasteless crude humor. Muslims in general haven not expressed any desire to curb their rhetoric.

There are at least a million Muslims living in the USofA. The majority seem to be okay with it.

3) Islam doesn't teach co-existence, it teaches domination.

What you claim Islam teaches and how a million Muslims live, every day, in the USofA ... well there seems to be a disconnect there.

Western cultures do no need Islam. We don't want Islam. We don't like Islam. Muslims need to go back the their asswipe countries in the desert and stay there.

I've heard the same rhetoric about blacks. And Hispanics. It's easy to hate someone you've never met.

But then, I live in Seattle and there are two halal markets within a mile of me.

http://xkcd.com/576/

And the reason is ... because the stuff used to be BUILT by people. If a guy on the assembly line had to be able to get his hands onto a bolt to install it then someone replacing it would also be able to reach it.

Once we switched to robots for manufacturing it became a lot more difficult. A robot can reach where a person cannot.

Which means you save a lot of "wasted" space and materials ... but you have to take apart X, Y and Z to be able to read the headlight.

The threat of punishment sure keeps me paying my taxes...

I'll say that it is not because you worry that you will be executed but that you will lose your possessions / job / freedom. Once you've bought into the system then the system has ways to keep you invested.

Once you leave the system then the punishments don't matter.

Either someone doing something "wrong" is going to change their behavior or they are not.

Yeah. Although I see it as whether they have the option to join the system again. If they're paying a mortgage and putting their kids through school then they have an interest in following the rules.

If not, then kill them, they aren't worth the food and air used to keep them alive.

The problem with that approach is that the system is run by people. And those people are flawed.

Convicts who are on death row are being released because of DNA evidence.
http://codysinvestigations.com/NorCalPrivateInvestigatorBlog/corrupt-justice-texas-state-bar-seeks-to-discipline-prosecutor-for-concealing-evidence-in-wrongful-conviction-of-michael-morton/

And it is even worse if you are a minority.

You can (even in uniform) refuse an "unlawful" order, according to the UCMJ.

Yes. You will have to justify it though.

Anyway, back to the previous comment:

there's a magical difference between sworn and unsworn.

It's not magical. It's "military" and "civilian". If you're military then the UCMJ replaces the civilian laws.

if they ask a hacker to create a virus ....

The military does not create the weapons that it uses. It buys them from civilians. The M-16? Parts made by Mattel. The same company that makes Barbie dolls. So a soldier would probably NOT be writing that virus. It would be a civilian contractor or other government agency (NSA).

I think the concept here has gotten lost.

The problem is that if your INITIAL sorting is based upon who can pass Basic Training and such, you will probably exclude people with more valuable skills.

There is nothing stopping the Army from creating a new field and assigning some lieutenants to it. Those lieutenants are the ones that "pull the trigger".

But the network scans, evaluations, compromises and such can all be done by GS contractors. The lieutenants would be the equivalent of "script kiddies" at worst.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Schedule_(US_civil_service_pay_scale)

But to have a whole group of 'different' Army folks - not such a good idea.

100% agreement.

If they are NOT going to be deployed then hire them as GS whatever.

If they ARE going to be deployed to a situation where they can be shot then they need combat training.

It's not so much the VPN technology as it is the failure to correctly implement and secure it.

TFA leaves the real content until the end of the article:

The data is then replayed from the repositories through a set of attack scripts, which use sets of preshared keys (PSKs) harvested from sources such as exploited routers and stored in a key database ...

So if the NSA wants to "crack" your VPN session they first record it (we know how they do that) then they try to brute force that recording using what is, essentially, a dictionary attack.

TFA seems more entranced by the cutesy names than by the technology.