Just remember,
bits and bytes are cheaper than bullets and bombs...
Don't believe me?
Just ask Putin's puppet, Don

From: Acme RocketShoe Company
To: "The Donald"
Dear Donald,
When you were hired in, you were aware that this position is a "Temp" position.
Your probationary period is about to end, and so this is your performance review.
I have to say your performance has been less than stellar to say the least, Criminal is a better description.
With that, your services are no longer required.
Please clean out your desk and be off property by noon today.
Yours truly,
Acme RocketShoe Company
The American Public -CEO

Over the last week, I've been getting scam calls on my home phone allegedly from CenturyLink wanting me to let them in through Teamviewer or through a tinyurl so they could "update the firmware" on my modem, Well, they're not my ISP....So maybe someone found a way into their root system? I'm in Northern Nevada and CenturyLink only has a small footprint in the Vegas area

I had to turn off my machines couple weeks ago cause the UPS started squawking because the battery had died of old age...
I dated it when it got installed, in 2011, So the machines have been up for 8 years and only been rebooted/ turned off for patches/updates,
and the prior UPS was the same way, it lasted ~5 years.

1st Rectangular Color CRT's,
1st totally solid state Color TV,
Motorola Quasar "Works in a Drawer" modular TV's, Now THAT was Motorola....

They have sonar? Set them loose to find MH370.....

Yes, HDMI isn't better, its just all about DRM!
Per their spec:
"HDMI can carry high quality multi-channel audio data and can carry all standard and high-definition consumer electronics video formats.

Content protection technology is available."
I'm getting real tired of this whole encryption deal...
Its OK for THEM to encrypt, but not US ... and send us to jail if we DO decrypt...
" do as I say, not as I do."

I guess nobody at the FBI or DOJ has ever heard of Moore's Law... compute power gets cheaper every day... so encryption methods of today will be useless tomorrow.

If you live in the US, who do you want spying on you? the Russians? or the NSA?
Pick your poison...personally, as a non-combatant, I think I'd prefer the Russians as they have no legal reach to me....
but since I run a 'nix variant, I don't run any AV anyway, a non-issue for me.

Apparently, Harris makes more on their Stingray II units than these sub-assemblies for Lockheed.
I'm sure the lead time on a StingRay is 7~10 working days for delivery, or overnight if you want to pay for the expedited freight.
Obviously they have no scruples.

Nevada has always been "beachfront" property...the State fossil is the Ichthyosaur.

Mr. Vance doesn't need a change in the encryption,
he needs a change in employees....
But seriously folks,
I'm sure there are ways into these phones...too bad those methods aren't usable in court, and I bet they have already been into these phones,collected what they wanted, but haven't been able to use that info without exposing how they got it, illegally.
This is their ploy to get encryption changed.

(just cuz i'm paranoid doesn't mean they aren't out to get me)

So my cable company requires a STB to get... anything.
They sell me a "package",X many channels,.... oh,you need this box to watch them, and you get to rent it, forever.
And, you can't buy one, or another device to replace it. Talk about a "captive audience"?
they advertise 2 bazillion channels, but its a Switched Digital Video system, They have all the channels, but they only serve up one channel at a time to your box,
so if you are like me, watching 6 channels a once... the lag of tearing down a session,starting up a new one for the next channel requested really ruins the whole TV experience for me
In my thinking they're kinda misrepresenting things
The Cable companies don't want to let go of the hardware rental business that their business plan is based on.
$5.00 a month for a box, that's for Basic cable? (no dvr etc)
$3.00 a month for a cable card ( yeah, they own the only mfr. of cable cards too)
multiply that by every TV/device in the house
and oh you need a cable wiring repair plan too... :-)

And, if there was no DMCA, we wouldn't be having this conversation...
the "Fix" would have been spotted long ago.
The EPA should have seen this right away...
But as my father used to say, "If you can't get a Real Job, then you go to work for the government."

Remember Moscow Rule # 4 ~ "Don't look back; you are never completely alone."