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Comment Re: I lost a heap (Score 1) 114

When "someone", perhaps a snitch, or Fed. wants old BTC key, logs, records, or any traceback, look out., They are law enforcement trying to get you to self-incriminate yourself. On the advice of counsel, DONT ANSWER THAT QUESTION about cryptocurrency, or keys of any kind. Club Fed is not a nice place for an extended stay! Especially with the abolition of parole, you must do your time and can be transferred at any time anywhere they want. You don't want a record on the Bureau Of Prisons database!

Comment It Is MY Data And Its Ownership has not been given (Score 1) 16

Data about me. I feel belongs to ME and ME ALONE to disseminate as I choose. It is not the property for a third party to profit from it without either my consent or compensation. If my image belongs to me why not my information such as likes or dislikes, political affiliation or opinions, all the things that define me within the digital world as a unique person belong to me and define ONLY me as a human being within the land of 1s and 0s. Another comment raised the question of the internet is a public place or private space. It is both at the same time. The "internet' isn't one thing nor place but the global network of every digital device that can create and/or receive data. It is a concept many humans cannot grasp but should be aware of the enormity of this thing we some times incorrectly call 'The Internet".A refrigerator connected to another information device is the internet. Every government entity throughout the world is the internet. Whether a source or sink of data or both, interconnected or within some form of isolation, that too can be called the internet. So public or private depends on the viewer.

Comment !st Amendment Refers to Govt Censorship (Score 1) 176

Please get a copy of the Bill Of Rights. The 1st Amendment refers to Government censorship. If a company, say Fox refuses to publish the Trump lies, that is not a violation of the 1st Amendment. If the mayor of Brighton Beach were to prevent any speech about Trumps lies about "WikiLeaks", We have a1st Amendment violation. Google facebook etc are coming to Congressional hearings to prevent the government to act against their corporations by claiming ignorantly that private businesses and citizens do not have1st Amendment rights..

Comment Re:meh (Score 1) 277

I find this comment about Customs authority over citizens private materials confiscation specious. There is a thing called the 4th Amendment. If Customs agents can SEIZE and/or SEARCH the contents of anything, did we loose the Constitution and its protections at the country's borders? What is the control over NOT confiscating EVERYTHING a citizen owns while traveling across the USA borders? Radios,audio devices,encrypted cell phones, computing and,data storage device of any kind seem targets of customs confiscation"authority". This authority cant be cited in law and changes from customs point to customs point, depends on the person in charge who sets his/her rules at a whim. The POLICE STATE mentality of keeping us safe from some unspecified or unknown "ENEMY" whoever they may be attacks the very core of a free society. We cannot just tear up Constitutional protections when Law enforcement enforces the laws on everyone! Putin is jumping for joy at the attacks of a Free Press by the President, again a guaranteed Constitutional protection. Putin watches at what is happening in America as the government destroy itself by shredding Constitutional protections when We The People Are all Equal under the Law, but the government EXCLUDES itself. We are falling into a dictatorship mentality every day in the name of protecting us. Personal communications between adults have been legislated away because of the fear a minor may use a web service.. WE legislate away rights every day rather than placing the burden of controlling minors access to internet onto the shoulders of the PARENTS where it belong. Will books be banned because words are written about politicians that are critical of the present administration? Where does the rigid morality / thought police end and our 1st Amendment rights are truly back in the hands of the PEOPLE and not legislators with their narrow misguided interpretations of writing any law they want. Screw the Constitution we are Congress and can do anything.

Comment Russian Anti-Virus Removed from Govt Systems 2017 (Score 1) 180

Russian cyber security firm, Kaspersky Lab, is being investigated by the F.B.I. for possible links to Russian security services. Quote from NY Times 9/12/2017. US govt put out notice to remove this anti-virus from all government not only DOD computers within 90 days ordered by Elaine C. Duke, the acting secretary of Homeland Security. Boxes with embedded code, like routers, cable modems, computers desk & laotop, etc may be infected with backdoor or corrupted software put there in China's production factories by People's liberation army cyber experts. Unless we know the embedded code is pristine, we have given our country's cyber system access to America's enemies. Look at Stuxnet code launched against Iran's nuclear enrichment machines, Iran had no idea that they had been hacked but good. We need AI, machine learning or something to detect the malicious low level code that controls hardware and keep our systems from harm both foreign and domestic sources.

Comment Waiting Proved To Be Very Costly (Score 1) 408

By waiting and literally pouring money and concrete into roads and more waiting and pouring even more money and concrete into automobile projects (roads, etc), we have almost priced mass transportation out of reach of even Federal Government's coffers. The delays that have started at the very beginning of this project may doom the whole thing to the same state of the federal Interstate Highway system, incomplete thru the most congested areas. A prime example is I-95 thru NJ which will probably NEVER be completed. Unless we have steely resolve we are forced to drive in automobiles everywhere. Buses and light rail were killed by Detroit. Look at the trolley system in Los Angeles. Detroit bought up the trolley companies and relegated the trolley cars to the scrap heap. The boom in selling autos made this "investment" profitable for a long while. But in the long run the city fathers screwed themselves and society as a whole. I can see the horrid orange green-yellow haze over the New York and Los Angeles areas. Smog alerts are common and people with breathing problems are warned to stay indoors. We CANNOT allow our infrastructure to crumble beneath our feet. Monies from taxes for bridges and roads have been squandered to shore up budget gaps from fraud, double dealing ( we call them good business men), incompetence, stupidity, and just excesses in spending we can't afford. Without saying NO to delays and NO to cost overruns, we will never complete another rail project nor bridge nor tunnel in America again! We cannot say no to this project's idea even if we must use global resources to get the job done.

Submission + - Pending bill would kill a big H-1B loophole (computerworld.com)

ErichTheRed writes: This isn't perfect, but it is the first attempt I've seen at removing the "body shop" loophole in the H-1B visa system. A bill has been introduced in Congress that would raise the minimum wage for an H-1B holder from $60K to $100K, and place limits on the body shop companies that employ mostly H-1B holders in a pass-through arrangement. Whether it's enough to stop the direct replacement of workers, or whether it will just accelerate offshoring, remains to be seen. But, I think removing the most blatant and most abused loopholes in the rules is a good start.

Comment Lazy Security & Cheapskate Bankers (Score 1) 94

I worked for major brokerage firms and banks and was shocked and appalled by the cavalier attitude of some security people and programmers who are too lazy to change the default login & passwords in software supplied by some vendors,. Talk about liability, the Court has finally seen the light and sided with the victim of the bank fraud crime. The implementers of info systems are responsible not only for our money but our sensitive tax, family, medical info & Veteran records etc. The lawyers will force the security protocols onto companies too busy to take care of truly important business, information security practices. Start using the best practices in business. r Better peer review of code must be done to prevent buffer overflow etc.. Shutdown the brute force password cracking after a number of tries. We must secure our power grid, water & sewer plants, too. Our military is fighting cyberwar daily, they know thru trial & error. Lets learn & use that warped genius of crackers & hackers and re-direct their efforts to help plug the holes.

Comment Re:It's good to have the spotlight shone on ACTA.. (Score 1) 101

Even though the spotlight's being shone on the dodgy practices behind ACTA, what's the bet that this will still result in just plain old stonewalling until the final agreements have been ratified by treaty, and all is needed is legislation in each member state?

ACTA comes from utterly fraudulent governance, and not from the public's mandate.

Why can't Congress get an answer about this treaty? Doesn't Congress have to ratify this treaty too??? Contact your 2 Senators and raise holy hell. We can't be forced into another NAFTA again. Not a peep from the people to their Senators about NAFTA and everything is gone to the other side of the border. NOTHING is made in U.S.A. any more. We have become a nation of spineless stupid people. We don't deserve anything better than what we are willing to fight for.

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