tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post5798569292672090753..comments2024-03-28T21:41:52.558-04:00Comments on The Elephant Bar: If the private emails of the head of the Central Intelligence Agency aren’t safe from police snooping, how safe do you think yours are?Deuce ☂http://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comBlogger25125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-80834098959329108912012-11-21T17:03:32.913-05:002012-11-21T17:03:32.913-05:00the creation of a central authority vs a welter of...<br /><br /><i>the creation of a central authority</i> vs <i>a welter of local regulations.</i><br /><br />The eternal tug-of-war between top-down vs bottoms-up continues. Er, I guess I should put down that glass; that would be "bottom up." Little wonder the AI people are cranky.<br /><br />DRRhttp://d.orgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-16071009805132414322012-11-21T10:30:11.139-05:002012-11-21T10:30:11.139-05:00.
Anyone who would 'automatically' assume....<br /><br />Anyone who would 'automatically' assume the government is telling the truth on a particular subject is dense or criminally credulous.<br /><br />.<br /><br />Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-82346932667746799042012-11-21T09:39:56.492-05:002012-11-21T09:39:56.492-05:00.
They got tired of seeing all those left-wing di....<br /><br />They got tired of seeing all those left-wing dicks.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-8680003681681337772012-11-21T09:36:05.958-05:002012-11-21T09:36:05.958-05:00.
Hopeless.
..<br /><br />Hopeless.<br /><br />.Quirkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00272168240606512672noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-9966571398943941422012-11-21T07:59:26.314-05:002012-11-21T07:59:26.314-05:00Recalibrate your shit-o-meter and try the next pos...Recalibrate your shit-o-meter and try the next post. <br /><br />Happy Thanksgiving, don’t buy anything.Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-90876689799593823302012-11-21T07:52:24.972-05:002012-11-21T07:52:24.972-05:00An ISP with alzheimer's. :)An ISP with alzheimer's. :)Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47092539061251426692012-11-21T07:45:39.573-05:002012-11-21T07:45:39.573-05:00Reagan.comReagan.comDeuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-83032626542310665422012-11-21T07:45:26.177-05:002012-11-21T07:45:26.177-05:00This is just one of those subjects that have a har...This is just one of those subjects that have a hard time moving my shit-o-meter.<br /><br />I, absolutely, want the FBI spying on the CIA; and the CIA spying on the Generals; and Everyone spying on the President, and Congress.<br /><br />I want Jamie Dimon's emails published, every day, on the front page of the NY Times, and the publisher of the NY Times emails published in the WSJ.<br /><br />I want cameras on every street corner, and citizens with iphones filming the Cops.<br /><br />In short, I want those assholes subjected to the same harassment that they can inflict, at will, upon the rest of us.<br /><br />Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-4198967725595163652012-11-21T07:36:55.492-05:002012-11-21T07:36:55.492-05:00Still do.Still do.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-46767122754012368242012-11-21T07:27:15.664-05:002012-11-21T07:27:15.664-05:00I got the joke but that is what you used to argue....I got the joke but that is what you used to argue.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28181801868365673342012-11-21T07:18:01.063-05:002012-11-21T07:18:01.063-05:00from the Comments -
Brian Gregory Tuesday, Novem...from the Comments -<br /><br /><i><br />Brian Gregory Tuesday, November 20 2012<br /><br />Let’s say you meet The President or Prime Minister in real life.<br /><br />They say something that impacts you so greatly, it changes your entire life. Now – At the end of their life, let’s say this law is in effect… But only available to the very wealthy…<br /><br />They decide they want the entire traces of their live erased to guarantee the ability to move on to an afterlife…<br /><br />Since energy/electricity and memories are reflections of each-other – that ‘impact – the president had on you.. Is subsequently gone. Erased from your head, against your will. Your memory of this event, gone, because the wealthy KNEW how it would impact memories, when you remove it from ‘public records’, you remove it from private ones as well…<br /><br />And the subsequent trajectory your life takes… Ever wonder why we get Deja Vu? Maybe this explains why we get it. Maybe this legislation did pass before, the world blew up when someone who did something miraculous never got a chance to be seen or heard, and died at the cross…<br /><br />Maybe he’s coming back, now as we speak, to warn of making that same decision again, and the implications it means should the wrong decision be made…. Life can’t happen. Until we let go of our need to control our image.<br /><br />And just accept who we are, and then have fun with wherever the journey takes us. It only becomes a cycle when we try to purge ‘public records’ of that information….<br /><br />You are the mind of god.</i><br /><br />This seems to me a novel thought, perhaps Quirk, being sort of clued into the fantastic, can help here. Or maybe he will just rage against the machine. <br /><br />Anyway the last five sentences do seem oddly familiar somehow. Sorta New England Transcendentalist or something, marching to a different drummer.<br />Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-82751657522699098532012-11-21T07:10:58.348-05:002012-11-21T07:10:58.348-05:00Deuce got the joke, but you seem to have missed it...Deuce got the joke, but you seem to have missed it.Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47266996960198268682012-11-21T07:09:57.891-05:002012-11-21T07:09:57.891-05:00Maybe you should read the post again. :)Maybe you should read the post again. :)Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-33900500255524751892012-11-21T07:01:58.632-05:002012-11-21T07:01:58.632-05:00It seems to be a long term condition, EDS. I recal...It seems to be a long term condition, EDS. I recall way back when Ruf was supporting a National ID Card and assorted checks. He argued then, as now, <i>"If you have nothing to hide, what is the problem?"</i><br /><br />I don't know that there is any cure for it, it may be irreversible.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-2314074567126412362012-11-21T06:56:51.354-05:002012-11-21T06:56:51.354-05:00Here we go -
A report by Europe’s cybersecurity...Here we go -<br /><br /><br /><br /><i>A report by Europe’s cybersecurity agency points out several flaws with the proposed ‘right to be forgotten’. A big one has to do with the challenges presented by the increasing use of aggregated data.</i><br /><br /> Nov 20, 2012 - 1:28AM PT<br />Why big data could sink Europe’s ‘right to be forgotten’<br /><br /> By David Meyer<br /><br /><i>Europe’s proposed ‘right to be forgotten’ has been the subject of intense debate, with many people arguing it’s simply not practical in the age of the internet for any data to be reliably expunged from history.<br /><br />Well, add another voice to that mix. The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has published its assessment of the proposals, and the tone is sceptical to say the least. And, interestingly, one of the biggest problems ENISA has found has to do with big data.<br /><br />The European Commission‘s proposals define the sort of data that has to be erased (if the data subject asks for it) in more than one way....</i> <br /><br /><br />http://gigaom.com/europe/why-big-data-could-sink-europes-right-to-be-forgotten/<br /><br /><br />Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-78906154022791760922012-11-21T06:34:12.735-05:002012-11-21T06:34:12.735-05:00I would be interested in seeing the Demographics o...I would be interested in seeing the Demographics on that. I just wonder if the illiteracy rate is as high on 18 yr olds as on, say, 40 yr olds? 60 yr olds?<br /><br />In other words, is <i>any</i> progress being made?Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-89508321786686602442012-11-21T06:30:43.880-05:002012-11-21T06:30:43.880-05:00But Ms. Falque-Pierrotin said her tough approach w...<br /><br /><i>But Ms. Falque-Pierrotin said her tough approach was justified by the importance that the French, and Europeans more generally, attach to privacy.<br /><br />“In Europe, we consider privacy a fundamental right,” she said. “That doesn’t mean it is exclusive of other rights, but economic rights are not superior to privacy.”<br /><br />In the United States, she said, despite signs of a new concern about privacy in the digital age, “personal data are seen as raw material for business.”<br /><br />The inquiry illustrates a new level of cooperation among the various data protection agencies in Europe, which have sometimes struggled to respond in a consistent way to the challenges of regulating global Internet companies like Google and Facebook.<br /><br />Viviane Reding, vice president of the European Commission, has proposed the creation of a central authority to oversee data protection at the E.U. level. Big Internet companies have generally welcomed this approach, saying they find it difficult to deal with a welter of local regulations.</i><br />Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-15671771523883420402012-11-21T06:23:13.595-05:002012-11-21T06:23:13.595-05:00If you have nothing to hide, what is the problem?
...<i>If you have nothing to hide, what is the problem?<br /><br />:)</i><br /><br />Classic EDS behavior (Ethanol Deranged Syndrome)Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-60532243305923980992012-11-21T05:56:31.570-05:002012-11-21T05:56:31.570-05:00Israel: Muslim students protest for Hamas in Jerus...<br />Israel: Muslim students protest for Hamas in Jerusalem, until they have to flee Hamas rockets<br /><br />Oh, the irony.<br /><br />Video thanks to Maggie's Farm, on which I ain't gonna work no more, where there is this explanation:<br /><br /> Israel is a democracy, with rights of free speech, petition, and protest. The tiny number of far left Israelis are vocal and often ally with radical Arab-Israelis. In this video today, they held a protest in Jerusalem against Israel bombing Gaza. Then, they scurried away as soon as the air raid siren went off that a rocket may come in from Gaza.<br /><br />video<br /><br />http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/11/israel-muslim-students-protest-for-hamas-in-jerusalem-until-they-have-to-flee-hamas-rockets.html<br />........<br />Vicious attack video<br /><br />http://www.jihadwatch.org/2012/11/fuck-you-jew-vicious-assault-at-san-francisco-pro-jihad-protest.html<br /><br /><br />Well, at least they have clothes on, San Francisco having finally passed a nudity ordinance.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-28855626002104551052012-11-21T05:52:58.610-05:002012-11-21T05:52:58.610-05:00On November 20, 2012 at 12:54 pm, Flyoverman said:...<br /><br /><i>On November 20, 2012 at 12:54 pm, Flyoverman said:<br /><br /> If we polygraphed these people the stylus would fly off the the machine!<br /><br />It’d be like an EKG on Bill Clinton in an adult book store.</i><br /><br />Comment concerning all the lying going on that I thought funny.<br />Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-58601516668886974972012-11-21T05:51:28.670-05:002012-11-21T05:51:28.670-05:0052%? good grief52%? good griefBobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-56346403692587456412012-11-21T05:50:31.985-05:002012-11-21T05:50:31.985-05:00Some internet service provider/e-mail carrier sho...Some internet service provider/e-mail carrier should come up with a program that does not store stuff. That would at least keep The Powers from searching through one's past.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-43874351000842686242012-11-21T05:46:12.578-05:002012-11-21T05:46:12.578-05:00If you have nowhere to hide it's a problem.If you have nowhere to hide it's a problem.Bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04145155737835511824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-47066954221834456182012-11-21T05:09:54.983-05:002012-11-21T05:09:54.983-05:00If you have nothing to hide, what is the problem?
...If you have nothing to hide, what is the problem?<br /><br />:)Rufus IIhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05297231055991566183noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21297199.post-45105090288828981812012-11-21T03:28:55.964-05:002012-11-21T03:28:55.964-05:00This video clip, posted by RT almost two years ag...This video clip, posted by RT almost two years ago, has had only 767 views as I write this. How did Americans become so docile, so trusting of government, the US media so vacuous, that government agencies at all levels can spy on any of us at will?<br /><br />Have governmental police organizations become so virtuous that we trust them implicitly? Too many high minded idealized cop shows? Or is this the price we pay for government education that results in such depressing statistics as 52% of Philadelphians being functional illiterates?Deuce ☂https://www.blogger.com/profile/13472858446242700869noreply@blogger.com