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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 08:07 PM EDT |
'NSA leaker Edward Snowden is the subject of an open
letter of support just
published from behind bars by John
Kiriakou, a former CIA agent currently
serving time for
sharing state secrets.`
“DO NOT, under any
circumstances, cooperate with the
FBI,” Kiriakou warns. “FBI agents will lie,
trick and
deceive you. They will twist your words and play on your
patriotism
to entrap you. They will pretend to be people
they are not — supporters,
well-wishers and friends — all
the while wearing wires to record your
out-of-context
statements to use against you. The FBI is the enemy; it’s a
part of the problem, not the solution”. link[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 11:27 PM EDT |
Tasks were executed as threads with priorities determined by their
relative urgency.
The meteorological data gathering task ran as an
infrequent, low priority thread, and used the information bus synchronized with
mutual exclusion locks (mutexes). Other higher priority threads took precedence
when necessary, including a very high priority bus management task, which also
accessed the bus with mutexes. Unfortunately in this case, a long-running
communications task, having higher priority than the meteorological task, but
lower than the bus management task, prevented it from running.
Soon, a
watchdog timer noticed that the bus management task had not been executed for
some time, concluded that something had gone wrong, and ordered a total system
reset.
[...]
It was possible to upload a short C program to the
spacecraft, which when interpreted, changed the values of these variables from
FALSE to TRUE. This put an end to the system resets.
http://www.rapitasystems.com/blog/what-really-happened-to-the-software-on-the-ma
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 11:56 PM EDT |
In the case of chimp - pig hybridization, the "direction of the
cross" would likely have been a male boar or pig (Sus scrofa) with a female
chimp (Pan troglodytes), and the offspring would have been nurtured by a chimp
mother among chimpanzees (shades of Tarzan!).
The physical evidence for this
is convincing.
Phys.org[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Hybridization, and Backcrossing, and Macroevolution? Oh, my? - Authored by: bprice on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 02:05 AM EDT
- Hybridization, and Backcrossing, and Macroevolution! Oh, my! - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 06:33 AM EDT
- Me, Gringo - not logged on n/t - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 06:35 AM EDT
- Hybridization, and Backcrossing, and Macroevolution! Oh, my! - Authored by: Nick_UK on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 06:54 AM EDT
- Well, under the right circumstances, fruit can (and does) ferment naturally . . . - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 08:43 AM EDT
- Creative theories (sic) - Authored by: artp on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 04:45 PM EDT
- Is Creationism offlimits? - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 11:39 AM EDT
- more proof ;) - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, July 08 2013 @ 01:17 PM EDT
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, July 04 2013 @ 11:56 PM EDT |
Link
In what may have been his last job
for Dell in Hawaii, he was responsible for the security of “Windows
infrastructure” in the Pacific, he wrote, according to people who have seen his
résumé. He had enough access there to start making contacts with journalists in
January and February about disclosing delicate information. His work for Dell
may also have enabled him to see that he would have even more access at Booz
Allen.
Some intelligence experts say that the types of files he improperly
downloaded at Booz Allen suggest that he had shifted to the offensive side of
electronic spying or cyberwarfare, in which the N.S.A. examines other nations’
computer systems to steal information or to prepare attacks. The N.S.A.’s
director, Gen. Keith B. Alexander, has encouraged workers to try their skills
both defensively and offensively, and moving to offense from defense is a
common career pattern, officials say.
Moving to offense
from defense.
And therein, lies the problem.
It is the mentality, the
thinking patterns, that
makes one want to move from defense to offense.
It
makes one want to create haystacks to look for needles.
It makes one want to
create new 'programs'.
It makes one want to justify their job, and
continue
the cash flow.
If this behavioural problem is not addressed,
the
MIC will at some point, declare *EVERYONE* the enemy.
Including
themselves.
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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 12:11 AM EDT |
A perfect 4-for-4. Mate, your evening at the pub is deserved.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 07:09 AM EDT |
An integrated, innovative telecommunications company that sells the location,
call data, and browsing history to the highest bidder and maintains lucrative
government contracts by providing the government the same data for free. We
are the phone company of the 21st century, we do not just make a bunch of money
off our overpriced cell phones (but we do), we also make tons of money by
aggregating and selling our customer's private information. Invest with us, our
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 08:23 AM EDT |
"In 2004, tadag's owners engaged with Microsoft to discuss
how tadag
intellectual property rights (IPR) could be
protected to enable discussions on
joint development .. In
April 2005, at an executive briefing in Redmond,
Microsoft
shared a confidential security development to a group of
development
partners that included tadag's author, David
Gale. Unwittingly, a senior
Microsoft employee presented the
tadag architecture to the audience, under the
banner of an
'exciting, still-under wraps, Microsoft innovation'" link [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 08:33 AM EDT |
http://www.buzzfeed.com/ellievhall/40-best-signs-from-the-restore-the-fourth-ral
lies [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: jmc on Friday, July 05 2013 @ 09:30 AM EDT |
Clicky
(
About as OT as it gets but probably of some interest is it involves
"Spamalot".)
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