Weekend tech reading: Anonymous breaches US government sites

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Group hacks US law enforcement sites, steals data The group known as Anonymous said it hacked into some 70 mostly rural law enforcement websites in the United States, a data breach that at least one local police chief said leaked sensitive information about an ongoing investigation. The loose-knit international hacking collective posted a cache of data to the Internet early Saturday, including emails stolen from officers, tips that appeared to come from members of the public, credit card numbers... AP

Professors cede grading power to outsiders -- even computers The best way to eliminate grade inflation is to take professors out of the grading process: Replace them with professional evaluators who never meet the students, and who don't worry that students will punish harsh grades with poor reviews. That's the argument made by leaders of Western Governors University, which has hired 300 adjunct professors who do nothing but grade student work. The Chronicle

Special report: Here's Fusion processors, AMD's 2012 model mobile According to information from the last sale in July, 1.5 million Fusion LIano processor performs and raise the level of 7-8 million projected by year-end sales figures, AMD, laptop's computing market, to offer next-generation Fusion processors to market gained acceleration in 2012, aims to consolidate. AMD is prepared to update the entire product line with 2012... DonanimHaber (translated)

Defcon lockpickers open card-and-code government locks in seconds To open a door fitted with the latest U.S. government-certified lock from high-end Swiss lock manufacturer Kaba, an employee must both enter a code up to eight digits long, then swipe a unique identity card coded to comply with a new standard that requires an extra layer of security, one designed to track individual staffers and make covert intrusion harder than ever. Forbes

Microsoft readies 22 patches for Windows, IE next week Microsoft said it will ship 13 security updates next week to patch 22 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer, Windows, Visio, and Visual Studio. Next Tuesday's patch lineup is larger than July's on the update count, but matches last month's vulnerability total. That's unusual, since the company usually delivers a heavier load in even-numbered months. PCWorld

Nvidia drivers giving 2010 MacBook Pro owners Lion upgrade headaches Users of last year's MacBook Pro models with Nvidia GPUs are finding the upgrade to Lion to be far less than perfect. Problems in the NVidia graphics drivers that shipped with OS X 10.7 appear to be at the root of kernel panics and system freezes that leave an affected MacBook Pro with a blank black screen. Ars Technica

Time Warner Cable’s porn problem: It Isn’t selling enough Big cable companies like Comcast and Time Warner Cable keep saying they don’t see Web video cutting into their business: Even if people are watching more Hulu, Netflix, Apple TV, etc., it’s not hurting cable, say the cable guys. But there’s at least one big, dirty exception. AllThingsD

Comcast rolls out $10 Internet access for low-income families As a condition of Comcast's acquisition of NBC, the folks at Kabletown have created Internet Essentials, which offers internet access to low-income families for $9.95/month so long as they meet certain criteria. To be eligible for the program, the family must... The Consumerist

Pod cars, moving silently at Heathrow’s Terminal 5 Travelers passing through Heathrow Airport have an opportunity to experience the not-so-distant future of airport transportation systems in Terminal 5, where a curious row of pod cars connects the terminal’s two business parking lots. NY Times

Verizon unions strike as contract talks fail About 45,000 Verizon Communications Inc. workers began a strike after failing to reach agreement on a new contract with the second-largest U.S. telephone company. The contract expired yesterday at midnight. Bloomberg

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Deep in the bowels of Anon HQ:
"Let's hack a police department!"
"Yeah!"
"LAPD?"
"Nah."
"NYPD?"
"Nah."
"Gassville, Arkansas?"
"Oh yeah, lets take those pigs down!"
 
"disrupt and sabotage their ability to communicate and terrorize communities."

Yup, the first thing I think of when the phrase "unbridled use of power" is uttered is the cabal of international corrupt power brokers that are rural and community sheriff's departments.
 
"Comcast rolls out $10 Internet access for low-income families.."

Let's just keep empowering low-income families to remain that way with every handout imaginable. What's the matter, low-income families can't walk to the library and use the free Internet there?
 
TomSEA said:
"Comcast rolls out $10 Internet access for low-income families.."

Let's just keep empowering low-income families to remain that way with every handout imaginable. What's the matter, low-income families can't walk to the library and use the free Internet there?
Very crappy to say that
 
TomSEA said:
"Comcast rolls out $10 Internet access for low-income families.."

Let's just keep empowering low-income families to remain that way with every handout imaginable. What's the matter, low-income families can't walk to the library and use the free Internet there?

Ha! Spoken like a guy who has no idea what he's talking about. Hey, why don't we get rid of the American Cancer Foundation. Stupid people with cancer, why do we keep empowering you to live? Government spends way too much money keeping you alive...haven't you heard of survival of the fittest?

That sound you just heard was everyone on Techspot retroactively disregarding everything you've ever said. And I won't even go near the hypocrisy of a conservative who uses free internet at the local library as the basis for an attack against low income internet access on Sunday, while spending all of his time shutting down endowments for local learning and the arts Monday through Friday. /sigh
 
Of course I don't know what I'm talking about. I've only worked in the government for 25 years, seen during those years families who literally have gone three generations of never working or contributing to society because they work the system getting free and reduced handouts. And you know who is paying the bill for these guys to Comcast? You and me, pal.

Now you may enjoy seeing a significant portion of the population get off with free medicine, free school lunches, food stamps, Section 8 housing, $10 Internet (so they can surf for porn, stream movies, etc.), the whole nine yards while never working a day in their lives and no incentive to leave that lifestyle, all at the taxpayers and billpayers expense, but I personally don't care for it.
 
Dear TomSEA

After frequenting this website for a year or so, I suspected that you were an *******. Thank you for confirming said assumption with your previous comments on this topic.

Yours faithfully

Most of the internet
 
Fact is that as much as everyone wants to say that this free internet will be used by parents to look for jobs, and for kids for school, the reality is that its going to be used for entertainment and porn. Personally, I'd prefer my tax dollars to go elsewhere.
 
"seen during those years families who literally have gone three generations of never working or contributing to society because they work the system getting free and reduced handouts."

I didn't know IT project managers (assuming you worked in IT and by your "about me" info) had access to public assistance information. Is that even "legal"? Or are you simly lying?

BTW, is the percentage scamming the system a few bad apples or 100%?
Or is it magical statistics because you have authority on this?

What about being so poor they can't even afford day care or they have child with disability? Let's just toss reason out, we all know you'd rather see the weak and poor just eat dirt right?

This right here folks is what's wrong with this world today. I wouldn't be surprised if we became extinct if his line of thinking became the norm.

some facts:

1.) this program was offered by COMCAST as a precondition of the merger, not forced upon by the government.

2.) It is a low speed economy tier with strings attached, and the people are PAYING customers

1.5 Mbps download and 384 Kbps



http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2390592,00.asp

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/08/05/139021923/comcast-announces-10-web-access-for-low-income-families
 
"Fact is that as much as everyone wants to say that this free internet will be used by parents to look for jobs, and for kids for school, the reality is that its going to be used for entertainment and porn. Personally, I'd prefer my tax dollars to go elsewhere. "

yes because all 100% of the USA just surf porn and watch youtube daily instead of being productive (rolls eyes). If there is a normal family using it to look for jobs, read or watch news, or use it for learning, there MUST be something seriously wrong with them!!!!!
 
Of course I don't know what I'm talking about. I've only worked in the government for 25 years, seen during those years families who literally have gone three generations of never working or contributing to society because they work the system getting free and reduced handouts. And you know who is paying the bill for these guys to Comcast? You and me, pal.

Now you may enjoy seeing a significant portion of the population get off with free medicine, free school lunches, food stamps, Section 8 housing, $10 Internet (so they can surf for porn, stream movies, etc.), the whole nine yards while never working a day in their lives and no incentive to leave that lifestyle, all at the taxpayers and billpayers expense, but I personally don't care for it.
Oh hell Tom, half of them live on my block. Some of them are on Social Security from birth. That's the joy of being a crack head, bringing crack babies into the world, and having the system pay for them. All this, while "the father of my baby", is out front dealing heroin, and meanwhile the out of work middle class are having their mortgages foreclosed on.

And BTW Tom, you forgot the free cell phone that they're now, "entitled to"! https://www.safelinkwireless.com/Safelink
 
gwailo247 said:
Fact is that as much as everyone wants to say that this free internet will be used by parents to look for jobs, and for kids for school, the reality is that its going to be used for entertainment and porn. Personally, I'd prefer my tax dollars to go elsewhere.

Everyone knows this. It's not news. You don't like it, I don't like it. But that doesn't mean you axe all the good that could (and will, even if it's a trickle) come out of it. In a perfect world, it wouldn't need to exist, but let's be practical. There's a lot of other stuff your tax money gets wasted on that see far fewer practical rewards and benefits.
 
Guest said:
"Fact is that as much as everyone wants to say that this free internet will be used by parents to look for jobs, and for kids for school, the reality is that its going to be used for entertainment and porn. Personally, I'd prefer my tax dollars to go elsewhere. "

yes because all 100% of the USA just surf porn and watch youtube daily instead of being productive (rolls eyes). If there is a normal family using it to look for jobs, read or watch news, or use it for learning, there MUST be something seriously wrong with them!!!!!

Well if your post is any indication, they're certainly not using it for learning.
 
captaincranky said:
Of course I don't know what I'm talking about. I've only worked in the government for 25 years, seen during those years families who literally have gone three generations of never working or contributing to society because they work the system getting free and reduced handouts. And you know who is paying the bill for these guys to Comcast? You and me, pal.

Now you may enjoy seeing a significant portion of the population get off with free medicine, free school lunches, food stamps, Section 8 housing, $10 Internet (so they can surf for porn, stream movies, etc.), the whole nine yards while never working a day in their lives and no incentive to leave that lifestyle, all at the taxpayers and billpayers expense, but I personally don't care for it.
Oh hell Tom, half of them live on my block. Some of them are on Social Security from birth. That's the joy of being a crack head, bringing crack babies into the world, and having the system pay for them. All this, while "the father of my baby", is out front dealing heroin, and meanwhile the out of work middle class are having their mortgages foreclosed on.

And BTW Tom, you forgot the free cell phone that they're now, "entitled to"! https://www.safelinkwireless.com/Safelink

Thats how an ENORMOUS amount of people live in the cities. Notice I said cities. Cities have a lot of people, and a lot of ghetto. Even the gas stations sell super low quality food like Goose Necks that they cook in a big pot outside at a gathering and suck out the bone marrow. Pretty nasty cheap sandwich meats. These people and the areas have adapted and its a big problem IMO. Quite a horrific scene, I lived on the East of Indianapolis in a large ghetto area but on a 5 lane road when my car died and I lost my job on the West side in a true ghetto hood. But they were everywhere, all around the city except for the North side, downtown and some wealthy surrounding areas outside of the city.
 
(People living on the governments food stamps and such, it was like it was everybody or realistically 90%)
 
raswan said:
Everyone knows this. It's not news. You don't like it, I don't like it. But that doesn't mean you axe all the good that could (and will, even if it's a trickle) come out of it. In a perfect world, it wouldn't need to exist, but let's be practical. There's a lot of other stuff your tax money gets wasted on that see far fewer practical rewards and benefits.

Maybe so, but if you talk to enough social workers, parole officers, and other people who deal with that segment of society, you'll probably find most of their sentiments echo Tom's. Yes, there are some people who desperately want to escape that situation, but odds are most aren't.

So you're on welfare, you get section 8 housing, and Medicare. You're going to give all that up to work 2 jobs, pay rent and lose your medicare? I'm guessing that most welfare recipients would not really be able to get work and enough of it, with enough benefits in order to make them working a better financial deal than being on gov't assistance.

We're all (or most of us anyway) approaching this situation from the perspective on not being raised on welfare from birth. If you take a second, third, fourth generation that is raised on welfare, to them this is normal. Throwing money at the problem does not do anything if you don't change the people's mentality.
 
Ha! Spoken like a guy who has no idea what he's talking about. Hey, why don't we get rid of the American Cancer Foundation. Stupid people with cancer, why do we keep empowering you to live? Government spends way too much money keeping you alive...haven't you heard of survival of the fittest?

If you are going to roll your own and make things up, why not just liken Tom to Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge and get it over with!? He didn't say any of that.
The fact is Raswan that generational entitlement is a fact and statistic that even the government cops to. You have Internet access...look it up.
 
Now you may enjoy seeing a significant portion of the population get off with free medicine, free school lunches, food stamps, Section 8 housing, $10 Internet (so they can surf for porn, stream movies, etc.)...
Don't forget that they'll ALL be illegally downloading music, and torrenting cracked games/latest release movies !

Pop!*

*The sound of Tom's head imploding
The fact is Raswan that generational entitlement is a fact and statistic that even the government cops to.
No doubt the statistics are gathered and correlated by (generations) of governmental employees in order to keep them employed lest the semi-skilled hordes join the welfare system for a more intimate acquaintance with society's detritus.
 
Plus you dont even goto work, that money is small. You make big money being a thug and sellin' drugs, thats how you make a name and a domain for yourself. Then you've got the ones who stick to their personal grind just lighting up when they can with what food stamps they sell for money for w/e.

gwailo247's post is pretty spot on imo.
 
I'd prefer tax money didn't go to the poor altogether since most abuse the system anyways.

I'd prefer tax money didn't go to the army so they would stop bombing goat herders with $50 assault rifles.

I'd prefer tax money didn't go to bailing out big companies trapped in the holes they dug themselves into.

To be honest, there's a lot of things that don't need government funding, but free internet isn't the worst one.
 
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