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Droning on here boss

Police State Rising        TEXT Case Dismissed Against Kentucky “Drone Slayer” for Shooting Down Spying Drone Flying Over His Property In a recent ruling, a Kentucky man has prevailed in a lawsuit he faced over shooting down a drone that entered his property. While the question of where a drone can operate on private property remains to be answered, the ruling appears to be a victory for property owners. William Meredith became known as the “drone slayer” in 2015, after he used a shotgun to dismantle a drone operated by David Boggs, that he says was flying over his property in front of himself and his daughter. Meredith initially faced felony charges of endangerment and criminal mischief for shooting down the drone. The criminal charges were dismissed by Judge Rebecca Ward in Bullitt County District Court, citing recollections from witnesses who said that the drone was flying under the tree line. Ward also said that Meredith was within his rights to shoot down the drone. [Both Barrels] And This ... GAH!  I think everyone instinctively understands the threat posed by drones, but the convenience of having packages delivered 30 minutes after placing the order, or hovering outside the honey next door's bedroom window will win the day. And then we'll pay the piper. These things are traffic cams on steroids.

Chip That Dude Officer

Congress Hands Government Authority to Microchip People with 'Mental Disabilities' But don't worry; its all voluntary T.Smith

Drone Groans

Techno Chills

Here's How Drones Will Fly Into Your Open Windows And even if they don't, just know that they can. What's impressive about this display is not that the quadcopters can do it, but how they can do it. Similar drones have pulled off similar stunts in the past through the use of external sensors and cameras that give the drone a wealth of information as to where it is. It's only with that data that the algorithm controlling the drone can fine tune the craft's movements. That algorithm is often not running on the drone itself either; an external computer is doing all the thinking and the drone is just a very good and quick listener. In this instance, the drone is flying with its own eyes (a single drone-mounted camera) and its own brain (an on-board Qualcomm processor). That's crucial because it means just about any drone could do this without external help. It wouldn't need cameras mounted on the side of your house to guide it through the window. The one caveat, as Kumar told IEEE Spectrum, is that the drone does know where the obstacles are before it even starts moving; a drone wouldn't be able to fly like this through a window it only just noticed. If someone finds the fountain of eternal yoot; for godsake kill him.

Government tracks Tats

Police State          TLike your Tats?  Our gummint does

Snowden

Police State USA The full episode of VICE on HBO's 'State of Surveillance'

When NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked details of massive government surveillance programs in 2013, he ignited a raging debate over digital privacy and security. That debate came to a head this year, when Apple refused an FBI court order to access the iPhone of alleged San Bernardino Terrorist Syed Farook. Meanwhile, journalists and activists are under increasing attack from foreign agents. To find out the government's real capabilities, and whether any of us can truly protect our sensitive information, VICE founder Shane Smith heads to Moscow to meet the man who started the conversation, Edward Snowden. I've been conflicted over Snowden from day one. Probably because, historically, it's been  Leftist Democrats, like “Leaky Leahy,” Ted Kennedy, and  John Kerry, who've used privileged information against the interests of the country.  The Third Amendment disallows government quartering of troops in our homes, even in time of war. However, today's technology is so advanced (yet still unable to find a President's valid birth certificate)  that, in effect, we have spies quartered in our attics, phones, automobiles—you name it; collecting thoughts, words, deeds, and locations that are placed in our "permanent records."  So, good on him.

Hey Phil; We need money for donuts

Police State          New Device To Seize Money While You're Driving KNOCK KNOCK WHO'S THERE? OKLAHOMA CITY - You may have heard of civil asset forfeiture.  That's where police can seize your property and cash without first proving you committed a crime; without a warrant and without arresting you, as long as they suspect that your property is somehow tied to a crime. Now, the Oklahoma Highway Patrol has a device that also allows them to seize money in your bank account or on prepaid cards. Here's how it works. If a trooper suspects you may have money tied to some type of crime, the highway patrol can scan any cards you have and seize the money.  [cont]

Predicting behavior ...

Bend Over; Techno Chills

Terrorist or pedophile? This start-up says it can out secrets by analyzing faces of course someone will be in charge [...] Yet experts caution there are ethical questions and profound limits to the effectiveness of technology such as this. “Can I predict that you’re an ax murderer by looking at your face and therefore should I arrest you?” said Pedro Domingos, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington and author of “The Master Algorithm.” “You can see how this would be controversial.” Gilboa said he also serves as the company’s chief ethics officer and will never make his classifiers that predict negative traits available to the general public. Right. Hmm. Maybe the Unabomber was given a bad rap (Ted Kaczynski claimed that "scientific research is a surrogate activity for scientists, and that for this reason "science marches on blindly, without regard to the real welfare of the human race or to any other standard, obedient only to the psychological needs of the scientists and of the government officials and corporation executives who provide the funds for research)."

Just push the spycam upwards

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VERIZON CENSORING CUSTOMER EMAILS

Police State USA VERIZON BEGINS SCANNING AND CENSORING CUSTOMER EMAILS

Orwell hoped that by writing 1984 he’d help stop such a state ever coming to pass. It's now 2015. “The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.” In a 2012 legal brief to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit Verizon argued the Constitution gives the phone company the right to control everyone’s online information. A news radio station in New York reports that the broadband and telecommunications company Verizon is now scanning customer email. If email contains a hyperlink to a website, the email is rejected and not sent to the recipient, according to 95.1 FM in New York City. After a customer complained about the policy the corporation told him there isn’t a way to op-put of the program. “Verizon scans the digital signatures of all inbound and outbound email messages to reduce the overall volume of spam on our network” and all email containing a hyperlink will be considered spam. “So if a business person needs to get information to a colleague, or a student needs to get research to a fellow student, or if a wife wants to share an interesting recipe with a friend . . .  all those emails will be rejected by Verizon!” the radio station website explains. In October Matt Drudge told the Alex Jones Show the very foundation of the free internet is under severe threat from copyright laws that could ban independent media outlets. Drudge said he was told directly by a Supreme Court Justice, “It’s over for me.” “Just as a newspaper is entitled to decide which content to publish and where, broadband providers may feature some content over others.” In other words, Verizon believes it has “editorial discretion” over what news and information its customers may access. The following year the company went before the appeals court and said it has the right to block content that cannot or will not pay a toll. In 2007 Verizon Wireless blocked text messages it deemed “controversial or unsavory.” The full horror “The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.” “The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power.” “If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself.” “He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past.” “If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever.”  “War is peace. Freedom is slavery.  Ignorance is strength.” “Big Brother is Watching You.” “Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one’s mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.” “Orthodoxy means not thinking–not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.” “For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?” “Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power”  I am, by my count, the 963,873,712th  person to quote from 1984 since 1949.  Is it having any effect yet?

Behind every door ...

Police State USA

Not interested in installing Windows 10 on your computer after reading news reports indicating Microsoft will track your online behavior and save your search queries, private emails and contents of private folders, including photos? ... a report from Newsweek (FWTW) warned: “From the moment an account is created, Microsoft begins watching. The company saves customers’ basic information – name, contact details, passwords, demographic data and credit card specifics.” “But it also digs a bit deeper,” the report says. “Other information Microsoft saves includes Bing search queries and conversations with the new digital personal assistant Cortana; contents of private communications such as email; websites and apps visited (including features accessed and length of time used); and contents of private folders,” the warning explains. “Furthermore, ‘your typed and handwritten words’ are collected.’” Too bad. You may not be given much of a choice. Microsoft’s Windows 10 is preparing to automatically download onto computers currently installed with Windows 7 or 8 – without the computer users’ knowledge, London’s Guardian reported. According to the report, Microsoft announced that Windows 10 will become a “recommended update” in 2016, and anyone who has automatic updates activated will have the new program installed automatically on their PC. After it has downloaded, the Windows 10 installer will begin. At that point, users will need to actively cancel Windows 10. That is, if they aren’t in the habit of just hitting “OK” when presented with a prompt, as many users often do. In the meantime, until 2016, the Windows 10 upgrade will be considered “optional” and could still be downloaded if a user has the computer set to install automatic updates, which can be disabled. “If you choose to upgrade (our recommendation!), then you will have 31 days to roll back to your previous version if you don’t love it,” said Terry Myerson, executive vice president of Microsoft’s Windows and Devices group. Just weeks ago, Forbes reported Microsoft claimed an “accident” caused the downloads to begin installing on many computers without user permission. More As an aside: They had to skip Windows 9 because there already has been a Windows 9; or two Windows 9s really. Du0e to the close compatibility of Windows 95 and Windows 98 developers wrote programs to recognize them as Windows 9(x); obviously Windows 9 would pass the test and be recognized as Window 95/98 which would be ... undesirable. Microsoft decided to avoid any potential issues with this by skipping from 8 to 10. Or so the story goes. - 54Bryan Shouse 2 months ago We've had two gummint blimps overhead for the past few months; the NSA just 12 miles away; drones;  government tracking chips installed in newer cars, spy cams at every intersection; and now this.  What?  Me Worry? Bet your ass.

Droning

Police State          TEXT NEXT, the dog's owner, and then ... You know I'm right, don't you?

E-Z PASS

It's So E-Z “ From a drawer in a little alcove hidden from the telescreen, Winston pulls out a small diary he recently purchased. He found the diary in a secondhand store in the proletarian district, where the very poor live relatively unimpeded by Party monitoring. The proles, as they are called, are so impoverished and insignificant that the Party does not consider them a threat to its power. Winston begins to write in his diary, although he realizes that this constitutes an act of rebellion against the Party. He describes the films he watched the night before. He thinks about his lust and hatred for a dark-haired girl who works in the Fiction Department at the Ministry of Truth, and about an important Inner Party member named O’Brien—a man he is sure is an enemy of the Party. Winston remembers the moment before that day’s Two Minutes Hate, an assembly during which Party orators whip the populace into a frenzy of hatred against the enemies of Oceania. Just before the Hate began, Winston knew he hated Big Brother, and saw the same loathing in O’Brien’s eyes. Winston looks down and realizes that he has written “DOWN WITH BIG BROTHER”over and over again in his diary. He has committed thoughtcrime—the most unpardonable crime—and he knows that the Thought Police will seize him sooner or later. Just then, there is a knock at the door.-  1984 Warning to motorists: Don't speed in the toll lanes. E-Z Pass is watching. Several states, including New York, Maryland and Pennsylvania, say they monitor speeds through the fast pass toll lanes and will suspend your E-Z Pass for multiple speeding violations. In all, five of the 15 E-Z Pass states have some kind of rules on the books for breaking the speed limit in the convenience lanes. "You can lose your E-Z Pass privileges if you speed through E-Z Pass lanes," says Dan Weiller, director of communications for the New York State Thruway Authority. "You get a couple of warnings. We don't have the power to give a ticket, but we do have to power to revoke your E-Z Pass, which we will." He and tolling officials in several other states say the issue is the safety of human toll collectors. "At most toll barriers, we have a mix of E-Z Pass lanes and standard toll lanes," Weiller says. On Maryland toll roads, drivers' speed is monitored in the free-flowing toll lanes, which have a 30 mph speed limit, says Becky Freeberger, a spokeswoman for the Maryland Transportation Authority. "If we clock you at 12 mph more than that, we will send you a warning, saying slow down," she says. "It's not a ticket." If a driver gets a second such notice within six months, their E-Z Pass account can be suspended for up to 60 days. [Full] In the grand scheme of things this is but a pimple, but illustrative of how government will use any technology available to track the citizenry.  It's prompted me to write this comprehensive paper on how to take yourself out of the loop —now— before you, like Winston Smith, find a rat cage around your head. Chapter One Never connect to the internet ... Fuck. ”

Just Droning Away

Drones a two-way street? Militia Border Patrol, Mayhaps? Tommy Lee Smith

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Did the Unibomber die for our sins?

Police State          TEXT Miss a Payment? Good Luck Moving That Car Did the Unibomber die for our sins? Ms. Bolender was three days behind on her monthly car payment. Her lender, C.A.G. Acceptance of Mesa, Ariz., remotely activated a device in her car’s dashboard that prevented her car from starting. Before she could get back on the road, she had to pay more than $389, money she did not have that morning in March. [FULL] There's nothing I can say that your own fertile brains haven't already screamed into your head. As for my Unabomber lede (something an Austin TX grand jury may someday throw in my face), I'm not alone in recognizing his prescience re: techno-chills. “Ted Kaczynski, the convicted bomber who blew up dozens of technophilic professionals, was right about one thing: technology has its own agenda. The technium is not, as most people think, a series of individual artifacts and gadgets for sale. Rather, Kaczynski, speaking as the Unabomber, argued that technology is a dynamic holistic system. It is not mere hardware; rather it is more akin to an organism. It is not inert, nor passive; rather the technium seeks and grabs resources for its own expansion. It is not merely the sum of human action, but in fact it transcends human actions and desires. I think Kaczynski was right about these claims. In his own words the Unabomber says: “The system does not and cannot exist to satisfy human needs. Instead, it is human behavior that has to be modified to fit the needs of the system. This has nothing to do with the political or social ideology that may pretend to guide the technological system. It is the fault of technology, because the system is guided not by ideology but by technical necessity.”’” [Here] Of course, Ted also had a copy of Al Gore's book "Earth in the Balance?" in his hovel.  So, unless he was preparing a UPS package for Al in response, I guess he was, on balance, quite insane.

FREE Boned Jello!

FOIL THE MAN!   When my computer went down in flames a few weeks ago I discovered (using Linux) that this site was blocked.  I'd heard complaints, but had never before run into it.  Why is it blocked?  There's no explanation, but at the same time I discovered that Peoples Cube was similarly block, but unlike mine there was a link to complain, so I did: On 26 May 2014 20:39, pecksnif <pecksnif@verizon.net> wrote: Webpage:http://thepeoplescube.com/peoples_resource/image/7437 Version:V7 Comment: The only people who will find this a threat are political leftists.  Free The People Cube! TRKOF I  got this reply:  Hi there, This is Nancy from IObit Support Team. Thank you for reporting this false positive. With your help, we will provide our users better protection against malicious websites. Please let us know if you have any questions. Thank you for choosing IObit product to care for your PC IObit?  The parent of Advanced System Care 7? (in conjunction with Google)?  I don't know why my site is blocked; it could be because I occasionally have roll-over nipples (with NSFW tags), but I don't think so.  At any rate, here's  a burner feed that may by-pass the thought police.  Will someone who is blocked at work try this and let me know if it works?  Thanks.

Selling Serfdom

Oh My

There's a hole in your bucket dear Liza

Police State         There's a hole in your bucket dear Liza, dear Liza  TEXT We get messages from the gas company telling us that we used too much power at such and such time,  and offer tips on how to cut back  In real time.  Let's be gentle and accept that the gas company's smart meters are nothing more than a labor saving device that throw a million meter readers out of a job but don't result in lower rates, but there is nothing sinister about them.  There is no getting around it though, the gas company, and therefore any government agency that have a notion, can know about your habits. They already have access to your driving habits, and you pay for the privilege (OnStar tracking,  manufacturer installed event data recorders (EDR), cell phones.)  If you watched the BBC series SPOOKS you've seen M-I5 access London's vast network of CCTV cams and search for people via face recognition.  In real time. Futuristic?  If you use Chrome or have Firefox's Google image source plug in, you can find all events of a single picture in a heartbeat.  How much fun is that?  Way.  But like the man said, we will give government the tools to enslave us, and thank them for it each step of the way. But here's what, for me, is the kiss of death.  Liza dear, we noticed that you wore torn panties on your date with Leo.  Your father and I were so embarrassed; it's  a reflection on how we raised you. Think back, boy and girls, about your first clumsy sexual encounter at the drive-in, or under the porch.  Or your honeymoon. Or taking cigarette money from mom's purse.  Or any moment at all.   Google's smart contact lens system with a CAMERA built in means that, in the future, all of it can be posted to Facebook. There is no going back. I think Earth inhabitants have reached this stage before, multiple times in its 4 billion year history.  It's about time.

Why aren't people freaking over iBeacon?

Police State         why aren't people freaking over iBeacon? Enhanced experience... http://www.sctimes.com/story/sports/2014/04/07/ibeacon-technology-enhances-experience-twins-fans/7411879/ Marc Miller

GovTrack.us Clap Calp Clap

“ Mirror Mirror on the wall is my congressman a dick? CLICK and GO If you have already discovered Govtrack.us,  you know that it is among the best (if not the best) congress-critter trackers ever.  Tells you where your congressman stands on the ideology scale;  e.g. Sen Whitehouse is the Senate's Lenin to Coburn's Tom Jefferson.  Their past vote histories, etc.  I will add the link to my blog list below, anon. You're very welcome ”