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  • GrillSgt
    GrillSgt Posts: 2,507
    So you're saying where there's smoke there's Royal Oak.  : :open_mouth:

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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    JohnInCarolina said:
    HeavyG said:
    It's always confounding how the same folks that complain about the government being so incompetent that it can't tell its a$$ from its elbow are also the ones claiming that the government is capable of monitoring a gazillion devices in a gazillion homes producing a gazillion petabytes of data each day.
    I understand what you're trying to say here, and for the most part I agree with the sentiment. 

    However... I am also familiar with the caliber of people working inside the NSA and how that matches up against the caliber of people working in Congress, and let's just say the chasm is about as wide as Stormy Daniels'  
    FTFY

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
                                                                                  -Umberto Eco

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    Peachtree Corners, GA
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  • Legume
    Legume Posts: 15,173
    GATraveller said:
    JohnInCarolina said:
    HeavyG said:
    It's always confounding how the same folks that complain about the government being so incompetent that it can't tell its a$$ from its elbow are also the ones claiming that the government is capable of monitoring a gazillion devices in a gazillion homes producing a gazillion petabytes of data each day.
    I understand what you're trying to say here, and for the most part I agree with the sentiment. 

    However... I am also familiar with the caliber of people working inside the NSA and how that matches up against the caliber of people working in Congress, and let's just say the chasm is about as wide as Stormy Daniels'  
    FTFY
    You’re gonna get yourself sued for defamation of crevasse.
    Love you bro!
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  • HeavyG
    HeavyG Posts: 10,380
    JohnInCarolina said:
    HeavyG said:
    It's always confounding how the same folks that complain about the government being so incompetent that it can't tell its a$$ from its elbow are also the ones claiming that the government is capable of monitoring a gazillion devices in a gazillion homes producing a gazillion petabytes of data each day.
    I understand what you're trying to say here, and for the most part I agree with the sentiment. 

    However... I am also familiar with the caliber of people working inside the NSA and how that matches up against the caliber of people working in Congress, and let's just say the chasm is about as wide as the Grand Canyon.  
    There's certainly no doubt that many agencies have quite a few bright talented people. The same can actually be said of Congress.

    I think there is also little doubt that just having "a roomful of the best and brightest" is no guarantee of success/competency (whether in a public or private sector bureaucracy).

    Not to pick on the NSA in particular, but the catastrophic security breaches of NSA/Ft. Meade certainly illustrates that. It's pretty mind blowing what tools the NSA allowed to be hacked/stolen in the last few years.
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk




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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 16,200
    @fishlessman mentioned it, but I've been reading some pretty scary advances the Chinese have made with the combo of AI and video/sound monitoring.  They've set up cameras in regions that are less than totally aligned with the Party, and can basically track every citizen in that region, constantly.  
    This scares the **** out of me.  
    ___________

    "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."

    - Lin Yutang


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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,390
    Botch said:
    @fishlessman mentioned it, but I've been reading some pretty scary advances the Chinese have made with the combo of AI and video/sound monitoring.  They've set up cameras in regions that are less than totally aligned with the Party, and can basically track every citizen in that region, constantly.  
    This scares the **** out of me.  
    its just a matter of time, theres cameras everywhere now.  all down the roadways, maine added them behind every bridge on the highway recently, pretty sure they can easily id plates instantly as i watch 4-6 cruisers move in and pull guys over on a regular bases.
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • GATraveller
    GATraveller Posts: 8,207
    Botch said:
    @fishlessman mentioned it, but I've been reading some pretty scary advances the Chinese have made with the combo of AI and video/sound monitoring.  They've set up cameras in regions that are less than totally aligned with the Party, and can basically track every citizen in that region, constantly.  
    This scares the **** out of me.  
    That's why I've started wearing a mask made out of someone else's skin.

    "Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community [...] but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots."
                                                                                  -Umberto Eco

    2 Large
    Peachtree Corners, GA
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  • saluki2007
    saluki2007 Posts: 6,354
    Botch said:
    @fishlessman mentioned it, but I've been reading some pretty scary advances the Chinese have made with the combo of AI and video/sound monitoring.  They've set up cameras in regions that are less than totally aligned with the Party, and can basically track every citizen in that region, constantly.  
    This scares the **** out of me.  
    I posted an article here the other day about this.  The Chinese government has a scoring system they use to grade everyone.  They use AI to track people and give them these scores.  The scores affect their credit to buy a house all the way to being able to buy a plane ticket to leave the country.
    Large and Small BGE
    Central, IL

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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,390
    we should track the crying closet kids =) unstable kids should not have guns
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • GrillSgt
    GrillSgt Posts: 2,507
    We will breathlessly await your weekly reports.
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  • fishlessman
    fishlessman Posts: 33,390
    GrillSgt said:
    We will breathlessly await your weekly reports.
    they must have those on the horse farm by now =)=)=) do the cell phones work in there =)=)=)
    fukahwee maine

    you can lead a fish to water but you can not make him drink it
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  • Tspud1
    Tspud1 Posts: 1,514
    Think I will let my TV's listen to each other and the radio
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  • GrillSgt
    GrillSgt Posts: 2,507
    fishlessman said:
    GrillSgt said:
    We will breathlessly await your weekly reports.
    they must have those on the horse farm by now =)=)=) do the cell phones work in there =)=)=)

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  • Botch
    Botch Posts: 16,200
    Ironically I just saw this today:
    Turning an Echo into a spy device only took some clever coding
     

    ___________

    "When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means that the sun is about to set."

    - Lin Yutang


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  • HeavyG
    HeavyG Posts: 10,380
    Botch said:
    Ironically I just saw this today:
    Turning an Echo into a spy device only took some clever coding
     

    Pro tip: When plotting The Rebellion be sure to go to the main electrical panel and throw the breaker to cut off electricity to the whole dwelling beforehand.
    “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.” ― Philip K. Diçk




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  • SemolinaPilchard
    SemolinaPilchard Posts: 1,282
    Speaking of privacy, the government has all sorts of rules with HIPAA, yet you are in an exam room at your doctor's office and can hear everything going on with the prostate exam in the next room. How about making a rule about exam rooms having a white noise machine?
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  • SamIAm2
    SamIAm2 Posts: 1,957
    fishlessman said:
    was just looking at those freshly planted trees and found this, what could it be

    Image result for tiny listening device in plants
    RFID tag for the nursery??
    Ubi panis, ibi patria.
    Large - Roswell rig, MiniMax-PS Woo; Cocoa, Fl.
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