Miscellaneous news items that don't warrant their own thread

[BDKJMU]

“Ex-CIA engineer accused of leaking hacking docs to WikiLeaks charged in massive 'Vault 7' security breach

The ex-CIA software engineer suspected of leaking a massive, highly secret trove of U.S. hacking tools and source code to WikiLeaks has been charged in federal court with a series of Espionage Act violations.

Joshua Schulte, 29, allegedly disclosed thousands of top-secret files outlining the extent of the CIA’s cyberwarfare capabilities in an unprecedented breach that triggered an intensive investigation even before WikiLeaks published the information in March 2017.

In March and June 2016, Schulte modified a computer run by the U.S. Intelligence Agency to “delet[e] records of his activities” and “den[y] others access to the system,” prosecutors charge in a superseding indictment unveiled Monday.

The former CIA engineer was accused formally in the indictment of lying to federal investigators, illegally gathering and transmitting national security information, theft of government property, and other offenses......

...Schulte was charged last year with knowingly receiving and possessing child pornography, and those charges are also listed in the latest federal grand jury indictment.....

...Last March, WikiLeaks touted its stunning 8,000-plus page disclosure as the full hacking capacity of the CIA, saying it was “the largest ever publication of confidential documents on the agency.”

The 8,761 documents and files — released as ”Vault 7 Part 1,” and titled “Year Zero” — were obtained from an “isolated, high-security network” at the CIA’s Center for Cyber Intelligence in Langley, Va., WikiLeaks claimed....”
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/06 ... reach.html

These guys should be shot, this would stop leaks.


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Agreed. After a trial of course..

[Col Hogan]

I'm glad our allies are keeping us safe from these marauding Yemeni villagers...

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/16/yem ... airstrike/

Just another example of those messy little wars in which the US is entangled and as to which Congress has abdicated its Constitutional duty.

Speaking of which, did you hear about the Kaine-Corker bill? It amounts to another blank check for Executive war-making. If you thought the War Powers Resolution was dicey...

Just another example...and extreme one...of Congress simply giving up its responsibilities but keeping all the perks...

[dbackjon]

If it was that easy, why isn't everybody doing it? Why is it news? Clearly somebody is losing out. Poor, non-white people perhaps? Just wondering.

It's sold as a solution that allows parents with kids in poor performing schools who can't afford private schools the ability to send their kids to private schools. My guess is that the majority of the families who take advantage of it can already afford private schools and were going to send their kids to them anyway. If my assumption is true then it does actually cost schools money. Hopefully it has an income threshold to prevent this.

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You are correct, and no income threshold

[dbackjon]

I'm glad our allies are keeping us safe from these marauding Yemeni villagers...

https://theintercept.com/2018/06/16/yem ... airstrike/

Just another example of those messy little wars in which the US is entangled and as to which Congress has abdicated its Constitutional duty.

Speaking of which, did you hear about the Kaine-Corker bill? It amounts to another blank check for Executive war-making. If you thought the War Powers Resolution was dicey...

Yeah, that bill disgusts me. Part of the problem is that the MIC has convinced the average citizen that any opposition to war is un-American and anti-Military (even if that war ends up killing thousands and wounding tens of thousands of soldiers). You have to be gung-ho 100% blank check for the military or risk becoming labeled anti-soldier.

[Pwns]

We could always be less politically correct and more closely monitor who comes into the country and keep closer eyes on them when we're here.

But apparently in progressivism (remember Obama did a lot of this) being rrrrrrrraaacist is an even bigger crime than blowing away innocents.

[Ibanez]

Just another example of those messy little wars in which the US is entangled and as to which Congress has abdicated its Constitutional duty.

Speaking of which, did you hear about the Kaine-Corker bill? It amounts to another blank check for Executive war-making. If you thought the War Powers Resolution was dicey...

Yeah, that bill disgusts me. Part of the problem is that the MIC has convinced the average citizen that any opposition to war is un-American and anti-Military (even if that war ends up killing thousands and wounding tens of thousands of soldiers). You have to be gung-ho 100% blank check for the military or risk becoming labeled anti-soldier.

Yeah - that's almost as annoying as saying that anyone that doesn't align with you politically is un-American and a traitor.

[dbackjon]

Yeah, that bill disgusts me. Part of the problem is that the MIC has convinced the average citizen that any opposition to war is un-American and anti-Military (even if that war ends up killing thousands and wounding tens of thousands of soldiers). You have to be gung-ho 100% blank check for the military or risk becoming labeled anti-soldier.

Yeah - that's almost as annoying as saying that anyone that doesn't align with you politically is un-American and a traitor.

Just the ones that support Kiddie Koncentration Kamps, and other deplorable activities

[Ibanez]

Yeah - that's almost as annoying as saying that anyone that doesn't align with you politically is un-American and a traitor.

Just the ones that support Kiddie Koncentration Kamps, and other deplorable activities

[GannonFan]

It's sold as a solution that allows parents with kids in poor performing schools who can't afford private schools the ability to send their kids to private schools. My guess is that the majority of the families who take advantage of it can already afford private schools and were going to send their kids to them anyway. If my assumption is true then it does actually cost schools money. Hopefully it has an income threshold to prevent this.

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You are correct, and no income threshold

Yes, that is an issue. Charter schools in the inner-city make sense as the infrastructure in those districts has fallen apart and charter schools are a lifeline for kids to actually get an education and get out of the city. In the wealthier suburbs, however, charter schools exist as a means for wealthy parents to have someone else subsidize their private education, even more so as typically local districts are forced to pay well above what they would for a regular student when a student goes to a charter school with any IEP (even a gifted IEP, not a support one). Both parties are wrong on this - Dems want to crush the inner-city ones to protect the teacher's unions and the GOP wants to prop up the suburb ones as a nod to the wealthy folks who game the system that way. It would be nice if someone was in this for the right reasons.

[UNI88]

You are correct, and no income threshold

Yes, that is an issue. Charter schools in the inner-city make sense as the infrastructure in those districts has fallen apart and charter schools are a lifeline for kids to actually get an education and get out of the city. In the wealthier suburbs, however, charter schools exist as a means for wealthy parents to have someone else subsidize their private education, even more so as typically local districts are forced to pay well above what they would for a regular student when a student goes to a charter school with any IEP (even a gifted IEP, not a support one). Both parties are wrong on this - Dems want to crush the inner-city ones to protect the teacher's unions and the GOP wants to prop up the suburb ones as a nod to the wealthy folks who game the system that way. It would be nice if someone was in this for the right reasons.

Spot on.

[dbackjon]

You are correct, and no income threshold

Yes, that is an issue. Charter schools in the inner-city make sense as the infrastructure in those districts has fallen apart and charter schools are a lifeline for kids to actually get an education and get out of the city. In the wealthier suburbs, however, charter schools exist as a means for wealthy parents to have someone else subsidize their private education, even more so as typically local districts are forced to pay well above what they would for a regular student when a student goes to a charter school with any IEP (even a gifted IEP, not a support one). Both parties are wrong on this - Dems want to crush the inner-city ones to protect the teacher's unions and the GOP wants to prop up the suburb ones as a nod to the wealthy folks who game the system that way. It would be nice if someone was in this for the right reasons.

Arizona has been a libertarian lab for Charter Schools, School Choice, Vouchers, etc, and it is hurting the public schools tremendously. While some charters (those aimed at low income, Arts, Science) have had success, most are just get rich schemes - the state has little accountability, multiple charters have closed mid year, the owners make off with the money and no repercussions, no standards.

The ones that pop up on "Top Schools" list are a sham - yes, the 40 students get good education, but they locate them in wealthy areas, don't provide lunches or transportation, which pretty much eliminates any poor or disabled students from attending.

[AZGrizFan]

Just another example of those messy little wars in which the US is entangled and as to which Congress has abdicated its Constitutional duty.

Speaking of which, did you hear about the Kaine-Corker bill? It amounts to another blank check for Executive war-making. If you thought the War Powers Resolution was dicey...

Yeah, that bill disgusts me. Part of the problem is that the MIC has convinced the average citizen that any opposition to war is un-American and anti-Military (even if that war ends up killing thousands and wounding tens of thousands of soldiers). You have to be gung-ho 100% blank check for the military or risk becoming labeled anti-soldier.

Good lord your hyperbole has gotten ridiculous.

[∞∞∞]

Arizona has been a libertarian lab for Charter Schools, School Choice, Vouchers, etc, and it is hurting the public schools tremendously. While some charters (those aimed at low income, Arts, Science) have had success, most are just get rich schemes - the state has little accountability, multiple charters have closed mid year, the owners make off with the money and no repercussions, no standards.

The ones that pop up on "Top Schools" list are a sham - yes, the 40 students get good education, but they locate them in wealthy areas, don't provide lunches or transportation, which pretty much eliminates any poor or disabled students from attending.

Two years ago, we had a marketing intern (daddy got her the internship) and she went to a "top" private-charter school in the area. She was going to Regent University for Communications and was lecturing me about how much better the education at charter schools were, and how awful her experience at a public school was (based on going to one sample until the 3rd grade). Then she ranted about public universities.

And I'm sitting there looking at all the engineers around her contributing to the greater economy, mostly educated through public schools, doing fairly intensive and technical work. And she's oblivious to it.

She eventually graduated and now works as a copy-editor for a self-publishing children's book company.

[Ivytalk]

Arizona has been a libertarian lab for Charter Schools, School Choice, Vouchers, etc, and it is hurting the public schools tremendously. While some charters (those aimed at low income, Arts, Science) have had success, most are just get rich schemes - the state has little accountability, multiple charters have closed mid year, the owners make off with the money and no repercussions, no standards.

The ones that pop up on "Top Schools" list are a sham - yes, the 40 students get good education, but they locate them in wealthy areas, don't provide lunches or transportation, which pretty much eliminates any poor or disabled students from attending.

Two years ago, we had a marketing intern (daddy got her the internship) and she went to a "top" private-charter school in the area. She was going to Regent University for Communications and was lecturing me about how much better the education at charter schools were, and how awful her experience at a public school was (based on going to one sample until the 3rd grade). Then she ranted about public universities.

And I'm sitting there looking at all the engineers around her contributing to the greater economy, mostly educated through public schools, doing fairly intensive and technical work. And she's oblivious to it.

She eventually graduated and now works as a copy-editor for a self-publishing children's book company.

Your ability to overgeneralize, based on limited sample sizes, may be without peer on this board. Our daughter left a top local private school to attend a very good charter school. She had to do well on a competitive exam to get in. Once there, she got an excellent education that may have been more rigorous (certainly in math and science) than what she had at her private school. The teachers union will tell you that the better charter schools siphon off the best public school students and leave the public schools worse off. The reality is that all taxpayers pay for the charter schools as well, and that parents with kids who qualify for the weak-sauce “talented and gifted” programs in public school have every right to shoot for a better result in charter schools that their tax dollars pay for. Go get some life experience before you pop off.

[Ibanez]

Arizona has been a libertarian lab for Charter Schools, School Choice, Vouchers, etc, and it is hurting the public schools tremendously. While some charters (those aimed at low income, Arts, Science) have had success, most are just get rich schemes - the state has little accountability, multiple charters have closed mid year, the owners make off with the money and no repercussions, no standards.

The ones that pop up on "Top Schools" list are a sham - yes, the 40 students get good education, but they locate them in wealthy areas, don't provide lunches or transportation, which pretty much eliminates any poor or disabled students from attending.

Two years ago, we had a marketing intern (daddy got her the internship) and she went to a "top" private-charter school in the area. She was going to Regent University for Communications and was lecturing me about how much better the education at charter schools were, and how awful her experience at a public school was (based on going to one sample until the 3rd grade). Then she ranted about public universities.

And I'm sitting there looking at all the engineers around her contributing to the greater economy, mostly educated through public schools, doing fairly intensive and technical work. And she's oblivious to it.

She eventually graduated and now works as a copy-editor for a self-publishing children's book company.

We all can go toe to toe with some serious winners and losers from public and private education. I attended private school and our valedictorian is now a registered sex offender working menial Jobs. My buddies who were honors students in public school took 6 yrs to finish Clemson and SCar useless degrees. Right now ones a bartender in NYC, the other delivers beer.


Those people are the exception. I work with some extremely talented people from both public and private schools (and a good handful from HBCUs).




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[CAA Flagship]

Not politics, but....
General Electric is getting the boot from the Dow Jones (30) after 111 years. Wallgreens will take it's place.

[UNI88]

Not politics, but....
General Electric is getting the boot from the Dow Jones (30) after 111 years. Wallgreens will take it's place.

Wow. What would Jack say?

[CAA Flagship]

Not politics, but....
General Electric is getting the boot from the Dow Jones (30) after 111 years. Wallgreens will take it's place.

Wow. What would Jack say?

Many blame him for the mess. Others blame Immelt. Probably both......along with the changing times.

[kalm]

Two years ago, we had a marketing intern (daddy got her the internship) and she went to a "top" private-charter school in the area. She was going to Regent University for Communications and was lecturing me about how much better the education at charter schools were, and how awful her experience at a public school was (based on going to one sample until the 3rd grade). Then she ranted about public universities.

And I'm sitting there looking at all the engineers around her contributing to the greater economy, mostly educated through public schools, doing fairly intensive and technical work. And she's oblivious to it.

She eventually graduated and now works as a copy-editor for a self-publishing children's book company.

Your ability to overgeneralize, based on limited sample sizes, may be without peer on this board. Our daughter left a top local private school to attend a very good charter school. She had to do well on a competitive exam to get in. Once there, she got an excellent education that may have been more rigorous (certainly in math and science) than what she had at her private school. The teachers union will tell you that the better charter schools siphon off the best public school students and leave the public schools worse off. The reality is that all taxpayers pay for the charter schools as well, and that parents with kids who qualify for the weak-sauce “talented and gifted” programs in public school have every right to shoot for a better result in charter schools that their tax dollars pay for. Go get some life experience before you pop off.

This was not your finest moment.

[Ibanez]

Not politics, but....
General Electric is getting the boot from the Dow Jones (30) after 111 years. Wallgreens will take it's place.

That company has really gone downhill. They are selling off their lightbulb and rail segments. They've already sold off most of thier appliance manufacturers to the Chinese and what else?

Oh yeah - they go rid of NBCUniversal years ago. GE has really fallen from grace. Do they still have a mortgage company?

[Col Hogan]

Democrat candidate for Kansas Attorney General shows her “love” of law enforcement in a strange way...

A Democratic candidate for Kansas attorney general is facing calls to drop out of the race over a poster that hung in her office for years that depicted Wonder Woman choking a police officer.

Sarah Swain, a Lawrence lawyer and the only Democrat challenging incumbent Republican Derek Schmidt, apologized after she was slammed by law enforcement groups as advocating violence against cops.

https://amp.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... ssion=true

She also showed her love and respect for police officers through her Facebook posts, which for some reason, have disappeared...

Mr. Corson was referring to since-deleted posts on Ms. Swain’s Facebook account that read, “I was going to be a cop, but I decided to finish high school instead,” and, “What’s the difference between a cop and a prostitute? A prostitute only screws one person at a time!”, The Topeka Capital-Journal reported.

[CAA Flagship]

“What’s the difference between a cop and a prostitute? A prostitute only screws one person at a time!”

My mind is wondering about the accuracy of this statement. I've seen video evidence that would contradict it.

[Chizzang]

Your ability to overgeneralize, based on limited sample sizes, may be without peer on this board.

* Zing!

[89Hen]

What’s the difference between a cop and a prostitute? A prostitute only screws one person at a time!”

My mind is wondering about the accuracy of this statement. I've seen video evidence that would contradict it.

[Ivytalk]

Your ability to overgeneralize, based on limited sample sizes, may be without peer on this board. Our daughter left a top local private school to attend a very good charter school. She had to do well on a competitive exam to get in. Once there, she got an excellent education that may have been more rigorous (certainly in math and science) than what she had at her private school. The teachers union will tell you that the better charter schools siphon off the best public school students and leave the public schools worse off. The reality is that all taxpayers pay for the charter schools as well, and that parents with kids who qualify for the weak-sauce “talented and gifted” programs in public school have every right to shoot for a better result in charter schools that their tax dollars pay for. Go get some life experience before you pop off.

This was not your finest moment.

Not my worst, either, Church Lady.