I doubt mr Obama is at all African, he was born in Honolulu for crying out loud.
All this crap with African-American is annoying and needs to stop.
You don't call white citizens European-American, do you?
Shell accounts are like short wave radios, wrist watches, cameras and landline telephones. Not many people have them anymore but they are oh so useful.
This is not true. There are several recovery options offered by NearlyFreeSpeech. They are defined in great detail on their website. They offer two factor (TOTP) as well:
"Our membership recovery procedure comes into play when you lose your password and access to your email at the same time, or if you have 2-factor authentication configured and lose the second factor. To regain access, you will need to contact us and perform a certain number of verification actions."
Possible verification actions:
* You provide a scanned copy of a government-issued photo ID.
* You provide a scanned copy of a statement showing both the most recent deposit and a name and address matching one of your accounts.
* You complete SMS verification. (SMS must be previously configured.)
* You complete 2-factor verification. (2-factor auth must be previously configured.)
* You correctly answer your security question. (Security question and answer must be previously configured, below.)
* You use an ssh key to create a file with a specific name on one of your sites hosted here. (Must be previously configured, won’t work if account is empty.)
* We try and fail to contact you via your currently configured email address. (This one may take a long time.)
Recovery Thresholds:
* Scorched Earth. If you lose access to your membership, you won’t be able to recover it. But neither will anyone else. (This is not a joke. If you set this option and lose access to your membership, it and everything on it will be inaccessible until it expires.)
* All possible actions. Excessive security. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you.
* Five actions. Very high security. Regaining access will be a huge pain for you, and rounds-to-impossible for anyone else.
* Four actions. High security. Provides enhanced protection but if you need to recover access to your membership, it’s probably going to be pretty inconvenient.
* Three actions. Default security. Provides good protection without making membership recovery too miserable.
* Two actions. Reduced security. We really don’t recommend this, but if you’re really forgetful and really sure nobody would ever target your membership, this option exists.
* One action. No security. All it takes is an email bounce and your membership goes to the first person to ask for it. (This is a joke. Don’t pick this.)
Confirmation:
* I understand the recovery setting I'm picking, and I am solely responsible for the consequences.
To be fair, that level of customizability is fairly new; It was only announced about 8 months ago[1]. I don't know how strict the previous recovery procedure was, since I never had to make use of it.
The NSA has already shown this to be relatively trivial. Don't think for a second the government wouldn't harness that knowledge in an emergency situation such as an Ebola outbreak within the US.
The NSA is excellent at tracking communication contacts that establish the existence of relationships (notwithstanding the potential of false positives). And this would also work for tracking someone driving around in a car running errands in specific places.
But if someone arrives in a US city unwittingly carrying Ebola and gets on a crowded bus or subway car, that's not so easy to track. Likewise if the person goes to a nightclub or other crowded place. Suppose it's a returning American who attends a baseball or football game - the NSA may well be able to ID almost everyone who attended the event, but trying to screen/isolate tens of thousands of people who might have come in contact with an infected individual wandering around a stadium is easier said than done.
They can track your location via a cell phone that nearly everyone carry's with them at all times.
If an infection does come over, then expect people the laud the NSA's spying because it'll be the thing that makes it possible to identify, target, and quarantine.
That could change in short order - don't you remember the Liberian guy who turned up in Lagos? If he had traveled a few days earlier he would still have been infectious but might not have been identified as such on arrival.
UVB-76 is a number station transmitting one-time pad encrypted messages. Old transport technology (radio) sending old, unbreakable crypto technology (one-time pad encrypted messages) at the speed of light all across the world. These technologies (as old as they are) will never be replaced with new infrastructure dependent technologies. The key is that they allow for decentralized, secure comms at the speed of light. No satellites or fiber required. It only takes a handful of guys to do it too. You can even run them from solar panels and battery packs from caves in Timbukto. Take that, nation state controlled Internet.
The Great FireWall of X, does not stop radio. Try to jam omni-directional NVIS. Better yet, try to locate the guys receiving it.
To be fair though, this is broadcasting, i.e. a one-way tech. It's also "decentralized" up to a point.
I see your point though. It's what I feel when I see 70-year-old cars still running: any car made after 2000 relies on electronics in a way that will make them unusable in a few years from now; but those old tin-boxes will still be around then and beyond.
> The key is that they allow for decentralized, secure comms at the speed of light.
Until someone sends in a drone with a radio-seeking attachment on it and a few hundred pounds of high explosives strapped to its ass. It's hardly infrastructure-free when the infrastructure it relies on has just been blown to Hell.
The edge of modern Western society (those not part of the main rat race) is a place where you can truly be free and happy, but you'll be seen as fringe.
Never go into debt. Eat beans and rice. Work summer jobs as a river boat guide. Write poems. Watch the stars. Help others find peace.
Just be true to yourself and don't let modern society set expectations or guide your life.
Financial independence is something that's been purposefully pushed to the fringe of society. We've got very few people who fit the category of subsistence farmers in the West even though we have the potential for their to be a lot.
The main reason why businesses don't grow is regularly cited as the founder/owner refusing to give up control and micromanaging. One person can only micromanage so much.
It's good to follow one's dreams. But there is a line between living in the moment, on one side, and not planning for the future, on the other. Youngsters are in for a rough ride later on if they are too romantic about practicalities and do not take well-conceived steps towards financial independence later in life. This is true whether they have it in them to become superstars or are simply hoping to do what they do well.
This is bad advice. Sure, don't go into debt that you can't properly service, but I've made some good money that started out as debt (large investments, etc).
Sure, there was some luck (there was also some educated guesses involved) but I'm simply arguing against use of the word "never". Debt can be good if it is the right kind of debt.
Agreed on never. I recommend house debt, where there isn't enough cash and there's no obvious bubble, only because houses are almost sure to appreciate given inevitable population growth.
Ebola is a Level 4 Biohazard. Try getting into or out of a CDC certified Level 4 facility. All of this is documented and easily understood. It's highly contagious, there is no cure and and there is no telling how long the outbreak will last: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hazard#Classificatio...
I wouldn't call it highly contagious. That should be reserved for things that can spread through the air not things like Ebola which require contact with bodily fluids to transmit.
Indeed, one of the criteria for being a BSL4 pathogen is either being likely to cause severe or fatal disease in humans and not having a readily available treatment.
Ebola qualifies as that regardless of its contagiousness. Similarly, one of the most contagious diseases out there, measles, does not, because it is easily vaccinated against.
Ebola Reston (which fortunately only affected non-human primates) did spread through the air, or at least that's the only plausible explanation as to how it spread.
While the outbreak strain of Ebola may not be airborne now, it's not inconceivable that it could mutate at some point.
"In the first known case of what may be transmission of the Ebola virus from a pig to a human, a pig handler in the Philippines has tested positive for a strain of the virus, world health officials and the Philippine government announced Friday."
"But the strain — Ebola Reston — is not known to be dangerous to humans, and the worker, who was infected at least six months ago, is healthy, officials said."
I've heard that the caretaking of victims and handling of the dead is entirely responsible for all of the cases. I'm not sure that there's evidence of any casual transmission.
Facts are important here. Families and friends share things like food, water and probably plates and things. I personally don't have any facts to refute your argument, but would be wary to allege anything based on "what you heard" from sources you didn't name.
That's an absurd statement. The US has an African American president. He was elected twice by a large majority.