Call me silly, but if I was being ousted from a job, where crap like that was taking place, I’d be all about finding a way to persecute the person that assigned that error rate.
So, we’ll see how this all shakes out. I still suggest that some rocky times are ahead.
Technology is a double-edged sword in some ways. There’s no question that virtually every aspect of our lives is immensely better because of the advances in technology. So much so, that often, especially the younger among us, can’t imagine a life without it.
Yet because I’m an old dinosaur, I am often wary of just how advanced we’re becoming, and how accepting of newer technologies we are. The evolution of the Internet of things, has our doorbells connected, or appliances connected, our thermostats connected, our voices connected.
Smart homes allow you to unlock or lock your door via smart phone. Nest systems allow you to control your indoor temperature via your phone from a thousand miles away. You speak to a little round cube and this cube researches things, adjusts your lights, turns on your sous vide machine.
And then “boom” something like what happened Monday happens. Google and You tube both went down globally. For a few minutes people were joking about it. But after a while, people were in a soft panic. Businesses couldn’t access files. Gmail couldn’t be read or sent. Homes using Nest were quickly cooling off in the dark, as there wasn’t any way to adjust it.
That sort of thing frightens me. I don’t own an alexa, or virtually anything else that either could “spy on me” or cause me issues if the Internet went down or the companies using it go down.
While in a business setting, you’re held hostage. You have no choice but to have a web site, and Email, and cloud storages and applications from Quickbooks, to credit card processing. It’s virtually impossible to shield yourself from the IOT in business today.
But at home, I feel that’s my last bastion of safety and security. While I’m always at the whim of the Electric company going down, or the Water department going down. I refuse to let the IOT take over the basics of my house. Granted, I get it…it’s way kewl to walk in the door, tell a computer to adjust the heat and lights, start your oven to warm, turn on your TV, find the right channels, etc, it’s ALL wonderful. Until it doesn’t work. Or worse, some nefarious individual wants to disrupt your life.
Maybe you had seen it on your news or the web, but a year or so ago, the parents of a young two-year-old, were hearing strange noises from the child’s bedroom. On closer inspection, someone had “hacked” the baby monitor they had in the child’s room, and were talking to her. That’s a level of creepy that causes skin crawl.
Last Friday my web site was attacked. Countless thousands of articles, gone. Hey no big deal, you can start fresh. What happens when they hack one of these autonomous cars however? Or what happens when your full autonomous car’s logic system “goes down” like Google services did? While you’re in the back seat making a drink, does your car drive into a headlong crash?
The internet is one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. The ability to sit here in my PJ’s and learn any topic I’ve ever wondered about, see videos of my favorite hobbies, learn things from people in foreign lands that I’d never have ever heard of before “the net.” It astounds me, and frankly I spend an enormous amount of time on it. Evidently one of my favorite hobbies is to simply learn things. I don’t much even care about the topic sometime. The “net” allows me to indulge this hobby as never before.
But when it became clear that every day more and more of our most important duties were being done via the net, of course the conspiracy nut in me said “hey, slow down, what if they pull the plug on this thing??” And it’s a danger we truly do face. If all your banking is done digitally via the net, what happens when the net goes down? If your banks ledgers are fully on line, what happens if they get hacked? I’ve seen the short-term results of such things because of Hurricanes. But what if it’s a sustained outage?
Do you have anything that substantiates on paper that you have say 50 grand in that bank? I know I must just sound paranoid, but if you haven’t noticed, the Treasury itself got hacked. Government institutions via the software Solar Winds has been infiltrated.
This from the AP:
WHAT HAPPENED?
The hack began as early as March when malicious code was snuck into updates to popular software that monitors computer networks of businesses and governments. The malware, affecting a product made by U.S. company SolarWinds, gave elite hackers remote access into an organization’s networks so they could steal information. It wasn’t discovered until the prominent cybersecurity company FireEye determined it had been hacked. Whoever broke into FireEye was seeking data on its government clients, the company said — and made off with hacking tools it uses to probe its customers’ defenses.
Well, we seem to know the Voting machines by Dominion were hacked. We see Government institutions hacked. We see major outages at a MONOPOLY like google go down. In other words, technology can be a very bad thing at times, especially when you’re “all in” at work and play.
When they do their final push for a digital currency, you are relying on a whole bunch of things that you cannot control. First off, you’re going to need some form of smart phone. Then you’re going to need electricity to make it function. MOST people do not generate their own electricity, so you’re relying on someone else. Then the net has to be functioning. Finally, all the computers that “read” the wallet codes have to be not compromised. That’s a lot of faith in things you can’t control.
On the election front, I suppose we’re still in for a showdown. Yes, I know Biden accepted the electors. I know Barr “resigned.” I know McConnel congratulated him on being President Elect. I know the Supreme court punted. I know most of what’s going on, because I find it important to me.
Which brings us to “what happens now?” One of only two things are left in my opinion. First, I’d like to publish a few of the remarks in Barr’s letter. Granted, Barr is a long-time swamp dweller, who knows the backroom dealings of DC better than anyone probably in history. Yet I find a few things fascinating.
Even when reporting his resignation letter, the crooked lame stream media, had to “edit” it. In other words, for some reason, many outlets left out what I think was an important sentence. Let’s look:
I am greatly honoured that you called on me to serve your administration and the American people once again as Attorney General. I am proud to have played a role in the many successes and unprecedented achievements you have delivered for the American people. Your 2016 victory speech in which you reached out to your opponents and called for working together for the benefit of the American people was immediately met by a partisan onslaught against you in which no tactic, no matter how abusive and deceitful, was out of bounds. The nadir of this campaign was the effort to cripple, if not oust, your administration with frenzied and baseless accusations of collusion with Russia. Few could have weathered these attacks, much less forge ahead with a positive program for the country.
Now here’s the same paragraph WITH a missing piece:
I am greatly honoured that you called on me to serve your administration and the American people once again as Attorney General. I am proud to have played a role in the many successes and unprecedented achievements you have delivered for the American people. YOUR RECORD IS ALL THE MORE HISTORIC BECAUSE YOU ACCOMPLISHED IT IN THE FACE OF RELENTLESS, IMPLACIBLE RESISTANCE. Your 2016 victory speech in which you reached out to your opponents and called for working together for the benefit of the American people was immediately met by a partisan onslaught against you in which no tactic, no matter how abusive and deceitful, was out of bounds. The nadir of this campaign was the effort to cripple, if not oust, your administration with frenzied and baseless accusations of collusion with Russia. Few could have weathered these attacks, much less forge ahead with a positive program for the country. Few could have weathered these attacks, much less forge ahead with a positive program for the country.
I wonder why the Independent, Esquire, and dozens of others felt they needed to remove that very true statement? Could it be that the media didn’t want its readers to know that even a swamp creature had to fess up that Trump was met with relentless implacable resistance at every turn, at every day?? I think so. Considering it was the media putting up the most resistance, hiding that little fact was just something they felt they needed to do.
Anyway, back to the choices. One is Trump says “Okay, I’m finished. Despite the multiple and severe instance of fraud, I’m going to step down, and concede the Presidency of the United States to Biden.” The other choice is that he continues on with the tools he has left to fight this. I ask the simple question…
What does he lose by going all in? What’s he got to lose? Nothing. His base will love him more for carrying on the fight, and more and more dirt on the fraudsters will be exposed. Thus, I suspect he goes all in. Now many in the left are saying he’s only doing this to continue to rake in money from donor’s hopeful he has a chance. The guy that took no salary. Seems a stretch.
My feeling is that BECAUSE he’s had to endure 4 years of relentless implacable resistance, and as Barr said, no tactic no matter how abusive and deceitful was out of bounds, he’s going to go for broke. He can’t be part of the swamp and get a cushy job on K street. He’s not going to be a fund raiser for the party. He’s not going to get a 7-figure teaching job. So, what’s he got to lose by trying to burn down the people that abused him for 4 years? Nothing.
Does he have more bullets in the gun? Indeed. The biggest one being his September 2018 Executive Order concerning national security tied to voting interference/foreign and domestic. Well, there’s tons of that. After the forensic examination of 16 Dominion Voting machines in Antrim, Co. MI, Allied Security Operations Group has concluded that the Dominion Voting machines were assigned a 68.05% error rate. DePerno explained that when ballots are put through the machine, a whopping 68.05% error rate means that 68.05% of the ballots are sent for bulk adjudication, which means they collect the ballots in a folder. “The ballots are sent somewhere where people in another location can change the vote,” DePerno explained.
Call me silly, but if I was being ousted from a job, where crap like that was taking place, I’d be all about finding a way to persecute the person that assigned that error rate.
So, we’ll see how this all shakes out. I still suggest that some rocky times are ahead.