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posted by martyb on Friday January 11 2019, @10:36PM   Printer-friendly
from the what-would-YOU-do? dept.

Got a contingency plan for men with guns showing up at your cubicle and ordering you to re-route traffic to please the government?

Section 606 of the 1934 Communications Act provides for government takeover of wired and radio communication in the event of war or "other national emergency".

I'm not saying anything will happen in the next few days. Trump's state of emergency might be just talk. It might be limited to its stated purpose. It's rare for actual disasters to happen.

You've got a disaster recovery plan (DRP), though. If it's not in the next few days, a "national emergency" problem might show up sometime down the road. Does your DRP cover it?

It's hard to imagine a technical solution. This may require the company lawyer to prepare a [Layer 8] contingency plan in advance.


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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @12:10AM (15 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @12:10AM (#785306)

    More like 2019: the year the conspiracy theorists' worst nightmares came true. Remember when Echelon and Carnivore were just conspiracy theories? Sounds quaint these days. Except most of the conspiracy theorists are "Second Amendment people," and so they will do nothing, because it's "their guy" doing it.

    It shows about how much reverence most conspiracy theorists actually have for the heritage of the 1776 Revolution. They have none. It's all partisan and mytho-macho bullshit.

    Based on everything I've read, it seems that the Trotskyists--literal overthrow-the-government socialists--have more reverence for that revolution than the "Second Amendment people," because they understand the historical context and class nature of that revolution. I never thought I would read a website published by a socialist international citing the Constitution while right-wingers sit around with their thumbs up their asses. However, bourgeois permanent revolution has been achieved. We must study proletarian revolutions, such as the 1917 October Revolution, for guidance.

    While there's still time.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday January 12 2019, @12:17AM (3 children)

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday January 12 2019, @12:17AM (#785308) Homepage

    All communication not face-to-face is being manipulated. A call or Skype to your mom is being manipulated if not faked outright in realtime. Soylentnews and other internet fora are all merely interactions with artificial intelligence rather than real people. You saw what Seattle did with Donald trump's tongue, and the objective of that exercise was to test the peoples' acceptance of such manipulation.

    The power of the deep state is far more horrifying, and prevalent in society, than you realize.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @12:36AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @12:36AM (#785312)

      hahaha! You owe me a new keyboard!

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @12:43AM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @12:43AM (#785315)

      "A call or Skype to your mom is being manipulated if not faked outright in realtime."

      /

      You're fucking nuts, buddy.

      Get some help.

  • (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday January 12 2019, @02:30AM (10 children)

    by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 12 2019, @02:30AM (#785347) Journal

    More like 2019: the year the conspiracy theorists' worst nightmares came true. Remember when Echelon and Carnivore were just conspiracy theories? Sounds quaint these days. Except most of the conspiracy theorists are "Second Amendment people," and so they will do nothing, because it's "their guy" doing it.

    It shows about how much reverence most conspiracy theorists actually have for the heritage of the 1776 Revolution. They have none. It's all partisan and mytho-macho bullshit.

    Apparently, this faint whiff of potential hypocrisy is more important to you than the "conspiracy theorists' worst nightmares coming true". I wonder why.

    Based on everything I've read, it seems that the Trotskyists--literal overthrow-the-government socialists--have more reverence for that revolution than the "Second Amendment people," because they understand the historical context and class nature of that revolution.

    Not buying it particularly with the bloviation about "class nature" and subsequent Marxist nomenclature baggage. With the 1917 October Revolution as an indicator of how bad things can get, the only place you'd ever want to see a "proletariat revolution" is in the history books.

    This strikes me as typical Marxist melodrama. For some reason, they always have to be undermining and sniping at each other as well as the entire outside world, of course. Not a healthy attitude, particularly, if you ever want to get anything done.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:12AM (6 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:12AM (#785386)

      For some reason, capitalists always have to be undermining and sniping at each other as well as the entire outside world, of course.

      FTFY

      Capitalism has simply run out of places to expand to. If you want to keep it, we're going to need to see a lot more from the vaunted social-democrats.

      • (Score: 2, Insightful) by khallow on Saturday January 12 2019, @01:19PM (5 children)

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 12 2019, @01:19PM (#785488) Journal
        Not even wrong. I doubt you even know what capitalism actually is.

        Capitalism has simply run out of places to expand to.

        What's your lifespan again? Have we colonized the Solar System? Do we know everything there is to know? The answer to all of those is "no", right? That means that there's a lot of places "Capitalism" can be expanding to without much drama.

        • (Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:39PM (4 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @04:39PM (#785569)

          You're joking, right? As a former dues-paying, card-carrying Libertarian, I think I know quite a bit about capitalism. Your argument is that even if masses of people are living in poverty, barely able to make ends meet, without access to medical care in first world countries that are experiencing housing crises, we must be patient, because soon we'll all be able to live in ghettos on Mars and in impoverished sections of a city in the clouds on Venus! And when the same thing happens, we can send the deplorables in the working class out to Barnard's Star and Alpha Centauri!

          Your argument is garbage.

          • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @10:39PM

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday January 12 2019, @10:39PM (#785701)

            "As a former dues-paying, card-carrying Libertarian, I think I know quite a bit about capitalism."

            What you think you know and what you actually do know seem to be very different things. Just saying.

          • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday January 13 2019, @04:59AM (2 children)

            by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 13 2019, @04:59AM (#785794) Journal

            As a former dues-paying, card-carrying Libertarian, I think I know quite a bit about capitalism.

            Who again thinks that is a qualification for knowing about capitalism?

            Your argument is that even if masses of people are living in poverty, barely able to make ends meet, without access to medical care in first world countries that are experiencing housing crises, we must be patient, because soon we'll all be able to live in ghettos on Mars and in impoverished sections of a city in the clouds on Venus!

            "If". Not much point to having such health care and other shinies, if they don't actually have it because their societies cease to be able to afford it. And you just listed a bunch of stuff that capitalism has a track record of improving. Need I add that elevating people out of poverty is another area that capitalism can and does grow from? For example, it's a huge portion of the economic growth of China and India.

            BTW, I'm even more convinced than before that you don't have a clue about capitalism.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @08:54PM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 13 2019, @08:54PM (#786004)

              Society is more than able to afford social programs. When it comes to the military-industrial complex, society is apparently able to find around $700,000,000,000 per year!

              • (Score: 1) by khallow on Monday January 14 2019, @05:00AM

                by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Monday January 14 2019, @05:00AM (#786269) Journal

                Society is more than able to afford social programs. When it comes to the military-industrial complex, society is apparently able to find around $700,000,000,000 per year!

                The US already spends several times that on social programs. And those social programs are on track to consume every bit of taxable revenue within a few decades unless they're cut back.

                I agree that a large reduction in US military spending is necessary, but I don't agree that it's going to cover the huge spending that people want for social programs. Even 100% redirection won't be able to do that.

    • (Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday January 12 2019, @03:12PM (2 children)

      by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Saturday January 12 2019, @03:12PM (#785528) Journal

      this faint whiff of potential hypocrisy

      That's always how you find those steaming piles of dogshit. It always starts out as a faint whiff of potential something. Only after you've stepped into it, and stirred it up, does the putrid scent of waste smother all other scents.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday January 13 2019, @05:02AM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 13 2019, @05:02AM (#785797) Journal

        That's always how you find those steaming piles of dogshit.

        Whose dogshit is the previous poster smelling however? I think the Marxist babble explains all.

      • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday January 13 2019, @05:05AM

        by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday January 13 2019, @05:05AM (#785799) Journal
        On that note, Marxists have long been more interested in attacking and undermining rival belief systems than in solving the problems they claim to be interested in solving. This seems more the same. Hypocrisy might smell, but genuine evil has a fouler stench than mere hypocrisy. For someone to grant the worst fears of the conspiracy theorists and then use that opportunity merely to insult them is pretty myopically out of touch even by hypocritical, conspiracy theorist standards.