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How a Bitter Divorce Battle on Earth Led to Claims of a Crime in Space (archive)
Summer Worden, a former Air Force intelligence officer living in Kansas, has been in the midst of a bitter separation and parenting dispute for much of the past year. So she was surprised when she noticed that her estranged spouse still seemed to know things about her spending. Had she bought a car? How could she afford that? Ms. Worden put her intelligence background to work, asking her bank about the locations of computers that had recently accessed her bank account using her login credentials. The bank got back to her with an answer: One was a computer network registered to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
Ms. Worden's spouse, Anne McClain, was a decorated NASA astronaut on a six-month mission aboard the International Space Station. She was about to be part of NASA's first all-female spacewalk. But the couple's domestic troubles on Earth, it seemed, had extended into outer space. Ms. McClain acknowledged that she had accessed the bank account from space, insisting through a lawyer that she was merely shepherding the couple's still-intertwined finances. Ms. Worden felt differently. She filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and her family lodged one with NASA's Office of Inspector General, accusing Ms. McClain of identity theft and improper access to Ms. Worden's private financial records. Investigators from the inspector general's office have since contacted Ms. Worden and Ms. McClain, trying to get to the bottom of what may be the first allegation of criminal wrongdoing in space.
[...] One potential issue that could arise with any criminal case or lawsuit over extraterrestrial bank communications, Mr. Sundahl said, is discovery: NASA officials would be wary of opening up highly sensitive computer networks to examination by lawyers, for example. But those sorts of legal questions, he said, are going to be inevitable as people spend more time in outer space.
Welcome to the divorce of tomorrow!
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday August 25 2019, @09:01AM (6 children)
There is no "need" to do anything. Not that you can do anything to stop human advancement into space other than crazy rants.
Even if we actually cared about this, it will be decades before there is a significant amount of crime in space. Activity in space is too visible, high profile, and closely tracked. You will be dead before anyone can get their moon harem. And the thing about a moon harem is that you can get a similar experience in an earthly sex dungeon. Because nobody involved will be hanging around outside for long.
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(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Sunday August 25 2019, @10:12PM (5 children)
perhaps...lol
Who would even want a spaceship/eternal life/spy camera right behind you/invisibility/space harem if everyone knew you had it?
There are some things I am serious about like boycotting victoria's secret and resisting police state infiltration of civilian organiztions, and arresting zuckerberg and bezos for mass espionage, but I admit my campaign for a law banning the wealthy from space would be more like a Yes Men style prank-tivism.
The point is worth considering, we do have to decide if we want what we have here spreading and this might inform some people to see their own actions with a more healthy and less degenerate perspective.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Sunday August 25 2019, @10:25PM
We ain't seen nothing yet W.R.T. "smart speakers". I am predicting at least a 100x performance increase, potentially 1,000,000x, with TDPs comparable to Raspberry Pi Zero (0.5 W). And that's classical architecture, not brain-inspired neuromorphic.
Maybe it can be JARVIS-like in utility without needing an internet connection. Or it could edge compute to decide which things you just said are worthy of reporting to the FBI.
May you live in exciting times.
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(Score: 1) by nekomata on Wednesday August 28 2019, @02:55PM (3 children)
just curious, why boycott victoria secret?
(Score: 3, Interesting) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday August 29 2019, @09:52AM (2 children)
les wexner owner of victoria's secret worked directly with Jeffrey Epstein, it is the source of his wealth.
Wexner now claims, now that ten years of pretending the problem doesn't exist, that he cut off ties with epstein in 2008 after the first conviction and that epstein had stolen a lot of money. Which he had never reported lost.
Anyone who thinks victoria's secret was not intergrated with epstein's operation even until last year is really naive and must enjoy being lied to.
This also represents a prominent businesses with tiest to human trafficking, super rich elites and international spy agencies, in this case the Israeli Irgun.
So other companies like google or huawei which are also infested with spies and government agencies, it's a global issue where businesses are pretending to be independent of government when they are not. In the case of victoria's secret, this is especially scandalous because it ties this to the abuse and trafficking of underage girls which is especially degenerate.
To let victoria's secret continue is essentially saying you are ok with this and you admit there is nothing you can do, you are ruled by rich people who can kidnap your daughter if they want to and even if a cop were able to arrest the billionaire, no jail could hold him/her.
There will be no other warning like this, from here on out they will be able to act with even more impunity unless we act now to establish means as civilians to defend ourselves from what is essentially predation by government sanctioned super-classes of sociopaths. Anyone who still wants to support victoria's secret is telling us about themselves, that they are a stooge and a lackey who accepts this arrangement.
This also demonstrates what the israeli spies who are inifiltrating america really think about us, ms maxwell referred to the girls being trafficked as trash. I would expect this from russia and china, but Israel is supposed to be an ally of the united states who protects our children rather than preys upon them in order to operate blackmail schemes.
This indicates that the world is not as advertised to us on CNN, also, which covered this up, and you can see the president himself working against the investigation with the barr/acosta situation. There has never been a bigger corruption scandal, and victoria's secret is at the center of it and is the undeniable symbol for it.
You will notice the 'mainstream' media has carefully led viewers directly away from any arguments such as this and is complicit in helping wexner and israel deny any involvement.
Any questions? Tell me please if you think I'm wrong about any of this.
supercreepy.org
epsteinisvictoria.net
decultification.org
#abusinessisnotacult
#shinethelight
#pickaside
(Score: 1) by nekomata on Thursday August 29 2019, @11:31AM
Uh ok, I was not aware of this, being from Switzerland the whole Epstein story was mostly popcorn munching in disbelief from the sidelines. Awful lot of coincidences etc. ;)
So I have not followed at all in the who is who of the whole story that unfolded. To be perfectly honest, I think the USA is mostly fucked at this point. So much stuff I read is simply impossible to relate to _at all_ over on this side of the pond. Thanks for clarification!
(Score: 2) by jmichaelhudsondotnet on Thursday August 29 2019, @06:13PM
this fatalism, ugh
all you have to do is tell people about it, you literally have to do nothing with a boycott. just say you agree with it, you don't want anything to do with this company, tell your friends.
although if someone were to post flyers about epstein and les wexner all over a victoria's secret, that would be effective activism get the idea across to other companies that having anything to do with people like epstein has PR consequences, at this point the notoriety may only help sales.
you should also notice, that even suggesting something like this kindof makes you a little scared, like if you do this, you will really cross some of the bad guys.
The question isn't so much whether you are going to do that or not at this point, it is are you going to let those of us who are hang out to dry. I am not the center of this, some reporters and police are who did the right thing, I am just responding as is only rational. This crap has gone too far and it threatens everything good in the world, it's not going to go away if everyone just goes meh and does their own thing.
Are you sure that your blah reaction is not some kind of sickness, because I frankly can't relate to your reaction.