In The News Today...

Quote: terapined

Apparently the guy is addicted to porn and masturbates to it all the time
If somebody is in the room, he really doesn't care
Nobody wanted to share a room with him on the road because all he does is watch porn and masturbate in front on his roomie
People would walk into a locker room, and there's Kellen masturbating to porn
On a team plane, the seat next to him was always empty because he watches hard core porn the whole flight

I doubt this was unknown to the team management so they must have thought he was worth it.
What sport was this?

Quote: Fleastiff

I doubt this was unknown to the team management so they must have thought he was worth it.
What sport was this?

Football

Under stuff I wonder about--When a shark bites off your limb does it usually eat it or drop it after getting a taste?

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/teen-who-survived-shark-attack-shares-her-story/ar-AACTM0o?ocid=spartanntp

Shaks often swallow an a limb, particularly if its a feeding frenzy but humans often look like seals to them. Sharks don't care for human flesh but they just think you are a strange type of prey and once they discover you taste bad, its too late for you. If there is blood in the water and you are splashing around...their instincts take over.

ALL of Argentina and Uraquay plunged into total darkness as electrical grid interconnection system fails for unknown reason. Might have been sabotage since Argentine election voting is underway by light from cell phones.

Quote: Fleastiff

ALL of Argentina and Uraquay plunged into total darkness as electrical grid interconnection system fails for unknown reason. Might have been sabotage since Argentine election voting is underway by light from cell phones.

That's the kind of news that excites me. I really enjoyed rushing toward system failures to diagnose and restore power.

Quote: Fleastiff

ALL of Argentina and Uraquay plunged into total darkness as electrical grid interconnection system fails for unknown reason. Might have been sabotage since Argentine election voting is underway by light from cell phones.

Then there is this: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-16/trump-excoriates-nyt-story-claiming-us-cyber-operation-against-russia-hidden-him

"So there it is - assuming the report has merit - essentially a major "clandestine military activity" is being run by US defense and intelligence commanders but while intentionally circumventing the White House's lawful civilian oversight? "

If the NYT story is true about our clandestine agency's planting malware in Russia's grid without the POTUS knowledge, that is criminal.

Beware in reaping what we sew.

Quote: petroglyph

Then there is this: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-06-16/trump-excoriates-nyt-story-claiming-us-cyber-operation-against-russia-hidden-him

"So there it is - assuming the report has merit - essentially a major "clandestine military activity" is being run by US defense and intelligence commanders but while intentionally circumventing the White House's lawful civilian oversight? "

If the NYT story is true about our clandestine agency's planting malware in Russia's grid without the POTUS knowledge, that is criminal.

Beware in reaping what we sew.

There was a report that this is a program that has gone on for years, that appropriate Congressional oversight had been happening, but that after Trump gave secret info to the Russians in the Oval Office in May 2017, and said he stood with Putin over US intelligence in Helsinki, and has had several unmonitored meetings with Putin, somebody (unnamed) decided he couldn't be trusted with Russian cyber ops intel.

I agree with them. He can't be trusted with that intel.

But I also think the NYT should not have published that info. Supposedly they cleared the publication with US intel somehow before they did it. So I don't agree it was treason, as Trump claims. But it's not up to US intel to release info too classified to show the President, either.

I guess there's more to come, because what they did report, could not be verified today.

sow. Of course, you reap what you sew as well. : )

Here's the original story. Note the bolder part (mine) re: receiving Presidential approval.

June 15, 2019
WASHINGTON — The United States is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir V. Putin and a demonstration of how the Trump administration is using new authorities to deploy cybertools more aggressively, current and former government officials said.

In interviews over the past three months, the officials described the previously unreported deployment of American computer code inside Russia’s grid and other targets as a classified companion to more publicly discussed action directed at Moscow’s disinformation and hacking units around the 2018 midterm elections.

Advocates of the more aggressive strategy said it was long overdue, after years of public warnings from the Department of Homeland Security and the F.B.I. that Russia has inserted malware that could sabotage American power plants, oil and gas pipelines, or water supplies in any future conflict with the United States.

But it also carries significant risk of escalating the daily digital Cold War between Washington and Moscow.
The administration declined to describe specific actions it was taking under the new authorities, which were granted separately by the White House and Congress last year to United States Cyber Command, the arm of the Pentagon that runs the military’s offensive and defensive operations in the online world.

But in a public appearance on Tuesday, President Trump’s national security adviser, John R. Bolton, said the United States was now taking a broader view of potential digital targets as part of an effort “to say to Russia, or anybody else that’s engaged in cyberoperations against us, ‘You will pay a price.’”

Power grids have been a low-intensity battleground for years.

Since at least 2012, current and former officials say, the United States has put reconnaissance probes into the control systems of the Russian electric grid.

But now the American strategy has shifted more toward offense, officials say, with the placement of potentially crippling malware inside the Russian system at a depth and with an aggressiveness that had never been tried before. It is intended partly as a warning, and partly to be poised to conduct cyberstrikes if a major conflict broke out between Washington and Moscow.

The commander of United States Cyber Command, Gen. Paul M. Nakasone, has been outspoken about the need to “defend forward” deep in an adversary’s networks to demonstrate that the United States will respond to the barrage of online attacks aimed at it.

“They don’t fear us,” he told the Senate a year ago during his confirmation hearings.

But finding ways to calibrate those responses so that they deter attacks without inciting a dangerous escalation has been the source of constant debate.

Mr. Trump issued new authorities to Cyber Command last summer, in a still-classified document known as National Security Presidential Memoranda 13, giving General Nakasone far more leeway to conduct offensive online operations without receiving presidential approval.

But the action inside the Russian electric grid appears to have been conducted under little-noticed new legal authorities, slipped into the military authorization bill passed by Congress last summer. The measure approved the routine conduct of “clandestine military activity” in cyberspace, to “deter, safeguard or defend against attacks or malicious cyberactivities against the United States.”

Under the law, those actions can now be authorized by the defense secretary without special presidential approval.

“It has gotten far, far more aggressive over the past year,” one senior intelligence official said, speaking on the condition of anonymity but declining to discuss any specific classified programs. “We are doing things at a scale that we never contemplated a few years ago.”

The critical question — impossible to know without access to the classified details of the operation — is how deep into the Russian grid the United States has bored. Only then will it be clear whether it would be possible to plunge Russia into darkness or cripple its military — a question that may not be answerable until the code is activated.



...fair use means I should stop there, if not earlier, but it's important to read the original, not just the reaction to it, IMO.