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    Thanks for taking the time to answer the questions .Sorry to hear that the process is shitty once you get out of prison. I guess i have some follow up questions that I would like to know and you dont have to answer them if you dont want to.

    But have you ever considered or lied on an application about being a convicted felon?

     

    How did you obtain the skills (in your case) for all these construct tools and knowledge? did you learn these skills in prison through schooling or were you lucky to pick up small jobs and gain knowledge as you go?

     

    before prison did you go through other ways of deterrence such as probation or fines? Or was your only time being sentenced to jail?

    If you did go through other legal ways before ending up for prison did you find them useful? or was it until you ended up in prison that you finally realized that hey... I need to better myself?

     

    Sorry for all the questions. I am generally curious because I am actually going into a Criminal Justice background. I figured I would ask questions people ask me in class xD

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    I actually have a few questions for you because I am generally interested.

     

    Since your release from prison, do you blame the system that is set in place for you having a hard time reintegrating into society?

    If this is the case what do you believe should be done to change the system to help better the reintegration of prisoners into society?

     

     

    Or do you find it more your fault as a person because you are just not motivated and find no other means of life?

     

    Also do you feel like you have learned from your experience from your time in jail or do you feel like there could have been other ways that you could have easily learned your lesson ??

     

    Might as well turn this into a learning experience.

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    Merry Christmas all. I am doing well. I am going to be finishing up my bachelors in 2016 for criminal justice. Social life is doing alright. my family life right now seems to be a bit of a stressful time with my mother being very sick and all. But I keep chugging through and I keep doing what I need to do.

     

    I am glad everyone is doing well and I hope everyone has a wonderful holiday season and be safe! Good to see some old faces around here. :D

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  11. Posted

    I have been sitting here 15 minutes deciding what to write. As I was growing up I was always told the internet is a bad place and everyone is a scammer. Ghoztcraft was one of the first places I established as a home. As stated by suteki and the original post there is some skepticism on how valid the post is.

     

    That being said, I still sit here speechless and in shock. I was just asking about anny not to long ago and now she is gone from this world. Anny was a good friend and we had a lot of good memories. As time goes on you learn more and enjoy the person(s) you talk to or play with in a video game. Believe it or not they become part of your life and you consider them as a close friend. It is sad to see someones life be taken away at such young age. it is sad she had to end the pain by taking her own life. She is now free and no longer has to suffer. She was amazing at photoshop and I was always jealous of her artistic ability. I do feel appreciated and happy that she valued this place and valued the people here. I also appreciate this post for notifying us. Even though I continue writing this a simple post it will not do it justice as how much i cared for anny and hope she is resting peacefully. She will be missed and not forgotten by me. I am truly lost and speechless.

     

    Rest in Peace Anny.

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    Use this website: http://www.gofundme.com

     

    I highly recommend it. I donated to a friend who was also suffering from cancer just a few days ago through that website. Plus it's an easily shareable page to allow people to spread the word.

    I love you buddy! I actually have created a go fundme website if you are wanting to share that with all your friends instead... I only linked my stream donations one because I wanted to just keep the money all together.

     

    http://www.gofundme.com/6lmgug Is the link if you rather use GOFUND me link. BUT THANK YOU!!

     

    PS: I didnt want to set a limit on donations so I just picked a random number.

  17. Posted · Edited by Cripp

    Hey guys, I am writing this as a group message to all of you beautiful people. My Mom went through surgery a few weeks ago and it was for a biopsy which turned out to be cancerous. So at this moment,my mom is out of work and her insurance is not covering her for her out of work days meaning that she has no income what so ever. She has asked me for money already and I gave her what I could (from school loans). However, my mom is still in need of everyday basic living expenses that I do not have the ability to help with right now. So I want to dedicate a stream to my mother sometime around February 15th (dates and times aren’t for sure yet since I am going to class and working too). And all donation I get will be given to my mom for support and everyday living (Im calling it streaming for Mama Zoids haha). I will also be doing RP giveaways throughout the stream that were given to me as donations as well. So I’m asking you guys to help me and my mom by spreading the word around when it happens. I will let you guys know date and time when I know. But I am asking if you guys are willing to help this cause, I’m not asking you guys to donate or anything but it will be great if you guys could spread the word and send people my way. I would truly truly appreciate it and be extremely grateful.

    And I will be forever grateful to you guys and this will truly help my mother in time of need.

     

    Thanks guys, let me know if you have any questions and if you guys are willing to help.

    I love you guys!

     

     

    That Day I will be streaming at least 12 hours that day... Here is the stream link: http://www.twitch.tv/tmzoidss

    and if you cannot watch I understand but still want to donate the link for that is https://www.streamdonations.net/c/tmzoidss

  20. Posted · Edited by Cripp

    Alright... Time for Cripp's Shitty post with alot of spelling errors! Woo! Anyways, I personally do not have windows 8 but I have worked with it through a friends lap top and to be completely honest its not half bad. I do feel that windows rushed windows 8; more for its tablet users and lap top users than for desk top users. So I dont want to repeat what everyone has said already... I just feel like for someone new using a computer for the first time Windows 8 is confusing. I know it wouldnt seem that way but I feel you have to do extra "work" to navigate around in window 8. What I mean by that is my friend is not really good with computers and he could not tell me how to get to the Control panel. Once I googled it.... I just felt windows added more steps to get to the basic controls and the whole outlook looks/feels more for a tablet than for a desktop... That being said I dont believe its bad and agree with most of the post here....

     

     

     

    Just for the lawls:

     

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    Hello and welcome to GC!

     

    Not surprised this was missed... It was posted on the fourth and were all older adults now.... im sure we were all busy.

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    NSA ADMITS TO SPYING ON YOU

     

    NSA spying flap extends to contents of U.S. phone calls

    National Security Agency discloses in secret Capitol Hill briefing that thousands of analysts can listen to domestic phone calls. That authorization appears to extend to e-mail and text messages too.

     

    by Declan McCullagh June 15, 2013 4:39 PM PDT

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    NSA Director Keith Alexander says his agency's analysts, which until recently included Edward Snowden among their ranks, take protecting "civil liberties and privacy and the security of this nation to their heart every day."

    (Credit: Getty Images)

    The National Security Agency has acknowledged in a new classified briefing that it does not need court authorization to listen to domestic phone calls, a participant said.

    Rep. Jerrold Nadler, a New York Democrat, disclosed on Thursday that during a secret briefing to members of Congress, he was told that the contents of a phone call could be accessed "simply based on an analyst deciding that."

    If the NSA wants "to listen to the phone," an analyst's decision is sufficient, without any other legal authorization required, Nadler said he learned. "I was rather startled," said Nadler, an attorney and congressman who serves on the House Judiciary committee.

    Not only does this disclosure shed more light on how the NSA's formidable eavesdropping apparatus works domestically, it also suggests the Justice Department has secretly interpreted federal surveillance law to permit thousands of low-ranking analysts to eavesdrop on phone calls.

    James Owens, a spokesman for Nadler, provided a statement on Sunday morning, a day after this article was published, saying: "I am pleased that the administration has reiterated that, as I have always believed, the NSA cannot listen to the content of Americans' phone calls without a specific warrant." Owens said he couldn't comment on what assurances from the Obama administration Nadler was referring to, and said Nadler was unavailable for an interview. (CNET had contacted Nadler for comment on Friday.)

    Because the same legal standards that apply to phone calls also apply to e-mail messages, text messages, and instant messages, being able to listen to phone calls would mean the NSA analysts could also access the contents of Internet communications without going before a court and seeking approval.

    Nadler's initial statement appears to confirm some of the allegations made by Edward Snowden, a former NSA infrastructure analyst who leaked classified documents to the Guardian. Snowden said in a video interview that, while not all NSA analysts had this ability, he could from Hawaii "wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the president."

    There are serious "constitutional problems" with this approach, said Kurt Opsahl, a senior staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation who has litigated warrantless wiretapping cases. "It epitomizes the problem of secret laws."

    The NSA declined to comment to CNET. (This is unrelated to the disclosure that the NSA is currently collecting records of the metadata of all domestic Verizon calls, but not the actual contents of the conversations.)

    Director of National Intelligence James Clapper released a statement on Sunday saying: "The statement that a single analyst can eavesdrop on domestic communications without proper legal authorization is incorrect and was not briefed to Congress." Clapper's statement did not elaborate, however, on what "proper" authorization would be. Some reports have suggested that permission from a "shift supervisor" would also be required.

    The Washington Post disclosed Saturday that the existence of a top-secret NSA program called NUCLEON, which "intercepts telephone calls and routes the spoken words" to a database. Top intelligence officials in the Obama administration, the Post said, "have resolutely refused to offer an estimate of the number of Americans whose calls or e-mails have thus made their way into content databases such as ­NUCLEON."

     

    A portion of the NSA's mammoth data center in Bluffdale, Utah, scheduled to open this fall.

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    Earlier reports have indicated that the NSA has the ability to record nearly all domestic and international phone calls -- in case an analyst needed to access the recordings in the future. A Wired magazine article last year disclosed that the NSA has established "listening posts" that allow the agency to collect and sift through billions of phone calls through a massive new data center in Utah, "whether they originate within the country or overseas." That includes not just metadata, but also the contents of the communications.

    William Binney, a former NSA technical director who helped to modernize the agency's worldwide eavesdropping network, told the Daily Caller this week that the NSA records the phone calls of 500,000 to 1 million people who are on its so-called target list, and perhaps even more. "They look through these phone numbers and they target those and that's what they record," Binney said.

    Brewster Kahle, a computer engineer who founded the Internet Archive, has vast experience storing large amounts of data. He created a spreadsheet this week estimating that the cost to store all domestic phone calls a year in cloud storage for data-mining purposes would be about $27 million per year, not counting the cost of extra security for a top-secret program and security clearances for the people involved.

    NSA's annual budget is classified but is estimated to be around $10 billion.

    Documents that came to light in an EFF lawsuit provide some insight into how the spy agency vacuums up data from telecommunications companies. Mark Klein, who worked as an AT&T technician for over 22 years, disclosed in 2006 (PDF) that he witnessed domestic voice and Internet traffic being surreptitiously "diverted" through a "splitter cabinet" to secure room 641A in one of the company's San Francisco facilities. The room was accessible only to NSA-cleared technicians.

    AT&T and other telecommunications companies that allow the NSA to tap into their fiber links receive absolute immunity from civil liability or criminal prosecution, thanks to a law that Congress enacted in 2008 and renewed in 2012. It's a series of amendments to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, also known as the FISA Amendments Act.

    That law says surveillance may be authorized by the attorney general and director of national intelligence without prior approval by the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, as long as minimization requirements and general procedures blessed by the court are followed.

    A requirement of the 2008 law is that the NSA "may not intentionally target any person known at the time of acquisition to be located in the United States." A possible interpretation of that language, some legal experts said, is that the agency may vacuum up everything it can domestically -- on the theory that indiscriminate data acquisition was not intended to "target" a specific American citizen.

     

    Rep. Jerrold Nadler, an attorney and member of the House Judiciary committee, who said he was "startled" to learn that NSA analysts could eavesdrop on domestic calls without court authorization.

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    Rep. Nadler's statement that NSA analysts can listen to calls without court orders came during a House Judiciary hearing on June 13 that included FBI director Robert Mueller as a witness.

    Mueller initially sought to downplay concerns about NSA surveillance by claiming that, to listen to a phone call, the government would need to seek "a special, a particularized order from the FISA court directed at that particular phone of that particular individual."

    Is information about that procedure "classified in any way?" Nadler asked.

    "I don't think so," Mueller replied.

    "Then I can say the following," Nadler said. "We heard precisely the opposite at the briefing the other day. We heard precisely that you could get the specific information from that telephone simply based on an analyst deciding that...In other words, what you just said is incorrect. So there's a conflict."

    Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), the head of the Senate Intelligence committee, separately acknowledged that the agency's analysts have the ability to access the "content of a call."

    Rep. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.), the head of the House Intelligence committee, told CNN on Sunday that the NSA "is not listening to Americans' phone calls" or monitoring their e-mails, and any statements to the contrary are "misinformation." It would be "illegal" for the NSA to do that, Rogers said.

     

    Sen. Dianne Feinstein, chair of the Senate Intelligence committee, acknowledged this week that NSA analysts have the ability to access the "content of a call."

    (Credit: Getty Images)

    Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell indicated during a House Intelligence hearing in 2007 that the NSA's surveillance process involves "billions" of bulk communications being intercepted, analyzed, and incorporated into a database.

    They can be accessed by an analyst who's part of the NSA's "workforce of thousands of people" who are "trained" annually in minimization procedures, he said. (McConnell, who had previously worked as the director of the NSA, is now vice chairman at Booz Allen Hamilton, Snowden's former employer.)

    If it were "a U.S. person inside the United States, now that would stimulate the system to get a warrant," McConnell told the committee. "And that is how the process would work. Now, if you have foreign intelligence data, you publish it [inside the federal government]. Because it has foreign intelligence value."

    McConnell said during a separate congressional appearance around the same time that he believed the president had the constitutional authority, no matter what the law actually says, to order domestic spying without warrants.

    Former FBI counterterrorism agent Tim Clemente told CNN last month that, in national security investigations, the bureau can access records of a previously made telephone call. "All of that stuff is being captured as we speak whether we know it or like it or not," he said. Clemente added in an appearance the next day that, thanks to the "intelligence community" -- an apparent reference to the NSA -- "there's a way to look at digital communications in the past."

    NSA Director Keith Alexander said on June 12 that his agency's analysts abide by the law: "They do this lawfully. They take compliance oversight, protecting civil liberties and privacy and the security of this nation to their heart every day."

    But that's not always the case. A New York Times article in 2009 revealed the NSA engaged in significant and systemic "overcollection" of Americans' domestic communications that alarmed intelligence officials. The Justice Department said in a statement at the time that it "took comprehensive steps to correct the situation and bring the program into compliance" with the law.

    Jameel Jaffer, director of the ACLU's Center for Democracy, says he was surprised to see the 2008 FISA Amendments Act be used to vacuum up information on American citizens. "Everyone who voted for the statute thought it was about international communications," he said.

    Updated 6/16 at 11:15 a.m. PT The original headline when the story was published on Saturday was "NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants," which was changed to "NSA spying flap extends to contents of U.S. phone calls," to better match the story. The first paragraph was changed to add attribution to Rep. Nadler. Also added was an additional statement that the congressman's aide sent this morning, an excerpt from a Washington Post story on NSA phone call content surveillance that appeared Saturday, and remarks that Rep. Rogers made on CNN this morning. Updated 6/16 at 10:45 p.m. PT We added one paragraph with a statement provided by DNI James Clapper.]

     

    Source: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-57589495-38/nsa-spying-flap-extends-to-contents-of-u.s-phone-calls/

  25. Posted

    Hello all, I am not sure if this is the correct place to put this or not.... But I am sure a mod will move it to the appropriate place if need be. Any who I recently have had an itch to upgrade my computer and I believe its time to upgrade my video card again. There is nothing wrong with my video card its a few years old and now that I been fiddling around with streaming, its putting a huge demand on my video card.

     

    Currently I have a 6850 sapphire radeon. So something that is better that. The current mother board I have is a gigabyte 890GPA-UD3h if that matters. I do not have a current price range on what I want to spend but something that is not outrageous ..

     

    I was looking at this card here: http://www.amazon.com/NVIDIA-GeForce-DisplayPort-PCI-Express-ZT-60301-10P/dp/B0081TYVQQ?SubscriptionId=AKIAJM4UVF4RQCUWVBQA&tag=cpubenchmark-20&linkCode=xm2&camp=2025&creative=165953&creativeASIN=B0081TYVQQ

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