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| Topic Started: Jun 13 2013, 01:20 PM (152 Views) | |
| wildie | Jun 13 2013, 01:20 PM Post #1 |
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The US government has your whole computer backed up on their main frame! Groan2.gif |
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| Delphi51 | Jun 13 2013, 05:17 PM Post #2 |
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Good luck getting it restored! Ask the Chinese; they may have a copy.
Edited by Delphi51, Jun 14 2013, 11:20 AM.
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| Trotsky | Jun 14 2013, 12:59 AM Post #3 |
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I think there's a box you can check on your 1040 form and they will send you a copy of your backup data for reloading, but be warned the information is not current because it only updated every 3 minutes. I had forgotten where we went to lunch last Friday so I called Homeland Security and they told me I enjoyed the Hot and Sour soup at Wo Hop's but I found the Moo Shu Shrimp a bit bland. The were a bit concerned that I have been going to so many CHINESE restaurants but I told them I was not passing secrets to Mr. Chen, who in any case did not understand Engrish. Edited by Trotsky, Jun 14 2013, 07:00 AM.
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| wildie | Jun 14 2013, 11:18 AM Post #4 |
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That's good to know Trotsky! My memory seems to going to hell, these days. Is it possible that they would be able to tell me where I left my car keys? Or is this service only available to US taxpayers? |
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| Delphi51 | Jun 14 2013, 11:27 AM Post #5 |
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We are getting very deeply dependent on computer data. I went to pay for my gas pipe at the gas co-op today and the office lady said I couldn't pay the paper bill; it had to be typed into the computer first and that would take hours. At least the computers don't have control of the gas supply here yet. The guy who delivered my pipe last night has to go tweak the rural gas distribution stations every six hours to adjust pressures while one supplier is out of business. This could work out like the cold war or the European economic community - we could get so dependent on computer communications which can easily be disrupted by the opposition that war becomes impossible. This time the IT companies get filthy rich instead of the gun makers. No cannon fodder but lots of computer frying. Edited by Delphi51, Jun 14 2013, 11:30 AM.
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| Trotsky | Jun 15 2013, 01:33 AM Post #6 |
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We pay a $.05 deposit on all soda, beer, and water bottles with he goal of returning them for recycling. Most people throw them out and homeless people reclaim them from the garbage. But I am not tossing nickels away so I return mine. Well one of the DOLLAR stores sells a good diet cola for $.99 for a three liter bottle...a good deal. But nobody else will take these bottles so we must keep them separate and return them 2 or 4 at a time. So they have to call the manager and he has to go into a password protected file and credit us for the dime or two and this info is stored on a computer and we get a receipt like one for a credit card that we must sign. So the CIA knows how much Stars and Stripes Diet Cola we drink. |
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| Dana | Jun 15 2013, 05:05 AM Post #7 |
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We may well ask our own! http://www.theglobeandmail.com/commentary/editorials/canadians-need-proper-debate-about-monitoring-of-phone-and-internet/article12445818/#dashboard/follows/ Despite these concerns, Defence Minister Peter MacKay quietly reinstated the program in 2011, using a ministerial decree to do so. As a result, the so-called metadata that are attached to every phone call and every Internet-based communication carried out by a Canadian are subject to collection and analysis by Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) in the Department of National Defence. As with the controversy unfolding in the United States, it is wrong to qualify this as eavesdropping. Canadian authorities are not listening in on phone calls or rooting around on the desktops of home computers. What they are doing is collecting a log of every phone call made, and of the activities associated with Internet Protocol addresses, in a search for patterns that might point toward a threat to national security. Many might find this a sensible procedure. But just like the recently disclosed U.S. system, the Canadian program amounts to the constant surveillance of the communications of law-abiding citizens, and the usurping of the principle of probable cause. It is disingenuous to defend the program’s dragnet approach on the grounds that the government is only collecting a list of phone numbers: It would take no time at all for authorities to find the names attached. And as for the monitoring of IP addresses, Canadians rejected the wholesale collection of such data when public opinion killed Bill C-30, the Harper government’s bill on warrantless Internet monitoring, earlier this year. Canadians and Americans have become aware in the past few days of the extent to which their governments have been monitoring their private communications under the rubric of fighting the war on terror. This greater awareness is a good thing, but it also reflects a troubling trend in which governments have been using their executive powers to change basic assumptions about our rights without bothering to consult us. |
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| Trotsky | Jun 15 2013, 05:42 AM Post #8 |
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Deserves repeating: Canadians and Americans have become aware in the past few days of the extent to which their governments have been monitoring their private communications under the rubric of fighting the war on terror. This greater awareness is a good thing, but it also reflects a troubling trend in which governments have been using their executive powers to change basic assumptions about our rights without bothering to consult us. |
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