September 16, 2013

The Walking Dead - A Look at Season 4: The Walking Dead – AMC

The Walking Dead - A Look at Season 4: The Walking Dead – AMC:

"The cast and crew of The Walking Dead share their insights about Season 4.

Tags: Andrew Lincoln, Danai Gurira, Lauren Cohan, Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Daryl Dixon, Maggie Greene, Michonne, Rick Grimes, Behind the Scenes, Season 4 Episode 1"

Syrian Survival Training

SYRIAN "A-TEAM". This week's epidsode 'Go big or go home'

September 9, 2013

Alien Technology Exploitation Office Challenge Coin

ATEO Challenge Coin
Alien Technology Exploitation Office Challenge Coin - Mil-Mall
"Rumored to have been created after the famous Roswell Incident – which is still officially classified as a crashed weather balloon – the Alien Technology Exploitation Office is allegedly tasked with better understanding alien technology for applications to our nation’s defense. The captured aliens, depicted on the obverse, are not prisoners but vital intelligence assets for our nation’s security.  The reverse features the ‘official’ patch of Area 51, a ‘5 1’ star pattern, proudly worn in secret by all personnel that call this their base of operations.  The base and attached facilities are believed by some to house the latest black ops and covert technology the United States Military has to offer, providing a testing ground for everything from next generation stealth technology to the latest in robotic warfare.

This stone-polished coin has a cloisonné enamel and covert-black nickel finish. This coin celebrates America’s proud clandestine operations heritage and the courageous men and women who make these ULTRA TOP SECRET projects possible. "
(Via Louisville's Independent Media / LNOradio.com.)

Hunters Expo 2014

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September 6, 2013

The Walking Dead Season 4 Poster Revealed

The Walking Dead Season 4 Poster Revealed: "The Walking Dead Season 4 Poster Revealed

Today AMC unveiled the official Season 4 poster for The Walking Dead. The artwork features Rick Grimes (Andrew Lincoln) standing in front of the prison.

Click here to see a larger version of the poster.

The Walking Dead returns Sun., Oct. 13 at 9/8c on AMC."

Buying The Best Archery Supplies

Archery equipment comes in all shapes and sizes and it is important for you to get the right kind for
your needs. You can purchase a bow and arrows as well as all the other archery supplies and accessories online. This is a great way to shop because you can do it from the comfort of your own home. Before you do that however, you have to make sure you are getting the right products to avoid wasting money.

One of the first things you need to think about before you buy archery supplies online is compatibility. Different manufactures make different archery related products that follow the industry rules without necessarily being exactly similar. As a result, you may end up purchasing a bow and arrows or any other supplies that can not be used together properly if you purchase them from incompatible brands. You bear the responsibility of making sure that such a thing does not happen because you may fail to get a refund and thus have wasted your money.

You have to ensure that you shop around and get the best deal there is in terms of prices and brands. You can get products well within your budget this way.

In order for you consider yourself as having gotten the best financial deal possible as far as buying supplies for your archery equipment is concerned, you also have to consider the quality of items you are getting. Buying a low quality supply set for your archery equipment at a low price is not as good a deal as getting a high quality archery supply set at competitive market prices. This because high quality supplies and accessories last longer and have less maintenance costs as compared to their low quality counterparts which may need to be repaired or replaced often. As a result, high quality supplies end up being lower in terms of general associated costs in the long term, which is a great deal for any perceptive buyer.

Client reviews and testimonials will come in handy in ensuring you get the right kind of information if you want to buy archery supplies online. This is because they are written from the perspective of people who have experience dealing with different brands of products of this kind. You will be able to access the best products that are well worth your money if you pay attention to this information.

About the Author: Jimmy Albers


September 4, 2013

Bug Out Bag Basics, The Essentials Of Emergency Survival Kits

Due to the increasing occurrence of events such as man-made disasters and natural catastrophes,
numerous consumers have chosen to invest in emergency survival kits. The latter serve to increase one's chances of surviving such an event, and avoiding illnesses or injuries in the process. Below are some tips for those who plan to purchase a kit and what the ensemble should contain:

The first thing a person should do is make a list of all the required items and practice using them on a regular basis. Those who are novices regarding outdoor life and camping should consider purchasing a large camping kit designed to fit in a backpack. Those with more experience can select a smaller kit, such as those designed to be carried in a small spaces such as a purse or tote bag.

Packing items that will definitely be used and eliminating those that will simply occupy much needed space is wise. A knife, for instance, is obviously an essential object for survival kit. Each item one purchases should have a definite function with regard to providing shelter or assisting one to prepare food.

When organizing the required items, it is essential to give thought to the size of the kit. When the ensemble is completed, it should be easy to carry and contain only durable, high-quality provisions and equipment. It is unwise to cut corners when purchasing such objects, as poor quality tools or equipment will not be very helpful if a catastrophe occurs.

August 25, 2013

Nemisis + Hubris = Maginot Line and Eric Snowden

NSA and FISA Courts + The Patriot Act = Snowden's Internet Gestapo

Tech Crunch has posted an excellent article that precisely describes exactly what happened that led to the end of free speech and the beginnings of "Good Speak" in America 2013. Just how did we go from the shining symbol of freedom and democracy to being afraid of talking in the same room as our xbox Connect? In less than ten years we willingly let the government surveillance juggernaut the NSA not so slowly roll up our right of freedom of speech, assembly and expression into a flag draped package to be stored in perpetuity. Nobody once asked or answered the glaring flaw in allowing the government to look into our metadata, listen to our calls, access our gmails or sift through our dropbox.

All of this data collection looked at the past. Not the future. Predictive analysis of the internet is not possible with today's technology so all the FBI can do is piece together what happened after the fact. Post Incident Forensic Investigation of data is unbelievably easy once you know what to look for that is why the DEA asked for, an got, access to our text messages and voicemail. Preventative or Pro-active enforcement requires talented analysts, lots of processors, great software, access to data and most importantly a set of Key Warnings and Indicators to flag in the system. Pattern and Link Analysis means you need all of the above AND Keystone Datapoints to anchor the sorts and sets of questions called PIR or Priority Intelligence Requirements to drive the assessment and control the collection efforts. 

The US Intelligence collection today system was designed, built, managed and maintained by a generation of bureaucrats and political yes men. Its entire purpose and reason for being was the identification, capture and elimination of Osama Bin Laden and roughly 300 of his best friends. Now that Bin Laden is fish food and the rest are scattered in pauper's graves around the world what does this system do now? Like most bureaucracies it continues to churn until it becomes the weirdly familiar company in the movie "Brazil". In that world people die in avalanches of paper and the system never makes a mistake until it does…….. France learned the hard way when Hitler went around the Maginot Line. America learned the hard way when Snowden walked out of the most secure server room in the world with a portable USB hard drive….

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The Maginot Line: "the 1930s, on the eastern border of France. An impenetrable series of bunkers, tunnels, and garrisons built with the object of preventing a German assault. It worked wonderfully, of course — so wonderfully that the Germans decided they should go around it.

The Maginot Line is what I think of when I hear about efforts to secure electronic communications, generally via increasingly complex encryption schemes. The battle is over, everyone. Believe it or not, we lost! In fact, we were completely routed, so to speak. And yet it seems like all anyone can think of doing is shoring up defenses which hardly came into play in the first place!

PGP? People can barely manage the privacy settings on Facebook, much less a stable of random numbers and the means to deploy them. Zero-knowledge storage? Great until a court orders you to decrypt your own data (in violation of the 5th amendment, likely, but how long until a friendly precedent on that account?). Self-destructing messages? Print screen says hello, at least until someone finds a nice exploit. End to end encryption? Lovely, so you get flagged as suspicious by the NSA and all your data is stored for five years — plenty of time for them to squeeze the keys out of you or a friend (identified by metadata), at which point they breach a whole network of trust. Tor? The feds are watching exit nodes like prohibition gangbusters outside a speakeasy. 256-bit WPA2 keys? If the password isn’t ‘password,’ ‘admin,’ or ‘123456,’ it’s probably written on a post-it note stuck to the goddamn router! Come on!"

(Via.)

George A. Romero Completes Script for "The Zombie Autopsies"

George A. Romero Completes Script for His Adaptation of The Zombie Autopsies:

George A. Romero has turned in his script for his next movie in his undead universe. This movie is based on the book by the same name and may finally solve the biggest mystery in his shambling zombie world. 

What started it and is the zombie virus curable? Does mankind have a future? Can we turn the tide of death back and live in a world where the dead stay dead?

Considering George Romero's age lets hope this movie finally gives us the answers that plague long time fans of his movies.