[jasonraymondson]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('vision-master', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 't')ake all of you computers and destroy them now, then i want you to move out to a cabin in the woods and send letters to people who continue to advocate technology.

[highlander]

how about not rolling over and taking it. a general strike until DHS repeals this innane policy will do the trick nicely. How about all major corporations not engaging in airline travel or international business until this crap stops.
If you were trying to sell trade or market, you likely have propriatary info on your computer. Do you want DHS to load that into a database. Even if only "friends of the administration" have access, how long until you are out of business.

[gampy]

Well, DHS can already look in your trunk, in your backpacks, and in your shoes. Laptops, and digital storage devices are not much different, really.

Leave the kiddie porn, and bomb plans on the home PC, boys and girls.

Although, the idea of them keeping a person's belongings for further search is troublesome.

Hey, people lose their cars (and their freedom) because DHS found a roach under the passenger seat.

I have to wonder. Who are they going to get to do all this searching of people's hard-drives once they start confiscating them?
Hmmmm....computer science majors take note. A budding career in DHS awaits.

[emeraldg40]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('berechia', 'E')ven if you use a removable usb, doesnt the hard drive also store TEMP files and cache information?

For this pupose, to scrub any information from the caches and hard drives, a Type-3 Antipersonnel/Antimateriel Incendiary Grenade[1], colloquially known as the thermite canister, or "Firebomb", the "Molotov" or the "flame grenade", is a Jiralhanae (Brute) grenade.. It is a multipurposed infantry explosives munition, and can be thrown 10 meters (32.8 feet) by the average soldier.

With proper license, the incendiary grenade could be placed on the laptop, and the pin pulled, ,making sure the thermite canister sits above the hard drive.

When the keyboard dissolves, the molten steel will fuse the hard drive into a slag heap making it more difficult to extract data.

This should be done with proper fire extinguisher nearby.

Don't breath the smoke and use eye protection.

The gold from the motherboard can then be collected and scavenged.

[gampy]

You know, I just had a thought.

DHS just might become the largest federal employer in a short while.

The military-industrial complex might need a new name.

I suppose some might look at it as a public works/ job creation program, a la the New Deal. (silver linings, anyone?)

I have a feeling that GE, and Boeing may try to get in on the surveillance technology industry that is booming. China can only buy so much of that stuff. Some of it needs to be for domestic consumption.

Or will they privatize it? Contractors running the borders?
Like airline security.

Cool...it will be easy to get across when I slip a C-note to the minmum wage schlub sitting in the kiosk thumbing through his Playboy.

Oh gods...wage slaves armed with tasers.

[berechia]

All you gots ta do is join DHS and BE a border guard, you could be rich.

This is all just an expansion of the maffia.

And lots of power, andthey can feel up old grandmas and other exciding befenits. (sic) The can make people stand in line when they have to go to the bathroom, and refuse them water.

Great for the low IQ outcast who wants t get back at society.

You know, you can get a micro 16 gig chip and stick it in your ear and they would never find it.

this is so silly.

[jasonraymondson]

How long until we have Johnny Mnemonic implants?

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A') new reality television show focused on the agencies and employees of the Department of Homeland Security is sure to find fans among bureaucrats and department observers, and also is likely to draw some criticism from those who wonder if a primetime television show is the best use of the agency's time.

[mattduke]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'D')uring her first day on the job, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano issued five action directives, one being a report from the Transportation Security Administration on a threat assessment of the nation's critical transportation infrastructure.

TSA spokesperson Andrea McCauley confirmed that information from the long-awaited threat assessment of the national school bus fleet will be included.

“These action directives are designed to begin a review, evaluation and dialogue between the various functions of this department and me,” said Secretary Napolitano, in a press release announcing her intentions.

The TSA must provide Secretary Napolitano with an oral report by Jan. 28 and will include “a side by side comparison of the threat environment, resources and personnel devoted to each transportation sector.”

[vox_mundi]

The Homeland Security Council has just published the first edition of its planning guidance for responding to a nuclear detonation in the United States.

Link
Report
"The purpose of this guidance is to provide emergency planners with nuclear detonation-specific response recommendations to maximize the preservation of life in the event of an urban nuclear detonation. This guidance addresses the unique effects and impacts of a nuclear detonation such as scale of destruction, shelter and evacuation strategies, unparalleled medical demands, management of nuclear casualties, and radiation dose management concepts.

From the Report$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '.')..There will be no significant Federal response at the scene for 24 hours and the full extent of Federal assets will not be available for up to 72 hours. Emergency response is principally a local function. Federal assistance will be mobilized as rapidly as possible; however, for purposes of this document, no significant Federal response is assumed for 24 – 72 hours

[Fishman]

Its called triage. Unlike the fairy land that many believe in, resources will have to be allocated to do the most good for the most folks. A utilitarian use of resources. And FAR more likely to happen will our new invertabrate president.

[del2les]

LOL....GOOD GRIEF! Your so-called coffins in the videos are LEVY BOXES used for sand/earth construction in several areas across the country. I have seen these construction fill boxes used for several things, but never coffins. HAHAHAHAHA Americans can be soooo paranoid and DUMB....

[the48thronin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('del2les', 'L')OL....GOOD GRIEF! Your so-called coffins in the videos are LEVY BOXES used for sand/earth construction in several areas across the country. I have seen these construction fill boxes used for several things, but never coffins. HAHAHAHAHA Americans can be soooo paranoid and DUMB....

[TomSaidak]

Fishman wrote:

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'I')ts called triage

[deMolay]

Peak Oilers could be under the eye of the DHS as an extremist group. http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090416/recession_terrorism_090418/20090418?hub=TopStories

[dinopello]

The DHS is one of the worst legacies (of many) of the Bush administration. But, isn't this the same topic?

[deMolay]

I find the DHS concept scary. They seem to be morphing into a monster.

[ReverseEngineer]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('deMolay', 'I') find the DHS concept scary. They seem to be morphing into a monster.

[Keith_McClary]

Dinosaur skull seized from Wyoming home
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'U').S. customs officials have seized a dinosaur skull from a Wyoming home as part of a federal Homeland Security Department investigation.