Wow Voice Chat

Wow is an online game I play a lot. It has built in voice chat ,which didn't matter because when it first came out , years ago , it sucked pretty bad.

But these days, it's a lot better.

So I"m making this article on my blog to show people how to set it up , and we'll give it another go.

When you're in the game, press Esc , system , and select voice .  This should bring you to the voice chat screen.

Obviously , make sure the "Enable Voice Chat" box is selected.

 

We'll start with the Microphone.  Pick the first one in the list of Microphones , make sure the volume is about half (you can move it up and down if it turns out to be too loud) . 

Press the Record Button , say "Test Test Test" into your microphone , and then press play. You should hear your voice . You should also in the Volume Read Out right beside the play button , see a little gray bar moving back and forth with your voice.  If you see the grey bar moving around when you talk , you know your microphone is set up. If not , check your mic. Is it plugged in ? Is it turned on , etc. 

If that fails , go to the List of Microphones and try the next one.  Work your way down the list and hopefully one of them will work. 

Speakers are pretty obvious. If you can hear your voice from the microphone test , you don't have to do anything. Otherwise , move all the volume controls to 50%  , start with the top speaker , and try again. Work your way down the list until you can hear yourself. 

The settings you see here are correct for push to talk. That is , people only hear you when you're pushing the transmit button , and I've selected the left control key as the key. If you want a different one, press the red button and press some other key , and that will be the transmit key. 

 Now that we (I hope !) have you talking , it's time to choose a Chat channel. 

Open the channel menu, it's on the minimap. 

And Go to the custom channel part. You will click on it , enter the channel name, and the password , if there is a password.  And then you should be happily chatting with everyone else on the channel. Note that if the channel doesn't exist , it will be created.

And that should be that.

New Fire Alarm System (Or a Hidden Mic)

New fire alarm system. They now put the speakers right inside your home.
Problem is , it's the post Edward Snowden Era , and thoughts about NSA and CSEC spying on you and everything are flying all over the internet.

And now they're putting this thing in every single apartment.
Product specs look innocent enough of you look up a Wheelock E50 Speaker , but still. It would be a really good way to put a microphone in every apartment in the country , wouldn't it ?

Overly Suspicious ? Yes. Tin Foil Hat ?

Eaton Center
1000 Eaton Boulevard
Cleveland, Ohio 44122
(440) 523-5000

Eaton's Cooper Business
600 Travis Street, Suite 5400
Houston, Texas 77002-1001
(713) 209-8400

Mailing Address
P. O. Box 4446
Houston, Texas 77210-4446

Every contact number for Cooper Industries is inside the United States. Meaning they are legally required to do anything any US Government agency asks (such as the NSA). Which means yes, the USA believes it has the right to put hidden microphones in the things.


Like they put data taps in computers that were headed for china. (real fact , not tin foil hat theory , they got caught red handed.)


Congradualtions. I don't know whether the thing is bugged or not , that's speculation , but a path now exists for the NSA to put a microphone in every non-americans home. And by the way , the consider it perfectly legal.


Probably it's just a Speaker.


But they claim the right to bug it , if they like.


I want it removed.



I mailed a letter to David McGuinty , Liberal Member of Parliment for Ottawa South.

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

XXXXXXXXXXXXx Apt XXX , Ottawa South

They put in a new fire alarm system today.

It apparently requires a speaker in every apartment.

(picture enclosed)

Off the bottom of the speaker I got the name Wheelock

Looking up this on google , I got a Wheelock E50 White Speaker , from
Cooper Industries.

All contacts for Cooper Industries are Either Ohio, or Texas , in the USA.

Eaton Center
1000 Eaton Boulevard
Cleveland, Ohio 44122
(440) 523-5000

Eaton's Cooper Business
600 Travis Street, Suite 5400
Houston, Texas 77002-1001
(713) 209-8400

Mailing Address
P. O. Box 4446
Houston, Texas 77210-4446

I talked to the Land Lord, he is REQUIRED by the fire code, to put speakers in every apartment.

And the Crux of The Matter :

The USA has declared it has the right to order it's corperations to cooperate with government departments, such as the NSA , to assist in spying. We have seen examples of them putting bugs in routers, or other computers, and shipping them off to China, bugging Angela Merkels phone (German Chancellor). Etc etc.


Odds are , there ISN'T a microphone in those speakers. :)




But still , the USA has reserved the right to put one there , if they feel like. And if those speakers are everywhere in Canada , or even just everywhere in Ontario (depending on what level the fire code is operating at) , that means the USA has reserved the right , at least , to spy on anyone in Ontario , if they feel like it.


And by the way , Obama has already declared this kind of activity to be perfectly legal.




I protest , and I want this USA made device out of my apartment. I don't trust it. Even if it has no listening device in it now , sooner or later it will need repairs, which means it essentially reserves permission to put one in , any time they feel like , and call it a repair visit.


Allowing the USA to put devices in every home in the province or country is a huge mistake , and I think it should be undone. XXXXX  XXXXXXXX



(Edit) Conversation with the Land Lord to have it removed. They refuse. It's part of the Fire Code to have it in every unit of the building.

What the heck is this thing ?

What the heck is this thing ?
Ok , firstly , I admit , these pics have been in my camera a while. This thing just apeared one day at this corner , I don't know what it is , but it has the city of ottawa logo on it. A day or two later, it was moved to the opposite side of the intersection , and a few days later it was gone.

I'm guessing ... traffic counter ?
Who knows. That dish at the top looks like a really tiny radar dish. And it's pointed at the center of the intersection.

The weirdest things these days keep popping up.

Little Doggie (ok, it's a fox)

It's probably not shown very well , but near the Elmvale Shopping center in Ottawa, Ont, there was a fox running loose. I caught some pics, this is the best one. It's not that good. Hopefully it will magnify properly when you click on it...

Caliphate Summer War

Iraq fighting rages after Sunni militants declare caliphate

 

Alarming regional and world powers, the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed universal authority when it dropped the local element in its name and said its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, as leader of the Islamic state, was now caliph of the Muslim world — a medieval title last widely recognized in the Ottoman sultan deposed 90 years ago after the First World War.
"He is the imam and caliph for Muslims everywhere," group spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani said in an online statement on Sunday, using titles that carry religious and civil power.

 Dang. I had such hopes for this group. If Iraq was such a corrupt dive of a country , maybe the muslims would solve the problem and make their own , stable nation. 

But now , with this declaration that they rule the world , and all muslims should obey and all non-muslims need to die , I see the truth. 

This is a Summer War. 

What is a Summer War ? 

In europe , in the napolionic era , when there was no birth control , guess how they cut back the population ? They got all the young men all hot and bothered about some cause or another , and sent them off to war , deliberately seeking to get them killed off. Commanders actually had orders not to return until they had gotten rid of a certain amount of their command. 

The other muslim countries are not going to cow tow to some upstart, that much is certain. And the west certainly isn't going to stand back and let some islamic super power come into existance with the publically stated coal of brutally murdering anyone not following their particular brand of islam.

This is a summer war. It's just to get all the young men fire up , and then kill them off. A flash in the pan. It's going no where. 

This new email-tracking feature gives salespeople NSA-like powers

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Cirrus Insight email tracking allows users to receive real-time notifications when someone opens an email; view the time/date, location, and device on which email opens occurred; and log email tracking-information to the activity history in Salesforce.

 So , you open a spam message , and before you even finish reading it you get a phone call from the guy who sent it . And he knows where you live , because you probably checked it at home , and he's in the neibourhood he'll be right over to talk to you about it , in fact , that's him knocking on your door right now ...

Yeah. That's not going to be good for me.

I see a lot of "weak willed" shall we say , people  ,who are too polite to be dealing with aggressive salesmen , they'll lose their shirts , it's like throwing a lion in with a lamb.

Lot of people going to stop checking their email entirely , and maybe even get rid of their cell phone , if this thing goes big.

Won't bother me though. If you arn't one of like five or six people I want to talk to , I don't answer the phone I reject the call. And I have no problem with just not opennign the door , demanding "who is it ?" before I let them in , and if it isn't a cop in full uniform , they aint getting in.

Dollar vs Bitcoin

Just a Funny Picture.
PS: I still think bitcoin is a scam and you'll lose your shirt if you deal in it.
Unless you're a drug dealer , in which case losing 15% or more on each transaction is cheap for money laundering.

'Nother words, go Harper ! Feel free to ban the currency as illegal , you'll be doing everyone but the drug dealers a favor.

Mind-controlled exoskeleton kicks off World Cup

Article 

A young man whose legs are paralyzed will be the first person to kick a soccer ball at the World Cup in Brazil today.
During the opening ceremonies of the World Cup, which start at 3:15 p.m. in Brazil (2:15 p.m. ET), eight paraplegics wearing robotic exoskeletons will walk onto the field, by controlling the technology with their brain waves. One of the eight will be chosen to make the first ceremonial kick


Remove tinfoil hat from head.
Fold it up into the shape of a paper air plane. 
Send it flying off away ...


 

Metro - At McArthy and Paul Anka , Ottawa

Am I bonkers or what ?
That is two cases of lighter fluid (techincially , Zip brand fire starter fluid for barbeque's) and a whole stack of charcoal.
Where is it ? It's just under the edge of the check out counter for the 8 items or less line at the Metro. A high traffic zone.

Maybe I'm crazy. Maybe it's perfectly legal to store such an *EXPLOSIVE*  combination of goods in a high traffic area. But if it is ... that law needs to be changed. Because ... *BOOOM*

Understanding Bit Coins in one simple lesson

Understanding Bit Coins in one simple lesson.

I put 20$ in the bitcoin machine. I get 17$ and change back. I can now go spend that 17$ and change.

If I'm a money launderer , who doesn't want the police tracking my transactions just by reading off the serial numbers on the bills , this is a pretty good exchange rate. I'm losing 15% value in exchange for anonymity. I can live with that. In fact, it's a cheaper surcharge than many other forms of money laundering.

Simple. Really.

Man wrongfully convicted of rape tells court he never gave statement to RCMP

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HALIFAX - A man wrongfully convicted of raping a 14-year-old Nova Scotia girl in 1969 testified today that at the time he was charged he never gave a statement to the RCMP and did not plead guilty at a trial, even though that's what the record shows.
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Those documents also say it wasn't until 2008 that his accuser admitted to the RCMP that her brother had repeatedly sexually assaulted her in the late 1960s, which led to DNA testing proving he was the father of her child.

 So in 1969 , this 14 year old girl had sex with her brother , got knocked up , and blamed it on this guy.
39 years later , when she was 52 , and the brother passed away , she finally admitted she lied and the guy was innocent.

39 years later ?
What kind of witch was this woman ? What kind of society do we live in where she's allowed to walk free after forcing a man to live h is entire life under her false accusation , a criminal record and everythign , and oh , now that you're life is over , now that you're about to retire , which doesn't care about what you did or didn't do , now that you no longer have to deal with an employer and explain "Yes , I'm a rapist" even though you're not , now that the maximum possible harm has been inflicted upon you and there is nothing but old age left , I'll clear your name. Just to twist the dagger in a bit deeper and add a little bit more to your suffering.

This kind of woman is not a victim. she needs to go to jail. she is a threat to every single man out there. A shining example that a woman can get you thrown in jail just on her word alone , no evidence at all required. And guess what , all the people that helped her ? They were men as well.

They were idiots. And they're next in line to have their lives ruined by some woman with a complete lack of scrupels , of which there is an abundance.

She's going to walk free, she's going to cry a river of false tears . She's going to claim she's a victim, raped for all the days of her life , as if he kept her in a basement and she had no chance to sneak off to the cops.  She isn't the victim. she's the criminal. Her whole flipping life she was humping her brother. She loved it , and just needed a patsy to blame the child on. She didn't give a crud about anyone but her own lusts.

She should spend the rest of her days in jail.

But she wont.

Instead , she'll serve as a shining example to every woman in canada as to what you can get away with.

And the males who helped her have inspired women everywhere to ruin their lives. Because they're idiots.

Disgsuting.

An NSA kind of day

I think the NSA is blocking certain posts these days. You know , someone says yahoo has this really great encryption that's going to stop the NSA dead , you try to post a comment that this all started because the FBI showed up at Lavabit's front door with a court order for the encryption keys so they could read not just Edward Snowdens email , but everyone elses too , and suddenly you can't post.

You try to read this article on the various (useless) plans the USA has for doing nothing but looking like they're doing something , meanwhile in the back ground there's this video going on of Obama repeating over and over again that America has no interest in what the common man is doing (despite 10 months of news of the NSA trying to "get it all" , every byte of information from everywhere) and you can't turn it off no matter what you do ... Gawd I really cant stand listening to that lying plick another second !

Then the artical about Black Berry breaking up with T-Mobile , and they're saying it's because Blackberry is having an unreasonable hissy fit , but I'm thinking (and trying to comment) that it's because the NSA broke their encryption and is trying it again , and is probably demanding they hand over the encryption keys or you can't sell Black Berries anymore in the USA, but don't tell anyone that or it's 10 years in jail thanks to the American "Secret" laws that have been in the paper soon.  But can I post that ? No ... the post button suddenly doesn't work. 

And now they're threatenning to sue Europe because Europe wants to build a network that's just for themselves and doesn't pass through America. Apparently , trying to stop americans from spying on you is a violation of american free trade agreements.

And then theres those idiots who think that by selling off parts of the internet to private parties America is giving up too much of it to foriegners. Hello ? We don't want your NSA infested internet. We don't trust it. We want to start our own that doesn't go anywhere near your junk.

I think they deliberately want to piss off the whole world. Normally , when a criminal gets caught , he lays low for a while. He doesn't stand up and give you the middle finger and say "Screw you ! I aint gonna stop ! "

Which seems to be exactly what the americans are doing.

What are you doing that you're so concerned with NSA listening in on your calls ?

Article = none, personal opinion

"What are you doing that  you're so concerned with NSA listening in on your calls ? "

This is the kind of question that you normally dismiss as a debating trick. It's an ad hominen attack (attack on the person giving the argument , not the argument itself) , accusing him of some secret wrong doing and thats why he's taking this side of the debate.

But I suppose it is also a fair question. What am I doing that this whole Edward Snowden NSA thing bothers me so much ?

In 2011 I received a phone call from a machine. The call went roughly like this "Press One if you support the Liberals. Press Two if you support the Conservatives. Press three if you support the NDP" . My first reaction was ... arn't you supposed to tell me who you are ? Who's running this poll ? It didn't even do that. I looked at my phone and I said "Who the (bleep ! ) are you ? " and I hung up on it without entering any response.

Six or eight months later , the news broke in Canada of the Robocall Scandal. Apparently , someone had programmed a machine to call up lots and lots of people and ask them who they were going to vote for . Apparently anyone who indicated they were going to vote for some particular party got a call back from a human being telling them the polls had moved. And when they went to the new polling station , they were told this is not your polling station , you can't vote here. Most of them didn't bother going back to the old polling station , they just went home and forgot about it.

Which means that one particular party got robbed of a lot of votes , enough to cost them the election.

This happened because some politicians got themselves a list of voters , their phone numbers, and their political affiliation. I'd say some untrustworthy politicians , but that would be redundant. Politics is a dirty game and they're all untrustworthy.

How does this relate to the NSA / Edward Snowden thing , you ask ?

NSA now has a big honking list of voters, their phone numbers , and their political affiliations. But not just for America. They have it for lots and lots of other nations. And they're shooting for every nation in the world.

If some politician came along and started running on an "I hate the NSA" platform , and NSA has a list like this for that district , do you really trust them *NOT* to interfere in that election ? Keep in mind this is the organization that by Fisa rule 702 has been granted permission to spy on every non-american in the whole wide world , just because they're not an american. Do you think they'll hesitate for an instant before deciding to rig some election in some foreign country in their favor ?

What am I doing that I'm so concerned with the NSA listening in on my calls ? On everyone's calls as a matter of fact ?

I'm casting my vote for who will rule my country. And I'm expecting it to actually be worth something.
That's what I'm doing.
 

Fisa : Section 702

Article  

Passed in 2008, Section 702 retroactively gave cover of law to a post-9/11 effort permitting the NSA to collect phone, email, internet and other communications content when one party to the communication is reasonably believed to be a non-American outside the United States. The NSA stores Prism data for five years and communications taken directly from the internet for two years.

 



Apparently it is perfectly legal , in america , to spy on non-americans. Just because they're non americans. Not because you suspect they're terrorists or anything , but simply because hey , they're not americans , go for it.



I'm going to store this little tibit here where I can find it any time I need.

(Video) Live Crabs

Taken at the Kowloon food mart in Ottawa, Canada.

Yep. They're live.

Isn't that against some kind of Animal Rights thingy or something , selling live animals in a market down on Sommerset ? 

Internet Cable from Brazil to EU

article = none , personal opinion


In the age of NSA ticking off all the non-americans greatly (especially Brazil, they got caught helping an american company try and win a bid on a contract ... we call that industrial espionage , not fighting terrorists) , Brazil has decided to run an internet cable from Brazil to Europe directly , without going through the USA at all, and thus avoiding NSA.
   There have been several responses to this , on the web , recently , one being the USA will just tap the new wire and continue business as usual (apparently a Sub named Jimmy Carter has already been trained and equipped for this particular mission) , another being that this is just a smoke screen , the cable through the USA has degraded to the point that it can only support voice calls so they would have had to replace it anyways, and a third objection commonly raised is that the lowered latency for a direct cable means data centers in brazil will be very useful to people in europe, very responsive, able to move a lot of data ,etc , thus they're competing for USA business.

As a Canadian who doesn't much like the NSA , and openly confesses to feeling shame over the actions of NSA and it's little tiny Canadian brother CSEC who apparently is following faithfully in the footsteps of NSA , I would like to make a few comments.

One . You can't just go tap an undersea data cable. In this day and age of outrage at NSA ? They are watching you. What exactly do you think is going to be the political consequences of you getting caught tapping a brand new cable ? They won't be war, USA is the largest military power in the world, but you can expect trade boycots galore. 
   Having already been caught red handed in industrial espionage , in helping americans win commerical contracts , USA is not far from a situation where European (and Brazliian) Governments simply start adding a clause to their contracts that USA based corperations need not bother to submit a bid , they are not eligable to win this contract. 
   If the fight for contracts is not a fair fight , if one side is cheating so that they always win , and everyone else always loses, everyone else is going to pick up their marbles and go play somewhere else , and leave the "winner" to go play with himself.

I would like to say Canada will follow this tactic , but I'm probably wrong. The government and both major opposition political parties (ie: all three front runners) have been amazingly quiet on the entire issue. The only hint we have is one of the governments ministors bad mouthing Snowden as a traitor and saying he deserves to be thrown in jail for a really long time.
   If this is the Canadian Government's opinion , it's pretty obvious they're obediently falling in line behind big brother USA and arn't going to lift a finger to protect even their own population. And threatenning to vote for the opposition gets you no where.

   So what do you do ?
   You must assume the attitude "If it's electronic , it's bugged" , "If you're competing with an american corperation , NSA is helping them". "If the product manufacturer is based in the USA , NSA owns their little behind and there's probably a back door, though they will deny that. They are legally required to for the first two years of any new prodect they come out with " (Obama's great "compromise" with american corperations ... not much of a compromise if you're non-american)
   Put dirt on your face book. Claim to love knitting , make friends with a few people you hate , mess up their metrics , and if the cops come calling , tell them you deliberately threw dirt in your profile because you knew they were watching. What can they do ? They're on your doorstep because they're watching ...

   Confusion to the enemies  !
   And stop buying American. We can't really stop them from spying on us , but we can at least hit them in the pocket book.

Scrap Mexican visa rule, Canadian CEOs to urge Harper

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"Canada's senior business leaders will urge the Harper government to lift its "intrusive" visa on Mexican travellers ahead of the prime minister's own visit there next week, The Canadian Press has learned.
A forthcoming report from the Canadian Council for Chief Executives calls the visa, imposed in 2009 to curb bogus asylum claims, an impediment to reinvigorating the Canada-Mexico relationship."


 Dear prime minister , we the richest canadians in Canada , the Canadian Council for Cheif Executives , insist that you allow us to continue to hire people from Mexico , because it is a "dollar a day" country , and the workers will be happy to work practically for free , and we can then fire all those Canadian Workers who dare to demand the minimum wage.

PS: We'd love to kick some funding into your election war chest to convince you to help us , but you seem to have made that illegal.

Sincerely , Rich Fat Cats

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Dear Prime Minister,

We the Editers of the CBC , are continuing to persue our policy of publishing only articles that sling mud at you. The above article where someone , anyone (Fat Cat Rich Men) complain bitterly about your actions and no commenting is permitted for people to point out the obvious (Temporary Foreign Workers are stealing Canadian jobs !!!!) is all part of our decision to drown the Canadian public in news about how awful and evil you are , even when you get things right.

Please be advised we don't care if you get things right , we are a large corperation and we want to to partake of the Temporary Foreign Worker pie as well , and like any other corperation we don't give a hoot about the average Canadian. So you may expect that our "dirty tactics" will remain unchanged.

Sincerely , the Management of the CBC


Ps: April 13 ...CBC just got their budget cut again from the federal government. Gee ... I wonder why ?

U.S. law firm ensnared in NSA surveillance: NYT report

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"(Reuters) - An unnamed U.S. law firm was caught up in the global surveillance of the National Security Agency (NSA) and its overseas partners in Australia, according to a newspaper report on Saturday.
A top secret document obtained by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden shows the firm was monitored while representing a foreign government in trade disputes with the United States, according to The New York Times."

Spying on the lawyers for someone involved in a trade dispute.

Have you ever heard of the phrase "Industrial Espionage" ? It doesn't just cover stealing commercial secrets. Peeking at your opponents hand during trade negotiations is also part of the package.

Apparently , as far as NSA is concerned , winning contracts for american corperations is all part of the fight against terrorism. Isn't that interesting ?

I wonder if anyone (Any non-US person or organization) will be willing to hire a US Law Firm for ... anything , after this ? Knowing that you might as well be turning over everything you say to whatever US firm or government branch you're dealing with so they can spy on you ?

Every action has a reaction. You use US Corperations as the minions of NSA , and you start using NSA and it's minions for Industrial Espionage , they're going to stop doing business with you. They're going to find some other place to cut a deal with, because of Plato.

Who's Plato ?

An ancient Philosopher reputed to be able to talk anyone into anything. Until people decided the solution to that problem was to simply not talk with him anymore, and not have any dealings with him anymore. If you can't get a fair deal , you'll settle for no deal , kind of thing. You'll just go somewhere else.

Is anyone listenning ?

NSA tells Congress: Snowden copied co-worker's password

 

 WASHINGTON -- Former National Security Agency analyst Edward Snowden gained access to at least some classified documents he later disclosed by copying a password from a co-worker who has since resigned, the NSA reported to Congress. Snowden has previously said he did not steal any passwords.

 Hello , is anyone listenning  ? 

These guys lied their butts off to congress , the general public , and pretty much every one else in the whole wide world , and you're still listenning to them ? Are you stupid or what ? 

These guys purjured themselves right to congress itself. Who knows what they're really doing or what really happened ? The only thing we know for certain is they are prolific liars and they do not hesitate to pile on a few more. 

Crystal Ball 2014

My Crystal Ball for  2014

Ingredients 
   So what am I basing my predictions on ? What is my list of ingredients ?

•    President Obama basically giving the world his middle finger and telling them (us ! ) He has no intention of stopping his spying on the whole wide world
• President Obama publically stating he's going to "lock up" all that information his various spy agencies are gathering on every citizen of the world , in one big place to limit access
• "Two People Can Keep a Secret , but only if one of them is dead" , a saying that frequently occurs in Heinlien novels indicating the likelyhood of any secret you're keeping , actually being kept. 
• The Usual MIx of 3D printers , Internet , and the fact that even a guy on disability like me now has a smart phone , probably everyone in the world will have one soon enough
• The notion that the internet needs to explode it's capacity by eleven fold in four years to handle all the "wearable" devices coming down the pipe. 

Predictions

1...    My first prediction is that China , which is already spending billions on hacking , will toss in another billion dollars to try and hack this "vault  " of information where all the spying records on everyone in the world NSA is gathering will be kept. A billion dollars ? Yeah , I'm basically going to assume they'll succeed. If you gather it , they will steal it  , supena it , write laws to let themselves use and abuse it , and all that stuff.

2... I predict , that the chinese will make it standard proceedure to go through their stolen data about every american that they got from the NSA , and look for the weak links to convert and coopt. You know , the ones with the gambling problems, the three mistresses, the cocaine addiction , etc etc.

3... I predict sometime in the next few years this "Vault" of information will be used to try and assassinate the president. Not likely by China or Russia , they don't want a war , but if NSA can't keep it a secret , why would you think anyone else could. Some rich Shiek in the middle east will get ahold of it and use it to conscript the pizza boy down the street , and possibly one of the secret service agents . No prediction on whether or not it will work , just that they'll try it.

4...I'm going to stick with last years prediction that manufacturing is dying and 3D printing will rule the world, though at this point most people would count this as more of a sure thing than a psychic's prediction.

5... This current trend of hiring forien workers on a temporary work permit to replace regular canadian workers will be shut down. Might take a year or two ... but the current outrage by the canadian public , and leaked remarks by Prime Minister Harper indicating he's not in favor of it either , seem to indicate a lot of movement in this direction.

6... I predict our smart phones will become "multi devices" . They all have micro-usb jacks , they all have blue tooth (meaning newly invented devices can be plugged in via these ports)  , and we're pretty much at the point where most everyone has a smart phone. Adding an app and possibly a piece of hardware to slip into your cell phone case is pretty much all you need. This nonsense about a special phone for the job just that. Infrared ports to turn it into "TV Remotes" Or any other remote control device , is next on the list. Along with radio controlling toys (like those toy helicopters that are popping up everywhere) . Yes , the blue tooth transmitter is a radio transmitter. Not to mention the whole dang cell phone is a radio transmitter.

7... The internet will be broken into national internets.  There may be back bones connecting them, or not , but the USA /NSA abusing it's monopoly on the internet has pretty much guarenteed people don't want nsa listening on their every phone call . This one may take several years though , thats a lot of internet structure to re-wire.

8... New phones, computers , and other gadgets will burst upon the market. And by "new" I mean "Not Made In The USA" . Sorry Obama , but when you publically tell everyone you've coopted every single american company to serve your spy agencies and you have no intention of ever stopping , you did this to yourself. This trend may not be as catastrophic as some people would imagine , since a lot of people don't care that everyone in the world is watching them (yeesh ... hasn't the facebook generation burned their fingers enough ? ) but still , it will have an impact. Microsoft is still going to be king for a little while longer.

9... Google , Microsoft , Yahoo , and most any USA company is going to take a hit on forien sales in 2014 , as contracts begin to run out and security advisors point to recent news articles . Anything to do with security will be the first not to be renewed. Later on , this trend will increase to a massive anti-USA ban .  US Companies are already parading to the presidants office to try and get him to assure forieners that their secrets are safe with him , but after his previous statements on the matter , it's a little bit late.

10... There is a prediction floating aorund out there , in a CNET article , that the internet desperately needs to expand capacity by eleven fold to deal with the coming flood of "wearable" devices.  I say to this prediction "No Chance"  Why ?  Because people are already struggling with 100$ internet bills (if you're a bell or rogers subscriber , and being ripped off) , they're not going to pay eleven fold to increase their bandwidth eleven fold.
   No , they're going to cut back .They're going to decide I have a smart phone that's connected to the internet. I don't need a smart watch as well.  I don't need to pay for my blue jeans to go online and tell everyone where I am. My fridge doesn't need to go online and automatically order groceries on my credit card without my permission , etc etc.