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"FBI asks computer shops to help fight cybercrime" (Feb 5, 2004)
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Over the years different news about computer repair shops did show a pattern.

Make me think back to
"FBI asks computer shops to help fight cybercrime" (February 5, 2004)
"... given a list of local businesses ... with the idea of establishing a working relationship with all of them."
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Mythbusters tested a small bullet hole in a pressurized fuselage. The thing about pressure is it's a force per unit of area. So the larger the opening, the larger the forces involved (until the pressure is equalized). So something as small as a bullet hole doesn't result in large forces.

Aloha Airlines flight 243 lost the forward section of its fuselage. The flight attendant standing in row 2 near the front of the failed section was hit in the head by debris and fell to the floor. The flight attendant standing in row 5 near the rear of the failed section, with all the force of the cabin air behind her, was blown out by the decompression.

Airline fuselages are designed to suffer decompression only in a small section. You literally design weak sections surrounded by a lattice of strong sections, so a crack or failure cannot unzip the skin around the entire plane as it did in Aloha 243. The failure aboard Aloha is suspected to have started on the left side (one of the passengers noticed a crack by the door while boarding). And the theory is the crack failed producing a small hole. The flight attendant was blown towards the hole by outrushing air, and her body momentarily plugged the initial hole. This caused a pressure hammer from the air behind her rushing forward towards that hole blew out the entire forward cabin overhead.

Re "I'd say that's just the tip of the iceberg too."
A lot of different people actually do like having computers get serviced.
"FBI asks computer shops to help fight cybercrime" (Feb 5, 2004)
http://the.honoluluadvertiser....
"Each member of the computer crime squad is given a list of local businesses ... establishing a working relationship with all of them."

Years ago the FBI did some fun staff requests.
"FBI asks computer shops to help fight cybercrime" (February 5, 2004)
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The extension of such visits and talks with staff could be carried over nation wide into the digital cloud. Just scan the files? Add very easy to use federal file scanner as new hardware? An NGO/private sector file scanner on all readable data uploaded?
Maybe state and city law enforcement or federally funded state task forces asked the same of any data storage in the local area?
That would be to avoid all and any early case related telco or court paperwork. US law enforcement no longer seems to trust telcos or courts with their digital requests.
Goto the data direct, then build a random case on chat rooms or forums with later links. What is shared later is the court event rather than mention 24/7 data tracking methods on upload.

The free offer is just a talking point to make new contacts in the private sector.
The "free" testing has a few different ideas behind it:
An offer to upper level private sector stakeholders to talk about security threat assessments and protective measures. Basically upper management get a fancy digital version of see something, say something and an offer of a special card just for them.
Long term a free offer to host a new server might be made to split and compare all real time data flows to shared police and international databases (fast per file checksum in near real time reporting).
It is the enterprise server version of an older idea going back a few years:
"FBI asks computer shops to help fight cybercrime" (February 5, 2004)
http://the.honoluluadvertiser....
".. any overtly criminal activity they find in customers' computers.

Does CA get to say "Fuck you, go spend another $60?"

I assume that was rhetorical. They government can always change their mind and generally you get the short end of the stick.

They have made it so it illegal to resell things from drop side crib to semi-automatic weapons. Generally you cannot legally sell recalled products even if the original manufacturer goes out of business. As for things that you don't intend to sell, but need a license for, they can do that too. There are examples of governments changing zoning on real property so current tenant cannot continue renting. They can change zoning so that existing businesses are no longer legal. Forced product recalls have triggered bankruptcy filings for companies throughout history.

However even bankrupt automobile companies have had the resources to pay for a recall. Just last year, Suzuki was forced to recall their Kisashi model for safety fixes even though they were bankrupt and weren't selling cars in the US anymore. When Kia went bankrupt, Hyundai assumed liability for all recalls as part of asset purchases. Of course, VW isn't about to go bankrupt any time soon so they would have to do this, but even if they did go bankrupt, they would be liable for at least some amount (to be determined by the bankruptcy judge relative to the other creditors and judgments that it faced).

But at the end of the day, the government isn't responsible for a dime. This is clearly illustrated by the FTS/Hangzhou tire recall case. Although FTS was not ultimately bankrupted by the recall (far fewer tires, about 5%, were returned than were estimated to be eligible), the NHTSA made it perfectly clear that it wasn't going to pitch in.

Interesting that you bring up Walmart, since they had problems with a site where a Walmart/Sam's Club complex was being built in the middle of Honolulu 11 years ago: http://the.honoluluadvertiser....

Try all you want, the term was never used the way you're insisting it was.

Gee, if only there was some way of proving otherwise. Like maybe I can look at old news articles from years ago?

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com... :

About three years ago, Brandy Johnson cut the cord. "We had a landline and had some trouble with it," she said. After that, she and her husband decided to make the jump to wireless. [..] As pay phones and landlines disappear, we might be moving toward a wireless future. [..] While some people still use their landlines for their Internet access, "dial-up is antiquated," one of his co-workers said in the background.

http://www.bankrate.com/brm/ne... :

Ready to cut the cord? While it's clear that snipping your landline could save you some serious cash, it's not for everyone. [..] Hanging on to your solo landline solely for the Internet connection? Be sure to weigh the costs of other Internet options, such as cable modems.

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.... :

The decision by federal regulators to let consumers move their home number to a mobile phone represented a defeat for carriers concerned about losing more lines. [..] "After today it's easier than ever to cut the cord," FCC Chairman Michael Powell said in a statement. [..] Verizon also said canceling a landline may also disable alarm reporting services, TiVo, satellite TV, cable pay-per-view and Internet access that depends on a phone line, including dial-up and DSL access.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2... :

In fact, an estimated 2 to 3 million consumers are expected to drop their landlines over the next 18 to 24 months [..] People who rely mostly on cell phones cite cost and convenience as the main motivation for cutting the cord. [..] "If I was going online with a dial-up, then I would have a landline, but since they have the cable connection and the wireless connections, that negates the reason for having a landline," she added. Others are abandoning once fancy features on their landlines and maintaining the line's bare bones service.

Those are clear demarcations between people "cutting the cord" and keeping a landline around for Internet. How about that, a term that makes sense?

Hi dec, re snooping through my bedroom office
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Feb/05/ln/ln01a.html
"FBI asks computer shops to help fight cybercrime"
"Each member of the computer crime squad is given a list of local businesses, Laanui said, with the idea of establishing a working relationship with all of them."
The snooping aspect may cover many local people who have the ability to 'walk' around a wide selection of suburban homes and commercial areas at "random" and report back.

First off, who has a monopoly? Is it Monsanto, Syngenta, Pioneer Hi-Bred, BASF, Dow Agrosciences, Bayer Cropsciences, Vilmorin? I don't see anyone forced to choose. Second, the reason only one GE crop (the transgenic papaya ringspot virus resistant papaya developed by the University of Hawai'i) is not produced by a large corporation is because of the extremely, excessively high levels of regulation on GE crops. You think that UH could get the Rainbow papaya through the regulatory hurdles today? I doubt it. Hell, basic research in Hawai'i is getting banned. Or look at Golden Rice...it could save countless lives and there are no corporate strings attached, but because of so much unscientific regulation it isn't being used. You don't want corporate control? Then ignore the anti-GMO fearmongering and tell the government to ease up on the unjustified regulations!

Yes that repair shop would have a nice ongoing relationship going back many years
"FBI asks computer shops to help fight cybercrime"
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Feb/05/ln/ln01a.html

The most important lesson is if it can happen, it will. Aircraft are built with multiple redundant paths to survive when something fails. an example is Aloha Airlines flight 243: http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/2001/Jan/18/image2/localnews1_b.jpg No one expected the top of the cabin to come off in flight. But the design rules allowed the aircraft and passengers to land safely. Nuclear reactors need to follow the same rules.

re IMMEDIATELY search for all images when someone we know asks us to repair their computer?
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Feb/05/ln/ln01a.html
"FBI asks computer shops to help fight cybercrime"

A true notion, indeed. Would the health and safety of the neighbors be sufficient reason? Ensuring you have recourse when cheated? Granted, all additional powers should be granted sparingly and on a case-by-case basis, but I know some private citizens don't balance their freedoms with taking responsibility for what their actions cause. Some things also need to be done with the others in mind. In the vein of this thread, even legal pools get neglected and end up becoming mosquito infested. In some areas this is a real threat to public health. As I recall, the US if mostly ok for this, but things like the West Nile Virus and Dengue Fever pop up occasionally. Dengue Fever is still a concern in Hawaii. Cemeteries don't even water in vases left at tombstones.

Balance is tricky.

Well, there are 50 requests a month for his birth certificate from the State of Hawaii. That's private information that shouldn't be released to every Tom, Dick, Harry that asks for it. I wonder what else people ask for from the government that aren't legitimately acceptible requests.

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20100219/NEWS01/2190362/Hawaii-gets-persistent-requests-for-Obama-birth-certificate

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009910220360

The FBI made a deal with almost all larger and small shops.
Sneak and peek, its fine, just tell us all (feds) :)
"Each member of the computer crime squad (FBI) is given a list of local businesses,
Laanui said, with the idea of establishing a working relationship with all of them."

and

""We're trying to build a rapport with companies, a lot of computer guys don't necessarily know we exist,"
Laanui said. "Virtually anyone in the high-tech arena is up for a visit with the FBI.""
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Feb/05/ln/ln01a.html

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Feb/05/ln/ln01a.html

"Each member of the computer crime squad (FBI) is given a list of local businesses, Laanui said, with the idea of establishing a
working relationship with all of them."

and

""We're trying to build a rapport with companies, a lot of computer guys don't necessarily know we exist," Laanui said.
"Virtually anyone in the high-tech arena is up for a visit with the FBI.""

So, when the numbers agree with you then the numbers are correct.

But when the numbers contradict you, well, everyone knows you cannot trust the numbers anyway.

No, I was admitting that you can't go purely off of the numbers of stories reported. You actually have to look at what is reported, not just the number of articles or Google hits. And when you do look at what was reported and how, it should be obvious to anyone paying attention that the press was biased towards Obama. For Pete's sake, the moderator for the second debate is releasing a book praising Obama on inauguration day!

But seriously, are you going to try to say that the press was even handed when dealing with Obama vs. McCain? Are you going to say that Chris Matthews getting a "chill up his leg" was fair. How about when he said that his "job" was to see that Obama's presidency is a successful one. Funny, that didn't seem to be his "job" during Bush's presidency.

Here is another article to ponder:

Comments made by sources, voters, reporters and anchors that aired on ABC, CBS and NBC evening newscasts over the past two months reflected positively on Obama in 65 percent of cases, compared with 31 percent of cases with regards to McCain, according to the Center for Media and Public Affairs.

ABC's "World News" had more balance than NBC's "Nightly News" or the "CBS Evening News," the group said.

Meanwhile, the first half of Fox News Channel's "Special Report" with Brit Hume showed more balance than any of the network broadcasters, although it was dominated by negative evaluations of both campaigns. The center didn't evaluate programs on CNN or MSNBC.

"For whatever reason, the media are portraying Barack Obama as a better choice for president than John McCain," said Robert Lichter, a George Mason University professor and head of the center. "If you watch the evening news, you'd think you should vote for Obama."

So, it's not just me.

Other people have told our Homeland Defenders lots of things but they don't seem to listen. Here is a good write up about the impracticality of binary liquids. Here is a story about stealing food from babies at the airport. Of course, arrest without charges, torture, baby killing, censorship and deploying foreign mercenaries against civilians is all bad, OK? It's not about defense it's about control and you, citizen, are the enemy.

According to this article, which sites multiple studies recidivism rate of sex offenders have been estimated between 5.7% and 13.4%. Mind you, many more were rearrested for some non-sex crime (such as drug use or theft I would guess). Also other criminals with no prior history of sex convictions were about as 1/4th as likely as sex offenders to commit a sex crime.

So here we have an individual who is 86-94% likely not to reoffend. Do you think his chances to stay out of trouble and not cause harm to your child are improved by living under the bridge, not having a decent job, only having other sex offenders as friends and having reasons to hate potential victims (us)? Do you think Jonny's son is likely to grow up an upstanding citizen if his family is hated and he is shunned by everyone in school?

Police tries to protect society overall by reducing crime rate. By taking justice into your own hands, you are only thinking about yourself at the expense of the rest of your community. Even if your actions are technically legal, you may be actually hurting your and your family's safety due to your lack of experience. Showing hate to someone is sure likely to make you a preferred target of their potential future crimes.

Fiber is paid for by the telcos, not the gov't so is not a tariffed service. While Verizon MUST lease copper to competitors, it isn't compelled to lease fiber access. Verizon cutting the copper is effectively cutting off any competition that was not a Baby Bell in a past life.

You may want to correct this statement. The government has and does subsidize fiber. The fiber-to-the-home project is funded through the Agriculture Department's Rural Utilities Service (RUS). Adam Golodner, deputy administrator of the RUS says: "We do encourage the development of technology that would bring broad band to the home at reasonable cost to meet the growing demand in rural areas by citizens who recognize perhaps more than citizens in urban areas that telecommunications shrinks time, distance, and space." As a percentage of funding of different broadband technologies as of September 2006 RUS (pdf) has spent "30% of approved and funded projects employed fiber-to-the-home technology, 24% employed DSL, 22% wireless (unlicensed), 19% hybrid fiber-coaxial (cable), 3% wireless (licensed), and 2% broadband over powerlines (BPL)."

"Savvy developer wins federal money to wire homelands"
By Kevin Dayton
Advertiser Capitol Bureau Chief

A local politically connected company is eligible for as much as $400 million in federal loans to weave fiber-optic cable through Hawaiian Home Lands on six islands, even though much of the land is undeveloped and lacks roads, water and electricity.

500 degrees seems awfully high for many oils.

Olive oil can be perfectly safe for frying:
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/May /23/il/FP705230314.html

Pomace oil, particularly, is commonly used for frying in parts of the world.

The future doesn't look so good for the frogs.

Not exactly. Here's some good information on it:

State's utility system in better shape now

Some key points:
Since 1966 new neigborhood's have been built with underground electrical cabling.
Since hurricane Iniki devestated the island of Kauai in 1993 a lot of utility wiring has been moved underground.
Only about 40% of Hawaiian Electric Company power lines are underground.

At least here on Oahu we have plenty of power lines and during bad storms some areas of the island often lose power.

Do some more homework. That founder is a paid shill for the nuclear industry now. This was covered pretty extensively sometime last week on slashdot, IIRC.

Anyway, here's a link with some info for you: Waikiki presentation.

If you want info on the shill part, check his Wikipedia entry.

Never mind the fact that he's now working with Christine Todd Whitman, who remains one of the most green-washed industry shills ever to come out of the great state of NJ. It's sad that CTW is considered an environmentalist, just as Moore is considered one -- neither of them is anything more than centrist on environmental issues.

Anyway, Greenpeace being refuted by a founding member is meaningless when that founding member has totally changed his perspective.

The mom and stepdad of a 14-year-old boy were, um, not amused to see a 30-year-old guy their son had met on MySpace. At 11:30 PM. In their son's bed. And he'd brought a gay porn DVD and 2 gay porn magazines with him, how thoughtful. Of course, since Hawaii raised its age of consent from 14 to 16 a few years back, said 30-year-old is now in deep shit, and will probably stay so for a "nui loa" time.

Linkage:

Police arrest man found in teen's bed, Honolulu Star-Bulletin
Man Accused Of Luring Teen On MySpace.com, KITV-4
Man accused of using internet website to meet teen, KHON-2
Hawaii Too Soft On Online Predators?, KGMB-9
Man, 30, indicted in sex assault on teen, Honolulu Advertiser

Toyota offers an 8 year warranty on their batteries. Since the Prius went on sale in 2000, they haven't had to replace a single one. It's designed to last the lifetime of the vehicle, and is completely recyclable. As for resale, hybrids hold resale value much better than non-hybrids. Some people pay more than the new list price for used Priuses because the production can't keep up with the demand. The satisfaction ratio on the Prius hovers at around 95%, one of the highest for any car.

I'm surprised no one else has posted this already.
The related article is here.

I'm surprised no one else has posted this already.
The related article is here.

That government could not look at your reading list and label you as a terrorist because you read Carol Marx.

Carol Marx? I think you mean Karl Marx.

The US military is currently on the edge of being over extended and cannot in practice be used to enforce national policy without some major changes. Right now, it's just not able to take on extra activities without leaving the country "undefended".

The US has been losing it's edge in technology research for a few years. The IT industry has come to a standstill pretty much since 1998 and won't move until MS and others stop being a bottle neck. Recently, Rice was the first foreign minister to blow off the ASEAN meeting, indicating that the US may be preparing to cede the entire Asian economic region over to China. For manufacturing, everybody including the US has already moved over to China.

Dollar hegemony and inertia look to be what keep things going this long. The dollar, however, would become irrelevant if the cost of oil were tied to the Euro. I recall Saddam Hussein including among his threats shortly before he got raided.

If current policies are allowed to continue much longer without intensive corrective action, it may be time to say that it's over for the US.

Because OBL is most likely hiding in the northern tribal region of pakistan. This region is fundieville. Musharaf would have a major problem allowing americans to go in and raid there. So the US/cia has a tough choice of looking for him and pissing local fundies or letting him stay quarantined and keeping musharaf in power.

for a good read on the subject:
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2005/Jun /28/op/op05p.html

From that article:

The runways at San Francisco International are so close together that the airport will be able to land only one A380 at a time. The airport has spent just less than $1 billion to build a 23-gate terminal with five gates to handle the A380.

Los Angeles International plans to spend $53 million on airport-wide improvements, including $2.25 million to strengthen its underground structures against the A380's weight.

And that's assuming the "environmentalists" didn't keep them tied up in court for a couple of decades.

Not to some people.

Last year, the Honolulu Diocese assembled a tribunal to examine an O'ahu woman's story that her cancer was cured after she traveled to Moloka'i to pray at Damien's grave.

The patient and her family members were among those who testified before the tribunal. Also testifying was Dr. Walter Y.M. Chang, a Honolulu physician - and non-Catholic - who wrote about the spontaneous regression of the woman's cancer in the October 2000 issue of Hawai'i Medical Journal.

Chang wrote that a malignant tumor had developed in the patient's lung in September 1998 and then disappeared without the aid of therapy. The spontaneous regression of this type of cancer may be the first case report of its kind, the scientific paper said. Other doctors who treated the woman also testified.

Anti-gun activists in Louisiana brayed that the streets would run red with blood if such a law were passed, and the law was passed, and, of course, blood hasn't run down the streets...

Hey, in Louisiana it's cool to shoot kids in Halloween costumes. News story Who'd know the difference?

they get deductions and such because they can be classified as a truck and the wording in the legislation is sloppy and does not exclude vehicles that are primarily passenger vehicles. So something that was intended to encourage a business to buy a new dumptruck, for example, gets twisted to encourage Suzy soccer mom to buy a vehicle that she'll drive into a pool.

The designers should be commended for the power self-sufficiency of the house.

But I notice from the photo that the house has been constructed primarily from steel and concrete, which are hardly sustainable materials. The amount of energy that goes into extracting and processing steel or concrete is thousands of times more than that for wood or masonry. The net energy balance from both the construction and long-term operation of this house is likely to be very negative.

For reference: stats, stats and more stats

Second example: ACLU sues when gay groups are excluded from Christian-sponsored Family Day parade - like, d'oh? Would ACLU sue to include NAMBLA in such a parade? Evidently they would. What about the Christians' right to make their point? Sorry, stick to making it in church, presumably behind locked, soundproof doors lest some poor unwary Atheist be accidentally converted.

Third example: ACLU causes pulling of an AIDS brochure addressed to Christians as being inappropriate for a government department to publish. In point of fact they actively oppose many Christianity-focussed (ie the opposite way around) AIDS defenses as well, despite the measurable fact that this is the only effective defense against AIDS so far discovered. They'd rather that people died than that they becomes Christian. But I digress: is this government department unable to address the Christians in their constituency in their own language, when bringing them to an understanding of AIDS and a compassionate response toward AIDS sufferers? ACLU seems to think so. I mentions the Bible in other than a condemnatory light, so it has to go.

Over to Leader U for a bigger dose.

Australia?

(Being that Australia was originally a British penal colony, and the extimated population of Australia is 19,896,826; according to this article there are 57 million US P2P users, by this article, so maybe the coast part of Australia isn't large enough, anyway.)

57 million. Unbelievable. That's just a little short of half the people who voted last Presidential election.

Okay, I went off on a bit of a tangent there.

All right, I stand corrected. I misinterpreted Bush's stance against Kyoto (as well as his interests in the Oil industry) as a dismissal of global warming. It now appears that the Bush Administration does believe in global warming. So, in essence, they are saying that global warming is real, but they're not about to implement the necessary changes because it would hurt the economy. Even though the rest of the world are ready to make some sacrifices, it seems the U.S. - the world's biggest polluter - is not. To do something destructive unknowingly is bad, but can be forgiven. To do the same destructive thing knowingly, well - to use Dubya's own words - that's just evil.

...about how they did the motion capture and other things related to the film here
Interesting, no?