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In another state they tried to do simple fingerprinting of existing IT employees and got smacked down, and it was at employer's expense. Are Arizona's public employee unions made of toilet paper?

...are the professional forensic kits that law enforcement use as bad as this?

Yes and no. There's been several labs both owned by police and private that have been caught using this same junk science shotgun approach in policing, leading to retesting 30 years back and people walking out the door. Back a few years ago when this was the hot shit, they only used 10 genetic markers, most have moved to 20-30 markers. Here's a case from NY State where multiple people were hit with fake tests, manufacturing DNA tests and so on. There was a huge push by justice dept's for DNA testing vs physical evidence because it was believed to be 100% perfect all the time.

There's probably more people then you can think of out there these days who are innocent because they were hit with a "common match" because their family has lived in the same area for generations, or because the person doing the testing lied for whatever reason - and shit there are a lot of reasons people lie when they 'certify' a test.

Whoops. Missed the relavent link about all 2017 murders in Albany, NY. Guess I got distracted by all the people calling it Nazi while engaging in the same behavior one would expect from Nazis. "They're not like us, hang them!" Still they don't see the problem. Amazing feat of self-delusion, really.

This is just an example of a modern-day "heretic". No one can discredit or argue against the "heresy" successfully, but the modern PC Inquisition can try to shout it down, call it names, mod it down, etc. Yeah, that's how people act when facts are on their side. Sure! You believe that, right??

Albany, NY is 52% white. In that city every single homicide in 2017 had a non-white perpetrator and victim. Of course the article blames it on poverty as though there were no poor whites living there.

Such vibrant diversity! This story was relatively honest. For most of the rest, remember the new media code-word for "black males" is "teens" or "youths". Just like the many times a legal gun owner with a conceal carry permit stops a crime but it never gets reported that way, directly reporting the real criminality of blacks just doesn't fit the narrative.

Just because you don't have an FB account, don't feel safe. Someone may be impersonating you.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/ne...

https://www.timesunion.com/new...

Go to Google search and enter the search string

"Your Name" site:facebook.com

Replace "Your Name" with your actual name. If your name is common, you'll obviously get some false positives. A similar search can be done for LinkedIn, MySpace, whatever by inserting the appropriate domain in the "site:" reference..

Licensed active pilot, age 102 (article from 2007)
https://blog.timesunion.com/pilotgirl/oldest-living-pilot-in-the-world/465/

And in a fantastic role reversal, another dead-of-night legistlation deal, in 2012 Democratic Governor Cuomo went to extraordinary lengths to woo the Republican legislature (he allowed them to gerrymander the districts) to pass his "Tier 6" retirement plan, which massively gimped future public employee pensions. News article: Tier 6 Passes Assembly. The article reads like the twilight zone. In NYS, the Republicans are pro-union and the Democrats are the Scott Walkers. Keep in mind the NYS pension has no opting out, or option (for most) to use a matched 401k instead. The state comptroller (also a democrat) point blank told the governor that the pension fund was already projected as fully funded with the Tier 5 changes that were instituted in 2010 which fixed the glaring problems with the pension system (people contribute forever instead of only 10 years, retirement age raised by 7 years, overtime limits installed). Everything Cuomo added was convoluted nickel-and-dime shit, pages and pages of new rules and exceptions, removing incentives to get promotions, raising the retirement age by one year, tying things to his salary, doubling contribution rates, and yet somehow managed to create a new way of gaming the system - the old system reduced percent increases to 1.5% per year after 30 years. The new law forgot this and left it at 2%. It is now possible for someone to live / work long enough to receive a pension over 100% their final salary. Great job pushing that one through!

Apparently its just illegal to ask for it: http://www.timesunion.com/loca...

Since credit agencies don't ask for ANY of the data they have on you, they just take it, it is ok for them to do whatever they like.

We have a union, did nothing for our bedbug infested government building: Bedbugs Surprise New York state workers. As far as I know the bugs are still there (no fumigation notices went out).

Hmm, let's see... recent terror attacks in the west:
Salman Ramadan Abedi (British)
Anis Amri (Tunisian)
Mohamed Lahouaiej-Bouhlel (Tunisian)

- and yet neither Britain nor Tunisia were on Trump's proposed travel restriction list.

Meanwhile, in the USA, domestic terrorism is alive and well.

(Note, this isn't a political point. All this was going on before Trump. But the idea that simply keeping out people from a few countries, apparently hand-picked for their non-involvement with violence to date, will do anything to help is just bizarre.)

By all means, provide your source that supports your ridiculous claims.

If I had made any ridiculous claims, I would be glad to supply sources. But since everything I brought to your attention is in the public record, maybe you should shun those moronic sites you have been reading and try reality for a while.

FBI's "Suicide Letter" to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Dangers of Unchecked Surveillance

Pete Seeger

Woody Guthrie

John Lennon

Even more black people were lynched in the U.S. than previously thought, study finds

The Murder of Emmett Till

There's the short list detailing everything you've worked so hard to ignore. So, how about if you do a little reading and see if you can find out how many people went to jail for those thousands of lynchings history has recorded. And while you're at it, how about if you show me where in the FBI's charter authorizes surveillance on lawful folk singers, non-violent rock stars as well as religious men who preached peaceful assembly to redress what they believed to be illegal grievances.

Ignorance can be unlearned while willful ignorance is an inexcusable state of mind.

A drone the size of a king-sized bed probably has a payload in the ballpark of maybe 20 kilos - the weight of a refrigerator**. We're not talking about a little kitchen fire extinguisher here. You could haul around a 120psi hose system powerful enough to break windows with that kind of payload.

20kg is around 5 gallons of fire supression - even a home sprinkler head will discharge around 20 gpm, and you'll have more than one in a typical room. Set off a pair of those for 15 minutes and you've already got 600 gallons of water in the house.

"thousands of gallons of water to suppress it"? Given that those are the sort of quantities planes drop on wildfires (per run) over several acres per run in order to suppress them, you're thinking too big.

A 1.5" handline can supply up to 200 gpm, so I figured it'd take at least 5 or 10 minutes to knock down the fire. This house fire took 75,000 gallons of water. When a nearby house was on fire, I saw 3 pairs firefighters each with a line (2 looked like maybe 1.5", the one they were spraying up through the roof was larger, maybe 2 or 2.5") spraying a constant stream of water for at least 10 minutes to douse the fire.

** - I'd call this the size of 2 or 3 king-sized beds and it carries a freaking person ;)

An 18 rotor aircraft designed to carry a person for up to 20 minutes is not really comparable with a 3 fan long endurance surveillance drone.

From 2013 Cops Are Creating Totally Bogus Facebook Profiles Just So They Can Arrest People where they also point out that this is against FB's TOS

Tangential to this in 2014 Justice Dept. will review practice of creating fake Facebook profiles (Which talks about Federal LE, most famously brought to light by the DEA creating the fake FB profile in the woman's name in order to nab suspects.

Feds pay $134,000 to settle DEA agent's fake Facebook case

Retired Mobil Oil exec Louis Allstadt recently said that fracking can't be done safely with current technology. "Making fracking safe is simply not possible, not with the current technology, or with the inadequate regulations being proposed," said Allstadt, retired executive vice president of Mobil. http://www.timesunion.com/busi... This is similar to the situation with arctic drilling, but for somewhat different reasons. To do it right would require too much equipment and too many safety procedures to be cost effective. They would need to do the work quick and dirty to make a good profit. That is precisely what is happening with fracking, where gas companies have been exempted from the clean water act and other environmental protections. If they were required to comply, they couldn't afford to extract the gas. That explains the rush to frack, before the sweetheart deal is over.

$5 Billion Semiconductor Fab in India where, presumably low-wage robots(?) will use backward and primitive equipment (oh, no... wait... it'll be brand new high-quality equipment) to make chips... beacuase, you know, they may be preparing to lay-off thousands of people in New York state (the article, and others indicate hundreds, but also note they have assured New York they will keep about 3K jobs in the state, where they currently are reported to have about 7K) , but they just cannot POSSIBLY find enough skilled tech workers in the US and desperately need to have more H1B visas to help them push down wages.

If you are a geek/nerd/engineer (working for ANY firm, not just IBM... they affect the "standard" wages) you need to SERIOUSLY hassle your congress critters to squash H1Bs and outsourcing (which the giant firms are using to suppress ALL tech/engineering wages and benefits) and make them more worried about YOUR VOTES than about "Big Blue's" money. Your wages and benefits are aleady lower because they have been doing this, and each and every day you are working is a day you are not getting dollars you should have been and that you will never recover. You will have less stuff in your youth and a poorer retirement when you are old... and the guys on Wall St will be enjoying the yachts they "earned" by suppressing your pay.

The Times Union recently had a front page story on how the New York State Department of Education was selecting curriculum and programs like InBloom. There's a small, secretive group of private workers (not bound by state worker rules). They raise donations from big companies/individuals and set educational policy. One of their biggest donors? The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Like that donation to the group setting the educational policy didn't result in InBloom being implemented at all.

At least 2 problems with your argument:
1. In order to win, Ms Koehler needs to prove that she was rejected because of her national origin rather than her qualifications and merits. Since we don't know what evidence she has, we don't know if she's right, but if she wins her case it will be because she has demonstrated by a preponderance of the evidence that Infosys basically hung out a sign that said "Help Wanted. No Americans need apply" (similar to this). What she is claiming is that she could be the best worker in existence and still not be hired or even seriously considered solely because she is a US citizen.

2. You seem to be suggesting that if you're the victim of injustice, the right thing to do is to accept it and move on. Historically speaking, that never works. For example, Booker T Washington argued that African-Americans should basically accept the injustices aimed at them and try to improve themselves with education and entrepreneurship. The result was more injustices, particularly aimed at those who had become educated and/or entrepreneurs. By contrast, Medger Evers wanted to fight for African-American rights, and that strategy ultimately succeeded (but not for Evers, who was killed for his stance).

If they're digging with heavier equipment, it can be downright impossible to know if you just went through a gas line until you see the broken pipe. House blow up

FTFY

Do you folks even realize IBM, TSMC, Global Foundries and Samsung announced their 450nm production back in March?

http://blog.timesunion.com/business/tool-makers-waiting-for-clarity-on-450mm-cost-sharing/53301/

Tool makers waiting for “clarity” on 450mm costs
March 28, 2012 at 10:45 am by Larry Rulison

The companies that supply the costly manufacturing equipment to computer chip factories – also known as “tool” makers – are waiting to get “greater clarity” about how much they will be asked to pay for the industry’s transition to using 450 millimeter silicon wafers.

The Times Union reported Tuesday that the tool makers will be asked to foot $450 million of the $1 billion price tag for the first phase of a 450mm transition program that will take place at the University at Albany’s College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering.

Deborah Geiger, a spokeswoman with SEMI, the San Jose, Calif. trade group that represents the tool makers, said the organization is hosting a forum on April 4 at the NanoCollege that will touch on the issue of how the 450mm program will be structured.

“We are not aware that definitive details and amounts have been established and publicly communicated,” Geiger said. “SEMI members are interested in greater clarity around the program structure and funding, including the cost share scenarios.”

The details included in the Times Union story were included in documents used by the Empire State Development Corp. in its approval of $300 million in funding for the NanoCollege for the 450mm program and another IBM program to shrink chip features nearly in half, down to 14 nanometers.

New York state is providing $150 million in cash and $50 million in cheap power, for $300 million total, toward both programs, which will be located inside the college’s new $365 million NanoFab Xtension building under construction on Washington Avenue Extension.

Five leading chip companies that make up what’s known as the Global 450mm Wafer Development and Deployment Consortium – Intel, IBM, GlobalFoundries, Samsung and TSMC – will each contribute $75 million over five years toward the 450mm program.

Geiger says that a meeting is expected to be held in May in which suppliers to the G450C will be provided with a “more complete communication” on the 450mm program and how involved the tool makers will be.

Computer chips are currently made on wafers that are 300mm, or smaller. But the move to 450mm would save incredible amounts of money for manufacturers since output would roughly double with the larger size wafers.

All the players are in the game:

http://phys.org/news/2012-07-imec-nanophotonics-components-300mm-silicon.html

Here is the proof

Should also mention that the NYPD is particularly bad on the police state mentality:
* Their attacks on peaceful protesters during Occupy Wall St, most notably Anthony Bologna pepper-spraying. Forget the First Amendment's assembly clause.
* They're currently engaged in a massive program to spy on Muslims, all without a warrant, without even notifying the jurisdictions they're sending their officers into, and of course violating the First Amendment's free exercise clause by very explicitly targeting anybody who practices Islam.
* The stop-and-frisk policy, where people (who are overwhelmingly black or Latino) just walking down the street are stopped and searched by police. Not because they're suspected of committing a crime, just because the officers feel like it. Roughly 90% of the 4 million people stopped this way were guilty of no crime whatsoever. Forget the Fourth Amendment's protections.

And of course the occasional black or brown person shot to death by the NYPD for no obvious reason.

Right, then those educated people will leave to somewhere else that doesn't have such ridiculously high taxes that are paying for schools they don't have kids in. I should know - my fiance is one of them. They could get away with this when there was a lot of established business in the area, but this is no longer the case.

It's unfortunate, really. Most people want good schools, and don't mind paying a bit higher in taxes to get it, but there is a point of diminishing returns that is often just blown right by once you get bureaucrats into the mix who start dominating politics and realize they can just raise taxes whenever they want... and you end up in an economic free-fall. It's sad because the area is nice and the schools are good. They just can't afford to keep going the way they are.

I was saying you can use averages for dissimilar work to make the claim that the public sector is better paid, or you can pick and choose positions to use as case studies. Both are misleading. One compares apples to oranges. The other makes the case that the outlying exception is a rule. Neither proves your point. And counter points based on better data are easy to come by. For example this and this.

http://www.timesunion.com/multimedia/video/TUvideo.asp?title=Preserving+history&vidid=96943677001&bccapt=Freeing+Thomas+Edison's+voice.+(Paul+Grondahl+%2F+Times+Union)

http://www.timesunion.com/multimedia/video/TUvideo.asp?title=Preserving+history&vidid=96943677001&bccapt=Freeing+Thomas+Edison's+voice.+(Paul+Grondahl+%2F+Times+Union)

Here's the video of the people, machine, and recording

ALBANY -- Two state workers who allegedly smoked pot and snoozed away their days inside a secret "man cave" racked up more than $28,400 in taxpayer-funded overtime in the past five years, records show.

Also remember that in some states it is illegal to use the remote starter outside of your property. http://blog.timesunion.com/readandreact/108/leaving-a-car-unattended-gets-you-a-ticket/

New York law.

Top court: Police cannot track suspect with GPS

• The Craigslist Killer went to UAlbany
• It made the Playboy Party School List
• And now making efforts to stick it to the RIAA.

• The Craigslist Killer went to UAlbany
• It made the Playboy Party School List
• And now making efforts to stick it to the RIAA.

DNA on a cigarette just led to an arrest in a 20 year old rape case. They had DNA and a partial fingerprint from the crime. The fingerprint pointed the cops to the guy and the State Police in New York secretly obtained his DNA off a discarded cigarette butt.

"There's possibly some law against entering an unsecured premises with the intent of committing a crime, but if it exists I couldn't tell you want it is (maybe something like trespassing, but without the need for posting or other notification)."

The term I have heard before is criminal trespass.
I got lazy, but here is what I found on a quick check.

It seems to me (IANAL) that you would need to be deliberately trespassing with criminal intent for this to qualify as an acceptable charge to be inflicted on you.

There seems to be some facts missing from the summary and article to enable a rational 'decision', or consensus here on /.

Links from the article lead us below the tip of the iceberg.

We also have this to work with.

I claim the 'Johnny 5 defense here: "Need more input!"

The article I cited elsewhere pretty much says otherwise.

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/storyprint.asp?StoryID=732745

Based on http://timesunion.com/AspStories/storyprint.asp?StoryID=732745:

"The 15-year-old sophomore allegedly breached the district's system while in computer simulation class and gained access to 250 names of past and present Shen transportation employees. He used his student password to view their Social Security numbers, driver's license numbers and more, Shenendehowa officials said.

Then he allegedly sent an e-mail at 1 p.m. Tuesday to High School Principal Donald Flynt, saying he had the database.

Flynt contacted police, who arrested the young man Thursday and charged him with computer trespass, unlawful possession of personal identification information and identity theft, all felonies. He will appear before Saratoga County Family Court at a later date, State Police said Friday."

And later.... "Investigators originally believed two students were involved in the alleged intrusion, but police determined the student arrested used two passwords, State Trooper Maureen Tuffey said."

So he accessed it and sent an email saying he had a copy of it. On top of that, he allegedly used someone else's account to get it. So we have using someone else's password - computer trespass. Taking a copy of the database (article's word, I suspect simple spreadsheet) - unlawful possession of personal identification information. The identity theft charge is likely added because that is a logically consistent step when you take the information.

Maybe the identity theft charge is over the top, but the others are 100% legit. Based on the information available. Or will the argument be made that the IT staff should have used biometrics to prevent him using another account? After all, everything else is the IT staff's fault...

How can you make sure they will not print "Osama" on the ballot? http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=728326
The machine DOES print a "receipt". It is not "readable" but it can be verified if necessary - receipt and paper trail kept in the machine must match for starters.
Simple math tells me each machine holds little over 300 votes on average - and chances of fraud detection rise as more machines are tampered with.
So, changing the outcome fo any major elction by altering softare running on these machines doesn't seam feasible.

They play for real and send you the $6792 bill.
http://timesunion.com/AspStories/storyprint.asp?StoryID=668451&normal

Also, one would presume there is SOME level of checking at the borders, else there isn't really any need for borders or the concept of a nation-state, is there?

Certainly checking of people exiting the country should be at a minimum, otherwise things get uncomfortably close to the situation in e.g. Warsaw Pact countries where when quality of life tanked, people were stuck lest their emigration embarass those in charge.

Outsourcing is not a good idea. New York taxpayers have offered 1.2 BILLION DOLLARS and has probably paid out MILLIONS OF IT ALREADY over in order to lure AMD to build a semiconductor plant near Albany, Schenectady, Troy, Saratoga NY. It would be unethical to ignore the social impact of this possible abandonment. Years of funding and planning that has already gone into the Luther Forest AMD project.

http://blogs.timesunion.com/business/?p=770

AMD has always had a manufacturing segment: consider AMD's Automated Precision Manufacturing (APM) and related patents.

You employ boy scouts?

I'm sure this is your employee, only a nerd would have a search dog named "Gandalf". And your employee looks very nerdly, as well!

Keep up the good, geeky work!

-mcgrew

You employ boy scouts?

I'm sure this is your employee, only a nerd would have a search dog named "Gandalf". And your employee looks very nerdly, as well!

Keep up the good, geeky work!

-mcgrew

I'm surprised I don't see a link to the original story yet, so here it is:

http://www.mydd.com/story/2006/10/24/122153/98

From the story:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl, --AZ-01: Rick Renzi, --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth, --CA-04: John Doolittle, --CA-11: Richard Pombo, --CA-50: Brian Bilbray, --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave, --CO-05: Doug Lamborn, --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell, --CT-04: Christopher Shays, --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan, --FL-16: Joe Negron, --FL-22: Clay Shaw, --ID-01: Bill Sali, --IL-06: Peter Roskam, --IL-10: Mark Kirk, --IL-14: Dennis Hastert, --IN-02: Chris Chocola, --IN-08: John Hostettler, --IA-01: Mike Whalen, --KS-02: Jim Ryun, --KY-03: Anne Northup, --KY-04: Geoff Davis, --MD-Sen: Michael Steele, --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht, --MN-06: Michele Bachmann, --MO-Sen: Jim Talent, --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns, --NV-03: Jon Porter, --NH-02: Charlie Bass, --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson, --NM-01: Heather Wilson, --NY-03: Peter King, --NY-20: John Sweeney, --NY-26: Tom Reynolds, --NY-29:

--AZ-Sen: Jon Kyl --AZ-01: Rick Renzi --AZ-05: J.D. Hayworth --CA-04: John Doolittle --CA-11: Richard Pombo --CA-50: Brian Bilbray --CO-04: Marilyn Musgrave --CO-05: Doug Lamborn --CO-07: Rick O'Donnell --CT-04: Christopher Shays --FL-13: Vernon Buchanan --FL-16: Joe Negron --FL-22: Clay Shaw --ID-01: Bill Sali --IL-06: Peter Roskam --IL-10: Mark Kirk --IL-14: Dennis Hastert --IN-02: Chris Chocola --IN-08: John Hostettler --IA-01: Mike Whalen --KS-02: Jim Ryun --KY-03: Anne Northup --KY-04: Geoff Davis --MD-Sen: Michael Steele --MN-01: Gil Gutknecht --MN-06: Michele Bachmann --MO-Sen: Jim Talent --MT-Sen: Conrad Burns --NV-03: Jon Porter --NH-02: Charlie Bass --NJ-07: Mike Ferguson --NM-01: Heather Wilson --NY-03: Peter King --NY-20: John Sweeney --NY-26: Tom Reynolds --NY-29: Randy Kuhl --NC-08: Robin Hayes --NC-11: Charles Taylor --OH-01:

Some articles to think about in the upcoming election:

Jon Kyl Rick Renzi J.D. Hayworth John Doolittle Richard Pombo Brian Bilbray Marilyn Musgrave Doug Lamborn Rick O'Donnell Christopher Shays Vernon Buchanan Joe Negron Clay Shaw Bill Sali Peter Roskam Mark Kirk Dennis Hastert Chris Chocola John Hostettler Mike Whalen Jim Ryun Anne Northup Geoff Davis Michael Steele Gil Gutknecht Michele Bachmann Jim Talent Conrad Burns Jon Porter Charlie Bass Mike Ferguson Heather Wilson Peter King John Sweeney Tom Reynolds Randy Kuhl Robin Hayes Charles Taylor Steve Chabot Jean Schmidt Deborah Pryce

Actually, it's just the opposite. According to this page, NASA is restructuring the Prometheus program to be more comprehensive. The exact goals are as of yet unclear, but the program will continue. The full article you were looking at can be read here. Interestingly, the article suggests that the entire program is being shut down, whereas the only quote from NASA states that they're cutting back. I'm thinking that someone jumped the gun here.

Actually, say no more to the nuclear engines: Albany Times Union. I submitted this as a topic a few days ago, but to no avail. Sorry you can't read the whole article, but the first few lines gives away the gist.

Leave the morality lessons to the parents and the priests. They are quite good at their jobs.

well, some of them are. some of them are not.

censorship imposed by the law is wrong. but that does not mean self-censorship imposed by moral concerns is wrong. some children have proper guidance, others do not. the question is, which is more important: catering to/reveling in the lowest common denominator, or not contributing to the negative inputs morally disadvantaged children receive. a pointless question in this society, where money is the deciding factor in all things, but.

well according to the news, hongkong had a protest of about 200,000 people after beijing announced that it(again) that its decision was final, and that they would not allow demacratic elections. details

now from what i saw when i went to hk, taipei, i would say that people there care much more about thier SMS's than voting..... so china get ready for a revolt. i have a feeling that people arent going to want this crap once they get a taste of what the modern world is like.

According to some scientists, there is a correlation:

With many infants living in airtight homes with no pets or contact with farm animals, children aren't being exposed to the hair, dirt and bacteria that can help prime their immune systems and make them stronger, new yet controversial research suggests.

However, this isn't a perfect hypothesis. I grew up on a farm, and still have allergies, although some other studies seem to show that any such benefits are frequently counteracted by being around cigarette smoke in the early years, which I also was.

It will be interesting to see how it turns out, though. So, maybe all those people that need anti-bacterial everything (I've seen toys that have triclosan embedded) will pay heed and back off a little bit. On the other hand, prepare to welcome our new bacterial overlords.