The Secretary of State would rarely produce classified material. It's the author who's responsible for classification and marking. Any laws that were broken go back to the person who took material from a classified network to an unclassified network. That's what General Petraus did, and that's why he was prosecuted. If Clinton received classified documents outside a secured network that's not on her.
As a courier I used to pick up packages from a SCIF and I certainly didn't have a clearance. If I ever handled classified information I wouldn't know it. Documents are double packaged inside a plain manilla envelope. I sure as hell wasn't going to peek inside.
Diamond cutting has existed for (at least) hundreds of years. Diamonds have always been plentiful but the skill to cut them was not. It was one of the trades that allowed the Jewish people to survive through centuries of persecution. It was really DeBeers that took an ancient craft and turned it into something horrible.
I'd like to see natural diamonds outlawed. No, I take that back. That'd just create another black market. They should just be labelled with a warning like cigarettes. If most people knew the history of the DeBeers cartel they'd never buy anything but synthetic.
That's a good point. It got me playing with charts to see what they'd look like using different ranges. The results are on my website.
http://www.database9.com/blog/...
I'm not a lawyer but I think this is how the reasoning goes: A bench warrant is actually broader than a search warrant. A judge has ordered the defendant be taken into custody. The cards were in the defendant's possession. The police have the authority to search anything in his possession while he is in custody. And yes, that would include opening a closed container to peruse it's contents. Probable cause is not required because the defendant is already in custody.
When an individual steals it's prosecuted as a crime. Stealing a candy bar can get the thief a year or more in jail. When someone forms a company and conspires to steal it's treated as a civil matter. The proprietors shouldn't be in court, they should be in prison.
What Al Gore actually said was "I took the initiative in creating the internet". In context his statement is true. No, he did not invent the internet. But he was the first politician to recognize that interconnecting computers could have benefits far beyond improvements in science. He realized that the network should opened up to everyone. As far back as the 1970's Gore was involved in legislation involving technology and he worked tirelessly to educate other politicians about technology. He wrote bills that funded research in robotics, magnetic leviation, biotech, image recognition, speech recognition just to name a few. He wrote the bill that funded Mosaic and also wrote the bill that essentially privatized the Internet.
If you want to know more about how Gore "invented the internet" take the initiative and find a book. It's a fascinating story.
I expected this to be a scooter for the handicapped that's equipt with robotics. Being able to have your wheelchair come to you would have all sorts of practical applications. I was thinking about this the other day when I saw Walmart's carts sitting out in the rain. How much would retailers save in wear and tear if those things parked themselves? They already use electric motors. How hard would it be to automate them?
Not according to the chief who recommended termination or the city manager who actually fired him. They say it had nothing to do with the shooting.
This officer is wrong about one thing. He should find a decent lawyer. In PA you can fire someone without giving a reason but if you fire someone for cause it has to be legal. The city now says the officer was fired for the two earlier incidents, but he was never reprimanded. The letter of termination had two pages detailing what the officer did wrong in the shooting and two sentences each that mention the other incidents.
One of the incidents was a failure to report a DOA. That incident involved the same two officers involved in the shooting. They had 14 and 11 years of experience. This officer had 11 months. None of the three officers reported the DOA and the more experienced officers were not disciplined.
The other incident was a complaint from a citizen who's husband was arrested. She accused the officer of swearing. Give me a break, if every cop that cursed were fired we wouldn't have any police at all.
Look, I don't have a problem with the shooting. These officers had every right to defend themselves. But I do have a problem with a police chief who fires a cop and then lies about his reasons. This chief even gave a press conference where he told the public that all three officers were back on the job. That was less than 24 hours after he fired the rookie.
I'm with you on the deer and wild horses but let me introduce you to an Indonesian feral cat. My childhood nightmares were filled with these filthy creatures. They had mange, fleas and ticks. They were often deranged from rabies and would scream and fight at all hours. Oh, and they have a habit of pouncing on people. Get bitten or scratched and you had to get vaccinated for rabies. That required multiple injections in your belly. I have never understood my fellow American's tolerance for feline vermin.
On the other hand, the rats in Indonesia can reach 16 inches or about twice the size of an American city rat. But I don't really mind them. Just drop a python under the house and it's taken care of.
Antibacterials are antibiotics used to treat surfaces rather than being ingested.
This article predates the ruling but the scientific explanation is still relevant.
Note the following text:
Additional experiments found that some bacteria can combat triclosan and other biocides with export systems that could also pump out antibiotics. It was demonstrated that these triclosan-resistant mutants were also resistant to several antibiotics, specifically chloramphenicol, ampicillin, tetracycline and ciprofloxacin.
You may have missed the following text from the same page:
If a product....is intended not only for cleansing but also to cure, treat, or prevent disease...it is regulated as a drug, or possibly both a drug and a cosmetic. Examples include antibacterial cleansers.
Antibacterial hand and body wash manufacturers did not provide the necessary data to establish safety and effectiveness for the 19 active ingredients addressed in this final rulemaking. For these ingredients, either no additional data were submitted or the data and information that were submitted were not sufficient for the agency to find that these ingredients are Generally Recognized as Safe and Effective (GRAS/GRAE).
Having classified these products as drugs, the FDA does have jurisdiction. The ruling was proposed in 2013, subjected to public review, subjected to congressional review and finalized last week.
China wants the internet on their terms. Instead of finding ways to work around the firewall perhaps we should just block China completely. Let them choose between living in the free world or living behind an iron curtain. I'm guessing they want trade more than they want control.
Perhaps. But the biggest vulnerability in Windows computers (for home users) comes from users running as an administrator. The Windows install process should really be changed to setup an administrator account as well as a standard user account. Very few users get viruses when they have to elevate privileges.
I currently have 117 home and small business clients that I've educated about this. I create a new administrator account and change their original user account to standard. Only one of my clients that made the change have had a virus infection in the past three years. Almost all of my clean-up business comes from the people who continue to run as admin. And yes, I sometimes wonder how much money I'm losing by doing this.
Setting aside the legitimate security and privacy implications, if the vendor can avoid the credit card processing fee that is good for consumers. When you consider that grocers have a profit margin between 1 and 3 percent the credit card company is making as much as the retailer. And to cover the fee retailers have to raise prices for everyone. Even the threat of new competition has forced the credit card companies to negotiate better terms.
Being notified that your warranty is about to expire is a good thing
Perhaps. If you're likely to renew a warranty. Otherwise you only need to know if the warranty has expired after a failure.
Being notified that you haven't done a backup recently is a good thing.
This is built into Windows.
Being informed that the battery in your laptop is degraded is a good thing
This is important. I get a lot of users who notice that their battery doesn't last as long as it used to. I think they expect the battery to just stop working and don't really understand that they degrade slowly. But Lenovo doesn't just warn you that the battery is degraded. They tell you the battery is degraded after (I think) two years whether it is or not. They want you to buy another battery. Besides, true battery monitoring is also built into Windows.
Having something run scheduled tests of basic peripherals is better than not doing so, even though typically you'll know when there's a problem because your system stops working.
This is rarely true. With the exception of the hard drive every component I can think of will either fail or not. Being warned after it happens is not helpful. As for hard drives, they should not be tested. Stress tests, as used in the Lenovo software will accelerate degradation. Users should monitor the S.M.A.R.T. status for warning signs. I prefer to use HDD Guardian. It's licensed MPL-2.0 and the results are easy to understand.
I have lived in both China and Japan, where they set up giant illumination lights, and work around the clock in a bustle of activity until the project is done.
In and around DC road construction is done just as you describe. We also have a mobile factory that can pave a lane of the highway at about 10 miles per hour. It's actually pretty impressive.
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What the hell is a classifying agent? Why would Clinton be classifying material she RECEIVED?
The Secretary of State would rarely produce classified material. It's the author who's responsible for classification and marking. Any laws that were broken go back to the person who took material from a classified network to an unclassified network. That's what General Petraus did, and that's why he was prosecuted. If Clinton received classified documents outside a secured network that's not on her.
As a courier I used to pick up packages from a SCIF and I certainly didn't have a clearance. If I ever handled classified information I wouldn't know it. Documents are double packaged inside a plain manilla envelope. I sure as hell wasn't going to peek inside.
Diamond cutting has existed for (at least) hundreds of years. Diamonds have always been plentiful but the skill to cut them was not. It was one of the trades that allowed the Jewish people to survive through centuries of persecution. It was really DeBeers that took an ancient craft and turned it into something horrible.
I'd like to see natural diamonds outlawed. No, I take that back. That'd just create another black market. They should just be labelled with a warning like cigarettes. If most people knew the history of the DeBeers cartel they'd never buy anything but synthetic.
That's a good point. It got me playing with charts to see what they'd look like using different ranges. The results are on my website. http://www.database9.com/blog/...
WTFDTM?
Oh the irony. The jokes just keep coming.
I'm not a lawyer but I think this is how the reasoning goes: A bench warrant is actually broader than a search warrant. A judge has ordered the defendant be taken into custody. The cards were in the defendant's possession. The police have the authority to search anything in his possession while he is in custody. And yes, that would include opening a closed container to peruse it's contents. Probable cause is not required because the defendant is already in custody.
When an individual steals it's prosecuted as a crime. Stealing a candy bar can get the thief a year or more in jail. When someone forms a company and conspires to steal it's treated as a civil matter. The proprietors shouldn't be in court, they should be in prison.
he couldn't tell whether the car was driving itself, or its human operator had made a mistake
What Al Gore actually said was "I took the initiative in creating the internet". In context his statement is true. No, he did not invent the internet. But he was the first politician to recognize that interconnecting computers could have benefits far beyond improvements in science. He realized that the network should opened up to everyone. As far back as the 1970's Gore was involved in legislation involving technology and he worked tirelessly to educate other politicians about technology. He wrote bills that funded research in robotics, magnetic leviation, biotech, image recognition, speech recognition just to name a few. He wrote the bill that funded Mosaic and also wrote the bill that essentially privatized the Internet.
If you want to know more about how Gore "invented the internet" take the initiative and find a book. It's a fascinating story.
I expected this to be a scooter for the handicapped that's equipt with robotics. Being able to have your wheelchair come to you would have all sorts of practical applications. I was thinking about this the other day when I saw Walmart's carts sitting out in the rain. How much would retailers save in wear and tear if those things parked themselves? They already use electric motors. How hard would it be to automate them?
Not according to the chief who recommended termination or the city manager who actually fired him. They say it had nothing to do with the shooting.
This officer is wrong about one thing. He should find a decent lawyer. In PA you can fire someone without giving a reason but if you fire someone for cause it has to be legal. The city now says the officer was fired for the two earlier incidents, but he was never reprimanded. The letter of termination had two pages detailing what the officer did wrong in the shooting and two sentences each that mention the other incidents.
One of the incidents was a failure to report a DOA. That incident involved the same two officers involved in the shooting. They had 14 and 11 years of experience. This officer had 11 months. None of the three officers reported the DOA and the more experienced officers were not disciplined.
The other incident was a complaint from a citizen who's husband was arrested. She accused the officer of swearing. Give me a break, if every cop that cursed were fired we wouldn't have any police at all.
Look, I don't have a problem with the shooting. These officers had every right to defend themselves. But I do have a problem with a police chief who fires a cop and then lies about his reasons. This chief even gave a press conference where he told the public that all three officers were back on the job. That was less than 24 hours after he fired the rookie.
I'm with you on the deer and wild horses but let me introduce you to an Indonesian feral cat. My childhood nightmares were filled with these filthy creatures. They had mange, fleas and ticks. They were often deranged from rabies and would scream and fight at all hours. Oh, and they have a habit of pouncing on people. Get bitten or scratched and you had to get vaccinated for rabies. That required multiple injections in your belly. I have never understood my fellow American's tolerance for feline vermin.
On the other hand, the rats in Indonesia can reach 16 inches or about twice the size of an American city rat. But I don't really mind them. Just drop a python under the house and it's taken care of.
Was it blank before or after you copied it?
Antibacterials are antibiotics used to treat surfaces rather than being ingested. This article predates the ruling but the scientific explanation is still relevant. Note the following text:
Additional experiments found that some bacteria can combat triclosan and other biocides with export systems that could also pump out antibiotics. It was demonstrated that these triclosan-resistant mutants were also resistant to several antibiotics, specifically chloramphenicol, ampicillin, tetracycline and ciprofloxacin.
From the announcement:
This rule does not affect consumer hand “sanitizers” or wipes, or antibacterial products used in health care settings.
You may have missed the following text from the same page:
If a product....is intended not only for cleansing but also to cure, treat, or prevent disease...it is regulated as a drug, or possibly both a drug and a cosmetic. Examples include antibacterial cleansers.
From the FDA announcement:
Antibacterial hand and body wash manufacturers did not provide the necessary data to establish safety and effectiveness for the 19 active ingredients addressed in this final rulemaking. For these ingredients, either no additional data were submitted or the data and information that were submitted were not sufficient for the agency to find that these ingredients are Generally Recognized as Safe and Effective (GRAS/GRAE).
Having classified these products as drugs, the FDA does have jurisdiction. The ruling was proposed in 2013, subjected to public review, subjected to congressional review and finalized last week.
China wants the internet on their terms. Instead of finding ways to work around the firewall perhaps we should just block China completely. Let them choose between living in the free world or living behind an iron curtain. I'm guessing they want trade more than they want control.
The article has been up for over 1.5 hours with 40 posts and no one has noticed that the first link isn't actually a link.
How do I submit an application for a Slashdot editor position? I'd love to do nothing all day and get paid for it.
They've been hiring for a while and haven't been able to fill those positions. Click here for more information.
Perhaps. But the biggest vulnerability in Windows computers (for home users) comes from users running as an administrator. The Windows install process should really be changed to setup an administrator account as well as a standard user account. Very few users get viruses when they have to elevate privileges.
I currently have 117 home and small business clients that I've educated about this. I create a new administrator account and change their original user account to standard. Only one of my clients that made the change have had a virus infection in the past three years. Almost all of my clean-up business comes from the people who continue to run as admin. And yes, I sometimes wonder how much money I'm losing by doing this.
Setting aside the legitimate security and privacy implications, if the vendor can avoid the credit card processing fee that is good for consumers. When you consider that grocers have a profit margin between 1 and 3 percent the credit card company is making as much as the retailer. And to cover the fee retailers have to raise prices for everyone. Even the threat of new competition has forced the credit card companies to negotiate better terms.
Most of the features are redundant in Windows
Being notified that your warranty is about to expire is a good thing
Perhaps. If you're likely to renew a warranty. Otherwise you only need to know if the warranty has expired after a failure.
Being notified that you haven't done a backup recently is a good thing.
This is built into Windows.
Being informed that the battery in your laptop is degraded is a good thing
This is important. I get a lot of users who notice that their battery doesn't last as long as it used to. I think they expect the battery to just stop working and don't really understand that they degrade slowly. But Lenovo doesn't just warn you that the battery is degraded. They tell you the battery is degraded after (I think) two years whether it is or not. They want you to buy another battery. Besides, true battery monitoring is also built into Windows.
Having something run scheduled tests of basic peripherals is better than not doing so, even though typically you'll know when there's a problem because your system stops working.
This is rarely true. With the exception of the hard drive every component I can think of will either fail or not. Being warned after it happens is not helpful. As for hard drives, they should not be tested. Stress tests, as used in the Lenovo software will accelerate degradation. Users should monitor the S.M.A.R.T. status for warning signs. I prefer to use HDD Guardian. It's licensed MPL-2.0 and the results are easy to understand.
I have lived in both China and Japan, where they set up giant illumination lights, and work around the clock in a bustle of activity until the project is done.
In and around DC road construction is done just as you describe. We also have a mobile factory that can pave a lane of the highway at about 10 miles per hour. It's actually pretty impressive.