Considering that the shoe bomber was let on the plane and stopped by the passengers I wouldn't want to use that as an example. Then there is the underwear bomber that ended in a similar fashion. Or maybe you are referring to planned attacks like the planned Portland Christmas tree bombing?
Seriously 9/11 was a tragic event and we did put in place some measures to prevent any further attacks like that but what most people don't realize is that it isn't the stupid shit they see being manned by the otherwise unemployable TSA agents.
The simple fact that I can easily come up with plenty of ways to commit terrorism that would be successful attempts tells me that the actual threat of terrorism to the US is very small. I am all for sensible actions like keeping the cockpit door locked, and having a hardened cockpit door, but the fact that someone who can't seem to rub 2 brain cells together sets his underwear on fire doesn't mean we need to invade everyone's privacy. Just like if you are worried about lightning strikes you put up a grounded lightning rod, not try and figure out how you can redirect the fucking clouds away from your house.
The GPS modules are U-blox LEA-6t and you can find the info necessary for getting one here. The company that makes the module is synergy systems and the antennas I got from them is this one. From what I remember the first module was $35 and the second one was $70, I forget what the antennas were but there was a 10% discount they give to the home tinkerer market on the regular priced module and antennas. Instructions on getting the modules can be found in the diydrones link as you couldn't just order it online at the moment. The company was very helpful in getting me what I needed and answering my continuous stream of questions.
Does the Department of Health and Human Services have a national security mandate?
Probably. Given what gets classified and then leaked it seems to be that anything that might embarrass the US Federal Government of major political leaders gets classified as a threat to national security, so why not HHS?
I found that it occupies a spot that wasn't well served. You correctly identified it as packing too much for small electronics projects where things like Arduinos sit but not being powerful enough to be a full flegged desktop/laptop. For embedded thing where and Arduino is too underpowered and a large desktop or laptop is way too much(bulk, power, weight) it fits nicely. This was the space that had been occupied by the Beagle Board and Beagle Bone but those were substantially more expensive when the RPi first came out. It really opened up this space and brought in some competition which anyone would welcome. The mere fact that almost every new board that is coming out is priced reasonably close to the RPi and is offering more should indicate that this was an under served market. I personally have mine setup as a poor mans RTK solution where each RPi has a nice timing GPS+good active antenna attached with one as a roving unit and the other stationary all running RTKlib makes things easy. The fact that I can continuously power the one in the stationary role off of an old car battery for days and use the roving one for a couple 8 hour days on a few Li-ion cells is great.
I'm sure it would support some sort of WSUS like functionality. Now instead of calling home for updates it can call home for updates and to ensure you are paid up. All that is different is where it calls home to and what gets loaded on the server providing the updates. It seems entirely doable.
Exactly. Someone's cat picture isn't worth anything to me and apart of a 3 second chuckle in now way makes my life better, but a good book (I have shelves full) is worth the price. Hell even take the electronic copy of the Complete National Geographic. I bought it a few years ago and have bought the updates that have the issues not initially included and I will probably keep buying the updates because they are convenient and really cool. Add in that my wife is a teacher and frequently makes use of it and it was a very worthwhile purchase. I would consider getting a paper subscription but it just seems so wasteful especially given how easy it is to use the electronic copy.
I don't see a down side to poisoning the data-mining well especially with the metadata collection that goes on. I have managed to get facebook to believe I am a gay unmarried Jew living in Hiafa or at least that would best describe the ads it serves up to me. I find that after giving up on TV after the digital switch over where I then found myself in a dead area my desire that I need some new wonderful thing has gone away. There are things I do and spend money on (go go cardboard crack MTG) but those are things I actually enjoy doing or I am replacing some thing that I actually use that has worn out.
I am all for poisoning that well. For those of us who use adblock it won't affect what we see and will cost the advertisers money as they will have to pay the site we visited for those clicks. So really no down side from my perspective.
That only applies when the courts do something one of the major political parties dislikes that happens to favor the other major political party. In this case they both want it but don't want the very small blow back. This also provide talking points so that one side can blame the other for not acting thus the court did the right thing further legitimizing this court's existence.
As they are a junk fish and I want them gone I let everyone know, above lock and dam #2 in Hastings and the below the Ford lock and dam. I usually fish above lock and dam #2 as it is closer but have fished just below the Ford dam where Minnehaha creek enters as well. If you go at the right time you can almost net the damn things in Minnehaha creek as well as the European carp because the current is so strong.
Being an outdoorsman I want things to be around for my enjoyment and for others.
Maybe $0.01/article. I get the daily paper and you know what it would cost $0.50 if I bought it at the gas station yet it appears on my door step for less that each morning since I have a subscription. I know there are more than 50 articles in the paper each day and while there are ads all over the place they don't make noise or blink. At the same time the publisher has to print the damn paper and pay someone to deliver it to my house. Given this $0.01/article should be a ceiling for the cost of an online article with no ads.
If by very high you mean likely an order of magnitude less likely than getting struck by lightning then I will accept that. I would say that the likelihood of a commercial airliner being hijacked and crashed into a building is substantially lower now than it was before 9/11 because of simple precautions like locking the cockpit door, having a hardened cockpit door, and passengers who are likely to turn someone into a red smear on the nasty carpet if they attempt to breach the cockpit door.
They already are classed as an invasive species so can likely be caught in any amount by anyone. They are a fairly fun fish to bring in and make good fertilizer for the garden so I am doing my part to try and control the problem. I probably catch 20-30 of them a year in the early spring and fall and hand them out to neighbors and family who are looking to improve the soil in their gardens. Add to it that they are pretty easy to catch, a yellow leadhead with a nigh crawler bounced off the bottom seems to work really well in pool 2 on the Mississippi, so it is a great way to introduce a kid to fishing as they can actually catch some big fish without much effort.
If it is sold as a kit car then it can be titled and sold in every state in the US. The issue here is that the rules vary dramatically from one state to another with some just requiring a simple bill of sale while others require all sorts of legal hoops. Minnesota is fairly simple having seen my father go through it with one of his vehicles that lacked a VIN (the VIN plate had long since fallen off or rusted away) so was treated as a home built (kit) car. They require bringing it into one of the bigger full service DMV offices and they perform a basic inspection checking that things like brakes and lights work and that it meets some sort of basic road worthiness standards and that you present a bill of sale for major components like the body, frame and engine. This was about 20 years ago so the rules may have changed since but it wasn't too difficult at the time.
Then there are people like me who seem to have immune system that go crazy on stuff like vaccines. I seem to be in the minority even in my family but I will feel like crap for about day with a fever, sniffles, and coughing. At the same time when I do catch a cold my body will power through it fairy quick so that works well for me.
It looks like in the US problems caused by being a fat ass or smoker is the leading cause by a long margin. This excludes medical errors which may be highest individual cause but that is just an estimate but would be beaten by the above combination anyway.
If it is like most NIDS I have seen they only care about incoming data and could give a shit about where internal machines are sending data. Add in that an improperly setup NIDS (i.e most of them) is worthless as they never notice a thing or barf alerts as fast as possible. My experience is that in most cases security is treated as a checklist Do hosts have firewalls turned on? Check Do we have network firewalls? Check Do we have a NIDS? Check ... etc. Yes they have them and they may actually be turned on but no one is doing the hard work like actually configuring them to be useful, checking logs, modifying rules to be a better tighter set or any of the real work that makes these things valuable. It takes a lot of effort to configure your firewalls and NIDS to manage both ends of traffic correctly and setting up a tool like Nagios to monitor systems for anything beyond a trivial set of scans takes real money. Hell I deal with this sort of thing at my work where corporate IT is always pissed at me because I am testing or trying out some tool, methodology, or securing customer systems and they can no longer "manage" them even though that isn't their job and they aren't cleared to do so.
Those still seem extremely excessive even then unless the cops there are a bunch of pussies. I go deer hunting up in northern Minnesota with lighter cloths than that and often it will be near 0F at night and a warm day might be 35F and I sleep in a tent. If I am moving around, you know like walking a beat, back at camp I can wear a pair of bib overalls and a flannel shirt and be fine even if it is in the teens out.
It's a short (and lethal) time where patrol officers with pistols, limited armour, and unarmoured patrol cars are engaged by high velocity portable weapons systems.
So any hunting rifle then. Seriously, standard police body armor or a car door doesn't do much of anything against common deer round even like low end.30-30 let alone something like a.303,.308,.30-06, 7.62x54r, 8mm Mauser, 7.5x55mm Swiss which are all fairly common round going back over the last 70 or so years. Now add in that a semi-automatic, self loading, rifle like the M1 Garand were basically handed out like candy after WWII so the police would have been outgunned even then more so without modern body armor.
From my understanding you needed to have a class 3 FFL to be able to sell machines guns but that still doesn't allow you to own ones made after 1986. Also from my understanding it is a $500 tax stamp that needs to be acquired to own one and the government can search your home at any time. Then again I don't really know the laws all that well on machine guns since the most powerful firearm I own, were the receiver made 2 years earlier, would be completely unregulated.
As far as tanks yes you can own them but the main armaments need to be disabled. There is a place fairly close to where I went to college where one can go have fun and drive various old British tanks. And yes I do plan on doing this in a couple of years with both of my kids once they are older and will really remember it since it is costly to do.
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Considering that the shoe bomber was let on the plane and stopped by the passengers I wouldn't want to use that as an example. Then there is the underwear bomber that ended in a similar fashion. Or maybe you are referring to planned attacks like the planned Portland Christmas tree bombing?
Seriously 9/11 was a tragic event and we did put in place some measures to prevent any further attacks like that but what most people don't realize is that it isn't the stupid shit they see being manned by the otherwise unemployable TSA agents.
The simple fact that I can easily come up with plenty of ways to commit terrorism that would be successful attempts tells me that the actual threat of terrorism to the US is very small. I am all for sensible actions like keeping the cockpit door locked, and having a hardened cockpit door, but the fact that someone who can't seem to rub 2 brain cells together sets his underwear on fire doesn't mean we need to invade everyone's privacy. Just like if you are worried about lightning strikes you put up a grounded lightning rod, not try and figure out how you can redirect the fucking clouds away from your house.
The GPS modules are U-blox LEA-6t and you can find the info necessary for getting one here. The company that makes the module is synergy systems and the antennas I got from them is this one. From what I remember the first module was $35 and the second one was $70, I forget what the antennas were but there was a 10% discount they give to the home tinkerer market on the regular priced module and antennas. Instructions on getting the modules can be found in the diydrones link as you couldn't just order it online at the moment. The company was very helpful in getting me what I needed and answering my continuous stream of questions.
Every Senator that got elected for their first time in 2008 and voted for the ACA just lost their re-election bid.
If that is true then why is Al Franken still one of my senators? Granted I do prefer him to Amy Klobuchar.
Does the Department of Health and Human Services have a national security mandate?
Probably. Given what gets classified and then leaked it seems to be that anything that might embarrass the US Federal Government of major political leaders gets classified as a threat to national security, so why not HHS?
I found that it occupies a spot that wasn't well served. You correctly identified it as packing too much for small electronics projects where things like Arduinos sit but not being powerful enough to be a full flegged desktop/laptop. For embedded thing where and Arduino is too underpowered and a large desktop or laptop is way too much(bulk, power, weight) it fits nicely. This was the space that had been occupied by the Beagle Board and Beagle Bone but those were substantially more expensive when the RPi first came out. It really opened up this space and brought in some competition which anyone would welcome. The mere fact that almost every new board that is coming out is priced reasonably close to the RPi and is offering more should indicate that this was an under served market. I personally have mine setup as a poor mans RTK solution where each RPi has a nice timing GPS+good active antenna attached with one as a roving unit and the other stationary all running RTKlib makes things easy. The fact that I can continuously power the one in the stationary role off of an old car battery for days and use the roving one for a couple 8 hour days on a few Li-ion cells is great.
Yes, but not my network. Probably one of the neighbors' unsecured WiFi.
I'm sure it would support some sort of WSUS like functionality. Now instead of calling home for updates it can call home for updates and to ensure you are paid up. All that is different is where it calls home to and what gets loaded on the server providing the updates. It seems entirely doable.
Exactly. Someone's cat picture isn't worth anything to me and apart of a 3 second chuckle in now way makes my life better, but a good book (I have shelves full) is worth the price. Hell even take the electronic copy of the Complete National Geographic. I bought it a few years ago and have bought the updates that have the issues not initially included and I will probably keep buying the updates because they are convenient and really cool. Add in that my wife is a teacher and frequently makes use of it and it was a very worthwhile purchase. I would consider getting a paper subscription but it just seems so wasteful especially given how easy it is to use the electronic copy.
So like regular OTA TV then?
I don't see a down side to poisoning the data-mining well especially with the metadata collection that goes on. I have managed to get facebook to believe I am a gay unmarried Jew living in Hiafa or at least that would best describe the ads it serves up to me. I find that after giving up on TV after the digital switch over where I then found myself in a dead area my desire that I need some new wonderful thing has gone away. There are things I do and spend money on (go go cardboard crack MTG) but those are things I actually enjoy doing or I am replacing some thing that I actually use that has worn out.
I am all for poisoning that well. For those of us who use adblock it won't affect what we see and will cost the advertisers money as they will have to pay the site we visited for those clicks. So really no down side from my perspective.
That only applies when the courts do something one of the major political parties dislikes that happens to favor the other major political party. In this case they both want it but don't want the very small blow back. This also provide talking points so that one side can blame the other for not acting thus the court did the right thing further legitimizing this court's existence.
As they are a junk fish and I want them gone I let everyone know, above lock and dam #2 in Hastings and the below the Ford lock and dam. I usually fish above lock and dam #2 as it is closer but have fished just below the Ford dam where Minnehaha creek enters as well. If you go at the right time you can almost net the damn things in Minnehaha creek as well as the European carp because the current is so strong.
Being an outdoorsman I want things to be around for my enjoyment and for others.
Maybe $0.01/article. I get the daily paper and you know what it would cost $0.50 if I bought it at the gas station yet it appears on my door step for less that each morning since I have a subscription. I know there are more than 50 articles in the paper each day and while there are ads all over the place they don't make noise or blink. At the same time the publisher has to print the damn paper and pay someone to deliver it to my house. Given this $0.01/article should be a ceiling for the cost of an online article with no ads.
Hell I would volunteer to do it for free if they also let me shoot the damn sky carp that cause problems as well.
but now there is a very high risk
If by very high you mean likely an order of magnitude less likely than getting struck by lightning then I will accept that. I would say that the likelihood of a commercial airliner being hijacked and crashed into a building is substantially lower now than it was before 9/11 because of simple precautions like locking the cockpit door, having a hardened cockpit door, and passengers who are likely to turn someone into a red smear on the nasty carpet if they attempt to breach the cockpit door.
They already are classed as an invasive species so can likely be caught in any amount by anyone. They are a fairly fun fish to bring in and make good fertilizer for the garden so I am doing my part to try and control the problem. I probably catch 20-30 of them a year in the early spring and fall and hand them out to neighbors and family who are looking to improve the soil in their gardens. Add to it that they are pretty easy to catch, a yellow leadhead with a nigh crawler bounced off the bottom seems to work really well in pool 2 on the Mississippi, so it is a great way to introduce a kid to fishing as they can actually catch some big fish without much effort.
Lets just call it the Boss Hogg style government. Seems like he would fit right in in Texas.
If it is sold as a kit car then it can be titled and sold in every state in the US. The issue here is that the rules vary dramatically from one state to another with some just requiring a simple bill of sale while others require all sorts of legal hoops. Minnesota is fairly simple having seen my father go through it with one of his vehicles that lacked a VIN (the VIN plate had long since fallen off or rusted away) so was treated as a home built (kit) car. They require bringing it into one of the bigger full service DMV offices and they perform a basic inspection checking that things like brakes and lights work and that it meets some sort of basic road worthiness standards and that you present a bill of sale for major components like the body, frame and engine. This was about 20 years ago so the rules may have changed since but it wasn't too difficult at the time.
Then there are people like me who seem to have immune system that go crazy on stuff like vaccines. I seem to be in the minority even in my family but I will feel like crap for about day with a fever, sniffles, and coughing. At the same time when I do catch a cold my body will power through it fairy quick so that works well for me.
It looks like in the US problems caused by being a fat ass or smoker is the leading cause by a long margin. This excludes medical errors which may be highest individual cause but that is just an estimate but would be beaten by the above combination anyway.
If it is like most NIDS I have seen they only care about incoming data and could give a shit about where internal machines are sending data. Add in that an improperly setup NIDS (i.e most of them) is worthless as they never notice a thing or barf alerts as fast as possible. My experience is that in most cases security is treated as a checklist
Do hosts have firewalls turned on? Check
Do we have network firewalls? Check
Do we have a NIDS? Check
... etc.
Yes they have them and they may actually be turned on but no one is doing the hard work like actually configuring them to be useful, checking logs, modifying rules to be a better tighter set or any of the real work that makes these things valuable. It takes a lot of effort to configure your firewalls and NIDS to manage both ends of traffic correctly and setting up a tool like Nagios to monitor systems for anything beyond a trivial set of scans takes real money. Hell I deal with this sort of thing at my work where corporate IT is always pissed at me because I am testing or trying out some tool, methodology, or securing customer systems and they can no longer "manage" them even though that isn't their job and they aren't cleared to do so.
The key word there is competent which seems to be in extreme shortages at Sony.
Those still seem extremely excessive even then unless the cops there are a bunch of pussies. I go deer hunting up in northern Minnesota with lighter cloths than that and often it will be near 0F at night and a warm day might be 35F and I sleep in a tent. If I am moving around, you know like walking a beat, back at camp I can wear a pair of bib overalls and a flannel shirt and be fine even if it is in the teens out.
It's a short (and lethal) time where patrol officers with pistols, limited armour, and unarmoured patrol cars are engaged by high velocity portable weapons systems.
So any hunting rifle then. Seriously, standard police body armor or a car door doesn't do much of anything against common deer round even like low end .30-30 let alone something like a .303, .308, .30-06, 7.62x54r, 8mm Mauser, 7.5x55mm Swiss which are all fairly common round going back over the last 70 or so years. Now add in that a semi-automatic, self loading, rifle like the M1 Garand were basically handed out like candy after WWII so the police would have been outgunned even then more so without modern body armor.
From my understanding you needed to have a class 3 FFL to be able to sell machines guns but that still doesn't allow you to own ones made after 1986. Also from my understanding it is a $500 tax stamp that needs to be acquired to own one and the government can search your home at any time. Then again I don't really know the laws all that well on machine guns since the most powerful firearm I own, were the receiver made 2 years earlier, would be completely unregulated.
As far as tanks yes you can own them but the main armaments need to be disabled. There is a place fairly close to where I went to college where one can go have fun and drive various old British tanks. And yes I do plan on doing this in a couple of years with both of my kids once they are older and will really remember it since it is costly to do.