The Commonwealth's motion to compel decryption
does not violate the defendant's rights under the Fifth Amendment because the defendant is only telling the government what it already knows.
The thing that gets me is that the government doesn't know the password so he is telling them something they don't already know.
In this economy, the question is rather whether you're not well enough connected to find something else. Skill plays little role anymore when it comes to unemployment.
If you are highly skilled and those skills are in demand, hire yourself. You can't be fired unless you fire yourself. You can't be underpaid unless you underpay yourself. You can take as many vacation days as you like.
If you succeed, that's great. If not, you have no one left to blame but yourself.
None of your questions can be answered by science. Science is a great tool, but can't answer "why" things are the way they are. Just be grateful it is not different, otherwise we wouldn't even be here to ask the questions.
Similarly, asking what happened before the big bang is meaningless. Stephen Hawking puts it beautifully:
Since events before the Big Bang have no observational consequences, one may as well cut them out of the theory, and say that time began at the Big Bang. Events before the Big Bang, are simply not defined, because there's no way one could measure what happened at them.
This doesn't mean you can't enjoy pondering these questions if that's what you want to do, but do so with full realization you're now in the realm of philosophy, religion, and mysticism - not science.
Why do researchers have to sacrifice an industry paycheck to do it? In other words, why won't industrial pharma hire more talented scientists.
There is more money in treating a medical condition than in curing it. Once a disease is cured, there is no need to take expensive medications anymore. The financial incentives for both doctors and pharmaceutical companies is to keep a patient in treatment for as long as possible.
_WHY_ would this be important in a historic perspective?
The emails document correspondence to and from White House officials. That's an invaluable resource to future historians. All correspondence with the White House is.
It's quite a coincidence that all seven of the computers storing information that Congress is requesting all "crashed" and the emails were lost to seven computer "glitches". Just think of the odds. What an uncanny streak of misfortune. The emails just vanished and the investigation can't continue. Oh well.
Just ignore the fact that the words "crashed" and "glitch" are not technical terms an IT professional would use and only serve to obfuscate rather than clarify how those emails might be retrieved. Those boxes with the blinky lights are just subject to the whims of fate, I reckon.
I can't really fault the IRS for not handing over evidence that would at a minimum would put them out of their jobs and/or ideally behind prison bars. What surprises me is what bad liars they are.
Actually, anyone who has handled email admin for a big business knows they have email "retention polices" [d4discovery.com] where they explicitly delete all email older than X days (often just 90 days) except for what each user deliberately saves off.
Except the IRS isn't a business; it's a government agency. It's completely irrelevant what retention policies businesses use because government officials work for and are accountable to the American people, amirite?
The alternative to saying "we lost the emails you want to use as evidence against us in a criminal inverstigation" is to hand over the emails and turn around to make it easier to put the handcuffs on. Not really surprising they chose the path they did.
For what it's worth, the government has yet to use any of the information to actually destroy lives, at least lives of people that it wasn't coming to.
The most obvious counter-examples being Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden. The "crimes" these people committed were that they told the truth. I guess we could argue semantics about whether or not their lives were "destroyed" or not but I think we can all agree that their mobility is severely restricted and their long prospects aren't looking so hot.
The lesson to be learned here is to never tell the truth when discussing the working of government. It's the highest crime you can commit. Nothing good can possibly come from it.
That assumes that the information is classified because it's genuinely sensitive rather than classified because classifying it helps cover up wrongdoing.
"You can't handle the truth!" That's the thinking by political insiders and goes a long way to explain why so-called "whistle-blowers" are dealt with so harshly.
Once the public sees the extent classified status is used to cover up government malfeasance rather than issues of national security they become informed voters, and then they might vote in their own self-interest.
Have you examined the pattern of misprints? Maybe they're there to uniquely identify your copy of the e-book.
I think mostly people are talking about obvious OCR errors. Like a lower case L (l) turning into a numeral one (1) or an exclaimation point (!)
More interesting to me are the questions "If you purchase an eBook and what you receive is not a faithful representaion of the printed copy, what exactly have you purchased?" "Was that money well spent?"
I believe I would ask for my money back if my KIng James Bible eBook quoted God as saying "Let there be light: and there was blight."
'We had all the t's crossed and all the i's dotted and still there was a big daily surprise,' says industrial designer Colin Owen...
I'll assume Mt. Owen is just inexperienced, and not outright delusional. There are no inherent problems with hardware manufacturing supply lines that experienced managers can't compensate for. If one vendor flakes, you buy from the second or third source you already lined up. In advance, because you are not stupid/inexperienced/delusional.
Can have secure encryption at all without the "if you lose your keys, you're hosed" part? I have never seen a solution to this fundamental problem.
In general you can't open any lock if you lose the keys. It's a feature, not a fundamental problem. All encryption schemes require that you provide some way of authenticating that you are the intended recipient. Protip: securely back up your keys.
I'm curious why your figures use the average home price and average car payment when allocating funds from a minimum income level.
Seems to me these expenditures would be appropriate for someone with an average income. If you are making minimum wage , then set your sights on the least expensive house and car. Condominiums are often a less expensive option; many people live quite comfortably in them.
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They already are.
This. Each an every NSL needs to be challenged.
I tried running emacs from the emacs shell and got the error
emacs: Terminal type "dumb" is not powerful enough to run Emacs.
I am somber.
Am I confused, or is this the same amoral sack of shit who lied to Congress with a straight face about NSA activities???
Yep. Circumventing the law, lying to Congress, sounds like a perfect match for the banking industry.
The Commonwealth's motion to compel decryption does not violate the defendant's rights under the Fifth Amendment because the defendant is only telling the government what it already knows.
The thing that gets me is that the government doesn't know the password so he is telling them something they don't already know.
Kant believe you just said that.
Again, where do you get the contracts from if you lack the network?
From the gettin' place.
Disclaimer: You may or may not find that amusing depending on whether you've seen "No Country For Old Men"
In this economy, the question is rather whether you're not well enough connected to find something else. Skill plays little role anymore when it comes to unemployment.
If you are highly skilled and those skills are in demand, hire yourself. You can't be fired unless you fire yourself. You can't be underpaid unless you underpay yourself. You can take as many vacation days as you like.
If you succeed, that's great. If not, you have no one left to blame but yourself.
None of your questions can be answered by science. Science is a great tool, but can't answer "why" things are the way they are. Just be grateful it is not different, otherwise we wouldn't even be here to ask the questions.
Similarly, asking what happened before the big bang is meaningless. Stephen Hawking puts it beautifully:
Since events before the Big Bang have no observational consequences, one may as well cut them out of the theory, and say that time began at the Big Bang. Events before the Big Bang, are simply not defined, because there's no way one could measure what happened at them.
This doesn't mean you can't enjoy pondering these questions if that's what you want to do, but do so with full realization you're now in the realm of philosophy, religion, and mysticism - not science.
Why do researchers have to sacrifice an industry paycheck to do it? In other words, why won't industrial pharma hire more talented scientists.
There is more money in treating a medical condition than in curing it. Once a disease is cured, there is no need to take expensive medications anymore. The financial incentives for both doctors and pharmaceutical companies is to keep a patient in treatment for as long as possible.
No because even junk bonds actually represent something of actual value.
Yeah, junk. The stuff you pay people to take away.
_WHY_ would this be important in a historic perspective?
The emails document correspondence to and from White House officials. That's an invaluable resource to future historians. All correspondence with the White House is.
And to top it all off, the information probably does exist somewhere on a government server ...
I'll bet it does. These are important historical documents. For that reason alone I'm sure someone is archiving them.
They may not become public for another 50 years or so but they'll turn up.
Wafers were called "slices", so your multiprobe yield was expressed in "good bars per slice".
Did they ever refer to the process of wafer testing "Looking for Mr. Goodbar?"
Vernon's a director of the Grunnings drill manufacturing company.
It's quite a coincidence that all seven of the computers storing information that Congress is requesting all "crashed" and the emails were lost to seven computer "glitches". Just think of the odds. What an uncanny streak of misfortune. The emails just vanished and the investigation can't continue. Oh well.
Just ignore the fact that the words "crashed" and "glitch" are not technical terms an IT professional would use and only serve to obfuscate rather than clarify how those emails might be retrieved. Those boxes with the blinky lights are just subject to the whims of fate, I reckon.
I can't really fault the IRS for not handing over evidence that would at a minimum would put them out of their jobs and/or ideally behind prison bars. What surprises me is what bad liars they are.
Actually, anyone who has handled email admin for a big business knows they have email "retention polices" [d4discovery.com] where they explicitly delete all email older than X days (often just 90 days) except for what each user deliberately saves off.
Except the IRS isn't a business; it's a government agency. It's completely irrelevant what retention policies businesses use because government officials work for and are accountable to the American people, amirite?
The alternative to saying "we lost the emails you want to use as evidence against us in a criminal inverstigation" is to hand over the emails and turn around to make it easier to put the handcuffs on. Not really surprising they chose the path they did.
All I claimed is that they told the truth. Unless you are claiming otherwise, I'll assume we are in complete agreement.
For what it's worth, the government has yet to use any of the information to actually destroy lives, at least lives of people that it wasn't coming to.
The most obvious counter-examples being Julian Assange, Chelsea Manning, and Edward Snowden. The "crimes" these people committed were that they told the truth. I guess we could argue semantics about whether or not their lives were "destroyed" or not but I think we can all agree that their mobility is severely restricted and their long prospects aren't looking so hot.
The lesson to be learned here is to never tell the truth when discussing the working of government. It's the highest crime you can commit. Nothing good can possibly come from it.
That assumes that the information is classified because it's genuinely sensitive rather than classified because classifying it helps cover up wrongdoing.
"You can't handle the truth!" That's the thinking by political insiders and goes a long way to explain why so-called "whistle-blowers" are dealt with so harshly.
Once the public sees the extent classified status is used to cover up government malfeasance rather than issues of national security they become informed voters, and then they might vote in their own self-interest.
Have you examined the pattern of misprints? Maybe they're there to uniquely identify your copy of the e-book.
I think mostly people are talking about obvious OCR errors. Like a lower case L (l) turning into a numeral one (1) or an exclaimation point (!)
More interesting to me are the questions "If you purchase an eBook and what you receive is not a faithful representaion of the printed copy, what exactly have you purchased?" "Was that money well spent?"
I believe I would ask for my money back if my KIng James Bible eBook quoted God as saying "Let there be light: and there was blight."
'We had all the t's crossed and all the i's dotted and still there was a big daily surprise,' says industrial designer Colin Owen...
I'll assume Mt. Owen is just inexperienced, and not outright delusional. There are no inherent problems with hardware manufacturing supply lines that experienced managers can't compensate for. If one vendor flakes, you buy from the second or third source you already lined up. In advance, because you are not stupid/inexperienced/delusional.
Can have secure encryption at all without the "if you lose your keys, you're hosed" part? I have never seen a solution to this fundamental problem.
In general you can't open any lock if you lose the keys. It's a feature, not a fundamental problem. All encryption schemes require that you provide some way of authenticating that you are the intended recipient. Protip: securely back up your keys.
It should be encrypted at all times.
Great idea. Perhaps they should call it "End-to-End" encryption and release it as a Chrome browser extension like they are talking about in this article: http://slashdot.org/story/14/06/03/2059220/google-announces-end-to-end-encryption-extension-for-chrome/
I'm curious why your figures use the average home price and average car payment when allocating funds from a minimum income level.
Seems to me these expenditures would be appropriate for someone with an average income. If you are making minimum wage , then set your sights on the least expensive house and car. Condominiums are often a less expensive option; many people live quite comfortably in them.
Upon reflection, I think I probably misinterpreted your initial point, and then went off a a weird tangent. I'd retract my post if I could.