In other words, if you want to accuse Uber of illegally operating an autonomous vehicle, you have the burden of proof. As long as there is a human being behind the steering wheel, that's going to be a difficult thing to do.
Since it's a fairly high end, modern and sophisticated vehicle - a Volvo according to some reports I've seen - then it's very likely to have significant data recording of it's own.
Whether Uber or the court get to the recordings first remains a question.
Admittedly hostage taking and murder raises the stakes slightly, compared to a few broken bones and lashes from a rubber hose that could be explained away.
A corpse or several in a a badly burned out car on a quiet back road is a far simpler story than explaining away a few wrench-marks and rubber hose burns.
Nikasoniconypus are going to add to the production costs of all of their cameras - even marginally - for a feature that is only really of interest to a minority of well-off users? No go. This will be a feature on premium cameras. Probably with a logo on the camera for the posers who want to protect their photos from the Illinois Highway Patrol. Want the feature on a camera without a logo? +$1000
And for many people, "evidence" is a spelling mistake for "suspicion." You might believe that they're different things, but it's not your opinion that matters.
Obviously you edit it before you record it. i.e. darkened room with no identifying marks (or deliberate poor focus, so who cares about 4k HD, or vaseline lens. None of which involves incriminating equipment. Interviewee unidentifiable in hoodie/ hijab/ hat pulled down whatever. Put the microphone through a pre-amp which is turned up to 14 (on a scale of 1-10) to distort the sound. Put a record of The Glorious Leader's Greatest Speeches on in the adjacent room (to defeat or make difficult background noise identification.
Now you're ready to start recording your interview with "Deep Throat 3". And even with NO encryption , the interviewee will be unidentifiable.
There's a good reason that "Deep Throat" and his heirs don't give interviews in full colour HD quadrophenia. At least, not if they want to stay alive.
"We're so sorry about you Mr AmiMoJo. It looks as if he ran into our [drug smuggling | terrorist insurgency | neighbour's terrorist insurgency (delete to taste)] problem and got himself killed. It looks like they spent a week beating him to death while we were looking for him. We are so sorry. But we did warn him. Like we're warning you to not do what he did.
it seems like some kind of satellite-based relay that
(1) is going to be a huge red flag to any radio direction-finding equipment. (Hundreds of Allied and Axis agents got caught by this in WW2 ; and who knows how many since.)
(2) Is going to be a gigantic red flag to put you under close watch when it shows up in your baggage's X-rays when you enter the country. You do realise that most baggage is X-rayed these days because "war on drugs"?
(3) You're going to be carrying equipment which may well be classified as espionage equipment. Just before my second job in Russia, I was burgled and they took my Garmin consumer GPS (amongst other things, including my good rucksack). In Russia I became very glad that they had taken the GPS because it meant that I didn't make the mistake of taking it with me (as I had on my first trip to the FSU). I was told that the area I was working in was a special military zone (because nuclear launch sites and oil fields) and possession of espionage equipment was a crime of strict commission. No excuses, 10 years hard labour. Don't want the time, don't do the crime. And there was an American tourist in jail at that time awaiting sentencing for possession of a GPS. (The next year, on my 3rd trip, I was told that he actually got released in a diplomatic deal after about a year on remand, no hard labour. But no one cared much about the details. Everyone knew "don't do that," because if you did you'd get fired for causing diplomatic problems for your employer.)
Just because you think that you're fighting the good fight in some sense doesn't mean that you're not actually breaking the laws of the country that you're in. Know the situation you're gtting into. (I was lucky on my trip. Luck, not planning.)
Unfortunately I cannot think of any good way to smuggle video or picture content that a photojournalist or video journalist will be able to do in the field in adverse conditions like this that couldn't somehow be detected if the investigator is committed enough to being thorough.
If an investigator is being thorough, you're dead. Live with it, or not.
For more casual investigations, carry a large number of (micro-)SD cards (this itself may be adequate) ; if your regular camera will handle it, partition the larger "interesting" SD cards into (say) a 4GB and a 28GB partition, with photos of the cat on the 4GB partition. Given that the average border security person gets their shoe size and their IQ confused, this itself may be adequate. Print misleading labels on the interesting SD cards (e.g. "4GB" for the 32GB partitioned card). Going one step further, you're into hiding the cards where they'll be obvious under X-rays. Not particularly difficult, but definitely evidence of malign intent. Which could be the difference between an interrogation with dry electrodes and a firing squad that you'll welcome after the questioning sessions.
To be honest, if you've got that sort of "interesting" stuff in your camera, finding a mule to unwittingly carry the data out is probably your best option. "Trade craft" which the spying industry has known well for decades if not centuries.
I would say that a "They are bothered and concerned and want to fix it but, the author of that module no longer works for them
R-arrange these words : "shit" and "tough".
Surely the minute that the author of that module handed in their notice, his managers should have started the search process (internally and externally) for someone to grok the departed person's work and get up to speed. Oh, and they could try having a lower staff turnover rate by [insert 50 volumes of standard staff retention advice, which boils down to not treating staff like rancid turds].
Oh it is about fucking people over. Specifically, making life harder for recruitment and retention people who work in the credit card industry, but not for AmEx.
Who knows - perhaps this desire to harm your competition's recruitment and retention will substitute for corporate America's long-established policy of bum-fucking their employees morning, noon and night.
... which you'll remember was when everyone claimed to be the leader of the rebellion, so that the Evil Emperor couldn't single the ringleader out for punishment.
I forget if the film had a nice ending. The real ending was that every single man in the slave rebellion was crucified (some crucified then set on fire while still alive, to provide light for the crucifixion night shift). The women had it easier - they were just sold as sex slaves. At a tidy profit.
Just ask yourself - what would Donald Smallhands do?
Some bogs in the UK just a few metres thick stretch back to nearly 8000 years. Siberian permafrost-cemented bogs which can be up to several thousands of feet deep are probably much older in the deeper parts. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them stretch back to the start of this glacial epoch several million years ago.
i'd rather they legislate actions, not words, and not thoughts.
Until someone actually develops an evidence-quality "mind-reading machine" (polygraphs are laughed at by the courts here - I can't remember when I last heard of someone submitting polygraph evidence in a UK court ; the reports a year or two ago of some Indian (IIRC) company trying to develop an MRI-based way of detecting someone's state of mind doesn't seem to have appeared in court yet), actions are the only things that can be prosecuted. Which includes actions such as throwing a Molotov cocktail, or some foul words (but they do have to be pretty foul, or repeated). Thoughts can only be prosecuted (or challenged or communicated) if expressed in speech or writing. Unless you know of something else. OK - sculpture, arguably.
Music is an interesting case. Personally I hate the stuff, but it is also the subject of routine prosecutions under laws banning the singing of sectarian songs at football grounds. A back-handed tribute to the hatefullness of our local variants of Christianity.
yeah, but they're adorable in their flailing.
Hmmm, there are certain skin diseases or parasites which have a reputation for making people tear their skin off with their fingernails in an agony of itching. You're giving me ideas. Nice ideas.
There's an instruction (not a request) to turn off your laptops or other radio-transmitting devices when you board, and also (where I fly at least) always turn all electrical devices totally off before stowing them in your baggage. So I just turn my computer off before putting it into my bag at home, and back on when I get to work (typically 2 days later).
it has in part contributed and built a society that is better than all that have come before it,
How do your Native American, First Nations, and/ or Hawaiian friends react when you describe their cultures in these terms to their faces?
i value too much the gaurantees on my freedoms that my birthright gives me. any other country on earth. christian values have helped build these things,
Actually, your own Supreme court has repeatedly traced much of this back to Britain, via the "Glorious Revolution" of the 1670s and tracing back to the Civil War (1640s, not 1860s) and ultimately Magna Carta. Al more to do with the continual conflicts between a Franco-Normal aristocracy and an enslaved Anglo-Saxon lower class. Hmmm, sounds somewhat familiar.
but i also cannot ignore what those that do believe have brought to the table.
Yeah, we see the spittle-lipped exports over here from time to time ; trying to invade our schools to brainwash other people's children; trying to limit our rights to choose how to carry out health care. Even trying to control what films we can see in the cinema. They don't like to be treated with contempt, but they're getting more likely to be treated with edged weapons.
Never seen the stuff. And I'd doubt that the exact formulation is actually the commercial (is it commercial? I've never heard of anything of that name or even vaguely matching the description here in the UK - or not 30 years ago when I stopped looking at toys. Might be there more recently.
I've seen a range of gasket sealing compounds though - from stuff you can brush on to stuff you need to heat up before you put them on the gasket.
The obvious application for this sort of thing would be for monitoring vibration, cross section and/ or continuity in structures. For that, you'd probably want something with a fast response, which to my understanding the shear rate/ stiffness relationship of "Silly Putty" would not be suitable for. But the material sounds interesting enough- with it's better (potential) signal-noise than most current sensors.
Let's also not exclude Great Britain, who, seeing that Iran had elected someone who was going to nationalize the oil industry, including British assets, asked the US to intervene.
Oh yes, I know (well, knew - he's probably pushing 100 now, if not dead) people who were tortured by Britain and America's catspaws in the 1950s after the Shah was installed. Very informative for trade unionists in the North Sea oil industry.
there is no proof that long-term exposure to low levels of radiation is dangerous.
Unless you know differently (in which case, cite your sources), nobody lives any of their life in a zero radiation environment. The natural levels of radiation vary with, amongst other things, date (within the solar cycle), latitude (how close you are to the poles), altitude (how close you are to the top of the atmosphere), and ground geology. Lower-order influences include the food in your bely (see bananas up thread) and the geology of where your building materials come from. And your clothes of course.
I wonder what the average radioactivity of semen is. That should make a few men wince.
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Since it's a fairly high end, modern and sophisticated vehicle - a Volvo according to some reports I've seen - then it's very likely to have significant data recording of it's own.
Whether Uber or the court get to the recordings first remains a question.
A corpse or several in a a badly burned out car on a quiet back road is a far simpler story than explaining away a few wrench-marks and rubber hose burns.
FTFY
Nikasoniconypus are going to add to the production costs of all of their cameras - even marginally - for a feature that is only really of interest to a minority of well-off users? No go. This will be a feature on premium cameras. Probably with a logo on the camera for the posers who want to protect their photos from the Illinois Highway Patrol. Want the feature on a camera without a logo? +$1000
And for many people, "evidence" is a spelling mistake for "suspicion." You might believe that they're different things, but it's not your opinion that matters.
Now you're ready to start recording your interview with "Deep Throat 3". And even with NO encryption , the interviewee will be unidentifiable.
There's a good reason that "Deep Throat" and his heirs don't give interviews in full colour HD quadrophenia. At least, not if they want to stay alive.
Non-government groups don't care much either. The word you're looking for is "ruthless". As in "ruthless people don't rue doing what they want to do".
"We're so sorry about you Mr AmiMoJo. It looks as if he ran into our [drug smuggling | terrorist insurgency | neighbour's terrorist insurgency (delete to taste)] problem and got himself killed. It looks like they spent a week beating him to death while we were looking for him. We are so sorry. But we did warn him. Like we're warning you to not do what he did.
(1) is going to be a huge red flag to any radio direction-finding equipment. (Hundreds of Allied and Axis agents got caught by this in WW2 ; and who knows how many since.)
(2) Is going to be a gigantic red flag to put you under close watch when it shows up in your baggage's X-rays when you enter the country. You do realise that most baggage is X-rayed these days because "war on drugs"?
(3) You're going to be carrying equipment which may well be classified as espionage equipment. Just before my second job in Russia, I was burgled and they took my Garmin consumer GPS (amongst other things, including my good rucksack). In Russia I became very glad that they had taken the GPS because it meant that I didn't make the mistake of taking it with me (as I had on my first trip to the FSU). I was told that the area I was working in was a special military zone (because nuclear launch sites and oil fields) and possession of espionage equipment was a crime of strict commission. No excuses, 10 years hard labour. Don't want the time, don't do the crime. And there was an American tourist in jail at that time awaiting sentencing for possession of a GPS. (The next year, on my 3rd trip, I was told that he actually got released in a diplomatic deal after about a year on remand, no hard labour. But no one cared much about the details. Everyone knew "don't do that," because if you did you'd get fired for causing diplomatic problems for your employer.)
Just because you think that you're fighting the good fight in some sense doesn't mean that you're not actually breaking the laws of the country that you're in. Know the situation you're gtting into. (I was lucky on my trip. Luck, not planning.)
And this would do what to flash memory? (The answer is "sweet fuck all". You may have been thinking of floppy discs or magnetic tapes.)
Would show up on an X-ray (possibly on a THz scanner too) ... and here's Johnny Switchblade come to continue the interrogation.
If an investigator is being thorough, you're dead. Live with it, or not.
For more casual investigations, carry a large number of (micro-)SD cards (this itself may be adequate) ; if your regular camera will handle it, partition the larger "interesting" SD cards into (say) a 4GB and a 28GB partition, with photos of the cat on the 4GB partition. Given that the average border security person gets their shoe size and their IQ confused, this itself may be adequate. Print misleading labels on the interesting SD cards (e.g. "4GB" for the 32GB partitioned card). Going one step further, you're into hiding the cards where they'll be obvious under X-rays. Not particularly difficult, but definitely evidence of malign intent. Which could be the difference between an interrogation with dry electrodes and a firing squad that you'll welcome after the questioning sessions.
To be honest, if you've got that sort of "interesting" stuff in your camera, finding a mule to unwittingly carry the data out is probably your best option. "Trade craft" which the spying industry has known well for decades if not centuries.
Note that each encrypted bit is a separate charge, and sentences run consecutively.
[Fine Upstanding Journalist] Why yes, it's a perfectly unsuspicious camera.
[Security Officer, picking up $5 wrench and coil of cheese wire from behind the counter] Please accompany us into the private interview room.
[Thuds. :] Next!
Muffed screams.
More thuds.
Spelling of encryption keys.
Choking.
Zipping-up of body bag.
Security Officer
What could possibly go wrong with carrying a device which says "I think I know how to hide a secret if I need to"?
R-arrange these words : "shit" and "tough".
Surely the minute that the author of that module handed in their notice, his managers should have started the search process (internally and externally) for someone to grok the departed person's work and get up to speed. Oh, and they could try having a lower staff turnover rate by [insert 50 volumes of standard staff retention advice, which boils down to not treating staff like rancid turds].
Who knows - perhaps this desire to harm your competition's recruitment and retention will substitute for corporate America's long-established policy of bum-fucking their employees morning, noon and night.
I forget if the film had a nice ending. The real ending was that every single man in the slave rebellion was crucified (some crucified then set on fire while still alive, to provide light for the crucifixion night shift). The women had it easier - they were just sold as sex slaves. At a tidy profit.
Just ask yourself - what would Donald Smallhands do?
Some bogs in the UK just a few metres thick stretch back to nearly 8000 years. Siberian permafrost-cemented bogs which can be up to several thousands of feet deep are probably much older in the deeper parts. I wouldn't be surprised if some of them stretch back to the start of this glacial epoch several million years ago.
Until someone actually develops an evidence-quality "mind-reading machine" (polygraphs are laughed at by the courts here - I can't remember when I last heard of someone submitting polygraph evidence in a UK court ; the reports a year or two ago of some Indian (IIRC) company trying to develop an MRI-based way of detecting someone's state of mind doesn't seem to have appeared in court yet), actions are the only things that can be prosecuted. Which includes actions such as throwing a Molotov cocktail, or some foul words (but they do have to be pretty foul, or repeated). Thoughts can only be prosecuted (or challenged or communicated) if expressed in speech or writing. Unless you know of something else. OK - sculpture, arguably.
Music is an interesting case. Personally I hate the stuff, but it is also the subject of routine prosecutions under laws banning the singing of sectarian songs at football grounds. A back-handed tribute to the hatefullness of our local variants of Christianity.
Hmmm, there are certain skin diseases or parasites which have a reputation for making people tear their skin off with their fingernails in an agony of itching. You're giving me ideas. Nice ideas.
There's an instruction (not a request) to turn off your laptops or other radio-transmitting devices when you board, and also (where I fly at least) always turn all electrical devices totally off before stowing them in your baggage. So I just turn my computer off before putting it into my bag at home, and back on when I get to work (typically 2 days later).
How do your Native American, First Nations, and/ or Hawaiian friends react when you describe their cultures in these terms to their faces?
Actually, your own Supreme court has repeatedly traced much of this back to Britain, via the "Glorious Revolution" of the 1670s and tracing back to the Civil War (1640s, not 1860s) and ultimately Magna Carta. Al more to do with the continual conflicts between a Franco-Normal aristocracy and an enslaved Anglo-Saxon lower class. Hmmm, sounds somewhat familiar.
Yeah, we see the spittle-lipped exports over here from time to time ; trying to invade our schools to brainwash other people's children; trying to limit our rights to choose how to carry out health care. Even trying to control what films we can see in the cinema. They don't like to be treated with contempt, but they're getting more likely to be treated with edged weapons.
I've seen a range of gasket sealing compounds though - from stuff you can brush on to stuff you need to heat up before you put them on the gasket.
The obvious application for this sort of thing would be for monitoring vibration, cross section and/ or continuity in structures. For that, you'd probably want something with a fast response, which to my understanding the shear rate/ stiffness relationship of "Silly Putty" would not be suitable for. But the material sounds interesting enough- with it's better (potential) signal-noise than most current sensors.
How come, if 'Murika is a Christian country as they claim, they're worshipping that (probably non-existent) Jew, Jesus son of Joseph?
Oh yes, I know (well, knew - he's probably pushing 100 now, if not dead) people who were tortured by Britain and America's catspaws in the 1950s after the Shah was installed. Very informative for trade unionists in the North Sea oil industry.
Unless you know differently (in which case, cite your sources), nobody lives any of their life in a zero radiation environment. The natural levels of radiation vary with, amongst other things, date (within the solar cycle), latitude (how close you are to the poles), altitude (how close you are to the top of the atmosphere), and ground geology. Lower-order influences include the food in your bely (see bananas up thread) and the geology of where your building materials come from. And your clothes of course.
I wonder what the average radioactivity of semen is. That should make a few men wince.