I would love to see retrofit of cast off steel shipping containers delivered to foreign soil as emergency hot zone mini hospitals.
In some areas of the US we have piles of long and short shipping containers. Pant white, seal the inside with a tough liner like folk use for pick up truck beds. Add a solar powered air vent or redundant two with LED lighting. Airlift with helicopters or truck in on skid trucks. Room inside for gowns, antibiotics, bleach and basic sanitation kit too.
These and technology like this will be needed in abundance should Ebola make it to our shores and run amok.
In part we need to find a way do deliver to hot zones world wide the ability to care for those that need care. This is my current favorite way to address this need. They can be tied to the earth with footers and bolted down well enough to endure a hurricane. Insulation kits (internal or external spray foam) can make them cold or hot weather tolerant. Screens and doors, mosquito proof with a simple cutting torch and install kit all inside the box.
I'm really hoping this is a joke. You realize Congress passes the laws that get to Obama's desk?
Less of a joke than one might think.
Too many laws establish a regulatory framework that then writes regulations with the force of law. The agency established by the law is under the direct management control of the executive office.
This is not new with Obama but the recalcitrant congress has made this more and more visible and "necessary". Consider how the EPA has extended its mandate to include the CO2 that you exhale and incur simply by eating and making a living and soon will be carbon taxing you... too.
Some of the worlds worst has been delivered by bureaucratic middle management given a mandate to solve a problem with little oversight as to how. Some historic "solutions" came to light January 27, 1945...
Thankfully Obama passed this, because our congress is do nothing. Now, off to get my Verizon phone unlocked so I can switch to AT&T!
Hmmm off to get my phone unlocked while I can....
FWIW I unlocked my previous AT&T phones (never give one up) bought some prepaid SIM cards with other carriers and gave their networks a try. Here in the heart of Silly Valley -- we have the worlds worst cell coverage. Too many phones, too few towers. My most reliable phone is a 15 year old unlocked Nokia flip phone. One charge lasts a full week -- a replacement battery costs about $7. I power it down... put it in a zip lock bag in clean pair of socks while hiking...
I have been shopping for a modern dumb phone that is it's equal and am having little luck. I would buy one... voice+text+GPS(for 911 safety) if it had a full week+ of standby time.
The dumb thing about smart phones is the battery life.... it stinks.
Many viruses affect tulips, causing streaked flowers, mottled leaves, distorted plants and stunted growth. One evil virus is the tobacco mosaic virus and yes it impacts animals too.
For 50 years that I know many greenhouses for cut flowers have prohibited tobacco products and sterilize their cutting knives.
Of interest a new virus has been found to infect the gut of many humans. It has only recently been identified and the value it provides to the human gut is the hot new research topic.
The risks to humans from the the tobacco mosaic virus seem to be ignored in much of the tobacco cancer research.... I think that is a blunder. I also want to make sure the Colorado grower associations take precautions to keep the tobacco mosaic virus out of their herb patches.
Right because there is no way a little traffic analysis can't tell the difference between some typical GET and POST request sent on an SSL channel and video stream./sarcasm off
It might be slightly harder to tell the difference between a video stream and a large file download but by no means impossible........
Netflix may not be the only victim and Verison may not be the only service playing games.
I noticed that it took MANY retries to download the new Beta from Apple. My ISP is not Verision. It is that fickled one that was at the beginning of the alphabet and now wants to be at the end perhaps because X is searched for in all the STEM math questions (or not).
It may prove very obvious to Apple which ISPs are good guys if they look at their download logs. The Apple download in this case apparently cannot continue after an interruption. I suspect partly because the download requires a special token to validate the download.
But it does make the point that an OS download is big enough to trigger ISP tom foolery. AND the Apple logs would let someone schooled in the art build a map of interesting ISP trouble makers world wide. I think Netflix should file a legal action to get them.
If I actually cared about the Government breaking into my encrypted files I'd be using a One Time Pad.....snip....
I think this is a place where a big "Woosh" applies.
Someone does not understand the way one-time pads work. Using a one-time pad is a blunder. To get your files you must also have the pad. For a disk this would be one monster pad. Since it is a one time pad you use it and toss it (special flushable paper) -- now the data is lost.
One-time pads between two friends are interesting but require a physical exchange of pads.
The Intel trick has one big value in the context of repair, redeployment and intentional abandonment of content. There may be many at the IRS that wish their devices all had this feature to invoke.
The current case of the IRS is interesting... and points out a need to manage data. Preserve it, wipe it, recover it. When the dogs of war knock down the front door.. wiping data locally only needs a key wipe not a full disk wipe that might take hours or weeks (central Utah disk farm). Should management make copies of the keys recovery of a remotely wiped device may be possible.
This technology has no obvious place on a device like a flight data recorder but does represent a signature to validate the data is on the device you expect iff logged back someplace safe.
Engineering any complex system requires a significant amount of planning and management overhead.........
Engineering vs. building is an interesting distinction.
Most complex products mandate long term maintenance, long term liability and multiple people including management and oversight.
Sadly companies seem to invoke a one size must fit all process.... we have all seen the camel designed by committee of platypuses jokes.
Worse some products like Android are big thunk monolithic update piles when they look and masquerade as small elegant Unix like programming problems to developers of olden days.
Then there are bridges over puddles and other bridges over 1000 foot canyons. In one case you get wet feet and soggy shoes...
Equipment is sold to a restaurant supply reclamation company, of which any city of any size has.
Supply company puts their crap on eBay.
This tells me that the point of sale equipment is flawed to a degree that risks civil action. As bad as they are modern routers must be reset if the password is lost and as a minimum
Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards need to address this. Please call your IEEE favorite standard person....
The primary witness in all this is software. As such the software needs to be available for cross examination the same as any other software. Perhaps not open source but clearly open and testable interfaces.
Further any revision and change must be subject to audit. The obvious issue is bogus citations because code did not operate as per specifications in the law. All citations issued while the bogus code was "live" would then need to be reviewed.
A contract service should not be able to adjust anything not specified in the law.
With a robot the notion of enforcement priority makes no sense. i.e. allocation of staff and resources can justify priorities but a machine should simply operate against a specification and within tolerances that make sense. Anything else would be a legislative action and not allowed or empowered by law.
Tolerances that make sense would include normal reaction time expectations (not average). Tolerances need to include sane and honest error parameter stackups. Tolerances need to be population sensitive.... some are kids some have gray hair.
Consider any regulation that uses the word average is a regulation that begins with an assumption that 50% would fail. Further average is not a sufficient statistical metric to do anything with.
Contractors and contracts that share revenue need to be open to audit and need to have a legal presence and legal liability in the same venue that the citations are to be issued. Fraud and abuse should incur greater penalty than those cited. i.e. it is not OK to simply say "my bad, here is your ten bucks back" when abuse and fraud are involved.
I belive the phrase you're looking for is "publish or perish."
Either gets the point across.
I would like to see some data that outlines the potential number of authors and the potential number of papers as limited by page count.
It seems to me that this is a rigged game with rules drawn from childhood agony playing musical chairs only to the extreme.
With the modern internet page count is no longer the issue but it is because that is how the game rules are written.
Qualified reviewers are few and far between as science, literature, history and all of the academic world have carved thing up into such fine narrow specialized fields that only one researcher in the universe has any knowledge of the topic.
Compound that by the rampant insertion of tenured staff names in the author list of all papers coming out of institutions that new science is all done by Mr Et Al.
The only process in the US that comes close to this foolishness is the process in place for US patents where the contents of a whiteboard can be edited never implemented and turned into a process patent. There is however overlap where the whiteboard might be a class project or lecture note taken off line and refactored into something apparently new but stolen outright.
Consider that if you are in a design meeting, and make a suggestion and are not later credited as an inventor you are the victim of intellectual and professional theft. Keep a notebook....
by distributing FitBits to employees. Did they also provide FitBit winders?
No but a FitBit worn 7x24x356.25 smells a lot like a lot of overtime to me.
If they want to monitor you 7x24 it seems like they need to compensate you 7x24.
And more importantly the employee pool profile as well as the FitBit data reflects on age and sex which are "parameters" that enable discrimination against groups based on sex and age.
Someone mentioned Stephen Hawking in jest but again a FitBit program monitored by the company directly or indirectly by rate changes is very much in violation of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
It is one thing to give and encourage... it is another to monitor, track and make financial decisions that negatively affect any of these protected groups which is clearly the intent.
The US Postal Service already does this......snip...
Meta-data is not secret, not private, not protected......snip...
False military meta-data is classified secret or higher. Its classification is a study in why meta data is interesting and I suspect shows why it is both an invasion of privacy and a powerful tool.
The document that contains the COLLECTED set of meta data that maps units, individuals, locations and postal delivery information is classified.
Anyone with family in the service knows that they can sent to PFC Joe Soldier APO/FPO/DPO and it gets delivered.
The classified document is classified not because of the the individual line entry it is "the collection of meta data entries" that gets stamped. Apparently some of the locations of some of the units are classified a little or a lot. Layers of routing contain layers of security management for each of the associated documents.
Unlike SMTP mail there are no progress stamps.... for good reasons.
The analysis of the security risks associated with these documents predates modern large data analysis tools. And may need to be reconsidered in light of modern statistical analysis. i.e. Local agencies that have the tools to collect meta data could use that equipment under the guise of training to spy on family of active duty service and pose a national security risk. This risk IMO is inherent in both phone and other digital connection data.
Just scrawl 'I don't agree' on the signature line. Let them enforce that.
Better to scrawl -- "non compete and other limitations on employment post separation or termination must be compensated." i.e. If they enjoin you from working at a $500,000.00/year job they must compensate at that level.
Or scrawl "below signature is without the advice of legal counsel".
It is interesting that in a divorce it important to pay for legal advice for both sides.
The advantage of the cars in this model is that they speed up unloading. Go and watch a freight train being unloaded some time, it's a massive endeavour. Now imagine if each of the trucks could just drive off along the roads on its own as soon as the train arrived at its destination.
Consider extensive automation of the loading and contrast with the extensive automation and risks of automated trucking.
Scheduling driver pickup and routing is the nut none have cracked yet.
A majority of them are too small to be felt, but we have had 5.9's and 4.0's before...... The big deal is that it's starting to damage buildings.......
Historic building codes in OK are not seismic risk aware. Only recently have the codes in the hot spot around New Madrid been partly addressed. In Calif there is a major industry retrofitting buildings. It is costly and it is being driven by an industry that profits from it. It is a good thing to reinforce buildings, it is less good when the invoice arrives.
The cost of seismic retrofit in the Midwest could bankrupt many states... and for the same reason tornado shelters are not part of all schools, offices, shopping malls and homes are not going to happen over night.
First building codes for new construction need to be considered. Trailer houses like many single story wood frame houses have less risk from quakes than they do from tornadoes.... I hope regulators do not bankrupt the Midwest....
So what this has to do with fracking is that they thought that just pumping fluid back in would hold things up, but clearly that's not true.
That's not at all how it works. The fluid exists to create hydraulic pressure. They put sand or tiny ceramic balls in the water to fill the voids created by the fractures to "hold things up."
......
And the interesting part is that there are quakes and there are QUAKES.
Not just energy but location. The serious risk of quakes involves some darn deep structures. Deeper than any well and with vastly greater risk to life and property.
Hydraulic fracturing and pumping waste to include CO2 into deep wells can be expected to generate measurable seismic events. Some might be felt without instruments.
The seismic risk of the central US is not well understood and is not well considered in building and construction codes. Also no large quake is well considered in disaster planning. Worse the impact of a large mid-west quake has much larger geographic reach than a similar quake in Alaska or California.
Sadly the fracking fools will take this as a reason to stop fracking at any depth. Most of the New Madrid seismicity is located between 3 and 15 miles (4.8 and 24.1 km) beneath the Earth's surface. Most fracking in OK is shallow by comparison (1-2 miles).
Some believe that shallow releases of energy is a good thing and minimizes the size and impact of deeper quakes. I am of the opinion that injecting fluids does not increase the energy of natural quakes but might alter the timing and energy dispersal profile. My opinion like most is not supported by experimental facts and is just that opinion.
Hidden in the report is a disclosure of many seismic sensors and plans to obtain funding for more. More science is good but the social media and news outlet ignorance is being manipulated by a plethora of interests one of which is network ratings where facts are not an issue.
Taking down a project repository requires taking down content from many sources with many copyrights.
For Qualcom to take down CyanogenMod and Sony Xperia tells me that the take down could involve hundreds of OTHER Copyright holders not Qualcom. I expect to see copyrights from Netscape, Texas Instruments, Free Software Foundation, University of Illinois, Nokia, Intel, Red Hat, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California Regents, Imagination Technologies, Samsung, Apple, Torch Mobile and hundreds of individuals.
It is one thing to specify individual files but to reach out and assert ownership on the Copyright of hundreds of others is theft on a grand scale. As a minimum it is denial of service which is covered by modern internet law.
It is possible on an unlocked device to spoof this data by collecting data from other phones in passing or from a mesh of friends that pull data from their device and share it with others.
i.e. should my WiFi device hear such a broadcast. It could save parts of it, format those and insert the data randomly into the list of devices my device appears to know about.
After anyone publishes enough to prove the possibility then the information can no longer be used with impunity against an individual because data stamps could be changed and data inserted.... by a third party.
As we know from Snowden papers, TLAs do exploit flaws and coerce vendors to insert and unlock side doors in devices . Further all such activity is classified so any jury can now be presented with reasonable doubt that the evidence of this type on a phone or laptop has any validity.
Scan recent history for "surveillance equipment is known as a Stingray, an innovative way for law enforcement to track cellphones used by suspects and gather evidence. The equipment tricks cellphones into identifying some of their owners’ account information,..." (theblaze.com)
I am reminded of a plugin to firefox that did much the same thing by randomly making HTTP connections hither and yon triggered by a chain of "interesting" words. The intent was to pollute the search history etc.... again to add uncertainty that the individual was doing anything "of interest" to the prosecution.
On occasion I still fire it up from time to time not because I wish to hide anything I did but because I wish to protect myself from those that would hide stuff on my system via tricks like a 1x1 pixel display of a high resolution image download or mouse over abusive use of JavaScript or modern HTML5 canvases and many many more abusive things.
Not a good idea if there are caps on your service. The one and only solution is to elect politicians who will turn the ISPs into common carriers and make the internet a public utility (and defund the NSA, bring the troops home, and legalize weed, etc) Everything else is lipstick on a pig and polishing turds.
Good point about capacity limits, but my thought is that the local modem being property of the service would have local memory or flash and tools to manage bandwidth billing. i.e. the p2p bandwidth your modem generates is not covered by your service cap. Download service caps likewise can be adjusted because the expensive long haul links are not involved. AND the p2p channels are fully managed (and sold as service, see also Akami) by the ISP.
Have you ever noticed that on a phone or IPV6 link that your location can move half a continent away... Why because the network is not well meshed and well connected. This lack of mesh and connections is one of the big problems.
According to the bill a threat is anything which is anything which is part of an unauthorized effort to deny access. Netflix streaming which inadvertently leads to a denial of access would not be part of an effort to deny access.
Thanks for the link.... I think Feinstein is missing a detail. A better approach might be to reserve bandwidth for demand use by state and local government. Sure this is a glass half full/ half empty thing but it is important to identify what services we wish to protect from denial of service.
I have not checked the math and details but "sbrook" on a forum noted: "Remember that through that same cable you have to push a lot of TV channels and Radio channels, Digital phone and internet.
"The top frequency is about 900 MHz, so that gives you just shy of 1500 channels times 42 Mbps would be the theoretical max down a single coax... absolutely stunning! But you've got to share upstream channels.
"Now depending on the company, you might have about 100 to 500 customers passed by a single coax. (More TV etc channels, few customers) But in theory you could have 600,000 customers on one coax... wouldn't work too well though!"
My point is the cable providers give themselves almost 1500 channels to deliver their content and only eight or so for other content providers like Netflix.
A law needs to look at the 1500 channels as a single pool and if bandwidth is to be throttled the eight that the likes of Netflix use can only be throttled if the 1500-(8+4) used by my provider for their content are throttled in a like manner.
Yes behind the cable is optical and other hardware but no one discusses the fundamental lack of cross sectional bandwidth possibilities that modern network provides. All conversations are centered on the one to many service model where the internet design was many to many with multicast tossed in later for the one to many case.
This single minded power centric ego centric flawed thinking by regulators and legislators needs to be changed (by education) and IMO is at the heart of most of the stupidity we see.
Slashdot Mirror
What could go wrong here....
I would love to see retrofit of cast off steel shipping containers
delivered to foreign soil as emergency hot zone mini hospitals.
In some areas of the US we have piles of long and short shipping
containers. Pant white, seal the inside with a tough liner like folk use for
pick up truck beds. Add a solar powered air vent or redundant two
with LED lighting. Airlift with helicopters or truck in on skid trucks.
Room inside for gowns, antibiotics, bleach and basic sanitation kit too.
These and technology like this will be needed in abundance should
Ebola make it to our shores and run amok.
In part we need to find a way do deliver to hot zones world wide
the ability to care for those that need care. This is my current
favorite way to address this need. They can be tied to the earth
with footers and bolted down well enough to endure a hurricane.
Insulation kits (internal or external spray foam) can make them
cold or hot weather tolerant. Screens and doors, mosquito proof
with a simple cutting torch and install kit all inside the box.
I'm really hoping this is a joke. You realize Congress passes the laws that get to Obama's desk?
Less of a joke than one might think.
Too many laws establish a regulatory framework that then writes regulations
with the force of law. The agency established by the law is under the direct
management control of the executive office.
This is not new with Obama but the recalcitrant congress has made this
more and more visible and "necessary". Consider how the EPA has
extended its mandate to include the CO2 that you exhale and incur simply
by eating and making a living and soon will be carbon taxing you... too.
Some of the worlds worst has been delivered by bureaucratic middle management
given a mandate to solve a problem with little oversight as to how. Some
historic "solutions" came to light January 27, 1945...
Thankfully Obama passed this, because our congress is do nothing. Now, off to get my Verizon phone unlocked so I can switch to AT&T!
Hmmm off to get my phone unlocked while I can....
FWIW I unlocked my previous AT&T phones (never give one up) bought some prepaid SIM cards with other carriers
and gave their networks a try. Here in the heart of Silly Valley -- we have the worlds worst cell coverage. Too many phones,
too few towers. My most reliable phone is a 15 year old unlocked Nokia flip phone. One charge lasts a full week -- a
replacement battery costs about $7. I power it down... put it in a zip lock bag in clean pair of socks while hiking...
I have been shopping for a modern dumb phone that is it's equal and am having
little luck. I would buy one... voice+text+GPS(for 911 safety) if it had a full week+ of
standby time.
The dumb thing about smart phones is the battery life.... it stinks.
At a local pizza shop. I placed my order
and paid cash. She asked:
Q: May I have your name sir?
A: Yes
After a while I hear on the speaker.
"Yes, your pizza is ready".
Many viruses affect tulips, causing streaked flowers, mottled leaves, distorted plants and stunted growth.
One evil virus is the tobacco mosaic virus and yes it impacts animals too.
For 50 years that I know many greenhouses for cut flowers have prohibited tobacco products
and sterilize their cutting knives.
Of interest a new virus has been found to infect the gut of many humans. It has only recently
been identified and the value it provides to the human gut is the hot new research topic.
The risks to humans from the the tobacco mosaic virus seem to be ignored in much
of the tobacco cancer research.... I think that is a blunder. I also want to make sure the
Colorado grower associations take precautions to keep the tobacco mosaic virus out
of their herb patches.
Right because there is no way a little traffic analysis can't tell the difference between some typical GET and POST request sent on an SSL channel and video stream. /sarcasm off
It might be slightly harder to tell the difference between a video stream and a large file download but by no means impossible. .......
Netflix may not be the only victim and Verison may not be the only service playing games.
I noticed that it took MANY retries to download the new Beta from Apple.
My ISP is not Verision. It is that fickled one that was at the beginning
of the alphabet and now wants to be at the end perhaps because X is searched
for in all the STEM math questions (or not).
It may prove very obvious to Apple which ISPs are good guys if they look at their download logs.
The Apple download in this case apparently cannot continue after an interruption. I suspect
partly because the download requires a special token to validate the download.
But it does make the point that an OS download is big enough to trigger ISP tom foolery.
AND the Apple logs would let someone schooled in the art build a map of interesting
ISP trouble makers world wide. I think Netflix should file a legal action to get them.
If I actually cared about the Government breaking into my encrypted files I'd be using a One Time Pad. ....snip....
I think this is a place where a big "Woosh" applies.
Someone does not understand the way one-time pads work.
Using a one-time pad is a blunder. To get your files you must also have the pad. For a disk this would be one monster pad.
Since it is a one time pad you use it and toss it (special flushable paper) -- now the data is lost.
One-time pads between two friends are interesting but require a physical exchange of pads.
The Intel trick has one big value in the context of repair, redeployment and intentional abandonment of content.
There may be many at the IRS that wish their devices all had this feature to invoke.
The current case of the IRS is interesting... and points out a need to manage data. Preserve it, wipe it, recover it.
When the dogs of war knock down the front door.. wiping data locally only needs a key wipe not a
full disk wipe that might take hours or weeks (central Utah disk farm). Should management make copies
of the keys recovery of a remotely wiped device may be possible.
This technology has no obvious place on a device like a flight data recorder but does represent a signature
to validate the data is on the device you expect iff logged back someplace safe.
Engineering any complex system requires a significant amount of planning and management overhead. ........
Engineering vs. building is an interesting distinction.
Most complex products mandate long term maintenance, long term liability and multiple people including management and oversight.
Sadly companies seem to invoke a one size must fit all process.... we have all seen the camel designed by committee of platypuses jokes.
Worse some products like Android are big thunk monolithic update piles when they look and masquerade as small elegant Unix like programming problems to developers of olden days.
Then there are bridges over puddles and other bridges over 1000 foot canyons. In one case
you get wet feet and soggy shoes...
Get a card... yes a library card.
Donate the 12x Amazon fee to the local friends of the library
and have at it.
Restaurant fails to pay the lease.
Landlord slaps a new lock on the door.
Equipment is sold to a restaurant supply reclamation company, of which any city of any size has.
Supply company puts their crap on eBay.
This tells me that the point of sale equipment is flawed to a
degree that risks civil action. As bad as they are modern
routers must be reset if the password is lost and as a minimum
Payment Card Industry (PCI) Data Security Standards need to
address this. Please call your IEEE favorite standard person....
The primary witness in all this is software.
As such the software needs to be available for cross examination the same as
any other software. Perhaps not open source but clearly open and testable
interfaces.
Further any revision and change must be subject to audit. The obvious issue
is bogus citations because code did not operate as per specifications in the
law. All citations issued while the bogus code was "live" would then need
to be reviewed.
A contract service should not be able to adjust anything not specified in
the law.
With a robot the notion of enforcement priority makes no sense. i.e. allocation
of staff and resources can justify priorities but a machine should simply
operate against a specification and within tolerances that make sense.
Anything else would be a legislative action and not allowed or empowered by law.
Tolerances that make sense would include normal reaction time expectations (not average).
Tolerances need to include sane and honest error parameter stackups.
Tolerances need to be population sensitive.... some are kids some have gray hair.
Consider any regulation that uses the word average is a regulation that
begins with an assumption that 50% would fail. Further average is not
a sufficient statistical metric to do anything with.
Contractors and contracts that share revenue need to be open to audit and
need to have a legal presence and legal liability in the same venue that the citations
are to be issued. Fraud and abuse should incur greater penalty than those cited.
i.e. it is not OK to simply say "my bad, here is your ten bucks back" when abuse and
fraud are involved.
Wrong. [...] It should be publish or die.
I belive the phrase you're looking for is "publish or perish."
Either gets the point across.
I would like to see some data that outlines the potential
number of authors and the potential number of papers
as limited by page count.
It seems to me that this is a rigged game with rules
drawn from childhood agony playing musical chairs only
to the extreme.
With the modern internet page count is no longer the issue
but it is because that is how the game rules are written.
Qualified reviewers are few and far between as science,
literature, history and all of the academic world have carved
thing up into such fine narrow specialized fields that only
one researcher in the universe has any knowledge of the
topic.
Compound that by the rampant insertion of tenured staff names
in the author list of all papers coming out of institutions that
new science is all done by Mr Et Al.
The only process in the US that comes close to this foolishness is the process
in place for US patents where the contents of a whiteboard can be edited never
implemented and turned into a process patent. There is however overlap
where the whiteboard might be a class project or lecture note taken off line
and refactored into something apparently new but stolen outright.
Consider that if you are in a design meeting, and make a suggestion and
are not later credited as an inventor you are the victim of intellectual and
professional theft. Keep a notebook....
It's just the new strategy ........ It's called the self-peer-review.
Amazingly articles can get released on the same day as submission with this method.
Not unheard of here on /. as well.
Multiple accounts on multiple virtual machines at multiple coffee shops
perhaps gatewayed via VPN thanks to co conspirators to present
a global view.
Watch how quickly someone, not I, mods this up and down...
by distributing FitBits to employees.
Did they also provide FitBit winders?
No but a FitBit worn 7x24x356.25 smells a lot like
a lot of overtime to me.
If they want to monitor you 7x24 it seems like they
need to compensate you 7x24.
And more importantly the employee pool profile as
well as the FitBit data reflects on age and sex which
are "parameters" that enable discrimination against
groups based on sex and age.
Someone mentioned Stephen Hawking in jest but
again a FitBit program monitored by the company directly
or indirectly by rate changes is very much in violation
of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
It is one thing to give and encourage... it is another
to monitor, track and make financial decisions that
negatively affect any of these protected groups which is
clearly the intent.
Sad, sad, sad....
The US Postal Service already does this... ...snip...
Meta-data is not secret, not private, not protected. .....snip...
False military meta-data is classified secret or higher.
Its classification is a study in why meta data is interesting
and I suspect shows why it is both an invasion of privacy and a powerful tool.
The document that contains the COLLECTED set of meta data that
maps units, individuals, locations and postal delivery information is classified.
Anyone with family in the service knows that they can sent to
PFC Joe Soldier APO/FPO/DPO and it gets delivered.
See: https://www.usps.com/ship/apo-...
Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
And see: http://www.dtic.mil/whs/direct...
The classified document is classified not because of the the individual line entry
it is "the collection of meta data entries" that gets stamped. Apparently some of
the locations of some of the units are classified a little or a lot. Layers of routing contain layers
of security management for each of the associated documents.
Unlike SMTP mail there are no progress stamps.... for good reasons.
The analysis of the security risks associated with these documents predates
modern large data analysis tools. And may need to be reconsidered in light
of modern statistical analysis. i.e. Local agencies that have the tools to collect
meta data could use that equipment under the guise of training to spy on family
of active duty service and pose a national security risk. This risk IMO is inherent
in both phone and other digital connection data.
To speculate further is foolish for me....
wait until you are over 40 and in the software field. you'll find that you MAY get one offer in 6 months of searching.
ask me know I know... ;(
Lucky you... six months just wait till you are 50 or 60...
There absolutely is a bias.
Just scrawl 'I don't agree' on the signature line. Let them enforce that.
Better to scrawl -- "non compete and other limitations on employment post separation or termination must be compensated."
i.e. If they enjoin you from working at a $500,000.00/year job they must compensate at that level.
Or scrawl "below signature is without the advice of legal counsel".
It is interesting that in a divorce it important to pay for legal advice for both sides.
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The advantage of the cars in this model is that they speed up unloading. Go and watch a freight train being unloaded some time, it's a massive endeavour. Now imagine if each of the trucks could just drive off along the roads on its own as soon as the train arrived at its destination.
Consider extensive automation of the loading and contrast with the extensive automation and risks of
automated trucking.
Scheduling driver pickup and routing is the nut none have cracked yet.
A majority of them are too small to be felt, but we have had 5.9's and 4.0's before. ..... ......
The big deal is that it's starting to damage buildings.
Historic building codes in OK are not seismic risk aware.
Only recently have the codes in the hot spot around New Madrid
been partly addressed. In Calif there is a major industry
retrofitting buildings. It is costly and it is being driven by
an industry that profits from it. It is a good thing to reinforce
buildings, it is less good when the invoice arrives.
The cost of seismic retrofit in the Midwest could bankrupt
many states... and for the same reason tornado shelters
are not part of all schools, offices, shopping malls and homes
are not going to happen over night.
First building codes for new construction need to
be considered. Trailer houses like many single
story wood frame houses have less risk from quakes
than they do from tornadoes.... I hope regulators do
not bankrupt the Midwest....
So what this has to do with fracking is that they thought that just pumping fluid back in would hold things up, but clearly that's not true.
That's not at all how it works. The fluid exists to create hydraulic pressure. They put sand or tiny ceramic balls in the water to fill the voids created by the fractures to "hold things up."
And the interesting part is that there are quakes and there are QUAKES.
Not just energy but location. The serious risk of quakes involves some darn
deep structures. Deeper than any well and with vastly greater risk to
life and property.
Hydraulic fracturing and pumping waste to include CO2 into deep wells
can be expected to generate measurable seismic events. Some might
be felt without instruments.
Recall the coal fire and collapse in Utah generated a 3.9 on the Richter scale.
http://www.seis.utah.edu/Repor...
This is a far cry from the New Madrid quakes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1...
with magnitudes of 7.0 to 8.1.
The seismic risk of the central US is not well understood and is not well considered in
building and construction codes. Also no large quake is well considered in disaster
planning. Worse the impact of a large mid-west quake has much larger geographic
reach than a similar quake in Alaska or California.
Sadly the fracking fools will take this as a reason to stop fracking at any depth.
Most of the New Madrid seismicity is located between 3 and 15 miles (4.8 and 24.1 km) beneath the Earth's surface.
Most fracking in OK is shallow by comparison (1-2 miles).
Some believe that shallow releases of energy is a good thing and minimizes the
size and impact of deeper quakes. I am of the opinion that injecting fluids
does not increase the energy of natural quakes but might alter the
timing and energy dispersal profile. My opinion like most is not supported
by experimental facts and is just that opinion.
Hidden in the report is a disclosure of many seismic sensors and
plans to obtain funding for more. More science is good but the
social media and news outlet ignorance is being manipulated by
a plethora of interests one of which is network ratings where facts
are not an issue.
Taking down a project repository requires taking down
content from many sources with many copyrights.
For Qualcom to take down CyanogenMod and Sony Xperia
tells me that the take down could involve hundreds of OTHER Copyright holders
not Qualcom. I expect to see copyrights from Netscape, Texas Instruments,
Free Software Foundation, University of Illinois, Nokia, Intel, Red Hat, Carnegie Mellon
University, University of California Regents, Imagination Technologies, Samsung,
Apple, Torch Mobile and hundreds of individuals.
It is one thing to specify individual files but to reach out and assert ownership on
the Copyright of hundreds of others is theft on a grand scale. As a minimum it
is denial of service which is covered by modern internet law.
It is possible on an unlocked device to spoof this data by
collecting data from other phones in passing or from a
mesh of friends that pull data from their device and share
it with others.
i.e. should my WiFi device hear such a broadcast.
It could save parts of it, format those and insert the data
randomly into the list of devices my device appears to know about.
After anyone publishes enough to prove the possibility
then the information can no longer be used with impunity against
an individual because data stamps could be changed and
data inserted.... by a third party.
As we know from Snowden papers, TLAs do exploit flaws
and coerce vendors to insert and unlock side doors in devices .
Further all such activity is classified so any jury can
now be presented with reasonable doubt that the evidence
of this type on a phone or laptop has any validity.
Scan recent history for "surveillance equipment is known as a Stingray, an innovative way
for law enforcement to track cellphones used by suspects and gather evidence.
The equipment tricks cellphones into identifying some of their owners’ account information,..."
(theblaze.com)
I am reminded of a plugin to firefox that did much the same thing by randomly
making HTTP connections hither and yon triggered by a chain of "interesting" words.
The intent was to pollute the search history etc.... again to add uncertainty
that the individual was doing anything "of interest" to the prosecution.
On occasion I still fire it up from time to time not because I wish to hide anything I did but because
I wish to protect myself from those that would hide stuff on my system via tricks like
a 1x1 pixel display of a high resolution image download or mouse over abusive
use of JavaScript or modern HTML5 canvases and many many more abusive things.
Consider the actions if a cretan like Rush Limbaugh was to paddle
by...
How would the sensor decide if it was a cretan, a cetaceans or a chondrichthyes?
Not a good idea if there are caps on your service. The one and only solution is to elect politicians who will turn the ISPs into common carriers and make the internet a public utility (and defund the NSA, bring the troops home, and legalize weed, etc) Everything else is lipstick on a pig and polishing turds.
Good point about capacity limits, but my thought is that the local modem being property of the service would have
local memory or flash and tools to manage bandwidth billing. i.e. the p2p bandwidth your modem
generates is not covered by your service cap. Download service caps likewise can be
adjusted because the expensive long haul links are not involved. AND the p2p channels
are fully managed (and sold as service, see also Akami) by the ISP.
Have you ever noticed that on a phone or IPV6 link that your location can move half
a continent away... Why because the network is not well meshed and well connected.
This lack of mesh and connections is one of the big problems.
According to the bill a threat is anything which is anything which is part of an unauthorized effort to deny access. Netflix streaming which inadvertently leads to a denial of access would not be part of an effort to deny access.
Here is the bill.
http://www.feinstein.senate.go...
Thanks for the link....
I think Feinstein is missing a detail.
A better approach might be to reserve bandwidth for demand use by state
and local government. Sure this is a glass half full/ half empty thing but
it is important to identify what services we wish to protect from denial of
service.
I have not checked the math and details but "sbrook" on a forum noted:
"Remember that through that same cable you have to push a lot of TV channels and
Radio channels, Digital phone and internet.
"The top frequency is about 900 MHz, so that gives you just shy of 1500 channels ... absolutely
times 42 Mbps would be the theoretical max down a single coax
stunning! But you've got to share upstream channels.
"Now depending on the company, you might have about 100 to 500 customers passed ... wouldn't work too well though!"
by a single coax. (More TV etc channels, few customers) But in theory you could
have 600,000 customers on one coax
My point is the cable providers give themselves almost 1500 channels to deliver their content
and only eight or so for other content providers like Netflix.
A law needs to look at the 1500 channels as a single pool and if bandwidth is
to be throttled the eight that the likes of Netflix use can only be throttled
if the 1500-(8+4) used by my provider for their content are throttled in a like
manner.
Yes behind the cable is optical and other hardware but no one discusses
the fundamental lack of cross sectional bandwidth possibilities that modern
network provides. All conversations are centered on the one to many service
model where the internet design was many to many with multicast tossed
in later for the one to many case.
This single minded power centric ego centric flawed thinking by regulators
and legislators needs to be changed (by education) and IMO is
at the heart of most of the stupidity we see.