As someone that suffers from reactions to many and often the "Good and Expensive" ones this is an issue.
Perfume may be an interesting exception.
It is known that many of the secret ingredients in these products are trouble. But somehow they have carved out exceptions that let them ship carcinogenic compounds when used as fragrance.
Diapers, trash can bags, deodorant, soaps, hair foo poo and more all contain 'secret' stuff.
No wonder the rate of respiratory illnesses is up in young and old alike. I once was asked to go get an inhaler from a friends BR for their daughter. Smelled nice (the bed room), but my eyes watered and the daughter had asthma. Gobsmacked me, but they cannot even smell it they are so used to the assault.
At a friends company the home office employes this outstanding accountant. Good at her job and golly good looking too. BUT perfume, her perfume was so thick that just walking in the building you knew she was in town.
As luck would have it the previous tenant had a "cigar" room with hookah friendly exhaust fans and big windows. The room made for a decent visitor office and the windows were a bonus in the eyes of some.
What is a good system admin to do when presented with information like this?
Companies large and small need to think long and hard about their responsibility in the presence of secret orders, nationally funded hackers with agenda.
Data and data compromise by hook, by crook, by truck, by cloud collapse are all possible.
Key management, process management and more need to be understood by managers.
Companies have been coasting and relying on credentials to qualify their employees to the point that managers near and far only have computer science skills if you add Excel and Powerpoint to the curriculum.
A good one should memo out to management for legal advice BEFORE the secret documents show up. Small companies should go in as a modest group splitting the legal fees. The number of legal counsels that would have a clue on this will be too limited but seek them out. Sadly the involved parties (legal) at big companies are now poisoned by the paper served on their company. This will get tangled and the best advice with regard to getting hacked or getting served can only be discussed before the event. Joseph Heller, George Orwell and Franz Kafka rule.....
Why not write a TI-83 simulator for iOS/Android/W8?
A tablet is only the medium, the software it runs are the tools.
BINGO
It is the software and it is infrastructure.
Prototypes of a modern calculator could be coded in Java-Script or Dart and presented on a browser. With local storage of HTML5 and friends there is no sane limit to what can be done.
Heck hardware could be a Raspberry-Pi, Beaglebone Black or the $150 OLPC-Tablet running Android (nice inexpensive hardware BTW).
Infrastructure is the big wanker in the wings.
Standard tests have an astoundingly short list of permitted calculator hardware.
One criteria is the magic reset all easy to do button sequence that can be done by the proctor to any calculator with storage
This does need to be addressed as does the class content.
Classes in statistics, calculus, chemistry often have sea anchors as baggage that keep them from moving forward.
Portable options can include Python or Ruby. I find that Python gets it right when you toss some lame but long line of operators and numbers with and without parenthesis. I seldom invoke dc/bc from a command line when I can get an interactive prompt from python. Works fine on WindowZ, UNIXEs and more.
Classic calculator emulators for my fav. HP boxes almost work on a tablet. The layout and button design is not finger touch tablet friendly/ aware. The ergonomics of a tablet differ from physical buttons.
Lastly is the global issue of teachers unions. Teachers need to be taught to use these new tools. Tenure tracks are gauged in many for these old tools. And like rail road gauge changes at political boundaries tenure tracks are keeping innovation at bay in many ways.
One exception is money. Money to purchase iPads for entire major city school districts is not matched by software development (which is hard). Hard because no one in the district has any expertise in this new stuff.
I guess I should dial back my rant and crack open some HTML5 and JS web links and put some stuff together. I am looking hard at the "bonescript" stuff that runs on the Angstrom bits on a Beaglebone Black. JavaScript on both sides. Tidy up and tighten up with Dart and friends and perhaps a door will open.
Sadly nothing I can do will get by the proctor for a test.
Write something that uses a regular expression library (RE2 would be ideal, if your expressions are actually regular), and keeps the compiled patterns resident. Most of your time is likely spent parsing the patterns.
Yes but a more resource friendly set of tools might begin with the OP's procmail to move the mail onto a local machine quickly. Filters inside of procmail are hobbled. Do this as one message per file (http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/62563/savings-emails-as-individual-files-using-procmail). Procmail locks and gates are OS dependent but still slow.
Next test each message with one or more simple "grep expressions" that then pass it or gate it to more complex expressions. On a multi core machine with a SSD disk this might be quick.
Now move or pull the files to a location for a human reader in folders or dirs or what ever the reader expects.
Better filters do exist and are well recommended. You can teach them honey pot style with a public account on gmail and slurp the service discovered spam into a training file. To some degree there is a need to isolate but not delete trouble files so you can retrain the filter.
Do watch out for mime attachments where the content differs by reader/ tool. A safe text reader can be fooled because an unsafe pile of poo is wrapped in a mime that does not speak. Then a rich visual tool handy dandy mail tool will open the trouble payload based on the text content.
Russia has sided with Syria, we asked and they said no.
So an arrogant man might launch an attack in the next couple days.
What if that arrogant man then flew to Russia Sept 5th for G20 Summit and a bunch of vehicles circled around the aircraft holding the aircraft at the gate. Then pressed charges against a man they consider a war criminal and want to escort this individual to the Hague for adjudication?
It seems to me that in a city of 50,000 there is a need for local and 911 calling services.
What would it take to truck out some local towers with very limited links to the bigger world but with local calling functionality? The value is people could find each other and also be notified if needed. Local DNS and local event only hosted web services....
I have yet to see this as an interesting "diminished service" strategy but it makes sense as a local and regional disaster planning resource plan. In the case of earthquake, hurricane, tornado, etc. longer haul bandwidth can follow.
SMS could live as a store and forward method (if it is not now) and could prove easy to throttle through a thin straw (and ration on a per phone basis).
It is the rare event like Burning Man where this type of technology could be tested in the "real world" so it would be ready for "the big one". It also has an advantage of a solar friendly environment for those that think emergency equipment should be solar friendly.
Some of us remember calling on Mothers Day and other holidays.... and get the message "all circuits are busy" try later, a lot later".
Sure and the slow decryption of the multi part document sent from Japan to the Ambassador to the US saved the men aboard the USS Arizona, Dec 7...
Spying can help nations avoid war. In itself it is not an act of war but a troubling activity that when in the hand of moral men can be a good thing and in the hands of evil men very very dark and evil.
If I recall correctly the back channels (spying of communications) were the important reality that kept the USSR and the USA from going nuclear back in the '60s Cuban nuclear crisis.
Which would be against the ToS of pretty much every ISP on the planet. Thats a stupid suggestion, and a good way to get yourself in trouble.
Not on a business contract, obviously. I mean think about it. It can't be against every ISP's on the planet, who do ISP's and hotels and other people that serve multiple people get connections from. It's can't be that stupid.
N.B. the likes of AT&T are tower limited by local zoning and not in my backyard do gooders.
To make their customers a bit less grumpy they have been quietly installing WiFi hot spots all over cities and anyplace where their existing copper infrastructure reaches.
Event planners can and should work with cell carriers and local businesses. The local businesses could be happy homes to "free" installation of WiFi to service their sidewalk and premises (or not).
WiFi hardware is likely the best solution. It covers tablets, phones, iPod-touch, laptops effectively any portable device of the modern age. You can take a number of off the shelf home routers in the $100 range and wire them together with shallow trenched wire or modest vertical supports. With GigE hubs and GigE devices you can put a lot of bandwidth in the valley.
Bandwidth to the valley is problematic. Cell-Towers do have a lot of bandwidth linking them to the world. That is the very hard part to address.
One thing you can do is provision and establish one or more proxy servers, caching name servers, and a local site HTTP server and services. Schedule, news, announcements, lost and found, live video... These can help with the bandwidth needs. in and out of the valley. This is very hard and perhaps very expensive. Consider local "warm" spots such that 10%-30% of the valley is covered well. Banners can identify these "warm" spots so those that wish to can walk closer.
Channel management is necessary as are signal strength maps so your mini-services do not clobber each other.
Consider the concentrated bandwidth needs of a place like AT&T park in San Francisco. with 44K people, most with phones, taking pictures, posting them on Facebook.
These situations are harder than they sound.
This could be harder, more expensive and more regulated than it sounds.
Does Chrome still install and run background....snip....
Yes. If I understand your question the answer is yes.
This quiet update is both good and bad. With many many users using Chrome
the number of users unable to keep it up to date or make informed decisions is large.
In a community like/. the number of individuals that have a clue is vastly larger
yet the idiot factor has not vanished to zero.
Myself -- I have three different browsers installed on all my systems. I select
each based on what I am doing. I also have command line invocations that
modify where cache/ cookies/ profiles and other cruft might live often giving each
an isolated and sometimes chrooted home to play.
Banking... never on line. I can walk to the bank. I have built
and tested live CD boot disks as a safety net.
However, given that the UK likely violated the European Convention on Human Rights, GP is not entirely wrong.....snip....
This was the UK and the rules in the UK are not the rules where I am.
The single most obvious problem was the loss of property.
For many of us the contents of our portable devices are how
we make a living. Their loss is not just a casualty loss but an
arbitrary tax on an individual and in some cases on an employer.
I can ill afford to have my digital life stolen. And I can ill afford to
have large capacity cloud storage that can also be stolen
and taken off line with a FISA letter.
Given the length of time this individual was detained copies of
his devices could be made. Based on that there is no reason I can
see to not return them.
According to an NAS study, they're something like 85% reliable. The problem with an 85% reliable test is
Gack....
The issue is that 85% reliable implies a control and standard method. i.e. a sufficiently large known sample base.
My problem with this is that I cannot imagine a control that I would trust.
Further the number of bad guys needs to be largish. This might be possible
in retail but not in national security. In national security the population distribution
would contain a lot of pathology. To be good one must have a degree of paranoia
and an adventurous mind looking for handy for criminal activities.
So is the NSA downloading Amazon's sales records to look for terrorists? I used to think the first amendment would say "no", but now I'm not so sure they'd interpret it the same way I and the courts do.
I think the tense is wrong.
They already have the records... further the records are cross referenced to Visa/ Mastercard etc.
And they have all the meta data to build a connection graph from you to anyone else
on the planet.
With modern connectivity the reach illuminated by the Kevin Bacon exercise has collapsed.
Today most of us are connected to FB friends some like K. Kardashian have millions of
connections (+13 million). Mailing lists like kernel.org and OLPC are global and large.
This alone places the vast majority of us within the three connections the NSA has acknowledged
they search.
The point is that "Six degrees of separation" is no longer true (IMO) in the hands of massive data
swept piles where connectivity rules are morphable/ fragile and can be selected by an agency to show anything.
One pool of common connections is the set of humans and dogs with data records in the union
of FBI, CIA, NSA, Google, Facebook, Comcast,.... . Thus I assert that connectivity of three sounds
safe but can still be abused to connect anyone to anyone or anything..
BTW: Boo the dog has half the connections on FB that Kim has. +7million is a lot and
there are a lot of "famous" folks
At the one molecule per gallon dilution levels it is hokum.
Today it is common to get "shots" to desensitize individuals from allergy triggering substances.
The one molecule per gallon dilution (or more) places homeopathy outside of the reach of the FDA.
At the concentrations found in the bubble patch tests used for TB and grid on the back testing it
is conceivable that the triggered response that a doctor reads be the upper bounds for homeopathy.
Sadly triggered responses by some are quite serious and permitting material to be sold over the counter
is contrary to the medical care that one in many might need. We see this now in response to the astounding
jump in the number of immunizations children receive.
N.B. Immunization and homeopathy are birds of the same feather. One is at a level requiring regulation. The other not.
As AntiPolygraph.org has pointed out, one use of the polygraphs is simply to conduct interviews with subjects without a lawyer present, so that the examiners can use interviewing techniques with unrestricted questions that an informed, rational person would never submit to.
If interviewers started asking questions about your sex life, a lot of applicants would walk out there, and it would usually be illegal. But in a polygraph exam, they might permit it.
Bingo.... and yes the issue of power applies.
I suspect that no legal counsel is sufficiently schooled in polygraphs to be of any value.
So few are fully competent of the law in a dynamic situation as to be of any help.
This is in contrast to court where rehearsal and research accompanied by a team is possible.
I might consider subtle changes in the body language of the agent conducting the polygraph as bias.
Flash a tattoo on an arm unbutton a jacket, lean forward, lean back, smile, no smile, square smile....
If the operator of the polygraph has knowledge of the suspected crime I am convinced he is in
such a position of absolute power that I cannot convince myself that the polygraph has any value
beyond hearding sheep.
Programming in a "company" is likely a lot less fun.
Personal temperament can make anything fun or anything dull and lacking in adjectives.
Big bucks from games is possible but so is winning the lottery. There is still some VC
money for game companies but less and less makes it into the hands of creative programmers.
Youth.... go for it, what ever it is.....
Wife and kids... games maybe not but there are some great game companies.
......
Don't listen to what any politician says. I'm starting to think that more often than not they will do(or have done) the exact opposite of what they tell you.
Starting to think.... Oh my....
This is not new news.
It is not new.
The sooner we stop rooting for politicians the way we root for ball players the better.
The sooner we stop rooting for political parties the way we root for sports teams the better.
The sooner we realize news is not entertainment the better. The important news is life or death.
It is often ugly, it is often nasty, it is NOT ENTERTAINMENT, news is not Kim Kardashian.
I am cautiously optimistic. They must have found (or created) a loophole in the law, so the chances of prosecuting anyone may be small. But if the legislators are willing (and they seem to be warming up to change), all this spying, secret laws, and secret courts can be made very explicitly illegal.
Yes....
Note that a number of network news folk were ignoring some of the TLA constitutional issues up to the point that it was obvious that they were targeted.
The hacking of FOX computers when FOX was a historic defender of some of this nonsense put the writing on the wall for all the networks that could read and were interested in reporting news.
The courts, congress, executive branch may be silent because of thick folders of transgressions that Hover would have coveted in his day.
We have seen worthy talent flushed from the political landscape because of IRS violations involving maids and gardeners. But many more float in the spinning bowl hanging on for their special retirement packages and legislated protection from responsibility.
The game of user interfaces time and time again is one of
distraction and eye candy. However like the abusive use
of fonts in "Wired" these look fancy devices are instead
derisive.
University researchers need to research constructive task
oriented interfaces and how they can be restructured to be
more productive.
Oh wait the researchers are distracted and will never finish...
Each time the OLPC folk crank the hardware and software
engine I am impressed up to a point where the issue of teaching
and work flow run over each other. It does get better but inventors
need to teach more. A new invention without teachers notes
and not just Cliff notes is the tree that fell in the forest and no one
heard it.
Slashdot Mirror
Aha... perfume...
As someone that suffers from reactions to many and often the "Good and Expensive" ones this is an issue.
Perfume may be an interesting exception.
It is known that many of the secret ingredients in these products are trouble. But somehow they
have carved out exceptions that let them ship carcinogenic compounds when used as fragrance.
Diapers, trash can bags, deodorant, soaps, hair foo poo and more all contain 'secret' stuff.
No wonder the rate of respiratory illnesses is up in young and old alike. I once was asked
to go get an inhaler from a friends BR for their daughter. Smelled nice (the bed room), but
my eyes watered and the daughter had asthma. Gobsmacked me, but they cannot even smell it
they are so used to the assault.
At a friends company the home office employes this outstanding accountant. Good at her job
and golly good looking too. BUT perfume, her perfume was so thick that just walking in the
building you knew she was in town.
As luck would have it the previous tenant had a "cigar" room with hookah friendly exhaust fans and
big windows. The room made for a decent visitor office and the windows were a bonus in the
eyes of some.
I think that the punchline is " if the texter knows, or has special reason to know, the recipient will view the text while driving."
...snip...
It is interesting... My local police department sends text messages with traffic alerts.
Lane blocked, shooting, Amber Alert", about three important ones a month and you bet
they are worth knowing about.
This ruling is a massive tangle as it reaches beyond local, state and national boundaries.
Perhaps it is just an additional reason to steal and unlock personal electronics only to sell them at auction.
What is a good system admin to do when presented with information like this?
Companies large and small need to think long and hard about their responsibility
in the presence of secret orders, nationally funded hackers with agenda.
Data and data compromise by hook, by crook, by truck, by cloud collapse are all possible.
Key management, process management and more need to be understood by managers.
Companies have been coasting and relying on credentials to qualify their employees
to the point that managers near and far only have computer science skills if you add
Excel and Powerpoint to the curriculum.
A good one should memo out to management for legal advice BEFORE the secret documents
show up. Small companies should go in as a modest group splitting the legal fees. The number
of legal counsels that would have a clue on this will be too limited but seek them out. Sadly
the involved parties (legal) at big companies are now poisoned by the paper served on their company.
This will get tangled and the best advice with regard to getting hacked or getting served can only
be discussed before the event. Joseph Heller, George Orwell and Franz Kafka rule.....
Time to dust of Gentoo and backups near and far.
Why not write a TI-83 simulator for iOS/Android/W8?
A tablet is only the medium, the software it runs are the tools.
BINGO
It is the software and it is infrastructure.
Prototypes of a modern calculator could be coded in Java-Script or Dart and presented
on a browser. With local storage of HTML5 and friends there is no sane limit to what
can be done.
Heck hardware could be a Raspberry-Pi, Beaglebone Black
or the $150 OLPC-Tablet running Android (nice inexpensive hardware BTW).
Infrastructure is the big wanker in the wings.
Standard tests have an astoundingly short list of permitted calculator hardware.
One criteria is the magic reset all easy to do button sequence that can be done
by the proctor to any calculator with storage
This does need to be addressed as does the class content.
Classes in statistics, calculus, chemistry often have sea anchors as baggage that
keep them from moving forward.
Portable options can include Python or Ruby. I find that Python gets it right
when you toss some lame but long line of operators and numbers with and
without parenthesis. I seldom invoke dc/bc from a command line when
I can get an interactive prompt from python. Works fine on WindowZ, UNIXEs and more.
Classic calculator emulators for my fav. HP boxes almost work on a tablet. The layout
and button design is not finger touch tablet friendly/ aware. The ergonomics of a tablet
differ from physical buttons.
Lastly is the global issue of teachers unions. Teachers need to be taught to
use these new tools. Tenure tracks are gauged in many for these old tools.
And like rail road gauge changes at political boundaries tenure tracks are keeping
innovation at bay in many ways.
One exception is money. Money to purchase iPads for entire major city school
districts is not matched by software development (which is hard). Hard because
no one in the district has any expertise in this new stuff.
I guess I should dial back my rant and crack open some HTML5 and JS web links and
put some stuff together. I am looking hard at the "bonescript" stuff that runs on
the Angstrom bits on a Beaglebone Black. JavaScript on both sides. Tidy up
and tighten up with Dart and friends and perhaps a door will open.
Sadly nothing I can do will get by the proctor for a test.
Write something that uses a regular expression library (RE2 would be ideal, if your expressions are actually regular), and keeps the compiled patterns resident. Most of your time is likely spent parsing the patterns.
Yes but a more resource friendly set of tools might begin with the OP's procmail to move the mail
onto a local machine quickly. Filters inside of procmail are hobbled. Do this as one message
per file (http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/62563/savings-emails-as-individual-files-using-procmail).
Procmail locks and gates are OS dependent but still slow.
Next test each message with one or more simple "grep expressions" that then pass it or gate it
to more complex expressions. On a multi core machine with a SSD disk this might be quick.
Now move or pull the files to a location for a human reader in folders or dirs or what ever
the reader expects.
Better filters do exist and are well recommended. You can teach them honey pot style with a public account on gmail
and slurp the service discovered spam into a training file. To some degree there is a need to isolate but not delete
trouble files so you can retrain the filter.
Do watch out for mime attachments where the content differs by reader/ tool. A safe text reader can
be fooled because an unsafe pile of poo is wrapped in a mime that does not speak. Then a rich visual tool
handy dandy mail tool will open the trouble payload based on the text content.
This is a massive big risk for the big O.
Russia has sided with Syria, we asked and they said no.
So an arrogant man might launch an attack in the next couple days.
What if that arrogant man then flew to Russia Sept 5th for G20 Summit
and a bunch of vehicles circled around the aircraft holding the
aircraft at the gate. Then pressed charges against a man they consider
a war criminal and want to escort this individual to the Hague for adjudication?
Bad stuff, Bad stuff, Bad stuff....
Could he seek asylum in Kenya?
It seems to me that in a city of 50,000 there is a need for local and 911 calling services.
What would it take to truck out some local towers with very limited links to the bigger world but
with local calling functionality? The value is people could find each other and also be notified
if needed. Local DNS and local event only hosted web services....
I have yet to see this as an interesting "diminished service" strategy but it
makes sense as a local and regional disaster planning resource plan. In
the case of earthquake, hurricane, tornado, etc. longer haul bandwidth can follow.
SMS could live as a store and forward method (if it is not now) and could prove easy to throttle
through a thin straw (and ration on a per phone basis).
It is the rare event like Burning Man where this type of technology could be tested
in the "real world" so it would be ready for "the big one". It also has an advantage
of a solar friendly environment for those that think emergency equipment should be
solar friendly.
Some of us remember calling on Mothers Day and other holidays.... and get the message
"all circuits are busy" try later, a lot later".
Sure and the slow decryption of the multi part document sent from Japan to the Ambassador to the US saved the men aboard the USS Arizona, Dec 7...
Spying can help nations avoid war. In itself it is not an act of war but a troubling activity that when in the hand of moral men can be a good thing and in the hands of evil men very very dark and evil.
If I recall correctly the back channels (spying of communications) were the important reality that kept the USSR
and the USA from going nuclear back in the '60s Cuban nuclear crisis.
#LOVINT...
I love New York.... == I love to listen to the mayor of New York
I love Obama == I love to listen to the wire taps of the white house.
I love Woody Allen == I love to listen to old men fantasize about _______
I love to intimidate members of Senate intelligence committee members. == Listen for dirt J. Edgar style.
I love HRC == Hillery is hot so I listen to her, Bill and Monica.
I love Paris... == I listen to anyone I want in Paris or anyplace near Paris... (all of France)
Which would be against the ToS of pretty much every ISP on the planet. Thats a stupid suggestion, and a good way to get yourself in trouble.
Not on a business contract, obviously. I mean think about it. It can't be against every ISP's on the planet, who do ISP's and hotels and other people that serve multiple people get connections from. It's can't be that stupid.
N.B. the likes of AT&T are tower limited by local zoning and not in my backyard do gooders.
To make their customers a bit less grumpy they have been quietly installing WiFi hot spots
all over cities and anyplace where their existing copper infrastructure reaches.
Event planners can and should work with cell carriers and local businesses.
The local businesses could be happy homes to "free" installation of WiFi to service
their sidewalk and premises (or not).
WiFi is going to be cheaper.
Yes
WiFi hardware is likely the best solution. It covers tablets,
phones, iPod-touch, laptops effectively any portable device
of the modern age. You can take a number of off the shelf
home routers in the $100 range and wire them together with shallow
trenched wire or modest vertical supports. With GigE hubs
and GigE devices you can put a lot of bandwidth in the valley.
Bandwidth to the valley is problematic. Cell-Towers do have a lot
of bandwidth linking them to the world. That is the very hard part to address.
One thing you can do is provision and establish one or more proxy servers, caching name servers,
and a local site HTTP server and services. Schedule, news, announcements, lost and found,
live video... These can help with the bandwidth needs. in and out of the valley. This is very
hard and perhaps very expensive. Consider local "warm" spots such that 10%-30% of the valley
is covered well. Banners can identify these "warm" spots so those that wish to can walk closer.
Channel management is necessary as are signal strength maps so your mini-services do not
clobber each other.
Consider the concentrated bandwidth needs of a place like AT&T park in San Francisco.
with 44K people, most with phones, taking pictures, posting them on Facebook.
These situations are harder than they sound.
This could be harder, more expensive and more regulated than it sounds.
Does Chrome still install and run background ....snip....
Yes. If I understand your question the answer is yes.
This quiet update is both good and bad. With many many users using Chrome the number of users unable to keep it up to date or make informed decisions is large.
In a community like /. the number of individuals that have a clue is vastly larger
yet the idiot factor has not vanished to zero.
Myself -- I have three different browsers installed on all my systems. I select
each based on what I am doing. I also have command line invocations that
modify where cache/ cookies/ profiles and other cruft might live often giving each
an isolated and sometimes chrooted home to play.
Banking... never on line. I can walk to the bank. I have built and tested live CD boot disks as a safety net.
Google Chrome 30.0.1599.10 (Official Build 217721) dev
OS Linux
Blink 537.36 (@156117)
JavaScript V8 3.20.15.5
Flash 11.8.800.129
However, given that the UK likely violated the European Convention on Human Rights, GP is not entirely wrong. ....snip....
This was the UK and the rules in the UK are not the rules where I am.
The single most obvious problem was the loss of property.
For many of us the contents of our portable devices are how we make a living. Their loss is not just a casualty loss but an arbitrary tax on an individual and in some cases on an employer.
I can ill afford to have my digital life stolen. And I can ill afford to have large capacity cloud storage that can also be stolen and taken off line with a FISA letter.
Given the length of time this individual was detained copies of his devices could be made. Based on that there is no reason I can see to not return them.
SUMMARY: grand theft.
If you want to communicate securely you now have very large one time pads for secure key exchange.
It seems obvious to me... so do not try and patent it.
According to an NAS study, they're something like 85% reliable. The problem with an 85% reliable test is
Gack....
The issue is that 85% reliable implies a control and standard method. i.e. a sufficiently large known sample base.
My problem with this is that I cannot imagine a control that I would trust.
Further the number of bad guys needs to be largish. This might be possible in retail but not in national security. In national security the population distribution would contain a lot of pathology. To be good one must have a degree of paranoia and an adventurous mind looking for handy for criminal activities.
So is the NSA downloading Amazon's sales records to look for terrorists? I used to think the first amendment would say "no", but now I'm not so sure they'd interpret it the same way I and the courts do.
I think the tense is wrong.
They already have the records... further the records are cross referenced to Visa/ Mastercard etc.
And they have all the meta data to build a connection graph from you to anyone else on the planet.
With modern connectivity the reach illuminated by the Kevin Bacon exercise has collapsed. Today most of us are connected to FB friends some like K. Kardashian have millions of connections (+13 million). Mailing lists like kernel.org and OLPC are global and large. This alone places the vast majority of us within the three connections the NSA has acknowledged they search.
The point is that "Six degrees of separation" is no longer true (IMO) in the hands of massive data swept piles where connectivity rules are morphable/ fragile and can be selected by an agency to show anything.
One pool of common connections is the set of humans and dogs with data records in the union of FBI, CIA, NSA, Google, Facebook, Comcast, .... . Thus I assert that connectivity of three sounds
safe but can still be abused to connect anyone to anyone or anything..
BTW: Boo the dog has half the connections on FB that Kim has. +7million is a lot and there are a lot of "famous" folks
"Plausible mechanism" is a pretty low barrier.
Suppose instead of water, they were ......
At the one molecule per gallon dilution levels it is hokum.
Today it is common to get "shots" to desensitize individuals from allergy triggering substances.
The one molecule per gallon dilution (or more) places homeopathy outside of the reach of the FDA.
At the concentrations found in the bubble patch tests used for TB and grid on the back testing it
is conceivable that the triggered response that a doctor reads be the upper bounds for homeopathy.
Sadly triggered responses by some are quite serious and permitting material to be sold over the counter
is contrary to the medical care that one in many might need. We see this now in response to the astounding
jump in the number of immunizations children receive.
N.B. Immunization and homeopathy are birds of the same feather. One is at a level requiring regulation. The other not.
As AntiPolygraph.org has pointed out, one use of the polygraphs is simply to conduct interviews with subjects without a lawyer present, so that the examiners can use interviewing techniques with unrestricted questions that an informed, rational person would never submit to.
If interviewers started asking questions about your sex life, a lot of applicants would walk out there, and it would usually be illegal. But in a polygraph exam, they might permit it.
Bingo.... and yes the issue of power applies.
I suspect that no legal counsel is sufficiently schooled in polygraphs to be of any value.
So few are fully competent of the law in a dynamic situation as to be of any help.
This is in contrast to court where rehearsal and research accompanied by a team is possible.
I might consider subtle changes in the body language of the agent conducting the polygraph as bias.
Flash a tattoo on an arm unbutton a jacket, lean forward, lean back, smile, no smile, square smile....
If the operator of the polygraph has knowledge of the suspected crime I am convinced he is in
such a position of absolute power that I cannot convince myself that the polygraph has any value
beyond hearding sheep.
Programming in a "company" is likely a lot less fun.
Personal temperament can make anything fun or anything dull and lacking in adjectives.
Big bucks from games is possible but so is winning the lottery.
There is still some VC money for game companies but less and less makes it into the hands of creative programmers.
Youth.... go for it, what ever it is..... ... games maybe not but there are some great game companies.
Wife and kids
Interesting bits are JavaScript bit bold and in your face.
This is much of the core issue that involved MS litigation and the browser wars.
As long as they play nice with standards this could prove interesting.
Starting to think.... Oh my....
This is not new news.
It is not new.
The sooner we stop rooting for politicians the way we root for ball players the better.
The sooner we stop rooting for political parties the way we root for sports teams the better.
The sooner we realize news is not entertainment the better. The important news is life or death. It is often ugly, it is often nasty, it is NOT ENTERTAINMENT, news is not Kim Kardashian.
I am cautiously optimistic. They must have found (or created) a loophole in the law, so the chances of prosecuting anyone may be small. But if the legislators are willing (and they seem to be warming up to change), all this spying, secret laws, and secret courts can be made very explicitly illegal.
Yes....
Note that a number of network news folk were ignoring some of the TLA constitutional issues up to the point that it was obvious that they were targeted.
The hacking of FOX computers when FOX was a historic defender of some of this nonsense put the writing on the wall for all the networks that could read and were interested in reporting news.
The courts, congress, executive branch may be silent because of thick folders of transgressions that Hover would have coveted in his day.
We have seen worthy talent flushed from the political landscape because of IRS violations involving maids and gardeners. But many more float in the spinning bowl hanging on for their special retirement packages and legislated protection from responsibility.
Near field communication always sounded like a bad idea. This tells me that it is worse than I imagined.
If an acoustic coupling method/process is an improvement then the security of near field communication is in a sad state indeed.
OR this is a sad attempt to promote a patented standard to extract more $$ from hither and yon...
The game of user interfaces time and time again is one of distraction and eye candy. However like the abusive use of fonts in "Wired" these look fancy devices are instead derisive.
University researchers need to research constructive task oriented interfaces and how they can be restructured to be more productive.
Oh wait the researchers are distracted and will never finish...
Each time the OLPC folk crank the hardware and software engine I am impressed up to a point where the issue of teaching and work flow run over each other. It does get better but inventors need to teach more. A new invention without teachers notes and not just Cliff notes is the tree that fell in the forest and no one heard it.