I recall being tested for this in the 60's in Arizona.
Like TB the test then was a tine test... For the US south west
it makes sense (to me) to add this bug to the TB test process.
One might adjust the map to address TB coming from south
american countries where it is a serious ill managed scourge.
It also makes sense to spend money for both TB and Valley fever medications.
Modern genetics may illuminate ways to treat these infection. Lung infections
of many types are astoundingly lethal.
It is a much better hardware match than windowZ...
Tinker with an older EEEpc and it is obvious that WindowZ abuses the hardware budget. A tight linux distro and a darn quick browswe and Bob's your uncle.
Nothing magic about Chrome given the recent Firefox improvements.
Do consider old yellow punched tape
and print to hollerith cards.
You are on to some thing important. Digital media is much more sensitive
to temperature than paper and fire safe safes commonly only rated for paper.
Digital media does not survive on the dash of a car in many cases yet a
paper map is fine.
As a cost cutting measure I am mystified when direct deposit is excluded.
On the surface the payroll company and the company are using the employee
wages (earning interest) without paying interest. The transaction fees are part
of this "skimming" plan.
Since most landlords are not happy to have anyone pay via credit card because
there is a 1-5% service cost there are other issues because the funds cannot
be electronically transferred to pay for rent, insurance or other credit debt.
Individuals need to go on record (write a letter) and complain that this is not
a fair and equitable arrangement and that they are unhappy with it. No threat
to quit, no consequences just a simple registration of dislike.
A copy of the letter should be filed perhaps with a cover letter with state
and federal regulators. And yes Spanish and other languages are fine.
A lady in Canada makes a complaint about a kid in Texas and the kid is locked up for months because the wheel of justice grind so slowly. In the US one is supposed to be able to face his accuser. I see no clue that she has or intends to....
The lady in Canada may be the terrorist here.
Oh so murky when international boundaries are crossed.
The Texas officials may be culpable in international kidnaping if the kid was not promptly delivered to a mental health facility. A holding cell and the massive international legal services are clearly (to me) punitive without due process. There are laws against international child trafficking even in Texas.
"By 2030, it aims to use efficiency standards to reduce carbon pollution by 3 billion metric tons.
Carbon pollution or CO2 or CH4 emissions....
Greenhouse gasses, global albedo or regional albedo changes.
On quick review he has yet to establish a credible climate and weather
research foundation to make these assertions and worse he is making
regulations based on incomplete science.
It is important to not minimize this issue but it is also important to understand the issue.
The most obvious conflict is that we have agencies that have kittens when
a portion of the ocean goes negative on the oxygen balance and the sea
floor sees piles of organic (carbon rich) material building up. If we want CO2
to be removed and sequestered these kitten lovers are getting in the way
of this natural process. Another carbon neutral heat source can be hemp or wood yet
wood burning stoves are being eliminated one by one and not being replaced
by equally neutral fuel.
Insulation.... insulation is perhaps the single best strategy to improve dependency
on foreign fuel. New and existing home insulation programs are not getting the
attention they deserve.
The news media and legislative regulation camps need to be better educated....
Right now we have a gaggle of near fools, clearly self serving, clearly agenda pushing,
clearly unable to balance a family budget.
I have no clue how they attempted to do this but
only an idiot would do what I think I read.
Doing harm to someone with X-rays is moderately hard
if they are a moving target.
that is not to say that it could not be done....
Now what I want to know is if this was 'catcheable' via
PRISM and modern big brother stuff. If these guys were not
fools one might imagine that many folks could be hurt for the price
of a used car.
We have a serious social problem that causes folk to think seriously
about doing stuff like this. We -- we who live on the earth.
Not really. If they collected Facebook data, they would have to apply their bullshit algorithm to each individual. If you're correct that 16% of Facebook users are not Americans, then they would come up with something like 49% false-foreign results on the remaining 84%, which are Americans, or about 42%.
Contacting the earlier developers is good advice.
Unfortunately the OP doesn't say how much code there is. Understanding 10K lines by reading the source code is feasible; doing so for 1M lines isn't. Documentation is of some use, but it's typically scant and years out of date. Really, the best guide is an explanation given by someone who already knows the codebase.
A good way to proceed here is to spend a bit of time digging around the codebase by yourself, write up a proposal for some significant improvement, and send it to folks who were active when the project was up and running. With a bit of luck they'll reply with criticism and suggestions for improvement.
Yes and
Make a copy!
Find a good editor or development tool, build tag files and start reading. As you drill down
annotate the code with XXX-your-initials-B:, XXX-your-initials-Q: and XXX-your-initials-A: (your bugs, questions and answers)...enhancement too.
Write tests to validate what you know... or think you know.
Consider adding "asserts()" if there are known but un-diagnosed bugs.
Old school would be print it out, add thumb tabs, mark it up and build
a flow diagram. Old green bar computer paper is still available as are the
handy hand tools for making flow diagrams. The size of the paper
is about right... Binders for green bar paper can still be had...
Who is the US engaged in war with that he has given aid and comfort to?
The US is at war with al Qaida under the terms of Public Law 107-40
Yes, yet who is al Qaida?
It is anyone that says they are?
Is it anyone the FBI/DHS/NSA says is?
"by such nations, organizations or persons."
All must be tied back to 9/11/2001 which at this point is hard
as heck to do unless your cast your net so far that anyone
anywhere and anytime might be implicated.
That is the issue I have with the six degrees of Kevin Bacon stuff. The paths
are short but who knows if anything travels from end to end. And
then is this more like a grade school whisper game when garbled
phrases and noises come out...
Real problem... apparently some bad or co-opted laws intended to
address a real problem and more real fear.
I sure am glad I am far removed from those that know the
truth on both sides. Although/. gives me pause at times.
The reason prosecutors charged him with espionage is because its a much easier case to make, but this realy is a textbook case of treason. Just look at the damn US Constitution
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." If Snowden hasn't committed treason using this definition, I don't know what is then.
Who is the US engaged in war with that he has given aid and comfort to?
The war against drugs, is a war against Americans sure... So all of America.
Is it possible to commit treason when exposing violations of constitutional law?
The fundamental issue is US law sits on a foundation of honesty and transparent prosecution of the law.
A truth is the issue of meta data in these large quantities is powerful as heck.
In good and honest hands, no problem. In the hands of bad guys, big problem.
The good guys today should establish controls and laws to keep this tool set from the hand of the bad guys.
Well this is stenography where the hidden message is a DRM ID/Code.
Well this is stenography where the hidden message is a DRM ID/Code.
Well this is stenography where the hidden message is a DRM ID/Code.
Well this is stenography where the hidden message is a DRM ID/Code.
Well this is stenography where the hidden message is a DRM ID/Code.
Well this is stenography where the hidden message is a DRM ID/Code.
This seems to be a crazy OMG nightmare for the DHS and friends.
The risk for honest law enforcement is that all sorts of content (both public and private) can now serve for key distribution
or message distribution... and if the DRM wankers do a lot of small space insertion and random application
of kerning etc then ANY document becomes suspect.
These big dustbin collections of data are interesting.
No TLA agency code words would have been used.
Google, Facebook, Microsoft would never see a document
request that contains a code word.
Give the large number of requests agents would likely have
desks in house. Agents would not have free access to
company resources. As big as the big internet companies are
they cannot give free unfettered access to company resources.
Queries still need to be crafted and tested. Company employees may not be
privy to the secret target so agents may have to craft and run the search for
data then validate that it gets the information in question then have the employee
rerun the search on live data and modify the access control meta data bits
of the output to deliver it to the agent.
The agent now with the data would have credentials to transfer the data to
the home office via some resource that may or may not be described by
some magic code word that the agent may not have a need to know the
name of.
I think that the big G gets thousands of requests... and clearly the big internet companies
have no way to validate the details of the search with dozens perhaps hundreds of
test searches and a couple final searches a day.
Nothing keeps the big TLA agencies from running their own web search engines. Put
up a web page and measure the different engines that touch it. Search engine companies
are not the most interesting companies... the long list of hosts implicated in CSS files
and flash content cookies are much more interesting.
# This MVPS HOSTS file:
# http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
After delivery nothing keeps the FISA requests from being combined (that I know of). When
a massive search might be denied a largish number of large searches would pass inspection.
Agent Aarron get all the A's, Agent Bob get all the B's..
Over the years since '78 data flows into but may never be deleted. There are voters that
now have their entire lives spanned by these efforts.
Personally my opinion is the big O is too nice a guy and too naive to do anything bad. Naive
opens the door for others with lesser or no principals to do harm.
Nevermind... if Snowden Is lying no law has been broken
and at best this is a fiction to grab media ratings...
Perhaps Rupert needs to cash in his soon to be X.
As a fiction it is little different than "Mission Impossible".
And it seems that if he is not lying someone else has been.
The phone's CPU could have a special PIN number that comes on a scratch card in the box when you buy it.
If your phone gets stolen you call your operator and read them the PIN. They send out a "kill" signal and the phone commits suicide.
This is impossible for hackers to fake - they can never know the PIN.
Yeah, they can only send millions of kill messages with random PINs out. No harm done.
I rolled my eyes at millions of kill messages then fell over thinking about the karnage a botnet could incur.
We already see DOS attacks large enough that an entire nations cell coverage would be at risk
by the bad boys.
The phone's CPU could have a special PIN number that comes on a scratch card in the box when you buy it.
........
A little scratch card that gets lost.
A little scratch card that the X swipes.
A little scratch card exactly the same at the other five cards you have.
A little scratch card that has data the DHS also has.
A little scratch card that the company IT department must manage.
Slashdot Mirror
Like TB the test then was a tine test... For the US south west it makes sense (to me) to add this bug to the TB test process. One might adjust the map to address TB coming from south american countries where it is a serious ill managed scourge.
It also makes sense to spend money for both TB and Valley fever medications. Modern genetics may illuminate ways to treat these infection. Lung infections of many types are astoundingly lethal.
Ask Judy Collins about TB.
N.B. Many in Germany know and feel a social responsibility for the abuses that can come from those making lists. Others should take a lesson.....
The world should pay attention.
My library has a pile of DVDs even music CDs to loan.
This technology changes so quick that a smart player, even X-box can prove better than a smart TV.
I have listened to and on occasion bought the big B's products.
Like anything ---even /. Listen with an educated ear (or read)
and make up your own mind.
Tinker with an older EEEpc and it is obvious that WindowZ abuses the hardware budget. A tight linux distro and a darn quick browswe and Bob's your uncle.
Nothing magic about Chrome given the recent Firefox improvements.
Do consider old yellow punched tape and print to hollerith cards.
You are on to some thing important. Digital media is much more sensitive to temperature than paper and fire safe safes commonly only rated for paper. Digital media does not survive on the dash of a car in many cases yet a paper map is fine.
On the surface the payroll company and the company are using the employee wages (earning interest) without paying interest. The transaction fees are part of this "skimming" plan.
Since most landlords are not happy to have anyone pay via credit card because there is a 1-5% service cost there are other issues because the funds cannot be electronically transferred to pay for rent, insurance or other credit debt.
Individuals need to go on record (write a letter) and complain that this is not a fair and equitable arrangement and that they are unhappy with it. No threat to quit, no consequences just a simple registration of dislike.
A copy of the letter should be filed perhaps with a cover letter with state and federal regulators. And yes Spanish and other languages are fine.
Homework assignment: Research the historical context behind the lyrics http://www.cowboylyrics.com/lyrics/classic-country/sixteen-tons---tennessee-ernie-ford-14930.html
The lady in Canada may be the terrorist here.
Oh so murky when international boundaries are crossed.
The Texas officials may be culpable in international kidnaping if the kid was not promptly delivered to a mental health facility. A holding cell and the massive international legal services are clearly (to me) punitive without due process. There are laws against international child trafficking even in Texas.
This is not a good thing.
Yes OLD... ... just load a version of Linux or FreeBSD.
Hardware that old
This may represent a new realization of risk for the paranoid.
So he is guilty of lying... is lying to the enemy treason?
Color me confused....
Carbon pollution or CO2 or CH4 emissions....
Greenhouse gasses, global albedo or regional albedo changes.
On quick review he has yet to establish a credible climate and weather research foundation to make these assertions and worse he is making regulations based on incomplete science.
It is important to not minimize this issue but it is also important to understand the issue.
The most obvious conflict is that we have agencies that have kittens when a portion of the ocean goes negative on the oxygen balance and the sea floor sees piles of organic (carbon rich) material building up. If we want CO2 to be removed and sequestered these kitten lovers are getting in the way of this natural process. Another carbon neutral heat source can be hemp or wood yet wood burning stoves are being eliminated one by one and not being replaced by equally neutral fuel.
Insulation.... insulation is perhaps the single best strategy to improve dependency on foreign fuel. New and existing home insulation programs are not getting the attention they deserve.
The news media and legislative regulation camps need to be better educated.... Right now we have a gaggle of near fools, clearly self serving, clearly agenda pushing, clearly unable to balance a family budget.
As I said in my post, I was assuming ........snip....
You just drove off the road because you were distracted by the bunny in the field...
No it was a squirrel in the tree.
Doing harm to someone with X-rays is moderately hard if they are a moving target.
that is not to say that it could not be done....
Now what I want to know is if this was 'catcheable' via PRISM and modern big brother stuff. If these guys were not fools one might imagine that many folks could be hurt for the price of a used car.
We have a serious social problem that causes folk to think seriously about doing stuff like this. We -- we who live on the earth.
Not really. If they collected Facebook data, they would have to apply their bullshit algorithm to each individual. If you're correct that 16% of Facebook users are not Americans, then they would come up with something like 49% false-foreign results on the remaining 84%, which are Americans, or about 42%.
Slow down statistician!
FB says they have some billion users. The total population of the US is 3-400 million.
So 16% of FB users not being Americans does not
http://www.quintly.com/facebook-country-statistics/compute.....
Contacting the earlier developers is good advice. Unfortunately the OP doesn't say how much code there is. Understanding 10K lines by reading the source code is feasible; doing so for 1M lines isn't. Documentation is of some use, but it's typically scant and years out of date. Really, the best guide is an explanation given by someone who already knows the codebase. A good way to proceed here is to spend a bit of time digging around the codebase by yourself, write up a proposal for some significant improvement, and send it to folks who were active when the project was up and running. With a bit of luck they'll reply with criticism and suggestions for improvement.
Yes and
Make a copy!
Find a good editor or development tool, build tag files and start reading. As you drill down annotate the code with XXX-your-initials-B:, XXX-your-initials-Q: and XXX-your-initials-A: (your bugs, questions and answers)...enhancement too.
Write tests to validate what you know... or think you know.
Consider adding "asserts()" if there are known but un-diagnosed bugs.
Old school would be print it out, add thumb tabs, mark it up and build a flow diagram. Old green bar computer paper is still available as are the handy hand tools for making flow diagrams. The size of the paper is about right... Binders for green bar paper can still be had...
Google and quickly read articles on "Literate" programming. There are many tools... One of which is Doxygen http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/
Who is the US engaged in war with that he has given aid and comfort to?
The US is at war with al Qaida under the terms of Public Law 107-40
Yes, yet who is al Qaida?
It is anyone that says they are?
Is it anyone the FBI/DHS/NSA says is?
"by such nations, organizations or persons."
All must be tied back to 9/11/2001 which at this point is hard as heck to do unless your cast your net so far that anyone anywhere and anytime might be implicated.
That is the issue I have with the six degrees of Kevin Bacon stuff. The paths are short but who knows if anything travels from end to end. And then is this more like a grade school whisper game when garbled phrases and noises come out...
Real problem... apparently some bad or co-opted laws intended to address a real problem and more real fear. /. gives me pause at times.
I sure am glad I am far removed from those that know the truth on both sides. Although
The reason prosecutors charged him with espionage is because its a much easier case to make, but this realy is a textbook case of treason. Just look at the damn US Constitution
"Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort." If Snowden hasn't committed treason using this definition, I don't know what is then.
Who is the US engaged in war with that he has given aid and comfort to?
The war against drugs, is a war against Americans sure... So all of America.
Is it possible to commit treason when exposing violations of constitutional law?
The fundamental issue is US law sits on a foundation of honesty and transparent prosecution of the law.
A truth is the issue of meta data in these large quantities is powerful as heck.
In good and honest hands, no problem. In the hands of bad guys, big problem.
The good guys today should establish controls and laws to keep this tool set from the hand of the bad guys.
If it is mono-directional it has application as sound proofing.
If it is bidirectional then the listener can be heard doing what listeners do as well as the "target".
If regions could be made "transparent" then 3D audio precision might be possible.
Interesting.... but I am not going to dig holes in my walls.
Yes but this is different because
... on a computer
So yes, they can (and will)
Well this is stenography where the hidden message is a DRM ID/Code.
Well this is stenography where the hidden message is a DRM ID/Code.
Well this is stenography where the hidden message is a DRM ID/Code.
Well this is stenography where the hidden message is a DRM ID/Code.
Well this is stenography where the hidden message is a DRM ID/Code.
Well this is stenography where the hidden message is a DRM ID/Code.
This seems to be a crazy OMG nightmare for the DHS and friends.
The risk for honest law enforcement is that all sorts of content (both public and private) can now serve for key distribution or message distribution... and if the DRM wankers do a lot of small space insertion and random application of kerning etc then ANY document becomes suspect.
What, pray tell, does Starbucks have to do with good coffee?
Cream... milk.... sugar pop out of my ven diagram.
No TLA agency code words would have been used. Google, Facebook, Microsoft would never see a document request that contains a code word.
Give the large number of requests agents would likely have desks in house. Agents would not have free access to company resources. As big as the big internet companies are they cannot give free unfettered access to company resources.
Queries still need to be crafted and tested. Company employees may not be privy to the secret target so agents may have to craft and run the search for data then validate that it gets the information in question then have the employee rerun the search on live data and modify the access control meta data bits of the output to deliver it to the agent.
The agent now with the data would have credentials to transfer the data to the home office via some resource that may or may not be described by some magic code word that the agent may not have a need to know the name of.
I think that the big G gets thousands of requests... and clearly the big internet companies have no way to validate the details of the search with dozens perhaps hundreds of test searches and a couple final searches a day.
Nothing keeps the big TLA agencies from running their own web search engines. Put up a web page and measure the different engines that touch it. Search engine companies are not the most interesting companies... the long list of hosts implicated in CSS files and flash content cookies are much more interesting.
# This MVPS HOSTS file:
# http://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.htm
After delivery nothing keeps the FISA requests from being combined (that I know of). When a massive search might be denied a largish number of large searches would pass inspection. Agent Aarron get all the A's, Agent Bob get all the B's..
Over the years since '78 data flows into but may never be deleted. There are voters that now have their entire lives spanned by these efforts.
Personally my opinion is the big O is too nice a guy and too naive to do anything bad. Naive opens the door for others with lesser or no principals to do harm.
Deep breath now.... it will be OK....
Perhaps Rupert needs to cash in his soon to be X.
As a fiction it is little different than "Mission Impossible".
And it seems that if he is not lying someone else has been.
The phone's CPU could have a special PIN number that comes on a scratch card in the box when you buy it.
If your phone gets stolen you call your operator and read them the PIN. They send out a "kill" signal and the phone commits suicide.
This is impossible for hackers to fake - they can never know the PIN.
Yeah, they can only send millions of kill messages with random PINs out. No harm done.
I rolled my eyes at millions of kill messages then fell over thinking about the karnage a botnet could incur.
We already see DOS attacks large enough that an entire nations cell coverage would be at risk by the bad boys.
The phone's CPU could have a special PIN number that comes on a scratch card in the box when you buy it.
........
A little scratch card that gets lost.
A little scratch card that the X swipes.
A little scratch card exactly the same at the other five cards you have.
A little scratch card that has data the DHS also has.
A little scratch card that the company IT department must manage.
No thanks.