IBM made some incredibly idiotic decisions, and I hope SBINet part deaux will be better handled. Even if it is, SBINet will help, but it isn't going to do enough. The crossers have many tactics for defeating a surveillance network, including making feints to draw agents out of place then swarming another area where it will take the Border Patrol too long to get there. As one Border Patrol agent said to me, "All the sensors and cameras do is let us count the number who get away." A double or triple physical fence backed up by agents, sensors, and cameras is the only thing that's going to make a dent. Bringing down the hammer of law enforcement on those hiring illegals would do the most. I wouldn't put any money on a significant uptick in either one for the foreseeable future.
The new online initiative, Elevate America, is set to equip close to 2 million people (over the next three years) with the skills needed to succeed in the field of technology."
And glue traps are incredibly cruel; other killing traps almost as much so. Live-trap them and drive them (a few miles or more) to someplace green without buildings around, make them work for a living.
I tried using a live trap for rats. Out of a dozen or so, I only managed to snag 2. I reluctantly ended up having to use the crush-their-skulls version for the rest. It's bad enough when the trap kills them. It's really gruesome when it only partly kills them and I have to finish the job.
Given how ultra paranoid the Secret Service is, I'd be surprised if Obama hasn't been given a tracking device that he keeps on him. So the real question is whether the special Blackberry he's carrying is any more vulnerable than whatever tracking device he's using.
Manufacturers sell these at a steep markup price to customers who lose or break the original one that came with the device, and aren't tech-savvy enough to procure a low-cost generic replacement.
You mean like going on eBay, searching for "iPod power", and buying one for 6-10 bucks? If that's a challenge, are you even capable of operating the device?
If the RFID is nothing but an ID number and the actual data is in a database somewhere, how would this be worse than, say, writing down the license plate numbers of the cars you see?
A heavily Democratic Congress and a Democratic President can change the law to be whatever they want now. Don't like wiretapping? Change it. Given the endless rhetoric that's been going on regarding this topic, I expect them to do so on January 21, 2009.
I once (and only once) bought an expensive Hermes tie at a shop in a Las Vegas casino's mall, paying with a credit card. I never gave them my address, so it had to come from my credit card info. Ever since, I've been getting Hermes catalogs in the mail. They're expensive things too, zillion-color offset printings on expensive paper, stencil cuts, etc. By now, whatever profit they made on that one tie has long vanished in the costs of producing and sending me that catalog.
If you want more efficient allocation of funds and avoidance of make-work projects, use the 'stimulus' money to cut taxes on capital gains, preferably to zero. Even at zero, people aren't going to purposely throw money at loser investments. You'll get the most efficient allocation of that money possible (i.e. no bureaucracy scraping its take off the top and deciding who gets the money based on political considerations), and to those things that will yield the best returns.
Did it give deep coverage explained more clearly, or was it more lightweight.
I'd have to say the former, but our respective definitions of "deep coverage" might differ. I got an engineering degree and discovered this book many years later. It made me realize that I had made it thru all of my calculus classes heavily reliant on rote learning and memorization, not by any real understanding of the underlying principles. For example, I didn't really know what the notation dx/dt in integrals actually signified. Calculus Made Easy finally made it clear. More than once during reading it I had a "Holy crap, so that's where that comes from" moment. Your mileage may vary; it might be that the book just happens to suit my style of learning. I didn't read the Martin Gardner version, I got a cheapo copy somewhere thru some obscure book catalog. I just did a scan on eBay and saw copies like mine going for $2 plus $4 shipping, so it's not an expensive investment.
I was working on a project where I had to be given access to a state's law enforcement computer system, which was the access point for their Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), the US National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and several other systems. I had to watch a videotape and read and sign a document promising all sorts of hell if I ever abused my access by, say, running someone without cause. One real-life example was a cop who would notice an attractive woman go by on the road and run her license plate to get her home address, where he would subsequently show up. I was glad to see that they had such strict policies. Anyone who uses their access privileges to stalk or attempt to dig up info on someone should be prosecuted.
I doubt the inspectors would stamp the bags they stole from. I know they're stupid, but not many can be that stupid.
You'd do complete or spot checks on bags as they're leaving the inspection area. If a bag shows up that has no stamp, time to go to the videotape to see who handled it.
If I were in charge of things, there'd be security cameras recording the inspectors. Also, each inspector who opened a bag would be required to stamp his/her identity number on a tag affixed to the bag. If anything was reported missing, those inspectors would be the first ones looked at, particularly if their id number shows up on a lot of bags with missing items.
UKers should be in their politician's faces over this. Send an email. Mail a letter. Fax them. Phone them. Preferably all of the above. Political pressure is the only remedy against the constant erosion of your rights.
This situation reminds me of the pre-Carterfone phone system, in which the phone company (there was only one, which is a reminiscence for another day) prohibited attachment of "foreign" devices. If they didn't make it, you couldn't attach it. They'd even 'ping' your wiring to make sure you didn't have any unauthorized extras on the line. It took the Carterfone decision to get rid of that prohibition, leading to today's ability to attach anything we want, so long as it doesn't harm the system. I hope that we'll eventually get something like that for these new phones so that we're not subject to somebody else's ideas of what we're allowed to run on our own hardware.
What ought to be besmirched are the automated stock trading systems that monitor the news wires and enact trades based on what they find. If every unsubstantiated rumor is going to cause a hair-trigger move in a stock, there may need to be some measures taken to curb this, or the opportunities for manipulation are endless. By the way, WARREN BUFFET IS DEAD! DETAILS AT 11!
Considering PayPal wants access to my bank account in order for me to purchase anything through their service, I absolutely refuse to do business with merchants who only take PayPal. Why would anybody trust a company like PayPal with their bank account details?
That's why I opened up a credit union account just for PayPal in which I keep a checking account balance of $1. Let them siphon that off if they want.
By Palin using yahoo, it's not closely watched and she can conduct official business off the record. It's very poor form to do so and is the real story here.
OR, she could be obeying a governmental policy that says government accounts are not to be used for personal or campaign purposes. Did any of sample emails that were posted fall into the category of official business?
I think creationism is nonsensical, but the reaction over this is reminiscent of the Inquisition. Calling for firing someone for voicing a heterodox opinion is getting uncomfortably close to a modern-day auto da fe.
Has anyone given any thought to what will happen if humans manage to demonstrably change the climate? Every perturbation or hiccup in weather would be attributed to the change. Drought in Darfur? Typhoon in Tijuana? Hurricane in Hueneme? Flood in... well, you get the idea. The screams of "It's YOUR fault!" and "I'm sueing!" would fill the air. As soon as we're successful, the bitchfest, lobbying for reparations, and lawsuits start. And never end.
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IBM made some incredibly idiotic decisions, and I hope SBINet part deaux will be better handled. Even if it is, SBINet will help, but it isn't going to do enough. The crossers have many tactics for defeating a surveillance network, including making feints to draw agents out of place then swarming another area where it will take the Border Patrol too long to get there. As one Border Patrol agent said to me, "All the sensors and cameras do is let us count the number who get away." A double or triple physical fence backed up by agents, sensors, and cameras is the only thing that's going to make a dent. Bringing down the hammer of law enforcement on those hiring illegals would do the most. I wouldn't put any money on a significant uptick in either one for the foreseeable future.
That's what I'd call a broad curriculum.
And glue traps are incredibly cruel; other killing traps almost as much so. Live-trap them and drive them (a few miles or more) to someplace green without buildings around, make them work for a living.
I tried using a live trap for rats. Out of a dozen or so, I only managed to snag 2. I reluctantly ended up having to use the crush-their-skulls version for the rest. It's bad enough when the trap kills them. It's really gruesome when it only partly kills them and I have to finish the job.
Given how ultra paranoid the Secret Service is, I'd be surprised if Obama hasn't been given a tracking device that he keeps on him. So the real question is whether the special Blackberry he's carrying is any more vulnerable than whatever tracking device he's using.
You mean like going on eBay, searching for "iPod power", and buying one for 6-10 bucks? If that's a challenge, are you even capable of operating the device?
If the RFID is nothing but an ID number and the actual data is in a database somewhere, how would this be worse than, say, writing down the license plate numbers of the cars you see?
A heavily Democratic Congress and a Democratic President can change the law to be whatever they want now. Don't like wiretapping? Change it. Given the endless rhetoric that's been going on regarding this topic, I expect them to do so on January 21, 2009.
I once (and only once) bought an expensive Hermes tie at a shop in a Las Vegas casino's mall, paying with a credit card. I never gave them my address, so it had to come from my credit card info. Ever since, I've been getting Hermes catalogs in the mail. They're expensive things too, zillion-color offset printings on expensive paper, stencil cuts, etc. By now, whatever profit they made on that one tie has long vanished in the costs of producing and sending me that catalog.
If you want more efficient allocation of funds and avoidance of make-work projects, use the 'stimulus' money to cut taxes on capital gains, preferably to zero. Even at zero, people aren't going to purposely throw money at loser investments. You'll get the most efficient allocation of that money possible (i.e. no bureaucracy scraping its take off the top and deciding who gets the money based on political considerations), and to those things that will yield the best returns.
I'd have to say the former, but our respective definitions of "deep coverage" might differ. I got an engineering degree and discovered this book many years later. It made me realize that I had made it thru all of my calculus classes heavily reliant on rote learning and memorization, not by any real understanding of the underlying principles. For example, I didn't really know what the notation dx/dt in integrals actually signified. Calculus Made Easy finally made it clear. More than once during reading it I had a "Holy crap, so that's where that comes from" moment. Your mileage may vary; it might be that the book just happens to suit my style of learning. I didn't read the Martin Gardner version, I got a cheapo copy somewhere thru some obscure book catalog. I just did a scan on eBay and saw copies like mine going for $2 plus $4 shipping, so it's not an expensive investment.
Calculus Made Easy - First book on calculus that ever explained things in a way that made sense to me.
... watch our friends on TV using the tiny cameras we've planted in their houses? I think we're very happy.
I was working on a project where I had to be given access to a state's law enforcement computer system, which was the access point for their Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV), the US National Crime Information Center (NCIC) and several other systems. I had to watch a videotape and read and sign a document promising all sorts of hell if I ever abused my access by, say, running someone without cause. One real-life example was a cop who would notice an attractive woman go by on the road and run her license plate to get her home address, where he would subsequently show up. I was glad to see that they had such strict policies. Anyone who uses their access privileges to stalk or attempt to dig up info on someone should be prosecuted.
You'd do complete or spot checks on bags as they're leaving the inspection area. If a bag shows up that has no stamp, time to go to the videotape to see who handled it.
If I were in charge of things, there'd be security cameras recording the inspectors. Also, each inspector who opened a bag would be required to stamp his/her identity number on a tag affixed to the bag. If anything was reported missing, those inspectors would be the first ones looked at, particularly if their id number shows up on a lot of bags with missing items.
UKers should be in their politician's faces over this. Send an email. Mail a letter. Fax them. Phone them. Preferably all of the above. Political pressure is the only remedy against the constant erosion of your rights.
This situation reminds me of the pre-Carterfone phone system, in which the phone company (there was only one, which is a reminiscence for another day) prohibited attachment of "foreign" devices. If they didn't make it, you couldn't attach it. They'd even 'ping' your wiring to make sure you didn't have any unauthorized extras on the line. It took the Carterfone decision to get rid of that prohibition, leading to today's ability to attach anything we want, so long as it doesn't harm the system. I hope that we'll eventually get something like that for these new phones so that we're not subject to somebody else's ideas of what we're allowed to run on our own hardware.
That will inspire confidence in quality...
Good one.
My address is behind a firewall that doesn't respond to unsolicited incoming packets. It's in use, but you'd never know it from the outside.
What ought to be besmirched are the automated stock trading systems that monitor the news wires and enact trades based on what they find. If every unsubstantiated rumor is going to cause a hair-trigger move in a stock, there may need to be some measures taken to curb this, or the opportunities for manipulation are endless. By the way, WARREN BUFFET IS DEAD! DETAILS AT 11!
That's why I opened up a credit union account just for PayPal in which I keep a checking account balance of $1. Let them siphon that off if they want.
OR, she could be obeying a governmental policy that says government accounts are not to be used for personal or campaign purposes. Did any of sample emails that were posted fall into the category of official business?
I beg to differ. I'll take a cat over integrity any time.
I think creationism is nonsensical, but the reaction over this is reminiscent of the Inquisition. Calling for firing someone for voicing a heterodox opinion is getting uncomfortably close to a modern-day auto da fe.
Has anyone given any thought to what will happen if humans manage to demonstrably change the climate? Every perturbation or hiccup in weather would be attributed to the change. Drought in Darfur? Typhoon in Tijuana? Hurricane in Hueneme? Flood in ... well, you get the idea. The screams of "It's YOUR fault!" and "I'm sueing!" would fill the air. As soon as we're successful, the bitchfest, lobbying for reparations, and lawsuits start. And never end.