is that they generally don't know wtf they're talking about; I only looked at the part on buffer/integer related overflows; where they take the moment to not only give me flat out wrong advice, but also see fit to try and propagandize me:
"This codelab doesn't cover overflow vulnerabilities because Jarlsberg is written in Python, and therefore not vulnerable to typical buffer and integer overflow problems. Python won't allow you to read or write outside the bounds of an array and integers can't overflow. While C and C++ programs are most commonly known to expose these vulnerabilities, other languages are not immune. For example, while Java was designed to prevent buffer overflows, it silently ignores integer overflow. "
The thing is google of all organizations, and specifically appspot should know better. I mean, Ialreadytoldthem. I mean seriously, look at this.
Just stop with this incessant bullshit 'lol hey my program-by-number language of choice doesnt have memory corruption security issues@#@!#'. It's all assembly at the end, and the processor does whatever you tell it, so everything has this problem. I thought this would be clear from my work, Dowd's actionscript work, nemo's obj-c work, ilja's pascal work, brezinski & mcdonalds ruby work, et cetera.
In short, when you try to talk about things you don't know, especially in the realm of security; you do more harm than good.
The point is that the law essentially doesn't give any major new powers to the police except to enable them check somebody's immigration status when they are dealing with that person anyway.
Actually, no. The police do not have this authority, it's only ICE who does, who in turn delegate out the authority to local police. MCSO used to have this ability, until they abused it and got the authority stripped from them. So in essence, this is a F-U back at the feds.
Furthermore, 'reasonable suspicion' and 'any legal encounter' doesn't necessarily mean really anything. Simply interacting with a cop is enough; no need to do anything illegal. Past that, the reasonable suspicion part comes in-- probable cause was already vague enough (who is to say the car did or did not smell like pot, or that your trunk was not low to the ground [mobile meth lab], etc). So this is an even lower bar than an already ridiculously lower one. Sure you're not supposed to base your suspicion entirely off of race; nevermind that MCSO will just ignore that part, but okay, you have an accent and are brown, thats reasonable enough!
So in truth, actually yes, it does give the police new powers.
You seem to think a year is a long time in really almost any court case, much less one that encompasses an entire police department and last month was expanded to include the county attorneys office. Just wait, it's coming, the only downside is that he'll go to a federal pen and not one of his gulags.
As for the why he had his authority removed, and I realize this is a stretch of brain power for the avg 96.4 PHX IQ, but maybe, just maybe its because what he was doing is illegal. You know illegal isn't a race right?
Except that AZ law essentially requires you to have an ID on you. (ARS 13-2412 and ARS 13-2403 can be used to require ID from anyone 'lawfully detained', which basically means anyone).
I encountered this several years ago while in Phoenix taking pictures from a parking garage without ID on me. Yes, it was a long night.
whats likely missing in the stories that obama et al are aware of is the context surrounding this. The states largest and most populist counties sheriff is under investigation for a myriad of things, including violating civil rights while investigating illegal immigrants. While this may not sound like a big issue, you also have to realize that he's ignoring other things like felony warrants to wage a war on illegal immigrants (read: mexicans). So what does this have to do with anything?
He used to be the ICE poster-boy, until the investigation/lawsuit/et cetera, where they stripped him of his authority to enforce the federal level law (only ICE is granted the authority). So an easy way to get around that 'problem' is to make it a state law which regrants him the authority to do this; bonus is that it is sufficiently vague enough that he can continue his racial profiling and just has to keep mum about whether it was the *only* factor involved.
There are a couple key points here that are missed without context that essentially everyone is missing it.
Maricopa Counties Sheriff has been on a 'arrest all the mexicans!' bender for some time; he's currently under investigation by DOJ for a variety of things, including civil rights violations, racial profiling, using department resources to wage war on political rivals/basically anyone who disagrees with him and this in turn caused ICE to strip him of his authority to arrest illegal immigrants (By federal law, only ICE has this authority).
So the response? Okay we'll make a state law and make it sufficiently vague that we are essentially legitimizing his practices (a prior quote of his was telling AZ citizens to arrest any mexican they saw driving with a cracked windshield [horrible advice, citizens arrests are just asking for lawsuits/charges]).
Some interesting reading: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/08/politics/main6071928.shtml - Sherrif Joe Arpaio Facing Investigation
Also, while you're correct that the feds have the ability to throw up checkpoints, its *supposed* to only be legal within 100 miles of an international border; although in practice they just do what they want anyways. (i.e. on a bus trip from Seattle to Phoenix the bus was stopped by ICE in far northern Utah, everyone white was allowed off without much of a question, everyone who appeared mexican was in turn given the 'royal treatment')
around the same time ICE stripped Maricopa counties sheriff of his authority to arrest illegal immigrants (only ICE has this authority under federal law) due to his questionable human/civil rights practices.
So everyone who keeps pointing out that it was already existing federal law is neglecting that he was essentially deputized by ICE to make immigration arrests and that this law was not necessary *until* he started violating other laws and ICE said 'okay no more' when DOJ et al started investigating him, MCSO and the county attorney's office (indictments are expected for all of the above) for... (wait for it) violating civil rights while enforcing immigration standards (well the investigation is more encompassing than that-- it also includes things like using police resources to essentially wage war on anyone who disagreed with him/political rivals). Only *then* did the law become necessary, because he couldn't continue doing what the federal government already said was illegal for him to do.
Plus the way the law is written, it legitimizes his practices of racial profiling and such. Yes I am aware the law says it cannot be the *only* factor. However anyone that makes this point has never dealt with MCSO or the overall corrupt government in that state.
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is that they generally don't know wtf they're talking about; I only looked at the part on buffer/integer related overflows; where they take the moment to not only give me flat out wrong advice, but also see fit to try and propagandize me:
... reported: 2008-04-11 22:35:37 bug closed: ?????
"This codelab doesn't cover overflow vulnerabilities because Jarlsberg is written in Python, and therefore not vulnerable to typical buffer and integer overflow problems. Python won't allow you to read or write outside the bounds of an array and integers can't overflow. While C and C++ programs are most commonly known to expose these vulnerabilities, other languages are not immune. For example, while Java was designed to prevent buffer overflows, it silently ignores integer overflow. "
The thing is google of all organizations, and specifically appspot should know better. I mean, I already told them. I mean seriously, look at this.
Of particular interest is: http://bugs.python.org/issue2620
Just stop with this incessant bullshit 'lol hey my program-by-number language of choice doesnt have memory corruption security issues@#@!#'. It's all assembly at the end, and the processor does whatever you tell it, so everything has this problem. I thought this would be clear from my work, Dowd's actionscript work, nemo's obj-c work, ilja's pascal work, brezinski & mcdonalds ruby work, et cetera.
In short, when you try to talk about things you don't know, especially in the realm of security; you do more harm than good.
The point is that the law essentially doesn't give any major new powers to the police except to enable them check somebody's immigration status when they are dealing with that person anyway.
Actually, no. The police do not have this authority, it's only ICE who does, who in turn delegate out the authority to local police. MCSO used to have this ability, until they abused it and got the authority stripped from them. So in essence, this is a F-U back at the feds. Furthermore, 'reasonable suspicion' and 'any legal encounter' doesn't necessarily mean really anything. Simply interacting with a cop is enough; no need to do anything illegal. Past that, the reasonable suspicion part comes in-- probable cause was already vague enough (who is to say the car did or did not smell like pot, or that your trunk was not low to the ground [mobile meth lab], etc). So this is an even lower bar than an already ridiculously lower one. Sure you're not supposed to base your suspicion entirely off of race; nevermind that MCSO will just ignore that part, but okay, you have an accent and are brown, thats reasonable enough! So in truth, actually yes, it does give the police new powers.
You seem to think a year is a long time in really almost any court case, much less one that encompasses an entire police department and last month was expanded to include the county attorneys office. Just wait, it's coming, the only downside is that he'll go to a federal pen and not one of his gulags. As for the why he had his authority removed, and I realize this is a stretch of brain power for the avg 96.4 PHX IQ, but maybe, just maybe its because what he was doing is illegal. You know illegal isn't a race right?
Except that AZ law essentially requires you to have an ID on you. (ARS 13-2412 and ARS 13-2403 can be used to require ID from anyone 'lawfully detained', which basically means anyone).
I encountered this several years ago while in Phoenix taking pictures from a parking garage without ID on me. Yes, it was a long night.
whats likely missing in the stories that obama et al are aware of is the context surrounding this. The states largest and most populist counties sheriff is under investigation for a myriad of things, including violating civil rights while investigating illegal immigrants. While this may not sound like a big issue, you also have to realize that he's ignoring other things like felony warrants to wage a war on illegal immigrants (read: mexicans). So what does this have to do with anything?
He used to be the ICE poster-boy, until the investigation/lawsuit/et cetera, where they stripped him of his authority to enforce the federal level law (only ICE is granted the authority). So an easy way to get around that 'problem' is to make it a state law which regrants him the authority to do this; bonus is that it is sufficiently vague enough that he can continue his racial profiling and just has to keep mum about whether it was the *only* factor involved.
There are a couple key points here that are missed without context that essentially everyone is missing it.
.. like 15 years worth.
Maricopa Counties Sheriff has been on a 'arrest all the mexicans!' bender for some time; he's currently under investigation by DOJ for a variety of things, including civil rights violations, racial profiling, using department resources to wage war on political rivals/basically anyone who disagrees with him and this in turn caused ICE to strip him of his authority to arrest illegal immigrants (By federal law, only ICE has this authority).
So the response? Okay we'll make a state law and make it sufficiently vague that we are essentially legitimizing his practices (a prior quote of his was telling AZ citizens to arrest any mexican they saw driving with a cracked windshield [horrible advice, citizens arrests are just asking for lawsuits/charges]).
Some interesting reading:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/08/politics/main6071928.shtml - Sherrif Joe Arpaio Facing Investigation
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/07/16/AR2008071602636.html - Ariz. Sheriff Accused Of Racial Profiling
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/03/15/20090315arpaio-politics0315.html - Feds' new tone puts Arpaio in hot seat
http://www.aclu.org/immigrants-rights/sheriff-arpaio-sued-over-racial-profiling-latinos-maricopa-county - Sheriff Arpaio Sued Over Racial Profiling Of Latinos In Maricopa County
http://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arpaio - series of articles concerning the sheriff's activities
http://crooksandliars.com/logan-murphy/ice-strips-sheriff-joe-arpaio-immigra - ICE Strips Sheriff Joe Arpaio Of Immigration Enforcement Powers
et cetera, just hit google.
Also, while you're correct that the feds have the ability to throw up checkpoints, its *supposed* to only be legal within 100 miles of an international border; although in practice they just do what they want anyways. (i.e. on a bus trip from Seattle to Phoenix the bus was stopped by ICE in far northern Utah, everyone white was allowed off without much of a question, everyone who appeared mexican was in turn given the 'royal treatment')
around the same time ICE stripped Maricopa counties sheriff of his authority to arrest illegal immigrants (only ICE has this authority under federal law) due to his questionable human/civil rights practices. So everyone who keeps pointing out that it was already existing federal law is neglecting that he was essentially deputized by ICE to make immigration arrests and that this law was not necessary *until* he started violating other laws and ICE said 'okay no more' when DOJ et al started investigating him, MCSO and the county attorney's office (indictments are expected for all of the above) for ... (wait for it) violating civil rights while enforcing immigration standards (well the investigation is more encompassing than that-- it also includes things like using police resources to essentially wage war on anyone who disagreed with him/political rivals). Only *then* did the law become necessary, because he couldn't continue doing what the federal government already said was illegal for him to do.
Plus the way the law is written, it legitimizes his practices of racial profiling and such. Yes I am aware the law says it cannot be the *only* factor. However anyone that makes this point has never dealt with MCSO or the overall corrupt government in that state.