Well, this article doesn't "follow up" on jack. It's just less informative and more inflammatory than the original.
He wasn't being tracked becasue of a blog post at all. His father was a notable political figure, and he travels and sends money to suspicious locations. From the article linked on the original slashdot story:
The agents also knew he was planning a short business trip to Dubai in a few weeks. Afifi said he often travels for business and has two teenage brothers in Egypt whom he supports financially. They live with an aunt. His U.S.-born mother, who divorced his father five years ago, lives in Arizona.
Afifi's father, Aladdin Afifi, was a U.S. citizen and former president of the Muslim Community Association here, before his family moved to Egypt in 2003. Yasir Afifi returned to the United States alone in 2008, while his father and brothers stayed in Egypt, to further his education he said. He knows he's on a federal watchlist and is regularly taken aside at airports for secondary screening.
Once again, horribly misleading summary. According to The Fine Article, it is only this one reactor in Maryland that is actually cancelled...
Two nuclear projects that have gone forward, in Georgia and South Carolina, are in states where the utilities building them also distribute the electricity and operate under traditional regulatory rules that virtually guarantee them a financial return: Whatever the companies spend to generate power, the customers will pay for, unless regulators decide the expenses were not "prudent." That regulatory compact is so strong that the South Carolina project, on the site of the existing V. C. Summer reactor, has begun work without a loan guarantee
A better solution is to have a self-destructing system that eats itself when you enter in the wrong password x number of times. Give the investigators a bad password and let the data eat itself. With the data gone, rubber hose decryption is defeated
Amateurs always ask for this.. Or a duress password which will do the self-destruct the first time its entered.
Pros know that imaging the drive is the first step of any process.
OK, later ones aren't exactly non-deterministic, but the 386 was the last of the straightforward microprocessors, that simply executed one instruction aftr another. No microcode, out-of-order execution, crazy on-chip L2/L3 caches, etc.
Wonder if that leads to easier "verification" at a very low level, if NASA cares about that...
It's pretty amazing. Do the experiment yourself - get some "mexican coke" or Pepsi Throwback (with sugar), and some regular soda.
Over the course of 15 minutes, drink 2 cans of regular soda. No big deal, right? Later on or the next day, drink sugar-based soda, and after drinking under 12 ounces of it, you will likely feel full, and like you don't want to drink anymore, in a way thats very different from HFCS-soda. I'd be surpised if you can even finish 24oz of sugar soda in 15 min (without forcing yourself).
PDF is not a complicated format? Are you kidding? It is an insanely complex format, with many many subtleties and variations. The PDF format was first defined in the mid 1980's, if that gives you any idea. And to the poster talking about PDF/A, that barely reduces the surface at all.
Most people don't know that the LAUSD has been building schools at a completely insane pace. For the 15 years from 1997-2012, there has been an average of one new school opened every month! Sure, schools were neglected in the past, but there are tons of brand-new public schools in LA now.
The patent is actually for utilizing a predictive process to change pricing based upon expected future load. Still not necessarily new, but very different than the summary implies.
If you are interested in a serious answer to your question, The Hasting Law Journal covered this in their post-Heller special issue: http://www.uchastings.edu/hlj/archive/vol60/Lerner-Lund_60-HLJ-1387.pdf (pdf) There they discuss Tasers, "super-Tasers" and "phasers" (which do not yet exist). The unfortunate answer is "it depends".
Except that in this country, trials exist to determine the facts, the judge applies the law and determines sentencing. A better point would be the application of Apprendi. I didn't RTFA, but hopefully thats addressed.
The article refers to a delta-V budget, which I hadn't heard of before, and my first thought was that they'd gotten their units wrong, but apparently "delta-V" in this context is actually measured in m/s, not m/s^2.
ICMBs are not accurate enough to deliver a conventional explosive payload. (if you are off by half a mile, it doesn't matter if you're delivering a nuke). Thats why we have cruise missiles.
Thay're about minimising firearm incidents regardless of premeditation or who has a criminal past. A bloody good percentage of firearm incidents are accidents &/or acts of compulsion/impulse.... Such a scenario correlates with many more firearm incidents than pre-meditated acts by career criminals.
You may not want to hear this, but you've got that completely wrong.
WHAT PERPETRATOR DATA DATING BACK TO THE 19TH CENTURY SHOWS IS THAT MURDERERS WERE NOT PREVIOUSLY LAW ABIDING, RESPONSIBLE ADULTS; RATHER, "MOST MURDERERS DIFFER LITTLE FROM OTHER MAJOR CRIMINALS."[11] SO INVARIABLY HAVE PERPETRATOR STUDIES DATING BACK TO THE 19TH CENTURY FOUND THAT MURDERERS ARE OVERWHELMINGLY PERSONS WITH LIFE HISTORIES OF PRIOR CRIME THAT THIS IS NOW COUNTED AS ONE OF THE STANDARD CRIMINOLOGICAL AXIOMS.[12] THE DATA SUPPORTING THIS NOW-AXIOM WAS SUMMARIZED BY ONE NOTED CRIMINOLOGIST AS FOLLOWS:
THE USE OF LIFE-THREATENING VIOLENCE IN THIS COUNTRY IS, IN FACT, EMBEDDED IN A GENERAL PATTERN OF CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR AND LARGELY RESTRICTED TO A CRIMINAL CLASS...VIRTUALLY ALL INDIVIDUALS WHO BECOME INVOLVED IN LIFETHREATENING VIOLENT CRIME HAVE PRIOR INVOLVEMENT IN MANY TYPES OF MINOR (AND NOT SO MINOR) OFFENSES.... THE FREQUENCY, SERIOUSNESS AND VARIETY OF OFFENDING ARE ALL STRONGLY PREDICTIVE OF LIFE-THREATENING VIOLENT OFFENDING. EVEN IN THE CASE OF LIFETHREATENING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE, MOST OF THOSE VIOLENT OFFENDERS HAVE A HISTORY OF PRIOR INVOLVEMENT IN CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR AND SERIOUS VIOLENT CRIMES.[13]
AND THIS AXIOM CONTINUES TO BE VALID. EARLIER THIS YEAR THE HASTINGS lAW JOURNAL PUBLISHED AN ARTICLE DETAILING STUDIES SUBSEQUENT TO THOSE PROF. ELLIOTT SUMMARIZES.[14] LIKE THE PRIOR STUDIES, THE LATER ONES CONTINUE TO DEMONSTRATE HIS POINT THAT "VIRTUALLY ALL" MURDERERS HAVE PRIOR CRIMINAL RECORDS OR ARE DERANGED.
The risk to this is not a danger to troops. The risk of this is having a completely un-edited video source available to people who would have a field day if the official US proclamation of what happened was visibly different from the recorded video strea
Awesome point! And of course, since they've had access to these feeds for over a year, can we then assume that there hasn't been an incident where showing the footage would have disproved the US version of events?
Of course, they would be hestitant to tip thier hand that they've got access to the footage, but if they really caught us in a lie, don't you think they'd show it?
One problem with Global Warming is that it does not fit the standard definition of science, which requires a testable hypothesis. We only have one planet, and most climate science is done with computer models, not in reality.
Ah, I get it. The breaking of families, inhumane conditions of travel, human trade, restrictions on marriage, severe physical punishment, lengthening of term on becoming pregnant, rape or sexual abuse, no access to legal recourse, mandatory religious conversion, isolation from society, child labor, are okay
Interestingly, pretty much all of those are explicitly prohibited in the biblical laws regarding slavery.
For example an easy solution to this sort of mess it to establish a central fund for say cleaning up after mining. Every company pays a considerable percentage each year into the fund. If you are a responsible company and clean up your mess to established specifications, then guess what? You get your money back from the fund when you are done! If you go bankrupt or are not responsible, then there is money saved up for the cleanup. In addition the government could use this money in very prudent secure investment to increase the funds available for cleanup.
FWIW, thats basically the situation with Nuclear Power Companies and nuclear waste:
However, we haven't come up with a politically acceptable solution to storing nuclear waste, so the fund actually has about $16 Billion saved up in already.
Hello, did you RTFS? I'm no fan of DHS, but they ARE the ones saying that the GAO is on crack for even thinking about this idea, and that they aren't planning on doing anything.
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Well, this article doesn't "follow up" on jack. It's just less informative and more inflammatory than the original.
He wasn't being tracked becasue of a blog post at all. His father was a notable political figure, and he travels and sends money to suspicious locations. From the article linked on the original slashdot story:
Once again, horribly misleading summary. According to The Fine Article, it is only this one reactor in Maryland that is actually cancelled...
http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/prototype-this-flying-lifeguard.html
Amateurs always ask for this.. Or a duress password which will do the self-destruct the first time its entered.
Pros know that imaging the drive is the first step of any process.
OK, later ones aren't exactly non-deterministic, but the 386 was the last of the straightforward microprocessors, that simply executed one instruction aftr another. No microcode, out-of-order execution, crazy on-chip L2/L3 caches, etc.
Wonder if that leads to easier "verification" at a very low level, if NASA cares about that...
It's pretty amazing. Do the experiment yourself - get some "mexican coke" or Pepsi Throwback (with sugar), and some regular soda.
Over the course of 15 minutes, drink 2 cans of regular soda. No big deal, right? Later on or the next day, drink sugar-based soda, and after drinking under 12 ounces of it, you will likely feel full, and like you don't want to drink anymore, in a way thats very different from HFCS-soda. I'd be surpised if you can even finish 24oz of sugar soda in 15 min (without forcing yourself).
PDF is not a complicated format? Are you kidding? It is an insanely complex format, with many many subtleties and variations. The PDF format was first defined in the mid 1980's, if that gives you any idea. And to the poster talking about PDF/A, that barely reduces the surface at all.
An MIT student did his thesis on Voice vs. Data lantency on cell phones, you might be interested in his methodology and results:
Quality of Service Analysis for Audio over Cellular Voice Networks
Like "Software Restriction Policies" in windows XP and AppLocker in Windows 7?
Most people don't know that the LAUSD has been building schools at a completely insane pace. For the 15 years from 1997-2012, there has been an average of one new school opened every month! Sure, schools were neglected in the past, but there are tons of brand-new public schools in LA now.
The patent is actually for utilizing a predictive process to change pricing based upon expected future load. Still not necessarily new, but very different than the summary implies.
Like this, you mean:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2008/11/the-boycott-eff.html
If you are interested in a serious answer to your question, The Hasting Law Journal covered this in their post-Heller special issue:
http://www.uchastings.edu/hlj/archive/vol60/Lerner-Lund_60-HLJ-1387.pdf (pdf)
There they discuss Tasers, "super-Tasers" and "phasers" (which do not yet exist). The unfortunate answer is "it depends".
Am I the only one who read the title as:
NASA Ends Plan To Put Black Man On Moon
Well, the folks at http://www.workpoop.com/ will calculate how much your company pays you to poop
Except that in this country, trials exist to determine the facts, the judge applies the law and determines sentencing. A better point would be the application of Apprendi. I didn't RTFA, but hopefully thats addressed.
The article refers to a delta-V budget, which I hadn't heard of before, and my first thought was that they'd gotten their units wrong, but apparently "delta-V" in this context is actually measured in m/s, not m/s^2.
ICMBs are not accurate enough to deliver a conventional explosive payload. (if you are off by half a mile, it doesn't matter if you're delivering a nuke). Thats why we have cruise missiles.
You may not want to hear this, but you've got that completely wrong.
Awesome point! And of course, since they've had access to these feeds for over a year, can we then assume that there hasn't been an incident where showing the footage would have disproved the US version of events?
Of course, they would be hestitant to tip thier hand that they've got access to the footage, but if they really caught us in a lie, don't you think they'd show it?
One problem with Global Warming is that it does not fit the standard definition of science, which requires a testable hypothesis. We only have one planet, and most climate science is done with computer models, not in reality.
Somewhat ironic that your three specific points are all things Windows does (the first forever, the other two since Vista).
Interestingly, pretty much all of those are explicitly prohibited in the biblical laws regarding slavery.
FWIW, thats basically the situation with Nuclear Power Companies and nuclear waste:
http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2005/06/dollars-and-nuclear-waste-fund.html
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/42/usc_sec_42_00010222----000-.html
However, we haven't come up with a politically acceptable solution to storing nuclear waste, so the fund actually has about $16 Billion saved up in already.
Hello, did you RTFS? I'm no fan of DHS, but they ARE the ones saying that the GAO is on crack for even thinking about this idea, and that they aren't planning on doing anything.