He was refering to a recent well-known incident in which a SWAT team was sent to arrest a suspected drug dealer teenager still living with his parents. They proved to be very trigger-happy: Even though no-one at the property resisted, the team still destroyed part of the house, held the entire family at gunpoint and shot dead the two family dogs. To add further insult, the team was sent on false information - the suspect did have a small quantity of pot, but wasn't a dealer, only a user - and none of the family received any compensation for the disruption, distress, property damage or dead dogs.
SWAT teams are trained for assaults on property occupied by the armed and dangerous. Their training says to strike hard, without warning, with overwhelming force, and shooting anything that poses the slightest threat to their own safety... like a dog. So when a SWAT team is send to raid an ordinary house and ordinary family, they tend towards overkill and a shoot-first, ask-later policy.
Here in the UK, you are despised for an extradition agreement which allows you to successfully have someone sent over for prosecution who has committed no crime under UK law and never even entered the US. America has long been seen as the global champion of freedom and equality, but the government over the last few administrations has been striving to correct this.
I've the original Transformer, and I'm very happy with it. Performs decently, good battery life, reliable. My one complaint is that it installed some unwanted bundled crapware with a firmware update, and made it impossible to remove. I had to root the tablet to get rid of it.
As someone who works in the educational sector, I assure you they are not. We're still heavily focused on cramming their heads with already-obsolete technologies and rote learning to maximise exam scores.
I wonder how many people have died as a result of untrained laypeople thinking it's just like in the movies and trying to perform an emergency tracheotomy on someone who is choking or undergoing an asthma attack?
Standard procedure for killing test animals is nitrogen. Animal in chamber, nitrogen in chamber, oxygen out of chamber, animal dead. It's painless, and it doesn't cause any damage that might obscure important features.
If it's done well, you wouldn't. There is the chance someone at the FBI will slip up though - maybe use an IP address that is in the same allocation as other FBI public servers, or something like that. But if they don't, then there is no way to prove it *isn't* a honeypot.
Funniest, perhaps. But the strangest thing is that it elevates selfishness to a virtue. Charity is seen as encouraging worthless freeloaders. Compassion is seen as weakness. The heroes of Atlas Shrugged aren't heroes because they try to make the world better: They are heroes because they make themselves wealthier and more powerful, and manage to make the world better only as an unintentional side-effect.
Sounds plausible, actually. It's a handy repair tool, plus it can open up the enemy spy and communications sats and jack in directly to get at precious unencrypted data. Spy on the spies, intercept communications, maybe even discover their keys.
And when the legal proceeding complete in about 2026, once Microsoft have successfully used Secure Boot to destroy all potential competition in the desktop space and profited by many tens of billions of euros, they can get another billion-euro fine for it.
The school I work at has had to take all the five-button mice out of one room and replace them with three button mice, as some of the learning-support students have coordination problems and kept accidentially pressing the 'back' button on the side during computerised exams.
Unless your opponent also knows the technique, in which case they will recognize it and counter... thus beating you every time, unless you also realize what they are doing.
Deadlock: Neither would move until it can determine the intent of the other, which won't be detectable until that other has started to move. So they'd both just wait for the opponent to go first.
A Doctor Who classic episode actually used this theme, with two androids playing RPS against each other. As both AIs were written using the same algorithms, they derived exactly the same strategy in an attempt to predict each other's moves... and every round was a draw, as they always threw the same. The game was played to show why they had sought the Doctor's help in ending an android/Dalek war: As both sides were using computers of near-identical design to determine their actions, every move either side made was preempted and countered by the other to the point that no successful attack could be executed and the war was locked in unbreakable stalemate.
An obvious improvement would be for the robot to recognise that it has been beaten using this method and fall back to the pure-random method, against which strategy is useless.
Obama? I think you can blame Bush for most of the privacy-violations, together with the culture of paranoia that swept over the US following the 9/11 attacks. All Obama has done is completely ignore the situation.
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He was refering to a recent well-known incident in which a SWAT team was sent to arrest a suspected drug dealer teenager still living with his parents. They proved to be very trigger-happy: Even though no-one at the property resisted, the team still destroyed part of the house, held the entire family at gunpoint and shot dead the two family dogs. To add further insult, the team was sent on false information - the suspect did have a small quantity of pot, but wasn't a dealer, only a user - and none of the family received any compensation for the disruption, distress, property damage or dead dogs.
http://gawker.com/5532226/swat-team-raids-house-shoots-dogs-over-small-amount-of-marijuana
SWAT teams are trained for assaults on property occupied by the armed and dangerous. Their training says to strike hard, without warning, with overwhelming force, and shooting anything that poses the slightest threat to their own safety... like a dog. So when a SWAT team is send to raid an ordinary house and ordinary family, they tend towards overkill and a shoot-first, ask-later policy.
Here in the UK, you are despised for an extradition agreement which allows you to successfully have someone sent over for prosecution who has committed no crime under UK law and never even entered the US. America has long been seen as the global champion of freedom and equality, but the government over the last few administrations has been striving to correct this.
You don't know where it's going, but it'll make quite a bang when it gets there.
My server is barely-configured and uses a self-signed cert for the wrong hostname. This should be good.
Grade: F
Score: Zero.
I'm not going to get it signed. Have you seen how much that costs?
I've the original Transformer, and I'm very happy with it. Performs decently, good battery life, reliable. My one complaint is that it installed some unwanted bundled crapware with a firmware update, and made it impossible to remove. I had to root the tablet to get rid of it.
Not to mention other sources of less-than-legit content.
As someone who works in the educational sector, I assure you they are not. We're still heavily focused on cramming their heads with already-obsolete technologies and rote learning to maximise exam scores.
I wonder how many people have died as a result of untrained laypeople thinking it's just like in the movies and trying to perform an emergency tracheotomy on someone who is choking or undergoing an asthma attack?
Standard procedure for killing test animals is nitrogen. Animal in chamber, nitrogen in chamber, oxygen out of chamber, animal dead. It's painless, and it doesn't cause any damage that might obscure important features.
In the UK, we use Wales.
You hit bedrock at about fourty meters below ground.
If it's done well, you wouldn't. There is the chance someone at the FBI will slip up though - maybe use an IP address that is in the same allocation as other FBI public servers, or something like that. But if they don't, then there is no way to prove it *isn't* a honeypot.
Or perhaps only the dumber ones get caught. The smart ones can get away with it.
I don't recall, I saw the episode years ago.
Funniest, perhaps. But the strangest thing is that it elevates selfishness to a virtue. Charity is seen as encouraging worthless freeloaders. Compassion is seen as weakness. The heroes of Atlas Shrugged aren't heroes because they try to make the world better: They are heroes because they make themselves wealthier and more powerful, and manage to make the world better only as an unintentional side-effect.
Sounds plausible, actually. It's a handy repair tool, plus it can open up the enemy spy and communications sats and jack in directly to get at precious unencrypted data. Spy on the spies, intercept communications, maybe even discover their keys.
DARPA runs high-risk high-payoff research. Ninety-nine out of a hundred things they try fail - but the one that actually works is revolutionary.
And when the legal proceeding complete in about 2026, once Microsoft have successfully used Secure Boot to destroy all potential competition in the desktop space and profited by many tens of billions of euros, they can get another billion-euro fine for it.
The school I work at has had to take all the five-button mice out of one room and replace them with three button mice, as some of the learning-support students have coordination problems and kept accidentially pressing the 'back' button on the side during computerised exams.
Unless your opponent also knows the technique, in which case they will recognize it and counter... thus beating you every time, unless you also realize what they are doing.
Deadlock: Neither would move until it can determine the intent of the other, which won't be detectable until that other has started to move. So they'd both just wait for the opponent to go first.
A Doctor Who classic episode actually used this theme, with two androids playing RPS against each other. As both AIs were written using the same algorithms, they derived exactly the same strategy in an attempt to predict each other's moves... and every round was a draw, as they always threw the same. The game was played to show why they had sought the Doctor's help in ending an android/Dalek war: As both sides were using computers of near-identical design to determine their actions, every move either side made was preempted and countered by the other to the point that no successful attack could be executed and the war was locked in unbreakable stalemate.
An obvious improvement would be for the robot to recognise that it has been beaten using this method and fall back to the pure-random method, against which strategy is useless.
RPS is typically used when randomness is desired, but no convenient coin or other tossible fair object is to hand.
Obama? I think you can blame Bush for most of the privacy-violations, together with the culture of paranoia that swept over the US following the 9/11 attacks. All Obama has done is completely ignore the situation.
Maybe they plan to relocate the server somewhere more local once it's running.