I came to the realization that some measure of justice is inevitable, and that's just a mathematical fact.
In fact.... even if they are not guilty, by the time of acquittal, most accused have spent way too much time in jail, possibly years -- depending on how long their trial was drawn out, AND how much time, money, personal energy, effort, and time spent worrying in the time period between their first arrest, and the verdict of the trial ----- even an innocent person will have aged by 10 years or so, in the 12 to 36 month period between arrest and plea bargain or court verdict.
a decent person is likely to turn into a hardened criminal. and with a decent justification, too. a great injustice...
I should think not.... the purpose of prisons is to contain and reform criminals into productive citizens.
If anything, I should expect the wrongly imprisoned to emerge a more god-fearing more moral person than they were when they got put in there by mistake.
If self-defense is reasoned but cannot be proven; in some cases, it might be reasonable to have available a finding of "Probably guilty"; with a prison sentence reduced from the standard 25 years to life, TO 5 to 10 years, with opportunity for parole.
Why don't you come out and say what you mean here. The life of 1 rich man is worth more than the life of one poor trash that is probably a criminal
Why do you say that?
I would greatly favor law enforcement enforcing primarily laws against rape, fraud, murder, robbery, assault/battery, any armed threat, and burglary involving trespass (breaking and entering).
There may be a disparate impact of that, ONLY because poor people may be predisposed to the persons guilty of committing such crimes; if the data bear that out, then it makes sense, and it is just and appropriate that they would be disparately impacted.
There are plenty of rich trash that need to go to jail, in much larger numbers than there are.
And I would favor that all their assets should be seized, stocks, ownership interests, trusts, etc, whether in local or foreign banks,
in order to be spent on the public good -- in other words, grants and low-interest loans to help poor people become rich through legitimate means.
I would promote zero tolerance against tax avoidance scams -- such as funnelling funds through international banks to "recharacterize" income. People should go to jail when that happens.
It's better to let a guilty man go free then to put an innocent man behind bars.
That may have a shred of truth, but it's not infinitely better.
One criminal not behind bars can kill 1000 or steal from thousands.
One innocent person behind bars is 1 life diminished (but not extinguished).
And police can know for a fact that at least one of those two person's is guilty of something.
So if the defendant is deemed guilty, among the suspects available to hold guilty of a crime, there are very very good odds.
The courts only have a certain success rate, and the number of people arrested in the US is large -- more than most other countries.
Therefore, the law of big numbers tells us essentially MANY innocent people will be erroneously placed behind bars for long periods of time, regardless of what we do, AND MANY guilty people will be erroneously allowed to go free, regardless of what we do. These are facts of life, which cannot be avoided, only accepted.
Both errors are grave. Arguably, having more criminals go free, increases the rate of crime on the streets.
It is on slashdot because it is a conservative victory, and this is a conservative web site. Any news that proclaims victory for conservatives - even if they are a loss for justice itself - automatically make the front page. Expect to see a front page story here when the Texas governor signs the latest anti-abortion bill as well.
This is not a conservative victory. This is the court doing its job to find the truth and making rulings on the law and the disposition of alleged criminals.
Either way, it would take months, if not years, before the guy saw any justice/money/compensation/etc. Unfortunately, no CxO in his/her right mind would even think of hiring the guy in the interim, given the toxicity of the events and who is backing the potential defendants
A CxO in their right mind would be able to hire the guy...it takes integrity to stand up to a superior for what's just and what's legal;
understanding the risk that you might be fired for it.
Integrity, Intelligence, and Energy are the the most important characteristics to look for in a good employee, and Integrity is the hardest to find -- but the most important one.
I like transactional DDL; however, after an application is installed, DDL statements are extremely rare and in production: generally only allowed to be used by the DBA when applying a schema upgrade to support a new version of an application.
So in most cases transactional DDL isn't really an important factor.
CIA is launching the new GuantanaMoBrands Home Appliances
Well... the prisoners might as well be doing something useful, for all the money being spent to house them.
Spending all 8 am to 6pm every day working at a Vacuum cleaner factory in GuantanaMo sounds great to me.
Why should these prisoners get to play all day, when the rest of the population has to work?
9/11 and that interview were clearly an amazing publicity stunt to generate hype for his vacuum cleaner design. Slashvertisement was just the next step in his plan.
Prisoners in general are held to be in the service to the government, while in prison --- so, as if they were an employee, the government gets the rights to their creation, invention, or business.
So if there was a publicity stunt involved, the guy should have designed it first.
followed by a fair and impartial trial, was the most effective way to ensure that an admission of guilt (or conviction) was credible and final.
And then they went and screwed it up, by letting interrogators lie -- imply that they had enough evidence to put 'em away for life, and coax the prisoner into confessing under a false pretense that they'll get off with less prison time, than they'd be certain to have if they insisted upon exercising their right to a trial.
If they are managing a big project that has software costs of millions a year then they must be very important.
That's insane.... if the NPV of the project is higher, then it's clearly a more important project.
Spending more on software lowers the NPV: unless the software adds more value than less-costly options.
On the other hand... a project where much more is spent, but destroys value is not an important project --- it needs to be optimized by reducing costs or scrapped.
I'm pretty sure companies' management understand value, and how to evaluate whether a project is improving value for the company better than another project, or whether a project is destroying value and needs to get cancelled or have its team size and costs cut in half.
The companies' whose management don't understand are failing or only succeeding by coincidence in spite of incompetence, and are doomed to failure eventually, assuming management doesn't get replaced with a competing more effective management.....
There are features Oracle provides that have no PostgreSQL equivalent.
Price -- it costs a lot of money. For many governmental entities, this is a huge advantage -- as they are given a budget, and they need to spend it, otherwise their budget will get reduced -- if its an excuse to spend money, based on claims of productivity, they will often deny requests to use OSS, and mandate the use of Oracle, based on its productivity-improving and more-reliable qualities that some slick salesman persuaded them of, after taking them out for steak at a 5-star restaurant somewhere, or whatever. Also; I hear plenty of government workers saying Management has a no open source software policy; for security reasons, the more money spent on the product the better, as closed source code is deemed to be more secure... For me, and business i'm involved with, this is a huge negative for Oracle, and a reason I almost always pick Postgresql; yes, Oracle delivers more, BUT in many cases you pay Oracle for every extra cent of additional incremental value Oracle delivers over Postgres, and maybe 300% more.
SQL Language features where Oracle's implementation is superior -- such as BLOBs.
Postgres manages these poorly, for example, you cannot reliably pg_dump blobs - if your application is BLOB happy (e.g. Sharepoint-like), then Postgres is not very suitable.
SQL Language features that have no PostgreSQL analog -- such as CONNECT BY clauses, Java class based schema and table mappings; module languages; XML types; default value funciton parameters; organize stored procedure objects using packages;.
Would it relieve you to know that there exist people whose opinions have been swayed by the revelation of scientific study on the subject. I didn't think earthquakes were a likely result of fracking before, but I do now. Sucks that I was wrong before.
Before I can jump to that conclusion.... I have to raise a serious question, however:
Have their results been repeated?
Under ordinary circumstances, I would lend a great deal of credence to research --- BUT, there is a serious problem.
I know for a fact that there are already environmental groups who are very vocal in their opposition to fracking.
They already speculated the conclusion that fracking can cause earthquakes.
And there are probably millions or billions of money to be spent under the table: by activists and lawyers interested in the potential opportunities, for researchers willing to see things the way they do.
My concern is that the outcome of the research may have been affected by known or unknown biases that caused their results to be distorted and not in line with reality.
Therefore; I would demand that their results are reproduced and audited, before they deserve any credence.
For the time being, I say their findings are troubling, but a great degree of skepticism is called for.
How about you evaluate for yourself whether the removal millions of gallons of liquid from the earth's crust leaves cavities which result in compression which result in stress which result in earthquakes in geological stable regions.
We remove millions of gallons of liquid from the earth's crust to create drinking water.
Without removing those millions of gallons of liquid -- there is no water for humans to drink, and
there are massive die-offs of humans....
Where have I heard that? "The earth isn't warming" to "Ok it's warming but that's a good thing" or "Evolution doesn't happen" to "Ok micro-evolution happens".
Ok, they were wrong at first, but they advanced the science in the most rational way; without taking a pessimistic bias and prematurely assuming that the worst possible things are the case.
but it's equally unwise to think you're safe as long as no one pokes it. The important problem is the pile of explosives!
You may be a lot safer if noone pokes it with a stick. The pile of explosives could sit safely by for thousands, tens of thousands, or millions of years if unmolested.
Given sufficient amounts of time major geological disturbances are guaranteed
For example; continental drift.
California separating from the mainland; Japan getting sucked down into the ocean.
Accelerating geologic scale events is called a catastrophe.
Time and time again on Slashdot, we've had extraction engineers that work on this say it's completely safe and anyone who says otherwise is fear mongering!
It's probably fine, but I would like to see legislators passing a law mandating treble damages, for any earth quakes that can be correlated with unsafe energy production operations, AND the onus placed on those producing energy to prove that their methods are safe, that their implementation matches the safe method, and that there aren't configuration or operator errors.
So "no direct access to data" probably isn't saying much --- just about the limitations of what capabilities the admin UI has.
Posturing by HP to attempt to reduce the perceived severity of the issue?
While not allowing access to the data directly from that interface,
There are probably commands they would be able to type that might enable an additional iSCSI, FC, or NFS initiator to connect; possibly an initiator running on an IP address controlled by the person using the backdoor.
People can do other things on their computers besides load up SSH sessions; if they've got IP connectivity to the storage unit.... it reasons they might use the admin UI to change the configuration in other ways that impact their level of access
I grok this to mean that a backdoor exists for customer service, which can be activated by a customer (by two factors: permission and network access), and that without action on the part of the customer, said backdoor is closed.
The requirement for permission is sociological and based on adherence to company procedures and policies of HP.
If HP had chosen to require physical manipulation of the storage device, collecting a serial number or code printed ONLY on the device, or another method of OPT-IN selection by the storage admin, then I am sure there would be no complaint.
The problem is some HP support employees have access to a God code that grants administrative access to any piece of gear, and it's the same for all customer units, AND probably the code continues to work, even if some customer service employees are terminated, that might know the code.
It's poor security against insider abuse, regardless.
If HP had decided to store their passwords properly, by using Bcrypt or Scrypt with a decently high work factor,
we would not be having this discussion... their password could be badg3r5, and it would take at least 5 or 6 hours to crack using a dicitonary search with l33t-speak substitution, so there probably wouldn't be 50+ people having discovered it within a couple days:)
There are online references to many; maybe all these names to be found.
ANCHORY
www.fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/anchory.htm
Jan 29, 1998 - ANCHORY, formerly known as the SIGINT Online Intelligence System, is an NSA database of SIGINT-derived information. Access to the...
DODIIS AMHS (Automatic Message Handling System)
www.fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/amhs.htm
Jan 26, 2000 - The Automated Message Handling System (AMHS) provides a user-friendly means to send and receive messages via the Automated Digital...
Mainway - which predominantly collects unstructured telephone metadata; and,
Marina - which predominantly collects unstructured internet metadata; and,
Nucleon - which analyzes spoken words and emails; and,
Prism - which obtains and analyzes digital data obtained straight from the servers of major telecommunications and internet providers
ArcMap - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcMapmain component of Esri's ArcGIS suite of geospatial processing programs, and is used primarily to view, edit, create, and analyze geospatial data.
Slashdot Mirror
I came to the realization that some measure of justice is inevitable, and that's just a mathematical fact. In fact.... even if they are not guilty, by the time of acquittal, most accused have spent way too much time in jail, possibly years -- depending on how long their trial was drawn out, AND how much time, money, personal energy, effort, and time spent worrying in the time period between their first arrest, and the verdict of the trial ----- even an innocent person will have aged by 10 years or so, in the 12 to 36 month period between arrest and plea bargain or court verdict.
a decent person is likely to turn into a hardened criminal. and with a decent justification, too. a great injustice...
I should think not.... the purpose of prisons is to contain and reform criminals into productive citizens. If anything, I should expect the wrongly imprisoned to emerge a more god-fearing more moral person than they were when they got put in there by mistake.
If self-defense is reasoned but cannot be proven; in some cases, it might be reasonable to have available a finding of "Probably guilty"; with a prison sentence reduced from the standard 25 years to life, TO 5 to 10 years, with opportunity for parole.
Why don't you come out and say what you mean here. The life of 1 rich man is worth more than the life of one poor trash that is probably a criminal
Why do you say that?
I would greatly favor law enforcement enforcing primarily laws against rape, fraud, murder, robbery, assault/battery, any armed threat, and burglary involving trespass (breaking and entering).
There may be a disparate impact of that, ONLY because poor people may be predisposed to the persons guilty of committing such crimes; if the data bear that out, then it makes sense, and it is just and appropriate that they would be disparately impacted.
There are plenty of rich trash that need to go to jail, in much larger numbers than there are.
And I would favor that all their assets should be seized, stocks, ownership interests, trusts, etc, whether in local or foreign banks, in order to be spent on the public good -- in other words, grants and low-interest loans to help poor people become rich through legitimate means.
I would promote zero tolerance against tax avoidance scams -- such as funnelling funds through international banks to "recharacterize" income. People should go to jail when that happens.
It's better to let a guilty man go free then to put an innocent man behind bars.
That may have a shred of truth, but it's not infinitely better.
One criminal not behind bars can kill 1000 or steal from thousands. One innocent person behind bars is 1 life diminished (but not extinguished).
And police can know for a fact that at least one of those two person's is guilty of something. So if the defendant is deemed guilty, among the suspects available to hold guilty of a crime, there are very very good odds.
The courts only have a certain success rate, and the number of people arrested in the US is large -- more than most other countries.
Therefore, the law of big numbers tells us essentially MANY innocent people will be erroneously placed behind bars for long periods of time, regardless of what we do, AND MANY guilty people will be erroneously allowed to go free, regardless of what we do. These are facts of life, which cannot be avoided, only accepted.
Both errors are grave. Arguably, having more criminals go free, increases the rate of crime on the streets.
It is on slashdot because it is a conservative victory, and this is a conservative web site. Any news that proclaims victory for conservatives - even if they are a loss for justice itself - automatically make the front page. Expect to see a front page story here when the Texas governor signs the latest anti-abortion bill as well.
This is not a conservative victory. This is the court doing its job to find the truth and making rulings on the law and the disposition of alleged criminals.
Either way, it would take months, if not years, before the guy saw any justice/money/compensation/etc. Unfortunately, no CxO in his/her right mind would even think of hiring the guy in the interim, given the toxicity of the events and who is backing the potential defendants
A CxO in their right mind would be able to hire the guy...it takes integrity to stand up to a superior for what's just and what's legal; understanding the risk that you might be fired for it.
Integrity, Intelligence, and Energy are the the most important characteristics to look for in a good employee, and Integrity is the hardest to find -- but the most important one.
I like transactional DDL; however, after an application is installed, DDL statements are extremely rare and in production: generally only allowed to be used by the DBA when applying a schema upgrade to support a new version of an application.
So in most cases transactional DDL isn't really an important factor.
California's not going anywhere for quite a while, and I doubt humans will exist by the time that happens, anyways, so to even consider it is funny.
The Earth's been around for billions of years, and will be around for billions of years more.
And humans are probably not going anywhere for quite awhile, but who could really say for certain? Noone.
CIA is launching the new GuantanaMoBrands Home Appliances
Well... the prisoners might as well be doing something useful, for all the money being spent to house them. Spending all 8 am to 6pm every day working at a Vacuum cleaner factory in GuantanaMo sounds great to me.
Why should these prisoners get to play all day, when the rest of the population has to work?
9/11 and that interview were clearly an amazing publicity stunt to generate hype for his vacuum cleaner design. Slashvertisement was just the next step in his plan.
Prisoners in general are held to be in the service to the government, while in prison --- so, as if they were an employee, the government gets the rights to their creation, invention, or business.
So if there was a publicity stunt involved, the guy should have designed it first.
followed by a fair and impartial trial, was the most effective way to ensure that an admission of guilt (or conviction) was credible and final.
And then they went and screwed it up, by letting interrogators lie -- imply that they had enough evidence to put 'em away for life, and coax the prisoner into confessing under a false pretense that they'll get off with less prison time, than they'd be certain to have if they insisted upon exercising their right to a trial.
If they are managing a big project that has software costs of millions a year then they must be very important.
That's insane.... if the NPV of the project is higher, then it's clearly a more important project.
Spending more on software lowers the NPV: unless the software adds more value than less-costly options.
On the other hand... a project where much more is spent, but destroys value is not an important project --- it needs to be optimized by reducing costs or scrapped.
I'm pretty sure companies' management understand value, and how to evaluate whether a project is improving value for the company better than another project, or whether a project is destroying value and needs to get cancelled or have its team size and costs cut in half.
The companies' whose management don't understand are failing or only succeeding by coincidence in spite of incompetence, and are doomed to failure eventually, assuming management doesn't get replaced with a competing more effective management.....
There are features Oracle provides that have no PostgreSQL equivalent.
Would it relieve you to know that there exist people whose opinions have been swayed by the revelation of scientific study on the subject. I didn't think earthquakes were a likely result of fracking before, but I do now. Sucks that I was wrong before.
Before I can jump to that conclusion.... I have to raise a serious question, however: Have their results been repeated?
Under ordinary circumstances, I would lend a great deal of credence to research --- BUT, there is a serious problem. I know for a fact that there are already environmental groups who are very vocal in their opposition to fracking.
They already speculated the conclusion that fracking can cause earthquakes. And there are probably millions or billions of money to be spent under the table: by activists and lawyers interested in the potential opportunities, for researchers willing to see things the way they do.
My concern is that the outcome of the research may have been affected by known or unknown biases that caused their results to be distorted and not in line with reality.
Therefore; I would demand that their results are reproduced and audited, before they deserve any credence. For the time being, I say their findings are troubling, but a great degree of skepticism is called for.
How about you evaluate for yourself whether the removal millions of gallons of liquid from the earth's crust leaves cavities which result in compression which result in stress which result in earthquakes in geological stable regions.
We remove millions of gallons of liquid from the earth's crust to create drinking water. Without removing those millions of gallons of liquid -- there is no water for humans to drink, and there are massive die-offs of humans....
Where have I heard that? "The earth isn't warming" to "Ok it's warming but that's a good thing" or "Evolution doesn't happen" to "Ok micro-evolution happens".
Ok, they were wrong at first, but they advanced the science in the most rational way; without taking a pessimistic bias and prematurely assuming that the worst possible things are the case.
but it's equally unwise to think you're safe as long as no one pokes it. The important problem is the pile of explosives!
You may be a lot safer if noone pokes it with a stick. The pile of explosives could sit safely by for thousands, tens of thousands, or millions of years if unmolested.
Given sufficient amounts of time major geological disturbances are guaranteed
For example; continental drift. California separating from the mainland; Japan getting sucked down into the ocean.
Accelerating geologic scale events is called a catastrophe.
All that energy will be released eventually, it's just a question of when - and the longer it takes to snap, the worse it will be.
If it happens today; It could seriously hurt me. If it happens 200 years from now but is 5 times worse, then maybe I don't care.
So happening sooner is not always better
A quake today is more damaging than a quake years from now.
Time and time again on Slashdot, we've had extraction engineers that work on this say it's completely safe and anyone who says otherwise is fear mongering!
It's probably fine, but I would like to see legislators passing a law mandating treble damages, for any earth quakes that can be correlated with unsafe energy production operations, AND the onus placed on those producing energy to prove that their methods are safe, that their implementation matches the safe method, and that there aren't configuration or operator errors.
So "no direct access to data" probably isn't saying much --- just about the limitations of what capabilities the admin UI has.
Posturing by HP to attempt to reduce the perceived severity of the issue?
While not allowing access to the data directly from that interface,
There are probably commands they would be able to type that might enable an additional iSCSI, FC, or NFS initiator to connect; possibly an initiator running on an IP address controlled by the person using the backdoor.
People can do other things on their computers besides load up SSH sessions; if they've got IP connectivity to the storage unit.... it reasons they might use the admin UI to change the configuration in other ways that impact their level of access
I grok this to mean that a backdoor exists for customer service, which can be activated by a customer (by two factors: permission and network access), and that without action on the part of the customer, said backdoor is closed.
The requirement for permission is sociological and based on adherence to company procedures and policies of HP.
If HP had chosen to require physical manipulation of the storage device, collecting a serial number or code printed ONLY on the device, or another method of OPT-IN selection by the storage admin, then I am sure there would be no complaint.
The problem is some HP support employees have access to a God code that grants administrative access to any piece of gear, and it's the same for all customer units, AND probably the code continues to work, even if some customer service employees are terminated, that might know the code.
It's poor security against insider abuse, regardless.
If HP had decided to store their passwords properly, by using Bcrypt or Scrypt with a decently high work factor, we would not be having this discussion... their password could be badg3r5, and it would take at least 5 or 6 hours to crack using a dicitonary search with l33t-speak substitution, so there probably wouldn't be 50+ people having discovered it within a couple days :)
ANCHORY www.fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/anchory.htm Jan 29, 1998 - ANCHORY, formerly known as the SIGINT Online Intelligence System, is an NSA database of SIGINT-derived information. Access to the ...
DODIIS AMHS (Automatic Message Handling System) www.fas.org/irp/program/disseminate/amhs.htm Jan 26, 2000 - The Automated Message Handling System (AMHS) provides a user-friendly means to send and receive messages via the Automated Digital ...
http://www.truthliesdeceptioncoverups.info/search/label/Nucleon
ArcMap - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ArcMap main component of Esri's ArcGIS suite of geospatial processing programs, and is used primarily to view, edit, create, and analyze geospatial data.
DISHFIRE - http://beyondsof.com/sigint-analyst-tsscici-poly-cied-arcgis-arcview-googleearth/
PINWALE - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinwale
OCTSKYWARD- https://www.google.com/search?q=OCTSKYWARD&aq=f&oq=OCTSKYWARD&sugexp=chrome,mod=17&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8
INTELINK - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelink
Awesome! I don't work for the NSA, but I do use ARCMAP....although Esri would prefer it spelled "ArcMap". It's common GIS software, not a NSA program.
But there might be more than one ARCMAP. If you rearrange the letters you get "PAM CAR"
Makes perfect sense.... a mod_car.... CAR module for PAM could have its benefits....
You choose the appropriate article based on how the acronym is pronounced.
That's one style. Abbreviation vocalization.
Word vocalization is also correct.
If you use the first style you get "An NSA ...."
If you use the second style, you look at the first word which is "National", that starts with a consonant sound, so you have "A NSA ...."
Both styles are correct.
What this just goes to show is.... Slashdot's full of grammar Nazis :)
one is a database of every phone call made by political opponents of the administration
Whoa... talk about abuse of power......
sudo make me a sandwich
make: *** No rule to make target `me'. Stop. (What kind of sandwich?)