Back in the 1960s and 70s, a small factory made glow-in-the-dark clock and watch faces across the street from the bakery and kitchens for my school district. They used a paint which released tritium as it dried, and their fume hoods vented out the roof (why not? plenty of air circulation!) and the prevailing breezes carried a nice dose of alpha particles across the street on most days to settle out on the food that we were served. When somebody somewhere was tipped off that this arrangement may not have been completely kosher, some local muckrakers and a couple of curious scientists showed up with a Geiger counter. One dish in particular, sunshine cake, was damn hot and legend has it that the name alludes to its brightness....I blame all my societal maladjustment on this lapse in food safety.
Kids, don't trust the food just because the lady with the hairnet says it's OK. Get it checked out by one of the guys in the hazmat suits.
Damn straight...I had been using Skype chat for at least a couple of years before trying FB chat. I don't think Skype's implementation is anything special, but it's pretty solid and utilitarian enough that in spite of our location at the end of one of the world's longest undersea tethers, the Southern Cross Cable, I take it for granted (my wife and I use it to hail one another across the floors of our house). FB's is abysmal by comparison.
Saying "It's like something else is heating the atmosphere besides the sun" when they're talking about the interaction of the solar wind and the magnetosphere is more than a little disingenuous....
The ability to spend does not deserve the status of protected expression. Money is not a message -- it is an amplifier, and one which increases the noise far out of proportion to the signal. Campaign finance limits exist to prevent oligarchy.
The defendant lived in Minnesota at the time the investigation took place. If the result of the investigation was to furnish evidence of an alleged activity which took place in the state of Minnesota, to be tried in a Minnesota court, then shouldn't there be a requirement for state oversight of the investigator? Or is the next Nigerian cottage industry going to involve a swarm of C&D letters? Whatever the answer, I sure as hell won't ever move to Minnesota if that's how individual rights are treated.
So is the judge saying that any old schmuck can skip being licensed as a P.I., then go out and collect evidence (possibly in bad faith) on private citizens, and have it be admissible in court?
There are entire floors of NYC skyscrapers full of racks modeling the financial markets in real time, conducting transactions, and crunching numbers for human analysts.
Using flawed algorithms and crap assumptions as input. See where that got us.
Ain't that the truth. What's even more disturbing is that Key's center-right National Party made a deal with the devil in allowing the wacko-radical right ACT to be a confidence and supply partner. Now many of the policies emanating from the Beehive of late appear to have been written or vetted by Rodney Hide and the country's most thoroughly discredited economic "thinker," Roger Douglas.
It seems the Kiwis got fed up with a somewhat arrogant and out-of-touch, but relatively able, Labour government. They voted themselves three years of reverse progress as a result. There's hope though: The Maori Party may wake up to the rogering they're getting as a coalition partner when the Foreshore and Seabed legislation is revisited, and trigger a vote of no confidence. I'm not betting the farm on it.
If you cared about it at all, it's backed up somewhere. Securely, of course. Tell your attorney to deposit the artifacts for safekeeping. Of course, this point dovetails nicely with their advice on retention and secure deletion.
Nice site, has thorough and accessible explanations of things that the non-geek-yet-somewhat-paranoid digital populace really need to get clued up. The section on FISA, particularly the Beyond FISA page, is a must read. That Fourth Amendment sure was nice while it lasted....
Oh Download boy, the pipes, the pipes are crawling
Eircom's gone and blocked the pirate sites
No mp3s, and torrents are appalling
'Tis all because of nutty IP rights.
But come ye back armed with your faithful proxy
Or simply find new URLs to parse.
'Tis not the science of the flying rocket
Oh Download boy, the law it is an arse.
Once a jolly swagman plugged into the internets, Under the shade of a coolibah tree, And he sang as he watched and waited as he torrented "Don't go deploying your filters on me".
"Deploying your filters, deploying your filters Don't go deploying your filters on me" And he sang as he watched and waited as he torrented, "Don't go deploying your filters on me".
Down came the content speeding through the internets, Up jumped the swagman and viewed it with glee, And he sang as he shoved that content on his backup disk, "You'll be a-wasting your filters on me".
"Wasting your filters, wasting your filters Don't go a-wasting your filters on me" And he sang as he shoved that content on his backup disk, "Don't go a-wasting your filters on me".
Up rode the Conroy, mounted on his ISP, Down came the troopers, one, two, three, "Where's that jolly content you downloaded so illicitly? You've been evading the filters from me."
"Evading the filters, evading the filters You've been evading the filters from me." "Where's that jolly content you downloaded so illicitly? You've been evading the filters from me."
Up jumped the swagman and handed them his backup disk, "You'll never crack my encryption", said he, And his packets are tunneled and proxied through the internets, "You'll never get your bloody filters on me".
"Your bloody filters, your bloody filters You'll never get your bloody filters on me". And his packets are tunneled and proxied through the internets, "You'll never get your bloody filters on me".
That's a nifty analogy, even if it mentions motor vehicles a total of 0x0000 times.
If I may extend it, let us place a vial in the box containing a deadly virus, and rig a thingy to break the vial at the moment some random script kiddie hits both shift keys simultaneously. In the closed-box model one has no way of knowing if the kitten is intact without opening the box. Just as the computer user has no knowledge of the integrity of the OS, applications and data without full visibility -- the box represents the vendor's level of disclosure. An open box very neatly circumvents the problem.
Nevada's got you beat six ways till Sunday. Utah and Oregon are not too far behind, and Idaho and Arizona are roughly 50 percent federally controlled on the basis of land area: Map plus top/bottom ten lists.
What's more to the point is the fact the federal ownership does not necessarily exclude economic exploitation. A significant portion of federal lands in AK are wide open to oil and gas production, coal and hardrock mining (the latter in the form of legalized looting thanks the the 1872 Mining Act), timber (hello Tongass NF) and dozens of other industries.
You've got a plethora of natural resources and lots of grubby opportunists who'd love an anarchic free-for-all to get while the gettin's good and say the fuck with the long-term consequences. Not too different from the placer miners in 1850s California, the sodbusters in the 1880s/1920s Great Plains, the real estate scammers and S&L kingpins of the 1980s, and myriad other shining examples of unfettered American enterprise. Thanks, but I'd rather see a steady hand on the controls even if some of y'all think it's a dead one.
I'll add a little background here: In NZ, we are burdened by a regressive monopoly structure which has severely hampered our connectivity, both in country and internationally.
Telecom NZ was formerly a subsidiary of NZ Post and thereby wholly owned and controlled by the government. The New Zealand economy went into a tailspin beginning in the 1970s, hit with the oil shock and the diminution of trade with its largest overseas market, the UK, who had just entered the European Common Market. In response, during the 1980s and 90s the governments, first Labour and then National, went on a privatization binge (see Rogernomics) and sold off infrastructure right and left in an effort to encourage capital investment. Power generation and transmission, rail lines and rolling stock, and the telephone network were peeled off and their new corporate structures were remarkably free of constraints or oversight from the former owners.
As a result of this monopoly position, Telecom has had two decades in which to milk the cash cow of assets it was more or less gifted from the public domain, and has been loath to increase capacity any more than absolutely necessary. The latest government, after reviewing the pathetic state of everything from landline and mobile pricing to broadband uptake and service levels, finally reinstituted regulation of Telecom and forced a split of the company into wholesale, retail and services divisions. In addition, it has mandated local loop unbundling for competitive DSL providers. Much of this is too little, too late, however, and the elephant in the room has been unacknowledged.
New Zealand has only one transoceanic fiber link to the rest of the world, and its operator, the Southern Cross Cable Network, is 50 percent owned by Telecom. The rates for international traffic on the SCCN reflect its monopoly status and appear to be governed by the doctrine of artificial scarcity. As a result, NZ ISPs have to be ultra stingy with bandwidth, forcing onerous data caps on business and retail customers and enforcing a two-tier pricing model on local and international traffic. Of course, in a nation with a land mass and population similar to the state of Colorado and an urgent need to be connected to global markets, this is criminally insane. But until competition enters the picture or the government grows some balls, we're stuffed.
Cool. Now apply the same requirement to the manufacturers of police speed radar units. Anyone who has been wrongly accused by the operator of one of these gadgets deserves to have the innards of the thing gone over with a fine-toothed comb. There's a lot more snake oil and marketing gimmickry than science involved in the business of nailing innocent motorists in the name of raising revenue.
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Back in the 1960s and 70s, a small factory made glow-in-the-dark clock and watch faces across the street from the bakery and kitchens for my school district. They used a paint which released tritium as it dried, and their fume hoods vented out the roof (why not? plenty of air circulation!) and the prevailing breezes carried a nice dose of alpha particles across the street on most days to settle out on the food that we were served. When somebody somewhere was tipped off that this arrangement may not have been completely kosher, some local muckrakers and a couple of curious scientists showed up with a Geiger counter. One dish in particular, sunshine cake, was damn hot and legend has it that the name alludes to its brightness....I blame all my societal maladjustment on this lapse in food safety.
Kids, don't trust the food just because the lady with the hairnet says it's OK. Get it checked out by one of the guys in the hazmat suits.
Damn straight...I had been using Skype chat for at least a couple of years before trying FB chat. I don't think Skype's implementation is anything special, but it's pretty solid and utilitarian enough that in spite of our location at the end of one of the world's longest undersea tethers, the Southern Cross Cable, I take it for granted (my wife and I use it to hail one another across the floors of our house). FB's is abysmal by comparison.
And I hope the door hits him in the ass on the way out, too.
Saying "It's like something else is heating the atmosphere besides the sun" when they're talking about the interaction of the solar wind and the magnetosphere is more than a little disingenuous....
Cheers for that clear-eyed assessment...you said exactly what I was thinking.
The ability to spend does not deserve the status of protected expression. Money is not a message -- it is an amplifier, and one which increases the noise far out of proportion to the signal. Campaign finance limits exist to prevent oligarchy.
The defendant lived in Minnesota at the time the investigation took place. If the result of the investigation was to furnish evidence of an alleged activity which took place in the state of Minnesota, to be tried in a Minnesota court, then shouldn't there be a requirement for state oversight of the investigator? Or is the next Nigerian cottage industry going to involve a swarm of C&D letters? Whatever the answer, I sure as hell won't ever move to Minnesota if that's how individual rights are treated.
So is the judge saying that any old schmuck can skip being licensed as a P.I., then go out and collect evidence (possibly in bad faith) on private citizens, and have it be admissible in court?
Whoa. I smell a business opportunity writ large.
Using flawed algorithms and crap assumptions as input. See where that got us.
Please. "Impact" is not a transitive verb unless the subject happens to be a tooth.
Ain't that the truth. What's even more disturbing is that Key's center-right National Party made a deal with the devil in allowing the wacko-radical right ACT to be a confidence and supply partner. Now many of the policies emanating from the Beehive of late appear to have been written or vetted by Rodney Hide and the country's most thoroughly discredited economic "thinker," Roger Douglas.
It seems the Kiwis got fed up with a somewhat arrogant and out-of-touch, but relatively able, Labour government. They voted themselves three years of reverse progress as a result. There's hope though: The Maori Party may wake up to the rogering they're getting as a coalition partner when the Foreshore and Seabed legislation is revisited, and trigger a vote of no confidence. I'm not betting the farm on it.
If you cared about it at all, it's backed up somewhere. Securely, of course. Tell your attorney to deposit the artifacts for safekeeping. Of course, this point dovetails nicely with their advice on retention and secure deletion.
EFF! That's who.
Nice site, has thorough and accessible explanations of things that the non-geek-yet-somewhat-paranoid digital populace really need to get clued up. The section on FISA, particularly the Beyond FISA page, is a must read. That Fourth Amendment sure was nice while it lasted....
Why?
Wait for it...
So when someone asks where the newly discovered moon is, you can answer: "Bach's there, in the G-Ring."
Thanks! I'll be here all week! Tip your servers and avoid the crab Louie like black death!"
Oh Download boy, the pipes, the pipes are crawling
Eircom's gone and blocked the pirate sites
No mp3s, and torrents are appalling
'Tis all because of nutty IP rights.
But come ye back armed with your faithful proxy
Or simply find new URLs to parse.
'Tis not the science of the flying rocket
Oh Download boy, the law it is an arse.
His name is Robert Paulson.
Well, it's empathy from across the ditch. We're getting some pretty shocking ineptness from our governing idiots here in NZ, too.
But at least we're not getting the fires of hell burning entire towns. Chins up, Aussies. I sincerely hope you beat this.
Once a jolly swagman plugged into the internets,
Under the shade of a coolibah tree,
And he sang as he watched and waited as he torrented
"Don't go deploying your filters on me".
"Deploying your filters, deploying your filters
Don't go deploying your filters on me"
And he sang as he watched and waited as he torrented,
"Don't go deploying your filters on me".
Down came the content speeding through the internets,
Up jumped the swagman and viewed it with glee,
And he sang as he shoved that content on his backup disk,
"You'll be a-wasting your filters on me".
"Wasting your filters, wasting your filters
Don't go a-wasting your filters on me"
And he sang as he shoved that content on his backup disk,
"Don't go a-wasting your filters on me".
Up rode the Conroy, mounted on his ISP,
Down came the troopers, one, two, three,
"Where's that jolly content you downloaded so illicitly?
You've been evading the filters from me."
"Evading the filters, evading the filters
You've been evading the filters from me."
"Where's that jolly content you downloaded so illicitly?
You've been evading the filters from me."
Up jumped the swagman and handed them his backup disk,
"You'll never crack my encryption", said he,
And his packets are tunneled and proxied through the internets,
"You'll never get your bloody filters on me".
"Your bloody filters, your bloody filters
You'll never get your bloody filters on me".
And his packets are tunneled and proxied through the internets,
"You'll never get your bloody filters on me".
That's a nifty analogy, even if it mentions motor vehicles a total of 0x0000 times.
If I may extend it, let us place a vial in the box containing a deadly virus, and rig a thingy to break the vial at the moment some random script kiddie hits both shift keys simultaneously. In the closed-box model one has no way of knowing if the kitten is intact without opening the box. Just as the computer user has no knowledge of the integrity of the OS, applications and data without full visibility -- the box represents the vendor's level of disclosure. An open box very neatly circumvents the problem.
Man, it's getting late.
Gigantumous.
I'll wager that this dark energy stuff is actually laziness, and there's heaps more of it than anyone ever imagined.
You call that funny? It's just ionic.
Thanks! I'll be here all week. Tip your servers and avoid the crab louie like the plague!
Kwitcherbitchin.
Nevada's got you beat six ways till Sunday. Utah and Oregon are not too far behind, and Idaho and Arizona are roughly 50 percent federally controlled on the basis of land area: Map plus top/bottom ten lists.
What's more to the point is the fact the federal ownership does not necessarily exclude economic exploitation. A significant portion of federal lands in AK are wide open to oil and gas production, coal and hardrock mining (the latter in the form of legalized looting thanks the the 1872 Mining Act), timber (hello Tongass NF) and dozens of other industries.
You've got a plethora of natural resources and lots of grubby opportunists who'd love an anarchic free-for-all to get while the gettin's good and say the fuck with the long-term consequences. Not too different from the placer miners in 1850s California, the sodbusters in the 1880s/1920s Great Plains, the real estate scammers and S&L kingpins of the 1980s, and myriad other shining examples of unfettered American enterprise. Thanks, but I'd rather see a steady hand on the controls even if some of y'all think it's a dead one.
I'll add a little background here: In NZ, we are burdened by a regressive monopoly structure which has severely hampered our connectivity, both in country and internationally.
Telecom NZ was formerly a subsidiary of NZ Post and thereby wholly owned and controlled by the government. The New Zealand economy went into a tailspin beginning in the 1970s, hit with the oil shock and the diminution of trade with its largest overseas market, the UK, who had just entered the European Common Market. In response, during the 1980s and 90s the governments, first Labour and then National, went on a privatization binge (see Rogernomics) and sold off infrastructure right and left in an effort to encourage capital investment. Power generation and transmission, rail lines and rolling stock, and the telephone network were peeled off and their new corporate structures were remarkably free of constraints or oversight from the former owners.
As a result of this monopoly position, Telecom has had two decades in which to milk the cash cow of assets it was more or less gifted from the public domain, and has been loath to increase capacity any more than absolutely necessary. The latest government, after reviewing the pathetic state of everything from landline and mobile pricing to broadband uptake and service levels, finally reinstituted regulation of Telecom and forced a split of the company into wholesale, retail and services divisions. In addition, it has mandated local loop unbundling for competitive DSL providers. Much of this is too little, too late, however, and the elephant in the room has been unacknowledged.
New Zealand has only one transoceanic fiber link to the rest of the world, and its operator, the Southern Cross Cable Network, is 50 percent owned by Telecom. The rates for international traffic on the SCCN reflect its monopoly status and appear to be governed by the doctrine of artificial scarcity. As a result, NZ ISPs have to be ultra stingy with bandwidth, forcing onerous data caps on business and retail customers and enforcing a two-tier pricing model on local and international traffic. Of course, in a nation with a land mass and population similar to the state of Colorado and an urgent need to be connected to global markets, this is criminally insane. But until competition enters the picture or the government grows some balls, we're stuffed.
Cool. Now apply the same requirement to the manufacturers of police speed radar units. Anyone who has been wrongly accused by the operator of one of these gadgets deserves to have the innards of the thing gone over with a fine-toothed comb. There's a lot more snake oil and marketing gimmickry than science involved in the business of nailing innocent motorists in the name of raising revenue.