The search standards at border crossings are very loose. It's been that way since 1789. The Constitution is high on defense of the nation, and tariffs were the first taxes. Obviously you cannot defend the borders or impose tariffs without being able to search at border crossings.
The Congress shall have power:
To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
"Exhibit A in the Supreme Courtâ(TM)s case for border searches is a statute Congress enacted in 1789, which granted customs officials âoefull power and authorityâ to search âoeany ship or vessel, in which they shall have reason to suspect any goods, wares or merchandise subject to duty shall be concealed"
Well, is the internet really controlled by the US? It certainly isn't in China. You can use the same methods they do.
Your rights are the job of you and your government to protect. There will always be people looking to abuse them. It isn't the duty of some other government to protect them. It's the job of YOUR government.
Trying to assert that it is the duty of the US to protect your rights - well there certainly is no precedent for that sort of thing in world history.
"Members of Japanese organized crime were arrested three times this year "on charges of infiltrating construction giant Obayashi Corp's network of decontamination subcontractors and illegally sending workers to the government-funded project," which in some cases were homeless people hired by recruiters paid bounties on each minimum-wage worker they could sign up."
Wrong.
These are subcontractors hired by Obayashi Construction Corp.
It's taxpayer money, but a private contract and private oversight.
Stealing bodies led to many medical advances and for a period of time was what medical schools were forced into. It's what you had to do if you wanted to learn about human physiology in those times.
Eventually it became such a problem that grave robbers started taking short cuts and created their own corpses (cf. Burke and Hare). This eventually led to the 1832 Anatomy Act in England addressing the crisis in medical education that the short supply of cadavers created.
"Burke and Hare... it is said, are the real authors of the measure, and that which would never have been sanctioned by the deliberate wisdom of parliament, is about to be extorted from its fears... It would have been well if this fear had been manifested and acted upon before sixteen human beings had fallen victims to the supineness of the Government and the Legislature. It required no extraordinary sagacity, to foresee that the worst consequences must inevitably result from the system of traffic between resurrectionists and anatomists, which the executive government has so long suffered to exist. Government is already in a great degree, responsible for the crime which it has fostered by its negligence, and even encouraged by a system of forbearance."
In Britain people buy from British distributors. They don't generally have equipment shipped directly from the US.
The NSA would have its partner in Britain implant whatever needed.
Redirection of shipped equipment for the purpose of installing bugs is not new or restricted to IT equipment. It's one of the oldest espionage techniques known.
Why would shipping re-direction be restricted to American hardware? The critical step in the operation is interception of the shipment, which is independent of the hardware manufacturer.
Do you think the NSA is somehow unique in possessing tapping and forensic tools for IT equipment?
Every police agency in the world will have some of this stuff. Heck, when I accidentally repartitioned a hard drive a couple of years ago I used some software to recover files by carving them. One of the items listed in the article was a splitter cable for crying out loud.
Backdoors are seriously different from exploits. One implies collusion between a national security agency and a manufacturer. An exploit is the work of somebody independent of the manufacturer.
The NSA is seriously a problem. However this summary states US equipment manufacturers are in collusion with them. Without presenting any evidence, and filters out information that contradicts that statement from the reference it cites.
If you actually go to the referenced article and read it you will see that these are exploits, not backdoors, and they apply to equipment from non-US manufacturers as well as from US manufacturers, for example Samsung and Huawei.
Good job slashdot. NOT. A nice raspberry for Der Spiegel too.
This is a very murky area of the law. In the US pharmaceutical prices are the highest in the world due to laws favoring favoring drug companies. For example one drug that I take (I have a prescription) costs nearly $700 a month, even with an insurance plan, while in Canada the cost is $160.
Prices are also rising significantly faster than inflation.
There are other issues with prescription drugs in the US, including collusion between insurers (including kickbacks) to keep generics of the market after patents expire, and egregious manipulation of patent laws that keep some drugs on patent on the US when everywhere else in the world they are off-patent.
As any economist would predict this creates a black market, and other channels to satisfy demand for lower priced drugs. Legitimate Canadian pharmacies offer their services in filling US prescriptions at Canadian prices. As you might imagine this pisses of the US pharmaceutical companies to no end.
While I agree that some disreputable pharmacies were using Google Adwords to sell dangerous drugs without a prescription, I think that the more powerful motivation here was to choke off Canadian pharmacies from selling needed drugs to US patients with prescriptions at lower than US prices.
My brother is a aerospace structural engineer on the Dreamliner vertical stabilizer.
He despises composites.
Maybe it's his upbringing, or maybe it's the fact that problems with composites are one of the reasons he hasn't seen his family much over the past few years.
I've seen stainless steel form rust. Usually it's a case where there is some local galvanic corrosion leading to a locally depleted area (pitting). In the area of the pit you can often see some iron oxide formation.
The problem is the third party doctrine which holds that voluntary disclosing information to 3rd parties removes any expectation of privacy.
That works more or less pre-digital age. However the idea that disclosing all of this information now is voluntary is ridiculous. You would have to live like Thoreau did in his shack on Walden Pond to avoid this.
There needs to be legislation or even better an amendment to fix this.
My father was a metallurgist and head of a large technical organization within the DOD that had responsibility for the materials used by the US Army in all of it's equipment. From helicopter blades, to gun tubes and missile combustion chambers. He was on the design review committee for the Saturn V F1 engine.
He was heard saying more that once "If it don't rust it's no damn good".
He was referring to ceramics at the time, but it could apply to aluminum.
> I am of the firm belief that we are giong to ride that bus until we run off the cliff.
Pretty much my conclusion too. Regardless of what the science shows there is no real political ability to alter the trajectory. So we are going to have an experiment.
I'm old enough that I don't expect to be alive when the results are in.
Slashdot Mirror
Yes it can be searched.
The search standards at border crossings are very loose. It's been that way since 1789. The Constitution is high on defense of the nation, and tariffs were the first taxes. Obviously you cannot defend the borders or impose tariffs without being able to search at border crossings.
The Congress shall have power:
To lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
"Exhibit A in the Supreme Courtâ(TM)s case for border searches is a statute Congress enacted in 1789, which granted customs officials âoefull power and authorityâ to search âoeany ship or vessel, in which they shall have reason to suspect any goods, wares or merchandise subject to duty shall be concealed"
from: http://lawreview.richmond.edu/run-for-the-border/
This statute actually PREDATES the adoption of the Bill of Rights as amendments to the Constitution by two months.
Probably not. Surveys
http://blogs.sciencemag.org/origins/2009/07/evolution-theory-and-religious.html
say that 73% of adults in SA have not heard of Charles Darwin.
Please mod parent up. Massachusetts is crushing it. Things like 8th grade science results 2nd in the world only to Singapore.
Because AM talk radio told them to.
The real measure of a good education is being taught to think for yourself.
The food in Russia sucks.
Well, is the internet really controlled by the US? It certainly isn't in China. You can use the same methods they do.
Your rights are the job of you and your government to protect. There will always be people looking to abuse them. It isn't the duty of some other government to protect them. It's the job of YOUR government.
Trying to assert that it is the duty of the US to protect your rights - well there certainly is no precedent for that sort of thing in world history.
"Members of Japanese organized crime were arrested three times this year "on charges of infiltrating construction giant Obayashi Corp's network of decontamination subcontractors and illegally sending workers to the government-funded project," which in some cases were homeless people hired by recruiters paid bounties on each minimum-wage worker they could sign up."
Wrong.
These are subcontractors hired by Obayashi Construction Corp.
It's taxpayer money, but a private contract and private oversight.
Stealing bodies led to many medical advances and for a period of time was what medical schools were forced into. It's what you had to do if you wanted to learn about human physiology in those times.
Eventually it became such a problem that grave robbers started taking short cuts and created their own corpses (cf. Burke and Hare). This eventually led to the 1832 Anatomy Act in England addressing the crisis in medical education that the short supply of cadavers created.
From Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burke_and_Hare_murders#Anatomy_Act_1832
"Burke and Hare ... it is said, are the real authors of the measure, and that which would never have been sanctioned by the deliberate wisdom of parliament, is about to be extorted from its fears ... It would have been well if this fear had been manifested and acted upon before sixteen human beings had fallen victims to the supineness of the Government and the Legislature. It required no extraordinary sagacity, to foresee that the worst consequences must inevitably result from the system of traffic between resurrectionists and anatomists, which the executive government has so long suffered to exist. Government is already in a great degree, responsible for the crime which it has fostered by its negligence, and even encouraged by a system of forbearance."
In Britain people buy from British distributors. They don't generally have equipment shipped directly from the US.
The NSA would have its partner in Britain implant whatever needed.
Redirection of shipped equipment for the purpose of installing bugs is not new or restricted to IT equipment. It's one of the oldest espionage techniques known.
Why would shipping re-direction be restricted to American hardware? The critical step in the operation is interception of the shipment, which is independent of the hardware manufacturer.
Uh... "US companies including".
Do you think the NSA is somehow unique in possessing tapping and forensic tools for IT equipment?
Every police agency in the world will have some of this stuff. Heck, when I accidentally repartitioned a hard drive a couple of years ago I used some software to recover files by carving them. One of the items listed in the article was a splitter cable for crying out loud.
Backdoors are seriously different from exploits. One implies collusion between a national security agency and a manufacturer. An exploit is the work of somebody independent of the manufacturer.
The NSA is seriously a problem. However this summary states US equipment manufacturers are in collusion with them. Without presenting any evidence, and filters out information that contradicts that statement from the reference it cites.
This is not journalism. It's a troll.
If you actually go to the referenced article and read it you will see that these are exploits, not backdoors, and they apply to equipment from non-US manufacturers as well as from US manufacturers, for example Samsung and Huawei.
Good job slashdot. NOT. A nice raspberry for Der Spiegel too.
This is a very murky area of the law. In the US pharmaceutical prices are the highest in the world due to laws favoring favoring drug companies. For example one drug that I take (I have a prescription) costs nearly $700 a month, even with an insurance plan, while in Canada the cost is $160.
Prices are also rising significantly faster than inflation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prescription_drug_prices_in_the_United_States
There are other issues with prescription drugs in the US, including collusion between insurers (including kickbacks) to keep generics of the market after patents expire, and egregious manipulation of patent laws that keep some drugs on patent on the US when everywhere else in the world they are off-patent.
As any economist would predict this creates a black market, and other channels to satisfy demand for lower priced drugs. Legitimate Canadian pharmacies offer their services in filling US prescriptions at Canadian prices. As you might imagine this pisses of the US pharmaceutical companies to no end.
While I agree that some disreputable pharmacies were using Google Adwords to sell dangerous drugs without a prescription, I think that the more powerful motivation here was to choke off Canadian pharmacies from selling needed drugs to US patients with prescriptions at lower than US prices.
Many ISPs will let you host servers. For example if you are a Cablevision Ultra 50 subscriber you are good to go.
All the NSA guys must wear "I read your email" T-shirts.
My brother is a aerospace structural engineer on the Dreamliner vertical stabilizer.
He despises composites.
Maybe it's his upbringing, or maybe it's the fact that problems with composites are one of the reasons he hasn't seen his family much over the past few years.
http://www.technologyreview.com/news/409929/boeings-composite-problem/
I've seen stainless steel form rust. Usually it's a case where there is some local galvanic corrosion leading to a locally depleted area (pitting). In the area of the pit you can often see some iron oxide formation.
So you lock them up in a bedroom when you go off to work?
The problem is the third party doctrine which holds that voluntary disclosing information to 3rd parties removes any expectation of privacy.
That works more or less pre-digital age. However the idea that disclosing all of this information now is voluntary is ridiculous. You would have to live like Thoreau did in his shack on Walden Pond to avoid this.
There needs to be legislation or even better an amendment to fix this.
Except this has nothing to do with American ideology. It's all about the negative depiction of the Chinese Communist party in BF4.
My father was a metallurgist and head of a large technical organization within the DOD that had responsibility for the materials used by the US Army in all of it's equipment. From helicopter blades, to gun tubes and missile combustion chambers. He was on the design review committee for the Saturn V F1 engine.
He was heard saying more that once "If it don't rust it's no damn good".
He was referring to ceramics at the time, but it could apply to aluminum.
> I am of the firm belief that we are giong to ride that bus until we run off the cliff.
Pretty much my conclusion too. Regardless of what the science shows there is no real political ability to alter the trajectory. So we are going to have an experiment.
I'm old enough that I don't expect to be alive when the results are in.
I wish you all good luck!
By now? Exponentially? All the sea ice?
Citation needed.
The real war on Christmas.
The day after the birthday of the Savior what do we have as news? UPS couldn't deliver packages full of meaningless crap.
This is so wrong.