When (e.g.) a forensic examiner is discovered to have manipulated or faked various test results that were introduced by the prosecution, this often results in hundreds of prior cases being reviewed. Every case that person touched as an expert or as a witness is called into question. Verdicts are vacated, people get released from prison.
Shouldn't that scenario be playing out here? Any case in which a supposed "confidential informant" was used in these Florida jurisdictions is now potentially in question. Defense attorneys should be lining up over this.
Alright, they flubbed up and leaked everyone's email address; where is the list? Surely it's been posted somewhere, I'd like to take a look at it myself.
Forget doing it digital. Your beneficiaries may have no idea how to decrypt something, or how to access whatever's become of some dead man's switch. Really, if I got hit by a bus tomorrow, even if I had things stored in quadruplicate across various flash drives, I'm not so confident anyone would know what to do with them.
Type the important stuff up, and seal it in an envelope (or several, if you're dividing things up amongst likely heirs). Present those things to an attorney and have him draw up a will. The attorney will retain those envelopes and ensure that things are done properly once you're gone. If your very important passwords change, revise the documents and stop by the lawyer's office with new copies in new envelopes. They might not even charge you anything for that.
I know we generally hate lawyers here, but this is one really worthy function that many of them can perform, and the courts know full well how to deal with written and physically signed documents. In the event that you outlive your lawyer, his or her office will retain custody of your will and your envelopes, or you can find a different lawyer.
The sheriff said he'd rather have a more police-oriented armored vehicle for his SWAT team, but they cost $300,000, and this only cost $5,000.
Shouldn't cost anything. We (the taxpayers) already paid for it once. I think it's ridiculous for police to be getting this sort of equipment at all, but for fuck's sake, how many times does the public need to be billed for it?
Hell, if I was getting discounts like that I might buy an armored vehicle also.
If you live in Indiana, maybe you already have. It's taxpayer money buying these things, after all, and buying them for the second time. We already paid for the damned things once, when they were built and sent off to Iraq or Afghanistan.
You simply cannot teach and explain to people to stop hitting that booty when the kids you already have are starving.
If they'd actually hit the booty, it wouldn't be a problem. Maybe that's how the education should work, we just need new catch phrases. "Put it in her ass and save your cash," or something.
Not to mention "Law & Order," they've done way too many spin-offs and the whole thing is just played out. Watterson should have quit that, too, and moved to selling robot insurance full time.
I thought all of a phone's radio operations and cellular workings (e.g. choosing a tower) was handled by a separate "baseband" processor that the user-facing OS doesn't expose. Could something like this really be implemented via Android?
I agree, make health care a social right and decouple it from employment and income. It would be interesting to see what the CEOs come up with to blame for the next rounds of layoffs.
He and some family members have already been relocated because there were direct threats early on in his cooperation. Not sure he was afforded full-blown witness protection (new identity, etc.) but I wouldn't be surprised.
However, the argument for others goes that if stores begin selling smart guns, then legislators will draft laws requiring the technology.
Let them pass the laws. A few days later, when headlines erupt about stolen "smart" guns being used in murders, or some cop getting killed because his "smart" gun wouldn't fire, the laws will go away soon enough.
This hit every other website a day and a half ago. Yes, it is of interest to nerds, and it is stuff that matters, but like so many stories posted here these days, it just isn't news and the discussion has already played out elsewhere.
This misses the point. Grandparent poster was insinuating that ceramic brakes are some uber-expensive (heh) item to replace, parent poster was refuting that.
And finally, I just need to locat the bidder, go there with my car first and wait for the parking fee(s) to expire.
How do parking meters work where you live? Around here, if I pay for an hour's worth of parking and leave 15 minutes later, there are still 45 minutes left on the meter for the next person who gets the spot, and they can immediately add more money if they intend to stay longer. The same holds true for a parking garage or even an honor lot (where you stuff the money into a box corresponding to your parking space number). Nobody has to wait for "my" hour to expire before they can use the spot.
RTFA. The guy had no gun in the car (he'd left it locked up in FL), but the MD cops knew he had a CCW permit even though he was a FL resident . . . how is that possible?
States sharing this information is nothing new. If you get pulled over and have an outstanding warrant from most any other state, the cops will know about that, too.
Show me a model plane that has a 15 km radio range, autonomous GPS navigation, IR and visible light camera on a stabilized mount, designed to be reliable in hazardous environments while being handled by infantrymen, and can stay up for 3.5 hours
I'd love to try, but I'm pretty sure half of those things would be illegal for "Joe Average" me to even attempt, and I don't have a few million laying around to bankroll FCC, FAA, and other necessary certifications to upfit a COTS drone much less develop my own. Unless you're Lockheed or someone, you don't have much of a chance in this arena, and then you can and will charge $350K per "system" and the government will pay it because nobody else is selling.
Easy: lots of people get audited, many of them at random. Somewhere around 1% of returns are selected each year. Recent trends show that approximately 245 million returns (PDF!) are filed each year, that's almost 2.5 million people who will be on the receiving end of that damned envelope.
My father was hit with an audit this year concerning his 2012 return. He hasn't voted in 40 years, isn't even registered in this state, and he sure isn't making political contributions or starting up a charity. There's no history of tax troubles, he didn't file or claim anything new or unusual that year. He just "won" the audit lottery. Sometimes famous people like Dr. Carson win it, too.
The Windows Update site has not worked on XP for a couple years now, although I can't remember when it officially happened.
That's not accurate at all, Windows Update works just fine on XP SP3. You can install a fresh copy of XP today and patch it all the way "current" via Windows Update. You need SP3 either slipstreamed or as a manual download, but both are widely available. Once SP3 is installed, Windows Update will bring you all the way up to date (April 8, and then some).
Automatic updates turned off, going through the "Custom" button at windowsupdate.microsoft.com, guess what just showed up today on an XP SP3 machine running IE8? That's right.
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When (e.g.) a forensic examiner is discovered to have manipulated or faked various test results that were introduced by the prosecution, this often results in hundreds of prior cases being reviewed. Every case that person touched as an expert or as a witness is called into question. Verdicts are vacated, people get released from prison.
Shouldn't that scenario be playing out here? Any case in which a supposed "confidential informant" was used in these Florida jurisdictions is now potentially in question. Defense attorneys should be lining up over this.
Alright, they flubbed up and leaked everyone's email address; where is the list? Surely it's been posted somewhere, I'd like to take a look at it myself.
Forget doing it digital. Your beneficiaries may have no idea how to decrypt something, or how to access whatever's become of some dead man's switch. Really, if I got hit by a bus tomorrow, even if I had things stored in quadruplicate across various flash drives, I'm not so confident anyone would know what to do with them.
Type the important stuff up, and seal it in an envelope (or several, if you're dividing things up amongst likely heirs). Present those things to an attorney and have him draw up a will. The attorney will retain those envelopes and ensure that things are done properly once you're gone. If your very important passwords change, revise the documents and stop by the lawyer's office with new copies in new envelopes. They might not even charge you anything for that.
I know we generally hate lawyers here, but this is one really worthy function that many of them can perform, and the courts know full well how to deal with written and physically signed documents. In the event that you outlive your lawyer, his or her office will retain custody of your will and your envelopes, or you can find a different lawyer.
Where are the Woodward and Bernsteins when you need them?
I believe Glenn Greenwald lives in Brazil.
And you can bet that Digg, reddit and a few other popular sites will be running the story shortly.
You forget this is Slashdot, Yesterday's News for Nerds. reddit had the story 3 days ago, and I'm not sure anyone goes to Digg anymore...
Last week the US Marshals did it.
The sheriff said he'd rather have a more police-oriented armored vehicle for his SWAT team, but they cost $300,000, and this only cost $5,000.
Shouldn't cost anything. We (the taxpayers) already paid for it once. I think it's ridiculous for police to be getting this sort of equipment at all, but for fuck's sake, how many times does the public need to be billed for it?
Hell, if I was getting discounts like that I might buy an armored vehicle also.
If you live in Indiana, maybe you already have. It's taxpayer money buying these things, after all, and buying them for the second time. We already paid for the damned things once, when they were built and sent off to Iraq or Afghanistan.
You simply cannot teach and explain to people to stop hitting that booty when the kids you already have are starving.
If they'd actually hit the booty, it wouldn't be a problem. Maybe that's how the education should work, we just need new catch phrases. "Put it in her ass and save your cash," or something.
Not to mention "Law & Order," they've done way too many spin-offs and the whole thing is just played out. Watterson should have quit that, too, and moved to selling robot insurance full time.
I thought all of a phone's radio operations and cellular workings (e.g. choosing a tower) was handled by a separate "baseband" processor that the user-facing OS doesn't expose. Could something like this really be implemented via Android?
Isn't YouTube also considered social media?
Judging by the comments on the average YouTube video, I'm pretty sure it's considered antisocial media.
I agree, make health care a social right and decouple it from employment and income. It would be interesting to see what the CEOs come up with to blame for the next rounds of layoffs.
They'll hold Netflix up for even more ransom.
He and some family members have already been relocated because there were direct threats early on in his cooperation. Not sure he was afforded full-blown witness protection (new identity, etc.) but I wouldn't be surprised.
However, the argument for others goes that if stores begin selling smart guns, then legislators will draft laws requiring the technology.
Let them pass the laws. A few days later, when headlines erupt about stolen "smart" guns being used in murders, or some cop getting killed because his "smart" gun wouldn't fire, the laws will go away soon enough.
Or crab advertisements!
This hit every other website a day and a half ago. Yes, it is of interest to nerds, and it is stuff that matters, but like so many stories posted here these days, it just isn't news and the discussion has already played out elsewhere.
Sigh.
This misses the point. Grandparent poster was insinuating that ceramic brakes are some uber-expensive (heh) item to replace, parent poster was refuting that.
And finally, I just need to locat the bidder, go there with my car first and wait for the parking fee(s) to expire.
How do parking meters work where you live? Around here, if I pay for an hour's worth of parking and leave 15 minutes later, there are still 45 minutes left on the meter for the next person who gets the spot, and they can immediately add more money if they intend to stay longer. The same holds true for a parking garage or even an honor lot (where you stuff the money into a box corresponding to your parking space number). Nobody has to wait for "my" hour to expire before they can use the spot.
RTFA. The guy had no gun in the car (he'd left it locked up in FL), but the MD cops knew he had a CCW permit even though he was a FL resident . . . how is that possible?
States sharing this information is nothing new. If you get pulled over and have an outstanding warrant from most any other state, the cops will know about that, too.
Show me a model plane that has a 15 km radio range, autonomous GPS navigation, IR and visible light camera on a stabilized mount, designed to be reliable in hazardous environments while being handled by infantrymen, and can stay up for 3.5 hours
I'd love to try, but I'm pretty sure half of those things would be illegal for "Joe Average" me to even attempt, and I don't have a few million laying around to bankroll FCC, FAA, and other necessary certifications to upfit a COTS drone much less develop my own. Unless you're Lockheed or someone, you don't have much of a chance in this arena, and then you can and will charge $350K per "system" and the government will pay it because nobody else is selling.
The headline came from the Reuters article.
Explain Ben Carson's audit.
Easy: lots of people get audited, many of them at random. Somewhere around 1% of returns are selected each year. Recent trends show that approximately 245 million returns (PDF!) are filed each year, that's almost 2.5 million people who will be on the receiving end of that damned envelope.
My father was hit with an audit this year concerning his 2012 return. He hasn't voted in 40 years, isn't even registered in this state, and he sure isn't making political contributions or starting up a charity. There's no history of tax troubles, he didn't file or claim anything new or unusual that year. He just "won" the audit lottery. Sometimes famous people like Dr. Carson win it, too.
That's not accurate at all, Windows Update works just fine on XP SP3. You can install a fresh copy of XP today and patch it all the way "current" via Windows Update. You need SP3 either slipstreamed or as a manual download, but both are widely available. Once SP3 is installed, Windows Update will bring you all the way up to date (April 8, and then some).
Automatic updates turned off, going through the "Custom" button at windowsupdate.microsoft.com, guess what just showed up today on an XP SP3 machine running IE8? That's right.