I believe it's also to protect the officer from a later civil suit. If you have an Altoids tin that ends up missing, or you get it back later and claim the priceless diamond that was inside is now missing, it becomes your word against the officer's. If he opens it and checks the contents and sees that there is no priceless diamond and makes a proper note of the actual contents, you can't pull that later.
The dissenting judge seems to miss the point that you can store razor blades or valuables in a phone book, therefore these types of searches are necessary. You can't do that in a cell phone (except maybe the battery compartment, but that part is most likely not protected by this ruling).
And now I'm installing Wikipanion on my iPhone, continuing the revolution.
Seriously, thanks for mentioning this. I didn't know about this app but it's going to make wasting time on Wikipedia while on the can^Wtrain so much easier.
I thought "boffin" had something to do with pornstars (cause they're boffin' each other). Now that you've cleared this up I'll go ahead and click the link while at work.
This is an easy problem: have one person cut the pizza, and have the other divide the slices. That's about the easiest way in the world to make sure that the division is honest and fair.
All passwords are to be treated as sensitive, confidential County information.
Childs refused to turn over the passwords when ordered and acted like they were "his". They were not, the policy clearly states the passwords belong to the County.
Here is a list of things to avoid -Telling your boss your password. -Talking about a password in front of others.
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So first, the passwords in question were not his, they were administrative passwords. While Childs almost certainly didn't have authority to determine who was or was not cleared to have these passwords, his manager did.
Next, the second point obviously would not apply in a situation where everyone present was cleared to know the password. Because his manager was responsible for granting access, if she said "These people can know these passwords" (or even implied it), that's all there is to say on the matter.
No matter how you slice this, Childs did not follow the letter or the intent of the security policy and deserved to be fired on the spot for his refusal to follow orders.
The US nuclear weapons can not be released without authorization from the civilian government.
The safety controls to ensure that are primarily procedural. As anyone here should know, physical access to hardware will allow for overcoming software or policy restrictions.
The US Army has no nukes.
Incorrect. They have no strategic nukes, but they do have tactical nukes.
The only military commands I can see being in secure shape are the commands in the Middle East, the US Navy which is forward deployed or underway, Alaska, Hawaii, Korea and Japan.
You left out Europe. The commands there have quite a few weapons of their own.
I doubt very much there would be a conflict due to power vacuum, there would be civilian chains that survived, even if its the Secretary of Education and the military would be loyal. NORAD would survive for a while, as would command and control centers like Raven Rock.
That's a good point. A Laura Roslyn would almost certainly survive, as the likelihood of at least one Cabinet member being out of the country at any given time is quite high. And you're right that the remaining military would quickly fall in line behind whatever civilian leadership survived. Doing so is so deeply instilled in the American military that to do otherwise is unthinkable.
That said, the vacuum I was mainly referring to would be the rapid loss of the United States itself. There's no doubt that our empire is falling apart and someone else will take over as the primary nation-state by the end of the century (China is the safest bet at this time, but who knows how things will play out). Without the stabilizing influence of the United States there's no telling how the rest of the world would react. But it's a safe bet that someone, somewhere, would try to take over and that someone else wouldn't like that idea very much at all.
The main question would be, just how bad would things get in Europe, Russia, and northern China? Because if millions of people start starving in those three regions it's a sure bet their governments would start looking at South America and Africa as potential lifeboats.
If this thing blows, it wouldn't do "serious" damage to the "country"; it would catastrophic damage to North America, pretty much wiping out some 400 million people within a few hours. The United States, Canada, and Mexico would no longer be going concerns. The resulting power vacuum in world affairs would have dire and impossible to predict results for the rest of the planet (keep in mind that much of the US military would still exist and various admirals and generals might have different ideas of how to proceed with their troops and the nuclear weapons they would now have sole control over). With the loss of New York as a financial center and the US dollar as the global reserve currency, the global economic system would collapse overnight. Oh, and any farmers in the Northern Hemisphere could forget about their crops for a few years, resulting in famine and resource wars in much of the remaining world. It would be pretty much all the bad parts of the bible.
In short, the Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans who died in the first wave would be the lucky ones.
The guy was arrested for following your advice. It would seem the prudent thing to do, if you find yourself in a similar situation, would be to turn over the damn passwords.
I'd be curious to see where the two countries started out at. Take the GDP(PPP) in today's USD from 1950 and see how much either has grown/shrunk. I wouldn't be surprised if China grew by an order of magnitude or more while Cuba fell a few thousand bucks.
According to this file (warning: Excel spreadsheet), Cuba's GDP in 1969 (in billions of 2005 USD) was $15.61; China's was $101.83. In 2009, Cuba's had grown to $43.12, while China's exploded to $3338.56. During that period, Cuba's average annual growth rate was 2.7%; China's was 9.2%.
I can't find a similar table with population data from the same years, but just using this information it's clear that China has done a much better job of providing economic opportunity to their people than the Cubans have.
Since Broadcasters (OTA/Cable/Fiber) all have to have FCC licenses
You don't need a license to operate over a private cable/fiber network. Only if you're using the public spectrum do you need a license to broadcast. Why do you think basic cable doesn't have the same norms of decency as broadcast TV?
The case to which you're referring resulted in the woman receiving third degree burns from the coffee. That's not hot, that's scalding, and McDonald's deserved to be sued over it.
If it means people won't bring stupid ass lawsuits (like, say, over a graphics card worth at most $200) then I'm all in favor of us adopting this system.
An "unsigned" commentary in the Economist is just a step ahead of an Anonymous Coward on Slashdot. If the person is not willing to put their name to their work, then their work must not have any real value.
I'm giving up the moderation I've done in this thread to respond to this.
Obama has been in office for almost a year. If you still think he's going to do anything whatsoever to roll back Bush's encroachments on civil liberties, I have a bridge in Windsor-Detroit to sell you.
Um, you do realize that body language is a universal language that cuts across cultures, ethnicities, and time, don't you? There's an old Chinese proverb that says "We all smile in the same language." And that's as true today as it was thousands of years ago when the first person (who may not have been anywhere near China) said it.
Body language is subtle and can be ambiguous, but that does not detract from its importance in human communication. In short, the problem isn't with the rest of the world using, it's with you for not making the effort to understand it.
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Did they write it down on machines, or did they just yell really really loud?
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So you don't think there's anything that humans do that no other animal does? And yet we're having this conversation in a manner that no other animal on earth could comprehend, let alone replicate. Interesting.
would you marry someone who couldn't speak any language you understood and vice versa?
I dunno, what does she look like? I've "mated" (so far as I know unsuccessfully) with multiple women with whom I couldn't converse. It's really not the impediment you think it is. You'll find out when you finally try sex yourself.
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The closest I've come to a pet octopus was the last time I went out for sushi. Most delicious sentient creature I've ever had!
Oh, and it came with a coconut sauce. How's that for irony?
I believe that's for the safety of the officer.
I believe it's also to protect the officer from a later civil suit. If you have an Altoids tin that ends up missing, or you get it back later and claim the priceless diamond that was inside is now missing, it becomes your word against the officer's. If he opens it and checks the contents and sees that there is no priceless diamond and makes a proper note of the actual contents, you can't pull that later.
The dissenting judge seems to miss the point that you can store razor blades or valuables in a phone book, therefore these types of searches are necessary. You can't do that in a cell phone (except maybe the battery compartment, but that part is most likely not protected by this ruling).
Like anyone in San Francisco would notice a 3.4. That's just a normal night in the Castro when the music is playing loudly.
Calm down, Dick. Why can't you just go do some motivational speaking tours like your buddy George?
And now I'm installing Wikipanion on my iPhone, continuing the revolution.
Seriously, thanks for mentioning this. I didn't know about this app but it's going to make wasting time on Wikipedia while on the can^Wtrain so much easier.
I thought "boffin" had something to do with pornstars (cause they're boffin' each other). Now that you've cleared this up I'll go ahead and click the link while at work.
This is an easy problem: have one person cut the pizza, and have the other divide the slices. That's about the easiest way in the world to make sure that the division is honest and fair.
Here are some points you're ignoring:
All passwords are to be treated as sensitive, confidential County information.
Childs refused to turn over the passwords when ordered and acted like they were "his". They were not, the policy clearly states the passwords belong to the County.
Here is a list of things to avoid
-Telling your boss your password.
-Talking about a password in front of others.
(emphasis added)
So first, the passwords in question were not his, they were administrative passwords. While Childs almost certainly didn't have authority to determine who was or was not cleared to have these passwords, his manager did.
Next, the second point obviously would not apply in a situation where everyone present was cleared to know the password. Because his manager was responsible for granting access, if she said "These people can know these passwords" (or even implied it), that's all there is to say on the matter.
No matter how you slice this, Childs did not follow the letter or the intent of the security policy and deserved to be fired on the spot for his refusal to follow orders.
The US nuclear weapons can not be released without authorization from the civilian government.
The safety controls to ensure that are primarily procedural. As anyone here should know, physical access to hardware will allow for overcoming software or policy restrictions.
The US Army has no nukes.
Incorrect. They have no strategic nukes, but they do have tactical nukes.
The only military commands I can see being in secure shape are the commands in the Middle East, the US Navy which is forward deployed or underway, Alaska, Hawaii, Korea and Japan.
You left out Europe. The commands there have quite a few weapons of their own.
I doubt very much there would be a conflict due to power vacuum, there would be civilian chains that survived, even if its the Secretary of Education and the military would be loyal. NORAD would survive for a while, as would command and control centers like Raven Rock.
That's a good point. A Laura Roslyn would almost certainly survive, as the likelihood of at least one Cabinet member being out of the country at any given time is quite high. And you're right that the remaining military would quickly fall in line behind whatever civilian leadership survived. Doing so is so deeply instilled in the American military that to do otherwise is unthinkable.
That said, the vacuum I was mainly referring to would be the rapid loss of the United States itself. There's no doubt that our empire is falling apart and someone else will take over as the primary nation-state by the end of the century (China is the safest bet at this time, but who knows how things will play out). Without the stabilizing influence of the United States there's no telling how the rest of the world would react. But it's a safe bet that someone, somewhere, would try to take over and that someone else wouldn't like that idea very much at all.
The main question would be, just how bad would things get in Europe, Russia, and northern China? Because if millions of people start starving in those three regions it's a sure bet their governments would start looking at South America and Africa as potential lifeboats.
If this thing blows, it wouldn't do "serious" damage to the "country"; it would catastrophic damage to North America, pretty much wiping out some 400 million people within a few hours. The United States, Canada, and Mexico would no longer be going concerns. The resulting power vacuum in world affairs would have dire and impossible to predict results for the rest of the planet (keep in mind that much of the US military would still exist and various admirals and generals might have different ideas of how to proceed with their troops and the nuclear weapons they would now have sole control over). With the loss of New York as a financial center and the US dollar as the global reserve currency, the global economic system would collapse overnight. Oh, and any farmers in the Northern Hemisphere could forget about their crops for a few years, resulting in famine and resource wars in much of the remaining world. It would be pretty much all the bad parts of the bible.
In short, the Americans, Canadians, and Mexicans who died in the first wave would be the lucky ones.
But this would "ruin" the park.
Right. Because the volcano wouldn't do that when it explodes.
The guy was arrested for following your advice. It would seem the prudent thing to do, if you find yourself in a similar situation, would be to turn over the damn passwords.
I'd be curious to see where the two countries started out at. Take the GDP(PPP) in today's USD from 1950 and see how much either has grown/shrunk. I wouldn't be surprised if China grew by an order of magnitude or more while Cuba fell a few thousand bucks.
According to this file (warning: Excel spreadsheet), Cuba's GDP in 1969 (in billions of 2005 USD) was $15.61; China's was $101.83. In 2009, Cuba's had grown to $43.12, while China's exploded to $3338.56. During that period, Cuba's average annual growth rate was 2.7%; China's was 9.2%.
I can't find a similar table with population data from the same years, but just using this information it's clear that China has done a much better job of providing economic opportunity to their people than the Cubans have.
It's called the "mute button" and it's been available for a few years now.
I thought you were going to point out that the lack of fairness in the law has never stopped Congress before. So I guess I'll have to do it for you.
Since Broadcasters (OTA/Cable/Fiber) all have to have FCC licenses
You don't need a license to operate over a private cable/fiber network. Only if you're using the public spectrum do you need a license to broadcast. Why do you think basic cable doesn't have the same norms of decency as broadcast TV?
The case to which you're referring resulted in the woman receiving third degree burns from the coffee. That's not hot, that's scalding, and McDonald's deserved to be sued over it.
If it means people won't bring stupid ass lawsuits (like, say, over a graphics card worth at most $200) then I'm all in favor of us adopting this system.
An "unsigned" commentary in the Economist is just a step ahead of an Anonymous Coward on Slashdot. If the person is not willing to put their name to their work, then their work must not have any real value.
I'm giving up the moderation I've done in this thread to respond to this.
Obama has been in office for almost a year. If you still think he's going to do anything whatsoever to roll back Bush's encroachments on civil liberties, I have a bridge in Windsor-Detroit to sell you.
Um, you do realize that body language is a universal language that cuts across cultures, ethnicities, and time, don't you? There's an old Chinese proverb that says "We all smile in the same language." And that's as true today as it was thousands of years ago when the first person (who may not have been anywhere near China) said it.
Body language is subtle and can be ambiguous, but that does not detract from its importance in human communication. In short, the problem isn't with the rest of the world using, it's with you for not making the effort to understand it.
Did they write it down on machines, or did they just yell really really loud?
So you don't think there's anything that humans do that no other animal does? And yet we're having this conversation in a manner that no other animal on earth could comprehend, let alone replicate. Interesting.
would you marry someone who couldn't speak any language you understood and vice versa?
I dunno, what does she look like? I've "mated" (so far as I know unsuccessfully) with multiple women with whom I couldn't converse. It's really not the impediment you think it is. You'll find out when you finally try sex yourself.
Is it really that surprising that whores would be at a political conference?