Most people don't like to use several e-mail accounts. It's a pain in the butt. If she was used to using that one and used it as she communicated with the officials that became her superiors and subordinates before becoming Secretary of State while planning the transition, then they were used to contacting here there and she was used to contacting them from there.
"Pain in the butt" is not a justification of using a personal email account for official government business.
Should she have switched to a government-provided e-mail account? Probably. I don't say, "absolutely," specifically because of the high profile leaks that we've seen over the last decade, such that the mail might actually have been safer on that server that no one thought to compromise than on a government one.
The answer should obviously be "absolutely". The law states all official correspondence must be on a government secured system. This assures all email is kept, archived, and secured. She used a personal email system specifically to get around these safeguards, going so far as to warn her people not to use their government accounts to contact her. She knew exactly what she was doing -- keeping her comments and communications out of the government archived system.
Nixon erased 18 minutes of tape - Hillary erased 50% of her emails. Both were trying to hide things.
In fact, Mexican workers that are paid "under-the-table" (as in they don't have anything taxes taken out of their paycheck) are relatively rare. Meaning they financially contribute to a system under which they are considered as faceless statistics and under which they have no voice.
Relatively rare? So where do the rest of the illegal aliens send their taxes? Do they fill out a W-4 with a fake SSN? Do they use a fake Tax ID number instead? Since they can't claim any excess taxes because they don't file, do they claim 10 exemptions to minimize the withholding amount?
And what about all the petitioners that are waiting 20+ years for their chance to legally immigrate to the U.S.? Are we to tell them "Sorry, the illegal population is so large that we don't have room for you again this year."? http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
but using a stingray isn't a violation of anyone's rights, so good for them.
Wrong. It is illegal to use a Stingray to capture information without a warrant.
Judge Kendra Ausby ruled last week that the police should not have used a stingray to track Andrews without a search warrant, and she said prosecutors could not use any of the evidence found at the time of his arrest.
In this case the POLICE are the ones violating your rights by employing Stingrays without a warrant and the judges are telling them so. Just because you don't consider it a breach of your privacy doesn't mean the rest of us have to agree with you and give up our rights.
The Medal of Honor is only awarded for actions involving combat with an enemy of the United States. They might be awarded other medals (and the photo in the story suggests they have been awarded at least one) but not the Medal of Honor.
As Etherwalk suggests, read the history and criteria of the Medal of Honor in the link he provided.
Mixed results for me means some days the TENS unit will help me feel less of the pain in my back and some days it just feels like electricity zapping me through the electrodes. I can vary the frequency and duration of the pulses and sometimes this helps too. It does seem to help during long drives if I use it intermittently.
I have also tried it on plane flights with limited success, perhaps because I can't stretch as well between applications. I haven't had any problems going through airport security with my unit but I have heard of others that have been questioned by TSA about theirs.
When things go right, you don't need the source code, but when things go wrong, you'll wish you had it.
Again, Why?
Do you think DoD is going to tell the company how to rewrite the code to fix it? When you write the contract you put in performance specifications (remember five 9s?) and penalties for non-compliance. You don't spend months reviewing the vendor's software code to find edge cases that cause problems. DoD is paying them for their expertise, manpower, and infrastructure that DoD doesn't have to maintain.
First, it wasn't a DRONE!! It was a toy RC quadcopter. It was in control of the operator the whole time.
Second, I disagree with your opinion that he can shoot down anything above his property that he doesn't like. What about someone flying a kite that travels above your property? Should you be able to shoot that down too? What if the kite had a camera attached?
Third, if I am in my upstairs window looking down into your back yard, do you have the right to shoot at me to preserve your privacy? Which are you arguing for: Lack of privacy on your property or imaginary trespass above your property line?
Why? The government is buying a service, not a software package.
Imagine if the government contracted Gmail to provide unclassified email for the entire DoD for 10 years for 4.3 billion. (2 million active and civilian accounts x 10 years = $215 a year per account.) Why would DoD want the source code for Gmail just because they are paying for the service? DoD isn't going to turn it into open source and they certainly aren't going to try to maintain a separate Gmail system. Google isn't going to bid $215 per account if they have to release Gmail into open source. In this fictitious example, DoD is paying Gmail for a proven email system and the personnel to keep it running, up to date, and secure.
Similarly, if GSA contracted Ford to supply, maintain, and refresh every government vehicle, do you think GSA would demand the design and engineering specs for every vehicle it leased?
In most cases the government is paying for a service because it doesn't WANT to own or maintain something that is already a mature civilian industry.
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) units are not new. I have been using one for 10 years to control lower back pain (with mixed results). What is interesting in this study is using a TENS unit with patients with complete motor paralysis to help rebuild/retrain nerve connections allowing them more voluntary control of their lower extremities.
Another example of posters trying to be cute and split their reply between the Subject and Comment blocks. It causes confusion when the comments don't stand alone and then you realize the subject line needs to preface the comment.
Correct. It is not a DRONE!!! It is a cheap RC quadcopter! And if they were really worried about it, it isn't that hard to find the RF source of the control signal, even with spread spectrum signals.
I'd mod you down if I wasn't so sure you were trying to be funny!!
You were trying to be funny, right? Your comment about how bright the images are is a joke on those that don't understand exposures and apertures... correct?
Some prostrate cancers are so slow growing and happen so late in life, the recommended treatment option is... nothing. Monitor the situation and realize it may take more years then you have left before it becomes a problem. Also, the side effects of treatment might be more debilitating than the cancer itself. http://www.cancer.org/cancer/p...
I also have a problem like this and found the best chair for me -- an exercise ball. I use a 75cm exercise ball at my desk and can adjust the height and firmness by varying the amount of inflation. I also automatically move my lower back around as I balance on the ball which keeps my back from remaining in one position too long,
That is only 2 of the 3554 authorized wiretaps were encrypted. The amount of encrypted content in the unauthorized wiretaps continues to grow. They go to the trouble of setting up all this unauthorized monitoring equipment and we complicate their jobs by encrypting the content. THAT is what they are complaining about.
You tried to install Windows 7 on an old machine with only 1GB RAM?!!
Microsoft's minimum system requirements say it will run on 1GB RAM for 32-bit or 2GB for 64-bit systems, but you already found how well that works. The practical minimum for Windows 7 is 4GB. Anything less is like trying to drive a dump truck using a chainsaw engine.
Using that logic, polygamy should also be legal again. Just because a state decides that multiple marriages are illegal, this ruling implies that ANY marriage, legal or not in that state, would have to be recognized by every state based on this interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
After polygamy, what's next? Marriages to pets? (you know there are a few that would do it.) Marriages to inanimate objects? Marriages to deities?
This is just the first images from over 50 million miles away. It is intended to show the orbital dynamics as the two bodies revolve around a shared center of gravity.
The more detailed views of the planetoid and its moon will come as the probe gets closer to the pair during the next 23 days.
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I tried to browse the web on a similar unit and every URL I tried equaled 404.
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Most people don't like to use several e-mail accounts. It's a pain in the butt. If she was used to using that one and used it as she communicated with the officials that became her superiors and subordinates before becoming Secretary of State while planning the transition, then they were used to contacting here there and she was used to contacting them from there.
"Pain in the butt" is not a justification of using a personal email account for official government business.
Should she have switched to a government-provided e-mail account? Probably. I don't say, "absolutely," specifically because of the high profile leaks that we've seen over the last decade, such that the mail might actually have been safer on that server that no one thought to compromise than on a government one.
The answer should obviously be "absolutely". The law states all official correspondence must be on a government secured system. This assures all email is kept, archived, and secured. She used a personal email system specifically to get around these safeguards, going so far as to warn her people not to use their government accounts to contact her. She knew exactly what she was doing -- keeping her comments and communications out of the government archived system.
Nixon erased 18 minutes of tape - Hillary erased 50% of her emails. Both were trying to hide things.
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In fact, Mexican workers that are paid "under-the-table" (as in they don't have anything taxes taken out of their paycheck) are relatively rare. Meaning they financially contribute to a system under which they are considered as faceless statistics and under which they have no voice.
Relatively rare? So where do the rest of the illegal aliens send their taxes? Do they fill out a W-4 with a fake SSN? Do they use a fake Tax ID number instead? Since they can't claim any excess taxes because they don't file, do they claim 10 exemptions to minimize the withholding amount?
And what about all the petitioners that are waiting 20+ years for their chance to legally immigrate to the U.S.? Are we to tell them "Sorry, the illegal population is so large that we don't have room for you again this year."? http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
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but using a stingray isn't a violation of anyone's rights, so good for them.
Wrong. It is illegal to use a Stingray to capture information without a warrant.
Judge Kendra Ausby ruled last week that the police should not have used a stingray to track Andrews without a search warrant, and she said prosecutors could not use any of the evidence found at the time of his arrest.
In this case the POLICE are the ones violating your rights by employing Stingrays without a warrant and the judges are telling them so. Just because you don't consider it a breach of your privacy doesn't mean the rest of us have to agree with you and give up our rights.
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The Medal of Honor is only awarded for actions involving combat with an enemy of the United States. They might be awarded other medals (and the photo in the story suggests they have been awarded at least one) but not the Medal of Honor.
As Etherwalk suggests, read the history and criteria of the Medal of Honor in the link he provided.
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The balls look to be about the size of an orange and cost $0.36 each, according to the article. Not terribly expensive, I'd say.
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The first rule of SIPRNet is you don't talk about SIPRNet. -_^
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Mixed results for me means some days the TENS unit will help me feel less of the pain in my back and some days it just feels like electricity zapping me through the electrodes. I can vary the frequency and duration of the pulses and sometimes this helps too. It does seem to help during long drives if I use it intermittently.
I have also tried it on plane flights with limited success, perhaps because I can't stretch as well between applications. I haven't had any problems going through airport security with my unit but I have heard of others that have been questioned by TSA about theirs.
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When things go right, you don't need the source code, but when things go wrong, you'll wish you had it.
Again, Why?
Do you think DoD is going to tell the company how to rewrite the code to fix it? When you write the contract you put in performance specifications (remember five 9s?) and penalties for non-compliance. You don't spend months reviewing the vendor's software code to find edge cases that cause problems. DoD is paying them for their expertise, manpower, and infrastructure that DoD doesn't have to maintain.
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First, it wasn't a DRONE!! It was a toy RC quadcopter. It was in control of the operator the whole time.
Second, I disagree with your opinion that he can shoot down anything above his property that he doesn't like. What about someone flying a kite that travels above your property? Should you be able to shoot that down too? What if the kite had a camera attached?
Third, if I am in my upstairs window looking down into your back yard, do you have the right to shoot at me to preserve your privacy? Which are you arguing for: Lack of privacy on your property or imaginary trespass above your property line?
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Why? The government is buying a service, not a software package.
Imagine if the government contracted Gmail to provide unclassified email for the entire DoD for 10 years for 4.3 billion. (2 million active and civilian accounts x 10 years = $215 a year per account.) Why would DoD want the source code for Gmail just because they are paying for the service? DoD isn't going to turn it into open source and they certainly aren't going to try to maintain a separate Gmail system. Google isn't going to bid $215 per account if they have to release Gmail into open source. In this fictitious example, DoD is paying Gmail for a proven email system and the personnel to keep it running, up to date, and secure.
Similarly, if GSA contracted Ford to supply, maintain, and refresh every government vehicle, do you think GSA would demand the design and engineering specs for every vehicle it leased?
In most cases the government is paying for a service because it doesn't WANT to own or maintain something that is already a mature civilian industry.
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Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) units are not new. I have been using one for 10 years to control lower back pain (with mixed results). What is interesting in this study is using a TENS unit with patients with complete motor paralysis to help rebuild/retrain nerve connections allowing them more voluntary control of their lower extremities.
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Another example of posters trying to be cute and split their reply between the Subject and Comment blocks. It causes confusion when the comments don't stand alone and then you realize the subject line needs to preface the comment.
Just "Don't" do it.
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Since when do you need Lithium batteries for your vibrators? Alkaline batteries aren't good enough for use while on vacation?
Unless your vibrators are as big as a Dewalt drill, I would think you can do without Lithium cells for a few days.
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Correct. It is not a DRONE!!! It is a cheap RC quadcopter! And if they were really worried about it, it isn't that hard to find the RF source of the control signal, even with spread spectrum signals.
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I'd mod you down if I wasn't so sure you were trying to be funny!!
You were trying to be funny, right? Your comment about how bright the images are is a joke on those that don't understand exposures and apertures... correct?
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Some prostrate cancers are so slow growing and happen so late in life, the recommended treatment option is... nothing. Monitor the situation and realize it may take more years then you have left before it becomes a problem. Also, the side effects of treatment might be more debilitating than the cancer itself. http://www.cancer.org/cancer/p...
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I also have a problem like this and found the best chair for me -- an exercise ball. I use a 75cm exercise ball at my desk and can adjust the height and firmness by varying the amount of inflation. I also automatically move my lower back around as I balance on the ball which keeps my back from remaining in one position too long,
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How would you know? If the page substitutes static content when if finds you don't have Flash installed, how do you know what you are missing?
That is only 2 of the 3554 authorized wiretaps were encrypted. The amount of encrypted content in the unauthorized wiretaps continues to grow. They go to the trouble of setting up all this unauthorized monitoring equipment and we complicate their jobs by encrypting the content. THAT is what they are complaining about.
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You tried to install Windows 7 on an old machine with only 1GB RAM?!!
Microsoft's minimum system requirements say it will run on 1GB RAM for 32-bit or 2GB for 64-bit systems, but you already found how well that works. The practical minimum for Windows 7 is 4GB. Anything less is like trying to drive a dump truck using a chainsaw engine.
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Ummm... Will it change different colors if the STD is detected INSIDE the condom or OUTSIDE? Which partner are they testing?
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Using that logic, polygamy should also be legal again. Just because a state decides that multiple marriages are illegal, this ruling implies that ANY marriage, legal or not in that state, would have to be recognized by every state based on this interpretation of the 14th Amendment.
After polygamy, what's next? Marriages to pets? (you know there are a few that would do it.) Marriages to inanimate objects? Marriages to deities?
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This is just the first images from over 50 million miles away. It is intended to show the orbital dynamics as the two bodies revolve around a shared center of gravity.
The more detailed views of the planetoid and its moon will come as the probe gets closer to the pair during the next 23 days.
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And don't forget almost every complaint that the "anti-drone" evangelists bring to the table could also apply to kites, balloons, and Frisbees.
I haven't heard any complaints from people that the neighbor is violating his property lines because some kid is flying a kite over his yard.
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