Access (obviously a password management tool). Excel (clearly a standardised testing suite). Powerpoint (specialised electrical/electronic interface tool). SQL (who the hell knows what this is?). Outlook (Ah, this is obvious - a weather app).
*Cairo was the codename for NT4.0 and Whistler the codename for xp, but x and p are the Greek letters chi and rho. Mind blowed yet?
I like the OpenOffice/LibreOffice naming convention for the suite components: Write, Draw, Impress, Base, Calc, Math. I mean, how user friendly do you want it?
maybe they want controllable to the point of a safely retrievable and significant (by mass, not necessarily nature) payload? Also, human reflexes can adapt to unexpected aerodynamic situations much more intuitively than a computer can (I personally don't know of any system which can make an autonomous recovery from a flat spin), which ironically makes the mission more survivable. As to cabin safety, it's as simple as a pressure suit and a parachute. Remember we're dealing with an experimental aircraft here, not the First Class cabin on a Delta flight.
fucking about with the EMS via a remote exploit and killing the engine hence the power steering is taking control of the steering. Albeit, in a terminal sense.
Not fun if you're chugging along at 80kph and your Alanis Morissette CD suddenly shoots out and bisects your fifth passenger at the waist.
anecdotal: I have witnessed Spanish authorities render a woman back to England based on a warrant issued by the High Court. This after a local police force basically asking the Spanish police to arrest the woman and put her on a plane, to which the Spanish replied, probably in so many words, "fuck off - she's broken no law here, we're not touching her".
you can't execute an arrest without either probable cause or a warrant (which as part of the procedure is also required for a rendition). Interpol necessarily do liaise to execute warrants since "probable cause" isn't enough to arrest someone across national boundaries nor to obtain an extradition.
no because the data is ordinarily and readily accessible by US citizens from terminals located on US soil. As MSUS have already admitted. There is no lawful or legal excuse for MSUS not to turn over the data, which is known to exist and the nature of which is also known. To move it in an attempt to hide it as from the moment the subpoena was issued is a criminal offence. This means that the Irish court would be compelled by treaty as a result of 300-odd years of negotiations, to simply hand jurisdiction in the matter to the US as a criminal matter, and to execute any seizures with the cooperation of US LEO and the Gardai and Interpol in their usual position as international liaison.
a case I was involved in (peripherally) ended with a superinjunction. Yes, one of those. Come get me, motherfuckers. It involved the forced adoption of a little girl in England. The superinjunction is worded in such a way as it is intended to prevent, across ALL jurisdictions, discussion or even utterance of the existence of the superinjunction itself, never mind any facet of the case itself. If and when any details of the case come out to meet public scrutiny, it will cause major outrage.
(the scan of the superinjunction was posted on a blog, I don't know if it's available on wayback anymore. Nope, after much searching, even the major search engines all seem to be running active filters).
Your perfectly legal activities abroad are still perfectly legal where they are. Nothing has changed, you can still watch dogs fucking in Kentucky and you can still chow down on Kush cakes in Amsterdam without fear of the DEA ramming down your door - because you are not doing skunk on US soil - or twenty Arab commandos sailing in through your Louisville apartment windows because what you're doing there isn't offending them 6,000 miles away.
summary judgement, and what's the name of the individual who shredded the hard drive? Send him to us, we'd like to put him in a deep dark hole for ten to fifteen.
dammit, you wrote pretty much what I was going to write. A warrant is used to gather evidence the nature of which is unknown but *potentially* pertinent to an investigation. A subpoena is a mandate to produce evidence which is known (usually as the result of an investigation) and specific.
MS don't have a leg to stand on here as I understand the situation. Because they ordinarily have access to the data, it stands to reason that there is no physical impediment to them producing it in response to a warrant. Ergo, no lawful excuse for them to not produce it. Because a warrant is a judicial direction, noncompliance is a summary contempt (in most jurisdictions).
A side note: to anyone arguing for MSEire being outside US jurisdiction, I would cite precedent if I could be arsed hunting it down but I have heard of at least one case where a subsidiary company operating to hide data from another jurisdiction was found by a local court to be in violation of local laws prohibiting such behaviour and basically handed jurisdiction over to the other guys - before they took the directorship in for racketeering.
There's process and then there's information. If a till at the supermarket breaks, once can (theoretically) still process cash purchases by hand, but how about Debit/Credit?
Yes, just use any one of the other 68 tills.
As per the article, it addresses why it was not possible to implement some manual workaround : "We cannot 'handwrite' visas because security measures prevent consular officers from printing a visa unless it is approved through our database system. Until the system is brought back to full capacity and we are able to work through the backlog, service to our customers will be below normal."
This. So THIS! I cannot and will not do business with liars. If I can't get a straight answer to a straightforward question, I'll go elsewhere.
It also helps my clients if they're up front, honest and straightforward with me. In ascertaining their requirements, I ask exacting questions, if they think I'm being anal, well, they just found out why I'm so fucking expensive. It's because the job isn't done until it's right.
DHS doesn't control the database, they outsourced it to Serco who outsourced it to G4S who outsourced it to a call centre in Bangalore who outsourced it to IBM.
...was my first thought reading the headline. Here's what I think happened:
Sheldon develops a raging allergy to a yucca that's been hanging around in the corner of the apartment for ages, he goes on a mission to remove every plant he sees from existence. Hilarity ensues.
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a FUFMe programming interface?
ah bollocks, time for the second choice then: The Roof Shingles.
Access (obviously a password management tool). Excel (clearly a standardised testing suite). Powerpoint (specialised electrical/electronic interface tool). SQL (who the hell knows what this is?). Outlook (Ah, this is obvious - a weather app).
Janus, Snowball, O'Hare, Memphis, Daytona, Cairo*, Whistler*, Longhorn, Vienna.
*Cairo was the codename for NT4.0 and Whistler the codename for xp, but x and p are the Greek letters chi and rho. Mind blowed yet?
I like the OpenOffice/LibreOffice naming convention for the suite components: Write, Draw, Impress, Base, Calc, Math. I mean, how user friendly do you want it?
nah I use them to keep the rugrats in line.
(because it's difficult to steer and polish the shotgun at the same time)
maybe they want controllable to the point of a safely retrievable and significant (by mass, not necessarily nature) payload? Also, human reflexes can adapt to unexpected aerodynamic situations much more intuitively than a computer can (I personally don't know of any system which can make an autonomous recovery from a flat spin), which ironically makes the mission more survivable. As to cabin safety, it's as simple as a pressure suit and a parachute. Remember we're dealing with an experimental aircraft here, not the First Class cabin on a Delta flight.
sorry, didn't you get the memo? They changed the name to put that tired old joke to rest once and for all.
It's now "Urectum".
police don't issue warrants, period, they don't have the authority - warrants are issued by courts. I know what Interpol do, I work with them.
fucking about with the EMS via a remote exploit and killing the engine hence the power steering is taking control of the steering. Albeit, in a terminal sense.
Not fun if you're chugging along at 80kph and your Alanis Morissette CD suddenly shoots out and bisects your fifth passenger at the waist.
Blood is hard to get off a CD.
anecdotal: I have witnessed Spanish authorities render a woman back to England based on a warrant issued by the High Court. This after a local police force basically asking the Spanish police to arrest the woman and put her on a plane, to which the Spanish replied, probably in so many words, "fuck off - she's broken no law here, we're not touching her".
you can't execute an arrest without either probable cause or a warrant (which as part of the procedure is also required for a rendition). Interpol necessarily do liaise to execute warrants since "probable cause" isn't enough to arrest someone across national boundaries nor to obtain an extradition.
no because the data is ordinarily and readily accessible by US citizens from terminals located on US soil. As MSUS have already admitted. There is no lawful or legal excuse for MSUS not to turn over the data, which is known to exist and the nature of which is also known. To move it in an attempt to hide it as from the moment the subpoena was issued is a criminal offence. This means that the Irish court would be compelled by treaty as a result of 300-odd years of negotiations, to simply hand jurisdiction in the matter to the US as a criminal matter, and to execute any seizures with the cooperation of US LEO and the Gardai and Interpol in their usual position as international liaison.
correct - it's called spoliation and is a specific federal offence.
Brad Smith is probably actually pretty rare. Now, Mohammad Lee (the most common first name and the most common surname), that should ring alarm bells.
a case I was involved in (peripherally) ended with a superinjunction. Yes, one of those. Come get me, motherfuckers. It involved the forced adoption of a little girl in England. The superinjunction is worded in such a way as it is intended to prevent, across ALL jurisdictions, discussion or even utterance of the existence of the superinjunction itself, never mind any facet of the case itself. If and when any details of the case come out to meet public scrutiny, it will cause major outrage.
(the scan of the superinjunction was posted on a blog, I don't know if it's available on wayback anymore. Nope, after much searching, even the major search engines all seem to be running active filters).
who the hell modded this insightful??
Your perfectly legal activities abroad are still perfectly legal where they are. Nothing has changed, you can still watch dogs fucking in Kentucky and you can still chow down on Kush cakes in Amsterdam without fear of the DEA ramming down your door - because you are not doing skunk on US soil - or twenty Arab commandos sailing in through your Louisville apartment windows because what you're doing there isn't offending them 6,000 miles away.
summary judgement, and what's the name of the individual who shredded the hard drive? Send him to us, we'd like to put him in a deep dark hole for ten to fifteen.
that's called spoliation (assuming it is subject to a subpoena in which case there is no denying it exists or did exist).
Chasing data across jurisdictions is fun. Particularly when they don't know that you know precisely where it is.
this is what Interpol and local LEO is for. ALL that is needed is validation of the warrant. Which takes about three minutes over the phone.
Worn that t-shirt.
dammit, you wrote pretty much what I was going to write. A warrant is used to gather evidence the nature of which is unknown but *potentially* pertinent to an investigation. A subpoena is a mandate to produce evidence which is known (usually as the result of an investigation) and specific.
MS don't have a leg to stand on here as I understand the situation. Because they ordinarily have access to the data, it stands to reason that there is no physical impediment to them producing it in response to a warrant. Ergo, no lawful excuse for them to not produce it. Because a warrant is a judicial direction, noncompliance is a summary contempt (in most jurisdictions).
A side note: to anyone arguing for MSEire being outside US jurisdiction, I would cite precedent if I could be arsed hunting it down but I have heard of at least one case where a subsidiary company operating to hide data from another jurisdiction was found by a local court to be in violation of local laws prohibiting such behaviour and basically handed jurisdiction over to the other guys - before they took the directorship in for racketeering.
75 million page-sized data objects (let's call it "text") would fit comfortably on my laptop hard drive*.
*2x2TB, I feel like I'm flapping my cock out when I'm sitting in a coffee bar playing world of tanks on it.
There's process and then there's information. If a till at the supermarket breaks, once can (theoretically) still process cash purchases by hand, but how about Debit/Credit?
Yes, just use any one of the other 68 tills.
As per the article, it addresses why it was not possible to implement some manual workaround : "We cannot 'handwrite' visas because security measures prevent consular officers from printing a visa unless it is approved through our database system. Until the system is brought back to full capacity and we are able to work through the backlog, service to our customers will be below normal."
What the hell did they do in the 1950s??
there's a viable industry around inflated resumes. I've seen some real gems.
This. So THIS! I cannot and will not do business with liars. If I can't get a straight answer to a straightforward question, I'll go elsewhere.
It also helps my clients if they're up front, honest and straightforward with me. In ascertaining their requirements, I ask exacting questions, if they think I'm being anal, well, they just found out why I'm so fucking expensive. It's because the job isn't done until it's right.
DHS doesn't control the database, they outsourced it to Serco who outsourced it to G4S who outsourced it to a call centre in Bangalore who outsourced it to IBM.
...was my first thought reading the headline. Here's what I think happened:
Sheldon develops a raging allergy to a yucca that's been hanging around in the corner of the apartment for ages, he goes on a mission to remove every plant he sees from existence. Hilarity ensues.