Yes, the government has always had the right to gather foreign intelligence - including wiretaps - without a warrant. It's right in the Constitution. (Here's a hint: the 4th ammendment applies to U.S. Citizens, not citizens of other countries.) FISA was actually the first attempt to limit that authority:
However, the authorization granted by President Bush to the NSA apparently uses neither FISC approval nor the one-year foreign surveillance authority granted by FISA. Instead, the administration argues that the power is granted by the Constitution and by a statutory exemption. Case law supports the idea that the President has the "inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information." Article II of the Constitution of the United States of America makes the President Commander in Chief with the responsibility to protect the Nation. This authority extends to the "independent authority to repel aggressive acts... without specific congressional authorization" and without court review of the "level of force selected." Campbell v. Clinton, 203 F.3d 19 (D.C. Cir. 2000). Whether such declarations apply to foreign intelligence has been examined by few courts.
Moreover, the FISA court itself has ruled that Bush has that authority, as recently as 2002.
The only question of illegality is whether or not Bush has been wiretapping Americans and legal U.S. residents without a warrant. And, to that question, we have lots of people making claims but no one has shown evidence of a single case where he has.
Check the article - this scope isn't for optical use - it combines a real time captured image with a database of pre-existing images and overlays them on a projection screen. Which also means you can't use it as push-to, because there's no optical view to aim the scope.
And if you can see something like, oh, the Veil nebula with a 6", you must live in a spectacularly dark area. I'd love to move there. In the darkest skies in my area, I can barely make it out with my 10". At least 4 members of my club have scopes 18" or larger.
Check the article - this scope isn't for optical use - it combines a real time captured image with a database of pre-existing images and overlays them on a project screen. Which also means you can't use it as push-to,
And if you can see something like, oh, the Veil nebula with a 6", you must live in a spectacularly dark area. I'd love to move there.
See, I know exactly what problem these guys were trying to solve. I regularly help out at public star parties and thousands of times I've heard people go "oh, is that all?"
To the naked eye, even Andromeda is just a white blob. People expect to see detailed images with dust lanes, color, and depth perception. What they *don't* expect is what they get - washed out light polluted skies where you have to let your eye relax and spend a good 3-4 minutes trying to pick out the details of the object you're observing.
In a very real sense Hubble and others have created false expectations in the public.
First, getting glass polished and coated to the degree needed for really sharp views is expensive. Then add on the true cost killer - a good mount.
It's amazingly hard to create a tripod that is so stable you can view things at 300x magnification without them bouncing around because someone 10' away is walking on the same concrete your scope is sitting on. When you look at all the different models a company like Meade or Celestron sells, note that they really only have one or two different kinds of scopes all the variation in price comes from the different tripods they use.
A really nice Dobsonian reflector can be bought for $500-$1000 dollars; but anything with tracking motors and a computerized controller will cost at least twice that. Once you add in a specially cooled CCD sensor, you can double it again. Now add the cost of the display computer.
There are people who happily drop $15 grand on a scope and then build a special trailer to haul it in.
But a lot of amateurs are already just "looking at pictures". While my wife and I do things the "old fashioned way" with a Dobsonian scope, I know several astronomy club members who do more work with Photoshop than with a Nagler.
Personally, I'd be more annoyed at a star party where someone's flashing these bright images on a monitor - or worse, projecting images up on a wall or screen, burning out everyone's night vision.
I was a co-op at a company when I noticed a crowd of secretaries were watching a small TV - as soon as I realized what they were seeing, I ran to tell the other co-ops who stared blankly like they couldn't understand that I was telling them something important.
I remember the hopes that the crew died instantly, the fears that they didn't and the realization that they may have been conscious all the way down.
I remember the frustration caused by a nation that became apparently paralyzed by the accident - unwilling to accept that space flight was dangerous and screwing around for 2 years without taking any decisive action to either begin working on a replacement for the shuttle or resume space flight.
But most of all I remember the stolen promise of cheap, reliable transportation to orbit and the future that it would bring.
could leverage this exploit to trash system files. Thus, it could be used as the payload for a trojan; user downloads "NAKED TETRIS V69!!!" and it overwrites his kernel. Oops!
Public schools leave children unable to understand complex subjects, differentiate between science and magic or distinguish between scientists and characters from a space opera.
I have not read this particular article, but I saw the initial reports about iPhoto RSS and the demo of it being broken.
Apparently the RSS generated by iphoto is badly broken in a way which will confuse many RSS news readers. Unsurprisingly, Safari doesn't have a problem with the iphoto RSS. Surprisingly, neither does Net News Wire - BUT the windows news readers I tried all complained of XML errors.
The government is forbidden from "respecting" one religion more than another, but religion is often not one of the categories covered by civil rights laws in the US.
It's that annoying "freedom of association" clause in the constitution, you see. The only reason, IIRC, that race and gender based discrimination could be banned is that the government could demonstrate a "compelling need" to create a race and gender neutral society.
the politics of racial identity tend to emphasize those groups rather than helping us blend them together; so it doesn't surprise me that people tend to think of groups.
It's amazing the things that can create barriers to interviews. I went without a job for 3 months (long ago), shaved my beard, and landed a job at the next interview I got.
1) With large companies: actually has a slight preference for hiring women and minorities if they can find them because they are keenly aware that their development group is lily white and male and they don't want to be sued.
2) With small companies: absolutely color blind. If you can do the job and they can understand you when you talk, you're in.
Now, with that said, in my entire 20+ years as a professional programmer, I've only known 4 black coders and probably less than 10 female coders. In my class of 87, there were probably 3 female CS majors and no blacks.
I did hear once from an exec that a woman I worked with complained that we started at the same time but, several years later, I was highly respected and she was still getting crap jobs. Personally, I think that was because any time people or programs gave me a hard time I tore them down and rebuilt them to better specifications, while she tended to take a shy-and-retiring approach to life.
I'm getting 20-30 spams a day that get through the server's filters. About half get through the spam filter on mail.app because of the collection-of-random-words method of masking themselves.
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Yes, the government has always had the right to gather foreign intelligence - including wiretaps - without a warrant. It's right in the Constitution. (Here's a hint: the 4th ammendment applies to U.S. Citizens, not citizens of other countries.) FISA was actually the first attempt to limit that authority:
However, the authorization granted by President Bush to the NSA apparently uses neither FISC approval nor the one-year foreign surveillance authority granted by FISA. Instead, the administration argues that the power is granted by the Constitution and by a statutory exemption. Case law supports the idea that the President has the "inherent authority to conduct warrantless searches to obtain foreign intelligence information." Article II of the Constitution of the United States of America makes the President Commander in Chief with the responsibility to protect the Nation. This authority extends to the "independent authority to repel aggressive acts... without specific congressional authorization" and without court review of the "level of force selected." Campbell v. Clinton, 203 F.3d 19 (D.C. Cir. 2000). Whether such declarations apply to foreign intelligence has been examined by few courts.
Moreover, the FISA court itself has ruled that Bush has that authority, as recently as 2002.
The only question of illegality is whether or not Bush has been wiretapping Americans and legal U.S. residents without a warrant. And, to that question, we have lots of people making claims but no one has shown evidence of a single case where he has.
1. Do they have any evidence that AT&T has actually been helping the NSA conduct warrentless wiretaps?
2. Do they have any evidence that AT&T has been sharing their customer records with the NSA?
3. Do they have any evidence that they have been harmed by #1 and #2?
Because, last time I checked, they would have to have proof of all these things in order to file suit....
Let's try that again...
Check the article - this scope isn't for optical use - it combines a real time captured image with a database of pre-existing images and overlays them on a projection screen. Which also means you can't use it as push-to, because there's no optical view to aim the scope.
And if you can see something like, oh, the Veil nebula with a 6", you must live in a spectacularly dark area. I'd love to move there. In the darkest skies in my area, I can barely make it out with my 10". At least 4 members of my club have scopes 18" or larger.
Check the article - this scope isn't for optical use - it combines a real time captured image with a database of pre-existing images and overlays them on a project screen. Which also means you can't use it as push-to,
And if you can see something like, oh, the Veil nebula with a 6", you must live in a spectacularly dark area. I'd love to move there.
See, I know exactly what problem these guys were trying to solve. I regularly help out at public star parties and thousands of times I've heard people go "oh, is that all?"
To the naked eye, even Andromeda is just a white blob. People expect to see detailed images with dust lanes, color, and depth perception. What they *don't* expect is what they get - washed out light polluted skies where you have to let your eye relax and spend a good 3-4 minutes trying to pick out the details of the object you're observing.
In a very real sense Hubble and others have created false expectations in the public.
The sky scout is an interesting tool, but all it does is "narrate" a sky tour.
It doesn't overlay hubble photos of the object on top of the actual view.
First, getting glass polished and coated to the degree needed for really sharp views is expensive. Then add on the true cost killer - a good mount.
It's amazingly hard to create a tripod that is so stable you can view things at 300x magnification without them bouncing around because someone 10' away is walking on the same concrete your scope is sitting on. When you look at all the different models a company like Meade or Celestron sells, note that they really only have one or two different kinds of scopes all the variation in price comes from the different tripods they use.
by at least an order of magnitude.
A really nice Dobsonian reflector can be bought for $500-$1000 dollars; but anything with tracking motors and a computerized controller will cost at least twice that. Once you add in a specially cooled CCD sensor, you can double it again. Now add the cost of the display computer.
There are people who happily drop $15 grand on a scope and then build a special trailer to haul it in.
But a lot of amateurs are already just "looking at pictures". While my wife and I do things the "old fashioned way" with a Dobsonian scope, I know several astronomy club members who do more work with Photoshop than with a Nagler.
Personally, I'd be more annoyed at a star party where someone's flashing these bright images on a monitor - or worse, projecting images up on a wall or screen, burning out everyone's night vision.
Ooh, I also see from the summary that users with admin rights can do things that only admin users can do!
That would be wrong.
Feel free to apologize.
Believe it or not, there are states that have no sales tax at all.
I was a co-op at a company when I noticed a crowd of secretaries were watching a small TV - as soon as I realized what they were seeing, I ran to tell the other co-ops who stared blankly like they couldn't understand that I was telling them something important.
I remember the hopes that the crew died instantly, the fears that they didn't and the realization that they may have been conscious all the way down.
I remember the frustration caused by a nation that became apparently paralyzed by the accident - unwilling to accept that space flight was dangerous and screwing around for 2 years without taking any decisive action to either begin working on a replacement for the shuttle or resume space flight.
But most of all I remember the stolen promise of cheap, reliable transportation to orbit and the future that it would bring.
could leverage this exploit to trash system files. Thus, it could be used as the payload for a trojan; user downloads "NAKED TETRIS V69!!!" and it overwrites his kernel. Oops!
The exploit in question allows any random program the user executes to trick the OS into trashing critical system files.
No admin rights needed, sunshine.
Just because you live in some poor backwards town that charges NINE PERCENT sales tax doesn't mean the rest of us are suckers, too.
I know exactly what this particular exploit is and how to use it. Just write a trojan that
1) set the malloc log file to, oh, say, the name of a kernel module - like the HFS driver, maybe.
2) run a regular user command that has the s bit sait. Something innocent, like dmesg.
3) Laugh as the user overwrites key bits of the OS with debugging messages.
Public schools leave children unable to understand complex subjects, differentiate between science and magic or distinguish between scientists and characters from a space opera.
Video podcast at 11.
stupid people:
1. Whine about how stupid they are and how they should be smarter.
2. Learn to compensate for their stupidity.
#1 is fun, but only #2 puts food on the table.
I have not read this particular article, but I saw the initial reports about iPhoto RSS and the demo of it being broken.
Apparently the RSS generated by iphoto is badly broken in a way which will confuse many RSS news readers. Unsurprisingly, Safari doesn't have a problem with the iphoto RSS. Surprisingly, neither does Net News Wire - BUT the windows news readers I tried all complained of XML errors.
The government is forbidden from "respecting" one religion more than another, but religion is often not one of the categories covered by civil rights laws in the US.
It's that annoying "freedom of association" clause in the constitution, you see. The only reason, IIRC, that race and gender based discrimination could be banned is that the government could demonstrate a "compelling need" to create a race and gender neutral society.
the politics of racial identity tend to emphasize those groups rather than helping us blend them together; so it doesn't surprise me that people tend to think of groups.
It's amazing the things that can create barriers to interviews. I went without a job for 3 months (long ago), shaved my beard, and landed a job at the next interview I got.
1) With large companies: actually has a slight preference for hiring women and minorities if they can find them because they are keenly aware that their development group is lily white and male and they don't want to be sued.
2) With small companies: absolutely color blind. If you can do the job and they can understand you when you talk, you're in.
Now, with that said, in my entire 20+ years as a professional programmer, I've only known 4 black coders and probably less than 10 female coders. In my class of 87, there were probably 3 female CS majors and no blacks.
I did hear once from an exec that a woman I worked with complained that we started at the same time but, several years later, I was highly respected and she was still getting crap jobs. Personally, I think that was because any time people or programs gave me a hard time I tore them down and rebuilt them to better specifications, while she tended to take a shy-and-retiring approach to life.
So we can stop seeing this argument every couple of days?
I'm getting 20-30 spams a day that get through the server's filters. About half get through the spam filter on mail.app because of the collection-of-random-words method of masking themselves.