Cuba remains a Latin American anomaly: an undemocratic government that represses nearly all forms of political dissent. President Fidel Castro, now in his forty-seventh year in power, shows no willingness to consider even minor reforms. Instead, his government continues to enforce political conformity using criminal prosecutions, long- and short-term detentions, mob harassment, police warnings, surveillance, house arrests, travel restrictions, and politically-motivated dismissals from employment. The end result is that Cubans are systematically denied basic rights to free expression, association, assembly, privacy, movement, and due process of law.
To achieve your goals, are imprisoning all who disagree with you strictly required?
When it comes to things like social safety net, income distribution, et. al. I think we're asking "under which system would I rather live?".
If that's the case, I don't see many people from the US trying to get into Cuba.
The situation was complicated around noon, when black-clad anarchists (in a formation known as a black bloc) began smashing windows and decorating storefronts, beginning with Fox's Gem Shop. This produced some of the most famous and controversial images of the protests. This set off a chain-reaction of sorts, with additional protesters pushing dumpsters into the middle of intersections and lighting them on fire, police vehicles turned-over, non-black-blockers joining in the property destruction, and a general disruption of all commercial activity in downtown Seattle.
Not sure how well that worked out, given this is later in the same article:
The long-term impacts on WTO policies remain decidedly unclear, and it is an open question whether the WTO's actions since that time have been influenced significantly by these events.
The overall number of vulnerabilities reported for the year went down for the first time in 10 years.
Combined with the comment that camouflaging techniques are used in 80% - 100% of recorded attacks, I wonder if the number of attacks is really going up ( as it has been in the past 10 years ) but detection is getting worse.
More likely, consider the situation where only two guys have the password to the domain name registrar's account, they get laid off, and a year later some one realizes the company domain expires in two days. Before anyone figures out how to renew it, it's in the hands of a pr0n site. There's your missing/lost key scenario, happens all the time.
Still trying to explain that web site you "accidentally" visited, eh?
The Marines, in particular, are interested in the potential for rail guns to deliver supporting fire from up to 220 miles away -- around 10 times further than standard ship-mounted cannons -- with rounds landing more quickly and with less advance warning than a volley of Tomahawk cruise missiles.
So if ship to shore fire is the idea, then you'd have to correct for elevation as well as windage. One could just have the weapon mounted so the muzzle could be elevated, leaving windage correction to ships movement, but a full turret ( think: Iowa class battleships ) would seem to do the job better.
On another note, I wonder how cost effective this would be per shot. Tomahawk missiles run something like $2mil each; throwing large hunks of metal via railgun would seem to be much cheaper, but that wouldn't figure in fuel costs.
Well, the way to "break" PGP has nothing to do with the encryption.
First, obtain a copy of the targets hard drive without their knowledge. If you're a LEO, do this part under a search warrant. This obtains the public and private key rings.
Second, install a keylogger on the target system configured to dump it's data to a remote server. Use port 80. If you're a LEO, do this with a telecommunications warrant. This obtains the pass phrase.
Thrid, contact the targets ISP. Get copies of all their email in its encrypted state.
Fourth, use the private key ring and pass phrase to decrypt everything.
For a real life example, look up the prosecution of Gotti's son. Feeling lazy here, so feel free to hit google. I believe it was a bookmaking charge.
Of course, proper communication discipline can render the above method useless. Storing the public and private keys on removable media and keeping said media with you is one step. Another is full disk encryption ( since a disk copy would only get encrypted data ).
However, for a PGP encrypted file, the keylogger alone is required. IIRC the key files aren't used in PGPs conventional encryption, so only the encrypted file and the pass phrase for that file is required.
You could use something like Oracle Audit Vault. Yes, it's not open source and has an additional license cost over and above that for the database itself.
You'll also need someone who's not the DBA on the monitored system to run and monitor it.
In an effort to test a parachute, a camera (acting as the chute's cargo) was dropped from a plane. Unfortunately, the parachute failed its test and its fragile cargo shattered into several pieces. Ontrack's engineers had to reassemble the camera's memory stick and the video of the parachute's demise was recovered.
If at first you don't succeed skydiving is not for you.
One thing that caught my eye is that "MP" was replaced with "Guards".
Could be nothing; they could be using other military personnel who aren't MPs as a form of staff augmentation ( i.e. Navy MAAs, USAF security police, et. al. ). Could be contractors, FBI agents ( kinda doubt it, but hey, why not? ).. just people without the MP MOS.
Not sure if it qualifies as "damning", but did seem interesting.
It's all about the human race advancing together instead of exploiting each other.
Problem is, it only takes one party to start a conflict. If the path of least resistance[1] to achieve one party's goal is armed conflict, and the achieving of that goal is important enough to that party, then armed conflict will be used.
The goals of the aggressive party don't have to be logical or even rational, they just have to "want it" bad enough.
Advancing together vs. exploiting each other is a fine goal, but since it would seem to require 100% buy-in to be effective, I don't think it will ever happen.
[1] read also: easiest to achieve, quickest result, et. al.
Not that I disagree with your post, but as to this:
This seems to turn on its head the "susceptibility of homosexual" prospects/targets
I think the idea was not so much that "homosexual == ZOMG! SPY!" but rather that most homosexuals didn't want their preference known by their family, friends, et. al., for fear of rejection / discrimination. Thus, someone who found out about their preference could use that information to blackmail them into revealing classified information.
That may have been true in the 50's, but hardly seems true today.
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Does this also remove blood stains?
If so, Dexter would love it...
You can say Belgium.
After all, how can people be harmed by something doesn't exist?
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From Human Rights Watch:
To achieve your goals, are imprisoning all who disagree with you strictly required?
When it comes to things like social safety net, income distribution, et. al. I think we're asking "under which system would I rather live?".
If that's the case, I don't see many people from the US trying to get into Cuba.
Not sure how well that worked out, given this is later in the same article:
Combined with the comment that camouflaging techniques are used in 80% - 100% of recorded attacks, I wonder if the number of attacks is really going up ( as it has been in the past 10 years ) but detection is getting worse.
Still trying to explain that web site you "accidentally" visited, eh?
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Well, someone has to wear the bomb...
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From TFA:
So if ship to shore fire is the idea, then you'd have to correct for elevation as well as windage. One could just have the weapon mounted so the muzzle could be elevated, leaving windage correction to ships movement, but a full turret ( think: Iowa class battleships ) would seem to do the job better.
On another note, I wonder how cost effective this would be per shot. Tomahawk missiles run something like $2mil each; throwing large hunks of metal via railgun would seem to be much cheaper, but that wouldn't figure in fuel costs.
"Sometimes, I doubt your commitment to SPARQL Motion! "
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With apologies to Donnie Darko
Think the store will mind if I bring a dremel with grinding wheel to the store with me? For testing purposes of course...
Are you trying to say it's a great game, but has a horrible text editor? ...
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Well, the way to "break" PGP has nothing to do with the encryption.
First, obtain a copy of the targets hard drive without their knowledge. If you're a LEO, do this part under a search warrant. This obtains the public and private key rings.
Second, install a keylogger on the target system configured to dump it's data to a remote server. Use port 80. If you're a LEO, do this with a telecommunications warrant. This obtains the pass phrase.
Thrid, contact the targets ISP. Get copies of all their email in its encrypted state.
Fourth, use the private key ring and pass phrase to decrypt everything.
For a real life example, look up the prosecution of Gotti's son. Feeling lazy here, so feel free to hit google. I believe it was a bookmaking charge.
Of course, proper communication discipline can render the above method useless. Storing the public and private keys on removable media and keeping said media with you is one step. Another is full disk encryption ( since a disk copy would only get encrypted data ).
However, for a PGP encrypted file, the keylogger alone is required. IIRC the key files aren't used in PGPs conventional encryption, so only the encrypted file and the pass phrase for that file is required.
Other uses:
* Directed at a bus driver, scream "LOOK OUT!!"
* Directed at a happy couple, whisper "You know, they're cheating."
* Directed at a protester, yell "OMG! The cops are killing him!"
Should be fun for the whole family.
We need a new moderation option. +1 "Sad but True"
You could use something like Oracle Audit Vault. Yes, it's not open source and has an additional license cost over and above that for the database itself.
You'll also need someone who's not the DBA on the monitored system to run and monitor it.
If at first you don't succeed
skydiving is not for you.
This thread is worthless without pics. /kidding
Think I saw that one too... little guy on a stepladder yelling "take it bitch!"? ...
what?
One thing that caught my eye is that "MP" was replaced with "Guards".
Could be nothing; they could be using other military personnel who aren't MPs as a form of staff augmentation ( i.e. Navy MAAs, USAF security police, et. al. ). Could be contractors, FBI agents ( kinda doubt it, but hey, why not? ).. just people without the MP MOS.
Not sure if it qualifies as "damning", but did seem interesting.
Yeah, but he does have Olympic medals in both Limbo and Sex... ... err, wait.. that's Barbados Slim...
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Problem is, it only takes one party to start a conflict. If the path of least resistance[1] to achieve one party's goal is armed conflict, and the achieving of that goal is important enough to that party, then armed conflict will be used.
The goals of the aggressive party don't have to be logical or even rational, they just have to "want it" bad enough.
Advancing together vs. exploiting each other is a fine goal, but since it would seem to require 100% buy-in to be effective, I don't think it will ever happen.
[1] read also: easiest to achieve, quickest result, et. al.
Note to self: get blog.
I think the idea was not so much that "homosexual == ZOMG! SPY!" but rather that most homosexuals didn't want their preference known by their family, friends, et. al., for fear of rejection / discrimination. Thus, someone who found out about their preference could use that information to blackmail them into revealing classified information.
That may have been true in the 50's, but hardly seems true today.
Nice Altered Carbon reference.
Seems like they can.