It may prove reason to perform proper subpoena of the emails in question. Also by the article,
"The e-mails indicate that these defense contractors planned to mine social network sites for information on Chamber critics; planned to plant 'false documents' and 'fake insider personas' that would be used to discredit the groups; and discussed the use of malicious and intrusive software ('malware') to steal private information from the groups and disrupt their internal electronic communications."
Did anything illegal happen? The letter suggests that forgery, wire fraud, and computer fraud might have taken place and that Congress should investigate the ways that private contractors turn their military contracting experience on private targets.
So if they were planning on doing this, the process looks remarkably similar to their efforts with anonymous, leading one to immediately question if the services and information obtained on Anonymous was conducted by legal means. Probably not. And that itself may have some fallout with any cases directed toward Anonymous members.
"He who lives in glass house should not throw stones"
ok it's not attributed to him, but is attributed (in various slightly differing forms) to a wide variety of people, including Ben Franklin. Nothing quite as entertaining to see someone tasked with bending laws get bent over BY the laws, from their own pen.
Oddly, I wasn't aware that you could be extradited from the UK to face a charge for something that isn't illegal in the UK - I think they're trying (and succeeding, so far) to peg it onto a "sexual assault" charge
They're "interpreting" the laws in the attempt to extradite him. It's one of those "he's accused of A and accused of B, but not accused of C. But we're going to say that A+B amounts to C, and we have a law against C, so put him on the plane."
In this case I believe they're trying to say that he deceived them into thinking he was wearing a condom when he had sex with them, and they're painting that as "sexual assault" even though there's a separate more specific law for that. (which does not allow for extradition... oh that's a problem now isn't it?) Unless he beat the women with the condom he didn't wear, I don't see how any sensible person can call that "assault". They are then stretching "sexual assault" into "rape", which is again an unreasonable thing. There's absolutely no logical way to relabel deception as assault as rape. This is only being done because it's the closest fit they could find that would allow for extradition. It's like charging a mugger with attempted murder by saying they stole someone's grocery money and concluding they might starve to death.
I'm waiting for the ultimate irony, for someone to leak some actual facts from these two ladies and for it to be posted... on wikileaks.
Saying the engines have to be "replaced" is a bit deceptive. "rebuilt and inspected" is more accurate, though they don't say but I'm assuming they have one extra set on hand and simply swap them out while they get to work rebuilding the set they pulled.
(that article above has at least one technical error, so take it with a grain of salt)
Weren't they considering selling the shuttles to private companies as they push for privatization of space travel?
When you think about it, not only is the reusability of the shuttle a plus, it can easily haul cargo both into and out of space, and is the majority component of the launch? (not that a tower, big tank, and two SRBs is chump change, but still)
Come to think of it with the SRBs, the one company that made them said they were making their last one, I wonder if they've considered the possibility of future orders from whoever gets the shuttles?
I think this is a great idea. Granted, the majority of us won't be able to HEAR the difference, playing the music on our ipods or even our computers' built-in speakers, (laptops in particular, such as mine) but it's good to hear they're trying to offer better quality.
Imagine they offer the option to pay a buck for the song, or a buck thirty for a higher quality version. I bet they could get the extra 30c a lot of the time. It's a good business move. And we KNOW how the **aa love to sell you the same thing more than once.
I wonder though what exact format it will be in? Maybe they will just be offering higher bitrate MP3s? (m3a) It's not necessary to go to FLAC format if you are increasing the source's resolution. Besides, these will be better than traditional FLACs that are limited to the quality of the CD media.
Based just on external ports I'd tend to agree with you. But modern computers tend to use USB for internal modules also.
- bluetooth - SD card reader - camera - IR sensor - built-in trackpad, keyboard - ambient light sensors
And other things. So USB tends to be scattered around on the motherboard anyway. These connectors tend to be on the edge of the board near the part they connect to, wherever that happens to be placed. (thermisters and fans are usually direct analog though because they interface with the firmware more directly, and not usually sound either tho I don't know why)
the department said requests for user names and passwords had been voluntary, and had not been taken into account when evaluating job applicants. Nonetheless, 'in light of these concerns raised by the ACLU and because this is a newly emerging area in the law, the department has suspended the process of asking for social media information for 45 days to review the procedure and to make sure it is being used consistently and appropriately.'"
"We're only asking about your religious preference because y'know, we're just *curious*. It has NOTHING to do with whether or not were going to hire you, really. So that's OK, right?"
I thought Apple was working with Intel on this? At what point between "only one person has it" and "everyone has it" does it cease to be labelled "proprietary"? I thought that happened when it hit 2.
Let me guess... only 2 USB ports, right beside each other again? I hate this design
Until you try to plug in one of those 2.5" external usb-only drives that comes with the "Y" dual-usb cable for more power, and find the cord is way too short to plug into the left and right USB ports at the same time. (an issue I have ran into repeatedly with my 15" mbp)
There was an article recently about malware being highly prevalent in wallpaper packs. Malware authors would download the packs, jimmy their spyware payload into the installer, and repost it somewhere else, sometimes under the same name.
One of the disadvantages for an unlocked system, you are now placing the user primarily in charge of the security of the system. That's very hard to get right.
The most common interpretation of this is going to be "overall visible mass". Brings up images of those monster dishes.
But of course this is referring to "largest DISTRIBUTED antenna system". While I realize this is one way to say it, that's like me telling someone I have the "largest computer in the world" because I have three PCs networked together, one in the USA, one in Netherlands, and one in Australia.
If you're going to say "largest", don't be such a headline whore and at least throw in "distributed" somewhere in the headline. "Most widely distributed" actually is closer on the mark.
Don't you just love security products designed by people who don't ever think about how they can be bypassed? Or test them in real user environments?
It's not terribly unreasonable to expect some cooperation from the people you're trying to protect. If you have locks on your building at night but people keep propping the door open, you don't look for ways to defeat the door propping, you go beat heads and tell them to knock it off.
The only time it makes sense to get involved in a forced-security escalation war is when you're dealing with a mob of minimum wage workers that care more about their job being easier today than being there tomorrow. (been there done that, two words: "wire ties") Professionals should behave like professionals and not intentionally break the rules because they're inconvenient.
But if you're making it unreasonably inconvenient for an inequitable increase in security, then you're just plain being a BofH and need to start considering the people you're supposed to be supporting.
And of course, the system was never tested under such a high load.
I'm sure that's what this investigation is going to be focusing on. Because yes the are supposed to test it under high load. Obviously this can't be done with actual calls, but they're required to run simulations on very high call volume to see how the system will handle it. You don't just build a critical system that "in theory can meet the design specs" and then not test it.
And if they didn't do that, did it incompetently, or lied about the results, someone's in a lot of trouble.
I was thinking the same thing, 10k calls is a lot for a 911 center to field, even with automated systems for overflow. But it'd be more interesting to know if they were failed to connect calls, or dropped calls. Dropped calls would indicate the center was answering the calls and verizon was cutting them off.
Owell as a lot of posters above have touched on, (911 and cell phones in general) have become quite a crutch for people, encouraging them to do stupid things like drive in blizzards since they have a cell phone and it makes them feel safer and bolder.
People like that, insisting on driving when they flat out tell you NOT to travel, a little frostbite waiting for help might be a valuable lesson to them. Lil bit of Darin at work maybe.
It's been my experience that they block outgoing connections on port 25 to any ip except their mailserver. This prevents spamzombies from using external open relays or directly relaying to destination mailservers.
Sometimes the ISP's dns server requires authentication, which is ideal, but sometimes not. Even with their internal relay open though, it's very easy for them to monitor for abuse if the zombie figures out the IP address of the mailserver, and just cut it off. They usually then just cut off your service completely and wait for you to call them to complain and then have a discussion about your cleaning your PC up before you get your service restored.
That's how two of the big providers in this area work.
But I have a mailserver at home, it's on the 3rd option ISP here that does not block outgoing port 25 thankfully. Even though it's on a static/29 it's still considered by some RBL lists to be in a dhcp pool, and I've had my server land on a blocklist 3-4 times. But they've always been punctual about removal when requested. I count myself lucky, I realize I could have had a much harder time if I somehow got on a heavily used blocklist that didn't want to listen to me.
OTOH, my server also subscribes to blocklists, and I've had to deal with a variety of upset people because they were not getting important emails from business associates. In ALL cases however, their associates were using their company's email, and it was a small outfit they were trusting a somewhat incompetent IT freelancer to manage and setup. And then I get to spend many email exchanges educating their IT guy about how to clean up the machines on the little network and/or get their client's mailserver off the blocklist.
Mine's called "WatchDrives2". Let me know if you'd like to play with it. Over 5500 lines of a bash cron job. yes really, it's quite sophisticated and has a user interface. And it works, that's what matters, right? It even emails reports and warnings.
So far in the past it's identified six of my drives in the very early stages of failing, and I have yet to lose data under its watch. (as in, not had to go to my backups) Two of them flipped their smart status while I was recovering data from them during replacement, (gee thanks for the notice...) and a third outright wouldn't spin up again after I finished my backup and powered it down to remove it from the case to test it further. (and that one's SMART was 'pass' the entire time) Makes you want to shout "HAH, I WIN!" as you throw the drive across the room into the trashcan.
I don't know of anyone else making a tool that does anything like it. I've been told by several people that use it that I should rewrite it and sell it, but that's just not my interest I guess, I don't sell my software. You're welcome to try yourself. I'm sure eventually someone will.
so boot off a SAN, or learn how to read SMART messages.
Tools that run periodic performance tests and continuous surface crawls will make a fool out of SMART every single time.
(I have a great deal of experience on this front, and three boxes sitting behind me full of about 300 drives in various states of failure. do NOT rely on SMART)
it always involves a large odd connector. They always have some sort of mechanical guide mechanism, but invariably the connector and guide get worn and eventually damaged.
A magport is soooo much cleaner. and you can have a single cord laying off to the side of the table or in the laptop bag. try taking your docking station with you in your bag. And with the magnetic attachment and redundant pins, it's more reliable, easier to use, and a lot harder to break.
You're gaining easier upgrading, recycling, and service. None of these directly benefits the manufacturer.
What you are giving up: - lower cost - smaller size - greater durability
And to a lesser degree these designs usually have fewer built-in features because space cannot be fully taken advantage of to cram in little extras like bluetooth or surround sound.
We've seen this idea pitched a few times here before and nobody wants to talk about all the tradeoffs they'll have to make. Manufacturers don't like it. In the end the users don't like it either. It's not a good idea overall.
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we still have quite a few other personal rights that have been given to corporations that shouldn't have
It may prove reason to perform proper subpoena of the emails in question. Also by the article,
So if they were planning on doing this, the process looks remarkably similar to their efforts with anonymous, leading one to immediately question if the services and information obtained on Anonymous was conducted by legal means. Probably not. And that itself may have some fallout with any cases directed toward Anonymous members.
"He who lives in glass house should not throw stones"
ok it's not attributed to him, but is attributed (in various slightly differing forms) to a wide variety of people, including Ben Franklin. Nothing quite as entertaining to see someone tasked with bending laws get bent over BY the laws, from their own pen.
That'd be a LOT easier to swallow if "most PC laptops these days" HAD esata ports to begin with...
They're "interpreting" the laws in the attempt to extradite him. It's one of those "he's accused of A and accused of B, but not accused of C. But we're going to say that A+B amounts to C, and we have a law against C, so put him on the plane."
In this case I believe they're trying to say that he deceived them into thinking he was wearing a condom when he had sex with them, and they're painting that as "sexual assault" even though there's a separate more specific law for that. (which does not allow for extradition... oh that's a problem now isn't it?) Unless he beat the women with the condom he didn't wear, I don't see how any sensible person can call that "assault". They are then stretching "sexual assault" into "rape", which is again an unreasonable thing. There's absolutely no logical way to relabel deception as assault as rape. This is only being done because it's the closest fit they could find that would allow for extradition. It's like charging a mugger with attempted murder by saying they stole someone's grocery money and concluding they might starve to death.
I'm waiting for the ultimate irony, for someone to leak some actual facts from these two ladies and for it to be posted... on wikileaks.
Because the FIRST place you think of when you hear "supercomputer" is, of course, Iran.
A simple oversight I'm sure. But then we have a state controlled media vs a non state-controlled Linpack so...
I'll give that comment a 50/50 agreement. More details here:
http://www.astronautix.com/engines/ssme.htm
Saying the engines have to be "replaced" is a bit deceptive. "rebuilt and inspected" is more accurate, though they don't say but I'm assuming they have one extra set on hand and simply swap them out while they get to work rebuilding the set they pulled.
(that article above has at least one technical error, so take it with a grain of salt)
Weren't they considering selling the shuttles to private companies as they push for privatization of space travel?
When you think about it, not only is the reusability of the shuttle a plus, it can easily haul cargo both into and out of space, and is the majority component of the launch? (not that a tower, big tank, and two SRBs is chump change, but still)
Come to think of it with the SRBs, the one company that made them said they were making their last one, I wonder if they've considered the possibility of future orders from whoever gets the shuttles?
I think this is a great idea. Granted, the majority of us won't be able to HEAR the difference, playing the music on our ipods or even our computers' built-in speakers, (laptops in particular, such as mine) but it's good to hear they're trying to offer better quality.
Imagine they offer the option to pay a buck for the song, or a buck thirty for a higher quality version. I bet they could get the extra 30c a lot of the time. It's a good business move. And we KNOW how the **aa love to sell you the same thing more than once.
I wonder though what exact format it will be in? Maybe they will just be offering higher bitrate MP3s? (m3a) It's not necessary to go to FLAC format if you are increasing the source's resolution. Besides, these will be better than traditional FLACs that are limited to the quality of the CD media.
Based just on external ports I'd tend to agree with you. But modern computers tend to use USB for internal modules also.
- bluetooth
- SD card reader
- camera
- IR sensor
- built-in trackpad, keyboard
- ambient light sensors
And other things. So USB tends to be scattered around on the motherboard anyway. These connectors tend to be on the edge of the board near the part they connect to, wherever that happens to be placed. (thermisters and fans are usually direct analog though because they interface with the firmware more directly, and not usually sound either tho I don't know why)
"We're only asking about your religious preference because y'know, we're just *curious*. It has NOTHING to do with whether or not were going to hire you, really. So that's OK, right?"
I thought Apple was working with Intel on this? At what point between "only one person has it" and "everyone has it" does it cease to be labelled "proprietary"? I thought that happened when it hit 2.
Until you try to plug in one of those 2.5" external usb-only drives that comes with the "Y" dual-usb cable for more power, and find the cord is way too short to plug into the left and right USB ports at the same time. (an issue I have ran into repeatedly with my 15" mbp)
There was an article recently about malware being highly prevalent in wallpaper packs. Malware authors would download the packs, jimmy their spyware payload into the installer, and repost it somewhere else, sometimes under the same name.
One of the disadvantages for an unlocked system, you are now placing the user primarily in charge of the security of the system. That's very hard to get right.
agreed. for some reason actually being there to look at the little gadgets gives you a new appreciation for them over say, just watching it on TV.
I seem to recall having to pay (something small, $5?) to get in though. Or was it a voluntary donation thing?
So it wasn't a "pure" museum.
The most common interpretation of this is going to be "overall visible mass". Brings up images of those monster dishes.
But of course this is referring to "largest DISTRIBUTED antenna system". While I realize this is one way to say it, that's like me telling someone I have the "largest computer in the world" because I have three PCs networked together, one in the USA, one in Netherlands, and one in Australia.
If you're going to say "largest", don't be such a headline whore and at least throw in "distributed" somewhere in the headline. "Most widely distributed" actually is closer on the mark.
It's not terribly unreasonable to expect some cooperation from the people you're trying to protect. If you have locks on your building at night but people keep propping the door open, you don't look for ways to defeat the door propping, you go beat heads and tell them to knock it off.
The only time it makes sense to get involved in a forced-security escalation war is when you're dealing with a mob of minimum wage workers that care more about their job being easier today than being there tomorrow. (been there done that, two words: "wire ties") Professionals should behave like professionals and not intentionally break the rules because they're inconvenient.
But if you're making it unreasonably inconvenient for an inequitable increase in security, then you're just plain being a BofH and need to start considering the people you're supposed to be supporting.
I'm sure that's what this investigation is going to be focusing on. Because yes the are supposed to test it under high load. Obviously this can't be done with actual calls, but they're required to run simulations on very high call volume to see how the system will handle it. You don't just build a critical system that "in theory can meet the design specs" and then not test it.
And if they didn't do that, did it incompetently, or lied about the results, someone's in a lot of trouble.
I was thinking the same thing, 10k calls is a lot for a 911 center to field, even with automated systems for overflow. But it'd be more interesting to know if they were failed to connect calls, or dropped calls. Dropped calls would indicate the center was answering the calls and verizon was cutting them off.
Owell as a lot of posters above have touched on, (911 and cell phones in general) have become quite a crutch for people, encouraging them to do stupid things like drive in blizzards since they have a cell phone and it makes them feel safer and bolder.
People like that, insisting on driving when they flat out tell you NOT to travel, a little frostbite waiting for help might be a valuable lesson to them. Lil bit of Darin at work maybe.
"That's not OUR oil, you can't prove anything. THAT oil must have come from somewhere else, our well is sealed."
It's been my experience that they block outgoing connections on port 25 to any ip except their mailserver. This prevents spamzombies from using external open relays or directly relaying to destination mailservers.
Sometimes the ISP's dns server requires authentication, which is ideal, but sometimes not. Even with their internal relay open though, it's very easy for them to monitor for abuse if the zombie figures out the IP address of the mailserver, and just cut it off. They usually then just cut off your service completely and wait for you to call them to complain and then have a discussion about your cleaning your PC up before you get your service restored.
That's how two of the big providers in this area work.
But I have a mailserver at home, it's on the 3rd option ISP here that does not block outgoing port 25 thankfully. Even though it's on a static /29 it's still considered by some RBL lists to be in a dhcp pool, and I've had my server land on a blocklist 3-4 times. But they've always been punctual about removal when requested. I count myself lucky, I realize I could have had a much harder time if I somehow got on a heavily used blocklist that didn't want to listen to me.
OTOH, my server also subscribes to blocklists, and I've had to deal with a variety of upset people because they were not getting important emails from business associates. In ALL cases however, their associates were using their company's email, and it was a small outfit they were trusting a somewhat incompetent IT freelancer to manage and setup. And then I get to spend many email exchanges educating their IT guy about how to clean up the machines on the little network and/or get their client's mailserver off the blocklist.
Mine's called "WatchDrives2". Let me know if you'd like to play with it. Over 5500 lines of a bash cron job. yes really, it's quite sophisticated and has a user interface. And it works, that's what matters, right? It even emails reports and warnings.
So far in the past it's identified six of my drives in the very early stages of failing, and I have yet to lose data under its watch. (as in, not had to go to my backups) Two of them flipped their smart status while I was recovering data from them during replacement, (gee thanks for the notice...) and a third outright wouldn't spin up again after I finished my backup and powered it down to remove it from the case to test it further. (and that one's SMART was 'pass' the entire time) Makes you want to shout "HAH, I WIN!" as you throw the drive across the room into the trashcan.
I don't know of anyone else making a tool that does anything like it. I've been told by several people that use it that I should rewrite it and sell it, but that's just not my interest I guess, I don't sell my software. You're welcome to try yourself. I'm sure eventually someone will.
Tools that run periodic performance tests and continuous surface crawls will make a fool out of SMART every single time.
(I have a great deal of experience on this front, and three boxes sitting behind me full of about 300 drives in various states of failure. do NOT rely on SMART)
it always involves a large odd connector. They always have some sort of mechanical guide mechanism, but invariably the connector and guide get worn and eventually damaged.
A magport is soooo much cleaner. and you can have a single cord laying off to the side of the table or in the laptop bag. try taking your docking station with you in your bag. And with the magnetic attachment and redundant pins, it's more reliable, easier to use, and a lot harder to break.
You're gaining easier upgrading, recycling, and service. None of these directly benefits the manufacturer.
What you are giving up:
- lower cost
- smaller size
- greater durability
And to a lesser degree these designs usually have fewer built-in features because space cannot be fully taken advantage of to cram in little extras like bluetooth or surround sound.
We've seen this idea pitched a few times here before and nobody wants to talk about all the tradeoffs they'll have to make. Manufacturers don't like it. In the end the users don't like it either. It's not a good idea overall.