Despite this incident, a CIA spokesperson has said another unopened computer disk with the full report is still locked in a vault at agency headquarters. "I can assure you that the CIA has retained a copy," wrote Dean Boyd, the agency's chief of public affairs, in an email.
Well, if you believe that the new report the CIA will provide is the same as the old report, then I have a bridge I would like to sell you.
Especially considering that the CIA were caught red-handed manipulating the computers, and deleting files from said computers, of the Congressionally Mandated Investigatory Task Force.
The word TRUST contains none of the following letters: C, I, & A.
If the CIA were a person (or smaller less corrupt organization) they'd be held liable (and possibly in contempt) with massive punishments.
I guess it's not just the banks that can be TBTF.
This is the most shameful aspect of Sovereign Immunity.
US Citizens pay the CIA via taxes. Yet, when this tax-payer organization 'goes rogue', we have no Constitutional avenue of redress to punish them for their War Crimes.
Also as a result of CIA actions (over the last 40 years), many US Citizens have died – the ones who pay their salary. Innumerable people from foreign nations have died at their hands, too.
When enabled, "Hey Siri" is always listening regardless if the device is connected to a power source or not on the latest iPhone models (6s and SE). This is possible without draining battery life because of the M9 motion coprocessor.
You missed my point entirely. I was responding to the tone of the reply just above mine:
Hognoxious: I suspect that plenty of people, if you told them that, would be like "Yay, we sure stuck it to them thar krauts! Number one!".
That is, I was noting that many people are not jumping up-and-down shouting "Yay" about Hitler (Hobnoxious: "... we sure stuck it to [the] krauts!"). Hobnoxious was the one to bring in WW2, and at a very inappropriate time.
And to reply to your statement of in-applicability of WW2 to this thread: I agree. It was primarily after WW2 that the neighbor-spying, Stasi, citizenry-spying, and all the rest occurred.
So they arrested the clients and let the webmaster unmolested?
They did indeed arrest the webmaster, too. His website was 'product-specific', so he is probably in it deep. But, then again, this is prostitution, where the court system and legislators tend to let people off light.
Compare this to the treatment of Ross Ulbricht, whose Silk Road was simply a libertarian version of ebay, with a few restrictions – "no child porn, no guns, no violence" – something like that. The 'murder-for-hire' allegations were invented by the FBI to make him look bad at trial. They were thrown-out of evidence – meaning that the news outlets could report on these 'allegations' freely without "tainting the jury pool." It was a nasty move by the FBI, who've even stated that they are "making an example" to warn others. That is inequitable enforcement of law.
BTW: Ross is engaging in his own type of socially-positive 'revenge' – TEACHING fellow inmates about math, chemistry, physics, and so on. He has a an MS in Engineering. They will emerge from their sentences having learned as much as they wanted/could about topics that will help get one a job, or at least understand the world that they live in, once released. That is – his fellow residents are getting an in-custody education (up to the college level) for free.
It probably also helps to keep Ross sane while in confinement.
Maybe the charge is felony-level because they submitted numerous reviews of the prostitutes online? It won't stick, but the DA always goes for the maximum charge that can conceivably be "not thrown out immediately."
Maybe these guys would hire several at a time and throw a party. That might class them as "pimps." Such details are not in the article – if they were, they might be blocked from admission as evidence in the actual trial. The guts of any such prosecution don't come out until after the trial, to avoid the possibility of "tainting the jury."
But $75,000 bail for a well-documented, long-standing and repeated commission of a Felony? Come on!!!
I suspect that plenty of people, if you told them that, would be like "Yay, we sure stuck it to them thar krauts! Number one!".
Actually, for the last week or two, all of Eastern Europe has been mourning the 70th Anniversary of the defeat of Hitler, for which they paid a very heavy price.
It is in some ways very fortunate that Hitler was stupid enough to open up a second, Eastern front in this gigantic war – by back-stabbing the 20th Century's other most heinous monsters – Stalin.
Ground troops and tanks, mostly. Sieges of major cities for two, three, or more years. More deaths were from starvation than from bullets & bombs. They really bore the brunt of Hitler's land-based attacks: The biggest tank battles in history were fought in Russia and Ukraine. Kursk (Kirsk) was the biggest, and I believe there were actually three giant tank battles in that city alone.
iPhone is not the only one (TVs, game systems, other smartphones). "Hey Siri" is disabled by default, and only works when the iPhone is plugged-in to a power source. People are griping about this, but it is a very reasonable way to implement the feature. It means that Siri is not listening to your every word, all day long, as you walk around.
You can't sue somebody who gave you something for free. There's no "consideration". The people suing lost nothing, because they spent nothing for the email service, so they have no grounds to sue for anything. I'm not a lawyer, but basic Law 101 teaches this.
UC System is pushing to require all Faculty/Staff to move to the gmail system, too. It is, therefore, a "work" email account. The consideration is your pay.
All of the UC campuses have been migrating from their own servers to Google mail servers. Previously in-place, on-campus servers will be switched-off. All of us at UC campuses are, in effect, being forced to use Google Mail for University email.
Your new email address is, for example: FLastname@g.ucxx.edu
Many of us have chosen, instead, to use our own external, or personally hosted external, email servers. We just set any gmail to forward it to our own email, and respond from our own private email servers. Ah, but we are State Employees, so that might end if someone puts the hammer down. UC can spy on my UC email, sure, just like any employer. But if State Law commanded that I use my employer-provided email address for 'business' use, I don't know that I would obey. And ayway, what about a FB message, personal phone text message, a Linked-In mail, or any other such?
My fear is FOIA request for project-related emails by a competing group in the same field. That wold be academic espionage, with us being commanded to expose ourselves. Not a good thing.
I recall the transition on my UC campus (for faculty/staff) a year or so ago. I read through the 'Terms of Service', in full (oh so boring!). I do not recall reading any part mentioning encryption, nor any promises to NOT data-mine my emails. Many scientist's email discuss patentable ideas, as well as per-group "trade secrets" that we use to stay at the top of our fields. I don't like those being indexed, to be honest.
It's #BalanceBullshit for the earlier "sinking islands" story. They're both of similar quality and illustrate nicely how low and desperate #ScienceReporting has gotten.
Blame the journalists. They will ask for help in making sure that an article is at least semi-accurate. And then, at 3:00 am, the copy-editor will go through and use spell-check to 'correct' acronyms unknown to him, turning the article into an incomprehensible mess.
Seeing the same problem. Appparently it's a software problem since my local Apple Store said they weren't allowed to accept a laptop for repair with that problem.
Liar.
Whose post were you quoting? I don't see the statement that you quoted anywhere in my Comment, nor any of its responses.
Huh? I am running that suite on EL Capitan and have no problems. Go back to your bridge troll...
I have read it in many forums. I do not have the time to take the risk of wasting a day installing El Capitan, and then potentially cloning my backup to recover.
In web-searches, I've found that people are overwhelmingly having problems with the Adobe Creative Suite in El Capitan, versus those who have no problems. I don't have the spare time.
If you have any tips, I would love to hear them. Which applications in the Suite do you use? Which have you not tried with El Capitan?
And, to reply to another Commenter –– I have been programming and building computers since 1985. MacBook Pros are not designed to be user-serviceable, but I have upgraded and extended my Macs (and PCs) since the 1980's. Yes, first was a PCjr in the 1980's, and then an Apple IIe later on.
I have three "dead" MacBook Pros on my couch. Each will take me about an hour to repair, and to bring up to current standards. Hell, I brought a 10-year-old MacBook (white, 1st rev after clam-shell) back to life, such that the friend felt like she had a 'new computer'.
I typically get called an Apple Fan-boi. Now I get called an anti-Apple Troll. Which is it, dear Peanut Gallery?
Really. Doesn't ring true. I would have heard of it.
I saw several TV news broadcasts on the subject in the early 1980's, but that was pre-Internet and newspaper accounts are probably available only on microfiche. I wasn't able to turn up anything on the Internet. However, the modern practice of tech slavery is alive and well in the Valley.
Sex slavery and human trafficking are alive and well. Several brothels exist within a mile of my home. There is seemingly nothing I can do about it. Cops will 'come by for an inspection' occasionally, get their free rub-and-tug or BJ, and then move on. The cops are part of the problem.
These places pull the same stunt that you described – job in America!!! Once they arrive, Visa or Passport is "held" by employer until repayment of airfare, etc. is paid for. Their job is not cleaning, or whatever, but sex-trade work. They fear returning home out of (misplaced) shame. Or lack of funds. With no papers, they cannot open a private bank account. And the pimps cycle them through all of the various cities to keep a fresh stable of (slave) whores, who have no idea what city they are are in at any given moment.
So, that said, and having perused your link, I must agree.
H-1B visa overload, with people training their own replacements, is another example of this type of double-exploitation. An H-1B is supposed to be for someone with a "special skill that can't be found locally in the US." Um. Hello? Americans are training their own replacements. That is a hint that the required talent exists locally – just not any that can have a visa-renewal lorded over their heads to demand long hours.
I get no life, health, or disability insurance and no 401k plan.
If you so choose, even though you are a 1099 contractor at each job, you can elect to pay those Soc. Sec., state unemployment, and other taxes. If you do so, you pay the taxes, but at least then you have access to the social safety net. The unemployment, or under-employment, category is probably especially applicable to you.
That is, the extrapolation from methylated mercury to ethylated was probably not a thermodynamically sound one.
The difference between methymercury and ethylmercury is tiny, thermodynamically. The extra CH2 doesn't change things that much. The extrapolation is quite valid; it turns out there is a difference when testing is actually done.
You are correct, it is not thermodynamics. It is kinetics. Steric hindrance. Slower decomposition rates in vivo
And AvGas replacements without lead are available. The cost to retro-fit and certify a piston prop engine for unleaded fuel is less than a thousand dollars. My local airport (SMO, or Santa Monica Municipal Airport, XSMO) does not have a vendor that even carries unleaded AvGas. Yet.
Similar experience with me in the 90s and early 2000s. We worked 16 hour days in many cases, sometimes for weeks on end to ship and at one place I worked at they finally did an audit of our bugtracker after one release. It was discovered that the amount of mistakes on code worked on during those pushes went up dramatically, and especially tellingly - during the last 4 hours of those 14-16 hour days, frequently working all weekend as well for up to 2 months.
Most people cannot do mental marathons. That is the normal human condition. The bugtracker study done at your company was a smart thing to do.
Some people can do mental marathons, but it takes not only the innate ability, but practice over many years to know when the mind is out of juice for the day. The best way to tell is to audit-your-code/edit-your-writing done during the marathon, and when in the marathon it was done. That way, eventually, one can indeed learn to tell that their brain is fuzzing-out when it starts to fuzz out.
It can age one prematurely. That is true. Long recovery periods after anything marathon-like are mandatory. In the end, it is either (a) time-shifting, or (b) using a huge amount of information into your active, working memory. The latter takes several hours, so once it's in there, you make the most use of it that you can (with quality results). And always audit your work after recovery, regardless. Keep your sword sharp.
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Despite this incident, a CIA spokesperson has said another unopened computer disk with the full report is still locked in a vault at agency headquarters. "I can assure you that the CIA has retained a copy," wrote Dean Boyd, the agency's chief of public affairs, in an email.
Would you like to buy a bridge?
How about some Extreme waterboarding with trump! and he will put that out with out an cover up.
No! The orange will all wash off of his face!
Well, if you believe that the new report the CIA will provide is the same as the old report, then I have a bridge I would like to sell you.
Especially considering that the CIA were caught red-handed manipulating the computers, and deleting files from said computers, of the Congressionally Mandated Investigatory Task Force.
The word TRUST contains none of the following letters: C, I, & A.
If the CIA were a person (or smaller less corrupt organization) they'd be held liable (and possibly in contempt) with massive punishments.
I guess it's not just the banks that can be TBTF.
This is the most shameful aspect of Sovereign Immunity.
US Citizens pay the CIA via taxes. Yet, when this tax-payer organization 'goes rogue', we have no Constitutional avenue of redress to punish them for their War Crimes.
Also as a result of CIA actions (over the last 40 years), many US Citizens have died – the ones who pay their salary. Innumerable people from foreign nations have died at their hands, too.
When enabled, "Hey Siri" is always listening regardless if the device is connected to a power source or not on the latest iPhone models (6s and SE). This is possible without draining battery life because of the M9 motion coprocessor.
Duly noted. iPhone 6 here.
Fail. Nothing really to do with WW2, you idiot.
You missed my point entirely. I was responding to the tone of the reply just above mine:
Hognoxious: I suspect that plenty of people, if you told them that, would be like "Yay, we sure stuck it to them thar krauts! Number one!".
That is, I was noting that many people are not jumping up-and-down shouting "Yay" about Hitler (Hobnoxious: "... we sure stuck it to [the] krauts!"). Hobnoxious was the one to bring in WW2, and at a very inappropriate time.
And to reply to your statement of in-applicability of WW2 to this thread: I agree. It was primarily after WW2 that the neighbor-spying, Stasi, citizenry-spying, and all the rest occurred.
Something not mentioned in the post. Here's a much better article: http://www.seattletimes.com/se...
So they arrested the clients and let the webmaster unmolested?
They did indeed arrest the webmaster, too. His website was 'product-specific', so he is probably in it deep. But, then again, this is prostitution, where the court system and legislators tend to let people off light.
Compare this to the treatment of Ross Ulbricht, whose Silk Road was simply a libertarian version of ebay, with a few restrictions – "no child porn, no guns, no violence" – something like that. The 'murder-for-hire' allegations were invented by the FBI to make him look bad at trial. They were thrown-out of evidence – meaning that the news outlets could report on these 'allegations' freely without "tainting the jury pool." It was a nasty move by the FBI, who've even stated that they are "making an example" to warn others. That is inequitable enforcement of law.
BTW: Ross is engaging in his own type of socially-positive 'revenge' – TEACHING fellow inmates about math, chemistry, physics, and so on. He has a an MS in Engineering. They will emerge from their sentences having learned as much as they wanted/could about topics that will help get one a job, or at least understand the world that they live in, once released. That is – his fellow residents are getting an in-custody education (up to the college level) for free.
It probably also helps to keep Ross sane while in confinement.
It sounds like these guys committed "patronizing a prostitute", which is a misdemeanor:
http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/defa...
They've been charged with "promoting prostitution"( being a pimp), which a felony:
http://app.leg.wa.gov/RCW/defa...
Maybe the charge is felony-level because they submitted numerous reviews of the prostitutes online? It won't stick, but the DA always goes for the maximum charge that can conceivably be "not thrown out immediately."
Maybe these guys would hire several at a time and throw a party. That might class them as "pimps." Such details are not in the article – if they were, they might be blocked from admission as evidence in the actual trial. The guts of any such prosecution don't come out until after the trial, to avoid the possibility of "tainting the jury."
But $75,000 bail for a well-documented, long-standing and repeated commission of a Felony? Come on!!!
I suspect that plenty of people, if you told them that, would be like "Yay, we sure stuck it to them thar krauts! Number one!".
Actually, for the last week or two, all of Eastern Europe has been mourning the 70th Anniversary of the defeat of Hitler, for which they paid a very heavy price.
It is in some ways very fortunate that Hitler was stupid enough to open up a second, Eastern front in this gigantic war – by back-stabbing the 20th Century's other most heinous monsters – Stalin.
Ground troops and tanks, mostly. Sieges of major cities for two, three, or more years. More deaths were from starvation than from bullets & bombs. They really bore the brunt of Hitler's land-based attacks: The biggest tank battles in history were fought in Russia and Ukraine. Kursk (Kirsk) was the biggest, and I believe there were actually three giant tank battles in that city alone.
They put a microphone in my iPhone.
"Hey Siri. Call the local FBI Branch Office."
iPhone is not the only one (TVs, game systems, other smartphones). "Hey Siri" is disabled by default, and only works when the iPhone is plugged-in to a power source. People are griping about this, but it is a very reasonable way to implement the feature. It means that Siri is not listening to your every word, all day long, as you walk around.
All UC Faculty & Staff are included in this.
Who is handling the case?
Where do I sign up to affirm desire to be part of the class?
You can't sue somebody who gave you something for free. There's no "consideration". The people suing lost nothing, because they spent nothing for the email service, so they have no grounds to sue for anything. I'm not a lawyer, but basic Law 101 teaches this.
UC System is pushing to require all Faculty/Staff to move to the gmail system, too. It is, therefore, a "work" email account. The consideration is your pay.
This class-action will grow.
All of the UC campuses have been migrating from their own servers to Google mail servers. Previously in-place, on-campus servers will be switched-off. All of us at UC campuses are, in effect, being forced to use Google Mail for University email.
Your new email address is, for example: FLastname@g.ucxx.edu
Many of us have chosen, instead, to use our own external, or personally hosted external, email servers. We just set any gmail to forward it to our own email, and respond from our own private email servers. Ah, but we are State Employees, so that might end if someone puts the hammer down. UC can spy on my UC email, sure, just like any employer. But if State Law commanded that I use my employer-provided email address for 'business' use, I don't know that I would obey. And ayway, what about a FB message, personal phone text message, a Linked-In mail, or any other such?
My fear is FOIA request for project-related emails by a competing group in the same field. That wold be academic espionage, with us being commanded to expose ourselves. Not a good thing.
I recall the transition on my UC campus (for faculty/staff) a year or so ago. I read through the 'Terms of Service', in full (oh so boring!). I do not recall reading any part mentioning encryption, nor any promises to NOT data-mine my emails. Many scientist's email discuss patentable ideas, as well as per-group "trade secrets" that we use to stay at the top of our fields. I don't like those being indexed, to be honest.
Hahaha - BUYING software??! Man that's a good one. Oh wait, you're serious, aren't you?
BUYING in this case means paying for a limited license to use a Copyrighted computer program.
It is the SAME as BUYING a music CD.
It is the SAME as BUYING a book.
In ALL THREE CASES, you own the media container, which comes along with a limited license to use under the "Doctrine of first sale" principle.
It's #BalanceBullshit for the earlier "sinking islands" story. They're both of similar quality and illustrate nicely how low and desperate #ScienceReporting has gotten.
Blame the journalists. They will ask for help in making sure that an article is at least semi-accurate. And then, at 3:00 am, the copy-editor will go through and use spell-check to 'correct' acronyms unknown to him, turning the article into an incomprehensible mess.
Seeing the same problem. Appparently it's a software problem since my local Apple Store said they weren't allowed to accept a laptop for repair with that problem.
Liar.
Whose post were you quoting? I don't see the statement that you quoted anywhere in my Comment, nor any of its responses.
Please do not invent arguments.
You're running PowerPC software on OS X 10.10 even though Rosetta doesn't work on 10.7+?
Cocoa. Carbon. I forget the names, as OS 9 has been coffin-dead for a while.
Huh? I am running that suite on EL Capitan and have no problems. Go back to your bridge troll...
I have read it in many forums. I do not have the time to take the risk of wasting a day installing El Capitan, and then potentially cloning my backup to recover.
In web-searches, I've found that people are overwhelmingly having problems with the Adobe Creative Suite in El Capitan, versus those who have no problems. I don't have the spare time.
If you have any tips, I would love to hear them. Which applications in the Suite do you use? Which have you not tried with El Capitan?
And, to reply to another Commenter –– I have been programming and building computers since 1985. MacBook Pros are not designed to be user-serviceable, but I have upgraded and extended my Macs (and PCs) since the 1980's. Yes, first was a PCjr in the 1980's, and then an Apple IIe later on.
I have three "dead" MacBook Pros on my couch. Each will take me about an hour to repair, and to bring up to current standards. Hell, I brought a 10-year-old MacBook (white, 1st rev after clam-shell) back to life, such that the friend felt like she had a 'new computer'.
I typically get called an Apple Fan-boi. Now I get called an anti-Apple Troll. Which is it, dear Peanut Gallery?
Really. Doesn't ring true. I would have heard of it.
I saw several TV news broadcasts on the subject in the early 1980's, but that was pre-Internet and newspaper accounts are probably available only on microfiche. I wasn't able to turn up anything on the Internet. However, the modern practice of tech slavery is alive and well in the Valley.
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/investigation-reveals-silicon-valleys-abuse-immigrant-tech-workers/
Thanks. I'll read.
Sex slavery and human trafficking are alive and well. Several brothels exist within a mile of my home. There is seemingly nothing I can do about it. Cops will 'come by for an inspection' occasionally, get their free rub-and-tug or BJ, and then move on. The cops are part of the problem.
These places pull the same stunt that you described – job in America!!! Once they arrive, Visa or Passport is "held" by employer until repayment of airfare, etc. is paid for. Their job is not cleaning, or whatever, but sex-trade work. They fear returning home out of (misplaced) shame. Or lack of funds. With no papers, they cannot open a private bank account. And the pimps cycle them through all of the various cities to keep a fresh stable of (slave) whores, who have no idea what city they are are in at any given moment.
So, that said, and having perused your link, I must agree.
H-1B visa overload, with people training their own replacements, is another example of this type of double-exploitation. An H-1B is supposed to be for someone with a "special skill that can't be found locally in the US." Um. Hello? Americans are training their own replacements. That is a hint that the required talent exists locally – just not any that can have a visa-renewal lorded over their heads to demand long hours.
Again, thanks for the link.
I get no life, health, or disability insurance and no 401k plan.
If you so choose, even though you are a 1099 contractor at each job, you can elect to pay those Soc. Sec., state unemployment, and other taxes. If you do so, you pay the taxes, but at least then you have access to the social safety net. The unemployment, or under-employment, category is probably especially applicable to you.
That is, the extrapolation from methylated mercury to ethylated was probably not a thermodynamically sound one.
The difference between methymercury and ethylmercury is tiny, thermodynamically. The extra CH2 doesn't change things that much. The extrapolation is quite valid; it turns out there is a difference when testing is actually done.
You are correct, it is not thermodynamics. It is kinetics. Steric hindrance. Slower decomposition rates in vivo
And AvGas replacements without lead are available. The cost to retro-fit and certify a piston prop engine for unleaded fuel is less than a thousand dollars. My local airport (SMO, or Santa Monica Municipal Airport, XSMO) does not have a vendor that even carries unleaded AvGas. Yet.
[citation needed]
Really. Doesn't ring true. I would have heard of it.
locum tenens == substitute dentist (in this case) – when the primary is on vacation, I suppose).
Like a substitute teacher, only with better pay.
"God rewards the diligent."
Is that Chinese for "Arbeit macht frei"?
Luck favors the prepared. --- Sun Tzu
Similar experience with me in the 90s and early 2000s. We worked 16 hour days in many cases, sometimes for weeks on end to ship and at one place I worked at they finally did an audit of our bugtracker after one release. It was discovered that the amount of mistakes on code worked on during those pushes went up dramatically, and especially tellingly - during the last 4 hours of those 14-16 hour days, frequently working all weekend as well for up to 2 months.
Most people cannot do mental marathons. That is the normal human condition. The bugtracker study done at your company was a smart thing to do.
Some people can do mental marathons, but it takes not only the innate ability, but practice over many years to know when the mind is out of juice for the day. The best way to tell is to audit-your-code/edit-your-writing done during the marathon, and when in the marathon it was done. That way, eventually, one can indeed learn to tell that their brain is fuzzing-out when it starts to fuzz out.
It can age one prematurely. That is true. Long recovery periods after anything marathon-like are mandatory. In the end, it is either (a) time-shifting, or (b) using a huge amount of information into your active, working memory. The latter takes several hours, so once it's in there, you make the most use of it that you can (with quality results). And always audit your work after recovery, regardless. Keep your sword sharp.