Well, one could have a good idea of how many satellites they have put up. It is really hard to hide rocket launches. So let me pull a number out of the air: 1000. That is way more than I think they would have up there. Each one is in LEO, so they probably have an orbital period of around 90 min. (max for LEO is 120 min). Now get some idea of how many people they can "track" with that many satellites. Now half it, due to weather. Now half it again, due to day/night cycles. Think really hard, and give me a back of the envelope calculation of just how many targets they could conceivably track.
If our remote sensing was really as good as the article implies, then US forces wouldn't have been subject to as many IED attacks in Iraq as we have suffered. Now you want me to believe that they can put such resources to work tracking domestic US citizens?
I'll say it also, satellite imagery isn't all it's made out to be. It ain't that great.
Based upon good faith and probable cause, the vehicle was searched.
From the article:
At issue is the case of Bennie Herring, an Alabama man who drove to the police station in July 2004 to try to retrieve items from an impounded pickup truck. A Coffee County cop recognized him, asked the clerk to check the database for outstanding warrant.
None was found, so the investigator asked the clerk to call the neighboring Dale county clerk to see if it had a warrant for Herring.
The Dale county clerk found a warrant for Herring in their database, so the Coffee County cops set out after Herring after asking the other county to fax the warrant over.
I take issue with your "good faith" search. I don't know what prompted the cop to tell the clerk to check on this guy, but it doesn't sound like good faith to me. Good faith would assume innocence, not look to see if one can find a reason to search or imprison someone. Maybe the cop had good reason to check, or maybe he likes the power he has been given and wants to keep someone down. I don't know from the article, but it doesn't sound like good faith to me.
Well, 2007 has bugs in it. I don't use Excel, I use something that can utilize math correctly. Have you checked your spreadsheet program? Or do you just assume that Microsoft does everything correctly?
Last time I checked (and it has been a while), Excel has computational bugs in it which can result in valid data in -> garbage out. In my mind, 'meaningful scientific data analysis' involves accurate computation. But maybe I'm just a dreamer.
See how the runway ends, goes through a field and then re-appears after the construction? I think the airbase is a victim of stitched together imagery that joins two photos taken at different times.
It all depends on how you use the recovery mechanism. Some of my password recovery questions I've made purposely false to prevent an attack that incorporates background information on me. I just have to remember my web of lies.
Generally, I write down many of my important passwords in a physical booklet, and I keep said booklet reasonably secure. But even if one found it, they would have trouble connecting the login information to a particular account. It would give a good starting point in my methodology of creating and remembering passwords and would be a great aid to crack my accounts, but it still has a pattern to it that only I immediately recognize.
You know, only outlaws will open wi-fi. Seriously, terrorists will use cracking techniques to open "closed" wi-fi networks. From what I understand, wi-fi security is weak and easily cracked anyway.
Hmm, using heat signatures to detect persons within buildings is old hat. Any slashdotters care to comment on how one could, even theoretically, see within buildings and identify targets with any degree of precision?
My experience with thermal imagers shows that even imaging through ordinary window glass is difficult (I won't say impossible). Windows are opaque for all intensive purposes. Wood, brick, adobe, whatever are going to block the IR enough to prevent imaging anybody. You can see where heat leaks out, but you can't see thermal through glass, let alone building materials. My experience is with very old cooled sensors, so I'm not up to date, but I can't see this happening with thermal imaging.
Color me skeptical. I don't think they can "see" targets within buildings. Maybe they are able to tag a target with something, and that enables them to track "within buildings" but I don't think they have a remote sensing capability that can image or otherwise identify specific targets within a building from the air without any previous tagging measures. I call FUD. It is propaganda wrapped with a little bit of truth (capability) that they magnify with a story in the news media.
Isn't Seinfeld's entire career a show about hanging out with a group of pathetically petty backstabbers and cheaters, who waste every opportunity to ever do anything worthwhile, and instead just stick to dirty tricks and scams?
Like Microsoft has never engaged in backstabbing or cheating to get ahead. Not to mention dirty tricks and scams?
Ares being cheap is a false economy. By trying to essentially throw together a rocket from spare parts, they are now costing more money making it work than if they had just built a launcher with a free hand.
NASA has a long tradition of using "spare" parts. Case in point, the Saturn I lower stage, tankage built up from Redstone and Jupiter tankage.
But a nano has a substantially smaller battery than say, a laptop, several of which have been known to burst into flames as well. Sure, you can say that a laptop is a necessity for the traveler, but it really isn't if you have a problem with putting others at risk. I don't think a nano is unreasonable.
Either you ban all li-ion batteries, or you ban none, or you use a reasonable metric, like lithium equivalence to determine what is permissible. I feel that all li-ion batteries have a small risk of bursting into flames, we just might not have discovered the latest batch of bad ones yet. Most will deliver fine service without venting. I would hope that most planes have some fire fighting measures aboard.
Sure, most of the time we're the backwards arm pit of America, but one Alabama citizen can sell a fire arm (rifles, not pistols) to another Alabama citizen with nothing more than a glance at his driver's license.
Are you sure about the driver's license requirement? I think you can just ask if they reside in the state. I also think that it is legal to sell to residents of neighboring states.
Is that what you are saying? Never mind the huge amount of arms in the region, purchased with oil revenues. Yeah, it is all on Israel, they are the only ones causing the conflict. And we invaded Iraq because Israel told us to. Right. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big fan of Israel, but they didn't invade Iraq. And all that Saudi oil money has nothing to do with conflict in the region.
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How will you coutersue[sic] if you're bankrupted before you can?
You need Green & Fazio. They don't get a dime until you get 3 dimes.
Well, one could have a good idea of how many satellites they have put up. It is really hard to hide rocket launches. So let me pull a number out of the air: 1000. That is way more than I think they would have up there. Each one is in LEO, so they probably have an orbital period of around 90 min. (max for LEO is 120 min). Now get some idea of how many people they can "track" with that many satellites. Now half it, due to weather. Now half it again, due to day/night cycles. Think really hard, and give me a back of the envelope calculation of just how many targets they could conceivably track.
If our remote sensing was really as good as the article implies, then US forces wouldn't have been subject to as many IED attacks in Iraq as we have suffered. Now you want me to believe that they can put such resources to work tracking domestic US citizens?
I'll say it also, satellite imagery isn't all it's made out to be. It ain't that great.
Based upon good faith and probable cause, the vehicle was searched.
From the article:
At issue is the case of Bennie Herring, an Alabama man who drove to the police station in July 2004 to try to retrieve items from an impounded pickup truck. A Coffee County cop recognized him, asked the clerk to check the database for outstanding warrant.
None was found, so the investigator asked the clerk to call the neighboring Dale county clerk to see if it had a warrant for Herring.
The Dale county clerk found a warrant for Herring in their database, so the Coffee County cops set out after Herring after asking the other county to fax the warrant over.
I take issue with your "good faith" search. I don't know what prompted the cop to tell the clerk to check on this guy, but it doesn't sound like good faith to me. Good faith would assume innocence, not look to see if one can find a reason to search or imprison someone. Maybe the cop had good reason to check, or maybe he likes the power he has been given and wants to keep someone down. I don't know from the article, but it doesn't sound like good faith to me.
I use punch cards, you insensitive clod! "optimization levels" please!
Well, I do put faith into my fortran compiler.
Well, 2007 has bugs in it. I don't use Excel, I use something that can utilize math correctly. Have you checked your spreadsheet program? Or do you just assume that Microsoft does everything correctly?
Last time I checked (and it has been a while), Excel has computational bugs in it which can result in valid data in -> garbage out. In my mind, 'meaningful scientific data analysis' involves accurate computation. But maybe I'm just a dreamer.
Also, here is another photo:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:RamsteinAB.jpg
Looks to me like there is a lot of pavement.
Huntsville Alabama airport runway extension
See how the runway ends, goes through a field and then re-appears after the construction? I think the airbase is a victim of stitched together imagery that joins two photos taken at different times.
It all depends on how you use the recovery mechanism. Some of my password recovery questions I've made purposely false to prevent an attack that incorporates background information on me. I just have to remember my web of lies.
Generally, I write down many of my important passwords in a physical booklet, and I keep said booklet reasonably secure. But even if one found it, they would have trouble connecting the login information to a particular account. It would give a good starting point in my methodology of creating and remembering passwords and would be a great aid to crack my accounts, but it still has a pattern to it that only I immediately recognize.
You know, only outlaws will open wi-fi. Seriously, terrorists will use cracking techniques to open "closed" wi-fi networks. From what I understand, wi-fi security is weak and easily cracked anyway.
Hmm, using heat signatures to detect persons within buildings is old hat. Any slashdotters care to comment on how one could, even theoretically, see within buildings and identify targets with any degree of precision?
My experience with thermal imagers shows that even imaging through ordinary window glass is difficult (I won't say impossible). Windows are opaque for all intensive purposes. Wood, brick, adobe, whatever are going to block the IR enough to prevent imaging anybody. You can see where heat leaks out, but you can't see thermal through glass, let alone building materials. My experience is with very old cooled sensors, so I'm not up to date, but I can't see this happening with thermal imaging.
Color me skeptical. I don't think they can "see" targets within buildings. Maybe they are able to tag a target with something, and that enables them to track "within buildings" but I don't think they have a remote sensing capability that can image or otherwise identify specific targets within a building from the air without any previous tagging measures. I call FUD. It is propaganda wrapped with a little bit of truth (capability) that they magnify with a story in the news media.
Evil if US Government has "shutter control"
Not evil if anyone can buy imagery from anywhere on the globe for the same rate and that all purchased imagery is published on the web
Insert "insertion point" jokes here.
Isn't Seinfeld's entire career a show about hanging out with a group of pathetically petty backstabbers and cheaters, who waste every opportunity to ever do anything worthwhile, and instead just stick to dirty tricks and scams?
Like Microsoft has never engaged in backstabbing or cheating to get ahead. Not to mention dirty tricks and scams?
Ares being cheap is a false economy. By trying to essentially throw together a rocket from spare parts, they are now costing more money making it work than if they had just built a launcher with a free hand.
NASA has a long tradition of using "spare" parts. Case in point, the Saturn I lower stage, tankage built up from Redstone and Jupiter tankage.
But a nano has a substantially smaller battery than say, a laptop, several of which have been known to burst into flames as well. Sure, you can say that a laptop is a necessity for the traveler, but it really isn't if you have a problem with putting others at risk. I don't think a nano is unreasonable.
Either you ban all li-ion batteries, or you ban none, or you use a reasonable metric, like lithium equivalence to determine what is permissible. I feel that all li-ion batteries have a small risk of bursting into flames, we just might not have discovered the latest batch of bad ones yet. Most will deliver fine service without venting. I would hope that most planes have some fire fighting measures aboard.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2008/07/27/books/manjoo-600.jpg
Are you surprised? It is google, they sell advertising.
Be QUIET, or the yanks will move down here.
We don't have paved roads, and we still use outhouses. This state is full of rednecks.
Do you have a firearms license?
Hell no!
And I also neither confirm or deny having a firearm. We might be a little backwards here in AL, but we take the 2nd amendment seriously.
Sure, most of the time we're the backwards arm pit of America, but one Alabama citizen can sell a fire arm (rifles, not pistols) to another Alabama citizen with nothing more than a glance at his driver's license.
Are you sure about the driver's license requirement? I think you can just ask if they reside in the state. I also think that it is legal to sell to residents of neighboring states.
Screw the forms. Not really illegally, but in my state, personal sales don't involve any forms. Unless you consider a federal reserve note a "form".
I didn't miss it, he said "laws" not "some laws". But I think we are on the same page regardless.
Is that what you are saying? Never mind the huge amount of arms in the region, purchased with oil revenues. Yeah, it is all on Israel, they are the only ones causing the conflict. And we invaded Iraq because Israel told us to. Right. Don't get me wrong, I'm not a big fan of Israel, but they didn't invade Iraq. And all that Saudi oil money has nothing to do with conflict in the region.