I doubt that Silk Road is a significant factor in increased Tor usage, but if it is Bitcoin being in the news recently (and the attendent running in circles like chicken little by law enforcement) might be a factor..
We don't actually know for sure whether the school did anything wrong.
We're pretty sure they did, if we take at face value the statements of the district administrators.
Assuming the only activations were in the case of laptops being misplaced or stolen. as claimed publicly by the District, by pursuing it themselves rather than turning it over to the police department, they were acting as private investigators.
Pennsylvania, like most states, requires licenses for PIs. I strongly doubt the persons activating the cameras were so licensed.
That's the most generous reading of events I can come up with at this point.
Even better, since I don't use illegal drugs I'll go ahead and give them the sample, wait for the tests to come back negative, and explain to them very clearly why I'm declining their employment offer at that point.
That "prevents" them from dismissing my refusal as "oh, a druggie who didn't want to get caught"
Not really disagreeing with you, but your comment about iodized salt made me think that it seems to be mostly herbivores that seek out salt licks... perhaps due to plants being low in either sodium or chloride? If that's the case, a nifty evolutionary behavior there. You also correctly pointed out my conflation of "vegan" and "vegetarian" -- thanks.
And certainly you are correct that meat is an inefficient means of protein production. But it's very efficient for the consumer; eating meat was more time efficient for primitive man as opposed to gathering nuts/seeds/leaves/roots to eat. This created free time not devoted to survival and probably was instrumental in the development of civilization, although the invention of agriculture is generally credited with that. If I were an anthropology major in search of a thesis...
There's that minor bit about having evolved over millions of years as omnivores, though. It's very difficult to be totally vegetarian and not develop nutritional difficulties; in particular I think an amino acid (tyrosine?) is hard to come by on a strictly vegan diet.
Who know what other trace nutrients might be provided only by eating carnivorously, or what subtle effects their absence might have?
if they can take one sample from one animal and clone it in a vat and feed this world, will the vegans be ok with that?
Gee, I don't know. If we serve only pork, will all religionists be OK with that? "Vegans" are not a monolithic group; they're a bunch of (in my opinion) silly people, but to lump them together as you do is an insulting application of stereotypes.
Some vegans do it for health reasons (so an artificial product that's effectively the same chemically won't sway them), while others do it for "ethical" reasons, to avoid eating fuzzy critters... these people might find the artificial perfectly acceptable, as it sidesteps their core concern.
...off to have a steak for lunch; I'm an omnivore. Count your toes.
They apparently were never "contacted and told that it needed to come down" -- the City Attorney directly contacted Google and still hasn't revealed what, if any, information is considered "non-public" using a claim of "attorney client privilege"
There was also apparently some absurd murmuring about "copyright violations", leading me to suspect that they invoked the DMCA in their communications with Google. False claims under the DMCA are punishable, and I suspect the refusal to reveal the content of the communication to the party impacted is an effort at ass covering.
City Attorney needs to have the bar association look into this and possibly suspend their license to practice law.
My understanding is that he called the police and asked if they'd left anything in his car. They explicitly said "No", disclaiming any ownership. Perhaps the cop who told him that -- acting as an agent for the police department -- should be charged with theft, but the gentleman here was at worst guilty of receiving stolen property. Since he received it in good faith, I don't think any such charge should go anywhere.
Re: (1)...
Uh, no. They'd blow his car up to dispose of the "bomb". They don't try to disarm bombs unless it can't be removed from property they care about... which doesn't include the vehicle of someone already on their shit list.
Uh, just because the term "forensics" is sometimes used in a limited sense in the legal sphere doesn't mean it can't be used in a more casual sense elsewhere. If he'd called it a "postmortem" would you be complaining that it wasn't performed by a licensed medical examiner?
Is any fool that paid the $699 licensing fee now able to sue to recover it, as they seem to have engaged in fraud? Hmms. Over the internet. Wire fraud? Federal case there?
Presumably it would need to be "knowing fraud" for criminal penalties, but I suspect that discovery in minute detail (body cavity search of McBride to start... perhaps they'll locate his head) would uncover evidence that they "knew, or should have known" that the licenses sold were fraudulent.
Ah. I guess I was one third right... in one axis. Somehow I can't get comfortable with the primary attitude control being based on controlling one nozzle; that seems to be asking for trouble.
Hell, the S-IC could lose one of the outboard engines and the others could compensate, no? It seems rather risky to rely on a single system (redundant, surely) for such a critical thing.
Changing over to more and smaller nozzles would create additional points of failure. Larger engine bells would also be more efficient in terms of mass (consider a single container vs. several containers with the same total volume). Not to mention the additional plumbing, even if you share pumps between engines.
That said, the USSR did as you suggest with their N-1, which used 30(!) engines on the first stage and varying thrust as you suggest for attitude control.
All 4 test launches failed prior to second stage ignition, one creating the largest explosion in the history of rocketry (destroying the launch pad as well as the vehicle). The program was then cancelled.
The Ares I (single 5-segment SRB for first stage, LH/LOX second) does, if I recall, use small thrusters for attitude control during ascent rather than engine gimbaling.
You're partly correct; the tooling has been destroyed. But the largest of the factories (MAF: Michaud Assembly Facility) in Louisiana still exists and is used to build Shuttle external tanks.
That's what I really don't get about this. Are we exporting offices (with contents) from MSFC? No? then what the Hell does ITAR have to do with what's hanging on office walls - even if it were classified or "not for export"? Who was trying to export it, and where to?
True, the Ares V (like the Shuttle) lifts off on both solids and LH/LOX - but I was refering to engines such as this which would avoid some duplication in terms of combustion chambers and oxidizer pumps/tankage. As I recall the former USSR did some development work on such engines, but they've never been flown 'live'
Ah, thanks for the correction/clarification. Another name for the AGC was apparently DSKY, for "Display/Keyboard". Was this the reverse engineering of it that you were involved in (didn't look closely to see if that one is under GPL)?
I stand corrected and recall now that it was MIT. Don't know where I got Honeywell from...
Actually the Saturn V did have computers on board - the Instrument Unit (IBM) and the DSK(?) computers in both the CM and LM (Honeywell?). Of course any $40 programmable calculator available today would run circles around them, so it's not technology worth protecting.
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Isn't this properly a matter for the ITU, FCC and analogous bodies to deal with?
I doubt that Silk Road is a significant factor in increased Tor usage, but if it is Bitcoin being in the news recently (and the attendent running in circles like chicken little by law enforcement) might be a factor..
Folks are just going to drop-ship to sales-tax free states by having a friend or relative there order for them.
Make the encrypted data a bunch of information on jury nullification while you're at it.
These people shouldn't be employed as janitors, let alone school administrators.
We're pretty sure they did, if we take at face value the statements of the district administrators.
Assuming the only activations were in the case of laptops being misplaced or stolen. as claimed publicly by the District, by pursuing it themselves rather than turning it over to the police department, they were acting as private investigators.
Pennsylvania, like most states, requires licenses for PIs. I strongly doubt the persons activating the cameras were so licensed.
That's the most generous reading of events I can come up with at this point.
Have you considered trying a bunch of these?
Please allow me to correct your comment and shorten it a bit:
There! Wasn't that simpler, without all those extra words?
Even better, since I don't use illegal drugs I'll go ahead and give them the sample, wait for the tests to come back negative, and explain to them very clearly why I'm declining their employment offer at that point.
That "prevents" them from dismissing my refusal as "oh, a druggie who didn't want to get caught"
What a relief... it's pharmaceuticals, so I can go on buying my marijuana, cocaine, heroin and LSD over the interwebs. I'd hate to support hackers.
And certainly you are correct that meat is an inefficient means of protein production. But it's very efficient for the consumer; eating meat was more time efficient for primitive man as opposed to gathering nuts/seeds/leaves/roots to eat. This created free time not devoted to survival and probably was instrumental in the development of civilization, although the invention of agriculture is generally credited with that. If I were an anthropology major in search of a thesis...
Just musing. Pardon me.
Who know what other trace nutrients might be provided only by eating carnivorously, or what subtle effects their absence might have?
Some vegans do it for health reasons (so an artificial product that's effectively the same chemically won't sway them), while others do it for "ethical" reasons, to avoid eating fuzzy critters... these people might find the artificial perfectly acceptable, as it sidesteps their core concern.
They apparently were never "contacted and told that it needed to come down" -- the City Attorney directly contacted Google and still hasn't revealed what, if any, information is considered "non-public" using a claim of "attorney client privilege" There was also apparently some absurd murmuring about "copyright violations", leading me to suspect that they invoked the DMCA in their communications with Google. False claims under the DMCA are punishable, and I suspect the refusal to reveal the content of the communication to the party impacted is an effort at ass covering. City Attorney needs to have the bar association look into this and possibly suspend their license to practice law.
My understanding is that he called the police and asked if they'd left anything in his car. They explicitly said "No", disclaiming any ownership. Perhaps the cop who told him that -- acting as an agent for the police department -- should be charged with theft, but the gentleman here was at worst guilty of receiving stolen property. Since he received it in good faith, I don't think any such charge should go anywhere.
Re: (1)... Uh, no. They'd blow his car up to dispose of the "bomb". They don't try to disarm bombs unless it can't be removed from property they care about... which doesn't include the vehicle of someone already on their shit list.
Uh, just because the term "forensics" is sometimes used in a limited sense in the legal sphere doesn't mean it can't be used in a more casual sense elsewhere. If he'd called it a "postmortem" would you be complaining that it wasn't performed by a licensed medical examiner?
Is any fool that paid the $699 licensing fee now able to sue to recover it, as they seem to have engaged in fraud? Hmms. Over the internet. Wire fraud? Federal case there? Presumably it would need to be "knowing fraud" for criminal penalties, but I suspect that discovery in minute detail (body cavity search of McBride to start... perhaps they'll locate his head) would uncover evidence that they "knew, or should have known" that the licenses sold were fraudulent.
Ah. I guess I was one third right... in one axis. Somehow I can't get comfortable with the primary attitude control being based on controlling one nozzle; that seems to be asking for trouble. Hell, the S-IC could lose one of the outboard engines and the others could compensate, no? It seems rather risky to rely on a single system (redundant, surely) for such a critical thing.
Changing over to more and smaller nozzles would create additional points of failure. Larger engine bells would also be more efficient in terms of mass (consider a single container vs. several containers with the same total volume). Not to mention the additional plumbing, even if you share pumps between engines.
That said, the USSR did as you suggest with their N-1, which used 30(!) engines on the first stage and varying thrust as you suggest for attitude control.
All 4 test launches failed prior to second stage ignition, one creating the largest explosion in the history of rocketry (destroying the launch pad as well as the vehicle). The program was then cancelled.
The Ares I (single 5-segment SRB for first stage, LH/LOX second) does, if I recall, use small thrusters for attitude control during ascent rather than engine gimbaling.
You're partly correct; the tooling has been destroyed. But the largest of the factories (MAF: Michaud Assembly Facility) in Louisiana still exists and is used to build Shuttle external tanks.
That's what I really don't get about this. Are we exporting offices (with contents) from MSFC? No? then what the Hell does ITAR have to do with what's hanging on office walls - even if it were classified or "not for export"? Who was trying to export it, and where to?
True, the Ares V (like the Shuttle) lifts off on both solids and LH/LOX - but I was refering to engines such as this which would avoid some duplication in terms of combustion chambers and oxidizer pumps/tankage. As I recall the former USSR did some development work on such engines, but they've never been flown 'live'
Ah, thanks for the correction/clarification. Another name for the AGC was apparently DSKY, for "Display/Keyboard". Was this the reverse engineering of it that you were involved in (didn't look closely to see if that one is under GPL)? I stand corrected and recall now that it was MIT. Don't know where I got Honeywell from...
Actually the Saturn V did have computers on board - the Instrument Unit (IBM) and the DSK(?) computers in both the CM and LM (Honeywell?). Of course any $40 programmable calculator available today would run circles around them, so it's not technology worth protecting.