I don't see them automatically sending NSLs to every company in the United States, even just once, much less on a regular basis. That in itself would create quite a stir. And if they try to do it just to companies who've published canaries, they'll be playing whack-a-mole with them. And they can't pass a law pre-empting canaries in general without running into freedom of speech problems. No, I don't see they can stomp on canaries and still continue to fly under the radar.
I would suggest there is a much cleaner way for the TLAs to make warrant canaries ineffective. Send a warrant to every company that publishes a canary. In a short space of time, no company of any note will have a canary, and the whole point of issuing a canary is defeated.
Too risky-- it would show up in Canary Watch when they all dissapear, and you'd start seeing a lot of new canaries being published by companies who hadn't done it before, which would then all get their own NSLs, and the whole thing would continue to snowball until someone refused to comply with an NSL and the resulting stink would probably kill off NSLs alltogether.
What probable cause? You obviously haven't been paying attention. The Snowden release has proven without a doubt that probable cause restrictions are ancient history. The Constitution is supposed to set limits in government, but the government has been treating Section 215 as a one-size-fits-all loophole that permits anything.
Frankly, there's far less threat from terrorism than there is from government overreach. Now, that's not the government's opinion on the matter, which should be no surprise, but I'm not the government. As an average citizen, I'm far more likely to be struck by lightning, or to be a victim of mistaken identity by some government agency (already happened, once), than I am to be a victim of a terrorist. Given that, the terrorists aren't the only "enemy" here, nor are they the most dangerous one by any measure.
A useful study would be to ask the question-- on average, what provides better outcomes, 1) a really small class size taught by amateur teachers, possibly as a second job, or 2) large class sizes taught by professionals who don't have a second job (for the most part, anyway), but may be burnt out or are provided with few resources or support. I'm glad it's a decision I don't have to make, but I'm sure glad home schooling wasn't in vogue when I was a kid. My parent's couldn't decide which church to take me to (one Catholic, one Protestant), tried to compromise (Episcopalian), found it met neither of their needs and lost interest (thankfully, as far as I am concerned). I shudder to think what that dynamic might have done to my education...
Oh BS. Plenty of liberals choose to home school. The only thing home schoolers have in common in my opinion is their teachers are amateurs (with a few wxceptions).
Actually home schooling can be popular both on the right and in the left. The right so they can be taught to whatever the parents think are Biblical principles, and the left in order to "protect" the child's self esteem, improve on the quality, or some other justification of that sort. It might also be important to remember that the quality of public education in the US since the 1960s or so has not fared so well, many baby boomers have realized public education today isn't as good as it was when they went to school-- largely because public schools have been under attack by the right in the years since. And then people wonder why things are so polarized, when both the left and right are home-schooling to their personal tastes.
For this sort of thing I'd go to ebay and search on "video server." These things usually support NTSC and PAL cameras and provide them IP/web connection and motion capture with FTP and Email. The advantage of these is you're not stuck with the el-cheapo built-in cameras most IP cams have. You can get a hi-rez (>=600 line) starlight cam using a Sony Effio chip or similar for probably less than $100 (also on ebay) and get good nighttime vision and great daytime color with decent resolution as well. It's not HD, but it gives you options you won't have with an integrated IP cam unit AND it's relatively cheap. Generally you can use wget to grab stills from these, as there's usually a still grab URL. And many have motion detection FTP features as well, that can auto-upload an image to a website based on the alarm trigger, which by the way you could do with a button as most have external alarm NO/NC switch terminal inputs that will trigger the capture.
wally: "When I started programming, we didn't have any of these sissy "icons" and "windows". All we had were zeros and ones — and sometimes we didn't even have ones. I once wrote a database using only zeros."
dilbert: "You had zeros? We had to use the letter "O"."
133M OS? Bloated. My first decent coding job was working on a 4-user OS that ran in 8K. Supported text terminal based business apps written in a tight tokenized language by swapping segments of them in 256 byte chunks from floppy (with a small cache) and the DB stored on floppies as well. And I can tell you we didn't waste bytes on using either null as a string terminator OR a length byte, 7-bit characters with the high bit being the terminator saved us all kinds of space (made supporting international character sets a pain, but we did that too for many of them). When we finally got around to porting the environment to Linux, it scaled REALLY well. The dang thing could run 1000 users from a PC based server (this was in the early '90s with sub-gigabyte memory). This was when the GUI-heavy competition was struggling to support 20 users.
Bugs happen. Vulnerabilities may exist. Get used to it. You have to start somewhere. The important thing is to reject the incessant creeping featurism that is the source of most bugs and vulnerabilities.
It's the SMARTPHONE that's not the necessity. For >$80/mo given the data plan, I just don't need it. My iPad I pay for once, and can wifi from then on with it. When I need a mobile phone, I have a pay-as-you-go dumb cel phone that costs me $100/yr.
I hear there are zones of lawlessness in people's homes and in various public spaces such as parks, parking lots, street corners and alleys, where people actually TALK to each other without being surveilled! And bad guys who talk in code so that even if they are being surveilled, it's as if their conversation is encrypted by their brains! Horrors, whatever shall we do! Think of the children!
The government doesn't want anything to stand in the way of people taking the internet for granted or reducing their usage due to expense. Otherwise the surveillance network doesn't work as well. Also, jammers have a tendency to interfere with their IMSI catchers. Can't have that now, can we?
Well, it's a better way to get Media coverage of your protest than camping out in Zucatti park. At least for the first few times until the WH tells the media to lay off covering such incidents. And soon you'll have to go completely autonomous once they set up the radio jammers.
It does seem like a bad idea to base a virtual currency on the amount of energy wasted to "mine" it. While that may not have been the original intent, the way it's panned out is you mine it by burning up electricity in order to compute them. Unless the NSA has figured a way to utilize those computations to aid them in decryption and wanted to encourage it for that reason, it seems it's devolved into merely burning up resources in order to turn it into money. Then again, I suppose mining for gold isn't all that different. Still, wouldn't it be better to come up with a way to produce artificial scarcity that conserves rather than wastes energy?
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I don't see them automatically sending NSLs to every company in the United States, even just once, much less on a regular basis. That in itself would create quite a stir. And if they try to do it just to companies who've published canaries, they'll be playing whack-a-mole with them. And they can't pass a law pre-empting canaries in general without running into freedom of speech problems. No, I don't see they can stomp on canaries and still continue to fly under the radar.
I would suggest there is a much cleaner way for the TLAs to make warrant canaries ineffective. Send a warrant to every company that publishes a canary. In a short space of time, no company of any note will have a canary, and the whole point of issuing a canary is defeated.
Too risky-- it would show up in Canary Watch when they all dissapear, and you'd start seeing a lot of new canaries being published by companies who hadn't done it before, which would then all get their own NSLs, and the whole thing would continue to snowball until someone refused to comply with an NSL and the resulting stink would probably kill off NSLs alltogether.
What probable cause? You obviously haven't been paying attention. The Snowden release has proven without a doubt that probable cause restrictions are ancient history. The Constitution is supposed to set limits in government, but the government has been treating Section 215 as a one-size-fits-all loophole that permits anything.
Greater crackdowns on freedom and privacy is exactly what the terrorists want, so the government is giving aid to the enemy.
THIS. ABSOLUTELY.
Frankly, there's far less threat from terrorism than there is from government overreach. Now, that's not the government's opinion on the matter, which should be no surprise, but I'm not the government. As an average citizen, I'm far more likely to be struck by lightning, or to be a victim of mistaken identity by some government agency (already happened, once), than I am to be a victim of a terrorist. Given that, the terrorists aren't the only "enemy" here, nor are they the most dangerous one by any measure.
A useful study would be to ask the question-- on average, what provides better outcomes, 1) a really small class size taught by amateur teachers, possibly as a second job, or 2) large class sizes taught by professionals who don't have a second job (for the most part, anyway), but may be burnt out or are provided with few resources or support. I'm glad it's a decision I don't have to make, but I'm sure glad home schooling wasn't in vogue when I was a kid. My parent's couldn't decide which church to take me to (one Catholic, one Protestant), tried to compromise (Episcopalian), found it met neither of their needs and lost interest (thankfully, as far as I am concerned). I shudder to think what that dynamic might have done to my education...
Oh BS. Plenty of liberals choose to home school. The only thing home schoolers have in common in my opinion is their teachers are amateurs (with a few wxceptions).
Actually home schooling can be popular both on the right and in the left. The right so they can be taught to whatever the parents think are Biblical principles, and the left in order to "protect" the child's self esteem, improve on the quality, or some other justification of that sort. It might also be important to remember that the quality of public education in the US since the 1960s or so has not fared so well, many baby boomers have realized public education today isn't as good as it was when they went to school-- largely because public schools have been under attack by the right in the years since. And then people wonder why things are so polarized, when both the left and right are home-schooling to their personal tastes.
For this sort of thing I'd go to ebay and search on "video server." These things usually support NTSC and PAL cameras and provide them IP/web connection and motion capture with FTP and Email. The advantage of these is you're not stuck with the el-cheapo built-in cameras most IP cams have. You can get a hi-rez (>=600 line) starlight cam using a Sony Effio chip or similar for probably less than $100 (also on ebay) and get good nighttime vision and great daytime color with decent resolution as well. It's not HD, but it gives you options you won't have with an integrated IP cam unit AND it's relatively cheap. Generally you can use wget to grab stills from these, as there's usually a still grab URL. And many have motion detection FTP features as well, that can auto-upload an image to a website based on the alarm trigger, which by the way you could do with a button as most have external alarm NO/NC switch terminal inputs that will trigger the capture.
Don't forget to mention how well (or how poorly) lcds work in bright sunlight...
Obligatory Dilbert reference:
wally: "When I started programming, we didn't have any of these sissy "icons" and "windows". All we had were zeros and ones — and sometimes we didn't even have ones. I once wrote a database using only zeros."
dilbert: "You had zeros? We had to use the letter "O"."
133M OS? Bloated. My first decent coding job was working on a 4-user OS that ran in 8K. Supported text terminal based business apps written in a tight tokenized language by swapping segments of them in 256 byte chunks from floppy (with a small cache) and the DB stored on floppies as well. And I can tell you we didn't waste bytes on using either null as a string terminator OR a length byte, 7-bit characters with the high bit being the terminator saved us all kinds of space (made supporting international character sets a pain, but we did that too for many of them). When we finally got around to porting the environment to Linux, it scaled REALLY well. The dang thing could run 1000 users from a PC based server (this was in the early '90s with sub-gigabyte memory). This was when the GUI-heavy competition was struggling to support 20 users.
Well, if robocalls aren't a "zone of lawlessness" I don't know what is...
Hmmm... i wonder if I could scrape 800notes.com and create a blacklist...
I don't suppose the list is available?
Bugs happen. Vulnerabilities may exist. Get used to it. You have to start somewhere. The important thing is to reject the incessant creeping featurism that is the source of most bugs and vulnerabilities.
It's the SMARTPHONE that's not the necessity. For >$80/mo given the data plan, I just don't need it. My iPad I pay for once, and can wifi from then on with it. When I need a mobile phone, I have a pay-as-you-go dumb cel phone that costs me $100/yr.
Yes, we're trying to address the "zone of lawlessness" inside the NSA...
I hear there are zones of lawlessness in people's homes and in various public spaces such as parks, parking lots, street corners and alleys, where people actually TALK to each other without being surveilled! And bad guys who talk in code so that even if they are being surveilled, it's as if their conversation is encrypted by their brains! Horrors, whatever shall we do! Think of the children!
The government doesn't want anything to stand in the way of people taking the internet for granted or reducing their usage due to expense. Otherwise the surveillance network doesn't work as well. Also, jammers have a tendency to interfere with their IMSI catchers. Can't have that now, can we?
Probably because "constitutional republic" makes it sound like you're a Republican, and "democracy" makes it sound like you're a Democrat.
Well, it's a better way to get Media coverage of your protest than camping out in Zucatti park. At least for the first few times until the WH tells the media to lay off covering such incidents. And soon you'll have to go completely autonomous once they set up the radio jammers.
They're just trying to keep up with the US.
It does seem like a bad idea to base a virtual currency on the amount of energy wasted to "mine" it. While that may not have been the original intent, the way it's panned out is you mine it by burning up electricity in order to compute them. Unless the NSA has figured a way to utilize those computations to aid them in decryption and wanted to encourage it for that reason, it seems it's devolved into merely burning up resources in order to turn it into money. Then again, I suppose mining for gold isn't all that different. Still, wouldn't it be better to come up with a way to produce artificial scarcity that conserves rather than wastes energy?
Oops, I didn't intend to create a plug for that site, I didn't know it actually existed and is some kind of proxy service...