She is a black version of Carly Fiorina with a dash of "diversity" -- one who did irreparable damage to a once powerful Fortune 500 company, who has a reputation as a liar, who insisted a stupid acquisition with Affiliated Computer Services was the right thing to do, and who is hated by her employees. My God -- I have absolutely no problem with a black woman, but why *that* black woman?
I often go up into the mountains where cell phones don't work well or at all but GPS works just fine. Waze is the killer GPS app but it's no good if you don't have a signal.
You mean like when Clinton discusses wanting to "drone this guy" to assassinate Assange and shut down WikiLeaks once and for all? Especially with the history of people who've crossed the Clinton's ending up dead? Yeah, fuck Wikileaks. Trump talking about some chick's box is waaaaaay more important.
And yet, when conducting the same level of automated surveillance in an aerial fashion over an urban area with an insane, war zone-like crime rate, self-styled privacy advocates shit the bed (just read the comments on the Slashdot story a few down from this one). Sadly, what's an acceptable level of surveillance seems to depend on who is being surveilled and upon which side of the fence you sit politically.
Some might be curious about the system, the company who deploys it, and exactly how it works and how they coordinate with local law enforcement: https://www.bloomberg.com/feat...
Short of deploying the MD National Guard, there is no policing that will have any effect some of these war-torn neighborhoods in Baltimore. Make no mistake -- this is just as bad as South Side Chicago. The gangs absolutely control not only the streets, but the jails too. Witnesses are ruthlessly threatened, and any cooperation with police results in violent reprisal. The stop snitching culture rules all. Most kids have no fathers present and the idea of education itself is ridiculed. The gang banger MO now is to walk up to someone in broad daylight and unload the high capacity magazine of your large-caliber handgun into your victim's head (yeah, despite some of the most rigorous gun laws in the nation including a ban on such magazines). After a hot weekend in the summer, you often end up with a body count inline with Falluja or Aleppo, Because no one cooperates, often camera footage is the only evidence available to help catch these thugs. Unless forces from outside the city decide to stop this cycle of violence by a) ending the "war on drugs" and b) truly deciding that "Black Lives Matter," therefore gangs destroying black neighborhoods are incompatible with civilization itself, then absolutely nothing will change, ever. Though the surveillance program should have been disclosed, I cannot fault the city for thinking outside of the box and trying to gain some sort of assistance in combating this horrific violence. Please take a look at this article from the Baltimore Sun published this AM to get some perspective on *why* stuff like this is even considered.
There is nothing in copyright law that prevents the act of duplication or digitization for the creation of a backup copy. On the contrary, there is plenty of precedent on the books to affirm that this is OK and generally falls under "Fair Use." Copyright comes into play if the holding institution wishes to make items publicly available without the copyright owner's permission (hence your last sentence, which may be quote correct). Much more often, it is lack of funds to pay for the digitization or duplication effort and / or lack of required expertise that causes content to be lost in the situation you are describing.
You start with all the rights by default, dummy. The Bill of Rights explicitly reserves all rights and powers not specifically delegated by the Consitiution to Congress for the states or We the People.
Cautiously optimistic about this guy, between this, Net Neutrality, and a few other issues. Hard to believe he was a career Cable TV industry guy with the decisions he's been making for the consumer's benefit. Still expecting a bunch of arrows to start shooting out of the walls Indiana Jones-style at some point, though.
I'm generally small-L, practical libertarian (not one of the psycho variety you describe above) who supports the free market and civil liberties, but I'll absolutely stand by my original statement: if you have knowledge of a serious exploit in a critical medical device like a pacemaker or artificial heart, and you choose NOT to report that information so you can instead profit from it, you should go to jail, and for a long time. Most sane, mainstream libertarian-leaning folks acknowledge that some amount of regulation is necessary for the common good. The ultra libertarians need to grow up a little and stop looking the other way when someone does something as completely immoral as this.
My Dad has a STJ pacemaker with the Merlin at home communication device in question. Merlin is a monitoring device that the implantee sets up next to their bed, and it wirelessly monitors the pacemaker while they sleep. In case of a cardiac event, it notifies the central monitoring facilities and also send info about the status of the patient's heart and pacemaker (kind of like a burglar alarm system). It is a real game-changer and has saved many peoples' lives. Merlin operates over old-school POTS (not WiFi or even Ethernet) which these days is likely a bit more secure than going over the Internet anyway. I don't know enough about the attack vector but it sounds like the Merlin station wasn't suitably hardened, which is incredibly common in so many of these first gen in-house technologies. I doubt a hacker could remotely turn off a pacemaker, and that likely wouldn't kill my Dad anyway, but obviously this issue needs to be fixed (and it will).
Having said that -- hackers gonna hack, and I get it. However, it should be illegal to have knowledge of this type of vulnerability with a medical device and to choose not to report it so you and your pathological buddies can short stocks. I can't think of much that's more greedy and immoral than that. This isn't some server to be taken over -- you're potentially messing with real peoples' health so you can make a quick buck. There is no place in any civilized society on earth for those types of inhuman pieces of shit.
Instead of wasting time and money doing dragnet email and phone surveillance and conducting bullshit entrapment stings to create fake "terrorists," the TLAs should absolutely exterminate these kinds of human garbage. Seriously, they need to identify and prosecute these fucks with the most extreme prejudice possible. Human greed has no boundaries.
Those who *really* need more pixels (e.g., those of us in high-end reprographic work, fashion photography, people shooting landscapes they want to print out wall-sized, etc.) generally get a bigger sensor. Today, that means something like Phase One's 100 megapixel medium format digital back. This lets us initially grab as many pixels as possible and then throw away the ones we don't want later.
Go ahead and keep defending pathological douchebags like this guy. Medallion owners are speculative parasites and their chickens are coming home to roost, and they sooooo deserve it. Seriously, fuck them . . . couldn't happen to a more antisocial, greedier bunch of dicks.
* Paying the (union) labor to do the job
* Paying the beneifts of the labor doing the job
* Buying the machine and the truck needed to get it to the jobsite
* Keeping the machine and truck maintained
* Insurance of all types: liability, WC, on the equipment and truck, etc.
* Taxes (payroll / business / etc.)
* Accounting / bookkeeping services to take care of the above
* Rent or mortgage for an office / shop to house all of the above
* (Finally) a profit margin
This will get you started, but by adding all of these things up you start to get a pretty clear idea of why things are so much more expensive when you hire someone to do them versus doing them yourself.
We have dozens of 3.5" drives running in multiple arrays at various RAID levels, in a noisy server room with fans continually blasting over 70 db in the background. This trick might work in a lab, but call me when they've got the same attack vector working in a real data center environment. And, oh yeah, and against near-silent SSDs.
What a cherry on the overall sucktitude of US Olympic coverage. Instead of the actual events, we're forced to watch hour after hour of human interest stories and other "puff pieces" which are written to pluck our heartstrings -- all "Sponsored by VISA" or some other shill -- while the events are time-shifted to crazy hours. We need to stay off the Internet so we don't spoil what happened for ourselves. And when we do get the actual events, it's only the US athletes. Fuck that. I mean, that's great and I want to see them, but I want to see *all* the best athletes in the world compete -- not just the sports that have US competitors. I don't care what country they're from -- show me the best. Less crap and more sports. Oh, and the US Olympic Committee might want to hire a marketing person that actually understands things like hashtags instead of this douchebag. Yet another thing the US media has absolutely fucked up for the plebs. This is the first Olympics that I'll be illicitly streaming from another country because I already know the US coverage will blow hard.
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She is a black version of Carly Fiorina with a dash of "diversity" -- one who did irreparable damage to a once powerful Fortune 500 company, who has a reputation as a liar, who insisted a stupid acquisition with Affiliated Computer Services was the right thing to do, and who is hated by her employees. My God -- I have absolutely no problem with a black woman, but why *that* black woman?
I often go up into the mountains where cell phones don't work well or at all but GPS works just fine. Waze is the killer GPS app but it's no good if you don't have a signal.
Just torrent from the green and pink skulls and you can be pretty sure you're not ending up with malware.
You mean like when Clinton discusses wanting to "drone this guy" to assassinate Assange and shut down WikiLeaks once and for all? Especially with the history of people who've crossed the Clinton's ending up dead? Yeah, fuck Wikileaks. Trump talking about some chick's box is waaaaaay more important.
Why not? The mainstream media refuses to do so, but sure as hell runs every 11 year old "pussy" recording it can dig up.
And yet, when conducting the same level of automated surveillance in an aerial fashion over an urban area with an insane, war zone-like crime rate, self-styled privacy advocates shit the bed (just read the comments on the Slashdot story a few down from this one). Sadly, what's an acceptable level of surveillance seems to depend on who is being surveilled and upon which side of the fence you sit politically.
Some might be curious about the system, the company who deploys it, and exactly how it works and how they coordinate with local law enforcement: https://www.bloomberg.com/feat...
Short of deploying the MD National Guard, there is no policing that will have any effect some of these war-torn neighborhoods in Baltimore. Make no mistake -- this is just as bad as South Side Chicago. The gangs absolutely control not only the streets, but the jails too. Witnesses are ruthlessly threatened, and any cooperation with police results in violent reprisal. The stop snitching culture rules all. Most kids have no fathers present and the idea of education itself is ridiculed. The gang banger MO now is to walk up to someone in broad daylight and unload the high capacity magazine of your large-caliber handgun into your victim's head (yeah, despite some of the most rigorous gun laws in the nation including a ban on such magazines). After a hot weekend in the summer, you often end up with a body count inline with Falluja or Aleppo, Because no one cooperates, often camera footage is the only evidence available to help catch these thugs. Unless forces from outside the city decide to stop this cycle of violence by a) ending the "war on drugs" and b) truly deciding that "Black Lives Matter," therefore gangs destroying black neighborhoods are incompatible with civilization itself, then absolutely nothing will change, ever. Though the surveillance program should have been disclosed, I cannot fault the city for thinking outside of the box and trying to gain some sort of assistance in combating this horrific violence. Please take a look at this article from the Baltimore Sun published this AM to get some perspective on *why* stuff like this is even considered.
There is nothing in copyright law that prevents the act of duplication or digitization for the creation of a backup copy. On the contrary, there is plenty of precedent on the books to affirm that this is OK and generally falls under "Fair Use." Copyright comes into play if the holding institution wishes to make items publicly available without the copyright owner's permission (hence your last sentence, which may be quote correct). Much more often, it is lack of funds to pay for the digitization or duplication effort and / or lack of required expertise that causes content to be lost in the situation you are describing.
. . . some very smart people ARE already working on this issue, and have been for a long time. See the Digital Preservation Network and Internet Archive for starters.
And in parts of Europe, free speech is trumped by "hate speech" laws and libel is a serious crime.
Yes -- even in the womens' races.
You start with all the rights by default, dummy. The Bill of Rights explicitly reserves all rights and powers not specifically delegated by the Consitiution to Congress for the states or We the People.
If I had the points I'd mod you up. Didn't the parent ever see Demolition Man?
Cautiously optimistic about this guy, between this, Net Neutrality, and a few other issues. Hard to believe he was a career Cable TV industry guy with the decisions he's been making for the consumer's benefit. Still expecting a bunch of arrows to start shooting out of the walls Indiana Jones-style at some point, though.
I'm generally small-L, practical libertarian (not one of the psycho variety you describe above) who supports the free market and civil liberties, but I'll absolutely stand by my original statement: if you have knowledge of a serious exploit in a critical medical device like a pacemaker or artificial heart, and you choose NOT to report that information so you can instead profit from it, you should go to jail, and for a long time. Most sane, mainstream libertarian-leaning folks acknowledge that some amount of regulation is necessary for the common good. The ultra libertarians need to grow up a little and stop looking the other way when someone does something as completely immoral as this.
My Dad has a STJ pacemaker with the Merlin at home communication device in question. Merlin is a monitoring device that the implantee sets up next to their bed, and it wirelessly monitors the pacemaker while they sleep. In case of a cardiac event, it notifies the central monitoring facilities and also send info about the status of the patient's heart and pacemaker (kind of like a burglar alarm system). It is a real game-changer and has saved many peoples' lives. Merlin operates over old-school POTS (not WiFi or even Ethernet) which these days is likely a bit more secure than going over the Internet anyway. I don't know enough about the attack vector but it sounds like the Merlin station wasn't suitably hardened, which is incredibly common in so many of these first gen in-house technologies. I doubt a hacker could remotely turn off a pacemaker, and that likely wouldn't kill my Dad anyway, but obviously this issue needs to be fixed (and it will).
Having said that -- hackers gonna hack, and I get it. However, it should be illegal to have knowledge of this type of vulnerability with a medical device and to choose not to report it so you and your pathological buddies can short stocks. I can't think of much that's more greedy and immoral than that. This isn't some server to be taken over -- you're potentially messing with real peoples' health so you can make a quick buck. There is no place in any civilized society on earth for those types of inhuman pieces of shit.
Instead of wasting time and money doing dragnet email and phone surveillance and conducting bullshit entrapment stings to create fake "terrorists," the TLAs should absolutely exterminate these kinds of human garbage. Seriously, they need to identify and prosecute these fucks with the most extreme prejudice possible. Human greed has no boundaries.
Those who *really* need more pixels (e.g., those of us in high-end reprographic work, fashion photography, people shooting landscapes they want to print out wall-sized, etc.) generally get a bigger sensor. Today, that means something like Phase One's 100 megapixel medium format digital back. This lets us initially grab as many pixels as possible and then throw away the ones we don't want later.
Go ahead and keep defending pathological douchebags like this guy. Medallion owners are speculative parasites and their chickens are coming home to roost, and they sooooo deserve it. Seriously, fuck them . . . couldn't happen to a more antisocial, greedier bunch of dicks.
* Paying the (union) labor to do the job
* Paying the beneifts of the labor doing the job
* Buying the machine and the truck needed to get it to the jobsite
* Keeping the machine and truck maintained
* Insurance of all types: liability, WC, on the equipment and truck, etc.
* Taxes (payroll / business / etc.)
* Accounting / bookkeeping services to take care of the above
* Rent or mortgage for an office / shop to house all of the above
* (Finally) a profit margin
This will get you started, but by adding all of these things up you start to get a pretty clear idea of why things are so much more expensive when you hire someone to do them versus doing them yourself.
We have dozens of 3.5" drives running in multiple arrays at various RAID levels, in a noisy server room with fans continually blasting over 70 db in the background. This trick might work in a lab, but call me when they've got the same attack vector working in a real data center environment. And, oh yeah, and against near-silent SSDs.
. . . that there were no cameras mounted on JLENS? You really didn't believe them, did you?
That's the plan. I've heard some of the UK coverage is really good too.
What a cherry on the overall sucktitude of US Olympic coverage. Instead of the actual events, we're forced to watch hour after hour of human interest stories and other "puff pieces" which are written to pluck our heartstrings -- all "Sponsored by VISA" or some other shill -- while the events are time-shifted to crazy hours. We need to stay off the Internet so we don't spoil what happened for ourselves. And when we do get the actual events, it's only the US athletes. Fuck that. I mean, that's great and I want to see them, but I want to see *all* the best athletes in the world compete -- not just the sports that have US competitors. I don't care what country they're from -- show me the best. Less crap and more sports. Oh, and the US Olympic Committee might want to hire a marketing person that actually understands things like hashtags instead of this douchebag. Yet another thing the US media has absolutely fucked up for the plebs. This is the first Olympics that I'll be illicitly streaming from another country because I already know the US coverage will blow hard.