With the raw data that our personal tracking devices contain and share with the phone company,
As a spy, you want your observable behavior to blend in with the crowd. Hiding (too much) is just as suspicious as standing out.
This is why everyone needs to use secure communications and encryption*. Of course, this makes law enforcement snooping that much more difficult. One has to balance the safety of our friends working in hostile countries with the possibility that some people might abuse security to swipe some Disney content. It appears that Mickey Mouse won out over some lives in this case.
*It would be interesting to see if the CIA portals were set up on secure web sites.
However, why somebody didn't prevent these pages from being scanned
Because that would have bumped them up a notch on a list of suspicious sites. A storefront or other site that would be expected to want a good position in search engine listings, but tries to hide instead.
Why not use a combination of request attributes (or looks for some whitelisted client certificates) to switch the behavior of the web site from innocuous to the CIA portal. There are a number of different techniques one can use to present one face to Google and the world an another to trusted users.
I don't know the details. But the cops use them at a couple of strip clubs in Seattle. And they can 'tune' them to select phones on the premises and not people driving by.
Why don't we have something like a Stingray or micro cell site that can be installed in prisons? Whitelist authorized staff cellphones and pass their calls through. Block or raise an alarm for all other devices operating inside the prison.
Only works to the extent that the regulated rate of return is better than market rates on Wall Street. No sane investor is going to dump money into assets when the payback is better elsewhere. The big problem with utilities is that they are usually guaranteed rates of return even on non-performing assets. That is: Build a power plant for $X and the utilities commission will allow you to charge 10% of X per year (or whatever the regulated rate is). Even if it generates no power. If it generates nothing, customers' power rates just go up to cover the capital costs. To be fair, most rate regulation rules include limits on which investments are allowed into the rate base. So if you start building crap, they will just refuse it. And then it comes out of your investors' pockets.
What I'm not seeing here is whether this Proposition 127 would automatically 'bless' solar investments as being in a utilities rate base. That means, once built, the utilities commission is obliged to allow a rate of return regardless of how much or little the solar plants generate. The telling phrase is "require power companies to generate fifty per cent of their electricity". Not invest 50% of their generation capital budget in renewables. Given that renewable generation might be sort of iffy in terms of actual power output per dollar of capital, this could be a bottomless pit for A.P.S. Keep pouring money into plants until the power output hits 50%.
Now if I had to get involved in this deal, I'd like to be a wealthy hedge fund manager with an environmental tilt and a customer on the hook to buy my solar plants, regardless of sound economics.
... is now known as Emerdata. But they may very well have sold the rights to the name 'Cambridge Analytica' to another party. Who then attempted to buy advertising for their new business on Facebook. What's wrong with that?
On the other hand, Business Insider's use of that name may very well constitute fraud as well as a trademark violation. What's up with that?
According to recent studies, waste reprocessing is more costly than direct geological disposal.
The assumptions behind those studies are that no fuel (or other useful products) are extracted from the reprocessing output. If you use the recovered fuel, the economics change significantly.
If you have to ask what insurance, then never mind.
What's are the limits on liability? Many businesses would not be viable today if there were no statutory limits on what they can be sued for.
... just got injected into a company that will take a good chunk of it and use it to write and maintain code. Which will be placed back into the OSS environment. I'm OK with this.
... the Sierra Club was shut down yesterday following the discovery of an endangered species of cockroach, the Sierra Club cockroach, found living in its headquarters. Although related to other species, this cockroach is unique in that it is defined as being resident within the Sierra Club headquarters building.
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Now plot those against rentals of 'Last Tango In Paris'.
As opposed to 8:30? Who cares? Either way, you are waking up in the dark (grumpy old retired people who can get up whenever they want aside).
As usual, Slashdot is six months behind.
Our three weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency...and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope....
Tay, will you be my friend?
No.
vastly outnumbered
We'll see how many congressional seats they gain this Tuesday.
Does this mean that there is a bunch of wildlife hobbling around with nothing left below the lower torso?
In the UK? Isn't it pretty much homo sapiens, hedgehogs, bulldogs, chavs and sheep?
With the raw data that our personal tracking devices contain and share with the phone company,
As a spy, you want your observable behavior to blend in with the crowd. Hiding (too much) is just as suspicious as standing out.
This is why everyone needs to use secure communications and encryption*. Of course, this makes law enforcement snooping that much more difficult. One has to balance the safety of our friends working in hostile countries with the possibility that some people might abuse security to swipe some Disney content. It appears that Mickey Mouse won out over some lives in this case.
*It would be interesting to see if the CIA portals were set up on secure web sites.
However, why somebody didn't prevent these pages from being scanned
Because that would have bumped them up a notch on a list of suspicious sites. A storefront or other site that would be expected to want a good position in search engine listings, but tries to hide instead.
Why not use a combination of request attributes (or looks for some whitelisted client certificates) to switch the behavior of the web site from innocuous to the CIA portal. There are a number of different techniques one can use to present one face to Google and the world an another to trusted users.
Maybe I can get this old Apple I fixed and unload it at a garage sale or something.
please explain how
I don't know the details. But the cops use them at a couple of strip clubs in Seattle. And they can 'tune' them to select phones on the premises and not people driving by.
Brown. And it smells pretty bad too.
Why don't we have something like a Stingray or micro cell site that can be installed in prisons? Whitelist authorized staff cellphones and pass their calls through. Block or raise an alarm for all other devices operating inside the prison.
When do we start drilling for oil in Washington State?
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Only works to the extent that the regulated rate of return is better than market rates on Wall Street. No sane investor is going to dump money into assets when the payback is better elsewhere. The big problem with utilities is that they are usually guaranteed rates of return even on non-performing assets. That is: Build a power plant for $X and the utilities commission will allow you to charge 10% of X per year (or whatever the regulated rate is). Even if it generates no power. If it generates nothing, customers' power rates just go up to cover the capital costs. To be fair, most rate regulation rules include limits on which investments are allowed into the rate base. So if you start building crap, they will just refuse it. And then it comes out of your investors' pockets.
What I'm not seeing here is whether this Proposition 127 would automatically 'bless' solar investments as being in a utilities rate base. That means, once built, the utilities commission is obliged to allow a rate of return regardless of how much or little the solar plants generate. The telling phrase is "require power companies to generate fifty per cent of their electricity". Not invest 50% of their generation capital budget in renewables. Given that renewable generation might be sort of iffy in terms of actual power output per dollar of capital, this could be a bottomless pit for A.P.S. Keep pouring money into plants until the power output hits 50%.
Now if I had to get involved in this deal, I'd like to be a wealthy hedge fund manager with an environmental tilt and a customer on the hook to buy my solar plants, regardless of sound economics.
Sorry. I'm not going to vote Democrat until after I die.
On the other hand, Business Insider's use of that name may very well constitute fraud as well as a trademark violation. What's up with that?
According to recent studies, waste reprocessing is more costly than direct geological disposal.
The assumptions behind those studies are that no fuel (or other useful products) are extracted from the reprocessing output. If you use the recovered fuel, the economics change significantly.
If you have to ask what insurance, then never mind.
What's are the limits on liability? Many businesses would not be viable today if there were no statutory limits on what they can be sued for.
Because that would reduce them to a 10 person shop in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
... the Sierra Club was shut down yesterday following the discovery of an endangered species of cockroach, the Sierra Club cockroach, found living in its headquarters. Although related to other species, this cockroach is unique in that it is defined as being resident within the Sierra Club headquarters building.