But you may never know when or where you'll need to jam/confuse such radar. Better to have some inflatable Mylar balloons of a roughly human shape and size. When you find yourself in a room and at risk of detection, you inflate them and let them drift around you in the room. Too many targets confuses the radar operator/assassin.
If you shield one room, your attacker will be able to identify your hiding place. Or the location of activities you don't want observed.
A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer and a Departmental Manager were on their way to a meeting in Switzerland. They were driving down a steep mountain road when suddenly the brakes on their car failed. The car careened almost out of control down the road, bouncing off the crash barriers, until it miraculously ground to a halt scraping along the mountainside. The car's occupants, shaken but unhurt, now had a problem: they were stuck halfway down a mountain in a car with no brakes. What were they to do?
"I know", said the Departmental Manager, "Let's have a meeting, propose a Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals, and by a process of Continuous Improvement find a solution to the Critical Problems, and we can be on our way."
"No, no", said the Hardware Engineer, "That will take far too long, and besides, that method has never worked before. I've got my Swiss Army knife with me, and in no time at all I can strip down the car's braking system, isolate the fault, fix it, and we can be on our way."
"Well", said the Software Engineer, "Before we do anything, I think we should push the car back up the road and see if it happens again."
The consequences of a missed positive opportunity are far less harmful than those of a negative one. I can afford to miss the occasional babe who smiles at me as a come-on. The crazy jealous boyfriend standing behind her carrying the Bowie knife I notice.
... I'd also go back and take a look at that CIA supervisor. If something changed in Snowden's conduct, perhaps it was caused by his seeing some goings on at work.
I've seen a few examples of this in my past careers. When a boss starts screwing over the company, his employees typically respond in one of several ways: Some try to get their own piece of the action. Some just say 'Screw it' and let their productivity go to hell. Some quit. And some push back and figure that they'll 'get' something on the SOB. Its possible that Snowden fell into the latter category. He either left on his own, figuring the battle wasn't worth fighting. Or he was pushed out in a manner designed not to trigger any further investigations that could blow back in the boss' face. So he takes his clearance and goes to work as a contractor for the NSA. And he sees that the problems are so widespread, they cross organizational boundaries. In the final analysis, it appears he was proved correct.
The CIA/NSA/FBI and other TLAs appear to have such lax ethics, it would not surprise me at all if quite a few employees in these organizations are choosing the first option: Might as well jump in and grab a piece of the action.
So its more like a collateralized debt obligation in an unregulated market. Like what we had before 2007. Nobody knows what they are buying, because everything is unique. And yet someone creates a market (because financial institutions have to 'mark to market') which sets a phony price on a cloud service contract.
And when some fly-by-night provider goes tits up or gets hacked, the market will collapse, because nobody knows who is holding the risk. And the banks will scream. Because cloud service contracts have been used as loan collateral. And if banks capitalization is undermined, loans will dry up and the economy will suffer.
No thanks. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
The other thing that bothers me: The graphic shows an information flow out from the NCTC to the Treasury Department. Now, I understand information flowing in. Who is funding which terrorists*. But there is no conceivable enforcement action that the Treasury/IRS can take in a terrorism case.
*In theory. Practically, a major terrorist attack (think 9/11) can easily be funded by a very small cash flow compared to typical corporate expenditures. Nobody spotted Bernie Madoff. The money he took that they still can't find could theoretically create an endowment that could support a few terrorist cells in perpetuity.
I stopped at the little "info-graphic". Where's the DEA? We've already heard about their Special Operations Division and how it hides the true sources of intelligence from defendants. So I'm going to doubt that this article covers the entire scope of information sharing. It may be accurate, but I think there are still a lot of holes.
And what about unofficial information sharing? Got a buddy in the FBI? What to know what your business competitors are up to? No problem. We have their files right here.
... but many other companies offered telecommuting as a way to attract key employees living in remote locations. Like to work here but live too far away? And you don't want to move? We'll let you telecommute. Show up for a few key meetings but otherwise work where you want.
These key people are in demand across their industry. Watch as people jump ship. But then, if HP has lost its sense of direction, cutting staff, key or otherwise, might just be the point of this exercise.
Free WiFi. Just connect, often to an unsecured AP. At most, there's a single key for all guests.
Paid WiFi. Supposedly, they have to have a way to track your usage to get the charges straight. So you get your own login. Now they know who is who and, at a minimum, what services you are contacting (even for encrypted connections). For high rollers, that is valuable information to have. It could be used for anything from marketing to industrial espionage.
What's going to be even funnier: The court overruled the original tax loophole. The legislature passes and Gov Brown signs a bill prohibiting levying of retroactive taxes. But the court has not yet spoken on this second piece of legislation. What if the court overturns it as well?
Two things come to mind. IANAL, so bear (bare?) with me. The Constitutional prohibition against ex post facto laws is a restriction on the powers of Congress. Its not certain that the courts can't say that the law was one way, you tried (and failed) to change it. So we (the court) are merely putting things back the way they were, as though no faulty legislation had ever existed. And this includes tax liabilities. The second thing is: If your tax attorney/accountant suggests some strategy, it would behoove you to ask if said strategy or its underlying legislation has withstood a test in court. If not, you could be fsck'd.
Good point. What people don't realize is that capital gains taxes hit the individual harder than the corporation.
Individuals can't shuffle their asset ownership around like corporations can. Either by moving ownership structures offshore (most progressive countries have little or no cap gains taxes) or by resetting their tax basis by mergers and acquisitions.
The primary residence tax break was instated to keep the John Q Public voters largely unaffected and therefor unaware of the true impact of capital gains taxation. And since most voters' only other major wealth holding is a pension (managed by others), it remains largely hidden from them. If they ever sat down and figured out how much money the government has robbed from their retirement, there would be blood on the streets of Washington DC.
The idea behind cap gains taxes is to capture the gains above inflation that people make in buying and selling assets. But that's not the way they work when applied to dollar values. Inflation over 40 years may indeed raise the price of everything (including that house) by a factor of 5. But that isn't an increase in value. Long term dollar gains need to be discounted by an inflation factor to capture actual value gains above the rise due to inflation. Since Congress and the Administration are in control of inflation (in theory), cap gains taxes are a way of taking wealth which in reality was never created.
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If your neighbor is hot, passive IR imaging might be the way to go here.
But you may never know when or where you'll need to jam/confuse such radar. Better to have some inflatable Mylar balloons of a roughly human shape and size. When you find yourself in a room and at risk of detection, you inflate them and let them drift around you in the room. Too many targets confuses the radar operator/assassin.
If you shield one room, your attacker will be able to identify your hiding place. Or the location of activities you don't want observed.
A Software Engineer, a Hardware Engineer and a Departmental Manager were on their way to a meeting in Switzerland. They were driving down a steep mountain road when suddenly the brakes on their car failed. The car careened almost out of control down the road, bouncing off the crash barriers, until it miraculously ground to a halt scraping along the mountainside. The car's occupants, shaken but unhurt, now had a problem: they were stuck halfway down a mountain in a car with no brakes. What were they to do?
"I know", said the Departmental Manager, "Let's have a meeting, propose a Vision, formulate a Mission Statement, define some Goals, and by a process of Continuous Improvement find a solution to the Critical Problems, and we can be on our way."
"No, no", said the Hardware Engineer, "That will take far too long, and besides, that method has never worked before. I've got my Swiss Army knife with me, and in no time at all I can strip down the car's braking system, isolate the fault, fix it, and we can be on our way."
"Well", said the Software Engineer, "Before we do anything, I think we should push the car back up the road and see if it happens again."
I'll bet you dollars to donuts that there is.
The consequences of a missed positive opportunity are far less harmful than those of a negative one. I can afford to miss the occasional babe who smiles at me as a come-on. The crazy jealous boyfriend standing behind her carrying the Bowie knife I notice.
I've seen a few examples of this in my past careers. When a boss starts screwing over the company, his employees typically respond in one of several ways: Some try to get their own piece of the action. Some just say 'Screw it' and let their productivity go to hell. Some quit. And some push back and figure that they'll 'get' something on the SOB. Its possible that Snowden fell into the latter category. He either left on his own, figuring the battle wasn't worth fighting. Or he was pushed out in a manner designed not to trigger any further investigations that could blow back in the boss' face. So he takes his clearance and goes to work as a contractor for the NSA. And he sees that the problems are so widespread, they cross organizational boundaries. In the final analysis, it appears he was proved correct.
The CIA/NSA/FBI and other TLAs appear to have such lax ethics, it would not surprise me at all if quite a few employees in these organizations are choosing the first option: Might as well jump in and grab a piece of the action.
We have a way to run Wayland apps inside a network-aware display app.
The only thing that is missing is a sound bite from Netanyahu, telling the Palestinians to "continue to endeavor to persevere."
So its more like a collateralized debt obligation in an unregulated market. Like what we had before 2007. Nobody knows what they are buying, because everything is unique. And yet someone creates a market (because financial institutions have to 'mark to market') which sets a phony price on a cloud service contract.
And when some fly-by-night provider goes tits up or gets hacked, the market will collapse, because nobody knows who is holding the risk. And the banks will scream. Because cloud service contracts have been used as loan collateral. And if banks capitalization is undermined, loans will dry up and the economy will suffer.
No thanks. Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.
The Treasury Department is the one that requests that foreign-held (and domestically-held) assets of suspected terrorists
That would be a small attache case full of $100 dollar bills. Good luck stopping that.
but it severely hampers the ability to plan future attacks and to evade justice for past ones.
Not really. These people can live in caves. Or as the guest of Pakistan. Good luck drying up a bunch of very small cash flows.
The financial intelligence as an input might be useful. But in the end, the people that do the enforcement and need the information is Seal Team 6.
and other criminals
This is what it boils down to. Searching for my dentist's off shore bank account.
[Sigh] OK. Back to my crappy job at Rocky Mountain Power in Bluffdale, Utah.
Let me give this knob on the substation voltage regulator a spin and see what happens.
The other thing that bothers me: The graphic shows an information flow out from the NCTC to the Treasury Department. Now, I understand information flowing in. Who is funding which terrorists*. But there is no conceivable enforcement action that the Treasury/IRS can take in a terrorism case.
*In theory. Practically, a major terrorist attack (think 9/11) can easily be funded by a very small cash flow compared to typical corporate expenditures. Nobody spotted Bernie Madoff. The money he took that they still can't find could theoretically create an endowment that could support a few terrorist cells in perpetuity.
I stopped at the little "info-graphic". Where's the DEA? We've already heard about their Special Operations Division and how it hides the true sources of intelligence from defendants. So I'm going to doubt that this article covers the entire scope of information sharing. It may be accurate, but I think there are still a lot of holes.
And what about unofficial information sharing? Got a buddy in the FBI? What to know what your business competitors are up to? No problem. We have their files right here.
These key people are in demand across their industry. Watch as people jump ship. But then, if HP has lost its sense of direction, cutting staff, key or otherwise, might just be the point of this exercise.
Free WiFi. Just connect, often to an unsecured AP. At most, there's a single key for all guests.
Paid WiFi. Supposedly, they have to have a way to track your usage to get the charges straight. So you get your own login. Now they know who is who and, at a minimum, what services you are contacting (even for encrypted connections). For high rollers, that is valuable information to have. It could be used for anything from marketing to industrial espionage.
What's going to be even funnier: The court overruled the original tax loophole. The legislature passes and Gov Brown signs a bill prohibiting levying of retroactive taxes. But the court has not yet spoken on this second piece of legislation. What if the court overturns it as well?
Two things come to mind. IANAL, so bear (bare?) with me. The Constitutional prohibition against ex post facto laws is a restriction on the powers of Congress. Its not certain that the courts can't say that the law was one way, you tried (and failed) to change it. So we (the court) are merely putting things back the way they were, as though no faulty legislation had ever existed. And this includes tax liabilities. The second thing is: If your tax attorney/accountant suggests some strategy, it would behoove you to ask if said strategy or its underlying legislation has withstood a test in court. If not, you could be fsck'd.
Good point. What people don't realize is that capital gains taxes hit the individual harder than the corporation.
Individuals can't shuffle their asset ownership around like corporations can. Either by moving ownership structures offshore (most progressive countries have little or no cap gains taxes) or by resetting their tax basis by mergers and acquisitions.
The primary residence tax break was instated to keep the John Q Public voters largely unaffected and therefor unaware of the true impact of capital gains taxation. And since most voters' only other major wealth holding is a pension (managed by others), it remains largely hidden from them. If they ever sat down and figured out how much money the government has robbed from their retirement, there would be blood on the streets of Washington DC.
In fact the only tax cut PROVEN to stimulate economy is the corporate tax rate.
[citation needed]
The idea behind cap gains taxes is to capture the gains above inflation that people make in buying and selling assets. But that's not the way they work when applied to dollar values. Inflation over 40 years may indeed raise the price of everything (including that house) by a factor of 5. But that isn't an increase in value. Long term dollar gains need to be discounted by an inflation factor to capture actual value gains above the rise due to inflation. Since Congress and the Administration are in control of inflation (in theory), cap gains taxes are a way of taking wealth which in reality was never created.