Basically, you can't give any ITAR data to any foreign person. If the foreign person could access the data, even if they do not, you're still breaking the law. There's a presumption of guilt if you say, leave ITAR data on a public share in your company, where foreign nationals could have accessed it. Do not put ITAR data on any disk you don't control unless it's reasonable that the provider cannot access it (ie encrypted).
If DropBox has or had one foreign national that could access your account (which is likely) and the files were unencrypted, you already committed a federal crime and should give a voluntary disclosure to DDTC They'll likely give you a slap on the wrist or more likely do nothing, especially if voluntarily disclose and implement a solution to fix the problem. You personally will not get hit with anything. Try to cover it up, and you may personally be held responsible for a) knowingly breaking the law and b) knowingly trying to cover it up. You as an individual, in addition to your company.
Back on the original topic, use a VPN (preferred) or self-host an app on a web server you control. I'd just use VPN and rsync. As a best practice, if a user is going overseas, send them with a clean laptop and tell them not to locally save any files.
Disclaimer: I worked for Export Control at a Very Large Defense Contractor (they needed a geek, I got the short straw). I am however not YOUR export control representative. While the above is correct, it is only for reference and should not be taken as legal or binding advice. Seriously, order everything you can from Society for International Affairs and attend some conferences, or your business will be shut down by DDTC for ITAR violations. You can email me using my nick at my nick dot org if you have any other ITAR questions. I used to laugh when Department of State folks said "Please don't frame the question in terms of any felonies", now I just repeat it.
Basically this. It's unnecessary "accessory" that doesn't help functionality and may hinder operation. It's too new to be trusted. The most popular semi automatic rifles in the US are derivatives of the AR15 and AK47.
The AK47 is more than 65 years old.
the AR15 is more than 56 years old.
One of the most common pistols in the US was the 1911, which is 102 years old.
Glock has only recently lost the "new" (unsaid: unproven) mindset at a youthful 31 years old.
The US military (and many, many others) has used the M2 Browning heavy machine gun for 80 years, and likely will continue to use it even when we have flying cars, hover tanks and Skynet.
If Smart Guns were 99.9-99.99% safe, reliable and proven today (they are not), they will become generally acceptable somewhere around 2030. Until smart guns have one malfunction of any kind in 1000, preferably one malfunction in 10000, it is not reliable. When the military and police generally are using smart guns, wait another decade and then it will be probably established.
This isn't a new switch. Any new technology in firearms needs decades to completely flesh out. Most firearms have very very technical innovations. They're merely different sizes, configurations, colors, ergonomics, etc.
I used qmail for a surprisingly long period of time. It's good, but I got the feeling he thought "This is perfect, no updates". Great security, good architecture, not great on diverse functionality. Had to move to postfix to support as many virtual domains as I was running.
I could have modified qmail, but postfix did that I wanted out of the box and just needed the right config files.
So, I wouldn't say licensing alone was the problem with DJB's projects. But that surely did not help. The guy seems very brilliant, and very set in his ways being the best ways so not making much allowances for different ways. Guy does write very secure software, my hat's off to him.
Cute, but when gun owner lists were leaked. And that data was used by criminals to target homes for firearms. Some folks argue this is justification to not allow government entities to gather such information in the first place. All it takes is one activist to leak it.
Problem with crowdsourcing is lack of accountability. Suppose I dislike a person and want their house broken into. What would stop me from tagging them as a "dangerous gun owner", that is gone from 7:30AM to 5:30 Monday through Friday, SSN is 123-45-6789, driving such and such a car, no alarm system or dogs, and is regularly visited by XYZ Pool Company which would not raise suspicion? Would UCSD Lecturer Brett Stallbaum mind if he was added to his own list with that sort of information?
This is obviously not about dangerous objects or their owners. It's entirely ideological, and intent on pressuring folks opposed to Mr Stallbaum's opinion on a particular issue. It is interesting that pro firearms activists have not released a responding app for homes of anti firearm activists, which would obviously be easy marks for criminals. Either anti firearm activists would be easily robbed, or embarrassed in public if they used firearms to embarrass themselves. While an easy, effective tactic, it's still obviously wrong, hasn't been done and likely would be denounced by pro firearm owners. Says volumes about the moralities involved, I suppose.
You started off with sense. Then went down the crazy lane.
Let's start with the People's Republic of China. Its creation directly and indirectly killed maybe 10 million. But still, it wasn't technically China until they had defeated the nationalists.
- Mao's original counterrevolutionary campaign. At least 712,000 people were executed, 1,290,000 were imprisoned in labor camps and 1,200,000 were arrest, harassment, etc.
- Great Leap Forward, up to 45 million killed. Maybe up to 2.5 executed or tortured to death.
- Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, about a million, give or take several hundred thousand.
Stalin?
Red Revolution was in the hundreds of thousands. Decossackization was about 300,000. Yezhovshchina had 1,710,000 people were arrested and 724,000 people executed, with 100,000 priests, monks and nuns specifically targeted for execution. NKVD did counterrevolutionary cleansing in the 1930's with 350,000 were arrested and 247,157 were executed. Mongolian Terror was only 20,000-30,000 but largely focused on Buddhist priests. Holodomor killed maybe 4 million via systematic starvation. Mass deportations often had very high death rates, the Crimean Tatars had roughly a third death rate.
And the Red Army generally acted like savages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_crimes
Not saying America is a picnic, but you sir are WAY off base. Sure, our incarceration rate is through the roof. But we're not starving our prisoners in Alaska, launching numerous massive rape and loot campaigns or forcing entire states to resort to cannibalism from enforced starvation. We wiped out a very large percent of the Native Americans, but mostly through disease. The worst massecre was Trail of Tears, which killed 60,000 of the 130,000 Cherokee, intermarried and accompanying European-Americans, and African-American free blacks and slaves owned by the Cherokee (yes, Native Americans owned slaves). It was not exactly a one way war. Settlers were massacred by Native Americans as well as Native Americans by settlers.
Warheads have a much shorter period. If not maintained, they lose their ability to initiate after a period of time. The exact timing is likely classified, but would be between 10 and 25 years depending on the design. They rely on chemical explosives and some very advanced electric switches, which have limited lifespans.
Na. People have been opposed to sanity since the dawn of humanity. Why be content with your own women, food, and caves when you can smash Throg's head and take his stuff? You may not need it to survive. But it'd be more comfortable and you never did like Throg's attitude anyways.
Nuclear weapons have only been used offensively twice, and most folks think they saved more lives than they cost during that usage. They have a variety of theoretically useful purposes. Not keeping some around is more irrational than keeping some around. Thousands is unnecessary (not likely "insane"), but not keeping a couple dozens or circa hundred around is fairly short sighted. It's highly unlikely any nations will be using them anytime soon.
Quoting Gandhi as a pseudo religious or sociological reference is equal to quoting Ayn Rand. Both had some good ideas, and some really bad ideas.
If you read closely, you'll notice he said "at some point" which implied (IMHO, accurately) that situations vary. And I've seen enough cases were it is true. You can only help folks so much before you give up. It's a bit different if they have a chronic illness, beyond their control. But it definitely applies to anyone that can but won't.
"Less energy released into atmosphere". Hurricanes' source of energy is water vapor which is evaporated from the ocean surface. If you said "less global warming means less hurricanes", you'd be on firmer ground.
I actually do environmentalism that makes sense, because I spent time in former Soviet countries and saw what communism did to the land over there. Most Westerns have virtually no idea what real pollution is. Not trying to pick on you specifically, but people that take a pseudo religious approach to "making stuff better" make me twitch. One is not going to make Gaia happy by offering her symbolic green sacrifices. I do most of those for economic reasons. Not to appease Gaia. Normally I'm a salad guy, but today, I'll find the biggest juiciest burger with cheddar and bacon.
Er. Not every emergency is doomsday. An emergency could be a very nasty water leak in your apartment. Or a winter storm knocking out power in your neighborhood. Or an idiot with a backhoe.
Life doesn't have to be either/or. Nothing wrong with being mildly prepared, or moderately. I'm not really a "prepper". I hike/camp. I carry slightly more medical equipment than most, partly because I have a background in it. Mostly just because I feel like doing so. It has come in handy.
Those external batteries are fairly awesome. On longer hikes, I strap a small solar panel to the top of my ruck, and charge a battery as I go. I use my phone for music, camera, GPS/mapping, etc. I keep have a compass handy, which seems to qualify me as a lunatic survivalist these days.
About even. Not every urban dweller is living the dream. For every Bel Air, you have an Oakland. For every ueber expensive neighborhood in northern Virginia, you have Detroit, Flint, Camden, St Louis or Baltimore. It really just is more people shoved into a smaller space.
Lower average pay often (not always) balances against lower cost of living.
Our company hires a lot of interns for exactly this reason. Not sure on the pay, but they're treated as normal (if part time) employees. Time working counts towards things like ESOP, retirement, etc.
Not sure they're all gushing at how wonderful we are, but I'm quite sure none will be telling horror stories and I hope they realize how very decent this company actually is. A lot of them probably lack experience working truly horrific jobs to properly gush. I did after I started here, compared to my last place. My former boss asked me to ensure my best friend's funeral didn't interfere with a project he had scheduled on a Sunday. That was a definite "It is time to go" sign.
Money isn't everything, but I'm constantly amazed by folks who don't really consider employment for the rest of their lives. If your degree is not related to your career, you may want to consider more economic alternatives.
Other thing is to at least ponder your preferred career. Do you want a house and kids? Do you want to travel? Do you want (insert various life choices or experiences)? Can your career realistically pay for that, even if things are not perfect? Are you willing to give up higher pay for a particular reason? If so, can you economically change your mind later?
I've noticed that as well. Around here, the Amish don't usually do that. Sucker born every minute, I suppose. But it'd be nice for truth in advertising.
Eh, it's not that hard. A good bit of practice helps. I wouldn't personally be comfy with trying to put in a killing shot into the neck of something larger than myself... But hitting a person sized object at 20m isn't that bad. Ideally, you'd want to volley launch said spears. Much like archery.
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It's optimized for freight, not passenger service. US has the most advanced freight railroad system in the world. Passenger service makes sense in some area, in others it will always be break even at best. 15,000 tons of coal is not something you need or want to move at 80+ MPH.
It doesn't receive a lot of attention (folks often want high speed rail for mass transit), but our rail network is pretty good for what makes economic sense.
No, bombs and grenades are "Destructive Devices", see 26 U.S.C. 5845(f). They need a $200 tax stamp under NFA. Possibly explosive licenses or storage requirements as well. They're not illegal under US federal laws. Might be under state or local laws, there are tens of thousands of those.
Self aiming guns would reduce potential secondary casualties. Not eliminate. It's entirely possible to kill someone by shooting them after it passed through another human being. Knowing what is behind your target is important, and part of firearms training. Even a perfect self aiming firearm does not eliminate the necessity of good training. Making such tech illegal would be stupid. Sure, you might be able to program one to perfectly headshot everyone in a room, someday. The benefits however far outweight the risk.
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ITAR is a not a security clearance classification. It's an export control classification.
This is more than a little important because it means no "foreign persons" can access the data. Inside or outside the US. You can let a US person in France see the data, for example. Foreign persons is defined in 120.16 of ITAR. Check http://pmddtc.state.gov/regulations_laws/documents/official_itar/2012/ITAR_Part_120.pdf (listed as Page 467)
Basically, you can't give any ITAR data to any foreign person. If the foreign person could access the data, even if they do not, you're still breaking the law. There's a presumption of guilt if you say, leave ITAR data on a public share in your company, where foreign nationals could have accessed it. Do not put ITAR data on any disk you don't control unless it's reasonable that the provider cannot access it (ie encrypted).
If DropBox has or had one foreign national that could access your account (which is likely) and the files were unencrypted, you already committed a federal crime and should give a voluntary disclosure to DDTC They'll likely give you a slap on the wrist or more likely do nothing, especially if voluntarily disclose and implement a solution to fix the problem. You personally will not get hit with anything. Try to cover it up, and you may personally be held responsible for a) knowingly breaking the law and b) knowingly trying to cover it up. You as an individual, in addition to your company.
Back on the original topic, use a VPN (preferred) or self-host an app on a web server you control. I'd just use VPN and rsync. As a best practice, if a user is going overseas, send them with a clean laptop and tell them not to locally save any files.
Disclaimer: I worked for Export Control at a Very Large Defense Contractor (they needed a geek, I got the short straw). I am however not YOUR export control representative. While the above is correct, it is only for reference and should not be taken as legal or binding advice. Seriously, order everything you can from Society for International Affairs and attend some conferences, or your business will be shut down by DDTC for ITAR violations. You can email me using my nick at my nick dot org if you have any other ITAR questions. I used to laugh when Department of State folks said "Please don't frame the question in terms of any felonies", now I just repeat it.
Basically this. It's unnecessary "accessory" that doesn't help functionality and may hinder operation. It's too new to be trusted. The most popular semi automatic rifles in the US are derivatives of the AR15 and AK47.
The AK47 is more than 65 years old.
the AR15 is more than 56 years old.
One of the most common pistols in the US was the 1911, which is 102 years old.
Glock has only recently lost the "new" (unsaid: unproven) mindset at a youthful 31 years old.
The US military (and many, many others) has used the M2 Browning heavy machine gun for 80 years, and likely will continue to use it even when we have flying cars, hover tanks and Skynet.
If Smart Guns were 99.9-99.99% safe, reliable and proven today (they are not), they will become generally acceptable somewhere around 2030. Until smart guns have one malfunction of any kind in 1000, preferably one malfunction in 10000, it is not reliable. When the military and police generally are using smart guns, wait another decade and then it will be probably established.
This isn't a new switch. Any new technology in firearms needs decades to completely flesh out. Most firearms have very very technical innovations. They're merely different sizes, configurations, colors, ergonomics, etc.
I used qmail for a surprisingly long period of time. It's good, but I got the feeling he thought "This is perfect, no updates". Great security, good architecture, not great on diverse functionality. Had to move to postfix to support as many virtual domains as I was running.
I could have modified qmail, but postfix did that I wanted out of the box and just needed the right config files.
So, I wouldn't say licensing alone was the problem with DJB's projects. But that surely did not help. The guy seems very brilliant, and very set in his ways being the best ways so not making much allowances for different ways. Guy does write very secure software, my hat's off to him.
Cute, but when gun owner lists were leaked. And that data was used by criminals to target homes for firearms. Some folks argue this is justification to not allow government entities to gather such information in the first place. All it takes is one activist to leak it.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/01/journal-news-gun-map-might-have-caused-burglary.html http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/01/second-home-identified-on-journal-news-gun-map-is-burglarized-vandals-steal-gun-safe/ http://pastebin.com/DjU5Km6q
Problem with crowdsourcing is lack of accountability. Suppose I dislike a person and want their house broken into. What would stop me from tagging them as a "dangerous gun owner", that is gone from 7:30AM to 5:30 Monday through Friday, SSN is 123-45-6789, driving such and such a car, no alarm system or dogs, and is regularly visited by XYZ Pool Company which would not raise suspicion? Would UCSD Lecturer Brett Stallbaum mind if he was added to his own list with that sort of information?
This is obviously not about dangerous objects or their owners. It's entirely ideological, and intent on pressuring folks opposed to Mr Stallbaum's opinion on a particular issue. It is interesting that pro firearms activists have not released a responding app for homes of anti firearm activists, which would obviously be easy marks for criminals. Either anti firearm activists would be easily robbed, or embarrassed in public if they used firearms to embarrass themselves. While an easy, effective tactic, it's still obviously wrong, hasn't been done and likely would be denounced by pro firearm owners. Says volumes about the moralities involved, I suppose.
You started off with sense. Then went down the crazy lane. Let's start with the People's Republic of China. Its creation directly and indirectly killed maybe 10 million. But still, it wasn't technically China until they had defeated the nationalists. - Mao's original counterrevolutionary campaign. At least 712,000 people were executed, 1,290,000 were imprisoned in labor camps and 1,200,000 were arrest, harassment, etc. - Great Leap Forward, up to 45 million killed. Maybe up to 2.5 executed or tortured to death. - Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, about a million, give or take several hundred thousand. Stalin? Red Revolution was in the hundreds of thousands. Decossackization was about 300,000. Yezhovshchina had 1,710,000 people were arrested and 724,000 people executed, with 100,000 priests, monks and nuns specifically targeted for execution. NKVD did counterrevolutionary cleansing in the 1930's with 350,000 were arrested and 247,157 were executed. Mongolian Terror was only 20,000-30,000 but largely focused on Buddhist priests. Holodomor killed maybe 4 million via systematic starvation. Mass deportations often had very high death rates, the Crimean Tatars had roughly a third death rate. And the Red Army generally acted like savages. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_crimes Not saying America is a picnic, but you sir are WAY off base. Sure, our incarceration rate is through the roof. But we're not starving our prisoners in Alaska, launching numerous massive rape and loot campaigns or forcing entire states to resort to cannibalism from enforced starvation. We wiped out a very large percent of the Native Americans, but mostly through disease. The worst massecre was Trail of Tears, which killed 60,000 of the 130,000 Cherokee, intermarried and accompanying European-Americans, and African-American free blacks and slaves owned by the Cherokee (yes, Native Americans owned slaves). It was not exactly a one way war. Settlers were massacred by Native Americans as well as Native Americans by settlers.
Warheads have a much shorter period. If not maintained, they lose their ability to initiate after a period of time. The exact timing is likely classified, but would be between 10 and 25 years depending on the design. They rely on chemical explosives and some very advanced electric switches, which have limited lifespans.
*blink*
There seem to be plenty of wars between non-nuclear countries. Also, wars predate nuclear weapons.
So I have no idea why you assume reducing nuclear weapons would have any impact on peace.
Na. People have been opposed to sanity since the dawn of humanity. Why be content with your own women, food, and caves when you can smash Throg's head and take his stuff? You may not need it to survive. But it'd be more comfortable and you never did like Throg's attitude anyways.
Nuclear weapons have only been used offensively twice, and most folks think they saved more lives than they cost during that usage. They have a variety of theoretically useful purposes. Not keeping some around is more irrational than keeping some around. Thousands is unnecessary (not likely "insane"), but not keeping a couple dozens or circa hundred around is fairly short sighted. It's highly unlikely any nations will be using them anytime soon.
Quoting Gandhi as a pseudo religious or sociological reference is equal to quoting Ayn Rand. Both had some good ideas, and some really bad ideas. If you read closely, you'll notice he said "at some point" which implied (IMHO, accurately) that situations vary. And I've seen enough cases were it is true. You can only help folks so much before you give up. It's a bit different if they have a chronic illness, beyond their control. But it definitely applies to anyone that can but won't.
"Less energy released into atmosphere". Hurricanes' source of energy is water vapor which is evaporated from the ocean surface. If you said "less global warming means less hurricanes", you'd be on firmer ground. I actually do environmentalism that makes sense, because I spent time in former Soviet countries and saw what communism did to the land over there. Most Westerns have virtually no idea what real pollution is. Not trying to pick on you specifically, but people that take a pseudo religious approach to "making stuff better" make me twitch. One is not going to make Gaia happy by offering her symbolic green sacrifices. I do most of those for economic reasons. Not to appease Gaia. Normally I'm a salad guy, but today, I'll find the biggest juiciest burger with cheddar and bacon.
I keep a car starter battery in my trunk. Bit more expensive, but that'll charge a cell phone for several weeks.
Er. Not every emergency is doomsday. An emergency could be a very nasty water leak in your apartment. Or a winter storm knocking out power in your neighborhood. Or an idiot with a backhoe.
Life doesn't have to be either/or. Nothing wrong with being mildly prepared, or moderately. I'm not really a "prepper". I hike/camp. I carry slightly more medical equipment than most, partly because I have a background in it. Mostly just because I feel like doing so. It has come in handy.
Those external batteries are fairly awesome. On longer hikes, I strap a small solar panel to the top of my ruck, and charge a battery as I go. I use my phone for music, camera, GPS/mapping, etc. I keep have a compass handy, which seems to qualify me as a lunatic survivalist these days.
About even. Not every urban dweller is living the dream. For every Bel Air, you have an Oakland. For every ueber expensive neighborhood in northern Virginia, you have Detroit, Flint, Camden, St Louis or Baltimore. It really just is more people shoved into a smaller space.
Lower average pay often (not always) balances against lower cost of living.
Sorry, bit too obvious, couldn't pass it up. There's a lot of hotels and resorts on the planet, something for everyone. Hope their business makes it.
Politician wants rules to apply to everyone except himself or herself, and his/her cronies. Shocking. ;)
Depends legally on the place and time. Some slave societies had rules on treatment of slaves, some didn't.
Our company hires a lot of interns for exactly this reason. Not sure on the pay, but they're treated as normal (if part time) employees. Time working counts towards things like ESOP, retirement, etc.
Not sure they're all gushing at how wonderful we are, but I'm quite sure none will be telling horror stories and I hope they realize how very decent this company actually is. A lot of them probably lack experience working truly horrific jobs to properly gush. I did after I started here, compared to my last place. My former boss asked me to ensure my best friend's funeral didn't interfere with a project he had scheduled on a Sunday. That was a definite "It is time to go" sign.
How dare you point out the glaring obvious! This is the Internet, we have our pet belief structure to push here!
Money isn't everything, but I'm constantly amazed by folks who don't really consider employment for the rest of their lives. If your degree is not related to your career, you may want to consider more economic alternatives.
Other thing is to at least ponder your preferred career. Do you want a house and kids? Do you want to travel? Do you want (insert various life choices or experiences)? Can your career realistically pay for that, even if things are not perfect? Are you willing to give up higher pay for a particular reason? If so, can you economically change your mind later?
Flexibility is always a good thing.
Think folks won't be able to quickly and easily swap out a fuse? Oh, not personally. But take it to a semi dodgy electronics shop to be "fixed" ?
Is there really any difference between quantum entanglement and magic?
I've noticed that as well. Around here, the Amish don't usually do that. Sucker born every minute, I suppose. But it'd be nice for truth in advertising.
Eh, it's not that hard. A good bit of practice helps. I wouldn't personally be comfy with trying to put in a killing shot into the neck of something larger than myself... But hitting a person sized object at 20m isn't that bad. Ideally, you'd want to volley launch said spears. Much like archery.
It's optimized for freight, not passenger service. US has the most advanced freight railroad system in the world. Passenger service makes sense in some area, in others it will always be break even at best. 15,000 tons of coal is not something you need or want to move at 80+ MPH.
It doesn't receive a lot of attention (folks often want high speed rail for mass transit), but our rail network is pretty good for what makes economic sense.
No, bombs and grenades are "Destructive Devices", see 26 U.S.C. 5845(f). They need a $200 tax stamp under NFA. Possibly explosive licenses or storage requirements as well. They're not illegal under US federal laws. Might be under state or local laws, there are tens of thousands of those.
Self aiming guns would reduce potential secondary casualties. Not eliminate. It's entirely possible to kill someone by shooting them after it passed through another human being. Knowing what is behind your target is important, and part of firearms training. Even a perfect self aiming firearm does not eliminate the necessity of good training. Making such tech illegal would be stupid. Sure, you might be able to program one to perfectly headshot everyone in a room, someday. The benefits however far outweight the risk.