I can understand that perspective employers see several arrests as a juvenile, and I'm instantaneously blacklisted.
Go freelance - give out your card to small businesses and advertise if needed. Clients will come and once you get work experience, no one will care that much. I had a stupid arrest incident in college that did *not* result in conviction (and which actually got expunged per judge's order). After college, either because of that or because the NY economy was in the shitter, I had trouble finding work. I set up as a freelance IT shop (with a Mech. Engr. degree no less!) and had no problem finding clients.
Does that mean that two people who've been cited for marijuana possession (same quantity), one in a state like Ohio with no public record, and another in a state with a public record will be treated very differently by companies because of their records? Absolutely.
Furthermore, a lot of "background check" companies use stored data, rather than state police records directly. So they could show an arrest or even pending charges even if the charges were dismissed for lack of evidence or a "non guilty" verdict was returned by a jury. The only reliable background check method is the FBI NCIC clearinghouse which connects to most state police systems (it doesn't store state data in and of itself) and also follows Federal cases. But even that is imperfect since data sharing isn't 100%.
More importantly, it doesn't tell you if the 30% of "insiders" who launch attacks that have arrest records is greater or less than the proportion of people in similar positions that have arrest records to start with, and therefore if people with arrest records in are even more dangerous than others.
What's the % of the population that has arrest records in general? The arrest doesn't have to be for anything particularly heinous - it could be for an unpaid parking ticket where the summons then got sent to the wrong address. (This happened to a friend when he got pulled over for something unrelated in the same town.) It could be for disorderly conduct or any number of stupid things done by drunk college students. And, lastly, an arrest does *not* presuppose guilt. In fact, I don't think that arrests should be recorded at all unless a guilty plea is entered or a jury finds the defendant guilty. Recording an arrest for suspicion of a crime where no crime is proven is unfairly prejudicial. In fact, a few states (like NY) have laws that employers can't even *ask* if the prospect has ever been arrested - only about convictions. Not guilty or not enough evidence is innocent in the eyes of the law.
I can't speak for anyone else, but I've never had an IT job where a background and drug test were not required,
Go freelance. None of that has ever been required from me. Good references, sure, which I am all too happy to provide! Of course, all my jobs except one since college have been for companies with under 25 employees and I intent to keep it that way.
All too true. Obviously background checks discriminate against those with something to hide in their background.
And what's wrong with people who had a bad past learning from their mistakes and starting a new, honest, life. If you keep them from being able to hold honest, well-paying jobs, they're more likely to turn to crime as an option of last resort!!
unless there's some sunset provision on less-serious offenses (maybe 5 years for misdemenors, 10 years for some felonies, never for some particularly heinous crimes). They'll unfairly prejudice employers against workers that did a mistake some time in their past - you're not the same person at 30 as you were at 19. If ex-convicts can't find decent jobs and are stigmatized by society for life, they're more likely to become disillusioned, embittered, and reoffend. If someone did their time in jail, they're square with the house. No need to make it into a de facto life sentence!
True, but a suicide bomber could have exploited the security hole and software that the guy made public. That is where I see his actions as being a problem.
Not if there was good physical security, which is the only kind that matters. Remember that most suicide bombers only commit one crime during their lives, so there isn't any history of suspicious behavior.
Don't give your address and out to random people online, the same as you don't give it out to anyone whom you meet on the street. If you meet someone you met online in real life, don't do it alone or in an empty place. Basically, teach your kids to apply normal rules for real-world interactions to MySpace, and there won't be a huge problem. Blocking sex offenders really doesn't help, since it's the *unknown* sex offenders that you have to worry about, not the known ones - you can always check for the names and address of known ones on the state registry sites before meeting someone IRL.
Nor would a suicide bomber have publicized the security hole (if it *was* a security hole, since the only true security is physical security - metal/explosives detectory, x-ray machines, and armed pilots/sky marshals - having to show ID is just something to make the sheeple more comfortable). The suicide bomber would have used the hole if he could have and kept his mouth shut. So, the guy actually did the USA a service by publicizing the hole before it was exploited.
Could it be that the airline management is pissed about possible loss of revenue due to fake boarding passes, so they pressure the TSA into doing something in the name of "security" (the Boogeyman of the Day).
We need more security than on 9/10/2001, not less. Congress should grab hold of the BS TSA next year and remake it according to our ranks of real security experts. Along with the rest of the leviathan Homeland Security Department, with its flagship FEMA.
I may add to this that it's citizens' responsibility to keep the country secure - this job shouldn't just be handed out to specialists. I'd not be averse to six months to a year of mandatory military training for all able-bodied citizens between 20 and 40 years old, with those wanting to choose the military or Guard as a career path being allowed to do so. Furthermore, unneeded obstacles should not be put in the way of citizens of good character acquiring guns - basically, a lot more states should be "shall issue" or even "issue by default" like Vermont and Alaska.
Is that their latest pre-emptive penalty, sticking people they don't like on the no-fly list?
I don't see the societal benefit of this either. He released the software, rather than selling it or using it for his own nefarious purposes. So he's unlikely to be "up to" anything evil. Since it's a government mandated list and not optional for large private carriers to follow, they should not place people (at least not US citizens or permanent residents[1]) on the no-fly list without trial.
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[1]-> If someone in the US is suspected of planning a terrorist attack, they should be brought up on treason charges and a jury should be allowed to decide based on evidence. Petty penalties based on mere suspicion are unacceptable.
So, a bunch of terrorists captured a couple of airplanes and flew them into buildings. Yeah, a bunch of people died, which is tragic. And the Economy Burped, which is... expected.
The economy was starting to downturn months before 9/11 - I was taking off a semester from school and working. I wanted to take another semester off and move to Calif. for 6 months, and in October 00, there were still jobs available for the asking. By January 01, the supply of jobs had largely dried up.
However, we've learned our lesson, and have secured the airplanes better. In addition, I doubt, HIGHLY DOUBT, that they could get anywhere close to doing the same thing, given the same circumstances, mainly because the passengers wouldn't stand for it.
Actually, if they wanted truly good security, they'd hand out Tasers to randomly-selected passengers before boarding. Anyone trying anything overtly boneheaded will most likely get their ass (non lethally) zapped.
True. But it also becomes a federal offense if the mail is tampered with.
Big deal. Election fraud is also a felony (though not necessarily a Federal one) in most places. Jail is jail - if anything, state prison time is "harder" than Federal prison since state prisons are often old facilities with poor oversight and underpaid pissed-off guards.
Even if the ballots are printed by a machine, they face problems when the printers start to run out of ink, or when there are flaws in the paper.
Easy enough to fix. Hang a sample ballot in each voting machine with a sign: "If your ballot does not look exactly like *this*, please ask for a new one.
Even if you fix the reliability issues, the machine doing the counting is just as open to hacking as any other.
The machines need not be complex or even computerized. They could be as simple as 20 Veeder-Root mechanical counters running off of pulses from photodiodes. For added accuracy, run the same set of ballots through two different machines - if the results don't match, run them through a third machine. And have the machines certified by a reliable repairman before and after the counts.
You're basically asking for manual recounts on everything instead of using machines at all. Canada and others can manage it because they have much lower population density, but it will not work here.
That's a fallacy. The number of election workers per given number of ballots should remain roughly constant. If anything, it'll decrease with in increasing number of ballots since you need fewer trainers and some types of managers. And election workers can be recruited the same way as the census - pay younger people fairly high salaries for the essentially temporary work.
If you have a paper trial, you may as well just use paper ballots. Optical scanning equipment can be really efficient and fast. You just need to minimize possibility of incomplete punches - with proper equipment, that's possible with very high certainty. Add to that good ballot design (the Florida example was just poor graphic design) and you have a winner.
It would take away the intimidation and nuttiness factors of each side having their own lawyers watching to make sure that clueless those chads don't get pregnant.
Problem with mail voting is that ballots could be made to "disappear" outside the election system (for example post office clerks could be bribed to toss them). The more hands sensitive data passes through, the more of a chance there is for corruption of said data, whether accidental or malevolent.
It's the military. The same group that calls a zipper a "sliding interlocking fastener".
I doubt that soldiers who are actually in combat talk that way. It's the civilian DoD spokesdroids and the Pentagon rats who haven't so much as gone hiking in 20 years who use that kind of weasel speak.
It should be noted that protection of foreign economic interests of the United States is a valid, publicly acknowledged function of the US Armed Forces.
If Iraq was the only source of oil in the world then I *might* accept that argument as valid. However, this isn't even close to being true, and, anyway, we don't need to be using as much oil as we're using today. If we'd all drive cars that are, say, 50% more efficient than today, live in homes that utilize passive solar heat, reform ancient zoning regulations so that stores don't have to be 10 miles away from homes, and build more nuclear and renewable power plants, we'd reduce oil consumption a lot.
Copfilter is an add-on for IPCop that provides spam and virus filtering using SpamAssassin, Clam, and proxSMTP. It can also filter incoming POP3 streams and even WWW traffic (but is sloooow doing it). Not terribly configurable, but handy if you need a quick spam appliance solution that Just Works. The only thing is that is doesn't seem to play nice when IPCop is running off a flash card and RAMdisk.
I'm using IPCop and Copfilter on a LinITX PC for a client and so far he's very happy with the results. LinITX is a mini-ITX PC slightly larger than a Linksys "blue box" router with built-in video/USB/AT (so you don't have to configure it via serial console!), three Ethernet ports, a flash disk slot, room for a 2.5" HDD internally, and 2 on-board IDE controllers - you can even temporarily hook up a generic internal CD-ROM drive for install purposes.
In those days there were a lot of rumours and it would have helped the GRU's reputation for such stories to go round. I've tried to substantiate the story about the execution of Penkovsky and cannot find any other source than Suvorov.
But there were enough other similar stories involving what happened to political criminals that I'd suspect that some of them were actually true. And poisonings of people uncomfortable to the Soviet regime certainly weren't unheard of - there was the Markov case and another defector that was almost killed with radioactive thallium (what they initially suspected Litvinenko was poisoned with).
Spoken and moderated like true nerds that don't show their pasty bodies at the pool and really know a nipple. Because, a cold nipple, is a perky nipple
"Leaves us cold." Hence, no change from the previous cold state and, therefore, no change in nipple erection. If 802.11n didn't leave us cold, our nipples would rapidly be flattening. As far as the nerd thing: We Have Nipples Too y'realise, so we all know how they work...
So unless these new chips will have more power than is currently allowed, how can they have a greater range?
Better error correction or use of a transmission method that's more robust when faced with a low signal/noise ratio, possibly. With a directional mic and possibly some filtering software, you may be able to hear shouting five miles away, for example.
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Go freelance - give out your card to small businesses and advertise if needed. Clients will come and once you get work experience, no one will care that much. I had a stupid arrest incident in college that did *not* result in conviction (and which actually got expunged per judge's order). After college, either because of that or because the NY economy was in the shitter, I had trouble finding work. I set up as a freelance IT shop (with a Mech. Engr. degree no less!) and had no problem finding clients.
-b.
Furthermore, a lot of "background check" companies use stored data, rather than state police records directly. So they could show an arrest or even pending charges even if the charges were dismissed for lack of evidence or a "non guilty" verdict was returned by a jury. The only reliable background check method is the FBI NCIC clearinghouse which connects to most state police systems (it doesn't store state data in and of itself) and also follows Federal cases. But even that is imperfect since data sharing isn't 100%.
-b.
What's the % of the population that has arrest records in general? The arrest doesn't have to be for anything particularly heinous - it could be for an unpaid parking ticket where the summons then got sent to the wrong address. (This happened to a friend when he got pulled over for something unrelated in the same town.) It could be for disorderly conduct or any number of stupid things done by drunk college students. And, lastly, an arrest does *not* presuppose guilt. In fact, I don't think that arrests should be recorded at all unless a guilty plea is entered or a jury finds the defendant guilty. Recording an arrest for suspicion of a crime where no crime is proven is unfairly prejudicial. In fact, a few states (like NY) have laws that employers can't even *ask* if the prospect has ever been arrested - only about convictions. Not guilty or not enough evidence is innocent in the eyes of the law.
-b.
Go freelance. None of that has ever been required from me. Good references, sure, which I am all too happy to provide! Of course, all my jobs except one since college have been for companies with under 25 employees and I intent to keep it that way.
-b.
And what's wrong with people who had a bad past learning from their mistakes and starting a new, honest, life. If you keep them from being able to hold honest, well-paying jobs, they're more likely to turn to crime as an option of last resort!!
-b.
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Not if there was good physical security, which is the only kind that matters. Remember that most suicide bombers only commit one crime during their lives, so there isn't any history of suspicious behavior.
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-b.
Nor would a suicide bomber have publicized the security hole (if it *was* a security hole, since the only true security is physical security - metal/explosives detectory, x-ray machines, and armed pilots/sky marshals - having to show ID is just something to make the sheeple more comfortable). The suicide bomber would have used the hole if he could have and kept his mouth shut. So, the guy actually did the USA a service by publicizing the hole before it was exploited.
Could it be that the airline management is pissed about possible loss of revenue due to fake boarding passes, so they pressure the TSA into doing something in the name of "security" (the Boogeyman of the Day).
-b.
I may add to this that it's citizens' responsibility to keep the country secure - this job shouldn't just be handed out to specialists. I'd not be averse to six months to a year of mandatory military training for all able-bodied citizens between 20 and 40 years old, with those wanting to choose the military or Guard as a career path being allowed to do so. Furthermore, unneeded obstacles should not be put in the way of citizens of good character acquiring guns - basically, a lot more states should be "shall issue" or even "issue by default" like Vermont and Alaska.
-b.
I don't see the societal benefit of this either. He released the software, rather than selling it or using it for his own nefarious purposes. So he's unlikely to be "up to" anything evil. Since it's a government mandated list and not optional for large private carriers to follow, they should not place people (at least not US citizens or permanent residents[1]) on the no-fly list without trial.
-b.
[1]-> If someone in the US is suspected of planning a terrorist attack, they should be brought up on treason charges and a jury should be allowed to decide based on evidence. Petty penalties based on mere suspicion are unacceptable.
The economy was starting to downturn months before 9/11 - I was taking off a semester from school and working. I wanted to take another semester off and move to Calif. for 6 months, and in October 00, there were still jobs available for the asking. By January 01, the supply of jobs had largely dried up.
However, we've learned our lesson, and have secured the airplanes better. In addition, I doubt, HIGHLY DOUBT, that they could get anywhere close to doing the same thing, given the same circumstances, mainly because the passengers wouldn't stand for it.
Actually, if they wanted truly good security, they'd hand out Tasers to randomly-selected passengers before boarding. Anyone trying anything overtly boneheaded will most likely get their ass (non lethally) zapped.
-b.
Big deal. Election fraud is also a felony (though not necessarily a Federal one) in most places. Jail is jail - if anything, state prison time is "harder" than Federal prison since state prisons are often old facilities with poor oversight and underpaid pissed-off guards.
-b.
Easy enough to fix. Hang a sample ballot in each voting machine with a sign: "If your ballot does not look exactly like *this*, please ask for a new one.
Even if you fix the reliability issues, the machine doing the counting is just as open to hacking as any other.
The machines need not be complex or even computerized. They could be as simple as 20 Veeder-Root mechanical counters running off of pulses from photodiodes. For added accuracy, run the same set of ballots through two different machines - if the results don't match, run them through a third machine. And have the machines certified by a reliable repairman before and after the counts.
You're basically asking for manual recounts on everything instead of using machines at all. Canada and others can manage it because they have much lower population density, but it will not work here.
That's a fallacy. The number of election workers per given number of ballots should remain roughly constant. If anything, it'll decrease with in increasing number of ballots since you need fewer trainers and some types of managers. And election workers can be recruited the same way as the census - pay younger people fairly high salaries for the essentially temporary work.
-b.
-b.
Problem with mail voting is that ballots could be made to "disappear" outside the election system (for example post office clerks could be bribed to toss them). The more hands sensitive data passes through, the more of a chance there is for corruption of said data, whether accidental or malevolent.
-b.
I doubt that soldiers who are actually in combat talk that way. It's the civilian DoD spokesdroids and the Pentagon rats who haven't so much as gone hiking in 20 years who use that kind of weasel speak.
-b.
If Iraq was the only source of oil in the world then I *might* accept that argument as valid. However, this isn't even close to being true, and, anyway, we don't need to be using as much oil as we're using today. If we'd all drive cars that are, say, 50% more efficient than today, live in homes that utilize passive solar heat, reform ancient zoning regulations so that stores don't have to be 10 miles away from homes, and build more nuclear and renewable power plants, we'd reduce oil consumption a lot.
-b.
I'm using IPCop and Copfilter on a LinITX PC for a client and so far he's very happy with the results. LinITX is a mini-ITX PC slightly larger than a Linksys "blue box" router with built-in video/USB/AT (so you don't have to configure it via serial console!), three Ethernet ports, a flash disk slot, room for a 2.5" HDD internally, and 2 on-board IDE controllers - you can even temporarily hook up a generic internal CD-ROM drive for install purposes.
-b.
So you want Linux to only be used by "geeks" and have *less* market penetration?
-b.
But there were enough other similar stories involving what happened to political criminals that I'd suspect that some of them were actually true. And poisonings of people uncomfortable to the Soviet regime certainly weren't unheard of - there was the Markov case and another defector that was almost killed with radioactive thallium (what they initially suspected Litvinenko was poisoned with).
-b.
To some extent, true. Empirically, drafting still saves energy, though and theories can't change that fact.
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"Leaves us cold." Hence, no change from the previous cold state and, therefore, no change in nipple erection. If 802.11n didn't leave us cold, our nipples would rapidly be flattening. As far as the nerd thing: We Have Nipples Too y'realise, so we all know how they work...
-b.
Better error correction or use of a transmission method that's more robust when faced with a low signal/noise ratio, possibly. With a directional mic and possibly some filtering software, you may be able to hear shouting five miles away, for example.
-b.
aka "802.11n leaves us cold?"
-b.