This really isn't all that horribly different from the TollTags, EasyPasses, and basically every other scannable devices that identifies the device-holder.
Yeah, but those dont' have built in faraday cages...
The problem is that people can read it while it's in your pocket, with the right equipment, wherever you go, all the time, hundreds of times per day. And having it in a mu-metal case when you do not expect it to be read would be a good security practice. Is that more clear?
I guess I'm going to be saying this often today. All you have to do is close the passport, there is a faraday cage in the cover that is completed when the cover is closed.
There is the ever present theory that wrapping something in tinfoil will prevent RFID communications from working. Does anyone know if this is true or has been tested? If it works, just wrap your passports in tinfoil.
I guess I'm going to be saying this often today. All you have to do is close the passport, there is a faraday cage in the cover that is completed when the cover is closed.
Is there any way to energize an unshielded card from more than, say, 5 feet away, or is the danger primarily from people with readers brushing up against you for a reading?
Sure, all that possible. If you leave your passport open(closing it completes the faraday cage in the cover). Of course, people can also read all the data on your passport whenever they open it using this ancient technology called "eyes". And if you want to extend their range, you just have to get a few "lenses" and you can see it a good ways away!
To ensure that if China decides it want's to cut off all trade and access from the world, it can even keep space-spying from revealing it's activites. Frankly, it's a very strategic move. If I were in the pentagon, I'd start doing threat assesments and invasion options right now. Just in case. Kind of like we did before WWII.
Yes, but the other thing here is that, as far as I know, this is not TSA policy. This sounds like an overly reactive and possibly power tripping PERSON. NOT the US government.
The last country that was on equal footing crumbled from the Economic Collapse of Socialism taken to the extreme. So, are you saying we should wait till another country gets on equal footing, builds the hatred into the society not seen since Hitler, and then attack? You obviously know nothing about military tactics. Let me sum it up for you.
As a soldier, your job is to make "the enemy" die for his country. Any advantage you have, you take it. Otherwise, the other soldier achieves his job.
giving birth to your ancestors,
Last I remembered, the State of Georgia was originally a penal colony, new England was founded by people being persecuted for their religious beliefs, and most of the original settlers from Europe were considered the dregs of the sub-continent. So yeah, we'll thank you guys. However at the time the Colonies were orignally settled, Europe would have just as soon spit on the settlers than wished them a good journey.
also I'd be interested to know, on average, how much of the Complied with requests had been redacted
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That is specifically why I chose the "full grants". I assumed that "Full Grants" are the documents in the clear while "Partial Grants" are Redacted/Only Some documents that were requested.
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My guess is that we'll have to go read the law pertaining to the reporting of the FOIA activites to know exactly.
The current administration constantly bitches about leaks and spends untold millions tracking down leakers instead of dealing with the problems the leak discloses.
When Plame's name was released... the media went apeshit when the leaker WASN'T found. (He ended up revealing himself)
This week, we have the spectacle of the cynical shits in the administration, faced with a leak, suddenly "partially declassifying" a NIE to counter the leak. Note that the tightlipped (and tightassed) bastards only declassified enough to make their case and still hold the rest classified.
Of course, the excerpts that were to be published before the partial declassification were to be on just enough to prove the democrat's case.
This is the most closed administration in American history. I just hope that a future administtration will have the balls to reverse the current policies, most especially the one where the coward-in-chief retroactively closed off all public access to the contents of all the presidetial libraries.
Well,as for openness(not that FOIA is a really good judge of the administration, but here's some numbers).
Clinton Admin full grants over his 8 years: 249,457
Bush Admin full grants over his 6 years: 323,055
Granted these are not percentages, ratios of requests to grants, anything of that nature. These are just the raw data, but feel free to look it up yourself.
For the yearly FOIA reports totaling every request and action see the DOJ Archive of reports.
The earth is now at least as warm as it ever has been since the last ice age.
I'm not making light of you specifically, just the opinion of the article. You actually have made an articulated argument... so, here goes the pointing and laughing
Scientist: "The earth is currently at LEAST as warm as it ever has been since the last ice age."
Reporter: "So what exactly does that mean??"
Environmental Lobby: "It means, Humans are RESPONSIBLE for global warming!"
Reporter: "Umm... so what about the time period between our most recent ice age and the one before that?"
Scientist: ".... "
Envrionmental Lobby: "... "
Reporter: "Doesn't that mean that we are just now meeting the 12,000 year high for the first time since the last ice age? Also, when was the last time we hit this high?"
Scientist: ".... "
Envrionmental Lobby: "... "
Reporter: "So, what will this mean if we start declining in temperature from this point on?"
Scientist: ".... "
Envrionmental Lobby: "... "
Reporter: "And HOW much money was spent on this breifing?"
Scientist: ".... "
Envrionmental Lobby: "... "
(notice I didn't say on the research. Just that I think this announcement is rather a dumb time to reveal years of work to say "We've reached the high temperature for the last 12,000 years.")
Would you choose an ad-supported online version of Microsoft Office over other free options like OpenOffice or Google Apps for Your Domain?"
No
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Why in the world would someone use something from Microsoft over the web when even their compiled, local versions have a horrible reputation?
I think that the main reason people pay of MS products now is that there is SOME support for it. I'm sure the web version will be "here's the help file; now, go away".
When will people learn that EVERY news outlet, magazine, article, caster, whatever.... Is biased. Dig into the story, and make up your own mind. Spewing the half truths of some article as facts, without due dilligence, is just plain wrong. It's wrong for the news and it's wrong for you.
nder the guise of "modernization," this bill will only add to the decline of my country. We sure aren't as "modernized" as Orwell's 1984 so I guess we're 22 years behind and we better get on it -- and who better than the Republicans to lead us there?
There's a simple way for this to never EVER be applied to you... don't make/recieve calls overseas(out of the country). And ESPECIALLY don't make/recieve calls overseas from people considered unfriendly to the US.
Simply put, this is STILL ABOUT FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITES.
However, if this is EVER used to tap two US citizens within the US and no overseas callers, everyone who participated in the action should be arrested, tried, convicted, and sent to jail for a long time.
that we won't have to think of Tom Cruise anymore when we see one of those planes flying!!!
Not to mention we won't have to think of "Danger Zone", "you've lost that loving feelin'" (when he sings it), and we won't have to think of Navy training jets as MIGs anymore!
Charlie Chaplin was deported due to his anti-war opinions, while there was attempts to do the same for John Lennon. Now, imagine you are not famous, rich and happens to be a muslim.... (deportation)
You're leaving out one major distinction about Chaplin and Lennon. Neither were American Citizens and it's perfectly legal to have them removed from US soil. (Notice that I didn't say wether it's right or wrong... Just LEGAL)
He will get laws passed that make fantastic profits for the companies he lobbies for.
US politics 101
Last I learned in US Politics 101 is that CONGRESS passed the laws, the President signs them, and the Judiciary reviews them. Yes, his opinion will have large sway with the President, but you gotta ram crap through Congress first.
Betcha it's going to add some menu item like "upload to soapbox" or some other system integration. Then it will begin to eat up market share for the "easy to use" crowd.
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Unfortunately for any international observers, they would likely be the unwilling recipents of many of the American's 2nd Amendment rights.
There is the ever present theory that wrapping something in tinfoil will prevent RFID communications from working. Does anyone know if this is true or has been tested? If it works, just wrap your passports in tinfoil. I guess I'm going to be saying this often today. All you have to do is close the passport, there is a faraday cage in the cover that is completed when the cover is closed.
Well, lets go through the usual arguments...
RFID tag is stored in the passport(which is a faraday cage when closed.
The data is a hash value that is used to look up information to verify that you are who you say you are.
And yes, you are paranoid about it.
If he's not reprimanded, THEN you can make that equivocation. If he is reprimanded, then it's obvious that's NOT how they want him to behave...
To ensure that if China decides it want's to cut off all trade and access from the world, it can even keep space-spying from revealing it's activites. Frankly, it's a very strategic move. If I were in the pentagon, I'd start doing threat assesments and invasion options right now. Just in case. Kind of like we did before WWII.
Yes, but the other thing here is that, as far as I know, this is not TSA policy. This sounds like an overly reactive and possibly power tripping PERSON. NOT the US government.
The last country that was on equal footing crumbled from the Economic Collapse of Socialism taken to the extreme. So, are you saying we should wait till another country gets on equal footing, builds the hatred into the society not seen since Hitler, and then attack? You obviously know nothing about military tactics. Let me sum it up for you.
As a soldier, your job is to make "the enemy" die for his country. Any advantage you have, you take it. Otherwise, the other soldier achieves his job.
giving birth to your ancestors, Last I remembered, the State of Georgia was originally a penal colony, new England was founded by people being persecuted for their religious beliefs, and most of the original settlers from Europe were considered the dregs of the sub-continent. So yeah, we'll thank you guys. However at the time the Colonies were orignally settled, Europe would have just as soon spit on the settlers than wished them a good journey.
That is specifically why I chose the "full grants". I assumed that "Full Grants" are the documents in the clear while "Partial Grants" are Redacted/Only Some documents that were requested.
!!!WARNING!!! END ASSUMPTION ALERT !!!WARNING!!!
My guess is that we'll have to go read the law pertaining to the reporting of the FOIA activites to know exactly.
*yoinks geek badge*
There, everything's fine now.
When Plame's name was released... the media went apeshit when the leaker WASN'T found. (He ended up revealing himself)
Of course, the excerpts that were to be published before the partial declassification were to be on just enough to prove the democrat's case.
Well,as for openness(not that FOIA is a really good judge of the administration, but here's some numbers).
Clinton Admin full grants over his 8 years: 249,457
Bush Admin full grants over his 6 years: 323,055
Granted these are not percentages, ratios of requests to grants, anything of that nature. These are just the raw data, but feel free to look it up yourself.
For the yearly FOIA reports totaling every request and action see the DOJ Archive of reports.
in the editors memories. Buy you only get 500 miliseconds of storage after final submission.
it's the sudden G-Force applied to the Dr.'s scaple at an inopportune moment.... that occurs several times an hour.
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Why in the world would someone use something from Microsoft over the web when even their compiled, local versions have a horrible reputation?
I think that the main reason people pay of MS products now is that there is SOME support for it. I'm sure the web version will be "here's the help file; now, go away".
When will people learn that EVERY news outlet, magazine, article, caster, whatever.... Is biased. Dig into the story, and make up your own mind. Spewing the half truths of some article as facts, without due dilligence, is just plain wrong. It's wrong for the news and it's wrong for you.
Simply put, this is STILL ABOUT FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITES.
However, if this is EVER used to tap two US citizens within the US and no overseas callers, everyone who participated in the action should be arrested, tried, convicted, and sent to jail for a long time.
that we won't have to think of Tom Cruise anymore when we see one of those planes flying!!!
Not to mention we won't have to think of "Danger Zone", "you've lost that loving feelin'" (when he sings it), and we won't have to think of Navy training jets as MIGs anymore!
Betcha it's going to add some menu item like "upload to soapbox" or some other system integration. Then it will begin to eat up market share for the "easy to use" crowd.