Few American commentators seem to be questioning the unstated assumption that spying on non-Americans is perfectly OK, even if there is no reasonable cause for suspicion.
I don't know that this is true at all. What I suspect is that most Americans simply don't care. The Snowden Affair gets a lot of press, but that press gets very little traction except with a minority of Americans, which the rest think are wearing tin-foil hats.
But here's another thing to remember: Some Americans may be fixated on the idea of spying on Americans for both selfish reasons and also the fact that the NSA specifically isn't supposed to spy on Americans.
I did a search on Google Earth looking at the Valley of the Kings, so I must be guilty of many a death about 4000 years ago...
No, but if you did a search of the Valley of the Kings two days prior to your wife's body being found in an obscure tomb off the beaten path, well, maybe the cops should ask you about that...
And by the way, "Kink Tut"? Is that a drag queen or something? Sounds like your wife found out something, and you just let the Freudian slip...
For those that don't RTFA, here's another interesting nugget: The judge also denied the defense from showing technical evidence of a "recreation" of how this search might look if someone actually did ti on the defendant's machine:
As a sideshow, the appeal also slapped down prosecutors for waving the "national security" banner to ward off a defense attempt to examine test data replicating the Google Maps search that was created by investigators:
It was error for the trial court to shut down this line of questioning without ascertaining how, or if, national security or some other legitimate interest outweighed the probative value of this information to Defendant. On remand, the trial court must determine with a reasonable degree of specificity how national security or some other legitimate interest would be compromised by discovery of particular data or materials, and memorialize its ruling in some form allowing for informed appellate review.
I tend to have a "gut" feeling the guy killed his wife, no one else has motive and the devorce was "ugly".
BUT... The Judge in the original trile seems to have made some errors...
I had a security clearance in the military. All it meant was basically that I hadn't been caught doing anything illegal, and that I wasn't old enough to have had to file bankruptcy because of family medical emergencies and mortgages. Nor was I old enough to have pissed off any neighbors enough for them to bad mouth me:)
Being young can be an advantage for security clearances...
Almost certainly the type you had was a Secret clearance.
Today more than ever, TOP Secret clearances are not only hard to get, they are hard to keep.
If the clearance you had didn't involve am anal probe an deep deep investigation that involved actually physically talking to many of your friends, neighbors, and college buddies, you didn't have a TOP Secret, you had only a Secret, which almost anyone can get.
No, he can't do that because it would be a HIPAA violation, but just about anything else would be correct.
Nonsense.
It *might* be a HIPAA violation for him to tell everyone he sold your kidney, but HIPAA has nothing at all to do with the waiver you signed allowing his doctors to swoop in and *take* your kidney.
HIPAA is about health information privacy and has nothing to do with the fact you clicked through a Kidney Sales Agreement form...
Wish I had mod points. I have a female friend who works as an elementary school teacher and she told me that 100% of the teaching staff at her school are *women*. So what? Who cares? I think women are drawn to other fields, simple as that.
There are those that will say your statement is sexist...
In any case, the current crop of Google Cars might have good stats, but they are stats generated under very controlled situations, such as not in rush hour LA traffic. Or rush hour downtown city traffic.
The pictures depicted from this auction show some of the early prototypes from the project; however, it should be noted that none of that hardware will be included in this auction as I had a non-intentionally set fire:) that transpired at my house in the storage area where my prototypes were, that destroyed most if not all of the prototype hardware from the initial project development with Lockheed. Those pictures were taken during the development process at one of Lockheed's SCIFs located in Northern Virgina, as is evidenced by the yellow caution tape you see on the floor there in the first few pictures. The last picture was one of the sample images generated from a RockCam installed across the street from one of the engineer's house.
What this auctions contains is this:
The remaining prototype hardware that I have in my possession, including:
1) Microhard Spectra 910 900MHz serial line radio with power supply (this was a prototype 900MHz radio that I believe went on to become the current generation of ZigBee-based XBee radios; 2) A collection of PC104-based enclosures and motherboards, with various interfacing such as serial ports, USB ports, etc; 3) A Mobile Wireless Technologies RM1000g AVS vehicle transponder with WWAN and GPS tracking support; 4) Novate wireless prototyping board; 5) GNU X-Tools cross compilation software;
and
6) A CD filled with backup materials during several years of the company (the most valuable part of this auction obviously).
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Yeah right. I'll come back to see whether it's half finished in twenty years.
California is broke, and the Feds will not pay for High Speed Rail - like they dished out cash to airlines after 9/11 ...
Few American commentators seem to be questioning the unstated assumption that spying on non-Americans is perfectly OK, even if there is no reasonable cause for suspicion.
I don't know that this is true at all. What I suspect is that most Americans simply don't care. The Snowden Affair gets a lot of press, but that press gets very little traction except with a minority of Americans, which the rest think are wearing tin-foil hats.
But here's another thing to remember: Some Americans may be fixated on the idea of spying on Americans for both selfish reasons and also the fact that the NSA specifically isn't supposed to spy on Americans.
It is weird i don't see any USA or Russian trains
Simple. Concentrated ridership and dense urban areas.
Like San Diego to LA to San Francisco?
I did a search on Google Earth looking at the Valley of the Kings, so I must be guilty of many a death about 4000 years ago...
No, but if you did a search of the Valley of the Kings two days prior to your wife's body being found in an obscure tomb off the beaten path, well, maybe the cops should ask you about that...
And by the way, "Kink Tut"? Is that a drag queen or something? Sounds like your wife found out something, and you just let the Freudian slip...
It's a JOKE... I should have put [joke][/joke] tags around it. I mean seriously, Hans Reiser?
Joke...
For those that don't RTFA, here's another interesting nugget: The judge also denied the defense from showing technical evidence of a "recreation" of how this search might look if someone actually did ti on the defendant's machine:
As a sideshow, the appeal also slapped down prosecutors for waving the "national security" banner to ward off a defense attempt to examine test data replicating the Google Maps search that was created by investigators:
It was error for the trial court to shut down this line of questioning without ascertaining how, or if, national security or some other legitimate interest outweighed the probative value of this information to Defendant. On remand, the trial court must determine with a reasonable degree of specificity how national security or some other legitimate interest would be compromised by discovery of particular data or materials, and memorialize its ruling in some form allowing for informed appellate review.
I tend to have a "gut" feeling the guy killed his wife, no one else has motive and the devorce was "ugly".
BUT... The Judge in the original trile seems to have made some errors...
The guy is probably guilty. On the other hand, it may be so that these files where planted.
I'm just wondering how a tech-savvy Cisco guy would space out or not consider clearing the cache and temp files after planning a murder?
Does Cisco hire morons?
Don't answer that...
In an amazing co-inky-dink, this guy and Hans Reiser were roommates in college...
I had a security clearance in the military. All it meant was basically that I hadn't been caught doing anything illegal, and that I wasn't old enough to have had to file bankruptcy because of family medical emergencies and mortgages. Nor was I old enough to have pissed off any neighbors enough for them to bad mouth me :)
Being young can be an advantage for security clearances ...
Almost certainly the type you had was a Secret clearance.
Today more than ever, TOP Secret clearances are not only hard to get, they are hard to keep.
If the clearance you had didn't involve am anal probe an deep deep investigation that involved actually physically talking to many of your friends, neighbors, and college buddies, you didn't have a TOP Secret, you had only a Secret, which almost anyone can get.
A little used system that few people even know about is shutting down.
But how can this be patentable?
The idea of having an Administrator set group policy, and being able to monitor both that policy and the use of devices on the network is nothing new.
Moron. You're still in High School, right? Because you talk like you're 15.
No, he can't do that because it would be a HIPAA violation, but just about anything else would be correct.
Nonsense.
It *might* be a HIPAA violation for him to tell everyone he sold your kidney, but HIPAA has nothing at all to do with the waiver you signed allowing his doctors to swoop in and *take* your kidney.
HIPAA is about health information privacy and has nothing to do with the fact you clicked through a Kidney Sales Agreement form...
Better: Do not go to the fucking USA. Travelling to the U.S. today is the best way to turn your vacation into a nightmare.
I'm sorry, WHERE did Greenwald's boy-toy get held up? Oh it was the UK? NOT the US?
Having a bunch of geeks spend 5 minutes a day on slashdot isn't really a bad thing...
5 minutes a day? Yes... Of course...
It's not THAT bad...
But I guess I don't care anyway, this isn't the type of story I come to /. for.
Wish I had mod points. I have a female friend who works as an elementary school teacher and she told me that 100% of the teaching staff at her school are *women*. So what? Who cares? I think women are drawn to other fields, simple as that.
There are those that will say your statement is sexist...
Piss Off
UID snob.
In any case, the current crop of Google Cars might have good stats, but they are stats generated under very controlled situations, such as not in rush hour LA traffic. Or rush hour downtown city traffic.
At least I'm under a million!
My UID is lower...
With a UID as low as yours, I'll bet you know some really hot keyboard shortcuts! I hear it really works up the chicks...
Netcraft?
Maybe it's the alcohol... But I really have no idea what the summary is talking about.
From the auction:
The pictures depicted from this auction show some of the early prototypes from the project; however, it should be noted that none of that hardware will be included in this auction as I had a non-intentionally set fire :) that transpired at my house in the storage area where my prototypes were, that destroyed most if not all of the prototype hardware from the initial project development with Lockheed. Those pictures were taken during the development process at one of Lockheed's SCIFs located in Northern Virgina, as is evidenced by the yellow caution tape you see on the floor there in the first few pictures. The last picture was one of the sample images generated from a RockCam installed across the street from one of the engineer's house.
What this auctions contains is this:
The remaining prototype hardware that I have in my possession, including:
1) Microhard Spectra 910 900MHz serial line radio with power supply (this was a prototype 900MHz radio that I believe went on to become the current generation of ZigBee-based XBee radios;
2) A collection of PC104-based enclosures and motherboards, with various interfacing such as serial ports, USB ports, etc;
3) A Mobile Wireless Technologies RM1000g AVS vehicle transponder with WWAN and GPS tracking support;
4) Novate wireless prototyping board;
5) GNU X-Tools cross compilation software;
and
6) A CD filled with backup materials during several years of the company (the most valuable part of this auction obviously).
Ahhhhhhhhhh. Yesssssss.
I enjoyed the "submission".