Yeah as soon as I start thinking about my breathing it is impossible not to control it. Like you I can't imagine what they hoped to gain by giving you the test. It must have cost them six months of your wages.
It's easy to fake a polygraph test when the stakes are low. Its much more difficult when your job or freedom are on the line. Not impossible, but certainly much more difficult than what Penn and Teller did.
I take an anticonvulsant drug which is also prescribed as a mood stabiliser. Because I don't actually need mood stabilisation I get a double dose, so to speak. So I think there are a few normal drugs which when used in the right way would make it easier to stay cool, calm and collected in the situation you describe.
My wife bought her macbook from JB a few months ago. They kept trying to sell her antivirus software. She called me and I told her to tell them absolutely no on the antivirus so she didn't get it but if I hadn't been available she might have.
She has since dropped herbal tea in the keyboard so its not working. The guy at JB was pretty helpful, suggesting places I can go to get it fixed.
And BTW: of course after she spilt the fluid she spent five minutes playing with the laptop as different systems went inoperative. I wish we could have a public information campaign: If your device is wet remove all power now.
Their mode of operation has been to collect all the raw data they could and pass it to the smart guys in the back room to develop applications.
The problem is that this time they did it driving (and cycling) down peoples streets and occasionally in their driveways. From their perspective its a simple misunderstanding and I expect a truce will be agreed on.
If the Pentagon couldn't prevent the leak of the documents, what makes them think they can track down Assange.
I bet they know exactly where he is at all times. They get all the data on passenger lists for aircraft now, with passport numbers. Even for flights which have no US connection they likely get a feed as an anti terrorist thing.
If the US charges him then they can have him arrested if he returns to Melbourne. Even if he avoids the US and places with extradition treaties with the US he will be at risk of turning up in one of those places by "accident".
Say for example they can arrest him in the Philippines, so he doesn't go there but he does go somewhere close to there. All it takes is a runway blocked by a vehicle for a flight to be diverted.
In the Mallee, out around Hattah, I would go waking at night, using Venus to light my way and the Magellanic clouds would be easy to see. But if you want to do optical astronomy you need to do it at altitude and with clear skies. We don't have that.
Way, way out in the middle of the desert you can either truck in a pile of fuel forever, run a very long, very expensive and very lossy power line, or try to use a power source that is already there. Solar will suck on the two or three cloudy days each year but otherwise has potential, it's about an obvious solution for solar as you can get because getting conventional power out there is likely to cost more.
Searching google gave me 341000 results, starting with a few businesses which deliver solar power and some descriptions of projects, so I doubt this idea is novel.
Why? Given the amount of data involved, this seems like gross overkill. Even for hardcore Big Brother.
Some of the people involved won't have a clue about the amount of data involved. Others will be rubbing their hands with glee as they bid for the data center contracts.
(Hell, it might even have been sabotaged by spies. It's difficult to imagine anything going wrong that close to North Korea being a coincidence.:P )
Believe me, the South Koreans do take security seriously. One thing against your idea is that an agent from the north would need to be coerced against defecting to the south. Such coercion would probably expose them to surveillance.
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But don't let it get out of control because more input means more output and that might never end.
So many drunks out that way the entire male population might survive.
Yeah as soon as I start thinking about my breathing it is impossible not to control it. Like you I can't imagine what they hoped to gain by giving you the test. It must have cost them six months of your wages.
Its an analogy.
I still hear "taping" for audio recordings, too.
It's easy to fake a polygraph test when the stakes are low. Its much more difficult when your job or freedom are on the line. Not impossible, but certainly much more difficult than what Penn and Teller did.
I take an anticonvulsant drug which is also prescribed as a mood stabiliser. Because I don't actually need mood stabilisation I get a double dose, so to speak. So I think there are a few normal drugs which when used in the right way would make it easier to stay cool, calm and collected in the situation you describe.
Well I was more thinking about the usage of specialist outside the military. I expect it to imply a large amount of domain experience.
My wife bought her macbook from JB a few months ago. They kept trying to sell her antivirus software. She called me and I told her to tell them absolutely no on the antivirus so she didn't get it but if I hadn't been available she might have.
She has since dropped herbal tea in the keyboard so its not working. The guy at JB was pretty helpful, suggesting places I can go to get it fixed.
And BTW: of course after she spilt the fluid she spent five minutes playing with the laptop as different systems went inoperative. I wish we could have a public information campaign: If your device is wet remove all power now.
Their mode of operation has been to collect all the raw data they could and pass it to the smart guys in the back room to develop applications.
The problem is that this time they did it driving (and cycling) down peoples streets and occasionally in their driveways. From their perspective its a simple misunderstanding and I expect a truce will be agreed on.
In the last day Angelina Jolie has invited me to be her friend on Facebook at least 200 times and I don't even have a facebook account.
Okay poop is coming out now
Quoting penny arcade is trolling now?
Only if he lets me drive.
If the Pentagon couldn't prevent the leak of the documents, what makes them think they can track down Assange.
I bet they know exactly where he is at all times. They get all the data on passenger lists for aircraft now, with passport numbers. Even for flights which have no US connection they likely get a feed as an anti terrorist thing.
If the US charges him then they can have him arrested if he returns to Melbourne. Even if he avoids the US and places with extradition treaties with the US he will be at risk of turning up in one of those places by "accident".
Say for example they can arrest him in the Philippines, so he doesn't go there but he does go somewhere close to there. All it takes is a runway blocked by a vehicle for a flight to be diverted.
From TFA:
Manning, 22 [...] As an intelligence specialist in the US army, Manning
I fail to see how a 22 year old guy can be an "Intelligence specialist".
(and get off my lawn BTW).
But Iceland is short of money and the US wouldn't miss the cost of bailing them out.
Could you just provide us your GPS co-ordinates? Thanks!
Better not do that. They are uncomfortably close to mine.
Last space news? What about that Japanese asteroid probe which is set to touch down tonight?
In the Mallee, out around Hattah, I would go waking at night, using Venus to light my way and the Magellanic clouds would be easy to see. But if you want to do optical astronomy you need to do it at altitude and with clear skies. We don't have that.
Way, way out in the middle of the desert you can either truck in a pile of fuel forever, run a very long, very expensive and very lossy power line, or try to use a power source that is already there.
Solar will suck on the two or three cloudy days each year but otherwise has potential, it's about an obvious solution for solar as you can get because getting conventional power out there is likely to cost more.
Searching google gave me 341000 results, starting with a few businesses which deliver solar power and some descriptions of projects, so I doubt this idea is novel.
It is possible for a man in the middle to attack https. The only way around it is for certs and keys to be transported by sneakernet.
But now customs can search us for "pornography" so (sneaker+747)net can't be entirely relied on
Why? Given the amount of data involved, this seems like gross overkill. Even for hardcore Big Brother.
Some of the people involved won't have a clue about the amount of data involved. Others will be rubbing their hands with glee as they bid for the data center contracts.
Or did it get shot down? :P
(Hell, it might even have been sabotaged by spies. It's difficult to imagine anything going wrong that close to North Korea being a coincidence. :P )
Believe me, the South Koreans do take security seriously. One thing against your idea is that an agent from the north would need to be coerced against defecting to the south. Such coercion would probably expose them to surveillance.
This is true of a few Korean people I have known. Speaking generally they do take things seriously over there, though not always to excess.
I have got a bunch of gender changers around here somewhere. Male to male, female to female. You name it
I am sure North Korea would be more than pleased to send their southern cousins a test article or two.