Thanks for the correction. In case anyone else is reading along, that link to the NPR story contains the confirmation of TSA claiming 0.02 microsieverts.
so i don't understand a point of view that is more concerned with flawed standards, but much better standards, than they are with a country that is an actual, no-apologies firmly authoritarian "i tell you who your master is and what you can can cannot think" regime
Because as US citizens we do have a say about what our country does, but there is practically nothing we can do to affect China's policies.
My country, right or wrong. If right to be kept right. If wrong to be set right.
There's one good reason to treat pilots the same as everyone else: Consistency - everybody on the plane goes through the scan, no special exceptions because special exceptions can be exploited. For example, someone could impersonate a pilot. The guys at the checkpoint are barely competent enough to run the checkpoint as is. Making them verify pilots' credentials, especially in the face of a determined attacker who can presumably afford good forging skills and can bribe the right people to tweak the databases (after all al qaeda aren't just terrorists they are super-terrorists) would be exceptional. Easier to just apply the exact same procedure that the TSA droids do all the time.
None of the politicians would stand by any government servant. If there is one thing civil servants know, it is when the shit hits the fan, one of them will be scape goated.
You've hit on the truth of these things. They don't provide the flying public security, they provide the politicians job security via CYA. When the shit hits the fan, as it always does one way or the other, the politicians can point to ever more draconian measures and say "we did everything possible" but now give us even more money!
So remember that next time you are getting a rub and tug from a TSA agent, it isn't for your safety, it is for some muckety-muck's job security.
Did anybody else notice that in some of the images the people well behind the pad (but still in the image frame) are showing up as well? Just how much EM do these things ACTUALLY emit?
Good question. The TSA claims it is "only" the equivalent of a chest x-ray. But, there are a lot of people, including two pilot's unions, disputing that. They say that the x-ray comparison is misleading because the dosage for the x-ray is calculated by dividing the total energy by total body mass as the x-ray energy is distributed through your entire body while the TSA Radiation Boxes(TM) do not penetrated more than a few millimeters into the skin, so all of their energy is distributed across the vastly smaller mass of only your skin. The implication is that the TSA is giving everyone much higher radiation exposure to their skin than is safe and you don't even get a tan either.
If someone is going to invade my privacy for pointless security theater, I might as well make it as uncomfortable and inconvenient for them as possible. In airports, I always opt for frisking instead backscatter.
Be sure to refer to it as the "rub and tug" option when you request it.
(well, the mouse keeps moving, but nothing else does).
When that happens - MacOS, Linux or Windows, its usually because the mouse driver is interrupt driven and the mouse cursor is drawn by the video card. So the scheduler generally isn't even involved - the mouse generates an interrupt (pausing whatever task is currently scheduled on the cpu), the interrupt handler reads the mouse coordinates and hands them off to the video card, returning the cpu back to the regularly scheduled process and the video card redraws the location of the mouse on the screen.
You may be right, but it is in fact 80% easier to find.
What part of "practical" do you fail to understand? When you don't have the resources to search even 10 million straws, it doesn't make a difference whether the haystack has 1 billion or 5 billion straws of hay.
Oh come on, You're going to make we waste valuable wrist and finger energy to post that I was talking about the functionality and not the company? But if you want to focus on specific companies then that is just as true - the network effect has made it possible for businesses to exist that are entirely dependent on massive userbase of companies like google, ebay, amazon, paypal, facebook and twitter. There are effectively no other players in those markets because the behemoths are the only ones with the scale to make the variety of dependent businesses feasible.
How hard would it be to go a week without Google? Or, to up the ante, without Facebook, Amazon, Skype, Twitter, Apple, eBay and Google?
Pretty fucking easy, actually. My God what are we becoming when people think this shit is so important?
Some of us own or work for businesses that would not exist if it weren't for those services. Here's one example:
I know a guy who works as a consultant, he's the "guru" companies bring in when they realize that treating all of their employees like "cogs on a wheel" means they don't have any experts who understand both the minutiae and the big picture. He swears that over the last decade the kind of work he actually does has turned into excessive use of google-fu. Half the time he's looking up stuff with google and the other half of the time he's explaining it to the people who have hired him. Clearly its useful to his clients else they would not keep hiring him and he is good at it because he already has tons of domain knowledge.
Whatever the reason, his livelihood is significantly dependent on google. If he personally lost access to google, the value he provides his clients would significantly diminish. If the entire world lost access to google, there would be a significant productivity crash.
Really? Breaking into someone's private email and then distributing what they found -- with clearly malicious intent -- is "such a small mistake" ?
I gotta disagree there. I don't think his intent was malicious at all - his goal was to expose corruption. He was clearly partisan in his motives, but if that's all it takes to legally qualify for "malicious intent" then all of congress should be in jail too.
My understanding is that Palin only got away with it because the alaskan court ruled that the state law forbidding what she had done was too ambiguous. But the intent - keeping official government business communications on the record for accountability purposes - was clearly violated, even if the letter may not have been.
Unless your OS is using the IOMMU correctly at which point it can't actually read the entire memory space.
100% true. I considered mentioning that, but IOMMU's are still pretty rare outside the server room. Plus, sadly, most people here don't even know what an IOMMU does.
"The report also explains that US Army researchers developed a protein that attacks the bacteria that causes plaque, which can lead to gum disease. This protein can easily be incorporated into the gum, making it a serious alternative to toothbrush and toothpaste, the researchers claim. "
Lets hope ingesting the protein doesn't have any harmful side-effects, like priapism.
Always. It ought to be a rule that anyone voting for, or enforcing, a law that "balances" personal liberty with anything else, including "security" must not only be required to experience the full force of the process, but to do so at least once a month for the duration of their employment.
Because the card lives on your bus, and the cable does not.
More specifically most devices on the bus can do DMA to host memory, that enables them to read and write any byte of memory, completely bypassing OS memory protection.
In fact, firewire ports are a favorite of the digital forensics guys for exactly this reason - they can come along, plug their dohickey into the firewire port of most any PC that has one and do a complete memory dump of the system without the OS or any other program even noticing.
...or how about not being a spoiled brat and accepting Aunt Mildreds gift with a little gratitude and respect.
I totally agree. If you just give people gifts that you know they want you might as well just give them cash.
I only give gifts that I think are cool and I am totally fine if the recipient thinks it's junk because even if they didn't take it, at least I gave them a chance to expand their horizons a little bit.
I was unable to find an anti-estate tax analysis anywhere near as thorough as that pro-estate tax report, they were all pretty much smoke, mirrors and hyperbole.
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Thanks for the correction. In case anyone else is reading along, that link to the NPR story contains the confirmation of TSA claiming 0.02 microsieverts.
so i don't understand a point of view that is more concerned with flawed standards, but much better standards, than they are with a country that is an actual, no-apologies firmly authoritarian "i tell you who your master is and what you can can cannot think" regime
Because as US citizens we do have a say about what our country does, but there is practically nothing we can do to affect China's policies.
My country, right or wrong.
If right to be kept right.
If wrong to be set right.
There's one good reason to treat pilots the same as everyone else: Consistency - everybody on the plane goes through the scan, no special exceptions because special exceptions can be exploited. For example, someone could impersonate a pilot. The guys at the checkpoint are barely competent enough to run the checkpoint as is. Making them verify pilots' credentials, especially in the face of a determined attacker who can presumably afford good forging skills and can bribe the right people to tweak the databases (after all al qaeda aren't just terrorists they are super-terrorists) would be exceptional. Easier to just apply the exact same procedure that the TSA droids do all the time.
None of the politicians would stand by any government servant. If there is one thing civil servants know, it is when the shit hits the fan, one of them will be scape goated.
You've hit on the truth of these things. They don't provide the flying public security, they provide the politicians job security via CYA. When the shit hits the fan, as it always does one way or the other, the politicians can point to ever more draconian measures and say "we did everything possible" but now give us even more money!
So remember that next time you are getting a rub and tug from a TSA agent, it isn't for your safety, it is for some muckety-muck's job security.
Did anybody else notice that in some of the images the people well behind the pad (but still in the image frame) are showing up as well? Just how much EM do these things ACTUALLY emit?
Good question. The TSA claims it is "only" the equivalent of a chest x-ray. But, there are a lot of people, including two pilot's unions, disputing that. They say that the x-ray comparison is misleading because the dosage for the x-ray is calculated by dividing the total energy by total body mass as the x-ray energy is distributed through your entire body while the TSA Radiation Boxes(TM) do not penetrated more than a few millimeters into the skin, so all of their energy is distributed across the vastly smaller mass of only your skin. The implication is that the TSA is giving everyone much higher radiation exposure to their skin than is safe and you don't even get a tan either.
If someone is going to invade my privacy for pointless security theater, I might as well make it as uncomfortable and inconvenient for them as possible. In airports, I always opt for frisking instead backscatter.
Be sure to refer to it as the "rub and tug" option when you request it.
(well, the mouse keeps moving, but nothing else does).
When that happens - MacOS, Linux or Windows, its usually because the mouse driver is interrupt driven and the mouse cursor is drawn by the video card. So the scheduler generally isn't even involved - the mouse generates an interrupt (pausing whatever task is currently scheduled on the cpu), the interrupt handler reads the mouse coordinates and hands them off to the video card, returning the cpu back to the regularly scheduled process and the video card redraws the location of the mouse on the screen.
You may be right, but it is in fact 80% easier to find.
What part of "practical" do you fail to understand?
When you don't have the resources to search even 10 million straws, it doesn't make a difference whether the haystack has 1 billion or 5 billion straws of hay.
Oh come on, You're going to make we waste valuable wrist and finger energy to post that I was talking about the functionality and not the company? But if you want to focus on specific companies then that is just as true - the network effect has made it possible for businesses to exist that are entirely dependent on massive userbase of companies like google, ebay, amazon, paypal, facebook and twitter. There are effectively no other players in those markets because the behemoths are the only ones with the scale to make the variety of dependent businesses feasible.
+1
Ahh, you think Google is the only search engine out there. How quaint.
Ah, you think "steel" and "oil" only come from one company. How consistent.
How hard would it be to go a week without Google? Or, to up the ante, without Facebook, Amazon, Skype, Twitter, Apple, eBay and Google?
Pretty fucking easy, actually. My God what are we becoming when people think this shit is so important?
Some of us own or work for businesses that would not exist if it weren't for those services. Here's one example:
I know a guy who works as a consultant, he's the "guru" companies bring in when they realize that treating all of their employees like "cogs on a wheel" means they don't have any experts who understand both the minutiae and the big picture. He swears that over the last decade the kind of work he actually does has turned into excessive use of google-fu. Half the time he's looking up stuff with google and the other half of the time he's explaining it to the people who have hired him. Clearly its useful to his clients else they would not keep hiring him and he is good at it because he already has tons of domain knowledge.
Whatever the reason, his livelihood is significantly dependent on google. If he personally lost access to google, the value he provides his clients would significantly diminish. If the entire world lost access to google, there would be a significant productivity crash.
Really? Breaking into someone's private email and then distributing what they found -- with clearly malicious intent -- is "such a small mistake" ?
I gotta disagree there. I don't think his intent was malicious at all - his goal was to expose corruption. He was clearly partisan in his motives, but if that's all it takes to legally qualify for "malicious intent" then all of congress should be in jail too.
My understanding is that Palin only got away with it because the alaskan court ruled that the state law forbidding what she had done was too ambiguous. But the intent - keeping official government business communications on the record for accountability purposes - was clearly violated, even if the letter may not have been.
Unless your OS is using the IOMMU correctly at which point it can't actually read the entire memory space.
100% true. I considered mentioning that, but IOMMU's are still pretty rare outside the server room. Plus, sadly, most people here don't even know what an IOMMU does.
Dude, I said "like."
At first I was thinking birth defects, but I wanted to keep it light.
The only fragility I'm aware of is this easily avoidable situation:
http://www.ntsecurity.nu/onmymind/2006/2006-09-02.html
Maybe the forensic toolkits are just naive.
"The report also explains that US Army researchers developed a protein that attacks the bacteria that causes plaque, which can lead to gum disease. This protein can easily be incorporated into the gum, making it a serious alternative to toothbrush and toothpaste, the researchers claim. "
Lets hope ingesting the protein doesn't have any harmful side-effects, like priapism.
What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
Always. It ought to be a rule that anyone voting for, or enforcing, a law that "balances" personal liberty with anything else, including "security" must not only be required to experience the full force of the process, but to do so at least once a month for the duration of their employment.
It gives you 4 billion less things to worry about.
A needle in a haystack of 1 billion straws of hay is practically no easier to find than a needle in 5 billions straws of hay.
Because the card lives on your bus, and the cable does not.
More specifically most devices on the bus can do DMA to host memory, that enables them to read and write any byte of memory, completely bypassing OS memory protection.
In fact, firewire ports are a favorite of the digital forensics guys for exactly this reason - they can come along, plug their dohickey into the firewire port of most any PC that has one and do a complete memory dump of the system without the OS or any other program even noticing.
Donald Trump tried to patent "you're fired," so there's precedent for trying.
There's precedent for people jumping off of cliffs too.
Seems to be just about as meaningful too.
...or how about not being a spoiled brat and accepting Aunt Mildreds gift with a little gratitude and respect.
I totally agree. If you just give people gifts that you know they want you might as well just give them cash.
I only give gifts that I think are cool and I am totally fine if the recipient thinks it's junk because even if they didn't take it, at least I gave them a chance to expand their horizons a little bit.
I don't like seeing an estate tax applied on smaller things, like farms, but multi-billion dollar funds, heck yes.
The estate-tax hit on small farmers is mostly a myth promulgated by the people with multi-billion dollar funds.
http://www.cbpp.org/cms/index.cfm?fa=view&id=3223
I was unable to find an anti-estate tax analysis anywhere near as thorough as that pro-estate tax report, they were all pretty much smoke, mirrors and hyperbole.
Profiling is not about effectiveness, it is about trimming the search space.
You really think the later is not a subset of the former?
Ignoring all of the social costs of racial profiling, how does "trimming the search space" from 5 billion down to 1 billion do any good?
Wow, there really is more propaganda in the states than I could ever imagine. Explains a lot... really does.
Do you really have a problem with indoctrinating children with high ideals?