There are exceptions to the doctrine of the fruit of the poisonous tree.
This doctrine is subject to three of important exceptions. The evidence will not be excluded (1) if it was discovered from a source independent of the illegal activity; (2) its discovery was inevitable; or (3) if there is attenuation between the illegal activity and the discovery of the evidence. -- ref
Depends on the padlock. There are padlocks that won't lock unless the key is in it. That prevents you locking your keys inside the item closed by the padlock.
Congress needs to pass legislation removing previously granted powers(then do something else, apparently, to mollify those who are actually scared of terrorists, in this case move those powers to law enforcement).
So to use your terms, Congress needs to pass something to mollify the people scared of NSA?
You have to understand that many people posting and moderating here don't care about your life at all. They literally don't care how many of their fellow citizens are killed by any means as long as it doesn't affect them and they think it makes them more free. You can decide for yourself as to the reasons why that is. Some possibilities are unsound philosophy, ahistorical views (including of the Founders), narcissism, fatuous legal views, distorted thinking, uncritical acceptance of claims of oppression or deprivation of civil rights, or others. One of my favorites is when they try to claim that "America is supposed to be the land of the free and brave" and therefore Americans should "bravely" die by massacres or bombs in shopping malls for our "freedom." Haven't massacres of your civil population in any war been one of the tests of your personal liberty? The more massacres of your countrymen the freer you are?
Another thing to keep in mind that people from all over the world both post and moderate. There are many of them that don't care what happens to Americans, including death by the thousands, as long as they think a particular policy or event either weakens the US or limits the ability of the US to conduct intelligence or military operations. The US population is more or less evenly split about Snowden, but he is wildly popular in various overseas countries - including ones that have been victimized by his leaks. Of course what they often fail to reflect on is the fact that the US is a partner with many countries around the world and helps to protect them by sharing intelligence information. There are terrorists in jail in Europe now because of intelligence gathered by the US. Of course some of them do know that but would accept the trade-off of a lot more dead Europeans (or country X) as long as it meant a weaker US.
Dollars to donuts this ends up at -1.... for our freedom.... because part of freedom is that we all have to believe the same thing or be moderated down.
As an intelligence-driven and a threat-focused national security organization with both intelligence and law enforcement responsibilities, the mission of the FBI is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners.
You might want to follow the link and read the rest.
Apparently some people never get over their shock and rage at encountering someone that holds a different viewpoint than their own, and is willing to defend it with evidence.
I don't work for the government, nor am I a sock puppet. There is nontrivial percentage of people in my country that hold beliefs generally similar to mine. It takes a particularly stunted view to think you will never encounter them. I hope you get over it, sometime.
Couple that with the growing understanding of the brain, how it functions, and how to read it via various imaging techniques, and the growing understanding of the genetic links to behavior and you have the foundations for the future development of either major medical breakthroughs, or terrible tools of oppression. I wonder if we have the ethics to use these many new tools for good? Humanity has a tendency for technology to outpace wisdom.
Maybe, maybe not. There have been systems built in the past using all low-latency static memory and it made less of a difference than expected. Hard to say, maybe things would be different now. You would certainly want to test it, not just assume.
I know very capable systems could be built on the hardware of the day, especially when assembly wizards were at work, and many people loved OS-9, but I had to balk at NFS. I quite agree about the bloat comment.
UZI is an implementation of the Unix kernel written for a Z-80 based computer. It implements almost all of the functionality of the 7th Edition Unix kernel. UZI was written to run on one specific collection of custom-built hardware, but since it can easily have device drivers added to it, and it does not use any memory management hardware, it should be possible to port it to numerous computers that current use the CP/M operating system. The source code is written mostly in C, and was compiled with The Code Works' Q/C compiler. UZI's code was written from scratch, and contains no AT&T code, so it is not subject to any of AT&T's copyright or licensing restrictions. Numerous 7th Edition programs have been ported to UZI with little or no difficulty, including the complete Bourne shell, ed, sed, dc, cpp, etc.
Seems like a pretty ambitious project to run on a Z80. Good thing this isn't April 1st.
I've seen some Z80 based software that implemented various bits of Unix-like functionality. Some of them appeared to be pretty impressive, but nothing like the list at the site. I would assume that the available functionality is going to vary by architecture given the constraints present on the low end.
Climate researcher and IPCC co-author Eduardo Zorita calls for Warmergate plumbers Michael Mann, Phil Jones and Stefan Rahmstorf to be barred from the IPCC process and muses on the “very troubling professional behavior” evident in those leaked emails:
I may confirm what has been written in other places: research in some areas of climate science has been and is full of machination, conspiracies, and collusion, as any reader can interpret from the CRU-files
I am also aware that in this thick atmosphere – and I am not speaking of greenhouse gases now – editors, reviewers and authors of alternative studies, analysis, interpretations, even based on the same data we have at our disposal, have been bullied and subtly blackmailed. In this atmosphere, Ph D students are often tempted to tweak their data so as to fit the ‘politically correct picture’.
The Climategate emails reveal that when the scientist-activists saw skeptical scientists successfully calling public attention to such evidence, they went on a vicious attack, pulling strings to pressure universities and science journals to fire or blackball the skeptical scientists for presenting their competing theories and evidence. The Climategate emails also show Mann as one of the most aggressive warriors in the battle to publicly disparage and ruin the careers of scientists who disagree with his views on global warming.
For example, upset that Harvard University researchers were successfully arguing that solar variance rather than carbon dioxide emissions are the most likely primary cause of recent global temperature fluctuations, Mann sent out an email seeking to coordinate action to pressure Harvard to rebuke or discipline the researchers. “If someone has close ties w/ any individuals there [at Harvard] who might be in a position to actually get some action taken on this, I’d highly encourage pursuing this,” writes Mann to fellow scientist-activists.
The Climategate emails also reveal Mann recruiting investigative journalists to dig up dirt on scientist Steve McIntyre, who had called into questions Mann’s scientific theories.
There is plenty more if you dig into that instead of conspiracy theories about the "Koch brothers."
The Department of Homeland Security is almost entirely nothing but a regrouping of already existing agencies (FEMA, Coast Guard, Customs, border security, etc. ) under a new headquarters. You can panic about that if you want, but I don't think there is much reason for it. In fact DHS is mostly what the Ministry of Interior is in other countries. (That name was already taken in the US for a different purpose.)
Do you want to try not being willfully obtuse?
I think the most delicious irony is often the unintentional irony.
Go read the Congressional authorization. It should help you through at least some of the fog.
The war against al Qaida is both legal and Constitutional. If you think it is illegal, then please, where would the Constitution indicate that?
The US isn't an imperialist power despite what you think of the current conflict. If it was, why did US troops withdraw from Iraq? Why is there a plan to withdraw from Afghanistan?
I am not known as a "sock puppet and shill," I am called that by some, generally by the ideologue, the ignorant, the crank, the liar, the fool, and other fellow travelers.
Eastasia is (apparently) a literary reference to 1984, and doesn't really apply. Pedophiles aren't a focus of national security, but the FBI does investigate them as part of ordinary law enforcement. Terrorists do exist and have repeatedly attacked the US, its embassies, and armed forces, causes thousands of deaths. Terrorism does present an ongoing threat. The Soviets are basically gone, but Russia is picking up where they left off by assuming many former Soviet practices, including threatening NATO with nuclear strikes and testing US and UK defences with submarines and bombers. "Commies" still control several countries, including China, which recently published in official state media maps showing nuclear strikes against the US and praising their naval buildup. Japan is a friend an ally of the US these days, but the US may end up having to fight alongside it if China causes an incident. China has recently been practicing landing marines in apparent preparation to take Islands currently held by Japan. Nazis no longer hold power in the Germany, but neo-Nazis are still an active movement, and a cause for concern. Other European nations, including Russia, have similar movements.
That's an interesting insight you have there. Boogeymen are generally considered to be imaginary creatures that pose no genuine threat. Does that mean that you think that the Nazis, Imperial Japan, and the Soviet Union (and other communist nations) posed no genuine threat to either the US or UK?
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Maybe you could expand upon that a bit. You didn't really say much of anything about intelligence gathering.
There are exceptions to the doctrine of the fruit of the poisonous tree.
This doctrine is subject to three of important exceptions. The evidence will not be excluded (1) if it was discovered from a source independent of the illegal activity; (2) its discovery was inevitable; or (3) if there is attenuation between the illegal activity and the discovery of the evidence. -- ref
One person a year, that then gets "disciplined," i.e. fired or "resigned."
Depends on the padlock. There are padlocks that won't lock unless the key is in it. That prevents you locking your keys inside the item closed by the padlock.
Congress needs to pass legislation removing previously granted powers(then do something else, apparently, to mollify those who are actually scared of terrorists, in this case move those powers to law enforcement).
So to use your terms, Congress needs to pass something to mollify the people scared of NSA?
You have to understand that many people posting and moderating here don't care about your life at all. They literally don't care how many of their fellow citizens are killed by any means as long as it doesn't affect them and they think it makes them more free. You can decide for yourself as to the reasons why that is. Some possibilities are unsound philosophy, ahistorical views (including of the Founders), narcissism, fatuous legal views, distorted thinking, uncritical acceptance of claims of oppression or deprivation of civil rights, or others. One of my favorites is when they try to claim that "America is supposed to be the land of the free and brave" and therefore Americans should "bravely" die by massacres or bombs in shopping malls for our "freedom." Haven't massacres of your civil population in any war been one of the tests of your personal liberty? The more massacres of your countrymen the freer you are?
Another thing to keep in mind that people from all over the world both post and moderate. There are many of them that don't care what happens to Americans, including death by the thousands, as long as they think a particular policy or event either weakens the US or limits the ability of the US to conduct intelligence or military operations. The US population is more or less evenly split about Snowden, but he is wildly popular in various overseas countries - including ones that have been victimized by his leaks. Of course what they often fail to reflect on is the fact that the US is a partner with many countries around the world and helps to protect them by sharing intelligence information. There are terrorists in jail in Europe now because of intelligence gathered by the US. Of course some of them do know that but would accept the trade-off of a lot more dead Europeans (or country X) as long as it meant a weaker US.
Dollars to donuts this ends up at -1.... for our freedom .... because part of freedom is that we all have to believe the same thing or be moderated down.
They added it back.
Security expert Bruce Schneier was found dead in his home. The cause of death is unknown but police are investigating possible foul play.
That is a screenplay, not news.
CIA is foreign intelligence only. They may engage in some signals intelligence, but it isn't their primary responsibility.
the FBI is a federal police force, not a spy agency that collects intelligence
The FBI's current mission statement:
Our Mission
As an intelligence-driven and a threat-focused national security organization with both intelligence and law enforcement responsibilities, the mission of the FBI is to protect and defend the United States against terrorist and foreign intelligence threats, to uphold and enforce the criminal laws of the United States, and to provide leadership and criminal justice services to federal, state, municipal, and international agencies and partners.
You might want to follow the link and read the rest.
Apparently some people never get over their shock and rage at encountering someone that holds a different viewpoint than their own, and is willing to defend it with evidence.
I don't work for the government, nor am I a sock puppet. There is nontrivial percentage of people in my country that hold beliefs generally similar to mine. It takes a particularly stunted view to think you will never encounter them. I hope you get over it, sometime.
Couple that with the growing understanding of the brain, how it functions, and how to read it via various imaging techniques, and the growing understanding of the genetic links to behavior and you have the foundations for the future development of either major medical breakthroughs, or terrible tools of oppression. I wonder if we have the ethics to use these many new tools for good? Humanity has a tendency for technology to outpace wisdom.
Maybe, maybe not. There have been systems built in the past using all low-latency static memory and it made less of a difference than expected. Hard to say, maybe things would be different now. You would certainly want to test it, not just assume.
What is Real Time and Why Do I Need It?
I know very capable systems could be built on the hardware of the day, especially when assembly wizards were at work, and many people loved OS-9, but I had to balk at NFS. I quite agree about the bloat comment.
UZI: UNIX Z-80 IMPLEMENTATION
UZI is an implementation of the Unix kernel written for a Z-80 based computer. It implements almost all of the functionality of the 7th Edition Unix kernel. UZI was written to run on one specific collection of custom-built hardware, but since it can easily have device drivers added to it, and it does not use any memory management hardware, it should be possible to port it to numerous computers that current use the CP/M operating system. The source code is written mostly in C, and was compiled with The Code Works' Q/C compiler. UZI's code was written from scratch, and contains no AT&T code, so it is not subject to any of AT&T's copyright or licensing restrictions. Numerous 7th Edition programs have been ported to UZI with little or no difficulty, including the complete Bourne shell, ed, sed, dc, cpp, etc.
UZI180 - Unix Z80 Implementation for the Z-180 (UZI180)
Seems like a pretty ambitious project to run on a Z80. Good thing this isn't April 1st.
I've seen some Z80 based software that implemented various bits of Unix-like functionality. Some of them appeared to be pretty impressive, but nothing like the list at the site. I would assume that the available functionality is going to vary by architecture given the constraints present on the low end.
A more interesting question is why Spencer never publishes any of his alleged massive critiques of AGW in peer reviewed journals.
There is a known problem there.
THICK ATMOSPHERE and Climategate and Scientific Journal Chicanery
Climate researcher and IPCC co-author Eduardo Zorita calls for Warmergate plumbers Michael Mann, Phil Jones and Stefan Rahmstorf to be barred from the IPCC process and muses on the “very troubling professional behavior” evident in those leaked emails:
I may confirm what has been written in other places: research in some areas of climate science has been and is full of machination, conspiracies, and collusion, as any reader can interpret from the CRU-files
I am also aware that in this thick atmosphere – and I am not speaking of greenhouse gases now – editors, reviewers and authors of alternative studies, analysis, interpretations, even based on the same data we have at our disposal, have been bullied and subtly blackmailed. In this atmosphere, Ph D students are often tempted to tweak their data so as to fit the ‘politically correct picture’.
Climategate's Michael Mann Channels His Inner Palpatine
The Climategate emails reveal that when the scientist-activists saw skeptical scientists successfully calling public attention to such evidence, they went on a vicious attack, pulling strings to pressure universities and science journals to fire or blackball the skeptical scientists for presenting their competing theories and evidence. The Climategate emails also show Mann as one of the most aggressive warriors in the battle to publicly disparage and ruin the careers of scientists who disagree with his views on global warming.
For example, upset that Harvard University researchers were successfully arguing that solar variance rather than carbon dioxide emissions are the most likely primary cause of recent global temperature fluctuations, Mann sent out an email seeking to coordinate action to pressure Harvard to rebuke or discipline the researchers. “If someone has close ties w/ any individuals there [at Harvard] who might be in a position to actually get some action taken on this, I’d highly encourage pursuing this,” writes Mann to fellow scientist-activists.
The Climategate emails also reveal Mann recruiting investigative journalists to dig up dirt on scientist Steve McIntyre, who had called into questions Mann’s scientific theories.
There is plenty more if you dig into that instead of conspiracy theories about the "Koch brothers."
The Department of Homeland Security is almost entirely nothing but a regrouping of already existing agencies (FEMA, Coast Guard, Customs, border security, etc. ) under a new headquarters. You can panic about that if you want, but I don't think there is much reason for it. In fact DHS is mostly what the Ministry of Interior is in other countries. (That name was already taken in the US for a different purpose.)
Do you want to try not being willfully obtuse?
I think the most delicious irony is often the unintentional irony.
Go read the Congressional authorization. It should help you through at least some of the fog.
The war against al Qaida is both legal and Constitutional. If you think it is illegal, then please, where would the Constitution indicate that?
The US isn't an imperialist power despite what you think of the current conflict. If it was, why did US troops withdraw from Iraq? Why is there a plan to withdraw from Afghanistan?
I am not known as a "sock puppet and shill," I am called that by some, generally by the ideologue, the ignorant, the crank, the liar, the fool, and other fellow travelers.
Sympathy for the Nazis? Pity for them? Interesting .....
And the US or UK doesn't need a standing army? Dude ....
Eastasia is (apparently) a literary reference to 1984, and doesn't really apply. Pedophiles aren't a focus of national security, but the FBI does investigate them as part of ordinary law enforcement. Terrorists do exist and have repeatedly attacked the US, its embassies, and armed forces, causes thousands of deaths. Terrorism does present an ongoing threat. The Soviets are basically gone, but Russia is picking up where they left off by assuming many former Soviet practices, including threatening NATO with nuclear strikes and testing US and UK defences with submarines and bombers. "Commies" still control several countries, including China, which recently published in official state media maps showing nuclear strikes against the US and praising their naval buildup. Japan is a friend an ally of the US these days, but the US may end up having to fight alongside it if China causes an incident. China has recently been practicing landing marines in apparent preparation to take Islands currently held by Japan. Nazis no longer hold power in the Germany, but neo-Nazis are still an active movement, and a cause for concern. Other European nations, including Russia, have similar movements.
I'm sure that when Microsoft thinks about Android, it's first thought is usually: Fork Android!
That's an interesting insight you have there. Boogeymen are generally considered to be imaginary creatures that pose no genuine threat. Does that mean that you think that the Nazis, Imperial Japan, and the Soviet Union (and other communist nations) posed no genuine threat to either the US or UK?
No, it forms a large part of the political excuse to create and fund these entities.
Those agencies all existed decades before 9/11, which I expect you knew. Do you want to guess again?