You are aware that there is no law that makes it illegal to give classified material to the news media, aren't you? It sure seems like you think he broke some law. The only thing he broke was an NDA agreement. If you think any and all contracts and EULA should hold a federal PMITA (pound me..) sentance when they are broken you seem pretty extreme to me. Bradley is a different case as he was a member of the military and is under the UCMJ where what he did is against their policies.
Barefoot wine is also a great inexpensive wine. I first discovered it from getting a bottle of the Barefoot Bubbly as it cost much less than most other sparkling wines and champagnes. After drinking it, it became our favorite sparkling wine and we pretty much only get it. Then we tried their other wines and found them to be very good also. Each is around $11 or so a bottle. Great price for great wine.
Democratic senator Ron Wyden: "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?"
NSA Director James Clapper: "No sir, not Intentionally."
How do you reconcile Mr. Clapper's response with the Verizon court order?
"It is hereby ordered that [Verizon Business Network Services'] Custodian of Records shall produce to the National Security Agency all call detail records or ‘telephony metadata’ created by Verizon for communications (i) between the United States and abroad; or (ii) wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls,"
Mr. Clapper LIED. There's no way around it.
It isn't the NSA collecting the information, it's the computers. They do it so we are in the clear!:-P
It was 50 to 100 years after the fall of the Roman empire that the majority of the Roman citizens realized the empire had fallen. Just because you can't tell where the line is while you are crossing it, doesn't mean it won't be there for historians to look back and say it happened.
Not just their ancestors either. In some sects each Amish is to go out into the world and live in the real world. It's called Rumspringa, and they go out around 14-16 and come back when they are ready to live like the Amish do. Most of them do choose to come back. It's pretty amazing when you think about it. I would not want to give up my life of technology, but they find their way of living to be better in some way that we don't really understand.
The vigilance system in locomotives works a little better than a simple dead man's switch. If there are no control (power, brake, etc.) changes for 30 or 45 seconds it will start beeping at you for another 15 or 30 seconds. There is also an alerter button on the console that can cancel the vigilance alert, but it must be pressed, not held down. None of this would stop someone who is reading a book from hitting the button every 30 seconds without looking up, but it will put the brakes on if the operator falls asleep or steps away from the controls.
Have you seen the Biolite Stove? It runs on regular sticks and makes electricity from a peltier junction that runs the vortex fan to increase the heat and charges a USB port. Pretty awesome, I want one!
I was in an airport with a souvenir I got over vacation. I accidentally forgot I placed it in my bag and tried to go through security. Why is it that my proximity to the gate suddenly stripped me of my rights? A police officer came to "contain" the situation, although he didn't do much because I wasn't making a fuss. Why wasn't I ever asked to just walk away with all my belongings? I was at the airport 2 hours before my flight was scheduled to depart, that is plenty of time to go back to the front desk and check my bag. Why is it that I was stripped of my rights to my belongings and denied the ability to take what I came with and leave. Granted I attempted to go through security with an item, so my name was put on an ever growing list of potential terrorists. Fine. But why don't they change fucked up policies like these before allowing knives on a plane? Most airports even have built in shipping offices, I could have just mailed the souvenir to my home address, but I was never given the chance.
Why is it you didn't stand up for your rights? If you let them be taken from you, then you didn't really value them very much.
Just saying they can't doesn't make it so. It doesn't make GP true either, but there are so few details/parameters here that I'm sure it's absolutely true for some people with some vehicle models.
"No smoke without fire" fallacy. GGP is posting to Slashdot rather than living the high life in St. Tropez, so I think it's fair to say he's full of shit.
Maybe he is posting to Slashdot from his high life in St. Tropez! Ever think of that?
See Rolling Code for why you are under the wrong impression. There might be a recent vulnerability, but for the vast extent of their history these kinds of systems have been safe against amateur tactics like simple radio tricks, and if there is a "Backdoor" code it has been a pretty well guarded secret.
I have wondered how the rolling code stays in sync if you ever press your key fob while out of range. The code would increment to the next one and the car would still be expecting a different one. I haven't found an answer to how this works in a quick Google search, do you or anyone here know how that is handled?
If the keypad will accept the code with extra digits entered before it you can cut down the number of combinations also. I remember seeing the entire string of digits to try every 3 digit combination in an old 2600 magazine a while ago. For example, trying 112 followed by 113 also gives you the code 211 in there as well as 121 etc. There is a way to reorder the digits to cover every possible combination without duplicating so many digits. It still might take awhile to do every combination, and it only works if the reader accepts the code when seen in any situation. If it takes 4 digits and resets for another attempt it would not work. I think the article was about getting the remote access code to an answering machine.
I found an online article covering this topic here.
Excellent generalization. So according to you if every officer is not perfect that all officers are criminals. Sorry but I don't buy that.
If the police don't weed out their criminals, then they are a gang of criminals. If you cover for someone doing something wrong, then you cannot claim to be just and moral. I rarely see a cop car driving the speed limit. If they don't have their lights on then they are breaking the law when they speed. If you feel they should be above the law, then I disagree with you. They are supposed to uphold the law, but that doesn't make them above it.
When your car is stolen or a loved one killed who are you going to call? Where would the world be without police?
This sounds like the same victim attitude of the "get rid of all the guns" people. If your car is stolen, it's still stolen even after the police show up. If your loved one is killed, they are just as dead after the police show up to fill out their paperwork and maybe catch the "perp" after the fact.
Over time the police has shifted from a public servant that is there to help people, including the victims of car theft or families of murders, to the role of crime fighter. That shift was pushed by the politicians and the tough on crime stance. It has led the police to see all people as potential criminals. They just need to find something to bust you for. It's an "us against them" attitude and it does not lead to a healthy relationship between the force and the citizens.
Pretty much all of my interactions with police have been just fine. I don't give them attitude and they don't seem to harass me. That does not mean they aren't criminals or horrible people. I have watched them lie to me as they pull me over. I just sit there and don't argue as they can do whatever they want. They chose a job where they would have power over others. If they actually cared about helping people they would not be able to stomach the job. I talked a lot with a chicago beat cop who loved interacting with the public and talking to people. He hated the job as you only see the worst parts of society. I don't see how a good person could stand that without getting ulcers or having to quit eventually. And when the people you work with are breaking the law, you either have to turn them in and ostracize yourself or you let it slide and begin the slippery slope to yourself becoming like the rest. There's not enough accountability for the force as a whole to be good. And with the politicians using the police force as their armed muscle it only makes the situation worse.
That cuts both ways; I wish the public could be a little more mature in their interactions with the police.
The police are paid to do their job, the public isn't. If they can't handle it, then they should not be in that position.
We have more and more video evidence of police abusing and murdering innocent people. That is not because there are more murdering police, it's because cameras are becoming more common. The police force is the most likely criminal organization that any typical person will ever encounter. Most people will not come in contact with true criminals, but they will come into contact with the police. You can't tell me there are only a few "bad apples" as each officer will require the assistance of their coworkers and that means they need to be a part of the group. You can't go around turning in all the other officers and expect them to back you up when you need it. You need to look the other way. That makes them bad cops also. Until each and every misdeed by an officer is appropriately punished, then the force deserves no respect as they don't respect the law. They feel they are above the law.
When I hear of news reports of police being shot, I think it's a good thing. Less police means less criminals. I root for the cop killer as they are doing society a good deed. How's that for the reputation our current police force has gotten?
We as citizens do not put our lives on the line every day dealing with people who have no respect for their lives or the lives of others.
And they get paid to do it. That doesn't give them the right to attack innocent people and lie about the facts. Just because firemen might die in a fire, does that give them the right to kill people they interact with?
As a UKian, I would like to play devils advocate: if it stops one single delusional nutter from murdering upwards of 200 people
It appears to be the mainstream opinion in the UK, judging by the fact that the Prime Minister still has the office.
That isn't the mainstream opinion in just the UK either. It seems a lot of people feel if there is even the REMOTEST change that it may save one life... Never mind the fact that there is no evidence it has or can possibly save a life...
You know what would for sure save many lives? Lock everyone up in a secure padded cell. All your work, entertainment, sustenance, in fact you whole life will take place in that one cell. Interaction with others will occur through video screen. "If it stops one single delusional nutter from murdering. .." Well that would for sure stop at least one murder so they must be all for it then, huh?
That's the problem with the delusional safety freaks. No amount of logic will get them to see how stupid they are being. If they actually wanted safety over anything else they would be all for this plan. If we had a Matrix world they could live in I bet we would have many people like Cypher that would love to be plugged into it. Give them their simulated steaks and they will be happy in their false world. It's what they really want.
This is what I was goind to say. I won't buy DRM ebooks. I either read things from the project Guttenburg or I torrent them. I won't accept limits on what I can do with my things. A real book can be given to a friend or sold. We have donated lots of our old books to the library. I'm not interested in having my collection become unuseable in the future when something better than Android becomes the next hot item. I'll buy a physical book if I really feel bad about depriving the author of his cut, but I will still read it from a torrented copy as I don't want to cary a book with me in case I want to read some. The ebooks are always with me, so that makes them convenient.
Just push the button with picture of the food item on it and the register will tell you what the change should be.
It's great to watch the face on these burger pushers when you give them the two or three pennies for your total after they punched in the $20 you gave them to start. They have a real hard time adding two cents to the change the register tells them to give back. They just sit there dumbfounded and have no clue what to do. Sometimes they will just refuse to take the pennies and only give you exactly what the screen says.
I find it interesting that you found an unrelated and seemingly irrelevant course to have much use to you in your programming. Wouldn't it be true that the math you didn't take would have also given you great insight into things that you aren't even aware of since you didn't take it?
It's also important for the boundaries of where the line between legal and illegal action by the authorities is drawn. Our police forces all too often think the law doesn't apply to them. And even in this case, who in the police have any risk of seeing jail time for the many illegal actions we have seen. It makes me sick to see such blatant disregard for the law and I have no respect for these people or the laws they try to enforce.
No, I'm sure it was a TRS-80. In fact, it looked like this one. It had to be plugged into a TV, and the tape recorder was one my mother already had. I do remember the cable to connect it had 2 or 3 jacks as it may have started and stopped the tape automatically or something. I also remember it had a cartridge slot in the side and I had a few games for it. If you turned it on without a cartridge in the slot it was then in the BASIC programming mode.
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You are aware that there is no law that makes it illegal to give classified material to the news media, aren't you? It sure seems like you think he broke some law. The only thing he broke was an NDA agreement. If you think any and all contracts and EULA should hold a federal PMITA (pound me ..) sentance when they are broken you seem pretty extreme to me. Bradley is a different case as he was a member of the military and is under the UCMJ where what he did is against their policies.
Barefoot wine is also a great inexpensive wine. I first discovered it from getting a bottle of the Barefoot Bubbly as it cost much less than most other sparkling wines and champagnes. After drinking it, it became our favorite sparkling wine and we pretty much only get it. Then we tried their other wines and found them to be very good also. Each is around $11 or so a bottle. Great price for great wine.
Democratic senator Ron Wyden: "Does the NSA collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of Americans?" NSA Director James Clapper: "No sir, not Intentionally."
How do you reconcile Mr. Clapper's response with the Verizon court order?
"It is hereby ordered that [Verizon Business Network Services'] Custodian of Records shall produce to the National Security Agency all call detail records or ‘telephony metadata’ created by Verizon for communications (i) between the United States and abroad; or (ii) wholly within the United States, including local telephone calls,"
Mr. Clapper LIED. There's no way around it.
It isn't the NSA collecting the information, it's the computers. They do it so we are in the clear! :-P
Its amazing that people like you work so hard to turn winning into losing.
We've 'fallen' because we succeeded?
You obviously have never watched "War Games". The only winning move is not to play.
It was 50 to 100 years after the fall of the Roman empire that the majority of the Roman citizens realized the empire had fallen. Just because you can't tell where the line is while you are crossing it, doesn't mean it won't be there for historians to look back and say it happened.
People (some of them) enjoy the adrenaline rush when they believe they are in control. When they are not in control, there is just the fear.
So why do people like roller coasters then? I just enjoy the butterflies in the stomach feeling as if I am on a really bumpy roller coaster.
I think this is probably the best answer I have read here. They are needed to work together, very well put. You win 9000 Internets!!!!!1!!one!
Not just their ancestors either. In some sects each Amish is to go out into the world and live in the real world. It's called Rumspringa, and they go out around 14-16 and come back when they are ready to live like the Amish do. Most of them do choose to come back. It's pretty amazing when you think about it. I would not want to give up my life of technology, but they find their way of living to be better in some way that we don't really understand.
The vigilance system in locomotives works a little better than a simple dead man's switch. If there are no control (power, brake, etc.) changes for 30 or 45 seconds it will start beeping at you for another 15 or 30 seconds. There is also an alerter button on the console that can cancel the vigilance alert, but it must be pressed, not held down. None of this would stop someone who is reading a book from hitting the button every 30 seconds without looking up, but it will put the brakes on if the operator falls asleep or steps away from the controls.
Have you seen the Biolite Stove? It runs on regular sticks and makes electricity from a peltier junction that runs the vortex fan to increase the heat and charges a USB port. Pretty awesome, I want one!
I was in an airport with a souvenir I got over vacation. I accidentally forgot I placed it in my bag and tried to go through security. Why is it that my proximity to the gate suddenly stripped me of my rights? A police officer came to "contain" the situation, although he didn't do much because I wasn't making a fuss. Why wasn't I ever asked to just walk away with all my belongings? I was at the airport 2 hours before my flight was scheduled to depart, that is plenty of time to go back to the front desk and check my bag. Why is it that I was stripped of my rights to my belongings and denied the ability to take what I came with and leave. Granted I attempted to go through security with an item, so my name was put on an ever growing list of potential terrorists. Fine. But why don't they change fucked up policies like these before allowing knives on a plane? Most airports even have built in shipping offices, I could have just mailed the souvenir to my home address, but I was never given the chance.
Why is it you didn't stand up for your rights? If you let them be taken from you, then you didn't really value them very much.
"No smoke without fire" fallacy. GGP is posting to Slashdot rather than living the high life in St. Tropez, so I think it's fair to say he's full of shit.
Maybe he is posting to Slashdot from his high life in St. Tropez! Ever think of that?
See Rolling Code for why you are under the wrong impression. There might be a recent vulnerability, but for the vast extent of their history these kinds of systems have been safe against amateur tactics like simple radio tricks, and if there is a "Backdoor" code it has been a pretty well guarded secret.
I have wondered how the rolling code stays in sync if you ever press your key fob while out of range. The code would increment to the next one and the car would still be expecting a different one. I haven't found an answer to how this works in a quick Google search, do you or anyone here know how that is handled?
If the keypad will accept the code with extra digits entered before it you can cut down the number of combinations also. I remember seeing the entire string of digits to try every 3 digit combination in an old 2600 magazine a while ago. For example, trying 112 followed by 113 also gives you the code 211 in there as well as 121 etc. There is a way to reorder the digits to cover every possible combination without duplicating so many digits. It still might take awhile to do every combination, and it only works if the reader accepts the code when seen in any situation. If it takes 4 digits and resets for another attempt it would not work. I think the article was about getting the remote access code to an answering machine.
I found an online article covering this topic here.
Excellent generalization. So according to you if every officer is not perfect that all officers are criminals. Sorry but I don't buy that.
If the police don't weed out their criminals, then they are a gang of criminals. If you cover for someone doing something wrong, then you cannot claim to be just and moral. I rarely see a cop car driving the speed limit. If they don't have their lights on then they are breaking the law when they speed. If you feel they should be above the law, then I disagree with you. They are supposed to uphold the law, but that doesn't make them above it.
When your car is stolen or a loved one killed who are you going to call? Where would the world be without police?
This sounds like the same victim attitude of the "get rid of all the guns" people. If your car is stolen, it's still stolen even after the police show up. If your loved one is killed, they are just as dead after the police show up to fill out their paperwork and maybe catch the "perp" after the fact.
Over time the police has shifted from a public servant that is there to help people, including the victims of car theft or families of murders, to the role of crime fighter. That shift was pushed by the politicians and the tough on crime stance. It has led the police to see all people as potential criminals. They just need to find something to bust you for. It's an "us against them" attitude and it does not lead to a healthy relationship between the force and the citizens.
Pretty much all of my interactions with police have been just fine. I don't give them attitude and they don't seem to harass me. That does not mean they aren't criminals or horrible people. I have watched them lie to me as they pull me over. I just sit there and don't argue as they can do whatever they want. They chose a job where they would have power over others. If they actually cared about helping people they would not be able to stomach the job. I talked a lot with a chicago beat cop who loved interacting with the public and talking to people. He hated the job as you only see the worst parts of society. I don't see how a good person could stand that without getting ulcers or having to quit eventually. And when the people you work with are breaking the law, you either have to turn them in and ostracize yourself or you let it slide and begin the slippery slope to yourself becoming like the rest. There's not enough accountability for the force as a whole to be good. And with the politicians using the police force as their armed muscle it only makes the situation worse.
That cuts both ways; I wish the public could be a little more mature in their interactions with the police.
The police are paid to do their job, the public isn't. If they can't handle it, then they should not be in that position.
We have more and more video evidence of police abusing and murdering innocent people. That is not because there are more murdering police, it's because cameras are becoming more common. The police force is the most likely criminal organization that any typical person will ever encounter. Most people will not come in contact with true criminals, but they will come into contact with the police. You can't tell me there are only a few "bad apples" as each officer will require the assistance of their coworkers and that means they need to be a part of the group. You can't go around turning in all the other officers and expect them to back you up when you need it. You need to look the other way. That makes them bad cops also. Until each and every misdeed by an officer is appropriately punished, then the force deserves no respect as they don't respect the law. They feel they are above the law.
When I hear of news reports of police being shot, I think it's a good thing. Less police means less criminals. I root for the cop killer as they are doing society a good deed. How's that for the reputation our current police force has gotten?
We as citizens do not put our lives on the line every day dealing with people who have no respect for their lives or the lives of others.
And they get paid to do it. That doesn't give them the right to attack innocent people and lie about the facts. Just because firemen might die in a fire, does that give them the right to kill people they interact with?
And you think licence plates mean nothing?!?
As a UKian, I would like to play devils advocate: if it stops one single delusional nutter from murdering upwards of 200 people
It appears to be the mainstream opinion in the UK, judging by the fact that the Prime Minister still has the office.
That isn't the mainstream opinion in just the UK either. It seems a lot of people feel if there is even the REMOTEST change that it may save one life... Never mind the fact that there is no evidence it has or can possibly save a life...
You know what would for sure save many lives? Lock everyone up in a secure padded cell. All your work, entertainment, sustenance, in fact you whole life will take place in that one cell. Interaction with others will occur through video screen. "If it stops one single delusional nutter from murdering. . ." Well that would for sure stop at least one murder so they must be all for it then, huh?
That's the problem with the delusional safety freaks. No amount of logic will get them to see how stupid they are being. If they actually wanted safety over anything else they would be all for this plan. If we had a Matrix world they could live in I bet we would have many people like Cypher that would love to be plugged into it. Give them their simulated steaks and they will be happy in their false world. It's what they really want.
This is what I was goind to say. I won't buy DRM ebooks. I either read things from the project Guttenburg or I torrent them. I won't accept limits on what I can do with my things. A real book can be given to a friend or sold. We have donated lots of our old books to the library. I'm not interested in having my collection become unuseable in the future when something better than Android becomes the next hot item. I'll buy a physical book if I really feel bad about depriving the author of his cut, but I will still read it from a torrented copy as I don't want to cary a book with me in case I want to read some. The ebooks are always with me, so that makes them convenient.
Just push the button with picture of the food item on it and the register will tell you what the change should be.
It's great to watch the face on these burger pushers when you give them the two or three pennies for your total after they punched in the $20 you gave them to start. They have a real hard time adding two cents to the change the register tells them to give back. They just sit there dumbfounded and have no clue what to do. Sometimes they will just refuse to take the pennies and only give you exactly what the screen says.
I find it interesting that you found an unrelated and seemingly irrelevant course to have much use to you in your programming. Wouldn't it be true that the math you didn't take would have also given you great insight into things that you aren't even aware of since you didn't take it?
It's also important for the boundaries of where the line between legal and illegal action by the authorities is drawn. Our police forces all too often think the law doesn't apply to them. And even in this case, who in the police have any risk of seeing jail time for the many illegal actions we have seen. It makes me sick to see such blatant disregard for the law and I have no respect for these people or the laws they try to enforce.
Oops, now I see that it was also called the CoCo. I never heard it called that before. The label on the machine just called it a TRS-80.
No, I'm sure it was a TRS-80. In fact, it looked like this one. It had to be plugged into a TV, and the tape recorder was one my mother already had. I do remember the cable to connect it had 2 or 3 jacks as it may have started and stopped the tape automatically or something. I also remember it had a cartridge slot in the side and I had a few games for it. If you turned it on without a cartridge in the slot it was then in the BASIC programming mode.