Rats, you beat me to it. My entry was going to be poodles. Properly trained, a poodle can detect a bomb. Detecting jihadist ninjas is possible too, but you have to know in advance what it is you are training the poodles for, and one can be sure the jihadists will simply use a different technique next time.
slashdot summary: hype. more hype: "It's not five years away, it's not 10 years away. It's affordable, and it's now," said Wes Bolsen, the company's vice president of business development. Reality: Process involves using conventional technology to produce vaporware.
Coskata won't have a pilot plant running until this time next year, and it will produce just 40,000 gallons a year. Still, several experts said Coskata shows enough promise to leave them cautiously optimistic.
The company plans to have its first commercial-scale plant producing up to 100 million gallons of ethanol a year by 2011. Friedman and Greene said the timeline is realistic.
I produce up to 100 million gallons of ethanol a week in my garage. Stop by Saturday night.
Having said all that, I'll agree that the rich and powerful seem to be using the law to stomp on the rights of the average citizen. However, I don't think that the answer is bloodshed; try contributing to groups like Public Citizen and the Electronic Frontier Foundation who are trying to protect our rights.
Agree re EFF. If donating to Public Citizen, please earmark the funds for Paul Alan Levy's work on internet free speech (of which this case is an example.) Public Citizen, a Nader front, does some other projects the typical slashdot user might not agree with.
They are papers and/or personal effects, and should be treated accordingly under the law. How hard can that be to understand?
They are treated like papers or personal effects under the law. Did you happen to read the link on search incident to arrest? The 4th Amendment requires that searches be reasonable. Search incident to (valid) arrest is considered reasonable. Nothing new or iphone specific about it. Generally arrest involves either probable cause or an arrest warrant, which are the sort of things the 4th Amendment looks to.
If I recall correctly, the rationale for the arrest exception has to do with officer safety, and it's hard to see that the contents of an iphone are relevant to officer safety. So somebody could raise such an argument, but it would be a change in the law. It's probably already been litigated in the context of papers and effects. A recent 9th Amendment case involves whether the search incident to border crossings includes being able to read somebody's mail. Case is not yet final.
Your concern for 4th Amendment rights is a healthy one. Most people at some time or other will have their 4th Amendment rights violated, so it's good to be able to know when to bitch (and sue, or revolt.) But search incident to arrest is pretty well-established.
submitted story was just: NASA's Messenger probe flew by Mercury 125 miles away and took pictures, updating 30 year old pioneer 10 photos. Messenger will orbit Mercury in 2011. The ion drive European/Japanese ship doesn't launch till 2013. Wired Bad Astronomer. (y'know, with some some links in there.)
When I compare Fischer's early life to that of his later, it seems to parallel another brilliant nutcase: Ted Kaczynski (The Unabomber). The man had like three degrees, published over ten papers, and then spent his life in a cabin sending out bombs.
While two cases don't make a solid trend, you wonder how many slip under the radar.
Recently I was reading an obscure biography of a doctor from Kalamazoo MI. He had heard or read something from Kaczynski's mother than when Ted was 2, he got sick (Rheumatic fever?) and was in the hospital for awhile, and when he came out his personality had changed, less trusting, less social. The mother blamed herself, assuming the hospital stay was traumatic and her not being there for him causes the personality change. But the doctor had a different theory -
that the virus that causes rheumatic fever attacks the brain and damages the emotional centers, so that there was a medical reason Kaczynski was the way he was.
Will there be an autopsy of Fisher?
Or will his brain mysteriously disappear, and a commission assure he was killed by a single bullet from a lone gunman, and certainly not as the result of covert actions by a conspiracy because he knew too much....
Somewhat similar to the (now un updated) OpenCD project. "Try these". Paint.Net(which I find to be MUCH better than GIMP), OpenOffice, T-bird, Pidgin, IrfanView, audio editing, video editing, antivirus, etc, etc.
If it's not too much trouble, could you post a link to your set of freeware? The videoediting one might be new for me. I agree with what you said, but you could show as well as tell.
I honestly don't understand what the problem is. OK. The set of things that licenses are required for is not changing. Well, yes, it is. Once upon a time, driver's licenses were for driving (and social security numbers were for social security.) In Hiibel v Nevada, Hiibel was arrested for not showing his standing-by-the-side-of-the-road license. In Indianapolis, they won't let me vote anymore, because I won't show my voting license until they get a warrant. They like to pretend that you need an airline passenger license, although you really don't. Gilmore v Gonzales, papersplease,org. In Indiana, they are trying to say that my right to drink expires every 4 years; that I can't go into the bar till I renew my going into the bar license. In Denver, some lady was asked for her bus-riding license. In Chicago, I wasn't allowed to go up to Judge Posner's office because I didn't have a going-up-to-judge-Posner's-office license. (I paid some guy $20 to run the paperwork upstairs for me.)
I'm not sure we have the right take on what this item of news is about. Here's the wall street journal TFA TFA. I'm not sure I'm reading it right, but it looks like the feds semi-caved,and are putting off till tomorrow what they can't get away with today. But they are tricky, and we should look for analysis from somebody who knows this stuff - maybe EFF or EPIC.
The article says he was/is and names the NSF program officer.
You're right. My bad.
I didn't realize the guy was a welfare queen - I thought he'd gone legit.
Nope, not NSF funded.
He used to work for NASA, but would go home and tinker, inventing stuff. Drove his wife crazy.
He's been working on this no-freon new-improved air conditioner for a long time. Many of his projects, like the solar engine, are spinoffs from that. His first spinoff patent was the supersoaker - he made a few million off that, now he has a lab, employees, and 100 patents.
In 1980, film critic Roger Ebert http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/ rated "The Whole Shootin' Match" three stars. In 2007, after the indy film's creator Eagle Pennell had died of being a drunk, Ebert added a star. The film was the inspiration for Robert Redford's sundance festival and for Richard Linklater's (dazed and confused, slacker) becoming a filmmaker.
TFA begins saying the spammers worked next door. So poster knows the former physical location of the spammers. They should post it. That could lead to clues about who the spammers are/were. I find that most spammers are reasonable people when you discuss it personally with them, or call their mother and ask her to ask them to stop. It's when they hide behind internet anonymity that they do ungood things like spam. [Internet anonymity overall is a good thing, but it has costs including spam.]
There are steps you can take to reduce junk snailmail. You can contact the direct mail association and get on their opt-out list. You can tell the three credit card bureaus you don't want credit card solicitations. The post office has a form you can fill out to stop getting obscene mail from a particular sender. What you consider obscene is up to you. If they enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope, you can (after removing your contact info) attach it to a brick or a refrigerator and mail it to them. You can write the persistent ones a letter saying, "I charge $100 to receive and proofread your mail. You can accept this offer by sending me mail." Then the Bennett Haselton small claims court followup for those who take you up on your offer. Do I do this? No. I have a compost heap in the flowerbed under my mailbox, with crap from the indianapolis star and advco. My real mail goes to my post office box. Re: TFA, he got $250,000 and an additional 6 months. So what matters is what jail he went to. You couldn't pay me to go to jail in Indianapolis. 6 months in Boulder County jail for $100,000, yeah, I'd do that.
Art. 10. That freedom of speech and debate, or proceedings in the Legislature, ought not to be impeached in any Court of Judicature. Art. 40. That the liberty of the press ought to be inviolably preserved; that every citizen of the State ought to be allowed to speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that privilege.
Wake me up when the tables turn and low-tech nations from half way around the world paddle over the pacific ocean and conquer Washington DC with swords and spears.
As I recall, they used boxcutters and knives. September ended, you can wake up now.
Anyways, these days mortal combat is now primarily an intellectual pursuit, because technology dominates. - obscure junpai/ largo reference - -1 troll.
Is Howard Bashman in any trouble for not taking down the material as requested? No, or perhaps, "not yet." The Patterico article linked above and quoted below discusses this in detail, including links to Howard's explanation of what he did why he did it. He's -extremely- well respected in the legal field, he's on almost everybody's list of top 5 law bloggers. He's a successful law based in PA, does appellate practice exclusively, so this is a court he practices in, so he's putting a lot on the line, but I think overall this will help rather than hurt him. Too soon to say.
This is actually a fascinating story, not just because of the original government actions, but also because of Howard Bashman's actions in posting the opinion -- even in the face of efforts to spike it, from a representative of a court that Howard must practice in, from time to time, as an appellate lawyer. Obviously, given the nature of what the Second Circuit tried to squelch, I think Howard did the right thing here. But I can envision circumstances where it would be a much tougher ethical call. And I think that this call, as clear as it is on an ethical level, took quite a bit of courage on Howard's part.
There's no issue here about the info being classified. What the story is about is that the court issued an opinion, then withdrew it, and issues a redacted opinion. Probably what happened is that the the court had inadvertently included info that was under seal by the district court. One possible explanation for the redaction is to protect the guy's family in Egypt. Another, maybe more likely, explanation was to avoid embarrassment to the FBI. The story was broken by blogger Howard Bashman of How Appealing, who refused to take down the unredacted version after a call from the court asking him to take it down. http://patterico.com/2007/10/21/was-a-passage-omitted-from-a-recent-second-circuit-opinion-for-security-reasons-or-to-cover-up-material-embarrassing-to-the-fbi/ http://howappealing.law.com/102007.html#029139
Slashdot Mirror
(hello, dogs?)
Rats, you beat me to it.
My entry was going to be poodles.
Properly trained, a poodle can detect a bomb.
Detecting jihadist ninjas is possible too, but you have to know in advance what it is you are training the poodles for, and one can be sure the jihadists will simply use a different technique next time.
slashdot summary: hype.
more hype: "It's not five years away, it's not 10 years away. It's affordable, and it's now," said Wes Bolsen, the company's vice president of business development.
Reality:
Process involves using conventional technology to produce vaporware.
Coskata won't have a pilot plant running until this time next year, and it will produce just 40,000 gallons a year. Still, several experts said Coskata shows enough promise to leave them cautiously optimistic.
The company plans to have its first commercial-scale plant producing up to 100 million gallons of ethanol a year by 2011. Friedman and Greene said the timeline is realistic.
I produce up to 100 million gallons of ethanol a week in my garage. Stop by Saturday night.
http://www.vsb.org/site/regulation/inquiry/
How to File a Misconduct Inquiry About a Lawyer
Having said all that, I'll agree that the rich and powerful seem to be using the law to stomp on the rights of the average citizen. However, I don't think that the answer is bloodshed; try contributing to groups like Public Citizen and the Electronic Frontier Foundation who are trying to protect our rights.
Agree re EFF. If donating to Public Citizen, please earmark the funds for Paul Alan Levy's work on internet free speech (of which this case is an example.) Public Citizen, a Nader front, does some other projects the typical slashdot user might not agree with.
They are papers and/or personal effects, and should be treated accordingly under the law. How hard can that be to understand?
They are treated like papers or personal effects under the law. Did you happen to read the link on search incident to arrest? The 4th Amendment requires that searches be reasonable. Search incident to (valid) arrest is considered reasonable. Nothing new or iphone specific about it.
Generally arrest involves either probable cause or an arrest warrant, which are the sort of things the 4th Amendment looks to.
If I recall correctly, the rationale for the arrest exception has to do with officer safety, and it's hard to see that the contents of an iphone are relevant to officer safety. So somebody could raise such an argument, but it would be a change in the law. It's probably already been litigated in the context of papers and effects.
A recent 9th Amendment case involves whether the search incident to border crossings includes being able to read somebody's mail. Case is not yet final.
Your concern for 4th Amendment rights is a healthy one. Most people at some time or other will have their 4th Amendment rights violated, so it's good to be able to know when to bitch (and sue, or revolt.) But search incident to arrest is pretty well-established.
Oh my bad, story was a dupe, I had forgotten the 1/14/2008 thread. New part here is the photos.
submitted story was just:
NASA's Messenger probe flew by Mercury 125 miles away and took pictures, updating 30 year old pioneer 10 photos. Messenger will orbit Mercury in 2011. The ion drive European/Japanese ship doesn't launch till 2013. Wired Bad Astronomer. (y'know, with some some links in there.)
When I compare Fischer's early life to that of his later, it seems to parallel another brilliant nutcase: Ted Kaczynski (The Unabomber). The man had like three degrees, published over ten papers, and then spent his life in a cabin sending out bombs. While two cases don't make a solid trend, you wonder how many slip under the radar. Recently I was reading an obscure biography of a doctor from Kalamazoo MI. He had heard or read something from Kaczynski's mother than when Ted was 2, he got sick (Rheumatic fever?) and was in the hospital for awhile, and when he came out his personality had changed, less trusting, less social. The mother blamed herself, assuming the hospital stay was traumatic and her not being there for him causes the personality change. But the doctor had a different theory - that the virus that causes rheumatic fever attacks the brain and damages the emotional centers, so that there was a medical reason Kaczynski was the way he was. Will there be an autopsy of Fisher? Or will his brain mysteriously disappear, and a commission assure he was killed by a single bullet from a lone gunman, and certainly not as the result of covert actions by a conspiracy because he knew too much....
Gelatin is made from boiling cows, pigs, horses, etc.
I'd rather have snow flea blood.
Somewhat similar to the (now un updated) OpenCD project. "Try these". Paint.Net(which I find to be MUCH better than GIMP), OpenOffice, T-bird, Pidgin, IrfanView, audio editing, video editing, antivirus, etc, etc.
If it's not too much trouble, could you post a link to your set of freeware? The videoediting one might be new for me. I agree with what you said, but you could show as well as tell.
I honestly don't understand what the problem is.
OK.
The set of things that licenses are required for is not changing.
Well, yes, it is.
Once upon a time, driver's licenses were for driving (and social security numbers were for social security.)
In Hiibel v Nevada, Hiibel was arrested for not showing his standing-by-the-side-of-the-road license.
In Indianapolis, they won't let me vote anymore, because I won't show my voting license until they get a warrant.
They like to pretend that you need an airline passenger license, although you really don't.
Gilmore v Gonzales, papersplease,org.
In Indiana, they are trying to say that my right to drink expires every 4 years; that I can't go into the bar till I renew my going into the bar license.
In Denver, some lady was asked for her bus-riding license.
In Chicago, I wasn't allowed to go up to Judge Posner's office because I didn't have a going-up-to-judge-Posner's-office license. (I paid some guy $20 to run the paperwork upstairs for me.)
I'm not sure we have the right take on what this item of news is about. Here's the wall street journal TFA
TFA.
I'm not sure I'm reading it right, but it looks like the feds semi-caved,and are putting off till tomorrow what they can't get away with today. But they are tricky, and we should look for analysis from somebody who knows this stuff - maybe EFF or EPIC.
Above post is insightful and informative.
The article says he was/is and names the NSF program officer. You're right. My bad. I didn't realize the guy was a welfare queen - I thought he'd gone legit.
Nope, not NSF funded. He used to work for NASA, but would go home and tinker, inventing stuff. Drove his wife crazy. He's been working on this no-freon new-improved air conditioner for a long time. Many of his projects, like the solar engine, are spinoffs from that. His first spinoff patent was the supersoaker - he made a few million off that, now he has a lab, employees, and 100 patents.
It's hard out there for a PMP.
In 1980, film critic Roger Ebert http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/ rated "The Whole Shootin' Match" three stars. In 2007, after the indy film's creator Eagle Pennell had died of being a drunk, Ebert added a star. The film was the inspiration for Robert Redford's sundance festival and for Richard Linklater's (dazed and confused, slacker) becoming a filmmaker.
Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.
mod parent up
TFA begins saying the spammers worked next door. So poster knows the former physical location of the spammers. They should post it. That could lead to clues about who the spammers are/were.
I find that most spammers are reasonable people when you discuss it personally with them, or call their mother and ask her to ask them to stop. It's when they hide behind internet anonymity that they do ungood things like spam. [Internet anonymity overall is a good thing, but it has costs including spam.]
There are steps you can take to reduce junk snailmail.
You can contact the direct mail association and get on their opt-out list.
You can tell the three credit card bureaus you don't want credit card solicitations.
The post office has a form you can fill out to stop getting obscene mail from a particular sender. What you consider obscene is up to you.
If they enclose a self-addressed stamped envelope, you can (after removing your contact info) attach it to a brick or a refrigerator and mail it to them.
You can write the persistent ones a letter saying, "I charge $100 to receive and proofread your mail. You can accept this offer by sending me mail." Then the Bennett Haselton small claims court followup for those who take you up on your offer.
Do I do this? No. I have a compost heap in the flowerbed under my mailbox, with crap from the indianapolis star and advco. My real mail goes to my post office box.
Re: TFA, he got $250,000 and an additional 6 months. So what matters is what jail he went to.
You couldn't pay me to go to jail in Indianapolis. 6 months in Boulder County jail for $100,000, yeah, I'd do that.
Art. 10. That freedom of speech and debate, or proceedings in the Legislature, ought not to be impeached in any Court of Judicature.
Art. 40. That the liberty of the press ought to be inviolably preserved; that every citizen of the State ought to be allowed to speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that privilege.
http://wilwheaton.typepad.com/wwdnbackup/2007/11/autographed-gui.html
Guitar hero controller signed by clever nick name, gabe, tycho, a buncha people,
proceeds to child's play.
I once heard Neal Stevenson give a similar talk. http://db.tidbits.com/article/05951
He drew pie charts labled "threat model" where 99% of the chart was "hyenas."
Today, our threat models are a bit more complex.
http://www.anu.edu.au/people/Roger.Clarke/DV/NotesCFP2K.html#Steph
junpei wikipedia
Wake me up when the tables turn and low-tech nations from half way around the world paddle over the pacific ocean and conquer Washington DC with swords and spears.
As I recall, they used boxcutters and knives. September ended, you can wake up now.
Anyways, these days mortal combat is now primarily an intellectual pursuit, because technology dominates.
- obscure junpai/ largo reference -
-1 troll.
100% correct. I didn't realize I hadn't been clear about that, until I saw the comments.
- arbitraryaardvark
Is Howard Bashman in any trouble for not taking down the material as requested?
No, or perhaps, "not yet." The Patterico article linked above and quoted below discusses this in detail, including links to Howard's explanation of what he did why he did it. He's -extremely- well respected in the legal field, he's on almost everybody's list of top 5 law bloggers.
He's a successful law based in PA, does appellate practice exclusively, so this is a court he practices in, so he's putting a lot on the line, but I think overall this will help rather than hurt him. Too soon to say.
This is actually a fascinating story, not just because of the original government actions, but also because of Howard Bashman's actions in posting the opinion -- even in the face of efforts to spike it, from a representative of a court that Howard must practice in, from time to time, as an appellate lawyer. Obviously, given the nature of what the Second Circuit tried to squelch, I think Howard did the right thing here. But I can envision circumstances where it would be a much tougher ethical call. And I think that this call, as clear as it is on an ethical level, took quite a bit of courage on Howard's part.
There's no issue here about the info being classified.
What the story is about is that the court issued an opinion, then withdrew it, and issues a redacted opinion. Probably what happened is that the the court had inadvertently included info that was under seal by the district court.
One possible explanation for the redaction is to protect the guy's family in Egypt.
Another, maybe more likely, explanation was to avoid embarrassment to the FBI.
The story was broken by blogger Howard Bashman of How Appealing, who refused to take down the unredacted version after a call from the court asking him to take it down.
http://patterico.com/2007/10/21/was-a-passage-omitted-from-a-recent-second-circuit-opinion-for-security-reasons-or-to-cover-up-material-embarrassing-to-the-fbi/
http://howappealing.law.com/102007.html#029139
Above post is insightful and informative.