Most cell phones are less than 1/2 watt. Pretty impressive, if you consider the coverage cell networks have. The standard powerlevels for Bluetooth are:
As far as I know, it has always been legal for law enforcement to listen to both sides of a wiretap target. The warrant is for one side. Once the judges allow for that target to get tapped, they can gather evidence against other parties.
This is what is happening with FISA. There is a big difference though. There is no right and wrong way to collect evidence in a battlefield. They are not trying to build a case, they're trying to locate and kill or capture. It depends on how you see the terrorists. Are we at war with them or are we trying to bulid a criminal case? It makes a big difference.
It seems to me that with a nice product like Alfresco out there, why would you ever put your.doc files on a file server? Alfresco looks like a ftp, smb, and webdav server. Just copy your documents into it and they get indexed and have version control. Why do it any other way?
Ummm... well volcanoes put a lot of junk into the air all by themselves. That includes underwater ones.
Besides, we don't know for sure that CO2 is the main reason for the warming we've seen. The warming trend has been levelling off for the past few years. It also doesn't explain why there is uneven warming or why Antarctic ice continues to grow.
The appeal is done by the government of the detainee via diplomacy. The judicial branch of the government is excluded from this procedure. It has already been used for people in GITMO, so we know the procedure works. We have also re-captured people after we released them to their nation of citizenship.
The GC treaties did not override the rules of war, they were designed to encourage people to fight in uniform and what do to with people captured in uniform, with some concessions for militia. The status of GITMO detainees in not defined. I recall reading something recently that there was an amendment to the GC in recent years that covered them. That definition was not signed on to.
I'm sure we could have found some remedy to the situation, but inserting civilian court into it is completely unconstitutional -- no matter what the majority said.
There was already a procedure for this. Their country of origin can petition our government for their release. This is a time honoured system during time of war. We *have* released people out of GITMO using this procedure. The problem is that some of the people there don't have a nation that will fight for them because their country of origin doesn't want them either.
As far as the innocent goes, this is exactly why the Geneva conventions wrote things they way they did. They didn't want people fighting without uniforms because it caused innocent people to get caught in the cross fire. We are fighting an enemy that doesn't care about that, and we are to blame?
I know some people are complaining about the guy that got caught up by accident, but the prisoner this whole thing was fought over was intimately tied to Bin Laden.
It is an amazing overstepping of separation of powers. The constitution prevents civilian courts from interfering in anything military. This was done on purpose. People complain about Bush overstepping, but the SCOTUS way, way, way over stepped.
Exactly! People only seem to "care" when it is with other people's money. Even if they do pay taxes, they don't pay as much as the "evil" rich. I always tell people that if they are really concerned about people's well-being, then give to charities that are accountable. If you don't have money, give time. The United States is the most individually charitable nation in the world in time and money. If they government comes stomping in, the charities will go away. Do we expect the government to be as accountable as a "market" of charities.
This is sooooooo much better a system than having a faceless, monolithic government handle the problem as they intrude on our rights.
The fortunate thing is that I do believe a forced national health system would be unconstitutional in the US. The federal government has no right to get in the way of health services. I think there was a court case in one of Canada's provinces that found the same thing under their constitution --private health care is legal. In that case we will end up with a two tier system like that in England. NHS -- The one that is running out of money and telling people they won't treat them if they smoked cigarettes for very many years.
Search for "Stupid in America" on youtube.com for an overview. Lots to think about. Current public education is not designed for customer service. Can you think of any large public service that is? There is evidence that just having charter schools helps dramatically. Unless you are blindly dedicated to the concept of public schools, I think you will find plenty of evidence that anything is better than public schools.
Ahhh, but how do you explain private schools that take the *public* school rejects and somehow educate them? There are plenty examples of this. Your point is just FUD.
Privatize schools. I think we have enough evidence now. We know that schools run by unions and state government (with strings being pulled by the federal government) don't work. Allow schools to compete with each other and with the teachers they hire. A good teacher could easily demand higher wages. Bad teachers either loose out with bottom rate pay or get out completely.
I'm tired of the answer to broken services by the government being "more money". It's broken, get rid of it. Let the market compete for customers.
It also gets rid of the whole seration of church and state issues. If people want to send their kids to a school that teaches the same values they have, so be it. If they want a liberal minded school, so be it.
I'm sure liberations are all probably saying "see, I told you so."
Maybe Obama will go back to using surveillance for more important things like helping create jobs: ECHELONG.
It is amazing to me that people go with their guts on the domestic wiretap stuff. First of all, from what I've been able to figure, there has been no domestic wiretaps without FISA. Any NSA wiretaps that lead to a domestic connection can be follow up with a FISA warrant. FISA was just worried about where the requests were coming from. Previously the FBI could not get a warrant from a NSA lead. After 9/11 this was allowed. See: Secret Court's Judges Were Warned About NSA Spy Data: [...] "the government's failure to share information about its spying program had rendered useless a federal screening system that the judges had insisted upon to shield the court from tainted information."
That was deemed stupid and changed after 9/11. There are some hold outs though.
Remember that you can I can call a tapped number and law enforcement can listen to our call. The tap request only covers the tap target, but they can certainly listen in to anyone that calls that number. So when NSA is listening in to communications in the battlefield, that routes to a domestic number, that does not constitute "domestic wire tapping" since the tap is on the foreign source.
The other aspect of the "domestic" part is Call Detail Records. You do no own your call history, the phone company does. They can do whatever the heck they want with that information. Some states are making CDR's private, but traditionally, it is owned by the phone company. The FBI could use CDR's to see who has been talking to you and get a FISA warrant based on that information.
So, do I think things will change under Obama? Nope, not at all. Even under Clinton's "wall" of separation between the NSA and the FBI, there were still warrantless wiretaps.
Basically it talks about making a clean box and how to change out the read heads or the PCB from a drive that is the exact same model. Really cool stuff!
As long as you're talking about your own money, when I don't have a problem with it. It a problem when hoi polloi dictate how *other* people's money gets spent.
The merging of core and extras has helped quite a bit with this. I personally never really had much problems with rpm hell. I've had even a less problem ever since apt-rpm and yum. Now I have even lesser problems with a single huge repository and a couple of extra repos for proprietary codecs and drivers. It's been *really* smooth for me.
... thus the "continued work". Fedora has been trying to strike a balance and get rid of the separate 'strict' and 'targeted' by making better rules. It takes time, but I can tell you targeted works pretty good for me right now. It was easy for me to add an extended rule for an exception I needed. The 'continued work' is making good progress.
If you read the article they talk about a lot of important components that they have personally contributed to support desktop Linux. I don't think they are shrinking from it, they are simply saying that can't make a lot of money with it yet. Look at the list below. Some of those items are of great importance for a clean, simple, and easy to use desktop. NetworkManager is a very important application for notebook computers. I can't imagine not having it now.
* X Revitalization effort (kernel modesetting, randr, dri2)
* Screen size control panel
* PolicyKit & ConsoleKit
* Gnome (screensaver, gvfs/gio, GtkPrint, etc)
* Liberation Fonts (with sponsorship of the Harfbuzz font shaper project)
* Theora encoder improvements
* Sponsorship of Ogg Ghost (successor to Ogg Vorbis)
* NetworkManager and Network driver work - developed by Red Hat
* OpenOffice.org 64-bit port
* OpenOffice.org integration into the rest of GNOME: Port to cairo, dictionary unification, print/file dialogs
* PulseAudio
* Bluetooth file sharing
* Ongoing hal maintenance and revitalization
* DBus and DBus activation
* Multiple power management activities:
-- Tickless kernel
-- Gnome power manager and the quirks list
-- Suspend/resume enhancements
-- Laptop backlight intensity autocontrol
-- www.lesswatts.org project support (such as Powertop)
-- CPUfreq
-- AMD PowerNow!
* and of course, lots and lots of bugfixes!
Left: Looking after society from the bottom up. but change comes from the top down via strong government.
Right: Looking after society from the top down. A true conservative (not Republican) tries to minimize government as much as possible (though not as much as a libertarian) and believes that the market will work problems out for itself. So the right doesn't look at top down, it looks at the marketplace as a complex whole that cannot be controlled at any point without causing unintended outcomes. I would say that the left is much more top down than the right, but justifies it's top down approach because the bottom isn't behaving they way they want.
I don't know which lamps you are specifically speaking of, but I can tell you the low pressure sodium lamps are very, very, very power efficient. A typical street lamp of this type might be 60-100 watts, but is very bright. A lot of power has already been saved by going to this type of lamp.
This new plasma could displace these types of lamps because police and fire departments hate what the lamps do to colors. You can't tell the difference between blood and oil.
I wish I could find the article I read awhile back that explained the law around log files. Traditionally, call detail records (CDR's) were not owned by you, the customer. CDR's were/are owned by the phone company. They could use the data anyway they wanted, including selling it. There are some states (Washington?) that created laws that stated that CDR's are not owned by the phone company, but are partially owned by the customer and are therefore considered private information.
If you run a web server, who owns those log files, you or the person that connects to your server? If some officer called up asking if some IP address connected to your server, you could request a warrant for this information or just turn it over.
And like in the Wizard of Oz, they are surprised to find there isn't really a wizard behind the curtain. Unfortunately, also like in the Wizard of Oz, even after seeing the wizard has no magic they still expect him to somehow deliver miracles.
To the contrary, there exists many scientists that are agnostic because of their experience in exploring the physical world. Some even go as far as ruling out atheism. I am not saying they are religious people, by any measure, only that they believe that something must have started this whole thing we call the physical universe.
You can be religious and do good science, but I don't see how you can understand why science works and be religious
Let us presume there is no creator. Why would you assume science works? Why would you assume you can believe what you mind is telling you? Why should there be consistency in the universe? You presume a logical universe because you have a logical mind. Your logical mind can test this universe. Why? It is circular logic. You have to do this because it is convenient for you to believe this.
Let us presume a creator. Let's assume the creator described themselves to be consistent, logical, and just. We can know this not based on ourselves, but revelation outside of ourselves. In other words, we don't depend on our own for this basic revelation. That creates circular logic. From this outside revelation we could assume the physical world also has rules. Rules that we can test and predict. So, therefore, it can be completely consistent to do science and believe in a logical creator.
Not all religions describe a creator in these terms. I do think that the Christian God is described this way. Something that happens outside of the rules of science is so rare, Christians have a name for it: miracle.
You may not agree with the line of thinking, but it does conform to a logical world view. You might believe it is not logical to believe in a creator. That's okay with me. Just don't go around saying that people that do believe in a creator do not have a reason to do science.
* creationism vs. evolution
* abstinence-only sex education
Wow, you have just destroyed your argument. The big "prayer in school" fight happened around the 1960's which many considered the final act to get God out of public schools. Soon after that fight we have slowly slipped in our educational excellence. Then again, it may have absolutely nothing to do with either of those things. Maybe schools are worried too much about teaching things beyond the basic reading, writing, and arithmetic. Maybe schools are controlled too much by large organizations (politicians and unions). Maybe we need to introduce competition in our educational system to get things back on track.
I would also like to point out that science, as we know it today, was developed by people that believed in a creator. Many were deeply religious. They believed that science was a way to pull back the curtain on the mind of God. It was a disciplined systematic way to explore creation. So, please stop being a bigot. People can be religious and have wonderful scientific mind that seeks to unlock the mysteries of the world we live in. History proves it.
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Most cell phones are less than 1/2 watt. Pretty impressive, if you consider the coverage cell networks have. The standard powerlevels for Bluetooth are:
100 milliwatt
2.5 milliwatt
1 milliwatt
As far as I know, it has always been legal for law enforcement to listen to both sides of a wiretap target. The warrant is for one side. Once the judges allow for that target to get tapped, they can gather evidence against other parties.
This is what is happening with FISA. There is a big difference though. There is no right and wrong way to collect evidence in a battlefield. They are not trying to build a case, they're trying to locate and kill or capture. It depends on how you see the terrorists. Are we at war with them or are we trying to bulid a criminal case? It makes a big difference.
It seems to me that with a nice product like Alfresco out there, why would you ever put your .doc files on a file server? Alfresco looks like a ftp, smb, and webdav server. Just copy your documents into it and they get indexed and have version control. Why do it any other way?
Ummm... well volcanoes put a lot of junk into the air all by themselves. That includes underwater ones.
Besides, we don't know for sure that CO2 is the main reason for the warming we've seen. The warming trend has been levelling off for the past few years. It also doesn't explain why there is uneven warming or why Antarctic ice continues to grow.
Look at the graphs from the last link. Some pretty amazing coincidences.
Volcanoes also put gases into the air.
Maybe the melting ice could have something to do with this:
AFP Volcanic eruptions reshape Arctic ocean floor: study
Arctic Volcanoes Found Active at Unprecedented Depths
Some analysis at:
Global Warming - Or Simply Massive Under Sea Volcanoes?
The appeal is done by the government of the detainee via diplomacy. The judicial branch of the government is excluded from this procedure. It has already been used for people in GITMO, so we know the procedure works. We have also re-captured people after we released them to their nation of citizenship.
The GC treaties did not override the rules of war, they were designed to encourage people to fight in uniform and what do to with people captured in uniform, with some concessions for militia. The status of GITMO detainees in not defined. I recall reading something recently that there was an amendment to the GC in recent years that covered them. That definition was not signed on to.
I'm sure we could have found some remedy to the situation, but inserting civilian court into it is completely unconstitutional -- no matter what the majority said.
There was already a procedure for this. Their country of origin can petition our government for their release. This is a time honoured system during time of war. We *have* released people out of GITMO using this procedure. The problem is that some of the people there don't have a nation that will fight for them because their country of origin doesn't want them either.
As far as the innocent goes, this is exactly why the Geneva conventions wrote things they way they did. They didn't want people fighting without uniforms because it caused innocent people to get caught in the cross fire. We are fighting an enemy that doesn't care about that, and we are to blame?
I know some people are complaining about the guy that got caught up by accident, but the prisoner this whole thing was fought over was intimately tied to Bin Laden.
It is an amazing overstepping of separation of powers. The constitution prevents civilian courts from interfering in anything military. This was done on purpose. People complain about Bush overstepping, but the SCOTUS way, way, way over stepped.
Exactly! People only seem to "care" when it is with other people's money. Even if they do pay taxes, they don't pay as much as the "evil" rich. I always tell people that if they are really concerned about people's well-being, then give to charities that are accountable. If you don't have money, give time. The United States is the most individually charitable nation in the world in time and money. If they government comes stomping in, the charities will go away. Do we expect the government to be as accountable as a "market" of charities.
This is sooooooo much better a system than having a faceless, monolithic government handle the problem as they intrude on our rights.
The fortunate thing is that I do believe a forced national health system would be unconstitutional in the US. The federal government has no right to get in the way of health services. I think there was a court case in one of Canada's provinces that found the same thing under their constitution --private health care is legal. In that case we will end up with a two tier system like that in England. NHS -- The one that is running out of money and telling people they won't treat them if they smoked cigarettes for very many years.
Search for "Stupid in America" on youtube.com for an overview. Lots to think about. Current public education is not designed for customer service. Can you think of any large public service that is? There is evidence that just having charter schools helps dramatically. Unless you are blindly dedicated to the concept of public schools, I think you will find plenty of evidence that anything is better than public schools.
Ahhh, but how do you explain private schools that take the *public* school rejects and somehow educate them? There are plenty examples of this. Your point is just FUD.
Privatize schools. I think we have enough evidence now. We know that schools run by unions and state government (with strings being pulled by the federal government) don't work. Allow schools to compete with each other and with the teachers they hire. A good teacher could easily demand higher wages. Bad teachers either loose out with bottom rate pay or get out completely.
I'm tired of the answer to broken services by the government being "more money". It's broken, get rid of it. Let the market compete for customers.
It also gets rid of the whole seration of church and state issues. If people want to send their kids to a school that teaches the same values they have, so be it. If they want a liberal minded school, so be it.
I'm sure liberations are all probably saying "see, I told you so."
Maybe Obama will go back to using surveillance for more important things like helping create jobs: ECHELONG.
It is amazing to me that people go with their guts on the domestic wiretap stuff. First of all, from what I've been able to figure, there has been no domestic wiretaps without FISA. Any NSA wiretaps that lead to a domestic connection can be follow up with a FISA warrant. FISA was just worried about where the requests were coming from. Previously the FBI could not get a warrant from a NSA lead. After 9/11 this was allowed. See:
Secret Court's Judges Were Warned About NSA Spy Data: [...] "the government's failure to share information about its spying program had rendered useless a federal screening system that the judges had insisted upon to shield the court from tainted information."
That was deemed stupid and changed after 9/11. There are some hold outs though.
Remember that you can I can call a tapped number and law enforcement can listen to our call. The tap request only covers the tap target, but they can certainly listen in to anyone that calls that number. So when NSA is listening in to communications in the battlefield, that routes to a domestic number, that does not constitute "domestic wire tapping" since the tap is on the foreign source.
The other aspect of the "domestic" part is Call Detail Records. You do no own your call history, the phone company does. They can do whatever the heck they want with that information. Some states are making CDR's private, but traditionally, it is owned by the phone company. The FBI could use CDR's to see who has been talking to you and get a FISA warrant based on that information.
So, do I think things will change under Obama? Nope, not at all. Even under Clinton's "wall" of separation between the NSA and the FBI, there were still warrantless wiretaps.
Video of the talk:
Defcon 14 - Hard Drive Recovery
Basically it talks about making a clean box and how to change out the read heads or the PCB from a drive that is the exact same model. Really cool stuff!
As long as you're talking about your own money, when I don't have a problem with it. It a problem when hoi polloi dictate how *other* people's money gets spent.
The merging of core and extras has helped quite a bit with this. I personally never really had much problems with rpm hell. I've had even a less problem ever since apt-rpm and yum. Now I have even lesser problems with a single huge repository and a couple of extra repos for proprietary codecs and drivers. It's been *really* smooth for me.
... thus the "continued work". Fedora has been trying to strike a balance and get rid of the separate 'strict' and 'targeted' by making better rules. It takes time, but I can tell you targeted works pretty good for me right now. It was easy for me to add an extended rule for an exception I needed. The 'continued work' is making good progress.
If you read the article they talk about a lot of important components that they have personally contributed to support desktop Linux. I don't think they are shrinking from it, they are simply saying that can't make a lot of money with it yet. Look at the list below. Some of those items are of great importance for a clean, simple, and easy to use desktop. NetworkManager is a very important application for notebook computers. I can't imagine not having it now.
* X Revitalization effort (kernel modesetting, randr, dri2)
* Screen size control panel
* PolicyKit & ConsoleKit
* Gnome (screensaver, gvfs/gio, GtkPrint, etc)
* Liberation Fonts (with sponsorship of the Harfbuzz font shaper project)
* Theora encoder improvements
* Sponsorship of Ogg Ghost (successor to Ogg Vorbis)
* NetworkManager and Network driver work - developed by Red Hat
* OpenOffice.org 64-bit port
* OpenOffice.org integration into the rest of GNOME: Port to cairo, dictionary unification, print/file dialogs
* PulseAudio
* Bluetooth file sharing
* Ongoing hal maintenance and revitalization
* DBus and DBus activation
* Multiple power management activities:
-- Tickless kernel
-- Gnome power manager and the quirks list
-- Suspend/resume enhancements
-- Laptop backlight intensity autocontrol
-- www.lesswatts.org project support (such as Powertop)
-- CPUfreq
-- AMD PowerNow!
* and of course, lots and lots of bugfixes!
I don't know which lamps you are specifically speaking of, but I can tell you the low pressure sodium lamps are very, very, very power efficient. A typical street lamp of this type might be 60-100 watts, but is very bright. A lot of power has already been saved by going to this type of lamp.
This new plasma could displace these types of lamps because police and fire departments hate what the lamps do to colors. You can't tell the difference between blood and oil.
People will probably complain that a lot of those LED's have circuits that cause them to blink. Any LED with a dimmer blinks.
I wish I could find the article I read awhile back that explained the law around log files. Traditionally, call detail records (CDR's) were not owned by you, the customer. CDR's were/are owned by the phone company. They could use the data anyway they wanted, including selling it. There are some states (Washington?) that created laws that stated that CDR's are not owned by the phone company, but are partially owned by the customer and are therefore considered private information.
If you run a web server, who owns those log files, you or the person that connects to your server? If some officer called up asking if some IP address connected to your server, you could request a warrant for this information or just turn it over.
To the contrary, there exists many scientists that are agnostic because of their experience in exploring the physical world. Some even go as far as ruling out atheism. I am not saying they are religious people, by any measure, only that they believe that something must have started this whole thing we call the physical universe.
Let us presume there is no creator. Why would you assume science works? Why would you assume you can believe what you mind is telling you? Why should there be consistency in the universe? You presume a logical universe because you have a logical mind. Your logical mind can test this universe. Why? It is circular logic. You have to do this because it is convenient for you to believe this.
Let us presume a creator. Let's assume the creator described themselves to be consistent, logical, and just. We can know this not based on ourselves, but revelation outside of ourselves. In other words, we don't depend on our own for this basic revelation. That creates circular logic. From this outside revelation we could assume the physical world also has rules. Rules that we can test and predict. So, therefore, it can be completely consistent to do science and believe in a logical creator.
Not all religions describe a creator in these terms. I do think that the Christian God is described this way. Something that happens outside of the rules of science is so rare, Christians have a name for it: miracle.
You may not agree with the line of thinking, but it does conform to a logical world view. You might believe it is not logical to believe in a creator. That's okay with me. Just don't go around saying that people that do believe in a creator do not have a reason to do science.
Wow, you have just destroyed your argument. The big "prayer in school" fight happened around the 1960's which many considered the final act to get God out of public schools. Soon after that fight we have slowly slipped in our educational excellence. Then again, it may have absolutely nothing to do with either of those things. Maybe schools are worried too much about teaching things beyond the basic reading, writing, and arithmetic. Maybe schools are controlled too much by large organizations (politicians and unions). Maybe we need to introduce competition in our educational system to get things back on track.
I would also like to point out that science, as we know it today, was developed by people that believed in a creator. Many were deeply religious. They believed that science was a way to pull back the curtain on the mind of God. It was a disciplined systematic way to explore creation. So, please stop being a bigot. People can be religious and have wonderful scientific mind that seeks to unlock the mysteries of the world we live in. History proves it.