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811.
by mpyne 12y ago
That "rubber stamp" court at FISA was created in response to far worse breaches of power (and the law) by various LE agencies and NSA itself which were revealed in the late 1970s. The actions of an NSA trying to keep up with rapid
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Someone at DOD or DOS has a simulation that really has them spooked and wants to get civilian testing coverage NORTHCOM maybe (they're the geographic combatant commander in charge of DSCA planning for pandemic influenza). But desp
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by mpyne 12y ago
What has kept me in (after joining to get better pay during college) was medical services for my child and (related to that) the potential to get one of the few remaining good pensions available in the U.S. In fact the latter thing is the o
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by mpyne 12y ago
I have the same memories of a UNF required computer lab course in 2002 or so. We were required to learn about flip-flops, various other hardware gates, and using truth tables and clocks to form hardware logic. By the end of the course we ha
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by mpyne 12y ago
> as long as you are within a radius of 100 miles from the border. The rule is more nuanced than that. Until you cross all border control points then you can still be searches as if you were crossing a border. The rule you're talkin
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by mpyne 12y ago
It's not a bad idea; there's in theory a very weak such wall already present so it's not as if there's no precedent. And I'd certainly feel better knowing that techniques like parallel construction could be replaced
817.
by mpyne 12y ago
No, the "no rights zone" only applies to non-USPERs outside of U.S. soil. NSA might reasonably be able to claim that they didn't know a given email address used outside the U.S. actually belongs to a U.S. person, but they&#x2
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by mpyne 12y ago
> I am not talking about an operation assuming any risks in order to spare enemy doctors, but if the whole point of the operation is to take down the doctors in the first place, I'd call that shady. Targeting doctors would be flat
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by mpyne 12y ago
> If there's an operational need for them, they'll come back at an instant. Yes, they will come back if they're needed. The reason they're not needed is because drones are available. > Is that said as if things t
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by mpyne 12y ago
> The Fourth Amendment was intended to keep the the Founders' business interests secure, and prevent, say, search and seizure of Samuel Adams' smuggled goods. The Fourth Amendment was passed after there was ever a threat to S
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by mpyne 12y ago
Somehow I doubt it, at least if the purpose were solely to delete evidence when taken to a police station. Having an app that deletes evidence when removed from safe areas (e.g. home, work, the commute path, etc.) would probably pass muster
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by mpyne 12y ago
> If military jets were bombing areas in Pakistan, there would be an outcry. That literally just happened the other day, after Pakistan Taliban forces attacked the airport at Karachi. Where was the outcry? Did we miss it? Or do people no
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Yes, since drones are used IN ADDITION to traditional air strikes, and for different kind of attacks. "Traditional" air strikes haven't been going on since 2001 (for Afghanistan) and 2003 (for Iraq). Do you really think
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by mpyne 12y ago
Such medical and chaplain personnel are required to be marked (which explains all the markings on TV shows such as M.A.S.H.). Otherwise how can a military operation avoid accidentally targeting them? If it's true that distinctively mar
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by mpyne 12y ago
> I wonder what the Geneva Convention has to say about Nation States relying on the same shady tactics. The Geneva Conventions specifically require belligerents to ensure that their combatants are distinctively uniformed, carry weapons o
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by mpyne 12y ago
And the tactic in this case is in response to what coalition troops learned on the battlefields of Afghanistan, namely that the Taliban recover their own dead and wounded after drone attacks, they don't let ANP, ANA, or locals interfer
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by mpyne 12y ago
Except that even here, using HTML and CSS that is 14 years old does not by itself imply that the website is "old & crusty".
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by mpyne 12y ago
> > This process is called the Vulnerabilities Equities Process. Unless there is a clear national security or law enforcement need, this process is biased toward responsibly disclosing such vulnerabilities. > Nothing about this sta
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Problem arises when we find "y" deep in a function, searches for its definition, and encounters "auto y = std::move(x);". This is gun control applied to computer languages. The solution is not to ban a useful featur
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by mpyne 12y ago
The point is that sometimes you need the added complexity to solve complex problems. Torque wrenches are more complicated than a socket wrench, which is itself more complicated than a simple $5 wrench. But when you need to be able to precis
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by mpyne 12y ago
The military is operating very much within the law. You use "declaration of war" as a legal criterion, but that is not the applicable criterion. Rather, the Congress themselves have authorized the use of military force explicitly,
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by mpyne 12y ago
http://icontherecord.tumblr.com/post/82416436703/statement-o... But also, straight from the mouth of a USCYBERCOM strategist speaking to our class the other week. And also, just plain logic. I pointed out here on
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by mpyne 12y ago
> DDoS attacks like this wouldn't be so easy if governments actively fixed backdoors in hardware and software instead of creating and stockpiling them. The same thing keeping government from regulating the Internet is the same thing
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by mpyne 12y ago
Actually, Taiwan was the first country to claim the disputed territory (around 1949 IIRC), so we can't even blame China for starting this one. However China certainly did latch hard onto the Taiwanese claim.
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by mpyne 12y ago
I'm more surprised at a couple of things: a) The stated justification for why it must be secret from defense attorneys. This isn't "sources and methods" of intelligence, this is tapping cell phones, hardly something no o
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by mpyne 12y ago
This is an interesting move for China, and more than simply because it could put an airstrip on the new island eventually. International law treats islands differently from mere rocks and shoals. By creating a new island, China could plausi
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by mpyne 12y ago
> Does it mean that GitHub is not really mainstream apart from a narrow group of people? Does git even work well on Windows yet?
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by mpyne 12y ago
I'm sure someone at the USPS has to be quite amused at receiving a lecture on an activity that "we can safely presume to be evil" from a person who in the very next sentence refers literally to untermensch.
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by mpyne 12y ago
> One time my bank just canceled my card without giving me any reason besides 'security' and mailed me a new one. What would I have done if I were traveling at the time or needed to buy something in the meantime? What would you
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by mpyne 12y ago
> How do you suppose they buy things on Amazon in 1-click? Have you tried going to a gas station, Wal-Mart, or convenience store in poor America? They sell pre-paid credit cards that are usable (with a few extra hoops) for online banking

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