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by woodman 11y ago
> This is actually apples and oranges. You are making a distinction without a difference here. The ss7 network has been known to be broken forever, and all the carriers sell their customer's historical data - so the Italians could
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by woodman 11y ago
> That assumes the man did not first violate... My point exactly - your brain skips right over reckless or accidental and goes straight to malice. > ...doesn't absolve Snowden of responsibility. Not my intent, just pointing out t
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by woodman 11y ago
That has nothing to do with his intent though, altruistic vs malevolent. > There's no question as to its legal legitimacy... Well maybe if you ignore the whole domestic surveillance part. There is also the moral and practical issue
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by woodman 11y ago
First: thanks for answering the actual question. > It also applies to the consequences of reckless or negligent behavior. It does, but is rarely used that way. The man wearing a sausage link necklace went on a nature walk and faced the
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by woodman 11y ago
Well that answers my question about rationale, proponents for the music option are immediately distracted with the thought of a man in green tights dancing around with a pan flute. Oh and if I remember the story correctly, the piper was un
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by woodman 11y ago
> ...face the music. I've never heard that phrase used but to describe the consequences of a malevolent action. I'm interested to hear a rational explanation for why anyone would think that Snowden's whistleblowing was an
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by woodman 11y ago
> Sounds like a slippery slope argument. Strange, I'm having a hard time thinking of a single US government program that hasn't expanded far beyond the original justification. Bureaucracies expand, water is wet. A classic exa
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by woodman 11y ago
I'm not sure how that would work without more secrecy (FISA style courts) or compelled silence (NSLs). Before we do that, maybe we should take a moment to reevaluate the premise of state secrets, and the benefits they provide a free s
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by woodman 11y ago
> Is this so bad? ... I doubt this will solve much terrorism-wise though. What problem is being solved then? In the best case it is simply power tripping busywork that makes the world a little bit more annoying.
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by woodman 11y ago
> Look it up if you care to and you'll find its definition is quite broad... I'd think that my awareness of the broad definition would be made clear by my repeated warnings that criminalization would narrow it. > Nobody is s
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by woodman 11y ago
No, I'm fine with "inappropriate comments", sexual and harassing in nature, falling under the designation of sexual harassment. But if you are advocating for making "inappropriate comments" illegal, then I'm g
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by woodman 11y ago
Describing an assault as sexual harassment is ridiculous. That is like describing a murder as impolite driving... that resulted in the flattening of a person who you happened to want dead. We are talking about different things here, and co
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by woodman 11y ago
I think that the unreliability has entered the public consciousness fairly recently, so we'll see how that goes. Polygraphs offer a more positive example, as well as breathalyzers. [0] [0] http://embeddedgurus.com/barr
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by woodman 11y ago
Yes, directly comparable when your metric is criminality, perceived imminent violence, or any other thing that the mass of the public expects cops to respond to.
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by woodman 11y ago
Like I said, the numbers are impressive, but they don't really provide much information. Look at the way that sentence is structured: those "identified", were they previously unknown? I think the 21 convictions is the only
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by woodman 11y ago
> ...people who commit crimes... While sexual harassment is terrible, it isn't a crime. There are a lot of terrible things that aren't crimes. A push to criminalize it would have the opposite effect of what the proponents des
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by woodman 11y ago
> ...unprocessed "rape kits" being but one concrete evidence... The size of the "backlog" is an impressive number, but it was my understanding that it is primarily due to policies that lead to collection by default -
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by woodman 11y ago
This is the sort of thinking that leads to people calling 911 for disputes relating to McNuggets. Calling in armed mediators is not likely to improve your situation.
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by woodman 11y ago
> If they followed protocol and found real evidence that is what matters. That is what is yet to be determined. Trying to shield the process from public scrutiny and justifying it with an appeal to authority is a pretty bad idea. Imagi
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by woodman 11y ago
Chaotic good vs lawful evil. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alignment_%28Dungeons_%26_Drag...
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by woodman 11y ago
> It's like asking what make and model of lockpicking tools they used to pick a lock. It is more like asking for the technical specs of the teleportation equipment they used. It needs to be established that they broke into the right
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by woodman 11y ago
> It sounds a bit too much like excuses. Said with a dismissive wave to the body of research compiled by neuroscientists that says otherwise.
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by woodman 11y ago
Huh, I just assumed you were AF because you've made the same argument that they use for dragging their feet on drone deployment - the value added by retaining a large amount of human judgement in process that no longer requires it. I
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by woodman 11y ago
If you are firing on a target that is so close to friendlies that 2 seconds of on the ground movement can make a difference, then that is a danger close fire mission - which is rare. They also lead to additional safety checks and procedure
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by woodman 11y ago
All of the above. The USMC is designed to be quickly deployed in such a way that combat operations can continue to be performed with no support dependency (1-3 months, I don't remember). In order to make that happen they've dupl
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by woodman 11y ago
> So, has anyone managed to make progress toward a "systematic solution" in the last 9 years? That depends on how you define "solution". If development time isn't a concern, then formal verification is a pretty
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by woodman 11y ago
I don't know why you wouldn't link directly to the paper, unless you're hoping that Schneier acknowledging its existence lends it some credibility. > most of the content Easily refuted: the authors had a spider crawl hidde
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by woodman 11y ago
I think reliable tracking does a better job of identification than a picture of a fat man with a big nose in a blue shirt.
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by woodman 11y ago
I lived in an old house, in a rural area, where the previous owner had painted some concrete bright green. I was surprised by the amount of air traffic I saw, being as deep into the sticks as I was, until I actually started watching the ai
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by woodman 11y ago
Radar has been used to do continuous ground surveillance since the 60s [0]. Most people associate it with anti-armor, but it was originally used to track humans beneath the jungle canopy. Systems had been developed to collect and integrat

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