Comment Re:Authorized Wire taps (Score 3, Interesting) 24
Exactly. This does NOT say that wiretaps are down, only that "reported wiretaps" are down.
Maybe some of the reports were from LEOs trying to do the right thing. I certainly hope so.
Exactly. This does NOT say that wiretaps are down, only that "reported wiretaps" are down.
Maybe some of the reports were from LEOs trying to do the right thing. I certainly hope so.
First signs of renewed activity in V404 Cygni were spotted by the Burst Alert Telescope on NASA's Swift satellite, detecting a sudden burst of gamma rays, and then triggering observations with its X-ray telescope. Soon after, MAXI (Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image), part of the Japanese Experiment Module on the International Space Station, observed an X-ray flare from the same patch of the sky.
These first detections triggered a massive campaign of observations from ground-based telescopes and from space-based observatories, to monitor V404 Cygni at many different wavelengths across the electromagnetic spectrum.
The outbursts are probably occurring because the black hole is gobbling up material that has fallen into it.
While the 1989 outburst helped astronomers gain their first understand of the behavior of a black hole in a star system, this outburst will help them understand how such systems evolve and change over time.
So I take it you are happy with this being the norm.
I am not.
Why is no-one challenging the de facto theft of personal information? I don't care by who or how the data is recorded, it belongs to me and anyone who wants to use it needs my permission.
In some cases, such as a doctor ordering lab tests, I will give that permission gratis. In other cases, such as any of the Web page leeches, I will require payment.
It might be fun if a few tens of thousands of us start blasting out DMCA takedown notices whenever we see a tracking cookie on a Web page.
It is easier to write an incorrect program than understand a correct one.