For some reason, plugging a UPS into another UPS seems to be a good way to deep-6 a UPS. Not completely sure why, but I've seen it happen a couple of times.

It seems to me that the next step would be to find a way to activate and release gratings electronicall (or, even better -- optically) , rather than physically.

Sec. 1519. Destruction, alteration, or falsification of records in Federal investigations and bankruptcy
``Whoever knowingly alters, destroys, mutilates, conceals, covers up, falsifies, or makes a false entry in any record, document, or tangible object with the intent to impede, obstruct, or influence the investigation or proper administration of any matter within the jurisdiction of any department or agency of the United States or any case filed under title 11, or in relation to or contemplation of any such matter or case, shall be fined under this title, imprisoned not more than 20 years, or both.

The grouper was a tangible object which was evidence of an offense committed in the course of a federally regulated commercial activity. It was concealed in the ocean and/or falsified (the bigger fish was falsely represented as the offending fish) with the intent of frustrating the investigation for which they were explicitly entrusted with the evidence.

It's also not uncommon to have an offense covered by more than one statute. If I shoot someone in the head, that could qualify as either criminal negligence, aggravated assault or attempted murder (among others), depending on the related evidence and/or the mood of the prosecutor. Which statute the crime is prosecuted under is not the choice of the accused.

From the 'evidence' in the article, she might have just accidentally rested a book on her keyboard's 'delete' key.

How do you know it was the US govt. bs some Romanian hackers.. or the Chinese? There doesn't seem to be a whole lot of evidence here.

The mines and plantations are mostly owned by foreign interests, so the bulk of the profits flow out of the country. The IMF and World Bank make it almost impossible to nationalize the local companies.

It's a long, and sortid process.. The reason why Haiti is so poor is that France forced them to pay billions of dollars (in todays terms) in damages for the loss of their 'property' (i.e. freeing themselves from slavery). They ended up deforesting the country to pay for their freedom, and they haven;t really recovered since. It sucks to be a colonial serf.

Who even cares about getting caught... They still got skilled technical work done at <10% above the local minimum wage. No matter how you spin it, it was still a massive deal.

Telling people (including 'enemies') which 'leaks' were authorized and which ones were really leaks could give people all sorts of interesting information -- including which disinformation^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H leaks to trust and which ones not to.

Higher levels of data capture should require more than just 'permission'. It should require explicit user actions. Just because MS is technically capable of recording pictures of you "testing" their program in the nude (or with your spouse nude in the background) doesn't mean that they actually need to do it or should do it.

The capability should remain off until such time as the user decides that (s)he wants to enable it -- and then only until the user turns it off (My preference would be to see it turn itself off after a certain period of time in the absence of user action.

Wording is very important: 'Turn it off' or 'remove it'?

It should also be noted that they promise to add/remove features all the time. This doesn't necessarily mean that they will also do it.

Besides -- if there really is a need to turn on keylogging and video capture, it should be under the explicit control of the user and only for as long as the user enables it for debugging purposes.

There is. of course, the problem that if the data is there, it makes life SOOOO Much easier on a malware author who no longer needs to install a key logger.. All they need to do is transmit the pre-existing keylogger 'debug' file to their C+C site to extract a (test) user's banking and password information.

Straightforward, for the most part. A Pi would be more than enough power because it doesn't need to process a full gigabit worth of traffic... just the 100M that's going to wireless N.... and if you're not also using it as your edge router, then you don't have to load it for bear, security-wise.because any potential attackers afe going to have to find their way within a stones ghrow of your outer.

Since mitochondrial DNA is passed on by the mother, this means that it's still possible that some guy's going around getting bears, dogs and horses pregnant. The human DNA match, of course would be from a woman getting pregnant by a bear.

The mystery continues.

They essentially 'lit up' the asteroid with an artificial light source, and then took the pictures.

Although, it seems to me that -- if they had used both recieving dishes at the same time, we might have gotten some useful stereo images. Why didn't they do that?

much less 216.34.181.45 (slashdoe.org)? all of this hand-wringing about the length of IP6 addresses is silly. IP4 is only 32 bits long because people were being nice to the computers of the time. Being easy on people wasn't a high prioity because people rarely have to type raw IP addresses in.

Back when we came up with IP4, Many timeshare computers had 1Meg of ram, or less and 16 bit registers.-- and what home computers there were rarely had more than 32K of ram or 8 bit registers. The choice was: 32bit numbers that pushed the capabilities of many computers of the time, variable-length addreses which would stretch the programmers of the time(and have most of the memory-hogging disadvantages of longer fixed-length addresses), or longer fixed-length addresses that would make life hard on both computers and programmers of the time.

The decision was made to go with 32bit numbers knowing that we would have to go through this protocol-change hell, but at that (this) time, the larger addresses wouldn't be such a stretch for the newer computers.

Yes, the newm longer addresses are a pain, but you rarely need to type them in, and you'll have no real problem remembering the ones that you really really need... (put them in your phone... that's what smart phones are for). .. and with address shortening, most IP6 addresses are going to look like: bab1:b0b1::b1a:0:0:32 not that bad, really.

An additional digit prefix for continent (or country) routing has pretty much all of the problems that switching to IP6 does -- except for the fact that it's likely to run out too, in time.

Yes, IP6 addresses are (or can be) longer, but you only need to remember a couple of them,,, and when you delete the middle 0's with ::, most of them end up being about the same length as the IP4 addresses we've come to know and love. -- like ::1 instead of 127.0.0.1