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After some quick digging, this appears to be the law broken: https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...
That link says nothing whatsoever about rules for government employee e-mail.
That's a link to rules about ISPs archiving e-mail that is the subject of a subpoena.
So, I'd like to see the text of the "rule" saying she needed to use a
After some quick digging, this appears to be the law broken:
https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...
Basically, she was required by law to archive her communications on federal servers. She did not.
The link you give says nothing of the sort. The link states that a government may require an ISP to archive e-mail subject to a subpoena.
That has precisely nothing to do with State Department employees, nor does it say anything whatsoever about what e-mail addresses they use.
Also of note, according to TSG she forwarded classified intelligence Emails to Sidney Blumenthal, who was not a federal employee.
That is a great example of "ABCs"-- Argument By Changing the subject.
Leaving the country to be run by people who are either too clueless to get out of jury duty
I've never quite understood: why would anybody want to get out of jury duty?
Pick the pool of candidates like we pick jury pools.
I've often suggested that, but this is the first time I've heard anybody else suggest it.
Yes: vote, but the candidates on the slate should be randomly selected from the population
Humans are the most deadly predators that the planet has ever had. Killing stuff is what we're really really good at. Making weapons is something we're really really good at.
Actually, making tools and organizing labor is we're really good at.
Exactly. And tools and organization are the two most useful skills... for efficiently killing things.
I personally have never killed anything larger than a bug in my life; I suspect a lot of other people haven't either. I've never had to, because there have always been other people who are willing to do those unpleasant tasks for me, in exchange for modest amounts of money.
Paying somebody else to do it turns out to be a very efficient strategy for killing.
Nevertheless, this is silly.
Humans are the most deadly predators that the planet has ever had. Killing stuff is what we're really really good at. Making weapons is something we're really really good at.
Zombies... their weapons are teeth and fingernails. Their tactics are go straight in and attack regardless of tactical situation.
They wouldn't have a chance.
Dimpled spinning ball
ice in bottoms of craters
glints bright in sunlight.
The ethics violation isn't that he was paid by a corporation.
The ethics violation is in not disclosing it.
Wow- that's cool. Thanks for the graphs!
I never would have guessed that for the rotating coordinate system the trajectory would be so very close to a straight line, although once you graph it, it makes sense.
OK I created the following Matlab code:
Cool!
The plot isn't very impressive. It looks like a line straight through the center. The min radius is 114m so basically over 6500m drop the center moves about 114 m.
That doesn't seem right. You are doing the calculation in the rotating coordinate system of the Earth?
Equatorial rotational velocity of the Earth is 465 m/s. The center of the Earth is stationary in the rotating coordinate system, so over a 22 minute drop, the lateral displacement should be 614 kilometers. That's not the distance by which you miss the center, since as you deviate from the initial radial line the gravity vector changes direction, but the effect of that will be small until you get to distances that start to be comparable to 10% of the Earth's radius, so it should be close to the miss distance.
It's a non-Keplerian orbit (even in the non-rotating frame), so you don't come back to the same place you started.
Mathematically it's an example of a degenerate orbit with one zero semi-axis, and the orbital period can be simply calculated from Kepler's laws.
No, it can't; it's not a Keplerian problem. You could calculate the period using Kepler's laws if the Earth were a point mass. But it's not. You could calculate the period using the Brachistochrone calculation if the Earth were a uniform sphere. But it's not. The Earth is layered, with the density changing as you go closer to the center. Only way to solve the problem correctly is numerical integration.
(I'd actually be interested in seeing the calculation done in the article.)
Actually, I should modify my comment. The headline does say a different thing from the summary, but the actual article does in fact go on to give some reasonable evidence that connecting the group to the NSA. So, "tied to NSA" is an accurate summary, although with the caveat "tied to" is words that "stop short" of saying that it actually is the NSA.
The headlne says different things than the text and the original article.
The headline says that they "were found"... but they weren't.
The headline that they are "tied to NSA"... but TFA says that "researchers stopped short of saying Equation Group was the handiwork of the NSA."
In central mass north of Worcester I have gotten 3 feet and it is continuing to fall. There is so much snow I have no where to put it.
The inaccuracy in the prediction seems to be not about the magnitude of the storm, but about how far south it would hit (and, in particular, whether it would hit New York City).
Nice discussion of the various models' predictions here: http://fivethirtyeight.com/dat...
Einstein made essential contributions to quantum mechanics, and yet he objected to many of its implications. His objections have been shown to be wrong.
To the contrary, his "objections" consisted of pointed out consequences of quantum mechanics that seemed paradoxical, but, as experiment showed much later, were completely real. Einstein is the "E" in "EPR", and the implications of the EPR paper pretty much is the foundation of quantum computing.
What this country needs is a dime that will buy a good five-cent bagel.
