you didn't notice the cactus growing so close to the road? (just kidding)

I do big data for a living... Just put the camera at the last point of entry / exit and compare pictures. Average vehicle speed (computed from distance between cameras and time of day). A stock photo database of all common cars will easily tie the make and model. Cross reference the vehicle registration database to confirm name and address of registered owner. Retrieve DMV (secure id) photo of all licensed drivers in the household and attempt facial recognition match ... this can be against a series of photo's collected on a single day within the region of interest. If your driving a known drug corridor, there may be an existing stingray or continuous pull of cell phone metadata. Maybe you get un-lucky and your phone couldn't get an encrypted connection to the cell tower, don't worry it will fall back to in the clear 2g mode to help you out...

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1. For Profit Health Care.
Can you make a profit if people don't get sick? Or, if they are already sick and you find a cure where will you profit from next?

2. Mental/Emotional Health.
Watch enough TV(or internet) news, trigger your fear/anger response, watch more TV (or internet) news, add to pre-existing fear/anger response (repeat until ill)

3. Poor Parenting
All babies are born a blank canvas with autonomic systems for basic function. Our jobs as parents is to program the correct pathways before neural pruning establishes the "defaults" which become our firmware. The basic emotional processing that is built in to everyone builds with an almost "Crazy Glue" stickiness which gives emotional weight to our memories. Bug Filled Firmware -> Bug Filled Person

4 Poor/Failing Society
All great empires in human history have failed. Once the failure is irreversible the values and morals are the first thing to go.

These are my top 4, if I continued the list... Environmental Pollution, and Splitting some of the above into more detailed points would be easy.

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So, true. There was a decision the other day on a similar situation.

Cop: We are going to arrest you. Do you want an Attorney?
Suspect: "Well, I'm really screwed now." "Yes, I want an Attorney"

Judge/Appeals Court: All statements prior to "Yes, I want an Attorney" are fully admissible
Suspect: "Well, I'm really screwed now"

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They don't need GPS tracking... all those traffic cameras feed into license plate and facial recognition systems.

You forgot the part where carriers are ordered (CALEA) to provide support for surveillance. Kind of a HUGE omission.

Exactly my opinion. If a carrier is ordered by the government to provide surveillance (CALEA) , they become an extension of the government and must firewall off any collected information. This must be true otherwise the sunshine the NSA has been peddling would be a lie.

A simple fact that the courts have missed is that wireless carriers are not third parties. CALEA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... gets in the way, and should have been a HUGE stop sign. There is no possible way that you can misconstrue a carrier as a third party when they are ordered to provide surveillance capabilities to the government. (and most sensible people read that statute as requiring a warrant to request the data/metadata )

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Exactly the "Comment Subject:" I was going to use.

If I was somebody who had great aspirations (like being President) the prospect of having my written communications retained outside of my control would be horrifying. I'm not Hillary, and not an aspiring political actor. I am a student of life. You can claim to be a victim and explain/justify your behavior for only so long before your motivations and actions shine through the carefully crafted veneer.

I like how the IG in showing impartiality attempted to deflect criticism by saying "everybody does it" and this was quickly echoed by Hillary supporters. That's the oldest "victim" behavior in the book. In response most parents have been heard to say. "... and I suppose if everybody jumped off a bridge you would do it too."

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As a former Air Force 49172 (that would be what was once called Informations Systems Programmer) I learned programming on a Honeywell 6060S at Keisler AFB, MS. Magnetic Core & Punch Cards. w00t! Watch out for the Octal Monster (you had to live that)

There is nothing wrong with assembler, it just takes discipline and a good understanding of dump analysis. When I was doing it on a daily basis it didn't feel any different reading a dump in hex vs. looking at the source code. IBM 370 assembler is very straight forward when it comes to instruction length and their references. I had a pocket tri-fold chart of the instructions and their representations, that chart along with a pencil and couple highlighters could easily make sense of the most obscure code.

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Yes, but when is the accumulated weather data applied to the new normal and the climate models updated?

Most people miss the point that there are changes other than the global mean temperature that are being observed for change. (here's a couple off the top of my head)

1. The north pole has moved because the weight of ice accumulated at the poles has changed. The pole has always been mobile, but the wobble has become more pronounced (just ask a figure skater what happens to their spin when they move their arms to different positions) A solid on a fixed surface has a different effect than a fluid that can shift with rotation.

2. The dissolved O2 and CO2 levels are changing in the oceans, along with the increase in ocean temperatures.

3. The amount (square miles) of thickness (getting thinner) of floating sea ice is decreasing. Watch the race between countries to claim the navigable sea lanes that are emerging.

4. Glaciers are disappearing (see point 1) not only are some land masses rising as the weight is lifted, but that water has gone somewhere (see point 5)

5. Ocean levels have risen. We live on a planet that is covered nearly 75% by water. To increase the MSL isn't just a drop in the bucket, that requires a huge amount of liquid (even factoring in the expansion occurring because the water is warmer)

I agree that a natural disaster on the order of magnitude associated with a historic Volcanic eruption can change global weather patterns, but If I remember correctly the planet bounced back to normals within 20 years the last time that happened. Unfortunately we would be burning anything that is combustable to stay warm and clearing significant vegetation to grow food, which will make matters worse... Stupid Humans

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Exactly, this is the first step to group consensus. You can have your opinion and go for the long shot, but the odds aren't in your favor. Most people will gravitate towards the favorite (and safest bet).

There could be several "races" that can be wagered upon, maybe a 10 year wager would have to be staged as a parlay. A series of bets that roll the winnings from each bet into the next wager for the following year. (It's hard to hold a bet for 10 years, but I guess it's possible to record the liability and carry the funds year over year) The problem you would encounter is your odds are subject to change until post time and the wagering pool may not be that large, which would influence your return on that wager.

I agree with this approach, the weakest link in this would be the opening that's necessary to get to your management access point. By using a VLAN you've eliminated most of the traditional access/compromise points. The real trick is to keep the configuration up to date.

I've toyed with the idea of setting up a console service that I can access externally, which would be the only allowed path to pull the web gui that most of these devices support. It would allow me to access the "remote" features, but not allow the simple device to be internet snoop-able. This would simplify my security to only needing to harden a single device.

I agree that packet filtered bi-directional proxy is the only "safe" access that simple devices deserve when allowed to venture outside the safety of their VLAN. Unfortunately it does become a one-off exercise to keep each device configuration current.

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LOL,

I was thinking an old 10 penny nail and some copper winding connected to a couple radio shack solar cells would be magnetic enough.

I don't think you understood my point about adding water... Digging it up wouldn't change the mass of the planet... Adding the equivalent of the current planetary mass should be just about right. (hence the reference to needing a God like being? If we could somehow borrow one of the ice moons presently orbiting our gas giants it would be a start)

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Almost fully agree with you. (your reference about links excludes knowledge of cache data provided by Time Machine)

We just appear to have problems with conceding jurisdiction as frequently as we claim it. There is a reason why the US has never agreed to fully support the ICC, the 1% who benefit from the immunity, and layered delays to prosecution will never be held accountable.

How long (based on treaties, international law, etc.. ) do cases like "megaupload.com" take to wind through the courts?

"Google search results don't "take information", they merely link to a source in whatever country the information resides in."

Isn't that what "time machine" does? It makes a copy of information and keeps it along with the original url. I just read an opinion where "time machine" cache information would be admissible as evidence in a wide variety of situations.

I have no problem with High temps or Low temps... it's just data... math applied to data appears to scare people... (and we aren't doing statistics here)

When math is used to compute an average, and we look at that average over time, and the average over time increases every year....

I don't know what else to call it. I can't help it if our measurement units, number of collection locations, frequency of collection, and distribution of results is too fast for people to spin a counter story. I believe the undeniable solution would be to start a pari mutuel betting pool, and have people automatically bet a portion of their wages each week on the predicted change in temperature "races" the nature of this wagering is that the "favorite to win" will approach a 1:1 odds, and long shot picks will pay more, but the consensus is that it's unlikely to happen.

If it was your bet (and you have historic data to help you decide) would you bet that the next global "average" temperature recorded for a month would decrease / stay the same / increase? (laughing to myself because risk managers at major insurance companies already play this game)

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