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Was Pirate Joe's selling counterfeits or knock offs? I thought they were reselling TJ's products.

Notably, the cameraman did not volunteer for the job.

This article from 2010 was linked in the OP: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/14/science/14atom.html?pagewa...

If you're not squeaky clean, then they do to you what they did to Joseph Naccio. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Nacchio

Old manual typewriters were also uniquely identifiable just by virtue of being shitty.

Isn't this just another "If you're not doing anything wrong, you've got nothing to hide" argument?

I've just noticed that the Intercept journalist who burned Winner is the same one who burned Kiriakou some years ago.

I was about to say, Palantir's been done.

No, a contractor like Pluribus wouldn't issue the clearance, but they'd surely verify that the clearance exists and is valid. That seems like a good time to generate a cursory once over of the applicant's clearance. OTOH, since the IC is in the growth hacking phase these days maybe they don't want to do anything to slow down the money train.

I worked for TDCJ for a couple years, there were plenty of strange and sometimes salacious scandals. They often failed to make the news. That being said, no CO that I knew wanted inmates to know where they live. I only know of one case of a prison officer taking an inmate to their own home, and that was rumored to have been for sex. That doesn't mean a thing didn't happen though. CO's and other prison folks are very insular, and don't usually discuss things outside their tribe (well, not current affairs anyway).

There is limited on-unit housing for officers, and inmates are responsible for maintenance of those.

It is not unheard of for inmate work-crew supervisors (officers) to buy their workers a hamburger or take-out meal; this is usually during or after a shift of unusual duration or a situation that deserves a little recognition.

There are special cases. My grandfather, a county sheriff, was granted custody of a TDCJ inmate by the director. The inmate worked as a porter in the county jail, and occasionally was my babysitter for short periods of time. This was in the '70's.

The poster is talking about post-sentencing "discounts" on prison time served. It's called Good Conduct Time or "good time" for short, in Texas. The way it works is that prison administrators offer inmates early release based upon their behavior. It's a very important and useful prison management tool, one of the only carrots that prison administrators have to offer inmates.

Source, was a CO in Texas, also: http://law.justia.com/codes/texas/2005/gv/004.00.000498.00.h...

If you follow the link, you'll see that participating in work or educational programs can improve one's good time earning class, allowing an inmate to earn an earlier release date. In contrast to the other poster, Texas requires good time for time served in county jails. Also notable, educational opportunities have been severely curtailed in TDCJ over the last decade.

>If your CAN nodes are all authenticated to one another, it's a lot harder to hack.

The problem with that is now how do you do the legitimate good things you want to do? Of course, these kinds of locks usually have their own problems and usually only keep "honest folks" out.

John Deere would love it though.

https://copyright.gov/1201/2015/comments-032715/class%2021/J...

I don't know how that works, but I'd be surprised if there were not a sort-of abbreviated check?

* Our leaker is a person with a Twitter timeline that makes you wonder how she maintained her Secret clearance. She retweets @Snowden, yet was hired at Pluribus in Feb. of this year, days after doing so.

* The story is a huge black eye for the Intercept, makes it look like they are very inept.

* The leak is not really substantial, mostly analyst notes about an ongoing thing that's been talked up in the press quite a bit.

* The DocuColor thing is ancient as well: https://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/20/outlaw_printer_dots...

Maybe my tinfoil hat is on too tight, but this just has a funny odor to it. One might speculate that this is a calculated leak intended to discredit The Intercept, sow fear in the minds of potential leakers?.

If the comments on other forums are anything to judge by, there are at least two groups of paid astroturfers battling it out today.

What kind of info is it for keeping track of then?

I think some may fear it for one of the natural monetization routes for a product like this, selling the personal info to marketers, intel-companies, credit agencies, etc.

The gender field will have to be changeable as well, since people might come out or change after they join, or after a record is created.

There's a small, emerging aftermarket parts market, but it's mostly accessories at this point.

A trailer with an all metal skin is an off the shelf type item, a Connex box, for example. One could also line the inside of a trailer with foil backed foam. Neither would be a lot of effort, even for a $30k car.

Agreed, I should have been more precise.

Why? None of this happened in an urban area.

I don't think it's the same as shooting a trespasser, the theory for shooting trespassers is that they may directly pose a threat to your safety. It's hard to argue that a drone poses such a threat unless they're chasing you or have a weapon mounted on them or something.

If the shooter from OP's link used a .22 or anything other than bird shot, then they are a real fool and a danger to everyone around them. Off the top of my head I'm inclined to think that the reach of a shotgun is probably about the right distance that ought to be protected, maybe a little bit further because of cheap optics.

>The savviest rotate the problems from semester to semester to ensure zero resale value.

Not trying to tell you that there aren't some jackasses who do this for extra loot, but one good reason to rotate the problems is to prevent students from showing up with an answer key. ie: When I was in college our IEEE club had a more comprehensive question bank than any single prof at my uni.

My .edu employer "encourages" faculty to use texts supplied by the campus BN franchise.

As mentioned by /u/darkengine Pearson and Blackboard have their claws in as well.

In my experience, most faculty simply take the lowest friction route.

No.

Westinghouse is going bankrupt, not going out of business.

It's not misleading at all. My portable power drills can injure you if you aren't careful. They are very powerful. Fiberglass is like butter to a hole saw. A carbide tipped hole saw can cut high grade steel, including stainless. It might not make many holes, but you only need it to make one.

I last used OrCad about ten years ago, and I hoped to never have to look at it again. It was a shit show, and even the terrible state of the open source tools available at the time was better. The whole EDA industry is a shit show, and it's no wonder they don't make any money; it's because they keep bodging on bit and bobs of incremental improvements, usually after someone else independently invents them. Why would anyone upgrade when the new stuff was the same as the old stuff? And look at what horrible problems document revision control are for CAD tools, they spawned a whole 'nother industry just to do the clerical work for the engineering staff.

>Synopsys and Cadence are the leaders of the pack.

Only by default and only through the inertia of lazy risk-averse management.

The CAD/EDA industry is a scourge.

Also Overleaf (used to be writelatex.com) https://www.overleaf.com/

No, Thorium is competition for them in an already difficult (economically) business. It might, maybe, indirectly shake something loose, but probably not.

I'm definitely a nuclear power proponent, and not a militarist, and I think that the militaristic-ly driven decision to prefer the uranium fuel "cycle" exclusively is the reason we're stuck with these shitty BWR's and PWR's, to the exclusion of anything else. Nuclear as it exists today definitely doesn't live up to the hype, and that's because the nuclear power industry is essentially frozen on 1960's designs, with incremental improvements tacked on. If the auto industry were as slow as the nuclear industry, we'd all be looking forward to next year's new Ford Model C.