Re: "It warned the local population against handling or moving the object."
You recognise UMDH by its smell, do you?
Posts by Benegesserict Cumbersomberbatch
1013 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Mar 2022
Unidentified object on Australian beach may be part of Indian rocket launcher
Network died, hard, during company Christmas party, leaving lone techie to fix it
Nobody does DR tests to survive lightning striking twice
BOFH: Lies, damned lies, and standards
Saturday 8th July 2023 13:16 GMT 
Re: Association of Servicepeople for Software and Hardware Over the Lifetime of Equipment.
Or maybe spend your next holiday in Australia's Northern Territory and pick up one of their tourism-promotional bumper stickers: CU in the NT.
Also available as a novelty spare tyre cover for the back of the 4WD.
Twitter rate-limits itself into a weekend of chaos
Free Wednesday gift for you lucky lot: Extra mouse button!
Microsofties still digesting pay freeze upset by Nadella's 'landmark year' memo
Tuesday 4th July 2023 23:00 GMT
Re: So, landmark year and, for thanks, pay freeze
Downvotes without explanation? Really?
The US exploits its workforce, disproportionately to similar economies. And it does it counter to is own national interest.
Minimum wage has gone backwards in real terms since the Reagan era. Their Gini coefficient is the worst in the OECD and worse than most third world nations.
The US was never more prosperous than when it had a large and prosperous middle class who could live comfortably while driving productivity and employment. The 80s corporate decision to abolish the middle class has taken all of the profit and put it in the pockets of the C-suite and the billionaires that own them. Meanwhile, tax on the super-rich is abolished and organised labor is vilified, so the process becomes self-perpetuating.
Money is not for ordinary people. No wonder ordinary people are angry.
Quirky QWERTY killed a password in Paris
Apple stomped all over NYC store workers' union rights, judge rules
Saturday 1st July 2023 07:55 GMT
Re: Land of the free
Mcdonald's and the others will sooner or later have to come up with things like health insurance that really is health insurance, not some warmed-over cr** That is not health insurance but a sticker put on a package of garbage.
Oh, you were talking about health insurance. For a moment I thought you wrote health insurance but meant food.
Security? Working servers? Who needs those when you can have a shiny floor?
'We hate what you’ve done with the place – especially the hate' Australia tells Twitter
BOFH: Cough up half a grand and we'll protect you from AI
Saturday 24th June 2023 00:24 GMT
Re: Quite ironic
A recent adjustment to the numbering to road mail boxes around here made a street address in rural areas quite useful. Odd or even says whether you're on the north / east side of the road or south / west; first three digits say how far you are from the nearest settlement, to the closest 100m. Last digit allows people who share road reservations to cluster their boxes on the highway.
Techie wasn't being paid, until he taught HR a lesson
Friday 23rd June 2023 23:17 GMT
Re: Unique keys
The hospital where I work has three name fields for each patient: family name, given name(s), preferred name. Only unique key is a unitary reference number, which I've never seen not be the case for medical records keeping. Hell, at least one state in Australia has a system where you keep the same URN across all hospitals.
The preferred name shows up in bold on any generated document or ID bracelet.
Seems to work and can't have been too troublesome to implement.
Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs
Thursday 22nd June 2023 00:45 GMT
Re: What I cannot understand ...
I don't live over the pond, I live on the other side of the world. Even from this distance, I can see the DoJ have given him the kid glove treatment by comparison with ordinary functionaries who get caught doing the kind of things he's been accused of, albeit at a lower level and scale.
For all the defendant's "the rules don't apply to me, I'm special" bravado, simply being who he is will be a liability when sentencing comes around.
Thursday 15th June 2023 23:53 GMT
Re: I can finally admit something
We share large chunks of histone genes with bananas. DNA folding proteins are pretty important (if they don't work, neither does life), so are highly conserved across eukaryotes - so if it's multicellular, it's a relative.
If it's monocellular, it's a more distant relative by about 2 billion years.
Thursday 15th June 2023 23:47 GMT
Re: I can finally admit something
No, read what I wrote.
The law is blind to what the government says is classified. If a prosecutor can prove that someone retained documents prejudicial to the national security, the Espionage Act applies to them: classified, unclassified, declassified, whatever.
Classification is the way government departments formalise the structure under which documents should be guarded with an appropriate level of protection: what can be kept in an open office, what should be kept in a safe, and what must be kept in the back room where someone has to check your ID and have the second key to the lock. If you don't follow those rules, you're technically not breaking a law per se, but you are in a shitload of trouble with the people responsible for document security, and very likely to have your clearance revoked. And be charged under the Espionage Act, because a document bearing Top Secret markings that doesn't have a national security exposure is so rare as to be non-existent.
Thursday 15th June 2023 12:19 GMT
Re: What I cannot understand ...
Free pass because you used to be president is the opposite of the rule of law. You want power, expect scrutiny.
The rest is pure MAGA conspiracy theories. Try as hard as you like to make this about who's in charge now, what's happening to the defendant now is because of what the defendant did.
Thursday 15th June 2023 12:01 GMT
Re: What I cannot understand ...
Actually the federal prosecutor is claiming the documents are sensitive, and they work with someone allowed to read them to make an evaluation on that. Besides, the documents themselves say they are sensitive.
The special master was appointed against legal precedent, an error duly overturned by the appellate court. One more stalling tactic.
He knew this was coming before he ran again; they raided his kitsch palace before he announced he was running. All part of the persecution complex you seem to share
Thursday 15th June 2023 11:45 GMT
Re: What I cannot understand ...
the issue doesnt seem to be about the classification as he declassified them.
What exactly is your evidence for that statement? Because the indictment has the defendant saying , to and ordinary citizen, about classified documents, words to the effect of "I could have declassified them, but now I can't."
Thursday 15th June 2023 10:41 GMT
Re: What I cannot understand ...
You are arguing that we shouldn't have the rule of law.
The reality is we'll never know about Russian collusion because the defendant and his legislator allies shut the investigation down. Every other president released their tax returns; the defendant chose not to because it doesn't just look bad when billionaires pay no tax, it is tremendously bad that billionaires pay no tax. Above all else the defendant doesn't want to have people talking about billionaires' tax rates. The defendant did actually have a street cleared of legal protesters for a hypocritical photo-op.
Ultimately the court will decide if what he kept was sensitive or not. That's what the court is for, in this case. A grand jury, ordinary citizens, were convinced enough to indict him for it. This is called due process and it applies to everybody. (See rule of law).
The bloke at the top has to obey the law. If it looks like they didn't, it's really important to either make sure that they did, or show everyone if they didn't. What people in power don't want you to know can harm and kill you. Wars had to be fought to establish that. The main people who don't want people to believe that, aside from the defendant, are named Xi, Putin, and Kim.
Thursday 15th June 2023 10:15 GMT
Re: What I cannot understand ...
The charge is retaining national security information. Biden as soon as the fact was pointed out to him returned the documents and opened his storage to independent scrutiny to ensure compliance. The defendant actively obstructed compliance and paid a lawyer to certify he had complied when he knew that he hadn't. So there are the conspiracy and obstruction charges.
"(The defendant) removed their top secret status" and the information therein was still prejudicial to the military and political security of the country. If President, there's dereliction of duty. If ordinary citizen, there's guilty as charged.
Thursday 15th June 2023 10:03 GMT
Re: What I cannot understand ...
"the whitehouse" at the time the defendant ordered still classified documents to be put into the boxes reads as "people who worked for soon-to-be-the-ex-president". Took every document he could find, said "That's mine, put it in my shower recess," and left the building.
The Secret Service's role is personal protection and nothing more. He has a strict personal liability to obey national security laws, president or not. If he doesn't, it's the FBI's territory. So the FBI did something about it. By the book. Which was their job. Good job done well, on the face of it.
The subjects of the documents the defendant has been inducted over were nothing to do with collusion with Russian influence over the 2016 election (the reason why "the crooks" tried to "stitch him up" - remember that? That's perfectly normal behaviour, no possible security concerns there), but inter alia, battle plans relating to hostile countries, assessments of military threats and weaknesses, and information which, if released, could jeopardise friendly security relationships with the five eyes countries and assets in the field.
Then he lied and conspired to keep the documents in his shower when he was asked, and then was told by a court, to put his house in order.
Does that sound criminal enough?
Thursday 15th June 2023 09:37 GMT
Re: I can finally admit something
It's not as if there's another post-classification era piece of national security legislation they might have charged him under, but declined to; the Espionage Act is all there is. And as you rightly say, it is blind to a piece of information's Top Secret/Secret/Confidential status.
Classification is a process internal to the executive which specifies what degree of protection government officials including Presidents are obliged to afford the information they are entrusted with. Declassification isn't just a rubber stamp, but a formalised assessment that release of a piece of information is no longer harmful to the national interest. Ordinary citizens who cease to be government officials, even high ranking ones, lose their clearances when they lose their jobs.
In his own words, he could have declassified some of the documents, but he didn't. A verbatim transcript of a recording of his own voice saying that is part of the indictment. Even if he had declassified them inside his own head, if release of the information was damaging to the national security interest, the law says he's guilty.
Thursday 15th June 2023 02:45 GMT
Re: as did his aide Walt Nauta
It's probably strategic.
His Orangeness' lifelong legal strategy has rested on it, knowing lawyers and courts are expensive, go in with the intent to wear his opponents down through procedural delays and, where necessary, appeals. Firing your own lawyer earns an instant delay to find and advise new counsel. Having a joint indictment allows these delays to be tag-teamed. It hasn't occurred to him though that his opponent in this case is the US government.
Every delay in legal process puts him one day closer to the day when he might be able to (invalidity) pardon himself.
Thursday 15th June 2023 02:31 GMT
Re: I can finally admit something
Read the indictment.
A document both fascinating and horrifying at the same time, like watching cancer surgery.
He didn't just retain documents with horrendous lack of security, but disclosed them to unauthorised people, kept them in the face of a subpoena, then acted, lied and conspired to subvert the effect of the subpoena.
His own former AG has effectively said, "if it's true, he's toast."
Time running out for crew of missing Titanic tourist submarine
After scaring the world, China shows off 'chute that can aim Long March rockets' descents
False negative stretched routine software installation into four days of frustration
WFH mandates bad for staff morale and stunt innovation
Boss put project on progress bar timeline: three months … four … actually NOW!
Saturday 10th June 2023 00:01 GMT
Re: Make your own dud deadline.
The PERC test is pulmonary embolus rule-out criteria.
If:
Age < 50
Heart rate < 100
SpO2 > 95%
No unilateral lower limb swelling
No recent prolonged immobilisation
No history of PE
Non-smoker
No exogenous oestrogens
Then no further investigation for PE is indicated.
Specificity is >98% in low pre-test suspicion, which is as good as a D-dimer.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
