Das Gutachten erschöpft sich über etliche Seiten in Beteuerungen, die Software habe als Ergebnis korrekte Werte gezeigt. Die entscheidende Frage, wie diese Werte technisch zustande gekommen sind, wir mit keinem Wort beantwortet. Tatsächlich wird sie noch nicht einmal gestellt.
Zu den technischen Hintergründen verrät das Gutachten also nichts.
An dem Gutachten fällt zunächst auf, dass durchgehend von einem Download die Rede ist und nicht von einem Stream. Außerdem wird nicht deutlich, wie die Software die IP-Adressen der Nutzer ermittelt. Es wird lediglich behauptet, die Software könne IP-Adressen von Nutzern ermitteln, die von einem beliebigen Hoster Dateien downloaden. Selbst eine rudimentäre technische Erläuterung hierzu lässt das Guatchten aber vermissen.
Wie London gibt auch Cayman vor, echt britisch und total legal zu sein, aber nicht weit hinter den Fassaden geht es zu wie in einem Piratennest wie Tortuga und Port Royal in Jamaica in den Tagen des berühmten Seeräubers Henry Morgan.
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What If Nixon Had the NSA?: Sanders on Friday raised the possibility of what the bulk data storage means for a future „unscrupulous president“ or „rogue operator“ at the NSA. „I want people to think, if Nixon had the resources and the technology that now exists. Think of what he would have done,“ Sanders said on CNN. Sanders said the NSA still “has the potential to give an unscrupulous administration enormous power,” according to Canada’s Calgary Herald.
Der iranische Präsident Hassan Rohani hat sich am Mittwochabend in Teheran mit einer Gruppe von Künstlern getroffen und dabei den Wert der Freiheit für die Kunst hervorgehoben.
The start of January‘s final two weeks will share a common trait with the start of the month: shivering cold temperatures to the east of the Rockies.
We are pleased to introduce WUWT’s newest addition, the WUWT Northern Polar Vortex Reference Page. We would like to dedicate this page to NBC News and John Holdren, who both seem to need all the help they can get in understanding Polar Vorticity.
Libyan war planes attacked targets in the restive south on Saturday after gunmen stormed an air force base and the government ordered in ground troops following days of skirmishes between rival tribesmen and militias.
A few hours before François Hollande‘s press conference last Tuesday afternoon, the telephone rang. „So, will he resign?“ asked an excited colleague on the other end of the phone in London. It was not a joke, but this side of the Channel it seemed a funny question.
What to say?
„Of course he won‘t; this is France.“
Nun, der Hintergrund ist dieser hier:
„Critics fear it could be used to bar doctors and medical workers from treating protesters wounded in anti-government demonstrations as reportedly happened during mass street protests in June last year.“
Hungary will hold a parliamentary election on April 6, President Janos Ader announced in a statement on Saturday.
But it would seem that the company is starting to explore new fields, so to speak; as Salon reports in a fascinating and important post, Monsanto is going digital:
Monsanto spent close to $1 billion to buy the Climate Corporation, a data analytics firm. Last year the chemical and seed company also bought Precision Planting, another high-tech firm, and also launched a venture capital arm geared to fund tech start-ups.
The Obama administration announced last week that it expects to approve corn and soybeans that have been genetically engineered by Dow Chemical company to tolerate the toxic herbicide — 2,4-D. They are planning this approval despite the fact that use of this herbicide is associated with increased rates of deadly immune system cancers, Parkinson’s disease, endocrine disruption, birth defects, and many other serious kinds of illness and reproductive problems.
A team of US experts meeting this week in Washington, concluded that the rocket that delivered sarin to a Damascus suburb last summer could not have been fired from the Syrian government positions.
Relying on mathematical projections about the likely force of the rocket and noting that its design — some have described it as a trash can on a stick — would have made it awkward in flight, Lloyd and Postol conclude that the rocket likely had a maximum range of a little more than 1.2 miles. That range, the report explains in detail, means the rockets could not have come from land controlled by the Syrian government.
A senior German lawmaker from the co-ruling Christian Democratic Party (CDU) is scheduled to travel to Iran to hold talks with senior officials of the country about the Geneva nuclear agreement.
The shocking decision led to a rallying cry by an organization that calls itself A California Campaign to STOP Police Brutality.
“We do not accept a NOT GUILTY verdict in the murder of Kelly Thomas! We DEMAND the murderers to be imprisoned or FULLERTON will continue to feel the wrath of the people,” read the Facebook page that promoted the Fullerton protest. By Saturday morning, more than 1,000 people planned to attend the event.
Former U.S. District Judge Richard Cebull sent emails to personal and professional contacts that showed disdain for blacks, Indians, Hispanics, women, certain religious faiths, liberal political leaders, and some emails contained inappropriate jokes about sexual orientation, the Judicial Council of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found.
On Capitol Hill on Thursday, CNSNews.com asked Blumenauer: “The omnibus bill yesterday, it was 1,582 pages, did you have a chance to read all the pages before voting on it?”
Blumenauer laughed and said: “Nobody did!”
“Nobody did?” said the CNSNews.com reporter.
“Nope,” said Blumenauer.
Hairston argues that JPMorgan Chase should be treated like any other person or business prohibited from doing business with the city:
“The bank has violated the city code by making admissions of dishonesty and deceit in the way they dealt with their investors in the mortgage securities and Bernie Madoff Ponzi scandals,” Hairston [said].
We must push the FCC to correct the agency’s past mistakes and truly protect our nation’s communications infrastructure. The agency must ensure that broadband communications networks are open, accessible, reliable and affordable for everyone.
Verizon are labeled as common carriers, not information service providers.
That way, net neutrality will be preserved and the internet will remain open to everyone, not just giant corporations.
Go to freepress.net to sign the petition and tell the FCC how you feel!
The Post is supposed to expose CIA secrets. But Amazon is under contract to keep them. Amazon has a new $600 million “cloud” computing deal with the CIA.
In analyzing what the president‘s speech means for bulk collection going forward, much ink will undoubtedly be spilled over a few critical paragraphs. Below, I‘ve annotated those paragraphs with my thoughts about how to interpret them. The bottom line? We probably won‘t know much until at least March 28.
The main Syrian political opposition group in exile, the Syrian National Coalition, has agreed to attend internationally sponsored peace talks beginning in Switzerland next week, the Coalition‘s media office said on Saturday.
Egypt‘s pro-democracy coalition seeks to unite revolutionary efforts, rejecting the ruinous coup and murderous military rule, before January 25, in a serious escalation of peaceful protest activities.