Apparently no one knows that refusing
to say “no” is very similar to saying “yes.”
Feds
Won’t Say if NSA Surveilled New York Terror Suspects
Federal authorities prosecuting
brothers on allegations they plotted to blow up a high-profile target
in New York City are refusing to confirm publicly whether they
cracked the case by employing a style of warrantless electronic
eavesdropping first introduced by President George W. Bush in the
wake of 9/11.
The reason, attorneys affiliated with
the defense suggest, is because such a concession would create the
nation’s first eligible defendant to challenge the
constitutionality of the surveillance tactics, which Congress
codified into law in 2008 and then again in December.
… A single acknowledgment could
open the floodgates to challenge the surveillance tactic, which
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer in February noted that
“commonsense”
(.pdf) tells us is being employed by federal investigators.
To my Ethical Hackers: I told you the
code was upside-down!
"An Australian university
appears to be excelling
at cultivating some of Australia's best computer hackers.
Following the University of NSW's students recently placing first,
second and third in a hacking war game (the first place winners also
won first place last year), The Sydney Morning Herald reports on what
exactly about the NSW institution is breeding some of Australia's
best hackers. It finds that a lecturer and mentor to the students
with controversial views on responsible disclosure appears to the be
the reason for their success."
“It's our job to find or create
evidence that people who are wrong (politically) are not paying their
fair amount in taxes.”
Reports:
IRS targets more groups
The IRS repeatedly changed the criteria
it used for singling out nonprofit applications for further review,
at one point looking at all groups hoping to make “America a better
place to live,” according to new reports Monday morning.
The Wall
Street Journal and Reuters
both reported that the IRS moved beyond giving a skeptical eye to
“tea party” and “patriot” groups. It was also targeting
groups focusing on specific issues including “government spending,”
“government debt,” “Education of the public via
advocacy/lobbying to ‘make America a better place to live,’”
and all groups that “criticize[d] how the country is being run.”
For those of us who use Excel a lot!
… Short-Cuts Add-In is a free to
use add-in that has been made for Microsoft Excel, which you can use
to quickly open the spreadsheets that you regularly access. First,
you must place the add-in file in the appropriate Excel directory –
a guide on how to do this can be found on the add-in’s website.
With the add-in added, you can right click on your open spreadsheets
and select “Short-cuts” to open up the add-in’s window. From
here you can access and create groups of Excel spreadsheets.
For my Geeks: Told ya...
"In a widely-read WSJ Op-Ed,
English major Kirk McDonald, president of online ad optimization
service PubMatic, informed college grads that he considers
them unemployable unless they can claim familiarity with at least two
programming languages. 'Teach yourself just enough of the
grammar and the logic of computer languages to be able to see the big
picture,' McDonald advises. 'Get acquainted with APIs. Dabble in a
bit of Python. For most employers, that would be more than enough.'
Over at Typical Programmer, Greg
Jorgensen is not impressed. 'I have some complaints about this
"everyone must code" movement,' Jorgensen writes, 'and Mr.
McDonald's article gives me a starting point because he touched on so
many of them.'"
Dilbert shows us what could happen if I
combine my love of computers with my wife's dog training equipment,,,
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