Posts by John Murgatroyd 166 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Apr 2007
In the one agency still advertising in the rag.....
http://classifieds.thisishullandeastriding.co.uk/ThisIsClassifieds/www/default.aspx?p28=thisishull&p24=GeneralClassifieds&p25=GeneralClassifieds&p2=&p3=000006&p4=000000&p5=000000&p6=X0100&p7=&p8=thisishull&p14=&p9=03/03/2010&p10=04/03/2010&p13=1&p12=Date&p16=Results&p18=000006&endParam=1
If the laptop was in its "owners" room then I presume it was not stolen.
Unless the school regularly views the laptop to make sure it is not stolen.
So, it seems that the school/security may also have been monitoring the USE of the laptop and then used the remote access to the webcam to see who was using it to view whatever it was connected to.
"Which brings us to the money shot. The body scanner is sure to get a go-ahead because of the illustrious personages hawking them. Chief among them is former DHS secretary Michael Chertoff, who now heads the Chertoff Group, which represents one of the leading manufacturers of whole-body-imaging machines, Rapiscan Systems. For days after the attack, Chertoff made the rounds on the media promoting the scanners, calling the bombing attempt "a very vivid lesson in the value of that machinery"—all without disclosing his relationship to Rapiscan. According to the Washington Post:
Chertoff’s advocacy for the technology dates back to his time in the Bush administration. In 2005, Homeland Security ordered the government’s first batch of the scanners—five from California-based Rapiscan Systems"
http://www.pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5335-the-great-airport-scanner-scam.html
loss of life due to terrorism was 9/11.
And they didn't use bombs.
And the yanks trained them to crash the planes themselves.
Still, it'll give them more info about people to store in their definitely-not-being-stored databases.
Mr J Jones: postcode MM77 3AT(55):3.3 inches:11375/ss.jpg
Except that volunteers do not have to pay for clearance....
So, onto the way it is done.....
"The information can take the form of convictions or cautions; competent body
findings; referrals from organisations, including employers; and other or further
information from any source, e.g. stories in the press (which could trigger the ISA
to request further information from a variety of sources)"
And to add complexity (where simplicity would have been refreshing):
"There may, however, be circumstances where an individual is convicted/cautioned for an
offence which is an ‘auto-bar’ in relation to the children’s list but is an ‘auto-bar with
representation’ in relation to the adults’ list"
Not guilty ?
"Referrals may be received relating to incidents that would have amounted to
‘auto-bar’ offences or ‘auto-bar with reps’ offences but, for whatever reason,
a conviction did not materialise. Here you must still fully examine the
evidence for yourself on the basis of the “balance of probabilities” despite the
lack of a criminal conviction"
Good reading....who drafted it ?
http://www.isa-gov.org.uk/pdf/GuidanceNotesforBarringDecisionMakingProcessweb.pdf
will be stopped by scanners that wouldn't have been stopped by being "patted-down".
Next will come more intensive scanners to check for body-orifice devices (the pat-down then becomes a body-cavity search)
Meanwhile, after their lies about "nothing is recorded" having been found-out....they will be telling yet more lies to prove that the scanners are good for you..
I think another (in) famous person had something to say about the real reason for excessive security:
“The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed.”
Adolf Hitler
Like the systems non-ability to store images (which it must be able to do for evidential purposes) we are assured that the system uses "low-level X-rays".
But breast scans use low-level X-rays...and according to the nrpb there are (statistically) 64 cases of breast cancer a year caused by mammography.
Children are not (yet) to be scanned by airports in the UK, but whether they should be exposed to unneeded radiation anyway is another question.
Basically: the older you are the lower the risk (less life remaining)
The reverse is also true.
And since the makers KNEW what they were saying was untrue anyway....
that the BBC is going to be still in operation in a decade ?
Or maybe you think that Rupert is getting into bed with the conservatives because he likes a change ?
I'll bet that once elected it will be a year at most before there is a "commission" set-up to "commercialise" the BBC.
Downhill all the way.
And still have the licence.
Gov: win-Win
They can arrest you on suspicion that you have/are about to commit an offence.
You can even be arrested if they have a suspicion that you have given a false name/address, or if you cannot prove who you are sufficiently, giving rise to suspicion that you are not who you say you are...etc.
In fact, if you drag the RIP act, the serious crime act and the various terrorism acts into the picture, it is difficult to think of a situation where a legal arrest cannot be made.
As for the E-CRB check....all information held by the police on a person is relevant for that. Even if you are questioned without arrest that will show.
And don't forget the new Vetting and Barring Scheme. Even a not guilty verdict does not matter....and that is the one you have to pay for yourself if you take your friends kids to school (etc)
In the real [uk] world there are a myriad of offences of which you are presumed guilty unless you can prove your "innocence" (car speeding but no pic of driver).
And a few where silence is an offence (RIPA).
And very many samples taken from a crime scene are not from the crook, or victim.
But if the sample is from a recorded dna sample...
I wonder if anyone has got around to spreading anothers detritus around a crime scene to mess things up ?
And would we know anyway ?
Civilian applications of RDX include use in fireworks, in demolition blocks, as a heating fuel for food rations, and as an occasional rodenticide. Combinations of RDX and HMX, another explosive, have been the chief ingredients in approximately 75 products.
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/munitions/explosives-nitramines.htm
They'll sell the data to anyone who wants to pay for it. Probably we'll soon have the best informed paedophiles in the world.
Apart from the fact that parents will be bombarded by mail-drops from every health food firm in the world if they ever feed their kiddie anything other than oats and apples.
The reality is that the VAST majority of parents will do what everyone else does now when presented with government forms: Lie about most things and incorrect about the rest.
Useless facts 1:
Did you know that everyone who [now] claims benefit/s has to fill-in about 90 pages of forms to just get to stage one ?
That's without the local council forms....in which they ALSO want to know about your kids and what they do ?
It is difficult to see the mains cables acting like anything else, since that is what they are used as.
And not only within the house but to other houses as well: In fact, to all on the same side of the mains transformer.
Practically everyone has slated PLT as a means of carrying data without interference:
" From the communications engineering perspective, power cables are about as bad as it gets. The widely varying cable impedance and imhomogenous cable mixes installed in households, commercial buildings and industrial plants result in a transmission environment which exhibits enormous variations in impedance characteristics.
This variability in cable impedance is further exacerbated by the widely differing high frequency behaviour of distribution panels, connectors, wall sockets, switches and other items of distribution hardware. Unlike hardware designed for RF or high speed applications, power hardware is optimised for robustness, low cost and low flammability. As a result, the impedance behaviour of such hardware is generally undefined. As wiring connections into such hardware do not impose impedance constraints, arbitrary birdsnests of connections are possible with the inevitable impact on impedance behaviour."
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~carlo/SYSTEMS/Powerline-Networks-0602.htm
"a) The cumulative noise field strength due to the PLT emissions may have a possible detrimental effect upon military HF radio communications and COMINT systems. This is particularly the case if In-House PLT systems should become widely popular. However, it should be noted here that the determination of the nature and the severity of any possible detrimental effect upon the military systems was outside the RTG’s expertise and ToR.
b) The HF noise level in the vicinity of PLT installations has been considered in numerous other studies.
One study concludes that interference from PLT to a station receiving low-level signals is likely at distances up to 460 m from a single Access PLT installation using overhead power lines. On the other hand, in sensitive receiver sites, the user generally can be assumed to have control over the vicinities, such that a protection radius of up to 1 km, without PLT installations, can be employed. In this case, the cumulative effect of long-distance propagation from a large number of PLT installations may be a more serious problem that requires careful consideration. Therefore, the RTG chose to focus on this less-studied problem"
The above from a NATO document.
Do I care ?
Yes. PLT makes low-strength signals on 20 metres impossible to hear, and even strong signals are unpleasant to listen to.
Fortunately, the plt devices seem unable to handle strong rf signals on other bands: 80 metres ssb kills them.
Mind you, on another tack: BT has installed loads of their units (wifi) in the area...and all on channel 11.....six in the same street.....I understand they ain't workin' too well....
The problem is not O£COM or the RSGB.
The problem is the manufacturers of some of the adaptors.
Some of the units just do not notch-out the parts of the spectrum used by amateur radio. Those units render listening to practically any radio signal between 1 to 30 megahertz a near impossibility. Those affected, apart from amateur radio operators, are short wave listeners and cb entusiasts.
As for O£COM removing the use of those frequencies....they cannot. The frequencies are internationally allocated.
And it may well be that O£COM is not going to be around for more than a few years anyway, since the EU is moving to administer the spectrum over the entire community. The only member countries resisting the move are the UK, Germany and France.
Well, when you work for a low-salary outfit like O£COM you have to think where your higher salary is going to come from. It may well be that an examination of various "consultancies" would throw a few familiar names at you in a few years time !
In any case, the problem/s of interference are wider than PLT....the same "standards" that enable the comtrend unit to be produced are used to make (and sell) various other things, such as SMPSU's for computers that interfere as much as the PLT devices....because they are produced without the essential smoothing and suppression components installed...deliberately.
The reality is that O£COM have not the guts, or interest, to stand up to large companies. If BT complained about amateur interference than the "offending" amateur station would be shut down immediately.
Remember [amateur radio] guys what some said a few years ago, when O£COM issued the amateur licence for life, and free. You get what you pay for....and since O£COM get nothing from amateurs, they get nothing from O£COM. Don't say you/we were not warned. O£COM is in this for the money....just look at how much they "charged" the mobile phone companies...
And as for the "take the spectrum from the amateurs"....hey...the MOD has a hundred times more spectrum allocated to it....and uses very little of that....and according to their troops...the radios don't work anyway !!!!
The BT vision things work fine, until you get a few in the same area...they also tend to dislike interference....150 watts of sideband on 20 metres knocks them right over...for which there is no remedy....they [bt vision users] have to accept the problem.
Having said that, it is almost impossible to work long distance stations with a PLT adaptor nearby...the "S" meter hovers around the S5 mark for most of the time...Norfolk is great guys...less than S1 most of the time....
More CO2 means plants grow better and faster.
More plants growing better and faster consume more CO2.
We may need to increase CO2 output to grow enough plants to feed the world (ish) !
letting [mad] scientists loose on ways to cool the world will only lead to more problems, let the world look after itself. It has been doing that for a long time now.
No, this global warming [it isn't: warming that is] hysteria is good for research grants and science jobs. Not so good for practical [sane] solutions for a hardly-existing problem though.
Gone to O2 wiv an iphone....loads of inet usage.
Insetad: Stuck wiv OrangeUtan and ridiculous data charges.
Just cancelled all data and got it removed from my plan....at £1,50 for about 500KB it's too expensive to use.
Changed the talk plan to the bottom line and am getting out as soon as the contract allows, or sooner.
The billing system is garbage, it makes the banks habit of charging you for breathing look civil.
Customer service is a contradiction in terms. Their "insurance" is a joke, there is a £16.00 charge for using the insurance. Whatever you use it for. It is an "admin" charge and is non-refundable.
It matters little which bunch of elected political animals hold "power".
The real government is the non-elected civil service.
And the above article does not address the real issue: Is the It spend intended to increase "productivity" (itself hard to define within a government) or to increase the amount of information held [about the citizens] and enable faster retrieval of same. Many government forms duplicate the information gathered and it is hard to avoid the idea that many are just a form of data trawling.
Within government the productivity of the information gathered may be considered to be much higher than an outside party may allocate to it.
"They continued to remove items despite protests by Bates that they were taking away "privileged material" – specifically, material that could not be seized under warrant by virtue of its privileged status in respect of past and ongoing court cases"
Probably they will wipe the 'drives. Thereby destroying evidence of current and past cases.
This is just the police doing what they do rather well: Intimidating people, present and future.
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