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A federal judge has estimated that at least 30,000 secret electronic surveillance orders are made every year in the US, and those who are found to be innocent will probably never know that they ;ve been the target of such snooping. Ars Technica reports that US Magistrate Judge Stephen Smith has written up his estimates in a paper called Gagged, Sealed 038; Delivered. While phsyical searches require a warrant, many digital searches鈥攖o, say, access stored e-mail, wiretap an Internet connection, or to track a cell phone鈥攁re kept secret. Judge Smith explains that the total of 30,000 secret surveillance orders is greater th stanley canada an the combined yearly total of all antitrust, employment discrimination, environmental, copyright, patent, trademark, and securities cases filed in federal court. So, umm, that quite a lot then. While Smith isn ;t after anything as radical as banning such secret surveillance, he does feel there should be a little stanley cup more transparency in the process, as it would enable meaningful oversight not only by appellate courts but also by Congress and the general public.stanley cup 8221; That probably requires some subtle policy tweaks鈥攐r, better, a major overhaul of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act ECPA of 1986. The Ars Technica article is actually well worth a read if you ;re interested in a run-down on the policy behind surveillance orders. Even if it does put you on some sort of watchlist. [Ars Technica] I Xbrs What if The Hunt for Red October had a werewolf in it
Here some barroom banter-material for the three day weekend: psychologists at the University of Bristol have shown that young, healthy people students and faculty from the University drank beer faster when it was served up in a curved flute glass pictured on the right than they did when it was served to them in a straight glass pictured on the left . ScienceNOW Emily Underwood explains: [Lead researcher Angela Attwood] believes that the reason for the increase in speed is that the halfway point in a curved glass is ambiguous. Social beer drinkers, she says, naturally tend to pace themselves when drinking alcohol, judg stanley cup ing their speed by how fast they reach half-full. Another experiment in which participants were asked to judge different levels of fluid in photographs of straight and curved glasses showed that people consistently misjudge the volume in fluted glasses, Attwood says. A simple solution to this problem would be to mark beer glasses with the accurate halfway point, she says. We can stanley mugs ;t tell people not to drink, but we can give them a little more control. The researchers ; findings are published in the latest issue of PLOS ONE. Read more about the study over at ScienceNOW. stanley taza PsychologyScience
A federal judge has estimated that at least 30,000 secret electronic surveillance orders are made every year in the US, and those who are found to be innocent will probably never know that they ;ve been the target of such snooping. Ars Technica reports that US Magistrate Judge Stephen Smith has written up his estimates in a paper called Gagged, Sealed 038; Delivered. While phsyical searches require a warrant, many digital searches鈥攖o, say, access stored e-mail, wiretap an Internet connection, or to track a cell phone鈥攁re kept secret. Judge Smith explains that the total of 30,000 secret surveillance orders is greater th stanley canada an the combined yearly total of all antitrust, employment discrimination, environmental, copyright, patent, trademark, and securities cases filed in federal court. So, umm, that quite a lot then. While Smith isn ;t after anything as radical as banning such secret surveillance, he does feel there should be a little stanley cup more transparency in the process, as it would enable meaningful oversight not only by appellate courts but also by Congress and the general public.stanley cup 8221; That probably requires some subtle policy tweaks鈥攐r, better, a major overhaul of the Electronic Communications Privacy Act ECPA of 1986. The Ars Technica article is actually well worth a read if you ;re interested in a run-down on the policy behind surveillance orders. Even if it does put you on some sort of watchlist. [Ars Technica] I Xbrs What if The Hunt for Red October had a werewolf in it
Here some barroom banter-material for the three day weekend: psychologists at the University of Bristol have shown that young, healthy people students and faculty from the University drank beer faster when it was served up in a curved flute glass pictured on the right than they did when it was served to them in a straight glass pictured on the left . ScienceNOW Emily Underwood explains: [Lead researcher Angela Attwood] believes that the reason for the increase in speed is that the halfway point in a curved glass is ambiguous. Social beer drinkers, she says, naturally tend to pace themselves when drinking alcohol, judg stanley cup ing their speed by how fast they reach half-full. Another experiment in which participants were asked to judge different levels of fluid in photographs of straight and curved glasses showed that people consistently misjudge the volume in fluted glasses, Attwood says. A simple solution to this problem would be to mark beer glasses with the accurate halfway point, she says. We can stanley mugs ;t tell people not to drink, but we can give them a little more control. The researchers ; findings are published in the latest issue of PLOS ONE. Read more about the study over at ScienceNOW. stanley taza PsychologyScience
