What separates us from the Third World in our politics, he opined, are the twin concepts of peaceful transfer of power via the ballot box rather than by military intervention and the unwritten and unspoken principle that victors do not use the police power of the state to punish the vanquished. Without the second concept, no sane person will ever relinquish office if they run the risk of ending up imprisoned or on the gallows. Once politics become a blood sport, he said, there is no way to stop the slide into rule by people with guns. //
Contrary to Goldberg, no one thinks former presidents are above the law. But just about everyone, except him and Williamson, are smart enough to realize when the prosecution is political and when it is criminal.
I don’t know how we back away from this ledge, and as the days go by, I care less and less whether we do or we don’t. I don’t think I’m alone.
Frustrated by a slew of conservative legal victories, Democrats introduced the TERM Act, which would establish 18-year term limits for Supreme Court justices, after which they would “assume senior status,” a quasi-retirement that drastically reduces their caseload and corresponding influence. To fill these vacancies, the president would appoint a new justice during the first and third years of his term. Cast as “an effort to restore legitimacy and independence to the nation’s highest court,” the TERM Act would ironically undermine both, transforming the court from an institution of law to a panel of politicians. //
Our Founding Fathers created the judiciary to be the “bulwark” of a limited government. Judges were to keep the federal government and its constituent parts in their proper spheres of authority and safeguard political minorities against the depredations of the governing class. To do either, however, the framers understood that the judiciary must be independent of Congress and the president. Otherwise, warned James Madison, “the stronger faction c[ould] readily unite and oppress the weaker,” rendering the Constitution’s guarantees an empty promise.
Life tenure completely severs “all sense of dependence” between the judiciary and the politicians responsible for their commission, empowering judges to check government excess without fear for their livelihoods. If enacted, the TERM Act would spell the demise of judicial independence. Justices would no longer decide cases in accordance with the letter and spirit of the law. Instead, concern for future employment would sway reason and undermine the legitimacy of the Supreme Court as an impartial arbiter of the law. //
the TERM Act endangers our constitutional design and the individual liberty it secures.
Following the contentious 2000 election of President George W. Bush, former President Jimmy Carter and Republican James Baker co-chaired the bipartisan Commission on Election Reform. It issued a 100-plus-page document called “Building Confidence in U.S. Elections,” which treated election integrity, public accountability, and transparency seriously, and as vitally important to that goal.
Following the much more contentious 2020 election, we have instead been treated to an endless stream of official apologetics which seeks to convince the general public that this election “was one of the most secure in our history,” and that anybody who questions the results is acting in bad faith.
Now we have a recently released “bombshell” report by prominent Never Trump attorneys and politicians claiming to make “The Conservative Case that Trump Lost and Biden Won the 2020 Presidential Election” (the Ginsberg Report), which seeks to assure us that even conservatives should believe that the 2020 election was beyond reproach and that there really is no useful point in continuing to discuss or debate it anymore
Rather than attempting an objective analysis of the 2020 election, the Ginsberg Report seems to have a different purpose. It appears to be intended to shut down reasonable debate about election integrity by linking all such claims with the most extravagant and unprovable theories of election fraud that were circulated by some Trump supporters in the immediate aftermath of the 2020 election.
The objective is not to debunk the wild, baseless theories, but rather to dismiss valid election objections by tarring them with the same brush as the wildest conspiracy theories under the general rubric of “baseless claims of widespread election fraud,” and then dismiss the entire package out of hand.
I'm very pleased to announce the extension OneButtonInstaller (OBI) which is meant as a centralized extension manager and an attempt to get a common interface for hassle-free installing of extensions to XigmaNAS systems without the need to work with system console or shell CLI.
The aim to create this extension was the reason that many other systems provide such an interface for the installation of extensions, add-ons and plug-ins already (FreeNAS, OpenMediaVault, pfSense, etc ...). On the basis of the Push Button Installer system I decided to name this extension OneButtonInstaller even if it don't compete in no way with this much more complex installer system.
By using Mikrotik, we can monitor the flow of packets based on protocol type, source address, destination address and port types. With this facility has been provided at Packet System, when we install RouterOS, it is easier for us in the administration of the router, out of this facility, we can tell whether the data flow in the machine we're normal or not. Monitor the occurrence of flooding, monitor malware activities and so on.
Using it is fairly easy, usually to be more comfortable in Monitoring, please enabled via Winbox, to get into the Router. More details can be seen the picture below.
Facilities Torch can be used with Winbox the Tools menu - Torch. Please Click the Torch, the Torch will be shown a window
Or Can also via IP - ARP. In the ARP List window, please chosen IP address, MAC address will be in the Monitor. Right-click to enter the Torch.
Note, the items contained in these windows Torch, the manual clearly stated above have been given information on these items. Click the Start button to activate this Torch. Now we can monitor the flow of packets on Router machine. If there are any suspicious traffic please take further action.
can't be done without rooted phone.
can move media, but whatsapp still stores additional in original location
As China conducted live-fire drills near Taiwan, the Biden administration announced it would delay a routine U.S. missile test to avoid escalating tensions with China after Pelosi’s visit.
Why was the Biden administration concerned about placating Beijing when Beijing was the one who antagonized the escalation? Why didn’t the Biden administration respond to China’s sanctions on Pelosi and her family by imposing sanctions on PLA generals and their families?
Furthermore, the Biden administration’s inaction has failed to de-escalate the tension in Taiwan Strait. And because of this, last week, Beijing was emboldened to declare that it would extend military drills “indefinitely” before it decided to wind them down shortly after that.
Inaction is the last thing that will deter the PLA from invading Taiwan. If China perceives a consistent gap between the U.S. government’s actions and rhetoric on Taiwan, its military may grow more aggressive. Regardless of the outcome, a Chinese invasion of Taiwan will incur an enormous cost for all parties involved.
He chose Mitchell's Lake, 10 miles south of San Antonio, as the site for his new improved bat roost. "No swamp in the low lands could be worse," Campbell later wrote. All of the city's sewage flowed into the lake and seepage ponds created perfect mosquito breeding conditions. It was a place where travelers were "compelled to whip up their teams to escape the onslaughts of mosquitoes." The tenant farmers who occupied the land surrounding the lake lived with such conditions from spring through fall. Mosquitoes bred in such numbers that at times the farmers were driven from their fields, leaving crops to ruin. Their livestock suffered as well; cows were emaciated and produced little milk, and chickens had pale combs and laid no eggs. Hardly a family escaped malarial infection, and two to four deaths occurred each year. In the spring of 1911, the year Campbell's new bat tower was built, he examined 87 adults and children living around the lake. Seventy-eight had malaria. //
In 1914, four years after the Mitchell's Lake roost was built, duck hunters told Campbell that they could now remain in their blinds until after dark because there were so many less mosquitoes. That summer Campbell began collecting testimonials from the tenant farmers around Mitchell's Lake. They all reported much the same thing: they could now irrigate their fields at night without hoards of mosquitoes attacking them, their work animals were healthy, and there had been no sickness in their families. Campbell didn't find a single case of malaria where four years before 89% of those tested had the disease.
During that same year, the Bexar County Medical Society endorsed Campbell's work, and on June 8, 1914 the City Council of San Antonio passed an ordinance making it unlawful for anyone to kill a bat within the city limits, levying fines from $5 to $200 for each bat killed. Soon after, they appropriated $3,000 of City funds to build another bat tower, the first Municipal Bat Roost in San Antonio or anywhere else. Not to be outdone, the Texas State Board of Health also endorsed Campbell's work and passed their recommendations on to the State Legislature to make it a misdemeanor to kill bats within the entire state. The Governor signed it into law on March 10, 1917.
The original Mitchell's Lake bat tower gained such fame that Campbell opened the area to the public, providing seats and picnic benches for people to watch the evening emergence in comfort. Several more towers were built around San Antonio, and eventually a total of 16 were erected from Texas to Italy, the last one in 1929. The guano harvest from the Mitchell's Lake roost in 1921 was 4,558 pounds, two tons of dry, ready-to-use bat guano with almost double the nitrogen content than cave guano, an amount repeated year after year. At its peak, Campbell estimated that the Mitchell's Lake roost contained over a quarter of a million bats. //
In the mid-1950's, rabies hysteria gripped Texas and bats were taken off the State's protected species list. The end of the bat roost that had once gained the admiration of the world passed without much notice.
OpenVPN is now the industry standard VPN protocol. It is the one that ProPrivacy.com recommends you use in almost all circumstances.
The main third-party OpenVPN apps for Android are OpenVPN Connect and the more fully featured and open source OpenVPN for Android (F-Droid version available). Follow the instructions below to configure OpenVPN on Android:
New stars are not formed from the nebulae created when a parent star explodes.
In space there is thin interstellar gas and plasma. This gas is buffeted and blown by the solar winds of stars, and the shockwaves of supernovae. The gas is mostly Hydrogen and Helium.
Stars die in two ways. The most common way is for their outer layers to be blown out into space in a fairly gentle way. This process forms a "planetary nebula" The outer layers are formed mostly of hydrogen and helium, but are enriched by other elements. Or stars can die as supernovae. These are much more energetic. Even so, much of the gas blown out is Hydrogen and Helium as it comes from the outer layers of the star, but it will be further enriched by heavier elements. There are different kinds of supernovae with different mixtures of elements.
The elements blown off of dying stars mixes with the interstellar gas, enriching it and compressing it. This mixture of gas is still mostly hydrogen and helium and hydrogen is the main fuel for stars!
If the gas is sufficiently compressed (for example by a supernova shockwave) then its own gravity can start to pull it together, ultimately forming stars.
So stars are not formed from the iron "ashes" of dead stars, but from a mixture of the original Hydrogen fuel that has never been in a star, and the outer layers of stars that are made of "unburnt" hydrogen that was blown off the star as it died. //
New stars aren't directly born in the exploded remnants of massive stars. Star formation does not occur in newly produced supernova remnants.
Instead what happens is that, over the course of millions of years, the gas in the supernova remnant is mixed into the gas that is already part of the interstellar medium, and which is composed almost entirely of hydrogen and helium. The dilution factor is large, such that after mixing, the gas contains (currently) just 1-2% by mass of elements heavier than helium.
Star formation may then take place if this gas is compressed or otherwise becomes unstable to collapse.
Highly relevant:
How can there be 1,000 stellar ancestors before our Sun?
https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/16311/how-can-there-be-1-000-stellar-ancestors-before-our-sun?noredirect=1&lq=1
Parent stars of our Sun - Where are its remains?
https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/22694/parent-stars-of-our-sun-where-are-its-remains?noredirect=1&lq=1
How could a supernova seed solar nebula?
https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/questions/30103/how-could-a-supernova-seed-solar-nebula
This code remove acl :
$acl = Get-Acl \\remote_server\share_folder\HAL.9000
$acl.Access | %{$acl.RemoveAccessRule($_)}
This code add administrator acl :
[#BUILTIN](https://b.plas.ml/./add-tag/BUILTIN) administrator
$acl = Get-Acl \\remote_server\share_folder\HAL.9000
$permission = "BUILTIN\Administrators","FullControl", "ContainerInherit,ObjectInherit","None","Allow"
$accessRule = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule $permission
$acl.SetAccessRule($accessRule)
Set-Acl \\remote_server\share_folder\HAL.9000 $acl
[#Domain](https://b.plas.ml/./add-tag/Domain) controller administrator
$acl = Get-Acl \\remote_server\share_folder\HAL.9000
$permission = "DOMAINCONTROLLER\Administrators","FullControl", "ContainerInherit,ObjectInherit","None","Allow"
$accessRule = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule $permission
$acl.SetAccessRule($accessRule)
Set-Acl \\remote_server\share_folder\HAL.9000 $acl
-----
Function Remove-ACL {
[CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess=$True)]
Param(
[parameter(Mandatory=$true,ValueFromPipeline=$true,Position=0)]
[ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()]
[ValidateScript({Test-Path $_ -PathType Container})]
[String[]]$Folder,
[Switch]$Recurse
)
Process {
foreach ($f in $Folder) {
if ($Recurse) {$Folders = $(Get-ChildItem $f -Recurse -Directory).FullName} else {$Folders = $f}
if ($Folders -ne $null) {
$Folders | ForEach-Object {
# Remove inheritance
$acl = Get-Acl $_
$acl.SetAccessRuleProtection($true,$true)
Set-Acl $_ $acl
# Remove ACL
$acl = Get-Acl $_
$acl.Access | %{$acl.RemoveAccessRule($_)} | Out-Null
# Add local admin
$permission = "BUILTIN\Administrators","FullControl", "ContainerInherit,ObjectInherit","None","Allow"
$rule = New-Object System.Security.AccessControl.FileSystemAccessRule $permission
$acl.SetAccessRule($rule)
Set-Acl $_ $acl
Write-Verbose "Remove-HCacl: Inheritance disabled and permissions removed from $_"
}
}
else {
Write-Verbose "Remove-HCacl: No subfolders found for $f"
}
}
}
}Usage:
For only one folder:
Remove-ACL 'C:\Folder' -Verbose
For all subfolders:
Remove-ACL 'C:\Folder' -Recurse -Verbose
Pipe stuff
'C:\Folder 1', 'C:\Folder 2' | Remove-ACL -Verbose
Supported or not, new or old, this is everything you need to know.
The most important defense is remaining humble and not falling into the mindset that we would never get pulled in by a phisher. Phishers are more sophisticated than we may think. They come up with new tricks all the time. It's only a matter of time until one of them throws us off balance.
As Cloudflare officials wrote in their disclosure: "Having a paranoid but blame-free culture is critical for security. The three employees who fell for the phishing scam were not reprimanded. We're all human, and we make mistakes. It's critically important that when we do, we report them and don't cover them up."
The owner of the most comprehensive collection of washing machines walks us through the overlooked history of this iconic appliance.
Living in the center of biblical tension
“It seems easier to go to a consistent extreme than to stay at the center of biblical tension.” -- Robertson McQuilkin
Plate tectonics may have its origins in impacts, based on new data from Australia.
While the exact set of phenomena that unfold to release energy remains unclear, what was not debated at all was whether the potential to release heat was real. It clearly is, despite the extended difficulty scientists have had pinning down theory and practice. This issue seems entirely settled. Decades of work by hundreds of researchers reporting on their experiments and experiences of heat release “anomalies” have begun to provide a far more nuanced picture of the dynamics and the parametric guideposts that will eventually enable those studying them to narrow in on the controlling aspects. //
Given the potential value of this technology, it is no wonder that dozens of cash-strapped researchers and venture teams have soldiered on for decades. Now that ARPA-e has chosen to continue the work initiated by Google to identify a proof-of-concept design, there is new-found scientific integrity and rebranding to be done. There is also a greater awareness that what set cold fusion back and derailed early efforts was not scientific fraud but rather its far more complex sub-atomic transmutations, its multibody interactions combined with environmental factors such as temperature, pressure and light that varied by selection of component materials. These complexities still need to be sorted out but could potentially provide many viable options for sourcing and construction of systems and thus help to reduce manufacturing costs.
Uranium and thorium are two of nature’s most incredible clean energy storage assets. If completely fissioned, a handful of nuclear fuel weighing a kilogram contains more stored energy than 50 large tanker trucks filled with petroleum.
At the current diesel fuel price of $5.60 per gallon, 50 trucks can carry more than $3,000,000 worth of fuel. In contrast, nuclear power plant owners pay approximately $1,700 per kilogram of fuel in the form of finished assemblies.
The tiny waste production per unit energy released is an inherent aspect of concentrated fission reactions. Unlike combustion, all ingredients needed for fission are contained inside fission fuels. (Combustion needs an external source of oxygen in greater masses than the fuel itself.) The mass of fission wastes is slightly less than the mass of fission fuel; the mass of combustion wastes are about 2.5 times the mass of input fuel.
No fission product wastes need to be routinely removed to allow the reaction to continue operating for its design fuel cycle. None need to be discharged to the environment. Fission reactors are clean enough, safe enough and independent enough to operate inside sealed submarines carrying crews of several dozen people. Those submarines have gone to every part of every ocean on the planet.
Fission even works in the vacuum of deep space.
Those physical and economic facts almost beg power plant designers to think about building a wide variety of machines in order to use that amazing source of energy in as many parts of the diverse global energy markets as possible. Power systems using combustion fuels range in size from model trains to multi GWe power stations. Fission-based power systems need sufficient size to support a chain reaction, and to provide adequate shielding, but that still leaves a wide spectrum of potential applications and sizes. //
Larger units can successfully use the economy of scale to lower the cost per unit of output but it isn’t the only kind of scale that can drive down costs. Ever larger units can also run into diseconomies of scale that plague mega-projects in construction, mass transit, sports complexes, and airports.
The experience of the industry in building the Vogtle AP1000s shows that there is such a thing as too large. In contrast, the economies of scale that we believe will aid in the appeal of SMRs takes the form of mass production and is expected to enable the construction of SMRs to more closely follow the declining cost curves experienced by wind and solar projects.
One advantage of smaller systems is the improved ability to use factory manufacturing techniques. Of course, the components used in conventional large reactors are produced in factories, but then they are individually shipped to the site to be assembled into an operating plant. With reactors that have the size and complexity closer to that of large ships or commercial aircraft, it is possible to assemble and transport complete or nearly complete products.
Factory workforces have many advantages over site construction workforces. They can improve productivity by repeating similar tasks regularly, They can live and work in cities served by mass transit. They can implement quality assurance techniques and environmental consistence systems that are difficult to achieve at remote large plant assembly sites. //
…for a sodium-cooled reactor, for instance, that sodium coolant is likely to become low-level waste at the end of the reactor’s lifetime, because it becomes contaminated and activated during reactor operation. So, the “up to 30 times more waste” that’s been driving the headlines, it’s mostly the sodium coolant.
Diaz-Maurin,François Interview: Small modular reactors get a reality check about their waste, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Jun 17, 2022 //
A Taxonomy of Access Control
My personal definition of a brilliant idea is one that is immediately obvious once it’s explained, but no one has thought of it before. I can’t believe that no one has described this taxonomy of access control before Ittay Eyal laid it out in this paper. The paper is about cryptocurrency wallet design, but the ideas are more general. Ittay points out that a key—or an account, or anything similar—can be in one of four states:
- loss No one has access,
- safe Only the user has access,
- leak Both the user and the adversary have access, or
- theft Only the adversary has access.
- [disclosed everybody has access]
Once you know these states, you can assign probabilities of transitioning from one state to another (someone hacks your account and locks you out, you forgot your own password, etc.) and then build optimal security and reliability to deal with it. It’s a truly elegant way of conceptualizing the problem.
G Suite Customer Takeout: Bulk Download using Terminal
Building on repertor's great insight, here are exact steps I took (on a fedora system) to programatically download my gsuite takeout from the bucket:
Install gsutil standalone
wget https://storage.googleapis.com/pub/gsutil.tar.gz
# tar xvfz gsutil.tar.gz
# cd gsutilConnect gsutil to G suite account
To create a read-only token, use the command below: visit the browser to get an API token, then paste the API token back into the terminal. Later it asks for a "project-id", which can be any string apparently.
# ./gsutil config -rActually download the backup
Go to G Suite Customer Takeout, click on "Access Archive" and find the bucket id. In my case, this ID has the form
takeout-export-123456abcdef-123456abcedf
To download the entire bucket recursively with rsync:
# ./gsutil rsync -r gs://takeout-export-123456abcdef-123456abcedf /tmp/