@malwaretech I occasionally harbor a fantasy of showing up at the airport, slightly agitated, with a bag full of cash, and asking for a ticket on the next flight. When they ask to where, I'd just say "anywhere".
I just want to point out that while I'm not a trained law enforcement officer, I've managed to successfully use a flashlight numerous times without shooting at anything. Mostly this is because I use special flashlights that don't have guns attached.
In all seriousness, this snippet from the revised article is astonishing.
An officer - an ESU sergeant no less - accidentally firing a gun during a planned operation to remove protestors who were merely *trespassing* isn't "abnormal" enough to be worth mentioning? If one of the protesters had accidentally fired a gun, would they have mentioned *that*?
And the mayor knew about this when he was publicly congratulating everyone for how "professionally" and "flawlessly" this was handled.
I got another flurry of questions this morning about this post I did a couple years ago on Faraday cages for phones, so perhaps you'll find it useful. https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/faraday/
(For some reason, this piece also seems to provoke the fury of random people, so to clarify: Yes, I actually understand decibels, and no, I have no idea whether you personally need a Faraday bag for your phone).
Spent a nice morning not sitting at the defense table listening to opening statements in a criminal trial against me for financial shenanigans involving hush money payments I made to cover up an affair with an adult film star. I have to say that was a good way to not spend the day.
The thermal imaging system used by the government in Kyllo (in 1991) was a breadbox sized camera with an analog video output that had to be hooked up to a power supply, video monitor, and VCR. It cost about $100K.
Today's version has better resolution and dynamic range and fits in a small dongle that attaches to a smartphone. It costs less than a couple hundred bucks and you can get it delivered overnight from Web vendors.
Especially if this will be your first total eclipse, my advice is to go light on cameras and optics and focus on just experiencing the event. There’s a lot more to see and feel during totality than just the occlusion of the sun.
I’m planning on bringing a tripod (it gets dark!) and wide angle lens to capture the overall environment. But I’m leaving the “portable solar observatory” stuff to the astronomers.
I just found out X/Twitter unilaterally "verified" my old and dormant account there ("because you're an influential user"), now making me look like I'm an idiot who's voluntarily paying Musk eight bucks or whatever it is a month.
The XZ backdoor seems to have become a Rorschach test that shows whatever you already believed about the security of open source software against sabotage.
It clearly proves the inherent superiority of the open source model. Or the inherent vulnerability. One of those, definitely.
You might have your fancy light meters and in-camera exposure histograms, but I’ll always have my trusty Posographe, an early 20th century mechanical exposure calculator with an insanely complex system of sliders and internal levers.
Scientist, safecracker, etc. McDevitt Professor of Computer Science and Law at Georgetown. Formerly UPenn, Bell Labs. So-called expert on election security and stuff. https://twitter.com/mattblaze on the Twitter. Slow photographer. Radio nerd. Blogs occasionally at https://www.mattblaze.org/blog . I probably won't see your DM; use something else. He/Him. Uses this wrong.