Once they do the background check to grant a clearance, there has to be a certain level of trust given to the clearance holder. Of course, there are those who violate the trust for reasons both good and ill. Risk assessment, I suppose.
Way back when, we were forbidden from bringing Bamford's book "The Puzzle Palace" into secure areas. Although NSA refused to confirm or deny anything in the book, the fear was that people may bring it into the facility and make annotations, and it all goes downhill from there. Young servicemembers busted for possessing classified outside secure areas, blah blah blah.
It may seem silly from one perspective, but it's logical from another.
I don't understand why Tivo has a fast-forward option to jump through commercials, when it's easier programmatically to just JUMP forward. My MythTV box jumps forward 30 seconds (programmable) every time I hit the right arrow, and ten seconds back (programmable) when I hit the left arrow. I hop through ads like a madman, on those rare occasions when I watch something soon enough after it's recorded that the machine hasn't just prebuilt "commercial skip zones" for me.
The vast majority of the time, I don't see a single commercial, not one frame of it. I wonder what patent will end up coming out to cover that.
Techdirt has not posted any stories submitted by Gary B.
Re: Has Anyone At The Pentagon
Once they do the background check to grant a clearance, there has to be a certain level of trust given to the clearance holder. Of course, there are those who violate the trust for reasons both good and ill. Risk assessment, I suppose.
Fun with Classified Documents
Way back when, we were forbidden from bringing Bamford's book "The Puzzle Palace" into secure areas. Although NSA refused to confirm or deny anything in the book, the fear was that people may bring it into the facility and make annotations, and it all goes downhill from there. Young servicemembers busted for possessing classified outside secure areas, blah blah blah.
It may seem silly from one perspective, but it's logical from another.
No FFWD with some DVRs
I don't understand why Tivo has a fast-forward option to jump through commercials, when it's easier programmatically to just JUMP forward. My MythTV box jumps forward 30 seconds (programmable) every time I hit the right arrow, and ten seconds back (programmable) when I hit the left arrow. I hop through ads like a madman, on those rare occasions when I watch something soon enough after it's recorded that the machine hasn't just prebuilt "commercial skip zones" for me.
The vast majority of the time, I don't see a single commercial, not one frame of it. I wonder what patent will end up coming out to cover that.