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Europe? No. Europe would sort of be on the "Asian continent" if not for those pesky Ural mountains dividing things up in the middle, and then also the whole lineage of kings and wealth and nations and the EU and all that "give me my respect" stuff.
Russia would probably be happiest as its own continent, so for now we'll leave it in "Eurasia" and just hope the natural gas supplies keep flowing.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are dang close to Asia, but politically they show up in "Middle East" news stories an awful lot. Verdict: Eurasia.
I guess we'll actually have to consider everything from Turkey on eastward to be "Eurasian", although the moniker seems overlappitory of the territory.
The Asian economy is now officially raging like a wild furnace of lava that consumes everything in its path. Japan has had the largest individual economy in Asia for decades, but it is forecast that both India and China will outstrip Japan within twenty years.
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Can hash be used to create very good random strings?
I'm wondering if using a good hash algorithm (for example sha-2) can be used to generate random strings that are more random and unpredictable than rand() or mt_rand() functions (which are vulnerable to small seed entropy and other potential weaknesses). My idea is to get a number of always changing data, concatenate them and then hash them. I could be using:
- sytem time with microseconds
- result of uniqid() with more entropy
- a salt string created with traditional mt_rand()
- execution time of the current script (there are always some differences in microseconds)
My reasoning is that the more data sources I use to feed the hash function the less predictable (more random) the result will be even if the data sources are not truly random. I found this idea somewhere in a discussion under an article and I tend to agree with it, however I'm not an expert on randomness or hash algorithms so that's why I'm asking if anyone can validate this is true.
For some more extreme randomness I could also add more data sources to the string to be hashed:
- a string from /dev/urandom if available
- a string from an external true random number generator like random.org
- if the random string were to be generated after a user submits a form then I could use javascript to measure time between keystrokes or even capture mouse movements
My goal is to create random numbers that are random enough for secure systems so that no one can break the pattern and predict any random strings. I could simply use random numbers from random.org, but then there is the problem of fetching the data from a remote server securely and probably storing it on the server since I don't want to rely on all-the-time availability of an external service.
Here is sample php code:
PHP Code:$start_time = microtime(true);
$time = microtime(true);
$uniqid = uniqid('', true);
$salt = '';
for ($i=0; $i<128; $i++) {
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Sep 24, 2012, 07:57 #2
Use mcrypt for this. That is if you need a real strong random value, a cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator. By using "mcrypt_create_iv" in this case, since version 5.3 it also uses a CSPRNG on Windows.
PHP Code:$r = mcrypt_create_iv( 4096, MCRYPT_DEV_RANDOM );
// Anything extra you would like to add.
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It's not clear from your example - do you suggest getting the random string directly from mcrypt_create_iv or add it to the string to be hashed?
Generating 400 bytes in this way on one of my shared hosts took one minute, very very slow... MCRYPT_DEV_URANDOM is faster but possibly a bit worse?
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You can do what you like with it, use it directly or add it to something else. The point is that it uses an CSPRNG, some cases gets its entropy from the hardware (or mixtures of hardware and software). Depending on your needs, using URANDOM would be fine, it sacrifices some entropy for non-blocking.
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Okay, I'll be adding it to the hash then. What would be the minimum length of the string needed? If I'm hashing the string with sha256 then it looks like I need to extract at least 256 bits (32 bytes) from mcrypt_create_iv() to take advantage of maximum entropy, am I right? I suppose getting more bits wouldn't hurt but will they be of any value?


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ø Ignore UltimatecaliburYou do realize that the Belt of Storm Giant Strength is the only artifact currently in the playtest document? And that if you only have tough encounters from level 1 to 10 you might get it if you are lucky by RAW.
I'm also not in favor of the new charges rule on staffs and wands. They are too luck-based in terms of using up your resources and only serve to encourage extra-cautious play instead of making full use of what you have. Most players will simply treat their valuable wands and staves as having appropriately fewer charges, always making sure they stay at 1 (or higher, if the DM rolls the recharge die).
You should also consider that some players will risk that 5% chance every time while others will be as careful as you describe and only use that last charge in the most dire of emergencies. Both are valid play styles.
A "burnout" mechanism is a good idea, but what if this just made the item temporarily unusable until you invest a few dozen / hundred GP into a 24-hour ritual?
I believe there's a lot of room for optimizing things - the balance of items and their scaling with level was much better with almost all previous editions.
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Tuesday, 9th October, 2012, 04:42 PM #82
Thanks for responding.
The problem here is that Hide/Move Silently and Spot/Listen are no longer siloed. So they're basically an abstraction for all scenarios and, as such, it seems to presuppose that both are being tested simultaneously in all cases. Further, the rules go on to explicitely give prerequisite for the Hide:Spot portion of the contest - Concealment/Cover/Line-of-Sight. Therefore, it is not two separate Stealth rolls to Hide (vs Spot) and to Move Silently (vs Listen). It is one and it is abstracted as both.
So if I read your interpretation corrrect then, Boots of Elvenkind provide no advantage to anyone (not a generic + bonus to Stealth nor advantage to Stealth rolls nor remove disadvantage from Stealth rolls nor remove advantage for Listen rolls against) on Stealth contests when the Spot portion of Perception and the Hide portion of Stealth are also being tested. It only provides a bonus on Stealth contests when only the Move Silently and Listen are pitted against one another and Line of Sight is irrelevant (a la a noble is sitting at his desk in another room and you are sneaking down the hallway)? Unfortunately, this would not be a very useful item then (and an extreme corner case that doesn't seem to make much sense for Foresty Elves to be creating) and, more importantly, how does this interface with the Stealth Rules as the Stealth Rules only talk about Line-of-Sight and then a subsequent Stealth vs Perception contest if that prerequisite is met?
I guess the whole point is, if they're going to put both of the Stealth (Hide/Move Silently) and Perception (Spot/Listen) variables together and abstract the check...and then they're going to only provide explicit rules for Line-of-Sight (as prerequisite)...it strikes me as very incoherent rules design to then use the vague "silent footpadding" for Boots of Elvenkind...and its going to create problems at the table.
- If they broke out Listen/Spot and Hide/Move Silently and thus gave you automatic success on all Move Silently rolls this would be a fantastic (overpowered) item.
- If it removed Disadvantage on gave Advantage on Stealth checks or removed Advantage from the Listen contestant it would be a great item.
As of right now...unfortunately...I'm not sure what it does and I'm not sure how the rules are supposed to mechanically support what it does. And I don't feel very good about what that says about 5e given how important Stealth rules are to D&D...coupled with their "Rulings not Rules" philosophy that seems to extoll the virtue of holes like this as a source of "DM empowerment".Last edited by Manbearcat; Tuesday, 9th October, 2012 at 05:07 PM. Reason: Clarification
Tuesday, 9th October, 2012, 04:44 PM #83
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ø Ignore slobsterAs-presented, I think you have a very good point. But I could also see a reason for a variation of the attunement rule, because it keeps characters simple. You might want a game in which characters get large amounts of magic loot, and sift through it for a few pieces that are good enough to attune to and wear. Then, even if you have a full set of items attuned that you are happy with, you still can't wait to see what is in the next randomly generated dragon hoard because there might be something even better!
You limit the number of attuned items in such a game, because otherwise you have players wearing 7 necklaces and 2 dozen other magical items and trinkets, which makes the characters unwieldy. And why shouldn't they?
So I would use a houseruled version of attunement in my games, if I wanted to have that sort of hack' n' slash, slot machine style of game. Or if I just wanted a game in which players find more magic items than I expect or want them to be able to use, so that they have to make a few decisions on what their outfit is going to be. Choice is a big part of gaming for me. Not every game should be like that, of course, and you (general you, not @KM in particular) may despise that sort of game, but as usual it's up to the GM.
So attunement needs work, but it still seems promising to me.
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ø Ignore ScribbleI think this is actually their intent.
Part of the issue it seems people have had over the past few editions is the game seeming to implicitly try to tell you how/what to do. I think they're trying to go back to wondrous items that are somewhat open to interpretation/effect on the game.
I think the idea here is supposed to play out like:
Player: I try to sneak past the orcs...
DM: Sure, oh but the ground is covered with dead leaves so I'm going to give you disadvantage.
Player: Drat- but wait I have elven boots!
DM: Ok no disadvantage.
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Oh I agree. Its just not a "feature" for me. I just don't find that "empowering" as a DM for all of the reasons outlined in my posts and I find the prospect of trying to canvass the rules texts for all of these little (or not so little in this case) corner case inconsistencies and incoherencies (why do they have Line-of-Sight, Spot vs Hide, rules clearly explicated but no rules for Listen vs Move Silently?) maddening. Instead of "empowering" I find it "demoralizing" as I extrapolate the experience in my head (which I have experience with this sort of inconsistency/incoherency...most of us do, in fact). Some folks love this, I guess. Not me. Oh well.
Tuesday, 9th October, 2012, 06:01 PM #88
. . . but it won't play out like that, unless the DM has put the item in specifically to create that scenario artificially (a kind of pre-planned ad-lib).
And that's because the DM has no reason to invent squeaky floorboards or other barriers to stealth, ready to be solved with the right magic item, appearing with enough frequency that the players care about those kinds of things mechanically. As Manbearcat suggests, such invention is likely to happen after the item appears in the game. As the design goal is that magic items make PCs better, it grates a little to have an item which basically makes the rest of the group worse at something in order to justify its value.
Personally I would go for both the boots and cloak doing effectively the same thing mechanically, and with some special boost for having both at the same time (perhaps with "only one attunement required" rule for matching item sets, to make them desirable).
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ø Ignore ScribbleMaybe, maybe not... I don't know if you or anyone has the power to predict that it definitely WON'T... (I've had similar type situations happen.)
And that's because the DM has no reason to invent squeaky floorboards or other barriers to stealth, ready to be solved with the right magic item, appearing with enough frequency that the players care about those kinds of things mechanically. As Manbearcat suggests, such invention is likely to happen after the item appears in the game. As the design goal is that magic items make PCs better, it grates a little to have an item which basically makes the rest of the group worse at something in order to justify its value.
I think there was definitely a switch after 3e towards only doing what the rules say, so yeah it might be problematic with many of today's players... for a while?
I think it's trying to hearken back to that "old school" idea of creative/smart play. Rely less on the rules (because chances are there weren't any for a given scenario) and more on out of the box thinking.
I can remember back in the day articles in Dragon that were all about creatively using items (magic and mundane). Those articles seemed to be replaced by articles about feats you can take to unlock rules to implement those ideas, or new items that do what you want...
My players have never seemed to have an issue with out of the box type ideas- but I've seen plenty of arguments on the interwebs by people saying stuff like the 4e powers limit your ability to be creative etc... I think this design idea is in response to that.
I guess the argument can be made that it DOES make someone think more about what an item COULD do when it doesn't specifically say one thing it does do...
"Hey I have elven boots, can I get advantage to stealth walking through the forest?"
Think back to the Mearls article on thief skills sucking, and how he had to just invent stuff to do... I think this is kind of the idea.
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Last paragraph would be my desired mechanics as well.
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April 30, 2008
Statement of Steven Aftergood
Federation of American Scientists
Before the Subcommittee on the Constitution
Of the Committee on the Judiciary
United States Senate
Hearing on Secret Law and the Threat to Democratic
and Accountable Government
April 30, 2008
Thank you for the opportunity to address the Subcommittee.
My name is Steven Aftergood. I direct the Project on Government Secrecy at the Federation of American Scientists, a non-governmental policy research and advocacy
organization. The Project seeks to promote public oversight and government accountability in intelligence and national security policy.
Secret law that is inaccessible to the public is inherently antithetical to democracy
and foreign to the tradition of open publication that has characterized most of American legal history. Yet there has been a discernable increase in secret law and regulation in recent years. This testimony describes several of the major categories of secret law,
including secret interpretations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, secret opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel, secret Presidential directives, secret transportation security directives, and more. Legislative intervention may be required to
reverse the growth of secret law.
Introduction: "The Idea of Secret Laws is Repugnant"
To state the obvious, secret law is not consistent with democratic governance. If the rule of law is to prevail, the requirements of the law must be clear and discoverable.
Secret law excludes the public from the deliberative process, promotes arbitrary and deviant government behavior, and shields official malefactors from accountability. In short, as one federal appeals court put it, "The idea of secret laws is repugnant."1
From the beginning of the Republic, open publication of laws and directives was a defining characteristic. The first Congress of the United States mandated that every "law, order, resolution, and vote [shall] be published in at least three of the public newspapers
printed within the United States."2
Secret law in the United States also has a history, but for most of the past two centuries it was attributable to inadvertence and poor record keeping, not deliberate
choice or official policy. In 1935, for example, "Federal attorneys, to their great embarrassment, found they were pursuing a case before the Supreme Court under a
revoked executive order."3
Confronted with the rise of the administrative state and its increasingly chaotic records management practices, Congress responded with a series of statutory
requirements designed to regularize the publication of laws and regulations, and to prevent the growth of secret law. These included the Federal Register Act of 1935, the
Administrative Procedures Act of 1946, and later the Freedom of Information Act. "The
FOIA was designed... as a means of deterring the development and application of a body of secret law."4
But with the start of the Cold War and the creation of the various institutions and instruments of national security decisionmaking, secret law, directives and regulations
became a continuing part of American government.
Today, such secrecy not only persists, it is growing. Worse, it is implicated in fundamental political controversies over domestic surveillance, torture, and many other issues directly affecting the lives and interests of Americans.
FISA Court Opinions
Many of the concerns that arise from secret law are exemplified in the dispute over public access to judicial interpretations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), the law that regulates domestic intelligence surveillance.
The ongoing political turmoil associated with amending the FISA was prompted by decisions made in 2007 by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, reinterpreting
that law. Yet the specific nature of the Court's reinterpretations is not reliably known.
And so the current debate over amending the FISA proceeds on an uncertain footing.
In August 2007, the American Civil Liberties Union petitioned the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) on First Amendment grounds to publicly disclose
those legal rulings, after redacting them to protect properly classified information. 5
The ACLU noted that the contents of the requested rulings had been repeatedly referenced by Administration officials, including the Attorney General and the Director
of National Intelligence, without identifiable harm to national security.
While the government contends to this Court that the sealed materials are properly classified and must remain secret in their entirety, administration officials
continue publicly to reference, characterize, and discuss the materials in the service of a legislative and political agenda.
Given the many public statements made by government officials, it is plain that at least some of the sealed materials can be disclosed.... The administration's own
public statements make clear that the materials can be discussed without reference to any particular investigation or surveillance target.6
And the requesters proposed a crucial distinction between the Court's legal interpretations, which they argued should be presumptively releasable, and operational
intelligence material, which they admitted to be presumptively classified. The material that the ACLU seeks consists not of factual information but legal
analysis.... The ACLU seeks court records containing legal reasoning and legal rulings, and only to the extent they contain legal reasoning and legal rulings.7
Needless to say, the ACLU does not ask the Court to disclose information about specific investigations or information about intelligence sources or methods.
However, this Court's legal interpretation of an important federal statute designed to protect civil liberties while permitting the government to gather foreign
intelligence should be made public to the maximum extent possible.8
The Justice Department denied that such a distinction could be maintained: Any legal discussion that may be contained in these materials would be
inextricably intertwined with the operational details of the authorized surveillance.9
The Justice Department went on to assert, improbably in my opinion, that not even the "volume" of the materials at issue, let alone their contents, could be safely disclosed.10
The Court denied the ACLU motion and asserted, in any case, that it lacked the expertise to declassify the requested records without undue risk to national security.
Nevertheless, in issuing its denial, the FIS Court endorsed some of the ACLU's major premises:
The ACLU is correct in asserting that certain benefits could be expected from public access to the requested materials. There might be greater understanding of
the FISC's decisionmaking. Enhanced public scrutiny could provide an additional safeguard against mistakes, overreaching or abuse. And the public could
participate in a better-informed manner in debates over legislative proposals relating to FISA.11
Perhaps most important, the Court decision confirmed that the FISA Court is not simply engaged in reviewing government applications for surveillance authorization to ensure that they conform with legal requirements. Rather, the Court has repeatedly generated binding new interpretations of the FISA statute. Thus, aside from the 2007 opinions sought by the ACLU,
the FISC has in fact issued other legally significant decisions that remain classified and have not been released to the public (although in fairness to the
ACLU it has no way of knowing this).12
In summary, it has become evident that there is a body of common law derived from the decisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that potentially
implicates the privacy interests of all Americans. Yet knowledge of that law is deliberately withheld from the public. In this way, "secret law" has been normalized to a
previously unknown extent and to the detriment, I believe, of American democracy.
Office of Legal Counsel Opinions
The Office of Legal Counsel at the Justice Department produces opinions on legal questions that are generally binding on the executive branch. Many of these opinions
may be properly confidential. But others interpret the law authoritatively and in ways that are reflected in government policy. Yet most of these opinions are secret, so that the legal standards under which the government is actually operating at any given moment may be unknown to the public.
Other witnesses today will address this category of "secret law" in detail. I would only note that there appears to be a precipitous decline in publication of OLC opinions in recent years, judging from the OLC website.13 Thus, in 1995 there were 30 published
opinions, but in 2005 there were 13. In 1996, there were 48 published opinions, but in 2006 only 1. And in 1997 there were 29 published opinions, but only 9 in 2007.
Other things being equal, OLC "publication policy and practice should not vary substantially from administration to administration," according to a statement issued by
several former OLC employees. "The values of transparency and accountability remain constant, as do any existing legitimate rationales for secret executive branch law."14
But despite these constants, current OLC publication policy has varied substantially from the past Administration, in the direction of greater secrecy.
Some opinions were not published until
years after they were issued. Accordingly, publication of additional recent opinions might still be expected in years to come. Nevertheless, even allowing for such delays,
there appears to be a real decline in the current pace of publication.
Reversible Executive Orders
One secret OLC opinion of particular significance, identified last year by Senator Whitehouse, holds that executive orders, which are binding on executive branch agencies and are published in the Federal Register, can be unilaterally abrogated by the President
without public notice. Because many executive orders are partly rooted in statute or reflect statutory imperatives, this approach has the potential to subvert Congressional
intent and to do so secretly. Based on his review of the document, Sen. Whitehouse paraphrased the classified
OLC opinion as follows:
An Executive order cannot limit a President. There is no constitutional requirement for a President to issue a new Executive order whenever he wishes to depart from the terms of a previous Executive order. Rather than violate an
Executive order, the President has instead modified or waived it.15
Sen. Whitehouse expressed particular concern about the status of Executive Order 12333, an order published in 1981 which governs the conduct of surveillance and other
intelligence activities. The President's authority to issue the order was explicitly derived, in part, from the National Security Act of 1947.16 Congress plainly has an interest in the exercise of the authority that it delegated by statute. But if the terms of such an order can be modified or waived by the President
"whenever he wishes" and without notice, Congress is left with no opportunity to respond to the change and to exercise its own authorities as it sees fit. Worse, the OLC policy disclosed by Sen. Whitehouse implies a right to actively mislead Congress and the public,
who will mistakenly believe that a published order is still in effect even when it isn't.
Executive orders are used to define some of the most basic policy positions of the United States, on everything from assassination of foreign leaders to domestic
intelligence activities to protection of human subjects in scientific research. But now it appears that none of these policies are securely established. In fact, any of them may
already have been violated (or, rather, "waived") without notice. We just don't know. Two additional points may be worth noting. First, following Senator
Whitehouse's disclosure, I requested a copy of the referenced opinion from OLC under the Freedom of Information Act. The request was denied, on grounds that the opinion is classified, that it would reveal intelligence sources and methods, and that it is protected
by deliberative process and attorney-client privileges.
Not even the language cited by Sen. Whitehouse could be released.17 Thus the legal opinion that places the status of thousands of executive orders in doubt itself remains classified. Secondly, the idea that a President can simply waive an executive order "whenever he wishes" without notice (as opposed to formally rescinding or replacing it,
which he is entitled to do) appears to be a novel interpretation. OLC opinions, as far as I can tell, do not simply restate well-established legal positions; rather, they address new issues and new circumstances. So once again, this classified OLC opinion appears to represent a new departure and a secret new expansion of unchecked executive authority.
Secret Presidential Directives
By late January 2008, the Bush Administration had issued 56 National Security Presidential Directives (NSPDs) on many diverse national security topics. Most of these directives are undisclosed. Texts of the directives or descriptive fact sheets have been obtained for about a third of them (19). Titles alone have been ascertained for 8 more.
Suspected or reported topic areas have been proposed for another 19. No data at all are available for at least ten others.18
Unlike the case of some other categories of "secret law," this does not represent a significant departure from recent past practice. The Clinton Administration, for example, issued a total of 75 Presidential Decision Directives, with a roughly comparable proportion of classified, unclassified, and unidentified directives.
Nevertheless, such national security directives are a vexing instrument of executive authority since they often combine significant national policy initiatives with unwavering secrecy. They "commit the Nation and its resources as if they were the law of the land" and yet in most cases "they are not shared with Congress" or the public.19
Presidential directives, many of which carry the force of law, can take a bewildering number of different forms, including memoranda, orders, proclamations, and more.20 Because the President is not subject to the Freedom of Information Act, the public is dependent on the good graces of the Administration for access to many of these
Transportation Security Directives
The Transportation Security Administration has imposed a control category known as "Sensitive Security Information" on many of its security policies with the result that some unclassified security regulations affecting ordinary airline passengers have been withheld from disclosure.
In the post-September 11, 2001 statute that created the TSA, Congress directed the agency to devise regulations to prohibit disclosure of "information obtained or developed in carrying out security [if disclosure would] be detrimental to the security of
But in its implementing rule, TSA interpreted this mandate broadly to permit or require the withholding of an entire class of "security directives."22
Consequently, in an apparent departure from congressional intent, a whole series of binding regulations governing passenger inspection, personal identification and other
practices were rendered inaccessible, to the frustration of some and the disgust of others.
Some Americans understandably wondered why and how they could be required to comply with regulations that they could not see.23
Secret Law in Congress
It may be noted that the problem of secret law is not exclusively attributable to the executive branch. Congress has participated in the propagation of secret law through the adoption of classified annexes to intelligence authorization bills, for example. Such annexes may establish national policy, or require or prohibit the expenditure of public funds, all without public notice or a semblance of accountability. In a broader sense, Congress has acquiesced in the secret law practices identified above by failing to effectively challenge them.
On the other hand, Congress enacted legislation for the first time last year to require public disclosure of the amount of the National Intelligence Program budget, a step away from the inherited Cold War practice of secret law.
It should be possible to identify a consensual middle ground that preserves the security of genuinely sensitive national security information while reversing the growth
of secret laws, regulations and directives.
The distinction advanced by the ACLU in its pursuit of FIS Court rulings between legal analysis which should be released and operational intelligence information which should be protected was appropriate and correct, in my opinion.
The fact that the FIS Court was unwilling (and believed itself unable) to adopt and apply this distinction in practice suggests that legislative action may be needed to reestablish the norm that secret laws are anathema. The pending "State Secrets Protection Act" (S. 2533) that was reported out of the Judiciary Committee on April 24
represents one promising model of how conflicting interests in secrecy and disclosure may be reconciled.
The rule of law, after all, is one of the fundamental principles that unites us all,and one of the things we are committed to protect. Secret law is inconsistent with that commitment.
1 Torres v. I.N.S., 144 F.3d 472, 474 (7th Cir. 1998).
2 1 Stat. 68. Cited by Harold C. Relyea, "The Coming of Secret Law," Government
Information Quarterly, Vol. 5, No. 2, 1988, pp. 97-116.
3 Relyea, "The Coming of Secret Law," p. 104, citing Panama Refining Company v.
Ryan, 293 U.S. 388 (1935).
4 Providence Journal Co. v. Department of the Army, 981 F.2d 552, 556 (1st Cir. 1992).
5 Motion of the American Civil Liberties Union for Release of Court Records, August 8,
2007. Copy available at: http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/aclu080807.pdf. The
same records were independently sought by the Electronic Frontier Foundation under the Freedom of Information Act, without success.
6 Reply of the American Civil Liberties Union in Support of Motion for Release of Court Records, September 14, 2007, at pp. 1, 2, 10. Copy available at:
7 Ibid., pp. 8, 12-13.
8 Motion of the American Civil Liberties Union for Release of Court Records, August 8, 2007, at p. 12.
9 Opposition to the American Civil Liberties Union's Motion for Release of Court
Records, August 31, 2007, at p. 14. Copy available at:
http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/doj/fisa/aclu-doj-resp083107.pdf .
10 Ibid., p. 14, footnote 9.
11 Memorandum Opinion by Judge John D. Bates, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance
Court, Docket No. MISC. 07-01, December 11, 2007, at p. 16. Copy available at:
12 Ibid., at page 15.
13 http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/opinionspage.htm .
14 Principles to Guide the Office of Legal Counsel, a White Paper published by the
American Constitution Society, December 2004, available at:
15 Statement of Sen. Whitehouse, December 7, 2007, Congressional Record, pp. S15011-
S15012, available at: http://www.fas.org/irp/congress/2007_cr/fisa120707.html .
16 "United States Intelligence Activities," Executive Order 12333, 4 December 1981,
preamble: "... by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and statutes of
the United States of America, including the National Security Act of 1947, as
amended..." Copy available at: http://www.fas.org/irp/offdocs/eo12333.htm .
17 Letter to me from Paul P. Colborn, Special Counsel, Office of Legal Counsel, February 5, 2008, denying a FOIA request dated December 18, 2007.
18 A collection of unclassified NSPDs, fact sheets and related material is available here:
19 Relyea, "The Coming of Secret Law," op.cit., p. 108. See also U.S. General Accounting Office, "National Security: The Use of Presidential Directives to Make and Implement U.S. Policy," January 1992, report no. GAO/NSIAD-92-72.
20 See Harold C. Relyea, "Presidential Directives: Background and Overview," Congressional Research Service, updated August 9, 2007. Copy available at:
21 The Aviation and Transportation Security Act, 49 U.S. Code 114(s)(1).
22 Protection of Sensitive Security Information, Interim Final Rule, Federal Register, May
18, 2004, pp. 28066-28086, section 15.5 (b)(2), copy available at:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/news/2004/05/fr051804.html .
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Angus Wilson has always been the anthropologist of the older generation of the English upper middle class in those dated areas where it is either seedy, distrait, or decadent. It is a theme which has been familiar since the doctrinaire Thirties; now he has treated it more elaborately. It is a roman with adroitly muddled clefs. Decadence—how is it to be defined? Can it still be usefully thought of in terms of class divisions? Are we decadent or just fading, as the family album fades? What about the adaptations, the interplay, the imponderables? I imagine that Mr. Wilson might define decadence as the refusal to face reality, exert power, take responsibility—living at secondhand. The characters in Mr. Wilson's novel are more bizarre than decaying, but they are very brainy, very self-reliant, and, on the whole, have capitalized their injuries. He describes a whole family from youth to age in two generations and it is not surprising that two world wars have speeded the fading process.
As a critic Mr. Wilson has always been stimulating and committed. In criticism he is a feeling man. For myself, he has been most original as a writer of short stories, for there his strong personality does not overlay his characters. In the novelist he has all the advantages, but also all the defects of one who packs every ounce of showmanship in. He looks back to the long and solid Victorian novelists and believes—contrary to a very common opinion—that it is still possible to keep the long, full-bodied novel alive; not by flighty pastiche, not by stolid imitation or "pictorial journalism," but by reconstructing the architecture, the subject, and above all the means, i.e., by picking up the discoveries made by novelists in the last fifty years. His work contains a good many echoes from this period. He doesn't see why one cannot write a "great novel," something with a large scene newly rendered, and, in this, he is both as traditional and profuse as, say, Saul Bellow was in Herzog. It is prejudice on my part, but I believe that both talents become too personal in their long books. There is a failure to cut the umbilical cord. Their shorter books have intensity and definition.
On the jacket of No Laughing Matter there is a cautious comparison with The Forsyte Saga made (I suppose) to catch the public eye. This is unfair to Mr. Wilson. There is a skeleton of family chronicle but that is all. Galsworthy would have been appalled by the sexual and especially the homosexual candor of the Matthews family. He would have been incapable of Mr. Wilson's brilliantly mimicked dialogue, the ear for the catch phrase and theatrical allusions of the period. He is a deeply read man, and if one wants past references there is Joyce for the stream of consciousness, something of Gide's Les Faux-monnayeurs in the novel within a novel, and some dialogue—picked up with an …


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Grants authorized
Use of grants
Required activities
An institution of higher education receiving a grant under this section shall use such grant to carry out a model program that includes—
establishing a Center of Excellence for Veteran Student Success on the campus of the institution to provide a single point of contact to coordinate comprehensive support services for veteran students;
establishing a veteran student support team, including representatives from the offices of the institution responsible for admissions, registration, financial aid, veterans benefits, academic advising, student health, personal or mental health counseling, career advising, disabilities services, and any other office of the institution that provides support to veteran students on campus;
Other authorized activities
An institution of higher education receiving a grant under this section may use such grant to carry out any of the following activities with respect to veteran students:
Housing support for veteran students living in institutional facilities and commuting veteran students.
Cultural events, academic programs, orientation programs, and other activities designed to ease the transition to campus life for veteran students.
Application; selection
To be considered for a grant under this section, an institution of higher education shall submit to the Secretary an application at such time, in such manner, and accompanied by such information as the Secretary may require.
Selection considerations
In awarding grants under this section, the Secretary shall consider—
Evaluation and accountability plan
The Secretary shall develop an evaluation and accountability plan for model programs funded under this section to objectively measure the impact of such programs, including a measure of whether postsecondary education enrollment, persistence, and completion for veterans increases as a result of such programs.
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February 16, 2011
As I was running through the Rice University campus, I found myself thinking about all of the other college campuses I have visited since I graduated (something of a hobby of mine), and I started reminiscing about my past college days.
After all, I graduated almost two years ago and I am surviving in what most people call �the real world.�
At this point in my life, I�m clinging to any memory of personal growth and mental prosperity I can conjure.
As I looked back fondly on my days as a student, one thing that was at the forefront of my mind was the congeniality and personality of each individual student and professor at OBU.
I found myself remembering everyone; or at least greeting people with a friendly hello or hand wave as we passed each other.
I remembered having amazing discussions about life with students, professors, RAs, RDs and anyone else who would give me the time of day.
I was taken back to deep conversations late at night in the thing my friends and I dubbed �the grotto,� and the long drives to Shawnee lake with nothing but amazing music, best friends and stars.
As I ran, I relived my progression from a freshman with my parents� point of views to a senior with my own firmly grounded ideas, and I smiled broadly.
About that time, I snapped out of my happy memory and lifted my head up just as a student passed me.
I was so caught up in the moment and thinking it would be like old times, I smiled and tried to say hi.
She had her arms crossed and was hurrying past... Head down, no eye contact.
Okay, I thought to myself without discouragement, I�ll try someone else. But as I looked around, I realized this was the norm around here.
No one was speaking to each other; no one was smiling or even making eye contact.
Then I passed the student center.
Surely, I thought, I�d find professors and students sharing a coffee and speaking of nothing related to their specific subject concentration.
Alas, I was also disappointed here. Students were reading alone.
Not only did I not see professors and students growing one another, I didn�t see students growing each other.
I saw people standing alone, yet surrounded by others at the college bus stop.
I saw bike riders, musicians and art majors. But everyone was alone, no friends, no groups, no camaraderie.
�Well this sure is baffling,� I thought to myself.
And then it hit me; maybe my OBU experience WAS an amazing thing.
Maybe it was life changing.
Maybe it wasn�t just college, or a degree in mathematics or hard work, or something I had to go through to be something in this world.
Maybe it was a feeling of belonging, an exponential growth in all areas of my life, and most of all, a place to truly find myself.
And just maybe it was the best thing that ever happened to me.I look back to the hard times I overcame in college... to the hard times my friends overcame... And I realize that I will never be in that place in my life again. After all, we grow up, change and move on with life.
Families, kids, careers� that�s the typical journey we all follow in our own ways... that is expected; that�s life. But for now, live every moment.
Take advantage of the amazing opportunities you have been given. Befriend people that will grow you, your points of view and open your mind to new ideas and concepts.
Most of all, be thankful for the amazing gift you have been given no matter how much you hate it at the moment (I sure wish I was there for the CS Lewis Series!).
Don�t wait two years to appreciate the gift you have right in front of you. Live it up guys; though it might be the hardest time of your life, when you look back it will also be the most rewarding.


text: | Should tweets be taken seriously?October 26, 2012 - Pat Beck Should tweets be taken seriously? While you might not personally be into tweeting, a young person in your life undoubtedly is. When you are on Twitter or Facebook, you can say things, just about anything, without immediate consequences. You can try to limit your audience to those you want to be connected with, or you can simply express yourself to anyone in the world. But again, I ask you, should tweets and status updates be taken seriously? Here are some examples of recent news stories around the country: • a 17-year-old Freeland youth is facing criminal charges in connection with a bomb threat made to the Freeland High School through Facebook. • Sports reporter Erin Andrews has received multiple death threats from a Twitter user and is now calling for the social media site to enhance security. • The U.S. Secret Service is investigating a tweet from a high school girl that may be considered threatening toward the president. • Washington Redskins wide receiver Josh Morgan said he received threatening messages on Twitter after committing a costly unsportsmanlike conduct penalty during last Sunday's loss at St. Louis. And now, if you would, move with me a bit closer to home. The Leader-Herald's sports department from time to time publishes opinion columns. One this past week caused a number of individuals to respond. I received and responded to emails, and the paper received and published letters to the editor. My question pertains to some tweets that were posted. These are some examples of the remarks posted by teenagers and adults in response to the recent column (I have deleted the names and expletives but I haven't corrected the spelling): "I hope you develop a painful, deadly disease and die a slow miserable death, you gutless punk." "biggest %^%#%, $%*#, mother$%#@&, %^%##^ *&%#%%, for the leaderherald. &^$^ you, and the leaderherald. "The writer of that article about ___ and us can die now. "How about I write an article on how over weight, middle aged %$#%$ writing articles for the leader %$#&@#$ herald are a waist in society. "Hey ___ %$^# you, we get V's you get D's, please be at our next game so I can break your camera over your face. "You're a %#$@ disgrace. Put your head in the oven and put everyone out of their misery. You are nothing but a gutless punk who hides behind freedom of the press. "Hey %@$% who write that article about ___, who the %^@# are u? U write articles for the leader %^#@&%$ herald hahaha show respect you scum. And once again, I ask you, should tweets be taken seriously? Article Comments(3)drugsrusMar-12-13 12:51 AM a big part of the wehole deal is the degradition of society. ToT - good answer, but what can we do to bring the level of the gene pool up?? Societal sanctions have been erased by political correctness, used to be that almost any adult could somewhat discipline kids acting up away from home , they were also fair game for being asked to help a lady carry groceries to the porch from the car. the bigger question is how did we let things get this bad. To paraphrase an old quote - for things to go downhill, it only takes good people to sit by and do nothing, so it would seem that we are all somewhat to blame. So the bigger question would be how do we get back to the society we once knew, or do we continue with the in your face tough cookies pal attitude? TiredOfTaxMar-11-13 10:37 PM Great question and impossible to answer. for every 999 nut jobs that got satisfaction spouting off there is going to be the 1 that wants to go that extra step. That is the one that creates the new laws. It isn't the 99 law abiding fools that got their satisfaction with words it is that one misguided individual that throws us all into shock. Truth is, you just cannot tell what anyone is capable of. So you must take the majority of them seriously. Profiling and careful scrutiny should lower the numbers! I am shocked how insensitive comments are on horrific accidents, like the farmers 4 year old nephew that was killed while riding a tractor... a very sad event made less tolerable by wickedly cruel posts thoughtlessly posted on social media. I wonder what it would take to make it better? More thoughtful, or if it even can be. Post a Comment | in: News, Blogs & Events Web |


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Simply still a top choice 2 years laterPros: It just flat out gets the job done and then some Cons: None, of all the modern generations of intel i core processors its the most balanced and its durable . Other Thoughts: Well i'm not doing in superhardcore overclocking on mine , i use a mid level ATX asus P8Z77-V LX Motherboard so i figured a flat 4.0GHZ with a hyper 212 evo cooler and this thing should last a real long time. well at 4.0GHZ it screams i can only imagine what i could push it too. And memory utilization this thing is a beast. I currently run Gskillz ripjaws 2133 4x4 16 gb of ram in the system and it loves the ram and based on the synthetic benchmarks ive done on it utilizes the ram fully . I like many chose the sweet spot setup for the build i bought a $187 at the time 2GB EVGA sc GTX 660 graphics card. I went on newegg found a intel cherryville 520 64 gb sata III ssd refurbed for 90 dollars. Bought one of those 600GB sata III velociraptors to pair with the ssd and use as primary storage drive. I did make sure i bought i good dependable power supply for the system i still got a good deal on it to. Bought a M2II seasonic 750 watt bronze PSU , Payed about 79 dollars after rebates on it. I ran passmark 8 benchmark on the system WOW for $1050 rig i could not be more impressed , Solid middle tier system i know some of those top system people have like 7-8K in those systems and to know that for 1/8th that i'm 55% of the best system thats been benched on the site top build system rank was 8236 , mine came in at 4474. This 2500k is a Gem Intel comes out with these , their legacy standouts . I remember the old e8400 dual core how well its held the test of time , its still a viable option for a lot of people, and i still play one with in a old overhauled rig i have. The Q6600 , wow just get it close to 3ghz and its still a good little powerhoouse and we're talking 8 year old tech. When intel came out with the core architecture in late 2005 early 2006 they found the tech to leave amd in the dust. Now granted i have some amd builds as well , but their Phenoms , the phenoms are the only amd cpus past present and future that i will acknowledge and play with. But to get back to the point i was going to make The Sandy bridge i5 CPUs are one of those we'll look back as a Gem and should keep a long term value Did you find this review helpful? |
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High qualityPros: OC ability has to be mentioned first. 4.7GHz easily achievable and stable with the right motherboard. 4.5GHz is what I kept the chip clocked to most of the time over my 3 years of ownership. It never gave me any trouble while paired with an average water-block. Temperatures were always amazingly cool, at max I would get temps in the mid 70's C. I loved this chip! Cons: If used with gaming in mind it Sand Bridge so no PCI Express 3.0 support. This was the reason I very recently upgraded to the 4770K. I also upgraded my GPU to pair the new 3.0 capability. When I compared the performance of the two chips with the new GPU (GTX 770) the results were very close. 3-4 FPS max. I see a difference when benchmarking and video rendering - I7 Hyper-Threading technology at work. In the end no cons - this chip stands up to the test of time very well. Compared to my latest I7 chip the results are very close. Other Thoughts: Outstanding chip! 1 out of 1 people found this review helpful. Did you? |
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The Sword of Damocles hangs no more for David Pogue. The New York Times technology columnist has yet again eluded the bony grasp of editorial punishment in the wake of a "flagrant" violation of the New York Times' editorial standards.
To refresh your memory, Mr. Pogue—easily one of the most widely-read technology columnists in the country, and a major asset to the Times—was recently found to have spoken at a seminar for communications professionals, something strictly against the New York Times standards.
This is not the first time his compliance with the Times' standards or ethics have been called into question.
Among others:
- June 2009: David Pogue takes a paid speaking gig in California for an industry trade group, theConsumer Electronics Association's "CEO Summit." He was reprimanded by way of—per the Times—being "reminded of the policy provisions barring acceptance of speaking fees or travel expenses from all but educational or other non-profit organizations that do not have lobbying or political activity as a major focus."
- August 2009: David Pogue writes a glowing review of Apple operating system Snow Leopard in the Times. He has also written a book about the operating system, and thus, plainly stood to profit from his own review.
- September 2009: David Pogue's many conflicts merit their own column from the New York Times ombudsman, Clark Hoyt ("He Works For the Times, Too") in which three separate journalism ethicsists conclude unanimously that Mr. Pogue's work outside the Times often stands in strict ethical opposition to the paper. No punishment is doled out; a disclosure is added to his blog. Mr. Pogue's response is that he is "not a reporter."
- October 2009: David Pogue takes a speaking fee from defense contractor Raytheon and a trip to Disney World. As previously mentioned, Times standards prohibit staffers for taking fees from anyone other than non-profits.
- May 2011: It's revealed that David Pogue is dating PR professional Nikki Dugan; the firm she works for represents a number of companies David Pogue has written about. Times technology editor Damon Darlin explains that there were no conflicts; Mr. Pogue told him about the relationship in December, when it started, and that all pitches from Ms. Dugan's company will go through Mr. Darlin from that point forward. (A source tells the Observer that the relationship between Mr. Pogue and Ms. Dugan started as early as April 2010.)
- June 2011: It's revealed that Mr. Pogue took another speaking engagement, this time to a group of communications professionals.
(He's also had some slightly turbulent problems at home involving press, and continues to.)
Given the seriousness with which the Times takes their standards policy—and given the precedent for violations of it: zero-tolerance, whether you understand the rules or not—one would think Mr. Pogue's status with the Times would be called into question.
Not so much. The decision, as handed down for delivery by Arthur Brisbane, the Times' Public Editor:
[An] inquiry into it has led to a Times internal review and, as a consequence, Pogue is barred from making any more speeches like this one to public relations professionals.
…the speech flagrantly violates the prohibition against giving advice at paid P.R. conferences.
But unlike less lucky (or popular) Times staffers, David Pogue will not be fired, and will only have a fraction of his supplementary income hedged by the Times. If not entirely predictable, it's a lucky break: Mr. Pogue still has issues closer to the chest to concern himself with. Heavy hangs the head onwhich the crown of technology-writing for all of geekdom hangs, or something along those lines.
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From Mark Ragan, CEO of Ragan Communications and producer of the 'Pitch Me, Baby' presentation delivered by David Pogue at the 2011 Media Relations Summit. This comment is an elaboration of a posted response to NYT Public Editor Arthur Brisbane's column.
I applaud the efforts of the New York Times to enforce some kind of ethical standard for its columnists and reporters. But I think the policy has become a tortured mess as the newspaper struggles to apply principles to freelancers who have become celebrities in their own right.
The Times is attempting to have it both ways: It wants to save money by using wildly popular contractors like Pogue but then attempts to leash them to rules that were intended for its paid staff writers in the pre-Internet era.
The solution is simple but unworkable: Ban all paid speaking gigs by regular contractors but compensate them for the revenue lost. For someone like Pogue, this could easily be in the tens of thousands of dollars—perhaps in the hundreds of thousands. Of course, The Times is struggling financially and could never agree to such a financial arrangement. Hence the confusing thicket of exceptions to the policy.
Much of that policy makes no sense as it stands now anyway. For example, NYT freelancers can seek approval from their editors for paid presentations on a case-by-case basis. Why?
If the purpose of the ethics policy is to avoid conflicts of interest, then one could make the case that any event could present such a conflict. If Pogue appeared before auto executives, how would his editor evaluate a 'perceived conflict?' He doesn't cover the auto industry, or does he? Cars are now loaded with personal technology gadgets, right? What if Pogue decided that new technology that allows cars to navigate on their own was worthy of a column or blog post? Would his paid appearance present a conflict of interest? Of course it would. Unless he's appearing before an association of soap manufacturers, one can hardly imagine a safe setting.
David's appearance before PR people is really what caused this outcry among Times editors. And yet, his presentation merely stated the obvious. As a tech columnist, he relies on PR people to contact him about new product launches, updates to software and other tech news.
We invited him to speak because he is in a unique position to tell PR pros how to frame their pitches so they are more relevant to his beat. Much of his advice centered on good writing and research: Avoid jargon, know what the reporter covers and stop spamming him with irrelevant press releases. What is truly ironic is that his tips, if followed, would cut down on the junk e-mails most journalists receive.
It's interesting that the NYT Public Editor never mentioned Pogue's jarring statement during our event, the video of which they reviewed, that he had no interest in meeting PR people, going out to lunch with them, or having them arrange meetings with their executives. In fact, he bluntly states that his job is to open the box and experience the product in the same manner that a consumer would. How is this 'cozying up' to the PR industry (words used in Public Editor Arthur Brisbane's column)?
I have known David Pogue for nearly four years. He has spoken at several of our conferences. He is one of the most honest and candid speakers on the celebrity circuit. When he appeared at our conference at Microsoft last year, he used the occasion to rip the company for a horrible new product launch. His appearance at that event, it is worth nothing, was expressly approved by his editor, as were two other major Ragan conferences.
There is one other solution to the NYT policy, one that recognizes the world we live in today. Require full disclosure of paid speaking events by Times writers and then trust your readers to come to their own conclusions. Pogue is popular for a reason—he is informative, entertaining and almost always correct in his assessment of new products. He has built an enormous reservoir of good will among his readers, most of whom couldn't care less about his speaking engagements.