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Shannon Kaye purchased approximately $20 worth of acrylic beads in a variety of deep hues.
Clear beads are painted with turquoise glass paint; this translucent enamel will allow light to shine through the beads.
When the paint is dry, the beads are strung on wire.
Finally, the beads are strung in a random pattern on the chandelier. They'll add reflective color and add the crowning touch to the Bohemian feel of the room.
The room is put back together: the formerly bland white walls and mismatched furniture are now full of color, texture and Victorian charm, all of which work to tie the room together (Before: Image 1) (After: Image 2) (After: Image 3) (After Image 4).


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Storage Containers For Freezing Food That Are NOT Plastic
Hi Karen - why are round containers more airtight than square containers? I've actually been buying more square containers recently, because I've heard there is less wasted space between square containers than round. Thanks!
Mar 01, 2015goodeatsgal in Cookware
What do you put in your chicken stock to make the most flavorful soup?
Nycguy, what is the purpose of letting the bones absorb the vinegar? And do you add the vegetables afterwards?
Jan 03, 2015goodeatsgal in Home Cooking
Megachef Fish Sauce (East or South Bay)
My memory may be faulty, but I think I've seen it at Marina Market in San Mateo. So you might try the Marina in Cupertino. (Or, darn it, it could have been the 99 Ranch in Foster City.)
Dec 29, 2014goodeatsgal in San Francisco Bay Area
Reheat with Oil After Cleaning Cast Iron?
We do the same, except we don't re-wipe after reheating on the burner, and we store our pan in a cabinet.
Dec 19, 2014goodeatsgal in Cookware
A Faster Chowhound: Pagination for Longer Threads
I echo Melanie's comment 100%. Reading speed is important to me, so I dislike having to click to get to the next page and wait for it to load. When there are too many pages, it makes me want to give up and not read them all.
7x7's List of private rooms/restaurants in SF
This is a great list. Thanks for sharing!
Dec 17, 2014goodeatsgal in San Francisco Bay Area
Where can I find great French Onion Soup?
I concur about the one at Cafe Jacqueline. It was so delicious, that it has stayed in my memory better than the souffles.
Dec 10, 2014goodeatsgal in San Francisco Bay Area
How about making a Chorizo Jam? I've been wanting to try this one. http://eatlikeagirl.com/2013/10/22/re...
Dec 09, 2014goodeatsgal in Home Cooking
About the same level of saltiness as a ham. For me, it's salty but not too salty.
Dec 07, 2014goodeatsgal in San Francisco Bay Area
Thanks for the advice on cooking the oxtails and making stock. With respect to the tip bones vs. the big ones, oftentimes the problem is that if you buy it pre-packaged (for instance at Costco), they always include a lot of the small bones. And I have never seen an oxtail the size of a large apple in my area. :-(
Dec 04, 2014goodeatsgal in Home Cooking
I make an almost-identical recipe, except that it doesn't include an egg, and the can of corn is not drained. It's usually one of the most popular recipes.
Nov 30, 2014goodeatsgal in Home Cooking
How to clean the face of an oven thermometer?
Hi critter, I wanted to thank you for your suggestion. I let the baking soda / water paste sit on the face of the thermometer for about 15 minutes, and then scrubbed it off with a textured paper towel. I had to use a little bit of elbow grease, but it did all come off. Yay, I can see the temps on the dial again! Thank you!
Nov 30, 2014goodeatsgal in Cookware
Just wanted to report back. I did pre-order a smoked turkey and picked it up on the Monday before Thanksgiving. I also purchased extra smoked turkey drumsticks, and fresh necks and wings to make stock. All prices were very reasonable.
Because we had the non-smoked turkey in the oven, we decided to reheat the smoked turkey on the gas grill. It worked out great, and a lot of our guests loved the smoked turkey. It was definitely nice to have a second option, since we don't normally serve ham or any other meat.
Thanks again for the recommendation!
Nov 30, 2014goodeatsgal in San Francisco Bay Area
Food mill for mashed potatoes - what do you think?
It depends on how many potatoes you're processing. One year, I used the food mill for enough potatoes to serve 24 people. (I don't remember how many pounds of potatoes.) It took a really long time and lots of elbow grease to mill them, and eventually, we gave up and used an old-fashioned potato masher.
Nov 24, 2014goodeatsgal in Home Cooking
Dungeness Crab Prices 2014/2015 Season
We saw the fresh cooked crab at Costco on Nov. 21. The fishmonger said these were fresh, not frozen, because they are in season. But at other times of the year, they are previously frozen. I don't recall the price, but they were cooked. Not cracked, however.
Nov 24, 2014goodeatsgal in San Francisco Bay Area
Best Seasonal/Holiday Trader Joe's Items.... for 2014
It was the tub that I saw. I've never noticed the taller thinner package, so I can't speak to how it tastes.
Best Seasonal/Holiday Trader Joe's Items.... for 2014
I saw the seasonal Fondue last night. And I picked up the Himalayan Salt with Truffles that Chowhounders raved about in the November thread.
Costco Food Finds - 4th Quarter 2014
What brand is the Korean pork jerky, and what section of the store can you find it in?
Time may sell Sunset Magazine's Menlo Park headquarters, gardens
Menlo College could be a savior! They're interested in buying the site as another campus. http://www.almanacnews.com/news/2014/...
Nov 20, 2014goodeatsgal in San Francisco Bay Area
Thanksgiving side: Not heavy, possibly acidic or citrusy?
I totally agree about serving something lighter to balance the heavy dishes. How about this recipe? Green Beans with Lemon and Capers. The green beans are blanched. The dish is light, refreshing, and citrusy. It can be made ahead and served at room temperature. http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes...
Note that I had to blanch the green beans for longer than the 3-4 minutes specified in the recipe. Perhaps my green beans were extra-thick, or old.
Nov 18, 2014goodeatsgal in Home Cooking
Where are you buying your turkey?
A lot of people mentioned BN Ranch turkeys, which I'm not familiar with. But this 7x7 article dated 11/17/14 mentions a lot of stores that sell BN Ranch. http://www.7x7.com/eat-drink/where-bu...
Nov 18, 2014goodeatsgal in San Francisco Bay Area
Time may sell Sunset Magazine's Menlo Park headquarters, gardens
I had the same thought. I love their Celebration Weekend and go most years. I will miss going there and seeing the gardens if it's sold.
Nov 18, 2014goodeatsgal in San Francisco Bay Area
Crab . Your favorite ways to prepare ?
At the beginning of the Dungeness Crab season, we always eat it steamed. After we've had it that way a few times, I'll start doing other preparations, like an Asian wok fry, or this Roast Garlic preparation by Michael Chiarello: http://www.napastyle.com/recipes/2014...
Nov 16, 2014goodeatsgal in Home Cooking
How to clean the face of an oven thermometer?
I have 2 oven thermometers whose faces have gotten stained while in use in the oven. The stains are either brownish or white, and can't be scratched off with a fingernail. I assume they're from splattering oil. How do I clean the faces since I can't submerge the thermometers in water or run water over them? I've tried scrubbing them with a cloth on which I've sprinkled baking powder, but that hasn't worked. Thanks for any advice.
Nov 16, 2014goodeatsgal in Cookware
Thanks for the info, Melanie. I can't wait! Quick question - is it recommended to pre-order the smoked turkey, or will they have plenty if I show up on Sunday or possibly even Monday?
Nov 06, 2014goodeatsgal in San Francisco Bay Area
Hi Melanie,
Are you saying that you will buy the turkey already smoked? If so, what day would you buy it? I will be in the area the Sunday before Thanksgiving and It sounds like a great idea to buy a smoked turkey (and parts for broth and gravy). But it may be too early for Thanksgiving. :-(
Nov 06, 2014goodeatsgal in San Francisco Bay Area
I was at Grocery Outlet, Redwood City, tonight. The check-out person told me the wine sale starts tomorrow, November 5 and runs through Sunday, Nov. 9. I didn't ask him, but I'm going to "assume" that this wine sale is for all G.O.s in the Bay Area. I usually receive emails from G.O. about their wine sales, but didn't get one this time.
Nov 04, 2014goodeatsgal in San Francisco Bay Area
Thanksgiving!! Two turkeys at once?
I ask my husband to be responsible for the grilled turkey while I take care of the turkey in the oven. Works great. :-)
Nov 03, 2014goodeatsgal in Home Cooking
I don't have any experience with Foleys. I have a newish stainless steel food mill that sounds a lot like wekick's. It has 3 disks with holes of various sizes and legs to sit over a bowl, and it is dishwasher-safe. I bought it from a restaurant supply store about 5 years ago and am very happy with it.
Oct 09, 2014goodeatsgal in Cookware
I also roast tomatoes when I have a large quantity of fresh from the garden tomatoes. After roasting (sometimes with some garlic), I puree them through a food mill. The resulting sauce is just like the sauce in ChicEats' photo - thick and vibrantly colored, and not separated. It's also very sweet. When I use this sauce - whether for pasta or something else - I rarely have to add more than salt and pepper. It's so good!
Sep 28, 2014goodeatsgal in Home Cooking

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Photo restoration and matching grain for photo repairs
This is a follow on post from my original matching grain article a while ago.
This is just one example of how to match grain when replacing a back ground or perhaps any part of an image.
Look at this image, it is part of a man's shoulder and the background could do with evening out or replacing altogether.
Here I have just selected and deleted the back ground to white. It does not look at all right.
Above a blur might clean up the background. Whilst evening out the background it still does not match very well.
Here I have added some grain (noise) but it still does not match. If I apply a blur to this then we can achieve a better result.
With a slight blur its much better and using the correct selection technique for the original background selection it looks fairly convincing. Using this matching grain technique and varying the amounts of grain and blur ratios and perhaps even repeating the process a few times along with varying the type of noise, we can achieve different patterns of grain to suit nearly every situation.
For a short video on this topic see below.
I am not an advocate or you "must replace the background". In fact i'm quite the opposite. The above is meant to show you what can be done if its needed.
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[…] If you are inserting anything into an image especially skies, match both the edge definition and the grain. Old images have natural random grain that doesn't mix that well with flat computer generated tones. Skies will look fake and nasty. If inserted with bad selection they will look even more amateurish. Matching grain video […]
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Doug showed them his mouse, and then showed them his other invention, which was the chord keyboard, supposedly he was always a bit upset that it wasn't as much of a success as the mouse
He does this video link up as well, which wowed the audience, and showed them two users, himself and his research assistent who teleoperates a mouse pointer of his own at the same time on the shared screen, one of the first proper Computer Supported Cooperative Work demos as well. All very heavy stuff, the mouse cursor looks very funny, its basically an ink blob moving about the place, Doug also demoed a form of hypertexted document as well, just while he was at everything else
Anyhow if you get a chance to see the video, do so, i found the audience reactions hilarious.
The mouse is an invention in the same sense that Windows is an invention. Sure, it does have some nice things, but I'll take an IBM 3101 over your Windows 95 PC with a mouse anyday! (OK, so I'd probably want something better than a 3101...)
Joshua. (Who does like his Microsoft scrollpoint mouse.)
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Addtions to my Garden
Harvested atleast 15 of them - all from a suprise vine which I thought was a squash :) The last few were much sweeter than the initial ones.
Maybe didn't grow tall enough to support the flower :(
Reaching for the sky ..
First watermelon of the season. Making sure that it indeed is a watermelon !!
Fresh cut from the garden on 08/10/10
Some statistics :)
Yes you are seeing it right 20lbs !!
Wow -- fifteen! My volunteer only had three, but I was glad to get them. They sure surprised me. Your sunflower is beautiful. Always meant to try and grow those big ones, or some of the smaller fancy colored ones, but never have. Your watermelon picture is making me hungry for some. Glad I've got one in the 'fridge! ... LOL
Thanks for the photos!
My sunflowers always droop like that after they have been pretty for a couple weeks. I think as the seeds develop in the center, it gets heavier so droops over. Those melons looked yummy! I really do think home grown cantaloupe is the best! We used to have a lab who would steal them and eat them all by himself!


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that Ventura interview. You see Morgan's own audience nodding with Ventura on 9/11 points.
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For everything else, there's Ron Paul."
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KILLER BOOBY TRAPS HOUSE; EXCLUSIVE THE FINAL EVIL He wired mains to front door in bid to murder cops.
SCHOOLBOY Rory Blackhall's killer booby-trapped his home to murder police officers.
DIY fanatic Simon Harris, 37, wired the electricity mains to the front door handle using a 20ft cable, it was revealed yesterday.
He then hanged himself in the garden shed - using other cable. But police, anxious not to alert neighbours in Livingston, West Lothian, slipped into his three-bedroom house by the back door.
Shocked officers found Harris had connected the wires from the fusebox underneath the stair and looped them around the metal handle of the front door. A senior police source told the Sunday Mail: "He set this trap with the intention of killing police when they came through his door."
Eleven-year-old Rory vanished after being dropped off near to his school by his mum, Michelle.
His body was found in nearby woodland three days later.
Senior police sources said it was "a stroke of luck" police decided to enter the house from the back.
The decision probably saved the lives of two officers.
A police source told the Sunday Mail: "The electricity mains is underneath the stair in the hallway and he had rigged it with a cable at least 20ft long and several inches thick.
"The live wires were attached to the mains and he had it looped round the door handle.
"Anyone unfortunate enough to touch that would have been seriously injured or killed."
The source said the shock, believed to have a peak power of around 270volts, would be enough to kill an average-sized man, blowing him across the garden.
He said: "Harris was a joiner and was interested in anything to do with DIY, so he would have been well aware of the effect his booby trap would have."
Harris's body was found at his home in Camps Rigg last Sunday afternoon after neighbours alerted police that he fitted the description of the man they were looking for.
He had hanged himself with a length of electrical cable in his shed.
The police source said: "Harris was twisted and cunning enough to rig up that trap.
"He knew it was only a matter of time before police connected him to the murder of Rory.
"It is quite obvious that he decided he would kill again, even if it was from beyond the grave" Paedophile Harris was on bail for a string of sex offences involving young girls when he snatched Rory.
after the youngster decided to play truant from school.
The booby trap is chillingly similar to a scene in the latest novel by top American crime writer Jeffrey Deaver, titled The 12 Card.
The book is about a killer stalking a schoolgirl who tries to kill police on his trail by wiring up his door to the mains electricity.
One clue he leaves behind is the 12th Trot card - The Hanged Man.
Last night, a spokesman for Lothian and Borders said: "It would be inappropriate for us to comment while the investigation is ongoing
Deadly door: The; handle that was wired up by Harris; Killer: Simon Harris; Rigged up cables: Harris set booby traps to murder the police; Picture: Daily Record; Dump: A police officer stands guard over the debris as the Harris garden fills up with ripped-out fittings
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My application is using Messaging. If a Message's data or request is not received by a certain time, it is useless and should be ignored.
How can a sender indicate when a message should be considered stale and thus shouldn't be processed?
Set the Message Expiration to specify a time limit how long the message is viable.
Once the time for which a message is viable passes, and the message still has not been consumed, then the message will expire. The messaging system's consumers will ignore an expired message; they treat the message as if it where never sent in the first place. Most messaging system implementations reroute expired messages to the Dead Letter Channel, while others simply discard expired messages; this may be configurable....
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Need some help here! Flowering almond bush looking sad.
Hi all!
I have a flowering almond bush in my garden at the front of my house. I bought it 2 years ago and last spring it bloomed so nicely and grew really well. This spring my almond only flowered on part of the plant and it looks like the leaves are starting to die except on one branch! It did have some damage this spring from hungry rabbits chewing some of the branches but other than that i don't know why this is happening. I haven't seen any bugs or caterpillars or anything like that....there are a couple of other bushes close to it, creeping evergreens and one rhododendron, maybe it could be too acidic?
Any help would be appreciated!
Here is a picture of my front garden, the bush is on the right behind the lillies (Big bunch of green over there!)
Here it is close up....
and here is a closeup of the other side of the garden..
I had two that flowered every year, after which they would both look dead, wilted leaves, etc. Then they would start to produce new leaves again from the bottom and I would have to cut them way back to make them look decent. It seemed like flowering took all the life out of them.
I'm not sure this is their normal cycle, but I finially got tired of them and replaced them with something else.
I will try to get a closer picture for you to look at tomorrow, there are new leaves on one branch on the right side but otherwise the leaves have wilted and it looks almost dead. We did have a pretty hard winter here maybe it is from that? I might try cutting it down a bit and see if that helps is to regenerate....
If you are going to prune, now is a good time. My Flowering Almond did bloom nicely this year, then acted like some of the stems were dying. Mine needed thinning because it was getting quite floppy anyway. I trimmed out all the wilted leaf stems, plus the floppy ones and shortened the tallest so what was left is all the same height.
This seems to have helped because no more stems have wilted. Leaves look good.
I would trim a lot of the dead or wilted stems out, just leave a few. Perhaps some fertilizer worked into the soil would help too. This should strengthen the root system, so you could get new growth and a better chance for improved flowering next spring.
My Almond has been pretty faithful about flowering, even with our often, extremely cold winters, deep snow, hard winds. I do think it has improved with some trimming, which opened the bush up for better airflow in our humid summers. The rabbits don't seem to like it, I thought it was poison. I do fence in my tasty bushes!
It may be a hardiness problem. My 2 Spring flowering Almonds are impossible to kill. I cut them both to ground level once to try to kill them and they both grew back in a single year.
I guess I'll have to keep them, as it is is too much trouble to dig them up (I have too many fenceline shrubs too close together - they all grow larger than the labels say). Mine grow happily too close to other shrubs.
Mine grow 3' high and wide and are a bit twiggy. Gorgeous in spring flowering, but not much to look at the rest of the year.
..these have a fruitful life of 3-5 years..they are in the peach family, and subject to borers.....I buy from Millers, online, and do not expect them to go farther than 4-5 years, the flowering go down fast, even with expert care and food...they expend themselves quickly
I still have (3) fairly viable Flowering Almond Shrubs.
I've always loved the spring bloom, and the shrub usually doesn't look too bad the rest of the year either.
Two years ago, after 5 years or so of growth and flowering, I began to experience wilting on my shrubs right after blooming. At first, it wasn't too bad, but as the years have gone by, the effect is becoming worse and worse.
I did some googling, and it appears that there is a fungal disease that is common to these shrubs that is commonly called "brown-off". What I found in prior years directed me to prune off the affected branches (to avoid infection of healthy branches) and to let the plants rejuvenate over the summer, which they did.
But, as I said, each year my plants would look worse. This year, I found that this disease actually enters the shrubs via the blooms (which makes a lot of sense).
Anyway, I've trimmed them back again, (thankfully, I do have some healthy growth and foliage) ... and I've given them a dose of Bayer's All-in-One Rose systemic treatment.
Next year, I'm going to try and remember to give my plants a fungal treatment in the weeks BEFORE they bloom. Hopefully, this might stave off the infection.
I'm not sure what you're talking about, John. I've got two flowering almonds that have surpassed the 30 year mark - and our winters here are harsher and more prolonged than even those in zone 5.
They do respond beautifully to removing dead branches and a clean up pruning. Mine are @5-6' high and have a nice spread. The only year they didn't bloom was when I'd let maintenance go on them for a few years. After going at them with a pruner, the next spring they were as beautiful as ever.
violet - cut or scratch a branch or two and see if there's any live wood with the green layer under the bark. Then in the fall, make a chicken wire cage - that's sufficient to keep the rabbits from foraging over the winter.


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Mieke Eoyang, the Director of Third Way's National Security Program, has what Ben Wittes bills as a "disruptive" idea: to make US law the exclusive means to conduct all surveillance involving US companies.
But reforming these programs doesn't address another range of problems—those that relate to allegations of overseas collection from US companies without their cooperation.
Beyond 215 and FAA, media reports have suggested that there have been collection programs that occur outside of the companies' knowledge. American technology companies have been outraged about media stories of US government intrusions onto their networks overseas, and the spoofing of their web pages or products, all unbeknownst to the companies. These stories suggest that the government is creating and sneaking through a back door to take the data. As one tech employee said to me, "the back door makes a mockery of the front door."
As a result of these allegations, companies are moving to encrypt their data against their own government; they are limiting their cooperation with NSA; and they are pushing for reform. Negative international reactions to media reports of certain kinds of intelligence collection abroad have resulted in a backlash against American technology companies, spurring data localization requirements, rejection or cancellation of American contracts, and raising the specter of major losses in the cloud computing industry. These allegations could dim one of the few bright spots in the American economic recovery: tech.
How about making the FAA the exclusive means for conducting electronic surveillance when the information being collected is in the custody of an American company? This could clarify that the executive branch could not play authority shell-games and claim that Executive Order 12333 allows it to obtain information on overseas non-US person targets that is in the custody of American companies, unbeknownst to those companies.
As a policy matter, it seems to me that if the information to be acquired is in the custody of an American company, the intelligence community should ask for it, rather than take it without asking. American companies should be entitled to a higher degree of forthrightness from their government than foreign companies, even when they are acting overseas.
Now, I have nothing against this proposal. It seems necessary but wholly inadequate to restoring trust between the government and (some) Internet companies. Indeed, it represents what should have been the practice in any case.
Let me first take a detour and mention a few difficulties with this. First, while I suspect this might be workable for content collection, remember that the government was not just collecting content from Google and Yahoo overseas — they were also using their software to hack people. NSA is going to still want the authority to hack people using weaknesses in such software, such as it exists (and other software companies probably still are amenable to sharing those weaknesses). That points to the necessity to start talking about a legal regime for hacking as much as anything else — one that parallels what is going on with the FBI domestically.
Also, this idea would not cover the metadata collection from telecoms which are domestically covered by Section 215, which will surely increasingly involve cloud data that more closely parallels the data provided by FAA providers but that would be treated as EO 12333 overseas (because thus far metadata is still treated under the Third Party doctrine here). This extends to the Google and Yahoo metadata taken off switches overseas. So, such a solution would be either limited or (if and when courts domestically embrace a mosaic theory approach to data, including for national security applications) temporary, because some of the most revealing data is being handed over willingly by telecoms overseas.
Back in 1993, cartoonist Peter Steiner famously captured a largely held belief about the Internet: "On the Internet, no one knows you're a dog."
According to a fascinating new study from Pew, that's no longer true.
Just 24% of adults "agree" (20%) or "strongly agree" (3%) with the statement: "It is easy for me to be anonymous when I am online." By contrast, 74% "disagree" (52%) or "strongly disagree" (22%) that it is easy for them to be anonymous.
The poll suggests this is partly because of coverage of government spying, and partly because of corporate spying.
I find two other things about this most interesting. First, the demographics on the specific answers are very fascinating. Just as one example, more affluent people are more likely to check how they come up on Internet searches.
Self-searching activity varies greatly across different groups, particularly by age, income, and household education. Adults under the age of 50 are far more likely to be "self-searchers" than those ages 50 and older, and adults with higher levels of household income and education stand out as especially likely to check up on their own digital footprints.
But I can imagine that's because they live more of their life online (and they're more apt to use things like Linked In to apply for jobs). There are also demographic differences in what people find sensitive (see differences in sensitivity about email content at 50, for example). Again, that may reflect the degree to which these tools are available, and therefore are likely to include sensitive communications.
The other thing, however, is that people appear far less worried about metadata than they should be. I get why people are almost universally worried about social security privacy — and this likely reflects the fact that the most immediate threat to everyone is identity theft, not government spying or abuse from Google. But in both government and commercial hands, metadata have become more revealing than content. Respondents don't seem to worry about it though.
At his Brookings event yesterday, Jim Comey claimed that there is a misperception, in the wake of the Snowden releases, about how much data the government obtains.
In the wake of the Snowden disclosures, the prevailing view is that the government is sweeping up all of our communications. That is not true. And unfortunately, the idea that the government has access to all communications at all times has extended—unfairly—to the investigations of law enforcement agencies that obtain individual warrants, approved by judges, to intercept the communications of suspected criminals.
It frustrates me, because I want people to understand that law enforcement needs to be able to access communications and information to bring people to justice. We do so pursuant to the rule of law, with clear guidance and strict oversight.
He goes onto pretend that Apple and Google are default encrypting their phone solely as a marketing gimmick, some arbitrary thing crazy users want.
Both companies are run by good people, responding to what they perceive is a market demand. But the place they are leading us is one we shouldn't go to without careful thought and debate as a country.
Encryption isn't just a technical feature; it's a marketing pitch. But it will have very serious consequences for law enforcement and national security agencies at all levels. Sophisticated criminals will come to count on these means of evading detection. It's the equivalent of a closet that can't be opened. A safe that can't be cracked. And my question is, at what cost?
He ends with a plea that "our private sector partners … consider changing course."
But we have to find a way to help these companies understand what we need, why we need it, and how they can help, while still protecting privacy rights and providing network security and innovation. We need our private sector partners to take a step back, to pause, and to consider changing course.
There's something missing from Comey's tale.
An explanation of why the FBI has not pursued the sophisticated criminals who stole Google's data overseas.
At a recent event with Ron Wyden, the Senator asked Schmidt to weigh in on the phone encryption "kerfuffle." And Schmidt was quite clear: the reason Google and Apple are doing this is because the NSA's partners in the UK stole their data, even while they had access to it via PRISM.
The people who are criticizing this should have expected this. After Google was attacked by the British version of the NSA, we were annoyed and so we put end-to-end encryption at rest, as well as through our systems, making it essentially impossible for interlopers — of any kind — to get that information.
Schmidt describes the default encryption on the iPhone, notes that it has been available for the last 3 years on Android phones, and will soon be standard, just like it is on iPhone.
Law enforcement has many many ways of getting information that they need to provide this without having to do it without court orders and with the possible snooping conversation. The problem when they do it randomly as opposed to through a judicial process is it erodes user trust.
If everything Comey said were true, if this were only about law enforcement getting data with warrants, Apple — and Google especially — might not have offered their customers the privacy they deserved. But it turns out Comey's fellow intelligence agency decided to just go take what they wanted.
And FBI did nothing to solve that terrific hack and theft of data.
I guess FBI isn't as interested in rule of law as Comey says.
The tech industry has issued a letter urging the Senate to hurry up and
give them immunity and compensation pass USA Freedom Act.
The letter is actually pretty funny. The letter claims:
The revelations about the U.S. government's surveillance programs that began in June of 2013 have led to an erosion of public trust in the U.S. government and the U.S. technology sector. In an effort to begin restoring that trust, the USA FREEDOM Act will prevent the bulk collection of Internet metadata, call detail records, and other tangible things in a manner that both enhances privacy and protects national security.
I mean, it's not funny that the NSA has fucked with the tech companies' business model. The funny part is the bill doesn't do what the tech companies say it does!
It only limits the bulk collection of Internet metadata — to the extent it does do that — via the use of Pen Register or Section 215 authorities. It doesn't do anything about the bulky collection of Internet metadata (and content) through PRISM. And it definitely doesn't do anything to end the biggest part of bulk Internet metadata collection, which happens overseas. Hell, this doesn't even give the Internet companies any more assurances they won't have their data stolen overseas (though some at least are making that more difficult by encrypting their data).
Then the letter makes this claim.
As a result of the surveillance program revelations, U.S. technology companies have experienced negative economic implications in overseas markets. In addition, other countries are considering proposals that would limit data flows between countries, which would have a negative impact on the efficiencies upon which the borderless Internet relies. The transparency measures in the USA FREEDOM Act are designed to alleviate some of the concerns behind such actions by allowing companies to be more transparent about the orders they receive from the government to its surveillance authorities.
Now, it is true that the law tweaks the agreement the government previously made with the Internet companies so they can show more about what they do. That's a good thing.
But the "transparency" provisions in the bill are actually designed to obscure key details about surveillance. They hide how many Americans will be exposed to most Section 215 orders (though will reveal the total people exposed) because FBI, which will get most of the orders, is exempted from that reporting. They hide the FBI's use of "back door searches" of Internet metadata collected under PRISM. And it may (though I'm less sure about this) hide requests for PRISM metadata searches executed by the CIA for foreign governments.
All hidden right there in the "transparency" procedures.
Finally, I'm not sure why the tech companies think their foreign customers will be impressed with deceptive "transparency" provisions that leave the bulk (in all senses of the word) of the collection the US is doing against foreigners still hidden.
But hey! I can imagine why the tech companies want their absurdly broad immunity and compensation for spying, which this bill does give them.
Oddly, the letter doesn't emphasize that part of it.
According to the new DOJ IG report on FBI's use of NSLs, there are some Internet companies that have been refusing NSLs for some data since 2009 (this discussion appears on pages 71- 73).
The decision of these [redacted] Internet companies to discontinue producing electronic communication transactional records in response to NSLs followed public release of a legal opinion issued by the Department's Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) regarding the application of ECPA Section 2709 to various types of information. The FBI General Counsel sought guidance from the OLC on, among other things, whether the four types of information listed in subsection (b) of Section 2709 — the subscriber's name, address, length of service, and local and long distance toll billing records — are exhaustive or merely illustrative of the information that the FBI may request in an NSL. In a November 2008 opinion, the OLC concluded that the records identified in Section 2709(b) constitute the exclusive list of records that may be obtained through an ECPA NSL.
Although the OLC opinion did not focus on electronic communication transaction records specifically, according to the FBI, [redacted] took a legal position based on the opinion that if the records identified in Section 2709(b) constitute the exclusive list of records that may be obtained through an ECPA NSL, then the FBI does not have the authority to compel the production of electronic communication transactional records because that term does not appear in subsection (b).
For a number of reasons I wonder whether this pertains to Internet searches, rather than email communication.
In any case, because the Internet companies have apparently been successful at refusing these NSLs (there's zero discussion in the unredacted section of court challenges, but they must have happened), FBI has been getting Section 215 orders instead. As a result, the bulk of the Section 215 orders in recent years have been for these kinds of Internet transaction records.
In the absence of a legislative amendment to Section 2709, [2.5 lines redacted]. [Deputy General Counsel of FBI's National Security Law Branch] Siegel told us that the process of generating and approving a Section 215 application is similar to the NSL process for the agents and supervisors in the field, but then the applications undergo a review process in NSLB and the Department's National Security Division, which submits the application to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA Court). According to Siegel, a request that at one time could be accomplished with an NSL in a matter of hours if necessary, now takes about 30-40 days to accomplish with a standard Section 215 application.
In addition to increasing the time it takes to obtain transactional records, Section 215 requests, unlike NSL requests, require the involvement of FBI Headquarters, NSD, and the FISA Court. Supervisors in the Operations Section of NSD, which submits Section 215 applications to the FISA Court, told us that the majority of Section 215 applications submitted to the FISA Court [redacted] in 2010 and [redacted] in 2011 — concerned requests for electronic communication transaction records.
The NSD supervisors told us that at first they intended the [3.5 lines redacted] They told us that when a legislative change no longer appeared imminent and [3 lines redacted] and by taking steps to better streamline the application process.
We asked whether the disagreement and uncertainty over electronic communication transactional records has negatively affected national security investigations. An Assistant General Counsel in NSLB told us that the additional time it takes to obtain transactional records through a Section 215 application slows down national security investigations, all of which he said are time-sensitive. He said that an investigative subject can cease activities or move out of the country within the time-frame now necessary to obtain a FISA order. [my emphasis]
And bizarrely, the IG report doesn't discuss the pending USA Freedom legislation — not even what appears retrospectively like HPSCI's effort to turn this kind of production into programmatic orders.
There's still a lot I don't get from this discussion. But the explanation that the explosion of 215 orders (remember — with their attached minimization procedures) since 2009 stems from a couple of Internet companies sure is interesting.
Update: Page 124 reveals what the Administration wanted ECPA to include.
The proposed amendment would authorize the FBI to obtain name, address, local and long distance connection records (or sessions times and durations), length and types of service, telephone or instrument number (or other subscriber number or identity, including any temporarily assigned network address), means and source of payment (including credit card or bank account number), and records identifying the origin, routing, or destination of electronic communications.
I was asked to participate in a CATO debate about where we are a year post Snowden. My contribution to that debate — in which I argue any big drama going forward will come from the newly adversarial relationship between Google and the NSA — is here.
As part of that, I argued that the government made a choice after Snowden: to double down on hard power over soft power.
The conflict between Google and its home country embodies another trend that has accelerated since the start of the Snowden leaks. As the President of the Computer & Communications Industry Association, Edward Black, testified before the Senate last year, the disclosure of NSA overreach did not just damage some of America's most successful companies, it also undermined the key role the Internet plays in America's soft power projection around the world: as the leader in Internet governance, and as the forum for open speech and exchange once associated so positively with the United States.
The U.S. response to Snowden's leaks has, to a significant degree, been to double down on hard power, on the imperative to "collect it all" and the insistence that the best cyberdefense is an aggressive cyberoffense. While President Obama paid lip service to stopping short of spying "because we can," the Executive Branch has refused to do anything – especially legislatively – that would impose real controls on the surveillance system that undergirds raw power.
And that will likely bring additional costs, not just to America's economic position in the world, but in the need to invest in programs to maintain that raw power advantage. Particularly given the paltry results the NSA has to show for its domestic phone dragnet – the single Somali taxi driver donating to al-Shabaab that Sanchez described. It's not clear that the additional costs from doubling down on hard power bring the United States any greater security.
Because I was writing this essay, that's largely where my mind has been as we debate getting re-involved in Iraq.
In the 3 or 4 wars we've waged in the Middle East/South Asia since 9/11 (counting Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, and Syria), we've only managed to further destabilize the region. That was largely driven by a belligerence that goes well beyond our imperative to collect it all.
But I do think both the Snowden anniversary and the Iraq clusterfuck should focus far more energy on how we try to serve American interests through persuasion rather than bombs and dragnets.
Josh Gerstein already wrote about some of this Mike Rogers blather. But I wanted to transcribe the whole thing to display how utterly full of shit he is.
At a conference at Georgetown the other day, (see video 3), Rogers laid into the tech companies for opposing USA Freedumber, which he badly misrepresented just before this. The context of European opportunism beings at 1:06, the quote begins after 1:08.
We should be very mad at Google, and Microsoft, and Facebook, because they're doing a very interesting, and I think, very dangerous thing. They've come out and said, "well, we oppose this new FISA bill because it doesn't go far enough." When you peel that onion back a little bit, and why are you doing this, this is a good bill, it's safe, bipartisan, it's rational, it meets all the requirements for Fourth Amendment protection, privacy protection, and allowing the system to work,
Rogers claims they're doing so solely because they're afraid to lose European business. And Rogers — a Republican! — is furious that corporations prioritize their profits (note, Rogers has never complained that some of these same companies use European tax shelters to cheat the tax man).
And they say, "well, we have to do this because we have to make sure we don't lose our European business." I don't know about the rest of you, that offends me from the word, "European business." Think about what they're doing. They're willing, in their minds, to justify the importance of their next quarter's earnings in Europe, versus the National Security of the United States. Everybody on those boards should be embarrassed, and their CEOs should be embarrassed, and their stockholders should be embarrassed.That one quarter cannot be worth the National Security of the United States for the next 10 generations. And if we don't get this part turned around very quickly, it will likely get a little ugly, and that emotional piece that we got by is going to be right back in the center of the room to no good advantage to our ability to protect the United States.
Mostly, he seems pissed because he knows the collective weight of the tech companies may give those of us trying to defeat USA Freedumber a fighting chance, which is what Rogers considers an emotional place because Democracy.
But Rogers' rant gets truly bizarre later in the same video (after 1:23) where he explains what the security interest is:
We have one particular financial institution that clears, somewhere about $7 trillion dollars in global financial transactions every single day. Imagine if tomorrow that place gets in there and through an attack of which we know does exist, the potential does exist where the information is destroyed and manipulated, now you don't know who owes what money, some of that may have lost transactions completely forever, imagine what that does to the economy, $7 trillion. Gone — right? Gone. It's that serious.
Mind you, Rogers appears unaware that a banks shuffling of money — while an incredibly ripe target for hackers — does not really contribute to the American economy. This kind of daily volume is churn that only the very very rich benefit from. And one big reason it's a target is because it is an inherently fragile thing.
To make all this even more hysterical, Rogers talks about risk driving insurance driving proper defensive measures from the target companies … yet he seems not to apply those rules to banks.
Mike Rogers, it seems, would rather kill Google's business than permit this rickety vitality killing bank to feel the full brunt of the risk of its own business model.
Accompanying a new story on GCHQ/NSA cooperation yesterday, the Intercept released one of the most revealing documents about NSA spying yet. It describes efforts to use Identifier Scoreboard to triage leads such that analysts spend manual time only with the most promising leads. Basically, the NSA aims to use this process to differentiate the 75% of metadata they collect that is interesting but not of high interest into different categories for further analysis.
It does so by checking the leads — which are identifiers like email addresses and phone numbers — against collected data (and this extends beyond just stuff collected on the wires; it includes captured media) to see what kind of contacts with existing targets there have been. Not only does the system pull up what prior contacts of interest exist, but also what time frame those occurred and in what number. From there, the analyst can link directly to either the collected knowledge about a target or the content.
Before I get into the significance, a few details.
First, the system works with both phone and Internet metadata. That's not surprising, and it does not yet prove they're chaining across platforms. But it is another piece of evidence supporting that conclusion.
More importantly, look at the authorities in question:
First, FAA. The CP and CT are almost certainly certificates, the authority to collect on counterproliferation and counterterrorism targets. But note what's not there? Cybersecurity, the third known certificate (there was a third certificate reapproved in 2011, so it was active at this time). Which says they may be using that certificate differently (which might make sense, given that you'd be more interested in forensic flows, but this triage system is used with things like TAO which presumably include cyber targets).
There is, however, a second kind of FAA, "FG." That may be upstream or it may be something else (FG could certainly stand for "Foreign Government, which would be consistent with a great deal of other data). If it's something else, it supports the notion that there's some quirk to how the government is using FAA that differs from what they've told PCLOB and the Presidential Review Group, which have both said there are just those 3 certificates.
Then there's FAA 704/705B. This is collection on US person overseas. Note that FAA 703 (collection on US person who is located overseas but the collection on whom is in the US) is not included. Again, this shows something about how they use these authorities.
Finally, there are two EO12333s. In other slides, we've seen an EO12333 and an EO123333 SPCMA (which means you can collect and chain through Americans), and that may be what this is. Update: One other possibility is that this distinguishes between EO12333 data collected by the US and by second parties (the Five Eyes).
Now go to what happens when an identifier has had contact with a target — and remember, these identifiers are just random IDs at this point.
The triage program automatically pulls up prior contacts with targets. Realize what this is? It's a backdoor search, conducted off an identifier about which the NSA has little knowledge.
And the triage provides a link directly from that the metadata describing when the contact occurred and who initiated it to the content.
When James Clapper and Theresa Shea describe the metadata serving as a kind of index that helps prioritize what content they read, this is part of what they're referring to. That — for communications involving people who have already been targeted under whatever legal regime — the metadata leads directly to the content. (Note, this triage does not apparently include BR FISA or PRTT data — that is, metadata collected in the US — which says there are interim steps before such data will lead directly to content, though if that data can be replicated under EO 12333, as analysts are trained to do, it could more directly lead to this content.)
So they find the identifiers, search on prior contact with targets, then pull up that data, at least in the case of EO12333 data. (Another caution, these screens date from a period when NSA was just rolling out its back door search authorities for US persons, and there's nothing here that indicates these were US persons, though it does make clear why — as last year's audit shows — NSA has had numerous instances where they've done back door searches on US person identifiers they didn't know were US person identifiers.)
Finally, look at the sources. The communications identified here all came off EO12333 communications (interestingly, this screen doesn't ID whether we're looking at EO12333_X or _S data). As was noted to me this morning, the SIGADS that are known here are offshore. But significantly, they include MUSCULAR, where NSA steals from Google overseas.
That is, this screen shows NSA matching metadata with metadata and content that they otherwise might get under FAA, legally, within the US. They're identifying that as EO12333 data. EO12333 data, of course, gets little of the oversight that FAA does.
At the very least, this shows the NSA engaging in such tracking, including back door searches, off a bunch of US providers, yet identifying it as EO12333 collection.
Update: Two more things on this. Remember NSA has been trying, unsuccessfully, to replace its phone dragnet "alert" function since 2009 when the function was a big part of its violations (a process got approved in 2012, but the NSA has not been able to meet the terms of it technically, as of the last 215 order). This triage process is similar — a process to use with fairly nondescript identifiers to determine whether they're worth more analysis. So we should assume that, while BR FISA (US collected phone dragnet) information is not yet involved in this, the NSA aspires to do so. There are a number of reasons to believe that moving to having the providers do the initial sort (as both the RuppRoge plan offered by the House Intelligence Committee and Obama's plan do) would bring us closer to that point.
Finally, consider what this says about probable cause (especially if I'm correct that EO12333_S is the SPMCA that includes US persons). Underlying all this triage is a theory of what constitutes risk. It measures risk in terms of conversations –how often, how long, how many times — with "dangerous" people. While that may well be a fair measure in some cases, it may not be (I've suggested, for example, that people who don't know they may be at risk are more likely to speak openly and at length, and those conversations then serve as a kind of camouflage for the truly interesting, rare by operational security conversations). But this theory (though not this particular tool) likely lies behind a lot of the young men who've been targeted by FBI.
I said the other day, most of NSA's Civil Liberties and Privacy Office comment to the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board on Section 702 was disappointing boilerplate, less descriptive than numerous other statements already in the public record.
In the passage on back door searches I looked at, however, there was one new detail that is very suggestive. It said NSA does more back door searches on metadata than on content under Section 702.
NSA distinguishes between queries of communications content and communications metadata. NSA analysts must provide justification and receive additional approval before a content query using a U.S. person identifier can occur. To date, NSA analysts have queried Section 702 content with U.S. person identifiers less frequently than Section 702 metadata.
Consider what this means. NSA collects content from a selector — say, all the Hotmail communications of ScaryAQAPTerrorist. That content of course includes metadata (setting aside the question of whether this is legally metadata or content for the moment): the emails and IPs of people who were in communication with that scary terrorist.
The NSA is saying that the greater part of their back door searches on US person identifiers — say, searching on the email, "[email protected]" — is just for metadata.
Given the timing, it seems that they're using back door searches as one of two known replacements for the PRTT Internet dragnet shut down around October 30, 2009, turned on again between July and October 2010, then shut down for good in 2011 (the other being the SPCMA contact chaining of EO 12333 collected data through US person identifiers).
Recall that NSA and CIA first asked for these back door searches in April 2011. That was somewhere between 6 to 9 months after John Bates had permitted NSA to turn the Internet dragnet back on in 2010 under sharply restricted terms. NSA was still implementing their rules for using back door searches in early 2012, just months after NSA had shut down the (domestic) Internet dragnet once and for all.
And then NSA started using 702 collection for a very similar function: to identify whether suspicious identifiers were in contact with known suspicious people.
There are many parts of this practice that are far preferable to the old Internet dragnet.
For starters, it has the benefit of being legal, which the Internet dragnet never was!
Congress and the FISC have authorized NSA to collect this data from the actual service providers targeting on overseas targets. Rather than collecting content-as-metadata from the telecoms — which no matter how hard they tried, NSA couldn't make both legal and effective — NSA collected the data from Yahoo and Microsoft and Google. Since the data was collected as content, it solves the content-as-metadata problem.
And this approach should limit the number of innocent Americans whose records are implicated. While everyone in contact with ScaryAQAPTerrorist will potentially be identified via a backdoor search, that's still less intrusive than having every Americans' contacts collected (though if we can believe the NSA's public statements, the Internet dragnet always collected on fewer people than the phone dragnet).
That said, the fact that the NSA is presumably using this as a replacement may lead it to task on much broader selectors than they otherwise might have: all of Yemen, perhaps, rather than just certain provinces, which would have largely the same effect as the old Internet dragnet did.
In addition, this seems to reverse the structure of the old dragnet (or rather, replicate some of the problems of the alert system that set off the phone dragnet problems in 2009). It seems an analyst might test a US person identifier — remember, the analyst doesn't even need reasonable articulable suspicion to do a back door search — against the collected metadata of scary terrorist types, to see if the US person is a baddie. And I bet you a quarter this is automated, so that identifiers that come up in, say, a phone dragnet search are then run against all the baddies to see if they also email at the press of a button. And at that point, you're just one more internal approval step away from getting the US person content.
In short, this would seem to encourage a kind of wild goose chase, to use Internet metadata of overseas contact to judge whether a particular American is suspicious. These searches have a far lower standard than the phone and Internet dragnets did (as far as we know, neither the original collection nor the back door search ever require an assertion of RAS). And the FISC is far less involved; John Bates has admitted he doesn't know how or how often NSA is using this.
But it is, as far as we know, legal.
In the past, I've tracked the efforts of a telecom — which WSJ convincingly argued was Credo — to challenge a 2011 National Security Letter. It has the support of EFF on that challenge. I also noted language in Credo's Transparency Report (which was issued after DOJ permitted providers to give broad bands for NSLs, but before DOJ permitted them to give broad bands for other national security demands) saying it was prohibited from giving more information about NSLs and Section 215 orders.
It is important to note that it may not be possible for CREDO or any telecom carrier to release to the public a full transparency report, as the USA PATRIOT Act and other statutes give law enforcement the ability to prevent companies from disclosing whether or not they have received certain orders, such as National Security Letters (NSLs) and Section 215 orders seeking customer information. [my emphasis]
Today, EFF noted that it has filed what should be its response to the government's appeal in that case.
Only, it makes it it representing not just the known telecom client, but also an Internet client.
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) filed two briefs on Friday challenging secret government demands for information known as National Security Letters (NSLs) with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. The briefs—one filed on behalf of a telecom company and another for an Internet company—remain under seal because the government continues to insist that even identifying the companies involved might endanger national security.
While the facts surrounding the specific companies and the NSLs they are challenging cannot be disclosed, their legal positions are already public: the NSL statute is a violation of the First Amendment as well as the constitutional separation of powers.
Now, one obvious potential Internet client would be Google. It is known to have fought NSLs in Judge Susan Illston's court and lost.
But I wonder whether it isn't Twitter.
I say that, first of all, because of the cryptic language in Twitter's own Updated Transparency Report, which was released after the DOJ settlement which should have permitted it to report NSLs. But instead of doing so, it pointed out that it can't report its national security orders, if any, with enough particularity. It called out NSLs specifically. And it used a language of prohibition.
Last week, the U.S. Department of Justice and various communications providers reached an agreement allowing disclosure of national security requests in very large ranges. While this agreement is a step in the right direction, these ranges do not provide meaningful or sufficient transparency for the public, especially for entities that do not receive a significant number of – or any – national security requests.
As previously noted, we think it is essential for companies to be able to disclose numbers of national security requests of all kinds – including national security letters and different types of FISA court orders – separately from reporting on all other requests. For the disclosure of national security requests to be meaningful to our users, it must be within a range that provides sufficient precision to be meaningful. Allowing Twitter, or any other similarly situated company, to only disclose national security requests within an overly broad range seriously undermines the objective of transparency. In addition, we also want the freedom to disclose that we do not receive certain types of requests, if, in fact, we have not received any.
Unfortunately, we are currently prohibited from providing this level of transparency. We think the government's restriction on our speech not only unfairly impacts our users' privacy, but also violates our First Amendment right to free expression and open discussion of government affairs. We believe there are far less restrictive ways to permit discussion in this area while also respecting national security concerns. Therefore, we have pressed the U.S. Department of Justice to allow greater transparency, and proposed future disclosures concerning national security requests that would be more meaningful to Twitter's users. We are also considering legal options we may have to seek to defend our First Amendment rights. [my emphasis]
It was a defiant Transparency Report, and it discussed prohibitions in a way that no one else — except Credo — had done.
Moreover, it would make sense that EFF would be permitted to represent Twitter in such a matter, because it already had a role in Twitter's challenge of the Administrative subpoena for various WikiLeaks' associates Twitter data.
Finally, EFF notes that this Internet client is fighting just 2 NSLs; Google is fighting 19.
The very same day that the district court issued that order striking down the statute, a second EFF client filed a similar petition asking the same court to declare the NSL statute to be unconstitutional and to set aside the two NSLs that it received.
Notwithstanding the fact that it had already struck down the NSL statute on constitutional grounds in EFF's first NSL case, but indicating that it would be up to the Ninth Circuit to evaluate whether that evaluation was correct, the district court denied EFF's client's petitionand ordered them to comply with the remaing NSL in the interim.
If Twitter is the client, it would present real First Amendment issues. It would suggest that, after Twitter took the rare step of not just challenging but giving notice in an Administrative subpoena, DOJ decided to use NSLs, which are basically Administrative subpoenas with additional gags, in response.
Update: in potentially related news, Verizon just updated its Transparency Report, claiming it can't provide details on some bulk orders.
We note that while we now are able to provide more information about national security orders that directly relate to our customers, reporting on other matters, such as any orders we may have received related to the bulk collection of non-content information, remains prohibited.


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Three-dimensional finite difference time domain modeling of the Schumann resonance parameters on Titan, Venus, and Mars
Article first published online: 27 SEP 2006
Copyright 2006 by the American Geophysical Union.
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Volume 41, Issue 2, April 2006
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How to Cite
20062007), Three-dimensional finite difference time domain modeling of the Schumann resonance parameters on Titan, Venus, and Mars, Radio Sci., 41, RS2S03, doi:10.1029/2005RS003431, 42, 2., , and (
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- Issue published online: 27 SEP 2006
- Article first published online: 27 SEP 2006
- Manuscript Accepted: 17 MAY 2006
- Manuscript Revised: 27 MAR 2006
- Manuscript Received: 29 NOV 2005
- Schumann resonances;
- Titan, Venus, and Mars
[1] The conducting ionosphere and conducting surface of Titan, Venus, and Mars form a concentric resonator, which would support the possibility of the existence of global electromagnetic resonances. On Earth, such resonances are commonly referred to as Schumann resonances and are excited by lightning discharges. The detection of such resonances on other planets would give a support for the existence of the electrical discharges in the lower atmosphere on these planets. In this paper, a three-dimensional finite difference time domain modeling for the extremely low frequency propagation is employed to study the Schumann resonance problems on Titan, Venus, and Mars. The atmospheric conductivity profiles for these studies are derived from the previously reported ionospheric models for these planets. The Schumann resonance frequencies and Q factors on these planets are calculated and are critically compared with those obtained from the previously published models.


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Rick Perlstein is the author of Nixonland.
I was in New York last week, and one of the people I visited with was my friend Mike Edison, whose qualifications for the job (being my friend, I mean, and for being your friend, too) are listed on the résumé that doubles as the title of his 2008 memoir: I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World. The notorious magazines include stoner rag High Times, which he published, and the only-in-New-York Bible of repulsiveness known as Screw, which Edison helped take over upon the retirement of Al Goldstein. I met Mike after he sent me his most recent book, Dirty! Dirty! Dirty!, a history of pornography, to blurb. I did so from the bottom of my heart: "Mike Edison can go toe to toe with some of the best writers of the (old) New Journalism. This is foul-mouthed popular history at its most entertaining. Plenty smart, too—and also, strange to say, poignant and loving." (Hugh Hefner is the villain. I liked that.)
We met for a play I got free tickets for, running in a theater tucked inside the innards of a massive theme restaurant called Times Scare. This was, Mike pointed out, the former environs of Show World, one of the monuments of the old, perverted Times Square, a place which deserved to have the word "Scare" in its name far more than the plasticized Disney hellscape that sits on the corner of 42nd Street and Eighth Avenue now. The incongruity sent Mike into a fit of gauzy reverie. He insisted we duck in next door—where a much smaller version of Show World still stands, somehow, despite two decades of campaigns to close it down, and despite a larger inconvenience you'd think would have spelled its doom long, long ago: Everything it has to offer for a price is now available online for free.
We enter the antiseptic, overlit warren (I say its "much smaller," but the place is actually still pretty gigantic). Except for the clerk and one other customer, we are the only ones there. It is one of the most surreal things I've experienced in my life. Somehow, its survival feels like it says something about the simultaneous resilience and strangeness of the human spirit. Though I couldn't have quite told you yet what that something was....
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