Teachers make shit when they are first starting out and have to spend hundreds of hours writing all their lesson plans from scratch and spend hundreds of dollars of their own money on supplies for the room. This all assuming they can even find a job.
Then when they get cushy and bored from not having to improve their lessons or freshen up the room, they are making a ton of money and likely cannot be fired.
I saw a great proposal that all teachers should be paid a flat rate with no raises ever. Said flat rate should be very high - say $100-125,000 per year. This would pull in the best and the brightest to teach and cause them to leave and do something more productive after a few years of no raises.
High turnover for teachers would be a good thing if it prevented stagnation. My most boring, ineffective teachers were all on the tail end of their careers.
Likely, this would also require a loosening of the teacher's licensing requirements. However, if all the people chasing those $125,000 paychecks are smart people who are motivated, then who cares if they have a teaching certificate!
Obviously the Indiana State Police need this device to thwart terrorism in Indiana. Indiana has had, LITERALLY, zero of thousands of terrorist attacks in the past few years. If we don't rein in this problem, many more Hoosiers will be not bothered by anyone.
Thank goodness we have secret stuff that we don't know about protecting us from things that are really happening.
Most planes already have or currently are dumping the headrest TVs because everyone has their iPads and phones to watch crap on. So instead they just sell wifi and people download their own stuff or stream netflix or whatever.
But the intelligence lawyers warned that Americans' would be subject to even greater privacy incursions if their personal information were stripped from NSA's control.
Wait! Is the NSA really trying to say that without them snooping in your data that Google or MS or whoever would be violating my privacy? And that the NSA is the key to Google or MS or whoever NOT violating my privacy?
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I'm not an expert here, but I think you are mistaken. End-to-end encryption doesn't just cover the message itself. It also covers the transmission of that message including its sender and its destination. I think this would be tied into DNSSec. For email specifically, it would involve the previously mentioned Dark Mail.
The point of end-to-end encryption is that it would be end-to-end and not leave any dangling metadata. Perhaps there would be some ability to track the amount of data transmitted, but that would be obfuscated by sending extra data, using compression, sending messages split into chunks, or using stenography.
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But once again, what I'm getting at, most of that goes away (aside from the Al Qaeda thing) when end-to-end encryption is put into service. The NSA and GCHQ simply won't be able to harvest the traffic.
Not really. Do you think terrorist groups use gmail to communicate? Yet they tap Google.
I think we are agreeing here. I said in my prior comment that they point was NEVER to spy on terrorists (although that was the excuse). With end-to-end encryption, spying on Gmail or Skype or whatever is ineffective. So what is the NSA's or GCHQ's job at that point? Why would they be around? Maybe they can get back to their actual mission instead of spying on their own citizens.
Re: Intelligence of other countries should thank them
Maybe I'm misunderstanding you, but it seems like you are missing the point. The reason the Snowden revelations were so damaging isn't because it is making spying on terrorists harder. It is so dangerous because it is going to hamper attempts to track their own citizenry.
So it really doesn't have anything to do with the Americans or the British, per se.
Think about this: The NSA or GCHQ each have multi-billion dollar budgets. They have thousands of employees. They sweep up tons of information. They wield massive amounts of power. If you think they want to give that up, you are crazy. End-to-end encryption would wreck all of that and make 90% of NSA and GCHQ useless.
As bad as it is when this stuff happens, it could be good if we learn from it. I don't want the NSA spying on us, but we have become complacent and hopefully this is the kick in the pants that will change that.
When the Bullets were contemplating a name change, a similar joke was thrown around: "The Washington Bullets are contemplating a name change - the term "Washington" is considered too violent."
The hostess was talking to a dude from the British (might be the same guy referenced above) and she pointed out the unveiling of those actually in charge of MI5, MI6, and GCHQ and calling them to question was driven by the Snowden reveals. He responded that this whole thing was already planned before the leaks.
Sounds pretty incredible if you ask me. So prior to 6 months ago there were plans to reveal who the leaders of MI5, MI6, and GCHQ now? Really? You can't be serious.
That isn't necessarily true. Costa Rica has a very large tourism industry that feeds off of its rain forests and natural beauty. No doubt if this mining group came in and ran roughshod over the forest and rivers and whatnot, that could easily drive the "2% of GDP" number up as the tourism industry might drop as a result.
Either way, I would imagine that this development can't make the NSA all that happy.
Haha, no shit. It is definitely worth pointing out though that all of this is of the NSA's own making. If they wouldn't have been so cavalier about sucking up data, something like Dark Mail would never have been necessary and they could have continued - status quo.
Eh, maybe if we were on the second leak in a half a year, but we are on the, what, 20th major leak and there is no end in sight? Obama should have been all over this after the 3rd or 4th leak.
The fact that President Obama hasn't yet fired Alexander in particular is fairly incredible, given this latest revelation.
I don't really think so. I've commented on techdirt almost a half dozen times that the NSA must have some pretty amazing dirt on Obama if Alexander and Clapper have held on this long.
I'm sure the same lawyers weren't arguing both cases. Heck, I'll bet the legal teams aren't even in the same building. What seems obvious from the outside is a clear problem of siloing within a large company.
I find it weird that there are no comments on the DOD blog. They use Disqus so it isn't like it is hard to register and comment. Are they censoring comments?
I didn't comment because it would have just been something stupid like, "FIRST AMENDMENT 4 LIFE!!!!1" or something. Would have loved to see some discussion over there though.
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Teacher pay
Teachers make shit when they are first starting out and have to spend hundreds of hours writing all their lesson plans from scratch and spend hundreds of dollars of their own money on supplies for the room. This all assuming they can even find a job.
Then when they get cushy and bored from not having to improve their lessons or freshen up the room, they are making a ton of money and likely cannot be fired.
I saw a great proposal that all teachers should be paid a flat rate with no raises ever. Said flat rate should be very high - say $100-125,000 per year. This would pull in the best and the brightest to teach and cause them to leave and do something more productive after a few years of no raises.
High turnover for teachers would be a good thing if it prevented stagnation. My most boring, ineffective teachers were all on the tail end of their careers.
Likely, this would also require a loosening of the teacher's licensing requirements. However, if all the people chasing those $125,000 paychecks are smart people who are motivated, then who cares if they have a teaching certificate!
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Norwegian culture is dead
They really need to rethink this and lock down this culture so it will survive for the future generations.
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Indiana - terrorism hub
Thank goodness we have secret stuff that we don't know about protecting us from things that are really happening.
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Sleep EZ should be fine
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Just do it...
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NSA: Privacy watchdog...
Wait! Is the NSA really trying to say that without them snooping in your data that Google or MS or whoever would be violating my privacy? And that the NSA is the key to Google or MS or whoever NOT violating my privacy?
Head asplode!
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20131030/11091025070/dark-mail-alliance-lavabit-silent-circle- team-up-to-try-to-create-surveillance-proof-email.shtml
The point of end-to-end encryption is that it would be end-to-end and not leave any dangling metadata. Perhaps there would be some ability to track the amount of data transmitted, but that would be obfuscated by sending extra data, using compression, sending messages split into chunks, or using stenography.
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Not really. Do you think terrorist groups use gmail to communicate? Yet they tap Google.
I think we are agreeing here. I said in my prior comment that they point was NEVER to spy on terrorists (although that was the excuse). With end-to-end encryption, spying on Gmail or Skype or whatever is ineffective. So what is the NSA's or GCHQ's job at that point? Why would they be around? Maybe they can get back to their actual mission instead of spying on their own citizens.
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So it really doesn't have anything to do with the Americans or the British, per se.
Think about this: The NSA or GCHQ each have multi-billion dollar budgets. They have thousands of employees. They sweep up tons of information. They wield massive amounts of power. If you think they want to give that up, you are crazy. End-to-end encryption would wreck all of that and make 90% of NSA and GCHQ useless.
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As bad as it is, this is good...
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Washington Bullets
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On BBC World News on NPR today
Sounds pretty incredible if you ask me. So prior to 6 months ago there were plans to reveal who the leaders of MI5, MI6, and GCHQ now? Really? You can't be serious.
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All the money.
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Cut by their own sword...
Haha, no shit. It is definitely worth pointing out though that all of this is of the NSA's own making. If they wouldn't have been so cavalier about sucking up data, something like Dark Mail would never have been necessary and they could have continued - status quo.
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Re: Re: Incredible? Not so much.
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Incredible? Not so much.
I don't really think so. I've commented on techdirt almost a half dozen times that the NSA must have some pretty amazing dirt on Obama if Alexander and Clapper have held on this long.
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Bound to happen
Right hand meet left hand...
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Comments
I didn't comment because it would have just been something stupid like, "FIRST AMENDMENT 4 LIFE!!!!1" or something. Would have loved to see some discussion over there though.
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