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But history teaches caution about granting government officials a blank check of trust. Recall President Truman's seizure of steel mills in 1952 to avert a labor strike, claiming it was critical to protecting the nation's steel production because of its importance in producing armaments for U.S. troops then fighting in Korea. After the Supreme Court ruled the seizure unconstitutional, a labor-union strike ensued, but there was no steel shortage.
David Rudenstine is the Sheldon H. Solow Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School in New York City.
Or recall the disturbing revelations contained in the Pentagon Papers published in 1971 that sowed profound seeds of public distrust in government officials about the Vietnam War. Although the Nixon administration sought a prior restraint on the grounds that the threatened disclosures would irreparably harm national security, the Supreme Court denied the injunction, and no one has produced any evidence that the news reports harmed national security.
But what about today? Unfortunately, the information now public indicates that history is indeed a reliable guide to the present. The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, "an independent bipartisan agency within the executive branch established by the 9-11 Commission Act of 2007," concluded that the telephone metadata-collection program "has shown minimal value in safeguarding the nation from terrorism," and the board could not identify any instance in which the collection program made a difference in counterterrorism investigation.
The Oversight Board was not alone in questioning the utility of the telephone bulk-collection program. The president's own Review Group reached a comparable conclusion and stated the collection of metadata from phone surveillance "was not essential to preventing attacks."
The makers of our Constitution … sought to protect Americans in their belief, their thoughts, their emotions and their sensations. They conferred, as against the government, the right to be let alone — the most comprehensive of rights and the right most valued by civilized men.
It is true that there is no liberty or democracy without order and no order without security. But it is equally true that the purpose of security is to assure order so that there is both liberty and democracy. The tension inherent in these considerations is not subject to a permanent and perfect resolution.
But we know that in the past the claim of national security has been abused to justify highly oppressive measures — the repression of political dissenters during the 1920s; the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II; the innumerable and reckless charges of disloyalty during the Cold War; and the government's infiltration and disruption of peaceful political dissenters during the Vietnam War.
During times of peril, our nation has often made horrible choices in the name of security and sacrificed liberty and democratic values while gaining little if any security from the sacrifices. We should learn from our past.
We can be secure while we protect our fundamental liberties and democratic values for ourselves and for the next generation.
Memphis' Penny Hardaway already has signed three players in the Class of 2019. Will the first-year college coach add more?
Thursday marks exactly three months until the start of college basketball's 2019 spring signing period.
Memphis coach Penny Hardaway already has signed three players in the Class of 2019 – James Wiseman, D.J. Jeffries and Malcolm Dandridge. But will the first-year college coach add more?
What's the latest on R.J. Hampton?
R.J. Hampton's father, Rod Hampton, said the 2020 Memphis target is continuing to take the necessary classes should he choose to reclassify to 2019, but the younger Hampton, from Little Elm (Texas) High, plans to remain in his current class.
In September, Rod Hampton said Wiseman was making a push to get his son to join the 2019 class.
Last week, Hampton's father also mentioned that Memphis assistant coach Mike Miller keeps in contact with the Hampton family "almost every day."
R.J. Hampton is having a terrific junior season and scored a career-high 50 points in a game in late December.
Jalen Green, the 2020 guard who took his official visit to Memphis with Hampton, is another target who potentially could reclassify. Green is rated as the No. 2 player in the Class of 2020 in 247Sports' composite rankings.
Is Damion Baugh the Tigers' 2019 guard?
Tennessee Prep Academy guard Damion Baugh is a top priority for several schools in the Class of 2019.
Not only is Baugh extremely athletic and gifted at getting to the basket, but he is also one of the top guards in his class who's still available.
Baugh also has offers from Georgetown, TCU, Ole Miss, Georgia Tech and Texas Tech.
More on Damion Baugh: What will it take for Memphis to land 2019 guard Damion Baugh?
Memphis will return guards Tyler Harris, Alex Lomax and Antwann Jones as well as add redshirt freshmen Jayden Hardaway and Ryan Boyce next season. However, the Tigers would like to add another ball handler for next year.
Baugh recently attended the Tigers' conference game against ECU.
If the Tennessee Prep guard decides to play elsewhere, Penny Hardaway potentially could test the transfer market.
Who else will be interested in Matthew Murrell?
Whitehaven guard Matthew Murrell looks like the top Memphis-area player in the Class of 2020.
Murrell ranks No. 2 in the state and No. 87 nationally in 247Sports’ composite rankings.
College coaches from schools such as Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Ole Miss and Iowa State have flocked to the athletic guard's games this season, and Hardaway has also been on hand for several of Murrell's performances since November.
The Tigers' coach hasn't lost a recruiting battle for a Memphis-area player yet, but if Murrell climbs the recruiting rankings this summer, expect some of the traditional powers to make a push for the junior.
What about Matthew Hurt and Trendon Watford?
Five-star seniors Trendon Watford and Matthew Hurt are the most touted players still on Memphis' radar in the Class of 2019, but it's unlikely either will make a college decision until the late signing period (April 17-May 15).
Hurt, from John Marshall High in Rochester, Minn., chose not to use an official visit on any preseason events like Memphis Madness, and instead he has visited Kentucky, Duke, North Carolina and Kansas for games. The senior still has one official visit remaining.
Watford, from Mountain Brook (Ala.) High took his first official visit to Memphis in October.
The senior included Memphis in his final four potential college choices last month. Since attending Memphis Madness, Watford also officially visited Alabama and LSU.
Hardaway and Miller reportedly visited Watford earlier this month.
Is Anthony Edwards serious about Memphis?
At this point, Memphis' chances of signing five-star guard Anthony Edwards from Holy Spirit in Atlanta seem like a long shot.
The Tigers aren't even listed in Edwards' top five (Florida State, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina and Kansas), but that hasn't stopped the Tigers' top signee, Wiseman, from making a pitch.
Edwards reclassified from 2020 to 2019 in December. He's currently slotted as the No. 4 player in his new class, according to 247Sports' composite rankings.
Earlier this month, Edwards' Holy Spirit team played against Wiseman in the National Hoopfest in Memphis. After the game, Edwards insisted that Hardaway and the Tigers are still in the mix.
HUNTINGTON BEACH — A guided tour of Robert Rizzo's home Friday offered an unusual peek into the affluent lifestyle he built while running blue-collar Bell.
When he lived in the house near Huntington Beach's City Hall, the former city manager — who now stands accused of public corruption — walked on travertine flooring, looked through etched glass windows, passed through leaded glass doors and ate in a formal dining room beneath a coffered ceiling.
He could choose between a steam shower or bathing under a chandelier in a bathroom lined in travertine, granite and marble.
His kitchen features granite surfaces, maple cabinets and a Wolf commercial-quality stove.
The living room features built-in bookshelves. All three of the fireplaces have marble facing.
And when Rizzo stepped out of bed in his master bedroom in the morning, he could use a private balcony overlooking a well-kept residential neighborhood. To his right was a walk-in closet made of cherry wood. The closet also had a crystal chandelier.
When Bill Cuppy, Rizzo's listing agent from Pier Realty, got a hold of the house in June, the seasoned agent knew he had a golden opportunity.
"I'm utilizing all of my marketing tools," he said. "And I can't buy advertising like this."
Right away, he put an on-sale sign and a guesstimate dollar amount: $979,000. When the house was appraised, they repriced it.
When the Los Angeles Times first reported of Rizzo's alleged public corruption last year, two of Rizzo's next-door neighbors, Dennis and Linda McFarland, said their quiet street turned into a media circus. Rizzo would later be taken away in handcuffs from his home.
"I guess you can say it's like living next to Al Capone," Dennis McFarland said.
The couple said Rizzo was unfriendly, but that his wife was sweet and outgoing.
Linda McFarland said Rizzo visited her once of all the years he lived next door — to get an agreement to build a fence. It was only in times like that, she said, that he was neighborly.
"It was a drastic change when he wanted something," she said, standing in one of the Rizzo home's private courtyards.
When Rizzo first moved in, Linda McFarland, who spent her career working as a commercial real estate agent, couldn't believe the amount of remodeling the man did to his house.
"I thought, 'Wow! Where does he make that kind of money?'" she said. "You're talking bucks."
Last but not least is another flip case for the LG G5. NageBee isn't well known, but have good reviews on Amazon for their popular Flip Wallet cases. It comes in a PU Brown Leather with multiple slots for credit cards, ID, cash and more. It's thinner than most flip wallet cases, has a secure snap-on button so users won't lose cash or cards, and has a nice design. There are multiple other great cases from SUPCASE, and more that we'll add in the future. For now, these are 10 exciting LG G5 cases to consider as the release date nears.
Do you think you could live in 33 square feet? What about a 33-square-foot dumpster? Well, one Huston-Tillotson University professor is about to do just that.
Professor Dumpster (you may know him by his given name, Dr. Jeff Wilson), is a Harvard and University of Canterbury-educated environmental science professor who has decided to live in a dumpster for a whole calendar year.
Beginning this fall, Professor Dumpster will take up residence in the customized trash bin to spread awareness about sustainability and promote the model of "less is more." After posting on Facebook that he was selling everything he owned for a single dollar (we wish we had seen that status update), Wilson moved into his office at HT to begin the process of lessening his environmental impact and living on a smaller scale.
Professor Dumpster will take up residence in the customized trash bin to spread awareness about sustainability and promote the model of "less is more."
But this isn't just a story about living in a dumpster. Professor Dumpster is, after all, a teacher, and this year-long experiment is a chance for his students to design, build and test the bin with the goal of taking it from a garbage can to a home.
"The idea here is to ultimately show one can have a pretty good life in a dumpster," Wilson told Fast Company.
The first phase of the project is to outfit the tiny space to have many of the creature comforts of a modern home: shower, kitchen, bed, Wi-Fi and toilet. After that, the goal is to design the space to be as energy efficient as possible in order to reduce its environmental impact (think solar panels and energy producing toilets).
For times when the professor just needs to get out of the trash can, students can opt to stay overnight in the dumpster. As one HT student told KVUE, she's already excited to spend a night in the bin.
"I think it's pretty intriguing," Evette Jackson said. "It's pretty cool. I want to live in it too."
After his year of living in 6 feet by 6 feet is up, Wilson plans on taking the bin across the country to teach students about the possibility of living outside the box while living, well, inside a box.
You can follow Professor Dumpster's latest adventures on The Dumpster Project blog.
The latest release of Cisco's WAN optimization product line -- Wide Area Application Services (WAAS) 4.4 -- proves that the company famous for routing packets can also shape, optimize and accelerate them.
WAAS provides TCP optimization, data compression, application specific optimization and intelligent caching, all controlled from a single browser-based management console. WAAS comes in a variety of form factors and deployment methods -- a data center appliance, branch office box, virtual WAAS for cloud-ready installations, and a mobile client for Windows operating systems.
For this exclusive Clear Choice test, we deployed a pair of WAVE-294 (Wide Area Virtualization Engine) branch office appliances and a pair of WAVE-8541 data center appliances. We used Cisco's default optimization settings, which include more than 190 predefined acceleration rules.
Our first goal was to verify Cisco's claim that the WAVE-8541 can handle up to 150,000 concurrent connections and not drop any packets or sessions. We created a high-speed network in the lab and cranked up the traffic with a pair of Spirent 3100B Avalanche load generators.
A pair of WAVE-8541s was directly connected via 10Gigabit Ethernet through two Cisco Catalyst 6500 routers on the WAN side. The LAN side was also 10G Ethernet to the Spirent device with a 1 Gigabit backbone for the Central Manager and other devices. We monitored the connection levels both from the Spirent console and via command line from each 8541 appliance.
During the 30-minute test run, the connection count stayed solid at 150,000 connections. CPU utilization on the data center-side WAAS-8541 peaked at approximately 51%, while the branch unit never exceeded 31%. The 8541 scaled to 150,000 without any issues even while the default set of WAN optimization policies were enabled.
Next, we tested Cisco's claim that the WAVE-8541 appliance can handle 2Gbps of optimized WAN throughput. Using the same network setup, we created traffic from four Ubuntu clients running iperf connected to our Gigabit LAN. The traffic generated by iperf was a mix of 50/50 compressible and uncompressible data. With all four clients active, the LAN side reported approximately 3.96Gbps of traffic and the WAN side peaked at 1.97Gbps. That represents some of the best performance we've seen based on previous testing of WAN optimization gear.
In the past, Cisco's cache engine on the data center device was segmented - each branch was assigned a specific portion of the data center appliance's cache and it could not be shared with other WAAS appliances. This meant that even though a particular block of data had already gone through the data center to one location, other offices couldn't take advantage of this information.
Cisco's new context-aware DRE (Data Reduction Engine) does away with the segmented cache, opting for a single large unified cache that all appliances can participate in.
The new Cisco WAAS appliances, a game changer?
Cisco's DRE adapts to changing conditions in traffic and applications. For most everyday traffic, HTTP, CIFS, NFS, MAPI, etc., the cache operates in a bi-directional mode. Signatures and byte segments are located at both ends of the connection and help reduce overall WAN traffic regardless of direction.
What's interesting is that DRE can also function in a uni-directional mode for specific traffic types, like streaming audio and video, and VDI. Because the traffic is one-way from the data center to the remote end, there is no need to cache any of this data at the data center. Instead, only indexes are created at the data center and stored at the remote site, so that any subsequent streaming traffic can take advantage of any cached byte segments in the branch appliance without filling up the data center cache.
To test the bi- and uni-direction functionality, we added a pair of WAVE-294s as our branch office appliances simulating two locations. We connected to a SharePoint server and file share located in the data center through a WAVE-8541, and downloaded and uploaded files into each system.
We were able to monitor the amount of data stored in DRE on both sides of the connection and because of the duplicate nature of the files, there was about 90% reduction in WAN traffic. Caching and compression are common features in WAN optimization devices, and it is always nice when the systems work as advertised.
WAAS does not optimize or cache UDP traffic. For some customers, this could be a critical factor when choosing a WAN optimization solution. While most day to day traffic is TCP, there is a growing amount of UDP traffic that will be ignored by WAAS.
For example, Cisco will optimize and accelerate Citrix's HDX and Microsoft's RDP remote access protocols for VDI, but VMware's PCoIP protocol is UDP and will simply pass through the appliance. Also, some backup solutions stream data to storage devices using UDP.
The software engine for WAAS is the same regardless of platform. Not all features are available on all formats, but overall, Cisco has designed a consistent user interface and feature set across platforms.
In order to manage your WAAS deployment, you will have to install at least one Central Manager - Cisco's WAAS management platform. Available in both virtual and physical versions, it is required for all WAAS installations, and is an additional cost. The virtual installation is only available for VMware ESXi or Cisco Unified Computing System appliances and one Central Manager console can manage up to 2,000 WAAS devices. We found the browser-based management UI is well laid out and very intuitive to use.
Admins assign the various WAAS installations into logical groups and apply optimization policies at that level. If the situation requires, admins can drill down and override group policy at the single device level, too. An optimization policy is made up of an application classifier and an action. The application classifier is the component that tells the policy what type of traffic to intercept, for example TCP port 139 and 445 for CIFS. IT can create custom classifiers for specific traffic types.
The action is what determines how the traffic is manipulated, and there are nine different actions available. From pass-through to TFO (TCP Flow Optimization) to TFO with DRE and LZ data compression, WAAS covers just about all possible scenarios. We were able to create custom policies quickly in just minutes and easily deploy them to specific device groups.
A big benefit of managing all of your devices in a single location is the ability to view the status of all locations at a glance and create consolidated usage reports. There are a number of reports included in Central Manager, such as traffic and optimization summary, HTTP, HTTPS, video, SSL, MAPI and NFS acceleration reports, and also an overall acceleration summary. You can generate reports on a specific device, if needed. Unfortunately, IT cannot create any additional types of reports, such as charts and statistics on a customized policy for one specific traffic type.
We like that Cisco includes Cisco Prime, its Network Analysis Module, as part of Central Manager. Where Central Manager's reporting is unique to WAAS devices, Cisco Prime will collect network statistics from all across the network, including non-WAAS appliances. This allows IT to get a complete picture of network traffic from end to end and not be limited to WAAS-only information.
Cisco's latest release of WAAS is a very mature and highly scalable platform for speeding up TCP traffic in the enterprise. Its lack of UDP support is a bit disappointing, but the TCP support covers just about every conceivable situation. We like the Central Manager console, but since it is required to manage a WAAS deployment - and is an additional cost - we'd also like to see a free, if scaled down, version. The reporting and monitoring engine is top notch and overall, we found the system easy to navigate and use. Most of all, the top-end WAVE-8541 is an absolute speed demon and its ability to handle 150,000 connections and pass 2Gbps optimized traffic over the WAN is impressive.
Schultz is head of NetData Consulting Services, and an InfoWorld contributing editor. He can be reached at kschultz@netdatacs.com.
Diana May, a 22-year veteran attorney here, has been tapped to become El Paso County attorney, the county said in a news release.
Diana May: stepping into the top job.
She's currently serving as assistant county attorney and, if appointed on April 18, would succeed Amy Folsom, who was chosen as county administrator last month.
The El Paso County Attorney’s Office is among the busiest in the state. The County Attorney’s Office serves as the County’s main legal representation in lawsuits, employment issues, and land use matters. The County Attorney is one of two positions the Board of El Paso County Commissioners hire directly. Diana will replace Amy Folsom, who was recently selected as the next County Administrator.
Ms. May has been the First Assistant County Attorney since 2017. She has been with El Paso County for 22 years; eight with the County Attorney’s Office and 14 with the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office. During her time with the County, Diana defended the County against lawsuits, advised on employment law matters, and conducted multiple employee and elected official trainings. During her tenure in the District Attorney’s Office, Diana prosecuted felony, sexual assault, and homicide cases, as well as served as a Team Lead and Chief Deputy District Attorney.