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social media site in the world chances are that you're amongst the five hundred to seven hundred million users log on to facebook daily using the web site to share personal details pictures of yourself and using the opportunity to connect to others or facebook doesn't just serve its users but also serves as law enforcement agencies like the f.b.i. ice and the da police can create fake profiles to spy on a suspicious person using facebook information and communications and in fact this tool is so popular amongst police of the social network has created a set of guidelines for cops to follow if they want to collect information on facebook users or those guidelines become more and more lenient over the years and we only know this because hackers tied to anonymous anti-sex movement gained access to two versions of those law enforcement guidelines one from two thousand and six and the other from two thousand and ten let's just say that a lot has changed over the course of four years back in zero six facebook required a warrant or a valid subpoena from cops in four they'd release any sort of user data to authorities just four years later the requirements are

a warrant subpoena or legal document with the equivalent already issued through a local court system now what about deleted data in the two thousand and six guidelines facebook said that it couldn't provide any data that's been deleted before request was made by police in the two thousand and ten guidelines there's a notice that says the site will immediately disable all user accounts accused of illegal activity but law enforcement can stop that process by temporarily requesting that the info not be disabled until a specific date otherwise the guidelines don't state any information regarding deleted data so ultimately the police have the last say as long as they get their requests to the company in time when it comes to retaining information facebook has also become a lot more generous to the police in two thousand and six documents simply stated that the site generally retains logs for up to thirty days but now it's. talking points memo points out they can give cops a user's ip logs their ip address facebook username and even how often that user has logged on to the site and they no longer offer a deadline for when that information is available so there definitely been some

changes to the social networks guidelines all of which are conveniently kept from the users that is unless you go searching through facebook's help center this is scary because a law enforcement is going to rely on the information the public has shares on social media sites and facebook is one of the easiest ways for them to get that and reuters report that since two thousand and eight at least twenty four warrants that we know of have been obtained by the feds specifically to search your facebook profile using a new york grants or photo print with details like wild posts links to videos or pics and even the client friend requests so that's right the police want it all and now that facebook is what quietly modify their guidelines cops can have all day all of the information that you've offered up through your own profile and frankly the social network should have its focus on its users at best interest and protect their privacy not just a sidekick to lazy law enforcement come to rely on social media rather than do their own investigating so facebook for essentially selling out quietly agreeing to work with the cops here tonight still time where. the sky and.

the light will come down. celestial choirs will be singing. well tonight we have a true glimmer of hope coming out of oregon earlier this week of owner john kitzhaber announced that he would impose a moratorium on all executions in the state for the remainder of his term. for just a. conservative group. ever heard from mars is the system it will no longer love her and she was going good. and most immediately he granted a temporary reprieve to gary hague who is said to be executed in oregon by lethal injection on december sixth the move comes a surprise to a lot of anti death penalty advocates because kids auburn's personally against the use of the death penalty had previously allowed two executions to go forward in his first term as governor respecting the wishes of the voters of oregon who reinstated

the death penalty in one thousand nine hundred four during a state explaining that decision he said allowing those two executions to move forward are decisions that he's regretted ever since he also made clear that his decision was not about compassion or sympathy for those on death row but rather because of the failures of the oregonian justice system to carry out the death penalty fairly. twenty seven years ago you see the clear this is the road. to those who will never. see a lawyer who will. simply put their. practice in the system itself. now oregon is just the most recent state a growing list which includes new mexico new jersey and illinois to abolish the death penalty since two thousand and seven before that not one state overturned the death penalty since the one nine hundred sixty s. but times they are changing because in october gallup found approval for the death

penalty nationally had reached the thirty nine year low in the wake of the execution of troy davis was sixty one percent of americans supporting its use so this is important over time as any to take car to governor to its authors parting words. crude all says he will go all over the world. and i think the people of america need to do the same so if the governor of oregon putting a moratorium on the death penalty for the remainder of his term we declare that a truth of hope. now speaks everywhere are getting a really excited about tomorrow's launch of the new mars rover it took eight years of planning and despite six hundred million in cost overruns and a two year delay nasa is mars science laboratory also known as curiosity will be taking off tomorrow from cape canaveral florida are calling it the most ambitious mission yet to the red planet a goal of assessing whether mars has or ever had or still has environmental conditions favorable to microbial life it would be the fourth rover in fifteen

years to set its wheels down on the planet but only after an eight and a half month journey so it's expected to touchdown and august of two thousand and twelve now unlike other rovers which use solar power to run periodicity will be carrying a generator powered by a nuclear battery made of plutonium can thirty eight with a lifespan of fourteen years and also has a much improved set of instruments including a drill that can pick up rock samples of brush to remove dust from rocks or equipment a speck comet or observation tray i definition camera and a laser capable of vaporizing rocks up to seven meters away all with which to study the planet's surface and environment and also be much larger and send you landing plane plan using a sky crane system so just how special is this trip and might it be one of the last as the plutonium to thirty eight become scarce joining me to discuss it is andrew chaikin science journalist and space historian anderson i said oh he's also excuse me the author of a man on the moon and a passion for mars almost left your books out there is our andrew thanks for coming

back on the show tonight you know some people are saying that this is the most ambitious rover ambitious a mission to mars yet what do you say about it yeah i mean that pretty much sums it up i mean the previous two routers that were spectacular in their own. were about the size of a golf cart and this one is about as big as an s.u.v. and it's just as you as your graphic showed it's full of an mazing instruments in fact it has so many instruments that it's carrying two. mars are things that when i was the geology student at grand university you had to go into a special laboratory to use for example the ability to fire a very concentrated beam of x. rays at a sample of rock powder and from the energy given off you can actually tell what minerals are in that rock curiosity actually has one of those rigs on board

it's also got a laser. that can fire at a rock that has some distance away and by monitoring the vapor that's given off from that laser flash tell what it's made out so this can be incredibly sophisticated and in many ways this is something we should have done many many years ago before we even tried to search for life on mars with the viking landers that i was it actually an undergraduate in turn on that mission and the results of that search were very ambiguous and now all these years years later we're finally getting back to mars with the instruments that we need to tell us for example are there carbon bearing molecules what scientists call organics on mars and many many other questions that we need to know in order to know whether it's worth even trying to find life on mars for anything about other ever thought of and sent out there they didn't really give us any of those answers i'm one of them will call

opportunity that i want to still try to not it's been there for eight years and no this isn't about this isn't about either or this is a process of building on capabilities what those previous rovers spirit and opportunity did was they showed us that portions of mars had once been very hospitable to life and that's it that the environment of mars in past times with those rovers we were able to confirm that then asked areas of mars were once covered by. salty sea and that's a super place to go back and look for evidence of of past life and maybe even present day life but we can take those results alone and know whether life is likely to be there we only know that the conditions were right now we have to go back and start really answering to kill questions about the chemical makeup of the surface and whether there are signatures consistent with biology so that we

can then take the ultimate step of actually going to mars and looking for a life now i want to get into something that you know is causing a lot of trouble for a lot of scientists and for nasa here which is the fact that as i mentioned the other rovers were solar powered this one has this nuclear powered battery it has plutonium two thirty eight reports and out saying is becoming very rare there is a massive shortage of it the obama administration approved more development but that has so far gone stuck in congress and so i'm just curious why i couldn't send this rover as solar powered like the others. well the big thing that having a nuclear power source does for you is it frees you up from having to wait for the sun to rise before you can have electrical power. the other thing about solar panels is that if they come covered with dust and we know there's a lot of dust floating around in the martian atmosphere all the time you know those

solar panels lose their output they lose their efficiency having a nuclear power plant on curiosity will make it much more productive which is a good thing considering how much it cost and how much we hope it'll accomplish but i think once that mission is through you know in the future they'll be able to accomplish follow on missions probably with solar power it's not that you can't use solar power it's just that you're limited compared to what you can do with a nuclear power plant but they don't think that future missions are necessarily. threatened economically as effectively in thirty eight as a lot of people are saying and this is now threatening us space dominance we are you don't have a shuttle program for now we only have the ones that are sending rovers to mars and what happens next no i you know that's a long conversation and that space dominance it's got to do with a lot of other things he said it's the availability of key ternium it's got to do with whether or not we can create

a space program that is sustainable in this economy we've got to start doing things smarter and one of the unfortunate negative impacts of curiosity's development has been that it was so much more expensive then nasa predicted and you know these are wonderful missions but we've got to get real about what we can afford to do in these times it so my hope is that when we go back to mars after curiosity we do it in a way that is very smart and sustainable. so that we can continue to get the most science possible out of a very limited by. compared to what we've had in the past now would you call this a silly american mission or would you say that it's international to you i know that russia spain canada also had scientists to help contribute. right so that makes it an international mission in all of these missions bring in investigators from all over the world and you know nasa does share the data and as i say is

bringing in you know investigators from other countries to help you know solve the riddles that morse presents to us through this incredible what we hope will be an incredible wave of data beginning next summer when curiosity actually gets to mars now i must say that for me the most nerve wracking time is going to be the landing because that will be just a very short window of time in which curiosity has to get down on the surface of bars with a brand new landing system called the sky crane and i know the guys that are developing that landing system and they are confident about it but i also know that there are a lot of people that are going to be sitting there with very clenched fists and crossed fingers until a curiosity is safely on the surface yeah i can imagine and that's already appen eight months of waiting for it to even get there andrew thanks so much for joining us tonight and hopefully this will bring us a lot of new information about mars and its surface and made only what is in some

thinkers of that that laser at work that's a favorite here at the office thanks so much you bet. i still had my parents like friday and happy hour if you don't filled industry cashes in on the occupy movements and your smartphone could be tracking your every move at all or sprint. thank you to the police the repetition of. what a protest nobody seems to know. that never pepper sprayed the face but already argument that they're being overly dramatic.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so poorly pleasing you understand it and then you know here's the part of it and realize that everything you thought you don't know i'm sorry is a big.

blow to the counseling i'm lauren lyster. to tonight's fireside with your host of cops. as we round out this thanksgiving i have a lot to thank her for really great crew that i work with every day and you the viewers and the fans and we do all this for what's most important in times like these instrumental or those that are less fortunate to realize how many people out there are struggling and need our help not to mention needing the government to stop ignoring their plight so as you wonder why people are protesting it off you crying all across the. why disapproval for washington in congress are all time

highs let me just throw a few statistics your way to put it on the perspective to remind you that we're all in this together which is why the ninety nine percent need to unite to help this country be a more fair and just society and to remind you that people out there are really truly struggling and not because of laziness as the right wing media personalities and politicians like to argue i also like to think think progress for compiling some of these staggering statistics that show how deep hunger runs in america last year seventeen point two million households in the united states are food insecure that is the highest level on record and it's a thirty percent rise just during this great recession and also makes up fourteen point five percent of all households which equals about one in seven of those seventeen point two million households three point nine million included children only fifty five percent of those households were able to participate in water more of the three largest federal food and nutrition assistance programs and you're the

half of those who did seek out emergency food assistance while their port of having to choose between paying for utilities or heating fuel and food nearly forty percent i did choose between paying rent or a mortgage and food that's a sad state of affairs and it's not something that we should wish on anyone least of all children that are growing up not knowing what it's like to feel secure that every night welcome home and have a dinner eat every morning before they go to school they'll get breakfast to help them start their day and for good food prices increased by three point six percent last year alone meanwhile the measure by the use six about sixteen percent of americans are unemployed millions more can't pay for their homes and forty nine million according to the latest it is six released by the census bureau are living in poverty so for those that want to claim that the recession is over and the economy is recovering well don't forget that might apply to those at the top to corporations to banks that are raking in record profits but not to millions more don't forget as you watch the news today and the mainstream media goes wild over.

black friday crowds and sales of those are luxuries the millions can't afford it yesterday while so many were lining up to get a good deal on a flat screen t.v. others were lining up to get a hot meal thanks to the generosity of those who donate and volunteer now these are tough times and we have to treat them as such congress needs to treat them as such rather than continue to work for a lobbyist and corporate bosses the fund their campaigns instead of the constituents they're supposed to be representing the media needs to report on the realities of davie life daily life for millions of americans instead of focusing on celebrity gossip and all the partisanship for a time and the ninety nine percent over that things can change it will take hard work despite the mockery the ridicule by those who don't want them to succeed those that thrive off of the status quo despite the oppressive and violent actions of law enforcement they shouldn't be deterred you have to keep fighting and i'm thankful that people in cities across the country are doing just that.

i got time for happy hour and joining me is evening is lauren lyster host of capital account here on r t n july's involved deputy editor of the business insider thanks for joining you guys thank you having us so it's black friday you and i have already spoken about the psycho lengths that people will go through to get that deal like pepper spraying people in the face but you might also be getting tracked only at this one mall in short pump town center in richmond virginia take a look. attention shoppers we now know where you're going in short center in fact will be tracking your movement from store to store through your cell phone. so it was kind of creepy they're going to track. your phone while you're in the mall every store that you go to so they can you know obviously pick up on whatever trends are it is creepy but i have a feeling. it's not going to get that much traffic that representative or have got

many people targeted by these big brother tactics although i don't know the more reason to stay home from a lot of it only to shopping centers in the entire country using this technology for now is pretty remarkable and what do you do hedge funds to try and get retail sales like satellite pictures of parking lots black friday and then they compare them to the year before so this sounds great just another way to put the pieces together and figure out exactly where the store that you want to be tracked least that you would be embarrassed to admit to people that you were and. it's good question. i know. that so obviously the n.b.a. lockout is still going on i really depressed about it i talk about it but business is also heard. it's time for you to come back to stop squabbling over the millions of those. and think about. the business person it's not only in the city

but of course this country. and think about the fans lakers but apparently one of the businesses you may not expect to be hurting right now is escort business is a guy in new york residence or business says that his business is down about thirty percent right now because he hires them as they hire somebody like that courtside and you know whatever a sports you know why would people be surprised this business is hurting i would think people people would be the least surprised that this business is hurting i'm just surprised it is hurting enough but he came out and talked about it because we tried to do ask for stories before it's hard to get them to talk but do you assume that if you're a professional athlete you don't necessarily need to pay for an escort maybe or maybe have one of the office and i so many instances just because you know part of how it was it seemed to me so i do not preclude you looking to the services of escort ok it's also pretty remarkable like hearing about all the financial struggles that benefits are going and all of season i mean to sort of like no savings whatsoever of the number who are going great great they're awful it's

really horrible happens about what happens with you know what like thirty percent of them are bankrupt within three years after retirement it's not what everyone thinks because you just know the couple big sports stars are making these massive contracts but it's not like that for all of them. or thank you for the players sorry guys i just i'm not convinced if they're broke if. i feel worse for the bar owners and bar owners yeah right i don't know i have to pick one now if we do things like write a story so you know. listen to this story this happened in prairie village kansas and basically it makes the governor of kansas look like a total fool that. just made me comments to brownback and told him he sucked in person keep close along she says that tweet landed the principal's office . so grows out of that and then she tweeted that and then the governor's people

reported it to her school and so then she had to go to the school the principal's office and she had to like writing apology letter if you all this other stuff that is ridiculous really you know if you're governor you don't have anything better to worry about than like some high school student tweeted something about use as you suck and who cares if he's worried about i can't believe they're actually using these totalitarian tactics in the president actually writing to her that's ridiculous i have a clue i just it is a bizarre that you would want to draw attention to it i mean people it's people all the time on twitter i get all the carriers as you suggested earlier you know how to navigate these twitter war scenario right he is violating the rule when you get into a twitter fight don't fight with the people below you he's pointing down. you would abolish a free speech like if i could do whatever was say whatever she wants the troops and go to the principal because of something she said about the governor and apologizes if good apology letter come on i would not write that letter or her this is absurd and she eighteen she's not even under age i mean i would exercise my adult you know

right to tell the principal tell me what are you know even if she was telling me that i go to the other because obviously he really does suck if you're good. ok so this is something interesting about occupy wall street you've seen a lot of people are trying to co-opt the movement people are trying to sell t. shirts yada yada now looks like the adult entertainment industry might be trying to capitalize on it as well in the middle of occupy oakland they basically that's the scene for a new gay porn movie and it's called occupy. and attack lines agyness police can ban the erection of tents that occupy wall street but they can't keep us from getting it in our pants. you know what i thought we were always a video clip well. i think you need. x. rated for television i love the look of subtlety there they just went all the way

you know not even earlier porn or anything like that. pretty straightforward i think this is the most creative occupy. whatever you have added to it that we've seen yet so do you want to see more occupied warns that you're saying no i think this is i think it kind of just i don't know i don't i don't like this for the occupy movement it gives too many people opportunities to say that it was easier for anybody it's less than a decade cars yes someone's face make it out of it totally agree but i'll keep my money. interesting are you guys going to wrap it up thanks so much for joining me tonight and that's a pretty nice out thanks for tuning in make sure you come back on monday it's anniversary of wiki leaks dumping the state department cables and take a look back at what we've learned and what has changed in sense in the meantime don't forget be a fan of the launch on facebook and follow us on twitter you missed any of tonight or any other night you know it's rational you tube dot com slash the order show you'll find the interviews as well as the show in its entirety and coming up next.

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