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These notes come straight from Jennifer's presentation; slides at https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2HGtAJEbG8PdzVPdHcwekI2V2M/edit

NSA covers 75% of internet traffic; not all is collected or sifted
Big issues with suveillance are not the NSA but leak investigations, subpoenas, accidental disclosure and chilling effects on sources

This example shows basic usage of mdbtools to extract CSV/SQL from Microsoft databases, but also involves a fairly convoluted Bash loop. For a simpler example, go here: Using mdbtools to extract CSV data from the FAA Wildlife Strike Database

If you're on a Mac, you can install mdbtools via homebrew:

brew install mdbtools

Following on Chris Whong's excellent writeup of how to make calls directly to NYC's Geosupport client and this first attempt at generalizing it, here's a way that let me geocode about 10,000 addresses a second on Ubuntu using Node FFI.

Note: this assumes Ubuntu - other Linux is probably fine but may need adjustments.

First, install the basics:

# Update, install Node and unzip (if needed)

	/*

	Usage:

	When generating a page:
	var abTest = new AbTest('your-test-slug');

	if (abTest.variation == 0)
	$('#thediv').addClass('red');
	else if (abTest.variation == 1)

	(function(){

	//get jQuery
	if (window.jQuery === undefined) {
	var done = false;
	var script = document.createElement("script");
	script.src = "http:////ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js";
	script.onload = script.onreadystatechange = function(){
	if (!done && (!this.readyState \|\| this.readyState == "loaded" \|\| this.readyState == "complete")) {
	done = true;

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	# Quick and dirty demonstration of CVE-2014-0160 by
	# Jared Stafford (jspenguin@jspenguin.org)
	# Modified so that it finds cookies

	import sys
	import struct
	import socket
	import time
	import select

	cd ~/

	# Add QGIS repo
	sudo add-apt-repository -s "deb http://qgis.org/debian trusty main"

	# Add TileMill repo
	sudo add-apt-repository ppa:developmentseed/mapbox

	# Update/upgrade
	sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade

	# This is a shell function to quickly grab the data for a given Landsat 8 tile ID from Google's servers
	# For example:
	# l8get LC81690352014169LGN00

	# The echo at the end is to remind myself of the syntax for extracting bands 8, 4, 3, and 2. (Pansharp, Red, Green, Blue)

	# On OSX this would go into your ~/.bash_profile file.
	# Requires gsutil from https://developers.google.com/storage/docs/gsutil_install
	# Most useful in conjunction with USGS' Earth Explorer: http://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/