I'm sort of surprised that the police are so willing to be accommodating here too
The reason they don't care is that they already use cell phones for any sensitive communications, as well as any communications that might not look good in a newspaper article or court transcript.
As I mentioned in an earlier Slashdot story on police use of encryption, the most common phrase you hear on the (unencrypted) Motorola Smartnet system around here is "Call me on my cell."
Every generation of scholars from the ancient Greeks to the present day has complained about people like you: children of privilege and promise whose intellectual laziness signals their parents' failure and their culture's fall. Happily, those old geezers have all been full of shit... at least up until the last 10-15 years or so. Now, their lamentations ring loudly in our ears. They sound less like the grousing of irrelevant reactionaries, and more like warnings of an undeniable and very inconvenient truth.
So have another Adderall and hit the showers; your work here is done.
One thing that's sort of interesting is that the current President of the United States was elected largely on small contributions from ordinary people. That is not usually how it works. Something similar appears to be happening this cycle.
To paraphrase the old cliche, do not underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 loaded with $20 bills.
No, they are NOT! Go give a "fetus" a DNA test. You will find that it is NOT YOUR DNA.
Funny, the same thing is true of the rat my cat just killed. Like so many other so-called "pro-life" talking points, does the existence of unique DNA actually prove anything?
Oh, and why are the fundies so interested in DNA and genetics and science-y stuff all of a sudden? Don't you guys have a school board to infiltrate, or something?
And now, thanks to people who say nothing (or even cheer) when the Federal government takes more and more power, those shitkicking fundies from Oklahoma are going to end up wielding all of that power at the Federal level.
It restricts their right to have control over their own bodies, because of a conclusion derived from a belief derived from a holy book.
No, it's not derived from their holy book, either. Here in the US, what we know as "pro life" rhetoric was spun from whole cloth by modern-day Christian fundies, based on equally fabricated dogma from the medieval Catholic church.
The only thing the Bible says about abortion is that if you cause a woman to miscarry, you owe her old man a couple of goats, or something. Everything beyond that is just some stuff the Bible-thumpers made up to raise an army of useful idiots.
I'd say most people these days don't have the slightest idea exactly how terrible real Nazis were.
Or that any differences between the Nazis and us are purely cultural, and not inborn. Believe it or not, sixty years is not enough to for evolution to breed whatever caused WWII and the Holocaust out of the human genome.
It can happen here, folks. You can be an idiot and pretend it can't, or you can remain vigilant, and make sure it doesn't. Yammering about "Godwin's Law" at every opportunity adds no signal to the conversation, only noise.
Chris Dodd says, "If you don't support the policies I like, I won't give you money in the future," and that deserves an investigation. Someone else says, "If you don't support the policies I like, I will take up arms and start murdering people," but to investigate that would be a horrible abuse of civil rights.
That is correct. When it comes to freedom of speech, attempted bribery is even less protected by the First Amendment than threats are.
Exactly. The only time an average consumer or office worker comes into contact with the "Windows" brand is when something goes wrong with the OS on their computer and they have to call some random geek to deal with it. Regardless of whether a given problem is Windows' fault or not, that's the image that sticks with the user. Windows has all the sex appeal of a carburetor.
It's just insane that Microsoft still thinks that their existing brands have any value to smartphone purchasers. If they had simply renamed the WP7 OS to "FrobOS" or "Sugar-Free Vanilla Latte" or ""P. F. Chang's Spicy Chicken" or whatever, sales would have tripled at least. Hell, even Apple came up with a new name for their MacOS fork for portable devices, and they didn't have any widespread public baggage to overcome.
And this marketing debacle isn't Nokia's or Elop's fault in the least. The buck goes all the way to Ballmer's desk. Why he hasn't been forced to clean it out under the supervision of the best security guards $12/hour can buy, I can't imagine.
Gee. Maybe we should get those error bars under control, before we rewire the world's economic systems on the basis of what the graph says might happen.
And if the KGB put you on a list, they wouldn't prevent you from boarding, they'd haul you away to a prison.
A process which, you may rest assured, did not begin with pre-emptively hauling people away to prison. It began farther up the slippery slope of government (and human) behavior. The really bad stuff happened later, because nobody gave a fuck earlier.
Um, "10s of MHz" is a completely meaningless statement. The Q of the necessary filter is determined by the signal frequency divided by the channel separation.
10 MHz is a lot of separation at shortwave frequencies. It doesn't provide much headroom at all near 1500 MHz, where the FCC in its infinite wisdom, untroubled by the thoughts of actual engineers, placed GPS and LightSquared adjacent to each other.
If we didn't give the government the power to hand over our freedoms to those corporations on a silver platter, the corporations would never have become as big and scary as they are.
I think that the framers of the Constitution should have spent less time worrying about the power of gov't, and a lot more on the power of lawyers.
The framers did a good job in many respects, but they left a huge bug in the system of checks and balances: there is no penalty for legislators who propose and pass laws that are later declared unconstitutional. People like the SOPA/PIPA sponsors have no reason not to keep throwing crap at the wall, knowing that eventually outrage fatigue will set in and something will stick.
What's needed is to amend the Constitution to provide a way to slam the Overton Window shut on our legislators' fingers. If there were any sort of professional or personal sanction involved in authoring an unconstitutional bill, things would change in a hurry. (They might actually read what they're voting on, for one thing.)
The comment thread on the article goes into this in detail. It seems to amount to careful parsing on the part of the Elsevier rep who authored the bill.
Obligatory car analogy: if your car has a "For Sale" sign on it, and I come by with a bucket of water and wash it, does that give me the right to dictate who gets your car?
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I'm sort of surprised that the police are so willing to be accommodating here too
The reason they don't care is that they already use cell phones for any sensitive communications, as well as any communications that might not look good in a newspaper article or court transcript.
As I mentioned in an earlier Slashdot story on police use of encryption, the most common phrase you hear on the (unencrypted) Motorola Smartnet system around here is "Call me on my cell."
Just going for the moderation trifecta, which I see you got. Now I really am in a bad mood.
Every generation of scholars from the ancient Greeks to the present day has complained about people like you: children of privilege and promise whose intellectual laziness signals their parents' failure and their culture's fall. Happily, those old geezers have all been full of shit... at least up until the last 10-15 years or so. Now, their lamentations ring loudly in our ears. They sound less like the grousing of irrelevant reactionaries, and more like warnings of an undeniable and very inconvenient truth.
So have another Adderall and hit the showers; your work here is done.
One thing that's sort of interesting is that the current President of the United States was elected largely on small contributions from ordinary people. That is not usually how it works. Something similar appears to be happening this cycle.
To paraphrase the old cliche, do not underestimate the bandwidth of a 747 loaded with $20 bills.
No, they are NOT! Go give a "fetus" a DNA test. You will find that it is NOT YOUR DNA.
Funny, the same thing is true of the rat my cat just killed. Like so many other so-called "pro-life" talking points, does the existence of unique DNA actually prove anything?
Oh, and why are the fundies so interested in DNA and genetics and science-y stuff all of a sudden? Don't you guys have a school board to infiltrate, or something?
And now, thanks to people who say nothing (or even cheer) when the Federal government takes more and more power, those shitkicking fundies from Oklahoma are going to end up wielding all of that power at the Federal level.
Big Government: it's OK when my party does it!
It restricts their right to have control over their own bodies, because of a conclusion derived from a belief derived from a holy book.
No, it's not derived from their holy book, either. Here in the US, what we know as "pro life" rhetoric was spun from whole cloth by modern-day Christian fundies, based on equally fabricated dogma from the medieval Catholic church.
The only thing the Bible says about abortion is that if you cause a woman to miscarry, you owe her old man a couple of goats, or something. Everything beyond that is just some stuff the Bible-thumpers made up to raise an army of useful idiots.
I'd say most people these days don't have the slightest idea exactly how terrible real Nazis were.
Or that any differences between the Nazis and us are purely cultural, and not inborn. Believe it or not, sixty years is not enough to for evolution to breed whatever caused WWII and the Holocaust out of the human genome.
It can happen here, folks. You can be an idiot and pretend it can't, or you can remain vigilant, and make sure it doesn't. Yammering about "Godwin's Law" at every opportunity adds no signal to the conversation, only noise.
Chris Dodd says, "If you don't support the policies I like, I won't give you money in the future," and that deserves an investigation. Someone else says, "If you don't support the policies I like, I will take up arms and start murdering people," but to investigate that would be a horrible abuse of civil rights.
That is correct. When it comes to freedom of speech, attempted bribery is even less protected by the First Amendment than threats are.
Exactly. The only time an average consumer or office worker comes into contact with the "Windows" brand is when something goes wrong with the OS on their computer and they have to call some random geek to deal with it. Regardless of whether a given problem is Windows' fault or not, that's the image that sticks with the user. Windows has all the sex appeal of a carburetor.
It's just insane that Microsoft still thinks that their existing brands have any value to smartphone purchasers. If they had simply renamed the WP7 OS to "FrobOS" or "Sugar-Free Vanilla Latte" or ""P. F. Chang's Spicy Chicken" or whatever, sales would have tripled at least. Hell, even Apple came up with a new name for their MacOS fork for portable devices, and they didn't have any widespread public baggage to overcome.
And this marketing debacle isn't Nokia's or Elop's fault in the least. The buck goes all the way to Ballmer's desk. Why he hasn't been forced to clean it out under the supervision of the best security guards $12/hour can buy, I can't imagine.
Gee. Maybe we should get those error bars under control, before we rewire the world's economic systems on the basis of what the graph says might happen.
And if the KGB put you on a list, they wouldn't prevent you from boarding, they'd haul you away to a prison.
A process which, you may rest assured, did not begin with pre-emptively hauling people away to prison. It began farther up the slippery slope of government (and human) behavior. The really bad stuff happened later, because nobody gave a fuck earlier.
Everything beyond homeostasis is a "luxury."
As long as they don't involve climate change. In that case, ordinary garden-variety evidence will do.
... was obsessed with "cultural identity"?
(Sorry, I somehow posted that reply to the wrong subthread.)
The analogy fails. Credit-card companies aren't trying to hide their own customers' credit card numbers from them.
Um, "10s of MHz" is a completely meaningless statement. The Q of the necessary filter is determined by the signal frequency divided by the channel separation.
10 MHz is a lot of separation at shortwave frequencies. It doesn't provide much headroom at all near 1500 MHz, where the FCC in its infinite wisdom, untroubled by the thoughts of actual engineers, placed GPS and LightSquared adjacent to each other.
If we didn't give the government the power to hand over our freedoms to those corporations on a silver platter, the corporations would never have become as big and scary as they are.
I think that the framers of the Constitution should have spent less time worrying about the power of gov't, and a lot more on the power of lawyers.
The framers did a good job in many respects, but they left a huge bug in the system of checks and balances: there is no penalty for legislators who propose and pass laws that are later declared unconstitutional. People like the SOPA/PIPA sponsors have no reason not to keep throwing crap at the wall, knowing that eventually outrage fatigue will set in and something will stick.
What's needed is to amend the Constitution to provide a way to slam the Overton Window shut on our legislators' fingers. If there were any sort of professional or personal sanction involved in authoring an unconstitutional bill, things would change in a hurry. (They might actually read what they're voting on, for one thing.)
Right, that's my point. The American taxpayer bought the parts, the researchers built the car, and Elsevier washed it.
The comment thread on the article goes into this in detail. It seems to amount to careful parsing on the part of the Elsevier rep who authored the bill.
Obligatory car analogy: if your car has a "For Sale" sign on it, and I come by with a bucket of water and wash it, does that give me the right to dictate who gets your car?
Dells primary audience is business, tablets are consumer items and rarely used in businesses.
Yeah, I remember when people around here used to say that about iPhones.
Pilot maintenance log: Autoland rough
Service depot status: Autoland not installed
P: Something loose in cockpit
S: Something tightened in cockpit
P: Dead bugs on windshield
S: Live bugs on back-order
P: Autopilot in altitude-hold mode produces a 200 feet per minute descent
S: Cannot reproduce problem on ground
P: Evidence of leak on right main landing gear
S: Evidence removed
P: DME volume unbelievably loud
S: DME volume set to more believable level
P: Friction locks cause throttle levers to stick
S: That's what they're there for
P: IFF inoperative
S: IFF always inoperative in OFF mode
P: Suspected crack in windshield
S: Suspect you're right
P: Number 3 engine missing
S: Engine found on right wing after brief search
P: Aircraft handles funny
S: Aircraft warned to straighten up, fly right, and be serious
P: Target radar hums
S: Reprogrammed target radar with lyrics
P: Mouse in cockpit
S: Cat installed
Go read NDAA, shamelessly passed by Senate (both parties) and shamelessly signed by Obama little more than a week ago.
Oh, but he signed it "with reservations." That makes it all better.