Because its not a shill, its accurate. A surface pro DOES run the full Win8, it IS a competitor for ultrabooks, and its price is better than its closest competitors. An ultrabook with a core i5 runs ~$7-800, and usually lacks a touchscreen.
Apparently on slashdot however, anything thats not hyperbole or mindless bashing constitutes shillery.
Mitnick spent almost a year in solitary subject to psychological torture that is not only unconstitutional but even a violation of the Geneva convention.
The geneva convention discusses how to treat uniformed POWs. It has absolutely no relevance to Mitnicks case.
Usually how these issues resolve is some company with "vision" decides that this is the future, and invests a lot of capital into making it work. If their vision is right, and demand can be created, they will profit, and the technology will improve. If its wrong, they will fade into obscurity.
IMHO, soy is at its worst when its trying to be something else.
Its sort of like the uncanny valley. If you come out and say "hi, Im tofu", its fine. If you try to be steak, everyone will know something is wrong (even if theyre not sure what) and it will taste terrible.
Every time I check the benchmarks, "x64" architectures (amd, intel) still absolutely murder ARM architectures on power-usage-per-task and raw cpu power. The only place ARM has an edge is lower absolute power draw.
The reason you cannot back your claim up is because what passes for political persecution in the US is "the IRS pays an undue amount of attention to you". What passes for persecution in Russia is "10 years of hard labor after a show trial".
Gitmo is only used for foreign combatants captured in a theatre of war. Surprise, if you were an american citizen but fought for the Axis during WW2, you would have ended up in a military prison the same as any other combatant.
It was not my intention to selectively quote, and if I could edit my post, I would-- I did indeed misread your post as saying "but as a trully free ". The import however seems the same based on the previous line in your post: that we arent winning the PR battle because we arent that free in comparison with Russia.
I mean, when we talk of freedom, in some ways we are less free now than in days past, but discussions about freedom between nations will always be a relative thing, and relatively the US is still pretty high on that list.
The problem we have is people no longer believe in sticking to the letter of the constitution, which means we're sort of at a "whatever seems good at the time" mode of legislation. Unfortunately that leads to stuff that would never have been allowed by a strict reading of the constitution becoming enshrined in law for the long haul.
You cant start defending freedom by addressing bad laws after the fact; you have to start before. Unfortunately thats hard to do because it never looks popular to say "the federal government CANT fix X, because thats not one of its constitutional duties"; people will claim that youre only interested in money or whatever, and will demand that the law be passed.
So clamoring over what the NSA is doing now is a bit late; if it was problematic, it should have been halted at the outset on principle.
Yes, probably before they have jobs and their income levels are technically below the poverty line.
Also, that number was 54%, not 80%, and it was one of the most laughable reports I've ever seen. 99% of americans will miss a meal at some point in their lives; that doesnt mean that we have a problem with starvation, and its a useless statistic without knowing when, why, and for how long.
From being in the perspective of the Apache helicopter crew, I can see where a group of men gathering, when there’s a firefight just a few blocks away, which I was involved in, and they’re carrying weapons, one of which is an RPG
--Soldier who arrived after the fight
In fact, after calling Robert Gates a liar regarding the firefight, Assange himself admitted to having classified reports of small arms fire immediately prior to this incident:
"we have classified records to show that all there was... was a report of small arms fire," Assange said. "28 minutes later, after circling around the suburbs of Baghdad, the helicopters identified these men and killed them."
For the RPG, I would direct you to that wikipedia article, second paragraph; there are 4 citations for the weapons found.
Or better yet acted like actual human being and try to take them prisoner instead of kill them.
From a helicopter, vs a supposed enemy who is not in the habit of surrendering but rather detonating suicide bombs when US forces close in. Right.
As much as you may want to make this into another Mai Lai, its not. Even Stephen Colbert-- not one you would expect to defend the military against wikileaks-- offered this fairly spot-on assessment:
The army described this as a group that gave resistance at the time, that doesn’t seem to be happening. But there are armed men in the group, they did find a rocket propelled grenade among the group, the Reuters photographers who were regrettably killed, were not identifiedYou have edited this tape, and you have given it a title called ‘collateral murder.’ That’s not leaking, that’s a pure editorial.
No country in their right mind would ignore a leak like this; Snowden was handling classified information, leaked it to the world, and promptly fled to two of the US's chief rivals (who ironically have programs about 10x more invasive than anything Snowden found). What sort of response were you expecting?
The Russians might just do it to simply piss off the US, but a trully free and just country
which is what parent was responding to, and hes absolutely right.
The US is still one of the most free countries in the world by a pretty long shot; the drop-off is pretty steep once you get too far east of western Europe.
The Russians might just do it to simply piss off the US, but a trully free and just country should not have any problems winning this PR battle.
You're trolling, right? You want to have a conversation with Gary Kasparov or Nadezhda Tolokonnikova about whether they agree with your assessment?
I mean Im not trying to excuse our faults by saying "look at theirs", but to say that we're worse than a country that hasnt had a real election in years, that imprisons people for "premeditated hooliganism" (shades of the Soviet "wrecking" charge) and blasphemy, and detains and beats people for attending said show trials.... it staggers the imagination.
Why dont you run a little experiment to see which country is "winning the PR battle". Go to Russia and start a protest against Putin, making sure to insult him in the process. Do the same here against Obama. See how each country responds... but I might recommend the US experiment first, otherwise you will be stuck in a Russian prison and will be unable to complete the test.
Your post specifically made the accusation of "rednecks in a chopper murdering children" which didnt happen. In fact, Assange himself indicated that he didnt think the initial attack was intentional; his explanation for the title of the video was because of the followup attacks when the van arrived.
Even the Guardian (who works closely with Wikileaks) doesnt think that "murder" is appropriate, and that Assange is doing emotional manipulation about this whole issue.
The fact is you made a false accusation, but its sufficiently popular to say anything negative about the US that people dont care.
In what possible way is that supposed to excuse a massacre of mostly unarmed civilians?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrike> Wikipedia In the first strike "Crazyhorse 1/8" and "Crazyhorse 1/9" directed 30mm cannon fire at a group of nine to eleven[8][9] men, of whom one had an AK-47 and another an RPG-7;[10][11][12][13]
mostly unarmed civilians?
I see what you did there. They were MOSTLY unarmed. A helicopter was called to an area while a firefight is going on in the vicinity, they see a guy with an RPG, and theyre supposed to go "yea theyre mostly unarmed". Makes sense to me.
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Vista was legitimately bad in most regards. The UI was the one "redeeming" aspect; everything else was half baked.
8 is the reverse. The UI blows, the core is good. All problems MS is having with 8 are self-inflicted.
Because its not a shill, its accurate. A surface pro DOES run the full Win8, it IS a competitor for ultrabooks, and its price is better than its closest competitors. An ultrabook with a core i5 runs ~$7-800, and usually lacks a touchscreen.
Apparently on slashdot however, anything thats not hyperbole or mindless bashing constitutes shillery.
Yea everyone knows a Nexus 7 beats a core i5! AMIRITE?
Mitnick spent almost a year in solitary subject to psychological torture that is not only unconstitutional but even a violation of the Geneva convention.
The geneva convention discusses how to treat uniformed POWs. It has absolutely no relevance to Mitnicks case.
I highly doubt you author The Oatmeal; you have too high an opinion of yourself for that to be plausible.
Usually how these issues resolve is some company with "vision" decides that this is the future, and invests a lot of capital into making it work. If their vision is right, and demand can be created, they will profit, and the technology will improve. If its wrong, they will fade into obscurity.
Every time someone says "mouthfeel" I have an inexplicable desire to punch something.
IMHO, soy is at its worst when its trying to be something else.
Its sort of like the uncanny valley. If you come out and say "hi, Im tofu", its fine. If you try to be steak, everyone will know something is wrong (even if theyre not sure what) and it will taste terrible.
Intel, AMD, and nVidia are targetting utterly different markets than Qualcomm.
Every time I check the benchmarks, "x64" architectures (amd, intel) still absolutely murder ARM architectures on power-usage-per-task and raw cpu power. The only place ARM has an edge is lower absolute power draw.
I imagine that at the time, 32MB would have been a retarded waste of RAM for most people-- which if I recall was sort of the context of that quote.
Its stupid because today it is better in most cases to have 2-4 cores clocked higher than 8 cores that arent as fast.
Corporations and their funds should not be allowed to give or fundraise for politicians period. Only private citizens should be allowed to do either.
Corporations are run by people. You OK with telling a CEO "youre not allowed to donate money"? Because that seems problematic.
The reason you cannot back your claim up is because what passes for political persecution in the US is "the IRS pays an undue amount of attention to you". What passes for persecution in Russia is "10 years of hard labor after a show trial".
Gitmo is only used for foreign combatants captured in a theatre of war. Surprise, if you were an american citizen but fought for the Axis during WW2, you would have ended up in a military prison the same as any other combatant.
It was not my intention to selectively quote, and if I could edit my post, I would-- I did indeed misread your post as saying "but as a trully free ". The import however seems the same based on the previous line in your post: that we arent winning the PR battle because we arent that free in comparison with Russia.
I mean, when we talk of freedom, in some ways we are less free now than in days past, but discussions about freedom between nations will always be a relative thing, and relatively the US is still pretty high on that list.
The problem we have is people no longer believe in sticking to the letter of the constitution, which means we're sort of at a "whatever seems good at the time" mode of legislation. Unfortunately that leads to stuff that would never have been allowed by a strict reading of the constitution becoming enshrined in law for the long haul.
You cant start defending freedom by addressing bad laws after the fact; you have to start before. Unfortunately thats hard to do because it never looks popular to say "the federal government CANT fix X, because thats not one of its constitutional duties"; people will claim that youre only interested in money or whatever, and will demand that the law be passed.
So clamoring over what the NSA is doing now is a bit late; if it was problematic, it should have been halted at the outset on principle.
Yes, probably before they have jobs and their income levels are technically below the poverty line.
Also, that number was 54%, not 80%, and it was one of the most laughable reports I've ever seen. 99% of americans will miss a meal at some point in their lives; that doesnt mean that we have a problem with starvation, and its a useless statistic without knowing when, why, and for how long.
As far as the RPG there was no RPG and there was no firefight in the area until they started massacring civilians at least
The sources I have disagree:
From being in the perspective of the Apache helicopter crew, I can see where a group of men gathering, when there’s a firefight just a few blocks away, which I was involved in, and they’re carrying weapons, one of which is an RPG
--Soldier who arrived after the fight
In fact, after calling Robert Gates a liar regarding the firefight, Assange himself admitted to having classified reports of small arms fire immediately prior to this incident:
"we have classified records to show that all there was... was a report of small arms fire," Assange said. "28 minutes later, after circling around the suburbs of Baghdad, the helicopters identified these men and killed them."
For the RPG, I would direct you to that wikipedia article, second paragraph; there are 4 citations for the weapons found.
Or better yet acted like actual human being and try to take them prisoner instead of kill them.
From a helicopter, vs a supposed enemy who is not in the habit of surrendering but rather detonating suicide bombs when US forces close in. Right.
As much as you may want to make this into another Mai Lai, its not. Even Stephen Colbert-- not one you would expect to defend the military against wikileaks-- offered this fairly spot-on assessment:
The army described this as a group that gave resistance at the time, that doesn’t seem to be happening. But there are armed men in the group, they did find a rocket propelled grenade among the group, the Reuters photographers who were regrettably killed, were not identifiedYou have edited this tape, and you have given it a title called ‘collateral murder.’ That’s not leaking, that’s a pure editorial.
I propose that slashdot be renamed to "The Great Internet Strawman Factory".
No country in their right mind would ignore a leak like this; Snowden was handling classified information, leaked it to the world, and promptly fled to two of the US's chief rivals (who ironically have programs about 10x more invasive than anything Snowden found). What sort of response were you expecting?
I think your post also contained these words:
The Russians might just do it to simply piss off the US, but a trully free and just country
which is what parent was responding to, and hes absolutely right.
The US is still one of the most free countries in the world by a pretty long shot; the drop-off is pretty steep once you get too far east of western Europe.
The Russians might just do it to simply piss off the US, but a trully free and just country should not have any problems winning this PR battle.
You're trolling, right? You want to have a conversation with Gary Kasparov or Nadezhda Tolokonnikova about whether they agree with your assessment?
I mean Im not trying to excuse our faults by saying "look at theirs", but to say that we're worse than a country that hasnt had a real election in years, that imprisons people for "premeditated hooliganism" (shades of the Soviet "wrecking" charge) and blasphemy, and detains and beats people for attending said show trials.... it staggers the imagination.
Why dont you run a little experiment to see which country is "winning the PR battle". Go to Russia and start a protest against Putin, making sure to insult him in the process. Do the same here against Obama. See how each country responds... but I might recommend the US experiment first, otherwise you will be stuck in a Russian prison and will be unable to complete the test.
Any computer you use at work will be locked down. Get over it.
For the record, Apple machines are more of a PITA where I work than anything else.
Your post specifically made the accusation of "rednecks in a chopper murdering children" which didnt happen. In fact, Assange himself indicated that he didnt think the initial attack was intentional; his explanation for the title of the video was because of the followup attacks when the van arrived.
Even the Guardian (who works closely with Wikileaks) doesnt think that "murder" is appropriate, and that Assange is doing emotional manipulation about this whole issue.
The fact is you made a false accusation, but its sufficiently popular to say anything negative about the US that people dont care.
In what possible way is that supposed to excuse a massacre of mostly unarmed civilians?
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/July_12,_2007_Baghdad_airstrike> Wikipedia
In the first strike "Crazyhorse 1/8" and "Crazyhorse 1/9" directed 30mm cannon fire at a group of nine to eleven[8][9] men, of whom one had an AK-47 and another an RPG-7;[10][11][12][13]
mostly unarmed civilians?
I see what you did there. They were MOSTLY unarmed. A helicopter was called to an area while a firefight is going on in the vicinity, they see a guy with an RPG, and theyre supposed to go "yea theyre mostly unarmed". Makes sense to me.