Why would South Korea need to colonize the Moon?, Reverend Sun Myung Moon has already already colonized the USA (and one of the reasons that Louis Ferrakhan and G.W. Bush are 2 bacon-spaces apart).
For those of you who were wondering what z80a meant, apparently the Gros Michel banana was one of the main banana species used and was wiped out by a fungal plague.
In the 1950s, Panama disease, a wilt caused by the fungus Fusarium oxysporum, wiped out vast tracts of ‘Gros Michel’ plantations in South America and Africa, but the cultivar survived in Thailand.
By 1960, the major importers of Gros Michel bananas were nearly bankrupt, and had waited to deal with the financial and environmental crisis. The Cavendish was cultivated so consumers would still be able to obtain bananas.[2]
So, a monoculture nearly wiped out the industry. A tale of caution.
Yes, Level3 laid a lot of extra fiber (and conduits) throughout major metro areas.
The fiber itself was not very expensive (they use horizontal boring tools that have become the standard for under-street improvements), the real cost is in the gear needed to light and amplify signals on the fiber. My most recent former employer set up a 10GbS link between primary and colo sites for minimal cost by leveraging the Level3 fiber.
If a well-funded organization like Google (Level3 has been cash constrained since the telecom crash) can lease and light these fibers it will be (yet) another major disruption to the metro network players, and frankly, it is about damned time
I can't find it by googling (amusing that) but I heard that Google over a decade ago snapped up a bunch of dark fiber after the.com bust. I had wondered what they were intending to do with that...
Here's hoping they light that shit up like a christmas tree:)
I wouldn't recommend iphones to anyone but certainly not for this reason. The whole notion of lumping Apple in with this classification of criminal is just batshit crazy.
This really should be left up to the next elected president, if we are to believe the do-nothing blow-hards in Congress.
You know the unsaid GOP Congresscritters' words: This should be left up to the next elected president if that person is a Republican. Believe you me, if Sanders or Clinton get elected, they'll find yet another reason to move their goalposts.
Best way to win is not to play their game: Recess time!
Meh, I'd prefer shorter range, but some way to create multiple access points in a user friendly way to make the range work the way you want. Needless to say, those APs should be cheap.
I want to elminate blackspots in my own home. What I don't want to do is give the neighbors free internet access.
Neighbors are one thing - how about interlopers in cars parked in front of your house? My house has a small curb setback - so we had to rip out our xfinitywifi router because it was delivering service (outside our firewall) to strangers - which I really don't mind - but they stayed parked in front of my house with their engines running. Annoying to say the least.
Your use of the imperative ("I mean, we really, really had to kill them") is pretty arbitrary and appeals to authority. Who died and made you god? I'd hate to think of you as some armchair Fed... what are your credentials again?
I have no dog in this fight. I do have some credentials, but they're not pertinent.
These two were not going to surrender. They killed a bunch of people at an office party where he worked.
This was a Wild, Wild West, going out in a Blaze of Glory,no tray slot in the door, type of deal.
All I got to say is, in the past this was dealt with using precision, now it's like some bad b-grade movie. Sorry state of affairs for our ability to actually police in this country.
Right, so apocryphal. This same story has been repeated differently for many other companies and CEOs in the 70s. Note the lack of names, and the general mischaracterization of Jobs' attitude. It seems cut/paste.
Not at all, Android can do the same and doesn't need the walled garden to do it. Play Services on Android will scan even sideloaded apps, and can remove apps that are found to be malicious no matter where they come from.
And theoretically, the Police may be able to arrive on-scene before the criminals depart... but that only seems to be feasible in environments where crime isn't rampant. Let's face it, the walled-garden approach does result in better overall security for users (at a price), not unlike gated communities.
However, since he evidently doesn't agree with the law, he presumably would deem any consistent and systematic application of it to be "unfair."
Hmm... the law is pretty clear (see constitution and judicial interpretations over the years), and it's the Executive branch who have broken that law. I'm fairly certain most of the citizens in the country would agree with Snowden over the govenrment in this regard.
Yep. I'd seen them sub-$300 once or twice before, but hadn't pulled the trigger. This time there was some sort of 10% off deal on top of everything else. I don't think I've seen anything quite that low since, but I do believe they still dip below $300 occasionally.
Can't speak to performance relative to other SSDs, but for a laptop running an older version of OS X, it's been quite a step up from the 500GB 5400RPM drive it replaced.
Yeah, I have a 2010 MBP running a fusion drive with a 1TB drive and 500GB SSD, and was looking to replace spinning rust with a 1TB SSD (or replace both with a 2TB SSD).
Fusion drive is great since I grew past 500GB, but El Cap is a bit slow now so I'd like to get back to pure SSD.
It'll have to go to the Supreme Court for that verdict, though.
I have no faith in either the (R) (Trump/Cruz/Rubio/Bush..) or Obama to appoint someone that would rule in favor of privacy/security over government intrusion.
Quite frankly, people who say there is a difference between the two parties, need to wake up and smell the coffee.
I think Bernie might well tell the security state to go do it's job instead of leaning on the phone manufacturer. I'm not sure, though. The MIC is strong.
I got a Crucial 960GB SSD for $270 at Newegg last April. Sub-$300 for around a TB was the price point I was waiting for. I'm a bit surprised I haven't seen much better since.
Is that a 2.5" form factor? That's pretty damn good.
The right to encryption and by extension privacy is more important than any one crime. The State has to accept its limitations, not wail and moan about how its 'not fair' they cant have absolute control over humans. Some things are beyond government's reach, accept it.
Furthermore - maybe if they didn't just wantonly kill the suspects (aim to disable) and then allow the press to ransack the suspect's home then maybe, just maybe I might have some sympathy for the FBI here.
But no - they fucked up and and now are asking for Apple to bail them out.
You can't order someone to do the impossible. For practical purposes, breaking the end to end encryption on an iphone is impossible. Who better than the people who developed the software to know this??
I thought that once you had physical access to a device, it was just a matter of time and expertise before you could crack it. Does Apple know some secret techniques that nobody else does, such that an iPhone 5c is physically tamper-proof even by the people who built it and know everything about its design and manufacturing?
That's possible I suppose, but I doubt it.
If that's the case, then why hasn't the FBI already cracked it? Oh, maybe it's really that difficult to crack? Apple might well have made a lock that they themselves couldn't pick - at least not without a herculean effort.
We certainly kill more people in the United States by law enforcement misadventure than anyone else, anywhere.
So when I say we had to kill these two gunmen (Is that accurate when one is a woman?), I mean, we really, really had to kill them.
I understand your reaction, and most of the time there are questionable fatalities, but these two had predetermined they were going out like Bonnie and Clyde.
Your use of the imperative ("I mean, we really, really had to kill them") is pretty arbitrary and appeals to authority. Who died and made you god? I'd hate to think of you as some armchair Fed... what are your credentials again?
I believe people still value 500GB or 1TB storage in a laptop instead of 32GB or 256GB.
You know that Samsung and others sell 500GB SSDs (in several form factors) that are under $250? 1TB is like $580 (a deal I saw several times in the past month).
I bought a 500GB Crucial m4 SSD a while back at $500, it's now less than half.
Once you get to that size, most folks have no issues going full SSD.
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Why would South Korea need to colonize the Moon?, Reverend Sun Myung Moon has already already colonized the USA (and one of the reasons that Louis Ferrakhan and G.W. Bush are 2 bacon-spaces apart).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
The amount of lithium available isn't the problem at all - it's more like the will to use it.
Oh, I got my terrorist organizations mixed up. My bad #notFBI
For those of you who were wondering what z80a meant, apparently the Gros Michel banana was one of the main banana species used and was wiped out by a fungal plague.
So, a monoculture nearly wiped out the industry. A tale of caution.
Yes, Level3 laid a lot of extra fiber (and conduits) throughout major metro areas.
The fiber itself was not very expensive (they use horizontal boring tools that have become the standard for under-street improvements), the real cost is in the gear needed to light and amplify signals on the fiber. My most recent former employer set up a 10GbS link between primary and colo sites for minimal cost by leveraging the Level3 fiber.
If a well-funded organization like Google (Level3 has been cash constrained since the telecom crash) can lease and light these fibers it will be (yet) another major disruption to the metro network players, and frankly, it is about damned time
I can't find it by googling (amusing that) but I heard that Google over a decade ago snapped up a bunch of dark fiber after the .com bust. I had wondered what they were intending to do with that...
Here's hoping they light that shit up like a christmas tree :)
I wouldn't recommend iphones to anyone but certainly not for this reason. The whole notion of lumping Apple in with this classification of criminal is just batshit crazy.
"Sheriff" Arpaio - the worst sheriff in the country:
http://www.arpaio.com/top-ten/...
This really should be left up to the next elected president, if we are to believe the do-nothing blow-hards in Congress.
You know the unsaid GOP Congresscritters' words: This should be left up to the next elected president if that person is a Republican . Believe you me, if Sanders or Clinton get elected, they'll find yet another reason to move their goalposts.
Best way to win is not to play their game: Recess time!
Clearly we should find out: http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/...
Meh, I'd prefer shorter range, but some way to create multiple access points in a user friendly way to make the range work the way you want. Needless to say, those APs should be cheap.
I want to elminate blackspots in my own home. What I don't want to do is give the neighbors free internet access.
Neighbors are one thing - how about interlopers in cars parked in front of your house? My house has a small curb setback - so we had to rip out our xfinitywifi router because it was delivering service (outside our firewall) to strangers - which I really don't mind - but they stayed parked in front of my house with their engines running. Annoying to say the least.
Note the lack of names, and the general mischaracterization of Jobs' attitude.
If you were fired by Steve Jobs, would you want to the whole world to know that you were a douchebag at Apple? Or, worse, a marketing douchebag?
Did you even read the article you linked?
Your use of the imperative ("I mean, we really, really had to kill them") is pretty arbitrary and appeals to authority. Who died and made you god?
I'd hate to think of you as some armchair Fed... what are your credentials again?
I have no dog in this fight. I do have some credentials, but they're not pertinent.
These two were not going to surrender. They killed a bunch of people at an office party where he worked.
This was a Wild, Wild West, going out in a Blaze of Glory, no tray slot in the door, type of deal.
All I got to say is, in the past this was dealt with using precision, now it's like some bad b-grade movie. Sorry state of affairs for our ability to actually police in this country.
Oh, so if I believe somebody else broke a different law, then that means I didn't break any law! Wow, I never considered that.
All Blorgs are criminals. A Blarg was accused by a Blorg of being a criminal. The Blarg is therefore innocent. T/F?
Sorry, I gotta say WTF? Its like you didn't read what I said. Law and court interpretation supports Snowden.
I'm going to say that's apocryphal unless you have a citation.
There are many elevator stories but I like this one the best.
http://vanshardware.com/2010/07/the-legend-of-apples-steve-jobs/
Right, so apocryphal. This same story has been repeated differently for many other companies and CEOs in the 70s. Note the lack of names, and the general mischaracterization of Jobs' attitude. It seems cut/paste.
Got any others?
Not at all, Android can do the same and doesn't need the walled garden to do it. Play Services on Android will scan even sideloaded apps, and can remove apps that are found to be malicious no matter where they come from.
And theoretically, the Police may be able to arrive on-scene before the criminals depart... but that only seems to be feasible in environments where crime isn't rampant. Let's face it, the walled-garden approach does result in better overall security for users (at a price), not unlike gated communities.
However, since he evidently doesn't agree with the law, he presumably would deem any consistent and systematic application of it to be "unfair."
Hmm... the law is pretty clear (see constitution and judicial interpretations over the years), and it's the Executive branch who have broken that law. I'm fairly certain most of the citizens in the country would agree with Snowden over the govenrment in this regard.
You can be fired for not sounding cheerful enough when you greet your CEO in the elevator, if he so desires and is that petty.
*cough* Steve Jobs *cough*
I'm going to say that's apocryphal unless you have a citation.
Yep. I'd seen them sub-$300 once or twice before, but hadn't pulled the trigger. This time there was some sort of 10% off deal on top of everything else. I don't think I've seen anything quite that low since, but I do believe they still dip below $300 occasionally.
Can't speak to performance relative to other SSDs, but for a laptop running an older version of OS X, it's been quite a step up from the 500GB 5400RPM drive it replaced.
Yeah, I have a 2010 MBP running a fusion drive with a 1TB drive and 500GB SSD, and was looking to replace spinning rust with a 1TB SSD (or replace both with a 2TB SSD).
Fusion drive is great since I grew past 500GB, but El Cap is a bit slow now so I'd like to get back to pure SSD.
Part of the court order included an order that Apple provide an estimate of their time and charges to be reimbursed for their efforts.
The court is not asking Apple to do this for free, the FBI would be expected to pay Apple for their time and trouble.
Apple should reply with an on-sided 8 for both figures.
It'll have to go to the Supreme Court for that verdict, though.
I have no faith in either the (R) (Trump/Cruz/Rubio/Bush ..) or Obama to appoint someone that would rule in favor of privacy/security over government intrusion.
Quite frankly, people who say there is a difference between the two parties, need to wake up and smell the coffee.
I think Bernie might well tell the security state to go do it's job instead of leaning on the phone manufacturer. I'm not sure, though. The MIC is strong.
I got a Crucial 960GB SSD for $270 at Newegg last April. Sub-$300 for around a TB was the price point I was waiting for. I'm a bit surprised I haven't seen much better since.
Is that a 2.5" form factor? That's pretty damn good.
I'm glad Sundar is agreeing this is an important issue... however, there are a lot of wiggle words in his phrasing.
Is it too much to ask Google to simply come out in favor of privacy of its users?
The right to encryption and by extension privacy is more important than any one crime. The State has to accept its limitations, not wail and moan about how its 'not fair' they cant have absolute control over humans. Some things are beyond government's reach, accept it.
Furthermore - maybe if they didn't just wantonly kill the suspects (aim to disable) and then allow the press to ransack the suspect's home then maybe, just maybe I might have some sympathy for the FBI here.
But no - they fucked up and and now are asking for Apple to bail them out.
You can't order someone to do the impossible. For practical purposes, breaking the end to end encryption on an iphone is impossible. Who better than the people who developed the software to know this??
I thought that once you had physical access to a device, it was just a matter of time and expertise before you could crack it. Does Apple know some secret techniques that nobody else does, such that an iPhone 5c is physically tamper-proof even by the people who built it and know everything about its design and manufacturing?
That's possible I suppose, but I doubt it.
If that's the case, then why hasn't the FBI already cracked it? Oh, maybe it's really that difficult to crack? Apple might well have made a lock that they themselves couldn't pick - at least not without a herculean effort.
We certainly kill more people in the United States by law enforcement misadventure than anyone else, anywhere.
So when I say we had to kill these two gunmen (Is that accurate when one is a woman?), I mean, we really, really had to kill them.
I understand your reaction, and most of the time there are questionable fatalities, but these two had predetermined they were going out like Bonnie and Clyde.
Your use of the imperative ("I mean, we really, really had to kill them") is pretty arbitrary and appeals to authority. Who died and made you god?
I'd hate to think of you as some armchair Fed... what are your credentials again?
I believe people still value 500GB or 1TB storage in a laptop instead of 32GB or 256GB.
You know that Samsung and others sell 500GB SSDs (in several form factors) that are under $250? 1TB is like $580 (a deal I saw several times in the past month).
I bought a 500GB Crucial m4 SSD a while back at $500, it's now less than half.
Once you get to that size, most folks have no issues going full SSD.