"The system could be used in cold countries for interactive displays..." I couldn't help but laugh at that. I just imagine them showing up in Alaska planning to sell this to all the Eskimo's to use in their igloos and being shocked that they actually have heated homes now.
Earth back to you. The U.S. is losing money from fighting these wars, not making it.
And we inject a massive amount of money into the local economies wherever we have a base, and happily restrict the military members stationed on the base from leaving their barracks the second the locals want us to. (Source for that last point: I wasn't allowed off base in Spain because some moron fought a local months before I got there.)
Because since they cut the old program Orbital Sciences has had to lay off something like a third of its employees, and the layoffs continue just about every week.
I think that last point is a little silly, but I agree that there isn't anything good reason for them to be looking at the data on laptops. The only possible reason I can think of is that they hope to get lucky and stumble across something objectionable, like child pornography or.txt files containing detailed contact information for Osama.
I'm sad that we cant trust people not to drive out into traffic while talking on a cell phone, and I'm sad that we are so afraid of accepting that risk as a society that we may pass laws like this. This is the question that I feel we need to answer before we keep doing stuff like this: If this saves 500 lives a year, is it worth inconveniencing 400 million people? 50 lives? 5? 1?
Really? Troll?
Look, I know everyone here loves the guy and hates the US, but that is not what I'm talking about. Countries have the tendency to defend themselves from this sort of thing. Nobody wants all of their secrets out on the internet. Its a very convenient world view that only condemns the people who never do anything about it.
With the damage that this guy has attempted to do to the US war effort I'm surprised that he hasn't been "hit by a car" yet. Seriously, hes a direct threat to US interests, if he was doing the same thing with any other power on earth they would have killed the guy already. Just look at anyone who has ever blown the whistle on Russia.
Agree with what hes doing or not, if you repeatedly release secret documents from any country you better expect them to come after you. Its just self preservation.
Its happened in places like Palestine. When people get desperate enough, or when their belief system gets twisted enough, people will try it. Its just that such a attack may happen once every decade in the west, and there is a point where it simply isn't worth the loss of privacy and freedom for hundreds of millions of people to save a few lives, maybe, one time in the next 10 years.
Unless we make TSA Security a 6 figure career we are not going to have good decisions and professionalism out of these people. They are mostly high-school graduates with a few weeks of training. The kind of people we can trust not to pat down every hot chick, or hold up every rude businessman, or occasionally do something moronic like this story reports, simply do not work in this sort of pay. Either we need actual doctors and nurses assigned to the pat downs, or we need to give up this little bit of safety for the sake of privacy.
...But did anyone notice how these are mostly BS degrees anyway? If you cheat your way to a degree in underwater basket weaving then, well, I guess my respect level for that degree was already in the right place. Now if this is going on for doctors and engineers then I see reason to worry.
Doesn't like half the money go to Michael Jackson's ghost or something? I guess its not a bad thing, hes going to need good heaven-lawyers to get out of the charges of molesting the Lindbergh baby.
The only market that Apple competes in that this wouldn't apply to is smart-phones. Music sales, personal computers and music players would all count, but I would call the market I'm referring to "general computing". The oligopoly is between Microsoft and Apple, and although it is close to a monopoly for Microsoft I would still consider it a oligopoly because the only choices most consumers consider are Apple and Microsoft, and most consumers do consider both. The reason I haven't been answering this specific question is because it should be obvious to most people.
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...please explain. There is absolutely no way that this is actually what it looks like on the surface, its just way to ridiculous.
Just fill the medical kits at all of the stations with Rad-X and Rad-away and you're golden.
I read this and thought they were paying Mexican smugglers to fight rodents for them. Which, ironically, is what we actually do here in AZ.
I don't know, the government has assured me that there is no risk of any of that stuff...
I expected the "Cyber cold war" to be way more matrix-y than this.
"The system could be used in cold countries for interactive displays..." I couldn't help but laugh at that. I just imagine them showing up in Alaska planning to sell this to all the Eskimo's to use in their igloos and being shocked that they actually have heated homes now.
Earth back to you. The U.S. is losing money from fighting these wars, not making it. And we inject a massive amount of money into the local economies wherever we have a base, and happily restrict the military members stationed on the base from leaving their barracks the second the locals want us to. (Source for that last point: I wasn't allowed off base in Spain because some moron fought a local months before I got there.)
Because since they cut the old program Orbital Sciences has had to lay off something like a third of its employees, and the layoffs continue just about every week.
No, Atlanta in general is "Crazy Bad" on any given day, I think the air simply has a southern tint to it.
I think that last point is a little silly, but I agree that there isn't anything good reason for them to be looking at the data on laptops. The only possible reason I can think of is that they hope to get lucky and stumble across something objectionable, like child pornography or .txt files containing detailed contact information for Osama.
I'm sad that we cant trust people not to drive out into traffic while talking on a cell phone, and I'm sad that we are so afraid of accepting that risk as a society that we may pass laws like this. This is the question that I feel we need to answer before we keep doing stuff like this: If this saves 500 lives a year, is it worth inconveniencing 400 million people? 50 lives? 5? 1?
Really? Troll? Look, I know everyone here loves the guy and hates the US, but that is not what I'm talking about. Countries have the tendency to defend themselves from this sort of thing. Nobody wants all of their secrets out on the internet. Its a very convenient world view that only condemns the people who never do anything about it.
With the damage that this guy has attempted to do to the US war effort I'm surprised that he hasn't been "hit by a car" yet. Seriously, hes a direct threat to US interests, if he was doing the same thing with any other power on earth they would have killed the guy already. Just look at anyone who has ever blown the whistle on Russia. Agree with what hes doing or not, if you repeatedly release secret documents from any country you better expect them to come after you. Its just self preservation.
Its happened in places like Palestine. When people get desperate enough, or when their belief system gets twisted enough, people will try it. Its just that such a attack may happen once every decade in the west, and there is a point where it simply isn't worth the loss of privacy and freedom for hundreds of millions of people to save a few lives, maybe, one time in the next 10 years.
Didn't you hear? Reality is offensive.
Oh I doubt it was an outright lie. Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
Unless we make TSA Security a 6 figure career we are not going to have good decisions and professionalism out of these people. They are mostly high-school graduates with a few weeks of training. The kind of people we can trust not to pat down every hot chick, or hold up every rude businessman, or occasionally do something moronic like this story reports, simply do not work in this sort of pay. Either we need actual doctors and nurses assigned to the pat downs, or we need to give up this little bit of safety for the sake of privacy.
Eastern North Carolina still sucks.
Woa, I really pissed someone off with this one. Heaven-molestation must be a contentious topic here.
...But did anyone notice how these are mostly BS degrees anyway? If you cheat your way to a degree in underwater basket weaving then, well, I guess my respect level for that degree was already in the right place. Now if this is going on for doctors and engineers then I see reason to worry.
Doesn't like half the money go to Michael Jackson's ghost or something? I guess its not a bad thing, hes going to need good heaven-lawyers to get out of the charges of molesting the Lindbergh baby.
The only market that Apple competes in that this wouldn't apply to is smart-phones. Music sales, personal computers and music players would all count, but I would call the market I'm referring to "general computing". The oligopoly is between Microsoft and Apple, and although it is close to a monopoly for Microsoft I would still consider it a oligopoly because the only choices most consumers consider are Apple and Microsoft, and most consumers do consider both. The reason I haven't been answering this specific question is because it should be obvious to most people.
Actually an oligopoly doesn't necessarily imply price fixing, it just means there is a general lack of choices. And that is exactly what we have.
Another ipod update that erases all of my music and I have to pay for?