The American Revolution was somewhat of a Coup as well. Revolutions are hairy things. Egypts is going very smoothly if history is any guide... and mostly thanks to their military who, clearly have their own goals, but give them credit where it's due. It remains to be seen if they follow through with the plan they've proposed... if they do then I've no qualms about what they've done. If they end up with a dictator out of all this, well then we can start bitching.
All, bad, but lets keep things in context, his other option is arrest, torture and likely death at the hands of our very own benevolent government. I've been to far worse countries than Venezuela. Life is livable, most people are nice and not gang members, if you have any money at all you'll do fine. The US has likely frozen all his assets but hopefully he was smart and took large quantities of cash. If not I'm sure there will be plenty of people that will give him a bit of cash. You can live very well for relatively small amounts of money in a poor country. Also, by their nature, houses are built much more secure with walls, high windows, etc... good for keeping out the sneaky CIA. I think Gang members are the least of his worries at this point.
Some random private jet will take him. The united states can't stop all traffic out of Russia. That would be insane. More of a concern is if Russia betrays Snowden or the US has people inside Wikileaks or some other espionage is going on.
You're right, it was likely intentional. Did you ever stop to think that it was the South Americans that leaked the false info? Just because they're poor, doesn't mean they're dumb. They have people working for them a hell of a lot more educated than you or I. When and if Snowden makes it into their country there is going to be a heavy price to pay when the US starts flexing its bank accounts and the CIA trys to subvert their leadership. They need a solid reason to have done this so their people will rally behind them.
It's proven fact in the rest of the world. As you can see by the many replies to your post that I'll not bother repeating. I just wanted to point out that most of our media here in the US is completely ignoring the biggest story of the century. That's why your so ill-informed. Keep that in mind when consuming news from the US in the future. It's now clear that our government as at least some control over our media, if not quite a bit.
I live about a mile from where this happened. And while, yes, there are a lot of annoying hippies around here... there are plenty of annoying rednecks as well. The UW's chock full of them. I doubt any of them like the NSA either.
As with all revolutions of this type, it's what we haven't thought of that will be the game changer. Someone, somewhere, will make something incredible using a device like this and then we'll all look back and wonder why the hell we hadn't thought of it ourselves.
Except for, you know, the public. The general public had no idea how ridiculous the surveillance was. I think everyone assumed there was some surveillance going on... but capturing everything? Really? At the tune of 80 billion a year? That money could go towards curing cancer or heart disease and they'd save a lot more lives than they ever will preventing the occasional terrorist attack, and it's doubtful they've actually prevented anything give that in most cases the perpetrators couldn't even find weapons or explosives without the undercover FBI agents offering to sell them the stuff.
It's also telling the as soon as a government starts complaining about what the US is doing, their own surveillance programs are revealed. The US is clearly involved in a heavy game of public distraction. The medias pretty much dropped this story, likely at their request, and can conveniently cover what all the other countries are doing. It's staggering that these actions are being presented in any way that is even remotely considered acceptable. All of this is completely unconstitutional, government officials including the president (past and present) should be facing prison time.
I dunno, I always liked LISP. There's more typing but it seems logical to me. And the ease of transforming it to something else shouldn't be down played. I've got one API that I have to use frequently that uses LISP like code for sales reports... and often I have to dump that into an excel spreadsheet for some of my sales people... so I wrote a script that did it for me. It's actually really simple. I couldn't imagine doing that with any other language. I just copy the code, run my script, paste into excel and I've got a working spreadsheet that does the same thing the LISP report did.
Keep in mind, you have no idea what he hasn't released yet. They might not know what he has either. From the reports I've read he did not have access to some of the systems the data he released came from so either he found some security holes or he had accomplices. In either case he could have access to practically anything and they have no idea what. Their gusto in going after him is very telling indeed. Weather he has it or not, they clearly have something they don't want revealed. The fact that the media is taking what is probably the most significant news story in generations so lightly should give you a good idea of the feds control over our media as well. If not for the internet this story would likely be completely dead by now.
You are correct for business applications. But often what spreadsheets are used for is: "I need this quarterly report figured out for the meeting on Friday and then I'm going to delete it forever." Going out an building a full fledged database for that would be stupid. Having a very complicated spreadsheet that solves a problem isn't bad... using that spreadsheet over and over as part of your business process is.
So, I want everyone to remember what happened when a sitting US president perjured himself... Bill Clinton... about a much less serious thing. Now look at what's going to happen to our intelligence director (i.e. nothing) and that should tell you where the power in our country really is.
Which is irrelevant to the discussion. The fact remains these people, like drug users, have made a choice to do something which is known to cause health issues. Why should the rest of us be forced to pay to protect them from their own choice?
The leading cause of injury in the united states has been "Falls" for decades. I do not have stairs, why should I have to pay for your injury when you put something that's several orders of magnitude more dangerous than cigarettes in your house? Why should the rest of us be forced to pay to protect you from your own choice?
Because it's irrelevant. Enterprise customers aren't going to allow a custom rom or a rooted phone into their network... period. All applications like this check to see if the phone is rooted as well as do a CRC check on the phones rom. Trust me, I'm in the same boat. There's no way around it.
Because Quadriplegics have actual damage to their spinal cord. Usually it's in the neck, near the skull. Sometimes it's even brain damage. They need a working spinal cord to graphed onto the new one.
I work with this kind of equipment. The problem isn't the last 100 feet... we've got tech that will do 100mb @ 30,000 feet relighably. If we could get that to people they'd be thrilled. The problem is the trunks leading to the DSAs. They cost upwards of a million dollars a pop to install, which is barely cost effective in city centers... but get out in rural areas where cable companies don't even bother to serve and you have as few as 12 people off a remote. Sorry, but that's only going to get 2 T1s feeding it if they're lucky. Gigabit speeds to and from equipment fed by a 3mb trunk is useless.
The real problem with broadband is the link between the CO and the remote. This goes for DSL and Cable. solve that problem and rural broadband will explode. Cable doesn't even have facilities in those areas so it would have to be over phone copper. Get gigabit speeds on 10+ miles of unshielded copper pairs... that's the goal. Good luck.
The executive branch of the united states has made it public that they feel its within their rights to capture, torture, and murder "US citizens" that they feel are an "imminent threat" to the United States. Which they clearly feel Snowden is. Snowden IS a US citizen, his state however, has forsaken him.
But you're assuming CERNs going to be using 100% of capacity at all times. Which they're not, and their needs are going to change a lot as well. They probably have to have dedicated staff that just builds and maintains this shit all day long. If they can pay a SAS provider to handle it all, yea, it's less efficient, but it might be cheaper for them because the SAS provider could use the same equipment to do work for cancer researchers when CERN isn't using it. If they can get a way to price it based on calculation or cycles, then CERN could even put out a project with a fixed price and wait for the price to come down to what they're willing to pay. If they have something they need crunched asap, they could jack up what they're willing to pay and get it queued up sooner. Basically different research projects could big against each other and make a kind of super computer marketplace.
They make Jira and Confluence... 2 applications that are widely used by some IS departments to manage their work. Jira for example, is an application for tracking software development, deployment and bugs. It's basically a ticketing system for programmers. You can track who created what, which bugs showed up in it later, who fixed them, how long all that took, etc...
I'm not sure how many people are using their LDAP/SSO stuff though though. There are lot bigger (and clearly more trustworthy) providers in town.
I've been an AMD/ATI guy for a very long time... but AMD/ATI has really gotten bad over the past few years. Driver support in Linux is terrible, but I don't really do gaming in Linux anyway... but worse, their support for Hardware Accelerated video decoding is a nightmare. I finally gave up on it with my Media PC and bought my first Nvidia card in 10 years a few months ago. I plugged it in and Hardware Acceleration just worked. I didn't have to do a damned thing. Then there's their Multi-monitor support which sucks, feels tacked on, and again when you go try the same thing with Nvidia, it just works right out of the box. So now I'm done with ATI. I wish they hadn't failed, but they did.
Libertarianism is a set of related political philosophies that uphold liberty as the highest political end. This includes emphasis on the primacy of individual liberty, political freedom, and voluntary association. It is the antonym to authoritarianism. Libertarians advocate a society with a greatly reduced state or no state at all
Libertarianism is about individual liberty, period. They believe that liberty is a human right, and no public need is great enough to give cause to remove it from the individual. It has absolutely nothing to do with this story. From the Libertarians point of view the FTC and even the credit burrows wouldn't exist, as both limit the liberty of the individual through regulation. Libertarians believe the only laws and regulations that should be created are ones that increase Liberty and prevent authoritarian control of the populace by Government or other citizens. i.e. Murder would be illegal because it obviously takes liberty away from the victim.
Please don't talk shit about political philosophies you clearly know absolutely nothing about.
A local school was complaining that they'd have to lay off a bunch of teachers recently. Come to find out they'd also recently installed a $3000 digital whiteboard into every classroom. What the fuck is wrong with our schools? You're think teachers could do basic math. I understand that the boards can make the teacher more productive... but those boards are going to fail. Chalkboards and whiteboards don't. For what they spent on those boards they could have kept 4 or 5 teachers on staff. How many teachers could the school district hire for $30 million? I could understand if our school systems were flush with cash but they're not. Once class sizes are bellow 20 students and teachers stop protesting about their raises and benefits, maybe then we can think about giving the kids toys to play with?
You're confusing the UI with the underlying OS. MSFT continues to improve the OS itself, but at the same time they, for some crazy reason, feel it necessary to radically modify the UI every time they have a new release. Not only is this annoying to their dwindling home users, it adds training expenses and delays to it's corporate adoption. On top of that the Metro UI is basically the antithesis of productivity.
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The American Revolution was somewhat of a Coup as well. Revolutions are hairy things. Egypts is going very smoothly if history is any guide... and mostly thanks to their military who, clearly have their own goals, but give them credit where it's due. It remains to be seen if they follow through with the plan they've proposed... if they do then I've no qualms about what they've done. If they end up with a dictator out of all this, well then we can start bitching.
All, bad, but lets keep things in context, his other option is arrest, torture and likely death at the hands of our very own benevolent government. I've been to far worse countries than Venezuela. Life is livable, most people are nice and not gang members, if you have any money at all you'll do fine. The US has likely frozen all his assets but hopefully he was smart and took large quantities of cash. If not I'm sure there will be plenty of people that will give him a bit of cash. You can live very well for relatively small amounts of money in a poor country. Also, by their nature, houses are built much more secure with walls, high windows, etc... good for keeping out the sneaky CIA. I think Gang members are the least of his worries at this point.
Some random private jet will take him. The united states can't stop all traffic out of Russia. That would be insane. More of a concern is if Russia betrays Snowden or the US has people inside Wikileaks or some other espionage is going on.
You're right, it was likely intentional. Did you ever stop to think that it was the South Americans that leaked the false info? Just because they're poor, doesn't mean they're dumb. They have people working for them a hell of a lot more educated than you or I. When and if Snowden makes it into their country there is going to be a heavy price to pay when the US starts flexing its bank accounts and the CIA trys to subvert their leadership. They need a solid reason to have done this so their people will rally behind them.
It's proven fact in the rest of the world. As you can see by the many replies to your post that I'll not bother repeating. I just wanted to point out that most of our media here in the US is completely ignoring the biggest story of the century. That's why your so ill-informed. Keep that in mind when consuming news from the US in the future. It's now clear that our government as at least some control over our media, if not quite a bit.
I live about a mile from where this happened. And while, yes, there are a lot of annoying hippies around here... there are plenty of annoying rednecks as well. The UW's chock full of them. I doubt any of them like the NSA either.
As with all revolutions of this type, it's what we haven't thought of that will be the game changer. Someone, somewhere, will make something incredible using a device like this and then we'll all look back and wonder why the hell we hadn't thought of it ourselves.
Except for, you know, the public. The general public had no idea how ridiculous the surveillance was. I think everyone assumed there was some surveillance going on... but capturing everything? Really? At the tune of 80 billion a year? That money could go towards curing cancer or heart disease and they'd save a lot more lives than they ever will preventing the occasional terrorist attack, and it's doubtful they've actually prevented anything give that in most cases the perpetrators couldn't even find weapons or explosives without the undercover FBI agents offering to sell them the stuff.
It's also telling the as soon as a government starts complaining about what the US is doing, their own surveillance programs are revealed. The US is clearly involved in a heavy game of public distraction. The medias pretty much dropped this story, likely at their request, and can conveniently cover what all the other countries are doing. It's staggering that these actions are being presented in any way that is even remotely considered acceptable. All of this is completely unconstitutional, government officials including the president (past and present) should be facing prison time.
I dunno, I always liked LISP. There's more typing but it seems logical to me. And the ease of transforming it to something else shouldn't be down played. I've got one API that I have to use frequently that uses LISP like code for sales reports... and often I have to dump that into an excel spreadsheet for some of my sales people... so I wrote a script that did it for me. It's actually really simple. I couldn't imagine doing that with any other language. I just copy the code, run my script, paste into excel and I've got a working spreadsheet that does the same thing the LISP report did.
Stop using notepad to do your coding and this ceases to be a problem.
You likely write code in a syntax that was derived from Lisp every day and don't even realize it.
Keep in mind, you have no idea what he hasn't released yet. They might not know what he has either. From the reports I've read he did not have access to some of the systems the data he released came from so either he found some security holes or he had accomplices. In either case he could have access to practically anything and they have no idea what. Their gusto in going after him is very telling indeed. Weather he has it or not, they clearly have something they don't want revealed. The fact that the media is taking what is probably the most significant news story in generations so lightly should give you a good idea of the feds control over our media as well. If not for the internet this story would likely be completely dead by now.
You are correct for business applications. But often what spreadsheets are used for is: "I need this quarterly report figured out for the meeting on Friday and then I'm going to delete it forever." Going out an building a full fledged database for that would be stupid. Having a very complicated spreadsheet that solves a problem isn't bad... using that spreadsheet over and over as part of your business process is.
So, I want everyone to remember what happened when a sitting US president perjured himself... Bill Clinton... about a much less serious thing. Now look at what's going to happen to our intelligence director (i.e. nothing) and that should tell you where the power in our country really is.
Which is irrelevant to the discussion. The fact remains these people, like drug users, have made a choice to do something which is known to cause health issues. Why should the rest of us be forced to pay to protect them from their own choice?
The leading cause of injury in the united states has been "Falls" for decades. I do not have stairs, why should I have to pay for your injury when you put something that's several orders of magnitude more dangerous than cigarettes in your house? Why should the rest of us be forced to pay to protect you from your own choice?
Because it's irrelevant. Enterprise customers aren't going to allow a custom rom or a rooted phone into their network... period. All applications like this check to see if the phone is rooted as well as do a CRC check on the phones rom. Trust me, I'm in the same boat. There's no way around it.
Because Quadriplegics have actual damage to their spinal cord. Usually it's in the neck, near the skull. Sometimes it's even brain damage. They need a working spinal cord to graphed onto the new one.
I work with this kind of equipment. The problem isn't the last 100 feet... we've got tech that will do 100mb @ 30,000 feet relighably. If we could get that to people they'd be thrilled. The problem is the trunks leading to the DSAs. They cost upwards of a million dollars a pop to install, which is barely cost effective in city centers... but get out in rural areas where cable companies don't even bother to serve and you have as few as 12 people off a remote. Sorry, but that's only going to get 2 T1s feeding it if they're lucky. Gigabit speeds to and from equipment fed by a 3mb trunk is useless.
The real problem with broadband is the link between the CO and the remote. This goes for DSL and Cable. solve that problem and rural broadband will explode. Cable doesn't even have facilities in those areas so it would have to be over phone copper. Get gigabit speeds on 10+ miles of unshielded copper pairs... that's the goal. Good luck.
The executive branch of the united states has made it public that they feel its within their rights to capture, torture, and murder "US citizens" that they feel are an "imminent threat" to the United States. Which they clearly feel Snowden is. Snowden IS a US citizen, his state however, has forsaken him.
But you're assuming CERNs going to be using 100% of capacity at all times. Which they're not, and their needs are going to change a lot as well. They probably have to have dedicated staff that just builds and maintains this shit all day long. If they can pay a SAS provider to handle it all, yea, it's less efficient, but it might be cheaper for them because the SAS provider could use the same equipment to do work for cancer researchers when CERN isn't using it. If they can get a way to price it based on calculation or cycles, then CERN could even put out a project with a fixed price and wait for the price to come down to what they're willing to pay. If they have something they need crunched asap, they could jack up what they're willing to pay and get it queued up sooner. Basically different research projects could big against each other and make a kind of super computer marketplace.
They make Jira and Confluence... 2 applications that are widely used by some IS departments to manage their work. Jira for example, is an application for tracking software development, deployment and bugs. It's basically a ticketing system for programmers. You can track who created what, which bugs showed up in it later, who fixed them, how long all that took, etc...
I'm not sure how many people are using their LDAP/SSO stuff though though. There are lot bigger (and clearly more trustworthy) providers in town.
I've been an AMD/ATI guy for a very long time... but AMD/ATI has really gotten bad over the past few years. Driver support in Linux is terrible, but I don't really do gaming in Linux anyway... but worse, their support for Hardware Accelerated video decoding is a nightmare. I finally gave up on it with my Media PC and bought my first Nvidia card in 10 years a few months ago. I plugged it in and Hardware Acceleration just worked. I didn't have to do a damned thing. Then there's their Multi-monitor support which sucks, feels tacked on, and again when you go try the same thing with Nvidia, it just works right out of the box. So now I'm done with ATI. I wish they hadn't failed, but they did.
What the hell are you talking about?
Libertarianism is a set of related political philosophies that uphold liberty as the highest political end. This includes emphasis on the primacy of individual liberty, political freedom, and voluntary association. It is the antonym to authoritarianism. Libertarians advocate a society with a greatly reduced state or no state at all
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Libertarianism
Libertarianism is about individual liberty, period. They believe that liberty is a human right, and no public need is great enough to give cause to remove it from the individual. It has absolutely nothing to do with this story. From the Libertarians point of view the FTC and even the credit burrows wouldn't exist, as both limit the liberty of the individual through regulation. Libertarians believe the only laws and regulations that should be created are ones that increase Liberty and prevent authoritarian control of the populace by Government or other citizens. i.e. Murder would be illegal because it obviously takes liberty away from the victim.
Please don't talk shit about political philosophies you clearly know absolutely nothing about.
...and this is why our schools are failing.
A local school was complaining that they'd have to lay off a bunch of teachers recently. Come to find out they'd also recently installed a $3000 digital whiteboard into every classroom. What the fuck is wrong with our schools? You're think teachers could do basic math. I understand that the boards can make the teacher more productive... but those boards are going to fail. Chalkboards and whiteboards don't. For what they spent on those boards they could have kept 4 or 5 teachers on staff. How many teachers could the school district hire for $30 million? I could understand if our school systems were flush with cash but they're not. Once class sizes are bellow 20 students and teachers stop protesting about their raises and benefits, maybe then we can think about giving the kids toys to play with?
You're confusing the UI with the underlying OS. MSFT continues to improve the OS itself, but at the same time they, for some crazy reason, feel it necessary to radically modify the UI every time they have a new release. Not only is this annoying to their dwindling home users, it adds training expenses and delays to it's corporate adoption. On top of that the Metro UI is basically the antithesis of productivity.