Well, the US Constitution is what makes it not OK for the US government to spy on Americans. There's no law we're beholden to that makes it wrong to spy on anyone else.
I suggest you go back and re-read the Constitution.
It has a differentiation between citizens and people, the latter being the set of all people. Not just US citizens.
And here's the clause relevant to this discussion:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers
but you could have done it with a bit more professionalism than just disappearing one day
Don't feel bitter, they didn't even tell their staff what was happening. From Thursday:
We started moving mail to a new storage system today, but this is taking longer than expected -- we hoped to get everything finished during the off-peak times but things didn't work out that way. Sorry.
Therefore you're no longer faced with trying to get everyone to change things. You only need 5 major companies to change, and hopefully they're interested in the new protocol as well
Umm.. there is something in the region of half a billion corporate mailboxes in MS Exchange alone, per estimated done by the Raticati Group a few years ago ( and I'm sure it was on Slashdot that I read it ). That's more than any one webmail vendor.
the crowdfunding campaign is about a lot more than getting a cool phone; it's about proving an idea: that there is a market for special-run, innovative devices
But unfortunately all the 'innovative' stuff is hand-waved away.
They state this Edge can be used as a desktop replacement. But can it drive a decent monitor or only 720p? Answers like this need to be provided before asking people to stump-up $800.
the classic example is "root", which is a drastic binary oversimplification which is simply very convenient.
Indeed, but in the case of SE Linux the Five Star General ( root ) is also the guy who writes the rules about where he is allowed to go and what he is allowed do ( SE Linux config ).
SE Linux doesn't make root go away, it just usefully reduces the need for root day-to-day. But root is still the key capability in configuring the environment.
And Linux distros always have a way for root to disable boot-time or run-time SE Linux.
If you have little legal know-how and are confronted with an important legal issue that could have serious ramifications if you screw it up, you consult with a lawyer.
Please stop using the word 'lawyer' as some sort of substitute for 'wizard'. It's like when media reports use 'scientist'.
Lawyers practive in specific fields. No single lawyer knows the entire law.
An employment rights lawyer won't know the first thing about how to fight an NSL. A lawyer practising in tax issues won't be much use if the FBI comes around asking for passwords. All they'll do is give some vague 'advice' about best to just do what the Government wants.
Now, your lawyer may very well advise you to just give them what they want, but still, asking him was the right thing to do.
Really, how? Because he asked his staff to check Wikipedia and see what the consensus is?
Impressive technology, though I don't agree with some of the testing they do live in production. But important? Hardly. If Netflix went away right *now*, nothing inthe World would really change.
Compared to, say, Google's search going offline which would have a direct impact on both personal and business productivity globally.
Even more? Yes, the UK already have an overzealous filter, "voluntarily" implemented by every ISP and blacklists provided by the "internet watch foundation".
No, not every ISP. Look around you.
AAISP is one I know that doesn't. IDNet says they 'monitor' the list but do not implement it.
Well TBH it has been tried but it'll need help from COngress, so it's not 100% Obama's fault.
Bollocks. He's the Commander in Chief.
Here are some legal orders he could issue for a start:
1. All military personnel to leave Guantanamo Bay within two weeks. All doors to be left unlocked. 2. USAF to repatriate Guantanamo detainees to their country of capture. 3. All drone operations support squadrons to return to CONUS within one month.
Congress has no involvement in the issuance and execution of military orders.
If American bookstores are really that bad, they deserve to die.
I can tell you that UK bookstores are even worse. I received a Book Token a few years and went to Waterstone's to use it.
Of course there was nothing on the shelf worth buying and they flat-out told me, twice, that a book I wanted to order was no longer available. I showed them the Amazon listing on my phone; nope, Amazon must be lying to me.
I gave the voucher awa as a gift and ordered the book on Amazon
The rapid progress his technology companies are achieving is nothing short of breathtaking. He pushes limits so far, and so hard, that those nearly impossible limits have been powerless to push back
Space-X hasn't achieved one single thing that hadn't already been done by at least two predecessors each, two decades or more ago.
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What if the UN kicks the US out of the UN?
UN loses military and funding.
What?
Jordan, Bangladesh, even ZAMBIA contribute more to UN military operations than the USA.
Currently there are an embarrassing THIRTY US military personnel on UN deployments. Seriously.
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No, it was also a desktop when docked*. Tell me again which other phone does that?
Any of the Nexus devices they've used to demonstrate Ubuntu Desktop 'convergence' to date...?
It was just a phone. A phone SoC driving a pretty phone screen. Giving it HDMI-over-USB doesn't make it a desktop replacement.
* dock not included nor even designed at this time. May or may not drive high-res monitors. May only support one monitor.
A powerful phone, by the proposed specification, but just a phone.
It is hard to excite the masses when all you're offering is another black-cased smartphone, even if it does offer HDMI output.
I really like that quote and I don't care that it was Churchill that said it - I'm not a fan of his but he came out with good one-liners.
Very little of what is attributed to Winston Churchill ever passed his lips. He wasn't really that witty in public.
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There was even one uttered by his son Randolph that was attibuted to his father.
Well, the US Constitution is what makes it not OK for the US government to spy on Americans. There's no law we're beholden to that makes it wrong to spy on anyone else.
I suggest you go back and re-read the Constitution.
It has a differentiation between citizens and people, the latter being the set of all people. Not just US citizens.
And here's the clause relevant to this discussion:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers
Ooops, applies to all people!
What, you mean that boasting about two former SEALs on your board doesn't protect my data? I am shocked! Can't they go all Chuck Norris on the NSLs?
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but you could have done it with a bit more professionalism than just disappearing one day
Don't feel bitter, they didn't even tell their staff what was happening. From Thursday:
We started moving mail to a new storage system today, but this is taking longer than expected -- we hoped to get everything finished during the off-peak times but things didn't work out that way. Sorry.
Peter Lavabit on E-mail Discussions Forum
Therefore you're no longer faced with trying to get everyone to change things. You only need 5 major companies to change, and hopefully they're interested in the new protocol as well
Umm.. there is something in the region of half a billion corporate mailboxes in MS Exchange alone, per estimated done by the Raticati Group a few years ago ( and I'm sure it was on Slashdot that I read it ). That's more than any one webmail vendor.
Whose fault is it that IP multicast over the public Internet remains unimplemented?
Huh? Even my small UK ISP supports multicast, on all its services ( ADSL up through Ethernet and who-knows-what-else ).
I just have to set the mode to PIM-SM and enter the rendezous IPv4 address.
Nothing focuses your mind in the morning like the possibility of accidental suicide.
Very amusing, but seriously: why are you shaving in the morning?
You are more alert in the evening and your stubble will be softer from the sweat from the day's activitiy. Shave at night.
The local UAW office has 5 reserved parking spaces for foreign cars. All the way in the back of a rather large parking lot.
Wow, only five spaces for made-in-Mexico Fords? Must be quite an incentive to buy an Alabama-assembled Honda.
"Look, deal with it or we'll replace you with someone from the long line of hipsters BEGGING to work at this store."
Not sure why a hipster would want to work in an Apple store. Hipsters are about counter-culture.
The root key is in an HSM, and can't be extracted.
For disaster recovery purposes it must also exist elsewhere.
the crowdfunding campaign is about a lot more than getting a cool phone; it's about proving an idea: that there is a market for special-run, innovative devices
But unfortunately all the 'innovative' stuff is hand-waved away.
They state this Edge can be used as a desktop replacement. But can it drive a decent monitor or only 720p? Answers like this need to be provided before asking people to stump-up $800.
the classic example is "root", which is a drastic binary oversimplification which is simply very convenient.
Indeed, but in the case of SE Linux the Five Star General ( root ) is also the guy who writes the rules about where he is allowed to go and what he is allowed do ( SE Linux config ).
SE Linux doesn't make root go away, it just usefully reduces the need for root day-to-day. But root is still the key capability in configuring the environment.
And Linux distros always have a way for root to disable boot-time or run-time SE Linux.
What war did the US wage against China?
Estimates of Chinese casualties in the Korean war range up to 900,000. Accepted level seems to be around 700,000 with 180,000 fatalities.
I appreciate that the action was UN-flagged but the majority of forces were US.
If you have little legal know-how and are confronted with an important legal issue that could have serious ramifications if you screw it up, you consult with a lawyer.
Please stop using the word 'lawyer' as some sort of substitute for 'wizard'. It's like when media reports use 'scientist'.
Lawyers practive in specific fields. No single lawyer knows the entire law.
An employment rights lawyer won't know the first thing about how to fight an NSL. A lawyer practising in tax issues won't be much use if the FBI comes around asking for passwords. All they'll do is give some vague 'advice' about best to just do what the Government wants.
Now, your lawyer may very well advise you to just give them what they want, but still, asking him was the right thing to do.
Really, how? Because he asked his staff to check Wikipedia and see what the consensus is?
Impressive technology, though I don't agree with some of the testing they do live in production. But important? Hardly. If Netflix went away right *now*, nothing inthe World would really change.
Compared to, say, Google's search going offline which would have a direct impact on both personal and business productivity globally.
Go build your own website, stop demanding other people make content for you on your terms.
I'm not demanding anything. My browser made a request and the web server responded with data; it's not obliged to do so.
Wisecracks aside, has anyone seen any discussion about what the thing they confiscated is?
It's part of the supporting structure of a Fan Song fire-control radar. Of which NK has lots already.
Even more? Yes, the UK already have an overzealous filter, "voluntarily" implemented by every ISP and blacklists provided by the "internet watch foundation".
No, not every ISP. Look around you.
AAISP is one I know that doesn't. IDNet says they 'monitor' the list but do not implement it.
Well TBH it has been tried but it'll need help from COngress, so it's not 100% Obama's fault.
Bollocks. He's the Commander in Chief.
Here are some legal orders he could issue for a start:
1. All military personnel to leave Guantanamo Bay within two weeks. All doors to be left unlocked.
2. USAF to repatriate Guantanamo detainees to their country of capture.
3. All drone operations support squadrons to return to CONUS within one month.
Congress has no involvement in the issuance and execution of military orders.
Change? Just do it.
If American bookstores are really that bad, they deserve to die.
I can tell you that UK bookstores are even worse. I received a Book Token a few years and went to Waterstone's to use it.
Of course there was nothing on the shelf worth buying and they flat-out told me, twice, that a book I wanted to order was no longer available. I showed them the Amazon listing on my phone; nope, Amazon must be lying to me.
I gave the voucher awa as a gift and ordered the book on Amazon
The rapid progress his technology companies are achieving is nothing short of breathtaking. He pushes limits so far, and so hard, that those nearly impossible limits have been powerless to push back
Space-X hasn't achieved one single thing that hadn't already been done by at least two predecessors each, two decades or more ago.
I'm not sure why I should hate targeted ads. I actually see ads for things I'm interested in... instead of random stuff
Because its all a form offensive psychological attack, in which the advertiser believes he can overpower you and often does. Why participate in that?
Targeted ads are just a refinement; like a 500 lb JDAM instead of a 2000 lb Mk83. It'll still destroy you just as well.
If you need a thing you'll go out and search for it. If you don't need it, don't subject yourself to psychological attack.