Everyone but you is construing your post to mean that the government investigators was OK to exceed his authority because child molesters are scum. When you call enough people idiots for misunderstanding you, you should start to think that you were perhaps unclear.
Or as the old saying goes "if everyone you see is an asshole, look in the mirror".
Only children care about looking grown-up and sophisticated. Sure, they aren't exactly fashionable, but Apple already makes the overpriced fashion accessory and there's not really room for another in that space (well, maybe in a generation or so).
Again: by the standards of men ruling men, not by the standards of angels. In each decade, look at what other powerful nations were doing - we come off pretty well, until recently.
The apps from big companies are there, right? Kindle, Audible, Netflix, that sort of thing? I can't think of any way to filter the rest effectively, since the latest craze always seems to be from some indie company.
Windows has never once succeeded when playing Apple wannabe. If your idea is to make some sort of "elite phone for (people who think themselves) smart people", sorry, MS will never be fashionable. Nor will it ever be geek chic - too many bridges burned. Its current strength is in the low-end market and the app store would need to be compatible with that.
I'd absolutely love to see a store full of $2-5 games with no phoning home or in-app purchases, rather then free games with that BS, and I think it would sell well, but how the heck would you actually do that without a seriously labor-intensive screening process?
In terms of units sold, Windows phone outsells iPhone in poorer parts of the world.
Honestly, it's fine as a phone, nothing wrong with it. It's not at all like the WinCE phones (seriously, they named the OS "wince", eesh). I played with them in the store this summer, and the UI is pretty slick, but there are so few apps. MS really needs to find a way to run Android apps too if they expect the phone to ever take off.
I was born in America, and thus I am as much a "native American" as one of my great-Grandfathers, a Cherokee, or anyone else born here. There were other people here before the Cherokee came: they displaced the previous tribes to inhabit their lands. No doubt there were wave after wave of conquerors over the ~13,000 years since the Clovis culture. Heck, reading through Wikipedia, they maybe weren't the first humans here either.
No nation lasts forever, due to conquest or occasionally starvation, but the US has a darn good track record of living up to the ideals expressed by the Founders, by the standard not of angels but of men governing men in the real world. This sort of police corruption is distinctly un-American, and we shouldn't put up with this shit.
It's great that our allies are starting to shame us for this! This is such an embarrassing failure of our ideals, and there's really no excuse.
The war on drugs got police in the habit of supplementing their budgets (and wallets) with seized cash. Policy allowing this trained a generation of police that seizing cash was not only OK, but important for the budget. There's little we can do as individuals, but as a democracy we need to push back against this, strongly.
There's no corporate corruption at work here that we need to fight, just the need for governments at all levels to start directly outlawing civil forfeiture without a specific criminal case to tie it to, and even then to keep cash and legal valuables in escrow, not in the cops hands, and insure their prompt return unless forfeiture is a specific legal penalty for a crime that someone is found guilty of.
Depends on where you live. When I lived in Cali, I knew people who were hoarding supplies but were strongly anti-gun. OTOH, for the guys with actual bunkers, well, they aren't called "bunkers" for nothing.
Meant to have a "large amounts" in there. I thought it was part of the rules to track money laundering, just as any transfer over $10k (or is it $5k?) must be reported. Banks definitely scan large deposits, but I can't find a link to a legal requirement for the serial numbers (they scan for counterfeits as a matter of course). Bill serial number scanners are a real product, but they seem to be marketed to police evidence rooms, not to banks, so I could just be confused on this one.
Actually, this one's a case of the moderators needing to get off my lawn. The "pave the world" movement was known to any real geek during the days when usenet ruled. Slashdot died a little today, when no one got the joke that everyone would have once recognized. Pit slaves, the lot of you!
Bicycles honestly do belong on the road. Where else are you going to put them, on the sidewalk?
They belong under my wheels. Keep your toys off my infrastructure. You will join the other pit slaves on Paving Day, doomed to a life of cleaning public toilets while I cruise the paved world in my hypersonic atomic car, under the light of the chromed moon.
A government could of course shut off BitCoin, torrent, email, or anything else on servers connected to the internet. The problem with BitCoin (unlike email) is it doesn't realty work on ad-hoc networks. Maybe there's no central authority, but a central network is required, so that transactions from anywhere can be processed by every processor (miner).
BitCoin is quite vulnerable to a powerful government agreement deciding to purge it from the internet. That seems unlikely though, as I think the big players will be content to track it.
Banks are already required to scan and report the serial numbers of all banknotes for deposits/withdrawals. Heck, the last time I got cash directly from a teller, it came not from the teller's drawer but from a dispenser that probably had a scanner built in.
But if I get cash from Alice and give it to Bob, no banks involved, it's anonymous. Unlike Bitcoin.
I was going to post that RabbitMQ was written in Haskell, but fortunately I checked first: nope, Erlang. Haskell? I got nothing.
Languages don't really matter much. Pick a problem domain that's in demand, and not much in supply. The language is just a tool. (But avoid COBOL if at all possible.)
If I'm running your OS in a hyper-visor, I can pause the VM and dump the memory. Then I've got your key because the OS loads the key into memory.
Your provider can see your data in the clear. End of Story. Physical hardware is the be's all end's all.
Some things are true across all the big players (I don't know about the government-audited services; I can only imaging there's even more tracking).
If you're running the service, you don't have access to the datacenters, and likely don't even have access to the location of the data centers (the big players all keep exact datacenter locations somewhat secret - they have addresses, but the addresses don't mean much). If you work at the data center, you don't know what any given server is doing. So you don't really have physical access to the hardware in a useful way.
Further, everything is logged and audited like crazy - not so much for stuff like PCI compliance, but for troubleshooting. If a server falls in the woods, a whole team will hear. I'm sure everyone has tools to let you remote into any given hypervisor, but I'd be quite surprised if you could do so without a heck of an auditing trail.
It's not quite there for banking, but for most normal business, chances are there's more safety against a bad employee of MS Google, or Amazon than there is protecting you from your own IT staff locally.
I routinely have problems playing low-res YouTube vids on my 50 Mb/s connection, but didn't have those problems with my previous 3 Mb/s connection. Something's just screwy with YouTube. Either they have internal service issues, or the slap-fighting between them and ISPs continues.
Well, to the engineers' defense, the wheels were designed to handle the terrain that was found by the previous 2 rovers. Going beyond that probably gets into internal NASA politics, but your claim wouldn't surprise me at all - sexy features seem to trump infrastructure in every field.
As with anything on Slashdot that starts with armchair experts asking "didn't they think of X?", well, of course they thought of X. Weight of the probe is the primary cost of the mission - nothing's heavier than in must be.
These wheels were tested extensively, and work just fine in normal rocky soil - they're more robust than car tires. But glue a spike to the ground pointing up and it goes right through the wheel. There was no reason to expect Martian Caltrops, but that's what was found: sharp spikes of rock that aren't merely stuck in the soil, but seemingly extruded from the bedrock (like you can get with a'a lava).
For those who don't follow this stuff: the rover has tin-foil wheels, and they're getting chewed up fast (many holes and tears in them already). The problem is sharp rocks that are embedded firmly in the ground, or perhaps part of the bedrock like a'a lava - a geological feature that wasn't expected or designed for. The rover can handle sharp rocks in soil just fine, but now they're going really slowly trying to find a better path.
So you're actually playing the victim card now? Ohhhh, I'm just like a handicapped person or the elderly because I'm tall, get women easier, and make more money. Pity me!
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Everyone but you is construing your post to mean that the government investigators was OK to exceed his authority because child molesters are scum. When you call enough people idiots for misunderstanding you, you should start to think that you were perhaps unclear.
Or as the old saying goes "if everyone you see is an asshole, look in the mirror".
Only children care about looking grown-up and sophisticated. Sure, they aren't exactly fashionable, but Apple already makes the overpriced fashion accessory and there's not really room for another in that space (well, maybe in a generation or so).
Again: by the standards of men ruling men, not by the standards of angels. In each decade, look at what other powerful nations were doing - we come off pretty well, until recently.
The apps from big companies are there, right? Kindle, Audible, Netflix, that sort of thing? I can't think of any way to filter the rest effectively, since the latest craze always seems to be from some indie company.
Windows has never once succeeded when playing Apple wannabe. If your idea is to make some sort of "elite phone for (people who think themselves) smart people", sorry, MS will never be fashionable. Nor will it ever be geek chic - too many bridges burned. Its current strength is in the low-end market and the app store would need to be compatible with that.
I'd absolutely love to see a store full of $2-5 games with no phoning home or in-app purchases, rather then free games with that BS, and I think it would sell well, but how the heck would you actually do that without a seriously labor-intensive screening process?
Hey now, he also took a keen interest in sweating, and in throwing chairs. Leadership Deficit Disorder - I like it.
In terms of units sold, Windows phone outsells iPhone in poorer parts of the world.
Honestly, it's fine as a phone, nothing wrong with it. It's not at all like the WinCE phones (seriously, they named the OS "wince", eesh). I played with them in the store this summer, and the UI is pretty slick, but there are so few apps. MS really needs to find a way to run Android apps too if they expect the phone to ever take off.
I was born in America, and thus I am as much a "native American" as one of my great-Grandfathers, a Cherokee, or anyone else born here. There were other people here before the Cherokee came: they displaced the previous tribes to inhabit their lands. No doubt there were wave after wave of conquerors over the ~13,000 years since the Clovis culture. Heck, reading through Wikipedia, they maybe weren't the first humans here either.
No nation lasts forever, due to conquest or occasionally starvation, but the US has a darn good track record of living up to the ideals expressed by the Founders, by the standard not of angels but of men governing men in the real world. This sort of police corruption is distinctly un-American, and we shouldn't put up with this shit.
It's great that our allies are starting to shame us for this! This is such an embarrassing failure of our ideals, and there's really no excuse.
The war on drugs got police in the habit of supplementing their budgets (and wallets) with seized cash. Policy allowing this trained a generation of police that seizing cash was not only OK, but important for the budget. There's little we can do as individuals, but as a democracy we need to push back against this, strongly.
There's no corporate corruption at work here that we need to fight, just the need for governments at all levels to start directly outlawing civil forfeiture without a specific criminal case to tie it to, and even then to keep cash and legal valuables in escrow, not in the cops hands, and insure their prompt return unless forfeiture is a specific legal penalty for a crime that someone is found guilty of.
Depends on where you live. When I lived in Cali, I knew people who were hoarding supplies but were strongly anti-gun. OTOH, for the guys with actual bunkers, well, they aren't called "bunkers" for nothing.
I figure the best strategy is to have a gun and a well-prepared neighbor. However, I'm too lazy even for that level of preparation.
In the Seattle area, buses are packed with the high income tier. But given they mostly work for MS, whipping out your iThingy might still be rude.
Do we give a shit about Poland? Not so much.
"Don't forget Poland!" - George Bush
What was exciting about Halo? No clue here, never heard of it before MS.
Meant to have a "large amounts" in there. I thought it was part of the rules to track money laundering, just as any transfer over $10k (or is it $5k?) must be reported. Banks definitely scan large deposits, but I can't find a link to a legal requirement for the serial numbers (they scan for counterfeits as a matter of course). Bill serial number scanners are a real product, but they seem to be marketed to police evidence rooms, not to banks, so I could just be confused on this one.
Actually, this one's a case of the moderators needing to get off my lawn. The "pave the world" movement was known to any real geek during the days when usenet ruled. Slashdot died a little today, when no one got the joke that everyone would have once recognized. Pit slaves, the lot of you!
Bicycles honestly do belong on the road. Where else are you going to put them, on the sidewalk?
They belong under my wheels. Keep your toys off my infrastructure. You will join the other pit slaves on Paving Day, doomed to a life of cleaning public toilets while I cruise the paved world in my hypersonic atomic car, under the light of the chromed moon.
A government could of course shut off BitCoin, torrent, email, or anything else on servers connected to the internet. The problem with BitCoin (unlike email) is it doesn't realty work on ad-hoc networks. Maybe there's no central authority, but a central network is required, so that transactions from anywhere can be processed by every processor (miner).
BitCoin is quite vulnerable to a powerful government agreement deciding to purge it from the internet. That seems unlikely though, as I think the big players will be content to track it.
Banks are already required to scan and report the serial numbers of all banknotes for deposits/withdrawals. Heck, the last time I got cash directly from a teller, it came not from the teller's drawer but from a dispenser that probably had a scanner built in.
But if I get cash from Alice and give it to Bob, no banks involved, it's anonymous. Unlike Bitcoin.
I was going to post that RabbitMQ was written in Haskell, but fortunately I checked first: nope, Erlang. Haskell? I got nothing.
Languages don't really matter much. Pick a problem domain that's in demand, and not much in supply. The language is just a tool. (But avoid COBOL if at all possible.)
If I'm running your OS in a hyper-visor, I can pause the VM and dump the memory. Then I've got your key because the OS loads the key into memory.
Your provider can see your data in the clear. End of Story. Physical hardware is the be's all end's all.
Some things are true across all the big players (I don't know about the government-audited services; I can only imaging there's even more tracking).
If you're running the service, you don't have access to the datacenters, and likely don't even have access to the location of the data centers (the big players all keep exact datacenter locations somewhat secret - they have addresses, but the addresses don't mean much). If you work at the data center, you don't know what any given server is doing. So you don't really have physical access to the hardware in a useful way.
Further, everything is logged and audited like crazy - not so much for stuff like PCI compliance, but for troubleshooting. If a server falls in the woods, a whole team will hear. I'm sure everyone has tools to let you remote into any given hypervisor, but I'd be quite surprised if you could do so without a heck of an auditing trail.
It's not quite there for banking, but for most normal business, chances are there's more safety against a bad employee of MS Google, or Amazon than there is protecting you from your own IT staff locally.
I routinely have problems playing low-res YouTube vids on my 50 Mb/s connection, but didn't have those problems with my previous 3 Mb/s connection. Something's just screwy with YouTube. Either they have internal service issues, or the slap-fighting between them and ISPs continues.
Well, to the engineers' defense, the wheels were designed to handle the terrain that was found by the previous 2 rovers. Going beyond that probably gets into internal NASA politics, but your claim wouldn't surprise me at all - sexy features seem to trump infrastructure in every field.
As with anything on Slashdot that starts with armchair experts asking "didn't they think of X?", well, of course they thought of X. Weight of the probe is the primary cost of the mission - nothing's heavier than in must be.
These wheels were tested extensively, and work just fine in normal rocky soil - they're more robust than car tires. But glue a spike to the ground pointing up and it goes right through the wheel. There was no reason to expect Martian Caltrops, but that's what was found: sharp spikes of rock that aren't merely stuck in the soil, but seemingly extruded from the bedrock (like you can get with a'a lava).
For those who don't follow this stuff: the rover has tin-foil wheels, and they're getting chewed up fast (many holes and tears in them already). The problem is sharp rocks that are embedded firmly in the ground, or perhaps part of the bedrock like a'a lava - a geological feature that wasn't expected or designed for. The rover can handle sharp rocks in soil just fine, but now they're going really slowly trying to find a better path.
So you're actually playing the victim card now? Ohhhh, I'm just like a handicapped person or the elderly because I'm tall, get women easier, and make more money. Pity me!
You can guess my delight at that idea.