No - its that the American government does not care. The way the govenernment is set up, the American people can do nothing to prevent it. Congress is guarenteed a salery for life. Why do what people want - get in, be there long enough to get your salery for life, pass whatever laws you want - you are exempt, and accept all the bribes you want. People don't like you? Who cares, you are set for life - who cares if you win reelection.
Oh, someone is actually going to try to make a difference and run under a third party ticket? Good luck with that happening - even if you get in (which does happen from time to time) you got 400 or so other Congressmen and 99 other Senetors and a corrupt President who wants to be the dictator of a Socialist government.
Who says we do? It's not like the NSA is an elected form of government that we can just vote out if we don't like it. This would involve either a Supreme Court case (whose members are elected by the sitting President upon a former judge stepping down or dying) or a Congressional investigation, and recent events suggest that neither party is capable of doing anything. Even if a state or area elects a Congressman or Senator who really does stand out of the status quo, it is one voice among hundreds. Hence the breakdown of the American system.
Yes, but that wasn't my point - I wasn't talking about the difference between a dedicated connection and a shared connection, I was stating that just because they are running tests on it doesn't mean that people can expect to get these speeds at their homes anytime soon.
People have "known" (ie suspected) for years that the federal government was doing something like this. With all the revelations that have been released recently, why are people so surprised when another comes out? And this may have been started by the previous administration (or the one before that) but the current administration knew about it. I am kinda surprised there has not been a Congressional hearing about this yet.
Test speeds rarely relate to what consumers can expect to get. In the mid-late 90s (don't remember the exact year) I was in one of the early places to get Cable modems. The ISP was testing 100Mbps as a proof of concept, I had 2Mbps which was the fastest they offered customers. It has only been in the past couple of years that they started offering 100Mbps to customers - so roughly 15 years after it was tested.
Sounds like the Toronto subway needs a janitorial staff. How hard would it be to have cleaning crews at a few select stations, and when the driver reports an issue, they jump on at a stop and clean the train up while its in motion? Then they just jump out at another station. Give all workers free subway passes on that day (and make sure they know how to read a subway map so they can get home)
My thoughts in a nutshell. I know my sister and her fiancee are freaked out about it, but it turns out that they actually were people who trusted our government and believed that Obama really did bring around all that change that was promised, and that the governement could do no wrong. The rest of us already knew the government was doing that, and it doesn't matter who you have in the White House or Congress, things are pretty much going to be the same.
I mean, hearing that the NSA is snooping on other countries and on American citizens is like reading on PhysOrg "New study suggests eating fatty foods leads to obesiety". I mean, we already knew that.
So pretty much Snowden threw away his freedom to tell the world what we already know. Oh, and you know all those countries that are expressing outrage about it? They are just doing it to appease their population - they ALSO knew that US was doing it, because they do it to us.
After 46 million years, however, any DNA would be long degraded."
No problem, That's where our geneticists take over. Thinking Machine supercomputers and gene sequencers break down the strand in minutes - - - - and Virtual Reality displays show our geneticists the gaps in the DNA sequence! Since most animal DNA is ninety percent identical, we use the complete DNA of a frog - - - - to fill in the - - holes and - -complete - - the - - - - code! Whew! Now we can make a baby dinosaur!
Can you imagine Dance Moms on a space station? Abby couldn't yell at the moms for walking on her floor in boots, but would probably get on the kids for not being able to stop a spin in unison. The girls would be doing some incredible tumbling, though. Although I could hear Abby now "Just because we are in Miami doesn't mean we can't perform it the way we rehearsed it!"
Or still have the show set in Pittsburg "Girls, this week we are performing on the moon" - later "Chloe, why did it take you so long to make that leap, you totally threw off the timing of the entire group number!"
In the headline, it impacted, first sentence it exploded, Second it impacted, fourth it exploded.... So did it impact or explode in the atmosphere? Or did the explosion result in chunks impacting?
Uh, yeah, I have need to strip wire, wittle wood, cut leather, pull a cork out of a bottle (okay, that is a maybe), use a can opener, or saw something at 30,000 feet.
of course, I could also argue that I have no need to get past those annoying chocolates on Candy Crush at 30,000 feet.
The only reason this should be an annoyance to someone is if they forgot they had it in their pocket and got patted down by TSA. I doubt anyone is going to say at 30,000 feet "Man, if only I had my pocket knife, I could cut the fabric in my seat or carve my initials into the arm! DARN THEM for not letting me carry my knife!"
Shoot, I will tell you there are a few times I have forgotten to turn my phone to airplane mode. I have gone to get my phone out of my pocket when we get to the gate to tell my ride I have arrived and found my phone on, with the GPS functioning, with text messages and e-mails that somehow came through while we were in the air (not sure what the range of a cell tower is - I certainly doubt that I could place a phone call - or rather maintain a signal if I were to acquire one). Guess what, the plane didn't fall out of the sky.
I normally just put the phone into airplane mode to save my battery.
As for tablett / ereader - I just normally just turn the screen off during take off and landing as they take a while to power up from a complete shutdown. The eReader has no WiFi, and I rarely turn the WiFi on on the tablett. Even if the WiFi is on, is anything in the plane operating in the 2.4GHz spectrum?
I know many people who have shot video out of the plane window during takeoff and landing. No planes have fallen from the sky.
If planes were really that sensitive, they should be askign to check all electronic devices and have no one carry them on board, then the xray screeners and bag handlers would be required to open up each bag and verify it to be shut off.
Also, if planes were that sensitive, they shouldn't be allowed to fly. Every piece of consumer electronic device out there has requirements where - not only must it limit how much interfearence it puts out, but it has to be able to accept a certain piece of interference. Otherwise - OH NO, my reciever is going to cause my Blu-Ray player to shut off! My speakers are going to cause distortions to my monitor (actually had this issue with my first pair of PC speakers). If consumer electronics are regulated to accept certain levels of interfearence, certainly planes are.
You know, I have even had some flight attendants come by and tell me to put up my eReader. Not shut it off, just put it away. No radio, barely draws power except when it redraws the screen. For the first and last 20 minutes of the flight.
I have friends who are pilot hobbiest. Single and twin engine planes. They say that they have their phones on, laptop powered up, iPod going, tablett powered up in the cockpit, and it has never caused as much as a glitch.
Pretty much, unless someone is trying to operate a ham radio on board or trying to operate a high-power radio station from in the air or running a power plant, I doubt that any electronic device would have any effect whatsoever on the plane's electronics.
Here is an interesting question - what are the regulations on flights that do not cross US airspace? Do they have these regulations? Can someone living in Europe, Asia, India, Africa, Austrailia, or South America let me know how flights are regulated there?
I was thinking along the same lines. It's the end of the year. It is their money - it was budgeted for them. You spend it or loose it, just like in any other department in any other company in the world.
"Oh, no, they spent money budgeted for them! This is awful!"
Buying helmets for soldiers? Sounds like a good buy (although isn't BAE British? Oh well, still an alley). $9 million on a gym at an Air Force Academy? Sounds like a reasonable price amount and a reasonable purchase. $64 million to Lockheed which employees hundreds of thousands of civilians? Good for them keeping Americans working. Several million on liquid nitrogen and helium for scientific research and use in various areas? $2.5 billion to another civilian contractor for spare parts to maintain weapon systems, basically keeping weapons in working order and keeping tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands employed?
"The woman told me curtly and without emotion that entry to the United States was being denied to me - without giving any reason," Trojanow told the German newspaper the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Tuesday.
It then later says that his co-author CLAIMS he was denied entry for his views. At no point does the article state why he was denied entry. Tying it to the NSA is the European Media trying to make a story out of nothing. It is largely an opinion piece based on very little evidence.
As for the Huffington Post article - well, it IS the Huffington Post. Whether you trust them or not is really more of where your personal views stand.
There just really is not enough information given. He was denied entry. That is all we know. Everything else is circumstancial evidence.
How many people do you think will actually be able to figure out how to install Linux? If the city the size of Munich is only preparing 2,000 CDs for the public, obviously they are expecting that this won't be that popular of a program. I actually had to read the summery several times before I realized that they were making this for the public, not for the city itself.
When it dies, XP will be, what, 14 years old (Yeah, too lazy to google this morning). Who supports anything for 14 years? Microsoft has released 3 (soon to be four) operating systems since this. Shoot, Vista is about 6 years old, soon to be seven. Windows 7 is 4 years old.
I am sorry, but at this time, I don't feel sorry for anyone still running XP. Not companies, not end users. For companies - there has been plenty of time to rewrite your software, you have known for years Microsoft was going to kill XP, and lease cycles on PCs are usually only about 3 years, meaning that you have refreshed systems at least twice since Vista came out (yeah, I know, Vista was not the greatest of operating systems) and at least once since Windows 7 came out.
For home users - you mean your harddrive hasn't crashed once in over seven years? If someone still has a working computer that is over seven years old, then the only thing they are probably doing on it is e-mail and Word Processing anyways.
Yeah, my dad is still running XP, but he has replaced the harddrive twice, had the motherboard replaced once, and replaced memory once. He has admitted the only reason he is still running XP is because he is stubborn, and really has no excuse for not upgrading - he admits he could have bought a new PC for less than he has spent on repairs.
I bet the demand is going to be REALLY small. If you are still on XP, it is because you are too stubborn to change, and I certainly don't see free CDs of Linux compell anyone to change. If they are too stubborn to upgrade to Vista or Windows 7 or 8, they are going to be too darn stubborn to convert to Linux.
If they haven't upgraded because they don't have the technical know-how, what makes you think they are going to know how to either install or run Linux?
And if there are people who haven't upgraded just because they are ignorant and don't know that updates are going to be turned off, it wouldn't surprise me if they don't install their updates in the first place.
Munich has a population of 1.3 million. They are printing 2 THOUSAND CDs. Even if they all get picked up (which they probably won't), that is 0.1% of the population.
I am no Microsoft fanboy - I run Microsoft because the software I want to run requires it. But seriously, let XP die already!
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No - its that the American government does not care. The way the govenernment is set up, the American people can do nothing to prevent it. Congress is guarenteed a salery for life. Why do what people want - get in, be there long enough to get your salery for life, pass whatever laws you want - you are exempt, and accept all the bribes you want. People don't like you? Who cares, you are set for life - who cares if you win reelection.
Oh, someone is actually going to try to make a difference and run under a third party ticket? Good luck with that happening - even if you get in (which does happen from time to time) you got 400 or so other Congressmen and 99 other Senetors and a corrupt President who wants to be the dictator of a Socialist government.
The American system is broke.
Who says we do? It's not like the NSA is an elected form of government that we can just vote out if we don't like it. This would involve either a Supreme Court case (whose members are elected by the sitting President upon a former judge stepping down or dying) or a Congressional investigation, and recent events suggest that neither party is capable of doing anything. Even if a state or area elects a Congressman or Senator who really does stand out of the status quo, it is one voice among hundreds. Hence the breakdown of the American system.
Yes, but that wasn't my point - I wasn't talking about the difference between a dedicated connection and a shared connection, I was stating that just because they are running tests on it doesn't mean that people can expect to get these speeds at their homes anytime soon.
People have "known" (ie suspected) for years that the federal government was doing something like this. With all the revelations that have been released recently, why are people so surprised when another comes out? And this may have been started by the previous administration (or the one before that) but the current administration knew about it. I am kinda surprised there has not been a Congressional hearing about this yet.
Test speeds rarely relate to what consumers can expect to get. In the mid-late 90s (don't remember the exact year) I was in one of the early places to get Cable modems. The ISP was testing 100Mbps as a proof of concept, I had 2Mbps which was the fastest they offered customers. It has only been in the past couple of years that they started offering 100Mbps to customers - so roughly 15 years after it was tested.
Sounds like the Toronto subway needs a janitorial staff. How hard would it be to have cleaning crews at a few select stations, and when the driver reports an issue, they jump on at a stop and clean the train up while its in motion? Then they just jump out at another station. Give all workers free subway passes on that day (and make sure they know how to read a subway map so they can get home)
How about in bed or coming into the office. When this story was posted on Slashdot, it was 6AM in Silicon Valley
Its been working all morning for me as well. Maybe facebook employees server colocations and one of their centers went down
No - that is fixed by getting a working browser
My thoughts in a nutshell. I know my sister and her fiancee are freaked out about it, but it turns out that they actually were people who trusted our government and believed that Obama really did bring around all that change that was promised, and that the governement could do no wrong. The rest of us already knew the government was doing that, and it doesn't matter who you have in the White House or Congress, things are pretty much going to be the same.
I mean, hearing that the NSA is snooping on other countries and on American citizens is like reading on PhysOrg "New study suggests eating fatty foods leads to obesiety". I mean, we already knew that.
So pretty much Snowden threw away his freedom to tell the world what we already know. Oh, and you know all those countries that are expressing outrage about it? They are just doing it to appease their population - they ALSO knew that US was doing it, because they do it to us.
After 46 million years, however, any DNA would be long degraded."
No problem, That's where our geneticists take over. Thinking Machine supercomputers and gene sequencers break down the strand in minutes - - - - and Virtual Reality displays show our geneticists the gaps in the DNA sequence! Since most animal DNA is ninety percent identical, we use the complete DNA of a frog - - - - to fill in the - - holes and - -complete - - the - - - - code! Whew! Now we can make a baby dinosaur!
And cheaper - film it in Prague
Can you imagine Dance Moms on a space station? Abby couldn't yell at the moms for walking on her floor in boots, but would probably get on the kids for not being able to stop a spin in unison. The girls would be doing some incredible tumbling, though. Although I could hear Abby now "Just because we are in Miami doesn't mean we can't perform it the way we rehearsed it!"
Or still have the show set in Pittsburg "Girls, this week we are performing on the moon" - later "Chloe, why did it take you so long to make that leap, you totally threw off the timing of the entire group number!"
Why should Congress be rewarded?
In the headline, it impacted, first sentence it exploded, Second it impacted, fourth it exploded.... So did it impact or explode in the atmosphere? Or did the explosion result in chunks impacting?
Um, in my experience, this is EXACTLY the type of stuff I would expect to see from Wired. I used to go dislexic and thought it said Weird.
In your case, it would be better for Google to license Siri than Watson.
than many implements that are allowed
Uh, yeah, I have need to strip wire, wittle wood, cut leather, pull a cork out of a bottle (okay, that is a maybe), use a can opener, or saw something at 30,000 feet.
of course, I could also argue that I have no need to get past those annoying chocolates on Candy Crush at 30,000 feet.
The only reason this should be an annoyance to someone is if they forgot they had it in their pocket and got patted down by TSA. I doubt anyone is going to say at 30,000 feet "Man, if only I had my pocket knife, I could cut the fabric in my seat or carve my initials into the arm! DARN THEM for not letting me carry my knife!"
They don't make you stow books or magazines.
Shoot, I will tell you there are a few times I have forgotten to turn my phone to airplane mode. I have gone to get my phone out of my pocket when we get to the gate to tell my ride I have arrived and found my phone on, with the GPS functioning, with text messages and e-mails that somehow came through while we were in the air (not sure what the range of a cell tower is - I certainly doubt that I could place a phone call - or rather maintain a signal if I were to acquire one). Guess what, the plane didn't fall out of the sky.
I normally just put the phone into airplane mode to save my battery.
As for tablett / ereader - I just normally just turn the screen off during take off and landing as they take a while to power up from a complete shutdown. The eReader has no WiFi, and I rarely turn the WiFi on on the tablett. Even if the WiFi is on, is anything in the plane operating in the 2.4GHz spectrum?
I know many people who have shot video out of the plane window during takeoff and landing. No planes have fallen from the sky.
If planes were really that sensitive, they should be askign to check all electronic devices and have no one carry them on board, then the xray screeners and bag handlers would be required to open up each bag and verify it to be shut off.
Also, if planes were that sensitive, they shouldn't be allowed to fly. Every piece of consumer electronic device out there has requirements where - not only must it limit how much interfearence it puts out, but it has to be able to accept a certain piece of interference. Otherwise - OH NO, my reciever is going to cause my Blu-Ray player to shut off! My speakers are going to cause distortions to my monitor (actually had this issue with my first pair of PC speakers). If consumer electronics are regulated to accept certain levels of interfearence, certainly planes are.
You know, I have even had some flight attendants come by and tell me to put up my eReader. Not shut it off, just put it away. No radio, barely draws power except when it redraws the screen. For the first and last 20 minutes of the flight.
I have friends who are pilot hobbiest. Single and twin engine planes. They say that they have their phones on, laptop powered up, iPod going, tablett powered up in the cockpit, and it has never caused as much as a glitch.
Pretty much, unless someone is trying to operate a ham radio on board or trying to operate a high-power radio station from in the air or running a power plant, I doubt that any electronic device would have any effect whatsoever on the plane's electronics.
Here is an interesting question - what are the regulations on flights that do not cross US airspace? Do they have these regulations? Can someone living in Europe, Asia, India, Africa, Austrailia, or South America let me know how flights are regulated there?
I was thinking along the same lines. It's the end of the year. It is their money - it was budgeted for them. You spend it or loose it, just like in any other department in any other company in the world.
"Oh, no, they spent money budgeted for them! This is awful!"
Buying helmets for soldiers? Sounds like a good buy (although isn't BAE British? Oh well, still an alley). $9 million on a gym at an Air Force Academy? Sounds like a reasonable price amount and a reasonable purchase. $64 million to Lockheed which employees hundreds of thousands of civilians? Good for them keeping Americans working. Several million on liquid nitrogen and helium for scientific research and use in various areas? $2.5 billion to another civilian contractor for spare parts to maintain weapon systems, basically keeping weapons in working order and keeping tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands employed?
Stupid stupid article.
FTA:
"The woman told me curtly and without emotion that entry to the United States was being denied to me - without giving any reason," Trojanow told the German newspaper the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on Tuesday.
It then later says that his co-author CLAIMS he was denied entry for his views. At no point does the article state why he was denied entry. Tying it to the NSA is the European Media trying to make a story out of nothing. It is largely an opinion piece based on very little evidence.
As for the Huffington Post article - well, it IS the Huffington Post. Whether you trust them or not is really more of where your personal views stand.
There just really is not enough information given. He was denied entry. That is all we know. Everything else is circumstancial evidence.
Where does one draw the line between art and pornography? Last I checked, they offer awards for pornos.
This goes back to letting parents be parents and deciding on their own what is appropriate for their kids.
Unless the parents are abusing their kids, in which case the government should get involved. But that's a topic for another discussion.
How many people do you think will actually be able to figure out how to install Linux? If the city the size of Munich is only preparing 2,000 CDs for the public, obviously they are expecting that this won't be that popular of a program. I actually had to read the summery several times before I realized that they were making this for the public, not for the city itself.
When it dies, XP will be, what, 14 years old (Yeah, too lazy to google this morning). Who supports anything for 14 years? Microsoft has released 3 (soon to be four) operating systems since this. Shoot, Vista is about 6 years old, soon to be seven. Windows 7 is 4 years old.
I am sorry, but at this time, I don't feel sorry for anyone still running XP. Not companies, not end users. For companies - there has been plenty of time to rewrite your software, you have known for years Microsoft was going to kill XP, and lease cycles on PCs are usually only about 3 years, meaning that you have refreshed systems at least twice since Vista came out (yeah, I know, Vista was not the greatest of operating systems) and at least once since Windows 7 came out.
For home users - you mean your harddrive hasn't crashed once in over seven years? If someone still has a working computer that is over seven years old, then the only thing they are probably doing on it is e-mail and Word Processing anyways.
Yeah, my dad is still running XP, but he has replaced the harddrive twice, had the motherboard replaced once, and replaced memory once. He has admitted the only reason he is still running XP is because he is stubborn, and really has no excuse for not upgrading - he admits he could have bought a new PC for less than he has spent on repairs.
I bet the demand is going to be REALLY small. If you are still on XP, it is because you are too stubborn to change, and I certainly don't see free CDs of Linux compell anyone to change. If they are too stubborn to upgrade to Vista or Windows 7 or 8, they are going to be too darn stubborn to convert to Linux.
If they haven't upgraded because they don't have the technical know-how, what makes you think they are going to know how to either install or run Linux?
And if there are people who haven't upgraded just because they are ignorant and don't know that updates are going to be turned off, it wouldn't surprise me if they don't install their updates in the first place.
Munich has a population of 1.3 million. They are printing 2 THOUSAND CDs. Even if they all get picked up (which they probably won't), that is 0.1% of the population.
I am no Microsoft fanboy - I run Microsoft because the software I want to run requires it. But seriously, let XP die already!
I promise that I really am 18!