Your quote contradicts you. "nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" means that non citizens get due process of law.
Odds are he was in a constitution free zone (border zone), as that includes almost the entire country. Just call up the Department of Homeland Insecurity and have him arrrested.
You are assuming the Mexican/American border problem is merely an engineering problem, but It's not. It's a political one. If you don't want illegal immigrants coming north then keep them from working in the USA. Random spot checks of low wage employers coupled with massive fines for illegals would cut the number by half in a single year. But that won't happen because big business likes to export jobs to the third world (and that is effectively what illegal guest workers do to your economy).
I see no benefit to society in subsidizing a profitable industry. If you look at the financial statements of American drug companies you see they spend very little on R&D. http://www.pfizer.com/files/in... (page 31) These guys spend less than 15% per year on R&D.
Health care and drug research should be done by the government. It's provably cheaper and gives better healthcare results. Also private drug companies choose to not research or make cures for minor diseases, because the profit margins are not big enough.
Taxes pay for civilization. The streets you drive to your mansion by the lake are paid for by taxes. Providing basic health care for your workers because you are too cheap to pay a living wage, that's from taxes. You want to live in a country without taxes try Somalia. Taxes are generally good for society, and higher tax countries tend to be better places to live in. And the tax rate in the USA is falling along with the quality of life.
A police officer requires the cooperation of the general public. You can't do the job if nobody will tell you about crime or give you tips. The police need to get out of their cars and do foot patrols, get to know the people in a neighbourhood and stay there to defend them. Give cops a small zone to patrol (on foot), and they stay there to work that zone for years at a time.
How about public service? Cleaning up garbage and removing graffitti for a few hundred hours should discourage such actions, but without the taxpayer getting burned.
This is why the police win, they just wait for the criminals to make mistakes. Police are not paid enough to attract the top talent, they win by statistics.
A law giving the NSA authority to intercept all communications means that your corporate crypto server will be copied, giving them all your keys so they can decrypt everything. If you want security it must be done entirely at the client side, with only the client having the keys. Any central crypto means they get everything. Also you should assume Microsoft and Google are working for the NSA, so they can patch your OS to copy your client side keys to the NSA if required.
If people install solar panels without the batteries they will use the panels during the day and the grid at night. The utilities will have the full cost of infrastructure and generators but without the revenue from all that daytime use.
It's not cost effective for the first world to recycle battery packs. Send these packs to the third world and let them do the work of making an off-grid power system. Also there is a project underway to make solar lights for the third world that is working.
http://www.zagg.com/community/...
Also laptops use battery packs, containing several individual batteries. When one battery fails the whole pack is thrown away even though all the rest still work.
You have that backwards. Selling more spectrum increases net neutrality because it allows competition. If I open up my spectrum block to competition it will lower hardware costs and everyone will move to my block instead of investing in yours.
Stopping small boat swarms is doable, but requires weapons designed for that task instead of designed to stop the russian fleet. Given that the US navy is constantly building ships it is reasonable to assume they have ships designed specifically for that task. If they don't it's negligence.
Given the number of spies who were in sensitive positions for many years feeding Russia American secrets, it's clearly hard to catch spies. A sting operation is a quick and cheap way to test the loyalty of someone with a security clearance. It sounds like you suggesting an FBI sting (that worked) is comparable to making people take off their shoes at the airport.
There is an old storage technology using sheets of photographic film to store large numbers of pages in a small space.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
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Eye witness testimony from a public place is usable. The problem was spying on him for months without a warrant.
Your quote contradicts you. "nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law" means that non citizens get due process of law.
Having a computer listening to your phone calls is no different than having a cop outside your door with a parabolic microphone.
Odds are he was in a constitution free zone (border zone), as that includes almost the entire country. Just call up the Department of Homeland Insecurity and have him arrrested.
You are assuming the Mexican/American border problem is merely an engineering problem, but It's not. It's a political one. If you don't want illegal immigrants coming north then keep them from working in the USA. Random spot checks of low wage employers coupled with massive fines for illegals would cut the number by half in a single year. But that won't happen because big business likes to export jobs to the third world (and that is effectively what illegal guest workers do to your economy).
If you want a password that nobody will guess, try "Microsoft", because nobody associates that name with security.
Are you refering to the Roman Catholic Church? The one the Romans rebuilt into their state religion?
I see no benefit to society in subsidizing a profitable industry. If you look at the financial statements of American drug companies you see they spend very little on R&D. http://www.pfizer.com/files/in... (page 31) These guys spend less than 15% per year on R&D.
Health care and drug research should be done by the government. It's provably cheaper and gives better healthcare results. Also private drug companies choose to not research or make cures for minor diseases, because the profit margins are not big enough.
Taxes pay for civilization. The streets you drive to your mansion by the lake are paid for by taxes. Providing basic health care for your workers because you are too cheap to pay a living wage, that's from taxes. You want to live in a country without taxes try Somalia. Taxes are generally good for society, and higher tax countries tend to be better places to live in. And the tax rate in the USA is falling along with the quality of life.
A police officer requires the cooperation of the general public. You can't do the job if nobody will tell you about crime or give you tips. The police need to get out of their cars and do foot patrols, get to know the people in a neighbourhood and stay there to defend them. Give cops a small zone to patrol (on foot), and they stay there to work that zone for years at a time.
How about public service? Cleaning up garbage and removing graffitti for a few hundred hours should discourage such actions, but without the taxpayer getting burned.
This is why the police win, they just wait for the criminals to make mistakes. Police are not paid enough to attract the top talent, they win by statistics.
Private spying gets you information, public spying gets you intimidation. Possibly they have changed their goals.
A law giving the NSA authority to intercept all communications means that your corporate crypto server will be copied, giving them all your keys so they can decrypt everything. If you want security it must be done entirely at the client side, with only the client having the keys. Any central crypto means they get everything. Also you should assume Microsoft and Google are working for the NSA, so they can patch your OS to copy your client side keys to the NSA if required.
If people install solar panels without the batteries they will use the panels during the day and the grid at night. The utilities will have the full cost of infrastructure and generators but without the revenue from all that daytime use.
It's not cost effective for the first world to recycle battery packs. Send these packs to the third world and let them do the work of making an off-grid power system. Also there is a project underway to make solar lights for the third world that is working. http://www.zagg.com/community/...
Also laptops use battery packs, containing several individual batteries. When one battery fails the whole pack is thrown away even though all the rest still work.
If you want open spectrum then just open it. There doesn't need to be a private owner for that.
You have that backwards. Selling more spectrum increases net neutrality because it allows competition. If I open up my spectrum block to competition it will lower hardware costs and everyone will move to my block instead of investing in yours.
Stopping small boat swarms is doable, but requires weapons designed for that task instead of designed to stop the russian fleet. Given that the US navy is constantly building ships it is reasonable to assume they have ships designed specifically for that task. If they don't it's negligence.
I think a 3D printer that large is worth more than the aircraft carrier plans.
Given the number of spies who were in sensitive positions for many years feeding Russia American secrets, it's clearly hard to catch spies. A sting operation is a quick and cheap way to test the loyalty of someone with a security clearance. It sounds like you suggesting an FBI sting (that worked) is comparable to making people take off their shoes at the airport.
There is an old storage technology using sheets of photographic film to store large numbers of pages in a small space. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...
You've never heard of the Microsoft tax?