Also lending their support for data retention were Rep. Ric Keller, R-Fla., who said that Internet chat rooms were crammed with sexual predators, and Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary committee and a previous data retention enthusiast.
As attorney general until last summer, Gonzales rarely passed up an opportunity to call for data retention. In April 2006, he said Internet providers must retain records for a "reasonable amount of time" and the issue "must be addressed." In September 2006, he added: "This is a national problem that requires federal legislation."
Multiple proposals to mandate data retention have surfaced in the U.S. Congress. One, backed by Rep. Diana DeGette, a Colorado Democrat, said that any Internet service that "enables users to access content" must indefinitely retain records that would permit police to identify each user. Another came from Wisconsin Rep. F. James Sensenbrenner, a close ally of President Bush, and a third was written by Rep. Smith, who endorsed the idea again on Wednesday. This particular bill might have been, but it has great support among Republicans. Not to mention two previous proposals to do the same thing were sponsored by Republicans. Yep, it's definitely only Democrats pushing this.
I totally agree. I was just trying to head off the pass where people try to contend that it's the Democrats only pushing this idea. In fact two other bills proposing the same thing were sponsored by Republicans.
I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that the access to phone records by police agencies has done more good than harm over the last 40 years. I guess it depends on what your priorities are. If you think that the protected rights of the citizens should be tantamount then such things have done far more harm than good. If you're more caught up in the "WON'T SOMEONE THINK OF THE CHILDREN!!!" mentality you'll probably view it the opposite way.
Not that I agree with the proposal, but it doesn't relate to the 6th Amendment particularly. And for a real post. Not shit it doesn't since the 6th Amendment deals with your right to have access to a speedy jury trial.
You mean just like how the NSA is limited by the 4th amendment from snooping on U.S. citizens? Oh wait...
Please, they'll bypass the 4th amendment any time they want to get access to the data.
Also lending their support for data retention were Rep. Ric Keller, R-Fla., who said that Internet chat rooms were crammed with sexual predators, and Rep. Lamar Smith of Texas, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary committee and a previous data retention enthusiast. This law has bipartisan support. Anyone who is trying to paint this as if only one side or the other pushing it is just playing politics. Not to mention this idea was originally pushed by our wonderful friend Alberto Gonzales.
"Records retention by ISPs would be tremendously helpful in giving us a historic basis to make a case on a number of child pornographers who use the Internet to push their pornography" or lure children, Mueller said. Privacy rights be damn! WON'T SOMEONE SAVE THE CHILDREN?!?!?
And just to further add, I'm sure you weren't going around asking random people, right? That sort of would invalidate your attempt at showing me wrong. This would be like saying: "Hardly anyone is an atheist because I just asked 4 people and they all said they were Christian." Your sample size is lacking and your choices were probably hardly random.
To add further: http://techreport.com/articles.x/14606/7
This is from image processing benchmarks and you can see the X3 is barely beating the X2s in most cases.
I'm not sure where you're getting view about the X3s outperforming the Intel chips, but outside of a few isolated cases they are near the bottom of almost every benchmark. And in a number of cases losing to a not so new X2 models.
Note in the reviews that their slower chip outbenchmarked faster chips from Intel. The only time it's beating an intel chip is when it's either a dual core or a slower quad core. Other than that it's barely able to stay above AMD's own X2s.
sure.. every server has at least a geforce 9 series. you're dumb. The last thing you want a server in a processing cluster to do is process polygons. Protip: My original post was being facetious. I figured that was obvious, but I guess I forgot that every post on slashdot had to be SERIOUS FUCKING BUSINESS. Have fun as I'm bowing out of this thread.
No shit? Thanks Captain Obvious! Good thing I wasn't talking about the internet connection, but the amount of processing the grid itself can do. Fuck, I can't believe I had to even explain myself...
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I can't believe you would actually think that the police would have to follow their own state laws. Silly you.
I totally agree. I was just trying to head off the pass where people try to contend that it's the Democrats only pushing this idea. In fact two other bills proposing the same thing were sponsored by Republicans.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Security_Letter
Problem solved.
And probably a congressman or two. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Foley
That document version has been phased out for the 2.0 version.
You mean just like how the NSA is limited by the 4th amendment from snooping on U.S. citizens? Oh wait...
Please, they'll bypass the 4th amendment any time they want to get access to the data.
And just to further add, I'm sure you weren't going around asking random people, right? That sort of would invalidate your attempt at showing me wrong. This would be like saying: "Hardly anyone is an atheist because I just asked 4 people and they all said they were Christian." Your sample size is lacking and your choices were probably hardly random.
Notice how I said "the average person" and not "4 of the friends of a slashdot poster".
320 hits for movies: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/marketplace/catalog.aspx?mt=1&g=-1&r=-1&sb=1 352 different TV shows: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/marketplace/catalog.aspx?mt=2&g=-1&r=-1&sb=1 I'd say that's a pretty decent selection especially if you were to count the total number of TV show episodes which is probably easy close to 5000.
To add further: http://techreport.com/articles.x/14606/7
This is from image processing benchmarks and you can see the X3 is barely beating the X2s in most cases.
Here is for video encoding: http://techreport.com/articles.x/14606/8
Again the X3 is near the bottom and in many cases being outperformed by X2s.
I'm not sure where you're getting view about the X3s outperforming the Intel chips, but outside of a few isolated cases they are near the bottom of almost every benchmark. And in a number of cases losing to a not so new X2 models.
Exactly where were you hearing this? SonyDefenseForce.com?
They'll say this: "Pay us a premium or your packets get the slow lane".
Well it's true. The average person you meet, if they've ever heard of Clarke, is only really going to know him for 2001.
No shit? Thanks Captain Obvious! Good thing I wasn't talking about the internet connection, but the amount of processing the grid itself can do. Fuck, I can't believe I had to even explain myself...
He's most famous for his work with Stanley Kubrick on 2001: A Space Odyssey.
But how well does it play Cyrsis at full settings?