My grocery store has new Verifone readers with chip and pin slots. The things are so badly made that they reject my card on the mag strip reader until the clerks showed me a trick where you stick a plastic grocery bag between the card and mag head to make it work.
Patents are still useful for small businesses because it provides protection against someone else coming along and patenting your product after the fact. This is more important than ever now that the US has abandoned the first-to-invent principle to determine patent validity.
Of course it's backdoored. The only reason why eBay bought Skype is to cross-correlate with PayPal accounts in exchange for taking the heat off threats of banking regulation.
Actually not unless the driver was intoxicated. Otherwise cyclists are treated as fair game, lower than pedestrians. Errant drivers never get prosecuted because the cyclist is always blamed for the collision.
This attitude is going to cost them dearly in the future when the engineers they've burned design in a competitor's parts. I know I'll never select components from Rambus and Broadcom because of their BS.
Id open sources its older code to act as an incentive to developers to license their latest engine. It's the same as MS giving away VS Express or a free hit from a drug dealer. Since most developers are already licensing an engine from someone else there is little incentive to open up their code.
It's good to see that EO12333 has been placed in the spotlight. It always irked me how it tries to run around the constitution. The whole order is filled with phony "prohibitions" on government power with open-ended exceptions that can be invoked at any time.
My favorite parts:
2.3Collection of Information. (e) Information needed to protect foreign intelligence or counterintelligence sources or methods from unauthorized disclosure. Collection within the United States shall be undertaken by the FBI except that other agencies of the Intelligence Community may also collect such information concerning present or former employees, present or former intelligence agency contractors or their present or former employees, or applicants for any such employment or contracting;
So basically any government agency can be tasked to collect domestic information without the pesky oversight the FBI has to deal with.
2.4Collection Techniques. Agencies within the Intelligence Community shall use the least intrusive collection techniques feasible within the United States or directed against United States persons abroad. Agencies are not authorized to use such techniques as electronic surveillance, unconsented physical search, mail surveillance, physical surveillance, or monitoring devices unless they are in accordance with procedures established by the head of the agency concerned and approved by the Attorney General. Such procedures shall protect constitutional and other legal rights and limit use of such information to lawful governmental purposes. These procedures shall not authorize:
(b) Unconsented physical searches in the United States by agencies other than the FBI, except for:
(1) Searches by counterintelligence elements of the military services directed against military personnel within the United States or abroad for intelligence purposes, when authorized by a military commander empowered to approve physical searches for law enforcement purposes, based upon a finding of probable cause to believe that such persons are acting as agents of foreign powers; and
(2) Searches by CIA of personal property of non-United States persons lawfully in its possession. (c) Physical surveillance of a United States person in the United States by agencies other than the FBI, except for:
(1) Physical surveillance of present or former employees, present or former intelligence agency contractors or their present of former employees, or applicants for any such employment or contracting; and
(2) Physical surveillance of a military person employed by a nonintelligence element of a military service.
They've tried to be clever and hide what they did here with a double negative spread across two clauses. Effectively all defense contractor employees are subjected to domestic spying which was part of the rationale for justify creating the surveillance apparatus. They don't disclose that when you sign the contract suspending your rights when you apply for a security clearance. Note that that much of the internet enabled surveillance programs were instituted pre-9/11 under Clinton and not by Bush2 and this was going on before the PATRIOT act madness.
2.5Attorney General Approval. The Attorney General hereby is delegated the power to approve the use for intelligence purposes, within the United States or against a United States person abroad, of any technique for which a warrant would be required if undertaken for law enforcement purposes, provided that such techniques shall not be undertaken unless the Attorney General has determined in each case that there is probable cause to believe that the technique is directed against a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power. Electronic surveillance, as defined in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, shall be conducted in accordance with that A
The incentive is to prosecute the troll lawyers for barratry. Too bad DAs only selectively administer the law when it comes to keeping their colleagues in line.
Nobody is making the states take the federal blackmail. Let's see some red states with tea partiers in control demonstrate their faith in less government by willingly cutting off the gravy train of federal funds. The best we've seen so far is the states that passed up the extra federal Medicaid support to avoid implementing ACA.
They blocked the Wikipedia page about the church which is mostly a detailed list of their bigoted views and activities. It isn't illegal or unethical to learn about hateful people. Should they also erase Hitler from history too?
No. The execs have realized that they can get fatter paychecks if they eliminate "cost centers" that don't deliver any perceived value. Anyone not working in the executive suite is viewed as a liability to the company and needs to be eliminated to reduce the pesky overhead involved in having real employees.
If they're anything like American legislators they just let the lobbyists write the laws so they are free to put on an act of serving their constituents.
They can't manipulate the cost of shipping raw materials and the manufactured output across oceans. That is part of the new focus on insourcing basic manufacturing.
NoScript takes care of most of those who get around Adblock. If ads still show up then I'm happy to let them pass since my primary reason for using Adblock is protection from javascript exploits and excessive bandwidth consumption from all the cross site scripts they invoke + auto-playing videos.
That is why I abandoned Win7 for Linux: Its startup time is decent fresh out of the box but it starts to drag on interminably after you've used it for a year.
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That's the way Xzibit rolls. You don't see any of his nudies out there do you?
My grocery store has new Verifone readers with chip and pin slots. The things are so badly made that they reject my card on the mag strip reader until the clerks showed me a trick where you stick a plastic grocery bag between the card and mag head to make it work.
Patents are still useful for small businesses because it provides protection against someone else coming along and patenting your product after the fact. This is more important than ever now that the US has abandoned the first-to-invent principle to determine patent validity.
Of course it's backdoored. The only reason why eBay bought Skype is to cross-correlate with PayPal accounts in exchange for taking the heat off threats of banking regulation.
I'm sure his estate will be billed for damaging public property.
Actually not unless the driver was intoxicated. Otherwise cyclists are treated as fair game, lower than pedestrians. Errant drivers never get prosecuted because the cyclist is always blamed for the collision.
This attitude is going to cost them dearly in the future when the engineers they've burned design in a competitor's parts. I know I'll never select components from Rambus and Broadcom because of their BS.
Id open sources its older code to act as an incentive to developers to license their latest engine. It's the same as MS giving away VS Express or a free hit from a drug dealer. Since most developers are already licensing an engine from someone else there is little incentive to open up their code.
It's good to see that EO12333 has been placed in the spotlight. It always irked me how it tries to run around the constitution. The whole order is filled with phony "prohibitions" on government power with open-ended exceptions that can be invoked at any time.
My favorite parts:
So basically any government agency can be tasked to collect domestic information without the pesky oversight the FBI has to deal with.
They've tried to be clever and hide what they did here with a double negative spread across two clauses. Effectively all defense contractor employees are subjected to domestic spying which was part of the rationale for justify creating the surveillance apparatus. They don't disclose that when you sign the contract suspending your rights when you apply for a security clearance. Note that that much of the internet enabled surveillance programs were instituted pre-9/11 under Clinton and not by Bush2 and this was going on before the PATRIOT act madness.
The incentive is to prosecute the troll lawyers for barratry. Too bad DAs only selectively administer the law when it comes to keeping their colleagues in line.
This. The x86 ISA is roughly analogous to ARM Thumb compressed instructions. It is just a front end to a register rich RISC core.
Nobody is making the states take the federal blackmail. Let's see some red states with tea partiers in control demonstrate their faith in less government by willingly cutting off the gravy train of federal funds. The best we've seen so far is the states that passed up the extra federal Medicaid support to avoid implementing ACA.
Cleaning power?
How about "She gave me a good Dyson last night".
They used to be more common before Mr. Coffee and other gadgetry. Nowadays you probably have to go to Amazon or eBay to get one in the US.
you would go off campus to do whatever research you want.
You do realize what a completely inane comment that is.
They blocked the Wikipedia page about the church which is mostly a detailed list of their bigoted views and activities. It isn't illegal or unethical to learn about hateful people. Should they also erase Hitler from history too?
Because an institution of higher learning prefers its workers to be dumb and uninformed.
DSL is a joke in the US. Got a load coil on your POTS line? Sucks to be you but enjoy the 2Mb/s "broadband" anyway.
No. The execs have realized that they can get fatter paychecks if they eliminate "cost centers" that don't deliver any perceived value. Anyone not working in the executive suite is viewed as a liability to the company and needs to be eliminated to reduce the pesky overhead involved in having real employees.
That's because FedEx is teamed up with USPS. Most remote FedEx boxes are serviced by US postal workers on their routes.
If they're anything like American legislators they just let the lobbyists write the laws so they are free to put on an act of serving their constituents.
They can't manipulate the cost of shipping raw materials and the manufactured output across oceans. That is part of the new focus on insourcing basic manufacturing.
You should walk through a Chinese factory or even an American factory where production volume doesn't warrant the investment in automation.
NoScript takes care of most of those who get around Adblock. If ads still show up then I'm happy to let them pass since my primary reason for using Adblock is protection from javascript exploits and excessive bandwidth consumption from all the cross site scripts they invoke + auto-playing videos.
That is why I abandoned Win7 for Linux: Its startup time is decent fresh out of the box but it starts to drag on interminably after you've used it for a year.