Oh yes, all whistle blowers should be brought to justice by the repressive regimes they're exposing. That will encourage them to do the right thing. I mean, if Snowden doesn't get sent to Guantanamo Bay then the information he leaked about the NSA's illegal activities doesn't even count! (non-sequitur so hard it hurts my brain).
"Wait, the U.S. military shot down a hurricane that was about to attack U.S. citizens? Or it fought the hurricane, and drove it back into the sea, after it dared to attack U.S. soil?"
If the USAF hadn't intervened and shot down the flying sharks it would have been a sharknado.
Couple things: 1) The 22nm Silvermont Atom cores are a complete redesign over the badly aging atom cores. They are much more powerful, and much more powerful per watt. 2) These chips aren't going to replace CPUs, they are most likely going to compete with Nvidia Tesla - a PCIe card that highly parallel workloads can be offloaded to. One CUDA core isn't very powerful but stick 2688 actives ones on a chip and for certain tasks you have a lot of power. The K20X Tesla is capable of 1.3 trillion double-precision FLOPS so if Knights Landing can actually do 3 trillion it's no weak chip.
I think he means a real "tear the Bastille apart brick by brick" uprising, not a bunch of hippies squatting around playing guitar. And it was Nixon that eventually got the US out of Vietnam, not Johnson.
It's no secret that the US and Saudi Arabia have been giving Al Qaeda weapons and money when they do mercenary work. Yet somehow no one wants to talk about how to prevent Saudis from funneling money into Al Qaeda.
Let's face it, Al Qaeda is the real life Emmanuel Goldstein: controlled opposition used to justify all the totalitarian legislation that the people in power want to impose.
If that's the case, Congress does have the authority to completely shut down the NSA's funding. Why Congress has not at this point is another question.
"because they use food, water, and shelter without bearing replacement young for the species population. "
So they're useless in the same sense that every ant other than the queen is useless to the ant species? Grow up, there are plenty of things a species needs in order to survive that aren't directly linked to reproduction and human males are perfectly capable of supplying many of those things.
So in short, you can't use/dev/random, you can't use pretty much any commercial random number generator. You'd have to roll your own and show that your bias is small enough for no attack to be practical. Like I said, it's harder than it looks.
Why do you think the secret base is located in a volcano?
Nah, over here it would be the other way around. Rumors would start about the government subsidizing adult content and the next thing you know the Right in the US would be screaming about protecting the children from Obamaporn.
...and my colleagues called me crazy when I gave them 256GB USB drives full of true randomly generated one-time pads to use to decrypt my emails because I didn't trust public key.
Who's crazy now! Muhahaha! (posted from secret volcano lair)
Dogs are pack animals. What if this behavior developed as a way of making sure they were all at right angles to each other when they stopped to defecate as a way to watch for predators from all sides?
"They may not poll real well right now. They'll poll damn well after the next attack..."
So... these things aren't popular now... but the next time they fail to stop an attack... Americans will be glad the NSA was here to fail to stop the attack?
The sad part is he's probably right, the public actually is that stupid.
He seems to have dropped a little weight - I guess being targeted by those the run the 'land of the free' amusement ride takes its toll:S
It's actually pretty normal for Americans to lose weight after living in Europe for a few months. Probably a combination of diet and there not being a social phobia of having to walk more than 30 feet.
Don't underestimate how readily willing humans are to adapt. There are places in the world where having your house broken into every day has nearly become the norm and people have decided to adapt to the new situation instead of fighting it.
If you want to fight something like this you have to do it before it becomes the accepted norm.
The fact the Officer got a warrant makes me think that his supervisors / coworkers goaded him into it.
Or the officer just wanted to be a dick. I'm pretty sure judges don't even read warrant requests in the United States, they just stamp everything any officer hands them.
This this only works on fixed gear bikes. For less than the $700 this device costs you can purchase an entire bicycle with 27 gears that will climb hills this thing would stall on.
If you live some place with hills and want to buy a fixed gear bike you probably shouldn't be allowed to play in traffic anyway.
I guess you'd also need a heater to keep the mouse alive in the cold of space.
Pretty sure you'd need some sort of temperature regulation for seeds to sprout in space, most tend to now like to start growing while it's still winter for some reason.
Also space isn't really cold in the same sense that touching something cold is, it's an excellent insolator of heat.
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Oh yes, all whistle blowers should be brought to justice by the repressive regimes they're exposing. That will encourage them to do the right thing. I mean, if Snowden doesn't get sent to Guantanamo Bay then the information he leaked about the NSA's illegal activities doesn't even count! (non-sequitur so hard it hurts my brain).
"Wait, the U.S. military shot down a hurricane that was about to attack U.S. citizens? Or it fought the hurricane, and drove it back into the sea, after it dared to attack U.S. soil?"
If the USAF hadn't intervened and shot down the flying sharks it would have been a sharknado.
Couple things:
1) The 22nm Silvermont Atom cores are a complete redesign over the badly aging atom cores. They are much more powerful, and much more powerful per watt.
2) These chips aren't going to replace CPUs, they are most likely going to compete with Nvidia Tesla - a PCIe card that highly parallel workloads can be offloaded to. One CUDA core isn't very powerful but stick 2688 actives ones on a chip and for certain tasks you have a lot of power. The K20X Tesla is capable of 1.3 trillion double-precision FLOPS so if Knights Landing can actually do 3 trillion it's no weak chip.
I think he means a real "tear the Bastille apart brick by brick" uprising, not a bunch of hippies squatting around playing guitar. And it was Nixon that eventually got the US out of Vietnam, not Johnson.
You know what would really be effective at stopping Al Qaeda? STOP FUNDING AND ARMING THEM!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/sep/20/kuhner-how-obama-arms-al-qaeda/
It's no secret that the US and Saudi Arabia have been giving Al Qaeda weapons and money when they do mercenary work. Yet somehow no one wants to talk about how to prevent Saudis from funneling money into Al Qaeda.
Let's face it, Al Qaeda is the real life Emmanuel Goldstein: controlled opposition used to justify all the totalitarian legislation that the people in power want to impose.
If that's the case, Congress does have the authority to completely shut down the NSA's funding. Why Congress has not at this point is another question.
"because they use food, water, and shelter without bearing replacement young for the species population. "
So they're useless in the same sense that every ant other than the queen is useless to the ant species? Grow up, there are plenty of things a species needs in order to survive that aren't directly linked to reproduction and human males are perfectly capable of supplying many of those things.
Nah, over here it would be the other way around. Rumors would start about the government subsidizing adult content and the next thing you know the Right in the US would be screaming about protecting the children from Obamaporn.
How hard is it to say, "Give me the total freedom package and piss off!"?
...and my colleagues called me crazy when I gave them 256GB USB drives full of true randomly generated one-time pads to use to decrypt my emails because I didn't trust public key.
Who's crazy now! Muhahaha! (posted from secret volcano lair)
Dogs are pack animals. What if this behavior developed as a way of making sure they were all at right angles to each other when they stopped to defecate as a way to watch for predators from all sides?
The word you're looking for is "apt" or "appropriate". Irony is the opposite of what you expect.
"They may not poll real well right now. They'll poll damn well after the next attack ..."
So... these things aren't popular now... but the next time they fail to stop an attack... Americans will be glad the NSA was here to fail to stop the attack?
The sad part is he's probably right, the public actually is that stupid.
He seems to have dropped a little weight - I guess being targeted by those the run the 'land of the free' amusement ride takes its toll :S
It's actually pretty normal for Americans to lose weight after living in Europe for a few months. Probably a combination of diet and there not being a social phobia of having to walk more than 30 feet.
Frycoin, urging people to quietly and quickly accept the "money"?
Well guess I know what I'm doing this weekend.
Why would a Fleshlight app (which I guess you meant with that joke) make you worry?
A Fleshlight app by itself wouldn't. A "Location-Sharing Fleshlight App" on the other hand...
flAshlight app. With an 'a'. Had me worried for a bit.
Don't worry, if this sets a prescident the next Occupy Wallstreet type protesters that block sidewalks will start receiving huge fines and jailtime.
Don't underestimate how readily willing humans are to adapt. There are places in the world where having your house broken into every day has nearly become the norm and people have decided to adapt to the new situation instead of fighting it.
If you want to fight something like this you have to do it before it becomes the accepted norm.
Which raises the question: why did Nissan design it to only pull 1KW from a slow enough 110V outlet when it was perfectly capable of delivering 1.5KW?
The fact the Officer got a warrant makes me think that his supervisors / coworkers goaded him into it.
Or the officer just wanted to be a dick. I'm pretty sure judges don't even read warrant requests in the United States, they just stamp everything any officer hands them.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/05/what-began-as-a-mans-simple-traffic-stop-ended-in-an-unfathomable-12-hour-ordeal-that-is-almost-too-horrific-to-believe/
This was in the United States. Our circuits are usually rated for 15A or for heavy duty circuits 20A.
This this only works on fixed gear bikes. For less than the $700 this device costs you can purchase an entire bicycle with 27 gears that will climb hills this thing would stall on.
If you live some place with hills and want to buy a fixed gear bike you probably shouldn't be allowed to play in traffic anyway.
I guess you'd also need a heater to keep the mouse alive in the cold of space.
Pretty sure you'd need some sort of temperature regulation for seeds to sprout in space, most tend to now like to start growing while it's still winter for some reason.
Also space isn't really cold in the same sense that touching something cold is, it's an excellent insolator of heat.