I've had Google Navigate fuck up more than a few times too. I was on a military base one time and it took me out on what I can only guess was some sort of tank trail (not having a 4-wheel drive, I almost got stuck a few times). All this to get to a main road that it turned out actually *intersected* with the main road that I was on when Navigate decided to take me out on a long country drive through the swamp.
Google Maps sent me down a restricted road to a tank range in Germany. Thankfully I realized right after I passed the poorly placed "Tanks only" sign. If they had put the signs about 15m closer to the intersection I would have seen them before I ended up doing something that could have resulted in an uncomfortable confrontation with Nato.
And those qualities make it iconic. It's an excellent balance between size, capability, and cost. (And it also just happens to be the best-looking aircraft in history.)
Now THAT is blasphemy. You'll be burning in a hell for all eternity. How could you forget the beautiful and sleek war birds? Especially the P-51D mustang? Go sit in a corner and think about what you just said.
That's not really an excuse, it's a feint. Spying on American citizens is a violation of the US Constitution. Spying on foreign citizens is a violation of treaties. So the sleight-of-hand is to pretend that because spying on foreigners doesn't violate the Constitution, it's OK.
It would be more correct to say, because spying on foreigners is a treaty violation and not a Constitutional violation, American citizens lack the legal standing to challenge it in court. I'm not a lawyer, but I would guess that an international court would be the place to raise a complaint, and it would require a foreign government to file a case.
I have not heard of anyone doing that, but that may be just a case of the famously selective American media not deigning to inform me. Because OMG did you see Miley Cyrus shaking her booty?!
Can you state the names of the treaties that the NSA is specifically violating? While in general, I would say that what they are doing is reprehensible, I do not know of any treaty the specifically prevents us from spying on our allies or foes. It is generally frowned upon, and getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar causes all kinds of bad will, but it is something that has been going on for thousands of years.
The fact that someone bought the game while accompanied by a child does not mean they're buying it for the child. My brother often takes his kids to the game store, and and may buy game for himself or for his kids. Or, frequently, both.
That said, yes, there probably a lot of people too clueless to realize that the one game that is probably the most famous of all games in the world for not being for kids isn't for kids. But trying to estimate the number of people in that category by counting the number of people who happen to buy it while having a child in tow is just as clueless, in quite another way.
Agreed that it is a fallacy but... I have seen the child pick them game out and say "(Parental Unit) buy me this one." And they do. Without question. Without even looking at the box. When the local Blockbuster was about to close due to bankruptcy I went in to frantically spend a gift card. While there, I saw a 6 year old child pick out Saints Row and the mother bought it without question. I can't imagine ever letting a 6 year old play that game.
And it's a completely fucked-up policy, because the hoops that a US company needs to jump through to hire an Iranian national are insane. So you end up educating a load of people, then telling them that they're second-class people and sending them back home. Guess how favourably disposed they are to the USA after that...
Do you have some sort of reference for that? I used to go to college recruiting fairs to pick up engineering talent for my projects. At that time I was working for a government contractor with both classified and ITAR related materials floating around. We had an especially qualified Iranian national come by. Unfortunately we did not have any work that was not, at the very least, covered by ITAR. I pretended that it was not the case and asked HR and our DSS liaison as to whether we could hire this individual. Both indicated that they were perfectly eligible for hire, and that we just had to place them on a contract that was not covered by ITAR or other security clearances.
Fingerprints are good because they replace ZERO security. Most people don't PIN lock their phones. Finger Print lock is too convenient not to use.
It is meant as a deterrent to common thieves, and works well as such. A robber isn't going to grab your phone, ask for a nice clear print, and then run home to his laser printer and latex (and you could remote wipe the device in the mean time anyway).
If its the government you're worried about...well, if they have physical access to your device they probably have you in custody and can compel you to unlock it anyway, or just use existing forensic tools and warrants to get what they want. Even then we're talking about the unlikely scenario of you being arrested and having anything more interesting on your phone than funny cat pictures.
I'm trying to imagine a "real world" scenario where TouchID is less secure than a 4 digit passcode or no security at all...and I got nothing.
The biggest problem is that my wife will no longer be able to unlock my phone and use it whenever she wants. Of course, blow-up dolls have trouble using capacitive touchscreens to begin with...
I downgraded my iPad back to 6.1.3.... It's perfectly doable.
You must have an iPad 1. It is impossible to downgrade any iOS device after the iPhone 4S/iPad 2. You cannot do anything meaningful with the SHSH blobs. So its perfectly doable for you, and a handful of people on older hardware. But it is not perfectly doable in general.
Both sides pay, then the winner has to file a counter suit against the loser for compensation and losses.
So the lawyers get to cash in all over again...
Depends on the state and the laws being violated. I just recently settled a lawsuit with my landlord. I was the defendant, the landlord obviously the plaintiff. They sued me to take possession of the property (AKA for eviction). I counter-sued them for failure to maintain the property in compliance with state and county health and safety codes, as well as other damages. In that case, the loser pays all costs no matter what (unless a settlement stipulates otherwise). It's automatic. And I was looking at tens of thousands of dollars in damages if I lost. Since the owner of the property is not very bright, and since I was in complete compliance with state law, they agreed to pay all my costs and to give me a 33% rent abatement for the period of the lawsuit. Had we gambled in court, I could have received up to $15,000 plus legal fees. Or I could have ended up paying $5000 plus legal fees (my own included).
In many civil areas the loser pays. I think patents are treated differently because the Federal government has not adopted a loser pays system.
Maybe I am misremembering but didn't the underwear bomber get into Detroit, go through TSA and then try to ignite his payload on another flight? It's been so long, so if I am mistaken, then please accept my apologies.
Yep. And those fingerprint scanners never worked for me. I could sit there and try and set it up, swiping my finger over and over for 20 minutes and it would never read properly.
You have obviously never traveled internationally since 9/11. You get dumped out at Immigration in the US. You go through the immigration desk. You collect your bags, and then you proceed to either A) Leave the airport or B) go through security to move on to your next flight. You cannot even board another international bound flight without going through customs and security. At least this has been my experience at SFO, DC, Atlanta and Chicago airports.
In both cases it was not the passengers subduing the attackers which prevented the deaths of those onboard... but instead luck that neither device went off.
Of course this happened AFTER he got through TSA screening.
Not technically correct in either case:
The "Underware bomber" (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab) was coming from Amsterdam.
The "Shoe Bomber" (Richard Colvin Reid) was inbound from Paris.
So neither one had been screened by US TSA.
You have obviously never traveled internationally since 9/11. You get dumped out at Immigration in the US. You go through the immigration desk. You collect your bags, and then you proceed to either A) Leave the airport or B) go through security to move on to your next flight. You cannot even board another international bound flight without going through customs and security. At least this has been my experience at SFO, DC, Atlanta and Chicago airports.
Why is it more pronounced in some areas? There is only one ocean.... A rise in the pacific ocean will raise the level of all other "oceans". Could it be that some land masses are sinking?
An 3-4" rise over the next 100 years is unlikely to impact anyone currently alive and living in the Bay Area . Wake me up when ocean front property stops going up in value.
When I was in school I took a class called "Violent Weather" and the textbook for that class indicated that the Western Pacific has more water volume than the Eastern Pacific because wind and currents pool the water up in the east, and that the water must be pushed deep under the surface to go back West. This water current typically releases its flow off the coast of Chile/Peru, if I remember correctly.
It probably depends on your jurisdiction... where I live, you'd *NEVER* get a ticket for "impeding flow of traffic" if you were driving the speed limit, regardless of which lane you were in.
I've never seen someone get a ticket for this in the US, even though I believe they should. I've heard from friends in Germany that they will ticket a driver impeding traffic over one who is speeding, when both violations are visible to the officer.
Free up the roads for people who don't see driving as a chore and make an effort to drive properly.
Until the insurance companies and the government conspire to make manually-driven cars illegal.
Always be careful what you wish for.
And that's a problem... why? Removing humans from the equation will just make the roads safer, and allows for all kinds of useful tricks to speed up traffic (like eliminating stop lights/signs almost entirely, except where necessary for pedestrians). Everyone likes to think they're a good driver, and it's everyone else who sucks, but the reality is humans are universally terrible drivers: slow reaction times, easily distracted, sleep-deprived, temperamental: no one is actually above all that (and the more a person thinks they are, the more likely susceptible they likely are). We only allow human drivers because we didn't have computers that could handle it. Now, we do, or very nearly.
Some people enjoy driving. I happen to enjoy driving a motorcycle. I am not sure I would want to ride on a computer controlled motorcycle as the way you accelerate, and how far you lean in turns and things like that often depend on your current riding position is, the current center of gravity for the bike, and even the tires that you currently have on your bike (their age, build material, tread style, etc). Would I like my bike to be able to communicate with other cars on the road and tell them that I am there? Sometimes. And I certainly would not be opposed to the bike calculating safety margins and tell me when I am potentially doing something risky.
In the states you can sort of get through high school without too much effort.
In my case, almost 0 effort. I never did homework. I rarely worked on anything school related outside of school, and only if it was on a topic that interested me. I started skipping school in 5th grade (I have older brothers who I can thank for teaching me those tricks), and missed hundreds of days of high school. And yet I graduated and went on to university. The problem is definitely the slow kids. I had no interest in honors or AP classes that gave you homework throughout the summer. I didn't want more homework, I wanted to learn more during the school year. In university, I was much more motivated.
It was more challenging, most professors refused to coddle the slow or lazy students. I went from barely graduating high school to being in the top 1% of the #1 Community College in the US (at that time), to a regular university, where I graduated with honors. All because I felt like there was a purpose in showing up every day. Its amazing what a little trial and tribulation can do to make you rise up and succeed.
I do remember a time too when using a mobile phone in public was considered "rude" and frowned upon.
It is still rude, and frowned upon in many places. I don't care if you talk on your phone while walking down the street, but in a restaurant, movie theater, waiting room, airplane, elevator, while in the grocery checkout line, and other places, I will consider you to be rather uncouth.
I think the developer and many others are missing the crucial problem with this product and with this type of idea in general: interacting with a watch that does anything more than tell the time and date makes the wearer appear to be a giant dork.
This has not changed since the days of the early 80s calculator watch; any consumer foolish enough to bring attention to their “cool watch” is immediately singled out as a dork, nerd, geek, or generally friendless loner/brainiac type.
Don’t even get me started on TALKING into your watch.
Dick Tracy talked to his watch, and I am pretty sure that James Bond and Maxwell Smart both had talking watches. But my memory could be misinforming me this morning. Not that I would get one. I love analog watches.
There are treaties governing the presence of the UN on US soil. If these have been breached by the NSA action, the US has broken treaty obligations. Now, as the Native American Tribes of the US will testify, this usually doesn't make a lot of difference, but there's a chance that such a breach is actionable in US courts, which could get VERY messy.
I do not believe that the UN building in NY is on US Soil. I believe that, for political purposes, it would be considered just as an embassy is. Sovereign land that happens to be surrounded by the country that hosts the Embassy delegation./P.
Oh give it up. How about early European settlers wiping out 12 million indigenous Americans by smallpox and influenza within a decade of landing on shore? Yes, we should remember the Holocaust during WWII. And Rwanda. And Nanking. And godknowswhatelse. Nobody's ancestors have much of a moral high ground.
Move along.
What are you talking about? My Puritanical ancestors were saints! They followed the word of God religiously and did much good in this world. In fact, they helped prevent the witches and warlocks of Europe from starting an American chapter Hogwarts. You should be thankful that they stood on such moral high ground!
It's a cruel reality. Instead of using advanced high tech and knowledge to create impartial and protected communication networks for the UN the member countries try to take the systems down for their own use.
I will say that reporting the issue to the UN has a host of problems related with it.
1) The UN is a group of nation states that would all be interested in the capability of tapping UN Conversations. If the US can do it, Russia and China can too. If the US announces a vulnerability then it will cause other Nation States to redouble their efforts.
2) It is possible that in their haste to replace encryption systems in place the UN could replace their systems with something that has other security issues that may be worse overall, or that may have holes known to other countries but unknown to the US.
3) Obviously it is not ideal to have to admit openly, or even through unofficial channels, that you are spying on your allies.
I have never needed to use such drastic measures. Usually a SIGTSTP has been enough.
Hans Rieser found that SIGKILL was the only way to work things out with his wife... Did I go too far? No seriously, sometimes SIGSTOP isn't enough and they try to continue to lurk as zombie processes.
What classes were you taking that an hour in the library every once in a while was enough time to finish the homework? I have to pack my textbooks around with me all the time.
There is also the modern phenomenon of online homework. Even if you buy an old version off amazon for a few bucks you still have to drop $50+ for the online key in order to pass the class. That's always a fun one.
Yeah they didn't have that online key crap when I was in school. I did this with Physics, Art History, data structures and algorithms, etc etc. Pretty much the only classes I did not do it with: calc, discrete math, IA32 Assembly, Operating Systems, and a few other classes where I thought the book might be useful in the long term. I bought the novels used for any literature classes, or checked them out of the library. I think I bought a total of 5 or 6 textbooks.
Here was my secret for success with the Reserve Book Room: Start class at 8 or 9am. Take a break from 10-11am or 11-12pm. At my school most students started at 10am or 2pm. The library was usually deserted between 10am-12pm. On the rare occasion that I could not finish the work in that time, I would sometimes photocopy a page out of the book.
you could read books for free at a thing called a Library.
i don't remember a time when i could refrain from spending hundreds of dollars on textbooks because they were all free at the library.
Your school didn't have a "Reserve Book Room" which was required to have 1 copy of the textbook for every n students enrolled? I rarely bought the books and, if I had to do the homework from the text book, would just spend an hour or so in the reserve book room doing the assignment.
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I've had Google Navigate fuck up more than a few times too. I was on a military base one time and it took me out on what I can only guess was some sort of tank trail (not having a 4-wheel drive, I almost got stuck a few times). All this to get to a main road that it turned out actually *intersected* with the main road that I was on when Navigate decided to take me out on a long country drive through the swamp.
Google Maps sent me down a restricted road to a tank range in Germany. Thankfully I realized right after I passed the poorly placed "Tanks only" sign. If they had put the signs about 15m closer to the intersection I would have seen them before I ended up doing something that could have resulted in an uncomfortable confrontation with Nato.
And those qualities make it iconic. It's an excellent balance between size, capability, and cost. (And it also just happens to be the best-looking aircraft in history.)
Now THAT is blasphemy. You'll be burning in a hell for all eternity. How could you forget the beautiful and sleek war birds? Especially the P-51D mustang? Go sit in a corner and think about what you just said.
That's not really an excuse, it's a feint. Spying on American citizens is a violation of the US Constitution. Spying on foreign citizens is a violation of treaties. So the sleight-of-hand is to pretend that because spying on foreigners doesn't violate the Constitution, it's OK.
It would be more correct to say, because spying on foreigners is a treaty violation and not a Constitutional violation, American citizens lack the legal standing to challenge it in court. I'm not a lawyer, but I would guess that an international court would be the place to raise a complaint, and it would require a foreign government to file a case.
I have not heard of anyone doing that, but that may be just a case of the famously selective American media not deigning to inform me. Because OMG did you see Miley Cyrus shaking her booty?!
Can you state the names of the treaties that the NSA is specifically violating? While in general, I would say that what they are doing is reprehensible, I do not know of any treaty the specifically prevents us from spying on our allies or foes. It is generally frowned upon, and getting caught with your hand in the cookie jar causes all kinds of bad will, but it is something that has been going on for thousands of years.
The fact that someone bought the game while accompanied by a child does not mean they're buying it for the child. My brother often takes his kids to the game store, and and may buy game for himself or for his kids. Or, frequently, both.
That said, yes, there probably a lot of people too clueless to realize that the one game that is probably the most famous of all games in the world for not being for kids isn't for kids. But trying to estimate the number of people in that category by counting the number of people who happen to buy it while having a child in tow is just as clueless, in quite another way.
Agreed that it is a fallacy but... I have seen the child pick them game out and say "(Parental Unit) buy me this one." And they do. Without question. Without even looking at the box. When the local Blockbuster was about to close due to bankruptcy I went in to frantically spend a gift card. While there, I saw a 6 year old child pick out Saints Row and the mother bought it without question. I can't imagine ever letting a 6 year old play that game.
And it's a completely fucked-up policy, because the hoops that a US company needs to jump through to hire an Iranian national are insane. So you end up educating a load of people, then telling them that they're second-class people and sending them back home. Guess how favourably disposed they are to the USA after that...
Do you have some sort of reference for that? I used to go to college recruiting fairs to pick up engineering talent for my projects. At that time I was working for a government contractor with both classified and ITAR related materials floating around. We had an especially qualified Iranian national come by. Unfortunately we did not have any work that was not, at the very least, covered by ITAR. I pretended that it was not the case and asked HR and our DSS liaison as to whether we could hire this individual. Both indicated that they were perfectly eligible for hire, and that we just had to place them on a contract that was not covered by ITAR or other security clearances.
Fingerprints are good because they replace ZERO security. Most people don't PIN lock their phones. Finger Print lock is too convenient not to use.
It is meant as a deterrent to common thieves, and works well as such. A robber isn't going to grab your phone, ask for a nice clear print, and then run home to his laser printer and latex (and you could remote wipe the device in the mean time anyway).
If its the government you're worried about...well, if they have physical access to your device they probably have you in custody and can compel you to unlock it anyway, or just use existing forensic tools and warrants to get what they want. Even then we're talking about the unlikely scenario of you being arrested and having anything more interesting on your phone than funny cat pictures.
I'm trying to imagine a "real world" scenario where TouchID is less secure than a 4 digit passcode or no security at all...and I got nothing.
The biggest problem is that my wife will no longer be able to unlock my phone and use it whenever she wants. Of course, blow-up dolls have trouble using capacitive touchscreens to begin with...
I downgraded my iPad back to 6.1.3.... It's perfectly doable.
You must have an iPad 1. It is impossible to downgrade any iOS device after the iPhone 4S/iPad 2. You cannot do anything meaningful with the SHSH blobs. So its perfectly doable for you, and a handful of people on older hardware. But it is not perfectly doable in general.
Ah, the great American justice system.
Both sides pay, then the winner has to file a counter suit against the loser for compensation and losses.
So the lawyers get to cash in all over again...
Depends on the state and the laws being violated. I just recently settled a lawsuit with my landlord. I was the defendant, the landlord obviously the plaintiff. They sued me to take possession of the property (AKA for eviction). I counter-sued them for failure to maintain the property in compliance with state and county health and safety codes, as well as other damages. In that case, the loser pays all costs no matter what (unless a settlement stipulates otherwise). It's automatic. And I was looking at tens of thousands of dollars in damages if I lost. Since the owner of the property is not very bright, and since I was in complete compliance with state law, they agreed to pay all my costs and to give me a 33% rent abatement for the period of the lawsuit. Had we gambled in court, I could have received up to $15,000 plus legal fees. Or I could have ended up paying $5000 plus legal fees (my own included).
In many civil areas the loser pays. I think patents are treated differently because the Federal government has not adopted a loser pays system.
Maybe I am misremembering but didn't the underwear bomber get into Detroit, go through TSA and then try to ignite his payload on another flight? It's been so long, so if I am mistaken, then please accept my apologies.
Yep. And those fingerprint scanners never worked for me. I could sit there and try and set it up, swiping my finger over and over for 20 minutes and it would never read properly.
You have obviously never traveled internationally since 9/11. You get dumped out at Immigration in the US. You go through the immigration desk. You collect your bags, and then you proceed to either A) Leave the airport or B) go through security to move on to your next flight. You cannot even board another international bound flight without going through customs and security. At least this has been my experience at SFO, DC, Atlanta and Chicago airports.
Oh yes and DFW as well!
In both cases it was not the passengers subduing the attackers which prevented the deaths of those onboard... but instead luck that neither device went off.
Of course this happened AFTER he got through TSA screening.
Not technically correct in either case: The "Underware bomber" (Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab) was coming from Amsterdam.
The "Shoe Bomber" (Richard Colvin Reid) was inbound from Paris.
So neither one had been screened by US TSA.
You have obviously never traveled internationally since 9/11. You get dumped out at Immigration in the US. You go through the immigration desk. You collect your bags, and then you proceed to either A) Leave the airport or B) go through security to move on to your next flight. You cannot even board another international bound flight without going through customs and security. At least this has been my experience at SFO, DC, Atlanta and Chicago airports.
Why is it more pronounced in some areas? There is only one ocean.... A rise in the pacific ocean will raise the level of all other "oceans". Could it be that some land masses are sinking? An 3-4" rise over the next 100 years is unlikely to impact anyone currently alive and living in the Bay Area . Wake me up when ocean front property stops going up in value.
When I was in school I took a class called "Violent Weather" and the textbook for that class indicated that the Western Pacific has more water volume than the Eastern Pacific because wind and currents pool the water up in the east, and that the water must be pushed deep under the surface to go back West. This water current typically releases its flow off the coast of Chile/Peru, if I remember correctly.
It probably depends on your jurisdiction... where I live, you'd *NEVER* get a ticket for "impeding flow of traffic" if you were driving the speed limit, regardless of which lane you were in.
I've never seen someone get a ticket for this in the US, even though I believe they should. I've heard from friends in Germany that they will ticket a driver impeding traffic over one who is speeding, when both violations are visible to the officer.
Heck, lower the sidewalks to street level and when nobody is on them, use them as another place to drive!
It appears that you haven't been to Italy, have you.
I've seen this in San Francisco, right where the 101 basically dumps you into a city street.
Free up the roads for people who don't see driving as a chore and make an effort to drive properly.
Until the insurance companies and the government conspire to make manually-driven cars illegal.
Always be careful what you wish for.
And that's a problem... why? Removing humans from the equation will just make the roads safer, and allows for all kinds of useful tricks to speed up traffic (like eliminating stop lights/signs almost entirely, except where necessary for pedestrians). Everyone likes to think they're a good driver, and it's everyone else who sucks, but the reality is humans are universally terrible drivers: slow reaction times, easily distracted, sleep-deprived, temperamental: no one is actually above all that (and the more a person thinks they are, the more likely susceptible they likely are). We only allow human drivers because we didn't have computers that could handle it. Now, we do, or very nearly.
Some people enjoy driving. I happen to enjoy driving a motorcycle. I am not sure I would want to ride on a computer controlled motorcycle as the way you accelerate, and how far you lean in turns and things like that often depend on your current riding position is, the current center of gravity for the bike, and even the tires that you currently have on your bike (their age, build material, tread style, etc). Would I like my bike to be able to communicate with other cars on the road and tell them that I am there? Sometimes. And I certainly would not be opposed to the bike calculating safety margins and tell me when I am potentially doing something risky.
In the states you can sort of get through high school without too much effort.
In my case, almost 0 effort. I never did homework. I rarely worked on anything school related outside of school, and only if it was on a topic that interested me. I started skipping school in 5th grade (I have older brothers who I can thank for teaching me those tricks), and missed hundreds of days of high school. And yet I graduated and went on to university. The problem is definitely the slow kids. I had no interest in honors or AP classes that gave you homework throughout the summer. I didn't want more homework, I wanted to learn more during the school year. In university, I was much more motivated.
It was more challenging, most professors refused to coddle the slow or lazy students. I went from barely graduating high school to being in the top 1% of the #1 Community College in the US (at that time), to a regular university, where I graduated with honors. All because I felt like there was a purpose in showing up every day. Its amazing what a little trial and tribulation can do to make you rise up and succeed.
I do remember a time too when using a mobile phone in public was considered "rude" and frowned upon.
It is still rude, and frowned upon in many places. I don't care if you talk on your phone while walking down the street, but in a restaurant, movie theater, waiting room, airplane, elevator, while in the grocery checkout line, and other places, I will consider you to be rather uncouth.
I think the developer and many others are missing the crucial problem with this product and with this type of idea in general: interacting with a watch that does anything more than tell the time and date makes the wearer appear to be a giant dork. This has not changed since the days of the early 80s calculator watch; any consumer foolish enough to bring attention to their “cool watch” is immediately singled out as a dork, nerd, geek, or generally friendless loner/brainiac type. Don’t even get me started on TALKING into your watch.
Dick Tracy talked to his watch, and I am pretty sure that James Bond and Maxwell Smart both had talking watches. But my memory could be misinforming me this morning. Not that I would get one. I love analog watches.
There are treaties governing the presence of the UN on US soil. If these have been breached by the NSA action, the US has broken treaty obligations. Now, as the Native American Tribes of the US will testify, this usually doesn't make a lot of difference, but there's a chance that such a breach is actionable in US courts, which could get VERY messy.
I do not believe that the UN building in NY is on US Soil. I believe that, for political purposes, it would be considered just as an embassy is. Sovereign land that happens to be surrounded by the country that hosts the Embassy delegation./P.
Oh give it up. How about early European settlers wiping out 12 million indigenous Americans by smallpox and influenza within a decade of landing on shore? Yes, we should remember the Holocaust during WWII. And Rwanda. And Nanking. And godknowswhatelse. Nobody's ancestors have much of a moral high ground.
Move along.
What are you talking about? My Puritanical ancestors were saints! They followed the word of God religiously and did much good in this world. In fact, they helped prevent the witches and warlocks of Europe from starting an American chapter Hogwarts. You should be thankful that they stood on such moral high ground!
It's a cruel reality. Instead of using advanced high tech and knowledge to create impartial and protected communication networks for the UN the member countries try to take the systems down for their own use.
I will say that reporting the issue to the UN has a host of problems related with it.
1) The UN is a group of nation states that would all be interested in the capability of tapping UN Conversations. If the US can do it, Russia and China can too. If the US announces a vulnerability then it will cause other Nation States to redouble their efforts.
2) It is possible that in their haste to replace encryption systems in place the UN could replace their systems with something that has other security issues that may be worse overall, or that may have holes known to other countries but unknown to the US.
3) Obviously it is not ideal to have to admit openly, or even through unofficial channels, that you are spying on your allies.
I had to do a SIGINT on previous girlfriends too.
I have never needed to use such drastic measures. Usually a SIGTSTP has been enough.
Hans Rieser found that SIGKILL was the only way to work things out with his wife... Did I go too far? No seriously, sometimes SIGSTOP isn't enough and they try to continue to lurk as zombie processes.
What classes were you taking that an hour in the library every once in a while was enough time to finish the homework? I have to pack my textbooks around with me all the time. There is also the modern phenomenon of online homework. Even if you buy an old version off amazon for a few bucks you still have to drop $50+ for the online key in order to pass the class. That's always a fun one.
Yeah they didn't have that online key crap when I was in school. I did this with Physics, Art History, data structures and algorithms, etc etc. Pretty much the only classes I did not do it with: calc, discrete math, IA32 Assembly, Operating Systems, and a few other classes where I thought the book might be useful in the long term. I bought the novels used for any literature classes, or checked them out of the library. I think I bought a total of 5 or 6 textbooks.
Here was my secret for success with the Reserve Book Room: Start class at 8 or 9am. Take a break from 10-11am or 11-12pm. At my school most students started at 10am or 2pm. The library was usually deserted between 10am-12pm. On the rare occasion that I could not finish the work in that time, I would sometimes photocopy a page out of the book.
you could read books for free at a thing called a Library.
i don't remember a time when i could refrain from spending hundreds of dollars on textbooks because they were all free at the library.
Your school didn't have a "Reserve Book Room" which was required to have 1 copy of the textbook for every n students enrolled? I rarely bought the books and, if I had to do the homework from the text book, would just spend an hour or so in the reserve book room doing the assignment.