The point of the click is to provide tactile feedback, the auditory feedback is incidental. I'd still use mechanical keyswitches if I were deaf.
And while we're on the topic, you don't have to hit the keys hard to use a mechanical keyboard. You know exactly how hard you have to hit the keys to get them to activate because of the tactile feedback. And if you overshoot, there's a lot of travel and a gentle increase in resistance.
Compare a rubber dome keyboard. In order to activate the key switch, you *have* to push the key all the way down until it bottoms out. If you apply too much force, there's nowhere left for the key to travel. That's going to cause a lot more wear on your fingers than a buckling spring type keyboard.
What should be focused on are the cases, not the statistics of very small numbers.
1) So you think just all of a sudden in 2008 espionage act cases got 30 times more common and Obama's election had nothing whatsoever to do with it?
2) the numbers are small, but the number of trials is reasonably large. If you reach into a bag 16 times(the number of presidents since the espionage act was passed) and pull out 3 orange marbles total, and then you pull out 6 orange marbles in a row, you know something has changed.
but since he doesn't directly control them, he cannot be responsible for all their actions.
He can directly control them. All he has to do is tell Holder that any more Espionage Act prosecutions will cost him his job, oh, and obey with the Congressional subpoena already(and prosecute Goldman Sachs and not Californian MMJ distributors). Obama is directly responsible for his personal failure to reign in his justice department.
Which makes one wonder, how much silicon could they actually spare for code signing? We're all assuming that these updates are signed, but if space for code is at such a premium is it actually so?
if you don't vote, you reward the corrupt plutocracy.
If you do vote, you also reward the corrupt plutocracy.
If you abstain: You allow evil to prevail by default If you vote R: You're voting for corrupt plutocracy If you vote D: You're voting for corrupt plutocracy If you vote third party: You get laughed at.
What does one actually do that hurts the plutocracy?
a country of free people requires a country of people willing to fight for themselves. for not fighting for your beliefs, you represent the end of a free society.
What part of voting == fighting for your beliefs?
I don't vote, but if you're serious about fighting for what's right, I'll meet you in the city square with everyone else. When do we start?
A little of my own googling turned up some answers. They were actually going to try laser communications with Mars with the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter in 2009. Unfortunately, it was cancelled because of budget restrictions.
Since you seem to know things, I'll ask here. Why are they using a dish antenna to communicate with the rover. Would it be more effective to use lasers? Or is the precision needed to hit a reasonable size target at those distances just too much?
I don't think racking up a total count of SIX is sufficient to refer to him as a "radical authoritarian".
Twice as many as all other presidents in history combined. Do I need to do the statistics and report how many standard deviations from the mean Obama is?
Also, was it OBAMA who initiated the proceedings or, say, the DOD and CIA?
As head of the executive, Obama is responsible for everything the DOD and CIA does.
Jill Stein is probably your best bet. I wouldn't trust Gary Johnson because of his support for private prisons. Nothing says justice like a profit motive for incarceration.
Don't forget Thomas Drake. He was an NSA analyst who compared a billion dollar surveillance program with a million dollar surveillance program and concluded that the million dollar program worked far better. As was his job, he reported this and was told to stop asking questions. At this point he took evidence of billions of dollars of fraud and waste inside the NSA to the media. He was then charged as a spy.
Hey Obama voters. Were you aware that Obama has prosecuted more whistelblowers under the espionage act than all previous administrations combined. Obama is a radical authoritarian. Remember that when you cast your ballots in November.
Nice try, but wages haven't really correlated with productivity in decades. There is something terribly wrong with the US economy. It's not enough for us to pull our own weight, we have to pull the weight of the idle rich AND make them even richer.
In civil contempt cases there is no principle of proportionality. In Chadwick v. Janecka (3d Cir. 2002), a U.S. court of appeals held that H. Beatty Chadwick could be held indefinitely under federal law, for his failure to produce US$ 2.5 mill. as state court ordered in a civil trial. Chadwick had been imprisoned for nine years at that time and continued to be held in prison until 2009, when a state court set him free after 14 years, making his imprisonment the longest on a contempt charge to date.
In the U.S., the 5th Amendment prevents someone from being required to turn over their password.
This is still unsettled. The 11th Circuit Court has ruled that passwords are protected under the 5th amendment. However the 10th Circuit has chosen not to intervene in a lower court decision that forced a woman to decrypt her laptop.
This is going to have to go to the Supreme Court eventually, and I think you can guess how the fascist majority of justices will decide.
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The point of the click is to provide tactile feedback, the auditory feedback is incidental. I'd still use mechanical keyswitches if I were deaf.
And while we're on the topic, you don't have to hit the keys hard to use a mechanical keyboard. You know exactly how hard you have to hit the keys to get them to activate because of the tactile feedback. And if you overshoot, there's a lot of travel and a gentle increase in resistance.
Compare a rubber dome keyboard. In order to activate the key switch, you *have* to push the key all the way down until it bottoms out. If you apply too much force, there's nowhere left for the key to travel. That's going to cause a lot more wear on your fingers than a buckling spring type keyboard.
Yes, exactly. Is there a problem with this definition?
And its still quicker to type than to get the camera all lined up to QR code something you pass on a bus
Wait, QR recognition software doesn't rotate the image automatically? Isn't that what the three squares at the corner are for?
I can't imagine that this $400 "satellite" has a propulsion system of any kind. It will deorbit in months if not weeks
If you need a propulsion system to stay in orbit, you're not really in orbit.
Why do you assume we do it to annoy/impress others? Even if you're completely alone, a Model M is the best keyboard available.
What should be focused on are the cases, not the statistics of very small numbers.
1) So you think just all of a sudden in 2008 espionage act cases got 30 times more common and Obama's election had nothing whatsoever to do with it?
2) the numbers are small, but the number of trials is reasonably large. If you reach into a bag 16 times(the number of presidents since the espionage act was passed) and pull out 3 orange marbles total, and then you pull out 6 orange marbles in a row, you know something has changed.
but since he doesn't directly control them, he cannot be responsible for all their actions.
He can directly control them. All he has to do is tell Holder that any more Espionage Act prosecutions will cost him his job, oh, and obey with the Congressional subpoena already(and prosecute Goldman Sachs and not Californian MMJ distributors). Obama is directly responsible for his personal failure to reign in his justice department.
Oh wonderful, so you change the radio station and suddenly your speedo vanishes. Genius!
Officer, I swear I was just listening to the radio on the way back from the swimming pool. I don't know what happened!
Reading the review, it sounds like the Model M is still going to be superior.
Part of a good teacher is to keep students limited attention span engaged.
Yes, and they managed to do that without video and audio 100 years ago. Why can't we do the same now?
nobody has a better idea about how to discourage the entrepreneurial tendencies of the chronically dishonest.
Discourage them? Hell, we make them executives.
So the real question is, why pass a law when there's no clear indication on the lawmaker's capability to enforce it?
The real question is, why isn't there any recourse against an enforcement agency that refuses to enforce the law?
Which makes one wonder, how much silicon could they actually spare for code signing? We're all assuming that these updates are signed, but if space for code is at such a premium is it actually so?
if you don't vote, you reward the corrupt plutocracy.
If you do vote, you also reward the corrupt plutocracy.
If you abstain: You allow evil to prevail by default
If you vote R: You're voting for corrupt plutocracy
If you vote D: You're voting for corrupt plutocracy
If you vote third party: You get laughed at.
What does one actually do that hurts the plutocracy?
a country of free people requires a country of people willing to fight for themselves. for not fighting for your beliefs, you represent the end of a free society.
What part of voting == fighting for your beliefs?
I don't vote, but if you're serious about fighting for what's right, I'll meet you in the city square with everyone else. When do we start?
A little of my own googling turned up some answers. They were actually going to try laser communications with Mars with the Mars Telecommunications Orbiter in 2009. Unfortunately, it was cancelled because of budget restrictions.
Since you seem to know things, I'll ask here. Why are they using a dish antenna to communicate with the rover. Would it be more effective to use lasers? Or is the precision needed to hit a reasonable size target at those distances just too much?
I don't think racking up a total count of SIX is sufficient to refer to him as a "radical authoritarian".
Twice as many as all other presidents in history combined. Do I need to do the statistics and report how many standard deviations from the mean Obama is?
Also, was it OBAMA who initiated the proceedings or, say, the DOD and CIA?
As head of the executive, Obama is responsible for everything the DOD and CIA does.
I'm all for identifying evil as evil, but it would be nice to have some actual evidence before making the accusation.
The fact that a single "no" is not enough to get them to stop asking is evidence enough.
Jill Stein is probably your best bet. I wouldn't trust Gary Johnson because of his support for private prisons. Nothing says justice like a profit motive for incarceration.
Gladly.
Don't forget Thomas Drake. He was an NSA analyst who compared a billion dollar surveillance program with a million dollar surveillance program and concluded that the million dollar program worked far better. As was his job, he reported this and was told to stop asking questions. At this point he took evidence of billions of dollars of fraud and waste inside the NSA to the media. He was then charged as a spy.
Hey Obama voters. Were you aware that Obama has prosecuted more whistelblowers under the espionage act than all previous administrations combined. Obama is a radical authoritarian. Remember that when you cast your ballots in November.
Nice try, but wages haven't really correlated with productivity in decades. There is something terribly wrong with the US economy. It's not enough for us to pull our own weight, we have to pull the weight of the idle rich AND make them even richer.
Wikipedia sez:
In the U.S., the 5th Amendment prevents someone from being required to turn over their password.
This is still unsettled. The 11th Circuit Court has ruled that passwords are protected under the 5th amendment. However the 10th Circuit has chosen not to intervene in a lower court decision that forced a woman to decrypt her laptop.
This is going to have to go to the Supreme Court eventually, and I think you can guess how the fascist majority of justices will decide.
I agree entirely. But how are we to convince the rest of the population who take pride in the fact that they have nothing to hide from the government?
Well that, and a LOT of people in the US have really shitty employers. That's the way it goes.
That's only the way it goes when plutocrats run the country.