That oil is money in the bank. We can spend it anytime we want, and it's not going to depreciate like our dollar.
Why not leave it there in the ground until its it's worth a buttload more than it is now, and we may have even figured out by then how to get it out without spilling any of it.
--- The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized. ---
What is your argument? Do you assert that 'papers and effects' do not include intangible private property? I have no problem with the fact that our founders were greedy bastards, but it was never their intent to spy on EVERYONE.
He is conjuring the warrior concept. Imagine making a movie about Vietnam where the troops yell 'Kill the North Vietnamese' instead of the obvious terrible words that I will not reproduce here.
Remember the T-Shirt in Caddyshack: "Guns Don't Kill People, I Kill People". Don't tell me you didn't think that was funny.
Yes, I read it. You REALLY don't get it. He choose it deliberately in order to trigger an emotional response and to illustrate the point he makes that they are not really our enemy. Why don't you concentrate your contempt upon those who have a hard time with the fact that we can conduct this conversation freely.
See, they define that electronic information is not your property (except if you're a rich copyright holder). If it's not your property, then probable cause does not even come into play.
Hopefully someday we will have hardware that allows us to write the OS in a higher level language. I still have an old ChineUal so I know that it can be done.
C and C++ are nothing more then portable assembler. Applications developers have no reason to get so close to the hardware.
I read all the reviews. It's a total mixed bag. The price points are different, the motherboards are different, there is no clear winner, As usual, "best" depends on your needs, what is available, and what vendors you have had success with. The performance differences are small enough to be lost in the myriad other factors.
Didn't the Pentium IV teach you this? Faster clocks just burn up unnecessary power. Better to speed up with parallelizing circuitry that you can turn off when not in use. Note in the reviews that their slower chip outbenchmarked faster chips from Intel. Dangerous game? Prices are tweaked up and down to stimulate demand for various products. When you have to compete, you have to make tough decisions about products. AMD has been in business for a long time competing against bigger established chipmakers and they will continue to be a scrappy innovative company.
Your "solution" does nothing to solve the problem.
- The "trust" you place in a digital certificate is misguided and fictional. Trust is a chain, and business cannot be "trusted" any more than the least scrupulous of their employees. If you organize data like this, it will just make it easier to steal. SSL certificates are okay for encrypting data, but next to useless for identity management.
- If all were implemented as you say, this computer theft would have taken the private keys as well, rendering the certificates worse than useless.
- SSN is not the only piece of sensitive information, and is not the only piece of data that identity thieves are looking for.
If it's anything like the other 'hardware acceleration' that I've seen lately, like the Ethernet chip that has on-chip checksum verification, but is only single-buffered, so everything comes to a screeching halt while the checksum is calculated. Of course, with fast processors, caches, and multiple cores, it's much faster to calculate the checksum in software.
Keep your good computers at home. Get some old clunker to take on the road. Scuff it up and make it look bad. Keep your data on a USB key on your keychain so you know you won't lose that. Your fast machines at home are available to you wherever you can find some bandwidth. A savvy thief may pass over your laptop when he sees how old it is. Instead of one nice laptop, get two or even three used ones for the same price and you'll have one for backup and one to scavenge for parts.
This has been debated to death for many years and the ADA is the result of the needs of disabled people and those with concerns such as yours. Why not take a look at the law and see that your concerns have already been addressed.
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That oil is money in the bank. We can spend it anytime we want, and it's not going to depreciate like our dollar.
Why not leave it there in the ground until its it's worth a buttload more than it is now, and we may have even figured out by then how to get it out without spilling any of it.
I think it's pretty pathetic that you have to beat people over the head to get them to appreciate irony.
I quote:
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The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
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What is your argument? Do you assert that 'papers and effects' do not include intangible private property? I have no problem with the fact that our founders were greedy bastards, but it was never their intent to spy on EVERYONE.
He is conjuring the warrior concept. Imagine making a movie about Vietnam where the troops yell 'Kill the North Vietnamese' instead of the obvious terrible words that I will not reproduce here.
Remember the T-Shirt in Caddyshack: "Guns Don't Kill People, I Kill People". Don't tell me you didn't think that was funny.
Those who troll me should note that the original poster agrees with me 100%.
If they think they need a baby monitor to listen in on us.
Yes, I read it. You REALLY don't get it. He choose it deliberately in order to trigger an emotional response and to illustrate the point he makes that they are not really our enemy. Why don't you concentrate your contempt upon those who have a hard time with the fact that we can conduct this conversation freely.
You're the one who can't resist the opportunity to misconstrue what someone else says. Brush up on your ability to detect irony.
It's about the definition of 'property'.
See, they define that electronic information is not your property (except if you're a rich copyright holder). If it's not your property, then probable cause does not even come into play.
You speak for all of us, my friend.
Small steps, seemingly innocuous in and of themselves, but taken together, result in a total subversion of the intent of the founders.
"Microsoft discovers something else they are not good at"
It seems hardly novel enough to qualify as news.
Hopefully someday we will have hardware that allows us to write the OS in a higher level language. I still have an old ChineUal so I know that it can be done.
C and C++ are nothing more then portable assembler. Applications developers have no reason to get so close to the hardware.
If you don't like the license, don't use the software.
Good old Mr. Everett costs me two dollars every time I drive to Boston. Good for him.
John Sununu is practical. He's practically lost his next election already!
It's much easier to package an application when you know that there's a real Sun java implementation available as /usr/bin/java on multiple platforms.
Until now we have had to rely on the user downloading the correct JDK and installing it in the correct place.
I read all the reviews. It's a total mixed bag. The price points are different, the motherboards are different, there is no clear winner, As usual, "best" depends on your needs, what is available, and what vendors you have had success with. The performance differences are small enough to be lost in the myriad other factors.
Didn't the Pentium IV teach you this? Faster clocks just burn up unnecessary power. Better to speed up with parallelizing circuitry that you can turn off when not in use. Note in the reviews that their slower chip outbenchmarked faster chips from Intel.
Dangerous game? Prices are tweaked up and down to stimulate demand for various products. When you have to compete, you have to make tough decisions about products. AMD has been in business for a long time competing against bigger established chipmakers and they will continue to be a scrappy innovative company.
Because I see a lot more superstitious twaddle about "power of two" and a lot less discussion of practical performance implications.
Your "solution" does nothing to solve the problem.
- The "trust" you place in a digital certificate is misguided and fictional. Trust is a chain, and business cannot be "trusted" any more than the least scrupulous of their employees. If you organize data like this, it will just make it easier to steal. SSL certificates are okay for encrypting data, but next to useless for identity management.
- If all were implemented as you say, this computer theft would have taken the private keys as well, rendering the certificates worse than useless.
- SSN is not the only piece of sensitive information, and is not the only piece of data that identity thieves are looking for.
If it's anything like the other 'hardware acceleration' that I've seen lately, like the Ethernet chip that has on-chip checksum verification, but is only single-buffered, so everything comes to a screeching halt while the checksum is calculated. Of course, with fast processors, caches, and multiple cores, it's much faster to calculate the checksum in software.
Keep your good computers at home. Get some old clunker to take on the road. Scuff it up and make it look bad. Keep your data on a USB key on your keychain so you know you won't lose that. Your fast machines at home are available to you wherever you can find some bandwidth. A savvy thief may pass over your laptop when he sees how old it is. Instead of one nice laptop, get two or even three used ones for the same price and you'll have one for backup and one to scavenge for parts.
Between that thing they called a debate and this, I'm beginning to feel like I am living on the set of the movie 'Network'.
This has been debated to death for many years and the ADA is the result of the needs of disabled people and those with concerns such as yours. Why not take a look at the law and see that your concerns have already been addressed.