'In reaching this decision, I have considered the lack of additional campaign contributions by Microsoft, and don't consider that a new investigation would reveal any information that would change our original finding.'"
Seriously, though, is there anyone here who really thinks this investigation deserves to go around a second time, based on the technical merits? We're talking about going around logging stuff that is being broadcast in the clear, unencrypted, and no more than a few seconds at any location. I know it's important to anti-Googlers because it's pretty much the closest the company has come so far to being evil, but it's kind of a lame complaint when you compare it to what most other tech companies are doing these days (Microsoft and Apple funding patent trolls, Facebook trying to ratchet down privacy protections, most tech companies forcing people to give up legal rights via EULA, etc). Is this seriously the worst thing that can be said about Google? If it is, they've got to be the most ethically-run company on the planet.
+1. Newegg has the best techie product search anywhere. I'll occasionally go elsewhere if I can get a screaming deal from a discount forum site (especially since I'm in CA and have to pay exhorbiant sales tax), but that's usually where my search begins.
Also, peruse the deal sites (dealnews.com, slickdeals.net, the Hot Deals forum on Anandtech.com, etc). You can save 20-30% on some good kit there, which on an expensive laptop is enough to afford some other goodies, like a docking station with mouse, keyboard, and external monitor.
Ah yes, and working HUD glasses has what percentage of the market? They're neat in concept and they've been out there for a long time, just like VR and just like VR they're going nowhere no matter how well they work or how much money is spent trying to refine them.
Just like motion controls will never go anywhere. And ebooks, too, because people like the feel of paper under their fingers too much, and you can't get that from a screen.
If man were meant to fly, he'd have been born with wings.
Only because nobody makes a good multi-core phone with a decent physical keyboard. Somebody, please, put a fast dual-core processor and 1 GB of RAM into a phone with this kind of keyboard please!
I think that was their plan, but they can't now because they own Motorola. One of the US FCC's big firewalls (the only one, it seems, that they care to enforce anymore) is that a carrier cannot manufacture their own phones, essentially to prevent the kind of massive fail we saw in the 70s with AT&T.
As far as I can tell, Google's plan was to buy up massive amounts of darknet (already done), set themselves up as an ISP (pilot project in Topeka), and gobble up enough spectrum to make themselves a big player in mobile internet (T-mobile would make a good buy, and DT wants to sell). Unfortunately for us, the patent wars forced Google to look for a defensive portfolio, and Motorola leveraged their portfolio into forcing Google to buy them to get their patents (or else they'd all go to Microsoft/Apple; Motorola essentially held themselves hostage), so that dream is dead for now.
It may be possible for Google to spin the remains of Motorola back off as a separate manufacturer; they certainly don't seem very enamoured with the company, seeing as they're keeping the two businesses entirely separate in terms of management and workers, and aren't really even collaborating with them when making the new version of Android. Maybe they'll just shuck off the phone maker part of Motorola Mobility and continue on their grand plan; they've certainly got the free cash to pull something crazy like that.
If "locking" means "providing me with so much good stuff--including the ability to easily leave the second I choose to--that I don't want to leave, even though I can," then hell, sign me up!
Filesharing lawsuits and six-strikes laws never did anything to stem the tide of piracy. What's been causing the fall of Bittorrent as a share of internet bandwidth in the US is the rise of legal streaming sites (Netflix, Hulu, etc), alternatives which don't exist in most of the rest of the world.
A better example would be somewhere like Somalia. You don't have to pay income taxes to the government there, because the government doesn't exist. You can pay for your own private police, build your own private roads, set up your own private hospital, educate your own workforce, build your own air, sea, and land transportation infrastructure, etc. If you can't do those things you find yourself at the mercy of roving rape gangs, but hey you can keep everything you earn, right up until you get shot so someone can boil your shoes for their dinner.
Basically what we've got is Verizon saying, "Oh goodie, we're so eager to ignore our user's privacy that we're going to jump right on mailing out their personal information to any third party who might be interested." Yeah, yeah, they have a court order, and obviously you have to comply with that, but you certainly don't have to go and do it early.
It stayed within 10% because JP Morgan was paid $177 million to insure the stock. a bad bet for them; who knows how much they stand to lose now that they've had to buy so much FB stock to cover the policy? They're the big losers here, not the FB guys who dumped half their insider stock on Friday and made a killing.
Housing prices I'll agree with, but the cause wasn't really the "cheap" part of the loans so much as the "fraudulent" part: loans were given to people who flatly didn't qualify for them: they either lied on their application (with the bank being complicit); they were approved for loans based on the "teaser rate" rather than the actual rate they'd have to pay, etc. Then the bank sold these loans on the "open" market, hidden behind legalese that kept people from knowing these were really junk loans, and bet that they'd fail by taking out insurance policies against them. After that the inevitable happened: the unqualified borrowers defaulted on their loans, dragging down the banks; the insurance companies (AIG et al.) went under because they couldn't cover the credit default swaps they sold; and the economy went into a tailspin as everyone scrambled to recover what remained of their investments, which had all disappeared like the smoke and mirrors they had always been, while the bankers who had made all the original loans retired in opulence and spent millions to put the Tea Party in office last year to keep financial reform from going anywhere.
There you go; the last ten years of the housing bubble in condensed form.
Student prices, on the other hand, are almost a double-blind. On one side, private schools have not really gone up much beyond inflation in terms of the actual price students pay; the "list price" keeps going up, but so does the "need-based" or "merit-based" aid, such that the net result is that the average student at a private schools pay roughly the same as they did ten years ago. The list price goes up for the same reason Hollywood uses silly tricks to make it look like actors get paid hundreds of millions of dollars to star in a movie: the bigger the numbers on the list price, the more valuable the school looks to the student, even if in the end he never actually pays that ridiculously high amount.
Public colleges, of course, are a completely different universe: their costs have been going up considerably over the past few years, at first because more and more money has to be redirected from education to pay for lavish pensions that short-sighted politicians agreed to in the seventies, eighties and nineties to get votes, and now because states are losing tax money due to the recession. These costs are forcing states to reduce funding for public schools, which in turn explains why student subsidies are so much lower than they used to be.
Step 1: Set up huge industry with government captial Step 2: Start selling goods in foreign markets at well below what it cost to make them Step 3: Watch as foreign competitors go bankrupt
Right, because the the US government capital absolutely, definitely has to be spent on military campaigns and equipment and on bailing banks out etc. and no money at all is available for the kind of R&D that the obscenely rich Chinese can afford to spend on.
You sound like you're trying to be sarcastic, but you may b more right than you realize. Nobody in the US will bother doing R&D for solar, or bother investing in an expensive manufacturing plant, if they know that they'll never make any money at it because the deep-pocketed Chinese government can kill your product at its leisure.
You have to keep in mind that the Chinese have a different mindset than you. To us Americans, two generations of right-wing propoganda have taught us that government is our enemy, and foreign countries are assets to be exploited. To the Chinese, their government is an ally, and you are the enemy.
Even more interesting is that AMD's APUs are severely memory-constrained; even Llano really needed DDR-1866 or higher (if it existed) to really show what it could do, and Trinity is probably even more constrained. If AMD goes the same route as they did with Phenom II and includes both a DDR3 and DDR4 controller (and makes their chip compatible with both old sockets and new DDR4-compatible ones) they might be able to pull off some interesting design wins in the low power gaming-capable market.
Seriously, the stock browser has been able to reflow text on zoom practically forever; why doesn't Firefox Mobile?
This is the killer feature for me; with my poor vision I always have to zoom in pretty far to see anything on those tiny screens, and being forced to pan left and right to see every line is a huge pain. I like FF for its bookmark/password sync functionality, but when it comes to actually reading anything it's almost easier to copy the bookmark out of Firefox into the stock browser and go from there.
Yup. Maybe if you want to be an athlete or bodybuilder this stuff matters.. but for the average guy who just wants to make it up the stairs without running out of breath.. I think that's all it really takes.
Fun thing is that 1 and 2 are somewhat in balance. Put a little more time in at the gym and then enjoy your 12oz steak and potato. Skip the gym and eat salad. Obviously it only works that absolutely in my head.. but I think over time their is some truth to that general idea. At the very least it works fine for me!
While somewhat true, there is a minimum level of exercise that is necessary even for grass-eaters. Getting that minimum isn't easy, especially for the busy geek with a long commute and lots of overtime to do.
Besides, it's an easy question to answer: basic hygiene, vaccinations, cheap and widely-available food. Those are really the big factors that explain why we live longer than our ancestors: back in the 19th century we were far more disease-ridden than we are now, and infant mortality was far higher. Starvation also tended to catch more people back then, as regional famines actually prevented people from obtaining any food at all, rather than just having to shell out a few more bucks out of pocket for something grown in another country.
Oatmeal's better. I start a crockpot of steel cut oats Sunday evening (one-and-a-half cups oats, lightly toasted in a toaster oven or pan, four cups water, three cups milk, a couple of handfulls of dried fruit, add cinnamon and salt in the morning for extra flavor) and that gives me breakfast all week. Cheap, easy to make in large batches, and good for you.
If only I could figure out an exercise program that was as easy to follow...
Blowing up a plane was never the problem with 9/11; it was the fact that the terrorists got access to the cockpit and turned the planes into flying bombs that were then used to blow up two massive office buildings. That can't happen anymore, now that pilots close the door to the cockpit and the average passenger knows to swarm any idiot who tries to hijack a plane; all this other stuff is just theater perpetuated by security theater companies to keep getting money from easily frightened people.
They are precisely the people targeted by groups like Heartland. They're not idiots. They like to think of themselves as free thinkers. But, nonetheless, relentless anti-AGW propaganda has left them thinking AGW is a giant conspiracy, despite the utter obvious absurdity of such a position.
What gives?
It's about maintaining the status quo. As a rule, people don't like change: they don't like having to change their behavior; they don't like having to change their thinking; they don't like having to change their perceptions of the world. Science is a deeply troubling system for most people because it is constantly changing, evolving, coming up with new theories which force people to reevaluate their lifestyles. Given that, is it any wonder that anti-science propaganda finds a sympathetic ear amongst the intellectually lazy?
Take climate change as an example. Since Joseph Fourier first postulated the theory of global warming by way of the greenhouse effect nearly two hundred years ago, scientists have slowly but surely been coming to the inevitable conclusion that it is unsustainable to endlessly continue our current technological reliance on spewing tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. The obvious, inevitable conclusion is that we must transition away from carbon-based energy production soon, to prevent potentially catastrophic environmental consequences. But, people don't want to change. They want to drive their big cars, run the AC with the windows open. Damn it, they want to eat meat with every meal, not just a few times a week!
And then, here comes the Heartland Institute, backed by the Fox News tabloid conglomerate, saying that you can still have all those things, you don't have to change at all. All you have to do is ignore the scientists. After all, what do they know, those elitist snobs with their multi-year longitudinal studies and lifetimes spent studying the climate and basic science. You have people who can say stuff too, and, even if their degrees are in lying and stealing money (read: law and business) instead of science, they're saying stuff you'd rather believe in, because it means you can still drive your SUVs and eat all the meat you want! Everybody wins, well, except for your grandkids who'll have to live in a world with stronger hurricanes, massive flooding, and food riots thanks to most of our farmland no longer being able to support crops, but that's decades away and you'll be dead.
Telcom companies don't care about public opinion. They don't have to; they've carved up the country into their own spheres of influence, much like Europe carved up China in the 19th century. If I want an internet connection to my house, I have exactly two choices, who offer suspicously similar pricing schemes. Regulators should be looking into this, but they won't because they're being paid too much money to look the other way.
I'm much more worried about how the U.S is allowing drones to be used by police agencies in this country to spy on us, etc., etc., etc.
I'm sure if you were a major stakeholder in a company with valuable IP, that had business with China you would have a different attitude. The reason you don't need to worry about either is because you don't have any IP of worth that the Chinese want and you are not doing anything illegal. I'm not saying either is OK, just that jet fuel is expensive and following your every move is not worth their time, and hquipow exactly can a drone invade your privacy any more then a manned plane?
Saying you don't have to worry about surveillance because you're not doing anything illegal is something like saying you don't have to worry about being shot because one of your legs is artificial. There are so many problems with being able to be put under surveillance by anyone who can flash a badge, or can fake it sufficiently to get away worn it, that concealing potentially illegal activity is almost trivial.
We Americans need to stop this live affair we are having with arbitrary privacy invasion, both by the government and private companies; if we keep it up we might someday be as bad as China is today.
Thankfully Obama broke us of that weird insistance we had that [b]all[/b] space travel had to be done by a single monolithic government entity; we'll have private companies resupplying the space station within two years, and low orbit tourism within the decade. In the meantime, NASA has returned to pushing the envelope of bleeding-edge space technology, rather than spending the vast majority of its budget maintaining an over-engineered, under-preforming space dump-truck that was first built in the 70s.
Is this a surprise, that nature can route around humans?
Insects treat pesticide as damage, and route around it?
Considering that it actually does damage them, then yes insects do in fact treat pesticides as damage.
Remember that the Internet meme is an analogy based on nature; saying that, yes, the nature analogy actually does apply to nature is slightly redundant.
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Or maybe:
'In reaching this decision, I have considered the lack of additional campaign contributions by Microsoft, and don't consider that a new investigation would reveal any information that would change our original finding.'"
Seriously, though, is there anyone here who really thinks this investigation deserves to go around a second time, based on the technical merits? We're talking about going around logging stuff that is being broadcast in the clear, unencrypted, and no more than a few seconds at any location. I know it's important to anti-Googlers because it's pretty much the closest the company has come so far to being evil, but it's kind of a lame complaint when you compare it to what most other tech companies are doing these days (Microsoft and Apple funding patent trolls, Facebook trying to ratchet down privacy protections, most tech companies forcing people to give up legal rights via EULA, etc). Is this seriously the worst thing that can be said about Google? If it is, they've got to be the most ethically-run company on the planet.
+1. Newegg has the best techie product search anywhere. I'll occasionally go elsewhere if I can get a screaming deal from a discount forum site (especially since I'm in CA and have to pay exhorbiant sales tax), but that's usually where my search begins.
Also, peruse the deal sites (dealnews.com, slickdeals.net, the Hot Deals forum on Anandtech.com, etc). You can save 20-30% on some good kit there, which on an expensive laptop is enough to afford some other goodies, like a docking station with mouse, keyboard, and external monitor.
Ah yes, and working HUD glasses has what percentage of the market? They're neat in concept and they've been out there for a long time, just like VR and just like VR they're going nowhere no matter how well they work or how much money is spent trying to refine them.
Just like motion controls will never go anywhere. And ebooks, too, because people like the feel of paper under their fingers too much, and you can't get that from a screen.
If man were meant to fly, he'd have been born with wings.
Only because nobody makes a good multi-core phone with a decent physical keyboard. Somebody, please, put a fast dual-core processor and 1 GB of RAM into a phone with this kind of keyboard please!
I think that was their plan, but they can't now because they own Motorola. One of the US FCC's big firewalls (the only one, it seems, that they care to enforce anymore) is that a carrier cannot manufacture their own phones, essentially to prevent the kind of massive fail we saw in the 70s with AT&T.
As far as I can tell, Google's plan was to buy up massive amounts of darknet (already done), set themselves up as an ISP (pilot project in Topeka), and gobble up enough spectrum to make themselves a big player in mobile internet (T-mobile would make a good buy, and DT wants to sell). Unfortunately for us, the patent wars forced Google to look for a defensive portfolio, and Motorola leveraged their portfolio into forcing Google to buy them to get their patents (or else they'd all go to Microsoft/Apple; Motorola essentially held themselves hostage), so that dream is dead for now.
It may be possible for Google to spin the remains of Motorola back off as a separate manufacturer; they certainly don't seem very enamoured with the company, seeing as they're keeping the two businesses entirely separate in terms of management and workers, and aren't really even collaborating with them when making the new version of Android. Maybe they'll just shuck off the phone maker part of Motorola Mobility and continue on their grand plan; they've certainly got the free cash to pull something crazy like that.
If "locking" means "providing me with so much good stuff--including the ability to easily leave the second I choose to--that I don't want to leave, even though I can," then hell, sign me up!
Filesharing lawsuits and six-strikes laws never did anything to stem the tide of piracy. What's been causing the fall of Bittorrent as a share of internet bandwidth in the US is the rise of legal streaming sites (Netflix, Hulu, etc), alternatives which don't exist in most of the rest of the world.
A better example would be somewhere like Somalia. You don't have to pay income taxes to the government there, because the government doesn't exist. You can pay for your own private police, build your own private roads, set up your own private hospital, educate your own workforce, build your own air, sea, and land transportation infrastructure, etc. If you can't do those things you find yourself at the mercy of roving rape gangs, but hey you can keep everything you earn, right up until you get shot so someone can boil your shoes for their dinner.
It's a Ayn Rand paradise!
Basically what we've got is Verizon saying, "Oh goodie, we're so eager to ignore our user's privacy that we're going to jump right on mailing out their personal information to any third party who might be interested." Yeah, yeah, they have a court order, and obviously you have to comply with that, but you certainly don't have to go and do it early.
It stayed within 10% because JP Morgan was paid $177 million to insure the stock. a bad bet for them; who knows how much they stand to lose now that they've had to buy so much FB stock to cover the policy? They're the big losers here, not the FB guys who dumped half their insider stock on Friday and made a killing.
Housing prices I'll agree with, but the cause wasn't really the "cheap" part of the loans so much as the "fraudulent" part: loans were given to people who flatly didn't qualify for them: they either lied on their application (with the bank being complicit); they were approved for loans based on the "teaser rate" rather than the actual rate they'd have to pay, etc. Then the bank sold these loans on the "open" market, hidden behind legalese that kept people from knowing these were really junk loans, and bet that they'd fail by taking out insurance policies against them. After that the inevitable happened: the unqualified borrowers defaulted on their loans, dragging down the banks; the insurance companies (AIG et al.) went under because they couldn't cover the credit default swaps they sold; and the economy went into a tailspin as everyone scrambled to recover what remained of their investments, which had all disappeared like the smoke and mirrors they had always been, while the bankers who had made all the original loans retired in opulence and spent millions to put the Tea Party in office last year to keep financial reform from going anywhere.
There you go; the last ten years of the housing bubble in condensed form.
Student prices, on the other hand, are almost a double-blind. On one side, private schools have not really gone up much beyond inflation in terms of the actual price students pay; the "list price" keeps going up, but so does the "need-based" or "merit-based" aid, such that the net result is that the average student at a private schools pay roughly the same as they did ten years ago. The list price goes up for the same reason Hollywood uses silly tricks to make it look like actors get paid hundreds of millions of dollars to star in a movie: the bigger the numbers on the list price, the more valuable the school looks to the student, even if in the end he never actually pays that ridiculously high amount.
Public colleges, of course, are a completely different universe: their costs have been going up considerably over the past few years, at first because more and more money has to be redirected from education to pay for lavish pensions that short-sighted politicians agreed to in the seventies, eighties and nineties to get votes, and now because states are losing tax money due to the recession. These costs are forcing states to reduce funding for public schools, which in turn explains why student subsidies are so much lower than they used to be.
Step 1: Set up huge industry with government captial
Step 2: Start selling goods in foreign markets at well below what it cost to make them
Step 3: Watch as foreign competitors go bankrupt
Right, because the the US government capital absolutely, definitely has to be spent on military campaigns and equipment and on bailing banks out etc. and no money at all is available for the kind of R&D that the obscenely rich Chinese can afford to spend on.
You sound like you're trying to be sarcastic, but you may b more right than you realize. Nobody in the US will bother doing R&D for solar, or bother investing in an expensive manufacturing plant, if they know that they'll never make any money at it because the deep-pocketed Chinese government can kill your product at its leisure.
You have to keep in mind that the Chinese have a different mindset than you. To us Americans, two generations of right-wing propoganda have taught us that government is our enemy, and foreign countries are assets to be exploited. To the Chinese, their government is an ally, and you are the enemy.
Even more interesting is that AMD's APUs are severely memory-constrained; even Llano really needed DDR-1866 or higher (if it existed) to really show what it could do, and Trinity is probably even more constrained. If AMD goes the same route as they did with Phenom II and includes both a DDR3 and DDR4 controller (and makes their chip compatible with both old sockets and new DDR4-compatible ones) they might be able to pull off some interesting design wins in the low power gaming-capable market.
Seriously, the stock browser has been able to reflow text on zoom practically forever; why doesn't Firefox Mobile?
This is the killer feature for me; with my poor vision I always have to zoom in pretty far to see anything on those tiny screens, and being forced to pan left and right to see every line is a huge pain. I like FF for its bookmark/password sync functionality, but when it comes to actually reading anything it's almost easier to copy the bookmark out of Firefox into the stock browser and go from there.
Yup. Maybe if you want to be an athlete or bodybuilder this stuff matters.. but for the average guy who just wants to make it up the stairs without running out of breath.. I think that's all it really takes.
Fun thing is that 1 and 2 are somewhat in balance. Put a little more time in at the gym and then enjoy your 12oz steak and potato. Skip the gym and eat salad. Obviously it only works that absolutely in my head.. but I think over time their is some truth to that general idea. At the very least it works fine for me!
While somewhat true, there is a minimum level of exercise that is necessary even for grass-eaters. Getting that minimum isn't easy, especially for the busy geek with a long commute and lots of overtime to do.
Besides, it's an easy question to answer: basic hygiene, vaccinations, cheap and widely-available food. Those are really the big factors that explain why we live longer than our ancestors: back in the 19th century we were far more disease-ridden than we are now, and infant mortality was far higher. Starvation also tended to catch more people back then, as regional famines actually prevented people from obtaining any food at all, rather than just having to shell out a few more bucks out of pocket for something grown in another country.
Oatmeal's better. I start a crockpot of steel cut oats Sunday evening (one-and-a-half cups oats, lightly toasted in a toaster oven or pan, four cups water, three cups milk, a couple of handfulls of dried fruit, add cinnamon and salt in the morning for extra flavor) and that gives me breakfast all week. Cheap, easy to make in large batches, and good for you.
If only I could figure out an exercise program that was as easy to follow...
Blowing up a plane was never the problem with 9/11; it was the fact that the terrorists got access to the cockpit and turned the planes into flying bombs that were then used to blow up two massive office buildings. That can't happen anymore, now that pilots close the door to the cockpit and the average passenger knows to swarm any idiot who tries to hijack a plane; all this other stuff is just theater perpetuated by security theater companies to keep getting money from easily frightened people.
Forty, even.
As long as there are four Republican senators in the US Senate, the only "people" getting more rights are fake people.
They are precisely the people targeted by groups like Heartland. They're not idiots. They like to think of themselves as free thinkers. But, nonetheless, relentless anti-AGW propaganda has left them thinking AGW is a giant conspiracy, despite the utter obvious absurdity of such a position.
What gives?
It's about maintaining the status quo. As a rule, people don't like change: they don't like having to change their behavior; they don't like having to change their thinking; they don't like having to change their perceptions of the world. Science is a deeply troubling system for most people because it is constantly changing, evolving, coming up with new theories which force people to reevaluate their lifestyles. Given that, is it any wonder that anti-science propaganda finds a sympathetic ear amongst the intellectually lazy?
Take climate change as an example. Since Joseph Fourier first postulated the theory of global warming by way of the greenhouse effect nearly two hundred years ago, scientists have slowly but surely been coming to the inevitable conclusion that it is unsustainable to endlessly continue our current technological reliance on spewing tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every day. The obvious, inevitable conclusion is that we must transition away from carbon-based energy production soon, to prevent potentially catastrophic environmental consequences. But, people don't want to change. They want to drive their big cars, run the AC with the windows open. Damn it, they want to eat meat with every meal, not just a few times a week!
And then, here comes the Heartland Institute, backed by the Fox News tabloid conglomerate, saying that you can still have all those things, you don't have to change at all. All you have to do is ignore the scientists. After all, what do they know, those elitist snobs with their multi-year longitudinal studies and lifetimes spent studying the climate and basic science. You have people who can say stuff too, and, even if their degrees are in lying and stealing money (read: law and business) instead of science, they're saying stuff you'd rather believe in, because it means you can still drive your SUVs and eat all the meat you want! Everybody wins, well, except for your grandkids who'll have to live in a world with stronger hurricanes, massive flooding, and food riots thanks to most of our farmland no longer being able to support crops, but that's decades away and you'll be dead.
Telcom companies don't care about public opinion. They don't have to; they've carved up the country into their own spheres of influence, much like Europe carved up China in the 19th century. If I want an internet connection to my house, I have exactly two choices, who offer suspicously similar pricing schemes. Regulators should be looking into this, but they won't because they're being paid too much money to look the other way.
Exactly.
I'm much more worried about how the U.S is allowing drones to be used by police agencies in this country to spy on us, etc., etc., etc.
I'm sure if you were a major stakeholder in a company with valuable IP, that had business with China you would have a different attitude. The reason you don't need to worry about either is because you don't have any IP of worth that the Chinese want and you are not doing anything illegal. I'm not saying either is OK, just that jet fuel is expensive and following your every move is not worth their time, and hquipow exactly can a drone invade your privacy any more then a manned plane?
Saying you don't have to worry about surveillance because you're not doing anything illegal is something like saying you don't have to worry about being shot because one of your legs is artificial. There are so many problems with being able to be put under surveillance by anyone who can flash a badge, or can fake it sufficiently to get away worn it, that concealing potentially illegal activity is almost trivial.
We Americans need to stop this live affair we are having with arbitrary privacy invasion, both by the government and private companies; if we keep it up we might someday be as bad as China is today.
Thankfully Obama broke us of that weird insistance we had that [b]all[/b] space travel had to be done by a single monolithic government entity; we'll have private companies resupplying the space station within two years, and low orbit tourism within the decade. In the meantime, NASA has returned to pushing the envelope of bleeding-edge space technology, rather than spending the vast majority of its budget maintaining an over-engineered, under-preforming space dump-truck that was first built in the 70s.
Is this a surprise, that nature can route around humans?
Insects treat pesticide as damage, and route around it?
Considering that it actually does damage them, then yes insects do in fact treat pesticides as damage.
Remember that the Internet meme is an analogy based on nature; saying that, yes, the nature analogy actually does apply to nature is slightly redundant.