The discipline process of federal judges is initiated by the filing of a complaint by any person alleging that a judge has engaged in conduct "prejudicial to the effective and expeditious administration of the business of the courts, or alleging that such judge is unable to discharge all the duties of the office by reason of mental or physical disability."[5] If the chief judge of the circuit does not dismiss the complaint or conclude the proceedings, then he or she must promptly appoint himself or herself, along with equal numbers of circuit judges and district judges, to a special committee to investigate the facts and allegations in the complaint. The committee must conduct such investigation as it finds necessary and then expeditiously file a comprehensive written report of its investigation with the judicial council of the circuit involved. Upon receipt of such a report, the judicial council of the circuit involved may conduct any additional investigation it deems necessary, and it may dismiss the complaint.
If a judge who is the subject of a complaint holds his or her office during good behavior, action taken by the judicial council may include certifying disability of the judge. The judicial council may also, in its discretion, refer any complaint under 28 U.S.C. section 351, along with the record of any associated proceedings and its recommendations for appropriate action, to the Judicial Conference of the United States. The Judicial Conference may exercise its authority under the judicial discipline provisions as a conference, or through a standing committee appointed by the Chief Justice.
As others have pointed out already, it's impossible for the judge in question to have examined all the cases where wiretapping was approved. That dereliction of responsibility should be grounds for dismissal. Having a judge removed from the bench would set a good precedent and put any other black robed petty tyrants on notice that the constitution is not just an old piece of paper.
What fancy stuff? This question is not a troll, really. As far as I can tell, everything supporting the carrier board for the SOC is vanilla. That's why the price of the unit is so frustrating, it's not chock full of expensive or esoteric components. So why couldn't it be a lot cheaper?
It's not like the market for visual processing for autonomous vehicles is that big, or will be big enough soon enough to make this SOC a worthwhile effort by NVIDIA. One way or another the price has got to come down, or they wasted their time.
This has some interesting advantages over current systems.
It's will much quieter then a manned destroyer. No plumbing, no laundry, no kitchen, no people talking and moving around. Therefore, it's intrinsically more stealthy and much harder for an enemy to detect. Since it generates less noise it will also be a much more sensitive listening post. That's why they can say it can track the newer generation of quiet non-nuclear powered submarines. The plumbing in a reactor is hard to mask acoustically, which is one reason the non-nuke boats have an advantage.
It changes the offensive/defensive cost equation. Non-nuke subs are much cheaper to develop and deploy, so you don't need the military budget of the US or Russia to have a sizable fleet. Size means that even if boats are lost in combat, there will still be enough remaining to accomplish the mission. A surface ship like this will be cheaper to make then a submarine, so the US can afford to build a big enough fleet to counter a force of non-nuke subs. Add in the lower operation cost, and it's a real headache for the opposition.
This thing is going to be really stealthy. If an enemy can hunt it down with ships or aircraft it looses it's effectiveness. It wouldn't be surprising if the published pictures are deliberately inaccurate. It might have a more radar reflecting shape like the Zumwalt
There might be a problem keeping it out of enemy hands. It would be awfully tempting for a naval power like Russia or China to try and nab one on the high seas to find out what makes it tick. Expect that it would self destruct if captured, and perhaps even be designed to take some other vessels down with it.
For some parallel tasks it could be cost effective. A TFLOP of GPU with only 10 watts is nothing to sneer at. It might even be lower watt/flop then an FPGA, which tend to be power hogs. Of course, the 10 watt figure is for the card form factor SOC only, so the power and size is greater for the SOC plugged into the carrier board. And the cost needs to come down quite a bit for their likely market place. Either the price falls by a huge amount or it goes nowhere.
Even so, this could be interesting for some niche markets.
Unions and corporations have reporting requirements, and they have accountability to stockholders/union members. Post Citizens United, PACs have no accountability. Even if a union gives money to a PAC, the spending is at least theoretically traceable. A union member can sue the union and find out what the union spent on politics. If the money went to a PAC, they could make a good case for having the PAC audited. The same goes for a stockholder, but if I understand the law correctly a stockholder has less say in political spending. For individual money donated through PACs, there is no way the public will ever know how the money is spent. The process is opaque.
Saying that unions are equivalent to individual PAC contributions is factually incorrect. You are just flat out wrong.
As for the impact of spending on the political process, some people, including the Koch brothers, think it makes a big difference. That's why they're spending $889 million before the 2016 elections.
Unions have been unable to oppose outsourcing because the Republicans have destroyed union power over the last 50 years or so. So called "right to work" legislation and other forms of legal (and illegal) union busting resulted in lower union membership, which means lower amounts of political donations and smaller voting blocks. The end game on this is Citizens United which means that the American oligarchy can spend as much dark money as they want to buy as much political power as they can get. Money doesn't always buy elections or politicians, but if one side outspends their opponents by large enough amounts for a long enough period of time they can change the rules of the game. Which they did.
Here is a example from blue collar middle America. In the Midwest food processing, such as meat packing, used to be unionized. The unions were pretty much wiped out by the Republicans. Who got those jobs? Undocumented workers, mostly Spanish speakers. It's not like citizens went from being union workers to non-union workers. Citizens were replaced by non-citizens because they were less expensive to start out with, and undocumented workers will never complain about illegal treatment or dangerous working conditions. That's why there are so may relatively new Spanish speaking communities in places like Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma, Nebraska, etc. And it's also why Trump is able to scream about "illegals" and get so much traction. The real perpetrators are the Republicans and massive corrupt big business interests.
If you haven't lost your job yet it's just because they haven't gotten around to you yet.
NSA speak: Disclosing a vulnerability can mean that we forgo an opportunity to collect crucial foreign intelligence that could thwart a terrorist attack, stop the theft of our nation's intellectual property, or discover even more dangerous vulnerabilities that are being used to exploit our networks.
English: Disclosing a vulnerability can mean we forgo an opportunity to use the power of the state to spy on innocent people for no reason, crush legitimate political dissent, blackmail political figures to make them our puppets, engage in economic espionage that puts vast sums in the coffers of political insiders, interfere with foreign governments both friend and foe, cover up our vast incompetence, avoid the consequence of our bad decisions, and interferes with our degenerate addiction to unencumbered personal power that makes use feel superior to everyone else on the planet.
The first portable electronic calculator I saw in the early 70's had a vacuum florescent display with one tube per digit. It was not segments, but made like a Nixie tube. It was no where near pocket sized. It had the same volume as a brick, but was more short and wide. You could fix it to your belt, and it would have never fit in a shit pocket. I vaguely remember that it would run for a couple of hours without charging.
Yes, and with the Robert's court Citizen's United decision it is 100% certain that foreign governments are now making significant campaign contributions to US politicians. And just like other powerful and corrupt special interest groups, they get what they pay for. Can you say TPP?
If the Feds can't figure out that Chinese propaganda is being broadcast on the airwaves, what are the chances that they will find out that money from China is being illegally channeled into US political funding?
The Chinese, and pretty much anybody with an axe to grind, has easy pickings when it comes to find an existing faction that can be used to advance their interests. Take the US Import/Export Bank. Closing it down means less overseas business for US companies, and that business has got to go somewhere. So who's side are the hard right wingers really on?
The right is where there are a lot of opportunities for this strategy. Disabling regulations, which is what the Republicans live for, makes it easy to exploit our weaknesses. For example, the US Chamber of Commerce has successfully defeated all attempts to enact cybersecurity legislation. Obama has acted unilaterally using executive orders to impose some standards, but that is far less effective then legislation.
If you look at the Office of Management and Budget hack of security clearances, it wasn't in the OMB, it was at a civilian contractor. So if there had been meaningful laws in place, it might have keep this disaster from happening. I think that supporting some of the legislative agenda of the Camber of Commerce, and other right pressure groups, could have huge payouts for the Chinese and others, say India and Russia. Think H1B visas.
And the Roberts court had made this as easy as cake. All it takes is a front organization, like the owners of the radio station. Hell, it might even be legal, given how useless the US law has become on dealing with campaign financing.
For the same reason that the Samsung TVs only plays content from Samsung affiliated organizations, and Sony TVs only shows Sony created content, and you can't cook a microwave dinner in a Sanyo microwave unless it is from an affiliate so it will not heat something from Stoffer's or Lean Cuisine, and Apple and Android phones can't call each other, and the Chevron gas nozzle won't fit the Ford gas tank.
That's what anti-competitive capitalists really lust after, total lock in and unlimited profit with crappy products. None of this level playing field and competing on price and service. And to a great extent their wishes have been granted. Look at the entire US banking and Wall Street economic sector, pharmaceuticals, telcos, agribusiness, brewing (the two biggest brewing groups in the world want to merge), ad nauseam.
Amazon doesn't own the internet, no more then ABC owns the broadcast bandwidth that they use. Broadcast TV providers are allowed to use a common resource when they follow the rules, pay their taxes and fees, and engage in honest business. So why the hell is Amazon, or any of these other scum sucking pigs, allowed to have their walled garden carved out of the open common resource that is the internet?
It's just more of the DMCA crap, or the upcoming TPP. Corrupt insiders are writing the rules so that they have permanent control, no competition, no oversight and guaranteed high profit margins. The game is rigged, and the less you have the more they have. Out of your pocket, into theirs.
You can'tcompare Apple instances one to one with Java instances. Java is a server side enterprise solution used by extremely large institutions for sites with millions of users. A lot of the information on those sites is highly sensitive. A single Java security breach could have economic consequences in the hundreds of millions of dollars.
Apple sells phones, laptops, and desktop machines. A security breach on this kind of system is no more or less dangerous then a breach on Android or Windows. It can cause havoc, but nothing like a server side problem.
This is just asinine Apple bashing. It's stupid and puerile (look it up, dummy). Why does this kind of meaningless crap end up being posted? It's a waste of time and space. Stop posting this crap and grow up.
New Talent: A recent grad H1B visa PHd Indian software engineer who will work for $15/hour and only bill 40 hours per week while putting in 200 hours and also knows the latest completely untested fad buzzword software development technology.
Old Talent: Any legal resident or citizen who makes more then $15/hour, has relevant work experience, a proven track record and knows what they are doing; i.e. someone management wants to lay off as soon as possible.
The old talent doesn't want to do the new stuff: Management would kill their families and pets with a straight razor while they sleep, butcher their bodies, cook the meat into tacos, then serve the tacos to the Sunday school kindergarten class before they would be willing to train anyone for anything ever.
I hope somebody calls a SWAT team on your mother. Then you might get a fucking clue.
That's exactly what happened to one of the women involved in Gamergate. If you can't figure out how evil and dangerous this can get, then you are as guilty as the shitheads who actually do the dirty work. You are on their team and they know it. You are no different from someone who offers apologies for suicide bombings. It's just a difference in degree, not a difference in kind, asshole.
Current news shows the real motivation for the code academy movement. It just another for profit scam intended to siphon money from the education budget that will inevitably result in a lot of people stuck with unpayable student debt.
For example, ITT Technical Schools is the latest in a string of disasters in privatized for profit education. They got caught lying to pretty much everyone: state and federal authorities, investors, and students. Here's an example of how these scumsuckers operate.
The consumer watchdog accused the company of providing zero-interest loans to students but failing to tell them that they would be kicked out of school if they didn’t repay in a year. When students could not pay up, ITT allegedly forced them to take out high-interest loans to repay the first ones, the CFPB said.
All told, ITT is being investigated by at least 18 attorneys general and three federal agencies.
This comes on the heels of Corinthian Colleges declaring bankruptcy. Goldman-Sachs owned a large stake in them before they went under. "In 2010, CCi reported that it received 81.9% of revenue from Title IV federal student aid programs." Corinthian is also now the target of multiple civil suits and criminal investigations.
All the money that went down these rat holes would have been better spent on existing public education institutions, like community colleges and four year degree schools. This is just another painful example of how the private sector fails at some tasks and that many activities are best left to the government.
Once you agree to any nuclear installation, they can change the rules and do whatever the hell they want. This is what has happened at pretty much every nuclear power reactor: the nuclear waste ends up being stored on site indefinitely. It makes no difference that this is the worst possible scenario because it makes security a nightmare and the sites were never designed for long term storage in the first place.
The DOE's job is to make nuclear technology happen. They don't really give a rat's ass about the environment or security. It wasn't like they wanted the EPA Superfund. They didn't start it and it's mostly paid for by taxes on other polluters, like the fossil fuel and chemical industries. All they do is spend the money when enough political pressure is brought to bear.
Take Hanford. They are cleaning up things they know how to deal with. Unfortunately that's not where the real trouble is. The most horrible problem are these huge tanks full of various toxic and radioactive waste. They don't know exactly what's in them and they are so old that they all leak. It is possible that moving the material around could cause either a chemical or nuclear explosion because critical mass could be reached. (Not nuclear weapon bomb level explosion, but enough heat to cause a vapor explosion.)
So they don't know how to empty the tanks and they don't know how to deal with the material when it gets out of the tanks. They had a plan to build an automated facility to make glass logs that would physically contain the radioactive material and it has failed. They are over budget and behind schedule. Their timetable is a fantasy.
So why does anyone in Idaho expect anything to be different?
Do you keep your KKK robes in hung in the closet where they won't get wrinkled but they might be seen, or do you keep them folded in a drawer where they get wrinkled but are less likely to be discovered?
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As others have pointed out already, it's impossible for the judge in question to have examined all the cases where wiretapping was approved. That dereliction of responsibility should be grounds for dismissal. Having a judge removed from the bench would set a good precedent and put any other black robed petty tyrants on notice that the constitution is not just an old piece of paper.
It's not like the market for visual processing for autonomous vehicles is that big, or will be big enough soon enough to make this SOC a worthwhile effort by NVIDIA. One way or another the price has got to come down, or they wasted their time.
It's will much quieter then a manned destroyer. No plumbing, no laundry, no kitchen, no people talking and moving around. Therefore, it's intrinsically more stealthy and much harder for an enemy to detect. Since it generates less noise it will also be a much more sensitive listening post. That's why they can say it can track the newer generation of quiet non-nuclear powered submarines. The plumbing in a reactor is hard to mask acoustically, which is one reason the non-nuke boats have an advantage.
It changes the offensive/defensive cost equation. Non-nuke subs are much cheaper to develop and deploy, so you don't need the military budget of the US or Russia to have a sizable fleet. Size means that even if boats are lost in combat, there will still be enough remaining to accomplish the mission. A surface ship like this will be cheaper to make then a submarine, so the US can afford to build a big enough fleet to counter a force of non-nuke subs. Add in the lower operation cost, and it's a real headache for the opposition.
This thing is going to be really stealthy. If an enemy can hunt it down with ships or aircraft it looses it's effectiveness. It wouldn't be surprising if the published pictures are deliberately inaccurate. It might have a more radar reflecting shape like the Zumwalt
There might be a problem keeping it out of enemy hands. It would be awfully tempting for a naval power like Russia or China to try and nab one on the high seas to find out what makes it tick. Expect that it would self destruct if captured, and perhaps even be designed to take some other vessels down with it.
For some parallel tasks it could be cost effective. A TFLOP of GPU with only 10 watts is nothing to sneer at. It might even be lower watt/flop then an FPGA, which tend to be power hogs. Of course, the 10 watt figure is for the card form factor SOC only, so the power and size is greater for the SOC plugged into the carrier board. And the cost needs to come down quite a bit for their likely market place. Either the price falls by a huge amount or it goes nowhere.
Even so, this could be interesting for some niche markets.
Union membership has plummeted in the U.S., from nearly one-third of workers 50 years ago to one in 10 American workers today. Under the simplest assumption, for every $30 unions had to spend on politics in 1966, they now have $10. That's a factor of three decline. Citizens United legalized unlimited untraceable political contributions. This means the disparity between, say the Koch brothers and unions is even greater.
Unions and corporations have reporting requirements, and they have accountability to stockholders/union members. Post Citizens United, PACs have no accountability. Even if a union gives money to a PAC, the spending is at least theoretically traceable. A union member can sue the union and find out what the union spent on politics. If the money went to a PAC, they could make a good case for having the PAC audited. The same goes for a stockholder, but if I understand the law correctly a stockholder has less say in political spending. For individual money donated through PACs, there is no way the public will ever know how the money is spent. The process is opaque.
Saying that unions are equivalent to individual PAC contributions is factually incorrect. You are just flat out wrong.
As for the impact of spending on the political process, some people, including the Koch brothers, think it makes a big difference. That's why they're spending $889 million before the 2016 elections.
Here is a example from blue collar middle America. In the Midwest food processing, such as meat packing, used to be unionized. The unions were pretty much wiped out by the Republicans. Who got those jobs? Undocumented workers, mostly Spanish speakers. It's not like citizens went from being union workers to non-union workers. Citizens were replaced by non-citizens because they were less expensive to start out with, and undocumented workers will never complain about illegal treatment or dangerous working conditions. That's why there are so may relatively new Spanish speaking communities in places like Kansas, Ohio, Oklahoma, Nebraska, etc. And it's also why Trump is able to scream about "illegals" and get so much traction. The real perpetrators are the Republicans and massive corrupt big business interests.
If you haven't lost your job yet it's just because they haven't gotten around to you yet.
English: Disclosing a vulnerability can mean we forgo an opportunity to use the power of the state to spy on innocent people for no reason, crush legitimate political dissent, blackmail political figures to make them our puppets, engage in economic espionage that puts vast sums in the coffers of political insiders, interfere with foreign governments both friend and foe, cover up our vast incompetence, avoid the consequence of our bad decisions, and interferes with our degenerate addiction to unencumbered personal power that makes use feel superior to everyone else on the planet.
The first portable electronic calculator I saw in the early 70's had a vacuum florescent display with one tube per digit. It was not segments, but made like a Nixie tube. It was no where near pocket sized. It had the same volume as a brick, but was more short and wide. You could fix it to your belt, and it would have never fit in a shit pocket. I vaguely remember that it would run for a couple of hours without charging.
Use a slide rule (or a calculator) the wrong way and you'll still be up shit creek without a paddle.
If the Feds can't figure out that Chinese propaganda is being broadcast on the airwaves, what are the chances that they will find out that money from China is being illegally channeled into US political funding?
The Chinese, and pretty much anybody with an axe to grind, has easy pickings when it comes to find an existing faction that can be used to advance their interests. Take the US Import/Export Bank. Closing it down means less overseas business for US companies, and that business has got to go somewhere. So who's side are the hard right wingers really on?
The right is where there are a lot of opportunities for this strategy. Disabling regulations, which is what the Republicans live for, makes it easy to exploit our weaknesses. For example, the US Chamber of Commerce has successfully defeated all attempts to enact cybersecurity legislation. Obama has acted unilaterally using executive orders to impose some standards, but that is far less effective then legislation.
If you look at the Office of Management and Budget hack of security clearances, it wasn't in the OMB, it was at a civilian contractor. So if there had been meaningful laws in place, it might have keep this disaster from happening. I think that supporting some of the legislative agenda of the Camber of Commerce, and other right pressure groups, could have huge payouts for the Chinese and others, say India and Russia. Think H1B visas.
And the Roberts court had made this as easy as cake. All it takes is a front organization, like the owners of the radio station. Hell, it might even be legal, given how useless the US law has become on dealing with campaign financing.
That's what anti-competitive capitalists really lust after, total lock in and unlimited profit with crappy products. None of this level playing field and competing on price and service. And to a great extent their wishes have been granted. Look at the entire US banking and Wall Street economic sector, pharmaceuticals, telcos, agribusiness, brewing (the two biggest brewing groups in the world want to merge), ad nauseam.
Amazon doesn't own the internet, no more then ABC owns the broadcast bandwidth that they use. Broadcast TV providers are allowed to use a common resource when they follow the rules, pay their taxes and fees, and engage in honest business. So why the hell is Amazon, or any of these other scum sucking pigs, allowed to have their walled garden carved out of the open common resource that is the internet?
It's just more of the DMCA crap, or the upcoming TPP. Corrupt insiders are writing the rules so that they have permanent control, no competition, no oversight and guaranteed high profit margins. The game is rigged, and the less you have the more they have. Out of your pocket, into theirs.
It's called a pound because historically in England it was a pound weight of silver.
Apple sells phones, laptops, and desktop machines. A security breach on this kind of system is no more or less dangerous then a breach on Android or Windows. It can cause havoc, but nothing like a server side problem.
This is just asinine Apple bashing. It's stupid and puerile (look it up, dummy). Why does this kind of meaningless crap end up being posted? It's a waste of time and space. Stop posting this crap and grow up.
Old Talent: Any legal resident or citizen who makes more then $15/hour, has relevant work experience, a proven track record and knows what they are doing; i.e. someone management wants to lay off as soon as possible.
The old talent doesn't want to do the new stuff: Management would kill their families and pets with a straight razor while they sleep, butcher their bodies, cook the meat into tacos, then serve the tacos to the Sunday school kindergarten class before they would be willing to train anyone for anything ever.
You dumbshit motherfucker. I hope someone rapes you.
That's exactly what happened to one of the women involved in Gamergate. If you can't figure out how evil and dangerous this can get, then you are as guilty as the shitheads who actually do the dirty work. You are on their team and they know it. You are no different from someone who offers apologies for suicide bombings. It's just a difference in degree, not a difference in kind, asshole.
For example, ITT Technical Schools is the latest in a string of disasters in privatized for profit education. They got caught lying to pretty much everyone: state and federal authorities, investors, and students. Here's an example of how these scumsuckers operate.
This comes on the heels of Corinthian Colleges declaring bankruptcy. Goldman-Sachs owned a large stake in them before they went under. "In 2010, CCi reported that it received 81.9% of revenue from Title IV federal student aid programs." Corinthian is also now the target of multiple civil suits and criminal investigations.
All the money that went down these rat holes would have been better spent on existing public education institutions, like community colleges and four year degree schools. This is just another painful example of how the private sector fails at some tasks and that many activities are best left to the government.
The only thing that trickles down is piss. That's what this jerk and the WSJ is really about.
S is for Skynet
All you've demonstrated is the Google brainwashing works really well.
Somehow I doubt it. It's more like: Slashdot, we sit around in our parents basement and pretend we are the 1%.
Once you agree to any nuclear installation, they can change the rules and do whatever the hell they want. This is what has happened at pretty much every nuclear power reactor: the nuclear waste ends up being stored on site indefinitely. It makes no difference that this is the worst possible scenario because it makes security a nightmare and the sites were never designed for long term storage in the first place.
The DOE's job is to make nuclear technology happen. They don't really give a rat's ass about the environment or security. It wasn't like they wanted the EPA Superfund. They didn't start it and it's mostly paid for by taxes on other polluters, like the fossil fuel and chemical industries. All they do is spend the money when enough political pressure is brought to bear.
Take Hanford. They are cleaning up things they know how to deal with. Unfortunately that's not where the real trouble is. The most horrible problem are these huge tanks full of various toxic and radioactive waste. They don't know exactly what's in them and they are so old that they all leak. It is possible that moving the material around could cause either a chemical or nuclear explosion because critical mass could be reached. (Not nuclear weapon bomb level explosion, but enough heat to cause a vapor explosion.)
So they don't know how to empty the tanks and they don't know how to deal with the material when it gets out of the tanks. They had a plan to build an automated facility to make glass logs that would physically contain the radioactive material and it has failed. They are over budget and behind schedule. Their timetable is a fantasy.
So why does anyone in Idaho expect anything to be different?
Do you keep your KKK robes in hung in the closet where they won't get wrinkled but they might be seen, or do you keep them folded in a drawer where they get wrinkled but are less likely to be discovered?
Please respond, I really want to know.
Enlist the pumpkin chuckers.
You never get laid, do you?