At least in Dubai, they don't murder people with drones for posting videos on youtube like Obama did with Al Awlaki.
Right. They'll just out-right execute them, or ship them back to their home country. And if that home country happens to be a muslim country, the chances of them getting a very quick, fast, and painful show trial with an execution at the end is pretty high. And if you happen to be female, you can expect repeated rapes in there before they kill you...should you be so lucky. Sometimes they'll let them go after raping the women for a few weeks.
No the project leads gave plenty of time for testing, development, and even kept the WH up to date on what was happening. What happened though was the Obama administration pushed through something that wasn't ready, and wouldn't be ready for long past it's actual inception date. And this of course is because the administration sat on it's backside for an extended period of time, then waved their hands and said a couple of years should be more than enough.
The committee meetings are chock full of very useful information on this, lots of waffle, but surprising bits in the waffle itself. And most of it revolves around, but we..and..they said...followed by...we were going to do it anyway, but it's not our fault we pushed it out early.
Are you seriously saying Obama won *because* he was black?
Considering key parts of his campaign rolled around it, and there's no shortage of to this day "If you're against any part of whatever Obama is doing, you're a racist."
For them, it's just another opportunity for career advancement. If calling someone racist or sexist will help them land the job, that is all that matters!
Funny enough, that's probably closer to the truth than you'd expect. In Canada we went through this with policing back about 15 years ago, and it's completely messed up the management and general way things are handled. We're of course now reaping this politically correct mess, with peace officers who won't touch or do jobs because it "might inflame the minority groups." Different south of the border, back when a lot of places needed cops bad, they would hire anyone who could pass the basics even if they had a criminal past(Detroit was famous for this).
And of course this also swings into various things like fast tracking promotions and so on. An example: Let's say you, and a female cop are at equal terms for the moment in seniority, and qualifications. She gets pregnant...well what do you think will happen? If you think desk job you're half right, in most cases they'll get shuffled to ident, or something similar. In the year that she's not "working the beat" she'll get to sit there and twiddle her thumbs. In two years, because she's already worked at a job that requires a fair bit of smarts to do, she'll get a chance to pick and choose where she goes next. Now in the males case, let's say you get injured -- say serious spine injury, or some other form of a year or two long recovery process where you can still work. You think you're going to ident? Hardly, you my friend are being sent to the front desk to deal with people, and maybe go work in the cage(either weapons, or evidence). And when you're done and recovered, you're going right back to your old job. Enjoy that fast track process.
So, I see the Canadians are taking notes from the Americans and the British.
Hardly. It was exactly this type of abuse back in the 80's(1984 actually), when the RCMP was responsible for national security that caused the mandate to be ripped away from the RCMP, and the creation of CSIS with...a civilian oversight board. Very nasty bit of history with the entire organization on that. The real question of course is, why didn't the board do anything, say anything, or check this. The other part is, this will end up before the senate, and a house committee, both of which are good. Maybe, just maybe, it'll get the senate abolitionists to back off if they manage to get their act together. This is also going to cause a huge mess with on-going terrorism trials, especially the muslim nutbar that wanted to cause a terrorist attack on a VIA train going from Canada to the US.
There's a lot more to this than what we're seeing, just going by what I know from past history of CSIS and RCMPSS. And in this case, like the previous one I'm going to hazard a guess that it was also someone in CSIS who believed that "they could get away with it."
Somehow I don't think you realize how difficult it is to define a good crypto. And how easy it is to end up with a bad one.
One time pads, OTOH, have a lot to reccommend them, if you're in a situation where you can use one. But it was public key that made the web business model possible.
No I know exactly how difficult it is to define a good crypto and end up with a bad one. But extreme circumstances will, and do drive businesses, governments and individuals to create their own. Whether for good or bad in it's implementation, the overall effect is good.
One time pads are nice and all, so are key-sheets, and while public key made the web businesses viable, the desire for privacy is starting to swing back towards the "I don't want you snooping on me at all."
When an organization like the RSA can be bought, what in the hell makes you think the rest aren't too, regardless of country.
Where else. To find programers and cryptographers to develop their own encryption standard. If anything, actions like this will push other countries into what they can only trust in themselves. This also applies to businesses, and you can be sure that in the next few years you'll see an explosive growth in in-house and collab's between friendly companies.
That is evil... It is not the government's job or business in how I choose to raise my child...
Yeah...keep telling yourself that. The government raising your kids is an extension of a buttload of liberal policies in the 70's, 80's and 90's. To the point where educators believe they're "co-parents" and organizations like Children's Aid, will go out of their way to enforce their will and vision upon you, and your children.
Considering you need the pin for it to work, it becomes a bit more difficult. And it's either going to be 4 or 6 numbers long, so unless at every terminal they're recording the pin, you're talking about brute forcing all known pin's against the card. Most cards lock after 5 failed attempts, plus at least with the Interac system here in Canada, if the otherside doesn't authorize the pin, the chip doesn't authorize the pin you get squat.
It's massively cut down on the bank card, and CC fraud we've been dealing with up here. I'm sure it'll be an arms race again in a few years, but right now it is an improvement in security albeit a small one.
OECD is nice and all, but it calculates it based on the individual province, and not via transfer payments either. Just a useful tip. See in Canada, part of the general revenue fund pays for each provinces healthcare. Their numbers are based on each provinces taxation rates.
Then provide some actual evidence. Your word isn't evidence.
Things not covered in Ontario: Drugs, eye exams, glasses, frames, lenses, physio, massage therapy, inoculations(unless child), vaccines(unless special reason). Lab tests, pathology, and so on.
Not really, in some cases it's even more. See, because some things aren't covered at all. Which is why nearly everyone here has insurance, for their universal healthcare. Right now I have an ancient grandfathered plan via green shield that only costs me $1640/yr, which covers most of the things that I need. People getting the same plan today are looking at the 4k-9k/yearly.
Now that Obamacare is bringing socialism to US healthcare, Mashiki knows from miserable experience the poor quality and excessive expense that his southern neighbors can expect in the years to come.
You bet. Enjoy that "upto 84 and more days" for cancer surgery k? How about 196 days to get an MRI done for neck surgery. A 3.5hr wait for "critical care" emergency room visit.
No. More then likely, lowered premiums for better coverage. Those who complained about their canceled plans actually got better plans - less cost and more coverage.
Whatever guys, Troll dissolves Troll - like Chemistry, like dissolves like.
Really now, I have to ask if you're being paid by OFA or Media Matters after two statements like that. Every single person that I know in the US who had healthcare plans they liked, got theirs cancelled, and are paying anywhere between 40% and 280% more now, and they're getting 60% less coverage, with a 2000% increase in their deductible.
Maybe, maybe...you're just ignorant. Then again, back when you guy's were looking at implementing this, I repeatedly said it was doomed to failure and your healthcare insurance rates were going to head for "ass rape" territory. How did I know? Because I already live under a socialized medicine system in Canada.
Sadly it will make you fill out a death application form, 32 pages long. And should you develop the BSOD, you or your family will be taxed for it at a 'cheaper' price. Sorry I mean, an excessively more expensive price.
That you believe those numbers is your fault. For example, when was the last time GM stock traded above $45? Why do you think one of today's shares will ever be worth more than $50?
That probably would have been around 2005-06, and guessing at their sales figures? I'd say mid to late 2014, depending on whether or not the current administration moves forward with it usual business of not having a clue about how the world works or not. Nothing kills economic growth faster than a government that's uncertain, or enables business killing regulations(see Ontario and California).
The government of China works pretty well. So did the governments of Soviet Russia during the so called war communism period. Economically at least.
Yeah...I don't think so. If you think it was economically sound, then all you need to do is find people who lived during the period, and ask them about the lack of *everything* from basic necessities, to food. Hell, I can even give a small story from a ex-professor of mine(teaches criminal law and drug laws here in Canada). Back in the 80's they had a group of 10 soviet police officers come over as part of a training program. Their firm belief was everything was staged, from people driving cars, to full shelves in every store, to people walking around and not being subject to search, arrest, and documentation checks. They believed, that the government had created giant potyomkin villages(ottawa, and toronto), just to impress them.
One can argue that people bought a C64 because of the huge pirate game library available...
I'd say it's closer to the fact that magazines like COMPUTE and Commodore had programs right inside you could copy right out, modify and openly distribute. I know that's what got me started. Not only what is seeing the program, but seeing how you could modify it with author comments in the page margins.
Any car built in the last 50 years is capable of highway speeds. I assume that you are still driving the first car that you ever bought?
Most people replace their cars every 5 years, the average life expectancy of a car especially in places where salt is an issue is 10-15 years. In places with high grades, which can put a heavy toll on the engine and drivetrain it's 8-12 years.
A couple of dodgy NVidia driver versions do not rate the same level of fucktarded-ness as 2 decades of AMD/ATI driver incompetence.
A couple of dodgy nvidia driver versions? Uh what? It went on with this, and is still on-going for people. And that's been at least 2 years straight. AMD/ATI and generally nvidia have up/down cycles in their drivers(as a fair point I usually flip-flop every other generation), but even AMD/ATI drivers have been more solid than what nvidia has been pushing out. Before the "forum reset due to it being hacked" there was a single thread with over half a million views, and 170k posts on this one issue.
AMD's typically shitty driver situation, it's no big surprise that they're proritizing nVidia machinery first. Once AMD grows up, presents some decent drivers, and puts on their big boy pants, I'm sure Valve will be more than happy to include their drivers as a part of the system.
Wait. Were you using the same nvidia drivers that I was using among others for the last year, where it was fubared, beyond fubared. And got so bad at one point, that the drivers were causing hard locks across all 400-500-600 series cards. And to top it off, made a shit mess causing massive crashes, again across the board all the while claiming it was "on the users end" until it finally got so bad that they were offering to pay anyone in the continental US to have their rigs shipped to California so they could test them. There's a very good reason why a lot of people have switched to AMD in the last 6 months.
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At least in Dubai, they don't murder people with drones for posting videos on youtube like Obama did with Al Awlaki.
Right. They'll just out-right execute them, or ship them back to their home country. And if that home country happens to be a muslim country, the chances of them getting a very quick, fast, and painful show trial with an execution at the end is pretty high. And if you happen to be female, you can expect repeated rapes in there before they kill you...should you be so lucky. Sometimes they'll let them go after raping the women for a few weeks.
No the project leads gave plenty of time for testing, development, and even kept the WH up to date on what was happening. What happened though was the Obama administration pushed through something that wasn't ready, and wouldn't be ready for long past it's actual inception date. And this of course is because the administration sat on it's backside for an extended period of time, then waved their hands and said a couple of years should be more than enough.
The committee meetings are chock full of very useful information on this, lots of waffle, but surprising bits in the waffle itself. And most of it revolves around, but we..and..they said...followed by...we were going to do it anyway, but it's not our fault we pushed it out early.
When will these stupid liberals decide to get their science info from politicians, and ignore those pesky scientists?
They have an outlet for it already, it's called the IPCC.
Are you seriously saying Obama won *because* he was black?
Considering key parts of his campaign rolled around it, and there's no shortage of to this day "If you're against any part of whatever Obama is doing, you're a racist."
For them, it's just another opportunity for career advancement. If calling someone racist or sexist will help them land the job, that is all that matters!
Funny enough, that's probably closer to the truth than you'd expect. In Canada we went through this with policing back about 15 years ago, and it's completely messed up the management and general way things are handled. We're of course now reaping this politically correct mess, with peace officers who won't touch or do jobs because it "might inflame the minority groups." Different south of the border, back when a lot of places needed cops bad, they would hire anyone who could pass the basics even if they had a criminal past(Detroit was famous for this).
And of course this also swings into various things like fast tracking promotions and so on. An example: Let's say you, and a female cop are at equal terms for the moment in seniority, and qualifications. She gets pregnant...well what do you think will happen? If you think desk job you're half right, in most cases they'll get shuffled to ident, or something similar. In the year that she's not "working the beat" she'll get to sit there and twiddle her thumbs. In two years, because she's already worked at a job that requires a fair bit of smarts to do, she'll get a chance to pick and choose where she goes next. Now in the males case, let's say you get injured -- say serious spine injury, or some other form of a year or two long recovery process where you can still work. You think you're going to ident? Hardly, you my friend are being sent to the front desk to deal with people, and maybe go work in the cage(either weapons, or evidence). And when you're done and recovered, you're going right back to your old job. Enjoy that fast track process.
So, I see the Canadians are taking notes from the Americans and the British.
Hardly. It was exactly this type of abuse back in the 80's(1984 actually), when the RCMP was responsible for national security that caused the mandate to be ripped away from the RCMP, and the creation of CSIS with...a civilian oversight board. Very nasty bit of history with the entire organization on that. The real question of course is, why didn't the board do anything, say anything, or check this. The other part is, this will end up before the senate, and a house committee, both of which are good. Maybe, just maybe, it'll get the senate abolitionists to back off if they manage to get their act together. This is also going to cause a huge mess with on-going terrorism trials, especially the muslim nutbar that wanted to cause a terrorist attack on a VIA train going from Canada to the US.
There's a lot more to this than what we're seeing, just going by what I know from past history of CSIS and RCMPSS. And in this case, like the previous one I'm going to hazard a guess that it was also someone in CSIS who believed that "they could get away with it."
Somehow I don't think you realize how difficult it is to define a good crypto. And how easy it is to end up with a bad one.
One time pads, OTOH, have a lot to reccommend them, if you're in a situation where you can use one. But it was public key that made the web business model possible.
No I know exactly how difficult it is to define a good crypto and end up with a bad one. But extreme circumstances will, and do drive businesses, governments and individuals to create their own. Whether for good or bad in it's implementation, the overall effect is good.
One time pads are nice and all, so are key-sheets, and while public key made the web businesses viable, the desire for privacy is starting to swing back towards the "I don't want you snooping on me at all."
A massive exodus to where exactly?
When an organization like the RSA can be bought, what in the hell makes you think the rest aren't too, regardless of country.
Where else. To find programers and cryptographers to develop their own encryption standard. If anything, actions like this will push other countries into what they can only trust in themselves. This also applies to businesses, and you can be sure that in the next few years you'll see an explosive growth in in-house and collab's between friendly companies.
And how long do you think it will be before engineering gets automated?
About the time we develop AI, and machines do the thinking for us.
In other news, rye can naturally develop ergot. And if you know how to do it, you can make silohooch from in your silo in the fall.
That is evil... It is not the government's job or business in how I choose to raise my child...
Yeah...keep telling yourself that. The government raising your kids is an extension of a buttload of liberal policies in the 70's, 80's and 90's. To the point where educators believe they're "co-parents" and organizations like Children's Aid, will go out of their way to enforce their will and vision upon you, and your children.
Considering you need the pin for it to work, it becomes a bit more difficult. And it's either going to be 4 or 6 numbers long, so unless at every terminal they're recording the pin, you're talking about brute forcing all known pin's against the card. Most cards lock after 5 failed attempts, plus at least with the Interac system here in Canada, if the otherside doesn't authorize the pin, the chip doesn't authorize the pin you get squat.
It's massively cut down on the bank card, and CC fraud we've been dealing with up here. I'm sure it'll be an arms race again in a few years, but right now it is an improvement in security albeit a small one.
And your evidence is where?
OECD is nice and all, but it calculates it based on the individual province, and not via transfer payments either. Just a useful tip. See in Canada, part of the general revenue fund pays for each provinces healthcare. Their numbers are based on each provinces taxation rates.
Then provide some actual evidence. Your word isn't evidence.
Things not covered in Ontario: Drugs, eye exams, glasses, frames, lenses, physio, massage therapy, inoculations(unless child), vaccines(unless special reason). Lab tests, pathology, and so on.
Oddly the only thing I'm allergic to is dog dander, I've been that way ever since I was a little kid.
So nearly half of the US.
Not really, in some cases it's even more. See, because some things aren't covered at all. Which is why nearly everyone here has insurance, for their universal healthcare. Right now I have an ancient grandfathered plan via green shield that only costs me $1640/yr, which covers most of the things that I need. People getting the same plan today are looking at the 4k-9k/yearly.
Now that Obamacare is bringing socialism to US healthcare, Mashiki knows from miserable experience the poor quality and excessive expense that his southern neighbors can expect in the years to come.
You bet. Enjoy that "upto 84 and more days" for cancer surgery k? How about 196 days to get an MRI done for neck surgery. A 3.5hr wait for "critical care" emergency room visit.
No. More then likely, lowered premiums for better coverage. Those who complained about their canceled plans actually got better plans - less cost and more coverage.
Whatever guys, Troll dissolves Troll - like Chemistry, like dissolves like.
Really now, I have to ask if you're being paid by OFA or Media Matters after two statements like that. Every single person that I know in the US who had healthcare plans they liked, got theirs cancelled, and are paying anywhere between 40% and 280% more now, and they're getting 60% less coverage, with a 2000% increase in their deductible.
Maybe, maybe...you're just ignorant. Then again, back when you guy's were looking at implementing this, I repeatedly said it was doomed to failure and your healthcare insurance rates were going to head for "ass rape" territory. How did I know? Because I already live under a socialized medicine system in Canada.
Sadly it will make you fill out a death application form, 32 pages long. And should you develop the BSOD, you or your family will be taxed for it at a 'cheaper' price. Sorry I mean, an excessively more expensive price.
That you believe those numbers is your fault. For example, when was the last time GM stock traded above $45? Why do you think one of today's shares will ever be worth more than $50?
That probably would have been around 2005-06, and guessing at their sales figures? I'd say mid to late 2014, depending on whether or not the current administration moves forward with it usual business of not having a clue about how the world works or not. Nothing kills economic growth faster than a government that's uncertain, or enables business killing regulations(see Ontario and California).
The government of China works pretty well. So did the governments of Soviet Russia during the so called war communism period. Economically at least.
Yeah...I don't think so. If you think it was economically sound, then all you need to do is find people who lived during the period, and ask them about the lack of *everything* from basic necessities, to food. Hell, I can even give a small story from a ex-professor of mine(teaches criminal law and drug laws here in Canada). Back in the 80's they had a group of 10 soviet police officers come over as part of a training program. Their firm belief was everything was staged, from people driving cars, to full shelves in every store, to people walking around and not being subject to search, arrest, and documentation checks. They believed, that the government had created giant potyomkin villages(ottawa, and toronto), just to impress them.
One can argue that people bought a C64 because of the huge pirate game library available...
I'd say it's closer to the fact that magazines like COMPUTE and Commodore had programs right inside you could copy right out, modify and openly distribute. I know that's what got me started. Not only what is seeing the program, but seeing how you could modify it with author comments in the page margins.
Any car built in the last 50 years is capable of highway speeds. I assume that you are still driving the first car that you ever bought?
Most people replace their cars every 5 years, the average life expectancy of a car especially in places where salt is an issue is 10-15 years. In places with high grades, which can put a heavy toll on the engine and drivetrain it's 8-12 years.
The important question is; which is a better game play platform and which has the best games?
That's obvious, PC. All hail the Gaben.
A couple of dodgy NVidia driver versions do not rate the same level of fucktarded-ness as 2 decades of AMD/ATI driver incompetence.
A couple of dodgy nvidia driver versions? Uh what? It went on with this, and is still on-going for people. And that's been at least 2 years straight. AMD/ATI and generally nvidia have up/down cycles in their drivers(as a fair point I usually flip-flop every other generation), but even AMD/ATI drivers have been more solid than what nvidia has been pushing out. Before the "forum reset due to it being hacked" there was a single thread with over half a million views, and 170k posts on this one issue.
AMD's typically shitty driver situation, it's no big surprise that they're proritizing nVidia machinery first. Once AMD grows up, presents some decent drivers, and puts on their big boy pants, I'm sure Valve will be more than happy to include their drivers as a part of the system.
Wait. Were you using the same nvidia drivers that I was using among others for the last year, where it was fubared, beyond fubared. And got so bad at one point, that the drivers were causing hard locks across all 400-500-600 series cards. And to top it off, made a shit mess causing massive crashes, again across the board all the while claiming it was "on the users end" until it finally got so bad that they were offering to pay anyone in the continental US to have their rigs shipped to California so they could test them. There's a very good reason why a lot of people have switched to AMD in the last 6 months.