I think the parent is referring to the "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" of 1978. I don't have any links to back up what he said, but over the years I've heard credible reports of foreign intel agencies supplying the CIA with info it would have been illegal for them to collect themselves.
Believe what you want, but this is not an Urban Legend.
then what chance does an independent auto mechanic have of keeping up? I think the manufacturers will use this technology to further control the service end of the business.
What if I were politically active against the current administration? Might they care then?
We've been through this before. In 1978 the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was enacted. The Watergate hearings had proved to the nation that the executive branch couldn't be trusted to not spy on people on whom they had no right to spy.
Look at how close the last presidential election was. A few "puny little lives" could have made a big difference.
Secrecy is a double-edged sword. If it's public knowledge that a certain building contains critical infrastructure, then the public will be watchful of it. Maybe what we should do is keep the sensitive info away from the military so guys like Tim McVeigh can't get ahold of it.
The thing that really gets my goat is the Bush administration's extreme knee-jerk reaction to anything they see as even a slight risk. And they do it in the name of post-9/11 security (and all that is holy) when the fact of the matter is that if they had just taken care of the basic stuff (student visas, closed cockpit doors, air patrols, etc.), the WTC would probably still be standing.
Bush has hijacked this country and he's on a mission from God (and Exxon). But watch his popularity numbers plummet just like Senior's did as the public discovers the lies he has been feeding them.
Absolutely. In the meat department, I've seen pricing penalties of 200% (3x) for not having the card.
When they introduced the card I got one with a fake name. But then I started just telling them that I didn't have it with me and they would still give me the lower price. Eventually, they refused to give me lower price and I left about $100 worth of groceries sitting on their belt. I've never gone back.
The market I use now also has a card program, but doesn't enforce it. Those who do use the card accumulate some type of bonus which seems reasonable.
I don't think it's that simple, at least not for a general purpose system.
The Seti@home app doesn't care about net latency or bandwidth. Non-realtime Video encoding cares about bandwidth but not latency. Finite element analysis cares about both. Intelligent resource management and task classification will be very important.
I suspect that as the the field develops, we'll see many existing NUMA techniques simply extended outside the box. The network really is the computer.
"So what gives you the right to take that music..."
The same docs that give me the right to drink this tea without paying huge taxes to His Majesty.
I'm in favor of copyright laws, just not the Mickey Mouse ones we've been getting lately. Copyright laws exist to create an incentive to invent, but taken too far they stifle innovation and productivity.
Some people don't develop a new product for fear of being sued for infringing some obscure patent. Others rest on the laurels of their past inventions and seek their fortunes by licensing rather than producing. The GNP ends up consisting of trillions in "virtual goods" and little in real value.
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I think the parent is referring to the "Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" of 1978. I don't have any links to back up what he said, but over the years I've heard credible reports of foreign intel agencies supplying the CIA with info it would have been illegal for them to collect themselves.
Believe what you want, but this is not an Urban Legend.
then what chance does an independent auto mechanic have of keeping up? I think the manufacturers will use this technology to further control the service end of the business.
Sure, I'm undefeatDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEFDEADBEEF will never beat me.
I'd rather be in field service.
"hit band of the 1980s"
More like the 1950s.
A station wagon carrying backup tapes could transfer 222 zettabytes. Now that's a lot of porn.
"Berzerk"?
"Intruder alert, intruder alert. Kill the human".
With Vaio laptops line disables you.
They went plaid!
"the kind of stuff the FBI dabbled in under Hoover"
Not to mention the Foreign Intelligence Surveillence Act of 1978. Watergate was about more than the ofice break-in.
What if I were politically active against the current administration? Might they care then?
We've been through this before. In 1978 the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) was enacted. The Watergate hearings had proved to the nation that the executive branch couldn't be trusted to not spy on people on whom they had no right to spy.
Look at how close the last presidential election was. A few "puny little lives" could have made a big difference.
Secrecy is a double-edged sword. If it's public knowledge that a certain building contains critical infrastructure, then the public will be watchful of it. Maybe what we should do is keep the sensitive info away from the military so guys like Tim McVeigh can't get ahold of it.
The thing that really gets my goat is the Bush administration's extreme knee-jerk reaction to anything they see as even a slight risk. And they do it in the name of post-9/11 security (and all that is holy) when the fact of the matter is that if they had just taken care of the basic stuff (student visas, closed cockpit doors, air patrols, etc.), the WTC would probably still be standing.
Bush has hijacked this country and he's on a mission from God (and Exxon). But watch his popularity numbers plummet just like Senior's did as the public discovers the lies he has been feeding them.
IIRC SCO owns the Borland compilers. Maybe they just invented truth++.
Water cooling of mainframes and other multi-million dollar electronic systems is nothing new. What's your point?
Oh, about 1 megabogomip.
"press Enter key"
Some kb's still label it 'Return'.
Absolutely. In the meat department, I've seen pricing penalties of 200% (3x) for not having the card.
When they introduced the card I got one with a fake name. But then I started just telling them that I didn't have it with me and they would still give me the lower price. Eventually, they refused to give me lower price and I left about $100 worth of groceries sitting on their belt. I've never gone back.
The market I use now also has a card program, but doesn't enforce it. Those who do use the card accumulate some type of bonus which seems reasonable.
I don't know what kind of sauce it is, but there's a plastic replica of the dish in the window.
"Put the computation near the data."
I don't think it's that simple, at least not for a general purpose system.
The Seti@home app doesn't care about net latency or bandwidth. Non-realtime Video encoding cares about bandwidth but not latency. Finite element analysis cares about both. Intelligent resource management and task classification will be very important.
I suspect that as the the field develops, we'll see many existing NUMA techniques simply extended outside the box. The network really is the computer.
"So what gives you the right to take that music..."
The same docs that give me the right to drink this tea without paying huge taxes to His Majesty.
I'm in favor of copyright laws, just not the Mickey Mouse ones we've been getting lately. Copyright laws exist to create an incentive to invent, but taken too far they stifle innovation and productivity.
Some people don't develop a new product for fear of being sued for infringing some obscure patent. Others rest on the laurels of their past inventions and seek their fortunes by licensing rather than producing. The GNP ends up consisting of trillions in "virtual goods" and little in real value.
I'm reading every post with a french accent.
as well as 16 rpm records.
It's analog compression, like microfilm.
"It can encrypt and comprss the data."
Aah, a nw comprssion mthod basd on rmoving th lttr ''.
"...they definitely don't have the latter."
If only we could remember where we left the petition.