Conspiracy theorists who think the government is after them, or has some other conspiracy going. Also, you get a lot of people who are just curious and order a huge amount of information just to satisfy it. Let's just say that, even where partisan politics isn't an issue, a large number of FOIA requests really don't serve the common good.
The Bush administration was raked over the coalsby the press for Blackberry use, and Sarah Palin was nailed for occasionally using private email as governor. Currently the press is complaining about Romney deleting information when he left as governor.
Note the common denominator: They're all Republicans. I'll be surprised if the press inflates this to the scale of a national scandal since Cuomo is a Democrat.
The mainstream press didn't care much when the Clinton administration "lost" thousands of emails under subpoena, even with a Democrat operative threatening contractors who were knew about the loss, and the fact that person got promoted out of the mess. I hear the Obama administration has hired her for a sensitive post at Cyber Command, *chirp* *chirp*.
It was closed before the hack. App developers just didn't bother to implement receipt authorization that's built into the store, allowing their apps to be tricked.
The question is why Apple didn't make authorization mandatory. But if they did then there'd be bitching about that too.
They don't care about the case of the battery. Maybe if the case is recyclable plastic, they'll ship it to a plastic recycler where it gets crushed up anyway.
What they want to do is extract the lithium compounds from the innards of the battery.
They just can't be easily recycled according to their outdated criteria. They require screws to certify it can be recycled, but apparently have never heard of a heat gun to disassemble glued parts.
You can get a Chevy Impala with a lot more power than an Acura TL and at a cheaper price. Of course, the TL is a far better vehicle, better engineered, better built, more reliable, and overall more pleasant to use.
yes it's heavier and thicker but what they hell difference does that make
You pay for lightness and thinness in the notebook market regardless of the brand. Check out the prices on Sony's ultra-thin notebooks. Asus has competition to the MacBook Air. It's about $200 less, but it has a slower last-generation CPU (Sandy Bridge, which means last-generation GPU too), is a bit thicker, has a low-res camera, and is missing Thunderbolt.
This is where adhering to the Constitution would be cool. It would stop something like this as a simple majority in its tracks. You'd need 75% to push it through.
But years of a liberal interpretation of the Constitution as a "living" document means that all we need is 51% in Congress and a majority of nine judges to make it happen.
So, for a gay liberal who cheered the recent opinion on Obamacare, remember that when you're up for execution for being homosexual.
For the Nintendo 64 at least, that's a maximum of 12.8 GB. However, few games actually hit that 64 MB max, and many were down in the single-digit range. So I'd guess no more than 8 GB.
Had they not accepted the graciously-offered licenseing fees, Microsoft would have sued and a request for an injunction would have been one of the first filings.
Manufacturers probably *would* just cough up cash and license these patents from Apple just to save the court costs if Apple would allow them to pursue that option.
That's a Steve Jobs thing. I expect Apple to start settling for minor patent infringements. However, in cases of blatant coattail riding, I expect the hard line approach to continue. In Microsoft's case, the overally product isn't trying to ride on the coattails of any Microsoft product, it just infringed a few obscure patents that are a tiny part of the overall system.
So that explains the Christians here on the streets beating women who don't have their heads covered. That explains why all the women here have been forced out of employment and education. That explains why Christians who go to another religion or become atheist are commonly executed here.
Oh wait, none of that's even close to happening.
We have a tiny, tiny minority of Christians in this country who wish they could do a Christian-style Sharia, but the most encroachment on our lives is the annoying Westboro Baptist clan. But even then, the Bible says to give to Ceasar what is Caesar's, meaning Christians can separate religion and government in accordance with the Bible. Sharia demands there be no such separation.
That comes in a variety of ways from gerrymandering to incompetently conducted elections.
Gerrymandering? You are blind if you think that is a Republican-only feature. Democrats threaded the Illinois 4th through Hispanic neighborhoods to get a Democrat Hispanic in office. Batshit crazy, title holder of meanest congresswoman, Sheila Jackson-Lee has a district with a hole punched in it to cut out whites and pack it with Hispanics and blacks.
But I can't figure out which one is more insane, Maryland's 3rd district that looks like a Rorsach test of Democrat populations, or the North Carolina 12th as drawn by Democrats in the 90s. Back then it cut vertically through most of the state, long and thin reaching out to Democrat pockets along the I85, being only as wide as the I85 in places in order to maintain a contiguous nature.
and if somebody is taking the time to bus people around (which they wouldn't, because corrupting elections officials is cheaper), they would make fake IDs with ease.
First, Democrats do bussings all over the country every big election, it's a fact. Second, please don't give them more ideas.
#1 isn't going to make you friends with Republicans, who prefer that people who don't have the means to get to the polls don't. Can't have the poor riff-raff affecting the election.
#2 will be stoped by the Department of Justice if it's run by a Democrat political hack like Holder. The reasoning is that it disproportionally affects blacks, so it's racist and unconstitutional. The fact that a disproportionate number of blacks are ineligible convicted felons in the first place is irrelevant to them.
#3 Will be stopped by Democrats, period. The illegal vote, and the vote of those who can't be bothered to apply for a free ID (mainly swept off street corners and bussed to the polls by the likes of ACORN), mainly swings their way.
#5 is tough. Does this count ballots suddenly "found" when the Democrat is behind in the count? They tried this in Wisconsin, but a smart Republican operative delayed reporting the votes cast by one heavily Republican city. This meant the Democrats underestimated how many votes would have to be "found." They managed to "find" quite a few in the recount, but it wasn't enough to overcome the deficit without being so obvious they'd get caught.
That would require voter ID, and Democrats are against that.
Ostensibly this is because getting an ID costs money, and that amounts ot a poll tax. I could agree with that argument, but then they still complain when laws are passed that make the ID free if a person can't afford it. The truth lies in a recent attempt in North Carolina to remove foreign consulate matricula cards from the list of valid forms of identification that can lead to someone getting a driver's license (valid state ID). The Democrats oppose this.
That's an example of government doing it. Many areas of the former East Germany are toxic cesspools because the government didn't care about proper waste disposal.
When a company does this it has to answer to the government. When a government does this it, in theory only, has to answer to the people. But you have probably noticed how little accountability the government has to the people lately.
I remember the laser they brought to my school in the early 80s, I think it was from the late 70s. It was four feet long and about four inches square, metal and heavy. It plugged into the wall to get enough juice to power a laser weaker than your average battery-powered pen laser these days.
The application is working as advertised, uploading data as allowed by the user.
The problem is that the company is not trustworthy for what it does with that data. This can be any company: Do you trust Google, Yelp or Facebook with your data? This is the decision you have to make with any app on any platform. Pretty much the only way around this would be for Apple to require privacy and data use policies with minimum protections for all developers, and then require them to be bonded against a misuse contrary to that policy.
60 years ago we probably could have brute-forced RC5-56 (if it existed), but it would have required terawatts of power and cities full of computers running for years. Then it was done in about 200 days in the late 90s using hundreds of thousands of hours of computer idle time. Now a PC with a fast video card could probably crack it in minutes using only a couple hundred watts.
I have learned not to overestimate how hard something may be in the future because of how hard it could be today.
I read a story on the people who make Mag flashlights. They are very proud of "made in the USA" and wanted a 100% USA-manufactured product. Even for something as simple as a flashlight, turned out that one part could not be sourced from the USA, and gearing op manufacturing themselves would have been prohibitively expensive.
I'm not saying Google's in this exact boat, but it is hard to expect 100% made in the USA from any product of reasonable complexity if something as simple as a flashlight can't do it.
Unions also become a problem when they become self-serving, more interested in the union itself rather than the people they represent.
Unions become a problem when they become political machines, because they while they represent their workers on one front, they could be lobbying against them on another (using the workers' own money even).
And, of course, when they work against the public good. Take teacher unions. They don't give a damn about the kids, they represent the teachers as they were formed to do. But whenever the interests of the kids conflict with the interests of the teachers, the unions will logically work against the interests of the kids.
Oooh, wow. Again, compare Samsung AC adapters before and after. Even compare Samsung phone adapters. Nope, it was designed to ride the coattails of the iPad, with only a color scheme change.
If you think Samsung copied the iPad, then just about every current tablet on the market must have copied it too.
Samsung goes much further, which is probably why they attracted Apple's ire. As I said, packaging and even the AC adapter changed to copy Apple. Their little stores copied the layout and design of Apple stores. They even screwed up and put Apple App Store icons on the walls of their stores where they advertised apps available for their Android products. Their connection port even looks almost exactly like an Apple dock connector. Basically, Samsung's idea of what a tablet should be, and how it is packaged and sold, looked nothing like an iPad, until after the iPad.
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Conspiracy theorists who think the government is after them, or has some other conspiracy going. Also, you get a lot of people who are just curious and order a huge amount of information just to satisfy it. Let's just say that, even where partisan politics isn't an issue, a large number of FOIA requests really don't serve the common good.
Yes, I knew a FOIA officer.
The Bush administration was raked over the coalsby the press for Blackberry use, and Sarah Palin was nailed for occasionally using private email as governor. Currently the press is complaining about Romney deleting information when he left as governor.
Note the common denominator: They're all Republicans. I'll be surprised if the press inflates this to the scale of a national scandal since Cuomo is a Democrat.
The mainstream press didn't care much when the Clinton administration "lost" thousands of emails under subpoena, even with a Democrat operative threatening contractors who were knew about the loss, and the fact that person got promoted out of the mess. I hear the Obama administration has hired her for a sensitive post at Cyber Command, *chirp* *chirp*.
It was closed before the hack. App developers just didn't bother to implement receipt authorization that's built into the store, allowing their apps to be tricked.
The question is why Apple didn't make authorization mandatory. But if they did then there'd be bitching about that too.
They don't care about the case of the battery. Maybe if the case is recyclable plastic, they'll ship it to a plastic recycler where it gets crushed up anyway.
What they want to do is extract the lithium compounds from the innards of the battery.
They just can't be easily recycled according to their outdated criteria. They require screws to certify it can be recycled, but apparently have never heard of a heat gun to disassemble glued parts.
You can get a Chevy Impala with a lot more power than an Acura TL and at a cheaper price. Of course, the TL is a far better vehicle, better engineered, better built, more reliable, and overall more pleasant to use.
You pay for lightness and thinness in the notebook market regardless of the brand. Check out the prices on Sony's ultra-thin notebooks. Asus has competition to the MacBook Air. It's about $200 less, but it has a slower last-generation CPU (Sandy Bridge, which means last-generation GPU too), is a bit thicker, has a low-res camera, and is missing Thunderbolt.
If you're not a Muslim you automatically lose many of the freedoms in the Constitution. Pick one.
This is where adhering to the Constitution would be cool. It would stop something like this as a simple majority in its tracks. You'd need 75% to push it through.
But years of a liberal interpretation of the Constitution as a "living" document means that all we need is 51% in Congress and a majority of nine judges to make it happen.
So, for a gay liberal who cheered the recent opinion on Obamacare, remember that when you're up for execution for being homosexual.
For the Nintendo 64 at least, that's a maximum of 12.8 GB. However, few games actually hit that 64 MB max, and many were down in the single-digit range. So I'd guess no more than 8 GB.
Had they not accepted the graciously-offered licenseing fees, Microsoft would have sued and a request for an injunction would have been one of the first filings.
That's a Steve Jobs thing. I expect Apple to start settling for minor patent infringements. However, in cases of blatant coattail riding, I expect the hard line approach to continue. In Microsoft's case, the overally product isn't trying to ride on the coattails of any Microsoft product, it just infringed a few obscure patents that are a tiny part of the overall system.
Microsoft is getting $5 for every Android phone from HTC, Motorola, and probably the rest because Microsoft threatened to sue over patents.
Yes, your personal duty, not the duty of the state. In the perfect Muslim state there is no differentiation between religion and state, they are one.
So that explains the Christians here on the streets beating women who don't have their heads covered. That explains why all the women here have been forced out of employment and education. That explains why Christians who go to another religion or become atheist are commonly executed here.
Oh wait, none of that's even close to happening.
We have a tiny, tiny minority of Christians in this country who wish they could do a Christian-style Sharia, but the most encroachment on our lives is the annoying Westboro Baptist clan. But even then, the Bible says to give to Ceasar what is Caesar's, meaning Christians can separate religion and government in accordance with the Bible. Sharia demands there be no such separation.
Gerrymandering? You are blind if you think that is a Republican-only feature. Democrats threaded the Illinois 4th through Hispanic neighborhoods to get a Democrat Hispanic in office. Batshit crazy, title holder of meanest congresswoman, Sheila Jackson-Lee has a district with a hole punched in it to cut out whites and pack it with Hispanics and blacks.
But I can't figure out which one is more insane, Maryland's 3rd district that looks like a Rorsach test of Democrat populations, or the North Carolina 12th as drawn by Democrats in the 90s. Back then it cut vertically through most of the state, long and thin reaching out to Democrat pockets along the I85, being only as wide as the I85 in places in order to maintain a contiguous nature.
First, Democrats do bussings all over the country every big election, it's a fact. Second, please don't give them more ideas.
#1 isn't going to make you friends with Republicans, who prefer that people who don't have the means to get to the polls don't. Can't have the poor riff-raff affecting the election.
#2 will be stoped by the Department of Justice if it's run by a Democrat political hack like Holder. The reasoning is that it disproportionally affects blacks, so it's racist and unconstitutional. The fact that a disproportionate number of blacks are ineligible convicted felons in the first place is irrelevant to them.
#3 Will be stopped by Democrats, period. The illegal vote, and the vote of those who can't be bothered to apply for a free ID (mainly swept off street corners and bussed to the polls by the likes of ACORN), mainly swings their way.
#5 is tough. Does this count ballots suddenly "found" when the Democrat is behind in the count? They tried this in Wisconsin, but a smart Republican operative delayed reporting the votes cast by one heavily Republican city. This meant the Democrats underestimated how many votes would have to be "found." They managed to "find" quite a few in the recount, but it wasn't enough to overcome the deficit without being so obvious they'd get caught.
That would require voter ID, and Democrats are against that.
Ostensibly this is because getting an ID costs money, and that amounts ot a poll tax. I could agree with that argument, but then they still complain when laws are passed that make the ID free if a person can't afford it. The truth lies in a recent attempt in North Carolina to remove foreign consulate matricula cards from the list of valid forms of identification that can lead to someone getting a driver's license (valid state ID). The Democrats oppose this.
That's an example of government doing it. Many areas of the former East Germany are toxic cesspools because the government didn't care about proper waste disposal.
When a company does this it has to answer to the government. When a government does this it, in theory only, has to answer to the people. But you have probably noticed how little accountability the government has to the people lately.
I remember the laser they brought to my school in the early 80s, I think it was from the late 70s. It was four feet long and about four inches square, metal and heavy. It plugged into the wall to get enough juice to power a laser weaker than your average battery-powered pen laser these days.
The application is working as advertised, uploading data as allowed by the user.
The problem is that the company is not trustworthy for what it does with that data. This can be any company: Do you trust Google, Yelp or Facebook with your data? This is the decision you have to make with any app on any platform. Pretty much the only way around this would be for Apple to require privacy and data use policies with minimum protections for all developers, and then require them to be bonded against a misuse contrary to that policy.
They'll complain about how you're warming the ocean and send divers down to plug your cooling vents.
60 years ago we probably could have brute-forced RC5-56 (if it existed), but it would have required terawatts of power and cities full of computers running for years. Then it was done in about 200 days in the late 90s using hundreds of thousands of hours of computer idle time. Now a PC with a fast video card could probably crack it in minutes using only a couple hundred watts.
I have learned not to overestimate how hard something may be in the future because of how hard it could be today.
I read a story on the people who make Mag flashlights. They are very proud of "made in the USA" and wanted a 100% USA-manufactured product. Even for something as simple as a flashlight, turned out that one part could not be sourced from the USA, and gearing op manufacturing themselves would have been prohibitively expensive.
I'm not saying Google's in this exact boat, but it is hard to expect 100% made in the USA from any product of reasonable complexity if something as simple as a flashlight can't do it.
Unions also become a problem when they become self-serving, more interested in the union itself rather than the people they represent.
Unions become a problem when they become political machines, because they while they represent their workers on one front, they could be lobbying against them on another (using the workers' own money even).
And, of course, when they work against the public good. Take teacher unions. They don't give a damn about the kids, they represent the teachers as they were formed to do. But whenever the interests of the kids conflict with the interests of the teachers, the unions will logically work against the interests of the kids.
Oooh, wow. Again, compare Samsung AC adapters before and after. Even compare Samsung phone adapters. Nope, it was designed to ride the coattails of the iPad, with only a color scheme change.
Samsung goes much further, which is probably why they attracted Apple's ire. As I said, packaging and even the AC adapter changed to copy Apple. Their little stores copied the layout and design of Apple stores. They even screwed up and put Apple App Store icons on the walls of their stores where they advertised apps available for their Android products. Their connection port even looks almost exactly like an Apple dock connector. Basically, Samsung's idea of what a tablet should be, and how it is packaged and sold, looked nothing like an iPad, until after the iPad.