Because, when I buy a CD I want to reward the artists & not the record companies. Due to the way almost all record company contracts are written, buying a CD rewards the artists over 10 times what they get from downloads.
The reason that iPads can have better resolution than Macbook Airs is that Battery life sucks on OSX compared to iOS (& Windows is beyond abysmal). The Airs selling points are portability and above all, long battery life. Apple could have put a retina screen in an Air but it would probably lop 40-50% of the battery life off a non retina version & would thus sell poorly.
Apple imposed strictures on OSX applications that allow them to seriously optimise battery life: Polling is practically verboten, OSX reschedules interruptions so that the CPU can get back to sleep & not spend it's time mostly awake & draining the battery. Mavericks is a big step in the right direction & we will probably see a retina Air within a year or two, but we're not quite there yet.
No, I clearly see that for you, everything that purportedly comes from Snowden is accepted as the one true gospel, without any critical thought whatsoever. You clearly think that Snowden is a modern Washington who cannot tell a lie whereas I believe Snowden when he has supporting documentation but not necessarily when he makes allegations that are unsupported. Your elevation of Snowden into some kind of uncorruptable & infallible prophet is precisely the point I have been criticizing.
You clearly have little idea of how clearances work. Many moons ago, I had a security clearance because I was a military photographer. All Military photographers have secret level clearance as when one is needed for something sensitive they don't want to have to screw around with having to find one that has the necessary clearance level. Thus back then, I would have been included in theraven's OMG ONE MILLION people yet there was no way for me to know anything other than the operations I was involved in.
Need to know & access opportunities mean that even someone in Snowden's position following regulations couldn't have access to all the info that he stole. He had to steal the credentials of people with higher level access than what he had. As a sysadmin, he was able to do so.
Not everyone with a security clearance is a sysadmin & indeed the NSA drastically reduced the number of it's sysadmin's since Snowden. 1 million people with security clearances != The same amount of people with access to the same amount of info as Snowden. Do I need to draw the lines between the dots any finer or do you at last get the point?
Ah, and they are all sysadmins who are abusing their privileges without being detected because the NSA is incapable of learning anything from Snowden & say eliminating any/all sysadmins in whom they have the slightest doubt. No, no, that couldn't possibly be true...
Glad to see that you didn't completely miss my point.
It also means that we do not attempt to whitewash Snowden or attempt to paint him into being some kind of idol that is only here to do good & has never done any wrong. The word of Snowden is no more gospel than the word of Assange, Obama or Bush & those of his allegations which are unsupported and self serving are no more credible.
Because you do believe that Snowden has his own agenda and are not blindly following it right?
There has been various accusations that Snowden leaked the documents to Russia, willingly or unwillingly. This should (in a perfect world) make those accusations less valid.
How so? Because Snowden purportedly says so?
Well then, that's clear, then isn't it. Absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind that anything Snowden says could be anything but the gospel as Snowden is the only true prophet & can tell no lies...
So the NSA employs "a million" sysadmins who steal their colleagues & bosses credentials so that they can gan access to files they normally wouldn't be able to see? So glad nobody on Snowden's side is using hyperbole...
Ah, so now he's George Washington and cannot tell a lie?
Much like Assange, Obama, Bush, Kennedy, Churchill & everyone else, Snowden will and does lie & bend his tale to justify his acts. Pretending otherwise just exposes you as a zealot.
Because, all governments while publicly protesting the existence of being spied upon on the Internet (whether by NSA, FSB, DGSE,...) all have entities that do the same thing to others?
My preferred music app, Mediamonkey is coded in Delphi. This is becoming a problem as it is not present on either Linux or Mac & even windows 8 certification is defendant on compile time options that the Delphi debs have not implemented yet.
I know you were shooting for funny but all you achieved is looking dumb. Lightning uses active negotiation at voltages designed to be non damaging even if shorted out, not hardwired pins like the electric sockets your mom keeps telling you to stop sticking paper clips into...
Unconstitutional according to whom, exactly? I can't quite recall the Supreme Court deciding that data seizures by Customs are unconstitutional but I'm sure that you'll give a reference.
Don't bother with any lesser justifications like "my interpretation of the constitution leads me to believe that it's unconstitutional" that's not what you said & blanket references to unconstitutionality can only refer to the USSC. Your analysis, however brilliant it may seem to you holds no weight with others.
Yeah, right. Border authorities couldn't possibly detain someone on suspicion of smuggling data internally & wait for it to come out like they already do for drug mules. No, no, it could never happen...
It'd be nice if you wouldn't demean words like "routine" into meaninglessness and stop confusing the NSA with the US customs authorities. Yeah we've all heard of incidents where laptops & drives have been confiscated but this is not a routine occurrence -- If you want to claim otherwise deliver a reliable reference giving the total number of incidents per year (you're the one claiming it's "routine" so it's on you to justify your claim). I'll divide that by the number of border crossings & we'll all have a benchmark on how often it happens per border crossing & just how "routine" it is.
We have a winner! Someone who complains that/. is fucked up but then adds his little heap of dung to the pile...
You're not just ignorant of the subject, you're also too self involved to learn by analogy & too lazy to learn by reading through the comments here. Even if RdRand is NSA compromised, it is at worst a no-op for the NSA & AS IT IS NOT USED ALONE, SECURITY IS NOT COMPROMISED. Also, the NSA isn't the only reason people use RdRand & until someone figures out precisely if/how it is compromised it is still valuable for all these uses.
you might want to reread the part in uppercase above a few times so that it can get trough all the screens you have setup to avoid learning...
You admittedly know bugger all about how how RdRand is used In the Linux kernel, much like everyone who voted to remove it. Imagine for an instant that you know little about gasoline & that your sleeve had just caught fire. Someone yelling that you should douse yourself in gasoline might seem to be a good idea... Your problem (along with the others who voted on a subject they knew nothing about) is that "something needs to be done" does not mean that the proposed solution isn't worse than the problem.
Says who? You? Linux is Linus's ball. The global consensus is that Linus is doing a good job slamming the people with self entitlement issues that want him to do stuff for irrational reasons. If you want you can fork & make your own distrib. Submit a story to/. in 6 months telling us how that went, we could all use a laugh.
That's only because we french expect our government to spy on us & to control the press as much as they can. We find it normal that Pompidou asked Kennedy "how to you control the country if you don't control the press" & having a President outright lie about his having a cancer before an election isn't considered a breach of journalistic ethics when we learn the press knew.
Except for a few rare exceptions the only people claiming to be outraged about the NSA's data gathering are clowns like Melenchon who do so out of anti US posturing.
You're counting chickens before they hatch. This suit will be buried one way or another as the French government does not want anyone looking any closer at the DGSE's data collection/mining activities. The Hypocrisy of trying to reproach the USA or US corporations for doing the same thing the French Government is doing (possibly with some of the same corporations like EMC) is too big to swallow, even for the current government.
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Because, when I buy a CD I want to reward the artists & not the record companies. Due to the way almost all record company contracts are written, buying a CD rewards the artists over 10 times what they get from downloads.
If he's got just the one hand that is moving does that count as it being interactive?
The reason that iPads can have better resolution than Macbook Airs is that Battery life sucks on OSX compared to iOS (& Windows is beyond abysmal). The Airs selling points are portability and above all, long battery life. Apple could have put a retina screen in an Air but it would probably lop 40-50% of the battery life off a non retina version & would thus sell poorly.
Read John Siracusa's review of Mavericks.
Apple imposed strictures on OSX applications that allow them to seriously optimise battery life: Polling is practically verboten, OSX reschedules interruptions so that the CPU can get back to sleep & not spend it's time mostly awake & draining the battery. Mavericks is a big step in the right direction & we will probably see a retina Air within a year or two, but we're not quite there yet.
No, I clearly see that for you, everything that purportedly comes from Snowden is accepted as the one true gospel, without any critical thought whatsoever. You clearly think that Snowden is a modern Washington who cannot tell a lie whereas I believe Snowden when he has supporting documentation but not necessarily when he makes allegations that are unsupported. Your elevation of Snowden into some kind of uncorruptable & infallible prophet is precisely the point I have been criticizing.
You clearly have little idea of how clearances work. Many moons ago, I had a security clearance because I was a military photographer. All Military photographers have secret level clearance as when one is needed for something sensitive they don't want to have to screw around with having to find one that has the necessary clearance level. Thus back then, I would have been included in theraven's OMG ONE MILLION people yet there was no way for me to know anything other than the operations I was involved in.
Need to know & access opportunities mean that even someone in Snowden's position following regulations couldn't have access to all the info that he stole. He had to steal the credentials of people with higher level access than what he had. As a sysadmin, he was able to do so.
Not everyone with a security clearance is a sysadmin & indeed the NSA drastically reduced the number of it's sysadmin's since Snowden. 1 million people with security clearances != The same amount of people with access to the same amount of info as Snowden. Do I need to draw the lines between the dots any finer or do you at last get the point?
Good to have the final word straight from the kremlin, thanks.
You missed my point. When there is no evidence but only Snowden's unsupported allegations, how do we react?
Way to many people around here are abandoning all critical thought as soon as "Snowden reports from Moscow" is in the byline.
Ah, and they are all sysadmins who are abusing their privileges without being detected because the NSA is incapable of learning anything from Snowden & say eliminating any/all sysadmins in whom they have the slightest doubt. No, no, that couldn't possibly be true...
Glad to see that you didn't completely miss my point.
It also means that we do not attempt to whitewash Snowden or attempt to paint him into being some kind of idol that is only here to do good & has never done any wrong. The word of Snowden is no more gospel than the word of Assange, Obama or Bush & those of his allegations which are unsupported and self serving are no more credible.
Because you do believe that Snowden has his own agenda and are not blindly following it right?
There has been various accusations that Snowden leaked the documents to Russia, willingly or unwillingly. This should (in a perfect world) make those accusations less valid.
How so? Because Snowden purportedly says so?
Well then, that's clear, then isn't it. Absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind that anything Snowden says could be anything but the gospel as Snowden is the only true prophet & can tell no lies...
So the NSA employs "a million" sysadmins who steal their colleagues & bosses credentials so that they can gan access to files they normally wouldn't be able to see? So glad nobody on Snowden's side is using hyperbole...
Ah, so now he's George Washington and cannot tell a lie?
Much like Assange, Obama, Bush, Kennedy, Churchill & everyone else, Snowden will and does lie & bend his tale to justify his acts. Pretending otherwise just exposes you as a zealot.
I'm not even talking about the historic examples of a century ago. Robert Murdock anyone?
Because, all governments while publicly protesting the existence of being spied upon on the Internet (whether by NSA, FSB, DGSE, ...) all have entities that do the same thing to others?
My preferred music app, Mediamonkey is coded in Delphi. This is becoming a problem as it is not present on either Linux or Mac & even windows 8 certification is defendant on compile time options that the Delphi debs have not implemented yet.
heh...
I know you were shooting for funny but all you achieved is looking dumb. Lightning uses active negotiation at voltages designed to be non damaging even if shorted out, not hardwired pins like the electric sockets your mom keeps telling you to stop sticking paper clips into...
That's going to pretty much ensure that customs will have to retain your devices instead of just giving them a scan. Sounds like a great idea!
Unconstitutional according to whom, exactly? I can't quite recall the Supreme Court deciding that data seizures by Customs are unconstitutional but I'm sure that you'll give a reference.
Don't bother with any lesser justifications like "my interpretation of the constitution leads me to believe that it's unconstitutional" that's not what you said & blanket references to unconstitutionality can only refer to the USSC. Your analysis, however brilliant it may seem to you holds no weight with others.
Yeah, right. Border authorities couldn't possibly detain someone on suspicion of smuggling data internally & wait for it to come out like they already do for drug mules. No, no, it could never happen...
It'd be nice if you wouldn't demean words like "routine" into meaninglessness and stop confusing the NSA with the US customs authorities. Yeah we've all heard of incidents where laptops & drives have been confiscated but this is not a routine occurrence -- If you want to claim otherwise deliver a reliable reference giving the total number of incidents per year (you're the one claiming it's "routine" so it's on you to justify your claim). I'll divide that by the number of border crossings & we'll all have a benchmark on how often it happens per border crossing & just how "routine" it is.
We have a winner! Someone who complains that /. is fucked up but then adds his little heap of dung to the pile...
You're not just ignorant of the subject, you're also too self involved to learn by analogy & too lazy to learn by reading through the comments here. Even if RdRand is NSA compromised, it is at worst a no-op for the NSA & AS IT IS NOT USED ALONE, SECURITY IS NOT COMPROMISED. Also, the NSA isn't the only reason people use RdRand & until someone figures out precisely if/how it is compromised it is still valuable for all these uses.
you might want to reread the part in uppercase above a few times so that it can get trough all the screens you have setup to avoid learning...
You admittedly know bugger all about how how RdRand is used In the Linux kernel, much like everyone who voted to remove it.
Imagine for an instant that you know little about gasoline & that your sleeve had just caught fire. Someone yelling that you should douse yourself in gasoline might seem to be a good idea...
Your problem (along with the others who voted on a subject they knew nothing about) is that "something needs to be done" does not mean that the proposed solution isn't worse than the problem.
Linus needs to show the premises wrong
Says who? You? Linux is Linus's ball. The global consensus is that Linus is doing a good job slamming the people with self entitlement issues that want him to do stuff for irrational reasons. If you want you can fork & make your own distrib. Submit a story to /. in 6 months telling us how that went, we could all use a laugh.
That's only because we french expect our government to spy on us & to control the press as much as they can. We find it normal that Pompidou asked Kennedy "how to you control the country if you don't control the press" & having a President outright lie about his having a cancer before an election isn't considered a breach of journalistic ethics when we learn the press knew.
Except for a few rare exceptions the only people claiming to be outraged about the NSA's data gathering are clowns like Melenchon who do so out of anti US posturing.
You're counting chickens before they hatch. This suit will be buried one way or another as the French government does not want anyone looking any closer at the DGSE's data collection/mining activities. The Hypocrisy of trying to reproach the USA or US corporations for doing the same thing the French Government is doing (possibly with some of the same corporations like EMC) is too big to swallow, even for the current government.