From the media, we see a tone of "alternate facts" "I already know more" "these other people say" - how would you feel getting a government salary and you feel your work is not appreciated.
The NSA is basically a government organization that is built around science and information. Their entire existence hinges on perceived trust, reliability and revolutionary information. I am sure there are uncomfortable truths that might often fly in the face of preconceived notions. I could see that morale would be a problem when the work done is not appreciated or its perceived to be met with closed mindedness or mistrust.
In a climate where general civilian science and media seem to be under attack, it's hard to believe that it would go unnoticed within such an organization. I would also think that an open strategy to outright mislead the american public to believe this to be the case would still demoralize all but the most deeply programmed.
NSA is perceived as openly anti-American. If you work for the NSA, most people think that you're a crookl, even if you're just a receptionist with no power who never breaks the law.
Yes, they probably do things for us. But they have this unresolved scandal.
These thoughts make me think: Can the scandal be resolved without quantifying the things that were "done for us" or causing irreparable damage? Do people of similar thought believe in the construct of good vs. evil where evil is evil all the time and good is good all the time? Are some people predominantly evil or do you have to be to work for the NSA? Who or "what" would have to "go away" for the NSA to work in the interest of Americans for people like you.
Wasn't the basic Snowden TLDR summary; when huge mass surveillance takes place, the people who make it work have more access then limited by the controls put on top? That's a moral middle ground I could theoretically operate under.
I could even operate collecting information for a government that that analyses information collected (damning or otherwise) to set policy and strategy.
I would, however, quietly resign if I got the impression that strategy was actually set first without intelligence and that intelligence was simply being used a means for propaganda and erosion of human rights.
I am not surprised that morale is low if upper management no longer cares about your departments work - sort of sends the message "don't care what you do because what you do is not important". Without a sense of purpose and a government wage, why stick around?
Are you sure it was the firmware and not the stepper motor that controls the paper forward feed and horizontal alignment of the heads? I would think that the electronics that control stepper motors are the same, the mounting parts the same etc. but what would make the difference between a good and a great printer would be the manufacturing tolerances and tolerances within the stepper itself.
If you download something that is encoded with a codec, is it really that intellectual property until it is decoded with the correct corresponding codec? If said codec is lossy, is it really the same work of art or a derivative? If stenography is used to hide a message within an encoded stream?
If a bunch of random bits are distributed where some other random bits can combined to create an encoded stream, which set of random bits is the copyright work? Maybe the Ubuntu live CD is a one time pad used in distribution of Tranformers. That would be quite clever actually...
Do you have a spouse, children? Do you have influence in the wants and life of others or are you all about yourself here? My income gets spent mostly on others... taxes, children/spouse, arts degrees for strippers... whatever. Everyone benefits when the money is flowing... the question is where is it flowing?
My current wireless keyboard - Logitech K750 - has been great. It is "solar powered" and despite the terrible ambient lighting in my basement it's been perfect. It doesn't seem to ever sleep or have noticeable lag. It has never had a sync issue. The marathon mouse it came with might be on the original battery from a year ago. The cool thing about the wireless keyboard is that I can just move it wherever on my desk and there is no cord getting in the way of my wacom tablet
"There's no simple explanation For anything important any of us do. And, yeah, the human tragedy consists in the necessity of living with the consequences. Under pressure Courage, my word. It didn't come. It doesn't matter."
(Yeah that's right just buy the device and deal with it. If you're lucky enough we'll shove some Tragically Hip down your throats this time.)
The idea of having a digital to analog converter and amp crammed next to a wireless transmitter and powered by a tiny battery probably makes the concept of truly decent, cheap, wireless audio devices a far out technology. Bluetooth AptX is already available for lossless 24bit 96kHz streaming.
As far as Bluetooth keyboard lag, perhaps you need a better keyboard setup... one that does not sleep as often. I had this old Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard that only seemed to sleep after about 2 hours and it still managed to get decent battery life. Coming out of sleep it seemed to buffer and replay the keystrokes. The keyboard worked from BIOS thanks to some weird HID mode of the Bluetooth dongle where it would cache the keys.
I always pictured AC's point to be the/real/ zombie apocalypse. Perhaps there will be mass civil unrest before technology can be truly useful or sustaining. I mean mass surveillance will only work as long as the masses can afford electricity and perhaps we may find an more immediate future where economic collapse is more sudden than the social systems can support.
I think you are forgetting that DOS needs BIOS. UEFI is to get rid of all legacy DOS support... It shouldn't be FreeDOS to provide BIOS... but perhaps someone will provide BIOS boot UEFI module... like the hardware manufacturers maybe?
My BMW 2001 330ci (3.0l inline 6 RWD) got much better fuel economy than my 2004 VW 1.8t (inline 4 FWD) and I drove the BMW much harder than the VW and both were well maintained. The BMW seemed to give at least 2.0L/100KM better economy despite not having the turbo or wideband o2s of the VW. The study was performed after numerous anecdotes of turbo vehicles not getting their claimed fuel economy.
While I understand there could be less weight in smaller turbocharged engine blocks, there is extra weight for the intercooler piping, turbo, possibly the pistons and crank (no need for forged internals on a NA engine) plus you have to cool the turbo and hotter burning combustion chamber which isn't free. Nor is the back-pressure helpful. The 2001 passat 2.8l v6 was 1428 kg and the 1.8t 1451kg - the 2.8l was an aluminum block vs iron on the turbo. I get better highway economy with the V6 and got better shot trip/city fuel mileage with the 1.8t. I thought the big benefit to a turbo engine is that you could add more fuel if needed and make more horse power with a smaller engine - I'm skeptical about magical efficiency claims
I'm sure it's great but how long do you expect it to get updates?
Did you own a playbook? It was great too. If I lost it I wouldn't even have to worry about my email leaking out because everything was on my tethered phone. It had flash and great multi-tasking. It COULD have run android apps similar to os 10.3 but Blackberry abandoned it. It's now a doorstop.
I liked my z10 and z30 also... it ran most android apps quite well. My z30 sucked when hooked up to bes because my it team didn't update bes and you couldn't copy and past from work space (email) into personal space (phone dialer) and occasionally it would crash the entire android run-time and all running apps after it ran out of memory. Recently BlackBerry has given up working with Facebook and turned off the native Facebook app pushing an update to remove the native app, the ability to upload photos and synchronize address books.
I was a loyal blackberry fan but I've been burned too many times. I will not own another blackberry product without an unlock-able boot loader. Especially not while the CEO states the company will get out of the phone business if they can't make money from it - Funny BlackBerry’s John Chen tops the list of Canadian top 100 earning CEOs at $89 million as he drives the company into the ground
Introduce a feature that prevents an apple device from becoming obsolete??? Doesn't that go against almost every design principal? I mean someone at Apple is probably printing off the original post right now as reinforcement as to why they should never make such design decisions again! They will compare the 2012 MacBook Pro to the 1994 Toyota Corolla
What is this old school digital video disc technology you speak of? Is that like a way of storing bootable efi files you normally put on a thumbdrive, but instead on some sort of coaster meant to store old fashioned movies?
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From the media, we see a tone of "alternate facts" "I already know more" "these other people say" - how would you feel getting a government salary and you feel your work is not appreciated.
The NSA is basically a government organization that is built around science and information. Their entire existence hinges on perceived trust, reliability and revolutionary information. I am sure there are uncomfortable truths that might often fly in the face of preconceived notions. I could see that morale would be a problem when the work done is not appreciated or its perceived to be met with closed mindedness or mistrust.
In a climate where general civilian science and media seem to be under attack, it's hard to believe that it would go unnoticed within such an organization. I would also think that an open strategy to outright mislead the american public to believe this to be the case would still demoralize all but the most deeply programmed.
NSA is perceived as openly anti-American. If you work for the NSA, most people think that you're a crookl, even if you're just a receptionist with no power who never breaks the law.
Yes, they probably do things for us. But they have this unresolved scandal.
These thoughts make me think: Can the scandal be resolved without quantifying the things that were "done for us" or causing irreparable damage?
Do people of similar thought believe in the construct of good vs. evil where evil is evil all the time and good is good all the time? Are some people predominantly evil or do you have to be to work for the NSA?
Who or "what" would have to "go away" for the NSA to work in the interest of Americans for people like you.
*Disclaimer, I am not an American
Wasn't the basic Snowden TLDR summary; when huge mass surveillance takes place, the people who make it work have more access then limited by the controls put on top? That's a moral middle ground I could theoretically operate under.
I could even operate collecting information for a government that that analyses information collected (damning or otherwise) to set policy and strategy.
I would, however, quietly resign if I got the impression that strategy was actually set first without intelligence and that intelligence was simply being used a means for propaganda and erosion of human rights.
I am not surprised that morale is low if upper management no longer cares about your departments work - sort of sends the message "don't care what you do because what you do is not important". Without a sense of purpose and a government wage, why stick around?
"It is the world's first cold atomic clock to operate in space."
Is it really the worlds anything if it's in space??
Are you sure it was the firmware and not the stepper motor that controls the paper forward feed and horizontal alignment of the heads?
I would think that the electronics that control stepper motors are the same, the mounting parts the same etc. but what would make the difference between a good and a great printer would be the manufacturing tolerances and tolerances within the stepper itself.
If you download something that is encoded with a codec, is it really that intellectual property until it is decoded with the correct corresponding codec?
If said codec is lossy, is it really the same work of art or a derivative?
If stenography is used to hide a message within an encoded stream?
If a bunch of random bits are distributed where some other random bits can combined to create an encoded stream, which set of random bits is the copyright work?
Maybe the Ubuntu live CD is a one time pad used in distribution of Tranformers. That would be quite clever actually...
Do you have a spouse, children? Do you have influence in the wants and life of others or are you all about yourself here?
My income gets spent mostly on others... taxes, children/spouse, arts degrees for strippers... whatever.
Everyone benefits when the money is flowing... the question is where is it flowing?
So if he is responsible for the creation "defeat device", is he responsible for the installation on every vehicle sold in the US?
My current wireless keyboard - Logitech K750 - has been great. It is "solar powered" and despite the terrible ambient lighting in my basement it's been perfect.
It doesn't seem to ever sleep or have noticeable lag. It has never had a sync issue. The marathon mouse it came with might be on the original battery from a year ago. The cool thing about the wireless keyboard is that I can just move it wherever on my desk and there is no cord getting in the way of my wacom tablet
"There's no simple explanation
For anything important any of us do.
And, yeah, the human tragedy consists in the necessity of living with the consequences.
Under pressure
Courage, my word. It didn't come. It doesn't matter."
(Yeah that's right just buy the device and deal with it. If you're lucky enough we'll shove some Tragically Hip down your throats this time.)
The idea of having a digital to analog converter and amp crammed next to a wireless transmitter and powered by a tiny battery probably makes the concept of truly decent, cheap, wireless audio devices a far out technology. Bluetooth AptX is already available for lossless 24bit 96kHz streaming.
As far as Bluetooth keyboard lag, perhaps you need a better keyboard setup... one that does not sleep as often. I had this old Microsoft Bluetooth keyboard that only seemed to sleep after about 2 hours and it still managed to get decent battery life. Coming out of sleep it seemed to buffer and replay the keystrokes. The keyboard worked from BIOS thanks to some weird HID mode of the Bluetooth dongle where it would cache the keys.
I guess my purpose is to lead a meaningless, directionless life.
I always pictured AC's point to be the /real/ zombie apocalypse. Perhaps there will be mass civil unrest before technology can be truly useful or sustaining. I mean mass surveillance will only work as long as the masses can afford electricity and perhaps we may find an more immediate future where economic collapse is more sudden than the social systems can support.
Perhaps the solution here is to better automate the prison system...
See something similar to BAMBIOS
I think you are forgetting that DOS needs BIOS. UEFI is to get rid of all legacy DOS support...
It shouldn't be FreeDOS to provide BIOS... but perhaps someone will provide BIOS boot UEFI module... like the hardware manufacturers maybe?
except when it is idle
My BMW 2001 330ci (3.0l inline 6 RWD) got much better fuel economy than my 2004 VW 1.8t (inline 4 FWD) and I drove the BMW much harder than the VW and both were well maintained. The BMW seemed to give at least 2.0L/100KM better economy despite not having the turbo or wideband o2s of the VW.
The study was performed after numerous anecdotes of turbo vehicles not getting their claimed fuel economy.
While I understand there could be less weight in smaller turbocharged engine blocks, there is extra weight for the intercooler piping, turbo, possibly the pistons and crank (no need for forged internals on a NA engine) plus you have to cool the turbo and hotter burning combustion chamber which isn't free. Nor is the back-pressure helpful.
The 2001 passat 2.8l v6 was 1428 kg and the 1.8t 1451kg - the 2.8l was an aluminum block vs iron on the turbo. I get better highway economy with the V6 and got better shot trip/city fuel mileage with the 1.8t.
I thought the big benefit to a turbo engine is that you could add more fuel if needed and make more horse power with a smaller engine - I'm skeptical about magical efficiency claims
My internet usage will drop significantly when the 80+ hours/w of Rescue Bots and iCarly my kids watch is stored locally on my device...
I'm sure it's great but how long do you expect it to get updates?
Did you own a playbook? It was great too. If I lost it I wouldn't even have to worry about my email leaking out because everything was on my tethered phone. It had flash and great multi-tasking. It COULD have run android apps similar to os 10.3 but Blackberry abandoned it. It's now a doorstop.
I liked my z10 and z30 also... it ran most android apps quite well. My z30 sucked when hooked up to bes because my it team didn't update bes and you couldn't copy and past from work space (email) into personal space (phone dialer) and occasionally it would crash the entire android run-time and all running apps after it ran out of memory. Recently BlackBerry has given up working with Facebook and turned off the native Facebook app pushing an update to remove the native app, the ability to upload photos and synchronize address books.
I was a loyal blackberry fan but I've been burned too many times. I will not own another blackberry product without an unlock-able boot loader. Especially not while the CEO states the company will get out of the phone business if they can't make money from it - Funny BlackBerry’s John Chen tops the list of Canadian top 100 earning CEOs at $89 million as he drives the company into the ground
I thought there was a recent study that showed turbos motors get better fuel economy /during test conditions/ but often not real in world conditions
Introduce a feature that prevents an apple device from becoming obsolete??? Doesn't that go against almost every design principal? I mean someone at Apple is probably printing off the original post right now as reinforcement as to why they should never make such design decisions again! They will compare the 2012 MacBook Pro to the 1994 Toyota Corolla
What is this old school digital video disc technology you speak of? Is that like a way of storing bootable efi files you normally put on a thumbdrive, but instead on some sort of coaster meant to store old fashioned movies?
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