As the nation moves from a tangible goods-based economy to a service-based economy
Because in the future, we will all move out of our houses to live in the cloud, we'll forego food in favor of HTTP cookies and email spam, and we will transport ourselves to our destinations not with cars but with through internet traffic.
Now, I know what you're thinking--we'll still need to buy computers to make this magic happen. But, you see, in the future, all of our computers will be virtual machines.
There's a "conspiracy theory" detail getting lost in all this discussion: the person who wrote the post-it note the Washington Post is featuring put a smiley face on the Google front-end server next to "SSL Added and Removed Here." To me, that says that they think that SSL encryption is just adorbs, implying they have a way to break it.
I'm actually okay with this. But it seems awfully cruel to keep the proof secret from the poor mathematicians who've spent their lives trying to solve it.
From this article, an interesting rationale for why they would use MUSCULAR when they have PRISM:
There are some obvious reasons: The operations take place overseas, where many statutory restriction on surveillance don't apply -- and where the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court (FISC) has no jurisdiction. In fact, the FISC ruled a similar, smaller scale program involving cables on U.S. territory illegal in 2011. So if the NSA decides to harvest that data on foreign soil, it can skip most of the oversight mechanisms.
We've seen a lot of articles recently about people demanding companies not host their data in the US so that they're not subject to PRISM. But if PRISM has more oversight than MUSCULAR, and MUSCULAR is only allowed to be used OFF of US soil, then it seems like the safest place for your data is in the US, after all.
There are some obvious reasons: The operations take place overseas, where many statutory restriction on surveillance don't apply -- and where the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court (FISC) has no jurisdiction. In fact, the FISC ruled a similar, smaller scale program involving cables on U.S. territory illegal in 2011. So if the NSA decides to harvest that data on foreign soil, it can skip most of the oversight mechanisms.
Not sure what you didn't like about Black & White, but X&Y feel like completely different games--the graphics are basically on the same level as Colosseum/XD (the Gamecube games), the mechanics improved quite a bit ("grinding" is easier and much less necessary, there have been several balancing adjustments to the type chart, "mega evolutions" may or may not be a gimmick--only time will tell--and Wi-Fi battling now allows for no restrictions flat-level battles--like in PBR and Gen IV and unlike in B&W), and it's hard *not* to love a game set in France (they re-created the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles with freakishly accurate detail, and you feed your mons friggin' macarons).
Have you ever tried playing a Gameboy game on a phone/tablet emulator? YMMV, but I find it to be a horrible experience compared to playing it on the actual console (I've further found that the best platform to play a game is the platform it was originally designed for--GBA games may play on the DS, but they're somehow more enjoyable on a Gameboy Advance).
Nintendo titles seem to rely on the specificity of their platforms more than titles from other game-makers. Not saying that if Nintendo put their minds to it, they couldn't design awesome games for iOS / Android, but as long as Ninteno continues to make semi-affordable ($200) consoles, I think people will still buy them to play their games.
Unfortunately Nintendo only releases one pokemon game per handheld generation
They've actually been releasing about one game per year, and that's only counting main-series games. The DS generation saw Diamond & Pearl, Platinum (special edition of DP), HeartGold & SoulSilver (remakes of GBC games), then an entirely new "generation" with Black & White, then Black 2 & White 2 (which were full-blown sequels as opposed to special editions or remakes).
Not sure what you didn't like about Black & White, but X&Y feel like completely different games--the graphics are basically on the same level as Colosseum/XD (the Gamecube games), the mechanics improved quite a bit ("grinding" is easier and much less necessary, there have been several balancing adjustments to the type chart, "mega evolutions" may or may not be a gimmick--only time will tell--and Wi-Fi battling now allows for no restrictions flat-level battles--like in PBR and Gen IV and unlike in B&W), and it's hard *not* to love a game set in France (they re-created the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles with freakishly accurate detail, and you feed your mons friggin' macarons).
My point was that telling a robber "You stole our TV, so now we're not going to invite you over to watch the game at our house" is a pretty funny response. If this gesture is accompanied by, say, installing a lock on the back door that you're confident the robber can't break, then that's another matter entirely.
The EU members won't share data with us that we want! If only one of our intelligence bureaus had a way to get data from other countries without their consent...
One slight nitpick: this is for GPS trackers affixed to VEHICLES, so GPS doesn't actually get to come in.
Another fourth amendment question: I know you need a warrant to wiretap a person's phone (at least, you're supposed to need one), but do you need one to listen in using a parabolic microphone?
My setup is an SSH server running off an old iMac G4 connected to some external hard drives. Aside from having to manually turn it back on after a power outage, I haven't had to do a damn thing to "maintain" it in years. The cost of the machine is a non-issue--just retire any obsolete computer (can even be a laptop--I know, I've done it). The most expensive part is the HDs, but a 1TB external HD is much cheaper than a year of 500GB storage on Dropbox.
From the article, it seems like this case is closest to Case 3: employee saying derogatory things about his employers, and he said them on his own (not voicing the concerns of his fellow employees). The NLRB said they supported that firing.
I love the concept of being able to access one's files anywhere. But there's no need to do it via "the cloud." All you need is a home machine that can be always on connected to a reliable internet. I realize that ISPs frown upon this sort of thing, but until Comcast tells me to stop, this is the best option to give me the functionality of the "cloud" with all the control I want over my own damn content.
To be fair, any corporation would have done the same thing. If Pepsi (say) discovered a Twitter account that repeatedly says that Pepsi tastes horrible, and it turned out that the owner of the account was one of their employees, it wouldn't matter if that employee never used his or her real name--he or she would be canned faster than, well...
Yeah, but how about just simply tailing the suspect? No need to be in the backseat to monitor wherever the person goes. Do you need a warrant for that? Honestly asking--I'm not up on police surveillance law.
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As the nation moves from a tangible goods-based economy to a service-based economy
Because in the future, we will all move out of our houses to live in the cloud, we'll forego food in favor of HTTP cookies and email spam, and we will transport ourselves to our destinations not with cars but with through internet traffic.
Now, I know what you're thinking--we'll still need to buy computers to make this magic happen. But, you see, in the future, all of our computers will be virtual machines.
I love how a comment with the line "I have a theory, based on absolutely nothing" could be taken so seriously...
And what the hell was the mod who voted this "informative" smoking?
There's a "conspiracy theory" detail getting lost in all this discussion: the person who wrote the post-it note the Washington Post is featuring put a smiley face on the Google front-end server next to "SSL Added and Removed Here." To me, that says that they think that SSL encryption is just adorbs, implying they have a way to break it.
I have a theory, based on absolutely nothing.
I think a mathematician working for NSA solved Riemann's years ago and, consequently, NSA can break any internet encryption.
I'm actually okay with this. But it seems awfully cruel to keep the proof secret from the poor mathematicians who've spent their lives trying to solve it.
There are some obvious reasons: The operations take place overseas, where many statutory restriction on surveillance don't apply -- and where the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court (FISC) has no jurisdiction. In fact, the FISC ruled a similar, smaller scale program involving cables on U.S. territory illegal in 2011. So if the NSA decides to harvest that data on foreign soil, it can skip most of the oversight mechanisms.
We've seen a lot of articles recently about people demanding companies not host their data in the US so that they're not subject to PRISM. But if PRISM has more oversight than MUSCULAR, and MUSCULAR is only allowed to be used OFF of US soil, then it seems like the safest place for your data is in the US, after all.
There are some obvious reasons: The operations take place overseas, where many statutory restriction on surveillance don't apply -- and where the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court (FISC) has no jurisdiction. In fact, the FISC ruled a similar, smaller scale program involving cables on U.S. territory illegal in 2011. So if the NSA decides to harvest that data on foreign soil, it can skip most of the oversight mechanisms.
http://www.businessweek.com/news/2013-10-30/alexander-denies-nsa-infiltrated-google-to-yahoo-servers
And nothing's gone wrong in five years...
Not sure what you didn't like about Black & White, but X&Y feel like completely different games--the graphics are basically on the same level as Colosseum/XD (the Gamecube games), the mechanics improved quite a bit ("grinding" is easier and much less necessary, there have been several balancing adjustments to the type chart, "mega evolutions" may or may not be a gimmick--only time will tell--and Wi-Fi battling now allows for no restrictions flat-level battles--like in PBR and Gen IV and unlike in B&W), and it's hard *not* to love a game set in France (they re-created the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles with freakishly accurate detail, and you feed your mons friggin' macarons ).
But, as always, YMMV.
Have you ever tried playing a Gameboy game on a phone/tablet emulator? YMMV, but I find it to be a horrible experience compared to playing it on the actual console (I've further found that the best platform to play a game is the platform it was originally designed for--GBA games may play on the DS, but they're somehow more enjoyable on a Gameboy Advance).
Nintendo titles seem to rely on the specificity of their platforms more than titles from other game-makers. Not saying that if Nintendo put their minds to it, they couldn't design awesome games for iOS / Android, but as long as Ninteno continues to make semi-affordable ($200) consoles, I think people will still buy them to play their games.
Unfortunately Nintendo only releases one pokemon game per handheld generation
They've actually been releasing about one game per year, and that's only counting main-series games. The DS generation saw Diamond & Pearl, Platinum (special edition of DP), HeartGold & SoulSilver (remakes of GBC games), then an entirely new "generation" with Black & White, then Black 2 & White 2 (which were full-blown sequels as opposed to special editions or remakes).
Not sure what you didn't like about Black & White, but X&Y feel like completely different games--the graphics are basically on the same level as Colosseum/XD (the Gamecube games), the mechanics improved quite a bit ("grinding" is easier and much less necessary, there have been several balancing adjustments to the type chart, "mega evolutions" may or may not be a gimmick--only time will tell--and Wi-Fi battling now allows for no restrictions flat-level battles--like in PBR and Gen IV and unlike in B&W), and it's hard *not* to love a game set in France (they re-created the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles with freakishly accurate detail, and you feed your mons friggin' macarons ).
But, as always, YMMV.
My point was that telling a robber "You stole our TV, so now we're not going to invite you over to watch the game at our house" is a pretty funny response. If this gesture is accompanied by, say, installing a lock on the back door that you're confident the robber can't break, then that's another matter entirely.
The EU members won't share data with us that we want! If only one of our intelligence bureaus had a way to get data from other countries without their consent...
(Technically the quote is "100").
Most authorities believe that the name derives from a former hunting cry.
When I was in the UK, someone shared with me this little gem: Americans think 50 years is old, Brits think 50 miles is far.
One slight nitpick: this is for GPS trackers affixed to VEHICLES, so GPS doesn't actually get to come in.
Another fourth amendment question: I know you need a warrant to wiretap a person's phone (at least, you're supposed to need one), but do you need one to listen in using a parabolic microphone?
My setup is an SSH server running off an old iMac G4 connected to some external hard drives. Aside from having to manually turn it back on after a power outage, I haven't had to do a damn thing to "maintain" it in years. The cost of the machine is a non-issue--just retire any obsolete computer (can even be a laptop--I know, I've done it). The most expensive part is the HDs, but a 1TB external HD is much cheaper than a year of 500GB storage on Dropbox.
From the article, it seems like this case is closest to Case 3: employee saying derogatory things about his employers, and he said them on his own (not voicing the concerns of his fellow employees). The NLRB said they supported that firing.
I love the concept of being able to access one's files anywhere. But there's no need to do it via "the cloud." All you need is a home machine that can be always on connected to a reliable internet. I realize that ISPs frown upon this sort of thing, but until Comcast tells me to stop, this is the best option to give me the functionality of the "cloud" with all the control I want over my own damn content.
"New Coke."
All right. I'll buy that.
To be fair, any corporation would have done the same thing. If Pepsi (say) discovered a Twitter account that repeatedly says that Pepsi tastes horrible, and it turned out that the owner of the account was one of their employees, it wouldn't matter if that employee never used his or her real name--he or she would be canned faster than, well...
Wayback Machine evidently doesn't bother with Twitter, but the page can still (for now) be found on the Google Cache: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:https://twitter.com/NatSecWonk
Yeah, but how about just simply tailing the suspect? No need to be in the backseat to monitor wherever the person goes. Do you need a warrant for that? Honestly asking--I'm not up on police surveillance law.
That doesn't exactly invalidate my point. Here's the citation for my acronym expansion, but yes, upon a second search I am seeing Small Office / Home Office more commonly.