It has nothing to do with the Fourth. The courts have held for centuries that the government has a right to police the borders. In effect, the fact that you're crossing the border means you consent to the search. This is just an extension of that.
Um, it's not OS specific, it's POSIX specific. Which Windows isn't. "f*" matches zero or more fs; "f.*" matches zero or more anything after the f; "f?" matches exactly zero or one f.
Actually, because the wildcard followed an 'f', it would be an infinite number of 'f's. I'm not sure what "ffffffffffuck" means, but it sure sounds interesting!
FTFA: "Until recently, the technology office was headed by Vivek Kundra, who has taken a job as President Obama's chief information officer. A White House official confirmed last night that Kundra has taken a leave of absence. "
Sounds like the former CTO might have more bones in his closet related to this thing than has yet been acknowledged. Why else take a leave of absence because a former employee did something shady?
If you're in a noisy place where you can't hear the beep you probably shouldn't let your kid out of sight. Because you also won't hear him/her yelling "Let go! I don't want to go in the van!"
An easier solution for that scenario is a tag that beeps if the child exits a predetermined distance from another device. I believe those have been around for several years now.
Were they, though? What were the statistics on children being abducted or just falling down a cliff once upon a time? And are those statistics better today, or could they be further improved with this device? I don't know the answers to any of these questions, but I'm unwilling to dismiss an advancement like this out of hand without knowing them.
Having said all that, I agree with you that good parenting is the key to having safe and happy children. As a personal anecdote, let me say that my youngest son drowned in my ex-wife's pool when he was only five. If she had been even a little more attentive to him, that little boy would now be eight. But a GPS bracelet would not have helped in that situation, since she was in the house at the time but hadn't even bothered to secure the sliding glass door to the backyard. You can have all the technology in the world, but if someone isn't willing to do the simplest things then needless tragedies will still happen.
Disingenuous post is disingenuous. All of the discussion occurring in the US right now is focused on health care reform at the federal level, not the state.
This isn't a discussion about pot, it's a discussion about classing iPhones as medical devices. I was using medical marijuana and handicap placards as examples of current medical policies that are ripe with fraud.
I just take the old-fashioned approach of thoroughly cleaning my shower from overhead to deck. Oh, wait... that's the Navy approach;). I guess some habits are worth something.
I was in the Navy, too, and can testify that clean showerheads were the exception, not the rule. Unless you used the salt-water shower; I don't think anything could live in that.
Those countries you mentioned didn't have an important source of corruption: the US Congress. I guarantee you those assclowns will find a way to screw it up.
Guess the Republican mods are out in force because this is utter rubbish.
Seriously? Have you never known someone who got a handicap placard from an agreeable doctor, even though they didn't need one? Or what about the ease of getting a prescription for marijuana in California? There are clinics in LA where you just have to tell the doc you have "occasional headaches" and they'll write a script for pot. Are you trying to claim there won't be ANY doctors who would write a script for an iPhone for some reason or other?
Because insurance companies tie their definition of "medical device" to what Medicare reimburses for (one of the reasons for this is that Medicare constitutes such a large part of the market for people using medical devices that insurance companies find it cheaper to use their list than generate one of their own). And since Medicare has certain legal requirements for what a "medical device" is (including going through FDA approval), it can be expensive and complicated to get on that list. Hence, any device that is on the list is going to cost much more than one that isn't. The alternative is to let Medicare bureaucrats, who are not doctors, decide whether a device is medically necessary or not.
So you're not naive about how health insurance works. You've naive about how government programs in the United States work. Now maybe you can understand why most of us don't want the Federal government to have anything to do with health care: they'll just make it worse.
I wish I could find the source data, but I remember reading during the 2000 election that, historically, the budget follows this pattern:
Republican President & Republican Congress: deficits soar
Republican President & Democratic Congress: deficits increase, but not as much
Democratic President and Democratic Congress: again, deficits increase but not as much as the first pairing, but taxes increase even more
Democratic President and Republican Congress: we get surplusses
The last nine years seem to reinforce the pattern. It seems that when the government is divided between the two parties, and for some reason a Democrat is in the Oval Office, we're better off economically. Seems like a good reason to give Congress back to the Republicans in '10 and give them and Obama a chance to work things out through '16.
Just because it makes no sense doesn't mean it didn't happen. Maybe Starr worked out a deal with the local prosecutor, wouldn't be the first (or last) time a Federal prosecutor got a local guy or girl to help them out.
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It has nothing to do with the Fourth. The courts have held for centuries that the government has a right to police the borders. In effect, the fact that you're crossing the border means you consent to the search. This is just an extension of that.
Um, it's not OS specific, it's POSIX specific. Which Windows isn't. "f*" matches zero or more fs; "f.*" matches zero or more anything after the f; "f?" matches exactly zero or one f.
Humans are great at adapting, but only when forced.
Which of course is why the number one tool in any good SA's toolbox, ahead of the network sniffer and password generator, is a clue-by-four with which to "encourage" users to do things the Right Way©.
Actually, because the wildcard followed an 'f', it would be an infinite number of 'f's. I'm not sure what "ffffffffffuck" means, but it sure sounds interesting!
Who the fuck are you calling "foul mouthed", you cock-sucking sonofabitch?!
FTFA: "Until recently, the technology office was headed by Vivek Kundra, who has taken a job as President Obama's chief information officer. A White House official confirmed last night that Kundra has taken a leave of absence. "
Sounds like the former CTO might have more bones in his closet related to this thing than has yet been acknowledged. Why else take a leave of absence because a former employee did something shady?
Congratulations! You just invented NPR.
Funny, that's how Austin Powers described Fat Bastard's feces. Doesn't make me want to try that, either.
If you're in a noisy place where you can't hear the beep you probably shouldn't let your kid out of sight. Because you also won't hear him/her yelling "Let go! I don't want to go in the van!"
Most tools have a direction locator, too. See: http://www.familysafemedia.com/child_locator_finder.html
An easier solution for that scenario is a tag that beeps if the child exits a predetermined distance from another device. I believe those have been around for several years now.
Were they, though? What were the statistics on children being abducted or just falling down a cliff once upon a time? And are those statistics better today, or could they be further improved with this device? I don't know the answers to any of these questions, but I'm unwilling to dismiss an advancement like this out of hand without knowing them.
Having said all that, I agree with you that good parenting is the key to having safe and happy children. As a personal anecdote, let me say that my youngest son drowned in my ex-wife's pool when he was only five. If she had been even a little more attentive to him, that little boy would now be eight. But a GPS bracelet would not have helped in that situation, since she was in the house at the time but hadn't even bothered to secure the sliding glass door to the backyard. You can have all the technology in the world, but if someone isn't willing to do the simplest things then needless tragedies will still happen.
The best part is, eBay didn't even open the box until after they left their feedback: "A++, great communication, would buy from again".
You should expect a call from William Donohue and the Catholic Church, just so you know.
Disingenuous post is disingenuous. All of the discussion occurring in the US right now is focused on health care reform at the federal level, not the state.
This isn't a discussion about pot, it's a discussion about classing iPhones as medical devices. I was using medical marijuana and handicap placards as examples of current medical policies that are ripe with fraud.
We are the only developed first class country on earth without government run healthcare
That's not entirely accurate. Canada does not have a central-government run health care system, either. Each province has their own system.
Of course, Canada also doesn't have the US Congress, so if they switched to running things from Ottawa it wouldn't necessarily degenerate into FAIL.
Worse: gator navy. If surface fleet are your idiot cousins, then the gators are the offspring of two idiot cousins.
I just take the old-fashioned approach of thoroughly cleaning my shower from overhead to deck. Oh, wait... that's the Navy approach ;). I guess some habits are worth something.
I was in the Navy, too, and can testify that clean showerheads were the exception, not the rule. Unless you used the salt-water shower; I don't think anything could live in that.
Those countries you mentioned didn't have an important source of corruption: the US Congress. I guarantee you those assclowns will find a way to screw it up.
Guess the Republican mods are out in force because this is utter rubbish.
Seriously? Have you never known someone who got a handicap placard from an agreeable doctor, even though they didn't need one? Or what about the ease of getting a prescription for marijuana in California? There are clinics in LA where you just have to tell the doc you have "occasional headaches" and they'll write a script for pot. Are you trying to claim there won't be ANY doctors who would write a script for an iPhone for some reason or other?
Because insurance companies tie their definition of "medical device" to what Medicare reimburses for (one of the reasons for this is that Medicare constitutes such a large part of the market for people using medical devices that insurance companies find it cheaper to use their list than generate one of their own). And since Medicare has certain legal requirements for what a "medical device" is (including going through FDA approval), it can be expensive and complicated to get on that list. Hence, any device that is on the list is going to cost much more than one that isn't. The alternative is to let Medicare bureaucrats, who are not doctors, decide whether a device is medically necessary or not.
So you're not naive about how health insurance works. You've naive about how government programs in the United States work. Now maybe you can understand why most of us don't want the Federal government to have anything to do with health care: they'll just make it worse.
Republican President & Republican Congress: deficits soar
Republican President & Democratic Congress: deficits increase, but not as much
Democratic President and Democratic Congress: again, deficits increase but not as much as the first pairing, but taxes increase even more
Democratic President and Republican Congress: we get surplusses
The last nine years seem to reinforce the pattern. It seems that when the government is divided between the two parties, and for some reason a Democrat is in the Oval Office, we're better off economically. Seems like a good reason to give Congress back to the Republicans in '10 and give them and Obama a chance to work things out through '16.
However, you are correct that they won over working class Russians in the beginning with wild promises that they could not possibly have kept.
And that was different from all other politicians how?
512th day? Sounds like a buffer overflow bug to me.
Just because it makes no sense doesn't mean it didn't happen. Maybe Starr worked out a deal with the local prosecutor, wouldn't be the first (or last) time a Federal prosecutor got a local guy or girl to help them out.