This isn't some superhero cartoon, where the "good" guy nabs the "bad" guy and puts him in jail no matter how much the bad guy tries to kill him. The US does not have magical super powers and a team of writers to get us out of every jam.
I promise you that the next military attack on this country will not come from within the government. Based on the history of the last 25 years, I'd say you've got a 50/50 chance of the next big terrorist attack coming from a US citizen or a foreign national. It's more like 80:20 (in favor of the attack coming from a US citizen) for a smaller scale terrorist attack, but only if you discount mass shootings as simple domestic crimes which don't count as terrorism, as that would make a US citizen attacking other citizens in a terrorist/mass shooting event being nearly 100% probability.
Direct tapping of communications from a Head of State IS routine counter-intelligence operations for every country with the technical ability to do so. I'm curious - if Al Assad or Ahmadinejad or Putin had/has the ability to tap Obama's (or Hussain or Musharraf's) phone, do you think they would have said, "Oh, no, he's a head of state - make sure the security service doesn't tap his phone - those are privileged conversations and we have no interest or right in listening in"?
The next time you say, "how the fuck did they not see that coming," remember that you were the one who told them to keep their eyes closed and their ears covered.
Not at all. This isn't about one child claiming that the other child took a cookie, too. This is one child, upon finding out that the sibling took a cookie, says, "oh my, you know you should never, ever take a cookie without permission!" only to have to admit 5 minutes later that they surreptitiously took a cookie too.
This isn't about whether it's right or wrong, it's about getting caught in a double standard.
On the contrary - I think it's a fascinating story. But not because MS made the surface 2 battery test last 25% longer. Rather than a "simple" firmware update increased the battery life of *any* computer by 25%. That's fucking incredible, and shows how much could be done to make Windows machines more efficient. It also shows how much Apple has been doing to make their portables last longer by combining both firmware and software tweaks. Let's face it - when you put Windows on a Mac, the battery life drops by 30%. Same hardware, same firmware, new OS = battery life fail.
I would like to see Microsoft concentrate more on providing vendors with OS-Firmware optimizations to allow windows machines to squeeze more battery efficiency out of modern laptops.
But only if you trust both your operating system and the binary executable they send you to interface with their system.
Really, there is no truly secure method unless you are a crypto expert and roll your own - from the components in the machine to the bios to to the OS (though you could audit anything which is OS).
Of course the problem there is that you're relying on yourself, or your encryption and end-to-end computer knowledge, to be better than several billion dollars of cracking resources which could be levied against your one man system. And those are not very good odds.
FWIW, I use SO for backup, but their sync capability between computers to be dodgy (admittedly - that was 4 years ago, when I first needed a multi-computer sync provider; it's not practical to change providers for a business at a whim)
With computerized everything, we can just alter the days in perfect sync. And once we kill television schedules and make everything on demand it won't matter "when" something comes on!
Votes, not money, decide the answer; but you can campaign untruthfully with no ramifications. At that point money = votes.
Corporations don't live or breathe, people do. And the people who run those corporations and profit from them have the exact same weight in the ballot box as anyone else. Anyone who is used to getting their way every day because they have money finds this equality to be horribly unfair.
Here's the thing: if Comcast made a product that was so fabulous that nobody would even want a government run version we wouldn't be having this discussion.
You've clearly never observed most aggressive species in action. There is never more than one male, or one alpha, in any pack. Those who do not subordinate must leave or are killed. It is possible for alphas to cooperate on a temporary basis, but only in the pursuit of destroying a bigger threat, and always the end result is that one alpha will emerge, or each semi-alpha will take a portion of the pack and leave.
No, this is a left wing parent telling their child to walk several miles to school because they don't believe in using fossil fuels for transportation. You see, because the law was deemed constitutional, their constituents have to comply with it as part of Federal Law. So instead of making it as easy as possible for your state's people to comply, you lump them in with 20-some other states who are also "protesting," resulting in a clusterfuck that they still have to deal with. You could have helped YOUR OWN people, and you chose not to just to make a political point.
Well done. I hope whomever runs against them points out how easy other states have had it, and that the only reason your constituents had to suffer through this awful roll-out was because of political posturing.
It still wouldn't affect the auto industry, only the insurance (and potentially auto-body and mechanic shops, which would stand to benefit). Though, as always, the analogy is horribly flawed. If you kill or injure yourself, you can go buy a new one.
In fact, auto insurance is nothing like health "insurance" because no auto insurer covers routine maintenance (checkups) or design flaws (existing conditions).
You haven't surfed the internet much lately. Many sites do a multiple re-direct that prevents the use of the back button from working correctly. It's annoying as hell, but it's not uncommon.
Healthcare is full of fake non-profits. They're NP because they "donate" care to the needy - though in reality they are required to treat everybody by law, and they write off the debts which they find they can't collect though the court system. Nearly every NP hospital has a team of lawyers which clog the judicial system chasing payments from non-paying patients.
Exchanges are a purely republican idea, though not without merit if there is actual competition. I'm still baffled why the ACA didn't take the simple route and simply require that the FEHB (fed employee system) be opened to all citizens. It's already got a 2M person group, so it's not like its going to get horribly worse, and there are plans available in every state and territory.
I found it amazingly ironic that the states which take the hardest stance on wanting to do everything their own way because the federal government can't possibly know the nuances of their state needs nearly all chose to let the feds make the ACA website for them.
If you see an item sold at Harbor Freight and it's brand name includes an American city or state in the name, that's the guarantee that it has been made in China.
Funny - back when I was with the gov't I just choose the cable from store stock, get my section head to sign it and it gets delivered on the next run. If it wasn't in store stock, the secretary could order it with the section credit card
Now, if you're talking about trying to get an item into the master list - yes, it's a huge pain in the ass. I tried to get a store stock number of a specific brand of pen I preferred (Faber Castel Micro, 0.5mm, if it matters) and gave up when confronted with the actual red tape to do it. (Note: getting the FC-Micro was mostly hit-or-miss as the spec for the pens applied to 3-4 different brands, some of which were of rather poor quality, which is why I even considered climbing the mountain)
The reason your headlights don't look like street lights is the illumination is entirely different - narrow cone illumination in front of you (nor peripheral coverage) vs. overhead flood lighting. If you'd ever been in a warehouse with LP Sodium lights you'd realize what a horrid source of lighting it is. The only reason to use Sodium is the trade off of fantastic operational cost vs crappy light and astronomy-killing wavelength pollution.
If their numbers are correct, they will spend $10M to save 700,000/yr (14M over 20 years) - that's an annualized rate of return of 3.45%. It's good that it's positive, but it's a pretty slim actual savings.
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This isn't some superhero cartoon, where the "good" guy nabs the "bad" guy and puts him in jail no matter how much the bad guy tries to kill him. The US does not have magical super powers and a team of writers to get us out of every jam.
Time to grow up.
I promise you that the next military attack on this country will not come from within the government. Based on the history of the last 25 years, I'd say you've got a 50/50 chance of the next big terrorist attack coming from a US citizen or a foreign national. It's more like 80:20 (in favor of the attack coming from a US citizen) for a smaller scale terrorist attack, but only if you discount mass shootings as simple domestic crimes which don't count as terrorism, as that would make a US citizen attacking other citizens in a terrorist/mass shooting event being nearly 100% probability.
Direct tapping of communications from a Head of State IS routine counter-intelligence operations for every country with the technical ability to do so. I'm curious - if Al Assad or Ahmadinejad or Putin had/has the ability to tap Obama's (or Hussain or Musharraf's) phone, do you think they would have said, "Oh, no, he's a head of state - make sure the security service doesn't tap his phone - those are privileged conversations and we have no interest or right in listening in"?
The next time you say, "how the fuck did they not see that coming," remember that you were the one who told them to keep their eyes closed and their ears covered.
Seems that you can spy on anyone, as long as you don't spy on:
Important people
Non-important people
That leaves very little room for spying, don't you think?
Not at all. This isn't about one child claiming that the other child took a cookie, too. This is one child, upon finding out that the sibling took a cookie, says, "oh my, you know you should never, ever take a cookie without permission!" only to have to admit 5 minutes later that they surreptitiously took a cookie too.
This isn't about whether it's right or wrong, it's about getting caught in a double standard.
On the contrary - I think it's a fascinating story. But not because MS made the surface 2 battery test last 25% longer. Rather than a "simple" firmware update increased the battery life of *any* computer by 25%. That's fucking incredible, and shows how much could be done to make Windows machines more efficient. It also shows how much Apple has been doing to make their portables last longer by combining both firmware and software tweaks. Let's face it - when you put Windows on a Mac, the battery life drops by 30%. Same hardware, same firmware, new OS = battery life fail.
I would like to see Microsoft concentrate more on providing vendors with OS-Firmware optimizations to allow windows machines to squeeze more battery efficiency out of modern laptops.
Borrow this tin foil hat for a second:
But only if you trust both your operating system and the binary executable they send you to interface with their system.
Really, there is no truly secure method unless you are a crypto expert and roll your own - from the components in the machine to the bios to to the OS (though you could audit anything which is OS).
Of course the problem there is that you're relying on yourself, or your encryption and end-to-end computer knowledge, to be better than several billion dollars of cracking resources which could be levied against your one man system. And those are not very good odds.
FWIW, I use SO for backup, but their sync capability between computers to be dodgy (admittedly - that was 4 years ago, when I first needed a multi-computer sync provider; it's not practical to change providers for a business at a whim)
http://romanvoices.wikispaces.com/Roman+Timekeeping
With computerized everything, we can just alter the days in perfect sync. And once we kill television schedules and make everything on demand it won't matter "when" something comes on!
You should move to Scandinavia. Then you'll realize how silly is is for Americans to bitch about when the sun rises and sets in the extreme months.
If I were president, I'd call in a drone strike on his traitorous ass.
Votes, not money, decide the answer; but you can campaign untruthfully with no ramifications. At that point money = votes.
Corporations don't live or breathe, people do. And the people who run those corporations and profit from them have the exact same weight in the ballot box as anyone else. Anyone who is used to getting their way every day because they have money finds this equality to be horribly unfair.
Here's the thing: if Comcast made a product that was so fabulous that nobody would even want a government run version we wouldn't be having this discussion.
Those people need what are called "partnerships" where you team with someone who can do the business side.
You've clearly never observed most aggressive species in action. There is never more than one male, or one alpha, in any pack. Those who do not subordinate must leave or are killed. It is possible for alphas to cooperate on a temporary basis, but only in the pursuit of destroying a bigger threat, and always the end result is that one alpha will emerge, or each semi-alpha will take a portion of the pack and leave.
If the FBI can't get him, the IRS will. Nice.
No, this is a left wing parent telling their child to walk several miles to school because they don't believe in using fossil fuels for transportation. You see, because the law was deemed constitutional, their constituents have to comply with it as part of Federal Law. So instead of making it as easy as possible for your state's people to comply, you lump them in with 20-some other states who are also "protesting," resulting in a clusterfuck that they still have to deal with. You could have helped YOUR OWN people, and you chose not to just to make a political point.
Well done. I hope whomever runs against them points out how easy other states have had it, and that the only reason your constituents had to suffer through this awful roll-out was because of political posturing.
It still wouldn't affect the auto industry, only the insurance (and potentially auto-body and mechanic shops, which would stand to benefit). Though, as always, the analogy is horribly flawed. If you kill or injure yourself, you can go buy a new one.
In fact, auto insurance is nothing like health "insurance" because no auto insurer covers routine maintenance (checkups) or design flaws (existing conditions).
You haven't surfed the internet much lately. Many sites do a multiple re-direct that prevents the use of the back button from working correctly. It's annoying as hell, but it's not uncommon.
Healthcare is full of fake non-profits. They're NP because they "donate" care to the needy - though in reality they are required to treat everybody by law, and they write off the debts which they find they can't collect though the court system. Nearly every NP hospital has a team of lawyers which clog the judicial system chasing payments from non-paying patients.
Exchanges are a purely republican idea, though not without merit if there is actual competition. I'm still baffled why the ACA didn't take the simple route and simply require that the FEHB (fed employee system) be opened to all citizens. It's already got a 2M person group, so it's not like its going to get horribly worse, and there are plans available in every state and territory.
I found it amazingly ironic that the states which take the hardest stance on wanting to do everything their own way because the federal government can't possibly know the nuances of their state needs nearly all chose to let the feds make the ACA website for them.
If you see an item sold at Harbor Freight and it's brand name includes an American city or state in the name, that's the guarantee that it has been made in China.
Funny - back when I was with the gov't I just choose the cable from store stock, get my section head to sign it and it gets delivered on the next run. If it wasn't in store stock, the secretary could order it with the section credit card
Now, if you're talking about trying to get an item into the master list - yes, it's a huge pain in the ass. I tried to get a store stock number of a specific brand of pen I preferred (Faber Castel Micro, 0.5mm, if it matters) and gave up when confronted with the actual red tape to do it. (Note: getting the FC-Micro was mostly hit-or-miss as the spec for the pens applied to 3-4 different brands, some of which were of rather poor quality, which is why I even considered climbing the mountain)
Because...Fuck You!
I presume you are utterly colorblind.
The reason your headlights don't look like street lights is the illumination is entirely different - narrow cone illumination in front of you (nor peripheral coverage) vs. overhead flood lighting. If you'd ever been in a warehouse with LP Sodium lights you'd realize what a horrid source of lighting it is. The only reason to use Sodium is the trade off of fantastic operational cost vs crappy light and astronomy-killing wavelength pollution.
If their numbers are correct, they will spend $10M to save 700,000/yr (14M over 20 years) - that's an annualized rate of return of 3.45%. It's good that it's positive, but it's a pretty slim actual savings.
nm, just seems an appropriate tag for a Bush Era memo.