Guns do not necessarily have a shape. If your relying on the classic hand gun shape then you deserve to be shot.
A gun can be in almost any form. All you need is a cylinder really.
Secondly if I really wanted to carry a firearm on to a plane no one could stop me. It might take years to design the gun but still it would not be imposible. The gun itself would probably be less than practical.
If you want security I would do the opposite. Give everyone that wants one, on the plane, a gun at boarding.
I don't see why they needed to kill him. If they could get close enough for a bomb they could arguable detonate it far enough away from him such that it would only stun him. So many options here yet they close to kill.
If Netflix is paying Comcast anything they all the Comcast customers need to start a lynch mob. They already are paying both services already. In fact we should all complain since the payola would probably be amortized across all Netflix customers and will result in a price hike.
Whenever someone "reaches an agreement" payola is involved. It may be less that what comcast wants but that is neither here nor there. What these companies do shouldn't affect what I already pay for.
The XBox and Playstation are canned PC's. There is no reason they couldn't have 1.5/2 year refreshes. The reason we have to wait until 2017 is that both consoles are AMD. And AMD's new processors won't be out until later this year and they need so many months in order to develop enough stock that the console kids aren't crying they can't get a hold of one.
Quite frankly they need to be done with it and just put out their own proprietary x16 slot in the box. The next AMD processor will be a big deal but after than it won't matter for gaming. If they go x16 they they should style the cards as both console and PC compatible. That way the card is the same for dev box. And most importantly console gamers can sell their old graphics cards in the PC market. Only XBox branded cards will work in an XBox of course.
There is no reason console games can't be tiered by performance or even offer different performance depending on the model of the console. I would argue it would be a selling point since Microsoft would probably insist that older games get a refresh in graphics. So upgrade your console and all the games you already own get upgraded.
I somewhat agree although that has been changing a little bit as I get older. I might drink after a day of coding.
I think I would be a good candidate for a long haul space voyage. Say they perfected cryogenic sleep... I'd be perfectly happy being the babysitter/pilot.
They are completely anti American and are violating their oath of office. They promised to protect and defend the constitution. The 2nd amendment is clear enough. It starts with one preamble that justifies it. But the meat of it is clear: "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Keep means to have on your property, Bear means to have in your possession.
Registration and licensing is legal though I would disagree that fees for licenses are.
It is reasonable if you have a fire arm the government can mandate education. You can have the gun but if you fail to be educated they can lock you up. The education is also reasonable in that if you break the law in legal use of it that you can not plead ignorance of the law.
Arms are tools that can harm one or a handful of men. That includes knives, swords, axes, morning stars, and even automatic guns and grenades. Not nuclear weapons or tanks or fighter jets. Not biological weapons such as small pox. Probably tear gas grenades and smoke bombs.
The problem is that constitutional amendments as far a civil rights became the law of the land superseding state statutes. There should have been a constitutional amendment clarifying what past amendments are federally binding and which are state binding as well can requiring future amendments to clarify themselves. The 2nd amendment was meant to only be federally binding. That is why it was so short. The states were to individually decide how to regulate arms.
The only discussion they can have is repealing the 2nd amendment. Anything else is treasonous in my opinion. And to be quite frank I don't see why they are so hesitant to start the movement. Simply clarify in another amendment that the 2nd amendment applies to the federal government and that individual states have the right to regulate them as they see fit. In other words to do what the founding fathers of the 2nd amendment meant.
P.S. The second amendment wasn't about hunting. It was only partially about defending yourself from crime. It wasn't about people being able to rise up in a civil war against a corrupt federal government.
It not even really war, more about people being able to put up a gorilla/terrorist resistance. If one group wants to impose their will against another group then it's going to get really expensive and bloody. It's what the declaration of independence was about. Mistrust of strong governments. With the 2nd amendment if some states wanted to succeed from the USA it would take a long resistance. Imagine if the first US civil war had lasted 50 years. Imagine if even after we had won those states still resisted.
Have to make everything handy cap enabled? Think about it first please. An app on a blind persons smart phone would be more appropriate. Speaking of which is there a blind version of android? What do you know there is.
There should be ways that we can boycott music groups, both through our software, current playlists and though current sales. Maybe even organize a new law that allows us to turn in our old purchases and get partial refunds.
Full of exposed user information. Once the cat is out of the bad it's out of the bag and it needs to be acknowledged. You should be able to look up yourself and all your past exposed password so that you can never ever use them again. In fact you should be able to add to the list yourself.
Has cancer ever come from a precursor to an egg or sperm cells? In women at least all egg cells have already been produced by the time they are born.
Cancer occurs through out the body in cells which do not propagate to future generations.
At best you can have evolutionary pressure which kills people predisposed to developing terminal cancer. In other words they have a flawed immune system with trouble naturally identifying and eliminating certain cancers. Basically this would be a birth defect of ones cancer immune system.
But cancer is ultimately a runaway process. Everyone will develop it sooner or later depending on how long they live. Our bodies produce at least six cancerous cells a day. The body has the tough problem of identifying them before they get out of hand. The mutations that accumulate naturally are distinct from the mutations that occur in germ lines.
It is a belief. It is an affirmative belief. It might qualify as a religion or creed depending on how you define those words. It is a belief because you can't prove something doesn't exist. It's a consequence of logic. All reason is necessarily based on a foundation of beliefs.
An agnostic is someone that neither believes in the supernatural nor does not believe in it. They are undecided or uncommitted.
People colloquially use the label atheist when they mean a person that atheist or agnostic since to them both are guilty.
Most people are agnostic no matter how much say they are atheistic and will readily prey when faced with imminent death.
If Australia can do it we can too. Every phone, sim card or not has a personal identification number. It's 100% possible to implement a database of phones and prevent carriers from registering stolen and lost phones. If we did this we could actually motivate people to do the right thing and return phones to their owners.
The carriers and manufacturers don't want to do it because stolen phones increase sales of replacements.
Contractors are used because they often fall outside regulations. Requirements are stipulated as part of their contract which is physical and the size of a phone book. This is also how the executive branch of government currently gets around laws. And intentionally lose information. And lie.
A contractor can be fired. He can then go bankrupt and or reform under a new business name and then be rehired. We don't currently hold the government responsible for the actions of it's contractors. There is no buck stops here. By definition the contractor can only be held liable for what's in the contract and it's vary easy for those contracts to be vague. The governments can always point clauses to the public and say see this clause... but the contractors know what is legally enforceable. And again the contractors can more or less at any time jump ship or be fired and then rehired with a new name and contract. Win Win for the executive branch. The contractor is happy so long as it and it's employees get paid very well.
For example Snowden was an employee of a Dell. Then he became part of the NSA contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton.
Real spies don't work directly for the government. Plausible deniability.
Even if you a small company and frivolously sued lawyers will tell you to settle for anything less then 30K. Why? Because that is how much it is going to cost you to win the case.
If I owned two million dollars worth of personal stuff and a thief robbed me then offered to return everything for 30K and tell me how he robbed me so I could fix the problem with my security.... I would think 30k for 2 million would be a bargain.
The public service here is that the company was lax in protecting their data and taking security for granted. You don't lock up your business with a $2 padlock and have a right to think it's secured and protected and that the police and the law will protect you. An insurance adjuster would laugh at you and give you an outrageous premium.
Computer security is serious business and you need to be spending at least $200,000 a year just on audits and penetration testing. Otherwise don't collect and hold the data, instead subcontract it to another company.
Just because you can skimp with a $2 padlock doesn't me you should. Pay the salaries for a good IT department and contract outside consultants. Stop being cheap asses just because you can. You are aiding and abetting a the id and credit fraud out there. The government should fine you more than 30K for each time your hacked... Does the government need to do your security auditing for you?
Stop trying to make things thinner unless your going to do something with the saved space. If you can't figure out more features then default to big fat battery.
I would carry around one of those 1985 brick phones if it meant I didn't have to charge it all the time.
I have a dream that one day all people will only need to charge their phones and laptops once a week...
You can't be that selective when it comes to enforcing the law. He did what he did because others were without a doubt breaking the law and he had no way to pursue it without getting shut down. He tried to what extent he could to follow channels and as so many others did that came before him; and where did that get them? He is a patriot that brought to light the abuses of the government. He broke the law and needs to be pardoned 100%. If he were a citizen of my state I would write him in for senator. Breaking the law to reveal others breaking the law is justified. The military and certain executive branches of the government are overstepping themselves and don't think the rule of law applies to them. Whatever laws be may have broken were obviously flawed if they didn't let him do his job. He perceived a threat to the US constitution for gods sake and did the patriotic thing. Yet he broke the law?
The people in power breaking the laws aren't playing by any rules. They play dirty. They have gone as far as reclassifying documents people have had in their possession in order to prosecute them.
He himself has talked about how he and his coworkers intercepted communications of ordinary citizens not engaged in terrorism sending naked pictures to one another in communication they perceived to be private. They would then banter about it in the office and show each other the embarrassing communications. He said and is correct that that is normal human behavior when one is put it such position. Absolute spying power is corrupting. He recognized this.
Is it asking too much that the government obey it's own laws even if it's inconvenient? Is it too hard to pursue changing the rules that everyone can agree on in a democracy rather that usurping the power in everyone's best interest because you know what's best for everyone?
This is the same old hydrogen is actually a battery info. Completely true and it's been true for over a hundred years.
But it is not a bad battery. It's very simple but very clean. What is difficult is industrial standards for safe storage. A little money and dedication toward R&D will help there tremendously.
The truth is everyone of putting a hydrogen tank in a car that will likely crash at some point in it's history. The pressure tank will be heavy but that is complimented by everything else being simpler. Hydrogen vehicles that convert to electricity first are the same as wholly electric vehicles; just extra weight in the tank vs the battery pack.
But hydrogen is indeed wasteful but so is the electric grid itself. Big energy such as industrial solar and nuclear have energy to burn.
What people don't want to accept is nuclear but combined with hydrogen production it doesn't have to be in your backyard.
It should rather be downgraded to a second or third tier platform. The pentium is not going anywhere those machines will still be running in 50 years still. So long as you keep replacing the caps the machines that survived are proverbially like tanks in comparison now.
The question is what are you targeting? Only modern whizbang systems? Sounds like Apple.
Even if those old systems didn't have much they got the job done just fine. The chief problem was and always has been lazy developers that don't know anything about efficiency and streamlining. When I was a kid... you had to make due with 256KB of memory... Databases, spreadsheets, BBS servers....
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Guns do not necessarily have a shape. If your relying on the classic hand gun shape then you deserve to be shot.
A gun can be in almost any form. All you need is a cylinder really.
Secondly if I really wanted to carry a firearm on to a plane no one could stop me. It might take years to design the gun but still it would not be imposible. The gun itself would probably be less than practical.
If you want security I would do the opposite. Give everyone that wants one, on the plane, a gun at boarding.
I don't see why they needed to kill him. If they could get close enough for a bomb they could arguable detonate it far enough away from him such that it would only stun him. So many options here yet they close to kill.
When if the FTC going to start imposing fines so that these companies take the security of peoples personal and financial info seriously?
As far the the kiosks.. we have seen a lot of those pop up here and there across LA here. They have all died to be taken away to a junk yard.
For kiosks to succeed they better be built into every table and have smartphone integration. Possibly with siri or cortana to take my order.
Does anyone ever doubt when companies like this go from darlings to nothing overnight that it couldn't have been a trick to dump the stock price?
Not saying it happened but.... business people have done far worse for less.
Relatively easy to drive a company into the ground only to rebuild it from the ashes. Trump himself uses the technique.
If Netflix is paying Comcast anything they all the Comcast customers need to start a lynch mob. They already are paying both services already. In fact we should all complain since the payola would probably be amortized across all Netflix customers and will result in a price hike.
Whenever someone "reaches an agreement" payola is involved. It may be less that what comcast wants but that is neither here nor there. What these companies do shouldn't affect what I already pay for.
The XBox and Playstation are canned PC's. There is no reason they couldn't have 1.5/2 year refreshes. The reason we have to wait until 2017 is that both consoles are AMD. And AMD's new processors won't be out until later this year and they need so many months in order to develop enough stock that the console kids aren't crying they can't get a hold of one.
Quite frankly they need to be done with it and just put out their own proprietary x16 slot in the box. The next AMD processor will be a big deal but after than it won't matter for gaming. If they go x16 they they should style the cards as both console and PC compatible. That way the card is the same for dev box. And most importantly console gamers can sell their old graphics cards in the PC market. Only XBox branded cards will work in an XBox of course.
There is no reason console games can't be tiered by performance or even offer different performance depending on the model of the console. I would argue it would be a selling point since Microsoft would probably insist that older games get a refresh in graphics. So upgrade your console and all the games you already own get upgraded.
I somewhat agree although that has been changing a little bit as I get older. I might drink after a day of coding.
I think I would be a good candidate for a long haul space voyage. Say they perfected cryogenic sleep... I'd be perfectly happy being the babysitter/pilot.
Just keep beeming me my sci-fi programs.
Me too.....
Cooking and cleaning doesn't take that long, I'm a little OCD so I stretch it out.
I'll even take care of and rear the kids.
Just leave some beer in the fridge and a computer to code on for myself. A man has to have his hobbies.
The checks have to delivered somewhere.
How would knowing about he order have affected anything?
They are completely anti American and are violating their oath of office. They promised to protect and defend the constitution. The 2nd amendment is clear enough. It starts with one preamble that justifies it. But the meat of it is clear: "the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."
Keep means to have on your property, Bear means to have in your possession.
Registration and licensing is legal though I would disagree that fees for licenses are.
It is reasonable if you have a fire arm the government can mandate education. You can have the gun but if you fail to be educated they can lock you up. The education is also reasonable in that if you break the law in legal use of it that you can not plead ignorance of the law.
Arms are tools that can harm one or a handful of men. That includes knives, swords, axes, morning stars, and even automatic guns and grenades. Not nuclear weapons or tanks or fighter jets. Not biological weapons such as small pox. Probably tear gas grenades and smoke bombs.
The problem is that constitutional amendments as far a civil rights became the law of the land superseding state statutes. There should have been a constitutional amendment clarifying what past amendments are federally binding and which are state binding as well can requiring future amendments to clarify themselves. The 2nd amendment was meant to only be federally binding. That is why it was so short. The states were to individually decide how to regulate arms.
The only discussion they can have is repealing the 2nd amendment. Anything else is treasonous in my opinion. And to be quite frank I don't see why they are so hesitant to start the movement. Simply clarify in another amendment that the 2nd amendment applies to the federal government and that individual states have the right to regulate them as they see fit. In other words to do what the founding fathers of the 2nd amendment meant.
P.S. The second amendment wasn't about hunting. It was only partially about defending yourself from crime. It wasn't about people being able to rise up in a civil war against a corrupt federal government.
It not even really war, more about people being able to put up a gorilla/terrorist resistance. If one group wants to impose their will against another group then it's going to get really expensive and bloody. It's what the declaration of independence was about. Mistrust of strong governments. With the 2nd amendment if some states wanted to succeed from the USA it would take a long resistance. Imagine if the first US civil war had lasted 50 years. Imagine if even after we had won those states still resisted.
Have to make everything handy cap enabled? Think about it first please. An app on a blind persons smart phone would be more appropriate. Speaking of which is there a blind version of android? What do you know there is.
There should be ways that we can boycott music groups, both through our software, current playlists and though current sales. Maybe even organize a new law that allows us to turn in our old purchases and get partial refunds.
Full of exposed user information. Once the cat is out of the bad it's out of the bag and it needs to be acknowledged. You should be able to look up yourself and all your past exposed password so that you can never ever use them again. In fact you should be able to add to the list yourself.
Has cancer ever come from a precursor to an egg or sperm cells? In women at least all egg cells have already been produced by the time they are born.
Cancer occurs through out the body in cells which do not propagate to future generations.
At best you can have evolutionary pressure which kills people predisposed to developing terminal cancer. In other words they have a flawed immune system with trouble naturally identifying and eliminating certain cancers. Basically this would be a birth defect of ones cancer immune system.
But cancer is ultimately a runaway process. Everyone will develop it sooner or later depending on how long they live. Our bodies produce at least six cancerous cells a day. The body has the tough problem of identifying them before they get out of hand. The mutations that accumulate naturally are distinct from the mutations that occur in germ lines.
It is a belief. It is an affirmative belief. It might qualify as a religion or creed depending on how you define those words. It is a belief because you can't prove something doesn't exist. It's a consequence of logic. All reason is necessarily based on a foundation of beliefs.
An agnostic is someone that neither believes in the supernatural nor does not believe in it. They are undecided or uncommitted.
People colloquially use the label atheist when they mean a person that atheist or agnostic since to them both are guilty.
Most people are agnostic no matter how much say they are atheistic and will readily prey when faced with imminent death.
If Australia can do it we can too. Every phone, sim card or not has a personal identification number. It's 100% possible to implement a database of phones and prevent carriers from registering stolen and lost phones. If we did this we could actually motivate people to do the right thing and return phones to their owners.
The carriers and manufacturers don't want to do it because stolen phones increase sales of replacements.
Contractors are used because they often fall outside regulations. Requirements are stipulated as part of their contract which is physical and the size of a phone book. This is also how the executive branch of government currently gets around laws. And intentionally lose information. And lie.
A contractor can be fired. He can then go bankrupt and or reform under a new business name and then be rehired. We don't currently hold the government responsible for the actions of it's contractors. There is no buck stops here. By definition the contractor can only be held liable for what's in the contract and it's vary easy for those contracts to be vague. The governments can always point clauses to the public and say see this clause... but the contractors know what is legally enforceable. And again the contractors can more or less at any time jump ship or be fired and then rehired with a new name and contract. Win Win for the executive branch. The contractor is happy so long as it and it's employees get paid very well.
For example Snowden was an employee of a Dell. Then he became part of the NSA contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton.
Real spies don't work directly for the government. Plausible deniability.
The Java version is too slow.
Thanks, I was about to say the same thing.
MS just did what every other cloud vendor can and should do.
Even if you a small company and frivolously sued lawyers will tell you to settle for anything less then 30K. Why? Because that is how much it is going to cost you to win the case.
If I owned two million dollars worth of personal stuff and a thief robbed me then offered to return everything for 30K and tell me how he robbed me so I could fix the problem with my security.... I would think 30k for 2 million would be a bargain.
The public service here is that the company was lax in protecting their data and taking security for granted. You don't lock up your business with a $2 padlock and have a right to think it's secured and protected and that the police and the law will protect you. An insurance adjuster would laugh at you and give you an outrageous premium.
Computer security is serious business and you need to be spending at least $200,000 a year just on audits and penetration testing. Otherwise don't collect and hold the data, instead subcontract it to another company.
Just because you can skimp with a $2 padlock doesn't me you should. Pay the salaries for a good IT department and contract outside consultants. Stop being cheap asses just because you can. You are aiding and abetting a the id and credit fraud out there. The government should fine you more than 30K for each time your hacked... Does the government need to do your security auditing for you?
Stop trying to make things thinner unless your going to do something with the saved space. If you can't figure out more features then default to big fat battery.
I would carry around one of those 1985 brick phones if it meant I didn't have to charge it all the time.
I have a dream that one day all people will only need to charge their phones and laptops once a week...
But his bosses broke it first.
You can't be that selective when it comes to enforcing the law. He did what he did because others were without a doubt breaking the law and he had no way to pursue it without getting shut down. He tried to what extent he could to follow channels and as so many others did that came before him; and where did that get them? He is a patriot that brought to light the abuses of the government. He broke the law and needs to be pardoned 100%. If he were a citizen of my state I would write him in for senator. Breaking the law to reveal others breaking the law is justified. The military and certain executive branches of the government are overstepping themselves and don't think the rule of law applies to them. Whatever laws be may have broken were obviously flawed if they didn't let him do his job. He perceived a threat to the US constitution for gods sake and did the patriotic thing. Yet he broke the law?
The people in power breaking the laws aren't playing by any rules. They play dirty. They have gone as far as reclassifying documents people have had in their possession in order to prosecute them.
He himself has talked about how he and his coworkers intercepted communications of ordinary citizens not engaged in terrorism sending naked pictures to one another in communication they perceived to be private. They would then banter about it in the office and show each other the embarrassing communications. He said and is correct that that is normal human behavior when one is put it such position. Absolute spying power is corrupting. He recognized this.
Is it asking too much that the government obey it's own laws even if it's inconvenient? Is it too hard to pursue changing the rules that everyone can agree on in a democracy rather that usurping the power in everyone's best interest because you know what's best for everyone?
This is the same old hydrogen is actually a battery info. Completely true and it's been true for over a hundred years.
But it is not a bad battery. It's very simple but very clean. What is difficult is industrial standards for safe storage. A little money and dedication toward R&D will help there tremendously.
The truth is everyone of putting a hydrogen tank in a car that will likely crash at some point in it's history. The pressure tank will be heavy but that is complimented by everything else being simpler. Hydrogen vehicles that convert to electricity first are the same as wholly electric vehicles; just extra weight in the tank vs the battery pack.
But hydrogen is indeed wasteful but so is the electric grid itself. Big energy such as industrial solar and nuclear have energy to burn.
What people don't want to accept is nuclear but combined with hydrogen production it doesn't have to be in your backyard.
It should rather be downgraded to a second or third tier platform. The pentium is not going anywhere those machines will still be running in 50 years still. So long as you keep replacing the caps the machines that survived are proverbially like tanks in comparison now.
The question is what are you targeting? Only modern whizbang systems? Sounds like Apple.
Even if those old systems didn't have much they got the job done just fine. The chief problem was and always has been lazy developers that don't know anything about efficiency and streamlining. When I was a kid... you had to make due with 256KB of memory... Databases, spreadsheets, BBS servers....
You kids and your holodecks....