"The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it."
I think the Civil War could accurately be considered a case of rebellion.
...and to those that maintain there was no rebellion in the north, let's not forget the draft riots in New York.
The Japanese Navy had active plans to invade there....If Japanese marines had come aground, we can be sure that national guard and civilian militias would be firing on anyone who looked Japanese.
Right, they'd be firing on shop owners stocking their shelves, on farm workers loading boxes of oranges, on teachers leading children in their lessons. You really think they were put in camps because the government was afraid average folks of Japanese descent going about their normal lives as they had for years would be easily mistaken for uniformed troops of the Imperial Japanese Army/Marines storming inland at Santa Monica in full uniform, carrying machine guns and mortars? Bullshit. Complete, utter rationalizing bullshit. They were put in camps out of fear they might be spies. A friend of my father's was in one of those camps, out in the fucking desert. His parents used to own a house, and worked at a fruit packing plant. They ended up with nothing but what they carried on their backs. It was a fucking "protective measure", all right, but a measure against imaginary spies.
200 years ago every black man in America was a slave, think on the sheer brutality that implies.
Untrue. There were half a million free blacks living in the US at the beginning of the Civil War. "200 years ago", 14% of the black population was free.
Compare that with very dry presentations saying more steel is needed to reinforce the armour on military vehicles.
Armoring a hummer is fucking stupid anyway. The hummer is the replacement for the old WW2 army jeep. Would you armor a jeep with steel plates? Totally asinine. If you want soldiers in armored vehicles, give them fucking armored vehicles. Thousands of perfectly good M113 armored vehicles sat in mothballs while our idiot-run DoD stuck to its "light and fast" vision of the Army and soldiers (who knew better than the DoD what they needed) had to turn light trucks into APCs by scrounging steel from junkyards. Then to compound their idiocy, the DoD created an official program to misuse their light trucks by adding armor they were never designed to carry. Eventually they started shipping over M113's but they did spend a lot of time and waste a lot of lives defending their original stupid decision.
officers, are less likely to be out in the open if they knew there are snipers stalking them
Too damn bad. If there's one thing that wars don't kill enough of, it's officers.
I would agree, but only if "officers" meant "Pentagon assholes". Plenty of officers get killed. It just seems like fewer because enlisted folks outnumber them by like 10 to 1.
The LAW rockets have to travel a short distance (I think 17 meters) before they are armed. So if you fire it into the ground or your nearby APC, nothing really bad happens.
Indeed, the greatest danger would be from either mis-directing the backblast into your team, or the blunt-force trauma of hitting someone with the projectile.
It's also rather moot, as the LAW isn't generally fielded anymore, being 40+ years old and not good against modern armor. Might as well be talking about bazookas and Messerschmidts. It's mostly the AT4 now. ...
Huh. Apparently, as of 2006, they're pulling M74 LAWs out of storage and using them in Iraq because they're lighter than the AT4 and insurgents don't travel in armored vehicles.
Come on. Do you really think he designers didn't think of this? That you're that much more clever than an IBM engineering team? I seriously doubt the system isn't designed with some sort of "one at a time, please" filtering. Typical Slashdot "I am smarter than the universe" attitude.
Bullshit, the Dragon Skin guys cooked their test data, they are being prosecuted; their armor is NOT better,
Read your own link, fucktard. No one is being "prosecuted", and the question of whether the DragonSkin product is better or not is still up in the air. I have seen about a 50:50 split on reports that one side or the other skewed the test procedure to make one or the other come out on top. I wore the current Army OTV off and on for 2 years and have seen it both fail and succeed first hand.
The live fire test guys who evaluate this stuff take their jobs very seriously, they didn't buy that crap armor for good reason (performance not price).
Yeah, no one would ever manipulate a test to make the product chosen look better. I've spent too many years using the end result of DoD procurement and testing procedure to have absolute faith in it. Sure, the guys conducting the test might be serious straight shooters, but what do you know about the pentagon political hacks who drew up the test procedure? Was it tailored to subtly exploit a particular weakness of the Pinnacle product? Pinnacle seems to think so.
Not everything is a conspiracy by the corrupt gubment.
No, but DoD procurement is rife with idiots who make poor decisions, and then go to the ends of the earth to back up those poor decisions, because to admit error is to admit incompetence, and promotions get harder when you've admitted incompetence. The Pentagon is a political rat's nest, full of infighting, backstabbing, and deal-cutting.
I would think it better to use visual HUD and/or audio cues to let the wearer know they are in the path of fire. This whole idea of the suit controlling your movements involuntarily seems like a poor idea created by someone who's probably never actually been shot at before. (note: neither have I)
Actually, it sounds like the creators have been shot at before, or had access to people who have. When you first notice incoming fire, your brain has an almost comical "WTF?" moment that lasts at least a half second. If you're well trained and/or have been shot at before, your "lizard brain" is already screaming at your muscles to get moving. If not, you might stand there for as long as 3 or 4 seconds before you can get your thinker running and get moving. A flashing red light on a HUD indicating "incoming fire" would probably be just enough warning for you to realize you've been hit by enemy fire, so it's not a complete surprise. I'd have loved something like this suit when I was in Afghanistan.
You're conflating a privilege - driving an automobile on public roads - with a constitutionally protected right against unwarranted search and seizure of private communications.
The old saw "driving is a privilege, not a right" doesn't give law enforcement carte blanche to ignore the constitution entirely.
Right, because we all know that this technology couldn't possibly be used to analyze anything other than bittorrent traffic.
Indeed we do. How do you (for example) spot a random "subversive" comment in an email with a tool designed to calculate the hash of a series of bittorrent blocks that make up a file and compare it to a known library of "infringing" hashes? Seriously, I would like to hear you explain how you think the tool could be adapted to a different, more sinister task.
I wish people would stop repeating this urban legend. ISPs do NOT have common carrier status. I wish they did, but they don't.
The "safe harbor" provisions of the DMCA create a situation for ISPs that gives them common carrier status in all but name. So yes, people should stop saying "give up their common carrier status", and instead say "fail to meet the conditions of DMCA Safe Harbor".
Rotovators are highly valuable and actually need to operate in LEO to throw things out of LEO, both up and down -- and Rotovators are quite vulnerable to debris.
Blah, blah, blah. Rotovators are "valuable" the same way unicorns and genies are "valuable", which is to say they are valuable in theory, but since we don't have any nor do we have any prospect of acquiring any anytime soon, it would be completely ridiculous to make expensive financial concessions based on this imaginary "value".
You're completely missing the point, though. Even if the contract were voided tomorrow, whomever owned Cyrix (and their IP) would still have Intel over a barrel because the patents would still be there. The contract isn't important. What's important is that the facts that forced Intel to the licensing deal in the first place are still there. For this reason, it's not bloody likely that there'd be any sort of cancellation clause in the licensing agreement that would take effect before the patents that spawned the agreement in the first place expire.
Excellent article. Took me three days to get through it. Kept having to walk away and think of other things. Never saw anyone go fey, but I sure did see a few go berserker. Amazingly insightful article. Thanks for the link.
Actually I was speaking on a much less technical, and more human level. My point was that something that we all use and that has become a backbone of our society has essentially become public domain by nature of its own success.
That's not how patents work. The McCoy automatic oiler saved milions of dollars in labor back in the age of steam locomotives. The fact that just about every locomotive had an oiler and that railroads were the backbone of our transportation system in the 19th century in no way affected McCoy's patent on it.
VIA bought Cyrix from National Semi. Due to aspects of the Pentium Pro infringing some of their patents, Cyrix had an x86 cross licensing deal with Intel.
Cyrix got IBM to fab their chips (IBM also sold re-branded Cyrix chips). This allowed them to hide behind IBM's patent cross-licensing agreements with Intel.
That was the terms of an early out of court settlement with Intel, but the situation changed after 1997. Cyrix sued Intel for violating some of their patents in the Pentium Pro. In the end, Cyrix ended up with a full x86 cross-licensing agreement with Intel, just like AMD. That's why VIA can sell x86 CPUs--- they bought Cyrix.
That is my understanding as well. Current Via chips are extensions of the Centaur design. Cyrix was a technological dead end that didn't even own any fabrication facilities. Name brand had to be the only valuable thing they had.
You're confusing chip design with licensing agreements. VIA sells the Centaur IDT chip design under the Cyrix licensing agreement. Cyrix' "name brand" was worthless compared to their real asset, which was a full x86 cross-licensing agreement with Intel.
Usually licensing agreements are set to be terminated if ownership of the licensee passes to a third party, so NVidia might even get a total of zero licenses if it buys Via.
So why didn't the cross licensing agreement terminate when National Semi bought Cyrix? Or when VIA bought Cyrix from National? Your speculation flies in the face of actual events.
There are long standing rumors, unconfirmed but highly believable, that x86 licenses are non transferable. I.e., VIA could buy Nvidia, but not vice versa.
C//
Those rumors are stupid and fly in the face of obvious historical fact. How the hell do you think VIA got Intel cross licensing to begin with? By buying Cyrix .
Nobody building a contemporary x86 CPU "starts" with x86 as it is. Much of the "x86" aspect of our processors is little more than an abstraction layer, translating to the functional guts of the CPU. The guts are designed with a mind for the needs of that abstraction layer, but it's not like the old days, where a certain x86 instruction mapped to a hard-wired set of transistors on the die.
Bank robbery is one of the major crimes with the fewest perpetrators caught. It's a well-kept secret but nowhere near "jsut about every" bankrobber gets caught.
It's also worth noting that bank robbery is also one of the least lucrative cash crimes nowadays. It's not the 19th century, where they keep piles of gold and cash in the safe, Scrooge McDuck style. Banks do everything with imaginary money now. They have maybe $10,000 cash out in the open. I've done locksmith work for supermarkets that have kept more than that stuffed in the front safe with only the day lock holding it shut. I did work for a Nevada Power customer service office in the early 90's that regularly had upwards of $150K in cash and checks (50-50 mix, approximately) on the 1st of the month when people pay their electric bill, all of it in an open vault guarded by one old security guard and two ancient cameras. Why was the vault open? Too inconvenient to lock up every half hour. Company policy required regular deposits out of the cashier drawers into the vault, but said nothing about closing or locking the door in between!
it makes me wonder what music produced twenty or fifty years from now will sound like, and how much authenticity will be left.
Ask an opera singer how much authenticity they think there was in pop singing to begin with. When you see a pop star with the mic pressed up against their mouth just so they can be heard, that already means they can't really sing. Electronic amplification has already filled the ranks with non-singers. This just adds a few more who can't carry a tune either.
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"The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it." I think the Civil War could accurately be considered a case of rebellion.
...and to those that maintain there was no rebellion in the north, let's not forget the draft riots in New York.
The Japanese Navy had active plans to invade there....If Japanese marines had come aground, we can be sure that national guard and civilian militias would be firing on anyone who looked Japanese.
Right, they'd be firing on shop owners stocking their shelves, on farm workers loading boxes of oranges, on teachers leading children in their lessons. You really think they were put in camps because the government was afraid average folks of Japanese descent going about their normal lives as they had for years would be easily mistaken for uniformed troops of the Imperial Japanese Army/Marines storming inland at Santa Monica in full uniform, carrying machine guns and mortars? Bullshit. Complete, utter rationalizing bullshit. They were put in camps out of fear they might be spies. A friend of my father's was in one of those camps, out in the fucking desert. His parents used to own a house, and worked at a fruit packing plant. They ended up with nothing but what they carried on their backs. It was a fucking "protective measure", all right, but a measure against imaginary spies.
200 years ago every black man in America was a slave, think on the sheer brutality that implies.
Untrue. There were half a million free blacks living in the US at the beginning of the Civil War. "200 years ago", 14% of the black population was free.
Compare that with very dry presentations saying more steel is needed to reinforce the armour on military vehicles.
Armoring a hummer is fucking stupid anyway. The hummer is the replacement for the old WW2 army jeep. Would you armor a jeep with steel plates? Totally asinine. If you want soldiers in armored vehicles, give them fucking armored vehicles. Thousands of perfectly good M113 armored vehicles sat in mothballs while our idiot-run DoD stuck to its "light and fast" vision of the Army and soldiers (who knew better than the DoD what they needed) had to turn light trucks into APCs by scrounging steel from junkyards. Then to compound their idiocy, the DoD created an official program to misuse their light trucks by adding armor they were never designed to carry. Eventually they started shipping over M113's but they did spend a lot of time and waste a lot of lives defending their original stupid decision.
officers, are less likely to be out in the open if they knew there are snipers stalking them
Too damn bad. If there's one thing that wars don't kill enough of, it's officers.
I would agree, but only if "officers" meant "Pentagon assholes". Plenty of officers get killed. It just seems like fewer because enlisted folks outnumber them by like 10 to 1.
The LAW rockets have to travel a short distance (I think 17 meters) before they are armed. So if you fire it into the ground or your nearby APC, nothing really bad happens.
Indeed, the greatest danger would be from either mis-directing the backblast into your team, or the blunt-force trauma of hitting someone with the projectile.
It's also rather moot, as the LAW isn't generally fielded anymore, being 40+ years old and not good against modern armor. Might as well be talking about bazookas and Messerschmidts. It's mostly the AT4 now.
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Huh. Apparently, as of 2006, they're pulling M74 LAWs out of storage and using them in Iraq because they're lighter than the AT4 and insurgents don't travel in armored vehicles.
Doppler shift, genius. It's trivially easy to tell the difference between a handful of thrown gravel and a 1200fps projectile.
Come on. Do you really think he designers didn't think of this? That you're that much more clever than an IBM engineering team? I seriously doubt the system isn't designed with some sort of "one at a time, please" filtering. Typical Slashdot "I am smarter than the universe" attitude.
Bullshit, the Dragon Skin guys cooked their test data, they are being prosecuted; their armor is NOT better,
Read your own link, fucktard. No one is being "prosecuted", and the question of whether the DragonSkin product is better or not is still up in the air. I have seen about a 50:50 split on reports that one side or the other skewed the test procedure to make one or the other come out on top. I wore the current Army OTV off and on for 2 years and have seen it both fail and succeed first hand.
The live fire test guys who evaluate this stuff take their jobs very seriously, they didn't buy that crap armor for good reason (performance not price).
Yeah, no one would ever manipulate a test to make the product chosen look better. I've spent too many years using the end result of DoD procurement and testing procedure to have absolute faith in it. Sure, the guys conducting the test might be serious straight shooters, but what do you know about the pentagon political hacks who drew up the test procedure? Was it tailored to subtly exploit a particular weakness of the Pinnacle product? Pinnacle seems to think so.
Not everything is a conspiracy by the corrupt gubment.
No, but DoD procurement is rife with idiots who make poor decisions, and then go to the ends of the earth to back up those poor decisions, because to admit error is to admit incompetence, and promotions get harder when you've admitted incompetence. The Pentagon is a political rat's nest, full of infighting, backstabbing, and deal-cutting.
I would think it better to use visual HUD and/or audio cues to let the wearer know they are in the path of fire. This whole idea of the suit controlling your movements involuntarily seems like a poor idea created by someone who's probably never actually been shot at before. (note: neither have I)
Actually, it sounds like the creators have been shot at before, or had access to people who have. When you first notice incoming fire, your brain has an almost comical "WTF?" moment that lasts at least a half second. If you're well trained and/or have been shot at before, your "lizard brain" is already screaming at your muscles to get moving. If not, you might stand there for as long as 3 or 4 seconds before you can get your thinker running and get moving. A flashing red light on a HUD indicating "incoming fire" would probably be just enough warning for you to realize you've been hit by enemy fire, so it's not a complete surprise. I'd have loved something like this suit when I was in Afghanistan.
You're conflating a privilege - driving an automobile on public roads - with a constitutionally protected right against unwarranted search and seizure of private communications.
The old saw "driving is a privilege, not a right" doesn't give law enforcement carte blanche to ignore the constitution entirely.
Right, because we all know that this technology couldn't possibly be used to analyze anything other than bittorrent traffic.
Indeed we do. How do you (for example) spot a random "subversive" comment in an email with a tool designed to calculate the hash of a series of bittorrent blocks that make up a file and compare it to a known library of "infringing" hashes? Seriously, I would like to hear you explain how you think the tool could be adapted to a different, more sinister task.
I wish people would stop repeating this urban legend. ISPs do NOT have common carrier status. I wish they did, but they don't.
The "safe harbor" provisions of the DMCA create a situation for ISPs that gives them common carrier status in all but name. So yes, people should stop saying "give up their common carrier status", and instead say "fail to meet the conditions of DMCA Safe Harbor".
Rotovators are highly valuable and actually need to operate in LEO to throw things out of LEO, both up and down -- and Rotovators are quite vulnerable to debris.
Blah, blah, blah. Rotovators are "valuable" the same way unicorns and genies are "valuable", which is to say they are valuable in theory, but since we don't have any nor do we have any prospect of acquiring any anytime soon, it would be completely ridiculous to make expensive financial concessions based on this imaginary "value".
You're completely missing the point, though. Even if the contract were voided tomorrow, whomever owned Cyrix (and their IP) would still have Intel over a barrel because the patents would still be there. The contract isn't important. What's important is that the facts that forced Intel to the licensing deal in the first place are still there. For this reason, it's not bloody likely that there'd be any sort of cancellation clause in the licensing agreement that would take effect before the patents that spawned the agreement in the first place expire.
Excellent article. Took me three days to get through it. Kept having to walk away and think of other things. Never saw anyone go fey, but I sure did see a few go berserker. Amazingly insightful article. Thanks for the link.
Actually I was speaking on a much less technical, and more human level. My point was that something that we all use and that has become a backbone of our society has essentially become public domain by nature of its own success.
That's not how patents work. The McCoy automatic oiler saved milions of dollars in labor back in the age of steam locomotives. The fact that just about every locomotive had an oiler and that railroads were the backbone of our transportation system in the 19th century in no way affected McCoy's patent on it.
What about VIA? They seem to do just fine.
VIA bought Cyrix from National Semi. Due to aspects of the Pentium Pro infringing some of their patents, Cyrix had an x86 cross licensing deal with Intel.
Cyrix got IBM to fab their chips (IBM also sold re-branded Cyrix chips). This allowed them to hide behind IBM's patent cross-licensing agreements with Intel.
That was the terms of an early out of court settlement with Intel, but the situation changed after 1997. Cyrix sued Intel for violating some of their patents in the Pentium Pro. In the end, Cyrix ended up with a full x86 cross-licensing agreement with Intel, just like AMD. That's why VIA can sell x86 CPUs--- they bought Cyrix.
That is my understanding as well. Current Via chips are extensions of the Centaur design. Cyrix was a technological dead end that didn't even own any fabrication facilities. Name brand had to be the only valuable thing they had.
You're confusing chip design with licensing agreements. VIA sells the Centaur IDT chip design under the Cyrix licensing agreement. Cyrix' "name brand" was worthless compared to their real asset, which was a full x86 cross-licensing agreement with Intel.
Usually licensing agreements are set to be terminated if ownership of the licensee passes to a third party, so NVidia might even get a total of zero licenses if it buys Via.
So why didn't the cross licensing agreement terminate when National Semi bought Cyrix? Or when VIA bought Cyrix from National? Your speculation flies in the face of actual events.
There are long standing rumors, unconfirmed but highly believable, that x86 licenses are non transferable. I.e., VIA could buy Nvidia, but not vice versa.
C//
Those rumors are stupid and fly in the face of obvious historical fact. How the hell do you think VIA got Intel cross licensing to begin with? By buying Cyrix .
Nobody building a contemporary x86 CPU "starts" with x86 as it is. Much of the "x86" aspect of our processors is little more than an abstraction layer, translating to the functional guts of the CPU. The guts are designed with a mind for the needs of that abstraction layer, but it's not like the old days, where a certain x86 instruction mapped to a hard-wired set of transistors on the die.
Bank robbery is one of the major crimes with the fewest perpetrators caught. It's a well-kept secret but nowhere near "jsut about every" bankrobber gets caught.
It's also worth noting that bank robbery is also one of the least lucrative cash crimes nowadays. It's not the 19th century, where they keep piles of gold and cash in the safe, Scrooge McDuck style. Banks do everything with imaginary money now. They have maybe $10,000 cash out in the open. I've done locksmith work for supermarkets that have kept more than that stuffed in the front safe with only the day lock holding it shut. I did work for a Nevada Power customer service office in the early 90's that regularly had upwards of $150K in cash and checks (50-50 mix, approximately) on the 1st of the month when people pay their electric bill, all of it in an open vault guarded by one old security guard and two ancient cameras. Why was the vault open? Too inconvenient to lock up every half hour. Company policy required regular deposits out of the cashier drawers into the vault, but said nothing about closing or locking the door in between!
it makes me wonder what music produced twenty or fifty years from now will sound like, and how much authenticity will be left.
Ask an opera singer how much authenticity they think there was in pop singing to begin with. When you see a pop star with the mic pressed up against their mouth just so they can be heard, that already means they can't really sing. Electronic amplification has already filled the ranks with non-singers. This just adds a few more who can't carry a tune either.