I was referring more to the hardware limitations. The Pi has only 8 digital I/O pins, and I think one serial port and an I2C port? Microcontrollers like the ATMega 2560 (and Arduino Mega board) have 50 some I/O lines (with some analog ones in there) and four serial ports. The 8 pins on a Pi you can eat up pretty quick on a project. Of course you can use the I2C port to add peripheral chips to get more I/O, but microcontrollers in general do this a lot better.
The Arduino Yún runs Linux, albeit on a core separate from the Arduino ATMega device. As others have mentioned, networking can be done with shields. If you really want video and hardcore networking, you probably want a Pi. But the Pi is overkill if you have a task that can be automated with a microcontroller, and the Pi doesn't handle raw pin I/O as nimble as a microcontroller.
But he's not disqualified. Convicted felons can serve in federal office, and Snowden isn't even a convicted felon, yet. So he can run for office. This quite simply isn't an example of a corrupt election process. He can run and get elected. Whether he sets foot on US soil and gets arrested is an entirely different issue. Getting elected to office doesn't absolve one of a crime, unless he somehow can grant himself a pardon.
It would be something to consider if the US was a third world country or ruled by some awful dictator. Exiled felons fighting "the system" typically don't end up getting elected in the US or even considered by the general public. Regardless, it's hardly an example of a corrupt election process or democracy gone bad.
Snowden won't be eligible to run until the 2020 election.
He won't ever be eligible. All the man has to do is get him convicted for something in absentia, and he loses his right to run for office as well as his right to vote. Or toss him in jail as soon as he sets foot on US soil, and he'd also become ineligible.
It's nice when you have a system where you can weed out unwanted political figures that easily. Not very democratic, though. Which is why voting and running for election are inalienable rights in most democracies.
He's a bit more than an "unwanted political figure". You're glossing over the fact that he released tons of classified government information. I'm not going to argue whether it was right or wrong, but using Snowden to support an argument of a broken or corrupt election process is quite a stretch.
I would be in favor of releasing all his email if Fox News and every right wing media outlet released their email. They all make statements on a daily basis regarding AGW and a segment of the population considers their "research" and reporting scientific.
Childish? That's funny. You right wingers demand the birth certificate. The short form is produced and you say it's not sufficient and you need the long form. The long form is produced and you say it's a fake, despite coming from a state with a Republican governor and there are two newspaper birth announcements that match the birth certificate. Children have more sense than you guys.
Making people pay $1500 to be their beta tester is a bit ballsy, though. Of course if you have customers who are dumb enough to pay for a half-baked and potentially buggy beta product that will be superseded by a new model in six months, have at it.
The situation with Visio is scary. There is nothing that works nearly as well as it, and Microsoft has been doing their damnedest to eff it up ever since they acquired it. One of these days they're going to be successful and make it unusable, like they did with Windows 8.
It's when a theory is implausible and the "critical thinkers" spend years obsessed with beating a dead horse they get labeled conspiracy nut tinfoil hat wearing wackos, like the 911 truthers, the we-didn't-go-to-the-moon people, or the nutbags who are still asking for Obama's birth certificate. Critical thinking is fine and welcome in this country. Obsessing about implausible made up scenarios driven by agendas or outrage isn't.
Reagan got it right? Remember Trickle Down Economics? Middle class wages have been stagnant ever since and we continue to struggle with deficits partly due to Reagan's "right" policies. Something has been trickling down, but it's not wealth and prosperity.
Actually, I should clarify. I don't agree with the OP's idea of a database to track gun owners. I'm all for databases supporting background checks, like NICS.
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I was referring more to the hardware limitations. The Pi has only 8 digital I/O pins, and I think one serial port and an I2C port? Microcontrollers like the ATMega 2560 (and Arduino Mega board) have 50 some I/O lines (with some analog ones in there) and four serial ports. The 8 pins on a Pi you can eat up pretty quick on a project. Of course you can use the I2C port to add peripheral chips to get more I/O, but microcontrollers in general do this a lot better.
The Arduino Yún runs Linux, albeit on a core separate from the Arduino ATMega device. As others have mentioned, networking can be done with shields. If you really want video and hardcore networking, you probably want a Pi. But the Pi is overkill if you have a task that can be automated with a microcontroller, and the Pi doesn't handle raw pin I/O as nimble as a microcontroller.
But he's not disqualified. Convicted felons can serve in federal office, and Snowden isn't even a convicted felon, yet. So he can run for office. This quite simply isn't an example of a corrupt election process. He can run and get elected. Whether he sets foot on US soil and gets arrested is an entirely different issue. Getting elected to office doesn't absolve one of a crime, unless he somehow can grant himself a pardon.
The Chromebook being a 21st century dumb terminal made me forget about it, not a race-to-the-bottom Windows 8 laptop.
It would be something to consider if the US was a third world country or ruled by some awful dictator. Exiled felons fighting "the system" typically don't end up getting elected in the US or even considered by the general public. Regardless, it's hardly an example of a corrupt election process or democracy gone bad.
Snowden won't be eligible to run until the 2020 election.
He won't ever be eligible.
All the man has to do is get him convicted for something in absentia, and he loses his right to run for office as well as his right to vote. Or toss him in jail as soon as he sets foot on US soil, and he'd also become ineligible.
It's nice when you have a system where you can weed out unwanted political figures that easily.
Not very democratic, though. Which is why voting and running for election are inalienable rights in most democracies.
He's a bit more than an "unwanted political figure". You're glossing over the fact that he released tons of classified government information. I'm not going to argue whether it was right or wrong, but using Snowden to support an argument of a broken or corrupt election process is quite a stretch.
Fox just gets called out more often because they happen to be the only network that caters to social conservatives and has a much larger audience.
Fox goes a step further and promotes conservative activism, such as promotion of tea party events. That's the difference.
That's actually how the NSA snoop on monitor cables.
They attach a device that looks like an EMI suppression choke that taps in to the red wire on a VGA cable.
What if all the wires in your VGA cable are gray?
UNII isn't even on Comcast's or AT&T's radar. It's viable competition only where other Tier 1 providers won't go.
Any analogy with guns and gun control would only be valid if someone could buy a beer, point it at you, and make you die from alcoholism.
So they created another Fox News?
Then they need to spin off the shit headphone business. I doubt they will considering Cook is getting his picture taken with Dr. Dre.
Android is the only platform on which it is flexible enough to allow for any sort of mobile malware.
So when Android gives you the ability to fuck up your system it's flexibility. Do you work in sales or at Samsung?
Android fanboyism is getting a bit nuts.
I would be in favor of releasing all his email if Fox News and every right wing media outlet released their email. They all make statements on a daily basis regarding AGW and a segment of the population considers their "research" and reporting scientific.
Childish? That's funny. You right wingers demand the birth certificate. The short form is produced and you say it's not sufficient and you need the long form. The long form is produced and you say it's a fake, despite coming from a state with a Republican governor and there are two newspaper birth announcements that match the birth certificate. Children have more sense than you guys.
You have to move out of mom's basement to understand the value of Apple products, and afford them, of course.
Making people pay $1500 to be their beta tester is a bit ballsy, though. Of course if you have customers who are dumb enough to pay for a half-baked and potentially buggy beta product that will be superseded by a new model in six months, have at it.
"something like a Chrome-powered Mac mini with a small SSD instead of a hard drive, and of course without the high Mac mini price"
So basically nothing like a Mac mini...
Quite well. Fusion splices don't corrode.
The situation with Visio is scary. There is nothing that works nearly as well as it, and Microsoft has been doing their damnedest to eff it up ever since they acquired it. One of these days they're going to be successful and make it unusable, like they did with Windows 8.
It's when a theory is implausible and the "critical thinkers" spend years obsessed with beating a dead horse they get labeled conspiracy nut tinfoil hat wearing wackos, like the 911 truthers, the we-didn't-go-to-the-moon people, or the nutbags who are still asking for Obama's birth certificate. Critical thinking is fine and welcome in this country. Obsessing about implausible made up scenarios driven by agendas or outrage isn't.
Reagan got it right? Remember Trickle Down Economics? Middle class wages have been stagnant ever since and we continue to struggle with deficits partly due to Reagan's "right" policies. Something has been trickling down, but it's not wealth and prosperity.
So basically criminals don't care about breaking the law, therefore we shouldn't have any laws and should just pack guns.
I agree. Unfortunately I posted without reading the OP. I support background check databases, not gun registries.
Actually, I should clarify. I don't agree with the OP's idea of a database to track gun owners. I'm all for databases supporting background checks, like NICS.