There is certainly more than enough evidence to question whether FBI's spying on Trump campaign was lawful. They used Steele's fake "dossier" as a justification to start monitoring Carter Cage in the FISA application in the summer of 2016. Any FBI agent must have known then that this "dossier" was a work of fiction that belongs on the same shelf with James Bond and Jasson Boerne. This was also about the same time when atent Strzok was boasting in his texts to sweatheart that they were working on the "insurance" for the case if Trump won. He also moanded that certain FBI bureaucrat was questioning the integrity of the source in the FISA app. The source of couse was that British Steele who managed to plant his work of fiction in FBI and on the desks of major newspapers. We have to give Steele credit because he was actually good at doing the later.
Manning's sentence was commuted by Obama. On the other hand, it's hard to believe that Trump would pardon Assange. Such an action would raise a whole lot of eyebrows at Fox News who happens Trump's only big-media supporters, and they have been calling for Assange's head for a long time now.
He is not going to be charged with releasing materials that simply fell on his lap. He will be investigated for, and probably charged for a conspiracy with Manning and possibly with Russian agents to obtain and release politically damaging documents. There is a big difference there. NYT reporters do not break into private or government offices to obtain the information that was later released.
Andy McCabe, Comey, maybe Brennon, but I'd be totally surprised if any of these get much jail time..
And don't forget Strzok.
Even a little jail time is going to be excellent because these tools have been getting a celebrity treatment from the cable TV media, publishers, the democratic members of congress, and on other liberal platforms. We need to expose the crocks that they were, and all the media that gave these rogue unhinged spies a platform should be shamed.
Only because WP reports this, this doesn't mean crap.
Moreover, the claim that such technology works is most likely BS. I am one of the most alert drivers, and yet while I drive my brand new Honda Pilot, I see a light flashing "brake! brake!, you will crash!!! or I will brake for you!", even though there is no one driving in front of me. So after getting about 5-10 of such false positives a day, I simply turned off this idiotic collision braking mitigation system BS whatever shit they call it, and I never use it any more. If someone tries to sell me a car that claims it won't start because I had a beer today, I simply won't buy me. Send these to Holland, please. This will never pass in the USA.
This means that pretty much all bars in rural or small town USA must close. It's only in NYC, Chicago, Boston, or SF you can drink a beer, then take a train or a cab ride to your home. It will be interesting what bar/restaurant lobby says about this.
Running the heater until the battery dies means you've been there too long.
A classic idiot posting on Slashdot. In the winter your battery will die long before it gets your car warm. In fact, most cars get their cabin heat from the engine heat. If your engine can't start, your car won't get warm. No chance.
During the last 30 years or so, the American industry suffered from a massive erosion in competition thanks to the endless merger-mania. The telecoms and cable industry are probably the best example, leaving most of us choosing between two or three major providers, but the same went on in other areas, for example the airlines. Our drugs are the most expensive because we don't allow imported drugs, and our health insurance market is a joke. Our government had no guts to split Microsoft, and it still has no guts to split the monsters like Google into a bunch of separate businesses.
So out of blue, they now worry about THIS? I honestly have this hard to believe. I am guessing the Amazon and Netflix lobbyists have rubbed a few right politicians.
Indeed. In fact, many iFans seem to forget that iPhone 6, 6s, 7 and 8 were basically the same product, for four years. Same basic design, same screen, same form factor, but with a few tweaks inside here and there. In fact, I must say the 6S was the peak of that series because it upgraded RAM from 1GB to 2GB compared to the previous model, while still retaining the headphone jack. The 7 and 8 erased the headphone jack, and that make 6S still the better one of that bunch.
Hope it was not a surprise that Apple's entry level iPad Mini 5 is recycling components from Apple's other tablets. In fact, if you recall the Mini's 2 through 4, those models were in a way a letdown because 3 was basically the same as 2 plus a fingerprint reader. The 4 wasn't much different. Nonetheless, I think the 5 is going to be a success because its SoC and storage options are a solid improvement over the previous models, and there is a large number of consumers who like the mini form factor.
For a long time I used to think that Android tablet sales and development went down a few years ago because of poor sales. But more recently, it was becoming clear that Android tablet sales went down because Google did a lot to bury Android as a tablet OS.
Around years 2013-2014, Android tablet development was so exciting that even companies that were never PC or tablet manufacturers jumped into the game (e.g. Nvidia Shield). However, for the last three years or so, Google created and promoted the narrative that "Android is soon to be dead as a tablet OS, but Chrome OS will be our next tablet OS". As result, you can expect the users, developers and OEMs to lose much interest in the family of products that are not supported much by their own OS developer. And they did, although Samsung and Huawei still seem to be doubling up on Android tablet development, each introducing at least new two Android models every year. I can't remember the last time when google introduced a solid new tablet-specific feature in an Android release, even though companies like Samsung always go into extra trouble to add tablet specific mods to their Android version (TouchWiz, Dex, etc). Finally, Google has done pretty much nothing to police or encourage the app developers to produce tablet friendly user interfaces. The least Google could do is for example increase the search rank of the apps that have tablet-specific UI features in the App Store, and downrank the rest.
So the right thing to do is to go back to Android, and start building it into a viable tablet OS. Reintroduce Android tablets as a part of Nexus or Pixel product line again. But these product needs to fit within a specific market niche. Most people view and Android tablet as a media consumption device, and I think it's stupid to expect that people will pay 600-1000 dollars for one. That's crazy. That's where entry-level business and gaming laptops are priced these days. A nicely spec'd android tablet with a great AMOLED screen and solid internals should be retailing between 350 for base model and 500USD with LTE and all bells included, and the low end models should be priced between 150-300.
All politicians are con-men. At least Trump hasn't conned and dragged the whole country into a 15 year old devastating war like GWB did in 2003. _THAT_ was a disgrace is impeachment-worthy. That did not happen, but watch the liberals now dwell on obscure campaign finance laws and the definitions of obstruction of justice for the rest of this year.
After two and a half years of liberal russophobia and accusations of treason, we arrived to this? Did anyone actually with at least half a brain believe this was going to end somewhat different? Anyways, it's hard to believe that Congress and the corporate news media will leave the President alone after this. So watch the news echo chamber closely over the next few days as Russia investigation now morphs into "obstruction of justice" and "campaign finance" investigation.
If you browse around a typical statistics textbook, you will probably find a brief discussion about the difference between statistical significance and real world significance. It seems like a lot of people in sciences, specially in the soft sciences are chasing after the statistical significance because it's now some kind of a prerequisite to get published. However, their findings can amount to very little in the real world. Imagine for example that you find out there the commute distance is statistically significant between people who drink diet coke and tomato juice. Sounds like a great title for a click-bait report. But in reality, your estimates can be 7.34 miles vs 7.36 miles, a difference of 40 meters.
Why stop only at refusing to drive when I look tired or distracted late night or early in the morning? We need cars to make other safety related decisions. For example, refuse to change lanes if the driver did not use turn signal, brake and stop the car when driver tries to cross intersection on yellow light, refuse to accellerate beyond speed limit, don't brake if the driver did not check rear view mirror, brake on every stoo sign, etc.
Apple, Samsung, Huawei, and Amazon all seem to be doubling up on the tablet models year by year. It seems like there is enough demand to sustain their business. Google's position on Android tablets is.. bizarre
The iPad Mini does not have stereo sound in landscape mode, which makes it crap for video streaming apps. All the sound is firing from the left or right of the screen. What a waste. One of the reasons I am sticking with Android tablets because almost all of them support stereo sound in landscape mode.
Heck, I even would access a MONO sound if the speaker was placed in the center of the screen, but the way Apple iPad/Mini does it is just stupid.
Google pretty much stopped supporting tablet features in Android, so stock Android on a large tablet is not that great an experience. Like using a giant phone. Tablet makers have had to make their own modifications to Android to take advantage of the larger screen space (e.g. running multiple apps side-by-side).
I highly disagree with this statement. Most tablet users use their tablets for 4-5 tasks that are specially well suited for tablet application, such as streaming apps, book readers, web browsers, note taking, and maybe one more task. That's why I use my tablet for, and I never felt my tablet to be a "big phone". It is true there are many crappy apps on App Store that are not optimized for tablet UI. But guess what, over 90% of Android App store apps are such crap that I wouldn't put them even on a phone, and I really don't care whether they have a tablet optimized UI.
Which is a proof that the iSomething market has reached a level of good maturity a long time ago. If it wasn't for battery issues, I'd still be fine with using either iPhone 6S or Samsung Galaxy S5 both from something like four years ago. Having more than 16GB of storage would be nice, but besides that, those old iPhones and iPads would be perfect or acceptable to most users.
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There is certainly more than enough evidence to question whether FBI's spying on Trump campaign was lawful. They used Steele's fake "dossier" as a justification to start monitoring Carter Cage in the FISA application in the summer of 2016. Any FBI agent must have known then that this "dossier" was a work of fiction that belongs on the same shelf with James Bond and Jasson Boerne. This was also about the same time when atent Strzok was boasting in his texts to sweatheart that they were working on the "insurance" for the case if Trump won. He also moanded that certain FBI bureaucrat was questioning the integrity of the source in the FISA app. The source of couse was that British Steele who managed to plant his work of fiction in FBI and on the desks of major newspapers. We have to give Steele credit because he was actually good at doing the later.
Manning's sentence was commuted by Obama. On the other hand, it's hard to believe that Trump would pardon Assange. Such an action would raise a whole lot of eyebrows at Fox News who happens Trump's only big-media supporters, and they have been calling for Assange's head for a long time now.
He is not going to be charged with releasing materials that simply fell on his lap. He will be investigated for, and probably charged for a conspiracy with Manning and possibly with Russian agents to obtain and release politically damaging documents. There is a big difference there. NYT reporters do not break into private or government offices to obtain the information that was later released.
Andy McCabe, Comey, maybe Brennon, but I'd be totally surprised if any of these get much jail time..
And don't forget Strzok.
Even a little jail time is going to be excellent because these tools have been getting a celebrity treatment from the cable TV media, publishers, the democratic members of congress, and on other liberal platforms. We need to expose the crocks that they were, and all the media that gave these rogue unhinged spies a platform should be shamed.
But if 10 drunk idiots freeze to death and 10,000 drunk driving related deaths are eliminated, that seems a good trade doesn't it?
Indeed. This must have been a statement based on solid research.
Fuck Tesla. A car for idiots. I will take a 3-cylinder Geo Metro with a manual transmission before I drive a Tesla.
Another proof Slashdot became another a click-bait website. It used to be different 20 years ago...
Only because WP reports this, this doesn't mean crap.
Moreover, the claim that such technology works is most likely BS. I am one of the most alert drivers, and yet while I drive my brand new Honda Pilot, I see a light flashing "brake! brake!, you will crash!!! or I will brake for you!", even though there is no one driving in front of me. So after getting about 5-10 of such false positives a day, I simply turned off this idiotic collision braking mitigation system BS whatever shit they call it, and I never use it any more. If someone tries to sell me a car that claims it won't start because I had a beer today, I simply won't buy me. Send these to Holland, please. This will never pass in the USA.
This means that pretty much all bars in rural or small town USA must close. It's only in NYC, Chicago, Boston, or SF you can drink a beer, then take a train or a cab ride to your home. It will be interesting what bar/restaurant lobby says about this.
Running the heater until the battery dies means you've been there too long.
A classic idiot posting on Slashdot. In the winter your battery will die long before it gets your car warm. In fact, most cars get their cabin heat from the engine heat. If your engine can't start, your car won't get warm. No chance.
Sadly, soon there will be no choice since all TVs are going to be "smart"
During the last 30 years or so, the American industry suffered from a massive erosion in competition thanks to the endless merger-mania. The telecoms and cable industry are probably the best example, leaving most of us choosing between two or three major providers, but the same went on in other areas, for example the airlines. Our drugs are the most expensive because we don't allow imported drugs, and our health insurance market is a joke. Our government had no guts to split Microsoft, and it still has no guts to split the monsters like Google into a bunch of separate businesses.
So out of blue, they now worry about THIS? I honestly have this hard to believe. I am guessing the Amazon and Netflix lobbyists have rubbed a few right politicians.
Indeed. In fact, many iFans seem to forget that iPhone 6, 6s, 7 and 8 were basically the same product, for four years. Same basic design, same screen, same form factor, but with a few tweaks inside here and there. In fact, I must say the 6S was the peak of that series because it upgraded RAM from 1GB to 2GB compared to the previous model, while still retaining the headphone jack. The 7 and 8 erased the headphone jack, and that make 6S still the better one of that bunch.
Hope it was not a surprise that Apple's entry level iPad Mini 5 is recycling components from Apple's other tablets. In fact, if you recall the Mini's 2 through 4, those models were in a way a letdown because 3 was basically the same as 2 plus a fingerprint reader. The 4 wasn't much different. Nonetheless, I think the 5 is going to be a success because its SoC and storage options are a solid improvement over the previous models, and there is a large number of consumers who like the mini form factor.
For a long time I used to think that Android tablet sales and development went down a few years ago because of poor sales. But more recently, it was becoming clear that Android tablet sales went down because Google did a lot to bury Android as a tablet OS.
Around years 2013-2014, Android tablet development was so exciting that even companies that were never PC or tablet manufacturers jumped into the game (e.g. Nvidia Shield). However, for the last three years or so, Google created and promoted the narrative that "Android is soon to be dead as a tablet OS, but Chrome OS will be our next tablet OS". As result, you can expect the users, developers and OEMs to lose much interest in the family of products that are not supported much by their own OS developer. And they did, although Samsung and Huawei still seem to be doubling up on Android tablet development, each introducing at least new two Android models every year. I can't remember the last time when google introduced a solid new tablet-specific feature in an Android release, even though companies like Samsung always go into extra trouble to add tablet specific mods to their Android version (TouchWiz, Dex, etc). Finally, Google has done pretty much nothing to police or encourage the app developers to produce tablet friendly user interfaces. The least Google could do is for example increase the search rank of the apps that have tablet-specific UI features in the App Store, and downrank the rest.
So the right thing to do is to go back to Android, and start building it into a viable tablet OS. Reintroduce Android tablets as a part of Nexus or Pixel product line again. But these product needs to fit within a specific market niche. Most people view and Android tablet as a media consumption device, and I think it's stupid to expect that people will pay 600-1000 dollars for one. That's crazy. That's where entry-level business and gaming laptops are priced these days. A nicely spec'd android tablet with a great AMOLED screen and solid internals should be retailing between 350 for base model and 500USD with LTE and all bells included, and the low end models should be priced between 150-300.
Damn. And I had to shave my balls for this?
The most meaningless indictment in history. Its only purpose was to ruin Trump's meeting with Putin happening on the same day.
All politicians are con-men. At least Trump hasn't conned and dragged the whole country into a 15 year old devastating war like GWB did in 2003. _THAT_ was a disgrace is impeachment-worthy. That did not happen, but watch the liberals now dwell on obscure campaign finance laws and the definitions of obstruction of justice for the rest of this year.
After two and a half years of liberal russophobia and accusations of treason, we arrived to this? Did anyone actually with at least half a brain believe this was going to end somewhat different? Anyways, it's hard to believe that Congress and the corporate news media will leave the President alone after this. So watch the news echo chamber closely over the next few days as Russia investigation now morphs into "obstruction of justice" and "campaign finance" investigation.
If you browse around a typical statistics textbook, you will probably find a brief discussion about the difference between statistical significance and real world significance. It seems like a lot of people in sciences, specially in the soft sciences are chasing after the statistical significance because it's now some kind of a prerequisite to get published. However, their findings can amount to very little in the real world. Imagine for example that you find out there the commute distance is statistically significant between people who drink diet coke and tomato juice. Sounds like a great title for a click-bait report. But in reality, your estimates can be 7.34 miles vs 7.36 miles, a difference of 40 meters.
Why stop only at refusing to drive when I look tired or distracted late night or early in the morning? We need cars to make other safety related decisions. For example, refuse to change lanes if the driver did not use turn signal, brake and stop the car when driver tries to cross intersection on yellow light, refuse to accellerate beyond speed limit, don't brake if the driver did not check rear view mirror, brake on every stoo sign, etc.
Apple, Samsung, Huawei, and Amazon all seem to be doubling up on the tablet models year by year. It seems like there is enough demand to sustain their business. Google's position on Android tablets is.. bizarre
The iPad Mini does not have stereo sound in landscape mode, which makes it crap for video streaming apps. All the sound is firing from the left or right of the screen. What a waste. One of the reasons I am sticking with Android tablets because almost all of them support stereo sound in landscape mode.
Heck, I even would access a MONO sound if the speaker was placed in the center of the screen, but the way Apple iPad/Mini does it is just stupid.
Google pretty much stopped supporting tablet features in Android, so stock Android on a large tablet is not that great an experience. Like using a giant phone. Tablet makers have had to make their own modifications to Android to take advantage of the larger screen space (e.g. running multiple apps side-by-side).
I highly disagree with this statement. Most tablet users use their tablets for 4-5 tasks that are specially well suited for tablet application, such as streaming apps, book readers, web browsers, note taking, and maybe one more task. That's why I use my tablet for, and I never felt my tablet to be a "big phone". It is true there are many crappy apps on App Store that are not optimized for tablet UI. But guess what, over 90% of Android App store apps are such crap that I wouldn't put them even on a phone, and I really don't care whether they have a tablet optimized UI.
Which is a proof that the iSomething market has reached a level of good maturity a long time ago. If it wasn't for battery issues, I'd still be fine with using either iPhone 6S or Samsung Galaxy S5 both from something like four years ago. Having more than 16GB of storage would be nice, but besides that, those old iPhones and iPads would be perfect or acceptable to most users.