The NSA is wiping their ass with the U.S. Constitution again.
A recent article in CNN outlines why there is little in the US Media regarding Eric Snowden and the NSA Prism program--the NSA is literally threatening journalists with prosecution for espionage for doing their jobs.
We are sliding down that slippery slope fast, folks. I honestly feel the next few months will determine whether or not our Constitution remains viable as a means to protect basic human rights. Help the press help us--tell as many people as you can about this article and the serious repercussions the article outlines. These are not potential repercussions--this is happening folks. A near-complete lack of articles in main-stream media about the Prism program and Snowden is all the evidence I need to come to that conclusion.
You know 2 years ago, when Bin Laden got killed, people were complaining that in Pakistan, their intelligence agency runs the whole country. Look at what's happening now!
Back in 2008, Obama said he was going to stop all these warrantless wiretapping. Now we have private corporations supposedly fighting the government for the privacy of private customers. I thought it should have been the other way around.
I wonder how long it will take for this to be banned. Is this unregulated 3D printing or are projects approved by the owners of the device? Imagine a student printing out dorm keys to steal computers. One of them already tried to print a gun. This would only be preventable if the items to be printed are being approved by a human being or an insanely accurate 'safety' algorithm. But at what point does that become a privacy concern? Then the data on what we're 3d printing will be farmed out to the big corporations!
With respect to copyright, people have been some students have photocopying/scanning whole books in the library. There is a notice saying that doing this kind of thing is illegal. But people still do it. I think the situation for this kind of 3D printing will be similar in the future.
The Government also plans to amend the Broadcasting Act next year, to ensure that websites which are hosted overseas but report on Singapore news are brought under the licensing framework as well.
How exactly are they going to enforce their Broadcasting Act for foreign media? Start sending their minuscule army around the globe?
It is interesting to see a MEDC thrive on primary industry. I am not saying it is a bad thing. It is just different to what I read in the textbooks back in high school. MEDCs are meant to have strong secondary/tertiary industry.
With a nice supervisor, you can go a long way, even if you are clueless at the beginning. I suppose that sort of shows that the entry bar for science is quite low. You just need to find the right mentor, the right crowd of people.
Break into some decommissioned Russian hospital, some third world facility with poor security or steal it in NYC. A couple of sticks of dynamite, a timer and panic time.*
..a highly ingenious way to warn us about something that has close to a zero chance of happening. I guess it's like the rest of Homeland Security's efforts, just without the ingenious part.
I wonder how likely the terrorists can get hold of radioactive material. This kind of thing is so unlikely, They might as well blow the money on destroying asteroids, at least that will help space science.
The senior VP had serious technical chops, but he wasn't about to demonstrate them in front of his peers. He feared, justifiably, that if he did so he'd get classified as a techie and taken out of consideration as a possible future CEO.
For any/.er working in an environment like that, I'd like to think this would be a sign that it was time to get the hell out.
That really depends on what that VP meant by "demonstrating". If "demonstrating" means talk in technical jargons which most people can't understand, then that VP should expect loads people getting annoyed. Managers need to speak in a way so in which other people can understand. Real life is not about demonstrating one's knowledge of jargons.
You should try and get someone who does computability/complexity research to talk jargon to someone who does VHDL/Verilog hardware synthesis. They totally can't understand each other.
Isn't code already math? Any algorithm can be implemented on a Turing machine, which is a mathematical construct.
How about VHDL/Verilog code? You can build physical mechanism (chips) out of those. They are basically schematics of machines. Should those be patentable? I wonder.
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The NSA is wiping their ass with the U.S. Constitution again.
A recent article in CNN outlines why there is little in the US Media regarding Eric Snowden and the NSA Prism program--the NSA is literally threatening journalists with prosecution for espionage for doing their jobs.
http://www.cnn.com/2013/07/03/opinion/snepp-journalists-espionage/index.html?hpt=us_mid
We are sliding down that slippery slope fast, folks. I honestly feel the next few months will determine whether or not our Constitution remains viable as a means to protect basic human rights. Help the press help us--tell as many people as you can about this article and the serious repercussions the article outlines. These are not potential repercussions--this is happening folks. A near-complete lack of articles in main-stream media about the Prism program and Snowden is all the evidence I need to come to that conclusion.
You know 2 years ago, when Bin Laden got killed, people were complaining that in Pakistan, their intelligence agency runs the whole country. Look at what's happening now!
Why must either be worse? So you can fist bump over one side being the "best" of two shitbags?
Well, if Bush is worse, then the Nobel Peace Prize committee in Norway wouldn't feel so sorry for themselves.
If you play Candy Crush Saga, you probably shouldn't be messing with 3D printers anyway...
I thought Cease and Desist is for copyright violation only?
Back in 2008, Obama said he was going to stop all these warrantless wiretapping. Now we have private corporations supposedly fighting the government for the privacy of private customers. I thought it should have been the other way around.
We want to transition to an IP company.
Then we only have to employ lawyers and executives, and save ourselves the trouble of all that making stuff.
Oi, ARM is an IP company too! Nobody seems to have any problem with it!
Is that gone too? We just had the NSA news a couple of days ago.
I suppose "the land of the free" only applies to the government. They are pretty much free to do whatever they want.
I wonder how long it will take for this to be banned. Is this unregulated 3D printing or are projects approved by the owners of the device? Imagine a student printing out dorm keys to steal computers. One of them already tried to print a gun. This would only be preventable if the items to be printed are being approved by a human being or an insanely accurate 'safety' algorithm. But at what point does that become a privacy concern? Then the data on what we're 3d printing will be farmed out to the big corporations!
With respect to copyright, people have been some students have photocopying/scanning whole books in the library. There is a notice saying that doing this kind of thing is illegal. But people still do it. I think the situation for this kind of 3D printing will be similar in the future.
Beaglebone Black is more powerful, for similar amount of money.
The combination of the two, running Linux but with the Arduino interfaces, can cost more than both chips combined and still be worthwhile.
How about Beaglebone Black?
This iris scan device is expensive, ineffective and excessive.
But there are money for the contractors, bribe for the school administrators. Everyone is happy, right?
The Government also plans to amend the Broadcasting Act next year, to ensure that websites which are hosted overseas but report on Singapore news are brought under the licensing framework as well.
How exactly are they going to enforce their Broadcasting Act for foreign media? Start sending their minuscule army around the globe?
This might get the job done faster, you never know.
And...?
It is interesting to see a MEDC thrive on primary industry. I am not saying it is a bad thing. It is just different to what I read in the textbooks back in high school. MEDCs are meant to have strong secondary/tertiary industry.
Australia's balance of trade with China is extremely positive at the moment. China buys almost twice as much Australian stuff as Australia buys Chinese stuff, as opposed to trade with the US which is 3-1 in the red. So, hao hao xuexi ba.
The stuff that China buys from Australia are mostly natural resources.
This is a 180 degree term to their old philosophy of open source / open protocols.
With a nice supervisor, you can go a long way, even if you are clueless at the beginning. I suppose that sort of shows that the entry bar for science is quite low. You just need to find the right mentor, the right crowd of people.
Another problem is which wire you need to move all that energy into the capacitor in that little time.
Don't worry, they are going to put supercapacitors in the chargers too, which gets trickle charged.
Break into some decommissioned Russian hospital, some third world facility with poor security or steal it in NYC. A couple of sticks of dynamite, a timer and panic time.*
Oh wow, you have just reminded me of this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goi%C3%A2nia_accident
People have already done this kind of thing accidentally...
MPTCP is way better than what Connectify is proposing... It is an open standard too...
http://mptcp.info.ucl.ac.be/
http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/mptcp/charter/
You could use Debian Testing with optional packages from Mint. You get the best of both worlds. And Debian just automagically upgrades itself.
..a highly ingenious way to warn us about something that has close to a zero chance of happening. I guess it's like the rest of Homeland Security's efforts, just without the ingenious part.
Well, nerve agent was used in Tokyo by terrorists 18 years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarin_gas_attack_on_the_Tokyo_subway
I wonder how likely the terrorists can get hold of radioactive material. This kind of thing is so unlikely, They might as well blow the money on destroying asteroids, at least that will help space science.
Time to report whoever came up with this idea as the terrorist.
The senior VP had serious technical chops, but he wasn't about to demonstrate them in front of his peers. He feared, justifiably, that if he did so he'd get classified as a techie and taken out of consideration as a possible future CEO.
For any /.er working in an environment like that, I'd like to think this would be a sign that it was time to get the hell out.
That really depends on what that VP meant by "demonstrating". If "demonstrating" means talk in technical jargons which most people can't understand, then that VP should expect loads people getting annoyed. Managers need to speak in a way so in which other people can understand. Real life is not about demonstrating one's knowledge of jargons.
You should try and get someone who does computability/complexity research to talk jargon to someone who does VHDL/Verilog hardware synthesis. They totally can't understand each other.
Isn't code already math? Any algorithm can be implemented on a Turing machine, which is a mathematical construct.
How about VHDL/Verilog code? You can build physical mechanism (chips) out of those. They are basically schematics of machines. Should those be patentable? I wonder.