Well, DC has the highest cost of living in the nation, so I'd need $80-$90k before I'd move up there. That's still big savings for the taxpayers though.
And even in that worst case scenario, it still isn't as bad as we are told climate change is. Why don't you go ahead and calculate how much pollution has been dumped into the atmosphere since the 1960's that wouldn't have existed if we went nuclear.
If big government listens to itself and not the people it governs, then you could argue that France has such great nuclear power because it ignored the anti-nuke activists.
Something I wish we had done. Our air would be much cleaner now.
Hippie environmentalists fought them tooth and nail, I assume because they prefer dumping carbon into the atmosphere. Then got older and joined the regulatory agencies.
Debbie Wasserman-Schultz decided to outsource her IT support, bringing in someone from Pakistan to handle her's and the Party's. Because why pay an American to work in Washington when you can overpay a foreigner?
I'm sorry, but I'm steamed that a representative of the American people decided not to hire Americans for her staff. Or her Party's staff. She could have created 4 million dollars worth of jobs here in the US, but hired someone from Pakistan to do a job that I'm pretty sure half of the American citizens reading this article could have done. I call it a betrayal of the people she is supposed to represent.
I just want to know why the Federal government would turn to anyone but a domestic vendor for security software. It's not like we don't have vendors at least as good as Kaspersky, and the US government should really be buying American for the obvious economic reasons anyhow.
from another country? Isn't that something you'd want to be as close to home as possible? It's not like Kaspersky is the only game in town, there are more than enough domestically produced security suites for the US government to be using instead. Any national government should be using domestic vendors whenever possible for the obvious reasons. The US government has no excuse - we aren't Namibia, we have plenty of domestic vendors handy.
If Londoners are walking into poles and getting hurt, keep the poles unpadded so they learn. How many times is someone likely to make that embarrassing and painful mistake before they learn to look where they're going? "Not that many" is my bet.
Those are fair points. We know that unmaskings have happened though, because names have been leaked and some dubious requests have been admitted to. There's also a record of unmasking requests, so if his claims were false I would expect someone to have said so by now.
So? His committee is comprised of partisan politicians. Half are Democrats. His goals are irrelevant to the validity of his statements. If he was lying, the Democrats on the committee would be all over the place saying so.
Did you miss the "no apparent intelligence related function" bit? That was the Ambassador to the UN. Why in the world would she need to know?
For the most part, nobody outside the FBI, CIA or NSA has any real reason to need this information, and they're the ones who gather it. The FBI handles all domestic intelligence/counter-intelligence, so they need to know.
Very few people need or should have the names of US citizens that might be involved until the investigation is concluded. The National Security Advisor doesn't need to know, they're a consumer of intelligence, not a producer of it or an investigator. Ambassadors don't need to know, the AG doesn't need to know, etc.
Oh, there's also this: "The next version of USB, USB 3.2, will double the speed of existing Type-C cables. Cables currently qualified for USB 3.1 generation 1's 5Gbps will be able to operate at 10Gbps; those qualified for generation 2's 10Gbps will be able to run at 20Gbps." (https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2017/07/usb-3-2-will-make-your-cables-twice-as-fast-once-youve-bought-new-devices/)
And this: " Put simply: it’s faster than regular USB 3.0, allowing up to two lanes of 5Gbps or two lanes of 10Gbps operation." (https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/7/25/16026724/usb-3-2-usb-c-specification-charging-data-transfer-cables)
Or, and I think this is what happened, they meant gigabytes per second in both cases but left off a 0. So, two typos in what should read, "20GB/sec data transfer performance over a USB-C cable certified for USB SuperSpeed 10GB/s USB 3.1"
The drummer can always get laid. It's the bass player nobody wants to hump.
If you do blow all day, you'll be a mess when you finally hit the stage. It works best just before or just after. Groupies are great, but when you uhm, "finish", maybe you just want to catch up on Thrones.
But if I'm going to be honest, we didn't have either.
" a USB 3.2 host connected to a USB 3.2 storage device will be capable of 2GB/sec data transfer performance over a USB-C cable certified for USB SuperSpeed 10Gb/s USB 3.1"
That's not double the rate of 3.1, it's one fifth the rate.
You've clearly never been in a touring band. Things are crazy, hectic and stressful. They work nights, doing something very high-energy that leaves them wound up instead of sleepy. They may practice some on the bus (they're already good at what they do), but idly, individually, and preferably while watching something more interesting than telephone poles out the window. It's half working your ass off and half vacation.
Last time I did it, I don't think we even had a cell phone. Having the internet would have been a godsend, because most of it is incredibly boring. Riding around on a bus all day isn't exactly entertaining.
Odds are she works for a real estate company, and that they have an IT department. She probably has a website matching your email domain. Take a look at it, email the company. They'll take care of it, they're used to agents doing dumb things like this.
I say this because if she was based in Georgia, there's a decent chance you'd be emailing me about it.
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Well, DC has the highest cost of living in the nation, so I'd need $80-$90k before I'd move up there. That's still big savings for the taxpayers though.
The waste can be turned into fuel as well. Another advantage that hippies overlooked.
And even in that worst case scenario, it still isn't as bad as we are told climate change is. Why don't you go ahead and calculate how much pollution has been dumped into the atmosphere since the 1960's that wouldn't have existed if we went nuclear.
Something I wish we had done. Our air would be much cleaner now.
Hippie environmentalists fought them tooth and nail, I assume because they prefer dumping carbon into the atmosphere. Then got older and joined the regulatory agencies.
That would have been so awesome.
terrorist, unfriendly foreign power, or any sort of security threat to the US. The NSA is an intelligence agency, not an anti-piracy agency.
I'm sorry, but I'm steamed that a representative of the American people decided not to hire Americans for her staff. Or her Party's staff. She could have created 4 million dollars worth of jobs here in the US, but hired someone from Pakistan to do a job that I'm pretty sure half of the American citizens reading this article could have done. I call it a betrayal of the people she is supposed to represent.
I use VcXsrv and it works great. Stupid easy setup too.
I just want to know why the Federal government would turn to anyone but a domestic vendor for security software. It's not like we don't have vendors at least as good as Kaspersky, and the US government should really be buying American for the obvious economic reasons anyhow.
from another country? Isn't that something you'd want to be as close to home as possible? It's not like Kaspersky is the only game in town, there are more than enough domestically produced security suites for the US government to be using instead. Any national government should be using domestic vendors whenever possible for the obvious reasons. The US government has no excuse - we aren't Namibia, we have plenty of domestic vendors handy.
If Londoners are walking into poles and getting hurt, keep the poles unpadded so they learn. How many times is someone likely to make that embarrassing and painful mistake before they learn to look where they're going? "Not that many" is my bet.
Those are fair points. We know that unmaskings have happened though, because names have been leaked and some dubious requests have been admitted to. There's also a record of unmasking requests, so if his claims were false I would expect someone to have said so by now.
So? His committee is comprised of partisan politicians. Half are Democrats. His goals are irrelevant to the validity of his statements. If he was lying, the Democrats on the committee would be all over the place saying so.
His credibility is irrelevant. If the contents of his letter were false, half the House Intel committee would be on TV right now calling him a liar.
For the most part, nobody outside the FBI, CIA or NSA has any real reason to need this information, and they're the ones who gather it. The FBI handles all domestic intelligence/counter-intelligence, so they need to know.
Very few people need or should have the names of US citizens that might be involved until the investigation is concluded. The National Security Advisor doesn't need to know, they're a consumer of intelligence, not a producer of it or an investigator. Ambassadors don't need to know, the AG doesn't need to know, etc.
And this: " Put simply: it’s faster than regular USB 3.0, allowing up to two lanes of 5Gbps or two lanes of 10Gbps operation." (https://www.theverge.com/circuitbreaker/2017/7/25/16026724/usb-3-2-usb-c-specification-charging-data-transfer-cables)
So it seems clear then that the intent was to say 20Gb/s and 10Gb/s.
2GB/s != 2*10Gb/s
Mixing bits and bytes like that in what's supposed to be a direct "apples to apples" comparison makes no sense.
There was already one typo.
It's an easy typo to make, you just don't take a finger off the shift key fast enough. SOmething I do rather often.
It's a very common mistake.
Or, and I think this is what happened, they meant gigabytes per second in both cases but left off a 0. So, two typos in what should read, "20GB/sec data transfer performance over a USB-C cable certified for USB SuperSpeed 10GB/s USB 3.1"
If you do blow all day, you'll be a mess when you finally hit the stage. It works best just before or just after. Groupies are great, but when you uhm, "finish", maybe you just want to catch up on Thrones.
But if I'm going to be honest, we didn't have either.
That's not double the rate of 3.1, it's one fifth the rate.
What would you be doing if you were stuck on a bus all day?
Last time I did it, I don't think we even had a cell phone. Having the internet would have been a godsend, because most of it is incredibly boring. Riding around on a bus all day isn't exactly entertaining.
I say this because if she was based in Georgia, there's a decent chance you'd be emailing me about it.