This time around it had better support Google Play out the door or it's DOA. Amazon, B&N, etc, all thought they could simply throw together their own private marketplace and reap lots of commission money like Apple does through its App Store. Problem is neither of them could grow their app store to reach that critical mass of selection to make it appealing to consumers, and simultaneously draw in developers to support yet another proprietary mess of App building and submission. It's the usual problem of which comes first, the chicken or the egg?
Then there's the issue of free apps. Developers that go to all the extra work to support another minor platform want to make money for their efforts, so they often don't even bother with a free or trial version. At one time there were less than 20 free apps for Nook Tablet. Even the big players, like Angry Birds, didn't offer a free version for Nook Tablet. Exactly why would a person want to buy a Nook Tablet instead of generic Android tablet? Beats me.
Actually they would have it harder trying to live an 80s lifestyle now than in the 80s. For example, at one time there was a pay phone on every corner, now they're all gone. So it was much easier to communicate when you weren't at home then than now if you don't have a cell phone.
In 1742, Franklin finished his first design which implemented new scientific concepts about heat which had been developed by the Dutch physician Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), a proponent of Isaac Newton's ideas. Two years later, Franklin wrote a pamphlet describing his design and how it operated in order to sell his product. Around this time, the deputy governor of Pennsylvania, George Thomas, made an offer to Franklin to patent his design, but Franklin never patented any of his designs and inventions. He believed “that as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously”.
Regardless of the semantics you want to nitpick, what I said still holds, which is that mass from the 4d universe would transition through the event horizon as it is drawn into the black hole. That would result in mass suddenly materializing as it crosses through the event horizon then disappear as it continues on in the 4th dimension through it.
The main problem I have with this the 4D universe could (and would) still interact with our 3D hypersphere. Consider a black hole in our 3D universe. It has an event horizon, the 2D surface of which is analogous to the 3D hypersphere. Mass from our 3D universe does cross through that surface and has a profound effect on the structure and behavior of whatever mass is "living" in that boundary. Thus we would expect to see objects instantly materialize as they cross into our 3D hypersphere, and interact with our mass, etc. Even if somehow that 4D black hole is totally, completely insulated from the rest of its 4D universe, and thus there currently isn't any 4D mass breaking the plane of the hypersphere, we should still see remnants of where 4D mass had passed through at some point in the past. For example it would have had gravitational effects, displaced and interacted with mass, etc.
As far as I'm aware, cosmologists have never observed any structures in the universe which could only be the result of some totally external influence. At some point a chunk of 4D mass would have had to have intersected the brane and punched a hole through a galaxy or imparted more mass or energy in some crazy way that would stand out like a sore thumb.
Third, phone apps would suck on a laptop or desktop.
That's not quite true. A touch-screen iMac or Macbook would be perfectly suited for running iPad apps. I think this is a brilliant move by Apple, if they do indeed seamlessly bring the entire iOS application ecosystem into the OSX family of computers.
The upshot is this: even locally-generated RSA keys are not guaranteed to be safe, nor will they ever be. When you can't trust the hardware, all bets are off.
Then don't use the hardware random number generator. Do it all in software.
I've had a client I provide consulting for suggest that their poor connectivity is also in some way due to the NSA. People need to understand that it is paramount to the NSA that they are covert. They do not need to do real-time processing of the data: that is only necessary for filtering. It suffices for them to simply capture raw data for later analysis or decryption as necessary. Of course capturing data does not result in any slowdown or other noticeable effects. It does not make any sense whatsoever for the NSA to be slowing or otherwise blocking connectivity, as that is counterproductive to the acquisition of intelligence data.
It's just amusing to me to see NSA as the scapegoat of the day for any quirk anyone experiences related to computers or connectivity in general.
Extremely difficult. The US has deals with phone companies, operating system creators, and hardware manufacturers, to put backdoor systems into so many devices. They monitor so many email and phone companies. How can you be fully sure you didn't buy a machine that has a secret backdoor entry that the FBI or CIA can get into easily? How can you know that your PC isn't already set up for intercepts on all of your activity? You'd need to be an expert on computer software, hardware, intercept technology, and so many other things just to detect that you were being actively monitored. And being passively monitored like how the NSA just copies everything sent anywhere.
I call BS on this one. "You'd need to be an expert on computer software, hardware, intercept technology, and so many other things just to detect that you were being actively monitored." No, you don't. It only takes ONE expert to find that Dell, HP, Microsoft, Apple, OSX, Windows, Linux, has all these supposed backdoors to blow the whistle. While we have cases where various cloud / online services have been forced to turn over information, none of what you're claiming has been reported with hardware and OS vendors.
You're missing one important thing in your paranoia. Existing networks still have to be utilized to transfer this data. If every home PC had such a backdoor, then they still would have to use the internet connection to transmit that data. And yes, there are experts that do watch for this kind of thing, and keep an eye on what their machines are connecting to and why. Unless you're also positing the conspiracy theory that every machine has some totally secret wireless communication built in that talks to some government ghost network that no one has discovered either.
Yes, the NSA is reaching way too far, but even so you've got your tin foil hat way too tight.
which may indicate that customers are finding even the Metro-focused RT version of Windows 8 too irritating to navigate by touch alone.
Or Dell has figured out that they will not be selling mass numbers of the device, and it will be more of a niche device, and thus they want to increase their profit margins on the ones they do sell.
Intelligence implies usefulness. Intelligence is a tool used by animals to accomplish something - things like finding food, reproducing, or just simply staying alive. We've abstracted that to a huge degree in our society where people can now engage in developing and expending intelligence on essentially worthless endeavors simply because the "staying alive" part is pretty well a given. But when it comes down to it, the type of strong AI we need is a useful kind of intelligence.
The problem with the Turing Test is it explicitly excludes any usefulness in what it deems to be an intelligent behavior. From Wilipedia: "The test does not check the ability to give the correct answer to questions; it checks how closely the answer resembles typical human answers." That bar is set far, far too low, and is even specific to a generic conversational intelligence instead of something useful. The Turing Test is far too overrated and synonymous with the field of AI and really needs to just go away. It reeks of the Mechanical Turk kind of facade versus any real metric.
You're assuming that throwing some hardware into the mix will fix this problem (as is apparent by the detailed hardware specs you're supplying). It will not. I speak from experience as having been part of a multi-million dollar project to to convert a group of US hospitals from paper charts to EMR back in the late 90s.
Think very carefully about what you're trying to achieve here. Essentially what you're doing is conceding that the EMR cannot be the entire record, and thus by supporting paper you are reverting back to the paper record being the authority in the patient record. We made that mistake as well, and the result was consuming VASTLY more paper after the EMR was installed than before when the records were totally paper.
The problem is that medical records are incremental. If a patient comes in and has some lab work done as a followup to make sure a treatment is having the desired result, then you have a set of new information. You have two options here. You can either print out a new sheet with just the new information, and throw that into the paper chart, or you can reprint tables of existing information so the new information is integrated into the old information in a more usable way. Throwing a new piece of paper into the record is a horrible option. That is not the way the paper record worked before when entirely paper, and it results in a fragmented record that a physician must flip through page after page and try to condense the information all in their head.
Look back when records were 100% paper. It was optimal from a resource / paper standpoint. Most of the records were actually blank forms, and the providers would simply enter new information by hand. So a nurse may have a chart in table form where they can record vital signs. The information was laid out in such a way that a physician could easily scan across the values and observe changes over time. The beauty of this is a single piece of paper is only needed for many incremental documentations. There is no good equivalent for this with an EMR with printed records. You cannot add information to an already printed document that was generated in an EMR. If a nurse documents directly on the output of an EMR then you're hosed. You now cannot throw that piece of documentation away and completely regenerate it when new information has been added to the EMR. It will be a nightmare, and the worst possible result, which is having information strewn across multiple formats, systems, and even across multiple pieces of paper.
Really, the only proper solution is all or nothing. Either make the EMR work as it is supposed to, or go back to totally paper records. There is no in-between, and if you attempt it you will be printing far, far, far more paper than ever before.
One final comment, is if you're intending on using printed records for only one specific use, like physically transferring records to a new facility, then that is fine. However using them as backups or working documentation will not work, as I said before, because they are incremental documentation that cannot easily be appended to in paper by an EMR.
That is similar to EME - Earth-Moon-Earth communications, where signals are bounced off of the moon. Amateur radio operators still practice this for the exotic / novel QSOs to be had. This is one of the few instances Amateur Radio operators actually need to make use of the maximum allowed 1,500 watts of transmitting power. An interesting side effect is the transmission takes over 5 seconds to reach the moon and return. thus the operator can hear the last 5 seconds of their own transmission.
It's pretty obvious that, assuming there is one, the increased risk of talking on a cell phone while driving can only be marginal. Hundreds of millions of people have been doing this for years now, and we've not seen any huge surge in accidents. If you look at vehicle fatalities in the USA per year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year) you will see that the fatality rate per population has decreased steadily. We would have to see some increase between say 1995 and today, or even between 2000 and today, if there was any real risk of talking on cell phones while driving.
Now regarding those statistics, yes, obviously the fatality rate is lower today than say in 1970 because vehicles are vastly safer. But that is not the case over the last decade or two - vehicles are about as safe today as they were 10 years ago. In fact, in all the states in this part of the US the interstate speed limit was increased from 65 to 70 over the last 4 or 5 years, and even that coupled with the explosion in cell phone usage has not resulted in a change in the downward trend in fatalities.
Even the very recent explosion in texting and social connectivity over the last 5 years, which I agree is certainly a much larger distraction than talking, has not caused the fatality rate to increase.
I'll say it once again. Tens of millions of people talk on cell phones while driving now, while 15 years ago only a small portion of people could afford them, yet the overall statistics do not show any increase in fatalities. Thus if there is a greater risk it is only marginal.
You missed another reason, which is as an investment. Jeff may have some "revolutionary" idea for monetizing a newspaper online (that other print media companies have failed to work out) that he's willing to gamble a lot of money on, and the results could pay off big if he increases the value of the Washington Post in the process.
The most interesting thing to me is that it includes an analog TV tuner, which is preset to only receive a handful of specific channels controlled by the state. I've never heard of an integrated TV tuner in a tablet.
The only other "unique" thing about the tablet is that he couldn't get the wifi to connect to anything, yet there is a web browser with 4 bookmarks to North Korean sites. The author surmises that it will only connect to hotspots that are proprietary in some way.
For some reason people believe governments make wiser decisions than wealthy individuals, but most of the long term projects happening in the world these days, the kind of things that matter to human survival as a species, and not just "the right party" winning the next short term election, are all being funded by wealthy individuals.
There's a good reason for this. Many (although not all) very wealthy people did a lot of things right to get that way. They managed their businesses well and made good financial decisions. Thus they will naturally apply those same skills to their philanthropy as well.
Now let's look at politicians. While a small percentage were also successful in business, the majority are most skilled at.... being politicians. Which of course infers no actual business or financial skills whatsoever, and certainly no actual experience.
I'll tell you when I lost respect for him. When I learned he wasn't just some innocent IT guy that happened to see information that he, with good conscience, could not just ignore. That's called whistle blowing, but that's not what happened here.
Snowden stated that he tried to get that position for the specific purpose of digging up whatever he could to use against his country. That's called espionage. That makes him a traitor in my book, regardless of what he ended up finding out.
This probably means Snowden has agreed to turn over everything he's got to Russia. That way it can be quietly assimilated at a government level and just kind of go away at the public level. That gives Russia secrets they certainly want, and saves face for America publicly.
I think Trepidity answered your question below. The Atari companies this article discusses were part of the hardware portion of Atari. The other software / IP side of Atari is totally separate and got passed around through the years and is now held by Warner Bros. That is if I interpreted Trepidity's post correctly.
the price of the 32-gig Surface RT plummeted by 42%
That's wrong - the price has been reduced by 30%. The new price of the 32 gig Surface is $349. The original price was $499 (the price of all models is being reduced by $150). You divide the discount by the original price, not the new reduced price, to find the percentage reduction. 150/499=30% (150/349 is indeed 42%, but that is meaningless in this case)
"Due process" does not include the media, nor the will of politicians. Due process was violated when this went to trial after all those who had to proper authority and jurisdiction did their jobs and said that there wasn't a case against Zimmerman. Yet their authority was usurped by powers that are biased and not neutral.
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This time around it had better support Google Play out the door or it's DOA. Amazon, B&N, etc, all thought they could simply throw together their own private marketplace and reap lots of commission money like Apple does through its App Store. Problem is neither of them could grow their app store to reach that critical mass of selection to make it appealing to consumers, and simultaneously draw in developers to support yet another proprietary mess of App building and submission. It's the usual problem of which comes first, the chicken or the egg?
Then there's the issue of free apps. Developers that go to all the extra work to support another minor platform want to make money for their efforts, so they often don't even bother with a free or trial version. At one time there were less than 20 free apps for Nook Tablet. Even the big players, like Angry Birds, didn't offer a free version for Nook Tablet. Exactly why would a person want to buy a Nook Tablet instead of generic Android tablet? Beats me.
Actually they would have it harder trying to live an 80s lifestyle now than in the 80s. For example, at one time there was a pay phone on every corner, now they're all gone. So it was much easier to communicate when you weren't at home then than now if you don't have a cell phone.
In 1742, Franklin finished his first design which implemented new scientific concepts about heat which had been developed by the Dutch physician Herman Boerhaave (1668–1738), a proponent of Isaac Newton's ideas. Two years later, Franklin wrote a pamphlet describing his design and how it operated in order to sell his product. Around this time, the deputy governor of Pennsylvania, George Thomas, made an offer to Franklin to patent his design, but Franklin never patented any of his designs and inventions. He believed “that as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously”.
Wow.
Regardless of the semantics you want to nitpick, what I said still holds, which is that mass from the 4d universe would transition through the event horizon as it is drawn into the black hole. That would result in mass suddenly materializing as it crosses through the event horizon then disappear as it continues on in the 4th dimension through it.
Too homogeneous and perfectly distributed across all galaxies. Whatever it is it is pervasive and mixed in with observable matter.
The main problem I have with this the 4D universe could (and would) still interact with our 3D hypersphere. Consider a black hole in our 3D universe. It has an event horizon, the 2D surface of which is analogous to the 3D hypersphere. Mass from our 3D universe does cross through that surface and has a profound effect on the structure and behavior of whatever mass is "living" in that boundary. Thus we would expect to see objects instantly materialize as they cross into our 3D hypersphere, and interact with our mass, etc. Even if somehow that 4D black hole is totally, completely insulated from the rest of its 4D universe, and thus there currently isn't any 4D mass breaking the plane of the hypersphere, we should still see remnants of where 4D mass had passed through at some point in the past. For example it would have had gravitational effects, displaced and interacted with mass, etc.
As far as I'm aware, cosmologists have never observed any structures in the universe which could only be the result of some totally external influence. At some point a chunk of 4D mass would have had to have intersected the brane and punched a hole through a galaxy or imparted more mass or energy in some crazy way that would stand out like a sore thumb.
Third, phone apps would suck on a laptop or desktop.
That's not quite true. A touch-screen iMac or Macbook would be perfectly suited for running iPad apps. I think this is a brilliant move by Apple, if they do indeed seamlessly bring the entire iOS application ecosystem into the OSX family of computers.
The upshot is this: even locally-generated RSA keys are not guaranteed to be safe, nor will they ever be. When you can't trust the hardware, all bets are off.
Then don't use the hardware random number generator. Do it all in software.
Worst headline ever.
I've had a client I provide consulting for suggest that their poor connectivity is also in some way due to the NSA. People need to understand that it is paramount to the NSA that they are covert. They do not need to do real-time processing of the data: that is only necessary for filtering. It suffices for them to simply capture raw data for later analysis or decryption as necessary. Of course capturing data does not result in any slowdown or other noticeable effects. It does not make any sense whatsoever for the NSA to be slowing or otherwise blocking connectivity, as that is counterproductive to the acquisition of intelligence data.
It's just amusing to me to see NSA as the scapegoat of the day for any quirk anyone experiences related to computers or connectivity in general.
2.) Use clean machines
Extremely difficult. The US has deals with phone companies, operating system creators, and hardware manufacturers, to put backdoor systems into so many devices. They monitor so many email and phone companies. How can you be fully sure you didn't buy a machine that has a secret backdoor entry that the FBI or CIA can get into easily? How can you know that your PC isn't already set up for intercepts on all of your activity? You'd need to be an expert on computer software, hardware, intercept technology, and so many other things just to detect that you were being actively monitored. And being passively monitored like how the NSA just copies everything sent anywhere.
I call BS on this one. "You'd need to be an expert on computer software, hardware, intercept technology, and so many other things just to detect that you were being actively monitored." No, you don't. It only takes ONE expert to find that Dell, HP, Microsoft, Apple, OSX, Windows, Linux, has all these supposed backdoors to blow the whistle. While we have cases where various cloud / online services have been forced to turn over information, none of what you're claiming has been reported with hardware and OS vendors.
You're missing one important thing in your paranoia. Existing networks still have to be utilized to transfer this data. If every home PC had such a backdoor, then they still would have to use the internet connection to transmit that data. And yes, there are experts that do watch for this kind of thing, and keep an eye on what their machines are connecting to and why. Unless you're also positing the conspiracy theory that every machine has some totally secret wireless communication built in that talks to some government ghost network that no one has discovered either.
Yes, the NSA is reaching way too far, but even so you've got your tin foil hat way too tight.
which may indicate that customers are finding even the Metro-focused RT version of Windows 8 too irritating to navigate by touch alone.
Or Dell has figured out that they will not be selling mass numbers of the device, and it will be more of a niche device, and thus they want to increase their profit margins on the ones they do sell.
Intelligence implies usefulness. Intelligence is a tool used by animals to accomplish something - things like finding food, reproducing, or just simply staying alive. We've abstracted that to a huge degree in our society where people can now engage in developing and expending intelligence on essentially worthless endeavors simply because the "staying alive" part is pretty well a given. But when it comes down to it, the type of strong AI we need is a useful kind of intelligence.
The problem with the Turing Test is it explicitly excludes any usefulness in what it deems to be an intelligent behavior. From Wilipedia: "The test does not check the ability to give the correct answer to questions; it checks how closely the answer resembles typical human answers." That bar is set far, far too low, and is even specific to a generic conversational intelligence instead of something useful. The Turing Test is far too overrated and synonymous with the field of AI and really needs to just go away. It reeks of the Mechanical Turk kind of facade versus any real metric.
You're assuming that throwing some hardware into the mix will fix this problem (as is apparent by the detailed hardware specs you're supplying). It will not. I speak from experience as having been part of a multi-million dollar project to to convert a group of US hospitals from paper charts to EMR back in the late 90s.
Think very carefully about what you're trying to achieve here. Essentially what you're doing is conceding that the EMR cannot be the entire record, and thus by supporting paper you are reverting back to the paper record being the authority in the patient record. We made that mistake as well, and the result was consuming VASTLY more paper after the EMR was installed than before when the records were totally paper.
The problem is that medical records are incremental. If a patient comes in and has some lab work done as a followup to make sure a treatment is having the desired result, then you have a set of new information. You have two options here. You can either print out a new sheet with just the new information, and throw that into the paper chart, or you can reprint tables of existing information so the new information is integrated into the old information in a more usable way. Throwing a new piece of paper into the record is a horrible option. That is not the way the paper record worked before when entirely paper, and it results in a fragmented record that a physician must flip through page after page and try to condense the information all in their head.
Look back when records were 100% paper. It was optimal from a resource / paper standpoint. Most of the records were actually blank forms, and the providers would simply enter new information by hand. So a nurse may have a chart in table form where they can record vital signs. The information was laid out in such a way that a physician could easily scan across the values and observe changes over time. The beauty of this is a single piece of paper is only needed for many incremental documentations. There is no good equivalent for this with an EMR with printed records. You cannot add information to an already printed document that was generated in an EMR. If a nurse documents directly on the output of an EMR then you're hosed. You now cannot throw that piece of documentation away and completely regenerate it when new information has been added to the EMR. It will be a nightmare, and the worst possible result, which is having information strewn across multiple formats, systems, and even across multiple pieces of paper.
Really, the only proper solution is all or nothing. Either make the EMR work as it is supposed to, or go back to totally paper records. There is no in-between, and if you attempt it you will be printing far, far, far more paper than ever before.
One final comment, is if you're intending on using printed records for only one specific use, like physically transferring records to a new facility, then that is fine. However using them as backups or working documentation will not work, as I said before, because they are incremental documentation that cannot easily be appended to in paper by an EMR.
That is similar to EME - Earth-Moon-Earth communications, where signals are bounced off of the moon. Amateur radio operators still practice this for the exotic / novel QSOs to be had. This is one of the few instances Amateur Radio operators actually need to make use of the maximum allowed 1,500 watts of transmitting power. An interesting side effect is the transmission takes over 5 seconds to reach the moon and return. thus the operator can hear the last 5 seconds of their own transmission.
It's pretty obvious that, assuming there is one, the increased risk of talking on a cell phone while driving can only be marginal. Hundreds of millions of people have been doing this for years now, and we've not seen any huge surge in accidents. If you look at vehicle fatalities in the USA per year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_motor_vehicle_deaths_in_U.S._by_year) you will see that the fatality rate per population has decreased steadily. We would have to see some increase between say 1995 and today, or even between 2000 and today, if there was any real risk of talking on cell phones while driving.
Now regarding those statistics, yes, obviously the fatality rate is lower today than say in 1970 because vehicles are vastly safer. But that is not the case over the last decade or two - vehicles are about as safe today as they were 10 years ago. In fact, in all the states in this part of the US the interstate speed limit was increased from 65 to 70 over the last 4 or 5 years, and even that coupled with the explosion in cell phone usage has not resulted in a change in the downward trend in fatalities.
Even the very recent explosion in texting and social connectivity over the last 5 years, which I agree is certainly a much larger distraction than talking, has not caused the fatality rate to increase.
I'll say it once again. Tens of millions of people talk on cell phones while driving now, while 15 years ago only a small portion of people could afford them, yet the overall statistics do not show any increase in fatalities. Thus if there is a greater risk it is only marginal.
You missed another reason, which is as an investment. Jeff may have some "revolutionary" idea for monetizing a newspaper online (that other print media companies have failed to work out) that he's willing to gamble a lot of money on, and the results could pay off big if he increases the value of the Washington Post in the process.
They should allow them, if and only if the video from the glasses can be used by authorities in the event of an accident.
The most interesting thing to me is that it includes an analog TV tuner, which is preset to only receive a handful of specific channels controlled by the state. I've never heard of an integrated TV tuner in a tablet.
The only other "unique" thing about the tablet is that he couldn't get the wifi to connect to anything, yet there is a web browser with 4 bookmarks to North Korean sites. The author surmises that it will only connect to hotspots that are proprietary in some way.
For some reason people believe governments make wiser decisions than wealthy individuals, but most of the long term projects happening in the world these days, the kind of things that matter to human survival as a species, and not just "the right party" winning the next short term election, are all being funded by wealthy individuals.
There's a good reason for this. Many (although not all) very wealthy people did a lot of things right to get that way. They managed their businesses well and made good financial decisions. Thus they will naturally apply those same skills to their philanthropy as well.
Now let's look at politicians. While a small percentage were also successful in business, the majority are most skilled at.... being politicians. Which of course infers no actual business or financial skills whatsoever, and certainly no actual experience.
I'll tell you when I lost respect for him. When I learned he wasn't just some innocent IT guy that happened to see information that he, with good conscience, could not just ignore. That's called whistle blowing, but that's not what happened here.
Snowden stated that he tried to get that position for the specific purpose of digging up whatever he could to use against his country. That's called espionage. That makes him a traitor in my book, regardless of what he ended up finding out.
This probably means Snowden has agreed to turn over everything he's got to Russia. That way it can be quietly assimilated at a government level and just kind of go away at the public level. That gives Russia secrets they certainly want, and saves face for America publicly.
I think Trepidity answered your question below. The Atari companies this article discusses were part of the hardware portion of Atari. The other software / IP side of Atari is totally separate and got passed around through the years and is now held by Warner Bros. That is if I interpreted Trepidity's post correctly.
the price of the 32-gig Surface RT plummeted by 42%
That's wrong - the price has been reduced by 30%. The new price of the 32 gig Surface is $349. The original price was $499 (the price of all models is being reduced by $150). You divide the discount by the original price, not the new reduced price, to find the percentage reduction. 150/499=30% (150/349 is indeed 42%, but that is meaningless in this case)
"Due process" does not include the media, nor the will of politicians. Due process was violated when this went to trial after all those who had to proper authority and jurisdiction did their jobs and said that there wasn't a case against Zimmerman. Yet their authority was usurped by powers that are biased and not neutral.