Unless you're a foreigner who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and went to Gitmo with no due process, no lawyer, no trial, and subjected to torture.
Unless you're a civilian minding your own fucking business when the US dropped a goddam bomb on your motherfucking hospital on your own goddam sovereign soil.
Unless you're an American citizen in Puerto Rico.
Unless you have the goddam unmitigated gall to be driving while Black.
Those of us who read the ToS fully appreciate that it's a binding contract whereby the user of a product waives all rights and, in fact, agrees to defend the product if it is involved in litigation.
No one is usurping rights -- people are giving away rights.
The technology you use shares familial DNA with every other goddam technology on the planet. It's a level playing field.
Look: As for weapons, some people are allowed to own jet fighters, aircraft carriers and grenades. You don't get those.
As for technology, let's look to CaptainDork's Corollary: "For every motherfucker out there with a computer, there's another mother fucker out there with a computer."
The shit the government (or businesses) use to secure their papers is precisely the same as yours.
I worked on huge dynamos at Texaco, Port Arthur, Texas. Those bastards were steam-driven and provided electricity that powered the entire plant.
There were eight of them.
Our biggest fear was that they would disintegrate when failures of any part happened. For that reason, we had two vibration sensors mounted on each one, feeding a vibration analyzer.
The relevance to TFA is that when one sensor indicated excessive vibration, a warning ensued, but the turbine did not shut down.
It was a "double-vote yes" system. BOTH vibration sensors had to agree that the machine was vibrating over a preset limit.
--
In the case of the two attack blades, the same simple technique applies:
As long as both blades agree, we're good to go. When one blade goes wonky, it's a simple goddam motherfucking task to have a "disagree," light, and furthermore, it's simple shit to alert the pilots and announce that the angle of attack system is going to stop giving input, so "hold on to the seat of your pants," because we're going off autopilot (which is the recommended response).
One day before the deadly crash of a Lion Air flight on Oct. 29 last year, pilots flying that Boeing 737 Max 8 plane lost control of the aircraft, Bloomberg reported. An off-duty pilot riding in the cockpit helped the crew identify the problem and guided them to disable the flight control system in order to save the plane, according to the report.
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Unless you're a foreigner who was in the wrong place at the wrong time and went to Gitmo with no due process, no lawyer, no trial, and subjected to torture.
Unless you're a civilian minding your own fucking business when the US dropped a goddam bomb on your motherfucking hospital on your own goddam sovereign soil.
Unless you're an American citizen in Puerto Rico.
Unless you have the goddam unmitigated gall to be driving while Black.
Oh, come on!
We're goddam coders.
One finger unlocks.
Another bricks.
There's another solution that's slicker than deer guts on a door knob.
If you're a developer, you can have two passcodes.
One will unlock the phone.
The other will brick it.
An explicit statute is not something hard to get through a legislature ...
Brexit
Sorry. Low-hanging fruit.
This happens quite a bit. People do actually forget. They spend time locked up until the courts decide to give up.
ymmv
Again, the distinction exists, regardless of jurisdiction, between what a person HAS and what a person KNOWS.
Password managers are precisely the same technological base that we all use. It's not a special, hardened, gated community.
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True.
Face, fingerprint, iris, palm prints, ... these are things you have.
Passwords and pass codes are things you know.
This is true and it's voluntary.
Those of us who read the ToS fully appreciate that it's a binding contract whereby the user of a product waives all rights and, in fact, agrees to defend the product if it is involved in litigation.
No one is usurping rights -- people are giving away rights.
Can't be done and here's why:
The technology you use shares familial DNA with every other goddam technology on the planet. It's a level playing field.
Look: As for weapons, some people are allowed to own jet fighters, aircraft carriers and grenades. You don't get those.
As for technology, let's look to CaptainDork's Corollary: "For every motherfucker out there with a computer, there's another mother fucker out there with a computer."
The shit the government (or businesses) use to secure their papers is precisely the same as yours.
It's a level playing field.
How insane is that?
It would easily fit in your underwear.
This.
CaptainDork's Corollary: "Americans have the right to keep and bear arms, but they don't have the right to use them."
No one cares about a loaded magazine as there is no firearm.
So, literally, no one?
Security lines were closed and flights were temporarily grounded at a San Francisco International Airport terminal...for nearly an hour ...
Or the reality TV that is politics.
... for solving a problem like that.
It came to us from the movie War Games.
Joshua: "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play."
I know how:
I worked on huge dynamos at Texaco, Port Arthur, Texas. Those bastards were steam-driven and provided electricity that powered the entire plant.
There were eight of them.
Our biggest fear was that they would disintegrate when failures of any part happened. For that reason, we had two vibration sensors mounted on each one, feeding a vibration analyzer.
The relevance to TFA is that when one sensor indicated excessive vibration, a warning ensued, but the turbine did not shut down.
It was a "double-vote yes" system. BOTH vibration sensors had to agree that the machine was vibrating over a preset limit.
--
In the case of the two attack blades, the same simple technique applies:
As long as both blades agree, we're good to go. When one blade goes wonky, it's a simple goddam motherfucking task to have a "disagree," light, and furthermore, it's simple shit to alert the pilots and announce that the angle of attack system is going to stop giving input, so "hold on to the seat of your pants," because we're going off autopilot (which is the recommended response).
One day before the deadly crash of a Lion Air flight on Oct. 29 last year, pilots flying that Boeing 737 Max 8 plane lost control of the aircraft, Bloomberg reported.
An off-duty pilot riding in the cockpit helped the crew identify the problem and guided them to disable the flight control system in order to save the plane, according to the report.
Colorado has pot; Texas doesn't.
Let each sovereign nation do what they will.
America has a fucking batshit crazy leader but that's America's business.
You just revealed Trump's strategy, as well.
Yes, the needle is pegged to the hard right.
A characteristic of needles is that they swing.
You noticed that, too.
And, NO COLLUSION!
Not enough money.
We would need to be up into the fucking billions.
Trump's budget calls for cuts domestically. How do the two narratives fit?
... Facebook wants an excuse to scan billions of photos and videos to train and weaponize digital recognition.
Members are crowdsourcing the data it needs for government -- any government -- contracts.
... because I used to have a solid memory for most of the landline numbers I needed to call.
Now, I say, "Hey Siri? Call Sue."
I got no fucking idea what her phone number is.
... and, despite vigorous activity, never left the Earth.