They're subpoenaing Deutsch Bank because they DON'T have all his records. They want to know (a) why Deutsch Bank gave Trump loans when other banks wouldn't lend to him after being burned too many times, and (b) who, if anyone, is guaranteeing repayment of the loans or otherwise backstopping them.
Where in the constitution does it say that decisions on impeachment can be reviewed by the judiciary? If that were the case, republicans could have appealed the failed attempt to impeach Clinton to the courts. Simply not possible without a constitutional amendment.
The only court that has jurisdiction over what constitutes an offense is the court composed of the two houses. The constitution doesn't have any provisions for judicial review by other courts, not even the supreme court.
Again, read the original statement, which was the claim that there was no provision in the constitution to vote out the president. I pointed out that this was simply not true, that the constitution in fact allows for it. If you're too lazy to look a few posts up, here's the link.
I was addressing ONLY the question of the constitution, not about whether Trump has actually done anything to be voted out. Learn to read before you call other people morons, moron. Why are you continuing to criticize me for something I never said or even implied? Practicing for when Scaramucci is thrown under the bus?
I did say that if it came to that, both houses may decide at some point that it's more advantageous to vote him out, but that is not the same as saying that he may have done anything (specific or non-specific) to justify it.
You misunderstood. The original code will be written by humans. It will be improved over time by AI. And you're wrong about chip design. It HAS changed over the last 20 years. No team of humans can manually lay out a chip with 7 billion transistors. Not in their lifetime. That's why it's no longer done manually by humans, except for certain portions, which will become fewer as time goes on. This was true even in 2010. From an intel engineer
All of the analog circuitry, arrays, and performance-sensitive parts are definitely hand-drawn (schematics) and hand laid out. We're one of the few places that actually still do this (apparently Apple does too). You can tell which parts were laid out by hand if you look at die photos.
It's only a matter of time before they have to go full automation, as others have done.
I just knew that if I said the magic incantation, you'd pop up. It's magic!:-)
How's life? Thanks for asking. I like volunteering, but it's not a replacement for a job or a career.
I'm in the midst of sessions with the same therapist who helped me with PTSD, in the hope of putting my life back together, taking into account that my vision is always going to be an issue (currently legally blind in one eye, but it *will* be fixed up as much as possible at some future date, until the next time and/or the other eye again).
When she asked me what I wanted to do if I had a choice, I said I would like to code again. Unfortunately, tried again today, it's just not coming back even though I know what I have to do, remember everything, but just can't put it all together into something meaningful when behind the keyboard. I find I don't want to. I guess the events of the last 6-7 years had too much of an impact, especially when combined with how crappy the whole tech industry has become since the turn of the century. I got to see first-hand how women are treated, and that is something I really don't want to expose myself to again. 20 years ago I sat in a meeting and watched the guys engage in pissing contests. Afterwards, I asked the only woman present why she didn't speak up, because I knew that she could wipe the floor with them in terms of capability, and that the guys were heading off into the wrong direction. Now I know why she kept silent. And it's become worse. It's just not worth the hassles, so I guess part of it is the instinct for self-preservation finally kicking in. Deleted the linux vm about an hour ago. Not happy about it, but ç'est la vie.
In the meantime she suggested that I contact the Montreal Association for the Blind. They have experience with job options for people with deteriorating vision, so I'm waiting for them to get back to me. It feels like good advice. I've tried to learn how to use a screen reader on my own, and it is not easy. And the linux screen reader is absolute crap, so there is no real reason to keep a linux vm around. Maybe it will be there in another decade.
As long as I can walk the dog and ride my bicycle (surprisingly, I can even with only my bad eye, which is now 20/400, so who cares, right?) I'm good. So time to knuckle down and get back to writing to see what I've got left in the gas tank.
I got it under my original 5-digit uid. If I could have just changed the name on the account when I changed my name, I would have kept it. Lots of memories there:-)
Logic fail. He didn't say he was exclusively spamming his critics. What is up with/. users nowadays not being able to make coherent arguments? You're showing the same level of smarts as Alexandre Cazes.
The two stories aren't exactly the same. The first one makes it seem like it was hard to verify who this guy was. Here I post directions for verifying his name, address, etc., from a lookup of government records that anyone who saw his linkedin profile could have done in under a minute.
So all the "sooper-sekret investigative techniques" for verifying who this guy is that both the motherboard and vice stories allude to without going into detail are simply bs.
And given that the government regularly hoovers up all the public data from linkedin, how hard was it to find the email address and company name there? The original story makes it seem that it took half a year to go from the email address and company name to discovering who the guy was. I sure as hell hope it wasn't that long - the profile gives the original country (Canada) and province (Quebec) for his business, and plugging the business name into the Quebec business registry database (again, see link) confirms both his identity and name, with records going back well before he launched the site.
This whole thing is reminiscent of the "police hi-tech hard disk examination tools" that turned out to be just a bunch of perl scripts.
If you're doing something (or refraining from doing something) - even if it's the right thing to do - only because you fear the consequences of acting differently, you're not entitled to call your actions moral.
Doing the right thing because you believe it's the right thing, no matter what the consequences to you, is behaving like someone with morals.
Agreed. I've posted all my contact info in the story where Briana Wu (apparently falsely) claims to have been doxxed. Still haven't gotten any hate mail. (Kind of surprising considering all the hate posts I garner) Still don't see why people are so scared that somebody might know where they live. I also don't see the advantage, since not being identifiable tends to diminish your credibility.
And you think engineering tasks can't be commodified, spec'ed out, and turned over to AI expert systems? Anything that can be boiled down to a system of specifications and rules can be automated. Including engineering. Doesn't need strong AI.
Humans no longer do the design layout of the most complex cpus. It's beyond us. So we've automated it. Apply enough money (there's LOTS of money in chips) to any problem and it WILL be automated.
What's the mechanism for voting the President out of office, exactly?
There is no mechanism for that in the Constitution.
he has to commit a crime. ping!
Whether he has committed a crime is irrelevant to the quote I replied to, which claimed that the was no mechanism for voting him out of office in the constitution, when the simple fact is that the constitution specifies that a simple majority vote of the house and a 2/3 majority vote in the senate is exactly that mechanism the poster said doesn't exist.
Look at the url - it's politics.slashdot.org. You can avoid it by (do I dare say it? Sure, why not, it's Friday evening) using your HOSTS file to block the subdomain.
The way Trump is handling his appointments, it's probable that the next one will be so bad as to make Spicer look good in comparison. Same as Trump makes people nostalgic for the days of GWB. Or even Nixon's 1st term.
According to the Post, Trump has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the Russia probe. Trump's lawyers have been discussing the president’s pardoning powers, a second person told the newspaper.
Excellent. We have excellent chocolate, the best. Trust me, I know chocolate. We'll have the top chocolate people in our administration and we're going to make chocolate great again.
Look at his cabinet. Not a single chocolate person there. He only likes white chocolate. He's even banned the importation of various degrees of darker chocolate from other countries and is trying to build a wall to keep out light milk chocolate.
tl;dr - he's STILL a racist. The fines for excluding black renters haven't changed his views.
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They're subpoenaing Deutsch Bank because they DON'T have all his records. They want to know (a) why Deutsch Bank gave Trump loans when other banks wouldn't lend to him after being burned too many times, and (b) who, if anyone, is guaranteeing repayment of the loans or otherwise backstopping them.
Ditto Jared Kushner's loans with Deutsch Bank.
Where in the constitution does it say that decisions on impeachment can be reviewed by the judiciary? If that were the case, republicans could have appealed the failed attempt to impeach Clinton to the courts. Simply not possible without a constitutional amendment.
The only court that has jurisdiction over what constitutes an offense is the court composed of the two houses. The constitution doesn't have any provisions for judicial review by other courts, not even the supreme court.
Again, read the original statement, which was the claim that there was no provision in the constitution to vote out the president. I pointed out that this was simply not true, that the constitution in fact allows for it. If you're too lazy to look a few posts up, here's the link.
I was addressing ONLY the question of the constitution, not about whether Trump has actually done anything to be voted out. Learn to read before you call other people morons, moron. Why are you continuing to criticize me for something I never said or even implied? Practicing for when Scaramucci is thrown under the bus?
I did say that if it came to that, both houses may decide at some point that it's more advantageous to vote him out, but that is not the same as saying that he may have done anything (specific or non-specific) to justify it.
All of the analog circuitry, arrays, and performance-sensitive parts are definitely hand-drawn (schematics) and hand laid out. We're one of the few places that actually still do this (apparently Apple does too). You can tell which parts were laid out by hand if you look at die photos.
It's only a matter of time before they have to go full automation, as others have done.
I just knew that if I said the magic incantation, you'd pop up. It's magic! :-)
How's life? Thanks for asking. I like volunteering, but it's not a replacement for a job or a career.
I'm in the midst of sessions with the same therapist who helped me with PTSD, in the hope of putting my life back together, taking into account that my vision is always going to be an issue (currently legally blind in one eye, but it *will* be fixed up as much as possible at some future date, until the next time and/or the other eye again).
When she asked me what I wanted to do if I had a choice, I said I would like to code again. Unfortunately, tried again today, it's just not coming back even though I know what I have to do, remember everything, but just can't put it all together into something meaningful when behind the keyboard. I find I don't want to. I guess the events of the last 6-7 years had too much of an impact, especially when combined with how crappy the whole tech industry has become since the turn of the century. I got to see first-hand how women are treated, and that is something I really don't want to expose myself to again. 20 years ago I sat in a meeting and watched the guys engage in pissing contests. Afterwards, I asked the only woman present why she didn't speak up, because I knew that she could wipe the floor with them in terms of capability, and that the guys were heading off into the wrong direction. Now I know why she kept silent. And it's become worse. It's just not worth the hassles, so I guess part of it is the instinct for self-preservation finally kicking in. Deleted the linux vm about an hour ago. Not happy about it, but ç'est la vie.
In the meantime she suggested that I contact the Montreal Association for the Blind. They have experience with job options for people with deteriorating vision, so I'm waiting for them to get back to me. It feels like good advice. I've tried to learn how to use a screen reader on my own, and it is not easy. And the linux screen reader is absolute crap, so there is no real reason to keep a linux vm around. Maybe it will be there in another decade.
As long as I can walk the dog and ride my bicycle (surprisingly, I can even with only my bad eye, which is now 20/400, so who cares, right?) I'm good. So time to knuckle down and get back to writing to see what I've got left in the gas tank.
You?
I got it under my original 5-digit uid. If I could have just changed the name on the account when I changed my name, I would have kept it. Lots of memories there :-)
Logic fail. He didn't say he was exclusively spamming his critics. What is up with /. users nowadays not being able to make coherent arguments? You're showing the same level of smarts as Alexandre Cazes.
The two stories aren't exactly the same. The first one makes it seem like it was hard to verify who this guy was. Here I post directions for verifying his name, address, etc., from a lookup of government records that anyone who saw his linkedin profile could have done in under a minute.
So all the "sooper-sekret investigative techniques" for verifying who this guy is that both the motherboard and vice stories allude to without going into detail are simply bs.
And given that the government regularly hoovers up all the public data from linkedin, how hard was it to find the email address and company name there? The original story makes it seem that it took half a year to go from the email address and company name to discovering who the guy was. I sure as hell hope it wasn't that long - the profile gives the original country (Canada) and province (Quebec) for his business, and plugging the business name into the Quebec business registry database (again, see link) confirms both his identity and name, with records going back well before he launched the site.
This whole thing is reminiscent of the "police hi-tech hard disk examination tools" that turned out to be just a bunch of perl scripts.
If you're doing something (or refraining from doing something) - even if it's the right thing to do - only because you fear the consequences of acting differently, you're not entitled to call your actions moral.
Doing the right thing because you believe it's the right thing, no matter what the consequences to you, is behaving like someone with morals.
Denis Coderre,is that you, you bloviating gasbag?
Agreed. I've posted all my contact info in the story where Briana Wu (apparently falsely) claims to have been doxxed. Still haven't gotten any hate mail. (Kind of surprising considering all the hate posts I garner) Still don't see why people are so scared that somebody might know where they live. I also don't see the advantage, since not being identifiable tends to diminish your credibility.
Reuters has a pretty good rep for getting it right. If that's the only argument you've got, you've got nothing.
And you think engineering tasks can't be commodified, spec'ed out, and turned over to AI expert systems? Anything that can be boiled down to a system of specifications and rules can be automated. Including engineering. Doesn't need strong AI.
Humans no longer do the design layout of the most complex cpus. It's beyond us. So we've automated it. Apply enough money (there's LOTS of money in chips) to any problem and it WILL be automated.
What's the mechanism for voting the President out of office, exactly? There is no mechanism for that in the Constitution.
he has to commit a crime. ping!
Whether he has committed a crime is irrelevant to the quote I replied to, which claimed that the was no mechanism for voting him out of office in the constitution, when the simple fact is that the constitution specifies that a simple majority vote of the house and a 2/3 majority vote in the senate is exactly that mechanism the poster said doesn't exist.
Look at the url - it's politics.slashdot.org. You can avoid it by (do I dare say it? Sure, why not, it's Friday evening) using your HOSTS file to block the subdomain.
Spicer should play Trump on SNL. A dead orange cat and some makeup should do it.
The way Trump is handling his appointments, it's probable that the next one will be so bad as to make Spicer look good in comparison. Same as Trump makes people nostalgic for the days of GWB. Or even Nixon's 1st term.
They probably ignored the whole SCO vs Novell thing. May have also never heard of groklaw or PJ. Brings back memories of a better time, a better /.
According to the Post, Trump has asked his advisers about his power to pardon aides, family members and even himself in connection with the Russia probe. Trump's lawyers have been discussing the president’s pardoning powers, a second person told the newspaper.
That's why he wrote "Have some Spam with Cheese" as the link text. Nothing like a bit of truth in advertising ... :-)
(from the "it's funny - laugh" dept)
As a Canadian I have to say... I'd probably seriously consider working for Trump just to work in the White House if the opportunity presented itself
As another Canadian I have to say ... shame on you.
Does anyone actually believe he runs his companies?
I bet he does.
Well, he did manage to go bankrupt 6 times. Obviously he has at least some influence :-)
Excellent. We have excellent chocolate, the best. Trust me, I know chocolate. We'll have the top chocolate people in our administration and we're going to make chocolate great again.
Look at his cabinet. Not a single chocolate person there. He only likes white chocolate. He's even banned the importation of various degrees of darker chocolate from other countries and is trying to build a wall to keep out light milk chocolate. tl;dr - he's STILL a racist. The fines for excluding black renters haven't changed his views.
Think about the future Sean Spicer has on SNL. Who better to play Trump? Who would be more motivated to lampoon the guy?
Or cable TV political commentator (they let anyone do that nowadays).