There is still disagreement over whether or not the War Powers Act is constitutional; it's never been tested, and Congress has made matters worse by never actually declaring war on anyone since WWII.
If I travel millions of miles along dimension 7, but my coordinates in dimensions 1,2 and 3 don't change, then I have not moved in any measurable sense.
It does not matter how "small" the other dimensions are - by definition, movement along one dimension is orthogonal to movement along the others.
back in the 1990's - "Plan 9" and Inferno come to mind, others have mentioned BeOS. Plan 9 in particular was fascinating because it completely changed the underlying ideas of an operating system (for example, multiple machines worked together transparently, advertising their capabilities to the network. When you ran an app, you had no idea - and didn't care - which machine was actually running it.)
But both Plan 9 and Inferno seem to have been killed by the various shake ups of the telecom industry and an unwillingness to let "valuable IP" go open source.
I have no idea what the current status of either OS is.
Hey, you can forgive me for getting them confused, can't you? They both are doing domestic spying, as well as the CIA -- so you tell me what is supposed to be the difference? Your making a nonsense argument without discussing the issue.
Really. Please provide evidence that the CIA is engaged in domestic spying - since they are expressly forbidden from doing so.
The "issue" here is that you seem quite happy to believe whatever conspiracy theory comes your way, if it matches your pre-conceived notions. Personally, I prefer to deal in facts.
No one. NO ONE has provided a scrap of evidence that the "DOD" was doing any spying whatsoever. Can't you even get your facts straight?
Here's a 3rd clue. The DOD isn't a single entity and does not have an intelligence gathering capability outside of the NRO. It depends on the NSA and the CIA for strategic intelligence gathering.
As for "what I am claiming" - I'm claiming that you have no evidence whatsoever of any of the wild speculation that you have been throwing around as fact. Given that you can't even get your mind around what the actual accusations the NYT made, that doesn't surprise me much.
To review:
1. The NYT reports that unnamed sources claim the NSA engaged in eavesdropping of phone calls from Americans and/or legal residents to members of al Queda without a warrant. If true this might be considered a violation of FISA, except, of course, every president since Carter has engaged in similar program and members of Clinton's Justice department agree that what Bush did appears to be legal.
2. The NYT reports that the FBI has been monitoring anti-war activists. Again, shock, shock, this is the same thing every president has done since at least Johnson - who was, in case you flunked history, a Democrat.
I'm waiting for you to provide the slightest evidence that Bush was wiretapping anti-war protesters.
I'm especially impressed by how you don't know the difference between the FBI and the NSA and the difference in the laws that govern those two different agencies.
And I'm most impressed by how you link to an editorial as if it were fact - an editorial that doesn't recognize that the 4th amendment only applies to US citizens, not to foreigners; or that the FISA law doesn't apply to the recording and monitoring of public events.
Here's a hint: If TV news crews can make tapes of your protest, and to do research into the backgrounds of the protestors, so can the government - and it doesn't need a warrant any more than the TV news crews do.
Not for *free* maybe, but I've been getting the same abilities from Comcast,.Mac and (before that) AT&T worldnet since the mid-90s. The only thing Gmail provided that I hadn't seen before was gigs of free storage - and I'm still wondering what sort of data-mining they are really up to.
1. Give away huge free email accounts and make it hard for anybody to permanently erase their e-mail. As a bonus use an invitation-only model to attract the geekiest nerds out there. 2. ??? 3. Profit!
it's a wonder anyone bothers to oppose your erudition.
On the other hand, you my notice that XP64 was late and has minimal market penetration and that GMail is, as the article noted, still in beta after being release ages ago.
So, guess what - as tech trends for 2005 neither lived up to their own hype.
that's my biggest problem with the US legal system - we don't have one.
If you want to revert to the letter of the Constitution - or rather, to somebody's opinion about what the letter of the Constitution means - a lot of stuff would change, and you might find that you didn't like all of it.
Right - ever since FDR essentially abrogated the constitution by expanding the "interstate commerce" clause beyond all sense and intent we've been right off the legal deep end. If we *want* the federal government to control social spending instead of the states, that's fine but we should *change* the freaking laws to permit it, not pretend that they say something that they don't or, even more heinous, use federal tax dollars to manipulate the states the way a dealer uses drugs to manipulate hookers.
"Change your DUI laws or we cut your highway funds." "Change your civil rights laws or we cut off your school funds."
Right. Extortion is exactly what the founding fathers had in mind when they divided the federal and state governments.
This may come as a shock to you, but the NSA is not the FBI and the two agencies do not cooperate and do not have any shared jurisdiction. The NSA investigates foreign, military threats. The FBI is a police department. As a bonus, no one has claimed that the FBI did anything illegal while investigating domestic groups.
Why? Because even if I have more screen real estate doesn't mean I want *you* to control it. When I surf, I usually have several windows open, and applications, too. A web site that requires my whole screen blocks my view of the other apps and web sites and, frankly, that just pisses me off.
I don't visit sites that assume they are more important than anything else that I might be doing.
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There is still disagreement over whether or not the War Powers Act is constitutional; it's never been tested, and Congress has made matters worse by never actually declaring war on anyone since WWII.
I mean it's, what, been with us for 25 or 30 years. Obviously it's tried and true, tested and ready.
We wouldn't want to use some other firmware that's only ever been used in machines that don't have emulate a CPM box.
Probably to late for you right now, though.
Large parts of the Darwin kernel layer are written in it.
Anything Apple uses - *must* be a dead end.
that makes no sense at all.
If I travel millions of miles along dimension 7, but my coordinates in dimensions 1,2 and 3 don't change, then I have not moved in any measurable sense.
It does not matter how "small" the other dimensions are - by definition, movement along one dimension is orthogonal to movement along the others.
c is a constant. It is equal to the speed of light in a vacuum.
The speed of light as it passes through other materials can vary.
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In what sense, shape, form, or consequence is this news?
There haven't been any improvements in memory and IO bandwidth in 20 years! That's why we think gigabyte sized word processors are slow and bloated!
back in the 1990's - "Plan 9" and Inferno come to mind, others have mentioned BeOS. Plan 9 in particular was fascinating because it completely changed the underlying ideas of an operating system (for example, multiple machines worked together transparently, advertising their capabilities to the network. When you ran an app, you had no idea - and didn't care - which machine was actually running it.)
But both Plan 9 and Inferno seem to have been killed by the various shake ups of the telecom industry and an unwillingness to let "valuable IP" go open source.
I have no idea what the current status of either OS is.
And it always will be...
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Hey, you can forgive me for getting them confused, can't you? They both are doing domestic spying, as well as the CIA -- so you tell me what is supposed to be the difference? Your making a nonsense argument without discussing the issue.
Really. Please provide evidence that the CIA is engaged in domestic spying - since they are expressly forbidden from doing so.
The "issue" here is that you seem quite happy to believe whatever conspiracy theory comes your way, if it matches your pre-conceived notions. Personally, I prefer to deal in facts.
No one. NO ONE has provided a scrap of evidence that the "DOD" was doing any spying whatsoever. Can't you even get your facts straight?
Here's a 3rd clue. The DOD isn't a single entity and does not have an intelligence gathering capability outside of the NRO. It depends on the NSA and the CIA for strategic intelligence gathering.
As for "what I am claiming" - I'm claiming that you have no evidence whatsoever of any of the wild speculation that you have been throwing around as fact. Given that you can't even get your mind around what the actual accusations the NYT made, that doesn't surprise me much.
To review:
1. The NYT reports that unnamed sources claim the NSA engaged in eavesdropping of phone calls from Americans and/or legal residents to members of al Queda without a warrant. If true this might be considered a violation of FISA, except, of course, every president since Carter has engaged in similar program and members of Clinton's Justice department agree that what Bush did appears to be legal.
2. The NYT reports that the FBI has been monitoring anti-war activists. Again, shock, shock, this is the same thing every president has done since at least Johnson - who was, in case you flunked history, a Democrat.
I'm waiting for you to provide the slightest evidence that Bush was wiretapping anti-war protesters.
I'm especially impressed by how you don't know the difference between the FBI and the NSA and the difference in the laws that govern those two different agencies.
And I'm most impressed by how you link to an editorial as if it were fact - an editorial that doesn't recognize that the 4th amendment only applies to US citizens, not to foreigners; or that the FISA law doesn't apply to the recording and monitoring of public events.
Here's a hint: If TV news crews can make tapes of your protest, and to do research into the backgrounds of the protestors, so can the government - and it doesn't need a warrant any more than the TV news crews do.
Not for *free* maybe, but I've been getting the same abilities from Comcast, .Mac and (before that) AT&T worldnet since the mid-90s. The only thing Gmail provided that I hadn't seen before was gigs of free storage - and I'm still wondering what sort of data-mining they are really up to.
because they haven't figured out step #2.
1. Give away huge free email accounts and make it hard for anybody to permanently erase their e-mail. As a bonus use an invitation-only model to attract the geekiest nerds out there.
2. ???
3. Profit!
any other web based mail service? You could have accomplished the same thing with, say, .Mac or the built-in POP email service most ISPs provide.
it's a wonder anyone bothers to oppose your erudition.
On the other hand, you my notice that XP64 was late and has minimal market penetration and that GMail is, as the article noted, still in beta after being release ages ago.
So, guess what - as tech trends for 2005 neither lived up to their own hype.
that's my biggest problem with the US legal system - we don't have one.
If you want to revert to the letter of the Constitution - or rather, to somebody's opinion about what the letter of the Constitution means - a lot of stuff would change, and you might find that you didn't like all of it.
Right - ever since FDR essentially abrogated the constitution by expanding the "interstate commerce" clause beyond all sense and intent we've been right off the legal deep end. If we *want* the federal government to control social spending instead of the states, that's fine but we should *change* the freaking laws to permit it, not pretend that they say something that they don't or, even more heinous, use federal tax dollars to manipulate the states the way a dealer uses drugs to manipulate hookers.
"Change your DUI laws or we cut your highway funds."
"Change your civil rights laws or we cut off your school funds."
Right. Extortion is exactly what the founding fathers had in mind when they divided the federal and state governments.
The interesting thing was not that the FBI "visited a student" but that they COULD visit a student.
Yeah, they could. Assuming, of course, the student was being investigated for terrorism or other national security offenses.
The idea that random students will be monitored for their reading habits is purest fear mongering.
I'm still waiting for evidence that they tapped someone because they were an anti-war protester.
It's bullshit like that that embarrasses the Democratic party and helps boost Bush's approval ratings back up.
This may come as a shock to you, but the NSA is not the FBI and the two agencies do not cooperate and do not have any shared jurisdiction. The NSA investigates foreign, military threats. The FBI is a police department. As a bonus, no one has claimed that the FBI did anything illegal while investigating domestic groups.
Why? Because even if I have more screen real estate doesn't mean I want *you* to control it. When I surf, I usually have several windows open, and applications, too. A web site that requires my whole screen blocks my view of the other apps and web sites and, frankly, that just pisses me off.
I don't visit sites that assume they are more important than anything else that I might be doing.