A phone call from BHO to Mr. Putin, with an offer to give up a few high-valued Russian agents presently rotting in American prisons, and Mr. Snowden would die in a horrible automobile accident shortly thereafter
Mr. Putin surely values this massive worldwide power assault on the US intelligence apparatus far more than he does a few operatives. His interests are well-served by protecting Snowden.
NSA's activities outside of the United States raise no Constitutional questions.
The Constitution protects rights that are inherent, it doesn't grant them.
It's not a hotel room or a luxury car, it's a piece of valuable high technology. It's not a toy for rent.
I suspect what the GP meant was that SpaceX has the funds to rent it, and Blue Origin would likely not, because they don't have a viable business, so it should be a non-issue.
However, another poster pointed out that Blue Origin is likely being used as a proxy by the Space Industrial Complex to hurt Space X, which greatly complicates the funding picture.
They already have a general warrant to search and seize all the calls that everybody makes. At least, NSA claims this and FISA backs them (and by extension, Chief Justice Roberts).
Those poor people that live there, my God. How can we still have such a place on this earth.
There are still people who believe that North Korea is closer to an ideal than Hong Kong or Belgium. Look at how excited they are about the rapid decline of Venezuela. Oh, right, the capitalists are all there sabotaging the People's Armies...
As long as people in large groups reject reason, then other large groups of people will die for it.
Is he doesn't know how to do his job without violating all our rights then he should be replaced.
He doesn't even know what the job is, apparently - "connect the dots" is an absurd metaphor, and doesn't work in the real world.
It sounds like he's not even qualified. Metadata equals surveillance, and he's pretending that it's somehow strange that people don't expect their government to surveil their ever action.
it looks like only one person would need to be in the know to sabotage the RNG on silicon
Technically, you can't even access the hardware RDRNG, you have to access it through a black box hash function unit that is specified as "trust us". If something were to be sabotaged, that would be the place to do it. If I were designing a susceptible RNG, I'd allow it to change its behavior based on an obscure set of inputs, so most of the time it worked correctly.
Linux initially trusted RDRNG unconditionally to provide streams of random numbers, then backtracked to only using it as an input to whitening.
There was a patch offered to allow linux to solely use RDRNG for/dev/random, but it was roundly rejected on the lists. I don't think you can find any point at which the kernel ever trusted it. It's only on newer Intel chips anyway.
I'll never understand the fascination with beverage container designs that encourage spilling. Ever since getting a Highwave Hotjo several years ago, I've been able to keep coffee (or masala tea more often these days) next to my electronics projects all day. Its shape resists spilling and it even has a nonskid mat on the bottom. I've had mine for, gosh, probably six or seven years and it's still as good as new.
Temperature stability seems likle a great idea, but this vessel design only seems well-suited for an automotive cupholder.
How do they prove that you know the entire password, or any part of it?
When you give them your TrueCrypt password, they claim that you also have a hidden volume and beat you with an iron pipe until they're convinced that you don't (or other events prevent the process from continuing).
US legal code applies to US citizens, not foreign ones
You've got that backwards - protections from the government's actions apply to all people. Rules that the government makes within those boundaries only apply to citizens.
See the Declaration of Independence if you have a question about the conscience of the Constitution.
You can be a Luddite, a fool, or a smart user of technology.
Heck, I just bought a new radio (one with bluetooth linking capability) for my car (one with power "assisted" everything but none of this all-electronic nonsense where you can't feel the road) and it was actually non-trivial to find one that would let me set the color to red (rhodopsin comes in handy at night) and also would let me turn off the dancing light show visualizer on the music.
I did find one (thanks Pioneer), but the point is there are so many that didn't fit this criteria, which I feel to be basic for car safety, that the market (people) must be demanding the unsafe varieties.
People may be saying, by their words, that they don't want autopilots in cars, but by their actions their call for them is loud and clear.
Some OSS bug trackers have a 'relnote' field where people are to enter a release note if the owner feels it's something that ought to be communicated to the user.
As a user, don't bother me with stuff that will never effect me (did you refactor a class? - great, but I don't need to know about it) or I won't need to look up (did you fix a CVE or a spelling mistake?) but do let me know about changes that will affect my workflow, will offer me an improved way of doing something, or should cause me to go revisit results I've generated in the past (i.e. you had a bug).
the Indian Development Center was kept as the last remnant of the old multinational
Yeah, if Microsoft thinks that Nokia is worth $6.5B and India thinks Microsoft would owe it $3.5B in taxes, then Microsoft would have to conclude (assuming it can't be resolved for $2M in bribes) that abandoning the India unit (sell off the assets, let the debt go into bankruptcy) is the only financially feasible move. They can always move back in as a new business unit out of the Microsoft office next week.
Hey, here's an idea that will no doubt go over well in this venue - let's just pay people indefinitely! Why should it ever run out?
You might be surprised that the Welfare State in the US costs about $1T/yr, while paying everybody getting benefits a flat rate of $850/mo would cost half of that, and studies have shown that they would almost always do better.
Welfare is as much a jobs program for bureaucrats as it is charity, to the overhead tune of 100% - that's quite a management ratio!
Meanwhile the Swiss are threatening to enact a guaranteed minimum income of $2800/mo. A couple could get $67K/yr for just existing. I've raised a family on less than that per year - I can hardly see the point of working for pay given that offer.
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Now we are far too comfortable to fight.
Speaking of which, Owell vs. Huxley.
Are they really outraged? We know the French can get barricades-and-guillotines outraged, or at least their forebearors could.
Or is this more "I shall say snippy things at parties?"
Hey, man, rational basis replaced the Constitution eighty years ago.
A phone call from BHO to Mr. Putin, with an offer to give up a few high-valued Russian agents presently rotting in American prisons, and Mr. Snowden would die in a horrible automobile accident shortly thereafter
Mr. Putin surely values this massive worldwide power assault on the US intelligence apparatus far more than he does a few operatives. His interests are well-served by protecting Snowden.
NSA's activities outside of the United States raise no Constitutional questions.
The Constitution protects rights that are inherent, it doesn't grant them.
It's not a hotel room or a luxury car, it's a piece of valuable high technology. It's not a toy for rent.
I suspect what the GP meant was that SpaceX has the funds to rent it, and Blue Origin would likely not, because they don't have a viable business, so it should be a non-issue.
However, another poster pointed out that Blue Origin is likely being used as a proxy by the Space Industrial Complex to hurt Space X, which greatly complicates the funding picture.
Alternately, they could just repurpose the acquired tech and expertise towards Google's own robotics projects, and dump the military clients
yeah, I have to admit to being pretty disturbed imagining BD's robots weaponized and on the battlefront. This news is potentially awesome.
I want to think that Google is going to build the world's most amazing wheelchairs and alternative (self-driving) transportation devices.
without a wiretap warrant
They already have a general warrant to search and seize all the calls that everybody makes. At least, NSA claims this and FISA backs them (and by extension, Chief Justice Roberts).
Those poor people that live there, my God. How can we still have such a place on this earth.
There are still people who believe that North Korea is closer to an ideal than Hong Kong or Belgium. Look at how excited they are about the rapid decline of Venezuela. Oh, right, the capitalists are all there sabotaging the People's Armies...
As long as people in large groups reject reason, then other large groups of people will die for it.
Is he doesn't know how to do his job without violating all our rights then he should be replaced.
He doesn't even know what the job is, apparently - "connect the dots" is an absurd metaphor, and doesn't work in the real world.
It sounds like he's not even qualified. Metadata equals surveillance, and he's pretending that it's somehow strange that people don't expect their government to surveil their ever action.
This is just congress fucking off instead of doing what they are supposed to be doing, again.
Don't worry, the next election will change *everything*! At least, that's what I hear every two years...
it looks like only one person would need to be in the know to sabotage the RNG on silicon
Technically, you can't even access the hardware RDRNG, you have to access it through a black box hash function unit that is specified as "trust us". If something were to be sabotaged, that would be the place to do it. If I were designing a susceptible RNG, I'd allow it to change its behavior based on an obscure set of inputs, so most of the time it worked correctly.
Tell us - what happens when you mix a stream of zeros into your entropy pool?
Linux initially trusted RDRNG unconditionally to provide streams of random numbers, then backtracked to only using it as an input to whitening.
There was a patch offered to allow linux to solely use RDRNG for /dev/random, but it was roundly rejected on the lists. I don't think you can find any point at which the kernel ever trusted it. It's only on newer Intel chips anyway.
Rambus knew that they were intentionally deceiving the standards committee into using patented technology that they did not disclose.
How is Rambus not liable for fraud in this case? Surely there must be more complexity to it?
Like cure the sick, help the poor, etc.
Become a surgeon, perhaps?
I'll never understand the fascination with beverage container designs that encourage spilling. Ever since getting a Highwave Hotjo several years ago, I've been able to keep coffee (or masala tea more often these days) next to my electronics projects all day. Its shape resists spilling and it even has a nonskid mat on the bottom. I've had mine for, gosh, probably six or seven years and it's still as good as new.
Temperature stability seems likle a great idea, but this vessel design only seems well-suited for an automotive cupholder.
why would anyone stream from Youtube?
Because they want to see the content that's being offered. Why is this a question?
How do they prove that you know the entire password, or any part of it?
When you give them your TrueCrypt password, they claim that you also have a hidden volume and beat you with an iron pipe until they're convinced that you don't (or other events prevent the process from continuing).
Maybe that's just at Temara.
heard earlier today: "If knowledge is power, then privacy is freedom." Think about that in context of the NSA.
US legal code applies to US citizens, not foreign ones
You've got that backwards - protections from the government's actions apply to all people. Rules that the government makes within those boundaries only apply to citizens.
See the Declaration of Independence if you have a question about the conscience of the Constitution.
All of our recent cars weigh the passenger (don't tell the ladies) to see if the passenger airbag should be on, so the data is available anyhow.
You can be a Luddite, a fool, or a smart user of technology.
Heck, I just bought a new radio (one with bluetooth linking capability) for my car (one with power "assisted" everything but none of this all-electronic nonsense where you can't feel the road) and it was actually non-trivial to find one that would let me set the color to red (rhodopsin comes in handy at night) and also would let me turn off the dancing light show visualizer on the music.
I did find one (thanks Pioneer), but the point is there are so many that didn't fit this criteria, which I feel to be basic for car safety, that the market (people) must be demanding the unsafe varieties.
People may be saying, by their words, that they don't want autopilots in cars, but by their actions their call for them is loud and clear.
Some OSS bug trackers have a 'relnote' field where people are to enter a release note if the owner feels it's something that ought to be communicated to the user.
As a user, don't bother me with stuff that will never effect me (did you refactor a class? - great, but I don't need to know about it) or I won't need to look up (did you fix a CVE or a spelling mistake?) but do let me know about changes that will affect my workflow, will offer me an improved way of doing something, or should cause me to go revisit results I've generated in the past (i.e. you had a bug).
the Indian Development Center was kept as the last remnant of the old multinational
Yeah, if Microsoft thinks that Nokia is worth $6.5B and India thinks Microsoft would owe it $3.5B in taxes, then Microsoft would have to conclude (assuming it can't be resolved for $2M in bribes) that abandoning the India unit (sell off the assets, let the debt go into bankruptcy) is the only financially feasible move. They can always move back in as a new business unit out of the Microsoft office next week.
Hey, here's an idea that will no doubt go over well in this venue - let's just pay people indefinitely! Why should it ever run out?
You might be surprised that the Welfare State in the US costs about $1T/yr, while paying everybody getting benefits a flat rate of $850/mo would cost half of that, and studies have shown that they would almost always do better.
Welfare is as much a jobs program for bureaucrats as it is charity, to the overhead tune of 100% - that's quite a management ratio!
Meanwhile the Swiss are threatening to enact a guaranteed minimum income of $2800/mo. A couple could get $67K/yr for just existing. I've raised a family on less than that per year - I can hardly see the point of working for pay given that offer.