If you read TFA you'll see that it came about because Lavabit did not comply with the previous order. There is little mystery about it.
They could have gone for enforcement (pretty much "SWAT team" these days) of the previous order. But they used the situation as an excuse to get what they really wanted, 4th Amendment be damned.
Legalization of heroin or other highly addictive drugs would be disastrous
Sorry, this experiment has been run (Portugal) and decriminalizing and getting people treatment drops the usage rate by more than half in just a couple years and greatly reduces crime.
Ignorance like yours is what keeps the level of addiction up as well as the crime rate. You should feel bad.
That's the problem with this kind of award, it turns it into a contest which seems rather gauche. "Oh yeah, well this person got shot in the head, beat that!"
That's reason enough to not use that as a criteria for the award. They should be asking how much of an impact the individual had on human rights and for how many people (and probably giving weight to impact on Europeans for this prize).
Malala was very brave, had a terrible thing happen to her, by very bad people, and stood up for an excellent cause. But, I fear that while it makes a great human interest story, if she was killed by the attacker, we probably would not have heard much of her story and she wouldn't be on the short list for the prize.
Ah but, it's a trap! You see, the FOSS is back-doored to high heaven as well and all this is a psychological trick to make you feel secure and validated in your own mind.
That's exactly what they want you to think!/turtles
He seems to have gone a little too "tinfoil-hat" for my tastes. He doesn't carry a cell phone anymore. I think that says a lot more than becoming an open source user.
If the government mandated that everybody carry a tracking device, keep it on at all times, and that they'd be storing the tracking data in perpetuity, there'd be a goddamn revolution.
But when they do so voluntarily, and the NSA steals all that data - leading to the exact same end point - people are all like, "oh, look, Walter White is twerking again."
At least this guy is being true to his privacy milieu.
Is it that if something requires more effort than merely wishing on a star that not only will you not do it, you will refuse to believe anyone will?
The technology may some day exist to decompile a binary into a set of comprehensible source files that elicidates the architecture of an arbitrarily complex code base, but today that does not exist.
The tea party shut the whole damned government down (which is always their #1 priority anyway).
If only... all the Tea Partiers I know want to Pledge their Allegiance to a strong constitutional republic.
As if that experiment hasn't already been run...
It also sucks money out of local communities. Put your money into the local S&L for community lending paying 1.5%? No way - with real inflation over 6%, you send your money to Wall Street (either directly or with a 401(k)) or you're going to lose money every year. S&L paying 4.5% while inflation is under 1%? Sure thing, that's an easy way to park some cash.... and "somehow" there's no money for loans to small businesses anymore.
Running the printing presses at a high speed only helps exacerbate the problem, but it's systemic. You can see the rise of the 401(k) system shortly after the 1971 switch to fiat money and the resultant rampant stagflation, but, again, that's symptomatic.
that same system continuously shafts the non-rich, i.e. the 99%
When is America going to wake up to what it has become and who is paying for it?
When the oil producers switch away from the USD, and the Bretton Woods illusion comes crashing down. That's why taking over Syria and Iran are so important and why Putin won a major victory.
perhaps not to the FAA's definitions section, but to muggles it sure seems critical to have maps and operations guides always available.
These people are absolutely insane if they allow the devices to make a network connection to anything but a controlled updates server. Windows zero-days are real and common.
I sure hope the Delta security folks got their recommendations in writing.
I always had sympathy for her after her jail sentence. She went to jail for a MINOR insider trading case (where they couldn't even prove that, just obstruction of justice), while those who collapsed the economy got off scot free.
Hey, but at least we're safer now that Martha has lost the privilege to vote and defend herself with arms.
Seriously, though, we can probably count on one hand the number of people who believe that the system worked for the benefit of society in that case. When department stores proudly label their wares with a convicted felon's name, that tells you how much weight it really holds. If there's to be a new government, Martha's not going to be oppressed under it.
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The real Roberts has been retired 15 years and living like a king in Patagonia.
15 months - we're talking about Internet-time here.
If you read TFA you'll see that it came about because Lavabit did not comply with the previous order. There is little mystery about it.
They could have gone for enforcement (pretty much "SWAT team" these days) of the previous order. But they used the situation as an excuse to get what they really wanted, 4th Amendment be damned.
Nobody will give this post a +1, and therefore it won't be at +5 in two hours.
Legalization of heroin or other highly addictive drugs would be disastrous
Sorry, this experiment has been run (Portugal) and decriminalizing and getting people treatment drops the usage rate by more than half in just a couple years and greatly reduces crime.
Ignorance like yours is what keeps the level of addiction up as well as the crime rate. You should feel bad.
Vegetarians and vegans aren't necessarily any healthier than anyone else: It all depends on a lot more than what somebody eats or doesn't eat.
I know a vegan who eats a steady diet of ho-ho's and sugared coconut milk. This individual is about 450lbs.
Windows and MacOS don't need open drivers, they are closed systems (okay OSX is somewhat open) using closed drivers.
And a lot of linux users run the binary blob drivers from AMD and nVidia too.
I wonder ... since X has insecure keyhandling anyway, could the binary video drivers be Bull-Run'ed? The timing is awfully coincidental.
n/t
Interesting. I'm wondering if Canon's hardware uses a much lower limit, as I've seen this behavior on multiple plane rides, and nowhere else.
I wonder why they'd intentionally cripple their products. Well, discourage certain uses, seems likely.
Unlike what some would like, Snowden only risked life behind bars.
Not so - Washington power brokers were calling for Snowden to swing from the gallows, and that's after he got NDAA'ed and waterboarded at Gitmo.
Obama offered to not execute him for one specific charge if Putin would give him up.
That's the problem with this kind of award, it turns it into a contest which seems rather gauche. "Oh yeah, well this person got shot in the head, beat that!"
That's reason enough to not use that as a criteria for the award. They should be asking how much of an impact the individual had on human rights and for how many people (and probably giving weight to impact on Europeans for this prize).
Malala was very brave, had a terrible thing happen to her, by very bad people, and stood up for an excellent cause. But, I fear that while it makes a great human interest story, if she was killed by the attacker, we probably would not have heard much of her story and she wouldn't be on the short list for the prize.
Just think of the possibilities. "Hi, I'm Edward Snowden. Welcome to my snow den."
Yeah, but how you gonna get there if he's snowed in?
Ah but, it's a trap! You see, the FOSS is back-doored to high heaven as well and all this is a psychological trick to make you feel secure and validated in your own mind.
That's exactly what they want you to think! /turtles
He seems to have gone a little too "tinfoil-hat" for my tastes. He doesn't carry a cell phone anymore. I think that says a lot more than becoming an open source user.
If the government mandated that everybody carry a tracking device, keep it on at all times, and that they'd be storing the tracking data in perpetuity, there'd be a goddamn revolution.
But when they do so voluntarily, and the NSA steals all that data - leading to the exact same end point - people are all like, "oh, look, Walter White is twerking again."
At least this guy is being true to his privacy milieu.
Why would MS appoint somebody to advise them on privacy of their customer's data? How does it benefit the shareholders?
It helps people trust them and buy their software. Probably while they should do neither.
oooooooh.. Thanks for expanding on the thought - now I get it.
Is it that if something requires more effort than merely wishing on a star that not only will you not do it, you will refuse to believe anyone will?
The technology may some day exist to decompile a binary into a set of comprehensible source files that elicidates the architecture of an arbitrarily complex code base, but today that does not exist.
The tea party shut the whole damned government down (which is always their #1 priority anyway).
If only ... all the Tea Partiers I know want to Pledge their Allegiance to a strong constitutional republic.
As if that experiment hasn't already been run...
Why? Because I had gotten on an airplane, which caused GPS to shut off internally
Others here are saying that the required limits are 60,000 ft and 999 knots.
Did you take a particularly fun plane ride?
Interest is the only thing saving your day.
It also sucks money out of local communities. Put your money into the local S&L for community lending paying 1.5%? No way - with real inflation over 6%, you send your money to Wall Street (either directly or with a 401(k)) or you're going to lose money every year. S&L paying 4.5% while inflation is under 1%? Sure thing, that's an easy way to park some cash. ... and "somehow" there's no money for loans to small businesses anymore.
Running the printing presses at a high speed only helps exacerbate the problem, but it's systemic. You can see the rise of the 401(k) system shortly after the 1971 switch to fiat money and the resultant rampant stagflation, but, again, that's symptomatic.
that same system continuously shafts the non-rich, i.e. the 99%
Absolutely, and by design.
When is America going to wake up to what it has become and who is paying for it?
When the oil producers switch away from the USD, and the Bretton Woods illusion comes crashing down. That's why taking over Syria and Iran are so important and why Putin won a major victory.
Not what flight critical means...
perhaps not to the FAA's definitions section, but to muggles it sure seems critical to have maps and operations guides always available.
These people are absolutely insane if they allow the devices to make a network connection to anything but a controlled updates server. Windows zero-days are real and common.
I sure hope the Delta security folks got their recommendations in writing.
Incorrect. There are other options on the ballot. Please, don't play the blame game. The choice is there...
There really isn't a choice. That's just the illusion to keep people complacent.
Maybe people should actually try to use the voting power they have, instead of letting it rot outside under a tarp.
Which round of voting, since perhaps Calvin Coolidge or Grover Cleveland, ever got the people less government?
âoeIf voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.â â Mark Twain
If he does, he'd best not go to the theater, and maybe stay away from Dallas.
Bush said he attacked Iraq to protect his daughters. People assumed he meant from Hussein.
I always had sympathy for her after her jail sentence. She went to jail for a MINOR insider trading case (where they couldn't even prove that, just obstruction of justice), while those who collapsed the economy got off scot free.
Hey, but at least we're safer now that Martha has lost the privilege to vote and defend herself with arms.
Seriously, though, we can probably count on one hand the number of people who believe that the system worked for the benefit of society in that case. When department stores proudly label their wares with a convicted felon's name, that tells you how much weight it really holds. If there's to be a new government, Martha's not going to be oppressed under it.