I think that's basically what threema is doing. They could also do a data-plan key exchange, but there are many merchants who operate in areas with no cell coverage, and WiFi is too difficult to use opportunistically on most phones.
It's OK to upgrade it with drivers for newer hardware, and plug up more security holes. But give us the same user interface (as a choice).
Is Windows 7 really different enough from XP that most people will notice? I don't use either much, but they seem almost the same to me.
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I hate to agree with the gun nuts, but if I see a drone, I'm grabbing the shotgun and firing at it.
If you think about it, that doesn't really make sense except that the FAA is keeping the power dynamic unfairly tilted. The taco copter should be free to delivery to you and welcome, but only law enforcement and oil companies are being allowed access to airspace, apparently.
Looking through the benchmarks, at a little more than double the resolution, the Nexus 7 gives a little less than half the framerate of this dedicated gaming machine. That should make it fantastic for general use, and makes the price seem attractive vs. the Allwinner imports.
And the fact that the decision was based on NJ law, not the US Constitution, still doesn't fly because the supremacy clause clearly holds
NJ is free to offer its citizens more protection than the General Government does - that doesn't constitute a conflict under the Supremacy Clause. Properly viewed, the Supremacy Clause only applies to the enumerated powers of the Constitution anyway - it should not even apply in cases where States' powers are being infringed, unless one of the Bill of Rights protections are being violated (we'll pretend the 9th and 10th Amendments do not exist, just like DC, for the sake of argument).
The Court was unanimous in/US v. Jones/ - it's hard to see how they'd backpedal because their concern was over the surveillance nature of modern technology, not merely the source of said data. By their logic in/Jones/, this case's data gathering would also be a search.
I'd feign shock that the 5th Circuit couldn't understand the/Jones/ decision, but it's so much more realistic to believe that those judges just wanted to give government power another bite at the/Jones/ apple.
Arresting someone for what amounts to a civil offense seems like government power overreach to me, otherwise known as fascism.
I think you're mixing up authoritarianism with fascism, which gets tricky in this case because authoritarianism is a facet of fascism and in this case the rationale for the overreach is fascism. But government power overreach, broadly, isn't the same thing as fascism, no matter what The Young Ones thought.
Yes, all good points - non-mammal meat sources would be a better term, and the lights were used as cheap heaters in the designs I looked at. The amount of space you need to raise them communally was larger than the space to raise them individually because they fight over territory and will kill each other. I also didn't see a viable way to harvest them in a communal setting sort of scooping up a habitat with a loader bucket, whereas with an individual tank the soil could be easily screened.
Insects taste like shrimp, crab, or lobster. It's just the cultural bias that keeps people from eating them.
No, it's mostly economics. I looked into this a few months ago. The best flavor from an insect comes from a an emperor scorpion, which tastes much like shrimp. They take about 18 months to grow to a harvestable size and require about 20 gallons of space to stay healthy. They need lights if kept in captivity and cannot get along in large groups.
From there, the amount of meat per volume goes way down, unless you're eating meal worms and crickets, which can be toasted as snacks or ground up to make various pastes (McBuggets?) but not enjoyed as a piece of meat.
If I were to raise emperor scorpions on my farm, they would cost more than lobster (which may still be viable in some restaurants for an exotic option). In our current scheme all of the time, food, and habitat for the lobsters are 'free' and not included in the cost of the meal.
responding to my own post because I looked at the data.
At 1500 feet they were descending at 2220 feet per minute. I assume this is when ATC freaked out. By 800 feet they were 'only' descending at a rate of 1920 feet per minute. By 600 feet they were still descending at 420 feet per minute. The next measure they were still at 600 feet but ascending at 900 feet per minute. So somewhere between 600 feet and going down and 600 feet and going up, they were below 600 feet. The data resolution is every 15 seconds, so roughly speaking they probably hit 500 feet on the way down.
Assuming the decrease from 2200 FPM to 1920 FPM is the first indication of a correction, it took them 1000' of altitude to correct their rate.
So, based on their initial rate of 2200 FPM and a 500 foot "cushion", it looks like they had 13 seconds "extra" to spare, and at that we need to figure in how much higher the transponder is than the landing gear and figure in wave height. Somebody buy that ATC a beer (after work).
but this is hardly seconds from disaster or even a close thing. 600' at a normal approach speed is not "close" to the ground
So TFS says that they were descending at about 500' per minute. I think it's uncontested that on that glidepath they were going to hit the water. So, then, can you please calculate how much time they had left before the power of their engines would have been insufficient to change their momentum and vector to avoid hitting the water?
I'm willing to pay $199 for the phone, but is it my phone on Republic? Can I load CM10 on it and still use their WiFi routing app? Do they roam over to Verizon when the Sprint CDMA network is unavailable?
but you fucktarded USians want your precious "individual liberties" so much that you are brainwashed into believing that the free market will cure everything
You're not terribly far off, but still significantly. The people here are indoctrinated to believe that they are granted freedoms, and that they must support a fascist system to maintain those freedoms.
Very few Americans actually understand about liberty and free markets because those choices are told to be dangerous to them. The government and its schools work against liberty and free markets at most opportunities.
Sprint costs just as much as AT&T and Verizon and their data speed is too slow for what you pay
This - it applies to coverage too. Here Verizon has good coverage, AT&T unreliable, and Sprint only has a few towers. I can't think of any good reason to go with Sprint. If they had made WiMax work, then perhaps it could have happened, but they need to do more than offer 'unlimited' data to win customers. 'Unlimited data' would get me over to them _if_ the other problems were solved.
Suspending the first... amendment? This didn't happen in the USA.
And the presentation will likely go forward at USENIX (in Washington DC) with the other two co-authors, from the Netherlands. It's one researcher in the UK who's getting boned by his government.
... it being so completely hidebound by strong DRM, that it'll be completely unusable -- and in due course, completely irrelevant?
Why would they need another DRM'ed format when nobody even uses the 50GB available on a Bluray? You might be unaware of Sony's historical prevalence in the storage market, especially non-entertainment optical (think MO and similar).
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Given his profile and sometimes-hero status, Snowden is going to be targeted with honeypots, at least.
despite what Slashtrolls would like to believe
There is deep denial that a Firefox extension update could introduce code that could steal their root password from their terminal session.
I'm assuming there's a very good reason why he hasn't done it
What if I told you he's not really in charge?
I think that's basically what threema is doing. They could also do a data-plan key exchange, but there are many merchants who operate in areas with no cell coverage, and WiFi is too difficult to use opportunistically on most phones.
It sounds like you probably aren't in the USA. (I'm not aware of any USA companies with downstream caps - I could be wrong.)
there are several million Americans who have only satellite Internet access.
FTFY. It is a new program and the FAA is trying to avoid mid air collisions.
I've heard that for a few years ... so I wonder:
It's OK to upgrade it with drivers for newer hardware, and plug up more security holes. But give us the same user interface (as a choice).
Is Windows 7 really different enough from XP that most people will notice? I don't use either much, but they seem almost the same to me.
I hate to agree with the gun nuts, but if I see a drone, I'm grabbing the shotgun and firing at it.
If you think about it, that doesn't really make sense except that the FAA is keeping the power dynamic unfairly tilted. The taco copter should be free to delivery to you and welcome, but only law enforcement and oil companies are being allowed access to airspace, apparently.
Looking through the benchmarks, at a little more than double the resolution, the Nexus 7 gives a little less than half the framerate of this dedicated gaming machine. That should make it fantastic for general use, and makes the price seem attractive vs. the Allwinner imports.
And the fact that the decision was based on NJ law, not the US Constitution, still doesn't fly because the supremacy clause clearly holds
NJ is free to offer its citizens more protection than the General Government does - that doesn't constitute a conflict under the Supremacy Clause. Properly viewed, the Supremacy Clause only applies to the enumerated powers of the Constitution anyway - it should not even apply in cases where States' powers are being infringed, unless one of the Bill of Rights protections are being violated (we'll pretend the 9th and 10th Amendments do not exist, just like DC, for the sake of argument).
Very useful, thanks!
The Court was unanimous in /US v. Jones/ - it's hard to see how they'd backpedal because their concern was over the surveillance nature of modern technology, not merely the source of said data. By their logic in /Jones/, this case's data gathering would also be a search.
I'd feign shock that the 5th Circuit couldn't understand the /Jones/ decision, but it's so much more realistic to believe that those judges just wanted to give government power another bite at the /Jones/ apple.
Arresting someone for what amounts to a civil offense seems like government power overreach to me, otherwise known as fascism.
I think you're mixing up authoritarianism with fascism, which gets tricky in this case because authoritarianism is a facet of fascism and in this case the rationale for the overreach is fascism. But government power overreach, broadly, isn't the same thing as fascism, no matter what The Young Ones thought.
Yes, all good points - non-mammal meat sources would be a better term, and the lights were used as cheap heaters in the designs I looked at. The amount of space you need to raise them communally was larger than the space to raise them individually because they fight over territory and will kill each other. I also didn't see a viable way to harvest them in a communal setting sort of scooping up a habitat with a loader bucket, whereas with an individual tank the soil could be easily screened.
Ssshhhh!! The lawyers concluded that more lawyers would be required. Looks like it backfired on them.
Insects taste like shrimp, crab, or lobster. It's just the cultural bias that keeps people from eating them.
No, it's mostly economics. I looked into this a few months ago. The best flavor from an insect comes from a an emperor scorpion, which tastes much like shrimp. They take about 18 months to grow to a harvestable size and require about 20 gallons of space to stay healthy. They need lights if kept in captivity and cannot get along in large groups.
From there, the amount of meat per volume goes way down, unless you're eating meal worms and crickets, which can be toasted as snacks or ground up to make various pastes (McBuggets?) but not enjoyed as a piece of meat.
If I were to raise emperor scorpions on my farm, they would cost more than lobster (which may still be viable in some restaurants for an exotic option). In our current scheme all of the time, food, and habitat for the lobsters are 'free' and not included in the cost of the meal.
responding to my own post because I looked at the data.
At 1500 feet they were descending at 2220 feet per minute. I assume this is when ATC freaked out. By 800 feet they were 'only' descending at a rate of 1920 feet per minute. By 600 feet they were still descending at 420 feet per minute. The next measure they were still at 600 feet but ascending at 900 feet per minute. So somewhere between 600 feet and going down and 600 feet and going up, they were below 600 feet. The data resolution is every 15 seconds, so roughly speaking they probably hit 500 feet on the way down.
Assuming the decrease from 2200 FPM to 1920 FPM is the first indication of a correction, it took them 1000' of altitude to correct their rate.
So, based on their initial rate of 2200 FPM and a 500 foot "cushion", it looks like they had 13 seconds "extra" to spare, and at that we need to figure in how much higher the transponder is than the landing gear and figure in wave height. Somebody buy that ATC a beer (after work).
For those of you who disagree, cicada season will be here shortly. I invite you to test out your theory in your backyard.
I looked into it - supposedly they taste like asparagus. I dislike asparagus!
but this is hardly seconds from disaster or even a close thing. 600' at a normal approach speed is not "close" to the ground
So TFS says that they were descending at about 500' per minute. I think it's uncontested that on that glidepath they were going to hit the water. So, then, can you please calculate how much time they had left before the power of their engines would have been insufficient to change their momentum and vector to avoid hitting the water?
There's of course, only one phone available
I'm willing to pay $199 for the phone, but is it my phone on Republic? Can I load CM10 on it and still use their WiFi routing app? Do they roam over to Verizon when the Sprint CDMA network is unavailable?
but you fucktarded USians want your precious "individual liberties" so much that you are brainwashed into believing that the free market will cure everything
You're not terribly far off, but still significantly. The people here are indoctrinated to believe that they are granted freedoms, and that they must support a fascist system to maintain those freedoms.
Very few Americans actually understand about liberty and free markets because those choices are told to be dangerous to them. The government and its schools work against liberty and free markets at most opportunities.
Sprint costs just as much as AT&T and Verizon and their data speed is too slow for what you pay
This - it applies to coverage too. Here Verizon has good coverage, AT&T unreliable, and Sprint only has a few towers. I can't think of any good reason to go with Sprint. If they had made WiMax work, then perhaps it could have happened, but they need to do more than offer 'unlimited' data to win customers. 'Unlimited data' would get me over to them _if_ the other problems were solved.
I've already met people who claimed bitcoin only exists to facilitate money laundering, that there are no other uses at all.
Same as cash, yo.
Suspending the first... amendment? This didn't happen in the USA.
And the presentation will likely go forward at USENIX (in Washington DC) with the other two co-authors, from the Netherlands. It's one researcher in the UK who's getting boned by his government.
... it being so completely hidebound by strong DRM, that it'll be completely unusable -- and in due course, completely irrelevant?
Why would they need another DRM'ed format when nobody even uses the 50GB available on a Bluray? You might be unaware of Sony's historical prevalence in the storage market, especially non-entertainment optical (think MO and similar).