Just because AT&T continues to say that the deal would result in investment does make it true. If they were interested in investing in infrastructure and jobs, they would do it.
No, their problem is permitting for cell tower space takes 3-5 years because of FCC delays. AT&T is over-capacity today, and can't wait that long to build out, so they need T-Mobile's towers.
Instead they want to buy T-Mobile, loot whatever is left in their coffers and lay off all of their workers.
No, they want to take their tower space, loot whatever is left in their coffers, and lay off all their workers. This is the only choice the FCC's rules leave them. Not that the FCC could ever change its rules or anything.
When an organization as corrupt as the United States government is coming out against a deal, you can be certain that something is rotten in Denmark.
Yeah, you can bet Verizon Wireless execs are dancing in the streets!
He was not afforded the rights dictated by the constitution. He was not afforded the rights dictated by the constitution
Those rights are human rights which are protected by the Constitution, not granted by it. US jurisprudence does not recognize the right of a person to contract away human rights (e.g. you can't sell yourself into slavery).
The UCMJ is subordinate to the Constitution, so Manning's constitutional rights still exist. It seems they've been infringed.
No, he's completely right. Windows is still 90%+ of the desktop usage and so is the most interesting target for that reason alone.
Nah, malware authors on Windows actually uninstall or disable each other in a fight for the resources those machines offer. The 10% virgin compute resources (usually without anti-malware software) is an extremely attractive target.
Not always. Some places, especially smaller colleges, treat CS as IT/Software Engineering, when we all know they are very different.
This. I went to a college-style Ivy, so I didn't have to declare a major until sophomore year, so getting in was just a matter of applying early decision.
But... after taking CS there and then talking to a friend who was going (a decade later) to a small school in Boston, I was shocked at what they were teaching for 'computer science'. They got none of the fundamentals, just run-at-the-wall programming.
There were kids having trouble in those classes/because/ they lacked the fundamentals. It wasn't their fault, but I wonder how this group of professors managed to come up with such a hair-brained curriculum (or how they got to be CS professors in the first place). Even in IT, CS fundamentals are essential for proper understanding.
It wasn't a college with a poor reputation, either. There's no reason a community college couldn't have an excellent CS program either - they cost next to nothing to implement (heck, a fundamentals CS program could be taught on anything with an MMU).
I suppose an independent rating system of some sort would be helpful here.
I want a plate reader for my car, using two $50 CMOS sensors with wide angle lenses for fore and aft, and I want it to alert me whenever it detects a government license plate. Seems like these should be available built into high-end RADAR/LiDAR detectors round-about now?
Oh, and let people carry. Nothing says "I'm armed and dangerous" like a Glock 9mm on the hip.
It's only been a couple years since Heller, I doubt you're going to see a statistical outcome for a few more.
But, while open carry is great and all, concealed carry is needed to really deter crime. First, open carry is a reasonable advertisement for theft. Not guaranteed, but a temptation. Second, when you have 5-10% concealed carry, it becomes a reasonable assumption that *everybody* is concealed carrying and will shoot you if you try to rob them. Sort of herd immunity for self-protection.
You can't break the monopoly without passing more regulations
Sure you can - just pass legislation to repeal the existing regulation.
There are real limitations of physics and economics that favor the entrenched player.
Favor, yes, absolutely preclude competition, no. I've been through this trying to get pole access in my Town for a non-profit ISP. Price competition wasn't the issue, it's pure protectionism.
Congress shall make no law prohibiting the access of any person to the internet.
This is the right way to think about it, as a form of negative reciprocity.
"The government may not prevent" rather than "the government shall give X to."
Those 'give X to' ideas (aka 'positive rights') are really dangerous because they necessarily involve taking from person A to give to person B. So, they violate one person's rights to give to another. Taken far enough, you wind up with government-controlled slavery. It's the same problem with the 'universal healthcare' laws.
Although, we never needed amendments for telegraphs, offset printers, telephones, FAX machines, etc., so this one is probably also unneeded. If only the Supreme Court hadn't surrendered to FDR in 1937.
Too bad the outcome of all this wonderful 'care' is a war economy.
Well, of course it is - we're talking about a governmental system based on a monopoly on violence. So, shocker, they focus on being the best at violence.
That's why these people jumping up and down to start an armed revolution are barking up the wrong tree. Who says, "if only Martin Luther King had gouged a few peoples' eyes out, he would have done better"?
Here's a private UAV used for intelligence against the violence types. Much more effective than using it to drop a bomb on them. Also, funny how the police seem to assume it must be one of theirs.
Sad day - your comment is the only one that comes up in a browser find for 'Turing' on my default page view and that's because I have my friends scoring +4...
Yeah, thar's yer problem. Just because these things are second nature to us, doesn't mean that non-experts are any good at making these decisions.
I'd like to see the investigation focus on who approved putting a SCADA system directly on the Internet, why, and then see structural changes to ensure that that sort of person can't make those sorts of decisions anymore.
Yeah, all SCADA systems should use ssh-quality authentication, but in the meantime we have millions of units deployed that need to be secured.
Hey, maybe I should market the pfSense firewalls I sell as SCADA secure access controllers...:P
Yes, this. I've installed two OpenMesh networks (and one non-Open Mesh network in a forest that used to be all WiFi but we went partially VDSL).
Running VDSL (or fiber) would be best, but if campfires are going to melt them, then an meshed WiFi is your best bet.
OpenMesh is especially useful because it's "cloud" based - you make an account with them, the AP's all check in with their server to see whose network they belong to, and then they auto-configure everything. Since you're only wintering there, you can hand the keys to the next guy and he doesn't have to know how to connect a laptop to a device to make any of this work.
The meshing is all automatic, so he doesn't have to know how to configure anything anyway. But a handful of extras, pre-register them, and then tell the guy how to look on the dashboard to see if a device has failed, and how to replace it if it has (depends on your enclosures).
Definitely get the "enterprise" model with dual-band and watchdog.
You've never been targeted for arrest, you mean. I think the number somebody worked out was that an average person breaks at least 6 laws a day.
If the news stories keep going the way they are, I suspect that within the year, I will simply migrate over with strong encryption and that will be that.
Do it today - you're much more likely to have your machine stolen by [identity] thieves than the Gestapo anyway.
Unless you run Fedora with systemd, which barfs all over a full LUKS setup at boot time, you should be fine.
Based on the history with tape drives, you also need the spare drive so that you can make sure it is exactly the same as the original (make, model, firmware, etc.). Otherwise, you might end up with boxes and boxes of very light paperweights.
Don't forget about tracking problems that might mean you can only use the same drive.:)
(to be fair, data-recovery people will be able to get the data back for a bazillion dollars)
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It's hard to get a good woman who can cook these days!
Then again, who needs cupcakes, when you can run out here and get a plate of freshly made beignets, and cafe au lait....for a few dollars?
Surprisingly, the ones at the shopping mall are better than the ones in the French Quarter.
So far I have been totally unable to tax my current CPU past 40% utilization.
Oh, you should try Firefox sometime!
Just because AT&T continues to say that the deal would result in investment does make it true. If they were interested in investing in infrastructure and jobs, they would do it.
No, their problem is permitting for cell tower space takes 3-5 years because of FCC delays. AT&T is over-capacity today, and can't wait that long to build out, so they need T-Mobile's towers.
Instead they want to buy T-Mobile, loot whatever is left in their coffers and lay off all of their workers.
No, they want to take their tower space, loot whatever is left in their coffers, and lay off all their workers. This is the only choice the FCC's rules leave them. Not that the FCC could ever change its rules or anything.
When an organization as corrupt as the United States government is coming out against a deal, you can be certain that something is rotten in Denmark.
Yeah, you can bet Verizon Wireless execs are dancing in the streets!
I rule the FCC to not be in the public interest.
PS: While this is tongue-in-cheek sarcasm, I cannot find a flaw with this reasoning.
That's because it's not reasoning.
He was not afforded the rights dictated by the constitution. He was not afforded the rights dictated by the constitution
Those rights are human rights which are protected by the Constitution, not granted by it. US jurisprudence does not recognize the right of a person to contract away human rights (e.g. you can't sell yourself into slavery).
The UCMJ is subordinate to the Constitution, so Manning's constitutional rights still exist. It seems they've been infringed.
No, he's completely right. Windows is still 90%+ of the desktop usage and so is the most interesting target for that reason alone.
Nah, malware authors on Windows actually uninstall or disable each other in a fight for the resources those machines offer. The 10% virgin compute resources (usually without anti-malware software) is an extremely attractive target.
Not always. Some places, especially smaller colleges, treat CS as IT/Software Engineering, when we all know they are very different.
This. I went to a college-style Ivy, so I didn't have to declare a major until sophomore year, so getting in was just a matter of applying early decision.
But... after taking CS there and then talking to a friend who was going (a decade later) to a small school in Boston, I was shocked at what they were teaching for 'computer science'. They got none of the fundamentals, just run-at-the-wall programming.
There were kids having trouble in those classes /because/ they lacked the fundamentals. It wasn't their fault, but I wonder how this group of professors managed to come up with such a hair-brained curriculum (or how they got to be CS professors in the first place). Even in IT, CS fundamentals are essential for proper understanding.
It wasn't a college with a poor reputation, either. There's no reason a community college couldn't have an excellent CS program either - they cost next to nothing to implement (heck, a fundamentals CS program could be taught on anything with an MMU).
I suppose an independent rating system of some sort would be helpful here.
I want a plate reader for my car, using two $50 CMOS sensors with wide angle lenses for fore and aft, and I want it to alert me whenever it detects a government license plate. Seems like these should be available built into high-end RADAR/LiDAR detectors round-about now?
Oh, and let people carry. Nothing says "I'm armed and dangerous" like a Glock 9mm on the hip.
It's only been a couple years since Heller, I doubt you're going to see a statistical outcome for a few more.
But, while open carry is great and all, concealed carry is needed to really deter crime. First, open carry is a reasonable advertisement for theft. Not guaranteed, but a temptation. Second, when you have 5-10% concealed carry, it becomes a reasonable assumption that *everybody* is concealed carrying and will shoot you if you try to rob them. Sort of herd immunity for self-protection.
You can't break the monopoly without passing more regulations
Sure you can - just pass legislation to repeal the existing regulation.
There are real limitations of physics and economics that favor the entrenched player.
Favor, yes, absolutely preclude competition, no. I've been through this trying to get pole access in my Town for a non-profit ISP. Price competition wasn't the issue, it's pure protectionism.
Congress shall make no law prohibiting the access of any person to the internet.
This is the right way to think about it, as a form of negative reciprocity.
"The government may not prevent" rather than "the government shall give X to."
Those 'give X to' ideas (aka 'positive rights') are really dangerous because they necessarily involve taking from person A to give to person B. So, they violate one person's rights to give to another. Taken far enough, you wind up with government-controlled slavery. It's the same problem with the 'universal healthcare' laws.
Although, we never needed amendments for telegraphs, offset printers, telephones, FAX machines, etc., so this one is probably also unneeded. If only the Supreme Court hadn't surrendered to FDR in 1937.
I meant, doesnt AMD need better battery life to be considered by Apple?
I'm typing this on my 13" MSI e350-based laptop. It has the best performance/power ratio I could find.
Too bad the outcome of all this wonderful 'care' is a war economy.
Well, of course it is - we're talking about a governmental system based on a monopoly on violence. So, shocker, they focus on being the best at violence.
That's why these people jumping up and down to start an armed revolution are barking up the wrong tree. Who says, "if only Martin Luther King had gouged a few peoples' eyes out, he would have done better"?
Here's a private UAV used for intelligence against the violence types. Much more effective than using it to drop a bomb on them. Also, funny how the police seem to assume it must be one of theirs.
Sad day - your comment is the only one that comes up in a browser find for 'Turing' on my default page view and that's because I have my friends scoring +4...
Yeah, thar's yer problem. Just because these things are second nature to us, doesn't mean that non-experts are any good at making these decisions.
I'd like to see the investigation focus on who approved putting a SCADA system directly on the Internet, why, and then see structural changes to ensure that that sort of person can't make those sorts of decisions anymore.
Yeah, all SCADA systems should use ssh-quality authentication, but in the meantime we have millions of units deployed that need to be secured.
Hey, maybe I should market the pfSense firewalls I sell as SCADA secure access controllers... :P
Yes, this. I've installed two OpenMesh networks (and one non-Open Mesh network in a forest that used to be all WiFi but we went partially VDSL).
Running VDSL (or fiber) would be best, but if campfires are going to melt them, then an meshed WiFi is your best bet.
OpenMesh is especially useful because it's "cloud" based - you make an account with them, the AP's all check in with their server to see whose network they belong to, and then they auto-configure everything. Since you're only wintering there, you can hand the keys to the next guy and he doesn't have to know how to connect a laptop to a device to make any of this work.
The meshing is all automatic, so he doesn't have to know how to configure anything anyway. But a handful of extras, pre-register them, and then tell the guy how to look on the dashboard to see if a device has failed, and how to replace it if it has (depends on your enclosures).
Definitely get the "enterprise" model with dual-band and watchdog.
I have never done anything to warrant arrest
You've never been targeted for arrest, you mean. I think the number somebody worked out was that an average person breaks at least 6 laws a day.
If the news stories keep going the way they are, I suspect that within the year, I will simply migrate over with strong encryption and that will be that.
Do it today - you're much more likely to have your machine stolen by [identity] thieves than the Gestapo anyway.
Unless you run Fedora with systemd, which barfs all over a full LUKS setup at boot time, you should be fine.
Why do you need redundancy in the BACKUP drives?
So when your office burns down and you're ready to restore from backup and your drive is borked, you're not out of business.
Is that because you are stupid or ignorant?
Stay classy, geekoid.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triclosan#Health_concerns
Now, I will have to deal with GD lawyers and courts. That is in NOBODY best interest.
Your lawyer's boat salesman disagrees.
Based on the history with tape drives, you also need the spare drive so that you can make sure it is exactly the same as the original (make, model, firmware, etc.). Otherwise, you might end up with boxes and boxes of very light paperweights.
Don't forget about tracking problems that might mean you can only use the same drive. :)
(to be fair, data-recovery people will be able to get the data back for a bazillion dollars)
The only reason I can see to have a spare LTO drive would be restore speed
Nah, just basic data security. Scenario:
1) day's worth of data generated
2) LTO drive breaks
3) disaster strikes the next day
(you've just lost a day's data permanently)
If you have a spare on-site, the operator can replace it and restart the back-up.
Do people use 3TB drives for backup?
Yeah, I use the Hitachis (for now, they got bought out...)
I wasn't aware they were considered reliable enough for that yet, but I am not always completely current
I use a mirror (different lot numbers, please) so if any one fails it's still good. I think any mirror is superior to any single drive.
Naturally, every progressive treats government power like violence
flag down - unnecessary use of simile.