Look, if there's a need for cyberwarfare (let's assume the premise) then bring it under the Pentagon and let the NSA get back to purely defensive infrastructure stuff. There should not be a rogue civillian agency making War, if for no other reason than that the real Generals need full situational awareness.
That means better/more efficient distribution and smarter inventorying, and clearly they're not interested... Lowes seems to be able to stock copper parts at $0.15-0.40 a piece, and you can buy a whole range of bolts, screws, and nuts for as little as $0.05 a piece.
Hrm. I was going to argue but you convinced me. +1
If only, with small parts costing 10-100 times as much on Digikey, which is often not even the cheapest US online source.
Uh, yeah, I guess one time Digikey had a 1 cent part and Radio Shack was charging a dollar for it...
Until you figure in shipping, convenience, or maintaining a thousand storefronts instead of a catalog warehouse.
Were you actually implying this is an intelligent comparison? Nobody goes to RadioShack to look for parts to build a new consumer electronics device for their employer.
In related news, Wiktionary has been forced to drop 10% of its words due to storage space limitations...
I'm imagining that "Junior" dictionaries are things distant aunts buy their nieces and nephews whom they don't really know, such that the aunt should really be the target market of the demographic research on word inclusion.
Cute. Meanwhile, if they live under any kind of fascist government regime, they usually have minimum seven-year retention policies on many kinds of data, or risk facing prison sentences.
I know, if she didn't want her emails stolen, she shouldn't have been using such a cute ad-dress.
Many IT departments don't even have enough skill overage to deal with one guy being sick, much less have excess expert capacity.
Back in the 90's I watched a big medical center show the door to the guy who maintained the disaster recovery plan. He was "a cost center and never produced anything that anybody used."
That's about the timeframe when professional IT ended in the general population. Or maybe it's just when the general population got an IT staff.
If you're self-employed, have investment income, or asset depreciation, you probably already do your taxes with a real CPA. If you aren't, you probably should.
This is bad advice for typical small businesses. I once paid a CPA $1200 only to find that he missed all sorts of deductions that Turbotax found.
Hire a pro when it goes beyond the scope of what a computer program can do and hire a computer program when exhaustive rote is called for.
It's not a given that low voter turnout is a problem. We don't need more low-information voters (89% agree that DHMO should be banned) and we don't need to coerce those who do not vote to signal their non-consent to the system.
Blockchain technology could make voting more reliable, but that's a separate issue - don't confuse the two.
There is on the other hand a societal problem of people abusing those who don't or can't conform. It doesn't matter if its the color of your skin or your sexual interests.
Well, of course, that's the whole point - to marginalize the "out group" and in this case, gain political favor by oppressing them.
Article 13: You have the right to move about freely within your country. You also have the right to travel to and from your own country, and to leave any country.
And this has always been interpreted to mean "in the common manner of travel", not that humans must be allowed to crawl from place to place through a forest while dragging a dead ox. So Russia's claim is a clear human rights violation by the standards of International Law (not that it has power) even if they aren't protected by their own laws.
But propaganda is a powerful thing. You should hear the number of Americans who parrot the "driving is a privilege" propaganda that Drivers Ed. courses teach, despite the UDHR and the 5th Amendment to the US Constitution. It's a powerful technique, and even after people have had the logic shown to them, they will still argue for the diminution of their own rights, because to acknowledge them would be to create a moral imperative to action, and that's not entertaining.
I was going to comment on the fact that a large proportion of the poor pay no income taxes
You all need to just stop with this nonsense already. When a poor single mother buys a $2.50 loaf of bread to make her kids sandwiches, 55 cents of that is going to pay the income taxes of the people in the production chain of getting that loaf of bread to the grocery store shelf. The income tax system imposes an effective but hidden retail sales tax-equivalent of 22%, which is incredibly regressive.
until the property tax rate is increased or a levy is passed to cover it, nobody will be paying extra for this:spring breaks: Where will this money come from that pays for everything associated with providing the education? Please don't say "Obama money". And don't say "print it" - that makes her loaf of bread go up in price.
Really? Nobody who attends community college can easily afford for the tuition? You do get that this is in context, we're not limiting ourselves to the Rockefellers here.
I'd rather have an educated society than not. Wouldn't you?
And scholarships can handle that just fine. Why would you not want to give aid to *more* people who need it than giving aid to people who don't need it? You're arguing for a less-educated society by denying scholarships to some poor to pay for the rich.
As usual, it's poor people providing subsidies for the rich.
Scholarships are one thing, but when you give free tuition to everybody, the rich don't pay when they could afford to and the working poor wind up having to pay more taxes to pay for the rich (who were previously paying for the good or service).
But, this is the very purpose of government - to privatize gains and subsidize losses (aka the rich get richer and the poor get poorer), so it's just what one would eventually expect.
Unfortunately, you present not a single shred of evidence, nor do you provide any evidence to counter what the FBI has said.
The FBI hasn't presented any evidence either - they've merely made claims. "State secrets" is their shield and one that has been previously used to hide lies.
It's impossible to prove if any of the actors are telling the truth. Only independent third-party security firms have released any data, so they get the natural edge towards veracity.
FYI, TFS mentioned that they've found Clevo, which is the manufacturer for Sager. And that's about as good as they're going to do without going over four grand. I'm running an NP2740, which is an ideal laptop for me that doesn't have an RTG instead of a battery. As a "desktop replacement" the battery life does suck - full-tilt Linux DE sucks it dry in a little over two hours, but I'm not waiting for a slow laptop, so it's a trade-off worth my time. I'd love 10 hours on it, but that's not the world I have available to live in.
FWIW, sensors says mine has run at max 84C since I've had it on (the most I recall is 90% sustained of all cores). If I need to really push the CPU's to full capacity (i.e. ffmpeg), I usually access the data via ssh on a desktop i7 and run the job there. Good network storage makes that easy on a LAN. For field work, I'm happy to plug in and have a mobile i7 under the keyboard.
your current solution of just using the quick charge still wears out the microUSB port
one of the clever things about MicroUSB is that the wear parts are in the cable, not the port. Most people won't ever use up the 10,000 or so insertions they're rated for.
it wouldn't surprise me if someone at Intel Legal has written up an "AMD/Foundry Contract Opinion.doc" and squirreled it away somewhere.
Or they can take advantage of the situation to acquire nVidia's market position in GPU computing and patent arsenal (to annihilate the trolls - probably not gunning for AMD). Intel wants a viable AMD, to keep DoJ off its back. nVidia is just a market competitor with a manufacturing problem.
The FBI doesnt get to make that decision, A Judge or congress will
Yeah, a FISA judge who believes that metadata doesn't require a warrant, when metadata is itself surveillance, by definition.
Whatever - the sooner we admit to the police state and the smoldering remains of the Constitution, the sooner we can get on with fixing the society. Good experiment, this Natural Rights Republic, now it's time to learn from the results (and conclude that a government to protect rights is a logically inconsistent proposition).
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Look, if there's a need for cyberwarfare (let's assume the premise) then bring it under the Pentagon and let the NSA get back to purely defensive infrastructure stuff. There should not be a rogue civillian agency making War, if for no other reason than that the real Generals need full situational awareness.
That means better/more efficient distribution and smarter inventorying, and clearly they're not interested ... Lowes seems to be able to stock copper parts at $0.15-0.40 a piece, and you can buy a whole range of bolts, screws, and nuts for as little as $0.05 a piece.
Hrm. I was going to argue but you convinced me. +1
If only, with small parts costing 10-100 times as much on Digikey, which is often not even the cheapest US online source.
Uh, yeah, I guess one time Digikey had a 1 cent part and Radio Shack was charging a dollar for it...
Until you figure in shipping, convenience, or maintaining a thousand storefronts instead of a catalog warehouse.
Were you actually implying this is an intelligent comparison? Nobody goes to RadioShack to look for parts to build a new consumer electronics device for their employer.
When did the Iron Curtain between Russia and U.S. went up on the International Space Station?
Don't worry, they had to show their papers at the border. We're still safe from external threats - support your local Congressman.
In related news, Wiktionary has been forced to drop 10% of its words due to storage space limitations...
I'm imagining that "Junior" dictionaries are things distant aunts buy their nieces and nephews whom they don't really know, such that the aunt should really be the target market of the demographic research on word inclusion.
The spectrum should never ever have been sold off. Only licensed and regulated to prevent conflicts.
But the purpose of a government is to privatize profits and socialize risks. Other arrangements don't require violence to back them.
But what's done is done. We all have to live with the consequences of this and many other short-sighted actions.
There's never been a permanent government in the history of the human race.
Cute. Meanwhile, if they live under any kind of fascist government regime, they usually have minimum seven-year retention policies on many kinds of data, or risk facing prison sentences.
I know, if she didn't want her emails stolen, she shouldn't have been using such a cute ad-dress.
Indeed. Humans are returning to the Moon.
That is not a skill set most IT departments have.
Many IT departments don't even have enough skill overage to deal with one guy being sick, much less have excess expert capacity.
Back in the 90's I watched a big medical center show the door to the guy who maintained the disaster recovery plan. He was "a cost center and never produced anything that anybody used."
That's about the timeframe when professional IT ended in the general population. Or maybe it's just when the general population got an IT staff.
If you're self-employed, have investment income, or asset depreciation, you probably already do your taxes with a real CPA. If you aren't, you probably should.
This is bad advice for typical small businesses. I once paid a CPA $1200 only to find that he missed all sorts of deductions that Turbotax found.
Hire a pro when it goes beyond the scope of what a computer program can do and hire a computer program when exhaustive rote is called for.
It's not a given that low voter turnout is a problem. We don't need more low-information voters (89% agree that DHMO should be banned) and we don't need to coerce those who do not vote to signal their non-consent to the system.
Blockchain technology could make voting more reliable, but that's a separate issue - don't confuse the two.
There is on the other hand a societal problem of people abusing those who don't or can't conform. It doesn't matter if its the color of your skin or your sexual interests.
Well, of course, that's the whole point - to marginalize the "out group" and in this case, gain political favor by oppressing them.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights to which Russia is a signatory, says:
And this has always been interpreted to mean "in the common manner of travel", not that humans must be allowed to crawl from place to place through a forest while dragging a dead ox. So Russia's claim is a clear human rights violation by the standards of International Law (not that it has power) even if they aren't protected by their own laws.
But propaganda is a powerful thing. You should hear the number of Americans who parrot the "driving is a privilege" propaganda that Drivers Ed. courses teach, despite the UDHR and the 5th Amendment to the US Constitution. It's a powerful technique, and even after people have had the logic shown to them, they will still argue for the diminution of their own rights, because to acknowledge them would be to create a moral imperative to action, and that's not entertaining.
I was going to comment on the fact that a large proportion of the poor pay no income taxes
You all need to just stop with this nonsense already. When a poor single mother buys a $2.50 loaf of bread to make her kids sandwiches, 55 cents of that is going to pay the income taxes of the people in the production chain of getting that loaf of bread to the grocery store shelf. The income tax system imposes an effective but hidden retail sales tax-equivalent of 22%, which is incredibly regressive.
until the property tax rate is increased or a levy is passed to cover it, nobody will be paying extra for this :spring breaks: Where will this money come from that pays for everything associated with providing the education? Please don't say "Obama money". And don't say "print it" - that makes her loaf of bread go up in price.
Rich aren't going to community college.
Really? Nobody who attends community college can easily afford for the tuition? You do get that this is in context, we're not limiting ourselves to the Rockefellers here.
I'd rather have an educated society than not. Wouldn't you?
And scholarships can handle that just fine. Why would you not want to give aid to *more* people who need it than giving aid to people who don't need it? You're arguing for a less-educated society by denying scholarships to some poor to pay for the rich.
As in somebody else pays for it...
As usual, it's poor people providing subsidies for the rich.
Scholarships are one thing, but when you give free tuition to everybody, the rich don't pay when they could afford to and the working poor wind up having to pay more taxes to pay for the rich (who were previously paying for the good or service).
But, this is the very purpose of government - to privatize gains and subsidize losses (aka the rich get richer and the poor get poorer), so it's just what one would eventually expect.
Unfortunately, you present not a single shred of evidence, nor do you provide any evidence to counter what the FBI has said.
The FBI hasn't presented any evidence either - they've merely made claims. "State secrets" is their shield and one that has been previously used to hide lies.
It's impossible to prove if any of the actors are telling the truth. Only independent third-party security firms have released any data, so they get the natural edge towards veracity.
FYI, TFS mentioned that they've found Clevo, which is the manufacturer for Sager. And that's about as good as they're going to do without going over four grand. I'm running an NP2740, which is an ideal laptop for me that doesn't have an RTG instead of a battery. As a "desktop replacement" the battery life does suck - full-tilt Linux DE sucks it dry in a little over two hours, but I'm not waiting for a slow laptop, so it's a trade-off worth my time. I'd love 10 hours on it, but that's not the world I have available to live in.
FWIW, sensors says mine has run at max 84C since I've had it on (the most I recall is 90% sustained of all cores). If I need to really push the CPU's to full capacity (i.e. ffmpeg), I usually access the data via ssh on a desktop i7 and run the job there. Good network storage makes that easy on a LAN. For field work, I'm happy to plug in and have a mobile i7 under the keyboard.
your current solution of just using the quick charge still wears out the microUSB port
one of the clever things about MicroUSB is that the wear parts are in the cable, not the port. Most people won't ever use up the 10,000 or so insertions they're rated for.
Toss it out the airlock and 3D print a new one!
Give a hoot, don't pollute LEO.
They would simply have altered their plain to obtain the guns and knives and used them against the people on the plane.
It's 200 to 4, and now the 200 (let's be gaming and say only 50) are armed. Tell me again how the TERRISTS take over.
It's like bug spray for bureaucrats.
it wouldn't surprise me if someone at Intel Legal has written up an "AMD/Foundry Contract Opinion.doc" and squirreled it away somewhere.
Or they can take advantage of the situation to acquire nVidia's market position in GPU computing and patent arsenal (to annihilate the trolls - probably not gunning for AMD). Intel wants a viable AMD, to keep DoJ off its back. nVidia is just a market competitor with a manufacturing problem.
The FBI doesnt get to make that decision, A Judge or congress will
Yeah, a FISA judge who believes that metadata doesn't require a warrant, when metadata is itself surveillance, by definition.
Whatever - the sooner we admit to the police state and the smoldering remains of the Constitution, the sooner we can get on with fixing the society. Good experiment, this Natural Rights Republic, now it's time to learn from the results (and conclude that a government to protect rights is a logically inconsistent proposition).
Says the man posting as AC so he doesn't get murdered by Khan's descendants.