What your talking about is propaganda. You must be young to not realize how effective good propaganda actually is. Our society is filled with good propaganda right now and social media is simply one of those tools.
ZTE's sales are 95% in the US, they won't be able to sell in the US for 7 years. This is a corporate death sentence and it's well deserved based on what they did.
And there is a simple solution to these problems of private data collection.
Make it illegal to collect like Europe did, then these companies can't collect this data and sell it. We need a privacy law in this country, not just for government but everyone. It should not be legal to gather all this personal information about people. And claiming there are others like Lexus-Nexis doing the same thing doesn't mean it's right.
I personally consider this data collection a deep threat to not only the country (these corp's sell the data for foreign nations) but to democracy as well.
We need to add a constitutional amendment on privacy. The founders had no idea what was coming technologically speaking. Facebook and others have created the technology to truly implement the government of the book 1984 and that should scare the dickens out of everyone.
At least in the US none of that matters. What matters is that he accessed that computer without the direct permission of the owner. That's how the CFAA works in the US and I imagine the Canadian version is similar.
Nothing matters except if the owner (government) knowingly approved of him receiving the documents and if he doesn't have it in writing it's whatever they say after the fact.
The CFAA is so broad as to be virtually impossible not to breach.
Yes everyone with a brain knew that and also knew it would have had little impact on the US economy but that it's purpose was to bond all those asian nations to the US economy rather than make them client states of China.
But there's a lot of people that just heard free trade and didn't want it because they KNEW free trade was bad bad bad. These people don't care about facts or logical arguments, they just didn't want free trade and Trump promised them he was against free trade.
Now we see someone has apparently explained what the purpose of the TPP actually was and he's apparently decided it was a good idea. Like all things he'll probably waffle a few more times then betray his constituents and take a position identical to Obama just like he has on every other international issue he's dealt with.
Remember the whole "I won't tell the enemy what we're doing in Syria" statement? yea it and all the others he's followed right exactly in the footsteps of what Obama. It would be funny if it wasn't so SAD!
Where in hell do you get your numbers? US Gas station's receive anywhere from $0.06 to $0.10 per gallon above what they paid for the gas which is barely enough to cover their costs and maintenance. Almost all gas station profits come from the convenience store side.
Now there are a few exceptions where states mandate higher profit margins and hence higher total margins for the station but the vast majority are making pennies per gallon which goes immediately to cover their costs.
Mountains (there is nearly 500 of elevation difference between my home and work and it's not a straight grade, its the equivalent of up and down that 500 probably 3 times).
Snow (There is snow on the road during the winter here and it would be suicide to be on a bike during such times).
Professional dress is required and work doesn't have facilities to clean up after a sweat inducing ride.
Your assumptions are dubious. Electricity is about 1/4 the cost of gasoline per mile right now and gas prices will increase, on top of that electric prices are in decline right now because of renewable energy.
I'd wager that as soon as electric cars hit a certain price, somewhere around $25K, that a lot of older gas cars will get pulled off the road and electric sales will spike. On top of that I expect significantly longer life from electric cars because they don't have the mechanical systems that wear out that gas cars do which will also encourage people to switch.
Imagine for a moment never needing another oil change or any of the other routine maintenance items on a gasoline car. Imagine never needing to stop for gas again because you plug your car in at night when you get home.
You don't understand what you are talking about. This isn't civil forfeiture, this is direct criminal forfeiture where the assets will have to be returned if the fed's get a conviction.
Civil forfeiture uses the civil courts and the person holding the property doesn't even have standing in the case to challenge the seizure and there are only a handful of states that require a criminal conviction in civil forfeiture.
This case is a big fuck you to the first amendment. Yea their business model involved allowing a site where prostitutes could advertise their services. But that's called free speech, either we have it or don't. To try to force on them the charges for people posting on the site is a broad overreach and attempt to punish a website owner for the actions and speech of others.
I hope to god these guys can afford good lawyers and get this case thrown out for the broad overreach that it is. Talk about a political prosecution, congress punched a hole in the law to target these guys, a hole that's going to be used to go after a hell of a lot more site operators.
Everyone should be shocked by what the Trump administration and Congress is doing here.
Hah, Most enterprises are using computers for a minimum of 5 years now because the hardware isn't improving at a fast enough rate. As an example, Anandtech recommended that with the most recent Kaby Lake processors it was finally worth it to replace Sandy Bridge processors as KL finally represented a 20 percent increase in performance over SB. KL and SB are more than 10 year apart (KL is generation 8 Core Microarchitecture, and SB is generation 2 Core Microarchitecture) that means it took 6 revisions before there was a 20% difference in performance.
CPU performance growth has drastically slowed since about 2008, you'd have to be crazy to replace a PC before 5 years at this point because there is literally no benefit to doing so.
It's too late, they already initiated the withdrawal. It happens now regardless. The only thing left to do is negotiate some type of trade agreement if possible.
To get back into the EU the UK would have to make some major concessions, including adopting the EU currency. I'd imagine the rest of the EU would extract a pretty penny from the UK to be let back in and they'd always be a second class member afterwards unlike the first class founding member they were before leaving.
No, Brexit is happening, there's no turning back and it's going to hurt the UK far more than the Brexit campaigners claimed. The UK is likely to lose half their banking industry to this.
Netflix and all the up and coming digital providers of content will face this same backlash from the existing community of studio executives and producers. They are all in bed with the theater owners so it's not a movie if it's shown outside the theater to try to disregard the new content medium.
In the end they will fail and the new big players will be the distributors and that scares the daylights out of all these old school guards that have made millions skimming the existing system by screwing over the theater owners. Ultimately they awards will enter the modern age or they will be supplanted by new awards that recognize the new market. I concur with previous posters that suggested netflix, amazon and others work together to create those new award shows and drive that old guard into the grave.
There has been no push to kick Migrant Farm workers out, it's a legitimate visa and they have a huge quota that can't come close to being filled. That wasn't always true. The problem is that because of NAFTA it's actually better wages for those Migrant Farm workers to stay in Mexico doing the same work for the same wage where the cost of living is 1/10th what is here. Then the produce is exported north.
That's the problem California vegetable and fruit farmers face, no workforce to pick the crops because those workers would rather stay in Mexico. This is the opposite of what you suggest.
By allowing foreign agents to advertise, post or create fake news about election related material Facebook has broken the laws about foreign interference in elections.
They should be prosecuted, maybe if Zuckerberg spent a month in jail he'd decide to take it seriously and stop it.
Service jobs require providing services to people, whether that's a burger or fixing their plumbing. This all requires human interaction and that robot is never going to take over that job.
This is what's so silly about the whole argument that raising the minimum wage will eliminate jobs, the vast majority of minimum wage jobs that still exist are service jobs and very few of those can be replaced by a robot without people simply getting fed up with the robot and going to the store or business without a robot.
Except of course all the experts in audio, ultrasound and RF say such a weapon is impossible to build. What the US state department described was a sound weapon that couldn't be heard, destroyed hearing and affected peoples minds and was targeted as specific people. Sound, ultrasound and RF cannot be controlled in a manner like that or cause those symptoms and that kind of distance.
The state department cooked up a fanciful weapon to describe these events but everyone that was an expert said it was impossible. What happened here was likely far more mundane.
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What your talking about is propaganda. You must be young to not realize how effective good propaganda actually is. Our society is filled with good propaganda right now and social media is simply one of those tools.
ZTE's sales are 95% in the US, they won't be able to sell in the US for 7 years. This is a corporate death sentence and it's well deserved based on what they did.
Tax Cut and Spend all the Way!!!! GOP 2018!
Yes they should but they won't because they are going to scapegoat the guy that downloaded what was offered publicly.
All FOIA request SHOULD be public and freely downloadable by anyone else that wants that same data.
And there is a simple solution to these problems of private data collection.
Make it illegal to collect like Europe did, then these companies can't collect this data and sell it. We need a privacy law in this country, not just for government but everyone. It should not be legal to gather all this personal information about people. And claiming there are others like Lexus-Nexis doing the same thing doesn't mean it's right.
I personally consider this data collection a deep threat to not only the country (these corp's sell the data for foreign nations) but to democracy as well.
We need to add a constitutional amendment on privacy. The founders had no idea what was coming technologically speaking. Facebook and others have created the technology to truly implement the government of the book 1984 and that should scare the dickens out of everyone.
At least in the US none of that matters. What matters is that he accessed that computer without the direct permission of the owner. That's how the CFAA works in the US and I imagine the Canadian version is similar.
Nothing matters except if the owner (government) knowingly approved of him receiving the documents and if he doesn't have it in writing it's whatever they say after the fact.
The CFAA is so broad as to be virtually impossible not to breach.
Prefunding 75 years out is prefunding for employees that haven't been born yet.
Let that sink in.
Yes everyone with a brain knew that and also knew it would have had little impact on the US economy but that it's purpose was to bond all those asian nations to the US economy rather than make them client states of China.
But there's a lot of people that just heard free trade and didn't want it because they KNEW free trade was bad bad bad. These people don't care about facts or logical arguments, they just didn't want free trade and Trump promised them he was against free trade.
Now we see someone has apparently explained what the purpose of the TPP actually was and he's apparently decided it was a good idea. Like all things he'll probably waffle a few more times then betray his constituents and take a position identical to Obama just like he has on every other international issue he's dealt with.
Remember the whole "I won't tell the enemy what we're doing in Syria" statement? yea it and all the others he's followed right exactly in the footsteps of what Obama. It would be funny if it wasn't so SAD!
The FTC can't act against John Deere, Congress directly protected their scam by making it exempt to Mangunson.
Every time you log in to your FTP server remotely you pass your login credentials in the clear. FTP is ancient and unsecure and should be abandoned.
Where in hell do you get your numbers? US Gas station's receive anywhere from $0.06 to $0.10 per gallon above what they paid for the gas which is barely enough to cover their costs and maintenance. Almost all gas station profits come from the convenience store side.
Now there are a few exceptions where states mandate higher profit margins and hence higher total margins for the station but the vast majority are making pennies per gallon which goes immediately to cover their costs.
Some people live where there are:
Mountains (there is nearly 500 of elevation difference between my home and work and it's not a straight grade, its the equivalent of up and down that 500 probably 3 times).
Snow (There is snow on the road during the winter here and it would be suicide to be on a bike during such times).
Professional dress is required and work doesn't have facilities to clean up after a sweat inducing ride.
Your assumptions are dubious. Electricity is about 1/4 the cost of gasoline per mile right now and gas prices will increase, on top of that electric prices are in decline right now because of renewable energy.
I'd wager that as soon as electric cars hit a certain price, somewhere around $25K, that a lot of older gas cars will get pulled off the road and electric sales will spike. On top of that I expect significantly longer life from electric cars because they don't have the mechanical systems that wear out that gas cars do which will also encourage people to switch.
Imagine for a moment never needing another oil change or any of the other routine maintenance items on a gasoline car. Imagine never needing to stop for gas again because you plug your car in at night when you get home.
You don't understand what you are talking about. This isn't civil forfeiture, this is direct criminal forfeiture where the assets will have to be returned if the fed's get a conviction.
Civil forfeiture uses the civil courts and the person holding the property doesn't even have standing in the case to challenge the seizure and there are only a handful of states that require a criminal conviction in civil forfeiture.
This case is a big fuck you to the first amendment. Yea their business model involved allowing a site where prostitutes could advertise their services. But that's called free speech, either we have it or don't. To try to force on them the charges for people posting on the site is a broad overreach and attempt to punish a website owner for the actions and speech of others.
I hope to god these guys can afford good lawyers and get this case thrown out for the broad overreach that it is. Talk about a political prosecution, congress punched a hole in the law to target these guys, a hole that's going to be used to go after a hell of a lot more site operators.
Everyone should be shocked by what the Trump administration and Congress is doing here.
Soros isn't getting involved, a Fund he set up a long time ago is. I doubt he has $0.10 in that fund today.
Hah, Most enterprises are using computers for a minimum of 5 years now because the hardware isn't improving at a fast enough rate. As an example, Anandtech recommended that with the most recent Kaby Lake processors it was finally worth it to replace Sandy Bridge processors as KL finally represented a 20 percent increase in performance over SB. KL and SB are more than 10 year apart (KL is generation 8 Core Microarchitecture, and SB is generation 2 Core Microarchitecture) that means it took 6 revisions before there was a 20% difference in performance.
CPU performance growth has drastically slowed since about 2008, you'd have to be crazy to replace a PC before 5 years at this point because there is literally no benefit to doing so.
It's too late, they already initiated the withdrawal. It happens now regardless. The only thing left to do is negotiate some type of trade agreement if possible.
To get back into the EU the UK would have to make some major concessions, including adopting the EU currency. I'd imagine the rest of the EU would extract a pretty penny from the UK to be let back in and they'd always be a second class member afterwards unlike the first class founding member they were before leaving.
No, Brexit is happening, there's no turning back and it's going to hurt the UK far more than the Brexit campaigners claimed. The UK is likely to lose half their banking industry to this.
Netflix and all the up and coming digital providers of content will face this same backlash from the existing community of studio executives and producers. They are all in bed with the theater owners so it's not a movie if it's shown outside the theater to try to disregard the new content medium.
In the end they will fail and the new big players will be the distributors and that scares the daylights out of all these old school guards that have made millions skimming the existing system by screwing over the theater owners. Ultimately they awards will enter the modern age or they will be supplanted by new awards that recognize the new market. I concur with previous posters that suggested netflix, amazon and others work together to create those new award shows and drive that old guard into the grave.
There has been no push to kick Migrant Farm workers out, it's a legitimate visa and they have a huge quota that can't come close to being filled. That wasn't always true. The problem is that because of NAFTA it's actually better wages for those Migrant Farm workers to stay in Mexico doing the same work for the same wage where the cost of living is 1/10th what is here. Then the produce is exported north.
That's the problem California vegetable and fruit farmers face, no workforce to pick the crops because those workers would rather stay in Mexico. This is the opposite of what you suggest.
By allowing foreign agents to advertise, post or create fake news about election related material Facebook has broken the laws about foreign interference in elections.
They should be prosecuted, maybe if Zuckerberg spent a month in jail he'd decide to take it seriously and stop it.
They backported all the spyware to Windows 7 a year ago. Where have you been?
No windows OS is safe at this point if you don't want Microsoft monitoring you.
Service jobs require providing services to people, whether that's a burger or fixing their plumbing. This all requires human interaction and that robot is never going to take over that job.
This is what's so silly about the whole argument that raising the minimum wage will eliminate jobs, the vast majority of minimum wage jobs that still exist are service jobs and very few of those can be replaced by a robot without people simply getting fed up with the robot and going to the store or business without a robot.
Except of course all the experts in audio, ultrasound and RF say such a weapon is impossible to build. What the US state department described was a sound weapon that couldn't be heard, destroyed hearing and affected peoples minds and was targeted as specific people. Sound, ultrasound and RF cannot be controlled in a manner like that or cause those symptoms and that kind of distance.
The state department cooked up a fanciful weapon to describe these events but everyone that was an expert said it was impossible. What happened here was likely far more mundane.