Yes Hillary laughed, she was a nervous 27 year old lawyer fresh out of school that had just defended probably one of the worst people in humanity and because the state fucked up she got the guy a significantly reduced sentence. So she laughed about how the lie detector was worthless as a way to cope with the horrible thing that the state and justice system allowed. There is NOTHING unusual about this. Cops and all kinds of people that deal with the worst of all human acts tell awful jokes about it as a way to cope with the horrible shit they are dealing with. Because if you can't try to deal with it you end up insane.
Nothing she did during the trial was abnormal for trials of these kinds at the time. When you judge history by today's standards it makes you a fucking idiot. We used to treat rape suspects like whores in court, that doesn't make it Clinton's responsibility that the courts allowed and even expected that kind of behavior. It was wrong, no one disputes that and the laws have changed to disallow these kinds of defenses but if she'd failed to make motions that were routine at the time she could have been professionally punished for failing to do everything she could for the client she was forced to defend.
During the Bush years (I believe it was the second term) that the US declared their intent that a cyber attack would be viewed as an act of war and could face retaliatory attacks up to and including kinetic responses to such attacks. Now this isn't obviously going to fall under routine script kiddy activity but specifically state sponsored hacking. It's interesting that Obama hasn't responded to the DNC and other hacks as they have been confirmed to be state sponsored attacks, maybe in an effort to draw the line at stuff that actually hurts people. Or more practically that their own hacks through the NSA would draw a similar response.
I'm not sure how I feel about it but I think we need to treat state sponsored hacking as acts of war if for no other reason than it would slow down the actions of the NSA and other state sponsored entities as well because of the repercussions. Responding in kind to these type of hacks would do much to encourage state sponsored entities to stay out of the game as it could quickly get out of hand and move to kinetic attacks. Russia tampering in US elections should be viewed as a threat to our democracy and an act of war deserving of retaliation.
And of course those test bombs were detonated above cities where millions of pounds of wood, steel, concrete, glass and drywall were incinerated and pumped into the upper atmosphere. Oh no they weren't, they were detonated in places with nothing so the test could be monitored and the detonations were spread out over decades at a time rather than 100 occurring in the space of minutes.
The military did the first research on this and it's been a known problem with nuclear weapons since the 80's. Average bomb yield in national inventories is around 500kt, read the wiki article I linked rather than making shit up, it's long and full of well researched data that's been getting better since the first report in the 80's.
I wasn't talking about radiation. It's called Nuclear winter and even 100 bombs of the size in use in national arsenals is enough to drop temperatures 36F for a decade or more. Nothing survives the starvation that follows because no one has food storage that's 20 years long. It's not the radiation of a nuclear war you have to worry about its the starvation that follows it.
Any utility plan requires locating. You simply don't know where you can even put it without the locating. Depending on the utility there are other utilities they can't be next to, Comunication can't be next to power, sewer can't be next to water, gas can't be near power or Communication, etc... Installing utilities is a VERY involved process.
Even with all the safeguard people routinely dig up and cut utilities that they didn't know were there because it wasn't marked right or no one knew it was there. I've stood over holes with half a dozen people looking at a broken utility that no one can identify (turned out to be a pressure air line that was being used to pressurize the telephone lines so water couldn't infiltrate the casing and short the connection).
I know a contractor that made a decision that time was a factor and just started digging a utility in without the engineering, they stopped pretty quick afterwards because they nearly killed someone in the resulting gas explosion.
Gas service lines are plastic, they can be cut and "welded" in seconds. Even high pressure gas lines they weld them with the gas flowing, they just get a heat shield to keep the welder safe from the heat wave. High Pressure gas is difficult and expensive to relocate but low pressure gas service lines are dirt cheap.
Digging in any infrastructure is costly because until you dig the hole you don't know whats underneath. As a lay person you might think everyone knows where their utilities are but the reality is the utility company sometimes can't even tell you what side of the road they are on without digging holes to find it. Digging in utilities is super costly, cutting pavement is super costly (roads cost about 2.5million per lane miles of pavement these days). Engineering all this is costly, you have to locate all the utilities (including digging holes to find them) then you have to design a plan to work around the utilities that are there and then you get to build it with the understanding that there is a 100% chance there is something out there buried that no one even knows about. Things like running into cemeteries people don't even know are there or railroad tracks that everyone thought was removed but was in fact just buried.
No modern military deploys Bombs in the Megaton range. They expend too much destructive force in too small of an area when for the same payload you can load 6 MIRV warheads with a 500kt yield and deployed in a pattern around the target magnifying the destructive boundary 10 fold. The US doesn't have bombs in it's inventory capable of megaton yields and AFAIK neither does Russia or any other nation. The weight to destructive power just isn't there.
The scientific consensus is that the detonation of 100+ airburst nuclear bombs over large cities with a blast size similar to those in the Russian and US nuclear force would push enough debris into the stratosphere to create a nuclear winter that would last somewhere between a decade to 100 years with average summer temperature drops of 36F (20C). A temperature drop of this magnitude would virtually eliminate all human food production worldwide, kill the majority of plants and kill almost all animals bigger than insects. This is just 100 moderately sized bombs, consider the effects if even HALF of the Russian, US, UK, French, Chinese, Indian, Pakistanian and North Korean Nukes go off.
No one wins a nuclear exchange, all there are is losers and the probable extinction of Humanity via starvation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's called wagging the dog and it's a time honored tradition to distract a populous. He's got Russians building atomic bunkers as if anyone could win a nuclear war. Frankly if there ever is a nuclear war I don't want to survive it because it's the people that survive the initial blasts that are really going to suffer as a nuclear winter and starvation kills probably all of humanity and 99% of all life bigger than a cockroach.
As another poster already pointed out that "zillion-jewel-fiddly-mechanical-movement" watch isn't just cool, it's likely appreciated in value. Those luxury watches are all very valuable decades down the line even though they are used.
You aren't going to get that with an Apple or Android watch, it's going to be abandoned by the manufacturer in less than 5 years and the battery probably won't last 2 and most of them have batteries that are near impossible to replace, to the point where it's cheaper to buy a new one than replace the battery. In such a scenario why would anyone spend money on a watch that satisfies the Jewelry aspect if it's worthless in 2 years? The reality is, that other than early adopters you don't get those other purchasers and the market levels off and dies.
Yes, you're in a similar market as me but I also like the Jewelry aspect as well. My primary watch is a Citizen EcoDrive that never needs a battery change and has a perpetual calendar. My last one was still going strong after 10 years when I replaced it due to scratches. I've also got a watch that doesn't scream cheap that satisfies the jewelry aspect (though cheaply).
Although I said it poorly watch wearers fall into two categories, those that just want the time and those that want the Jewelry. Smart watches try to create a third category that want additional functionality but ignores those first two categories. It's created sales but has very limited market pull because it completely ignores the other two categories of watch wearers. Smart watches have a future, but the current versions aren't worth it and as long as the OEM's don't abandon the market their functionality and battery life should grow and the jewelry vendors will bring out versions that satisfy that crowd.
Anyone that knows anything about watches could have saw this coming. There is a potential here if they can get a watch that does what a watch does now with additional functionality but they've got to get something else right and that's battery life. Watches are JEWELRY first and time pieces second. Most people who don't care for the time keeping abilities don't even wear one anymore because cell phones have clocks now. Apple tried really hard to get the Jewelry side right but IMO failed miserably. This is a fit and finish game with high end precious metals comprising the composition, often with gemstones.
None of the smartwatches satisfy the Jewelry aspect of time pieces. Taking that into consideration and the fact they have atrocious battery life, offer almost no convenience that their phone doesn't already provide and you've got a product that will sell a few as a status thing and rapidly implode as the main market avoids it. There is a future for these things but it's going to be a niche market until they solve the serious limitations in both functionality and battery life.
They couldn't force you with out the lead pipes and rubber hoses, fortunately those aren't allowed in the US yet. What you do in a situation like this is refuse to comply, force them to arrest you and spend the night in jail so you can call the ACLU and get the warrant tossed.
See they get away with it because no one refused to comply. Once everyone in the building complies there is no effective way to sue them and set a precedent that will stop this happening again. When they arrest you they move the warrant to the next stage and you now have grounds to sue them over the warrant that you don't have if you comply.
Sometimes standing up to illegal orders is hard, including being arrested hard. Know your rights and refuse illegal orders like this (yes I recognize the warrant was technically legal because it hadn't been challenged). Then use the arrest to go after them and make sure it never happens again.
I doubt it's national security, it's most likely a drug case. Other crimes just don't pay the cops as well as drug crimes. This won't change until civil forfeiture goes away.
All good rocket fuels, particularly monopropellents are explosive under the right conditions and the right conditions is slamming into the ground at 186km/hr which will generate enough kinetic energy transfer to ignite the entire tank at once, often called explosions.
Arguing a federal judge cannot fairly adjudicate a case before him because of his ethnicity is the very definition of racism. The textbook definition mind you of what Racism is.
From all the press reports I've read this guy took classified information home simply because he was working from home. There is no evidence he ever intended to release any of the information nor that he intended to do anything with it other than his job. The government wants to make an example out of him because of Snowden but by all appearances the guy was just incompetent at his job by doing stuff he shouldn't have done.
He should be punished for what he did as it exposed the country to great risk with over a terabyte of classified data at his house but there's no evidence he ever spied or intended to and we shouldn't roast this guy just because the government can't get the guy they are really angry with (snowden). The government's admitted in previous statements that they believe the guy had no nefarious intent and was simply incompetent.
Had you read the article you would know your example do not apply. This law has no effect on rentals where the owner is present. Your live in boyfriend is not affected because you are present.
What the city is trying to stop is people buying up condo's and apartments, particularly rent controlled ones and then renting them out commercially like a hotel. They are basically gypsy hotels that aren't complying with any of the hotel regulations that exist to protect people and level the playing field.
It doesn't need fair use on copyright because Samsung doesn't have a copyright on this at all. Samsung MIGHT be able to claim a trademark violation (which this is clearly fair use), but the DMCA can't be used for trademarks. Unless Samsung can show this mod uses code samsung wrote there is NO copyright claim here and a blatant misuse of the DMCA.
Its a good thing you posted AC because you are a fucking idiot.
The DMCA was design to protect the host seving the data while allowing copyright holders to identify the person that posted the material so they can be sued. Its a process whereby the copyright owner sends the host a takedown notice and the host removes the data. The poster can then respond to the host claiming the initial claim is in error and provide all their contact info. The host is now free to repost the material without any liability, the copyright holder now has the contact information of the poster and can sue properly to obtain a real legal injunction.
Thats the steps, not some ridiculous multi step take down, repost, take down 20 times made up process you pulled out your ass.
Your arguing a per-programmed landing sequence with known physics is worse than a live astronaut controlling the landing when the time from initial problem to dead is literally 2-6 seconds. Most Humans couldn't even perceive the problem, develop a solution and react in that time frame.
Landing on Mars is hard, you've got a gravity well that's about 8/10ths of the Earth with about 1/100th the atmosphere to slow you down. Terminal velocity is VERY fast and the timeframe to react and burn for a slowdown is seconds where it's minutes on earth. This is the reason out of like 6 probes sent to mars only 3 have actually survived the landing.
USB-A is going to be around for a LONG time, particularly given all the peripherals that still use A. It's is beyond premature to remove it from a laptop, hell it will probably still be premature in 5 years. USB-A is the only USB connector that's valid all the way from USB 1.1 to USB 3.1. It's not like they are space constrained on a laptop. This idea that there should be only one port on a laptop is just fucking stupid. It literally costs pennies to add 3 or 4 ports to a laptop as the support is already built into the motherboards and CPU and no additional chips are needed, only the USB header and traces (which are probably already there).
Every single laptop should come with at least 2 USB-C and 2 USB-A ports that fully support every USB version from 1.1 to 3.1 so you don't need a fucking USB hub to use your laptop.
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Yes Hillary laughed, she was a nervous 27 year old lawyer fresh out of school that had just defended probably one of the worst people in humanity and because the state fucked up she got the guy a significantly reduced sentence. So she laughed about how the lie detector was worthless as a way to cope with the horrible thing that the state and justice system allowed. There is NOTHING unusual about this. Cops and all kinds of people that deal with the worst of all human acts tell awful jokes about it as a way to cope with the horrible shit they are dealing with. Because if you can't try to deal with it you end up insane.
Nothing she did during the trial was abnormal for trials of these kinds at the time. When you judge history by today's standards it makes you a fucking idiot. We used to treat rape suspects like whores in court, that doesn't make it Clinton's responsibility that the courts allowed and even expected that kind of behavior. It was wrong, no one disputes that and the laws have changed to disallow these kinds of defenses but if she'd failed to make motions that were routine at the time she could have been professionally punished for failing to do everything she could for the client she was forced to defend.
Stop judging history through today's lens.
During the Bush years (I believe it was the second term) that the US declared their intent that a cyber attack would be viewed as an act of war and could face retaliatory attacks up to and including kinetic responses to such attacks. Now this isn't obviously going to fall under routine script kiddy activity but specifically state sponsored hacking. It's interesting that Obama hasn't responded to the DNC and other hacks as they have been confirmed to be state sponsored attacks, maybe in an effort to draw the line at stuff that actually hurts people. Or more practically that their own hacks through the NSA would draw a similar response.
I'm not sure how I feel about it but I think we need to treat state sponsored hacking as acts of war if for no other reason than it would slow down the actions of the NSA and other state sponsored entities as well because of the repercussions. Responding in kind to these type of hacks would do much to encourage state sponsored entities to stay out of the game as it could quickly get out of hand and move to kinetic attacks. Russia tampering in US elections should be viewed as a threat to our democracy and an act of war deserving of retaliation.
And of course those test bombs were detonated above cities where millions of pounds of wood, steel, concrete, glass and drywall were incinerated and pumped into the upper atmosphere. Oh no they weren't, they were detonated in places with nothing so the test could be monitored and the detonations were spread out over decades at a time rather than 100 occurring in the space of minutes.
The military did the first research on this and it's been a known problem with nuclear weapons since the 80's. Average bomb yield in national inventories is around 500kt, read the wiki article I linked rather than making shit up, it's long and full of well researched data that's been getting better since the first report in the 80's.
I wasn't talking about radiation. It's called Nuclear winter and even 100 bombs of the size in use in national arsenals is enough to drop temperatures 36F for a decade or more. Nothing survives the starvation that follows because no one has food storage that's 20 years long. It's not the radiation of a nuclear war you have to worry about its the starvation that follows it.
Any utility plan requires locating. You simply don't know where you can even put it without the locating. Depending on the utility there are other utilities they can't be next to, Comunication can't be next to power, sewer can't be next to water, gas can't be near power or Communication, etc... Installing utilities is a VERY involved process.
Even with all the safeguard people routinely dig up and cut utilities that they didn't know were there because it wasn't marked right or no one knew it was there. I've stood over holes with half a dozen people looking at a broken utility that no one can identify (turned out to be a pressure air line that was being used to pressurize the telephone lines so water couldn't infiltrate the casing and short the connection).
I know a contractor that made a decision that time was a factor and just started digging a utility in without the engineering, they stopped pretty quick afterwards because they nearly killed someone in the resulting gas explosion.
Gas service lines are plastic, they can be cut and "welded" in seconds. Even high pressure gas lines they weld them with the gas flowing, they just get a heat shield to keep the welder safe from the heat wave. High Pressure gas is difficult and expensive to relocate but low pressure gas service lines are dirt cheap.
Digging in any infrastructure is costly because until you dig the hole you don't know whats underneath. As a lay person you might think everyone knows where their utilities are but the reality is the utility company sometimes can't even tell you what side of the road they are on without digging holes to find it. Digging in utilities is super costly, cutting pavement is super costly (roads cost about 2.5million per lane miles of pavement these days). Engineering all this is costly, you have to locate all the utilities (including digging holes to find them) then you have to design a plan to work around the utilities that are there and then you get to build it with the understanding that there is a 100% chance there is something out there buried that no one even knows about. Things like running into cemeteries people don't even know are there or railroad tracks that everyone thought was removed but was in fact just buried.
No modern military deploys Bombs in the Megaton range. They expend too much destructive force in too small of an area when for the same payload you can load 6 MIRV warheads with a 500kt yield and deployed in a pattern around the target magnifying the destructive boundary 10 fold. The US doesn't have bombs in it's inventory capable of megaton yields and AFAIK neither does Russia or any other nation. The weight to destructive power just isn't there.
The scientific consensus is that the detonation of 100+ airburst nuclear bombs over large cities with a blast size similar to those in the Russian and US nuclear force would push enough debris into the stratosphere to create a nuclear winter that would last somewhere between a decade to 100 years with average summer temperature drops of 36F (20C). A temperature drop of this magnitude would virtually eliminate all human food production worldwide, kill the majority of plants and kill almost all animals bigger than insects. This is just 100 moderately sized bombs, consider the effects if even HALF of the Russian, US, UK, French, Chinese, Indian, Pakistanian and North Korean Nukes go off.
No one wins a nuclear exchange, all there are is losers and the probable extinction of Humanity via starvation. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
It's called wagging the dog and it's a time honored tradition to distract a populous. He's got Russians building atomic bunkers as if anyone could win a nuclear war. Frankly if there ever is a nuclear war I don't want to survive it because it's the people that survive the initial blasts that are really going to suffer as a nuclear winter and starvation kills probably all of humanity and 99% of all life bigger than a cockroach.
Only problem is it can not penetrate walls making it essentially line of sight.
As another poster already pointed out that "zillion-jewel-fiddly-mechanical-movement" watch isn't just cool, it's likely appreciated in value. Those luxury watches are all very valuable decades down the line even though they are used.
You aren't going to get that with an Apple or Android watch, it's going to be abandoned by the manufacturer in less than 5 years and the battery probably won't last 2 and most of them have batteries that are near impossible to replace, to the point where it's cheaper to buy a new one than replace the battery. In such a scenario why would anyone spend money on a watch that satisfies the Jewelry aspect if it's worthless in 2 years? The reality is, that other than early adopters you don't get those other purchasers and the market levels off and dies.
Yes, you're in a similar market as me but I also like the Jewelry aspect as well. My primary watch is a Citizen EcoDrive that never needs a battery change and has a perpetual calendar. My last one was still going strong after 10 years when I replaced it due to scratches. I've also got a watch that doesn't scream cheap that satisfies the jewelry aspect (though cheaply).
Although I said it poorly watch wearers fall into two categories, those that just want the time and those that want the Jewelry. Smart watches try to create a third category that want additional functionality but ignores those first two categories. It's created sales but has very limited market pull because it completely ignores the other two categories of watch wearers. Smart watches have a future, but the current versions aren't worth it and as long as the OEM's don't abandon the market their functionality and battery life should grow and the jewelry vendors will bring out versions that satisfy that crowd.
Anyone that knows anything about watches could have saw this coming. There is a potential here if they can get a watch that does what a watch does now with additional functionality but they've got to get something else right and that's battery life. Watches are JEWELRY first and time pieces second. Most people who don't care for the time keeping abilities don't even wear one anymore because cell phones have clocks now. Apple tried really hard to get the Jewelry side right but IMO failed miserably. This is a fit and finish game with high end precious metals comprising the composition, often with gemstones.
None of the smartwatches satisfy the Jewelry aspect of time pieces. Taking that into consideration and the fact they have atrocious battery life, offer almost no convenience that their phone doesn't already provide and you've got a product that will sell a few as a status thing and rapidly implode as the main market avoids it. There is a future for these things but it's going to be a niche market until they solve the serious limitations in both functionality and battery life.
They couldn't force you with out the lead pipes and rubber hoses, fortunately those aren't allowed in the US yet. What you do in a situation like this is refuse to comply, force them to arrest you and spend the night in jail so you can call the ACLU and get the warrant tossed.
See they get away with it because no one refused to comply. Once everyone in the building complies there is no effective way to sue them and set a precedent that will stop this happening again. When they arrest you they move the warrant to the next stage and you now have grounds to sue them over the warrant that you don't have if you comply.
Sometimes standing up to illegal orders is hard, including being arrested hard. Know your rights and refuse illegal orders like this (yes I recognize the warrant was technically legal because it hadn't been challenged). Then use the arrest to go after them and make sure it never happens again.
I doubt it's national security, it's most likely a drug case. Other crimes just don't pay the cops as well as drug crimes. This won't change until civil forfeiture goes away.
All good rocket fuels, particularly monopropellents are explosive under the right conditions and the right conditions is slamming into the ground at 186km/hr which will generate enough kinetic energy transfer to ignite the entire tank at once, often called explosions.
Arguing a federal judge cannot fairly adjudicate a case before him because of his ethnicity is the very definition of racism. The textbook definition mind you of what Racism is.
From all the press reports I've read this guy took classified information home simply because he was working from home. There is no evidence he ever intended to release any of the information nor that he intended to do anything with it other than his job. The government wants to make an example out of him because of Snowden but by all appearances the guy was just incompetent at his job by doing stuff he shouldn't have done.
He should be punished for what he did as it exposed the country to great risk with over a terabyte of classified data at his house but there's no evidence he ever spied or intended to and we shouldn't roast this guy just because the government can't get the guy they are really angry with (snowden). The government's admitted in previous statements that they believe the guy had no nefarious intent and was simply incompetent.
Had you read the article you would know your example do not apply. This law has no effect on rentals where the owner is present. Your live in boyfriend is not affected because you are present.
What the city is trying to stop is people buying up condo's and apartments, particularly rent controlled ones and then renting them out commercially like a hotel. They are basically gypsy hotels that aren't complying with any of the hotel regulations that exist to protect people and level the playing field.
It doesn't need fair use on copyright because Samsung doesn't have a copyright on this at all. Samsung MIGHT be able to claim a trademark violation (which this is clearly fair use), but the DMCA can't be used for trademarks. Unless Samsung can show this mod uses code samsung wrote there is NO copyright claim here and a blatant misuse of the DMCA.
Its a good thing you posted AC because you are a fucking idiot.
The DMCA was design to protect the host seving the data while allowing copyright holders to identify the person that posted the material so they can be sued. Its a process whereby the copyright owner sends the host a takedown notice and the host removes the data. The poster can then respond to the host claiming the initial claim is in error and provide all their contact info. The host is now free to repost the material without any liability, the copyright holder now has the contact information of the poster and can sue properly to obtain a real legal injunction.
Thats the steps, not some ridiculous multi step take down, repost, take down 20 times made up process you pulled out your ass.
Your arguing a per-programmed landing sequence with known physics is worse than a live astronaut controlling the landing when the time from initial problem to dead is literally 2-6 seconds. Most Humans couldn't even perceive the problem, develop a solution and react in that time frame.
Landing on Mars is hard, you've got a gravity well that's about 8/10ths of the Earth with about 1/100th the atmosphere to slow you down. Terminal velocity is VERY fast and the timeframe to react and burn for a slowdown is seconds where it's minutes on earth. This is the reason out of like 6 probes sent to mars only 3 have actually survived the landing.
If you have to ask you don't understand it.
Ah but the Putin State paid hackers (Fancy Bear) weren't unleashed on the Trump organization.
USB-A is going to be around for a LONG time, particularly given all the peripherals that still use A. It's is beyond premature to remove it from a laptop, hell it will probably still be premature in 5 years. USB-A is the only USB connector that's valid all the way from USB 1.1 to USB 3.1. It's not like they are space constrained on a laptop. This idea that there should be only one port on a laptop is just fucking stupid. It literally costs pennies to add 3 or 4 ports to a laptop as the support is already built into the motherboards and CPU and no additional chips are needed, only the USB header and traces (which are probably already there).
Every single laptop should come with at least 2 USB-C and 2 USB-A ports that fully support every USB version from 1.1 to 3.1 so you don't need a fucking USB hub to use your laptop.