You forgot the part where you write Intel a big fat check to use the feature. Intel charges big bucks for vPro software and these features are part of vPro and you can't enable them without the vPro software. IIRC it's all tied to a digital signature that Intel controls and you can't even look at it without giving Intel money.
Intel is making a pretty chunk of change on their enterprise management software that uses features built into their CPU's which are normally disabled. Intel is going to keep building more and more enterprise big brother abilities into their hardware and charging big money for the software to use it. It's proved a rather lucrative addition to their hardware business.
Nice bullshit slam on the ACLU. The ACLU is one of the few groups that's been fighting civil forfeiture since Reagan signed the Comprehensive Crime Control Act in 1984 making it legal and the supreme court approved it's constitutionality.
Civil forfeiture has been upheld by the supreme court. Civil forfeiture under federal law is perfectly legal and will remain so until this early 80's decision is either reversed by the supreme court or congress acts to remove the power from law enforcement.
Justice allows local law enforcement to proceed in civil forfeiture even when their own state law doesn't by allowing them to claim the seized assets are proceeds of drug crime illegal under federal law which makes the forfeiture an action taken under federal authority.
People do have a voice. The problem is that the people with the time and desire to influence the system are all bat-shit crazy. We could do much to fix this country with just a few minor changes.
The first would be to move election day to a Saturday and make it a national holiday which would allow much more of the working poor to vote. You'd also have to make universal early by mail voting standard across the nation to make sure you get the infirm and disabled a voice.
The second would be to alter the electoral system to be a ranking based vote. This, like the European system would allow for more parties and more selection.
The third would be to return the house precincts to the original constitutions 30,000 people and move the house out of DC and make it an online session with the members video/audio conferencing in from their home district. With 3000 house members and such small precincts big money would have little to no influence. In fact there would be very good odds the much of the house would be populated by people without party affiliation.
Civil forfeiture was instigated as a step up against the war on drugs during the early Reagan administration. After being litigated through much of the early 80's the supreme court gave it constitutional blessing. Many of the rights we've lost over the last 20 years are the direct result of prosecuting a war on drugs against our own citizens.
If we want to end these abominations of law we MUST end the war on drugs. End prohibition 2.0.
" You further agree that you will not commence, participate or voluntarily aid in any action at law or in equity or any legal proceeding against Tesla...."
This agreement on it's face bars any participation with or notice to NHTSA of anything related to the repair. That may not have been the intent, but that is what it says.
I should have Googled before posting. It seems NHTSA has already been to visit Tesla and remind that that such clauses that say you can't talk to NHTSA are not legal and if they don't remove them immediately Tesla is going to get a rectal exam from NHTSA.
You might laugh, but that clause is what got NHTSA involved, a joint falling apart in a single car is not cause for them to get involved but that clause drew their involvement and it's going to result in a full investigation of this issue. It would have taken dozens of people having the same issue and some of them getting hurt of this type of issue to normally get in front of NHTSA but Tesla's illegal agreement put them right at the front of the pack. This will hurt Tesla, and their own lawyers did it to them.
No legal agreement can override the law. You might be able to sign away your rights, but you can't sign away the governments or ones guaranteed by government. I do not believe any contract provision that bared you from participating with a government inquiry would be legal and depending on whether the terms are severable could invalidate the entire agreement.
This is why you can't sign a legal agreement to be someones slave. You can sign it, but it's not legal, it can't be enforced and any attempt to enforce it is likely to get someone in serious trouble. Just as in that case Tesla can't bar you from talking to NHTSA, the laws about vehicle safety would specifically preclude such a clause. Any attempt by Tesla to enforce such a clause would be dangerous beyond measure to the company. And as I mentioned previously the fact that such a clause exists could invalidate the rest of the agreement.
The person that posted that agreement should have a long and frank talk with a lawyer experienced in vehicle and NHSTA law.
The poor and disadvantaged don't have relatives that have made it through college. They don't know anyone to encourage them generally because the people they know have no experience with university. Many won't even realize the kids they think are doing great are struggling as hard as they are. Study groups can help this if they join them and most don't but it's better to be told by someone that's done it that it was hard for everyone, not just them.
99% of Undergrad is college professors telling you that you are going to fail in the hope that you will drop out and lower their work load. This usually doesn't stop until your senior year when they have actually put enough time into your education that they stop trying to get you to quit.
IANA would put the stuff in control of mostly engineers, but most countries don't want it there, they want it at ITU. At the same time, if you are worried about corporate control and abusive use of the DNS system you could look no further than ITU. ICANN is it's own hotbed of money being funneled into the pockets of connected people but they can't even shake a stick at all the slush funds and money changing hands at ITU, hell ICANN probably learned the game from ITU.
ITU would be a disaster for the internet DNS. Every tin pot dictator would be trying to get domains shut off for saying bad things about them. And at ITU, they would succeed. The DNS would rapidly devolve into a censored piece of crap.
It's a clear judicial ethics violation for a judge to hear a case in which one of his relatives (out to the 3rd degree) is a participant in the case in ANY fashion no matter how minuscule. An direct investment of a $100 by a cousin in a company disqualifies a judge from hearing a suit with that company. This is appealable if the Judge refuses to recuse themselves.
One of the points with IPv6 was to reduce the size of BGP tables that contain that routing data. As you say IPv6 should be significantly easier to geolocate than IPv4, well except for those services like Hurricane Electric which is not at all unlike a VPN. IPv4 has been cut up to single IP's in some cases. The routing and Geolocate data is massive.
Color me a skeptic as well, love Tesla would love to own one but Toyota made the same fucking claims about their unintended acceleration that sent people to jail.
Computing is going to continue gaining power even if lithography stops. As some point they are going to figure out how to entagle quantum objects without having to cool them to 3K and the widespread quantum computer will be born. Quantum computers are like an analog and digital computer combined. There are multiple answers where digital only has 2, but the number of answers are limited to a finite set, unlike analog.
I also expect analog computing to make a reentry if for no other reason than AI. Brains are analog, and the reason we've had such a hard time with AI likely ties to this very phenomenon. We're using massive arrays of CPU's to approximate AI though big data analysis, but the computing power it uses is millions of times that of the human brain and the human brain will still beat it at most tasks. There is some very interesting research going on in analog computing.
The IRS has cracked down massively on these type of deductions. You now need IIRC 2% of your AGI in property donations for them to even be able to be itemized. For the vast majority of people that's going to put them off the list. They did this because of the charitable vehicle donations where people were donating piles of junk and claiming full black book value for a mint condition. Itemizing charitable property donations these days is probably an audit flag.
I find it more interesting that all Robotic engineers seem to get all new ideas from movies or TV where said idea went horribly wrong and killed all of humanity.
What's next, the spider bots start assembling T-1000?
Not all ownership is the same. There are common shares and preferred shares. The preferred shares get paid before anyone else. Her shares are common shares and get paid only after every dollar of preferred shares has been paid. Then she only gets 50% of whatever remains. The $900 million they estimated won't cover the preferred shares so she and the other common shareholders won't get anything.
Carrying tracking device that records and uploads your position in time to internet servers can result in convictions for bank robbery. News at 11.
Christ people, you shouldn't carry a fucking cell phone (even dumb ones get tracked by the towers) if you are robbing banks or committing major crimes where your presence can be verified with this data.
If you are committing major felonies leave the phone at home. You don't really need it enough to take that risk.
The earth for much of the last several million years had CO2 levels that fluctuated between 280ppm to 220pm (220 was roughly when ice ages happened). This level has held since humans evolved until the industrial revolution. Since then C02 levels have gone above 400pm (as of a few years ago).
CO2 levels are also increasing at a rate that's higher than any recorded event in the history of this planet, roughly 10 times the rate that caused the fastest climate change this planet has ever seen (Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum) which caused mass extinctions and rapid change in the species that survived and were under pressure. We've now reached a CO2 level that the human species has never seen before. Those facts alone should concern you unless you are devoid of reason. We've just started terraforming our planet into the climate that existed more than 65 million years ago, long before humans even existed.
I like AMD but it's not going to happen. AMD had their chance when Intel didn't do 64bit with the Pentium D, they weren't able to capitalize on that because Intel played dirty and prevented OEM's from using them.
Now that Intel is actually competing even if AMD can produce an equally good processor design Intel's process lead will give Intel a 15% advantage. AMD will never catch up to that. The process advantage is substantial, it allows Intel to have significantly more transistors for the same power usage. Intel is significantly ahead in the process game, almost 2 whole nodes. To beat Intel, AMD would need a processor design that's 20% better than Intel's. Everything is IPC/watt these days so they need to squeeze more IPC per watt than Intel and they just can't do it with the process node problem.
Don't worry though, Intel has to keep AMD around for anti-trust reasons, so they won't ever go out of business.
NK has been counterfeiting US currency for like 20 years. In fact the entire reason the US Mint started making all the news bills you see in circulation now is because NK and Iran both started large scale counterfeiting.
The sony hacks were done from a Hotel In Thailand that NK had rented in a block and sent their hackers to live in for a few weeks. The internet access of NK has no relevancy to their ability to attack if they are willing to send their attackers abroad to orchestrate the attacks.
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You forgot the part where you write Intel a big fat check to use the feature. Intel charges big bucks for vPro software and these features are part of vPro and you can't enable them without the vPro software. IIRC it's all tied to a digital signature that Intel controls and you can't even look at it without giving Intel money.
Intel is making a pretty chunk of change on their enterprise management software that uses features built into their CPU's which are normally disabled. Intel is going to keep building more and more enterprise big brother abilities into their hardware and charging big money for the software to use it. It's proved a rather lucrative addition to their hardware business.
Nice bullshit slam on the ACLU. The ACLU is one of the few groups that's been fighting civil forfeiture since Reagan signed the Comprehensive Crime Control Act in 1984 making it legal and the supreme court approved it's constitutionality.
Don't be a fucking liar.
Civil forfeiture has been upheld by the supreme court. Civil forfeiture under federal law is perfectly legal and will remain so until this early 80's decision is either reversed by the supreme court or congress acts to remove the power from law enforcement.
Justice allows local law enforcement to proceed in civil forfeiture even when their own state law doesn't by allowing them to claim the seized assets are proceeds of drug crime illegal under federal law which makes the forfeiture an action taken under federal authority.
People do have a voice. The problem is that the people with the time and desire to influence the system are all bat-shit crazy. We could do much to fix this country with just a few minor changes.
The first would be to move election day to a Saturday and make it a national holiday which would allow much more of the working poor to vote. You'd also have to make universal early by mail voting standard across the nation to make sure you get the infirm and disabled a voice.
The second would be to alter the electoral system to be a ranking based vote. This, like the European system would allow for more parties and more selection.
The third would be to return the house precincts to the original constitutions 30,000 people and move the house out of DC and make it an online session with the members video/audio conferencing in from their home district. With 3000 house members and such small precincts big money would have little to no influence. In fact there would be very good odds the much of the house would be populated by people without party affiliation.
Civil forfeiture was instigated as a step up against the war on drugs during the early Reagan administration. After being litigated through much of the early 80's the supreme court gave it constitutional blessing. Many of the rights we've lost over the last 20 years are the direct result of prosecuting a war on drugs against our own citizens.
If we want to end these abominations of law we MUST end the war on drugs. End prohibition 2.0.
The agreement includes the sentence:
" You further agree that you will not commence, participate or voluntarily aid in any action at law or in equity or any legal proceeding against Tesla...."
This agreement on it's face bars any participation with or notice to NHTSA of anything related to the repair. That may not have been the intent, but that is what it says.
I should have Googled before posting. It seems NHTSA has already been to visit Tesla and remind that that such clauses that say you can't talk to NHTSA are not legal and if they don't remove them immediately Tesla is going to get a rectal exam from NHTSA.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/...
You might laugh, but that clause is what got NHTSA involved, a joint falling apart in a single car is not cause for them to get involved but that clause drew their involvement and it's going to result in a full investigation of this issue. It would have taken dozens of people having the same issue and some of them getting hurt of this type of issue to normally get in front of NHTSA but Tesla's illegal agreement put them right at the front of the pack. This will hurt Tesla, and their own lawyers did it to them.
No legal agreement can override the law. You might be able to sign away your rights, but you can't sign away the governments or ones guaranteed by government. I do not believe any contract provision that bared you from participating with a government inquiry would be legal and depending on whether the terms are severable could invalidate the entire agreement.
This is why you can't sign a legal agreement to be someones slave. You can sign it, but it's not legal, it can't be enforced and any attempt to enforce it is likely to get someone in serious trouble. Just as in that case Tesla can't bar you from talking to NHTSA, the laws about vehicle safety would specifically preclude such a clause. Any attempt by Tesla to enforce such a clause would be dangerous beyond measure to the company. And as I mentioned previously the fact that such a clause exists could invalidate the rest of the agreement.
The person that posted that agreement should have a long and frank talk with a lawyer experienced in vehicle and NHSTA law.
The poor and disadvantaged don't have relatives that have made it through college. They don't know anyone to encourage them generally because the people they know have no experience with university. Many won't even realize the kids they think are doing great are struggling as hard as they are. Study groups can help this if they join them and most don't but it's better to be told by someone that's done it that it was hard for everyone, not just them.
99% of Undergrad is college professors telling you that you are going to fail in the hope that you will drop out and lower their work load. This usually doesn't stop until your senior year when they have actually put enough time into your education that they stop trying to get you to quit.
IANA would put the stuff in control of mostly engineers, but most countries don't want it there, they want it at ITU. At the same time, if you are worried about corporate control and abusive use of the DNS system you could look no further than ITU. ICANN is it's own hotbed of money being funneled into the pockets of connected people but they can't even shake a stick at all the slush funds and money changing hands at ITU, hell ICANN probably learned the game from ITU.
ITU would be a disaster for the internet DNS. Every tin pot dictator would be trying to get domains shut off for saying bad things about them. And at ITU, they would succeed. The DNS would rapidly devolve into a censored piece of crap.
It's a clear judicial ethics violation for a judge to hear a case in which one of his relatives (out to the 3rd degree) is a participant in the case in ANY fashion no matter how minuscule. An direct investment of a $100 by a cousin in a company disqualifies a judge from hearing a suit with that company. This is appealable if the Judge refuses to recuse themselves.
So you are claiming the victim's statements on the linked website are all full of political agenda? You didn't even read them did you? No you didn't.
One of the points with IPv6 was to reduce the size of BGP tables that contain that routing data. As you say IPv6 should be significantly easier to geolocate than IPv4, well except for those services like Hurricane Electric which is not at all unlike a VPN. IPv4 has been cut up to single IP's in some cases. The routing and Geolocate data is massive.
Color me a skeptic as well, love Tesla would love to own one but Toyota made the same fucking claims about their unintended acceleration that sent people to jail.
Computing is going to continue gaining power even if lithography stops. As some point they are going to figure out how to entagle quantum objects without having to cool them to 3K and the widespread quantum computer will be born. Quantum computers are like an analog and digital computer combined. There are multiple answers where digital only has 2, but the number of answers are limited to a finite set, unlike analog.
I also expect analog computing to make a reentry if for no other reason than AI. Brains are analog, and the reason we've had such a hard time with AI likely ties to this very phenomenon. We're using massive arrays of CPU's to approximate AI though big data analysis, but the computing power it uses is millions of times that of the human brain and the human brain will still beat it at most tasks. There is some very interesting research going on in analog computing.
The IRS has cracked down massively on these type of deductions. You now need IIRC 2% of your AGI in property donations for them to even be able to be itemized. For the vast majority of people that's going to put them off the list. They did this because of the charitable vehicle donations where people were donating piles of junk and claiming full black book value for a mint condition. Itemizing charitable property donations these days is probably an audit flag.
I find it more interesting that all Robotic engineers seem to get all new ideas from movies or TV where said idea went horribly wrong and killed all of humanity.
What's next, the spider bots start assembling T-1000?
Not all ownership is the same. There are common shares and preferred shares. The preferred shares get paid before anyone else. Her shares are common shares and get paid only after every dollar of preferred shares has been paid. Then she only gets 50% of whatever remains. The $900 million they estimated won't cover the preferred shares so she and the other common shareholders won't get anything.
Carrying tracking device that records and uploads your position in time to internet servers can result in convictions for bank robbery. News at 11.
Christ people, you shouldn't carry a fucking cell phone (even dumb ones get tracked by the towers) if you are robbing banks or committing major crimes where your presence can be verified with this data.
If you are committing major felonies leave the phone at home. You don't really need it enough to take that risk.
Access without permission is a violation of the CFAA and the penalties are severe.
The earth for much of the last several million years had CO2 levels that fluctuated between 280ppm to 220pm (220 was roughly when ice ages happened). This level has held since humans evolved until the industrial revolution. Since then C02 levels have gone above 400pm (as of a few years ago).
CO2 levels are also increasing at a rate that's higher than any recorded event in the history of this planet, roughly 10 times the rate that caused the fastest climate change this planet has ever seen (Paleocene–Eocene Thermal Maximum) which caused mass extinctions and rapid change in the species that survived and were under pressure. We've now reached a CO2 level that the human species has never seen before. Those facts alone should concern you unless you are devoid of reason. We've just started terraforming our planet into the climate that existed more than 65 million years ago, long before humans even existed.
I like AMD but it's not going to happen. AMD had their chance when Intel didn't do 64bit with the Pentium D, they weren't able to capitalize on that because Intel played dirty and prevented OEM's from using them.
Now that Intel is actually competing even if AMD can produce an equally good processor design Intel's process lead will give Intel a 15% advantage. AMD will never catch up to that. The process advantage is substantial, it allows Intel to have significantly more transistors for the same power usage. Intel is significantly ahead in the process game, almost 2 whole nodes. To beat Intel, AMD would need a processor design that's 20% better than Intel's. Everything is IPC/watt these days so they need to squeeze more IPC per watt than Intel and they just can't do it with the process node problem.
Don't worry though, Intel has to keep AMD around for anti-trust reasons, so they won't ever go out of business.
NK has been counterfeiting US currency for like 20 years. In fact the entire reason the US Mint started making all the news bills you see in circulation now is because NK and Iran both started large scale counterfeiting.
The sony hacks were done from a Hotel In Thailand that NK had rented in a block and sent their hackers to live in for a few weeks. The internet access of NK has no relevancy to their ability to attack if they are willing to send their attackers abroad to orchestrate the attacks.