They didn't just want a "negotiation" they wanted him to bend over and let them ass rape him by destroying his single biggest policy achievement. There was no way in hell he was going to agree to that. That's the thing people just aren't getting. If you want to change status quo you have to negotiate. Everything the Republican's have been trying to do it change the current status quo and no one in their right mind is going to agree to such a thing under a threat of refusing to fund government.
This is how Obama-care got through, Obama negotiated with the 1 or 2 republicans willing to negotiate that got him the votes he needed to break the fillibuster and pass it. Then all these new congress-critters from the tea party come in and they think they get to have whatever they want and screw everyone else.
Obamacare would have done much to reduce the need for Planned Parenthood's rural healthcare services had states actually expanded Medicaid as the law required. Because so many states with Republican controlled legislatures and governors offices refused to support the medicaid expansion planned parenthood's services are still needed by many poor women.
Your argument is without merit until the medicaid expansion is fulfilled.
There are a couple issues the republicans have gone so far to the right that they actually accomplished a far Left policy goal. Berny Sanders has been trying to shutdown the EXIM (Export/Import) Bank for almost a decade and was always thwarted by the Republicans and blue dog democrats. In their effort to be as far right as possible the Tea Party Republicans actually accomplished one of the Sanders policy goals. It's almost Ironic if it weren't funny and tragic at the same time. We've already lost 1000 jobs shutting down a bank that made the treasury money.
Keep that in mind every time you rant against Federal employees (the largest batch of which is soldiers). And a shutdown WILL harm soldiers, particularly the ones that work for the state guard units funded by federal moneies that will NOT have their wages paid. My nephew in law is a state guardsman, the last shutdown cost him almost a 1/12th of his yearly pay. They almost ended up homeless.
I always get a kick out of this partisan "give them everything" BS that's always quoted. The essence of deal making is no one gets everything they want. There are people on the right like yourself that fail to acknowledge one simple fact. That is that the republicans do not have the votes necessary to override the democrats against their wishes. The solution you propose is to simply refuse to play as if that's a solution. A solution with only one outcome, you shutdown government, put millions out of work, cost millions more and damage the US economy in the process in the hope that the Democrats will roll over and give you everything you want.
So Boehner is going to do the smart thing and quit before the Republican's shut down government yet again and piss off even more Voters with the resulting cost of loss of seats and less power for the party. You and the republicans like you represent the decline and eventual destruction of the republican party.
Most people probably won't. But you aren't trying to access "most peoples" devices. The people they want to access will be the ones that defeat it. That's what makes the whole thing uniquely stupid.
The paper covers this with a caveat that most encryption software is open source, freely available and has no central authority that can be compelled. The result of this is that even is some key recovery system is mandated users could simply encrypt their own data underneath the compromised encryption and render the device inaccessible and defeat the entire purpose of the law and international accords.
This caveat is actually on the first page of the document as a "technological limitation".
Fortunately at least Vpro is targeted and large businesses and as a result Intel charges BIG bucks to enable it. Even if your processor supports Vpro, chances are it doesn't work because you didn't pay the hefty license fee for the software to enable access to it. In addition most BIOS's I've seen have a setting to disable it.
True we can't know everything it can or can't do without a full read on the capabilities from Intel but I trust that if it were capable of offline access by anyone as you claim it would be public knowledge and wouldn't have made it very far. Intel markets it to enterprise customers so they can control the company owned products in a way that bypasses even OS security (for example preventing you from booting an ISO on the computer to bypass the OS security).
One of the example solutions in the document is to force the device provider to update the device with a malicious update the decrypts the device. Talk about a way to encourage people to allow the device update to run! They even acknowledge this. It's quite humorous, people should read it. The paper discusses how even if a solution is implemented device owners could simply layer their own encryption on and make all data inaccessible. So if that's the case, exactly what is the point in the paper or the working group? They acknowledge right at the start that whatever you propose could easily be defeated by the consumer simply encrypting things themselves. So if the entire thing is technologically unfeasible why on earth would you even study it?
The one thing I haven't seen covered in the paper at all is that IF the US were to implement these requirements that all business involved in encryption would simply move off shore and destroy a thriving US business ecosystem. The paper's assumption is that any US developed protocol would then be exported world wide. This is profoundly illogical on many fronts. There would be numerous countries that would simply not participate in some US encryption compromising ring.
There is a reason I said wafer run, not per wafer. A run of 5000 wafers is going to generate roughly the same number of "good" parts on mature processes. Nvidia has been producing these parts for almost a year, they have the process down, they should and probably are predicting their numbers to within a few percent on a 5000 wafer batch.
No one is going to notice $20 Billion wasted? What is he smoking? I'm willing to bet that Apple could produce a car people would want to buy and could do a better job than the auto companies. It's not like Apple isn't going to hire experienced people to do the important stuff.
Apparently these jackasses think only auto company executives can run car companies. They might be surprised to find out they aren't as valuable as they think they are. I'm no Apple fanboi but making cars isn't as hard as he makes it out to be. There are plenty of people out there that can be hired and build this business from the ground up. And a car company that was actually interested in what people want in a car would be a welcome change.
If they have been producing the part for any length of time they should be able to predict within a couple percent the number of parts per wafer run they will get.
Stone as a unit of measure does not exist in the US, it's UK and Ireland thing. Ignoramuses like you seem to think anything non metric is the US but allow me to educated you that the former British colonies still use plenty of imperial measurements. In the UK and Ireland if you ask someone what they weigh they are more likely to answer in stone than kilos and they still buy their beer in pints.
Solar panel production will never be as profitable as sucking black goo out of the earth and selling it for top dollar. Never. That's just a simple reality. The margins on oil production are HUGE, more than 50% in most cases. You don't see those margins in any manufacturing business.
Say what you will but no US company was going to stop the Chinese from dominating the Solar production. You had a state with trillions of dollars of financing available that pumped that money into companies without even a guarantee of payback let alone a requirement to pay interest. What resulted was a massive overbuild of solar panel production that caused a price crash of better than 80%. No market based company that needed to make money could ever compete against that. It's simply an impossibility. In time if the Chinese government money dries up the industry will right itself and private companies will be able to produce panels at a profit but right now the only private companies that can effectively compete in the market do so by not competing directly against the Chinese production.
For example, one of the remaining major US producers (First Solar) produces an entirely different kind of panel (cadmium-telluride instead of silicon) with lower cost and lower efficiency and sells 99.9999% of their production directly to large commercial installations (often owned by First Solar directly). The other US producers that survive do so by not competing against the Chinese government financed solid silicon panels produced in massive volumes and sold at or below cost.
There is nothing in what the Chinese have stolen that isn't already known by the government and hence has no blackmail value. The first time they try to blackmail someone with that information the person attempting to do it will be arrested on the second contact.
Christ, they could get more detailed personal information from the actual facebook than what they stole. It's hidden stuff like Ashley Madison that could cause someone to be susceptible to blackmail, not publicly known information from a government database. Even confidential medical records aren't going to be a thing you could get reliable actionable intelligence or blackmail material from.
The School board (or committee if you prefer) hires all the School administration. They are the ultimate authority for the school district in setting policy and hiring the staff that run the district. In most US jurisdictions they are publicly elected. By punishing the school district you ultimately punish the voters that elected the school board who set the policies and hired the people that caused the lawsuit. This makes the voters the ultimate bearers of responsibility.
They would not let him call his father when the police questioned him. This is a direct violation of his and his parents rights. It's illegal to question a minor without their guardian present. I really hope everyone is telling their kids out there to refuse to answer questions in such a situation without their parents present.
The police department and school district are going to be paying his family some serious money once the lawsuits are filed. I dare say he won the lottery with this highly illegal and stupid treatment.
One thing you forgot. It took our star system 4 billion years to form so life could take hold. But there was a start that proceeded the Sun which created all the matter that makes up us and the planets. AFAIK we don't have a good handle on how long those stars live before they die. So you need to shave off time for the first star to make all the matter that makes up the planets for the second star.
It could very well be that the first life couldn't develop until 13.6 billion years in because you needed 10 billion years to build, consume and explode the first star and then build the second star and solar system. We know the second star needs about 4 billion years from ignition for things to stabilize and form intelligent life (at least on the earth that's the case). But there is still a lot of time in there to build up the materials for the second star to even have a shot. I can also imagine it took a long time for that first star to coalesce from the dispersed hydrogen of the big bang.
Unless interstellar travel isn't as easy as TV makes it out to be. Honestly to reach the speeds necessary to make traveling those distances not catastrophic time wise is just a crazy amount of energy. If relativistic limits hold interstellar travel could be extremely difficult for almost any civilization. It might be necessary to spend the equivalent of multiple lifetimes on ships just to reach other stars. In such a situation trade and exchange between the systems would be non-existent and it might be easier to build a partial dyson sphere than travel the distance.
Or in any way treat the device as a bomb. They did everything but act as if the clock was a bomb and that's the first thing his lawyer should bring up in the civil suit.
This doens't any much of anything to do with the "hollywood bomb". This is because he's got an Islamic name and it happened in Texas. See Fox news says all Muslims are bad evil terrorists. They have sequences every single news hours about the threat of Muslim terrorism (gotta sell that fear). Anyone saying this is about anything other than that is ignoring the obvious.
Most of the traditional car companies still sneer at electric cars and not capable performers. BMW, Mercedes and Porsche (probably Lamborghini) as well have now developed electric cars to compete with 3 year old Tesla's but only because they were tired of people asking about them. They are being dragged kicking and screaming into electric because of Tesla's sales numbers are beginning to erode their own market-share.
My bet is they continue to treat the electric car not as a technological advance but as a half rate car that they won't take seriously. Tesla will continue to erode their market-share because you can't beat an electric car for performance. Electric motors are far funner to drive. The only limiting factor has been the energy storage and Tesla is making that restraint go away.
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They didn't just want a "negotiation" they wanted him to bend over and let them ass rape him by destroying his single biggest policy achievement. There was no way in hell he was going to agree to that. That's the thing people just aren't getting. If you want to change status quo you have to negotiate. Everything the Republican's have been trying to do it change the current status quo and no one in their right mind is going to agree to such a thing under a threat of refusing to fund government.
This is how Obama-care got through, Obama negotiated with the 1 or 2 republicans willing to negotiate that got him the votes he needed to break the fillibuster and pass it. Then all these new congress-critters from the tea party come in and they think they get to have whatever they want and screw everyone else.
Obamacare would have done much to reduce the need for Planned Parenthood's rural healthcare services had states actually expanded Medicaid as the law required. Because so many states with Republican controlled legislatures and governors offices refused to support the medicaid expansion planned parenthood's services are still needed by many poor women.
Your argument is without merit until the medicaid expansion is fulfilled.
There are a couple issues the republicans have gone so far to the right that they actually accomplished a far Left policy goal. Berny Sanders has been trying to shutdown the EXIM (Export/Import) Bank for almost a decade and was always thwarted by the Republicans and blue dog democrats. In their effort to be as far right as possible the Tea Party Republicans actually accomplished one of the Sanders policy goals. It's almost Ironic if it weren't funny and tragic at the same time. We've already lost 1000 jobs shutting down a bank that made the treasury money.
You just insulted every soldier.
Keep that in mind every time you rant against Federal employees (the largest batch of which is soldiers). And a shutdown WILL harm soldiers, particularly the ones that work for the state guard units funded by federal moneies that will NOT have their wages paid. My nephew in law is a state guardsman, the last shutdown cost him almost a 1/12th of his yearly pay. They almost ended up homeless.
According to the news reports the Pope did whisper something to him. No one knows what was said except for the pope and Boehner.
I always get a kick out of this partisan "give them everything" BS that's always quoted. The essence of deal making is no one gets everything they want. There are people on the right like yourself that fail to acknowledge one simple fact. That is that the republicans do not have the votes necessary to override the democrats against their wishes. The solution you propose is to simply refuse to play as if that's a solution. A solution with only one outcome, you shutdown government, put millions out of work, cost millions more and damage the US economy in the process in the hope that the Democrats will roll over and give you everything you want.
So Boehner is going to do the smart thing and quit before the Republican's shut down government yet again and piss off even more Voters with the resulting cost of loss of seats and less power for the party. You and the republicans like you represent the decline and eventual destruction of the republican party.
How can you be so ignorant of how IPv6 works and still have the hubris to propose a modification that supposedly fixes it?
Oh silly me, this is Slashdot.
Most people probably won't. But you aren't trying to access "most peoples" devices. The people they want to access will be the ones that defeat it. That's what makes the whole thing uniquely stupid.
The paper covers this with a caveat that most encryption software is open source, freely available and has no central authority that can be compelled. The result of this is that even is some key recovery system is mandated users could simply encrypt their own data underneath the compromised encryption and render the device inaccessible and defeat the entire purpose of the law and international accords.
This caveat is actually on the first page of the document as a "technological limitation".
Fortunately at least Vpro is targeted and large businesses and as a result Intel charges BIG bucks to enable it. Even if your processor supports Vpro, chances are it doesn't work because you didn't pay the hefty license fee for the software to enable access to it. In addition most BIOS's I've seen have a setting to disable it.
True we can't know everything it can or can't do without a full read on the capabilities from Intel but I trust that if it were capable of offline access by anyone as you claim it would be public knowledge and wouldn't have made it very far. Intel markets it to enterprise customers so they can control the company owned products in a way that bypasses even OS security (for example preventing you from booting an ISO on the computer to bypass the OS security).
One of the example solutions in the document is to force the device provider to update the device with a malicious update the decrypts the device. Talk about a way to encourage people to allow the device update to run! They even acknowledge this. It's quite humorous, people should read it. The paper discusses how even if a solution is implemented device owners could simply layer their own encryption on and make all data inaccessible. So if that's the case, exactly what is the point in the paper or the working group? They acknowledge right at the start that whatever you propose could easily be defeated by the consumer simply encrypting things themselves. So if the entire thing is technologically unfeasible why on earth would you even study it?
The one thing I haven't seen covered in the paper at all is that IF the US were to implement these requirements that all business involved in encryption would simply move off shore and destroy a thriving US business ecosystem. The paper's assumption is that any US developed protocol would then be exported world wide. This is profoundly illogical on many fronts. There would be numerous countries that would simply not participate in some US encryption compromising ring.
There is a reason I said wafer run, not per wafer. A run of 5000 wafers is going to generate roughly the same number of "good" parts on mature processes. Nvidia has been producing these parts for almost a year, they have the process down, they should and probably are predicting their numbers to within a few percent on a 5000 wafer batch.
No one is going to notice $20 Billion wasted? What is he smoking? I'm willing to bet that Apple could produce a car people would want to buy and could do a better job than the auto companies. It's not like Apple isn't going to hire experienced people to do the important stuff.
Apparently these jackasses think only auto company executives can run car companies. They might be surprised to find out they aren't as valuable as they think they are. I'm no Apple fanboi but making cars isn't as hard as he makes it out to be. There are plenty of people out there that can be hired and build this business from the ground up. And a car company that was actually interested in what people want in a car would be a welcome change.
If they have been producing the part for any length of time they should be able to predict within a couple percent the number of parts per wafer run they will get.
Stone as a unit of measure does not exist in the US, it's UK and Ireland thing. Ignoramuses like you seem to think anything non metric is the US but allow me to educated you that the former British colonies still use plenty of imperial measurements. In the UK and Ireland if you ask someone what they weigh they are more likely to answer in stone than kilos and they still buy their beer in pints.
And yet I doubt you could cite a single incidence of the US applying US law in other countries using the US court system as you have claimed.
Solar panel production will never be as profitable as sucking black goo out of the earth and selling it for top dollar. Never. That's just a simple reality. The margins on oil production are HUGE, more than 50% in most cases. You don't see those margins in any manufacturing business.
Say what you will but no US company was going to stop the Chinese from dominating the Solar production. You had a state with trillions of dollars of financing available that pumped that money into companies without even a guarantee of payback let alone a requirement to pay interest. What resulted was a massive overbuild of solar panel production that caused a price crash of better than 80%. No market based company that needed to make money could ever compete against that. It's simply an impossibility. In time if the Chinese government money dries up the industry will right itself and private companies will be able to produce panels at a profit but right now the only private companies that can effectively compete in the market do so by not competing directly against the Chinese production.
For example, one of the remaining major US producers (First Solar) produces an entirely different kind of panel (cadmium-telluride instead of silicon) with lower cost and lower efficiency and sells 99.9999% of their production directly to large commercial installations (often owned by First Solar directly). The other US producers that survive do so by not competing against the Chinese government financed solid silicon panels produced in massive volumes and sold at or below cost.
There is nothing in what the Chinese have stolen that isn't already known by the government and hence has no blackmail value. The first time they try to blackmail someone with that information the person attempting to do it will be arrested on the second contact.
Christ, they could get more detailed personal information from the actual facebook than what they stole. It's hidden stuff like Ashley Madison that could cause someone to be susceptible to blackmail, not publicly known information from a government database. Even confidential medical records aren't going to be a thing you could get reliable actionable intelligence or blackmail material from.
The article summary is fucking stupid.
The School board (or committee if you prefer) hires all the School administration. They are the ultimate authority for the school district in setting policy and hiring the staff that run the district. In most US jurisdictions they are publicly elected. By punishing the school district you ultimately punish the voters that elected the school board who set the policies and hired the people that caused the lawsuit. This makes the voters the ultimate bearers of responsibility.
They would not let him call his father when the police questioned him. This is a direct violation of his and his parents rights. It's illegal to question a minor without their guardian present. I really hope everyone is telling their kids out there to refuse to answer questions in such a situation without their parents present.
The police department and school district are going to be paying his family some serious money once the lawsuits are filed. I dare say he won the lottery with this highly illegal and stupid treatment.
One thing you forgot. It took our star system 4 billion years to form so life could take hold. But there was a start that proceeded the Sun which created all the matter that makes up us and the planets. AFAIK we don't have a good handle on how long those stars live before they die. So you need to shave off time for the first star to make all the matter that makes up the planets for the second star.
It could very well be that the first life couldn't develop until 13.6 billion years in because you needed 10 billion years to build, consume and explode the first star and then build the second star and solar system. We know the second star needs about 4 billion years from ignition for things to stabilize and form intelligent life (at least on the earth that's the case). But there is still a lot of time in there to build up the materials for the second star to even have a shot. I can also imagine it took a long time for that first star to coalesce from the dispersed hydrogen of the big bang.
Unless interstellar travel isn't as easy as TV makes it out to be. Honestly to reach the speeds necessary to make traveling those distances not catastrophic time wise is just a crazy amount of energy. If relativistic limits hold interstellar travel could be extremely difficult for almost any civilization. It might be necessary to spend the equivalent of multiple lifetimes on ships just to reach other stars. In such a situation trade and exchange between the systems would be non-existent and it might be easier to build a partial dyson sphere than travel the distance.
Or in any way treat the device as a bomb. They did everything but act as if the clock was a bomb and that's the first thing his lawyer should bring up in the civil suit.
This doens't any much of anything to do with the "hollywood bomb". This is because he's got an Islamic name and it happened in Texas. See Fox news says all Muslims are bad evil terrorists. They have sequences every single news hours about the threat of Muslim terrorism (gotta sell that fear). Anyone saying this is about anything other than that is ignoring the obvious.
Most of the traditional car companies still sneer at electric cars and not capable performers. BMW, Mercedes and Porsche (probably Lamborghini) as well have now developed electric cars to compete with 3 year old Tesla's but only because they were tired of people asking about them. They are being dragged kicking and screaming into electric because of Tesla's sales numbers are beginning to erode their own market-share.
My bet is they continue to treat the electric car not as a technological advance but as a half rate car that they won't take seriously. Tesla will continue to erode their market-share because you can't beat an electric car for performance. Electric motors are far funner to drive. The only limiting factor has been the energy storage and Tesla is making that restraint go away.