And when the entire government you could report to is corrupt, one has no choice but to whistleblow to the media and the public who own the government.
Sometimes a law being "broken" isn't a law at all, but spin by the thugs who run government.
If anyone is a traitor in this, it's the US Congress, the US Senate, the US President, the Canadian Prime Minister, the Canadian Senate, the Canadian House of Commons, the UK Parliament, and so on.
They're the ones who authorized the creation and growth of these abusive letter agencies in violation of the laws of their lands.
The key phrase would be "...almost no physical effort to reproduce."
The problem is that the original production takes a great deal of effort, and has to be compensated for. While the freetards of the world think it's just about the cost of making a copy, that just isn't viable. Someone has to pay for the production in the first place.
I'd install a dedicated link and just add the cost of the link to the project's expense list.
Sooner or later you're downloading the data, and most customers I've dealt with would have an issue with spooling their data to the cloud in the first place -- it's why they would have contracted a small firm to do the processing in the first place.
Let's face it -- network capacity is just not that expensive nowadays, especially seeing as you sound like you're primarily interested in download speed, which means you can opt for asynchronous solutions that have greater download capacity than upload (which are usually cheaper.)
I share my code because I want to help developers with the tools I work on, not because I have some altruistic, high-minded goals about helping users.
Different projects have different goals. The fact that people who would download my tools could be called "users" of them doesn't make them any less developers. To make broad, sweeping statements about who should benefit tries to pigeonhole the mind of the developers of open source projects, and that is a fool's game, because everyone has their own reasons for sharing.
And now you understand what "bi-lateral security agreement" really means.
It's getting your "partners" to do the dirty work that you're not allowed to.
Canada's CSEC and CSIS work with the US NSA and the other US three letter agencies, trading info back and forth. The end result is that we provide them intel on Americans under our surveillance, and they provide us with intel on Canadians under surveillance. Neither is supposed to be able to surveil those in question, but it gets done through loopholes and cracks.
Add in GCHQ in the UK, the Israelis, the Germans, the Australians, the New Zealanders, and all the rest, and you soon realize this is a global nest of vipers out to "do the right thing", and the potential for abuse by any of the parties involved is absolutely astronomically high, because they already consider themselves to be above the laws of their respective nations.
There is nothing scarier to me than a true flag-waving "patriot" with systems access, because that is just another word for fascist.
The "rock start" developers are absolutely necessary, because in a *real* project they contribute the majority of the *tough* code for a system -- the code that is "greek" to the rest of the team, but which works.
I don't consider myself a "rock star"; rather I am dedicated and stubborn and hammer away at tough problems until I find a solution. But sometimes I fail to find a solution, especially with complex prioritization and queueing algorithms that have just too many special cases (one recent project in particular comes to mind.)
But I have great respect for the "rock stars", and I think it's worthwhile to deal with their idiosyncracies. But I'm good enough at my job that I can *talk* to them, and I'm egotistical enough to get in full-bore arguments with them and *demand* their respect in return.
Team efforts have never been for the faint of heart, chip-on-the-shoulder personalities. Your ego will be bruised and crushed if your teammates are worth working with, because *good* people have opinions, and will often disagree with you. Be prepared to defend your own opinions with vigour, and stop crying that people aren't being "nice" to you. The road to success in this industry is littered with the bodies of "nice" people.
That same article you referenced says XMir provides compatability for KDE and that it's already been tested, so maybe I have less to worry about than I thought.
(Sorry, I mistakenly clicked on the wrong message to reply to.)
That same article you referenced says XMir provides compatability for KDE and that it's already been tested, so maybe I have less to worry about than I thought.
Somehow I doubt the common front-line soldier or rebel in Syria carries a gas mask, much less the anti-neurotoxin "pens" that are required for something like Sarin.
To drive up oil prices now that they're producing more and even thinking of exporting oil.
To take out one of the few nations that isn't part of the international banking cartel.
To "improve security" for Israel.
To take away one of Russia's last "partners" on the international stage. I might be remembering wrong, but I think Russia was using Syria for air bases in a similar fashion to US-Turkey.
The problem is that no matter what chemical weapons were used, the rebels could have gotten not only the weapons, but the launchers from whoever provided them. There are many countries in the world with chemical weapons and launchers for them. Any one of them could, theoretically, have provided the rebels with such arms in order to launch a false-flag attack in hopes the Syrian government would be attacked by the US and others in response.
There are several theories as to who might have done so that I've read, all of which are as reasonable (at least) as the idea of Assad suicidally using chemical weapons despite the threat of US intervention made long before they were used.
I don't think anyone knows who used them, except those who used them. And they're not telling.
I place absolutely zero faith in US "intelligence reports" after their WMD debacle for Iraq.
It's sad to see an entire team of supposedly "professional" developers which have never heard of version control.
You can't even blame it on the Windows environment -- MSVS supports hooks for several version control systems either natively or through plugins/addons.
This whole story just reeks of some manager saying "We can't afford to set that up -- it would take too much time" any time someone has suggested it.
Because I flat out refuse to believe the entire team doesn't know any better.
I thought they were talking about a 5mm diameter hard drive, seeing as hard drive sizes have been reported in diameter for as long as I can remember. I was wondering how they were going to engineer something that small and still have a useful storage size.:)
To be honest, I can't think of any use cases for a so-called smart watch that requires a companion device. But it kind of fails as a standalone device as well:
You wouldn't want to use a "wrist phone" feature because you'd have to be using a speaker phone all the time to hear anything, or always wearing a bluetooth headset (though I guess that wouldn't be too bad an option.)
The surface area of any reasonably sized wristwatch is too small for showing useful maps. Maybe a direction-to-go indicator, but that's about it.
You'd go blind trying to read text messages on such a small screen
Good luck trying to type in a text message on a watch-sized device
I can't see a camera being particularly workable, either, as you're either using a teeny tiny watch screen as your "viewfinder" or just shooting blind. The only "use" I can see for this feature is the spy-cam "coolness" idea of imaging documents. And methinks a lot of companies would have an issue with that.
Apps? Don't make me laugh. You're lucky if you can display 4 lines of readable text on a watch face.
MP3 player? Do you really want a headphone jack and wire dangling from your wrist?
So really, I can't see them being marketable as standalone devices. And as companion devices, the $300 price range they seem to be targetting is a hell of a lot of money for "look -- it shows me who's calling without pulling out my phone!"
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Whistle blowing is not a crime. It's a service.
And when the entire government you could report to is corrupt, one has no choice but to whistleblow to the media and the public who own the government.
Sometimes a law being "broken" isn't a law at all, but spin by the thugs who run government.
If anyone is a traitor in this, it's the US Congress, the US Senate, the US President, the Canadian Prime Minister, the Canadian Senate, the Canadian House of Commons, the UK Parliament, and so on.
They're the ones who authorized the creation and growth of these abusive letter agencies in violation of the laws of their lands.
The key phrase would be "...almost no physical effort to reproduce."
The problem is that the original production takes a great deal of effort, and has to be compensated for. While the freetards of the world think it's just about the cost of making a copy, that just isn't viable. Someone has to pay for the production in the first place.
I'd install a dedicated link and just add the cost of the link to the project's expense list.
Sooner or later you're downloading the data, and most customers I've dealt with would have an issue with spooling their data to the cloud in the first place -- it's why they would have contracted a small firm to do the processing in the first place.
Let's face it -- network capacity is just not that expensive nowadays, especially seeing as you sound like you're primarily interested in download speed, which means you can opt for asynchronous solutions that have greater download capacity than upload (which are usually cheaper.)
And for God's sake -- compress your data!!!
Says you.
I share my code because I want to help developers with the tools I work on, not because I have some altruistic, high-minded goals about helping users.
Different projects have different goals. The fact that people who would download my tools could be called "users" of them doesn't make them any less developers. To make broad, sweeping statements about who should benefit tries to pigeonhole the mind of the developers of open source projects, and that is a fool's game, because everyone has their own reasons for sharing.
And now you understand what "bi-lateral security agreement" really means.
It's getting your "partners" to do the dirty work that you're not allowed to.
Canada's CSEC and CSIS work with the US NSA and the other US three letter agencies, trading info back and forth. The end result is that we provide them intel on Americans under our surveillance, and they provide us with intel on Canadians under surveillance. Neither is supposed to be able to surveil those in question, but it gets done through loopholes and cracks.
Add in GCHQ in the UK, the Israelis, the Germans, the Australians, the New Zealanders, and all the rest, and you soon realize this is a global nest of vipers out to "do the right thing", and the potential for abuse by any of the parties involved is absolutely astronomically high, because they already consider themselves to be above the laws of their respective nations.
There is nothing scarier to me than a true flag-waving "patriot" with systems access, because that is just another word for fascist.
The "rock start" developers are absolutely necessary, because in a *real* project they contribute the majority of the *tough* code for a system -- the code that is "greek" to the rest of the team, but which works.
I don't consider myself a "rock star"; rather I am dedicated and stubborn and hammer away at tough problems until I find a solution. But sometimes I fail to find a solution, especially with complex prioritization and queueing algorithms that have just too many special cases (one recent project in particular comes to mind.)
But I have great respect for the "rock stars", and I think it's worthwhile to deal with their idiosyncracies. But I'm good enough at my job that I can *talk* to them, and I'm egotistical enough to get in full-bore arguments with them and *demand* their respect in return.
Team efforts have never been for the faint of heart, chip-on-the-shoulder personalities. Your ego will be bruised and crushed if your teammates are worth working with, because *good* people have opinions, and will often disagree with you. Be prepared to defend your own opinions with vigour, and stop crying that people aren't being "nice" to you. The road to success in this industry is littered with the bodies of "nice" people.
Kaplah!
Equally important to some minds is the idea that "Nobody ever got fired for buying Microsoft."
That same article you referenced says XMir provides compatability for KDE and that it's already been tested, so maybe I have less to worry about than I thought.
(Sorry, I mistakenly clicked on the wrong message to reply to.)
That same article you referenced says XMir provides compatability for KDE and that it's already been tested, so maybe I have less to worry about than I thought.
If he's planning to blame that blowhard, Kerry, then maybe...
Somehow I doubt the common front-line soldier or rebel in Syria carries a gas mask, much less the anti-neurotoxin "pens" that are required for something like Sarin.
Why? Many reasons.
To reduce support for Hezbollah.
To drive up oil prices now that they're producing more and even thinking of exporting oil.
To take out one of the few nations that isn't part of the international banking cartel.
To "improve security" for Israel.
To take away one of Russia's last "partners" on the international stage. I might be remembering wrong, but I think Russia was using Syria for air bases in a similar fashion to US-Turkey.
Need I go on?
I'm sorry. $900 for a phone? With only 64GB of storage?
You Apple fanbois are insane!
Actually, if I have to reinstall, I think I'll go with a base install of Debian and say "Screw you, Ubuntu!"
I use KDE. Period.
If KDE doesn't work with Mir, and Ubuntu forces Mir with the 13.10 update, then I won't be updating to 13.10 from 13.04.
I may well have to do a reinstall with LTS, from what I'm reading. And that would piss me off to no end.
I have to seriously question the retention reliability of a device that requires re-writing multiple tracks at one time.
The performance impact is obvious as well.
I think I'll avoid these like the plague until they're proven to be as reliable as older technology.
The problem is that no matter what chemical weapons were used, the rebels could have gotten not only the weapons, but the launchers from whoever provided them. There are many countries in the world with chemical weapons and launchers for them. Any one of them could, theoretically, have provided the rebels with such arms in order to launch a false-flag attack in hopes the Syrian government would be attacked by the US and others in response.
There are several theories as to who might have done so that I've read, all of which are as reasonable (at least) as the idea of Assad suicidally using chemical weapons despite the threat of US intervention made long before they were used.
I don't think anyone knows who used them, except those who used them. And they're not telling.
I place absolutely zero faith in US "intelligence reports" after their WMD debacle for Iraq.
It's sad to see an entire team of supposedly "professional" developers which have never heard of version control.
You can't even blame it on the Windows environment -- MSVS supports hooks for several version control systems either natively or through plugins/addons.
This whole story just reeks of some manager saying "We can't afford to set that up -- it would take too much time" any time someone has suggested it.
Because I flat out refuse to believe the entire team doesn't know any better.
I thought they were talking about a 5mm diameter hard drive, seeing as hard drive sizes have been reported in diameter for as long as I can remember. I was wondering how they were going to engineer something that small and still have a useful storage size. :)
TV.com also lists them as a single, sixteen episode season.
Not like any library I've ever dealt with.
There may be a late fee if you return the book late, but they don't come to your door to retrieve it because you didn't pay a membership fee.
Sounds to me more like they're interested in tapping into the "Silk Road" market, seeing as they take cash.
To be honest, I can't think of any use cases for a so-called smart watch that requires a companion device. But it kind of fails as a standalone device as well:
So really, I can't see them being marketable as standalone devices. And as companion devices, the $300 price range they seem to be targetting is a hell of a lot of money for "look -- it shows me who's calling without pulling out my phone!"
I don't. I use Firefox because it doesn't ask for access to my default keystore.
Not that I keep any keys in the default keystore anyhow. I just don't like the behaviour of Chrome in this regard.
Why would any sane person want to unlock their whole wallet just for a freaking browser?