Or perhaps America can elect some real leaders who will dismantle the unconstitutional Socialist Entitlement state so that we won't have to depend on foreign powers to buy our debt?
Is this article FUBAR? What's with the title? What do the terms "Intimate Social Graph" have to do with law enforcement snooping on stored electronic correspondence?
Anyway, I think the safe thing to assume is, anything you send online in the clear is potentially open for anyone with interest and some technical experience to intercept and learn about you. There should be no expectation of privacy for that sort of information. If you proceed with that assumption in mind, you won't be disappointed if you find out you're being snooped on, and hopefully you will have taken some measure to guard yourself based on that realization.
If a party arose that pledged as part of its platform to abolish the IRS and fundamentally reform government, getting us off the speeding train wreck financial course we're on presently, wouldn't such a party do really well electorally? Why hasn't any party to date come up with a clear message to that effect? OR am I deluding myself by thinking that Americans still want to enjoy the fruits of liberty?
Especially in the face of other powerful corporate interests that like to flex a lot of legal muscle? Such instances are few and far between. I don't have any plans on living in the UK, but I'd like to support BT. Their ideas intrigue me and I'd like to subscribe to their newsletter.
On a similar note, I've seen one web hosting company that won't buckle on illegitimate DMCA complaints without being compelled by court order to suspend service. The company I'm thinking of is Hostway. Their service plans and features aren't very good for the money, but if you need a host that will be in your corner in case someone is playing unscrupulous tricks on you with the law, that's one company to look to. Any other examples of corporations truly serving their customers well even when under some level of legal threat?
That is utterly terrible advice. High quality stocks will always outperform the returns posted by the indexes. You have to know if you're investing for growth or income and how to diversify a portfolio, but you can do much better than the market average if you know what you're doing. If you don't, you're right buy a spider fund and hope for decent returns.
Btw, I used to day trade stocks, and it's a losing proposition unless you've got the resources to do it properly so that you can weather the inevitable volatility and manipulation of individual stocks.
A very interesting story. I wasn't aware of this CALEA law until I just read about it in a previous story in Slashdot, and it's very disturbing that the increasingly tyrannical rule (albeit a mostly soft tyranny for the time being) of the US Federal government and it's concomitant level of imperial arrogance has supposedly endowed an even more evil regime to further terrorize the world. If the US made Ahmadinejad's (YM"SH) life easier, government officials should be prosecuted and punished under the anti-treason provisions of the Constitution, but then again that can be said about many aspects of the US's ruling elite.
We must strenuously oppose any more encroachments on liberty and privacy, including the latest attempts by the Barack Hussein Obama regime to mandate backdoors in nearly all communication devices. This is a far more severe threat to our lives than ACTA. I can live without secular entertainment, but I don't want to live in a perpetual police state. We have to be mindful of the possibility that multi-national tyrannical forces are coordinating their efforts to bring a form of superlative form of international fascism (think 1984) in which all of humanity is shackled and enslaved.
Call me an alarmist if you wish - I am very alarmed.
often do not make right, as the old saying points out. It's an interesting legal question, though: Does a country have a right to use information illegally obtained by a third party to enforce laws against those implicated by that tainted information? In the US evidence that is obtained without legal authority to obtain it can often be thrown out of court through the "exclusionary rule," a legal doctrine often mentioned in connection with a concept of some evidenced being obtained as the "fruit of a poisonous tree." I wonder if the UK has any similar sorts of protections - note that I'm not implying that such protections in the US legal system would necessarily protect anyone if this story had occurred in the US instead of the UK. Governments are clearly zealous about protecting the tax revenue they take from their citizens.
Actually, even if that comment had been intended as humorous, Apple has been pushing speed and specs on the iPhone as an inducement to buy since the 3GS. Apple has set up an expectation that every new yearly iPhone release will be faster than the previous generation, so if Samsung has dual core cell phone chips coming I imagine Apple will be among the first to adopt them.
"the Stickybot can climb smooth surfaces with feet modeled on the intricate design of gecko toes."
Uh oh, better not bring design or intelligence in the context of biology. You may start scaring some people.
That was a humorous post, but TA is a real tool. It's not fool proof or exact by any stretch of the imagination, but proper TA can lead to success. TA gives you information on the probability of future pricing trends. I gave up trading equities in favor of Forex, and the TA trends are very powerful there. TA can take a years to get good at, but once you are it becomes a very powerful ability. Don't just knock it if you're not good at it or don't understand it.
Just so it's clear to those who aren't strong X-Files fans, the seals on Mulder's and Scully's badges were altered to prevent this kind of challenge from the FBI.
How do exclusivity deals with major vendors count as monopolistic? It just sounds like competition to me. I like AMD's competition to Intel, but just because Intel is the chip leader for PCs doesn't mean it should be hampered in trying to compete with its competition. Can you point me to an antitrust statute that says exclusive deals with manufacturers counts as anti-competitive behavior?
After all, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and in addition to that, satisfied customers usually don't go to great lengths to praise service they're satisfied with.
2 GHz Celerons don't cut it for heavy web surfing, either. You'll probably have problems on YouTube. A low-end machine won't cut it for photo editing, or video editing, or audio editing.
The Raven is exactly correct. Bloatware is highly bloated software that works but is overly large and complex, like Microsoft Office. I didn't know what to call useless OEM installed software before this, but crapware is an appropriate description of it.
I personally have to wonder about the length of time involved in bringing this controversy up in court. I wonder how long it took before legal actions was undertaken at all. The reason why the issue is important is there's the concept in the law that a party with a claim against another needs to exercise available legal remedies in order to reduce the damages incurred by whatever wrong is alleged (breach of contract, trademark infringement, etc.). If you don't enforce your contracts or other legal rights, or if you wait for an extended period before attempting to do so, the law can look at your claims less favorably. (This happens in certain circumstances like IP disputes where the legal doctrine of laches can apply - the party defending its conduct claims its opponent has "slept on its rights.") When Ceglia found out that Zuckerberg had a success on in his hands, if he truly believed he had a legal right to a piece of that success he should have immediately been in court over it (assuming no settlement had prevailed in the mean time). Even assuming considerable case backlogs that judges so often complain about (and use as excuses for delaying justice), the process should not have been delayed for years. Even if they were in serious settlement negotiations, the process shouldn't have taken this long. It makes me suspect Ceglia's claims aren't as strong as others assume or imply.
A substantial amount of the population drives less than 100 miles in a given multi-day period. I think an all electric car could be a primary vehicle for most purposes, while for longer trips a secondary gas or hybrid model would work.
If you approve of the current course of the Congress, reelect Harry Reid. If you don't, vote for Sharron Angle.
If you approve of a 2000+ health care takeover bill that Democrats couldn't even be bothered to read before signing it into law, reelect Harry Reid. If you don't, vote for Sharron Angle.
If you approve of the record national deficits and massive increases in discretionary spending by President Obama and the Democratic Congress, reelect Harry Reid. If you don't, vote for Sharron Angle.
If you want to ensure that this country has no hope of ever tackling the enormous structural deficits imposed by the public Socialist Entitlements (Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) and government employee Entitlements (ample federal employee salaries, benefits and pensions), reelect Harry Reid who has pledged to maintain the status quo. If you don't, vote for Sharron Angle.
If you want to show favor toward a politician who helped engineer the sub-prime mortgage crisis, reelect Harry Reid. If you don't, vote for Sharron Angle.
If you like the performance of Congressional incumbents and want to protect them, reelect Harry Reid. If you don't, vote, vote for Sharron Angle.
If you favor single party rule and all the implications that go with it, reelect Harry Reid. If you don't, vote of Sharron Angle.
The choice is clear in Reid v. Angle and in most other Congressional races this year. Choose wisely - the future of this country is most certainly at stake.
Some religions (like Judaism) teach the sanctity of even dead bodies. The concept is that the body belongs to G-d even after death. Autopsy and other forms of desecration of the body after death are not in line with those beliefs, and society should respect that fact. (Judaism also teaches that whatever happens to the body after death has an impact on the soul that came from it, which is why religious Jews don't do organ donation or cremation.)
You didn't mention two enormous drains on our national finance: the public Entitlements (Social Security, Medicare and Medicad) AND the government employee Entitlements (salaries, benefits, pensions, etc). Everyone blames war spending while often forgetting the first category and almost always forgetting the second. Go look up what share of the federal budget those things consume - I'm sure you'll be in for a shock. They dwarf defense spending.
Why haven't other countries made this imbalance more of an issue in the media? This is the first I've heard of it and will have to do some research, but it sounds right and I'm eager to trust a fellow hater of Socialism.
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Or perhaps America can elect some real leaders who will dismantle the unconstitutional Socialist Entitlement state so that we won't have to depend on foreign powers to buy our debt?
Is this article FUBAR? What's with the title? What do the terms "Intimate Social Graph" have to do with law enforcement snooping on stored electronic correspondence? Anyway, I think the safe thing to assume is, anything you send online in the clear is potentially open for anyone with interest and some technical experience to intercept and learn about you. There should be no expectation of privacy for that sort of information. If you proceed with that assumption in mind, you won't be disappointed if you find out you're being snooped on, and hopefully you will have taken some measure to guard yourself based on that realization.
I'm glad it works for you, but I have trouble trusting a tax preparation firm that screws up its own taxes over multiple years.
If a party arose that pledged as part of its platform to abolish the IRS and fundamentally reform government, getting us off the speeding train wreck financial course we're on presently, wouldn't such a party do really well electorally? Why hasn't any party to date come up with a clear message to that effect? OR am I deluding myself by thinking that Americans still want to enjoy the fruits of liberty?
Especially in the face of other powerful corporate interests that like to flex a lot of legal muscle? Such instances are few and far between. I don't have any plans on living in the UK, but I'd like to support BT. Their ideas intrigue me and I'd like to subscribe to their newsletter.
On a similar note, I've seen one web hosting company that won't buckle on illegitimate DMCA complaints without being compelled by court order to suspend service. The company I'm thinking of is Hostway. Their service plans and features aren't very good for the money, but if you need a host that will be in your corner in case someone is playing unscrupulous tricks on you with the law, that's one company to look to. Any other examples of corporations truly serving their customers well even when under some level of legal threat?
Blizzard was kind in supporting Power Macs as long as it did after Apple's Intel defection.
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That is utterly terrible advice. High quality stocks will always outperform the returns posted by the indexes. You have to know if you're investing for growth or income and how to diversify a portfolio, but you can do much better than the market average if you know what you're doing. If you don't, you're right buy a spider fund and hope for decent returns.
Btw, I used to day trade stocks, and it's a losing proposition unless you've got the resources to do it properly so that you can weather the inevitable volatility and manipulation of individual stocks.
A very interesting story. I wasn't aware of this CALEA law until I just read about it in a previous story in Slashdot, and it's very disturbing that the increasingly tyrannical rule (albeit a mostly soft tyranny for the time being) of the US Federal government and it's concomitant level of imperial arrogance has supposedly endowed an even more evil regime to further terrorize the world. If the US made Ahmadinejad's (YM"SH) life easier, government officials should be prosecuted and punished under the anti-treason provisions of the Constitution, but then again that can be said about many aspects of the US's ruling elite.
We must strenuously oppose any more encroachments on liberty and privacy, including the latest attempts by the Barack Hussein Obama regime to mandate backdoors in nearly all communication devices. This is a far more severe threat to our lives than ACTA. I can live without secular entertainment, but I don't want to live in a perpetual police state. We have to be mindful of the possibility that multi-national tyrannical forces are coordinating their efforts to bring a form of superlative form of international fascism (think 1984) in which all of humanity is shackled and enslaved.
Call me an alarmist if you wish - I am very alarmed.
often do not make right, as the old saying points out. It's an interesting legal question, though: Does a country have a right to use information illegally obtained by a third party to enforce laws against those implicated by that tainted information? In the US evidence that is obtained without legal authority to obtain it can often be thrown out of court through the "exclusionary rule," a legal doctrine often mentioned in connection with a concept of some evidenced being obtained as the "fruit of a poisonous tree." I wonder if the UK has any similar sorts of protections - note that I'm not implying that such protections in the US legal system would necessarily protect anyone if this story had occurred in the US instead of the UK. Governments are clearly zealous about protecting the tax revenue they take from their citizens.
Actually, even if that comment had been intended as humorous, Apple has been pushing speed and specs on the iPhone as an inducement to buy since the 3GS. Apple has set up an expectation that every new yearly iPhone release will be faster than the previous generation, so if Samsung has dual core cell phone chips coming I imagine Apple will be among the first to adopt them.
Why would I want to read anything by an author who uses the ungrammatical form "much more rich"? The superlative of rich is richer, not more rich.
Thank you, AC. Perfect case in point.
"the Stickybot can climb smooth surfaces with feet modeled on the intricate design of gecko toes." Uh oh, better not bring design or intelligence in the context of biology. You may start scaring some people.
That was a humorous post, but TA is a real tool. It's not fool proof or exact by any stretch of the imagination, but proper TA can lead to success. TA gives you information on the probability of future pricing trends. I gave up trading equities in favor of Forex, and the TA trends are very powerful there. TA can take a years to get good at, but once you are it becomes a very powerful ability. Don't just knock it if you're not good at it or don't understand it.
Just so it's clear to those who aren't strong X-Files fans, the seals on Mulder's and Scully's badges were altered to prevent this kind of challenge from the FBI.
How do exclusivity deals with major vendors count as monopolistic? It just sounds like competition to me. I like AMD's competition to Intel, but just because Intel is the chip leader for PCs doesn't mean it should be hampered in trying to compete with its competition. Can you point me to an antitrust statute that says exclusive deals with manufacturers counts as anti-competitive behavior?
After all, the squeaky wheel gets the grease, and in addition to that, satisfied customers usually don't go to great lengths to praise service they're satisfied with.
2 GHz Celerons don't cut it for heavy web surfing, either. You'll probably have problems on YouTube. A low-end machine won't cut it for photo editing, or video editing, or audio editing.
The Raven is exactly correct. Bloatware is highly bloated software that works but is overly large and complex, like Microsoft Office. I didn't know what to call useless OEM installed software before this, but crapware is an appropriate description of it.
I personally have to wonder about the length of time involved in bringing this controversy up in court. I wonder how long it took before legal actions was undertaken at all. The reason why the issue is important is there's the concept in the law that a party with a claim against another needs to exercise available legal remedies in order to reduce the damages incurred by whatever wrong is alleged (breach of contract, trademark infringement, etc.). If you don't enforce your contracts or other legal rights, or if you wait for an extended period before attempting to do so, the law can look at your claims less favorably. (This happens in certain circumstances like IP disputes where the legal doctrine of laches can apply - the party defending its conduct claims its opponent has "slept on its rights.") When Ceglia found out that Zuckerberg had a success on in his hands, if he truly believed he had a legal right to a piece of that success he should have immediately been in court over it (assuming no settlement had prevailed in the mean time). Even assuming considerable case backlogs that judges so often complain about (and use as excuses for delaying justice), the process should not have been delayed for years. Even if they were in serious settlement negotiations, the process shouldn't have taken this long. It makes me suspect Ceglia's claims aren't as strong as others assume or imply.
A substantial amount of the population drives less than 100 miles in a given multi-day period. I think an all electric car could be a primary vehicle for most purposes, while for longer trips a secondary gas or hybrid model would work.
If you approve of the current course of the Congress, reelect Harry Reid. If you don't, vote for Sharron Angle.
If you approve of a 2000+ health care takeover bill that Democrats couldn't even be bothered to read before signing it into law, reelect Harry Reid. If you don't, vote for Sharron Angle.
If you approve of the record national deficits and massive increases in discretionary spending by President Obama and the Democratic Congress, reelect Harry Reid. If you don't, vote for Sharron Angle.
If you want to ensure that this country has no hope of ever tackling the enormous structural deficits imposed by the public Socialist Entitlements (Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid) and government employee Entitlements (ample federal employee salaries, benefits and pensions), reelect Harry Reid who has pledged to maintain the status quo. If you don't, vote for Sharron Angle.
If you want to show favor toward a politician who helped engineer the sub-prime mortgage crisis, reelect Harry Reid. If you don't, vote for Sharron Angle.
If you like the performance of Congressional incumbents and want to protect them, reelect Harry Reid. If you don't, vote, vote for Sharron Angle.
If you favor single party rule and all the implications that go with it, reelect Harry Reid. If you don't, vote of Sharron Angle.
The choice is clear in Reid v. Angle and in most other Congressional races this year. Choose wisely - the future of this country is most certainly at stake.
Some religions (like Judaism) teach the sanctity of even dead bodies. The concept is that the body belongs to G-d even after death. Autopsy and other forms of desecration of the body after death are not in line with those beliefs, and society should respect that fact. (Judaism also teaches that whatever happens to the body after death has an impact on the soul that came from it, which is why religious Jews don't do organ donation or cremation.)
You didn't mention two enormous drains on our national finance: the public Entitlements (Social Security, Medicare and Medicad) AND the government employee Entitlements (salaries, benefits, pensions, etc). Everyone blames war spending while often forgetting the first category and almost always forgetting the second. Go look up what share of the federal budget those things consume - I'm sure you'll be in for a shock. They dwarf defense spending.
That would only work if the existing campus LAN could be adapted to work with independent ISPs, or if WIMAX were a reality.
Why haven't other countries made this imbalance more of an issue in the media? This is the first I've heard of it and will have to do some research, but it sounds right and I'm eager to trust a fellow hater of Socialism.