I'd think that the NSA asking for the data to be sent to them would qualify as "collecting"
You may call it "semantic", but the meaning of "collecting" is far different from that of "storing"
If NSA is the one who set up active "middle of the man" devices to collect anything and everything going through the pipe, NSA is collecting information from the American public
But if the info turns out to be "copies" of emails and stuffs sent to NSA by the ISPs, and all NSA does is to provide a storage for all those info, technically and legally, it's not "collecting", it's "storing"
Woz is from the same generation as me, and people like us who had been through the Vietnam war and the Watergate era, do not trust anything
On the other hand, with the advent of FB and all the social-media thingy, the younger generations (Y/Z/Z+1) tend to accept everything everybody tells them, and they do not mind everybody knows what they do at any given moment
Some of them actually BOUGHT an app so that they can tell the world when they poop !!
That is why I ain't at all surprised at the result of a poll that was taken not that long ago, about the majority of the American people are okay with their government spying on them, as long as they feel that their government is fighting terrorism for them
I always have that hunch that in this cyberworld that we live in, everybody is hacking everybody else --- just like the good ol' pre-cyberworld time, everybody's spies are spying on everybody-else
Even close allies like US-Israel, they spied on each others all the time
But the thing that I genuine do not understand is, why is USA so loudly proclaiming to the world that China is hacking USA while US is doing the same thing (or perhaps more) to China ??
It's like a boxing match -- boxer A trading punches with boxer B -- and only boxer B crying foul every single time boxer A's punch lands on him
It's getting ridiculous, man, very very VERY ridiculous !!
Liberals and conservatives are not both sides of the same coin. Not at all.
Yes they are !
You are confusing republican and democrat with conservative and liberal. The truth is that both democrats and republicans are conservative. Both are the enemy of America, the nation founded on liberal ideals
Correction: The nation of the United States of America was founded on the LIBERTARIAN ideals, not "liberal"
Before you want to dispute what I've just said, I invite you to re-read all old documents left behind by the founding fathers, old documents such as the Constitution of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and so on
When you are re-reading those documents, try putting yourself in the authors' shoes, try feeling what the authors were feeling when they were penning those documents
The founding fathers fought the British because their liberties were at stake - them Brits were taking away one liberty and the next, until the colonials couldn't stand it no more, that was what has sparked the American Revolution
All the sacrifices of our forefathers shouldn't be in vain, my friend
We, the People of the United States, should once again, stand up for OUR LIBERTIES
If we fail to do that, there will be no more future for our children, and theirs
If by 2017 the number of mobile devices is more than the number of human beings on this planet, by the year 2011, when those mobile devices end up in landfills, think of the amount of WASTE !!!
I understand the danger of Islamic terrorism, first hand
I can't tell you where I am, suffice to say that I am posting this comment from outside of the United States of America, and my primary task is to penetrate some of the more virulent Islamic circles to obtain info on the global jihadist movement
However, the danger of the Islamic terrorism can not, and should never, be used to justify the destruction of the Constitution of the United States of America
It's pretty amazing, and here's hoping the sacrifice isn't completely wasted
When I read statement like the above, I cringe
I cringe because of that "I can't do nothing" feeling that is being felt by so many people today
So, we are just going around and sit in front of our compute screen (or look on our mobile devices) and let Mr. Snowden become the next sacrificial lamb ?
If the Arabs are so brave as to stand up against their tyrannical leaders, if the Turks are so brave to tell their "elected dictator" to fuck off, why can't we, the Americans, the supposed "Braves" who live in the "land of the Free" ?
Have we, the Americans, become pussies ?
As an American, I am damn proud of what Mr. Snowden has done
He has given back to me, the hope for my country
I left my country, America, a decade and a half ago, because I could see no hope no more, but now, Mr. Snowden has given me the hope, that my country is worth fighting for
No more shall I be scared by fuckers in Washington
No matter they are Democrats or Republicans, no matter if that guy in the White House is Obama or any other person, if they fuck my Constitution, I am going to fuck them back
And I have the duty to do so, yes, not only the right to do so, but the DUTY, as an American citizen, to take back my government from those motherfucking tyrants !!!
According to my primary school history text books, the government is us
However, I have grown up, and the reality has changed as well
The US government is no longer "us"
No more
During the Watergate era, I was very proud to be an American --- because, at that time, America is the only country in the world where the CONSTITUTION took precedence, so much so that a president could lose his job for doing a wrong thing
Now ?
If you still think that the same thing can happen to Obama, I have a beautiful bridge in Brooklyn to sell you
The system is totally fucked up, and I mean, TOTALLY FUCKED UP !!!
Never in my life I could imaging the government in the United States could be so fucked up !
Not only they broke the CONSTITUTION with their phone tapping and their PRISM, now they are doing that to the people who volunteered their skill to preserve what needed to preserve - THE EVIDENCES which had helped the prosecutors in that rape case !!
FUCK MAN !!!
United States is NO LONGER the land of the free, and those who live in it are no longer the braves, either !!!
So far Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, FB et al had been identified by the Prism disclosure
They are indentified because they are in the big data business
However, I'll bet that there's yet another US company which may be deeply involved - CISCO
I get this thought only on hindsight - the way the US government reacted so negatively on Huawei gears really makes me wonder if there's another hidden story somewhere
Maybe, and I stress, just _maybe_ Huawei's hardware does not come with the backdoor which NSA/FBI (or any other alphabetic agency) can tap on to spy on us, and that fact alone infuriate them so much
Or... to put it another way... the so-called "safe hardware", the ones made by CISCO, may come with backdoors which NSA can drive a semi through
The more I think of this scenario, the more it makes sense --- Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, FB can deny their participation on the Prism scheme because, technically, they are *NOT*
It's the CISCO gears that they use in the datacenter which accomplish the task
I mean, why NASA has to go the LEGO route when free and opensource 3D raytracing programs are available to all ?
Furthermore, constructing space crafts using LEGO means people are unnecessarily being restricted by availability of the shape/size/color of the LEGO blocks
On 3D programs people get to create whatever shape/size and use whatever color they want, on their creations
An outbreak of common sense. I can scarcely believe my eyes
Unfortunately it won't last long
With so much weighting on this - money, power, greed, and the insatiable desire (on the part of both the Liberals and the Conservatives of the American government) to restrict the liberties of the American people, this outburst of common sense would be anything but a short-flash
TFA tells us that people can do this or do that to the visitors' computers (or smartphones) but there's no hint on how to block all these...
Anyone can share a little insight on what kind of precaution that we can do in order to block out all those things from entering our own device in the first place --- other than not visiting those websites, I mean...
Interestingly no current HIV drugs target the HIV capsid and researchers believe that understanding the structure of the HIV capsid may hold the key to the development of new and more effective antiretroviral drugs
Since the "discovery" of the HIV virus in the late 1980's scientists have discovered that the HIV virus has undergone several mutations
Even if there are drugs which can successfully targets the HIV capsid that have been decoded in this experiment, it does not mean that the HIV virus won't mutate again, and change their capsid sequence (or chemical formula) to foil those drugs
But all in all, the effort in sequencing the capsid is indeed a breakthrough, a step forward in understanding the nature of the bug, even if it's one type, amongst the many varieties
The G2 cloud is as large as our Solar System, and bound for a "supermassive" black hole at the Milky Way's core.
On the way, it should encounter many black holes just tens of km across.
If I am wrong please correct me...
From the way TFA is describing it, it's like that's a SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE in the middle, kinda like a HUGE FASHION MALL in the center of the city
The G2 cloud is heading to that supermassive black hole --- kinda like a group of girls are heading to that huge fashion mall
And on the way, the G2 cloud will encounter many, much smaller black holes, some are just tens of kilometers across --- kinda like on the way to that huge fashion mall, the girls would encounter some little fashion shoppes
Black hole sucks, right ?
Supermassive black hole sucks supermassively, right ??
If that's the case, why hasn't that supermassive black hole sucked in the many, much smaller black holes in the neighborhood ???
I'm just a regular geek, I am interested in astronomy but I have to confess that I dunno nothing about the physics of astronomy
Linux is fine for servers, portable devices, and embedded systems, but trying to stick it on the desktop is a foolish dream that has failed for over 10 years
While I can't speak for anybody else, more MORE than 10 years I've been running Linux, not only for servers, but also on desktops
Many desktops
Yes, my company does have Windows machines, but they are there because we can't find proper alternatives to some software that some of our people need, and that's the one thing the Linux community needs to improve on --- to persuade software developers to port their software onto Linux
Especially now that the market share of desktop computer is shrinking, software companies should understand that if they port their software into Linux, they gonna get a lot of new purchases from Linux users
Most Linux users of today are professionals - and have the money to pay for licensed software
In the case of our company, if only we could find software which runs on Linux, we wouldn't need to get Windows machine anymore --- plus we could use the money we save (from not having to pay the M$ OS tax) to upgrade our Linux machines
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I'd think that the NSA asking for the data to be sent to them would qualify as "collecting"
You may call it "semantic", but the meaning of "collecting" is far different from that of "storing"
If NSA is the one who set up active "middle of the man" devices to collect anything and everything going through the pipe, NSA is collecting information from the American public
But if the info turns out to be "copies" of emails and stuffs sent to NSA by the ISPs, and all NSA does is to provide a storage for all those info, technically and legally, it's not "collecting", it's " storing "
Woz is from the same generation as me, and people like us who had been through the Vietnam war and the Watergate era, do not trust anything
On the other hand, with the advent of FB and all the social-media thingy, the younger generations (Y/Z/Z+1) tend to accept everything everybody tells them, and they do not mind everybody knows what they do at any given moment
Case in point --- http://pooptheworld.com/
Some of them actually BOUGHT an app so that they can tell the world when they poop !!
That is why I ain't at all surprised at the result of a poll that was taken not that long ago, about the majority of the American people are okay with their government spying on them, as long as they feel that their government is fighting terrorism for them
With A-7 available for almost 2 years already I can not understand why vendors still producing SoC based on the A-9 chip
http://www.carbondesignsystems.com/virtual-prototype-blog/bid/171998/IP-Selection-ARM-Cortex-A9-or-Cortex-A7
I am genuinely curious
I always have that hunch that in this cyberworld that we live in, everybody is hacking everybody else --- just like the good ol' pre-cyberworld time, everybody's spies are spying on everybody-else
Even close allies like US-Israel, they spied on each others all the time
But the thing that I genuine do not understand is, why is USA so loudly proclaiming to the world that China is hacking USA while US is doing the same thing (or perhaps more) to China ??
It's like a boxing match -- boxer A trading punches with boxer B -- and only boxer B crying foul every single time boxer A's punch lands on him
It's getting ridiculous, man, very very VERY ridiculous !!
Liberals and conservatives are not both sides of the same coin. Not at all.
Yes they are !
You are confusing republican and democrat with conservative and liberal. The truth is that both democrats and republicans are conservative. Both are the enemy of America, the nation founded on liberal ideals
Correction:
The nation of the United States of America was founded on the LIBERTARIAN ideals, not "liberal"
Before you want to dispute what I've just said, I invite you to re-read all old documents left behind by the founding fathers, old documents such as the Constitution of the United States, the Declaration of Independence, the Bill of Rights, and so on
When you are re-reading those documents, try putting yourself in the authors' shoes, try feeling what the authors were feeling when they were penning those documents
The founding fathers fought the British because their liberties were at stake - them Brits were taking away one liberty and the next, until the colonials couldn't stand it no more, that was what has sparked the American Revolution
All the sacrifices of our forefathers shouldn't be in vain, my friend
We, the People of the United States, should once again, stand up for OUR LIBERTIES
If we fail to do that, there will be no more future for our children, and theirs
If by 2017 the number of mobile devices is more than the number of human beings on this planet, by the year 2011, when those mobile devices end up in landfills, think of the amount of WASTE !!!
I understand the danger of Islamic terrorism, first hand
I can't tell you where I am, suffice to say that I am posting this comment from outside of the United States of America, and my primary task is to penetrate some of the more virulent Islamic circles to obtain info on the global jihadist movement
However, the danger of the Islamic terrorism can not, and should never, be used to justify the destruction of the Constitution of the United States of America
Two wrongs can never make a right, sir !!
It's pretty amazing, and here's hoping the sacrifice isn't completely wasted
When I read statement like the above, I cringe
I cringe because of that "I can't do nothing" feeling that is being felt by so many people today
So, we are just going around and sit in front of our compute screen (or look on our mobile devices) and let Mr. Snowden become the next sacrificial lamb ?
If the Arabs are so brave as to stand up against their tyrannical leaders, if the Turks are so brave to tell their "elected dictator" to fuck off, why can't we, the Americans, the supposed "Braves" who live in the "land of the Free" ?
Have we, the Americans, become pussies ?
As an American, I am damn proud of what Mr. Snowden has done
He has given back to me, the hope for my country
I left my country, America, a decade and a half ago, because I could see no hope no more, but now, Mr. Snowden has given me the hope, that my country is worth fighting for
No more shall I be scared by fuckers in Washington
No matter they are Democrats or Republicans, no matter if that guy in the White House is Obama or any other person, if they fuck my Constitution, I am going to fuck them back
And I have the duty to do so, yes, not only the right to do so, but the DUTY, as an American citizen, to take back my government from those motherfucking tyrants !!!
The government is us
According to my primary school history text books, the government is us
However, I have grown up, and the reality has changed as well
The US government is no longer "us"
No more
During the Watergate era, I was very proud to be an American --- because, at that time, America is the only country in the world where the CONSTITUTION took precedence, so much so that a president could lose his job for doing a wrong thing
Now ?
If you still think that the same thing can happen to Obama, I have a beautiful bridge in Brooklyn to sell you
The PUTUS lied to the congress
The congress lied to the people ... and the people ... becomes sheeple
I am a citizen of the United States of America, and I've moved out a decade ago and a half ago
At that time I said to myself, one day when USA gets better I would return
But, will it ??
The system is totally fucked up, and I mean, TOTALLY FUCKED UP !!!
Never in my life I could imaging the government in the United States could be so fucked up !
Not only they broke the CONSTITUTION with their phone tapping and their PRISM, now they are doing that to the people who volunteered their skill to preserve what needed to preserve - THE EVIDENCES which had helped the prosecutors in that rape case !!
FUCK MAN !!!
United States is NO LONGER the land of the free, and those who live in it are no longer the braves, either !!!
So far Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, FB et al had been identified by the Prism disclosure
They are indentified because they are in the big data business
However, I'll bet that there's yet another US company which may be deeply involved - CISCO
I get this thought only on hindsight - the way the US government reacted so negatively on Huawei gears really makes me wonder if there's another hidden story somewhere
Maybe, and I stress, just _maybe_ Huawei's hardware does not come with the backdoor which NSA/FBI (or any other alphabetic agency) can tap on to spy on us, and that fact alone infuriate them so much
Or ... to put it another way ... the so-called "safe hardware", the ones made by CISCO, may come with backdoors which NSA can drive a semi through
The more I think of this scenario, the more it makes sense --- Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, FB can deny their participation on the Prism scheme because, technically, they are *NOT*
It's the CISCO gears that they use in the datacenter which accomplish the task
So...what you're saying, is that this government is effectively an anti-US government?
I will put it as "A regime which is anti-The Constitution of the United States"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/2013/jun/06/verizon-telephone-data-court-order
Kids make models => kids want to become engineers => kids grow up and work for NASA and build future ships
On the other hand, with the use of open sourced3D ray-tracing programs ...
Kids make 3D models on screen
=> kids can test out their 3D models with simulation programs available online (many open sourced) while learning about aerodynamics at the same time
=> kids fine-tuning / enhancing / modifying their 3D models
=> kids get all excited and learn more about various rocket engine designs
=> kids unknowingly become very knowledgeable in things that will open a lot of doors for them
=> kids become space craft designers on their own rights
=> profit !
I mean, why NASA has to go the LEGO route when free and opensource 3D raytracing programs are available to all ?
Furthermore, constructing space crafts using LEGO means people are unnecessarily being restricted by availability of the shape/size/color of the LEGO blocks
On 3D programs people get to create whatever shape/size and use whatever color they want, on their creations
An outbreak of common sense. I can scarcely believe my eyes
Unfortunately it won't last long
With so much weighting on this - money, power, greed, and the insatiable desire (on the part of both the Liberals and the Conservatives of the American government) to restrict the liberties of the American people, this outburst of common sense would be anything but a short-flash
TFA tells us that people can do this or do that to the visitors' computers (or smartphones) but there's no hint on how to block all these ...
Anyone can share a little insight on what kind of precaution that we can do in order to block out all those things from entering our own device in the first place --- other than not visiting those websites, I mean ...
Interestingly no current HIV drugs target the HIV capsid and researchers believe that understanding the structure of the HIV capsid may hold the key to the development of new and more effective antiretroviral drugs
Since the "discovery" of the HIV virus in the late 1980's scientists have discovered that the HIV virus has undergone several mutations
Even if there are drugs which can successfully targets the HIV capsid that have been decoded in this experiment, it does not mean that the HIV virus won't mutate again, and change their capsid sequence (or chemical formula) to foil those drugs
But all in all, the effort in sequencing the capsid is indeed a breakthrough, a step forward in understanding the nature of the bug, even if it's one type, amongst the many varieties
The SOPA deals with IPs especially from America
A lot of Islamic nations are up in arms with online porn
And now England joins in
Is England turning Islamic ??
The G2 cloud is as large as our Solar System, and bound for a "supermassive" black hole at the Milky Way's core.
On the way, it should encounter many black holes just tens of km across.
If I am wrong please correct me ...
From the way TFA is describing it, it's like that's a SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE in the middle, kinda like a HUGE FASHION MALL in the center of the city
The G2 cloud is heading to that supermassive black hole --- kinda like a group of girls are heading to that huge fashion mall
And on the way, the G2 cloud will encounter many, much smaller black holes, some are just tens of kilometers across --- kinda like on the way to that huge fashion mall, the girls would encounter some little fashion shoppes
Black hole sucks, right ?
Supermassive black hole sucks supermassively, right ??
If that's the case, why hasn't that supermassive black hole sucked in the many, much smaller black holes in the neighborhood ???
I'm just a regular geek, I am interested in astronomy but I have to confess that I dunno nothing about the physics of astronomy
Can someone help out, please ?
Thank you !!
You guys always talk as if this is a bug
No, it's a feature !!!
It's a feature to the telcos, so that they can charge their customer more !!
Linux is fine for servers, portable devices, and embedded systems, but trying to stick it on the desktop is a foolish dream that has failed for over 10 years
While I can't speak for anybody else, more MORE than 10 years I've been running Linux, not only for servers, but also on desktops
Many desktops
Yes, my company does have Windows machines, but they are there because we can't find proper alternatives to some software that some of our people need, and that's the one thing the Linux community needs to improve on --- to persuade software developers to port their software onto Linux
Especially now that the market share of desktop computer is shrinking, software companies should understand that if they port their software into Linux, they gonna get a lot of new purchases from Linux users
Most Linux users of today are professionals - and have the money to pay for licensed software
In the case of our company, if only we could find software which runs on Linux, we wouldn't need to get Windows machine anymore --- plus we could use the money we save (from not having to pay the M$ OS tax) to upgrade our Linux machines