There's a reason Jefferson suggested the judicial was our government's despotic branch.
Really though, when you look at the case, the truly disturbing thing is that the case was not ruled on any constitutional grounds which reflected the text nor the known intent of the founders, nor was it in line with over a century of precedents regarding the Commerce Clause. It argued that having the potential to have an effect upon a federal law's ability to manipulate both supply and prices if enough farmers did the same thing as Filburn. And that somehow, this was sufficient not just to force him to destroy his crops and fine him under the Commerce Clause, but to create a precedent that gave legitimacy to what has become a vast amount of federal micromanagement of local and private actions that have nothing whatsoever to do with interstate commerce.
I'm not saying everything done under the Commerce Clause today is necessarily even bad (even if much of it is), but I'm certainly saying that the proper means would have been amendment, not court rulings.
Why do you continually act as if there is no available competition as it is? For the purposes that remain, both Mac and the various free *nix systems are already there. There is no need to create a new product when several exist and aren't going away. People won't run XP and 7 forever, and they're certainly not adopting 8 voluntarily, particularly in business.
That's not probable cause. It's a fishing expedition. For probable cause to exist, there would have to be a reason to specifically suspect the phone was involved.
I'm not sure you understood my statement if you are claiming my statements contradict each other. The web-interfaced services take away the longstanding requirement that one be able to install a specific program on the system itself. Instead, now they can simply interact with a server via a browser, which means that not only do you not need Microsoft's OS, but you also don't need anything but a username and password to hop on another computer and work. Meanwhile, for business use, Metro introduced a system that nobody wants to develop business software specifically for it. Where, again, was the contradiction?
Well according to the Supreme Court, growing crops for your own personal use (I'm referring to wheat, not even other more recreational plants) is "interstate commerce". So I'd hardly call them a reliable source on the reason we have things, even if their decisions are binding.
I'm using an unofficial android client as well. I had to hack the backend a little on my server to get the locally cached images to work, not sure if that's the reason my android won't properly cache the article images. Internet can be a bit flaky out where I live, so I prefer to remain able to view my feeds when it's not functioning.
There's a difference between the proper duties of a police officer and what is described here.
A police offer exists to serve and protect. This describes procedures to fish for charges. Society has naught to gain from giving cops the authority to search mobile phones without a warrant.
SP4 and mainstreaming the 64-bit version would do wonders to preserve Microsoft's market share in the desktop world. I know a lot of people who have come to me asking for alternatives, knowing I'm an IT guy. Most of them ask about Mac, and many are seriously considering making that jump.
I'm starting to suspect that Windows 8 has doomed the future of Microsoft's near-monopoly on the business desktop. This, combined with the sheer number of services provided via web browser, seems to be a serious threat to Microsoft's future. Where I work, almost all my users could get by with any desktop OS and the web interface they use all day every day would work no differently from what they are used to. Even on Linux, since the services we are using support Firefox independent of the underlying operating system.
With the exception of a handful of users who need Office for interop with vendors and services outside our office, the only thing that keeps me from seriously considering changing systems is the ever-present possibility that we may have to deal with vendors who require their own special software that only runs on Windows.
I'm not happy about having to do it, but I've been playing with my own Tiny Tiny RSS server installed on my file server. It runs well, but it's not Google Reader.
Apple does indeed work to close known vulnerabilities in their software...as long as the hardware it goes on is still marketable. My contract was far from over by the time support for my iPhone 3G ended, including security patching. All resources went into the later iOS versions I could not run. So I can't give Apple credit for working to close vulnerabilities when they knowingly abandoned users to exploitable versions of their software.
I was just remarking to my wife that upon looking at iOS 7, the "features" Apple seems to have added are the ones an Android user can implement without having to root, jailbreak, or otherwise breach the basic device's intended configuration. In fact, these kinds of features are why we each eventually jailbroke our iPhone 3G before finally switching to Android. The only Android device I rooted was my tablet, and that was to perform a swap of internal pseudo-SD and the real SD due to the limited space as designed. Not the most stable configuration, by the way, but I knew that going into it.
So you're saying that in the 90,000,000 pages per year of classified documents generated each year, surely most of them must be genuinely on the scale of the very short list you've provided? I'm not buying it.
That's the best comparison I have come up with as well, though I usually try to avoid it because on the Internet, people howl and shriek about any mention of the Third Reich and completely miss the point of the discussion.
I'm quite familiar with that case. It's one of the reasons I'm as skeptical as I am of the processes used. I think it is clear that auditing of any and all government secrets is necessary. The abuse is just too likely, and if anything has been demonstrated by history, common.
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There's a reason Jefferson suggested the judicial was our government's despotic branch.
Really though, when you look at the case, the truly disturbing thing is that the case was not ruled on any constitutional grounds which reflected the text nor the known intent of the founders, nor was it in line with over a century of precedents regarding the Commerce Clause. It argued that having the potential to have an effect upon a federal law's ability to manipulate both supply and prices if enough farmers did the same thing as Filburn. And that somehow, this was sufficient not just to force him to destroy his crops and fine him under the Commerce Clause, but to create a precedent that gave legitimacy to what has become a vast amount of federal micromanagement of local and private actions that have nothing whatsoever to do with interstate commerce.
I'm not saying everything done under the Commerce Clause today is necessarily even bad (even if much of it is), but I'm certainly saying that the proper means would have been amendment, not court rulings.
Why do you continually act as if there is no available competition as it is? For the purposes that remain, both Mac and the various free *nix systems are already there. There is no need to create a new product when several exist and aren't going away. People won't run XP and 7 forever, and they're certainly not adopting 8 voluntarily, particularly in business.
That's not probable cause. It's a fishing expedition. For probable cause to exist, there would have to be a reason to specifically suspect the phone was involved.
I'm not sure you understood my statement if you are claiming my statements contradict each other. The web-interfaced services take away the longstanding requirement that one be able to install a specific program on the system itself. Instead, now they can simply interact with a server via a browser, which means that not only do you not need Microsoft's OS, but you also don't need anything but a username and password to hop on another computer and work. Meanwhile, for business use, Metro introduced a system that nobody wants to develop business software specifically for it. Where, again, was the contradiction?
Well according to the Supreme Court, growing crops for your own personal use (I'm referring to wheat, not even other more recreational plants) is "interstate commerce". So I'd hardly call them a reliable source on the reason we have things, even if their decisions are binding.
Probably because the cores aren't really cores. They're four cores that are basically hyperthreading.
I'm using an unofficial android client as well. I had to hack the backend a little on my server to get the locally cached images to work, not sure if that's the reason my android won't properly cache the article images. Internet can be a bit flaky out where I live, so I prefer to remain able to view my feeds when it's not functioning.
There's a difference between the proper duties of a police officer and what is described here.
A police offer exists to serve and protect. This describes procedures to fish for charges. Society has naught to gain from giving cops the authority to search mobile phones without a warrant.
SP4 and mainstreaming the 64-bit version would do wonders to preserve Microsoft's market share in the desktop world. I know a lot of people who have come to me asking for alternatives, knowing I'm an IT guy. Most of them ask about Mac, and many are seriously considering making that jump.
I'm starting to suspect that Windows 8 has doomed the future of Microsoft's near-monopoly on the business desktop. This, combined with the sheer number of services provided via web browser, seems to be a serious threat to Microsoft's future. Where I work, almost all my users could get by with any desktop OS and the web interface they use all day every day would work no differently from what they are used to. Even on Linux, since the services we are using support Firefox independent of the underlying operating system.
With the exception of a handful of users who need Office for interop with vendors and services outside our office, the only thing that keeps me from seriously considering changing systems is the ever-present possibility that we may have to deal with vendors who require their own special software that only runs on Windows.
I'm not happy about having to do it, but I've been playing with my own Tiny Tiny RSS server installed on my file server. It runs well, but it's not Google Reader.
I'm not sure that respondents to such a poll would be as confident of this if the line of questioning got more specific.
I also think that most Americans at this point have clearly not familiarized themselves with our founding fathers or our Constitution.
Apple does indeed work to close known vulnerabilities in their software...as long as the hardware it goes on is still marketable. My contract was far from over by the time support for my iPhone 3G ended, including security patching. All resources went into the later iOS versions I could not run. So I can't give Apple credit for working to close vulnerabilities when they knowingly abandoned users to exploitable versions of their software.
I'd totally copy a photo of a purse, or copy a photo of a stereo. But I can think of a lot of other photos I'd rather copy.
I was just remarking to my wife that upon looking at iOS 7, the "features" Apple seems to have added are the ones an Android user can implement without having to root, jailbreak, or otherwise breach the basic device's intended configuration. In fact, these kinds of features are why we each eventually jailbroke our iPhone 3G before finally switching to Android. The only Android device I rooted was my tablet, and that was to perform a swap of internal pseudo-SD and the real SD due to the limited space as designed. Not the most stable configuration, by the way, but I knew that going into it.
I know you're being sarcastic, but you're basically spot-on.
Trying to read your post, that's where the real wild goose chase is.
So you're saying that in the 90,000,000 pages per year of classified documents generated each year, surely most of them must be genuinely on the scale of the very short list you've provided? I'm not buying it.
when referring to the new kernel release which will involve more profanity use.
Indeed, but with the suspicion of foul play and the attempt to characterize those who believe that to be crazy conspiracy theorists.
Well played, good sir.
That's the best comparison I have come up with as well, though I usually try to avoid it because on the Internet, people howl and shriek about any mention of the Third Reich and completely miss the point of the discussion.
I'm quite familiar with that case. It's one of the reasons I'm as skeptical as I am of the processes used. I think it is clear that auditing of any and all government secrets is necessary. The abuse is just too likely, and if anything has been demonstrated by history, common.
I'm sure he's quite nervous.
If you read his interviews, you'd know that he knew that was the case before doing what he did.