This is not a direct proof of snooping, just that the German government has the ability to do so.
That's even more significant, because if the German government has the ability to do so, who else does? It means that SSL and the Skype protocols are not nearly as secure as one might have thought. That's much bigger news than the fact that the Germans might be spying on a few of their citizens. (Unless you happen to be German, in which case that too is a really big deal.)
If there are indeed detrimental health effect caused by WiFi (and this issue pops up occasionally when schools go wireless) then people would be affected regardless of whether or not they are actually USING the WiFi or not. Would exposure be any different for a child sitting in a table at Starbucks not using a computer than someone who is? If I understand correctly, it's the wireless access points (WAPs) that emit most of the RF energy. I suppose if your computer was sitting in your lap, then maybe the signals from the computer's antenna could be an issue, but doesn't the heat from the laptop itself do more damage to your nads?
I'm not saying I actually believe that WiFi is dangerous at all, but if it is, does it really make a difference whether you are using a computer or not?
We had a classroom full of Commodore PET 4032s, and another class with Commodore 64s. We learned programming using Waterloo Structured BASIC on the PETs and COMAL on the C64s. My last year there the school got a few ICON computers which ran QNX and came with a bunch of programming languages, and that's when I taught myself C. I've loved C ever since.
.... between what happens to the chinese perpetrators and what has happened to Gary McKinnon over the years!
Why exactly is this modded as flamebait? It sounds like these breaches were actually more serious as they targeted computers involved in nuclear commands. How is that not more serious than what Gary McKinnon did?
Fonts are protected, even though the alphabet is clearly in public domain.
Interestingly enough, fonts in America are not covered by copyright, although the computer instructions that describe a font are. It is legal to clone fonts in America of you do it optically, and don't copy any code. This is how, for example, Microsoft could create Book Antiqua, which looks virtually identical to Hermann Zapf's Palatino.
The fact that the offender owns guns is highly relevant to the level of threat he poses.
A person who owns guns is not usually problem.
A person who makes death threats is a potential problem.
A person who makes death threats AND owns guns is a potential problem of great severity.
So, in our country, we have a constitutionally protected right to free speech, and we have a constitutionally protected right to own guns, but we are not allowed to exercise both rights at the same time? They say the pen is mightier than the sword, but I guess if you have both a pen AND a sword, you're dangerous enough to be thrown in jail.
Doesn't warp drive effectively change the distance between those two points? So point A and point B are closer together for a while, you move between them, then let them resume their original positions.
Ah, but there's the problem: it's letting them return to their original positions. If a point returns to its original position faster than light, carrying you with it, then you're traveling faster than light. If it returns slower than the speed of light, then you aren't really accomplishing anything.
I'll believe it when I see time travelers from the future who have used their warp drives and FTL travel to come backward in time to tell us about it. (According to special relativity, the ability to travel faster than light is equivalent to the ability to travel backwards in time.)
I know. I always thought Turkish was considered an Altaic language, rather than Indo-European. Is Turkish a language common to both language families then? If so, that would be very interesting, as the Altaic languages include Japanese and Korean which I thought had no relation at all to Indo-European languages at all.
You'd think the summary could at least list the 3 inventions that the scientists are being honored for: The first is an oral Hepatitis C drug, the second is a leukemia drug, and the third is for developing atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition technology, which can be used, among other things, for coating glass with certain chemicals to help change solar heating properties in windows, etc.
In the Typography course I took, we were taught that the greatest font of all time is Garamond.
It wasn't even tested in this article.
If your typography course claimed any font was the greatest font of all time, you've probably wasted your money. There is no "greatest" font. There are many fonts, of varying quality, some suited for some purposes better than others. And "Garamond" isn't even one font. There are many fonts sold by many vendors with the name Garamond, some more closely resembling the designs of Claude Garamond himself than others. That said, Adobe Garamond, one of the most popular Garamonds today is a very handsome font, very well suited to setting literary works. But a newspaper printed in Adobe Garamond would look badly designed. (For a time, Maclean's, Canada's weekly news magazine used Adobe Garamond, and I thought it was an awful choice for such a publication. Since then, they commissioned a new font, Laurentian, which is much more suitable for that publication.)
A general wiring specification is hardly on a level playing field with creating the internet.
Ethernet is not a wiring specification. In fact, there are several types of wiring that can carry Ethernet: twisted pair (most common today), coaxial cable (less common), fiber optic, and possibly others. Ethernet is about the protocols which transport data from one computer to another on the same local area network.
And when you have to put in your shipping and billing address...?
I think the author was talking about digital media transferred through the Internet, not physical goods. As far as the billing address goes, use PayPal or similar.
Simple solution: If somebody is convicted wrongly and executed, execute those responsible. I would call that fair. This will include the jury, key witnesses and the prosecutor. Maybe then they will make sure they are right....
Actually this is the only condition under which I would reluctantly agree to the death penalty.
The problem with that solution is no jury would ever convict anyone in a capital murder case. Why would a jury assume the risk of being wrong and being executed when there is no benefit whatsoever to them in those cases where they are right? If a juror is to assume a huge risk, there has to be a huge reward to balance it, otherwise they'll simply play it safe and acquit every time.
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...that kind of gives away your location.
it's the difference between landing on the runway or plowing through someone's house if you're landing on instruments.
So yeah, fairly detrimental for the five hundred passengers.
I think planes mostly still use ILS rather than GPS-only for instrument landings. ILS shouldn't be affected in this way by space weather.
I'm not. Any modern government (law enforcement or intelligence agencies) would or at least should have this capability.
Really? Because saying they should have this capability is equivalent to saying we shouldn't be using strong, effective encryption.
This is not a direct proof of snooping, just that the German government has the ability to do so.
That's even more significant, because if the German government has the ability to do so, who else does? It means that SSL and the Skype protocols are not nearly as secure as one might have thought. That's much bigger news than the fact that the Germans might be spying on a few of their citizens. (Unless you happen to be German, in which case that too is a really big deal.)
If there are indeed detrimental health effect caused by WiFi (and this issue pops up occasionally when schools go wireless) then people would be affected regardless of whether or not they are actually USING the WiFi or not. Would exposure be any different for a child sitting in a table at Starbucks not using a computer than someone who is? If I understand correctly, it's the wireless access points (WAPs) that emit most of the RF energy. I suppose if your computer was sitting in your lap, then maybe the signals from the computer's antenna could be an issue, but doesn't the heat from the laptop itself do more damage to your nads?
I'm not saying I actually believe that WiFi is dangerous at all, but if it is, does it really make a difference whether you are using a computer or not?
We had a classroom full of Commodore PET 4032s, and another class with Commodore 64s. We learned programming using Waterloo Structured BASIC on the PETs and COMAL on the C64s. My last year there the school got a few ICON computers which ran QNX and came with a bunch of programming languages, and that's when I taught myself C. I've loved C ever since.
.... between what happens to the chinese perpetrators and what has happened to Gary McKinnon over the years!
Why exactly is this modded as flamebait? It sounds like these breaches were actually more serious as they targeted computers involved in nuclear commands. How is that not more serious than what Gary McKinnon did?
Just what we need! More federal laws! Especially ones that regulate free web services. That would be a great benefit to us all.
Note to the sarcastically imparied: please don't reply to this comment!
I think he meant the European Union.
Fonts are protected, even though the alphabet is clearly in public domain.
Interestingly enough, fonts in America are not covered by copyright, although the computer instructions that describe a font are. It is legal to clone fonts in America of you do it optically, and don't copy any code. This is how, for example, Microsoft could create Book Antiqua, which looks virtually identical to Hermann Zapf's Palatino.
The fact that the offender owns guns is highly relevant to the level of threat he poses.
A person who owns guns is not usually problem.
A person who makes death threats is a potential problem.
A person who makes death threats AND owns guns is a potential problem of great severity.
So, in our country, we have a constitutionally protected right to free speech, and we have a constitutionally protected right to own guns, but we are not allowed to exercise both rights at the same time? They say the pen is mightier than the sword, but I guess if you have both a pen AND a sword, you're dangerous enough to be thrown in jail.
They did not only drop the political part. They also dropped the terror part.
Yeah. There's nothing terrifying about having your kids murdered.
Doesn't warp drive effectively change the distance between those two points? So point A and point B are closer together for a while, you move between them, then let them resume their original positions.
Ah, but there's the problem: it's letting them return to their original positions. If a point returns to its original position faster than light, carrying you with it, then you're traveling faster than light. If it returns slower than the speed of light, then you aren't really accomplishing anything.
I'll believe it when I see time travelers from the future who have used their warp drives and FTL travel to come backward in time to tell us about it. (According to special relativity, the ability to travel faster than light is equivalent to the ability to travel backwards in time.)
I know. I always thought Turkish was considered an Altaic language, rather than Indo-European. Is Turkish a language common to both language families then? If so, that would be very interesting, as the Altaic languages include Japanese and Korean which I thought had no relation at all to Indo-European languages at all.
Engineering time and it started life as perl written in 1997 by a college student
That makes sense - how can anybody complete a new feature with only fifteen years of development?
True. That's only about as long as Perl 6 has been in development.
You'd think the summary could at least list the 3 inventions that the scientists are being honored for: The first is an oral Hepatitis C drug, the second is a leukemia drug, and the third is for developing atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition technology, which can be used, among other things, for coating glass with certain chemicals to help change solar heating properties in windows, etc.
So all we need to do now is wait for someone to build another LHC, find the Higgs themselves, and confirm the CERN result. Then they get to publish!
In the Typography course I took, we were taught that the greatest font of all time is Garamond.
It wasn't even tested in this article.
If your typography course claimed any font was the greatest font of all time, you've probably wasted your money. There is no "greatest" font. There are many fonts, of varying quality, some suited for some purposes better than others. And "Garamond" isn't even one font. There are many fonts sold by many vendors with the name Garamond, some more closely resembling the designs of Claude Garamond himself than others. That said, Adobe Garamond, one of the most popular Garamonds today is a very handsome font, very well suited to setting literary works. But a newspaper printed in Adobe Garamond would look badly designed. (For a time, Maclean's, Canada's weekly news magazine used Adobe Garamond, and I thought it was an awful choice for such a publication. Since then, they commissioned a new font, Laurentian, which is much more suitable for that publication.)
A general wiring specification is hardly on a level playing field with creating the internet.
Ethernet is not a wiring specification. In fact, there are several types of wiring that can carry Ethernet: twisted pair (most common today), coaxial cable (less common), fiber optic, and possibly others. Ethernet is about the protocols which transport data from one computer to another on the same local area network.
And when you have to put in your shipping and billing address...?
I think the author was talking about digital media transferred through the Internet, not physical goods. As far as the billing address goes, use PayPal or similar.
We have it soooo good here !!
Would be a lot easier to buy a VPN account on a US server, I would think.
These aren't written. They're texted.
My reading of that doesn't seem to include the person actually being questioned.
Item (v) under Rule 6(E)(2)(b): "a person who transcribes recorded testimony".
It sounds like that was exactly what he was doing.
Simple solution: If somebody is convicted wrongly and executed, execute those responsible. I would call that fair. This will include the jury, key witnesses and the prosecutor. Maybe then they will make sure they are right....
Actually this is the only condition under which I would reluctantly agree to the death penalty.
The problem with that solution is no jury would ever convict anyone in a capital murder case. Why would a jury assume the risk of being wrong and being executed when there is no benefit whatsoever to them in those cases where they are right? If a juror is to assume a huge risk, there has to be a huge reward to balance it, otherwise they'll simply play it safe and acquit every time.