The laptop isn't insecure, the attacks are taking place against the operating system (and in all three cases, against specific applications - none of the three were hackable without the user taking certain actions).
That's only in the preamble Not so much: Article I, Section 8, Clause 1 -
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.
it's disingenuous to say that it only costs a coupla grand to make an album that will sell millions of copies It's equally disingenuous to imply that many albums cost the $10-$20 million (and up) a major computer game costs to produce.
By this logic, there are no limits to the power of the federal government to coerce the states financially. They simply take away the money, and give it back conditionally, where the conditions are whatever the federal government wants. Frame the argument that way, then. As I said, I've issues with the policy - I'm just stating that the claim that equal treatment isn't equal protection under the law is bullshit.
All of them take "commerce among the states" to mean virtually any activity at all. Any candidate who favors federal regulation of guns, crops, or drugs that do not cross state lines is implicitly relying on decisions like this one. That doesn't mean they supported this specific decision. There was quite an uproar about it from both sides of the political aisle, as I recall, as it was a clear abuse of the commerce clause.
They only have the power to spend in order to exercise the powers that they do have. The Constitution does not allow them to spend however they see fit. They have the power to provide for the general welfare, remember?
The large telecoms could easily collude to fuck consumers. They already do with things like cell phone contracts. They're looking to do it with the Internet, which is why Net Neutrality is a geek issue.
There's a big difference between accepting someone's endorsement, and faithfully attending his church for 20+ years. Indeed there is.
When you've gone to the same church for 20 years, you probably have friends there you've known for 20 years. I suspect one manages to overlook the occasional heated comments in a sermon (hey, the guy preached for decades and only 30 seconds makes it onto YouTube?) when you've an entire room full of friends you enjoy seeing every Sunday.
How is growing marijuana on your own land for your own consumption "commerce among the states"? It isn't, and I'd be interested to see your evidence that McCain, Obama, and Clinton spoke in favour of that decision.
Under what constitutional authority is Social Security or Medicare legitimate? The General Welfare clause.
If you withhold highway funds to coerce some state to follow in lockstep with the wishes of the federal government, how is that equal protection under the law? I've issues with that policy, but I'm failing to see how it's not equal protection under the law - they didn't apply the policy in a discriminatory way. It's a policy applied equally to all 50 states, last time I checked.
How is requiring that local libraries provide their patrons' information on demand an exigent circumstance (and therefore exempt from the need for a warrant)? As with the first quote, I'd like to see the evidence that Paul is the only one opposed to this.
The general welfare can be promoted by the federal government only by the limited powers granted to them. And they have both the power to tax and the power to spend. That seems to be all that's required for things like Social Security, no?
If someone really does have a radiological weapon, all he has to do now is shield it in layers of lead to escape detection And that's exactly why:
their detectors are way too sensitive
People seem to think entrapment means "police pretend to let you commit crime".
Entrapment is only when the police encourage, cajole, and pressure you into committing a crime that you wouldn't otherwise have considered committing.
Every time I see a story on a sting like this people trot out the "entrapment!" argument. If things like this were entrapment, every sting operation, every undercover operation, etc. would all be invalidated. Clearly, the cops are permitted to put a fake hooker on a street corner and wait to be approached.
One should be engaged (and I hope the folks at NASA are reading this) in a serious discussion of what is the information retrieval rate of a space probe (robotic explorer, etc.) vs.a human being? http://astrobiology.arc.nasa.gov/news/expandnews.cfm?id=849
According to Kathy Clark, chief scientist for NASA's Human Exploration and Development of Space (HEDS), while the Sojourner Mars rover was a tremendous achievement, "Sojourner spent two weeks analyzing half a dozen Mars rocks. A human geologist could have done that same work in 30 minutes--then turned the rocks over to see what was hiding underneath." A biased source, but it's probably true - a human could travel the four miles Spirit has travelled in several years in about an hour. A little slower considering the sampling they'd be doing, but not by that much - you can pick it up and look at it on the way home (or when you get back to Earth). They could kick a deeper hole with their shoe in seconds than the rover can dig, ever.
Most lobbyists are working for companies who want tax laws changed in their favor. And your solution is to implement the plan that favours the rich - generally, the heads of those companies? Heh.
The instructions for the most basic methods of theme making for Drupal could be fit in a page. It's sufficient for a lot of people.
Drupal's powerful enough, though, to allow all sorts of neat tricks - different node templates for different content types, overriding any of Drupal's hundreds of theme_xxx functions, etc. It's really a phenomenal system for creating your own customised CMS.
Uh, Falcon 9 is more along the lines of the Delta IV, not the Ares. Wikipedia says Ares V will take 130,000 kg to LEO, versus the Falcon 9 Heavy's 27,500 (comparable to the 22,950 of the Delta IV Heavy).
As for meaningful rocketry and the beleaguered state of other systems, their two Falcon 1 launches thus far have failed to reach orbit.
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It was a Macbook Air, so no, it didn't.
The laptop isn't insecure, the attacks are taking place against the operating system (and in all three cases, against specific applications - none of the three were hackable without the user taking certain actions).
The large telecoms could easily collude to fuck consumers. They already do with things like cell phone contracts. They're looking to do it with the Internet, which is why Net Neutrality is a geek issue.
When you've gone to the same church for 20 years, you probably have friends there you've known for 20 years. I suspect one manages to overlook the occasional heated comments in a sermon (hey, the guy preached for decades and only 30 seconds makes it onto YouTube?) when you've an entire room full of friends you enjoy seeing every Sunday.
People seem to think entrapment means "police pretend to let you commit crime".
Entrapment is only when the police encourage, cajole, and pressure you into committing a crime that you wouldn't otherwise have considered committing.
Every time I see a story on a sting like this people trot out the "entrapment!" argument. If things like this were entrapment, every sting operation, every undercover operation, etc. would all be invalidated. Clearly, the cops are permitted to put a fake hooker on a street corner and wait to be approached.
eNom took down their domain without a court order that applied, which IMO makes them far, far more nasty.
You can think that Dynadot should've fought the order, but I'd probably err on the side of avoiding fines and jail time when faced with one too.
I wouldn't put Dynadot in the same boat - they did, after all, have a court order presented to them.
Only if you can prove that everyone is either rich or near the poverty level.
The FairTax is anything but.
Yahoo! and AIM logins are OpenID logins, whether the users are aware of it or not.
The number is accurate. The assumptions you're making about the meaning of the number are not.
The instructions for the most basic methods of theme making for Drupal could be fit in a page. It's sufficient for a lot of people.
Drupal's powerful enough, though, to allow all sorts of neat tricks - different node templates for different content types, overriding any of Drupal's hundreds of theme_xxx functions, etc. It's really a phenomenal system for creating your own customised CMS.
I really don't think "people without computers" is much of an iPhone target market.
I bet there's some executive at Apple that thinks that bandwidth is something you have to pay for by the bit.
Um, unless they got some unheard of "we'll add huge amounts of additional bandwidth whenever you need it, for free!" deal, they do.
9.1 MB video via https, mind you.
I can't imagine it helps that they linked to it on a secure server. That's going to be one melty server.
Uh, Falcon 9 is more along the lines of the Delta IV, not the Ares. Wikipedia says Ares V will take 130,000 kg to LEO, versus the Falcon 9 Heavy's 27,500 (comparable to the 22,950 of the Delta IV Heavy).
As for meaningful rocketry and the beleaguered state of other systems, their two Falcon 1 launches thus far have failed to reach orbit.