I feel really bad for Cisco. They went out of their way to build all those back doors into all of their equipment for the NSA, and now people don't want to buy their products. Does that seem fair?
There is a lot more wrong with the group than just that. And I'm not too crazy about the other groups either. Quite frankly, I would be willing to pay moreif I knew that none of the money was going to these "charities". That doesn't seem to be an option, but not buying is.
You're wrong. I believe everything that I read, particularly if it is backed by big oil money. This is good enough for me, and I'm glad to give up clean drinking water, have flames shoot out of my faucets, and let the fracking industry pump any industrial toxins that they want into the ground, as long as they tell me that it is keeping the Iranians in check.
Facebook is blocked in my company's routers. To be fair, we don't have any little girls working for us who might be expected to use Facebook, but it also blocks a lot of insane tracking through Facebook and sign-in through Facebook. Google+ isn't yet blocked, but I would not be shocked if in the future it is, particularly as the abuses mount. While we don't expect our employees to waste their time on Facebook or other social sites, we don't object to our programmers keeping current reading news feeds in their down time. But if a feed sets up rules that we must allow access to something that is blocked, the Preventer of Information Services will be much happier letting them cut them-self off rather than relaxing any routing rules.
Even though it was an AC, the parent here was actually funny and should have been modded up. I'm amazed that the modder had nothing better to do with his mod points than mod this down in a mistaken display of Poritical collectness.
What everyone seems to be missing here is this fantastic accomplishment. What the starving Chinese should take grate pride in is there is no little trinket that Chi Nan can fail to duplicate, as long as she doesn't have to pay for it herself.
Yea, nothing new here. Back in the mid 1970's I had a big 10 meg helium filled hard drive where I worked. Had it's own helium tank on it and the pressure gauge had to be checked regularly because helium can pretty much get through anything. That was a drive that was priced in the six figures, I doubt if WD is going to be doing any better even several decades later on a drive that costs a few hundred bucks and doesn't even have an extra helium tank. They more likely than not are counting on the leaking as a planned obsolescence issue.
What a great idea. Fuel cells produce no nasty carbon emissions. So as long as you ignore how the hydrogen that feeds them is produced in the first place (generally from an extremely dirty and wasteful natural gas extraction process) and the pollution involved in actually making extremely expensive fuel cells in the first place, this makes perfect sense.
This is a great idea. It clearly tells the public that the shooting at LAX was not the work of a crazy extremist but rather reflects the growing attitude of many Americans. And that they expect it to continue. It will help reinforce the "Them vs. Us" image that TSA has worked so hard to build in the last decade. How could you not want some lower IQ TSA type nervously standing around with a gun, looking for someone to shoot if they dare complain about pat downs that rise to the level of sexual molestation or show unhappiness when the TSA decides to throw away their expensive spare laptop battery?
I recently got a new Lenovo Android tablet with Jellybean. I installed Skype from Google Play. Google said it was compatable. When I run it I don't have an option to video chat, even though the tablet does have a working front facing camera. At some points I see a camera icon that is marked as disabled, but it can't be enabled. I can try to do a test audio call to the Skype test number, the app shows that I'm connected and a timer starts counting, but I get back no audio. There is no way to know if my audio is getting to them.
So Skype on my Android tablet works pretty well, as long as you don't care about video or audio.
And Yes, other similar applications work just fine.
I'm inclined to think that my tablet is just fine, but Microsoft doesn't like competing in the tablet arena that they came late to.
What a load of crap. There is no reason at all to share any personal data with the government. Lets ignore that NSA already has it all, if they want to know where people drive, well, they already have good road usage statistics for most roads. They certainly don't need data on where current electric car drivers are driving now, they "need" data on where they would be driving their over priced toys if they could drive there and get back, and the current data will not tell them that. To meet their idiotic goal they would really need data on where the people who don't buy electric cars (perhaps because they perceive them to be impractical with the current infrastructure) would want to drive them, not data on where people who already bought them already can drive them. And even the "need" for that other information, which can't be obtained by turning over people's private travel history, ignores the questions of "should government be doing this at all?" and "wouldn't everyone benefit more from research into better batteries or alternate energy storage or production than from the government getting involved in the car charging business?".
If Congress had failed to reach a deal and the U.S. was unable to pay its bills, the results might have been catastrophic...
While I realize that most/. synopses are just cut and pasted from the referenced article, it would nice if we could avoid clipping one-sided political hype at the same time. While a default might have been bad, there are many who believe that letting a man destroy the value of the dollar and the country by unchecked borrowing is even worse. This latest surrender by the Republicans tells him that there is really no limit to what he can spend. He can even borrow money from China and give it to China as "foreign aid".
Over three decades ago I worked for a minicomputer manufacturer (sometimes known as Data Who?), in Field Service support and later in Systems engineering. Those of us in the field were able to put together a very good idea of what new products were going to be released, not from listening to the rumor mill, but by looking at the parts lists that were being published internally and seeing what components were being bought and assigned internal parts numbers. It's amazing what you can learn about supposedly secret projects just be seeing what the company is buying.
Hell, I get all of the secret information that I can ever use or sell just by filing freedom of information act req8uests with our friendly neighborhood NSA. It's a little redacted, but you still get plenty of information that the owners would like to keep private.
If a car tried to run me down and kill me but crashed, and I noticed that it had a dash board camera, I might certainly take the memory card from the camera, particularly if there was no one trying to stop me. Who it is given to, cops, news media or a lawyer depends on the details of the case. But in this example I think it was better to give it to the news media than to give it to cops who are likely to be too stupid, too lazy, or too corrupt to do anything proper with it.
Your supposedly moral position of "don't take the evidence, it belongs to the person who almost killed you and he might not want anyone to see where the projectile came from" is disgusting.
(particularly with regard to use by law enforcement)
If they are concerned about use by law enforcement, this this will do no good. Law enforcement doesn't obey the law, they are above the law. Anyone paying attention knows that they just do whatever they want. If they are ever caught the only "punishment" is to give some tax payer money to someone.
Thanks for sharing your insight. Doesn't your own wealthy (by his own admission) black president send his children to an expensive private school rather than subject them to the nation's Capital's public education system?
Some people might be smarter than others??? That completely conflicts with the Democratic party ideal of equality for everyone. Either we're going to have to tax people based on how smart they are and use the money in a futile attempt to increase the ratings of the lowest scorers, or we may have to go to more invasive means to lower the scores of those who are unfairly smarter.
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I feel really bad for Cisco. They went out of their way to build all those back doors into all of their equipment for the NSA, and now people don't want to buy their products. Does that seem fair?
He forgot to add: " If you like your current TV set, you can keep your current TV set. "
There is a lot more wrong with the group than just that. And I'm not too crazy about the other groups either. Quite frankly, I would be willing to pay more if I knew that none of the money was going to these "charities". That doesn't seem to be an option, but not buying is.
You're wrong. I believe everything that I read, particularly if it is backed by big oil money. This is good enough for me, and I'm glad to give up clean drinking water, have flames shoot out of my faucets, and let the fracking industry pump any industrial toxins that they want into the ground, as long as they tell me that it is keeping the Iranians in check.
Facebook is blocked in my company's routers. To be fair, we don't have any little girls working for us who might be expected to use Facebook, but it also blocks a lot of insane tracking through Facebook and sign-in through Facebook. Google+ isn't yet blocked, but I would not be shocked if in the future it is, particularly as the abuses mount. While we don't expect our employees to waste their time on Facebook or other social sites, we don't object to our programmers keeping current reading news feeds in their down time. But if a feed sets up rules that we must allow access to something that is blocked, the Preventer of Information Services will be much happier letting them cut them-self off rather than relaxing any routing rules.
Sure, but your 1990's laptop didn't manage to accomplish it by spending $500,000 of someone else's money.
Even though it was an AC, the parent here was actually funny and should have been modded up. I'm amazed that the modder had nothing better to do with his mod points than mod this down in a mistaken display of Poritical collectness.
What everyone seems to be missing here is this fantastic accomplishment. What the starving Chinese should take grate pride in is there is no little trinket that Chi Nan can fail to duplicate, as long as she doesn't have to pay for it herself.
Yea, nothing new here. Back in the mid 1970's I had a big 10 meg helium filled hard drive where I worked. Had it's own helium tank on it and the pressure gauge had to be checked regularly because helium can pretty much get through anything. That was a drive that was priced in the six figures, I doubt if WD is going to be doing any better even several decades later on a drive that costs a few hundred bucks and doesn't even have an extra helium tank. They more likely than not are counting on the leaking as a planned obsolescence issue.
What a great idea. Fuel cells produce no nasty carbon emissions. So as long as you ignore how the hydrogen that feeds them is produced in the first place (generally from an extremely dirty and wasteful natural gas extraction process) and the pollution involved in actually making extremely expensive fuel cells in the first place, this makes perfect sense.
This is a great idea. It clearly tells the public that the shooting at LAX was not the work of a crazy extremist but rather reflects the growing attitude of many Americans. And that they expect it to continue. It will help reinforce the "Them vs. Us" image that TSA has worked so hard to build in the last decade. How could you not want some lower IQ TSA type nervously standing around with a gun, looking for someone to shoot if they dare complain about pat downs that rise to the level of sexual molestation or show unhappiness when the TSA decides to throw away their expensive spare laptop battery?
I recently got a new Lenovo Android tablet with Jellybean. I installed Skype from Google Play. Google said it was compatable. When I run it I don't have an option to video chat, even though the tablet does have a working front facing camera. At some points I see a camera icon that is marked as disabled, but it can't be enabled. I can try to do a test audio call to the Skype test number, the app shows that I'm connected and a timer starts counting, but I get back no audio. There is no way to know if my audio is getting to them.
So Skype on my Android tablet works pretty well, as long as you don't care about video or audio.
And Yes, other similar applications work just fine.
I'm inclined to think that my tablet is just fine, but Microsoft doesn't like competing in the tablet arena that they came late to.
from TFA: there was a philanthropist involved in this. We should string up all of the philanthropists!
I envy the Japanese for their constitutional protections.
What a load of crap. There is no reason at all to share any personal data with the government. Lets ignore that NSA already has it all, if they want to know where people drive, well, they already have good road usage statistics for most roads. They certainly don't need data on where current electric car drivers are driving now, they "need" data on where they would be driving their over priced toys if they could drive there and get back, and the current data will not tell them that. To meet their idiotic goal they would really need data on where the people who don't buy electric cars (perhaps because they perceive them to be impractical with the current infrastructure) would want to drive them, not data on where people who already bought them already can drive them. And even the "need" for that other information, which can't be obtained by turning over people's private travel history, ignores the questions of "should government be doing this at all?" and "wouldn't everyone benefit more from research into better batteries or alternate energy storage or production than from the government getting involved in the car charging business?".
Finally something about Facebook that I like.
If Congress had failed to reach a deal and the U.S. was unable to pay its bills, the results might have been catastrophic ...
While I realize that most /. synopses are just cut and pasted from the referenced article, it would nice if we could avoid clipping one-sided political hype at the same time. While a default might have been bad, there are many who believe that letting a man destroy the value of the dollar and the country by unchecked borrowing is even worse. This latest surrender by the Republicans tells him that there is really no limit to what he can spend. He can even borrow money from China and give it to China as "foreign aid".
Over three decades ago I worked for a minicomputer manufacturer (sometimes known as Data Who?), in Field Service support and later in Systems engineering. Those of us in the field were able to put together a very good idea of what new products were going to be released, not from listening to the rumor mill, but by looking at the parts lists that were being published internally and seeing what components were being bought and assigned internal parts numbers. It's amazing what you can learn about supposedly secret projects just be seeing what the company is buying.
Hell, I get all of the secret information that I can ever use or sell just by filing freedom of information act req8uests with our friendly neighborhood NSA. It's a little redacted, but you still get plenty of information that the owners would like to keep private.
Just more proof that information wants to be free.
I heard forms of this joke back in the 1950's. I do like weird Al, but he deserves no credit here.
Botched negligent homicide, I think the man almost killed still had reason to be concerned and want the person responsible tracked down.
If a car tried to run me down and kill me but crashed, and I noticed that it had a dash board camera, I might certainly take the memory card from the camera, particularly if there was no one trying to stop me. Who it is given to, cops, news media or a lawyer depends on the details of the case. But in this example I think it was better to give it to the news media than to give it to cops who are likely to be too stupid, too lazy, or too corrupt to do anything proper with it.
Your supposedly moral position of "don't take the evidence, it belongs to the person who almost killed you and he might not want anyone to see where the projectile came from" is disgusting.
(particularly with regard to use by law enforcement)
If they are concerned about use by law enforcement, this this will do no good. Law enforcement doesn't obey the law, they are above the law. Anyone paying attention knows that they just do whatever they want. If they are ever caught the only "punishment" is to give some tax payer money to someone.
Thanks for sharing your insight. Doesn't your own wealthy (by his own admission) black president send his children to an expensive private school rather than subject them to the nation's Capital's public education system?
Some people might be smarter than others??? That completely conflicts with the Democratic party ideal of equality for everyone. Either we're going to have to tax people based on how smart they are and use the money in a futile attempt to increase the ratings of the lowest scorers, or we may have to go to more invasive means to lower the scores of those who are unfairly smarter.