Pulzee Cisco releases firmware with major bugs ALL THE TIME, ask anyone who has run a network of moderate size like at a F500 or something. As soon as you start doing anything moderately complex with a handful of routing protocols, nested VLANS, other tunnels and authentication methods its effectively all 'corner cases' so its not really surprising.
Actually I am amazed they don't have more problems. Lets not kid ourselves though, bugs even pretty bad ones are common. I myself have been provided with a special engineering build or two along the way after some long TAC calls. Cisco does a good job but shit happens.
The thing to recall here is the Manning is not Snowden. Manning had access to a bunch of embarrassing information and he had an axe to grind. When Assange came along and afforded him the opportunity to grind said axe he took it.
It turned out that there ware some revelations in the documents that probably indicated criminal action by the state however that does not a whistle blower of manning make. Intent counts a lot here or should. Manning did not come forward with information because he wanted to prevent a crime, expose a moral outrage, bring to light critical facts that stand to reshape a societal debate; rather he did it because he was pissed off at the system in general. That falls below the whistle blower standard considerably.
Its also true that unlike Snowden who despite what CONgress says he did compromise the safety of others in the field. The Snowden leak might certainly have undermine an investigation and harmed other intel gathering efforts but it was really all about technology and its hard to see without evidence which does not seem to be forth coming how it could have lead to anyone getting hurt directly. Again congress concluded otherwise but I assume they are lying and they should put up or shut up. After all the harm is already done right so why should it still be secret? Manning's leaks on the other hand provided enough information to out individuals who were undercover.
Teenagers are tricky create they often have little empathy of their own yet are highly sensitive to perceived slights and are easily embarrassed. They are also impulsive and easily convinced to do things that are ultimately only going to be self destructive like suing ones own parents over a relatively minor thing.
I can understand both attitudes here. As a parent you need to show that it is you are in control and you who make the rules. You don't have to stop doing something because your children don't approve, but they will not be permitted to do what you find objectionable beyond the leeway you might be willing to afford them.
On the other hand if it was my kid this isn't the hill I'd pick to die on (well I never would have posted the stuff in the first place). I think I would say well mom and I posted those pictures because we are proud of you and our family but if they make you uncomfortable we will mark them private so only us and your grand parents can see them. Seem like this would be a good moment to show some empathy and hope the kid models in the future.
It won't stop the cartoon images but it seems like Apple could to save themselves a lot of grief by simply doing what websense does and filtering images with to much area that falls within the range of human flesh tones.
t's a problem - the groups think they are doing good by exposing harm, but what they're actually doing is spoiling the only evidence of the harm to the point where the justice system cannot act on it anymore. In which case the only choice is a conviction in the court of public opinion.
This isn't really true though. The fruit of poison tree argument only applied to government agents, that is anyone working for the government. Which casts a pretty wide net. Even if a cop walks up and ask you to say something if you see something that might make you a government agent if any specific target was identified.
Some random hacker in another country though doxing someone could be construed as probably cause, good enough cause if the documents appear legitimate and unaltered to go an cease the servers and place them under a solid eviduciary chain of custody. The challenge for law enforcement there becomes though that practice encourages doxing, which when hacking is involved is criminal in itself. It might make us all less safe.
Ambassadorships to friendly countries, the UK in particular, have always been given as rewards to political friends.
True enough but traditionally those have also been friends who were long time loyal public servants, with some qualifications other than being able to make a sizable campaign donation. I blame the Kennedys starting with Joe sr. for changing that.
Its been my experience scofflaws tend to be scofflaws. Someone who obviously and blatantly disregards one law will do so with others.
There is plenty of evidence to support he idea that illegal aliens are disproportionately murders and sex offenders compared with the general population.
Just be cause they are not ALL murders and sex offenders does not make what Trump said untrue, nor does the fact that you dislike it. If we really care about reducing the number of murders and sex offenders on the lose in our society cracking down on illegal immigrants would be a reasonable step.
Well as a US citizen though those people are much more accountable to me than some folks over at the UN. They are more easily sued, I can vote against politicians that enact stupid legislation, I have some hope of finding out what is really going on with FRA requests etc. I loose ALL OF THAT if this happens.
As to the rest of the world, I DON"T CARE. its America's Internet we built it. Don't like it, tough shit, go build your own Internet.
If you are the worlds police force and you care about humanity yes, that is true. If you are looking for an effective deterrent and you demonstrait routinely to your potential enemies satisfaction you don't really care about the lives of the innocent than it isn't true.
I am plenty frightened that DPRK would use a weapon like this as a response against South Korea, Japan or any other first world aligned Asian power if an attack on them was made and failed to immediately cripple these assets. I fear they would/will target a US city for response in a few years if we sit back an allow them to improve the technology to the point where they could dependably do that.
Its clear the deterrent is working to I suspect at least during the Bush administration we would have taken a more aggressive policy stance toward them than just sanctions if there had not been a real fear they could kill a whole lot of people in South Korea before we could stop them. Obama/Hillary have done next to nothing to address DPRK upping their nuclear game, some of it is China sure, but a lot of it is that they are now a nuclear power and do have the capability and demeanor to harm lots of innocent people. I have to believe even the Chinese are more tolerant of DPRK BS than they otherwise would be because even if they are not likely to find themselves on the receiving end of DPRK ICBM they recognize the potential they might use one and set off a massive economically destabilizing Asian conflict where the Chinese government would have to decide to side with the USA probably.. which domestically would be challenging for them.
I think the better analogy is you can go and buy just a box of Macaroni easily.
Most importantly it will be: 1) Offered a price that reflects the actual cost and a reasonable markup 2) Widely available its unlikely any full grocery store will sell boxed Mac'n'Cheese but not sell macaroni and cheese separately. Freeing you to purchase either product without paying for the other.
The Windows tax is insidious because most of these manufactures will not sell a system to this day without an OS installed, and most still don't offer an alternative to Windows on many models. Like the boxed Mac'n'Cheese its actually more effort to provide the assembled product, imaged hard disk vs hdd just installed but left blank. Yet if you are allowed to buy the system without an OS its often not discounted at all. You can make the argument that managing more separate stock imaged/blank would be more work, fine so image them all and don't provide a license key for Windows, to customers who don't order it.
The reality is that in a completely open and free market place a PC with a pre-installed (and licensed copy ) of Windows should cost more than one without, you should be able to order just about any model a manufacturer sells without Windows but you can't. So MS is in some way or did in the past leverage their near monopoly position to affect the supply chain and choke out alternative vendors.
Russia isn't exactly in a position to really threaten us strategically. At most they can annoy and frustrate or policy in the middle east and eastern Europe.
As far as the middle east goes they are a lot closer to it than we are. If they want to take on those problems, I'd argue for letting them. The bulk of the oil money has already been made, the minor loss of influence over there in exchange for giving up the cost of responsibility for it is worth it.
As far as eastern Europe goes, that might be a different calculation but again I would suggest leaving that problem to the EU as much as possible and only stepping in when absolutely required. Remember we are not obligated they are not NATO members yet, and arguably some of the Russian behavior might be seen as a response to the provocative nature of potentially make its next door neighbors NATO members, rather than a provocation of its own.
So I think its fair to say Russia today is given a position of greater import in our foreign policy and national discussion than it really deserves.
Which brings us to Wikileaks. I think for the most part it continues to provide a needed service in terms of pulling back the veil on abuses, lies, and secrets which undermine our democracy. Assume the information can be vetted I am not sure it matters if the Russians helped obtain it or not. Its provably true or it isnt and should be looked at that way.
It not clearly a violation and Ireland is appealing. What really sucks and the EU knows this is that its going to be the American Tax payer holding the bag. Apple will be able to write off much of what is paid to Ireland (who made a deal for tax abatement and wants to hold up their end by not unfairly collecting this tax) from the US tax obligation.
Frankly this is EXACTLY why I am voting Trump 2016! its damn near time the POTUS and State Department demand a 'good deal' for Americans. What we should do is tell the EU that if they don't drop the matter immediately they can kiss the trans atlantic partnership good bye, and possible face other trade sanctions; in short play nice or else!
Well I think there is a fairly critical difference between a device like a walkie where its hardware and once its left the manufacturer/sellers hands they real have no control over it.
A satellite or mobile phone is much more like twitter in that there is an associated server. The Phone companies though are designated common carriers because we all recognize they can't reasonably know a head of time if someone is going to use their services to do something illegal.
However even with that said if someone sold this stuff directly to the Islamic State (ISIS) without ISIS having used a front, the walkie maker, the sat phone company, or the mobile carrier would be in heaps of trouble.
Twitter really is trying to have it both ways here, they obviously can and do monitor content and terminate accounts and frequently do for reason other than criminal behavior. I say Twitter/facebook/Slashdot et al are in fact publishing companies. Its there site and they include content of their choosing. The fact they make the choice perhaps to quickly and without filtering isn't the law's problem.
Now say a hosting company where you put up your own site with all your own content might be something you could classify as a common carrier. Yes before anyone points it out I realize this view probably makes web 2.0 defacto illegal because running a website that allows comments and end user content you don't have a contractual relationship with would expose you to being charged as an accessory in just about any crime your site is used for. It will radically alter the WWW as we have come to know it, but so what?
Well most of the time the peak of ones ability does not occur while they remain in the cradle and when it does we generally look upon it as a kind of tragedy.
No you can't you can be presented with a strange grab bag of facts ascribed to the wrong subjects, at the wrong moments in the wrong context. Its fine enough for folks that mostly know the real story. Its a source of confusion for everyone else.
I have to agree, I have never cared for the spaghetti western and the spaghetti tech story isn't really any better. The real events are plenty interesting and certainly can be dramatized with some little interpersonal side stories, and self reflection history obviously did not record without veering to pure fiction. You can also go the strait facts documentary route like "Triumph of the Nerds", which as far as docs go probably belongs up there with the "The Civil War" in terms of excellence.
Treating history as a grab bag of events and ascribing them to different people, and simply ignoring the greater context and historical backdrop does not compelling story telling make. Its confusing, and it usually feels hackney because its to close to reality to suspend disbelief your brain therefore is keeps pulling in everything else you know and remember from that time and saying "but this would never have happened because..."
"If you're getting a refund after playing a game for 50 hours you're a thief."
I have not played the game but its basically marketed as expansive. Could it take 50 hours to be sure that content you were lead to believe is include isn't, that features you were anticipating and paid your money on the expectation you'd get them are missing?
I have to agree with you on this one having done the same experiment in the 90's myself. AC savor switches are aggressively stupid. Guess when all the summer time "peak times" are, hint its when everyone spins up the 2500W HVAC systems.
If your AC was installed by a reputable professions who correctly sized the unit and it has a decent SER rating 14+ than turning it off at peak time is a terrible idea. These things are designed to cycle, to short a cycle the wear prematurely to long a cycle (well that won't happen they will cut off ) or rather to frequent cycles they wear prematurely and will be less efficient (hot side of the loop stays to hot).
The outcomes will be that you are less comfortable. Your total energy use might actually go up with you unit always playing catch-up, unless the utility really leaves you shut down for a long time. Net energy wise recall most of us don't get billed less for off peak on residential circuits won't be improved unless you live in a very poorly insulated home, meaning you will be subject to even more violent temperature swings.
The whole point of investing in AC is so that you can be comfortable, if you sabotage the things ability to deliver that why have it at all? No a much much better solution would be have enough generation/storage and distribution capacity to meet peoples needs.
And they pay negative dollars per month for this service. Many local cable companies charge less for a bundle of Internet access and the lowest tier of subscription television service
Citation please! I have never seen a case where the bottom tier internet only subscription is priced above that plus bottom tier TV bundle. Sometimes the spread is so small I will admit it might not really make sense to not take the TV subscription if you purchasing Internet access otherwise but not the point. There is no reason at all one needs home Internet service either unless they work from home. Again if you are that close to the edge you can't cough up $300-$500 for something unexpected but important you should be uses the library and other public resources.
$50+ monthly so you can facebook in your underwear on the sofa probably isn't an appropriate allocation for you.
I think this is probably the biggest issue here. Once one company starts doing this and enjoys any success at all people will pile on. We have so so many torts and criminal laws a like that simply get ignored by most people most of the time. If the system suddenly has to deal with them it won't hold up will.
I mean the logical conclusion of this is a bots scraping peoples facebook and twitter feeds then e-mailing them "Did you know you may have a right to legal compensation for $(PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH YOU) click here for your free analysis. You file electronically when ready for just $5 dollars."
Sadly I think this is going to force a re-evaluation of the whole jury trial for civil cases over $20 thing. I don't see much option here other than lots lots more judges and very speedy very cursory bench trials.
The loss of a month's rent once ruined an entire goddamn year and nearly left me homeless. I'm not in quite such dire straights myself anymore, but I still can't afford to risk that much fucking money; and more to the general point, the vast majority of Americans definitely can't.
False: 83% of American households have some form of subscription television service. 3-4 months of that would cover at least enough of a mid market law firms time to assess the merits of case. What you really mean is most Americas don't believe strongly enough in their own cases to do without the boob tube for a quarter.
Sorry life is about choices and the truth is here in the US most people actually do have them. Almost all US household statistics greatly under report the income of the poor. They don't take into account things like the EIT for example. I am not say there are not many people in the US who are struggling, but we are actually talking about a very tiny minority when you want talk about the those who can't scrape $300-$500 together to have someone evaluate a case where they have a legitimate grievance.
We also have these things called public libraries were ordinary citizens like you or I could get access to either online resources or request the reference books needed to get an idea if our case was worth having a professional spend an hour looking at, and we could not afford to chance it based on a guess.
I like the grand parent's idea of abstract people isn't anyone I don't happen to know. Its people that I could not go an physically touch today.
I do care about people, I care a lot about them enough not to demand the throw their lives away economically speaking for a the sake of some folks two generations away.
I would instead suggest that they enjoy the gift of life they have received to its fullest. At the same time lets use the economic advantage we learn how the climate system actually works rather continued speculation and getting hung up on the one set of feedback mechanisms we do understand. Its entirely possible we have already crossed into a run-away condition. If true conservation alone won't save your future generations. We should begin a global scale climate engineer project TODAY! So that its ready in time to be used.
Would it? I wounder. I mean people deal drugs to make money, they do it because they think its a better opportunity than they have else where. If it was widely know that you will be caught, tried, and convicted for dealing and quickly maybe people would not do it.
How long will the cartel last if they can't move product. In dependent of whether its a good thing or not we have eyes basically everywhere now. Combined with a little social media and telephone metadata analysis we could probably collar all but the least known smallest time dealers, pretty quickly.
I am kinda forced to conclude the FBI/DEA does not really want to
I would argue there should be no visa waiver countries in the first place. We really ought to require everyone entering the USA notify the state department a head of time. As a small government guy one of the few things our government is supposed to be doing according to the preamble is providing for the common defense. You don't defend by just letting potential bad actors thru the gates. Requiring non-citizens to be fully vetted and securing against illegal boarder crossings would be a cost effective anti-terrorism control, at least cost effective as compared to the endless string of foreign military interventions.
While a would be bad actor isn't going to disclose the jihadist twitter account, that isn't the important reason for the requirement. What it provides is an easy to prove slam dunk reason to deport and mark permanently persona no gratta a bad actor who as home here. There you see (s)he lied on the entry forms, grounds for immediate deportation and baring from future entry. We don't have to sit while they appeal and litigate more complex charges etc. Don't have to prove that complex money laundering terrorist funding scheme they appear to be involved in, just put them on the first boat back to Eastern Bumbfookistan.
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Pulzee Cisco releases firmware with major bugs ALL THE TIME, ask anyone who has run a network of moderate size like at a F500 or something. As soon as you start doing anything moderately complex with a handful of routing protocols, nested VLANS, other tunnels and authentication methods its effectively all 'corner cases' so its not really surprising.
Actually I am amazed they don't have more problems. Lets not kid ourselves though, bugs even pretty bad ones are common. I myself have been provided with a special engineering build or two along the way after some long TAC calls. Cisco does a good job but shit happens.
The thing to recall here is the Manning is not Snowden. Manning had access to a bunch of embarrassing information and he had an axe to grind. When Assange came along and afforded him the opportunity to grind said axe he took it.
It turned out that there ware some revelations in the documents that probably indicated criminal action by the state however that does not a whistle blower of manning make. Intent counts a lot here or should. Manning did not come forward with information because he wanted to prevent a crime, expose a moral outrage, bring to light critical facts that stand to reshape a societal debate; rather he did it because he was pissed off at the system in general. That falls below the whistle blower standard considerably.
Its also true that unlike Snowden who despite what CONgress says he did compromise the safety of others in the field. The Snowden leak might certainly have undermine an investigation and harmed other intel gathering efforts but it was really all about technology and its hard to see without evidence which does not seem to be forth coming how it could have lead to anyone getting hurt directly. Again congress concluded otherwise but I assume they are lying and they should put up or shut up. After all the harm is already done right so why should it still be secret? Manning's leaks on the other hand provided enough information to out individuals who were undercover.
Manning most certainly does not deserve a pardon.
Teenagers are tricky create they often have little empathy of their own yet are highly sensitive to perceived slights and are easily embarrassed. They are also impulsive and easily convinced to do things that are ultimately only going to be self destructive like suing ones own parents over a relatively minor thing.
I can understand both attitudes here. As a parent you need to show that it is you are in control and you who make the rules. You don't have to stop doing something because your children don't approve, but they will not be permitted to do what you find objectionable beyond the leeway you might be willing to afford them.
On the other hand if it was my kid this isn't the hill I'd pick to die on (well I never would have posted the stuff in the first place). I think I would say well mom and I posted those pictures because we are proud of you and our family but if they make you uncomfortable we will mark them private so only us and your grand parents can see them. Seem like this would be a good moment to show some empathy and hope the kid models in the future.
It won't stop the cartoon images but it seems like Apple could to save themselves a lot of grief by simply doing what websense does and filtering images with to much area that falls within the range of human flesh tones.
t's a problem - the groups think they are doing good by exposing harm, but what they're actually doing is spoiling the only evidence of the harm to the point where the justice system cannot act on it anymore. In which case the only choice is a conviction in the court of public opinion.
This isn't really true though. The fruit of poison tree argument only applied to government agents, that is anyone working for the government. Which casts a pretty wide net. Even if a cop walks up and ask you to say something if you see something that might make you a government agent if any specific target was identified.
Some random hacker in another country though doxing someone could be construed as probably cause, good enough cause if the documents appear legitimate and unaltered to go an cease the servers and place them under a solid eviduciary chain of custody. The challenge for law enforcement there becomes though that practice encourages doxing, which when hacking is involved is criminal in itself. It might make us all less safe.
Ambassadorships to friendly countries, the UK in particular, have always been given as rewards to political friends.
True enough but traditionally those have also been friends who were long time loyal public servants, with some qualifications other than being able to make a sizable campaign donation. I blame the Kennedys starting with Joe sr. for changing that.
Its been my experience scofflaws tend to be scofflaws. Someone who obviously and blatantly disregards one law will do so with others.
There is plenty of evidence to support he idea that illegal aliens are disproportionately murders and sex offenders compared with the general population.
Just be cause they are not ALL murders and sex offenders does not make what Trump said untrue, nor does the fact that you dislike it. If we really care about reducing the number of murders and sex offenders on the lose in our society cracking down on illegal immigrants would be a reasonable step.
Well as a US citizen though those people are much more accountable to me than some folks over at the UN. They are more easily sued, I can vote against politicians that enact stupid legislation, I have some hope of finding out what is really going on with FRA requests etc. I loose ALL OF THAT if this happens.
As to the rest of the world, I DON"T CARE. its America's Internet we built it. Don't like it, tough shit, go build your own Internet.
Precision weapons are much more useful.
If you are the worlds police force and you care about humanity yes, that is true. If you are looking for an effective deterrent and you demonstrait routinely to your potential enemies satisfaction you don't really care about the lives of the innocent than it isn't true.
I am plenty frightened that DPRK would use a weapon like this as a response against South Korea, Japan or any other first world aligned Asian power if an attack on them was made and failed to immediately cripple these assets. I fear they would/will target a US city for response in a few years if we sit back an allow them to improve the technology to the point where they could dependably do that.
Its clear the deterrent is working to I suspect at least during the Bush administration we would have taken a more aggressive policy stance toward them than just sanctions if there had not been a real fear they could kill a whole lot of people in South Korea before we could stop them. Obama/Hillary have done next to nothing to address DPRK upping their nuclear game, some of it is China sure, but a lot of it is that they are now a nuclear power and do have the capability and demeanor to harm lots of innocent people. I have to believe even the Chinese are more tolerant of DPRK BS than they otherwise would be because even if they are not likely to find themselves on the receiving end of DPRK ICBM they recognize the potential they might use one and set off a massive economically destabilizing Asian conflict where the Chinese government would have to decide to side with the USA probably.. which domestically would be challenging for them.
I think the better analogy is you can go and buy just a box of Macaroni easily.
Most importantly it will be:
1) Offered a price that reflects the actual cost and a reasonable markup
2) Widely available its unlikely any full grocery store will sell boxed Mac'n'Cheese but not sell macaroni and cheese separately. Freeing you to purchase either product without paying for the other.
The Windows tax is insidious because most of these manufactures will not sell a system to this day without an OS installed, and most still don't offer an alternative to Windows on many models. Like the boxed Mac'n'Cheese its actually more effort to provide the assembled product, imaged hard disk vs hdd just installed but left blank. Yet if you are allowed to buy the system without an OS its often not discounted at all. You can make the argument that managing more separate stock imaged/blank would be more work, fine so image them all and don't provide a license key for Windows, to customers who don't order it.
The reality is that in a completely open and free market place a PC with a pre-installed (and licensed copy ) of Windows should cost more than one without, you should be able to order just about any model a manufacturer sells without Windows but you can't. So MS is in some way or did in the past leverage their near monopoly position to affect the supply chain and choke out alternative vendors.
Russia isn't exactly in a position to really threaten us strategically. At most they can annoy and frustrate or policy in the middle east and eastern Europe.
As far as the middle east goes they are a lot closer to it than we are. If they want to take on those problems, I'd argue for letting them. The bulk of the oil money has already been made, the minor loss of influence over there in exchange for giving up the cost of responsibility for it is worth it.
As far as eastern Europe goes, that might be a different calculation but again I would suggest leaving that problem to the EU as much as possible and only stepping in when absolutely required. Remember we are not obligated they are not NATO members yet, and arguably some of the Russian behavior might be seen as a response to the provocative nature of potentially make its next door neighbors NATO members, rather than a provocation of its own.
So I think its fair to say Russia today is given a position of greater import in our foreign policy and national discussion than it really deserves.
Which brings us to Wikileaks. I think for the most part it continues to provide a needed service in terms of pulling back the veil on abuses, lies, and secrets which undermine our democracy. Assume the information can be vetted I am not sure it matters if the Russians helped obtain it or not. Its provably true or it isnt and should be looked at that way.
It not clearly a violation and Ireland is appealing. What really sucks and the EU knows this is that its going to be the American Tax payer holding the bag. Apple will be able to write off much of what is paid to Ireland (who made a deal for tax abatement and wants to hold up their end by not unfairly collecting this tax) from the US tax obligation.
Frankly this is EXACTLY why I am voting Trump 2016! its damn near time the POTUS and State Department demand a 'good deal' for Americans. What we should do is tell the EU that if they don't drop the matter immediately they can kiss the trans atlantic partnership good bye, and possible face other trade sanctions; in short play nice or else!
Well I think there is a fairly critical difference between a device like a walkie where its hardware and once its left the manufacturer/sellers hands they real have no control over it.
A satellite or mobile phone is much more like twitter in that there is an associated server. The Phone companies though are designated common carriers because we all recognize they can't reasonably know a head of time if someone is going to use their services to do something illegal.
However even with that said if someone sold this stuff directly to the Islamic State (ISIS) without ISIS having used a front, the walkie maker, the sat phone company, or the mobile carrier would be in heaps of trouble.
Twitter really is trying to have it both ways here, they obviously can and do monitor content and terminate accounts and frequently do for reason other than criminal behavior. I say Twitter/facebook/Slashdot et al are in fact publishing companies. Its there site and they include content of their choosing. The fact they make the choice perhaps to quickly and without filtering isn't the law's problem.
Now say a hosting company where you put up your own site with all your own content might be something you could classify as a common carrier. Yes before anyone points it out I realize this view probably makes web 2.0 defacto illegal because running a website that allows comments and end user content you don't have a contractual relationship with would expose you to being charged as an accessory in just about any crime your site is used for. It will radically alter the WWW as we have come to know it, but so what?
Well most of the time the peak of ones ability does not occur while they remain in the cradle and when it does we generally look upon it as a kind of tragedy.
At least you can learn interesting history.
No you can't you can be presented with a strange grab bag of facts ascribed to the wrong subjects, at the wrong moments in the wrong context. Its fine enough for folks that mostly know the real story. Its a source of confusion for everyone else.
I have to agree, I have never cared for the spaghetti western and the spaghetti tech story isn't really any better. The real events are plenty interesting and certainly can be dramatized with some little interpersonal side stories, and self reflection history obviously did not record without veering to pure fiction. You can also go the strait facts documentary route like "Triumph of the Nerds", which as far as docs go probably belongs up there with the "The Civil War" in terms of excellence.
Treating history as a grab bag of events and ascribing them to different people, and simply ignoring the greater context and historical backdrop does not compelling story telling make. Its confusing, and it usually feels hackney because its to close to reality to suspend disbelief your brain therefore is keeps pulling in everything else you know and remember from that time and saying "but this would never have happened because..."
"If you're getting a refund after playing a game for 50 hours you're a thief."
I have not played the game but its basically marketed as expansive. Could it take 50 hours to be sure that content you were lead to believe is include isn't, that features you were anticipating and paid your money on the expectation you'd get them are missing?
I have to agree with you on this one having done the same experiment in the 90's myself. AC savor switches are aggressively stupid. Guess when all the summer time "peak times" are, hint its when everyone spins up the 2500W HVAC systems.
If your AC was installed by a reputable professions who correctly sized the unit and it has a decent SER rating 14+ than turning it off at peak time is a terrible idea. These things are designed to cycle, to short a cycle the wear prematurely to long a cycle (well that won't happen they will cut off ) or rather to frequent cycles they wear prematurely and will be less efficient (hot side of the loop stays to hot).
The outcomes will be that you are less comfortable. Your total energy use might actually go up with you unit always playing catch-up, unless the utility really leaves you shut down for a long time. Net energy wise recall most of us don't get billed less for off peak on residential circuits won't be improved unless you live in a very poorly insulated home, meaning you will be subject to even more violent temperature swings.
The whole point of investing in AC is so that you can be comfortable, if you sabotage the things ability to deliver that why have it at all? No a much much better solution would be have enough generation/storage and distribution capacity to meet peoples needs.
except that isn't exactly true either, people under 30 today are more likely to have remained chaste than pretty much any point in modern history.
And they pay negative dollars per month for this service. Many local cable companies charge less for a bundle of Internet access and the lowest tier of subscription television service
Citation please! I have never seen a case where the bottom tier internet only subscription is priced above that plus bottom tier TV bundle. Sometimes the spread is so small I will admit it might not really make sense to not take the TV subscription if you purchasing Internet access otherwise but not the point. There is no reason at all one needs home Internet service either unless they work from home. Again if you are that close to the edge you can't cough up $300-$500 for something unexpected but important you should be uses the library and other public resources.
$50+ monthly so you can facebook in your underwear on the sofa probably isn't an appropriate allocation for you.
I think this is probably the biggest issue here. Once one company starts doing this and enjoys any success at all people will pile on. We have so so many torts and criminal laws a like that simply get ignored by most people most of the time. If the system suddenly has to deal with them it won't hold up will.
I mean the logical conclusion of this is a bots scraping peoples facebook and twitter feeds then e-mailing them "Did you know you may have a right to legal compensation for $(PERSON ASSOCIATED WITH YOU) click here for your free analysis. You file electronically when ready for just $5 dollars."
Sadly I think this is going to force a re-evaluation of the whole jury trial for civil cases over $20 thing. I don't see much option here other than lots lots more judges and very speedy very cursory bench trials.
The loss of a month's rent once ruined an entire goddamn year and nearly left me homeless. I'm not in quite such dire straights myself anymore, but I still can't afford to risk that much fucking money; and more to the general point, the vast majority of Americans definitely can't.
False: 83% of American households have some form of subscription television service. 3-4 months of that would cover at least enough of a mid market law firms time to assess the merits of case. What you really mean is most Americas don't believe strongly enough in their own cases to do without the boob tube for a quarter.
Sorry life is about choices and the truth is here in the US most people actually do have them. Almost all US household statistics greatly under report the income of the poor. They don't take into account things like the EIT for example. I am not say there are not many people in the US who are struggling, but we are actually talking about a very tiny minority when you want talk about the those who can't scrape $300-$500 together to have someone evaluate a case where they have a legitimate grievance.
We also have these things called public libraries were ordinary citizens like you or I could get access to either online resources or request the reference books needed to get an idea if our case was worth having a professional spend an hour looking at, and we could not afford to chance it based on a guess.
I like the grand parent's idea of abstract people isn't anyone I don't happen to know. Its people that I could not go an physically touch today.
I do care about people, I care a lot about them enough not to demand the throw their lives away economically speaking for a the sake of some folks two generations away.
I would instead suggest that they enjoy the gift of life they have received to its fullest. At the same time lets use the economic advantage we learn how the climate system actually works rather continued speculation and getting hung up on the one set of feedback mechanisms we do understand. Its entirely possible we have already crossed into a run-away condition. If true conservation alone won't save your future generations. We should begin a global scale climate engineer project TODAY! So that its ready in time to be used.
Would it? I wounder. I mean people deal drugs to make money, they do it because they think its a better opportunity than they have else where. If it was widely know that you will be caught, tried, and convicted for dealing and quickly maybe people would not do it.
How long will the cartel last if they can't move product. In dependent of whether its a good thing or not we have eyes basically everywhere now. Combined with a little social media and telephone metadata analysis we could probably collar all but the least known smallest time dealers, pretty quickly.
I am kinda forced to conclude the FBI/DEA does not really want to
I would argue there should be no visa waiver countries in the first place. We really ought to require everyone entering the USA notify the state department a head of time. As a small government guy one of the few things our government is supposed to be doing according to the preamble is providing for the common defense. You don't defend by just letting potential bad actors thru the gates. Requiring non-citizens to be fully vetted and securing against illegal boarder crossings would be a cost effective anti-terrorism control, at least cost effective as compared to the endless string of foreign military interventions.
While a would be bad actor isn't going to disclose the jihadist twitter account, that isn't the important reason for the requirement. What it provides is an easy to prove slam dunk reason to deport and mark permanently persona no gratta a bad actor who as home here. There you see (s)he lied on the entry forms, grounds for immediate deportation and baring from future entry. We don't have to sit while they appeal and litigate more complex charges etc. Don't have to prove that complex money laundering terrorist funding scheme they appear to be involved in, just put them on the first boat back to Eastern Bumbfookistan.