Hmmm. Then perhaps I should ammend my observations to...
"Government contractors are not subject to FOIA requests, unless they come from another contractor with sufficient financial resources and existing contracts, who can cause significant financial pain to the government, should the government ignore the request out of hand."
Regarding the massive shift of systems and services, including surveillance, to private contractors? A friend of mine with inside knowledge of the intelligence services pointed out something very important...
Government agencies are subject to the Freedom of Information Act and congressional oversight committees.
Private companies are not.
They also pointed out that even if a certain bit of information is in the possession of a government agency, if it was collected and/or held by a private contractor, that is often used as an excuse to not fulfill a FIFA request.
1. You're still alive. 2. You still have your leg. 3. The infection didn't advance past the Sharpie.
MRSA, also known as the "flesh-eating bacteria" doesn't give up so easily.
I've had several infections in my shins, and they're a bitch to get rid of, because I have Compartment Syndrome, and poor circulation in that area. The doc has to nuke the bugs with high doses for a full two weeks, which means my guts get wiped out too.
How much you wanna bet, there was some union worker who's been in the job for 20 years, and saw this coming? They saw it coming and said, "Rather than send them to the scrap yard, we're just gonna squirrel these babies away in this warehouse here," and rolled all those giant hunks of metal into storage in counties all over NY. I bet they got wrapped up, too.
"We're changing the standards so you can't sue us immediately after the disaster. But if you get cancer 30 years down the line, we and our money will be long gone and no longer giving a darn in Pattaya Beach, Thailand."
I wonder how many "errors" in maps, map software and apps are "trap streets"?
A trap street is a fictitious entry in the form of a misrepresented street on a map, often outside the area the map nominally covers, for the purpose of "trapping" potential copyright violators of the map who, if caught, would be unable to explain the inclusion of the "trap street" on their map as innocent.
Ayn Rand would be proud of this chap. Caveat emptor is a totally valid business model when dissatisfied customers are likely to be scattered over a 50 meter radius.
The problem with your argument is that people are *not* asking the government to create or mandate a "marriage law" as you put it. Nobody who is actually working in the courts and legislative system is asking for any particular right. Nobody is asking for that, in any appreciable numbers, or with any appreciable influence.
What IS happening, is that people are asking the government to clarify that there is no right to marriage at all.
The so-called "right" to marry who you want is what is known as an "unenumerated right," meaning it's a "right" that you have by default, with no pre-existing restrictions, conditions or provisions. It's like the air around your head: it's yours to use however you see fit, so long as it doesn't impinge upon someone else's free use.
What has happened is that individual states have illegally declared marriage to be an enumerated right that is the exclusive domain of a particular majority of society: i.e. heterosexuals.
That, along with the Defense of Marriage Act, is in direct contradiction to the Constitution.
So what the lawyers, activists and people with their hands in the issue are *really* asking for, is for the federal government to step in and say, "Marriage is not an enumerated right. Constitution wins, you lose, obey the law of the land. Allow consenting adults to marry whatever other consenting adults they wish."
(With the appropriate, already established and legitimate conditions regarding age, consent, genetics and being an actual human.)
If you drop a CD into the soil, it won't do anything except break down over a few million years. If you drop a CD into a computer, it still won't do anything without user intervention. It might start an auto-run routine, but it won't fully install. (Unless it's a virus or trojan, but that's another kettle of fish.)
However, if you drop a seed...well...pretty much anywhere that doesn't immediately kill it, and it gets wet? It's going to self-replicate. It will complete it's life-cycle and produce more seeds, no human intervention required.
So from a software company, this case has already been decided?
Nature has prior art. The BSA's arguments are invalid.
If you drop a CD into the soil, it won't do anything except break down over a few million years. If you drop a CD into a computer, it still won't do anything without user intervention. It might start an auto-run routine, but it won't fully install. (Unless it's a virus or trojan, but that's another kettle of fish.)
However, if you drop a seed...well...pretty much anywhere that doesn't immediately kill it, and it gets wet? It's going to self-replicate. It will complete it's life-cycle and produce more seeds, no human intervention required.
So from a software company, this case has already been decided?
Nature has prior art. The BDS's arguments are invalid.
Yeah, end of the fiscal year was when we were told to go on "shopping runs" to BestBuy, Staples and OfficeMax in order to buy new printers, copiers, toner cartridges and paper for the operations department on the ship.
The funny thing was, we always bought the best, most reliable, most durable devices. So next year, we didn't need to buy replacements, and had to think of something else to buy.
It didn't help that the more frugal among us did a lot of "shopping" at the DRMO, so most of anything we needed was free.
Going through all the trouble to spy on Joe Pimpleface Teenager: ROI > ROR.
Going through all the trouble to spy on a user whose browsing profile and typing habits match Julian Assange or Frank Whizbang, Stock Investor of the Year: ROR > ROI.
By an order of magnitude.
So technically, yes, cloud providers probably aren't spying on 90% of the users.
But if I know I'm one of those 10% of extraordinarily high-interest persons? I'd call it a given that you're being spied upon. No matter how much it costs.
If you're working on material or systems that are classified, or something akin to the iPhone 6, then yeah. Letting *any* communications device into the work area is a very bad idea. You are being targeted. Probably very specifically, too.
If you're not working on anything of that nature, then probably not. Who cares if anyone sees the inside of your office? Or hears you talking sports scores? It's creepy as Hell, and you should probably be more worried about the fact that someone is mucking around inside your phone, listening to you.
The exception to this, is when you walk by some moron's desk, and they have their smartphone plugged into the USB port of the computer, MOUNTED AS A HARD DRIVE.
A computer which is inside the company firewall.
Sometimes, you just have to assume the lowest common denominator, because convenience in listening to an MP3 collection will always trump common sense.
I would be much less worried about this, if it weren't for the fact that the label of "sex offender" is used for everything where genitalia are involved.
Did the cops follow you 20 yards into the thick forest along the interstate to catch you peeing? Sex offender.
Did your top get ripped off and carried away in the surf at Jones Beach? Sex offender.
Did you scratch yourself when a cop was looking? Sex offender.
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Hmmm. Then perhaps I should ammend my observations to...
"Government contractors are not subject to FOIA requests, unless they come from another contractor with sufficient financial resources and existing contracts, who can cause significant financial pain to the government, should the government ignore the request out of hand."
Regarding the massive shift of systems and services, including surveillance, to private contractors? A friend of mine with inside knowledge of the intelligence services pointed out something very important...
Government agencies are subject to the Freedom of Information Act and congressional oversight committees.
Private companies are not.
They also pointed out that even if a certain bit of information is in the possession of a government agency, if it was collected and/or held by a private contractor, that is often used as an excuse to not fulfill a FIFA request.
It probably wasn't MRSA.
1. You're still alive.
2. You still have your leg.
3. The infection didn't advance past the Sharpie.
MRSA, also known as the "flesh-eating bacteria" doesn't give up so easily.
I've had several infections in my shins, and they're a bitch to get rid of, because I have Compartment Syndrome, and poor circulation in that area. The doc has to nuke the bugs with high doses for a full two weeks, which means my guts get wiped out too.
Ugh!
Check out the Mail Online article at the end.
Full-head coverage sunblock masks seem to be a very big thing in China, getting more and more popular every year.
I can't wait until they figure out how much more awesome those masks will be when they start decorating them like a Luchador.
Going to the beach will become quite an adventure!
How much you wanna bet, there was some union worker who's been in the job for 20 years, and saw this coming? They saw it coming and said, "Rather than send them to the scrap yard, we're just gonna squirrel these babies away in this warehouse here," and rolled all those giant hunks of metal into storage in counties all over NY. I bet they got wrapped up, too.
Gonna be a lot of nostalgic voters this election.
Gotta burn off all those giant sodas somehow...
"We're changing the standards so you can't sue us immediately after the disaster. But if you get cancer 30 years down the line, we and our money will be long gone and no longer giving a darn in Pattaya Beach, Thailand."
Wow!
Those sure are some really useful and interesting email addresses and phone numbers!
Thanks, Salt Lake Tribune!
No, that would be like dividing by zero.
I wonder how many "errors" in maps, map software and apps are "trap streets"?
Ah. This is obviously some strange usage of the word "teeny" that I hadn't previously been aware of.
The mere fact that you even have to ASK such a question means the answer is "Yes."
Ayn Rand would be proud of this chap. Caveat emptor is a totally valid business model when dissatisfied customers are likely to be scattered over a 50 meter radius.
The problem with your argument is that people are *not* asking the government to create or mandate a "marriage law" as you put it. Nobody who is actually working in the courts and legislative system is asking for any particular right. Nobody is asking for that, in any appreciable numbers, or with any appreciable influence.
What IS happening, is that people are asking the government to clarify that there is no right to marriage at all.
The so-called "right" to marry who you want is what is known as an "unenumerated right," meaning it's a "right" that you have by default, with no pre-existing restrictions, conditions or provisions. It's like the air around your head: it's yours to use however you see fit, so long as it doesn't impinge upon someone else's free use.
What has happened is that individual states have illegally declared marriage to be an enumerated right that is the exclusive domain of a particular majority of society: i.e. heterosexuals.
That, along with the Defense of Marriage Act, is in direct contradiction to the Constitution.
So what the lawyers, activists and people with their hands in the issue are *really* asking for, is for the federal government to step in and say, "Marriage is not an enumerated right. Constitution wins, you lose, obey the law of the land. Allow consenting adults to marry whatever other consenting adults they wish."
(With the appropriate, already established and legitimate conditions regarding age, consent, genetics and being an actual human.)
If you drop a CD into the soil, it won't do anything except break down over a few million years. If you drop a CD into a computer, it still won't do anything without user intervention. It might start an auto-run routine, but it won't fully install. (Unless it's a virus or trojan, but that's another kettle of fish.)
However, if you drop a seed...well...pretty much anywhere that doesn't immediately kill it, and it gets wet? It's going to self-replicate. It will complete it's life-cycle and produce more seeds, no human intervention required.
So from a software company, this case has already been decided?
Nature has prior art. The BSA's arguments are invalid.
Arrggh. BDS = BSA/The Software Alliance
If you drop a CD into the soil, it won't do anything except break down over a few million years. If you drop a CD into a computer, it still won't do anything without user intervention. It might start an auto-run routine, but it won't fully install. (Unless it's a virus or trojan, but that's another kettle of fish.)
However, if you drop a seed...well...pretty much anywhere that doesn't immediately kill it, and it gets wet? It's going to self-replicate. It will complete it's life-cycle and produce more seeds, no human intervention required.
So from a software company, this case has already been decided?
Nature has prior art. The BDS's arguments are invalid.
Well, there goes $350 from me?
I was going to upgrade to a nice, shiny new Galaxy S III this Saturday, and get a data plan and everything.
I don't need either, but thought it might be nice to play around with all the cool toys, send IM and Tweets and stuff. Well. Not so nice after all.
Sorry, Samsung! Sorry, T-Mobile! I'm gonna stick with my talk & text plan on a $25 disposable that I fling down a sewer grate.
Yeah, end of the fiscal year was when we were told to go on "shopping runs" to BestBuy, Staples and OfficeMax in order to buy new printers, copiers, toner cartridges and paper for the operations department on the ship.
The funny thing was, we always bought the best, most reliable, most durable devices. So next year, we didn't need to buy replacements, and had to think of something else to buy.
It didn't help that the more frugal among us did a lot of "shopping" at the DRMO, so most of anything we needed was free.
...these so-called "business groups" will get everything they're asking for. With extra tongue.
The U.S. administration has probably given this up long ago, we just haven't heard about it yet.
Rate of Investment vs Rate of Return.
Going through all the trouble to spy on Joe Pimpleface Teenager: ROI > ROR.
Going through all the trouble to spy on a user whose browsing profile and typing habits match Julian Assange or Frank Whizbang, Stock Investor of the Year: ROR > ROI.
By an order of magnitude.
So technically, yes, cloud providers probably aren't spying on 90% of the users.
But if I know I'm one of those 10% of extraordinarily high-interest persons? I'd call it a given that you're being spied upon. No matter how much it costs.
Unfortunately, you posted this very important, very insightful, very appropriate comment as Anonymous Coward. Half the people on /. will never see it.
Always read through an entire article before using your mod points. That way, you can decide if you want to post replies, or moderate.
If you're working on material or systems that are classified, or something akin to the iPhone 6, then yeah. Letting *any* communications device into the work area is a very bad idea. You are being targeted. Probably very specifically, too.
If you're not working on anything of that nature, then probably not. Who cares if anyone sees the inside of your office? Or hears you talking sports scores? It's creepy as Hell, and you should probably be more worried about the fact that someone is mucking around inside your phone, listening to you.
The exception to this, is when you walk by some moron's desk, and they have their smartphone plugged into the USB port of the computer, MOUNTED AS A HARD DRIVE.
A computer which is inside the company firewall.
Sometimes, you just have to assume the lowest common denominator, because convenience in listening to an MP3 collection will always trump common sense.
No, the bees just get really pissed off by the current, and it encourages them to sting the glass.
Per the video, you can "harvest" every two weeks.
I would be much less worried about this, if it weren't for the fact that the label of "sex offender" is used for everything where genitalia are involved.
Did the cops follow you 20 yards into the thick forest along the interstate to catch you peeing? Sex offender.
Did your top get ripped off and carried away in the surf at Jones Beach? Sex offender.
Did you scratch yourself when a cop was looking? Sex offender.