The cell phone is broadcasting it's position, all the police did was listen to that broadcast. Maybe a better analogy would be using a flashlight to look for a particular license plate when they have reason to believe a stolen car is parked in one of the driveways on a street. Do you have a problem with them looking at your car while it's parked in plain sight, albeit on your private property?
That river and lake system contaminated from a coal company spill? Not known for it's fishing or goose migration, so nobody cares. And that's just the apathy - there's outright hostility towards wolves
Wrong and wrong. Hunters and fishermen are the first to contribute to river/wetland protection and cleanup efforts. As far as wolves, show me one reference to hunters' hostility to wolves. Ranchers yes, hunters no.
Stock holders don't own the company. If they owned the company, they would be liable for any debt if the company goes bankrupt.
Stockholders do indeed own the company. Laws limit the liability of stockholders' in a publicly held corporation to encourage that type of investment. Capitalism runs on investment.
somebody discovers a natural, free way to accomplish a goal
Really? Doesn't look all that free or natural to me:
1 inch-long sections were cut from a branch with approximately 1 cm diameter. The bark and cambium were peeled off, and the piece was mounted at the end of a tube and sealed with epoxy. The filters were flushed with 10 mL of deionized water before experiments. Care was taken to avoid drying of the filter.
Approximately 5 mL of deionized water or solution was placed in the tube. Pressure was supplied using a nitrogen tank with a pressure regulator. For filtration experiments, 5 psi (34.5 kPa) pressure was used.
Depends on the contract. Some years ago I worked for a company that did contract work with the government. Sometimes even the existence of a contract is kept classified.
The slides in the linked article really look fake. As you point out they didn't even get the name of the organization right. There are other mistakes that are obvious to anyone who has worked in a classified environment.
Someone isn't just poisoning discourse, they're driving it.
The intent of personal financial literacy education is to inform students how individual choices directly influence occupational goals and future earnings potential. Basic economic concepts of scarcity, choice, opportunity cost, and cost/benefit analysis are interwoven throughout the standards and objectives.
It's a shame that there's no way to force those concepts into the heads of the students who drop out. I suppose you can only help the ones who will be helped; the rest will spend their lives complaining that they're not being helped enough.
Could describe any number of people who are/were successful in public but had feet of clay. Rev. Martin Luther King, Pres. Bill Clinton - the list goes on and on (admittedly King wasn't necessarily paranoid, they really were out to get him).
Google TV, Buzz, Google+, Nexus Q, Google Wave... etc. etc.
And ads are still 90%+ of the business...
They don't hit a home run every time they swing the bat, nor did Steve Jobs, Scott McNealy, or Steve Ballmer. But Google knows when to cut their losses and move on; Jobs was also very good at that, McNealy and Ballmer not so much. It's too early to tell with Zuckerburg, but the GP presents a good argument that he's in the process of blowing it.
He suggests assigning the targeted hardware/software surveillance of enemy operations... [T]he remainder of the NSA needs to be rebalanced so COMSEC (communications security) has priority over SIGINT
Schneier's proposals make no sense. NSA's charter is to collect and analyze electronic communications worldwide. They're not a tactical operation nor are they responsible for COMSEC.
If you've been around dogs much you can get a pretty good idea of their emotional state by their vocalizations. Not just the obvious growl or excited yipping, even straight barks have an inflection that tells you a lot.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that an animal which can vocalize emotion has a brain that can pick it up as well
Those burning faucet videos have been proven to have no connection to gas well drilling. Many, many water wells are drilled into rock formations that contain natural gas. My own great uncle had one that produced so much gas he tapped it and used the gas to heat his house; had to drill a water well somewhere else.
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The cell phone is broadcasting it's position, all the police did was listen to that broadcast. Maybe a better analogy would be using a flashlight to look for a particular license plate when they have reason to believe a stolen car is parked in one of the driveways on a street. Do you have a problem with them looking at your car while it's parked in plain sight, albeit on your private property?
If I'm hiding in a dark alley do the police need a court order to use a flashlight? How is this any different?
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That river and lake system contaminated from a coal company spill? Not known for it's fishing or goose migration, so nobody cares. And that's just the apathy - there's outright hostility towards wolves
Wrong and wrong. Hunters and fishermen are the first to contribute to river/wetland protection and cleanup efforts. As far as wolves, show me one reference to hunters' hostility to wolves. Ranchers yes, hunters no.
Stock holders don't own the company. If they owned the company, they would be liable for any debt if the company goes bankrupt.
Stockholders do indeed own the company. Laws limit the liability of stockholders' in a publicly held corporation to encourage that type of investment. Capitalism runs on investment.
One of the many reasons proprietary OS' must be done away with.
Fortunately you live in a capitalist society, so the market will rule. No need for any unnamed authority to "do away with" with an unwanted product.
somebody discovers a natural, free way to accomplish a goal
Really? Doesn't look all that free or natural to me:
1 inch-long sections were cut from a branch with approximately 1 cm diameter. The bark and cambium were peeled off, and the piece was mounted at the end of a tube and sealed with epoxy. The filters were flushed with 10 mL of deionized water before experiments. Care was taken to avoid drying of the filter.
Approximately 5 mL of deionized water or solution was placed in the tube. Pressure was supplied using a nitrogen tank with a pressure regulator. For filtration experiments, 5 psi (34.5 kPa) pressure was used.
Roughly .000004 Olympic Sized Swimming Pools.
Obviously NASA thought the astronauts knew more than they were saying. This is just a conspiracy to cover up their interrogation technique.
Depends on the contract. Some years ago I worked for a company that did contract work with the government. Sometimes even the existence of a contract is kept classified.
Government contracts are supposed to be public.
Actually, no. They're usually kept confidential.
While they're at it they should also produce Obama's birth certificate.
The slides in the linked article really look fake. As you point out they didn't even get the name of the organization right. There are other mistakes that are obvious to anyone who has worked in a classified environment.
Someone isn't just poisoning discourse, they're driving it.
where you can at least ensure that no-one except the recipient can open the message
Yea, we could call it the Enigma machine. Oh wait...
The intent of personal financial literacy education is to inform students how individual choices directly influence occupational goals and future earnings potential. Basic economic concepts of scarcity, choice, opportunity cost, and cost/benefit analysis are interwoven throughout the standards and objectives.
It's a shame that there's no way to force those concepts into the heads of the students who drop out. I suppose you can only help the ones who will be helped; the rest will spend their lives complaining that they're not being helped enough.
Could describe any number of people who are/were successful in public but had feet of clay. Rev. Martin Luther King, Pres. Bill Clinton - the list goes on and on (admittedly King wasn't necessarily paranoid, they really were out to get him).
Google TV, Buzz, Google+, Nexus Q, Google Wave... etc. etc.
And ads are still 90%+ of the business...
They don't hit a home run every time they swing the bat, nor did Steve Jobs, Scott McNealy, or Steve Ballmer. But Google knows when to cut their losses and move on; Jobs was also very good at that, McNealy and Ballmer not so much. It's too early to tell with Zuckerburg, but the GP presents a good argument that he's in the process of blowing it.
A hash doesn't provide any taxonomy. It would be better to use something like an OID so you see how the organism relates to other organisms.
Pfft. This guy talks to his dog, and the dog listens Skidboot
He suggests assigning the targeted hardware/software surveillance of enemy operations... [T]he remainder of the NSA needs to be rebalanced so COMSEC (communications security) has priority over SIGINT
Schneier's proposals make no sense. NSA's charter is to collect and analyze electronic communications worldwide. They're not a tactical operation nor are they responsible for COMSEC.
If you've been around dogs much you can get a pretty good idea of their emotional state by their vocalizations. Not just the obvious growl or excited yipping, even straight barks have an inflection that tells you a lot.
It shouldn't surprise anyone that an animal which can vocalize emotion has a brain that can pick it up as well
Other than the rights to Java (which probably doesn't generate the owner any cash), I'm not sure what Sun had to offer.
I'd rather not have a car manufacturer get into the mindset of assuming problems like that are cheap and easy to fix (so they can scrimp on testing)
The point is that the CEO (Jobs) made Apple what it is. Doesn't matter how he was compensated.
Those burning faucet videos have been proven to have no connection to gas well drilling. Many, many water wells are drilled into rock formations that contain natural gas. My own great uncle had one that produced so much gas he tapped it and used the gas to heat his house; had to drill a water well somewhere else.