In the US you'd have to worry about anyone finding out you were watching a "terrorist Arab" network. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that they (DHS, CIA, FBI, DIA, take your pick...) kept logs of all traffic between US endpoints an Al Jazeera sites.
A lot of the problem isn't Federal regulation, it's city or county regulation. Those are the government entities providing monopoly utility access. Access would be a problem even if there was zero Federal regulation of any utilities.
Western education, for those who actually continue past mandatory indoctrination, is about specialization. Ask someone a question about anything outside their field and, more often than not, you get what amounts to a blank stare (even if words actually come out of their mouths).
Both the far left and the far right do that. The behavior engaged in by Obama sycophants today is a mirror image of the behavior Bush sycophants engaged in when he was President. That's the problem with extremely polarized partisan politics, and it's not going to get any better because it's a recipe for phenomenal viewer ratings. Media organizations have discovered they can manipulate their viewers in the exact same way evangelists do, and for the same reason: it gives them vast amounts of money and power.
It'll only get better once nature has taken its course.
No, based on the fact that the act contains language specifically designed to make it non-severable, the Supreme Court is considering throwing out the entire law.
They would care because any failure within the mandatory warranty period but not within the period of the warranty actually provided would cause direct financial harm to them. Also, anyone purchasing an Applecare warranty at increased cost to cover a period which was already supposed to be covered automatically suffered direct financial harm without the device ever failing.
It's too bad rational analysis like this is drowned out by all the crazies (on either side of the argument) who have decided they know for a fact what actually happened.
Yeah, at his age I was an inch shorter and 25 pounds heavier. I'm now 35 pounds heavier than this kid, and most people still consider me skinny at my height.
The only thing Right To Work laws do is prevent closed shops. Period.
They prevent organizations, employers, and other workers from imposing upon a given worker mandatory union dues. In a non-Right To Work state, if you do not join the union, stop paying your dues, quit the union, or are kicked out (even for non-work-related reasons), you are fired. Not my definition of "protecting workers rights," but I guess YMMV.
Another absolutely moronic thing is the article specifically says asking for the password is not illegal under current law, which will make it hard for the aide's case. It doesn't matter that they asked for it; it matters that they fired the aide for refusing to give it up unless the law allows for firing without cause (as I doubt that's granted as a legitimate cause under any state's laws).
They don't even need a "reasonable suspicion." Disney is legally able to sell the contents of the entire database to the FBI, thus netting them a hefty paycheck and getting the FBI around that whole "due process" rigamarole.
It might be one thing if it were a country where she might conceivably never be inconvenienced by the decision. However, given that she's in the film industry, having a judgment against her in a major 1st-world country which shares much culture, language, and (most importantly) professional players in the media industry could be seriously inconvenient down the road.
Obviously she's already done business there once. This could, if not dealt with, forever close many doors of opportunity to her.
Well, it can be used the way you initially describe, or it can be used just the opposite, i.e. enable scripts, but use site preferences to preferentially disable scripts you don't like.
My "balance" is a >10 digit alphanumeric + characters. I can even enter it without having to look at my phone's keypad since there's a small tab on the 5 key which lets me know which button I'm hitting in relation to it. Doesn't work if you have a touchscreen though.
The important thing to note about this is that the governments in question had to demand access from RIM. Notice no demands were made of other platforms. Why? Because they didn't need to demand access to read whatever their intelligence services wanted to read.
And, of course, there's the possibility of using tunneling or private BES servers and bypassing that problem entirely.
Unfortunately, too many people are generally impressed by uniforms and titles. It allows thugs of a certain stripe to attain an air of legitimacy, without which they would be gunned down for their behavior and nobody would shed so much as a single tear.
I can hear the grinding of the gears of logic from here... hopefully you'll find the clutch before you destroy the transmission...
The TSA should be at the table. The point was that the conflict should not disqualify Schneier for participating either. If the simple fact that they are engaged in a legal battle is enough to disqualify one side, it should be enough to disqualify the other.
For my own part, Maxtor, Quantum, and WD drives are the only consumer drives I've had fail on me. Have a dead 1TB caviar green drive on my desk right now. Then again, I haven't had to use any of the Seagate 7200.11s (or was it the 12s?) that had so many problems.
At least from the perspective of SMART output, the most reliable drives per hour put on them that I've run are Samsung drives, but those have also been a minority of drives I've used.
That said, I try not to put drives from one single manufacturing batch into the same array if I can help it. That's the one nearly-universal sentiment I've heard from others who deploy massive numbers of drives. In the end, company name doesn't really matter all that much. Failures come in clusters, and all companies suffer from them. If looked at neutrally, I'd guess that Seagate and WD probably run fairly similar failure rates. People tend to go with their experience though, and it's no surprise there are people like you or I who have had better luck with one specific company. The smaller the sample size, the more likely non-trends will appear to be something they're not.
I knew there was something else that bothered me about it, but it's been a while since I read it. Yes, present tense narratives are irritating for the most part.
The story is decent, but I'm not a fan of first person narratives. It's a rare writer who can pull it off without it detracting from the novel, and Collins isn't such a writer.
With the exception of a couple wealthy families (Walton and Mars come to mind), most people in the US who are millionaires were not born into their wealth.
It is no more child pornography than a drawing of a person and an animal engaging in intercourse is bestiality.
It is an artificial, fictional depiction. You could call it pornographic art or cartoon porn (or CG porn, as the case may be), since that is the content. No actual child was involved, and if one were then the charge of sexual abuse or exploitation of a minor would apply.
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In the US you'd have to worry about anyone finding out you were watching a "terrorist Arab" network. It wouldn't surprise me to learn that they (DHS, CIA, FBI, DIA, take your pick...) kept logs of all traffic between US endpoints an Al Jazeera sites.
A lot of the problem isn't Federal regulation, it's city or county regulation. Those are the government entities providing monopoly utility access. Access would be a problem even if there was zero Federal regulation of any utilities.
Western education, for those who actually continue past mandatory indoctrination, is about specialization. Ask someone a question about anything outside their field and, more often than not, you get what amounts to a blank stare (even if words actually come out of their mouths).
Both the far left and the far right do that. The behavior engaged in by Obama sycophants today is a mirror image of the behavior Bush sycophants engaged in when he was President. That's the problem with extremely polarized partisan politics, and it's not going to get any better because it's a recipe for phenomenal viewer ratings. Media organizations have discovered they can manipulate their viewers in the exact same way evangelists do, and for the same reason: it gives them vast amounts of money and power.
It'll only get better once nature has taken its course.
No, based on the fact that the act contains language specifically designed to make it non-severable, the Supreme Court is considering throwing out the entire law.
They would care because any failure within the mandatory warranty period but not within the period of the warranty actually provided would cause direct financial harm to them. Also, anyone purchasing an Applecare warranty at increased cost to cover a period which was already supposed to be covered automatically suffered direct financial harm without the device ever failing.
It's too bad rational analysis like this is drowned out by all the crazies (on either side of the argument) who have decided they know for a fact what actually happened.
Yeah, at his age I was an inch shorter and 25 pounds heavier. I'm now 35 pounds heavier than this kid, and most people still consider me skinny at my height.
6'3" and 140# is rail-thin.
The only thing Right To Work laws do is prevent closed shops. Period.
They prevent organizations, employers, and other workers from imposing upon a given worker mandatory union dues. In a non-Right To Work state, if you do not join the union, stop paying your dues, quit the union, or are kicked out (even for non-work-related reasons), you are fired. Not my definition of "protecting workers rights," but I guess YMMV.
Another absolutely moronic thing is the article specifically says asking for the password is not illegal under current law, which will make it hard for the aide's case. It doesn't matter that they asked for it; it matters that they fired the aide for refusing to give it up unless the law allows for firing without cause (as I doubt that's granted as a legitimate cause under any state's laws).
They don't even need a "reasonable suspicion." Disney is legally able to sell the contents of the entire database to the FBI, thus netting them a hefty paycheck and getting the FBI around that whole "due process" rigamarole.
That depends entirely on what you're blacklisting and why.
If it's for security, you're correct. If it's for specific cosmetic or usability reasons, not so much.
If the cake is digital, of course you can have your cake and eat it too!
It might be one thing if it were a country where she might conceivably never be inconvenienced by the decision. However, given that she's in the film industry, having a judgment against her in a major 1st-world country which shares much culture, language, and (most importantly) professional players in the media industry could be seriously inconvenient down the road.
Obviously she's already done business there once. This could, if not dealt with, forever close many doors of opportunity to her.
Well, it can be used the way you initially describe, or it can be used just the opposite, i.e. enable scripts, but use site preferences to preferentially disable scripts you don't like.
My "balance" is a >10 digit alphanumeric + characters. I can even enter it without having to look at my phone's keypad since there's a small tab on the 5 key which lets me know which button I'm hitting in relation to it. Doesn't work if you have a touchscreen though.
The important thing to note about this is that the governments in question had to demand access from RIM. Notice no demands were made of other platforms. Why? Because they didn't need to demand access to read whatever their intelligence services wanted to read.
And, of course, there's the possibility of using tunneling or private BES servers and bypassing that problem entirely.
Unfortunately, too many people are generally impressed by uniforms and titles. It allows thugs of a certain stripe to attain an air of legitimacy, without which they would be gunned down for their behavior and nobody would shed so much as a single tear.
I can hear the grinding of the gears of logic from here ... hopefully you'll find the clutch before you destroy the transmission ...
The TSA should be at the table. The point was that the conflict should not disqualify Schneier for participating either. If the simple fact that they are engaged in a legal battle is enough to disqualify one side, it should be enough to disqualify the other.
For my own part, Maxtor, Quantum, and WD drives are the only consumer drives I've had fail on me. Have a dead 1TB caviar green drive on my desk right now. Then again, I haven't had to use any of the Seagate 7200.11s (or was it the 12s?) that had so many problems.
At least from the perspective of SMART output, the most reliable drives per hour put on them that I've run are Samsung drives, but those have also been a minority of drives I've used.
That said, I try not to put drives from one single manufacturing batch into the same array if I can help it. That's the one nearly-universal sentiment I've heard from others who deploy massive numbers of drives. In the end, company name doesn't really matter all that much. Failures come in clusters, and all companies suffer from them. If looked at neutrally, I'd guess that Seagate and WD probably run fairly similar failure rates. People tend to go with their experience though, and it's no surprise there are people like you or I who have had better luck with one specific company. The smaller the sample size, the more likely non-trends will appear to be something they're not.
Hell, I don't even know who Russell Brand is...
I knew there was something else that bothered me about it, but it's been a while since I read it. Yes, present tense narratives are irritating for the most part.
The story is decent, but I'm not a fan of first person narratives. It's a rare writer who can pull it off without it detracting from the novel, and Collins isn't such a writer.
With the exception of a couple wealthy families (Walton and Mars come to mind), most people in the US who are millionaires were not born into their wealth.
I'm not suggesting it; I'm stating it outright.
It is no more child pornography than a drawing of a person and an animal engaging in intercourse is bestiality.
It is an artificial, fictional depiction. You could call it pornographic art or cartoon porn (or CG porn, as the case may be), since that is the content. No actual child was involved, and if one were then the charge of sexual abuse or exploitation of a minor would apply.