Don't think for a second that these back-doors that companies put in at the behest of the NSA aren't also being used to the benefit of those companies.
RTFA next time. No companies installed backdoors at the behest of the NSA. TFA just says that the NSA has 0-day hacks for a lot of hardware, with a focus on ultimately leaving malware in the BIOS.
"The advertised price in the flyer and on the product pages was correct when these customers added the item to their shopping cart and did not reflect this additional discount until the shopping cart was checked out. The Brick apologizes for the confusion and is currently working to contact all affected customers to advise of correct pricing."
Real Coallier, who works for Quebec's office of consumer protection, said such online transactions can't be modified after the fact and said customers should file complaints if The Brick asks them for money.
I guess the only other alternative is to reverse any orders that the customer doesn't willingly repay.
Hitler, Albert Einstein and Elvis make frequent cameos in media and often star in YouTube videos, having no rights because they are *REAL* people.
I know Einstein & Elvis' estates are litigious, but I couldn't say for sure about Hitler's estate. They almost exclusively go after people who don't get a license to use the image for *commercial* purposes.
What you can't use is any recent (re)translation or re-imagining or edition from [publisher]. That's the reason that "American Classics" keep getting new editions cranked out, even though the story hasn't changed in a century.
So while Disney doesn't own Snow White (or any of the other stories), they own their version. The Disney version strays enough from the Brothers Grimm that Disney has claimed and received copyright and trademarks. Of the two legal claims, Disney is vastly more likely to slaughter you with trademarks than copyrights.
I good naturedly rib my Apple/iToy owning friends whenever we pass an Apple store: "Oh wow, that store is packed. I wonder what drink special they're having at the Genius Bar tonight?"
In reality, the stores are always full of people waiting to get their Apple products looked at in the Genius Bar. Apple's product issues are glossed over with slick marketing, great customer service, and a healthy zap of the reality distortion field... Which is why Apple's consumer perception index is significantly higher than the next closest mfg & the industry average.
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Some people would use this as an opportunity to take pot shots at climate change theory and Al Gore. Others would take it as an opportunity to wonder why the previous climate models failed us and how can we improve them.
Only one of those two attitudes is of any use to the rest of us.
Google pushed its high-speed fiber and TV service in Kansas City, and expanded elsewhere; evidence emerged that the result was better prices and faster speeds in those markets.
Increased competition leads to better consumer offerings and lower prices. You don't say.
In general, there is plenty that the dominant Internet providers can do to provide better deals without much effort, she says. Cable companies like Time Warner Cable and Comcast have the technical capacity to speed up service, and also plenty of room to lower prices, given the estimate from one analystâ"Craig Moffet of the Wall Street firm Bernstein Researchâ"that they typically make 97 percent profit margins on Internet services.
In other words: the average consumer is paying the "fuck you" price.
Are you trying to say Google is the result of low US taxes? That is such a load. Californian taxes are HIGH.
Combined State and Federal taxes are at historic LOWS.
Decades of lobbying has pushed us into a race to the bottom and framed the debate in such a way that historic tax rates are considered insane, despite earlier "confiscatory" tax rates at times of enormous growth.
Besides, changes in solar activity levels may have a delayed impact via ice melt, changes in atmospheric circulation, etc.
May? The sun's effects may have a delay of over 1,000 years? At what point are you going to stop grasping at straws and accept peer reviewed facts that are in front of you?
We don't see a big flap over the thousands of stupid, racist, bigoted comments ordinary people make every day.
I think this dovetails into TFA's shock and surprise that âoeinternet justiceâ leads to death threats, when really that almost any [public person] gets threatened with harm, no matter how non-controversial the reason for their (sudden) fame.
So far, I have not identified any benefits for me from using 7 compared to using XP. But I have trouble with a few pieces of software that refuse to run. Now, please explain to me again why I would possibly WANT Windows7?
Just because it seems to be the elephant in the room: How about you'd want Windows 7 for improved security.
The internet says that the wheels and suspension are made of aluminum and " fittings made of titanium where ever they are needed"
Obviously cost wasn't an issue, so I'm curious about the alloy of Aluminum they used and why they picked that over lots of other more exotic possibilities.
The hardest part of rebuilding old hardware is the metallurgy. As long as we can get that right (or use a better quality substitute) reverse engineering from existing parts isn't anything we couldn't farm out to China.
It went from "over 50" to "dozens" to "54" to "one or two" These are public statements from the head of the NSA and the head of national intelligence. Now we learned that the actual number of attacks prevented using their domestic data collection techniques is zero.
How is it a red herring to criticize the government for the statements that they made?
The Soviets supposedly stuck together two 56 cylinder radial engines for use on military ships. 112 cylinders total. Of course, it's not something you could put in a car. Or a big rig... maybe a train. But you can find 42~56 cylinder radials that are leftover from the (post) WWII era.
Nobody really builds high-cylinder count motors anymore, they just increase displacement. At the most extreme end, you have the world's largest engine with 14 cylinders, each displacing 1,820 liters. Oh, and it's turbocharged, because more air is an effective substitute for more displacement.
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Don't think for a second that these back-doors that companies put in at the behest of the NSA aren't also being used to the benefit of those companies.
RTFA next time.
No companies installed backdoors at the behest of the NSA.
TFA just says that the NSA has 0-day hacks for a lot of hardware, with a focus on ultimately leaving malware in the BIOS.
"The advertised price in the flyer and on the product pages was correct when these customers added the item to their shopping cart and did not reflect this additional discount until the shopping cart was checked out. The Brick apologizes for the confusion and is currently working to contact all affected customers to advise of correct pricing."
Real Coallier, who works for Quebec's office of consumer protection, said such online transactions can't be modified after the fact and said customers should file complaints if The Brick asks them for money.
I guess the only other alternative is to reverse any orders that the customer doesn't willingly repay.
Sherlock Holmes --- an imaginary character --- has more rights than real people.
Not really. Though imaginary characters' rights most likely last for longer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personality_rights
Hitler, Albert Einstein and Elvis make frequent cameos in media and often star in YouTube videos, having no rights because they are *REAL* people.
I know Einstein & Elvis' estates are litigious, but I couldn't say for sure about Hitler's estate.
They almost exclusively go after people who don't get a license to use the image for *commercial* purposes.
What you can't use is any recent (re)translation or re-imagining or edition from [publisher].
That's the reason that "American Classics" keep getting new editions cranked out, even though the story hasn't changed in a century.
So while Disney doesn't own Snow White (or any of the other stories), they own their version.
The Disney version strays enough from the Brothers Grimm that Disney has claimed and received copyright and trademarks.
Of the two legal claims, Disney is vastly more likely to slaughter you with trademarks than copyrights.
Also, why was Samsung excluded? Their 800 series with RAID support has been tested in the past with long term writes with great results.
Samsung's 800 series doesn't have power loss protection.
That's why it was excluded from a test where the main criteria was Power Loss Protection.
It's interesting that Pauley is a Clinton appointee and ruled the spying legal
while Leon was a Bush Jr appointee and ruled the spying illegal.
Makes you wonder why Republicans have been so aggressively hostile towards Obama's attempts to appoint new judges.
A 500 micron thick liver isn't going to process much alcohol.
You're going to have to switch to non-alcoholic beer.
I good naturedly rib my Apple/iToy owning friends whenever we pass an Apple store:
"Oh wow, that store is packed. I wonder what drink special they're having at the Genius Bar tonight?"
In reality, the stores are always full of people waiting to get their Apple products looked at in the Genius Bar.
Apple's product issues are glossed over with slick marketing, great customer service, and a healthy zap of the reality distortion field...
Which is why Apple's consumer perception index is significantly higher than the next closest mfg & the industry average.
Can you walk through walls? Become invisible? Bend tsunamis?
Hang on for a shocking discovery that will rock your world!
One little trick that can hack physics!
Click here to find out how!
Some people would use this as an opportunity to take pot shots at climate change theory and Al Gore.
Others would take it as an opportunity to wonder why the previous climate models failed us and how can we improve them.
Only one of those two attitudes is of any use to the rest of us.
Google pushed its high-speed fiber and TV service in Kansas City, and expanded elsewhere; evidence emerged that the result was better prices and faster speeds in those markets.
Increased competition leads to better consumer offerings and lower prices.
You don't say.
In general, there is plenty that the dominant Internet providers can do to provide better deals without much effort, she says. Cable companies like Time Warner Cable and Comcast have the technical capacity to speed up service, and also plenty of room to lower prices, given the estimate from one analystâ"Craig Moffet of the Wall Street firm Bernstein Researchâ"that they typically make 97 percent profit margins on Internet services.
In other words: the average consumer is paying the "fuck you" price.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justice_and_Development_Party_(Turkey)
Not and Islamic political party, but still #1 amongst Islamists.
They kept having problems with it and I'm much more interested in how they plan to resolve that set of issues.
Are you trying to say Google is the result of low US taxes? That is such a load. Californian taxes are HIGH.
Combined State and Federal taxes are at historic LOWS.
Decades of lobbying has pushed us into a race to the bottom and framed the debate in such a way that historic tax rates are considered insane, despite earlier "confiscatory" tax rates at times of enormous growth.
I find the full keyboard w/ 10-key awful damn handy.
I'm heartily annoyed that I can't find a decent 15" laptop without the 10-key number pad.
Besides, changes in solar activity levels may have a delayed impact via ice melt, changes in atmospheric circulation, etc.
May? The sun's effects may have a delay of over 1,000 years?
At what point are you going to stop grasping at straws and accept peer reviewed facts that are in front of you?
We don't see a big flap over the thousands of stupid, racist, bigoted comments ordinary people make every day.
I think this dovetails into TFA's shock and surprise that âoeinternet justiceâ leads to death threats, when really that almost any [public person] gets threatened with harm, no matter how non-controversial the reason for their (sudden) fame.
So far, I have not identified any benefits for me from using 7 compared to using XP. But I have trouble with a few pieces of software that refuse to run. Now, please explain to me again why I would possibly WANT Windows7?
Just because it seems to be the elephant in the room: How about you'd want Windows 7 for improved security.
The internet says that the wheels and suspension are made of aluminum and " fittings made of titanium where ever they are needed"
Obviously cost wasn't an issue, so I'm curious about the alloy of Aluminum they used and why they picked that over lots of other more exotic possibilities.
Geek.com outed this testing firm last Friday for A) running MSE without applied windows updates
I noticed that too while reading the PDF.
But it doesn't seem like much of a defense for MSE's and McAfee's extremely poor showing.
10 million pieces of (Judas) silver would be about 5 million troy ounces.
That works out to $97,000,000 USD at current exchange rates.
RSA definitely got cheated by not insisting on 2000 year old silver as their payment.
Or as a slight step up....there is NO chance that America could build a Saturn V rocket these days.
We have at least a couple complete Saturn V rockets lying around if we wanted to reverse engineer 'em.
I've personally seen the ones in Alabama and Washington D.C.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn_V#Saturn_V_displays
The hardest part of rebuilding old hardware is the metallurgy.
As long as we can get that right (or use a better quality substitute)
reverse engineering from existing parts isn't anything we couldn't farm out to China.
It went from "over 50" to "dozens" to "54" to "one or two"
These are public statements from the head of the NSA and the head of national intelligence.
Now we learned that the actual number of attacks prevented using their domestic data collection techniques is zero.
How is it a red herring to criticize the government for the statements that they made?
Do you know of any ICE that 256 pistons? Not I.
The Soviets supposedly stuck together two 56 cylinder radial engines for use on military ships. 112 cylinders total.
Of course, it's not something you could put in a car. Or a big rig... maybe a train.
But you can find 42~56 cylinder radials that are leftover from the (post) WWII era.
Nobody really builds high-cylinder count motors anymore, they just increase displacement.
At the most extreme end, you have the world's largest engine with 14 cylinders, each displacing 1,820 liters.
Oh, and it's turbocharged, because more air is an effective substitute for more displacement.
I've always wondered... Why didn't he just say quadruple?
I assume it's because he's already doubled his efforts once and quadrupling would mean a total 8x increase compared to the original amount of effort?
Also, "redouble" doesn't have to literally mean "double again,"
it can be used less specifically to mean "a great increase"