See, I don't get it, the law is the law. The letter of the law is the law. No where in that ammendent are there 'ers' or 'ifs' or 'buts', it's all quite clear. Want to spy on someone, want to record them in their private location, want to access their private stuff, then talk to a judge and convince them you are entitled to a warrant to do that stuff.
So a corrupt judge meally mouths around the law because what the police were too lazy to get a warrant or truly did not believe they were able to convince a judge they should be able to have one. Nothing short term or urgent about it's use in this particular case either.
So asshat judge simply twists the law to suit the circumstance because he is buddies with the police in this location and nobody can say any different without lying quite simply because the law as written does not provide any exemptions as such. Want those exemptions than change the law through the proper legal and political process don't just make up some bullshit along the way.
It breaks down like this. Empathy, we are part of a social group and we continue to survive as part of that social group. Hence the normal social human brain is hard wired to support the group over individual survival. Analytic thought. Screw the group, how will I as an individual best be able to get ahead by victimising the rest of the group. A minority of broken people are hard wired to see human society in this way. You can imagine what happens if the majority attempt to function in this manner.
A majority psychopathic society that lacks empathy, is no longer a society. It completely breaks down to core individual survival, no longer primates in empathic social groups but reptiles looking to feed off each other as readily as any other creatures in that environment.
Well, technically you should be saying go buy your display from the company that Apple buys it's badged displays from to sell to you after another company has assembled it into a computer.
Personally I say screw America and it's time to go for hard metric displays so you can scale right off the screen. Forget the weird dots be inch bullshit and crazy odd widths and heights and let's go hard metric.
PS while we are at it, let's also drop the badging bullshit. When a company doesn't make shit, we should put an end to the bullshit about it making shit. Apple just badges hardware, shit it doesn't even make the badges or even the boxes the hardware comes. Apple is just a middle man to other companies hardware.
I can honestly tell you yes 3.8% improvement is massive when your typical gaming is expecting a drop in performance. You can see Steam speced gaming PCs and notebooks coming down the pipeline, with a Steam branded Linux distribution and steam will start making available for download all those sundry apps that no one really cares about like Office suites etc. So a Steam speced PC running Linux and ready to go, with access to proprietary games, especially ones you have already bought, plus new games and a whole FOSS library, sounds pretty dangerous for M$ and a reasonable buy for end users depending on pricing.
'Erm', yeah sure, we believe, we believe. Of course Uncle Fester's silly rant is just that, a silly rant attempting to justify M$'s development costs. Latest word is Apple is ramping up their Pad upgrade cycle from yearly to 7 months because they know that in the majority of instances they are only selling iPad to existing customers as a toy and those suckers are willing to keep paying to keep ahead of the Apple suckers (and they want to make it look like they are selling more iPads and increasing market share). So will M$ be able to pry away Apple customers who a buying the iPad as a toy, a consumer ego trip, not ever. M$ surface will be yet another dead product out of M$, they might as well have called it the Zune tablet, with Bing, Bob and Clippy, woohoo. One has to wonder where do all those abandoned Apple iPads the ones the typical Apple consumer doesn't want to be seen with when the new model comes out.
Higher price points are now demanding greater durability like being drop resistant and waterproof. An IR blaster to control and issue instructions to other devices is also starting to return. This lower price point is to shift focus away from Samsung and to drop a swift kick into Apple right where it hurts in the holiday sales market of their under speced over priced phone.
Just like Fukushima the problem is not with properly managed power stations, the problem is with nuclear power stations being managed by corporate dicks taking short cuts to inflate profit margins and their bonuses.
It's the whole fuck it I want my money now and it will be somebody else's problem to fix. Until corporate executives are thrown into jail for the laws the corporations they run break, nothing is going to change. It is high time everyone in the criminal chain with in a corporation start going to prison, those who decide to break the law, those that issue the instructions down the line and those that carry out the criminal acts.
Likely there will not be a single problem apart from a temporary loss of service with a properly managed nuclear power station but if some of them have been run by dicks you can expect problems.
Tired of their adds, their PR trolls were even infesting MMO games, with politics flooding chats with bullshit, now that was really annoying so bloody vote 3rd and 4th parties because they were silent and is was the two corporate ass hats causing all the problems. Never had to 'ignore' user after user after user after user really really annoying.
As for the hurricane, just wrap yourself up in the corporate bullshit about no greenhouse affect to protect yourself from the greenhouse affect and you'll be fine, not. So who will be the first politician to start spending trillions in protection system to block the increasingly damaging affects of storm surges. Also expect a crash in shore front, or is that under water property. It might be above water most of the year but once it becomes submerged upon a annual basis it will kinda suck.
Quite simply 24/7 represents working a global internet environment. Attacks originate from all over the globe and the absolute best way to run a honey pot is to do it live, to be at the machine when the attack is occurring to more closely monitor it and to run 'hmm' counter investigations, on the attacking IP and adjoining IP address space. In the normal working day cycle you really are on tracking local attacks which of course is still important by keeping track of the opposite side of the world is more important considering the rampant corruption in those locations ie information from intelligence agencies is more likely to bleed of into organised crime.
Not to forget 'Anonymous' is a global target of mysterious mischief to the FBI all though after their last munificent blunder of their being the most active 'Anonymous' group on the internet, they are not playing any more. So 24/7 makes real good sense you can expect they will force some partnerships on the other side of the world in order to more readily facilitate that operation. You can either have pissed off agents with no family life working off preferred cycle or you can shift operations to a location where their off duty life is maintained whilst they are still running investigations in the US via the internet in the night cycle ie they would not be operating in the country, they would be just living in that country, whilst they are digitally operating in the US.
Now that's more effective lateral thinking, they also gain closer access to often ignored points of attack and well as local investigatory resources. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHWLSypLFNM. Like Canada no will not be accepted as an answer.
However they are Greek and in ego terms, defaulting on debt makes them a minor third rate country. So they are stuck between a rock and a 'stupid' place. Cheating on taxes at every level, no taxes to pay for reasonable social welfare and of course wholly unreasonable major government to private corporate contracts with fat profit margins, the US corporate waged war on the Euro because the Euro was becoming perceived as a threat to the US Fed and was far to stable, ups and downs are needed for real profit. US corporations were in it up to their eyeballs in the Greek fiscal collapse.
Still not a whisper from the US government about reigning in the corrupt practices of to big to fail US financial corporations and the rest of Europe just goes on pretending like this is all being manipulated by those behind the US fed because that's pushing a little to close to an act of economic warfare.
The problem with handing government departments more power, is that power gets distributed down the line. Some corporate flunky in the private for profit end of intelligence services decided to create an incident by getting their paid off stooge to issue an instruction down the line to Homeland in-Security which was promptly acted upon. That the interrogation only lasted two hours is indicative that counter instructions were issued from higher up to cut short the normal twelve to twenty four hour sleep deprivation, no food, denial of access to toilet facilities and threats of extended imprisonment enhanced interrogation techniques. This is simply an indication of how far out of control US intelligence services have become under the corrupting influence of private for profit contractors.
This needs to be done because of course that Canada far to often has refused to play along with the US imperialism plan and toss a bunch of the soldiers into the gears of the war for cash machine.
The US wants a direct feed into the Canadian cyber infrastructure to be able to intercept discussion counter to US policy demands early to allow the propaganda 'er' public relations machine to adjust Canadian thinking.
What this is all about is Android is a highly competitive market and if you are just a bit out with your specs and your pricing, down you go. HTC was blatantly resting on it's laurels of past glories for to long and got crucified in market share. Now they will have to fight back with discounted pricing, it's just the way the market goes.
In this case it would be simple and clear cut. International observers turn up to the elections in Texas to monitor them. They get arrested and under federal treaties are released. They simply report that in Texas elections are so corrupt that independent international observers operating under treaty are arrested and imprisoned, done and finished. Now every country in the world will recognise Texas as corrupt and xenophobic and best to be avoided. So next time the US says anything about any other countries election process that country will simply refer to what happens in Texas and tell US observers to simply go away, after arresting and imprisoning them of course.
Perhaps you feel that a public trial before your peers and innocent until proven guilty in a court of law and the reasoning behind the separation of powers, is just all to dang hard, messy and just costs to dang much. What the fuck they are only blowing to bits brown babies, hyuck, hyuck, who gives a fuck.
I have to point out that Richard Dawkins was very wrong about one thing, that religion is an arbitrary label behind which people divide themselves. Religion is not so arbitrary in that at all but, has often been specifically selected by psychopathic rulers in order that their people will have less qualms about slaughtering adjoining nations and their heathen non-believers. This slaughter having nothing to do with religion and everything to do with empowering the psychopathic leader by feeding their lusts and ego's, their ability to have the power of life and death over millions, to maim and slaughter them in battle and to publicly torture them to death after wards, all while the psychopathic ruler watches on sating baser sexual and gorging lusts.
Now that is the true nature of the growth of monotheism, to ensure psychopathic leaders could pervert those religions upon a global scale for conquest et al. Pay very close attention to how often a religion controlled the psychopathic heads of monarchical states and how often the psychopathic heads of monarchical states controlled religion. When in doubt and push came to shove it was priest who ended up being decapitated not royalty. Ahh, religion the tool of tyrants, used far to often do exactly the opposite of what the religion claims to promote, even to this very bloody and I do mean bloody day.
Obviously M$ believes it because that is exactly what they are trying to force a tablet and phone based interface onto PC users. Putting in a cheap upgrade path and are going to become real dicks when it comes to fucking up windows 7 on purpose. They are trying to force everyone to become used to their interface in order to do an end run around android appearing on the desk. Instead they will end up really pissing off their customers at the most risky time, this dependent upon how much they purposefully screw up windows 7, you can already see it with no service pack 2 for windows 7 and that will just be the start of Uncle Fester douche baggery.
Think old school before the internet and software took over and intelligence agencies around the world did everything the hard way via hard ware. They still have the budgets and the staff and the skill. Look how tiny and complex RFID chips are. So what if one component looks slightly bigger than the others, who is going to check every single part on every single board, hell, you can even insert inside the board itself with connectors going right through the board power is no problem and chances of finding them are pretty much zero, except perhaps xraying the board prior to assembly. Rather than doing this on the assembly line you simply intercept the supply chain and replace the safe with the unsafe based upon destination. So watch who owns or controls the supply chain rather than manufacturers.
Nothing to do with believable. I came across a disabled prototype on the internet. Based around a larger cheap version of a typical part with a high cost smaller version built into the casing leaving ample room for a chip to be inserted in the power pathway. Simplest function burnout the chip and cut power upon the correct pass code being picked up in the power supply. Imagine inserted that part inserted throughout your infrastructure, upon the code being detected every device using that part is now dead. Attempt to insert a replacement, it receives the signal and dies. You whole supply chain is corrupted and it could take weeks to resolve, especially when it's the telecommunications infrastructure disrupted.
It can be embedded in other components like capacitors, diodes, resistors etc. etc. etc. Anything that carries an electrical current and can receive a signal can have a digital circuit embedded in it, to do something as simply as be an off switch or far more complex activity. Really the truth is not country can be said to be independent unless it manufactures it's own essential electronic infrastructure, regardless of cost. A single capacitor set to shut down at the receipt of a certain digital signal can readily shut down a whole power station, replace that board with the naughty capacitor of the same brand and you are still off line.
Especially M$ marketdroids, those responsible for 'Bob', 'clippy', 'Zune' and 'Bing' amongst other things. Somehow you think they have to be working with finger paints and lines of funny white powder when they plan this stuff.
Did we all forget Jerk Jerk A's Ensign commander of the flag ship of star fleet, version of a Captain. From thinking from the gut big mouth bar brawler, to cheating cadet on to "saviour of the universe", 'er', Federation of Planets 'er' excluding Vulcan but hey who needed those boring logical dudes they think too much;D.
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See, I don't get it, the law is the law. The letter of the law is the law. No where in that ammendent are there 'ers' or 'ifs' or 'buts', it's all quite clear. Want to spy on someone, want to record them in their private location, want to access their private stuff, then talk to a judge and convince them you are entitled to a warrant to do that stuff.
So a corrupt judge meally mouths around the law because what the police were too lazy to get a warrant or truly did not believe they were able to convince a judge they should be able to have one. Nothing short term or urgent about it's use in this particular case either.
So asshat judge simply twists the law to suit the circumstance because he is buddies with the police in this location and nobody can say any different without lying quite simply because the law as written does not provide any exemptions as such. Want those exemptions than change the law through the proper legal and political process don't just make up some bullshit along the way.
It breaks down like this.
Empathy, we are part of a social group and we continue to survive as part of that social group. Hence the normal social human brain is hard wired to support the group over individual survival.
Analytic thought. Screw the group, how will I as an individual best be able to get ahead by victimising the rest of the group. A minority of broken people are hard wired to see human society in this way. You can imagine what happens if the majority attempt to function in this manner.
A majority psychopathic society that lacks empathy, is no longer a society. It completely breaks down to core individual survival, no longer primates in empathic social groups but reptiles looking to feed off each other as readily as any other creatures in that environment.
Well, technically you should be saying go buy your display from the company that Apple buys it's badged displays from to sell to you after another company has assembled it into a computer.
Personally I say screw America and it's time to go for hard metric displays so you can scale right off the screen. Forget the weird dots be inch bullshit and crazy odd widths and heights and let's go hard metric.
PS while we are at it, let's also drop the badging bullshit. When a company doesn't make shit, we should put an end to the bullshit about it making shit. Apple just badges hardware, shit it doesn't even make the badges or even the boxes the hardware comes. Apple is just a middle man to other companies hardware.
Personally I have no problem with them using a dog, as long as the dog is willing to testify in court with regard to the accuracy of their nose.
I can honestly tell you yes 3.8% improvement is massive when your typical gaming is expecting a drop in performance. You can see Steam speced gaming PCs and notebooks coming down the pipeline, with a Steam branded Linux distribution and steam will start making available for download all those sundry apps that no one really cares about like Office suites etc. So a Steam speced PC running Linux and ready to go, with access to proprietary games, especially ones you have already bought, plus new games and a whole FOSS library, sounds pretty dangerous for M$ and a reasonable buy for end users depending on pricing.
'Erm', yeah sure, we believe, we believe. Of course Uncle Fester's silly rant is just that, a silly rant attempting to justify M$'s development costs. Latest word is Apple is ramping up their Pad upgrade cycle from yearly to 7 months because they know that in the majority of instances they are only selling iPad to existing customers as a toy and those suckers are willing to keep paying to keep ahead of the Apple suckers (and they want to make it look like they are selling more iPads and increasing market share). So will M$ be able to pry away Apple customers who a buying the iPad as a toy, a consumer ego trip, not ever. M$ surface will be yet another dead product out of M$, they might as well have called it the Zune tablet, with Bing, Bob and Clippy, woohoo. One has to wonder where do all those abandoned Apple iPads the ones the typical Apple consumer doesn't want to be seen with when the new model comes out.
Higher price points are now demanding greater durability like being drop resistant and waterproof. An IR blaster to control and issue instructions to other devices is also starting to return. This lower price point is to shift focus away from Samsung and to drop a swift kick into Apple right where it hurts in the holiday sales market of their under speced over priced phone.
Just like Fukushima the problem is not with properly managed power stations, the problem is with nuclear power stations being managed by corporate dicks taking short cuts to inflate profit margins and their bonuses. It's the whole fuck it I want my money now and it will be somebody else's problem to fix. Until corporate executives are thrown into jail for the laws the corporations they run break, nothing is going to change. It is high time everyone in the criminal chain with in a corporation start going to prison, those who decide to break the law, those that issue the instructions down the line and those that carry out the criminal acts. Likely there will not be a single problem apart from a temporary loss of service with a properly managed nuclear power station but if some of them have been run by dicks you can expect problems.
Tired of their adds, their PR trolls were even infesting MMO games, with politics flooding chats with bullshit, now that was really annoying so bloody vote 3rd and 4th parties because they were silent and is was the two corporate ass hats causing all the problems. Never had to 'ignore' user after user after user after user really really annoying.
As for the hurricane, just wrap yourself up in the corporate bullshit about no greenhouse affect to protect yourself from the greenhouse affect and you'll be fine, not. So who will be the first politician to start spending trillions in protection system to block the increasingly damaging affects of storm surges. Also expect a crash in shore front, or is that under water property. It might be above water most of the year but once it becomes submerged upon a annual basis it will kinda suck.
Quite simply 24/7 represents working a global internet environment. Attacks originate from all over the globe and the absolute best way to run a honey pot is to do it live, to be at the machine when the attack is occurring to more closely monitor it and to run 'hmm' counter investigations, on the attacking IP and adjoining IP address space. In the normal working day cycle you really are on tracking local attacks which of course is still important by keeping track of the opposite side of the world is more important considering the rampant corruption in those locations ie information from intelligence agencies is more likely to bleed of into organised crime.
Not to forget 'Anonymous' is a global target of mysterious mischief to the FBI all though after their last munificent blunder of their being the most active 'Anonymous' group on the internet, they are not playing any more. So 24/7 makes real good sense you can expect they will force some partnerships on the other side of the world in order to more readily facilitate that operation. You can either have pissed off agents with no family life working off preferred cycle or you can shift operations to a location where their off duty life is maintained whilst they are still running investigations in the US via the internet in the night cycle ie they would not be operating in the country, they would be just living in that country, whilst they are digitally operating in the US.
Now that's more effective lateral thinking, they also gain closer access to often ignored points of attack and well as local investigatory resources. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHWLSypLFNM. Like Canada no will not be accepted as an answer.
However they are Greek and in ego terms, defaulting on debt makes them a minor third rate country. So they are stuck between a rock and a 'stupid' place. Cheating on taxes at every level, no taxes to pay for reasonable social welfare and of course wholly unreasonable major government to private corporate contracts with fat profit margins, the US corporate waged war on the Euro because the Euro was becoming perceived as a threat to the US Fed and was far to stable, ups and downs are needed for real profit. US corporations were in it up to their eyeballs in the Greek fiscal collapse.
Still not a whisper from the US government about reigning in the corrupt practices of to big to fail US financial corporations and the rest of Europe just goes on pretending like this is all being manipulated by those behind the US fed because that's pushing a little to close to an act of economic warfare.
The problem with handing government departments more power, is that power gets distributed down the line. Some corporate flunky in the private for profit end of intelligence services decided to create an incident by getting their paid off stooge to issue an instruction down the line to Homeland in-Security which was promptly acted upon. That the interrogation only lasted two hours is indicative that counter instructions were issued from higher up to cut short the normal twelve to twenty four hour sleep deprivation, no food, denial of access to toilet facilities and threats of extended imprisonment enhanced interrogation techniques. This is simply an indication of how far out of control US intelligence services have become under the corrupting influence of private for profit contractors.
This needs to be done because of course that Canada far to often has refused to play along with the US imperialism plan and toss a bunch of the soldiers into the gears of the war for cash machine.
The US wants a direct feed into the Canadian cyber infrastructure to be able to intercept discussion counter to US policy demands early to allow the propaganda 'er' public relations machine to adjust Canadian thinking.
What this is all about is Android is a highly competitive market and if you are just a bit out with your specs and your pricing, down you go. HTC was blatantly resting on it's laurels of past glories for to long and got crucified in market share. Now they will have to fight back with discounted pricing, it's just the way the market goes.
After all on Steam you pay for things in pseudo USD's and they do an automated exchange and charge your credit card in your local currency.
In this case it would be simple and clear cut. International observers turn up to the elections in Texas to monitor them. They get arrested and under federal treaties are released. They simply report that in Texas elections are so corrupt that independent international observers operating under treaty are arrested and imprisoned, done and finished. Now every country in the world will recognise Texas as corrupt and xenophobic and best to be avoided. So next time the US says anything about any other countries election process that country will simply refer to what happens in Texas and tell US observers to simply go away, after arresting and imprisoning them of course.
Perhaps you feel that a public trial before your peers and innocent until proven guilty in a court of law and the reasoning behind the separation of powers, is just all to dang hard, messy and just costs to dang much. What the fuck they are only blowing to bits brown babies, hyuck, hyuck, who gives a fuck.
I have to point out that Richard Dawkins was very wrong about one thing, that religion is an arbitrary label behind which people divide themselves. Religion is not so arbitrary in that at all but, has often been specifically selected by psychopathic rulers in order that their people will have less qualms about slaughtering adjoining nations and their heathen non-believers. This slaughter having nothing to do with religion and everything to do with empowering the psychopathic leader by feeding their lusts and ego's, their ability to have the power of life and death over millions, to maim and slaughter them in battle and to publicly torture them to death after wards, all while the psychopathic ruler watches on sating baser sexual and gorging lusts.
Now that is the true nature of the growth of monotheism, to ensure psychopathic leaders could pervert those religions upon a global scale for conquest et al. Pay very close attention to how often a religion controlled the psychopathic heads of monarchical states and how often the psychopathic heads of monarchical states controlled religion. When in doubt and push came to shove it was priest who ended up being decapitated not royalty. Ahh, religion the tool of tyrants, used far to often do exactly the opposite of what the religion claims to promote, even to this very bloody and I do mean bloody day.
Obviously M$ believes it because that is exactly what they are trying to force a tablet and phone based interface onto PC users. Putting in a cheap upgrade path and are going to become real dicks when it comes to fucking up windows 7 on purpose. They are trying to force everyone to become used to their interface in order to do an end run around android appearing on the desk. Instead they will end up really pissing off their customers at the most risky time, this dependent upon how much they purposefully screw up windows 7, you can already see it with no service pack 2 for windows 7 and that will just be the start of Uncle Fester douche baggery.
Think old school before the internet and software took over and intelligence agencies around the world did everything the hard way via hard ware. They still have the budgets and the staff and the skill. Look how tiny and complex RFID chips are. So what if one component looks slightly bigger than the others, who is going to check every single part on every single board, hell, you can even insert inside the board itself with connectors going right through the board power is no problem and chances of finding them are pretty much zero, except perhaps xraying the board prior to assembly. Rather than doing this on the assembly line you simply intercept the supply chain and replace the safe with the unsafe based upon destination. So watch who owns or controls the supply chain rather than manufacturers.
Nothing to do with believable. I came across a disabled prototype on the internet. Based around a larger cheap version of a typical part with a high cost smaller version built into the casing leaving ample room for a chip to be inserted in the power pathway. Simplest function burnout the chip and cut power upon the correct pass code being picked up in the power supply. Imagine inserted that part inserted throughout your infrastructure, upon the code being detected every device using that part is now dead. Attempt to insert a replacement, it receives the signal and dies. You whole supply chain is corrupted and it could take weeks to resolve, especially when it's the telecommunications infrastructure disrupted.
It can be embedded in other components like capacitors, diodes, resistors etc. etc. etc. Anything that carries an electrical current and can receive a signal can have a digital circuit embedded in it, to do something as simply as be an off switch or far more complex activity. Really the truth is not country can be said to be independent unless it manufactures it's own essential electronic infrastructure, regardless of cost. A single capacitor set to shut down at the receipt of a certain digital signal can readily shut down a whole power station, replace that board with the naughty capacitor of the same brand and you are still off line.
Especially M$ marketdroids, those responsible for 'Bob', 'clippy', 'Zune' and 'Bing' amongst other things. Somehow you think they have to be working with finger paints and lines of funny white powder when they plan this stuff.
Want proof just have a look at a google search for images of Elop and Ballmer together https://www.google.com.au/search?q=elop&hl=en&safe=off&prmd=imvnsu&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=vzaHUJLhEe6eiAfsr4HwBQ&ved=0CAcQ_AUoAQ&biw=1536&bih=724#hl=en&safe=off&tbm=isch&sa=1&q=elop+ballmer&oq=elop+ballmer&gs_l=img.3..0.2205.4418.0.4673.10.6.1.3.4.1.236.1305.2-6.6.0...0.0...1c.1.PVLo-wHolpU&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_cp.r_qf.&fp=796a483025b4c77a&bpcl=35466521&biw=1536&bih=724. Look at those images, now if you for a second look and those and don't think something really Uncle Fester bent is going on there then you need your head read, it looks very much like M$ is killing Nokia for it's patents.
Did we all forget Jerk Jerk A's Ensign commander of the flag ship of star fleet, version of a Captain. From thinking from the gut big mouth bar brawler, to cheating cadet on to "saviour of the universe", 'er', Federation of Planets 'er' excluding Vulcan but hey who needed those boring logical dudes they think too much ;D.