Precisely. IMHO, this and the protesting is going to backfire HARD because one of the motivating factors of Trump supporters is that they are sick of "children" throwing temper tantrums to get what they want and the "parents" caving every time. It's not as though there aren't legal ways for them to get what they want but they have to convince a majority of people to go along with them which doesn't happen very often.
Having interviewed at Ft. Meade in my last year of grad school, there are two reasons why I think the Snowden thing is B.S.. 1) Compartmentalization and 2) Obfuscation. All classified work is compartmentalized. There's no way a low-level analyst like this guy had access to all he says he did. It's called "need to know" and only the top people have need to know for a whole bunch of projects. Second, the NSA intentionally obfuscates what they're doing so people can't look at a job title, project name, or powerpoint slides and know what the project really is unless you're part of it. All of this leads me to conclude that either the guy is full of it or that the information was intentionally "leaked" to him knowing that he would likely go public with it.
*GASP* Holy crap! How dumb is that? We've been assuming that bottom up measurements are accurate. Let's think about this for a moment. You can't measure every single source nor can you measure any source with 100% accuracy. So what you end up with is a statistical approximation. Let's try an experiment that you can do at home. Go buy 100 resistors all of the same value, say 1k ohms. Hook them all up in series. Measure the resistance. The math would tell you that you should get 100k ohms. Ok, so everybody who knows a bit about electronics knows that resistors have tolerance. These days you can get pretty good ones for pennies. But since you're not measuring every one of them, you can't say for sure that they are within rated tolerance. You're assuming that the manufacturer is reporting the tolerance accurately. Let's also say that you get 100 people all over the globe to do this same test but they have to buy their own parts and you give them a limited budget to do so and whatever they don't spend they get to keep. Can you say that everyone performed the test the same way? And yet governments are creating policies based on an assumption of 100% accurate testing.
Trump is running against right-wing purists. The media doesn't get along with them. Oh, and BTW, there is very little right-wing media. Oh, you mean corporate media? Right, so basically, any media outlet that makes money including Gawker. Oh, wait, you mean internet media which is so well known for facts. But I digress. IMHO, Trump's strategy is quite effective. He talks to the people he needs to get results. He's not the type of person who says, "I won the election. They're going to have to shut up and do whatever I want."
But there is something that a lot of people are missing. Lots of people think he's the next Hitler or Mussolini. Those people really don't understand how our system of government works. If Trump wins in November (and assuming that Republicans retain control of Congress which may not be the case), it's safe to say that he doesn't have majority support in Congress so why would you think that they're just going to go along with everything Trump wants to do? Contrary to popular belief, POTUS doesn't make the law. POTUS is mainly a manager. Most presidents have done nothing but expand the unelected part of government. My guess is that Trump will fire a whole lot of unelected dead weight and he's the only candidate who will have no qualms about doing so. Is that a bad thing?
What I find interesting about Trump's campaign is that he's managed to prevent other people from defining him and thereby generalizing him. He's both embraced and pissed off different groups of voters on all sides of the political landscape. In this particular case, if you believe that all Republicans are only looking out for evil rich corporations that will do anything for their bottom line such as offshoring, this case takes away that generalization.
As a matter of interest, Tim Cook is on the Arizona Republican Primary ballot this year.
The run-of-the-mill low-end Benz still made by robots but the higher priced model has enough profit margin to offset the increased cost of using moist robots.
Blazing speed and low power are less important to me than long range. And these router manufacturers are getting rather annoying with their "specs." Oh, it covers 14,000 square feet. That's a square less than 120 feet on a side. So what? That's what you get for 600 mW of output power?
What seems to be missing in all of this media-fueled discussion on this topic is that the iPhone doesn't operating in a vacuum. Assuming that the couple got their marching orders on this phone (which is unlikely since it was a work phone not a personal one), someone had to send those marching orders. That means that the Feds have totally failed to identify the source. Either that or the fact that our international surveillance capabilities have been totally borked in the last few years that they no longer have the capability to find the source or can't legally find the source. And then there's the other possibility that the Feds are hoping to make the case that no marching orders were given and the couple had no connection to terrorist groups and this was some sort of spontaneous attack thus justifying further erosion of civilian rights.
Just a theory but there are some 4000 Android devices from 400 different manufacturers using who knows what version of Android that may or may not be in the original form since it's open source.
How the hell am I supposed to get out of The Matrix? Sounds like a conspiracy to me. And how the hell am I supposed to get new numbers from The Machine? Sounds like Samaritan at work.
On my FB account, Zuckerberg invited me to "follow" him. I don't know if I'm annoyed that he didn't "friend" me instead or if I'm nauseated by the fact that over 50 million people "follow" him. I doubt very much that he's changing the world as much as he thinks he is.
Just looking at this topic illustrates the 95% B.S. Rule of the Internet in that about 5% of the comments thus far are rated at a 5 which suggests that most people have no idea how the government works or the reasons for Scalia's opinions.
What this illustrates is the fact that tech companies often neglect a large segment of the population whose aging eyesight affects their ability to use the devices. Cataracts, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration are maladies that most people are going to have to deal with eventually. Those baby-boomers and Gen-Xers who have the money to buy the gadgets can't be ignored.
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Precisely. IMHO, this and the protesting is going to backfire HARD because one of the motivating factors of Trump supporters is that they are sick of "children" throwing temper tantrums to get what they want and the "parents" caving every time. It's not as though there aren't legal ways for them to get what they want but they have to convince a majority of people to go along with them which doesn't happen very often.
Having interviewed at Ft. Meade in my last year of grad school, there are two reasons why I think the Snowden thing is B.S.. 1) Compartmentalization and 2) Obfuscation. All classified work is compartmentalized. There's no way a low-level analyst like this guy had access to all he says he did. It's called "need to know" and only the top people have need to know for a whole bunch of projects. Second, the NSA intentionally obfuscates what they're doing so people can't look at a job title, project name, or powerpoint slides and know what the project really is unless you're part of it.
All of this leads me to conclude that either the guy is full of it or that the information was intentionally "leaked" to him knowing that he would likely go public with it.
Tell me again why the US should give up control of the internet?
Great, now everything will be restricted by ITAR.
Quit building islands because power and colonialism.
Couldn't resist. :-p
*GASP* Holy crap! How dumb is that? We've been assuming that bottom up measurements are accurate. Let's think about this for a moment. You can't measure every single source nor can you measure any source with 100% accuracy. So what you end up with is a statistical approximation. Let's try an experiment that you can do at home. Go buy 100 resistors all of the same value, say 1k ohms. Hook them all up in series. Measure the resistance. The math would tell you that you should get 100k ohms. Ok, so everybody who knows a bit about electronics knows that resistors have tolerance. These days you can get pretty good ones for pennies. But since you're not measuring every one of them, you can't say for sure that they are within rated tolerance. You're assuming that the manufacturer is reporting the tolerance accurately. Let's also say that you get 100 people all over the globe to do this same test but they have to buy their own parts and you give them a limited budget to do so and whatever they don't spend they get to keep. Can you say that everyone performed the test the same way? And yet governments are creating policies based on an assumption of 100% accurate testing.
It's a dessert topping AND a floor wax.
Trump is running against right-wing purists. The media doesn't get along with them. Oh, and BTW, there is very little right-wing media. Oh, you mean corporate media? Right, so basically, any media outlet that makes money including Gawker. Oh, wait, you mean internet media which is so well known for facts. But I digress. IMHO, Trump's strategy is quite effective. He talks to the people he needs to get results. He's not the type of person who says, "I won the election. They're going to have to shut up and do whatever I want."
But there is something that a lot of people are missing. Lots of people think he's the next Hitler or Mussolini. Those people really don't understand how our system of government works. If Trump wins in November (and assuming that Republicans retain control of Congress which may not be the case), it's safe to say that he doesn't have majority support in Congress so why would you think that they're just going to go along with everything Trump wants to do? Contrary to popular belief, POTUS doesn't make the law. POTUS is mainly a manager. Most presidents have done nothing but expand the unelected part of government. My guess is that Trump will fire a whole lot of unelected dead weight and he's the only candidate who will have no qualms about doing so. Is that a bad thing?
This method has not been evaluated by the FDA.
What I find interesting about Trump's campaign is that he's managed to prevent other people from defining him and thereby generalizing him. He's both embraced and pissed off different groups of voters on all sides of the political landscape. In this particular case, if you believe that all Republicans are only looking out for evil rich corporations that will do anything for their bottom line such as offshoring, this case takes away that generalization.
As a matter of interest, Tim Cook is on the Arizona Republican Primary ballot this year.
You can't be forced to testify in court. How is this not the same thing?
The run-of-the-mill low-end Benz still made by robots but the higher priced model has enough profit margin to offset the increased cost of using moist robots.
Everybody knows that the elevation term of GPS solutions is the least precise of the three.
The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the force of government.
Blazing speed and low power are less important to me than long range. And these router manufacturers are getting rather annoying with their "specs." Oh, it covers 14,000 square feet. That's a square less than 120 feet on a side. So what? That's what you get for 600 mW of output power?
What seems to be missing in all of this media-fueled discussion on this topic is that the iPhone doesn't operating in a vacuum. Assuming that the couple got their marching orders on this phone (which is unlikely since it was a work phone not a personal one), someone had to send those marching orders. That means that the Feds have totally failed to identify the source. Either that or the fact that our international surveillance capabilities have been totally borked in the last few years that they no longer have the capability to find the source or can't legally find the source. And then there's the other possibility that the Feds are hoping to make the case that no marching orders were given and the couple had no connection to terrorist groups and this was some sort of spontaneous attack thus justifying further erosion of civilian rights.
You know, the ones who are envious of the fact that Apple's devices haven't been compromised.
Just a theory but there are some 4000 Android devices from 400 different manufacturers using who knows what version of Android that may or may not be in the original form since it's open source.
How the hell am I supposed to get out of The Matrix? Sounds like a conspiracy to me.
And how the hell am I supposed to get new numbers from The Machine? Sounds like Samaritan at work.
Averages and percentages are statistics for the small-minded.
So, should some businesses be forced to move to other cities to even things out?
On my FB account, Zuckerberg invited me to "follow" him. I don't know if I'm annoyed that he didn't "friend" me instead or if I'm nauseated by the fact that over 50 million people "follow" him. I doubt very much that he's changing the world as much as he thinks he is.
Just looking at this topic illustrates the 95% B.S. Rule of the Internet in that about 5% of the comments thus far are rated at a 5 which suggests that most people have no idea how the government works or the reasons for Scalia's opinions.
What this illustrates is the fact that tech companies often neglect a large segment of the population whose aging eyesight affects their ability to use the devices. Cataracts, glaucoma, age-related macular degeneration are maladies that most people are going to have to deal with eventually. Those baby-boomers and Gen-Xers who have the money to buy the gadgets can't be ignored.