9/11 has been used as an excuse for a lot of things that have been going on a lot longer. In fact the appeal to 9/11 is a political cheap shot aimed at convincing the sheep to accept not only the sheering but also the slaughter for the good of the herd.
I respectfully offer:
Icebike's invigoration of Godwin's Law: In the course of discussion of security, at the expense of liberty, freedom, and privacy, those who first mention the specter of 9/11 or airplanes flying into buildings, have lost their argument and have surrendered all pretense to rational discussion.
We will see what Snowden is ultimately charged with. But casting him as a criminal before he is charged with anything, and rushing to judgement about his guilt or innocence, shows a lot less respect for the legal process and rule of law than anything he has done.
Don't be surprised if the government (as it is starting to do already) simply demonizes him but lets him be, as long as he stays out of the country. He's released what he has, and if he hasn't it would do no good to kick the hornets nest again.
Worst case for the government would be to actually have to put him on trial. They would have no choice but to try him in secret, in a closed court.
So expect the government to use all of the facilities of the NSA and the FBI to demonize him publicly and track him privately, and perhaps kill him (deniably), all the while telling us what a good job the government could have done to protect us from 9/11 if only their web of universal spying had existed earlier, without ever once mentioning the Boston Marathon which happened under the nose of they spying, even when the Russians warned them ahead of time.
Cutting down over a few months is not significantly different than cutting down cold turkey. You still have to find new things to do, and you are less likely to find anything new when you essentially start with a long weekend every week. I've been through this, and didn't find an additional day off helped much, because you know the same mess will be there when you return.
Besides that, the Original Poster still is on-call, which means cell phone in his pocket, and computer near by, regardless of where he might be. If he can do everything remotely from a computer he's good to go. Hop in the car with laptop in tow, and get out and see the world a bit. Visit the parks. See old friends.
The good news: He's found Slash-Dot, so entire days can be soaked up pontificating on nothing at all. On line gaming is another good time sink.
That empowers Congress to create laws defining these things. Whether Congress can grant patents to discoveries is separate. Current law as defined by Congress, does not.
That's not exactly true.
Discoveries can be and are patented all the time. And its perfectly legal according to the constitution and current law. You may not thinks so, but that is just a testament to how few novel discoveries are actually made in the modern world, and how few of them can actually be incorporated into new and novel inventions. The most common discoveries patented today deal with process patents, ways of doing or making something.
The issue in the present case, is that Myriad tried to not only patent their process and the resultant treatment, but to claim ownership of something that is in every persons's body. You can patent false teeth, or the method of making them. You can't patent MY teeth. Myriad simply over-reached.
Any species with the capabilities of "sending big rocks" wouldn't fear dinosaurs and rodents, nor fail to notice that their diabolic plan had failed so miserably.
I'm not so sure that intentionally and pro-actively revealing our presence is such a great idea.
You are about 129 years to late to be worrying about that.
Unless you find a way to run out 130 light years and disrupt Marconi's transmissions and all that followed, you would be better off trying convince those alien bad guys that we're really a swell bunch of party loving life forms who like fire works. Mostly harmless.
TFA contends that all smartphones & tablets sold are still in use. If you buy a new smartphone and throw away / recycle the old one, you don't get to count this as 2 smartphones in use.
It contends no such thing.
But far more of them remain in use after replacement than you think. I have three smartphones on my desk. One I use as a primary. One I keep around for a SIP for contacting overseas customers. One I keep just to check stocks and play games on.
I have 2 old mp3 players I haven't used in many years and don't even know where they are. I also have some calculators I don't use. I have an old IPod Touch I got for free I don't use. Pretty soon I'll likely end up with such a collection of phones, tablets etc instead. So? Why should I care?
Did you have a point, or do you just show up to harrumph and stomp away?
I have a phone, two tablets, two e-readers. I use them all at least weekly. Different purposes and different places. My poor wife only has one tablet, a phone, and two e-readers.
Its easy to see that the TFA is spot on, and all your shouting to get off your lawn won't hold back the tide.
You can flame someone for jumping the gun perhaps? With not a shred of evidence it appears that Lookout actually precipitated this stampede, and Google followed suit.
I'll know it is modest if the general public can get a dump of the meta data for every elected office holder as well as their staff members, and all judges.
There you go again, buying into the lie that it was JUST META DATA.
There isn't a single security professional that believes that. Even Obama knew he was lying thru his teeth when he said that. But that shoe won't be allowed to drop now that they are on guard, at least not for another few months.
True, but knowing the price of a wine affects the rating rather dramatically. Simply knowing the relative price while tasting makes professional tasters as well as novices assign higher quality to more expensive wines.
In fact, the only statistically obvious trend in the choices was that one of the Stradivarius violins was the least favorite, and one of the modern instruments was slightly favored.
the 17 players who were asked to choose which were old Italians, "Seven said they couldn't, seven got it wrong, and only three got it right.
It always amuses the hell out of me when people think there were these amazing ancient technologies so much better than anything modern. It is like they think various videogames and novels are real and that we study the knowledge of the ancients to advance what we have, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Truer words are seldom heard. The people claiming advanced knowledge of the ancients usually follow that claim up with "There is much that modern science doesn't know". Which, while true, does not mean that ancient science knew it either. So much embellished lore is taken as absolute truth, even by people who know they are passing down BS as a twisted form of self aggrandizement by proxy.
Wine is not as fragile as some wine snobs would have you believe. You pretty well have to really abuse a bottled wine for an extended period of time for it to be noticeable. Virtually every wine you find on the shelf has gone through shipment sweltering in 100 degree heat in the back of a semi, or stored too cold in a warehouse by a uncaring wholesaler.
There is more obvious difference in a wine attributable to how long the bottle has been open than there is attributable to it was shipped, or stored.
More often than not the wine snob won't notice this either, unless it was egregious and prolonged.
If there is one thing that needs more objectivity its wine tasting. Too often the results are the opinion of the person who bought the bottle, and too seldom is there truly blind taste testing by people not already familiar with the vintage.
Except the vast majority of companies don't Pay any service. Its just not often done in the real world, and when it is done, its a sign of an incompetent HR department.
A significant percentage of omployers don't even bother to check references, because they know nobody bothers to provide a bad reference.
I agree, getting paid for playing games is rather mind boggling. Do you know that people get paid for playing baseball?
And there it is! The false analogy. Flopped out on the floor like a dead fish.
Baseball, and virtually all pro sports have audiences that pay to attend, advertising deals, television deals, and ongoing source of income.
First Person Shooter games? Not so much.
When did you ever see advertising for such an event, a paying audience, a loyal fanbase, TV coverage? Most gaming events of this nature are more akin to self supporting bingo games where all of the money comes from the entrance fees by the players themselves. The only people watching are those trounced in the first scrimmage.
The use of the term "Pro" is pretty ridiculous for someone living in his parents basement.
In the past month I have been accused on Slashdot of being paid by 5 different companies. I only wish there was some way I could collect all those paychecks.
Because most companies do not subscribe to that level of detailed checking due to the cost involved. In fact, unless you are applying for a very sensitive job for a Government Contract or something, no private employer checks court records.
Its just too expensive and error prone. How many Will Smiths do you think there are in the world with a DOB that matches the actor? How many courthouses are there to check?
Every place past McDonalds checks NCIC listings, and if someone has an -arrest- (not convictions, as supposedly, acquittals can be bought), they are branded as criminals for life.
Even if you petition to have them expunged they have in most cases already been sent to the feds, or at least the numerical encoding have. The feds will not expunge. ever.
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9/11 has been used as an excuse for a lot of things that have been going on a lot longer. In fact the appeal to 9/11 is a political cheap shot aimed at convincing the sheep to accept not only the sheering but also the slaughter for the good of the herd.
I respectfully offer:
Icebike's invigoration of Godwin's Law:
In the course of discussion of security, at the expense of liberty, freedom, and privacy, those who first mention the specter of 9/11 or airplanes flying into buildings, have lost their argument and have surrendered all pretense to rational discussion.
We will see what Snowden is ultimately charged with. But casting him as a criminal before he is charged with anything, and rushing to judgement about his guilt or innocence, shows a lot less respect for the legal process and rule of law than anything he has done.
Don't be surprised if the government (as it is starting to do already) simply demonizes him but lets him be, as long as he stays out of the country. He's released what he has, and if he hasn't it would do no good to kick the hornets nest again.
Worst case for the government would be to actually have to put him on trial. They would have no choice but to try him in secret, in a closed court.
So expect the government to use all of the facilities of the NSA and the FBI to demonize him publicly and track him privately, and perhaps kill him (deniably), all the while telling us what a good job the government could have done to protect us from 9/11 if only their web of universal spying had existed earlier, without ever once mentioning the Boston Marathon which happened under the nose of they spying, even when the Russians warned them ahead of time.
Or just maybe interstellar travel is every bit as hard and unlikely as the scientists say it is.
Cutting down over a few months is not significantly different than cutting down cold turkey.
You still have to find new things to do, and you are less likely to find anything new when you essentially start with a long weekend every week. I've been through this, and didn't find an additional day off helped much, because you know the same mess will be there when you return.
Besides that, the Original Poster still is on-call, which means cell phone in his pocket, and computer near by, regardless of where he might be. If he can do everything remotely from a computer he's good to go. Hop in the car with laptop in tow, and get out and see the world a bit. Visit the parks. See old friends.
The good news: He's found Slash-Dot, so entire days can be soaked up pontificating on nothing at all. On line gaming is another good time sink.
That empowers Congress to create laws defining these things. Whether Congress can grant patents to discoveries is separate. Current law as defined by Congress, does not.
That's not exactly true.
Discoveries can be and are patented all the time. And its perfectly legal according to the constitution and current law.
You may not thinks so, but that is just a testament to how few novel discoveries are actually made in the modern world, and how few of them can actually be incorporated into new and novel inventions. The most common discoveries patented today deal with process patents, ways of doing or making something.
The issue in the present case, is that Myriad tried to not only patent their process and the resultant treatment, but to claim ownership of something that is in every persons's body. You can patent false teeth, or the method of making them. You can't patent MY teeth. Myriad simply over-reached.
Any species with the capabilities of "sending big rocks" wouldn't fear dinosaurs and rodents, nor fail to notice that their diabolic plan had failed so miserably.
I'm not so sure that intentionally and pro-actively revealing our presence is such a great idea.
You are about 129 years to late to be worrying about that.
Unless you find a way to run out 130 light years and disrupt Marconi's transmissions and all that followed, you would be better off trying convince those alien bad guys that we're really a swell bunch of party loving life forms who like fire works. Mostly harmless.
You've taken a poll then?
Every body i know does this. Mind you they have no sim in the old phones but they still use them for music or give them to the kids to use on wifi.
TFA contends that all smartphones & tablets sold are still in use. If you buy a new smartphone and throw away / recycle the old one, you don't get to count this as 2 smartphones in use.
It contends no such thing.
But far more of them remain in use after replacement than you think. I have three smartphones on my desk.
One I use as a primary.
One I keep around for a SIP for contacting overseas customers.
One I keep just to check stocks and play games on.
In addition I have two tablets and two Nooks.
I use them all, some more than others.
Two hits on Google show you are wrong:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passenger_vehicles_in_the_United_States#Total_number_of_vehicles
http://www.census.gov/popclock/
I have 2 old mp3 players I haven't used in many years and don't even know where they are. I also have some calculators I don't use. I have an old IPod Touch I got for free I don't use. Pretty soon I'll likely end up with such a collection of phones, tablets etc instead. So? Why should I care?
Did you have a point, or do you just show up to harrumph and stomp away?
I have a phone, two tablets, two e-readers. I use them all at least weekly. Different purposes and different places.
My poor wife only has one tablet, a phone, and two e-readers.
Its easy to see that the TFA is spot on, and all your shouting to get off your lawn won't hold back the tide.
How can we flame you if there's no story!! Wahh!
You can flame someone for jumping the gun perhaps?
With not a shred of evidence it appears that Lookout actually precipitated this stampede, and Google followed suit.
Exactly.
Its far from just Metadata. Its all of it. Every email, tweet, and phone conversation.
I'll know it is modest if the general public can get a dump of the meta data for every elected office holder as well as their staff members, and all judges.
There you go again, buying into the lie that it was JUST META DATA.
There isn't a single security professional that believes that. Even Obama knew he was lying thru his teeth when he said that.
But that shoe won't be allowed to drop now that they are on guard, at least not for another few months.
Its not JUST metadata.
True, but knowing the price of a wine affects the rating rather dramatically. Simply knowing the relative price while tasting makes professional tasters as well as novices assign higher quality to more expensive wines.
http://www.wine-economics.org/workingpapers/AAWE_WP35.pdf
http://thinktraffic.net/cheap-vs-expensive-wine-can-you-taste-the-difference
Very interesting.
In a blind test, professional musicians:
In fact, the only statistically obvious trend in the choices was that one of the Stradivarius violins was the least favorite, and one of the modern instruments was slightly favored.
the 17 players who were asked to choose which were old Italians, "Seven said they couldn't, seven got it wrong, and only three got it right.
It always amuses the hell out of me when people think there were these amazing ancient technologies so much better than anything modern. It is like they think various videogames and novels are real and that we study the knowledge of the ancients to advance what we have, despite all evidence to the contrary.
Truer words are seldom heard. The people claiming advanced knowledge of the ancients usually follow that claim up with "There is much that modern science doesn't know". Which, while true, does not mean that ancient science knew it either. So much embellished lore is taken as absolute truth, even by people who know they are passing down BS as a twisted form of self aggrandizement by proxy.
Wine is not as fragile as some wine snobs would have you believe. You pretty well have to really abuse a bottled wine for an extended period of time for it to be noticeable. Virtually every wine you find on the shelf has gone through shipment sweltering in 100 degree heat in the back of a semi, or stored too cold in a warehouse by a uncaring wholesaler.
There is more obvious difference in a wine attributable to how long the bottle has been open than there is attributable to it was shipped, or stored.
More often than not the wine snob won't notice this either, unless it was egregious and prolonged.
If there is one thing that needs more objectivity its wine tasting.
Too often the results are the opinion of the person who bought the bottle, and too seldom is there truly blind taste testing by people not already familiar with the vintage.
Except the vast majority of companies don't Pay any service. Its just not often done in the real world, and when it is done, its a sign of an incompetent HR department.
A significant percentage of omployers don't even bother to check references, because they know nobody bothers to provide a bad reference.
I agree, getting paid for playing games is rather mind boggling. Do you know that people get paid for playing baseball?
And there it is! The false analogy. Flopped out on the floor like a dead fish.
Baseball, and virtually all pro sports have audiences that pay to attend, advertising deals, television deals, and ongoing source of income.
First Person Shooter games? Not so much.
When did you ever see advertising for such an event, a paying audience, a loyal fanbase, TV coverage?
Most gaming events of this nature are more akin to self supporting bingo games where all of the money comes from
the entrance fees by the players themselves. The only people watching are those trounced in the first scrimmage.
The use of the term "Pro" is pretty ridiculous for someone living in his parents basement.
This!
In the past month I have been accused on Slashdot of being paid by 5 different companies.
I only wish there was some way I could collect all those paychecks.
Still not true.
Because most companies do not subscribe to that level of detailed checking due to the cost involved.
In fact, unless you are applying for a very sensitive job for a Government Contract or something, no private employer checks court records.
Its just too expensive and error prone. How many Will Smiths do you think there are in the world
with a DOB that matches the actor? How many courthouses are there to check?
Its a site trying to sell a service, but I could have just as easily linked to the NCIC site itself, or
the FBI's page about NCIC.
Some Government Contracts require NCIC checks, but even these are not done
by employers, but by the appropriate government agencies.
Every place past McDonalds checks NCIC listings, and if someone has an -arrest- (not convictions, as supposedly, acquittals can be bought), they are branded as criminals for life.
Not true. (And you know it, so why troll?)
Even if you petition to have them expunged they have in most cases already been sent to the feds, or at least the numerical encoding have.
The feds will not expunge. ever.