Congress has LONG AGO (well before your birth) passed laws authorizing gag orders, in spite of clear and unambiguous language in the first ammendment, and these have been upheld all the way up to the Supreme Court.
Short of forming a large army and taking over the government, and start hanging Suprhereeme Court Judges, there is exactly ZERO, chance of you winning such an appeal. This is settled law.
The first ammendment is dead. Either DO SOMETHING to prove me wrong or accept it. Boastful chest thumping on Slashdot is useless.
Could someone ask these people to define "unavoidable" for us, please.
If you read the story, you would understand that if you are using a portable device, connected to a cell tower, and you have your GPS switched off, or are denying use of same to your web browser, there is enough imprecision in cell tower triangulation method of location determination that your position can not be verified as being within New Jersey.
The point TapeCutter was trying to make is that fires grow from a barely detectable (10 feet on a side, per the article) to a couple acres in size in minutes, and once you get a stand of trees with a running crown fire it will spit fire across huge firebreaks. This will happen much faster than you can dispatch smoke jumpers or even organize a water drop.
He was not discounting the satellite solution, he was pointing out that Firebreaks would be ineffective.
Firebreaks aren't the answer and probably do as much damage to the forest as the fire itself, because you need them everywhere.
estimates that the satellite, which could be built and operated by the federal government, would cost several hundred million dollars – a fraction of the nation's $2.5 billion yearly firefighting budget.
Comparing a satellite to the entire firefighting budget might be valid if the satellite would make the entire budget unnecessary, or reduce it by a significant amount. But it probably won't. (I can't begin to count the number of federal projects that are sold as cost saving measures which end up costing far more than what they were supposed to cost, and vastly more than what they were supposed to replace.)
Finding the fire does you nothing more than having a guy in a tower. You still have to mobilize a bunch of guys to drop in and take care of it, and/or a air crew to drop water/retardant on it.
The government does not have any legal power to put something out there themselves and claim that it's mine. They have no more authority to lie on my behalf than they do to force me to lie.
Why are you STILL obsessing about Legality?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
That ship as sailed. The first amendment is null and void.
As Apple was mentioned, it would seem quite illegal for them to say in a public statement that they didn't receive certain requests when they actually did - much much more illegal than not saying that they received such request.
Wait, since when is it Illegal for Apple (or any corporation) to say something in a public statement that is not true?
But an email servers or Cloud Storage that REQUIRED client side encryption, with the provider NOT KNOWING any keys, would limit what can be delivered to the feds to only metadata (from who, to who, date, etc), rather than content.
So yeah, Lavabit had a structural problem. One of their own creation.
But they can just upstream you, and put their proxy ahead of your servers and adjust the tags. After all, they have been demanding SSL certificates for some time now.
That only applies to fiduciary officers of publicly traded companions. Not Bob the Janitor. Not privately held companies. But I suspect you already knew that.
The fuss about Linux drivers is no longer "does it work" (and hasn't been, for a long time) so much as "does it work as fully as possible?". And almost certainly, in a consumer laptop, the answer is no.
Actually, I don't find NO to the answer at all any more. As long as you avoid Nvidia or commit to running their proprietary drivers. The last several laptops I loaded Linux on everything worked, right down to the fingerprint reader. And they could be said to work MORE fully than when they were shipped with window.
All this says is that their laptop happens to work in Linux with a certain configuration. There's no guarantee that it won't include a binary driver and/or only a certain Linux image being "supported" (i.e. working at all). And that leaves you off no better than a Windows machine that only comes with a recovery disk.
Wait, there is no real problem with binary drivers. They may not be fit to ship with any linux distro, but when you are buying a whole machine you aren't getting or expecting a virgin 100% untainted Linux. You have a manufacturer standing behind the laptop and any binary drivers that it requires. End users who buy machines pre-packaged with linux could care less what RMS thinks.
Taping into data links between corporate data centers was not done with a warrant or a court order. There is nothing to Obey. It was simply unreasonable search and seizure.
Where the hell does one find E20? Not in the US, that's for sure.
The only way E20 could possibly get better mileage is if your engine is specifically de-tuned so as to waste fuel when fed straight gas. The energy simply isn't there.
P.S.: The cell towers NEED to know roughly where the phone is if it is to be able to be used.
Don't anthropomorphize cell towers, they hate that.
They don't NEED to know anything. Your phone is programmed to find all the cell towers it can "hear" to and connect to the one with the strongest signal from its preferred roaming list. It is strictly controlled by the phone, not the tower. Once your phone connects, the tower updates a database so that calls can be routed to it when your number is called.
If you are moving, your phone will periodically find stronger towers, and register to those towers, while keeping the channel on the old tower. As soon as the tower you are leaving reaches a low enough signal, the call will jump seamlessly to the new tower.
Towers themselves are really rather dumb about which phones are in their area, its up to the phone to connect to the tower, not the other way around.
You are essentially right, and the effects are felt in many sectors of the econemy.
Bio fuel corn is exactly the same as livestock corn, and often the same mills turn out the same product (distillers dried grains, or DDGs) for both uses. The farmer isn't put in a box of having to sell only to one market.
But what does happen is the price of beef and pork rises, to the point where feedlots can't survive meaning cattle ranchers have to resort to more costly means of feeding a herd longer on range land.
In addition there has sprung into being an entire secondary market for RINs (Renewable Identification Numbers) like bitcoin without the math or verifiability). This has actually boosted ethanol production above demand, which causes them to over-blend (slamming the racks) ethanol to the point where you can't be sure what you are getting at the pump.
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Yes of course it is an abridgement of your right to free speech.
And some of these gag orders are enshrined in federal law, passed by Congress.
Congress has LONG AGO (well before your birth) passed laws authorizing gag orders, in spite of clear and unambiguous language in the first ammendment, and these have been upheld all the way up to the Supreme Court.
Short of forming a large army and taking over the government, and start hanging Suprhereeme Court Judges, there is exactly ZERO, chance of you winning such an appeal. This is settled law.
The first ammendment is dead. Either DO SOMETHING to prove me wrong or accept it. Boastful chest thumping on Slashdot is useless.
For a mere portion of the winnings, but none of the losses I wager. (see what I did there?)
Probably Neighboring states are the ones forcing this. NJ probably doesn't care all that much.
Could someone ask these people to define "unavoidable" for us, please.
If you read the story, you would understand that if you are using a portable device, connected to a cell tower, and you have your GPS switched off, or are denying use of same to your web browser, there is enough imprecision in cell tower triangulation method of location determination that your position can not be verified as being within New Jersey.
Wiki has the answer.
Its just a general term for that part that falls into what people consider the western hemisphere.
The point TapeCutter was trying to make is that fires grow from a barely detectable (10 feet on a side, per the article) to a couple acres in size in minutes, and once you get a stand of trees with a running crown fire it will spit fire across huge firebreaks. This will happen much faster than you can dispatch smoke jumpers or even organize a water drop.
He was not discounting the satellite solution, he was pointing out that Firebreaks would be ineffective.
Firebreaks aren't the answer and probably do as much damage to the forest as the fire itself, because you need them everywhere.
Naive Accounting seems to be par for the course.
estimates that the satellite, which could be built and operated by the federal government, would cost several hundred million dollars – a fraction of the nation's $2.5 billion yearly firefighting budget.
Comparing a satellite to the entire firefighting budget might be valid if the satellite would make the entire budget unnecessary, or reduce it by a significant amount. But it probably won't. (I can't begin to count the number of federal projects that are sold as cost saving measures which end up costing far more than what they were supposed to cost, and vastly more than what they were supposed to replace.)
Finding the fire does you nothing more than having a guy in a tower. You still have to mobilize a bunch of guys to drop in and take care of it, and/or a air crew to drop water/retardant on it.
The government does not have any legal power to put something out there themselves and claim that it's mine. They have no more authority to lie on my behalf than they do to force me to lie.
Why are you STILL obsessing about Legality?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances
That ship as sailed. The first amendment is null and void.
As Apple was mentioned, it would seem quite illegal for them to say in a public statement that they didn't receive certain requests when they actually did - much much more illegal than not saying that they received such request.
Wait, since when is it Illegal for Apple (or any corporation) to say something in a public statement that is not true?
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2009/01/05Letter-from-Apple-CEO-Steve-Jobs.html
http://gawker.com/5029459/steve-jobs-admits-katie-cotton-lied-for-him
But an email servers or Cloud Storage that REQUIRED client side encryption, with the provider NOT KNOWING any keys, would limit what can be delivered to the feds to only metadata (from who, to who, date, etc), rather than content.
So yeah, Lavabit had a structural problem. One of their own creation.
But they can just upstream you, and put their proxy ahead of your servers and adjust the tags. After all, they have been demanding SSL certificates for some time now.
That only applies to fiduciary officers of publicly traded companions. Not Bob the Janitor. Not privately held companies.
But I suspect you already knew that.
I suspect the law is more malleable than technology.
It is also far easier to route around.
The problem is that very little of our technology is designed with a corrupt police power in mind.
Not. Fooling. Anybody.
Please explain how this will prevent federal agents from arriving at your server farm and installing a tap or cloning your drives?
They don't have to serve the warrant on the head owner. Who ever has possession of the box will do.
You can't hide a website's actual location from people who have access to all of your upstream providers.
businesses were allowed to do anything they wanted, for example Microsoft when it was convicted of lying, cheating, and stealing.
Must be Tough trying to make a point when you contradict yourself in the first sentence.
That's just bullshit.
Cows get sick because you have them packed tightly in feed lots living in their own dung.
Cows of the farm eating corn have no such problems.
The fuss about Linux drivers is no longer "does it work" (and hasn't been, for a long time) so much as "does it work as fully as possible?". And almost certainly, in a consumer laptop, the answer is no.
Actually, I don't find NO to the answer at all any more. As long as you avoid Nvidia or commit to running their proprietary drivers. The last several laptops I loaded Linux on everything worked, right down to the fingerprint reader. And they could be said to work MORE fully than when they were shipped with window.
All this says is that their laptop happens to work in Linux with a certain configuration. There's no guarantee that it won't include a binary driver and/or only a certain Linux image being "supported" (i.e. working at all). And that leaves you off no better than a Windows machine that only comes with a recovery disk.
Wait, there is no real problem with binary drivers. They may not be fit to ship with any linux distro, but when you are buying a whole machine you aren't getting or expecting a virgin 100% untainted Linux. You have a manufacturer standing behind the laptop and any binary drivers that it requires. End users who buy machines pre-packaged with linux could care less what RMS thinks.
Disobey WHAT?
Taping into data links between corporate data centers was not done with a warrant or a court order.
There is nothing to Obey. It was simply unreasonable search and seizure.
Where the hell does one find E20?
Not in the US, that's for sure.
The only way E20 could possibly get better mileage is if your engine is specifically de-tuned so as to waste fuel when fed straight gas.
The energy simply isn't there.
Please provide a citation that supports the theory that antibiotics are required due to being fed corn.
Failing that, STFU.
P.S.: The cell towers NEED to know roughly where the phone is if it is to be able to be used.
Don't anthropomorphize cell towers, they hate that.
They don't NEED to know anything. Your phone is programmed to find all the cell towers it can "hear" to and connect to the one with the strongest signal from its preferred roaming list. It is strictly controlled by the phone, not the tower. Once your phone connects, the tower updates a database so that calls can be routed to it when your number is called.
If you are moving, your phone will periodically find stronger towers, and register to those towers, while keeping the channel on the old tower. As soon as the tower you are leaving reaches a low enough signal, the call will jump seamlessly to the new tower.
Towers themselves are really rather dumb about which phones are in their area, its up to the phone to connect to the tower, not the other way around.
You are essentially right, and the effects are felt in many sectors of the econemy.
Bio fuel corn is exactly the same as livestock corn, and often the same mills turn out the same product (distillers dried grains, or DDGs) for both uses. The farmer isn't put in a box of having to sell only to one market.
But what does happen is the price of beef and pork rises, to the point where feedlots can't survive meaning cattle ranchers have to resort to more costly means of feeding a herd longer on range land.
Government subsidies have paid about 45 cents for every gallon of Ethanol produced.
In addition there has sprung into being an entire secondary market for RINs (Renewable Identification Numbers) like bitcoin without the math or verifiability). This has actually boosted ethanol production above demand, which causes them to over-blend (slamming the racks) ethanol to the point where you can't be sure what you are getting at the pump.
The cost of the ethanol exceeds the cost of gasoline, especially when you consider the 10% (minimum) milage hit you have to put up with.
That's simply not true.
I have both Adobe and Foxit installed and MOST PDFs open via Chrome.