Last time I called an ocean-going vessel a "barge" on Slashdot, I got crucified for it by people who believe that "barges" can only be flat-bottomed devices suitable only for calm water.
So, if you are visiting a country and want to go to church and unknowingly that church is a Right Wing AntiAmerican White supremacist group, you'd be put on the watch list. Or Muslim and go to a mosque near your hotel that has radical elements.
... Or even don't go to the church/mosque next door, but have an inaccuracy or error in your GPS.
Mod parent up, please, as this is the standard against which we ought to be evaluating infringements of the Bill of Rights.
(It works for the Second Amendment too: if any particular restriction on guns would have prevented the Founding Fathers from being able to revolt, then it is unconstitutional.)
No. They said in the past, that they would log the metadata of citizens doing foreign calls.
They just didn't mention that they also log all the metadata of "all foreign countries", because per definition all they are doing are 'foreign calls'.
This expands beyond that in another way, too: according to TFA, they're not just getting a location reading when a call is actually made ("call metadata"), but monitoring the location the entire time the phone is turned on and connected to the network.
The possibility of this is not new, of course, but this is the first time (that I've heard of, at least) that it has been confirmed.
China has a centrally-planned command economy, so it has the bargaining power to say "it's our way or the highway." American consumers are free to make their own choices, but the tradeoff is that it weakens our bargaining position.
I'm not sure I buy that. I tried installing Linux on an old Thinkpad T50 and it ran the OS just fine, but was still useless because it was too slow to run any modern web browser. (I can use about 2 or 3 tabs in chromium before the disk starts thrashing.)
Used to that anything with the Microsoft (c) brand on it, no matter if it's the OS or mouse or keyboard or office suite, they are guaranteed to sell like hotcakes.
Microsoft hardware peripherals were about the only genuinely good products they made. I really liked my Intellimouse Explorer and my Sidewinder joystick.
Enlighten me, then. Explain to me how the banking industry executives -- who, except perhaps for a few fall guys, are very likely to be significantly wealthier now than in 2008, unlike average people -- were harmed by the crash they caused. Prove that I'm wrong to call it a real-estate-sector-wide pump-and-dump scheme.
Given that the truck bed is on the outside, I'm not sure that looking through it constitutes a search. Maybe if there's a tarp or something it is, but otherwise stuff just sitting there is out in the open.
You do understand that crashing the economy hurts the very people you say intentionally crashed the economy, right?
No we don't understand it because it's not actually true!
Here's what actually happened in the most massive scam of all time:
Step 1: Issue (and charge huge fees for) usurious loans in bad faith to people who you know ahead of time can't pay them back -- profit!
Step 2: Sell off the worst "parts" of the loans to "main street" investors who don't know any better, while making sure their claim on the underlying assets is so subordinate to yours as to be meaningless -- profit!
Step 3: After the inevitable default, write down the imaginary losses and extort a bailout from the public -- profit!
Step 4: Foreclose and take ownership of the homes -- profit!
Step 5: Instead of selling the houses to the highest bidder (which would often be an owner-occupant), preferentially sell them at artificially-low prices to Wall Street investment firms (that you bought with the profits from previous steps) -- profit!
Step 6: Rent the houses to the same group of people who you took them from in the first place, at higher monthly cost than their mortgage used to be -- profit!
Step 7: Wait for the houses acquired during the depths of the crash -- which you yourself caused -- to appreciate in price -- profit!
End result? The banksters have absconded with the sub-prime debtors' cash and equity, have defrauded the 401(K)s and pension funds of pretty much everybody that had one, have extorted the taxpayers' bailout money, and have accumulated a massive amount of rental real estate while simultaneously pricing prospective homebuyers out of the market. It is quite literally the
I really like AMD (in fact, all my computers since 1999 -- except for an old iMac -- have been AMD-based), but I really, really wish I could get a (socketed, not embedded) AMD APU with less than 65W TDP (ideally, it should be something like 10-30W).
I hate that when I ask people in forums "what's the lowest power consumption solution for MythTV with commercial detection and/or MP4 reencoding?" the answer is "buy Intel."
In reviews where a Phenom II with a discrete graphics card is pitted against an APU with similar clock speed and number of graphics cores, the Phenom II usually wins... looking back on my last three computer purchases, I always ended up doing a complete update instead of adding RAM to the existing PC. Because the CPU and GPU were also obsolete...
Because my computer is a Phenom II, this might be the first time I add RAM to an existing PC.
You're confusing "sales" with "installed base." Sales may have been 20% less than last year, but until sales* are less than zero the total number of PCs in use continues to increase.
(* I should actually say sales minus the number of old PCs taken out of service, but I trust you know what I meant.)
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It must be the Church of the Children of Atom equivalent of kosher/halal.
I think the point TFA is attempting to make is that engineers should be ethically prohibited from designing weapons at all.
(Or, perhaps more relevantly and/or reasonably, from designing technologies that enable the NSA's unconstitutional spying.)
Last time I called an ocean-going vessel a "barge" on Slashdot, I got crucified for it by people who believe that "barges" can only be flat-bottomed devices suitable only for calm water.
Sure it is; the DMCA even has an exception for it.
... Or even don't go to the church/mosque next door, but have an inaccuracy or error in your GPS.
Mod parent up, please, as this is the standard against which we ought to be evaluating infringements of the Bill of Rights.
(It works for the Second Amendment too: if any particular restriction on guns would have prevented the Founding Fathers from being able to revolt, then it is unconstitutional.)
This expands beyond that in another way, too: according to TFA, they're not just getting a location reading when a call is actually made ("call metadata"), but monitoring the location the entire time the phone is turned on and connected to the network.
The possibility of this is not new, of course, but this is the first time (that I've heard of, at least) that it has been confirmed.
China has a centrally-planned command economy, so it has the bargaining power to say "it's our way or the highway." American consumers are free to make their own choices, but the tradeoff is that it weakens our bargaining position.
I'm not sure I buy that. I tried installing Linux on an old Thinkpad T50 and it ran the OS just fine, but was still useless because it was too slow to run any modern web browser. (I can use about 2 or 3 tabs in chromium before the disk starts thrashing.)
They toe the line. The idiom comes from the situation of people standing at attention along a line, with their toes touching it.
Microsoft hardware peripherals were about the only genuinely good products they made. I really liked my Intellimouse Explorer and my Sidewinder joystick.
I can't be bothered to diagram the sentence for you, but I promise there's nothing grammatically wrong with it (not even the punctuation).
How? It would be built directly into the IC; you'd need an electron microscope to notice it (and who's going to bother looking?).
Every keyboard has such a bus -- the keystrokes have to get to the computer, after all! Just build the keylogger into the USB control chip itself.
The "at" makes that sentence unambiguous, you know.
No. It only ever creates a new equilibrium where your ISP's profits are higher.
Nope, the monopoly franchises have already been doled out. The only new entrants allowed by law are crappy wireless ones.
LOL, as if the exactly two providers (one cable, one DSL) in each market wouldn't "coincidentally" adopt exactly the same anticompetitive policies!
Enlighten me, then. Explain to me how the banking industry executives -- who, except perhaps for a few fall guys, are very likely to be significantly wealthier now than in 2008, unlike average people -- were harmed by the crash they caused. Prove that I'm wrong to call it a real-estate-sector-wide pump-and-dump scheme.
Given that the truck bed is on the outside, I'm not sure that looking through it constitutes a search. Maybe if there's a tarp or something it is, but otherwise stuff just sitting there is out in the open.
No we don't understand it because it's not actually true!
Here's what actually happened in the most massive scam of all time:
End result? The banksters have absconded with the sub-prime debtors' cash and equity, have defrauded the 401(K)s and pension funds of pretty much everybody that had one, have extorted the taxpayers' bailout money, and have accumulated a massive amount of rental real estate while simultaneously pricing prospective homebuyers out of the market. It is quite literally the
You know that "real game" you loved so much when it came out a few years ago? Yeah, it can run on tablets now.
Power consumption.
I really like AMD (in fact, all my computers since 1999 -- except for an old iMac -- have been AMD-based), but I really, really wish I could get a (socketed, not embedded) AMD APU with less than 65W TDP (ideally, it should be something like 10-30W).
I hate that when I ask people in forums "what's the lowest power consumption solution for MythTV with commercial detection and/or MP4 reencoding?" the answer is "buy Intel."
Because my computer is a Phenom II, this might be the first time I add RAM to an existing PC.
You're confusing "sales" with "installed base." Sales may have been 20% less than last year, but until sales* are less than zero the total number of PCs in use continues to increase.
(* I should actually say sales minus the number of old PCs taken out of service, but I trust you know what I meant.)