It's a euphemism. The researchers have to pretend to give the administration the benefit of the doubt (i.e., by assuming they don't understand the reason rather than publicly stating that the reason is clearly to hide improprieties) or else they'll suddenly have to start filing FOIA requests for every damn piece of data they need (with the response redacted in its entirety, if the Administration even bothers to respond).
The arch of Noah - might well have been a spaceship from another planet or solar system, colonializing earth with humans and various animal species.
The flood myth doesn't require space aliens; it could just be a mangled retelling of the Black Sea deluge. Maybe Noah was just the guy who happened to visit the Bosporus at the right time to realize what was happening and say "holy shit!" Then, faced with the incredulity of the superstitious idiots in his soon-to-be-flooded village, it's completely reasonable that he'd resort to a "because God told me so" argument to get their cooperation.
I didn't screw around trying to do stuff online; I just took my phone* into Wal-Mart and they sold me a SIM kit and activated it.
(* The phone in question was a Nexus 5 bought directly from Google, so it had never been activated with any other service -- I don't know if that matters.)
A key subgroup runs the old landfill like a mine, painstakingly digging and sorting its content for trade -- they even disassemble houses down to the nails for materials.
These things already happen. Mining landfills may not be common in the US (except for gathering methane), but it happens elsewhere. Carefully deconstructing houses to gather "reclaimed" building materials happens even here. (Hipsters will pay big bucks for old wood, you know.) In fact, even houses that aren't carefully deconstructed still get at least recycled (with the concrete being made into new concrete, the wood being made into paper products, etc.), which is why in many cities you're not supposed to put construction debris in with the regular trash.
Cheap mass shipping to the other side of the world will be among the first luxuries to go, meaning we will need to start to produce most of our goods locally again, starting from the basics and working up to more complicated ones.
We don't need to "start" producing goods locally "again," because we never stopped. Some local industries may be a lot smaller, but they still exist. In my city, you can even buy locally-made shoes (if you're willing to pay the exorbitant price).
You'd think companies would have learned from the Sony rootkit fiasco, but no.
What did companies learn from the Sony rootkit? That the criminal penalty for perpetrating literally tens of millions of felonies on behalf of a corporation is... absolutely nothing? Sure, that'll teach'em!
In that case, there is no such thing as "unlawful" in America because everything not illegal is assumed to be legal (see the 9th Amendment to the Constitution).
It's very specific, in many sections, that the neutrality rules apply only to "lawful content".
Right, net neutrality requires you not to discriminate against lawful content. If it is silent on the issue of unlawful content, that would mean you have the option of discriminating against it. It does not mean you're somehow "required" to discriminate against it. You're conflating net neutrality's actual requirement with its inverse.
So... how do you distinguish between what is "lawful" or not?
You assume everything is lawful and don't discriminate against anything. Easy-peasy. Half the point of being a "common carrier" is that you're not liable for the unlawful content you transmit (specifically in recognition of the fact that figuring out what would be lawful or not is a pain in the ass).
Now, either you knew this or you should have known it before posting; yet you misrepresented it anyway. Therefore: STFU, troll!
Actually, I was just going to warn you that you forgot to redact your name. Then when I read that you'd already noticed it, I got curious about that used oil analysis. Seriously, what's the deal with the diesel oil and/or canola in your Corolla?
We now also know you drive an '00 Corolla and live in Walnut Creek, CA. By the way, why do you use diesel oil in your gasoline engine? I put the same stuff in my TDI...
Wait -- and why is the oil analysis guy talking about canola?!
It's not like 10 years ago it was enjoyable either to use a dumb terminal, and quite frankly I doubt it's improved (I think they were SUN dumb terminals connected to something I can't remember). These days you're still going to compete over resources over a extremely high latency link (relative to computer performance). Not to mention the increased use of graphical elements in the UI.
It's worse... these days we're making our dumb terminals using AJAX.
Why don't you expect that you can re-write the code on the dozen micro-controllers in your car
I do, and I have (or more precisely, I paid somebody else to do it for me). In my case, the guy had to remove the ECU and de-solder the memory in order to flash it; on newer models it can be done thorugh the ODB II port -- I consider that to be an improvement.
Incidentally, you can get a lot more horsepower out of most turbodiesels that way.
On other cars from the same manufacturer, some people re-flash their window control module so they can roll down their windows using their keyless entry. My car had that feature already enabled, so I didn't need to mess with it.
or your refrigerator
My refrigerator is old and dumb. But if it weren't, I would indeed expect to be able to hack it.
What about your cable box?
When I had cable (against my will -- only because the cable company charged less for internet + TV than they did for internet by itself that year) I used an HDHomeRun with a CableCard.
your DVR?
I use an HTPC specifically because I can program it!
your DVD player?
It's a drive in the afore-mentioned HTPC.
How about that PS3 your kids play?
I boycott all Sony products (especially Playstations) as a matter of principle. I was starting to consider forgiving them for the rootkit, but then they removed OtherOS. Sony is dead to me.
Your ethical criteria is arbitrarily created to castigate Apple for doing the same thing that hundreds of other manufacturers have done over the last 100 years.
Nope. I apply the same standard to everything else I buy.
I'm genuinely worried acceptable new products will cease being made (which is, of course, the reason for my rule in the first place).
You probably own a few dozen processors which are similarly handicapped by the manufacturer to function as an appliance.
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Which tech company is this that's based in DeKalb [County, I assume] Georgia?
It's a euphemism. The researchers have to pretend to give the administration the benefit of the doubt (i.e., by assuming they don't understand the reason rather than publicly stating that the reason is clearly to hide improprieties) or else they'll suddenly have to start filing FOIA requests for every damn piece of data they need (with the response redacted in its entirety, if the Administration even bothers to respond).
...Especially an argument about the proper spelling of "Calvinism!"
The flood myth doesn't require space aliens; it could just be a mangled retelling of the Black Sea deluge. Maybe Noah was just the guy who happened to visit the Bosporus at the right time to realize what was happening and say "holy shit!" Then, faced with the incredulity of the superstitious idiots in his soon-to-be-flooded village, it's completely reasonable that he'd resort to a "because God told me so" argument to get their cooperation.
It's kind of a secret, since T-Mobile would prefer that you pay them more than $30/month. Here are some instructions: http://www.debtroundup.com/how-to-get-tmobile-30-plan/
I didn't screw around trying to do stuff online; I just took my phone* into Wal-Mart and they sold me a SIM kit and activated it.
(* The phone in question was a Nexus 5 bought directly from Google, so it had never been activated with any other service -- I don't know if that matters.)
The point is that the fallback after 5GB is 3G, not 2G. If 3G counts as "not caveman speeds" then it's a cheap, reasonable option.
T-Mobile has a plan with 5GB of 4G (and the rest 3G, I think -- I never hit the 4G cap to find out) for $30/month.
These things already happen. Mining landfills may not be common in the US (except for gathering methane), but it happens elsewhere. Carefully deconstructing houses to gather "reclaimed" building materials happens even here. (Hipsters will pay big bucks for old wood, you know.) In fact, even houses that aren't carefully deconstructed still get at least recycled (with the concrete being made into new concrete, the wood being made into paper products, etc.), which is why in many cities you're not supposed to put construction debris in with the regular trash.
We don't need to "start" producing goods locally "again," because we never stopped. Some local industries may be a lot smaller, but they still exist. In my city, you can even buy locally-made shoes (if you're willing to pay the exorbitant price).
A jury?
What did companies learn from the Sony rootkit? That the criminal penalty for perpetrating literally tens of millions of felonies on behalf of a corporation is... absolutely nothing? Sure, that'll teach'em!
Wait, what?
0.02 what? Let's hope Hungarian ISPs can do math better than Verizon!
My guess is that the rule has nothing to do with security. but rather exists for economic protectionism.
Of course not. He's blaming the cheaters for rigging the game.
So, what you're saying is that you want to add a package manager?
In that case, there is no such thing as "unlawful" in America because everything not illegal is assumed to be legal (see the 9th Amendment to the Constitution).
Yo dawg, I heard you like CVS so I put your pharmacy's dyslexic tabular data in version control.
...or something like that.
Oh come on, TFS isn't bad enough to be flamebait!
Now, VSS, on the other hand...
Right, net neutrality requires you not to discriminate against lawful content. If it is silent on the issue of unlawful content, that would mean you have the option of discriminating against it. It does not mean you're somehow "required" to discriminate against it. You're conflating net neutrality's actual requirement with its inverse.
You assume everything is lawful and don't discriminate against anything. Easy-peasy. Half the point of being a "common carrier" is that you're not liable for the unlawful content you transmit (specifically in recognition of the fact that figuring out what would be lawful or not is a pain in the ass).
Now, either you knew this or you should have known it before posting; yet you misrepresented it anyway. Therefore: STFU, troll!
I think you missed my point: the universe of possibilities for voting "against Republicans" encompasses more than just Democrats.
Actually, I was just going to warn you that you forgot to redact your name. Then when I read that you'd already noticed it, I got curious about that used oil analysis. Seriously, what's the deal with the diesel oil and/or canola in your Corolla?
We now also know you drive an '00 Corolla and live in Walnut Creek, CA. By the way, why do you use diesel oil in your gasoline engine? I put the same stuff in my TDI...
Wait -- and why is the oil analysis guy talking about canola?!
It's worse... these days we're making our dumb terminals using AJAX.
I do, and I have (or more precisely, I paid somebody else to do it for me). In my case, the guy had to remove the ECU and de-solder the memory in order to flash it; on newer models it can be done thorugh the ODB II port -- I consider that to be an improvement.
Incidentally, you can get a lot more horsepower out of most turbodiesels that way.
On other cars from the same manufacturer, some people re-flash their window control module so they can roll down their windows using their keyless entry. My car had that feature already enabled, so I didn't need to mess with it.
My refrigerator is old and dumb. But if it weren't, I would indeed expect to be able to hack it.
When I had cable (against my will -- only because the cable company charged less for internet + TV than they did for internet by itself that year) I used an HDHomeRun with a CableCard.
I use an HTPC specifically because I can program it!
It's a drive in the afore-mentioned HTPC.
I boycott all Sony products (especially Playstations) as a matter of principle. I was starting to consider forgiving them for the rootkit, but then they removed OtherOS. Sony is dead to me.
Nope. I apply the same standard to everything else I buy.
I'm genuinely worried acceptable new products will cease being made (which is, of course, the reason for my rule in the first place).
Try me.