They'll only use that argument when dealing with regular citizens. That issue will simply not be mentioned when a congressman is involved. Just like how courts rarely entertain the possibility a policeman can be lying, like any other human.
... the real story is that Snowden, Libtard hero, never even tried to whistleblow.
He's no patriot, he's just a cowardly little shit.
He did something he knew would raise the ire of the government to the point they would want to capture him and torture him, dooming himself to a life on the run for the rest of his days. Yeah, he's a real yellow-belly.
That wouldn't matter. The government would simply claim any messages they don't like the content of were falsified. We could ask them to release their copies then, but they could similarly release doctored emails. The end result would be a classic case of he said/she said.
Remind me again why a free, "superior" operating system couldn't gain any appreciable market share in the consumer space
Because consumers will generally buy what they're convinced they should by marketing before they get off their butts and actually do research and then make choices. Windows has a major corporation pushing out advertising backing it. Whereas for much of Linux's existence it's coding was a volunteer effort, let alone having paid marketing. Why did Betamax, the superior video cassette tape format, lose to beta? The consumer space was flooded by JVC pushing licensing to anyone, unlike the more restrictive Sony -- gee, kinda like IBM/PC vs Macintosh.
Unfortunately, it seems most people are really bad at wiping their phone of personal data before passing it on to a stranger.
How many people actually have the ability to securely wipe data on their phone to start with, without rooting it? For lots of folks, the "factory reset" option is the only thing they can do on their own, and that likely only deletes prefs and network settings and erases file system directory info. It does not overwrite the bits in the phone's storage to make them unrecoverable.
If everyone loses their jobs, who will be able to buy the products?
Everybody's not losing their jobs. Only the poor people who work on the assembly lines will be. As long as the iPhone's target demographic (which is "not poor people") continues to be employed, the money will keep rolling in. Those unemployed SOBs can use cheap single-core Android phones!
Also, does concealing a memory device now automatically imply child porn?
Where have you been the last ten years? Trying to conceal anything at all from a law enforcement officer implies you're up to something. Only criminals insist on privacy now, citizen!
The whole thing sounds like using a massive amount of expensive technology to replace a very small amount of skill.
Exactly what I think when I see those new Ford commercials with the self-parking Focus.
There's probably ways ovens can be improved for modern times, but adding a bunch of sensors and a flat panel display sounds like a way to make a simple appliance less consumer-repairable.
Actually, the reason that bottled water has an expiration date is that it is mandated to.
Is there a source for that? I assumed the reason water (and everything else food/drug related) has an expiration date now was for legal liability. That way there's only a limited time you can get a company for injury for using an old product (even if it was something inert enough it wouldn't expire). They can just point to the packaging and say "Well, Your Honor. Look, the item was expired and the label says not to use it past the date. The defendant willfully ingested/used it nonetheless..."
After the likes of Barnes & Noble have done away with them, and some years of 'Verelendung' (see wiki)...
Wikipedia has no article for this "Verelendung", and the only two mentions of in the entire (English) site are in the titles of listed works by two Germans.
Considering these are basically miniature electric helicopters, I'm not sure a crash is really that big a deal...
To be capable of carrying a package, these are going to be quite a bit larger than some dinky RC copter. I think being hit with one (or the merchandise it's carrying) could cause significant injury.
I worked for a very long time in government. And I learned one thing: You are not supposed to know shit. You are supposed to buy knowledge.
Isn't that how the entire job market works? That's why we have the education loan bubble we have -- employers don't believe you know anything without a piece of paper showing you spent thousands of dollars to learn it.
Maybe because by actually converting the currency to money, they're sending the message that they accept it as real money and will use it. It gives a aire of legitimacy to it they don't want to impart. But selling it is simply offering it and taking what they can get. It doesn't say that they think it's worth anything, just that the bidders do. Kind of like if I took a dirty sock and auctioned it. I can say I believe it to be trash all I want then. If someone pays me $10 for it, it doesn't mean it's really worth $10. It just means someone out there is stupid enough to pay $10 real dollars for it, like any other piece of virtual property.
I was expecting a story about them setting some obscure voip service or something. With AOL split off I'm curious these remaining properties are that something thinks qualify as a "telecom" business.
What "visually lossless" format are you using? Does it have any actual benefits over re-encoding with a recent build of x264, given that quite a lot of DVDs available were apparently encoded with some shitty h262 codec from 1998, given the artifacts all over them?
Yes, DVDs are in MPEG2... because DVD discs have to maintain compatibility with DVD players, even older ones, and back in 1998 MPEG2 was the type of video playback hardware chips could handle. Btw, digital cable streams in the U.S. are still generally done in MPEG2 as well. There are some newer models of converters the last couple years that can handle h264, but to maintain compatibility with all the already deployed equipment providers are still feeding them the older, less efficient format.
Genuine question, I tend to rip my DVDs to 1000kbs video...
If you're encoding at a constant bitrate you're doing it like it's still 2005. Should be using a constant quality (variable bitrate) encoding setting to get more bandwidth when it's needed in high-action shots or grainy footage, and less in stark black/white screens and low movement footage.
which is approximately half the bitrate...
No, DVD's go quite a bit higher than 2000 kbps. Try 6-9000 kbps.
It also means I can deinterlace the fuckers at the same time. I utterly loathe interlacing and it's all over UK DVDs, particularly TV shows from the early 00s and before.
Most DVDs I see nowadays are progressively encoded, but okay.
Even if streaming services eventually overtake physical media usage it still makes little sense to buy a streaming-only player (AppleTV or Roku) instead of a blu-ray player which can access streaming services as well. The difference in costs between the two is too small given the additional functionality of a blu-ray player for playing physical media, including the library of DVDs people may have already from "the good ol' days" before Netflix instant streaming.
Plus, it's a bit more convenient to take your DVD/BD to a friend's house than uncoupling a VUDU or Amazon-On-Demand account from a device to sign in as someone else and access a different library of content.
What's the procedure about booking photos (and fingerprints taken at booking) in the US? Is it possible that your image could be on that database even if you were not convicted of a crime...
You're booked when you're arrested, which is long before your trial. So lots of people have had mugshots taken who later were exonerated. I doubt they are going to thrown out perfectly good records once they have them.
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They'll only use that argument when dealing with regular citizens. That issue will simply not be mentioned when a congressman is involved. Just like how courts rarely entertain the possibility a policeman can be lying, like any other human.
... the real story is that Snowden, Libtard hero, never even tried to whistleblow.
He's no patriot, he's just a cowardly little shit.
He did something he knew would raise the ire of the government to the point they would want to capture him and torture him, dooming himself to a life on the run for the rest of his days. Yeah, he's a real yellow-belly.
That wouldn't matter. The government would simply claim any messages they don't like the content of were falsified. We could ask them to release their copies then, but they could similarly release doctored emails. The end result would be a classic case of he said/she said.
And yet they don't seem to have any problem violating the fundamental rights of nearly everyone in and outside the US.
Irony: Only by becoming a terrorist by the government's standards does one gain acknowledgement of their right to privacy from it.
Remind me again why a free, "superior" operating system couldn't gain any appreciable market share in the consumer space
Because consumers will generally buy what they're convinced they should by marketing before they get off their butts and actually do research and then make choices. Windows has a major corporation pushing out advertising backing it. Whereas for much of Linux's existence it's coding was a volunteer effort, let alone having paid marketing. Why did Betamax, the superior video cassette tape format, lose to beta? The consumer space was flooded by JVC pushing licensing to anyone, unlike the more restrictive Sony -- gee, kinda like IBM/PC vs Macintosh.
Given the accuracy of GPS, it'll probably wind up on your roof, up a tree, or down the chimney...
Kids! Santa's outsourcing!
... by the time I am ready to get a new phone, its not worth the time to even post on ebay, toss that shit in the wood chipper (minus battery)...
You could do something more worthwhile with it, too.
Unfortunately, it seems most people are really bad at wiping their phone of personal data before passing it on to a stranger.
How many people actually have the ability to securely wipe data on their phone to start with, without rooting it? For lots of folks, the "factory reset" option is the only thing they can do on their own, and that likely only deletes prefs and network settings and erases file system directory info. It does not overwrite the bits in the phone's storage to make them unrecoverable.
If everyone loses their jobs, who will be able to buy the products?
Everybody's not losing their jobs. Only the poor people who work on the assembly lines will be. As long as the iPhone's target demographic (which is "not poor people") continues to be employed, the money will keep rolling in. Those unemployed SOBs can use cheap single-core Android phones!
Also, does concealing a memory device now automatically imply child porn?
Where have you been the last ten years? Trying to conceal anything at all from a law enforcement officer implies you're up to something. Only criminals insist on privacy now, citizen!
Ah, but Facebook isn't a university ... they don't have one of those.
Which one? A board for these issues, or ethics?
The whole thing sounds like using a massive amount of expensive technology to replace a very small amount of skill.
Exactly what I think when I see those new Ford commercials with the self-parking Focus.
There's probably ways ovens can be improved for modern times, but adding a bunch of sensors and a flat panel display sounds like a way to make a simple appliance less consumer-repairable.
Actually, the reason that bottled water has an expiration date is that it is mandated to.
Is there a source for that? I assumed the reason water (and everything else food/drug related) has an expiration date now was for legal liability. That way there's only a limited time you can get a company for injury for using an old product (even if it was something inert enough it wouldn't expire). They can just point to the packaging and say "Well, Your Honor. Look, the item was expired and the label says not to use it past the date. The defendant willfully ingested/used it nonetheless..."
It's been easy to think of people who got involved in Facebook as lemmings, apparently guinea pig was the more apt mammal to choose.
After the likes of Barnes & Noble have done away with them, and some years
of 'Verelendung' (see wiki)...
Wikipedia has no article for this "Verelendung", and the only two mentions of in the entire (English) site are in the titles of listed works by two Germans.
I suspect he isn't half as famous as he thinks he is, and wants to blame Wikipedia for the lack of business opportunities banging down his door.
Considering these are basically miniature electric helicopters, I'm not sure a crash is really that big a deal...
To be capable of carrying a package, these are going to be quite a bit larger than some dinky RC copter.
I think being hit with one (or the merchandise it's carrying) could cause significant injury.
I worked for a very long time in government. And I learned one thing: You are not supposed to know shit. You are supposed to buy knowledge.
Isn't that how the entire job market works? That's why we have the education loan bubble we have -- employers don't believe you know anything without a piece of paper showing you spent thousands of dollars to learn it.
Maybe because by actually converting the currency to money, they're sending the message that they accept it as real money and will use it. It gives a aire of legitimacy to it they don't want to impart. But selling it is simply offering it and taking what they can get. It doesn't say that they think it's worth anything, just that the bidders do. Kind of like if I took a dirty sock and auctioned it. I can say I believe it to be trash all I want then. If someone pays me $10 for it, it doesn't mean it's really worth $10. It just means someone out there is stupid enough to pay $10 real dollars for it, like any other piece of virtual property.
I was expecting a story about them setting some obscure voip service or something. With AOL split off I'm curious these remaining properties are that something thinks qualify as a "telecom" business.
What "visually lossless" format are you using? Does it have any actual benefits over re-encoding with a recent build of x264, given that quite a lot of DVDs available were apparently encoded with some shitty h262 codec from 1998, given the artifacts all over them?
Yes, DVDs are in MPEG2... because DVD discs have to maintain compatibility with DVD players, even older ones, and back in 1998 MPEG2 was the type of video playback hardware chips could handle. Btw, digital cable streams in the U.S. are still generally done in MPEG2 as well. There are some newer models of converters the last couple years that can handle h264, but to maintain compatibility with all the already deployed equipment providers are still feeding them the older, less efficient format.
Genuine question, I tend to rip my DVDs to 1000kbs video...
If you're encoding at a constant bitrate you're doing it like it's still 2005. Should be using a constant quality (variable bitrate) encoding setting to get more bandwidth when it's needed in high-action shots or grainy footage, and less in stark black/white screens and low movement footage.
which is approximately half the bitrate...
No, DVD's go quite a bit higher than 2000 kbps. Try 6-9000 kbps.
It also means I can deinterlace the fuckers at the same time. I utterly loathe interlacing and it's all over UK DVDs, particularly TV shows from the early 00s and before.
Most DVDs I see nowadays are progressively encoded, but okay.
Yet another security venerability involving hearts I see.
Even if streaming services eventually overtake physical media usage it still makes little sense to buy a streaming-only player (AppleTV or Roku) instead of a blu-ray player which can access streaming services as well. The difference in costs between the two is too small given the additional functionality of a blu-ray player for playing physical media, including the library of DVDs people may have already from "the good ol' days" before Netflix instant streaming.
Plus, it's a bit more convenient to take your DVD/BD to a friend's house than uncoupling a VUDU or Amazon-On-Demand account from a device to sign in as someone else and access a different library of content.
What's the procedure about booking photos (and fingerprints taken at booking) in the US? Is it possible that your image could be on that database even if you were not convicted of a crime...
You're booked when you're arrested, which is long before your trial. So lots of people have had mugshots taken who later were exonerated.
I doubt they are going to thrown out perfectly good records once they have them.
Mugshots of everyone so they don't have to wait for priors to be able to use this technology.
Oh, wait. They're already half-way there with state IDs.