The NSA has reportedly already changed their procedures, in addition to the security software they had already been implementing, to make this sort of thing much less likely.
In case you hadn't noticed, there is already a major shortage of good full-time jobs for people with limited intelligence (i.e. 50% of the population).
This was a totally lame article. From the summary, you would think that the author was someone who actually knew something about the effects of DRM on the publishing industry. In fact, he's just some random blogger with the same point of view as just about everybody in IT.
Except that nullification, as you describe it, has nothing to do with the NSA. The NSA is a
federal institution, and the states have no jurisdiction. Unless you seriously believe that Maryland residents are going to burn it to the ground.
Give it up, Jane. You're making a fool of yourself.
Of course, that's why the Southern states went along with the civil rights decisions of the sixties without the slightest protest. Because if they hadn't liked these decisions, they could have just "nullified" them. ROFL!
Nothing applies to Supreme Court decisions, except the decisions themselves. And these senior citizens will be long dead before anything is done about their bad decisions.
We'll have mass knifings, mass strangulations (an 18 inch zip tie is all it takes!), etc. instead.
Holy shit.
If someone is running around with a knife or zip ties(!!!) they can easily be taken down or trapped by 3-4 people. Try that when the perp has a gun.
It's not an unreasonable argument that the design of programming languages might ape the power structure of the society from which it springs.
With a highly verbal programming language like COBOL, perhaps. With a language that consists entirely of mathematical symbols and operators like "if","else" and "while", no.
Knowing that a few execs may be facing "hard jail time" would be of little comfort to the thousands of people whose lives would be ruined (or even terminated) by a nuclear disaster.
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Like RoboCop's fourth law.
If this leads to a bankruptcy for Boeing, who will be paying for the bailout?
You, that's who.
Woosh!
Exactly.
This reminds me of corporations that are allowed to "self-regulate" their adherence to pollution laws.
Or the police investigating their own.
Wrong.
Do you get to vote? If so, you live in a democracy.
The full description of the U.S. system is "constitutional democratic republic".
And you're just dumb enough to believe them.
In case you hadn't noticed, there is already a major shortage of good full-time jobs for people with limited intelligence (i.e. 50% of the population).
When we are all unemployed, we will have nothing better to do than fuck.
That's OK, cold_fjord.
We forgive you.
This was a totally lame article.
From the summary, you would think that the author was someone who actually knew something about the effects of DRM on the publishing industry.
In fact, he's just some random blogger with the same point of view as just about everybody in IT.
Except that nullification, as you describe it, has nothing to do with the NSA.
The NSA is a federal institution, and the states have no jurisdiction. Unless you seriously believe that Maryland residents are going to burn it to the ground.
Give it up, Jane. You're making a fool of yourself.
Of course, that's why the Southern states went along with the civil rights decisions of the sixties without the slightest protest.
Because if they hadn't liked these decisions, they could have just "nullified" them.
ROFL!
Nothing applies to Supreme Court decisions, except the decisions themselves.
And these senior citizens will be long dead before anything is done about their bad decisions.
What kind of war?
War on Terror?
War on Drugs?
Only because you are such a simpleton that you would believe this drivel.
Very apt, if I say so. Snowden certainly does have his own intelligent following.
Disrespect to LDS intended.
You mean from a bullshit perspective?
I have plenty of faith in democracy.
I highly recommend it as a replacement for what the U.S. has now.
Holy shit.
If someone is running around with a knife or zip ties(!!!) they can easily be taken down or trapped by 3-4 people.
Try that when the perp has a gun.
With a highly verbal programming language like COBOL, perhaps.
With a language that consists entirely of mathematical symbols and operators like "if","else" and "while", no.
No, "safe" means "nobody can hurt my ego by pointing out that I was wrong."
And demanding equality has nothing to do with modifying a tool to sound like it came from a marxist/postmodernist philosopher.
Nobody forgets the Spanish Inquisition!
Knowing that a few execs may be facing "hard jail time" would be of little comfort to the thousands of people whose lives would be ruined (or even terminated) by a nuclear disaster.
When all we really need to do is compare her mass to that of a duck.