Lenovo has talked about new assembly lines in the US.
Seems only the Chinese and Japanese think the US can support a growing manufacturing sector anymore.
The people who once made a career as engineers at HP around here were laid off when the lab went to all temps. I guess they've reconsidered that somewhat, but would you want to trust to that? Some must have, and now the pink slips are flying again.
Comcast has a lot of options for its customers. StreamPix is a wannabe competitor against Netflix, and is conveniently integrated in their X1 service so doesn't count against any cap they decide to impose.
Just drop Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and whatever else you have and go with theirs, then you can use your internet cap for other things. It makes a lot of sense, to Comcast Marketing.
They aren't required to be licensed, they don't have plates to identify the bicycle that blew through the light and cut off the 18-wheeler, so unless there's a cop right there, nothing happens. A ticket given to a person without a driver's license doesn't really matter either, no insurance rates to worry about and only tracked if the person's checked for warrants later.
There are many books a government might want their citizens to avoid, such as ones that encourage "to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them".
Documents like the DoI and books written by like-minded people could give people ideas that could be dangerous to our government.
Given that this administration (and the previous) called music piracy a national security issue, equating copying an MP3 file with counterfeiting, the bar for what is a threat to the nation is pretty low with these people.
It seems nobody has seen what putrid stuff food banks have to sift through. Some companies will "donate" anything they can't sell, like leaking cans and food with obvious mold. The food banks can't do anything with it either, but they are routinely dealing with potentially substandard food products.
I assumed the story would be something related to federal peanut farm subsidies that have remained ever since the peanut crisis when Carter was in office. Between diversion of food to energy products and $500 million paid annually to farmers to NOT grow peanuts, the government is the more common reason for any shortages.
These same companies went to Congress many, many times to get more H1B visas when even technical call center wages were being pressured up to median income levels. It was fine to intervene in market forces when politicians were getting checks, but not if they were left out of the "negotiations".
Crimea also has no electrical generation capabilities of it's own, it relies on Ukraine for 100% of it's power and 82% of it's fresh water.
We'll see how this plays out though, the Crimean Tatars won't accept the Russians without a fight.
It's cheap, a $20 card gives 600 minutes, 600 texts, and 600 MB of data with 90 days of service on Verizon in this area.
ZTE phones however remind you of the "get what you pay for" adage with the single core processors if you're demanding enough to be downloading updates and doing anything else concurrently.
That was the gist of a Wired article a couple of years ago with statements about the Utah facility, it was designed to have the capacity to archive the internet ten times over and have a supercomputer for cracking encryption. Their stated goal was to capture all digital traffic, especially archiving all encrypted traffic until they could decrypt it. Now that the multi-billion dollar facility is online (and an expansion is being built elsewhere), it turns out that part of Utah doesn't have enough electricity on the grid to feed their facility. This is what happens when you give bureaucrats a blank check.
Some legal professors have been noted to start classes with statements similar to "With 400,000 federal regulations, virtually every person over 18 is guilty of something." The government just has to figure out what you can be charged with.
Eschelon started some time ago, and people didn't get too worked up about it. It's the billions being spent to create a vast archive of everything, in case they (or their political allies) have a use for such information now or in the future. I think I find most disturbing that few on Capitol Hill currently are resistant to this, though they also vote overwhelmingly to renew the NDAA without amending to restore habeus corpus and Constitutional legal protections so it's not surprising.
Given that the government has accepted the idea that copying information owned by a "person" (a corporation) is equivalent to theft, doesn't their scraping of everything equate to a seizure, and the perusal a search?
The difference between private companies gathering data to create files and profiles on people is that they lack the legal standing of government.
They can't arrest anyone based on a suspicion of anything, even if that a person is a deadbeat, while the government doesn't need a warrant or any specific law violation under the NDAA to incarcerate a person indefinitely.
Alternatively, tie the financial with the capture and collection of all electronic communications and interactions, and finding dirt on anyone who becomes a political opponent or a valuable blackmail target becomes easier for those with access.
It's national survival to ship crates of arms to Syrian Islamists, then ship more weapons to Iraq's government to counter those arms, because Jihadis don't stay in one nation? I realize it must've been a shock to the government that this is the case.
Government regulations keep changing. The local hydro system here was so antiquated that they used simplex 1200 baud modem communication on the SCADA system. In modernizing, they initially had an isolated network, but the government wanted monitoring capabilities, since they have rules like no more than 1/2 inch of downstream water height variance (because natural rivers never fluctuate) and assorted other lunacy. I don't know which way the wind has blown with regulators lately, but it seemed to be a mess only exacerbated by federal dabbling.
It was flexibility that created the 95 year rule to protect Mickie Mouse and Sonny Bono's royalties for his work with Cher.
Those seemed to be the primary concerns at the time, and changing federal law to benefit a few while ignoring the compromise explained in the Constitution seems wrong. I'd agree about international treaties in general though, surrendering sovereignty in small degrees is done too flippantly by the current crop of politicians.
A single copyright law would be nice. The book "1984" is public domain in Canada, but since the British author died in 1950, it won't be public domain in the US until 2045, allowing the author to benefit from ongoing royalties in case he wants to write again...
I've wondered for some time what changed. In 1996, browsers using 128-bit SSL could not be exported or downloaded from outside the US due to munitions laws covering crypto. By 1999, those restrictions were gone but I don't recall Congress removing crypto from export restrictions, though 40-bit encryption had been repeatedly broken.
In recent months I've wondered if it were a case of the intel agencies getting a standard adopted that they could penetrate easily, making the restriction trivial.
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Lenovo has talked about new assembly lines in the US.
Seems only the Chinese and Japanese think the US can support a growing manufacturing sector anymore.
The people who once made a career as engineers at HP around here were laid off when the lab went to all temps. I guess they've reconsidered that somewhat, but would you want to trust to that? Some must have, and now the pink slips are flying again.
Comcast has a lot of options for its customers. StreamPix is a wannabe competitor against Netflix, and is conveniently integrated in their X1 service so doesn't count against any cap they decide to impose.
Just drop Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and whatever else you have and go with theirs, then you can use your internet cap for other things. It makes a lot of sense, to Comcast Marketing.
Many of which are stuck with a government-mandated monopoly for cable.
They aren't required to be licensed, they don't have plates to identify the bicycle that blew through the light and cut off the 18-wheeler, so unless there's a cop right there, nothing happens. A ticket given to a person without a driver's license doesn't really matter either, no insurance rates to worry about and only tracked if the person's checked for warrants later.
There are many books a government might want their citizens to avoid, such as ones that encourage "to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them".
Documents like the DoI and books written by like-minded people could give people ideas that could be dangerous to our government.
Given that this administration (and the previous) called music piracy a national security issue, equating copying an MP3 file with counterfeiting, the bar for what is a threat to the nation is pretty low with these people.
It seems nobody has seen what putrid stuff food banks have to sift through. Some companies will "donate" anything they can't sell, like leaking cans and food with obvious mold. The food banks can't do anything with it either, but they are routinely dealing with potentially substandard food products.
I assumed the story would be something related to federal peanut farm subsidies that have remained ever since the peanut crisis when Carter was in office. Between diversion of food to energy products and $500 million paid annually to farmers to NOT grow peanuts, the government is the more common reason for any shortages.
These same companies went to Congress many, many times to get more H1B visas when even technical call center wages were being pressured up to median income levels. It was fine to intervene in market forces when politicians were getting checks, but not if they were left out of the "negotiations".
Crimea also has no electrical generation capabilities of it's own, it relies on Ukraine for 100% of it's power and 82% of it's fresh water.
We'll see how this plays out though, the Crimean Tatars won't accept the Russians without a fight.
It's cheap, a $20 card gives 600 minutes, 600 texts, and 600 MB of data with 90 days of service on Verizon in this area.
ZTE phones however remind you of the "get what you pay for" adage with the single core processors if you're demanding enough to be downloading updates and doing anything else concurrently.
That was the gist of a Wired article a couple of years ago with statements about the Utah facility, it was designed to have the capacity to archive the internet ten times over and have a supercomputer for cracking encryption. Their stated goal was to capture all digital traffic, especially archiving all encrypted traffic until they could decrypt it. Now that the multi-billion dollar facility is online (and an expansion is being built elsewhere), it turns out that part of Utah doesn't have enough electricity on the grid to feed their facility. This is what happens when you give bureaucrats a blank check.
The government is the source of all the false information on the internet?
I knew it. People couldn't be that dumb.
If Lockheed was involved, since when does it matter if it works? Congress will likely push the USAF to start issuing these suits to airmen.
Just be careful what books you buy or check out from a library... they are watching.
Some legal professors have been noted to start classes with statements similar to "With 400,000 federal regulations, virtually every person over 18 is guilty of something."
The government just has to figure out what you can be charged with.
Eschelon started some time ago, and people didn't get too worked up about it. It's the billions being spent to create a vast archive of everything, in case they (or their political allies) have a use for such information now or in the future. I think I find most disturbing that few on Capitol Hill currently are resistant to this, though they also vote overwhelmingly to renew the NDAA without amending to restore habeus corpus and Constitutional legal protections so it's not surprising.
Given that the government has accepted the idea that copying information owned by a "person" (a corporation) is equivalent to theft, doesn't their scraping of everything equate to a seizure, and the perusal a search?
The difference between private companies gathering data to create files and profiles on people is that they lack the legal standing of government. They can't arrest anyone based on a suspicion of anything, even if that a person is a deadbeat, while the government doesn't need a warrant or any specific law violation under the NDAA to incarcerate a person indefinitely.
/tinfoil hat off
Alternatively, tie the financial with the capture and collection of all electronic communications and interactions, and finding dirt on anyone who becomes a political opponent or a valuable blackmail target becomes easier for those with access.
It's national survival to ship crates of arms to Syrian Islamists, then ship more weapons to Iraq's government to counter those arms, because Jihadis don't stay in one nation? I realize it must've been a shock to the government that this is the case.
Government regulations keep changing. The local hydro system here was so antiquated that they used simplex 1200 baud modem communication on the SCADA system. In modernizing, they initially had an isolated network, but the government wanted monitoring capabilities, since they have rules like no more than 1/2 inch of downstream water height variance (because natural rivers never fluctuate) and assorted other lunacy. I don't know which way the wind has blown with regulators lately, but it seemed to be a mess only exacerbated by federal dabbling.
Of course the best outcome was the "too big to fail" banks are now even bigger.
It was flexibility that created the 95 year rule to protect Mickie Mouse and Sonny Bono's royalties for his work with Cher.
Those seemed to be the primary concerns at the time, and changing federal law to benefit a few while ignoring the compromise explained in the Constitution seems wrong. I'd agree about international treaties in general though, surrendering sovereignty in small degrees is done too flippantly by the current crop of politicians.
A single copyright law would be nice. The book "1984" is public domain in Canada, but since the British author died in 1950, it won't be public domain in the US until 2045, allowing the author to benefit from ongoing royalties in case he wants to write again...
I've wondered for some time what changed. In 1996, browsers using 128-bit SSL could not be exported or downloaded from outside the US due to munitions laws covering crypto. By 1999, those restrictions were gone but I don't recall Congress removing crypto from export restrictions, though 40-bit encryption had been repeatedly broken.
In recent months I've wondered if it were a case of the intel agencies getting a standard adopted that they could penetrate easily, making the restriction trivial.