The main problem is that FISA has been captured and tainted by the FBI and CIA, who now can use it as a "kangaroo court" that authorizes anything and everything they ask for. A similar form of "regulatory capture" occured with airline industry, where the regulators slowly evolved to protect the airlines' best interests, rather than the public's. In this case FISA is protecting the FBI's best interets, rather than the public's.
You claim you may be held indefinitely without trial. I assume you are referring to Guantanamo Bay. Did it ever occur to you that there are no citizens of the United States being held there? Since when does our Constitution apply to citizens of other countries? Since when does it apply to POW's?
Actually, even if you're a US Citizen, you can be held at Guantanamo Bay, given that you're not cpatured on American soil, and charged as an enemy combatant. Also, what about the considerable number of noncitizens (i.e. permanent resident aliens) living here in the US. Are they completely below the purview of the law?
No, there's really also Europe, where I live, and Australia, to pick just two others.
Yes, but what is the size of these markets compared to America/Japan? If Europe was as significant a market as you say it is, it would be getting game releases before or at the same time as America. Currently, most games are released in Japan first, then America, followed by Europe.
By "rewritten", I think GP refers to MS throwing out the Windows 2000/XP network stack, and dropping in the Windows Server 2003 network stack (with improvements).
So the XP network stack was "rewritten", but it got used in Windows Server 2003 first, rather than in Vista, the direct successor to XP.
Hmmm, I see a lot of credit card data being revealed to the world here. Personal info from universities and government sites has been repeatedly leaked.
Its a Broadcom WLAN card. Broadcom drivers (for Linux) do exist, but they seem to be exclusively for their wired Ethernet products.
It should be noted, that I can use the drivers with NDISWrapper, but then some of the power management features present in the Windows driver are disabled.
That's like me saying that my tinfoil hat keeps meteors from hitting my house and my loved ones. No meteors have hit me, so my tinfoil hat must be working!!
The problem with e-paper is the terribly slow refresh rates that it can support. Current e-paper designs are gearing up to be little more than dynamic books, which need a far slower refresh rate than video.
Heck, I don't even think the researcher put down code. From reading the paper, it seems like they've just sketched out an algorithm, that should be superior to BT in theory.
Here's another real-world example of this very thing. Vonage and some of the other voip providers have recently come under threat of lawsuits, because their 911 service is, to put it bluntly, quite shitty. These lawsuits provided the impetus necessary to get their ass in gear, and in the next few months they will be rolling out a much improved 911 service that compares to land-line 911 service.
No government oversight needed. Free market applied pressure, and the results are coming.
Ummm, you're the one who's inaccurate here. Sure, there were lawsuits threatened, but what really got Vonage moving was the fact that the government threatened to revoke Vonage's FCC licenses. If Vonage's FCC license had been revoked, it would have lost the right to connect to the POTS. This is what got Vonage moving, not lawsuits that they could have defended against by pointing to obscure clauses in their service agreement.
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According to the Supreme Court, the 4th Amendment has an implicit privacy clause built in.
See Kyllo vs. US for more information.
The main problem is that FISA has been captured and tainted by the FBI and CIA, who now can use it as a "kangaroo court" that authorizes anything and everything they ask for. A similar form of "regulatory capture" occured with airline industry, where the regulators slowly evolved to protect the airlines' best interests, rather than the public's. In this case FISA is protecting the FBI's best interets, rather than the public's.
You claim you may be held indefinitely without trial. I assume you are referring to Guantanamo Bay. Did it ever occur to you that there are no citizens of the United States being held there? Since when does our Constitution apply to citizens of other countries? Since when does it apply to POW's?
Actually, even if you're a US Citizen, you can be held at Guantanamo Bay, given that you're not cpatured on American soil, and charged as an enemy combatant. Also, what about the considerable number of noncitizens (i.e. permanent resident aliens) living here in the US. Are they completely below the purview of the law?
No, there's really also Europe, where I live, and Australia, to pick just two others.
Yes, but what is the size of these markets compared to America/Japan? If Europe was as significant a market as you say it is, it would be getting game releases before or at the same time as America. Currently, most games are released in Japan first, then America, followed by Europe.
By "rewritten", I think GP refers to MS throwing out the Windows 2000/XP network stack, and dropping in the Windows Server 2003 network stack (with improvements).
So the XP network stack was "rewritten", but it got used in Windows Server 2003 first, rather than in Vista, the direct successor to XP.
He gets his crazy ideas right here.
Hmmm, I see a lot of credit card data being revealed to the world here. Personal info from universities and government sites has been repeatedly leaked.
Where's the outcry?
KILCO can't be listed on the NYSE, as only = 3 letter symbols are permitted.
KILCO can, however, be listed on the NASDAQ.
You forget that, there are really only 2 gaming markets in the world: Asia and USA.
From all indications, the DS is outselling the PSP in both markets.
Its a Broadcom WLAN card. Broadcom drivers (for Linux) do exist, but they seem to be exclusively for their wired Ethernet products.
It should be noted, that I can use the drivers with NDISWrapper, but then some of the power management features present in the Windows driver are disabled.
Games.
And no, Wine/Cedega doesn't count. They still don't support FarCry, or a lot of the other PC games I play.
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I have Windows drivers for my Broadcom WLAN card. Linux drivers don't exist.
That's like me saying that my tinfoil hat keeps meteors from hitting my house and my loved ones. No meteors have hit me, so my tinfoil hat must be working!!
Your point is moot, because it is increasingly difficult to find Win2K even on the warez sites.
How is a tablet PC different from a laptop again (in size and weight)?
The problem with e-paper is the terribly slow refresh rates that it can support. Current e-paper designs are gearing up to be little more than dynamic books, which need a far slower refresh rate than video.
But do they not have rights to the derivative work under the BSD license?
Its pretty hard to ensure "survival of the fittest" when the fittest don't reproduce...
Wasn't J++ superceded by Visual J#, which, as I understand it, compiles Java into MSIL code?
Heck, I don't even think the researcher put down code. From reading the paper, it seems like they've just sketched out an algorithm, that should be superior to BT in theory.
Here's another real-world example of this very thing. Vonage and some of the other voip providers have recently come under threat of lawsuits, because their 911 service is, to put it bluntly, quite shitty. These lawsuits provided the impetus necessary to get their ass in gear, and in the next few months they will be rolling out a much improved 911 service that compares to land-line 911 service.
No government oversight needed. Free market applied pressure, and the results are coming.
Ummm, you're the one who's inaccurate here. Sure, there were lawsuits threatened, but what really got Vonage moving was the fact that the government threatened to revoke Vonage's FCC licenses. If Vonage's FCC license had been revoked, it would have lost the right to connect to the POTS. This is what got Vonage moving, not lawsuits that they could have defended against by pointing to obscure clauses in their service agreement.
A beowulf cluster of these...
Well, he certainly has the possibility of procreation once he gets out of jail.
He's not dead or castrated.
To be eligible for a Darwin one must remove oneself from the gene pool.
As I recall, they demoed OSX running on a plain vanilla P4 at WWDC.
No, silly, the reason that everyone hates lawyers these days is that they're the closest thing to mercenaries that we have in this day and age.
The thing that makes lawyers so despicable is the fact that they'll fight for the highest bidder, not what's considered *good*.