There was a sunset provision in the Patriot Act which required it to be reauthorized through a vote in both houses. Hence, it was reauthorized with some changes.
You have NO 4th Amendment rights when being searched at the border. The Supreme Court has held in every case before the bench, such as Hernandez and Ickes, that warrantless searches are an inherent sovereign right of the country.
With that said, your 5th Amendment right to not incriminate yourself by providing a password has never been abrogated by the Court as it pertains to border searches.
Customs agents don't derive their power to conduct warrantless searches at the border from legislation.
The Supreme Court has held in several cases, such as Hernandez and Ickes, that the ability to conduct searches is an inherent sovereign right of the country. The President, through Customs, is able to exercise this right through Article II.
I would assume because of the high security needed at the NSA, placing a cluster physically far from Ft. Meade would mean extra money and people to ensure its security. They would have to build another facility to meet the NSA security specs. It doesn't make sense. They are running a state security and intelligence service, not a distributed research network.
It is still in beta, but this is the final beta release of IE7 until the stable version is released later this year. So it is reasonable to expect that most of the features and security related features are implemented.
Sure, but google isn't very hard to use. Citing something that is common knowledge and readily acknowledged is rather redundant. But see here and here:
About half these resources were devoted to political and diplomatic intelligence, with the remainder equally divided between military and economic intelligence.
Scared that the US might do it? That is standard practice in countries like France who use their intelligence services to pass information directly to French corporations.
That's because the firmware makes it almost impossible to 'securely' erase data from the drives
How so? As far as I know, the only limitation that modern firmware places on securely erasing data is smart buffering. i.e. the firmware sees 10 writes to the same sectors in the buffer and chooses to only write the last one to save time. Although that is a problem, modern erasing software ensures that all X amount of specified writes actually get written.
I would imagine that the plane was recording enormous amounts of data, both video and otherwise. Streaming all of that to a satellite in real time would not be practical. I'm sure that those large spyplanes were recording significantly more data than a predator drone.
The paper you are quoting from is horribly out of date and very little of that applies to modern drives. This post does a good job of explaining Gutmann's more recent comments.
Plus, some people have called into question a lot of the sources used in that paper. It seems that some of the sources don't even exist.
They are making it sound like they are taking some kind of stand in China. That is the impression I'm getting out of their comments. That is all BS. They're making the decision to not get left out of the China market even if that means compromising every principle they have. They are commited to making money in China, not free speech.
That's a good point, but I wasn't talking about the installation process. I think Ubuntu is quite easy to install. I was talking about every day hardware support and MP3/video codec support.
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Grandama doesn't exist? The hypothetical "grandma" is the vast majority of people who use computers: the relatively computer illiterate and non-tech savvy. Your points are absurd.
Also, she is completely able to download and install an updated executable from the correct website when she is in Windows.
Of course she is able to: Because Microsoft offers an automatic update feature. Grandma doesn't have to do anything but click "OK" to get her updates. And these updates from Microsoft include binary hardware drivers (unlike Ubuntu - due to ideological reasons)! Ubuntu's update service does not unless poor old grandma updates "Universe repository" (yea, I'm sure she'll understand what that is!).
hat you are trying to say, is that not everyone can setup and manage a computer, and maintain a healthy, powerful and updated operating system on it.
No, what I'm saying is that some operating systems have a long way to go before they equal the usability of XP or OSX. I think I said that quite bluntly. And when grandma, or any other non-tech savvy person, can't play MP3s or family videos on Ubuntu because of "licensing restrictions," they aren't going to know what to do. Oh, they're supposed to google "ubuntu mp3 support" and execute apt-get install gstreamer-whatever gstreamer-mpeg-whatever to get the support they need. Do you really think these "simple" commands are understandable to grandma? Or do you think she is even going to know what a repository is? Why would she fool around with this when she can just use XP?
Then compare installing any other application on Dapper vs. Windows.
Ok. In windows, grandma just double clicks a setup.exe which does all the work for her. If a similar application doesn't exist in the default Ubuntu repositories as a.deb package, then she's out of luck unless she knows how to./configure ; make install.
Windows is more difficult on this much more common task for a newbie than installing custom, 4%-extra-performance-gaining graphic drivers.
That's an uninformed comment. Double clicking setup.exe every single time is not harder than having to compile some obscure application that doesn't exist in the repositories. And nvidia doesn't exist on merely 4% of computers. I'd wager that it's closer to 30% or 50%. And video acceleration is needed for a lot more than just video games. That is why microsoft provides these binary drivers in their Windows Update mechanism.
Dapper is good, but it's not there yet.
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It's not ready for grandma to use, and as such, it's not an XP replacement. It still takes many keystrokes to get MP3 and video codec support. Want a binary nvidia driver? Due to ideological reasons, you'll need to manually enable universe and install it. And exotic wifi protocol support is still spotty (but better). Try explaining all that to someone who is computer illiterate. All they know is that this stuff works automatically in XP or OSX.
Not that I'm ragging on Dapper Drake; I installed it the first day it came out. But it is being touted as an XP replacement when it isn't. I think it is only a marginal improvement over the last version in terms of ease of use for people who aren't already savvy. The improved theme certainly looks good, but that only goes so far when you are looking to replace XP for normal users. I think the Ubuntu team really needs to rethink leaving out MP3 decoders and regular codec support. Microsoft doesn't seem to have 'licensing issues' when they ship XP with those features, and neither does Apple.
It looks like it's time to migrate to utorrent if you haven't already. There no commercialization associated with it and it's much faster. The only downside is that it's for windows only.
He's donated billions of dollars worth of medicine to children all over Africa and elsewhere. If anyone in this world has "put up or shut up," it's Mr. Gates. He is expressing genuine concern.
But he has put his money where his mouth is concerning helping needy children. He hasn't sold them $100 computers, but he has given away for free various medicines worth billions of dollars over many years. So I think his criticism should be seen in that context. I think he's expressing genuine concern.
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It looks like the scope of the book is much too narrow to infer any type of trend. Thomas Friedman's book The Lexus and the Olive Tree gives a much more macro view of the democratization of information and the impact the internet has on government. Although a bit dated, its scope is much wider and thus its easier to pick out trends than it is in this book.
BZFlag is one of those free multiplayer games that keeps pulling me back in almost every day. The competitiveness of the game coupled with the community is hard to beat. And it's open source to boot!
It will fail if it is backed by Germany and France. Both of those countries have laws which force companies to filter hate speech, or at the very least help track the people down. That overhead, which Google doesn't have to deal with, will weigh heavy on their ability to offer untainted search results. That's in addition to other government red tape. That's a huge burden that Google doesn't have.
Common Carrier status is granted when the provider doesn't filter content. However misguided this attempt is, it does not violate common carrier status, because they are not passing judgement or denying certain content. They're still allowing it all, albeit at different levels of service.
How are the telcos a monopoly? I have a cable modem, my friend across the country has one.
They hold a monopoly, granted by the federal government and state governments, to provide telephone service to everyone even if it means they lose money by running telephone service to some farm. There is no cost incentive to do that, so the government compels them to. This isn't a monopoly on content delivery but rather mandated telephone service. You are confusing two separate things. Of course, this is slashdot, so that's to be expected.
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There was a sunset provision in the Patriot Act which required it to be reauthorized through a vote in both houses. Hence, it was reauthorized with some changes.
Abortion was never settled case law until Roe v. Wade. The Supreme Court refused to grant a write of certiorari until that time.
Border search doctrine has been settled through a string of Supreme Court cases.
It does not matter if a federal judge disagrees. This has been settled decades ago by the supreme court. See U.S. v Montoya de Hernandez.
You have NO 4th Amendment rights when being searched at the border. The Supreme Court has held in every case before the bench, such as Hernandez and Ickes, that warrantless searches are an inherent sovereign right of the country.
With that said, your 5th Amendment right to not incriminate yourself by providing a password has never been abrogated by the Court as it pertains to border searches.
Customs agents don't derive their power to conduct warrantless searches at the border from legislation.
The Supreme Court has held in several cases, such as Hernandez and Ickes, that the ability to conduct searches is an inherent sovereign right of the country. The President, through Customs, is able to exercise this right through Article II.
So what is your solution? Outsource our state security to the private sector? Sounds like a plan.
I would assume because of the high security needed at the NSA, placing a cluster physically far from Ft. Meade would mean extra money and people to ensure its security. They would have to build another facility to meet the NSA security specs. It doesn't make sense. They are running a state security and intelligence service, not a distributed research network.
It is still in beta, but this is the final beta release of IE7 until the stable version is released later this year. So it is reasonable to expect that most of the features and security related features are implemented.
Sure, but google isn't very hard to use. Citing something that is common knowledge and readily acknowledged is rather redundant. But see here and here:
About half these resources were devoted to political and diplomatic intelligence, with the remainder equally divided between military and economic intelligence.
Scared that the US might do it? That is standard practice in countries like France who use their intelligence services to pass information directly to French corporations.
That's because the firmware makes it almost impossible to 'securely' erase data from the drives
How so? As far as I know, the only limitation that modern firmware places on securely erasing data is smart buffering. i.e. the firmware sees 10 writes to the same sectors in the buffer and chooses to only write the last one to save time. Although that is a problem, modern erasing software ensures that all X amount of specified writes actually get written.
I would imagine that the plane was recording enormous amounts of data, both video and otherwise. Streaming all of that to a satellite in real time would not be practical. I'm sure that those large spyplanes were recording significantly more data than a predator drone.
Plus, some people have called into question a lot of the sources used in that paper. It seems that some of the sources don't even exist.
They are making it sound like they are taking some kind of stand in China. That is the impression I'm getting out of their comments. That is all BS. They're making the decision to not get left out of the China market even if that means compromising every principle they have. They are commited to making money in China, not free speech.
That's a good point, but I wasn't talking about the installation process. I think Ubuntu is quite easy to install. I was talking about every day hardware support and MP3/video codec support.
Also, she is completely able to download and install an updated executable from the correct website when she is in Windows.
Of course she is able to: Because Microsoft offers an automatic update feature. Grandma doesn't have to do anything but click "OK" to get her updates. And these updates from Microsoft include binary hardware drivers (unlike Ubuntu - due to ideological reasons)! Ubuntu's update service does not unless poor old grandma updates "Universe repository" (yea, I'm sure she'll understand what that is!).
hat you are trying to say, is that not everyone can setup and manage a computer, and maintain a healthy, powerful and updated operating system on it.
No, what I'm saying is that some operating systems have a long way to go before they equal the usability of XP or OSX. I think I said that quite bluntly. And when grandma, or any other non-tech savvy person, can't play MP3s or family videos on Ubuntu because of "licensing restrictions," they aren't going to know what to do. Oh, they're supposed to google "ubuntu mp3 support" and execute apt-get install gstreamer-whatever gstreamer-mpeg-whatever to get the support they need. Do you really think these "simple" commands are understandable to grandma? Or do you think she is even going to know what a repository is? Why would she fool around with this when she can just use XP?
Then compare installing any other application on Dapper vs. Windows.
Ok. In windows, grandma just double clicks a setup.exe which does all the work for her. If a similar application doesn't exist in the default Ubuntu repositories as a .deb package, then she's out of luck unless she knows how to ./configure ; make install.
Windows is more difficult on this much more common task for a newbie than installing custom, 4%-extra-performance-gaining graphic drivers.
That's an uninformed comment. Double clicking setup.exe every single time is not harder than having to compile some obscure application that doesn't exist in the repositories. And nvidia doesn't exist on merely 4% of computers. I'd wager that it's closer to 30% or 50%. And video acceleration is needed for a lot more than just video games. That is why microsoft provides these binary drivers in their Windows Update mechanism.
It's not ready for grandma to use, and as such, it's not an XP replacement. It still takes many keystrokes to get MP3 and video codec support. Want a binary nvidia driver? Due to ideological reasons, you'll need to manually enable universe and install it. And exotic wifi protocol support is still spotty (but better). Try explaining all that to someone who is computer illiterate. All they know is that this stuff works automatically in XP or OSX.
Not that I'm ragging on Dapper Drake; I installed it the first day it came out. But it is being touted as an XP replacement when it isn't. I think it is only a marginal improvement over the last version in terms of ease of use for people who aren't already savvy. The improved theme certainly looks good, but that only goes so far when you are looking to replace XP for normal users. I think the Ubuntu team really needs to rethink leaving out MP3 decoders and regular codec support. Microsoft doesn't seem to have 'licensing issues' when they ship XP with those features, and neither does Apple.
It looks like it's time to migrate to utorrent if you haven't already. There no commercialization associated with it and it's much faster. The only downside is that it's for windows only.
He's donated billions of dollars worth of medicine to children all over Africa and elsewhere. If anyone in this world has "put up or shut up," it's Mr. Gates. He is expressing genuine concern.
But he has put his money where his mouth is concerning helping needy children. He hasn't sold them $100 computers, but he has given away for free various medicines worth billions of dollars over many years. So I think his criticism should be seen in that context. I think he's expressing genuine concern.
It looks like the scope of the book is much too narrow to infer any type of trend. Thomas Friedman's book The Lexus and the Olive Tree gives a much more macro view of the democratization of information and the impact the internet has on government. Although a bit dated, its scope is much wider and thus its easier to pick out trends than it is in this book.
BZFlag is one of those free multiplayer games that keeps pulling me back in almost every day. The competitiveness of the game coupled with the community is hard to beat. And it's open source to boot!
It will fail if it is backed by Germany and France. Both of those countries have laws which force companies to filter hate speech, or at the very least help track the people down. That overhead, which Google doesn't have to deal with, will weigh heavy on their ability to offer untainted search results. That's in addition to other government red tape. That's a huge burden that Google doesn't have.
Common Carrier status is granted when the provider doesn't filter content. However misguided this attempt is, it does not violate common carrier status, because they are not passing judgement or denying certain content. They're still allowing it all, albeit at different levels of service.
They hold a monopoly, granted by the federal government and state governments, to provide telephone service to everyone even if it means they lose money by running telephone service to some farm. There is no cost incentive to do that, so the government compels them to. This isn't a monopoly on content delivery but rather mandated telephone service. You are confusing two separate things. Of course, this is slashdot, so that's to be expected.