The problem isn't FISA, the problem is that the President isn't bothering to adhere to it. It isn't possible to write legislation that works when the person doesn't abide by it and doesn't end up being punished either.
The relevant bits of legislation very clearly state that anybody doing wire taps has to have appropriate judicial oversight and doing so without is a federal offense. It was one of the reactions to the watergate scandal.
I don't know, perhaps it's when they received a copy of the transcripts delivered directly to their email account. Because I'm sure that the network switches do that on their own from time to time.
They definitely can be, I doubt that W is willing to admit he's wrong, and without doing that he can't pardon himself. He could theoretically end up in slam him in the ass prison. Which on some level would be a delicious bit of irony.
In a more practical manner, I suspect that he'd either not be pardoned or that President Obama would pull a Ford and pardon him as a gesture of good will to the side of the country that lost.
But he's definitely committed crimes, including war crimes, and he definitely could be sent to prison.
It is accepted practice. But the correct thing to do is to use the pronoun "he." Which was the correct way of doing it. The only thing that's changed is that so many people abandoned the previous convention that "they" is essentially correct at this point.
I was wondering who was going to point out that Atom really isn't a very good solution for projects that aren't stuck with ia32 as their development architecture. Arm of some sort is far better for these types of applications. Better power usage, and better optimizations for things that actually matter for mobile or otherwise embedded systems.
As cool as it is, there isn't really a good reason for most people to in stall a full Linux system on an embedded system. Most of the time they just need a few relevant applications without the bloat.
Point being? The OP isn't developing code 5 years ago. I'm not really sure why you weren't being modded flamebait. Doubtless they were busy mismodding things with which they disagree.
But, seriously, that doesn't matter even the slightest bit, the question is whether or not to use a more up to date kernel for development. You also didn't bother to mention whether or not FBSD 5.2 was also missing those features making for a completely irrelevant and useless post.
And I'll get modded down because lets be honest, the fanbois are going to hate this.
Or we could admit that the current crop of iPhone inspired phones are a tremendous leap backwards. Seriously, even if you're not blind, the fact that you have to pull it out of your pocket to use is a pain in the ass. Makes me wonder what the point of wireless headsets really are if you ultimately still have to look at the phone to use it.
I'm not sure any of that other stuff is going to be helpful if companies are exercising in a pathological hatred of necessary buttons.
Because as everybody knows Codeweavers fully supports FreeBSD 7.x, wait, you say that it's very early stages and doesn't actually run on any of the recent versions?
Seriously, a lot of people would be more than happy to buy from them if they'd ship something that actually works. Right now most of us would have to dual boot to use a beta version. Which unless I misunderstand the point makes it useless for most people. They may as well just boot into Linux at that point. Or even Windows.
Because companies have policies which allow their employees on as part of employment. And if pictures with nipples are allowed on the likelihood of a serious sexual harassment complaint goes up significantly.
I don't pretend to really get those rules, but the fact of the matter is that with grey area allegations like sexual harassment you can't be guaranteed in all cases to be able to avoid it in the first place. Things like banning breasts from display on computers is a more or less common sense way of cutting down on the more well founded allegations.
If Facebook doesn't enforce these rules there's far more wrong than what you're complaining about.
This isn't an issue of biblethumpers. The real question is why charges like sexual harassment charges enforced so unevenly in the first place. If we're going to have rules of that nature on the books then they need to be applied in an even minded manner. I don't think that it's too unreasonable that women be required to play by the same silly rules that men have had to in recent decades.
There isn't really any reason why women have a right to do that in public when there's a tendency to get pissed over much smaller things that men do.
Sometimes things are so fucked up that virtually any change is a positive one. That is the sort of mess that we're presently in. It's difficult to find to many areas of modern American governance that aren't badly in need of fixes.
And in this case it isn't for the sake of change, what we have is clearly not working. It would be totally different if what we had was actually functioning well.
So in other words it would be something like the cost of upgrading. You forget that there's a lot of training that needs to be done each and every time that MS decides to release a major upgrade. Why it is that they need to radically change the program's interface is really beyond me.
With like 4 different Linux distros, you're complaining about that? Seriously, is the opensource community so bereft of interesting software programs that they had to fill up that many spots with Linux? I get that distros vary widely between each other, but come on.
Um, you do realize that OR is the state that has mysterious crossing signals for walking along portions of sidewalk, right? Having seen that more than a few times, I'm not sure if anything down there would surprise me.
And the problem is? Just because people drive on private roads mostly or even exclusively does not mean that they do not benefit from the system.
Very, very few people if any are able to completely avoid the public system. Groceries, utilities, emergency services, those things all require a maintained public street system for nearly all the work. So even those that theoretically don't drive on public roads are still benefiting from the ability to do so.
Those other things are not really a big enough chunk of the pie to justify excluding. And to be perfectly honest people that are just using lawn mowers and chainsaws are getting far more out of the system than they're putting in.
It's not theoretical, that's what we do here. WA has one of the highest gas taxes in the country, and the urban areas have some of the highest fuel efficiency rates in the country.
The reason being that while we have the ability to drive gas guzzlers if we choose, we also end up paying more in taxes should we do so.
The biggest mistake that we've made in terms of transport policy is that we haven't had the guts to raise taxes on fuel as the price decreases. If you do that you can even opt to cut it a bit when prices actually do increase.
But what would one do with a handheld that's smaller than today's? Seriously a lot of those devices have already hit the point where they're difficult for some of us to use due to the tiny buttons. I'm not sure that shrinking the size much more is going to make any sense for most people. Sure you can change the interface possibly to voice activation or direct neural interface, but tiny electronics are easy to lose.
I'm sure there's reasons why shrinking the electronics within the shell is desirable, but small for the sake of small has been dumb for most of the lifespan of the iPod. At a certain point the problems of ergonomics and management become the predominating factor.
I just got Fallout 3 and it's actually a pretty good game, great atmosphere and such. But it probably shouldn't have been called Fallout 3 since it is such a radical departure from previous games.
For the most part remakes work mainly when they are just an update with graphics fixes and not much more. Perhaps bundling in bug fixes and extra levels. But seriously classic games are classic for a reason, and not because of age.
I don't accept your argument. The statement that it is completely harmless is not justified at any point in your argument so logically it cannot follow.
Furthermore it is a perversion of the previous poster's statement to argue that because of your questionable belief that therefore the individual is in favor of child molestation. Unfortunately that does not follow logically from the statement.
Furthermore you're appealing to emotions while subtly relying upon specious and unsubstantiated beliefs.
Arguing that because kids are not directly involved that therefore they are not being harmed is something that needs to be justified. In the case of the criminal in the original article, he had real pictures along side the false one. And I'd be very surprised if there were a substantial number of people that just had the artistic renderings without real images and videos.
On top of that there is no evidence provided that these people that would otherwise be molesting children if not for these generated images stop. The reality is that there are pedophiles that wouldn't ever molest a child, people that would molest a child aren't necessarily going to stop just because they can get images that are produced without doing so.
It would be naive to assume that there wasn't a physical component that no image can possibly fill.
Indeed as the other poster mentioned it's a jury that determines that. Or more to the point it's the jury that decides whether or not the images fall under the restrictions placed on images.
It's going to be awfully tough to convince a jury in cases where they can't personally tell with the information that the defendant had that the individual is under aged. And in reality a lot of those borderline cases are tough to try because if the subject doesn't appear to be under aged or has a fake ID it's a tough sell.
Juries will nullify charges from time to time when they really don't agree. It's not a good practice as it deprives the attorney's of a set of rules and it potentially deprives the public of a new precedent.
But really in the cases that these rules were made for it tends to be more of a question of who acquired and stored the images, most of the time that the charges are brought it's fairly definitive that the individual is underaged. Prosecutors are far more interested in finding those that produce the work than those that consume it. But they do prosecute those viewing when they find them.
Nice to see people still miss the point. Whether you care to admit it or not, it's not normal to wank off to pics of underaged people. I personally lost interest in that more or less immediately upon turning 18.
The argument you're making is that because there isn't direct damage that it isn't causing damage. It's a bad argument, basically it would be OK to view and look at child pr0n as long as you didn't make or produce it. Encouraging it by giving the sites hits or trading other people's images would OK, because of course that person trading the images didn't make them.
I'm not really sure what about that isn't clear. Trading in kiddie porn is harmful to those that are abused and even in the best case scenario it trivializes what is typically a very damaging act.
And really, you ought to be ashamed of yourself for making light of what is an immensely painful experience for victims.
I know there's been some consideration to storing energy in freezers. It's not technically storing, it's more like shifting power draw from peak to off peak times allowing for the capacity to be more efficiently used.
Basically with refrigerated warehouses being set a few degrees colder off peak and being allowed to warm subtly during peak. It's always below the necessary temperature, but the cooling system is off during large chunks of the peak consumption hours.
Indeed, that's one of the things which has harmed the US' production capabilities the most. We don't include those extra costs. We don't consider the cost of coal pollution when calculating the cost and it's the real reason why we need some sort of tax that companies pay when they excessively pollute. Realistically there's going to always be some consequences, but when somebody else has to pay for the damage there's no incentive to pick up the tab oneself.
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The problem isn't FISA, the problem is that the President isn't bothering to adhere to it. It isn't possible to write legislation that works when the person doesn't abide by it and doesn't end up being punished either.
The relevant bits of legislation very clearly state that anybody doing wire taps has to have appropriate judicial oversight and doing so without is a federal offense. It was one of the reactions to the watergate scandal.
I don't know, perhaps it's when they received a copy of the transcripts delivered directly to their email account. Because I'm sure that the network switches do that on their own from time to time.
They definitely can be, I doubt that W is willing to admit he's wrong, and without doing that he can't pardon himself. He could theoretically end up in slam him in the ass prison. Which on some level would be a delicious bit of irony.
In a more practical manner, I suspect that he'd either not be pardoned or that President Obama would pull a Ford and pardon him as a gesture of good will to the side of the country that lost.
But he's definitely committed crimes, including war crimes, and he definitely could be sent to prison.
It is accepted practice. But the correct thing to do is to use the pronoun "he." Which was the correct way of doing it. The only thing that's changed is that so many people abandoned the previous convention that "they" is essentially correct at this point.
I was wondering who was going to point out that Atom really isn't a very good solution for projects that aren't stuck with ia32 as their development architecture. Arm of some sort is far better for these types of applications. Better power usage, and better optimizations for things that actually matter for mobile or otherwise embedded systems.
As cool as it is, there isn't really a good reason for most people to in stall a full Linux system on an embedded system. Most of the time they just need a few relevant applications without the bloat.
Point being? The OP isn't developing code 5 years ago. I'm not really sure why you weren't being modded flamebait. Doubtless they were busy mismodding things with which they disagree.
But, seriously, that doesn't matter even the slightest bit, the question is whether or not to use a more up to date kernel for development. You also didn't bother to mention whether or not FBSD 5.2 was also missing those features making for a completely irrelevant and useless post.
And I'll get modded down because lets be honest, the fanbois are going to hate this.
Or we could admit that the current crop of iPhone inspired phones are a tremendous leap backwards. Seriously, even if you're not blind, the fact that you have to pull it out of your pocket to use is a pain in the ass. Makes me wonder what the point of wireless headsets really are if you ultimately still have to look at the phone to use it.
I'm not sure any of that other stuff is going to be helpful if companies are exercising in a pathological hatred of necessary buttons.
Because as everybody knows Codeweavers fully supports FreeBSD 7.x, wait, you say that it's very early stages and doesn't actually run on any of the recent versions?
Seriously, a lot of people would be more than happy to buy from them if they'd ship something that actually works. Right now most of us would have to dual boot to use a beta version. Which unless I misunderstand the point makes it useless for most people. They may as well just boot into Linux at that point. Or even Windows.
Because companies have policies which allow their employees on as part of employment. And if pictures with nipples are allowed on the likelihood of a serious sexual harassment complaint goes up significantly.
I don't pretend to really get those rules, but the fact of the matter is that with grey area allegations like sexual harassment you can't be guaranteed in all cases to be able to avoid it in the first place. Things like banning breasts from display on computers is a more or less common sense way of cutting down on the more well founded allegations.
If Facebook doesn't enforce these rules there's far more wrong than what you're complaining about.
This isn't an issue of biblethumpers. The real question is why charges like sexual harassment charges enforced so unevenly in the first place. If we're going to have rules of that nature on the books then they need to be applied in an even minded manner. I don't think that it's too unreasonable that women be required to play by the same silly rules that men have had to in recent decades.
There isn't really any reason why women have a right to do that in public when there's a tendency to get pissed over much smaller things that men do.
Sometimes things are so fucked up that virtually any change is a positive one. That is the sort of mess that we're presently in. It's difficult to find to many areas of modern American governance that aren't badly in need of fixes.
And in this case it isn't for the sake of change, what we have is clearly not working. It would be totally different if what we had was actually functioning well.
So in other words it would be something like the cost of upgrading. You forget that there's a lot of training that needs to be done each and every time that MS decides to release a major upgrade. Why it is that they need to radically change the program's interface is really beyond me.
With like 4 different Linux distros, you're complaining about that? Seriously, is the opensource community so bereft of interesting software programs that they had to fill up that many spots with Linux? I get that distros vary widely between each other, but come on.
Um, you do realize that OR is the state that has mysterious crossing signals for walking along portions of sidewalk, right? Having seen that more than a few times, I'm not sure if anything down there would surprise me.
And the problem is? Just because people drive on private roads mostly or even exclusively does not mean that they do not benefit from the system.
Very, very few people if any are able to completely avoid the public system. Groceries, utilities, emergency services, those things all require a maintained public street system for nearly all the work. So even those that theoretically don't drive on public roads are still benefiting from the ability to do so.
Those other things are not really a big enough chunk of the pie to justify excluding. And to be perfectly honest people that are just using lawn mowers and chainsaws are getting far more out of the system than they're putting in.
It's not theoretical, that's what we do here. WA has one of the highest gas taxes in the country, and the urban areas have some of the highest fuel efficiency rates in the country.
The reason being that while we have the ability to drive gas guzzlers if we choose, we also end up paying more in taxes should we do so.
The biggest mistake that we've made in terms of transport policy is that we haven't had the guts to raise taxes on fuel as the price decreases. If you do that you can even opt to cut it a bit when prices actually do increase.
Yeah, you're right, SSH is totally inappropriate. It should be a VPN so you can send other things there.
But what would one do with a handheld that's smaller than today's? Seriously a lot of those devices have already hit the point where they're difficult for some of us to use due to the tiny buttons. I'm not sure that shrinking the size much more is going to make any sense for most people. Sure you can change the interface possibly to voice activation or direct neural interface, but tiny electronics are easy to lose.
I'm sure there's reasons why shrinking the electronics within the shell is desirable, but small for the sake of small has been dumb for most of the lifespan of the iPod. At a certain point the problems of ergonomics and management become the predominating factor.
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Hmm, looks like that one got by you.
I just got Fallout 3 and it's actually a pretty good game, great atmosphere and such. But it probably shouldn't have been called Fallout 3 since it is such a radical departure from previous games.
For the most part remakes work mainly when they are just an update with graphics fixes and not much more. Perhaps bundling in bug fixes and extra levels. But seriously classic games are classic for a reason, and not because of age.
I don't accept your argument. The statement that it is completely harmless is not justified at any point in your argument so logically it cannot follow.
Furthermore it is a perversion of the previous poster's statement to argue that because of your questionable belief that therefore the individual is in favor of child molestation. Unfortunately that does not follow logically from the statement.
Furthermore you're appealing to emotions while subtly relying upon specious and unsubstantiated beliefs.
Arguing that because kids are not directly involved that therefore they are not being harmed is something that needs to be justified. In the case of the criminal in the original article, he had real pictures along side the false one. And I'd be very surprised if there were a substantial number of people that just had the artistic renderings without real images and videos.
On top of that there is no evidence provided that these people that would otherwise be molesting children if not for these generated images stop. The reality is that there are pedophiles that wouldn't ever molest a child, people that would molest a child aren't necessarily going to stop just because they can get images that are produced without doing so.
It would be naive to assume that there wasn't a physical component that no image can possibly fill.
Indeed as the other poster mentioned it's a jury that determines that. Or more to the point it's the jury that decides whether or not the images fall under the restrictions placed on images.
It's going to be awfully tough to convince a jury in cases where they can't personally tell with the information that the defendant had that the individual is under aged. And in reality a lot of those borderline cases are tough to try because if the subject doesn't appear to be under aged or has a fake ID it's a tough sell.
Juries will nullify charges from time to time when they really don't agree. It's not a good practice as it deprives the attorney's of a set of rules and it potentially deprives the public of a new precedent.
But really in the cases that these rules were made for it tends to be more of a question of who acquired and stored the images, most of the time that the charges are brought it's fairly definitive that the individual is underaged. Prosecutors are far more interested in finding those that produce the work than those that consume it. But they do prosecute those viewing when they find them.
Nice to see people still miss the point. Whether you care to admit it or not, it's not normal to wank off to pics of underaged people. I personally lost interest in that more or less immediately upon turning 18.
The argument you're making is that because there isn't direct damage that it isn't causing damage. It's a bad argument, basically it would be OK to view and look at child pr0n as long as you didn't make or produce it. Encouraging it by giving the sites hits or trading other people's images would OK, because of course that person trading the images didn't make them.
I'm not really sure what about that isn't clear. Trading in kiddie porn is harmful to those that are abused and even in the best case scenario it trivializes what is typically a very damaging act.
And really, you ought to be ashamed of yourself for making light of what is an immensely painful experience for victims.
I know there's been some consideration to storing energy in freezers. It's not technically storing, it's more like shifting power draw from peak to off peak times allowing for the capacity to be more efficiently used.
Basically with refrigerated warehouses being set a few degrees colder off peak and being allowed to warm subtly during peak. It's always below the necessary temperature, but the cooling system is off during large chunks of the peak consumption hours.
Indeed, that's one of the things which has harmed the US' production capabilities the most. We don't include those extra costs. We don't consider the cost of coal pollution when calculating the cost and it's the real reason why we need some sort of tax that companies pay when they excessively pollute. Realistically there's going to always be some consequences, but when somebody else has to pay for the damage there's no incentive to pick up the tab oneself.