This chip company specialises in low power chips for small devices, not desktop chips. I could see them trying to expand their market by competing with the EEE PC. These 'cheap' mobile processors are a great fit for that sort of thing.
There's a reason why countries like Iran or whatever aren't flying around in replica F-14's and F-15's. While they may have the dimensions to replicate a part, they don't have the huge amount of engineering required to make that part work, and work reliably. You're talking about a country which my President has told me has a nuclear weapons program. Something tells me if they're capable of getting nuclear engineers, they can figure out how to make a half-decent fighter jet if they really needed to.
Or keep the money and gamble it at your favorite casino without ever telling them your name. You give them dirty money and even if you lose a percentage, whatever you walk away with is clean money. In fact, it's better to lose some. If you win enough money, they'll make you report it for tax purposes.
Don't get caught up on boogeyman tactics like trying to suggest engineers are good terror suspects. Everyone has a place in a well rounded terror organization. Are you a charismatic people-person? Great, you're in recruitment. Are you a natural born leader? Great, you're a middle-manager. Have a boat-load of money and a crazy political agenda? Perfect, you're the terror CEO. Are you an engineer? great, you're in the strategic planning department. Are you a completely moronic gullible fool who is easily susceptible to social pressure? You get to hold the bomb. Congrats, see you in heaven.
I think you're absolutely right in the short to medium term. We'll need another technology revolution in order for more than 1-2 cores to be really beneficial to the average home user. Outside the web/db server market there's not a lot of use that isn't somewhat fringe. Of course, the web/db server market is huge.
If a significant proportion of people withhold their details, they have no right to complain when there aren't enough schools or hospital beds or even houses in the right places. How else are governments supposed to get demographic information? When the teacher:student ratio starts creeping up, build more schools. When the doctor:patient ratio starts creeping up, build more hospitals. That's the beauty of capitalism. Supply and demand sort of sorts itself out. Oh that's right, you've socialized medicine so some bean counter gets to decide how many doctors per citizens are sufficient. Good luck to you.
Doubtful. He looked suspicious, they questioned him, once he complied openly they realized he was just a curious dork and they bought him a drink and kept him busy so that he wouldn't scream in the papers about being accosted and would stop the suspicious activity. It's SOP for things like this. Whether he found all the cameras or not is irrelevant.
Not really JUST as easily. You fully expect the G-Archiver to be transmitting encrypted (ssl) data to google. A few extra packets aren't going to raise any red flags.
Obviously someone will port Android (or some other alternative) to the iPhone and all problems will be solved. Either that, or the fad will just die off before it matters. *shrug*
If your office is anything like any other corporate office I know of your mail server goes down a lot more often than your A/C. Your internet connection is considerably less reliable than your lights or the toilets. You also make about twice as much money as the facilities guy. If your services are truly equally valuable then you need to be prepared to offer the same level of service for the same pay. But you can't. You require a LOT more pay for worse service. *shrug*
This is the main method of the application. This is the ultra-secret API call which calls the secret x86 instruction set we held Intel at gunpoint for which makes our applications run in awesome mode. This is our logger.
When this bank can talk to a court which has some jurisdiction over the offending site then they might have more luck. Apparently, the site is hosted in Kenya (according to the whois lookup). In the event that wikileaks wasn't breaking any laws in Kenya, I can imagine they have a very nice civil suit against the ISP who dropped the DNS entry.
It largely depends on your office environment. I work for a 'household name' company. After working here about 6 months I cut my hair in a mohawk. Since then I've been invited to be a speaker at a company technology convention and promoted to the highest technical position available in our department at this time. There was even talk of creating a higher level position especially for me. As for the listed faux pas I also wear polos or dress shirts with my company's logo at least 3 times per week. At least in the case of my company, it's not about fashion sense. It's about social skills. I'm an excellent communicator and motivator when compared to my techie peers. That makes more of a difference than anything else. Granted, if I wanted to get into management... I'll probably have to lose the mohawk. Maybe not though, the CTO thinks it's awesome.
You get a warrant when you want to spy on SOMEONE. You don't get a warrant when you want to capture all inbound and outbound (from the country) telephone traffic and put it through your NSA analyzer supercomputer thingymajig looking for suspicious activity. You see, for something like this to work, you need a very large sample of data to compare to. You will never be given a warrant for little Felipe who wants to call mommy back in Italy to talk about spaghetti recipes. But you need that data as a base line.
Generally, but not always, you can watch outgoing traffic logs on your router to see if there's stuff going on that doesn't make sense. Most people don't have that kind of time. Also, it may be your router which was rootkitted.:)
Get back to me when we start using extraordinary rendition against domestic political opponents. Back. Boy, that didn't take long. What you have to realize is that Republican vs. Democrat in this country aren't really that different these days.
A lot of people are forgetting one very important fact. There's PLENTY of time between the election and when the new President is sworn in to start a war. Wait until the election is decided to protect the party during voting and then put on a massive display of force on whatever country you want (Iran, I'm lookin at you). Then, it doesn't matter who was elected, they won't be able to just turn tail and run. You just need a half-decent excuse (even if it's a lie) to dump in the next President's lap as to why you went in.
Apple as a great understanding of the paradox of choice. This is exactly why Apple customers are so damned happy even though they have so very few choices of hardware options when compared to alternative vendors. If it really gets your goat that you don't have enough options, you probably aren't in Apple's target market. That's okay though, there's no need to bash them. I don't own any Apple products either.
The difference, IMHO, is short term vs. long term. A war creates a lot of jobs in the short term, defense contractors, military personnel, etc. Building 'cheap' communications infrastructure in the U.S. would positively affect every business in the country for decades.
In the 1970s when our currency was completely detached from hard assets and converted into pure representations of debt it changed the scope of lending dramatically. When your fiat money is based only on debt you have to be able to expand that debt exponentially in order to keep the ship running. Only, it's very difficult to have constant exponential growth of debts and now we're seeing a correction. The way our fiat money system works.. there isn't enough money to actually pay off the debt. If everyone started trying to pay off debt our economy would collapse. This is merely a correction to the mean with respect to inflation and debtorship. It'll be rough but we'll get back on track.
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Or keep the money and gamble it at your favorite casino without ever telling them your name. You give them dirty money and even if you lose a percentage, whatever you walk away with is clean money. In fact, it's better to lose some. If you win enough money, they'll make you report it for tax purposes.
Don't get caught up on boogeyman tactics like trying to suggest engineers are good terror suspects. Everyone has a place in a well rounded terror organization. Are you a charismatic people-person? Great, you're in recruitment. Are you a natural born leader? Great, you're a middle-manager. Have a boat-load of money and a crazy political agenda? Perfect, you're the terror CEO. Are you an engineer? great, you're in the strategic planning department. Are you a completely moronic gullible fool who is easily susceptible to social pressure? You get to hold the bomb. Congrats, see you in heaven.
If I could mod in this thread, I'd mod that funny... but it was my post you responded to, so I can't. Anyways, I chuckled.
I think you're absolutely right in the short to medium term. We'll need another technology revolution in order for more than 1-2 cores to be really beneficial to the average home user. Outside the web/db server market there's not a lot of use that isn't somewhat fringe. Of course, the web/db server market is huge.
Just think. This is the stuff we KNOW about. Imagine how bad the truth must really be.
Hint: Your engineering professor who wrote the book slept through is English Lit. class.
Doubtful. He looked suspicious, they questioned him, once he complied openly they realized he was just a curious dork and they bought him a drink and kept him busy so that he wouldn't scream in the papers about being accosted and would stop the suspicious activity. It's SOP for things like this. Whether he found all the cameras or not is irrelevant.
Not really JUST as easily. You fully expect the G-Archiver to be transmitting encrypted (ssl) data to google. A few extra packets aren't going to raise any red flags.
Obviously someone will port Android (or some other alternative) to the iPhone and all problems will be solved. Either that, or the fad will just die off before it matters. *shrug*
If your office is anything like any other corporate office I know of your mail server goes down a lot more often than your A/C. Your internet connection is considerably less reliable than your lights or the toilets. You also make about twice as much money as the facilities guy. If your services are truly equally valuable then you need to be prepared to offer the same level of service for the same pay. But you can't. You require a LOT more pay for worse service. *shrug*
This is the main method of the application. This is the ultra-secret API call which calls the secret x86 instruction set we held Intel at gunpoint for which makes our applications run in awesome mode. This is our logger.
2 weeks later...
Approved!
When this bank can talk to a court which has some jurisdiction over the offending site then they might have more luck. Apparently, the site is hosted in Kenya (according to the whois lookup). In the event that wikileaks wasn't breaking any laws in Kenya, I can imagine they have a very nice civil suit against the ISP who dropped the DNS entry.
If they're like every other investment group it'll be corporate/municipal bonds and mutual funds. You're probably out of luck.
It largely depends on your office environment. I work for a 'household name' company. After working here about 6 months I cut my hair in a mohawk. Since then I've been invited to be a speaker at a company technology convention and promoted to the highest technical position available in our department at this time. There was even talk of creating a higher level position especially for me. As for the listed faux pas I also wear polos or dress shirts with my company's logo at least 3 times per week. At least in the case of my company, it's not about fashion sense. It's about social skills. I'm an excellent communicator and motivator when compared to my techie peers. That makes more of a difference than anything else. Granted, if I wanted to get into management... I'll probably have to lose the mohawk. Maybe not though, the CTO thinks it's awesome.
My speculation is this:
You get a warrant when you want to spy on SOMEONE. You don't get a warrant when you want to capture all inbound and outbound (from the country) telephone traffic and put it through your NSA analyzer supercomputer thingymajig looking for suspicious activity. You see, for something like this to work, you need a very large sample of data to compare to. You will never be given a warrant for little Felipe who wants to call mommy back in Italy to talk about spaghetti recipes. But you need that data as a base line.
Generally, but not always, you can watch outgoing traffic logs on your router to see if there's stuff going on that doesn't make sense. Most people don't have that kind of time. Also, it may be your router which was rootkitted. :)
A lot of people are forgetting one very important fact. There's PLENTY of time between the election and when the new President is sworn in to start a war. Wait until the election is decided to protect the party during voting and then put on a massive display of force on whatever country you want (Iran, I'm lookin at you). Then, it doesn't matter who was elected, they won't be able to just turn tail and run. You just need a half-decent excuse (even if it's a lie) to dump in the next President's lap as to why you went in.
Apple as a great understanding of the paradox of choice. This is exactly why Apple customers are so damned happy even though they have so very few choices of hardware options when compared to alternative vendors. If it really gets your goat that you don't have enough options, you probably aren't in Apple's target market. That's okay though, there's no need to bash them. I don't own any Apple products either.
The difference, IMHO, is short term vs. long term. A war creates a lot of jobs in the short term, defense contractors, military personnel, etc. Building 'cheap' communications infrastructure in the U.S. would positively affect every business in the country for decades.
Your post just reminded me of the free Google databases for scientists. Talk about a huge data set of knowledge for an AI system to be developed on.
In the 1970s when our currency was completely detached from hard assets and converted into pure representations of debt it changed the scope of lending dramatically. When your fiat money is based only on debt you have to be able to expand that debt exponentially in order to keep the ship running. Only, it's very difficult to have constant exponential growth of debts and now we're seeing a correction. The way our fiat money system works.. there isn't enough money to actually pay off the debt. If everyone started trying to pay off debt our economy would collapse. This is merely a correction to the mean with respect to inflation and debtorship. It'll be rough but we'll get back on track.