And the ACLU action is about assassination and not normal military "work". It's about the procedures how "they" (because not even that is clearly known, who decides) decide whose name gets on a death list and gets murdered without any legal recourse.
No, it's clearly something else. The problem is it, they cannot manage a list of suspects in half-open (because people see that they cannot fly and complain), so what makes you think that they'll manage perfectly without review in secret?
(You do realize that quite a bit of death sentences even in the US get vacated => so where's the quality assurance for the death list?)
And I wonder if you are also okay with the Libyan government deciding to blow up some planes. They really had that death list twice checked. Really. And the couple dozen innocent bystanders are okay for the US, so they are okay if Libya does it, right?
Logically, if this is typical power of a government, then this applies to all governments.
Guess you are happy the the Russian agencies are murdering (guess what the correct verb is I mean murder is only for the people that have not yet accepted that the government has the power of death and life without review) people abroad, like the UK?
Guess, if the Chinese government decides that you are a terrorist (e.g. you oppose Communism or oppose censorship and are successful with this), and puts your name of a death list, and assassinates you, you are okay with this? I mean, that are really honest fellow communists in the Chinese government that decided that, right?
Well, sorry, worked in the industry (not the US, but in a NATO member country). Military spec stuff might mean high quality to the average person. People that do work in the field, know it's anything but that. And the chances that something gets covered up are way better than in many civil industries. (The best part was high end radar systems that didn't even manage to detect the existence of a threat; guess that means they failed also an all the more advanced analysis stuff *g*)
Ah, and the people that work there are just humans too. That human factor is what makes the lengthy review process of death sentences necessary. Wonder if the White House (or whoever ends up with the power of life and death) also takes a decade for review of their death lists?
It's the problem that a government in peacetime (despite all rethorics, the US is not at war, war on terrorism is the legal equivalent of war on drugs and other PR stunts) has death lists of people that it intends to murder.
So who decides who is allowed live?
(Btw, you DO REALIZE that the Nazis that laws on the books that authorized them to murder "inferior races". Guess it's better that the US has death lists of people "wanted dead" without any legal base.)
A completely secondary thing is up to which point collateral is acceptable, but that's not the point of the ACLU action.
The ACLU is targeting the part that some part of the executive branch of the US government, decides who gets killed, in secret. Without any review.)
Where is the difference to some rogue dictatorship?
Well, they don't have to verify it. But if they target you individually, they already know who you are. And if they put you on a death list, they better know something more than your name, birthday and nationality.
OTOH, as you are happy with this, let's hope that you never piss off somebody who decides if you are allowed to continue to live.
The US government has already by far to many privileges (e.g. they can get basically any data about you, they can lock you up and throw away the key, it's enough that some DHS flunky softly mentions terrorism, and so on).
Now, the US government has given itself the right to determinate who is allowed to continue to live.
Hint, some years ago, a certain Mr. Hussein, Saddam, got hung for deciding which of his citizens are allowed to live.
Might does not make it right, nor is it right because it's your side.
Again, almost certainly proceedings to revoke citizenship are (and should be) way more complicated than being put on a list.
This death list by drone thing is kind of a 3-strikes law. The differences are:
* the 3 strike laws are laws or proposed laws. The death list is Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama deciding that I want these guys dead. Guys, the president is not above the law, see Nixon and his approach of "if I do it, it's legal, dammit".
* it's not about Internet access. It's about human lifes. Worse, it's about killing innocents so that one guy on the death list can be bombed. Wonder how the citizens would like it if Mr. X goes to death row, so do his neighbors?
* it's hypocracy from the finest. The US, telling rogue nations about human rights. Well, literacy seems not to be required to be elected, hence poor Mr. Obama surely does not know that the right to life is a basic human right.
* it's about loosing the war on terror. If we loose what defines us (e.g. rule of law) just to "defeat the terrorists" (if that's even possible), we have already lost.
No, it's just that the US government is executing people without judical review.
So basically, somebody in the adminstration puts Mr. Smith on the death list, and it's basically that. Wonder what will happen if somebody ever discovers that Mr. Smith was innocent, the only crime that he did commit to have an affair with the wife of the person who put him on the death list?
You do realize, that the US is clamoring about human rights abuses in China and other places, right?
Hint: the right to life is probably the most fundamental human right.
Basically, there is now law allowing this targeted killings, and for some cases (US citizens) the government is clearly violating the constitution.
Actually anyone wanting to implement GSM nad/or UMTS has to pay patent licenses, that is nothing secret about that. Actually there are even patent pools setup so it's easier. (Actually these pools have even EU and DoJ approval, see http://www.3glicensing.com/articles/03%20-%203G%20(p12-14)%20f.pdf )
If Apple is so naive that they can get away without paying for the basic technology, they'll get what they deserve. The legal system takes time, but if they are unlucky the damages will wipe out the whole company in some years.
Additionally, if Apple even paid up on the basic patents, Nokia has been in this business for a long time. All major elements of the iPhone (touch screen => Nokia tablets, installable software => Java JARs and Symbian phones, and so on) have been done earlier by Nokia. If Apple is unlucky, all of these will be patented by Nokia. If they are lucky only some. Don't think that this time even the nationalism of the US legal system will save their hide. (And Apple has been toeing the line with it's locked walled garden iPhone/iPods for a long time in at least some EU countries, so that's additional fun for Apple that can be resurrected anytime, and it clearly targets Apple's business model, which is bad. Devices and technologies are way easier to replace.)
Actually, people have been downloading software to their smartphones for years now, in practice I've been doing this since my first Nokia 9500. (Phones capable to do that for Java have been available longer, but for me a sensible keyboard is critical).
Actually, Apple cannot even claim that they've invented walled garden phone, (which is a negative feature, but some vendors might like it), the T-Mobile Sidekick has been earlier.
Well, it's not optional, and with all the changes, basically anybody has to pay it. A hermite without electricity might avoid the GEZ but else it's hard to avoid.
So if it's not optional, it's not a fee, it's a tax.
Well, the problem with three strikes is that there is punishment with the justice system reviewing it.
Basically, as it has been shown more than once, the entertainment's industry practices of discovering infringement, documenting it, and so on has been shown to be so shoddy more than once, that it's clear that no actions can be taken.
Basically, say, 3-strikes come like the entertainment industry wants it. They accuse me wrongly, and I basically loose my contracts, potentially it affects my private life negatively, and so on.
Guess that to be fair, if I manage to prove (or even to show that they had no proof for what they accused me of), I guess (random choice of RIAA member), Sony BMG Music Entertainment gets fined out of existence, and automatically put into adminstration (bankruptcy?), right?
To take your analogy, it's like a driver crying foul after their license got suspended because "public transport officials" accussed of DUI driving, actually during your Hawaii holiday, and you have not even any legal recourse.
Well, you need to consider that the USA took also decades to form, despite strong external impulses.
So considering the history, and all circumstances, the fact that the EU got it's first own constitution (even if it's called the treaty of Lisabon, the first US constitution did not call itself a constitution either) in only 6 decades is a fascinating success.
E.g. for professionals like doctors or lawyers, the EU rules about how their qualifications are recognized in all member countries are way stronger than the rules in North America.
(basically, once a M.D., the only thing required to move to a different country and have all your certifications recognized is only language. You know the local language well enough, you are allowed to practice. That is AFAIK not necessarily so in the US)
Wrong, since the Lissabon treaty, the EU parliament has gotten quite a bit more powerful. Still it's powers are different (and probably weaker) than one usually associates with national parliaments, and the parliament has not been shy to demonstrate how pissed they are about being impotent for decades.
Well, as sad this might sound, most people (even high school students), have only limited time for "recreation".
So yes, 5 minutes down can be really frustrating, when all you have is say an hour a day on average.
While the probablity that you get hit is lower (say 1/24th, OTOH, load will almost for certain have hourly spikes, but for the reason of argument let's assume an even distribution), but the effect will be 24 times stronger too, because you are loosing 5/60th of your daily playtime (that's 8.333%).
So yes, while 5 minutes can be okay, half an hour of downtime for a game can be at least as bad as half an hour downtime during work. (Actually for employees the half hour of downtime is a non-issue, as in most jurisdictions they get still paid, while playtime is usually optional, so nobody (starting from employer down to family) will care if you loose your chance to play.
Well, I'm not an EE, but I seem to remember from university, that changing temperatures can lead to changes in voltage/current. Then you've got the extreme case of a short circuit.
So I think it's quite possible to have motherboard damage, e.g. GPU takes more power than is good for the MB, MB dies. Slowly or quickly, depending upon how extreme the effect is.
As an official example, see GPU that have a seperate power connection, where the documentation explicitly states that the GPU and/or the motherboard can die if it's left unconnected, because the GPU will overuse the PCIe provided power. So obviously, something that the GPU does can effect the MB and other parts of the system, phrased nicely by the manufacturers.
What a stupid recommendation, I mean, they usually stop to provide updates, the moment the next model comes out. Consumer laptop models have seldom a life much beyond 6-12 months. Some consumer laptops can be quite useable way longer than 12 months. (and that assumes that you buy it on the first day it's out)
Reality is, that a jailbroken iPhone is not really feeling right. It's a closed platform that you've cracked. It can be bricked anytime, by just clicking the wrong button in iTunes.
It's one of very very few phones that come only with specific carriers.
you can easily compare it for tethering:
* the iPhone of my wife learned to tether when she decided to pay the carrier extra so that the carrier enabled it. No other option at the time was viable, because her phone was rather unjailbreakable for quite some time.
* the G1 of mine, I had basic tethering working on the first day that I've picked it up. (Long, long before I decided to root it.)
Same thing goes for changing SIMs. My wife has been locked to one carrier till she managed to jailbreak her phone. I, OTOH, do travel often, hence I've got a box with a varying number of SIM cards, seldom less than 5. Hint: Switching cards worked on day 1 too, quite well.
The UI is another thing. Hard as it sounds, while the iPhone does have colorful and nice to look at UI, it's rather unergonomic. (ergonomic btw is not "easy-to-use", look it up) No multitasking. No way to have an IM client that is not server based (basically a 3rd party that reads my "mail"), and even that has been for years impossible at all. No hardware keyboard (ever considered, that touch screens, or even keys that change dynamically meaning, are a really bad thing in situations where you cannot concentrate fully, including full use of vision, on the device?), and so on.
Yeah, it's not politically correct, to yell "the emperor is naked", but the UI of the iPhone is at best mediocre, because it's hindered by so many limitations from the onset.
Not that the Android UI is perfect, but you'll notice it's problems are related more to polish, and not to fundamental decisions early on.
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And the ACLU action is about assassination and not normal military "work". It's about the procedures how "they" (because not even that is clearly known, who decides) decide whose name gets on a death list and gets murdered without any legal recourse.
No, it's clearly something else. The problem is it, they cannot manage a list of suspects in half-open (because people see that they cannot fly and complain), so what makes you think that they'll manage perfectly without review in secret?
(You do realize that quite a bit of death sentences even in the US get vacated => so where's the quality assurance for the death list?)
And I wonder if you are also okay with the Libyan government deciding to blow up some planes. They really had that death list twice checked. Really. And the couple dozen innocent bystanders are okay for the US, so they are okay if Libya does it, right?
Logically, if this is typical power of a government, then this applies to all governments.
Guess you are happy the the Russian agencies are murdering (guess what the correct verb is I mean murder is only for the people that have not yet accepted that the government has the power of death and life without review) people abroad, like the UK?
Guess, if the Chinese government decides that you are a terrorist (e.g. you oppose Communism or oppose censorship and are successful with this), and puts your name of a death list, and assassinates you, you are okay with this? I mean, that are really honest fellow communists in the Chinese government that decided that, right?
Well, sorry, worked in the industry (not the US, but in a NATO member country). Military spec stuff might mean high quality to the average person. People that do work in the field, know it's anything but that. And the chances that something gets covered up are way better than in many civil industries. (The best part was high end radar systems that didn't even manage to detect the existence of a threat; guess that means they failed also an all the more advanced analysis stuff *g*)
Ah, and the people that work there are just humans too. That human factor is what makes the lengthy review process of death sentences necessary. Wonder if the White House (or whoever ends up with the power of life and death) also takes a decade for review of their death lists?
Well, the problem is not collateral damages.
It's the problem that a government in peacetime (despite all rethorics, the US is not at war, war on terrorism is the legal equivalent of war on drugs and other PR stunts) has death lists of people that it intends to murder.
So who decides who is allowed live?
(Btw, you DO REALIZE that the Nazis that laws on the books that authorized them to murder "inferior races". Guess it's better that the US has death lists of people "wanted dead" without any legal base.)
A completely secondary thing is up to which point collateral is acceptable, but that's not the point of the ACLU action.
The ACLU is targeting the part that some part of the executive branch of the US government, decides who gets killed, in secret. Without any review.)
Where is the difference to some rogue dictatorship?
Well, they don't have to verify it. But if they target you individually, they already know who you are. And if they put you on a death list, they better know something more than your name, birthday and nationality.
OTOH, as you are happy with this, let's hope that you never piss off somebody who decides if you are allowed to continue to live.
The US government has already by far to many privileges (e.g. they can get basically any data about you, they can lock you up and throw away the key, it's enough that some DHS flunky softly mentions terrorism, and so on).
Now, the US government has given itself the right to determinate who is allowed to continue to live.
Hint, some years ago, a certain Mr. Hussein, Saddam, got hung for deciding which of his citizens are allowed to live.
Might does not make it right, nor is it right because it's your side.
Again, almost certainly proceedings to revoke citizenship are (and should be) way more complicated than being put on a list.
This death list by drone thing is kind of a 3-strikes law. The differences are:
* the 3 strike laws are laws or proposed laws. The death list is Mr. Bush and Mr. Obama deciding that I want these guys dead. Guys, the president is not above the law, see Nixon and his approach of "if I do it, it's legal, dammit".
* it's not about Internet access. It's about human lifes. Worse, it's about killing innocents so that one guy on the death list can be bombed. Wonder how the citizens would like it if Mr. X goes to death row, so do his neighbors?
* it's hypocracy from the finest. The US, telling rogue nations about human rights. Well, literacy seems not to be required to be elected, hence poor Mr. Obama surely does not know that the right to life is a basic human right.
* it's about loosing the war on terror. If we loose what defines us (e.g. rule of law) just to "defeat the terrorists" (if that's even possible), we have already lost.
No, it's just that the US government is executing people without judical review.
So basically, somebody in the adminstration puts Mr. Smith on the death list, and it's basically that. Wonder what will happen if somebody ever discovers that Mr. Smith was innocent, the only crime that he did commit to have an affair with the wife of the person who put him on the death list?
You do realize, that the US is clamoring about human rights abuses in China and other places, right?
Hint: the right to life is probably the most fundamental human right.
Basically, there is now law allowing this targeted killings, and for some cases (US citizens) the government is clearly violating the constitution.
Actually anyone wanting to implement GSM nad/or UMTS has to pay patent licenses, that is nothing secret about that. Actually there are even patent pools setup so it's easier. (Actually these pools have even EU and DoJ approval, see http://www.3glicensing.com/articles/03%20-%203G%20(p12-14)%20f.pdf )
If Apple is so naive that they can get away without paying for the basic technology, they'll get what they deserve. The legal system takes time, but if they are unlucky the damages will wipe out the whole company in some years.
Additionally, if Apple even paid up on the basic patents, Nokia has been in this business for a long time. All major elements of the iPhone (touch screen => Nokia tablets, installable software => Java JARs and Symbian phones, and so on) have been done earlier by Nokia. If Apple is unlucky, all of these will be patented by Nokia. If they are lucky only some. Don't think that this time even the nationalism of the US legal system will save their hide. (And Apple has been toeing the line with it's locked walled garden iPhone/iPods for a long time in at least some EU countries, so that's additional fun for Apple that can be resurrected anytime, and it clearly targets Apple's business model, which is bad. Devices and technologies are way easier to replace.)
Actually, people have been downloading software to their smartphones for years now, in practice I've been doing this since my first Nokia 9500. (Phones capable to do that for Java have been available longer, but for me a sensible keyboard is critical).
Actually, Apple cannot even claim that they've invented walled garden phone, (which is a negative feature, but some vendors might like it), the T-Mobile Sidekick has been earlier.
Well, it's not optional, and with all the changes, basically anybody has to pay it. A hermite without electricity might avoid the GEZ but else it's hard to avoid.
So if it's not optional, it's not a fee, it's a tax.
2.5 per day internet, and reasonable voice prices
Actually, this is the case in many if not most member countries of the EU.
Although some have legislation that allows to file on paper most of the stuff, e.g. if you can prove that you do not own a PC.
Well, the problem with three strikes is that there is punishment with the justice system reviewing it.
Basically, as it has been shown more than once, the entertainment's industry practices of discovering infringement, documenting it, and so on has been shown to be so shoddy more than once, that it's clear that no actions can be taken.
Basically, say, 3-strikes come like the entertainment industry wants it. They accuse me wrongly, and I basically loose my contracts, potentially it affects my private life negatively, and so on.
Guess that to be fair, if I manage to prove (or even to show that they had no proof for what they accused me of), I guess (random choice of RIAA member), Sony BMG Music Entertainment gets fined out of existence, and automatically put into adminstration (bankruptcy?), right?
To take your analogy, it's like a driver crying foul after their license got suspended because "public transport officials" accussed of DUI driving, actually during your Hawaii holiday, and you have not even any legal recourse.
Freedom fries to your Cuban cigar?
Well, you need to consider that the USA took also decades to form, despite strong external impulses.
So considering the history, and all circumstances, the fact that the EU got it's first own constitution (even if it's called the treaty of Lisabon, the first US constitution did not call itself a constitution either) in only 6 decades is a fascinating success.
Actually, not even that is fully true.
E.g. for professionals like doctors or lawyers, the EU rules about how their qualifications are recognized in all member countries are way stronger than the rules in North America.
(basically, once a M.D., the only thing required to move to a different country and have all your certifications recognized is only language. You know the local language well enough, you are allowed to practice. That is AFAIK not necessarily so in the US)
Wrong, since the Lissabon treaty, the EU parliament has gotten quite a bit more powerful. Still it's powers are different (and probably weaker) than one usually associates with national parliaments, and the parliament has not been shy to demonstrate how pissed they are about being impotent for decades.
Well, as sad this might sound, most people (even high school students), have only limited time for "recreation".
So yes, 5 minutes down can be really frustrating, when all you have is say an hour a day on average.
While the probablity that you get hit is lower (say 1/24th, OTOH, load will almost for certain have hourly spikes, but for the reason of argument let's assume an even distribution), but
the effect will be 24 times stronger too, because you are loosing 5/60th of your daily playtime (that's 8.333%).
So yes, while 5 minutes can be okay, half an hour of downtime for a game can be at least as bad as half an hour downtime during work. (Actually for employees the half hour of downtime is a non-issue, as in most jurisdictions they get still paid, while playtime is usually optional, so nobody (starting from employer down to family) will care if you loose your chance to play.
Well, I'm not an EE, but I seem to remember from university, that changing temperatures can lead to changes in voltage/current. Then you've got the extreme case of a short circuit.
So I think it's quite possible to have motherboard damage, e.g. GPU takes more power than is good for the MB, MB dies. Slowly or quickly, depending upon how extreme the effect is.
As an official example, see GPU that have a seperate power connection, where the documentation explicitly states that the GPU and/or the motherboard can die if it's left unconnected, because the GPU will overuse the PCIe provided power.
So obviously, something that the GPU does can effect the MB and other parts of the system, phrased nicely by the manufacturers.
What a stupid recommendation, I mean, they usually stop to provide updates, the moment the next model comes out.
Consumer laptop models have seldom a life much beyond 6-12 months. Some consumer laptops can be quite useable way longer than 12 months. (and that assumes that you buy it on the first day it's out)
Hence you are forced to use the upstream drivers.
Reality is, that a jailbroken iPhone is not really feeling right. It's a closed platform that you've cracked. It can be bricked anytime, by just clicking the wrong button in iTunes.
It's one of very very few phones that come only with specific carriers.
you can easily compare it for tethering:
* the iPhone of my wife learned to tether when she decided to pay the carrier extra so that the carrier enabled it. No other option at the time was viable, because her phone was rather unjailbreakable for quite some time.
* the G1 of mine, I had basic tethering working on the first day that I've picked it up. (Long, long before I decided to root it.)
Same thing goes for changing SIMs. My wife has been locked to one carrier till she managed to jailbreak her phone. I, OTOH, do travel often, hence I've got a box with a varying number of SIM cards, seldom less than 5. Hint: Switching cards worked on day 1 too, quite well.
The UI is another thing. Hard as it sounds, while the iPhone does have colorful and nice to look at UI, it's rather unergonomic. (ergonomic btw is not "easy-to-use", look it up) No multitasking. No way to have an IM client that is not server based (basically a 3rd party that reads my "mail"), and even that has been for years impossible at all. No hardware keyboard (ever considered, that touch screens, or even keys that change dynamically meaning, are a really bad thing in situations where you cannot concentrate fully, including full use of vision, on the device?), and so on.
Yeah, it's not politically correct, to yell "the emperor is naked", but the UI of the iPhone is at best mediocre, because it's hindered by so many limitations from the onset.
Not that the Android UI is perfect, but you'll notice it's problems are related more to polish, and not to fundamental decisions early on.
Well, the brochures are hard to come by.
But it's actually easy to travel.
Just make some federal agent believe that you are terrorist scum, and Uncle Sam will arrange the trip for you.