If these rumored specs are correct then the Pixel phone will be a winner. The same reasonable, non-phablet 5.5 inch size as the 5/5X with conservative improvements across the board. I don't care who builds it. It's all Google/Nexus to me as long as the updates are timely, the battery doesn't explode and the prices are reasonable. The rest of the Android world continues to be that same sad fail it's been since forever and I plan to continue ignoring it.
We all know the plausible deniability angle. Yet we've heard definitive statements; "no classified emails." "The server was never hacked." (today we learn about logins from Tor exit nodes.) "No FOIA responsive emails we're deleted." (Thousands were.)
On one hand we're supposed to accept these unambiguous and informed claims, and on the other we're supposed to believe she — a professional lawyer going back to the Watergate investigation — was oblivious to her legal obligations. The appeal to ignorance is only plausible from a subject that is acting in good faith. That's not what we have here. It's all lies and she was lying to the FBI when she claimed ignorance.
The truth is her and Bill both know they can get away with things no one else can because they have the LEOs intimidated, the elites are banking one them and the electorate is bought and paid for. This is Rome and the Emperor does at he pleases.
I suffered a few minutes of NPR over the weekend while they happened to be covering the flood news. Apparently the only officials from Louisiana or the feds that NPR has any interest in hosting are climatologists. No FEMA, no state first responders; just climatologists.
While discussing the floods with the climatologists, both the federal and state climate guys made the mistake of mentioning the fact that the high costs and displacement are as much to do with recent property development as the amount of water. You could clearly detect the host's frustration as he attempted to get these hapless officials back on the rails speculating about climate and saying disparaging things about fossil fuels.
Whatever. You people want to eat all the crap they're feeding you and furnish your rulers with the ammo to manage you're decline, go ahead. Enjoy. I don't care anymore. Bill Nye lives in a nice $1,000,000+ home in Studio City and I'm all set with my nice property and neither one of us are giving it up for the benefit of your virtues, so fuck off.
If only buggy whip manufacturers had had the political clout to have trolly/car/bus operators taxed for their benefit. We'd have buggy whip shops filled with beautiful buggy whips that no one buys. Perhaps we'll have taxis that no one actually uses, but gainfully employed taxi drivers standing by nonetheless.
a major distro with systemd removed (with broken functionality)
While this is mostly true for those hosting their own systems, one of the larger pieces of the Linux `ecosystem' today is AWS. The heavily used Amazon Linux AMI has the traditional SysV init and Amazon has not indicated that they intend to move to systemd. This at least ensures that it will not be possible to entirely neglect SysV init methods; if it doesn't run on EC2 it's broken for many people, and indeed there are cases of commercial software vendors discovering that their paying customers need SysV init compatibility for this reason.
I personally haven't had problem with systemd anywhere I've had to deal with it, and I've become comfortable working with it. The doomsayers predicted all manner of problems with systemd. They were wrong as far as I know. A minor bug here and there, quickly fixed. Journalctl is very handy; a lot nicer than chasing creatively named log files hither and thither. On the other hand, when I deal with EC2 instances and SysV init I'm fine with that as well. I understand both the rational for systemd and the reasons behind Amazon staying with SysV init; I'm happy to live with both.
Look, this is simple. We just need government workers to show up and actually work. Yeah, crazy talk, I know.
They're underfunded. Just ask them. By the time our Federal LE's have analyzed all the consent decree paper work from racist police departments and processed all the refugee cases and sued enough states for voter ID laws and attended enough white privilege awareness seminars there is precious little time or budget left to pursue these criminals. Congress can outlaw whatever it wants but if the Republicans won't supply the billions upon billions needed to employ enough departments full of lawyers to pursue the robocall menace then what is the point?
I'd be all for it. I just don't take DHS as being competent enough to actually make a real difference.
I am certain they'd make a real difference. That's what this is about.
Who is asking for this? When has our election system ever been threatened by any foreign power or terrorist? All of the sudden, 90-ish days out from big Federal elections, DHS suddenly discovers this brand new jurisdiction and starts floating trial balloons about 'critical infrastructure?' WTH?
The answer is right there in their talking points; "that [the secretaries of the states] should pay particular attention to close races." They want any close races investigated by the "right" people. Having key minders in the process determines the outcome of disputed elections e.g. Al Franken. When a dispute appears — and a few probably will — the SoS's will have a suitable number of (D) appointed DHS lawyers breathing down their necks.
They're not leaving this one to chance. Critical Infrastructure indeed.
I really don't see how you get there. 'Elections' could be designated 'Critical Infrastructure' without imposing any ID requirements, and that is exactly what I would expect would happen. Remember, the default position of the feds will be to assume the most liberal possible stance wrt voter identity and they will bend themselves into pretzels to avoid noticing any fraud. In fact I imagine DHS facilitating fraud by nationalizing control over voting infrastructure (booths, etc.) to keep any state or local LE out of the loop.
Remember, this is Obama's DHS; the exact same mentality that was installed in the IRS is running this outfit too; these people know the score and they don't have to be told who to target and who to wave on through. And they aren't floating this trial balloon on a whim either. There is absolutely no possible way they have in mind impeding whatever part of their constituency might cast a vote for their side, legitimate or otherwise. So no, they aren't planning on imposing any voter ID anywhere. You can take that to the bank.
Good 'ol Vance Jr has been fucking up the country since Carter.
And he's doing it wrong too. Hey Cyrus; all need to persuade the bulk of these hapless government worshiping twits that your back door is a great idea is to convince them that you need it to prosecute wealthy tax evaders. Unbreakable iPhones are a tool of Those At The Top(tm) to keep from Paying Their Fair Share(tm).
Of course. The exact same phenomena occurred when we learned about their biased grooming of their news feed. All of the sudden corporate sovereignty was paramount! Never had so much love for Facebook appeared among the cubical trolls of Slashdot.
It makes the industry more liquid. The investors that hold these companies don't just hold AT&T. They also invest in Verizon and Deutsche Telekom and a plethora of smaller telecoms. The more standardized the systems are among these companies the easier it is to merge and consolidate them. That has real value for major share holders. The end state for a successful telecom company is getting bought by some politically connected monster.
Yesterday we read about `tech' `leaders' profound revulsion for Trump, and all about their "vision for an inclusive country" and just how dearly they "believe in an inclusive country." In actual fact it's a big white sausage fest of hypocrites opining about their expectations of you.
I'm not sure how that could leave any doubt about whether it was terrorism or not.
There isn't any doubt among the French at least. Hollande has called this terrorism, and Islamic terrorism at that. The only people trying to muddy these waters are the smirking class liberals that haven't had anyone they care about run over, blown up or shot yet.
Trump will say whatever the hell he thinks will get him elected.
Right. And Hillary is going to be scrupulously truthful in all things and depend on voters giving her credit for her long history of honesty.
o_O
One thing Hillary has said that you can absolutely take to the bank, however; she'll give instance and permanent resident status to however many millions of people the "stem" degree mills of Asia can graduate. Thus our tech leader obsequience.
Cool how the employers of one of the most black free labor forces in the US can't seem to wedge enough "inclusive"s into their press release.
Yesterday we learned the State Department destroyed public records concerning the illegal use of US government funds to campaign against Netanyahu. We are, once again, expected to believe that State Department officials are somehow blithely ignorant of their obligations to retain government records. We are expected to believe the correlation between deleted messages and illegal activity is purely coincidental. Just saving a little space in the inbox.
The issue has always been that it is difficult to prove.
It's not "difficult to prove." Prosecutors in the US are busying themselves with criminalizing AGW skepticism under RICO but they somehow can't figure out how to present buildings full of replacement H1B workers as evidence? Thousands of signed separation agreements complete with terms requiring training one's replacement and thousands of credible witnesses somehow can't be used to make a case?
Bull. Shit.
The smirking class pressure groups that run everything have their agendas; hounding Exxon is at the top of their list. Persecuting local LEOs on behalf racial grievance mongers is right next to it. Keeping Joe 'Murican in the middle class is not on the list. No surprise where our investigators and prosecutors spend all their time.
The only part of the story that rings true with me is the "disposible income" argument. As we are guided through the managed decline and the gaming demographic that used to have disposable income are instead buying healthcare for their elders and paying off student loans to keep the faculty pensioners in vacation homes while dreaming of leaving their childhood bedrooms by 40, it is easy to imagine the cost to build out a capable rig being too high.
Beyond that it's crap; folks have been building, upgrading and fixing their own machines based on review articles and item specs found at Newegg et. al. for decades now. I see no evidence that the task is any more difficult today, and there have always been perfectly workable alternatives for the "sausage finger" cop-out types that can't handle it.
Slashdot Mirror
If these rumored specs are correct then the Pixel phone will be a winner. The same reasonable, non-phablet 5.5 inch size as the 5/5X with conservative improvements across the board. I don't care who builds it. It's all Google/Nexus to me as long as the updates are timely, the battery doesn't explode and the prices are reasonable. The rest of the Android world continues to be that same sad fail it's been since forever and I plan to continue ignoring it.
As long as your preferred group-think isn't threatened you're cool with it. Have to give you credit for honesty I guess.
We all know the plausible deniability angle. Yet we've heard definitive statements; "no classified emails." "The server was never hacked." (today we learn about logins from Tor exit nodes.) "No FOIA responsive emails we're deleted." (Thousands were.)
On one hand we're supposed to accept these unambiguous and informed claims, and on the other we're supposed to believe she — a professional lawyer going back to the Watergate investigation — was oblivious to her legal obligations. The appeal to ignorance is only plausible from a subject that is acting in good faith. That's not what we have here. It's all lies and she was lying to the FBI when she claimed ignorance.
The truth is her and Bill both know they can get away with things no one else can because they have the LEOs intimidated, the elites are banking one them and the electorate is bought and paid for. This is Rome and the Emperor does at he pleases.
Someone look up the D's and R's please. Since they were omitted I'm betting the father of the CEO is a (D).
I suffered a few minutes of NPR over the weekend while they happened to be covering the flood news. Apparently the only officials from Louisiana or the feds that NPR has any interest in hosting are climatologists. No FEMA, no state first responders; just climatologists.
While discussing the floods with the climatologists, both the federal and state climate guys made the mistake of mentioning the fact that the high costs and displacement are as much to do with recent property development as the amount of water. You could clearly detect the host's frustration as he attempted to get these hapless officials back on the rails speculating about climate and saying disparaging things about fossil fuels.
Whatever. You people want to eat all the crap they're feeding you and furnish your rulers with the ammo to manage you're decline, go ahead. Enjoy. I don't care anymore. Bill Nye lives in a nice $1,000,000+ home in Studio City and I'm all set with my nice property and neither one of us are giving it up for the benefit of your virtues, so fuck off.
If only buggy whip manufacturers had had the political clout to have trolly/car/bus operators taxed for their benefit. We'd have buggy whip shops filled with beautiful buggy whips that no one buys. Perhaps we'll have taxis that no one actually uses, but gainfully employed taxi drivers standing by nonetheless.
a major distro with systemd removed (with broken functionality)
While this is mostly true for those hosting their own systems, one of the larger pieces of the Linux `ecosystem' today is AWS. The heavily used Amazon Linux AMI has the traditional SysV init and Amazon has not indicated that they intend to move to systemd. This at least ensures that it will not be possible to entirely neglect SysV init methods; if it doesn't run on EC2 it's broken for many people, and indeed there are cases of commercial software vendors discovering that their paying customers need SysV init compatibility for this reason.
I personally haven't had problem with systemd anywhere I've had to deal with it, and I've become comfortable working with it. The doomsayers predicted all manner of problems with systemd. They were wrong as far as I know. A minor bug here and there, quickly fixed. Journalctl is very handy; a lot nicer than chasing creatively named log files hither and thither. On the other hand, when I deal with EC2 instances and SysV init I'm fine with that as well. I understand both the rational for systemd and the reasons behind Amazon staying with SysV init; I'm happy to live with both.
It is impossible to legislate thought
It's also not necessary. Terrorizing the crimethinkers into silence is sufficient.
However, this will give the police even more powers to intrude into the lives of others.
That's fine
That's right. The chariots of the upper middle class should be exempt from the regulations they impose on their subjects.
Look, this is simple. We just need government workers to show up and actually work. Yeah, crazy talk, I know.
They're underfunded. Just ask them. By the time our Federal LE's have analyzed all the consent decree paper work from racist police departments and processed all the refugee cases and sued enough states for voter ID laws and attended enough white privilege awareness seminars there is precious little time or budget left to pursue these criminals. Congress can outlaw whatever it wants but if the Republicans won't supply the billions upon billions needed to employ enough departments full of lawyers to pursue the robocall menace then what is the point?
I'd be all for it. I just don't take DHS as being competent enough to actually make a real difference.
I am certain they'd make a real difference. That's what this is about.
Who is asking for this? When has our election system ever been threatened by any foreign power or terrorist? All of the sudden, 90-ish days out from big Federal elections, DHS suddenly discovers this brand new jurisdiction and starts floating trial balloons about 'critical infrastructure?' WTH?
The answer is right there in their talking points; "that [the secretaries of the states] should pay particular attention to close races." They want any close races investigated by the "right" people. Having key minders in the process determines the outcome of disputed elections e.g. Al Franken. When a dispute appears — and a few probably will — the SoS's will have a suitable number of (D) appointed DHS lawyers breathing down their necks.
They're not leaving this one to chance. Critical Infrastructure indeed.
would mean the introduction of voter ID laws
I really don't see how you get there. 'Elections' could be designated 'Critical Infrastructure' without imposing any ID requirements, and that is exactly what I would expect would happen. Remember, the default position of the feds will be to assume the most liberal possible stance wrt voter identity and they will bend themselves into pretzels to avoid noticing any fraud. In fact I imagine DHS facilitating fraud by nationalizing control over voting infrastructure (booths, etc.) to keep any state or local LE out of the loop.
Remember, this is Obama's DHS; the exact same mentality that was installed in the IRS is running this outfit too; these people know the score and they don't have to be told who to target and who to wave on through. And they aren't floating this trial balloon on a whim either. There is absolutely no possible way they have in mind impeding whatever part of their constituency might cast a vote for their side, legitimate or otherwise. So no, they aren't planning on imposing any voter ID anywhere. You can take that to the bank.
Good 'ol Vance Jr has been fucking up the country since Carter.
And he's doing it wrong too. Hey Cyrus; all need to persuade the bulk of these hapless government worshiping twits that your back door is a great idea is to convince them that you need it to prosecute wealthy tax evaders. Unbreakable iPhones are a tool of Those At The Top(tm) to keep from Paying Their Fair Share(tm).
they can do no wrong?
Of course. The exact same phenomena occurred when we learned about their biased grooming of their news feed. All of the sudden corporate sovereignty was paramount! Never had so much love for Facebook appeared among the cubical trolls of Slashdot.
Sure they can. And we can point and say "look at the Clinton shills." What's your point?
Motorola did this five years ago with ATRIX. Didn't catch on then, but I though it was interesting at the time.
So many butthurt VW fanbois. If I had a heart it would be warm.
It makes the industry more liquid. The investors that hold these companies don't just hold AT&T. They also invest in Verizon and Deutsche Telekom and a plethora of smaller telecoms. The more standardized the systems are among these companies the easier it is to merge and consolidate them. That has real value for major share holders. The end state for a successful telecom company is getting bought by some politically connected monster.
Yesterday we read about `tech' `leaders' profound revulsion for Trump, and all about their "vision for an inclusive country" and just how dearly they "believe in an inclusive country." In actual fact it's a big white sausage fest of hypocrites opining about their expectations of you.
I'm not sure how that could leave any doubt about whether it was terrorism or not.
There isn't any doubt among the French at least. Hollande has called this terrorism, and Islamic terrorism at that. The only people trying to muddy these waters are the smirking class liberals that haven't had anyone they care about run over, blown up or shot yet.
Trump will say whatever the hell he thinks will get him elected.
Right. And Hillary is going to be scrupulously truthful in all things and depend on voters giving her credit for her long history of honesty.
o_O
One thing Hillary has said that you can absolutely take to the bank, however; she'll give instance and permanent resident status to however many millions of people the "stem" degree mills of Asia can graduate. Thus our tech leader obsequience.
Cool how the employers of one of the most black free labor forces in the US can't seem to wedge enough "inclusive"s into their press release.
Yesterday we learned the State Department destroyed public records concerning the illegal use of US government funds to campaign against Netanyahu. We are, once again, expected to believe that State Department officials are somehow blithely ignorant of their obligations to retain government records. We are expected to believe the correlation between deleted messages and illegal activity is purely coincidental. Just saving a little space in the inbox.
The issue has always been that it is difficult to prove.
It's not "difficult to prove." Prosecutors in the US are busying themselves with criminalizing AGW skepticism under RICO but they somehow can't figure out how to present buildings full of replacement H1B workers as evidence? Thousands of signed separation agreements complete with terms requiring training one's replacement and thousands of credible witnesses somehow can't be used to make a case?
Bull. Shit.
The smirking class pressure groups that run everything have their agendas; hounding Exxon is at the top of their list. Persecuting local LEOs on behalf racial grievance mongers is right next to it. Keeping Joe 'Murican in the middle class is not on the list. No surprise where our investigators and prosecutors spend all their time.
But hey, what's a little law breaking among protected elites, right Hillary?
The only part of the story that rings true with me is the "disposible income" argument. As we are guided through the managed decline and the gaming demographic that used to have disposable income are instead buying healthcare for their elders and paying off student loans to keep the faculty pensioners in vacation homes while dreaming of leaving their childhood bedrooms by 40, it is easy to imagine the cost to build out a capable rig being too high.
Beyond that it's crap; folks have been building, upgrading and fixing their own machines based on review articles and item specs found at Newegg et. al. for decades now. I see no evidence that the task is any more difficult today, and there have always been perfectly workable alternatives for the "sausage finger" cop-out types that can't handle it.