Clearly the fact that Google and Facebook are built largely on open source software is meaningless. Who's ever heard of those? No, it's when foreign governments start using open source software that people will pay attention
and funny thing is I work within a foreign government department and i've pushed open source fairly hard - The resistance is based around "American Enterprise don't use it so we wont either".
I hereby declare that I will have a 'relationship' with one of the girls from accounting, and hopefully that girl who works at reception.
Yours
IT guy.
kit is the same word used in the acronym SDK.
If a bunch of pot smokers want to turn their brains to Jello and wreck their lungs, throats and mouths, let them. They are hurting no one but themselves. If you' say that we'll have increased health care spending, so what? If pot were legalized, you can believe that A) every single private health insurance company is going to mandate tests for marijuana and other drugs and deny coverage to those smoking pot without a prescription.
Of course insurance companies already want to know if you smoke or chew tobacco which will affect your lungs, throats, mouth, but do insurance companies currently check for people 'turning their brains to Jello' by testing if they watch Fox news?
I guess you can now apply the business meaning....
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vertical_integration & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_integration
The entire entertainment chain being controlled all the way vertically: entertainment production, manufacture of devices and what you can watch; and horizontally across all distribution channels and devices that you watch it on.
basically the Apple business model.
That was Bruce Schneier on Security:
http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2010/11/tsa_backscatter.html
There's talk about the health risks of the machines, but I can't believe you won't get more radiation on the flight. Here's some data:
A typical dental X-ray exposes the patient to about 2 millirems of radiation. According to one widely cited estimate, exposing each of 10,000 people to one rem (that is, 1,000 millirems) of radiation will likely lead to 8 excess cancer deaths. Using our assumption of linearity, that means that exposure to the 2 millirems of a typical dental X-ray would lead an individual to have an increased risk of dying from cancer of 16 hundred-thousandths of one percent. Given that very small risk, it is easy to see why most rational people would choose to undergo dental X-rays every few years to protect their teeth.
More importantly for our purposes, assuming that the radiation in a backscatter X-ray is about a hundredth the dose of a dental X-ray, we find that a backscatter X-ray increases the odds of dying from cancer by about 16 ten millionths of one percent. That suggests that for every billion passengers screened with backscatter radiation, about 16 will die from cancer as a result.
Given that there will be 600 million airplane passengers per year, that makes the machines deadlier than the terrorists.
(bold added for emphasis by russ1337)
widely seen as a way to protect the traditional telecom operators' profits
either that or one of the Chinese ruling party had a bad experience on chatroulette.
you mis-understood my statement (or trolling). I was not intending the replicator to replicate money... but pointing out that nothing will have value if it is able to be replicated... therefore making money worthless.
i think it would still lead to hyperinflation.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperinflation#Root_causes_of_hyperinflation
Just look at the recent event sin Zimbabwe, where printing money to create wealth for the 'material needs' led to hyperinflation.
You are correct that the electorate is insane. As a result, we get the government that the media and the people with money shove down our throats.
With the media being controlled by the people with money, and with close ties to the government, we can reduce that to "we get the government the people with money want us to get".
I recall some news during the last presidential election which was looking at each hopefuls election funds - and basically divided the funds total by ~$35 to estimate the number of votes that person would get. The more you spend, the more votes you get.
Money = speech, but only for large values of money.
Not really, as small amounts of money equate to small amounts of speech.
look at it another way: 10% of the people hold 90% of the wealth. That same 10% control 90% of how things operate around here...
The law here is very murky, and "aiding in submitting documents" probably isn't a crime. If there was a clear crime comitted here, we'd have heard specifically what it is by now.
They're looking... and it reminds me of this:
If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged. - Cardinal Richelieu*.
They'll find something.
I was part of the Forward Air Controllers continent - his communications crew. We had a tent, a fridge, and TV.
I had a similar experience. A few years ago I was trying to keep contact with a girl while I was away, so gave her a call while on an exercise. During the call she said 'what is that banging noise?'
"It's the best thing since professional golfers on 'ludes." -- Rick Obidiah
