Those things are not necessarily true. It really depends on if they gave campaign contributions to the right people, in the right amounts, at the right time. Or were you under the impression that separation of powers in the branches of government still exists? Judgeships are political appointments. All Sony really needs is for a politician to pressure the judge to issue an injunction that lasts long enough for the news to go stale.
Deport the lot and erect barriers around their enclaves. Ready the nukes and just carpet bomb the fuck out of them. Enough is enough.
Wasn't there some dude in Germany some decades ago who tried something similar with an entire religion's people? How'd that work out for him?
you'll find that in western countries 8-25%(sometimes more) support the use of violence to do so
Versus the 51% in the US who support violence by Christians? (as shown by those who voted for Bush's 2nd term)
I'm skeptical of the peaceful nature of a religion founded by a warlord
Are you referring to Catholicism, which was founded by Constantine?
It has no impact on how much they can spend at lunch or whether they get the premium cable package or the standard.
Right, I'm sure they have to budget their lunches very carefully. I'm sure they have to make decisions about which days they have to bring lunch from home and how many days they can afford to eat out. I'm sure it's also a huge decision about whether to splurge for the premium cable package, or save money and get standard cable so they can afford a few more days of eating off the dollar menu.
They'd have to sell or take out loans against their shares if they wanted to go buy a Private Jet or something like that.
Oh. My. God. You mean they can't just order another private jet online, they actually have to fill out some paperwork? Scratch that, they actually have to sign the paperwork that their lawyers filled out for them? I feel so sorry for them! They have it so rough compared to their employees, whose entire wealth can be had as cash in an instant simply by digging through the couch cushions.
But he seems to have gone for the republican kool aid and somehow wants to blame this on.... the executive branch.
Yes, it is the executive branch's fault. Of course, it is also the legislative and judicial branch's fault, but even if Obama tried unsuccessfully to kill the bill, and even if SCOTUS won't hear it for procedural reasons, Obama could still prevent it. It does authorize but does not require the executive branch to conduct warrantless forfeiture of private communications. Obama could simply say, "that's unconstitutional, we're not gong to do that," and order federal agencies to only seize or intercept private communications if they have a warrant.
Judge: Mr. Prosecutor, can you please tell me where you obtained this evidence?
Mr. Prosecutor: National Security.
Judge: Oh, Okay.
FTFY
those rules would involve an expensive physical buildout and/or sharing profits with a lot of middlemen.
That sounds like a good explanation of why the rules are fundamentally flawed.
I guess you can call it illegal, but that sort of implies that there is some sort of authority who can take authority action against transgressors.
There is an authority who can take action, the problem is that they don't. It's pretty much the reason the Supreme Court exists.
Why should we believe that HTTPS (or i suppose more accurately TLS / SSL) hasn't already been compromised (i.e. by the NSA)?
So, the straw man you're referring to is the idea that if the NSA can break it, then it's useless?
I'm going to be working in high tech in Miami for the next year. What activities would you suggest to continue developing my ice climbing skills?
Running, biking/spinning, swimming, and lifting weights. You'll want to stay in shape and work on strength training, so that when you return to ice climbing you're ready to (pardon the pun) hit the ground running.
This may be the end of Philae’s short and trailblazing mission on the surface of Comet 67P, but a huge amount of data — including data from a drilling operation that, apparently, was carried out despite concerns that Philae wasn’t positioned correctly — was streamed to Rosetta mission control, potentially revolutionizing our understanding about the nature of comets.
And Rosetta will continue orbiting its comet as 67P drops closer to the sun, providing us with a unique and historic perspective on an icy body that could hold the secrets to the formation of our solar system.
I'm sorry, where does it say that the mission was a failure?
Sadly, most people learn this little gem of wisdom too late in life. Cheating only harms the cheater. It may mildly harm those who employ these people, but it doesn't take long for others to see despite your piece of paper, you're just an idiot who knows nothing, when you cheat.
It also harms non-cheaters with a degree from the same University. If CompanyA has hired a couple people from the CS program at UniversityB, and they happened to be cheaters and incompetent despite their degree, and I apply for the same job with a legit CS degree from the same University, it's going to hurt my chances of getting the job. And while you might say that the company should catch it in an interview, depending on the nature of the company and the job they might not know the right questions to ask since many of the cheaters are excellent bullshitters and get past the interview but are utterly unable to perform the work competently. Probably not coincidentally, out of quite a few cheaters I encountered in my CS program only one of them wasn't from India.
Germany has "strict" privacy laws, but they largely apply to organizations that don't pose a big threat to privacy in the first place. Police, courts, financial institutions, businesses, tax authorities, secret service, "state police", health insurers, and employers can have a field day with your private data in Germany.
The US has strict privacy laws too (more specifically the Bill of Rights), and those laws apply to everyone. The problem in the US isn't the absence of such laws, it's the absence of oversight and enforcement of those laws.
Strong passwords are not mandatory because it's the responsibility of the user to read the instructions and secure the device. If they don't, they have no reason to complain. It was their choice to disregard the instructions.
So everyone should be an expert on everything they use? That's bullshit. I don't know if I'd necessarily call it a design flaw, but it's definitely a part of the design that could be improved and still be useful by people with no computer expertise. For example, the particular router I have has no default password. It has a random password that is printed on a label on the side of the device. Users have the option of changing it, and can reset the password using the printed password, but no default password is necessary and the cost is only a minor inconvenience that you have to take an extra 30 seconds to read the label and type in the password when you're setting it up. Of course, the hole there is if somebody has physical access, but I think it can be assumed that if somebody has physical access you have bigger problems, and physical access is still a problem with routers with default passwords because then you can just reset them and use the default password.
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