90%+ or whatever of the programmers out there are working on in-house code for in-house projects used by in-house people. Stuff that will never ship. So it does not matter how much stuff is logged.
It still matters, if the data being manipulated is about customers. And it almost always is.
even though the vast majority of both populaces just want to get on with their lives in peace and quiet
That is true about American populace, but demonstrably false about the Russian. After their blitz-krieg in Crimea, Russians are drunk on power — not only threatening the rest of Ukraine, but referring to Alaska as "Ice-Crimea".
You would not know it from English-language Russian media, but, much like Arabs' real attitude towards Jews can only be grasped from reading Arab-language sites, anyone capable of reading Russian (like myself) should have no doubts about revanchism of Russia's populace. Believe it or not, Putin seems moderate compared to his nation's prevailing mood today.
Blacks were bred to work in the fields and some of them learned to enjoy it. That doesn't mean it's right.
There's nothing wrong with working in the fields, and lots of people (of all colors) who work farms do enjoy it. Forcing someone to work against their will and without pay, that's not right. But there's nothing at all wrong with farming.
Why do investors think they are entitled to growth?
Same reason people think, they are entitled to the same price for a more complex product.
Renewable energy fed back into the grid is ultimately doing utility companies a service,' says John Aziz
Khm, I wonder, why they don't think so... Oh, wait:
When customers have the opportunity to reduce their use of a product or find another provider of such service, utility earnings growth is threatened
So, some journalist thinks, it is beneficial, while the supposed beneficiaries themselves fear, that it is threatening.
Of course, the journalist must be right, and the people, whose livelihood and savings depend on it are all wrong!.. Who could possibly argue?
NOPE, diplomatic means goverment means NOT CIVILIAN.
Yes, governmental and civilian are different things. However, intercepting diplomatic communications is just as (if not more) against the law as intercepting communications by your citizenry. In other words, interception of Zimmerman's telegram was just as (or more) wrong/illegal/unethical as intercepting a private citizen's phone call would've been.
yeah, how many people used a radio for transmitting for private stuff back then? And how many people use the internet for private stuff today.
Does not make any difference — Bletchley Park were listening to everything they could get. As does NSA today... That the NSA is able to get more data — thanks to the better technology available — does not, in itself, make it unethical or even illegal.
nope, you are not [at a declared war]
Oh, so if Congress voted to declare war on Al Qaeda after 9/11/2001, you would've had no objections to NSA's massive data-gathering? Of course, you still would have had. As would I. Hence my comment about "distinction without difference"...
TFS said they used an "aircraft", which I guess means "airplane". We better watch out - next thing you know, the sheriff's office will have helicopters and be able to hover, watching someone for a while. With an airplane, they can only watch for a couple minutes before they've flown by.
The difference was that in the past they'd have to spend $5-10k and then they can watch one person for a period of an hour or two. Now they can spend $100/day and record everybody in a whole town, without targeting anybody in particular.
This isn't a camera with a zoom lens. This is a high-resolution wide-field camera, that effectively behaves like it is zoomed in on everybody everywhere at the same time.
This particular case was kept secret, but there is a NOVA episode about something similar being done in a DC suburb. They kept a drone aloft for a month recording literally everything that happened in a small city (well, everything visible from the air). The camera was wide-field high-resolution, so you could crop and zoom any part of the video and get an image comparable to what you might see on a news camera from a helicopter zoomed in. They recorded a whole month, so you could go back and look at what anybody was doing anywhere after the fact.
So, this isn't really news per-se, so much as news that the technology is becoming more ubiquitous.
I'm a radiologist. I interpret MRI scans.
Show us your 'B' CS degree and call center employment history to prove it.
...a utility that would go through my gazillion saved bookmarks from forever, and see if each still has something of value there.
I sometimes in an odd moment sift through the oldest, and easily 8/10 are dead links.
It is consistent with appropriate due process against the enemy during war*, including American turncoats, to attack them. If you don't agree then you are apparently against the Constitutional war making powers of Congress, and the President's role as Commander in Chief. You may notice the courts don't have a role there.
* Congress passed the Authorization for Use of Military Force, equivalent to a declaration of war.
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