Parallel construction could be considered though 'Fruit of the Poisonous Tree' http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

If they only found him by ?illegal NSA wiretapping? the laptop would inadmissible. My understanding is that most parallel construction (supposedly) isn't for the sake of using illegally obtained evidence but simply to protect the method or person by which the evidence was obtained. Which also could be the case here. Maybe they actually got him using a sophisticated and warranted attack that they don't want people know they're capable of (e.g. how they took down SilkRoad 2 and 3 and 4.)

Then again IANAL so who knows, maybe all of my law and order reruns are of no use in this instance. :D

And WinRT is essentially identical to XAML/WPF there are a few changes but nothing that notable.

WPF was introduced in 2006, so unless the GP thinks that changing UI paradigms once every 20 years is too painful then I have very little sympathy. Apple has been on a similar schedule with Carbon -> Cocoa -> Cocoa Touch.

It's also hard to take someone seriously when on the Linux front the probably top two options are: GTK which is infamous for its poor backwards compatibility between releases. Or Qt which is notorious for 2 steps forward and 1 step back on every release. "Hey we fixed fonts, but now columns are broken."

It's good in people who can self teach but I know a family where the first kid really pushed himself to keep up with his peers academically and did a lot of self instruction. His brothers didn't have the same academically driven peers and the parent teaching didn't force the issue so long story short in highschool 3 of the four needed reading intervention since they were way behind on literacy.

I say the same thing about College vs. self teaching. While it is important to learn how to learn, some people do really just need a lot of structure. So if someone does home school it's important that the parent provides it if your kids need it and aren't providing it for themselves.

Did you mean that as an insult to liberals? Because our educational system that ensures people are properly trained to find work and not live off of charity seems like the most obvious of programs which aren't zero-sum.

You're right Liberals do champion tons of programs:
- Education to keep people out of jail and off of welfare.
- Loans to help people afford education.
- Energy Efficiency programs to ensure that cars cost slightly more but save their buyers tens of thousands.
- Anti-Monopoly efforts to prevent price fixing.
- R&D investments in the sciences to boost our nation's attractiveness to the brightest minds on the planet.
- A transportation system that has been proven in numerous studies to provide substantially more economic stimulus than it costs to build.

My guess is that they are attempting to direct language. For instance spelling bees in Spanish would be absurd since Spanish has had a pretty vigorously defended spelling system. English has always(Old-English) been (Proto-Germanic) a bit of a hodgepodge (Anglo-French) of disparate (latin) bits and pieces (French). As a result there is no consistency. I agree that it would be nice to clean up and standardize our spelling/grammar but obviously it's a futile task.

Almost all of the design and administration of Apple is done in California. But surprisingly the "Company" is a foreign company where they have no factories, no designers, no corporate officers and just a bank account.

So yes, by using the talent and ingenuity of US workers and then claiming that they're an Irish Company they are stealing the value that US Society has invested into its workforce (and supplied the infrastructure for that workforce to get to the job site etc).

Personally I believe that we should tax not based on where they are located but where most of the value is created. If you are Microsoft and 90% of your workforce is in Washington State but you are incorporate in "Nevada" because you have a PO Box there then you should be taxed at 90% Washington 8% California and 2% Nevada tax rates. Similarly if 80% of your operations are in the US then you are 80% a US company and 80% of your revenue is taxable under US tax law.

Everybody knows that Apple is a California company. To say otherwise is dishonesty. It might legally be correct that Apple is a subsidiary of an Irish shell corporation but they're cheating the system and doing something that doesn't pass any sort of sniff test of truthfulness.

Especially when p includes small arms fire. A bullet can only hit one engine at a time. If the president was taking off and an armed group shot out one engine during takeoff that would not be great with 2 engines. With 4 engines there are 4 discreet locations they have to hit.

People are down-modding but if he had said Algeria there would have been a bit of a precedent.

http://time.com/3664161/france...

The split of France and Algeria nearly caused a civil war in France in France's fragile post-war era.

This headline should be enough to remove the A380 from running:

Airbus A380 could be discontinued in 2018 says Airbus CFO http://www.themanufacturer.com...

Don't purchase something that is about to be EOL'ed. There are a number of other problems first and foremost in my mind would be runway access. The a380 limits where the president could go. Everybody and their mother can still accept a 747.

The DOJ always hoovered up massive amounts of data. Metadata collection is absolutely nothing new. It's interesting watching The Wolf of Wall Street and reading up on the case that it's based on--call logs were prolific in the case. "It says here that you called so and so at 8AM and talked for 45 minutes."

The problem isn't so much in my opinion the mass collection it's the fact that the collection isn't encrypted. The software should be designed and audited such that the info can only be searched with an encryption key issued for a limited time. And then all searches and results should be logged and reviewed by an independent body.

I agree with this sentiment to a large extent. We don't get mad when TCP/IP is used in an authoritarian country. At some point Facebook is like any other infrastructure on the internet--it's a conduit. I don't really blame Vint Cerf or Cisco for the great firewall of China. If anything the fact that Turkey's government has to go to Facebook and demand that they filter content is already a win of sorts in an authoritarian anti-free speech zone. If we replaced Facebook with something like email the Turkish could simply block all TCP/IP traffic that matches banned images or words. At least this way you have a company like Facebook running the filtering which will presumably do the very absolute minimum filtering required by law as opposed the absolute maximum that they can get away with before a court orders them to back off on the filtering.

It's because we've put up with 30 years of FOSS community trumpeting the fact that Linux isn't hacked, only Microsoft needs anti-virus, Open Source means that "something like this will never happen".

If a community spends decades puffing its chest and talking shit it's going to get 10x the scorn when it's revealed to be as vulnerable as the next guy. The fact is that all software can be hacked. And at any given time there is a zero day exploit that can probably penetrate any system. Commercial tools used to be the target of this research and and attack and now that open source is gaining traction it's getting the same scrutiny--and similarly failing.

Sounds more like authoritarian dictatorships fail while a robust democratic government that responds to its citizens succeeds.

Not maybe 1:1 but I know people who sold software and as soon as the crack would go wild their sales immediately plummeted. Custom DRM was the best way to extend the time from release to crack but also releasing stripped down trial versions helped a lot since it reduced the demand for a cracked version.

It shouldn't be a surprise that the Games industry has chosen DLC to be its mode of extracting revenue. Release a game for free and buy that horse armor.

Correct me if I'm wrong but without knowing the voltage isn't comparing amperage hours to one another useless?

5v * 1Ah = 5watt hours
12v * 1Ah = 12watt hours

Amp-hour isn't actually a unit of energy potential.

One AA battery has about 2.6ah * 1.5v = 3.9 watt/hr
One D Battery has about 18ah * 1.5v = 27 watt/hr

175 years = 1533000 hours * 7200 nanoampere seconds per hour = 11.06 ah. Which if it's .1 volt would be 1 watt/hr of capacity. Or if it was 10v it would be 100 watt hour. Makes a pretty big difference. And without knowing voltage we can't compare.