1) They can not hide the code because they have to supply the source code to many countries who are diametrically opposed to the goals of a corrupt NSA, so the code must be out in the open.
2)Not all GPU have that capability, in fact it would be gaming grade only GPU that end up with it and gamers tend to game not conspire world domination, well, not outside of games.
3)How often do you think they need for a snap shot and how detailed does it need to be and with regard to compression techniques where you just store changes in image, those changes are pretty minor, hence storage or transmission required much smaller than you would expect.
4) The professionally paranoid will inevitably seek all the information they can get, not just what they need, they want it all. This is well beyond the needs of security and drifts right into the area of the psychologically disturbed, it feeds their ego, they gain a sense of power over those they monitor with distinct sexual overtones. So yeah, common sense is not the appropriate measure of their activity, especially when their motives are politically corrupt and their actions reflect their personal political biases, basically right wing control freaks.

Value is often claimed with regard to the product or service, hence it becomes a false claim and should be liable for prosecution. Often the higher the profit the greater the false claim of value, yep, the tend to rip you off the most when they claim the exact opposite, by the way public general perception of value is a 10% markup, no more.

Thanks for the info. I'm familiar with MP concepts but not openMP specifically. As for the AC being right or wrong, it doesn't matter. Neither of the AC comments in the tree were helpful in any real way and they were simply being snide, childish, dicks for no reason -- so 0/10 would not hire :-)

Come on, man, don't bring that American League junk in here, this is Slashdot, we should be civilized!
Play real baseball -- National League or nothing.

I'm inclined to agree, but I'll bet you a shiny $5 bill that the National League adopts the DH rule within the next five years. I didn't realize how soon it was going to happen until the Cubs drafted big hit/no field Kyle Schwarber. More than 2/3 of the NL owners are pushing for the DH, is what I hear.

I wish it wasn't so, but I really believe it's happening.

I can't imagine the pain of losing a child. My heart goes out to you.

You can, you have, and I respect and thank you for it.

Now comes the discussion and debate. I'd counter by pointing out meals are an excellent thing to revisit once they're over. To never order pizza again because the first box is emptied is a sad, sad thing. I'd point at orgasms as another excellent thing to strive towards recreating as soon as one is done.

All I'm saying is that there are exceptions to your guideline. Some artistic works shouldn't see sequels, remakes, or revivals. I think we can all name movies, books, TV shows, and even songs where things should've ended. But then there's... oh, say Pink Floyd's last album, released in November. First in 20 years, and it's mostly ambient snippets and sounds. But I'll tell you, while it's nothing like The Wall or any of their other major works, it's absolutely like getting one last hug from a beloved one you thought you'd never see again.

Some things are better because they were paused instead of carried on. That's why orgasms are better than the Simpsons.

False dilemma. No regulations, and stupid regulations are not the only two alternatives. A third alternative would be to have sensible regulations, that require a licensed driver be ready to take over in an emergency, but don't require that driver to pretend to be driving.

Knowledge should be passed along, not hoarded. Everyone is at a different place on the learning curve. In practical terms, that means everyone is an idiot moron with respect to someone else - or, in your case, obviously many others.

Indeed. My personal favorite form was the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 compliance form. It was a form that you filled out and stapled to every other form to indicate that the attached form conformed to the requirements of the paperwork reduction act. I was in the military at the time, and we used PWRA compliance forms by the truckload.

I'm a Unix systems programmer and administrator and I routinely use both Emacs and Vi depending on the task. Vi is universally available out of the box and is really good for small, quick things while I prefer Emacs for larger, longer edits and development, especially on complex things with many files.

People get too cranked up over "this vs. that" when it really boils down to using the most appropriate tool for the task - that you're competent with. Emacs is a much more capable and sophisticated tool, but comes with a much higher learning curve. I've been using Emacs (and Vi) since the 1980s, and am more productive on most of my tasks using Emacs. That said, using it to edit a few lines in the hosts file is like trying to kill a mosquito with a sledgehammer.

Emacs and Vi both win when used appropriately.

Finally some Russian billionaire who puts his money to good use. (No, I'm not joking.)

In capitalist US, money spends you.

Total waste of time. They only pay attention to the ones they want to, and from what I saw a couple weeks back, about half of the petitions would be unconstitutional.

Oh, that's almost certainly true. I just wanted to counter the argument that nobody pays attention to any of these petitions.

Overall, the entire thing is definitely a joke, but on rare occasions they have had the desired effect, even if for the wrong reasons.

That was very helpful; full of thoughtful reasoning and examples. The level of detail in explaining the rational to avoid OpenMP was, to say the least, above and beyond. You sir or madam have made us proud. Well done.

So about $450 million over the last 10 years opposed to how much spent in Afghanistan and Iraq over the same period? How about checking into that? Oh right, that stuff is "off book" and not accounted for - though probably still affects our budget, economy and taxes. The SATCOM bill is chump-change by comparison. While we're looking at blips in the account, why not also cancel Public Radio and NASA - they probably also cost us each a nickel.

Yes, it may be an unnecessary expense that can be avoided by fixing the in-channel SATCOM process but our Government (and specifically Congress) is notoriously penny-wise and pound-foolish.