That no one has died yet as a result of swatting suggests that they're largely doing their jobs.
"No one"? Do the minorities they mistakenly kill count, or does it have to be some white middle-class dude with a twitch channel?
These companies can also share data with law enforcement that points to the perpetrators, helping to identify them. After all, the perpetrators will just move on to a new tactic if they can no longer abuse the police for their purposes.
The NSA capabilities are still classified (leaks do not change that). Using classified capabilities for law enforcement purposes is difficult, both for operation reasons (you don't want to document publicly what is possible) and legal reasons (parallel construction is required to avoid disclosure).
Actually, the Republicans had rather a lot to do with the drafting of it, even if none of them voted for it in the end. It went a lot like this:
R: If you remove X, I might vote for it.
Obama: OK, it now doesn't have X.
R: Psyche! Not good enough, sucker. Hahaha! But seriously, if you add Y, then I might vote for it.
Obama: OK, it now has Y.
R: OMG! Everybody, come look at Y! That's Death Panels! Obama wants to kill your grandmother!...
Well, you could try voting in the primaries this time too. That's the only election that actually scares our lawmakers, so that's where an impact can really be made.
That's the realization Lessig's MAYDAY PAC recently came to.
I mouse with my left hand, so the G300 works better for me, but otherwise I'm doing the same. I don't even care that much about the price, but the mouse itself has been far more reliable. I think I bought it somewhere on the order of 3 years ago, and its still going strong.
Its annoying to have to go twiddle with their preset uploading software every time my computer comes back from sleep mode, but otherwise I'm really pleased with it.
I quit buying Razer mice, because not only were they consistently dying on me after a year or two, but they do it in a horrible way for a gamer. They will just stop responding to input for a little while. The "little while" will slowly start to get longer and happen more often. This is absolutely deadly (virtually of course) if you are playing a real-time game. Trivial perhaps, but if I'm buying a wired gaming mouse, my #1 demand is that it reliably takes input. If I can deal with random cutouts, there are plenty of $5 mice out there I could buy.
I haven't noticed quite the same issue with their keyboards though. Have they been having quality issues too?
Before the invention of the horseless carriage London was suffering greatly from a horse-shit re-distribution issue,
This is the typically-given reason for all department stores being designed with the perfume counter in front of the door. Supposedly it helped cover up the stench of all the "horse pollution" coming from the street.
Langauge shifts usually happen faster in urban environments than rural ones.
Interestingly, in the USA the dialect of English spoken in the rural Appalachians is often claimed to be the closest thing you will find to Elizabethan English in the modern world. It is simultaneously probably the single least prestigious dialect of English in North America.
(Note: "Prestige" is how linguists talk about dialects being perceived as wrong or bad by other speakers. IOW: Most people will tell you someone speaking this dialect has "bad English". Irony.)
This is a silly blanket statement. It's true of some things, such as the split infinitive. Other things, such as correct comma placement, play an obvious role in understanding a sentence
Funny you should bring this up as your example of an absolute rule. "Correct comma placement", is actually the source of biggest ongoing stylistic argument in the English language: the Oxford comma. Its like the "vi vs. Emacs" of the literary world. This is one of the strongest arguments you could have picked supporting the point you were looking to refute.
Massive example fail.
It is likely that your friend is not alone with her condition. Try to discuss it with others who are affected, and who have already been through the stages that lay ahead of her. People with motor control issues successfully use vertical mice, touch screens, keys for navigation, gaze trackers, voice recognition, non-standard input methods such as the Dasher accessibility tool, or tailored input methods.
Yes, but at least I have a hope of keeping myself informed of all the laws governing the political entities I live in. There is no possible way for a single human being to know and keep on top of all the laws governing behavior and speech in every country, county, state, city, etc. in the entire world. So one of them trying to enforce their internal laws on the entire world is patently ridiculous.
Memory fault - where am I?