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"I understand also the importance of the United States remaining a nation of laws and setting a high standard of respect for human rights. Indeed, I said at the hearing that torture violates the law and the Constitution, and the president may not authorize it as he is no less bound by constitutional restrictions than any other government official. Note the nuanced logic: torture violates both the law and the Constitution. The president is bound by the Constitution. Notice anything missing here?
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Earlier today, someone asked me why 64bit versions of windows don’t support the internal PC speaker beeps. The answer is somewhat complicated and ends up being an interesting intersection between a host of conflicting tensions in the PC ecosystem. Let’s start by talking about how the Beep hardware worked way back in the day[1]. The original IBM PC contained an Intel 8254 programmable interval timer chip to manage the system clock. Because the IBM engineers felt that the PC needed to be able to play sound (but not particularly high quality sound), they decided that they could use the 8254 as a very primitive square wave generator. To do this, they programmed the 3rd timer on the chip to operate in Square Wave mode and to count down with the desired output frequency.
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Schneier on Security
Aviation officials have questioned the need for such a strong permanent police presence at airports, suggesting they were there simply "to make the government look tough on terror". One senior executive said in his experience, the officers were expensive window-dressing. "When you add the body scanners, the ritual humiliation of old ladies with knitting needles and the farcical air marshals, it all adds up to billions of dollars to prevent what? A politician being called soft on terror, that's what," he said.
In my last blog post, I discussed the different user interface approaches that Apple is currently taking across all of its platforms. Four platforms, four slightly different answers. There is, I believe, a rational explanation for each of them – and most importantly, a rational reason for all four to at this point at least, not have a completely identical experience. In a recent meeting at work, we discussed Metro and WinRT as they related to an article that a peer was working on.
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May 11, 2012 — Last night I organized a Happy Hour for the parents of first graders. It was a great turn-out and we all had a fun time…until the end. One woman, whom I don’t know very well but has the reputation of saying inappropriate things, turned to another woman there and said, “your breasts look great.
I know it is cliche and a bit overplayed with all the new-agey, feel-goody stuff out there. But, it works. I'll provide you a micro example and a much bigger example. Example 1: Let's say you get on a call with a customer who you don't really know and they don't really know you. First call together.