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The NSA and GCHQ had two options to get to users. Privacy and anonymity could both be made collection friendly or one part could cover for the total loss of the another.
The classic ideas was to gift the world tame, junk crypto standards that would revert to plain text for the NSA but be resistant to any in the middle attacks.
That started to get more tricky into the 1980's. The GCHQ was also trying to collect all communications in and connecting to Ireland and did not want any advancements to network anonymity even if new totally secure crypto was in play.
So the security services allowed strong crypto but ensured their connections with tame telcos and network providers would make anonymity an impossibility.
Enjoy any export grade crypto, import it, design in, the message origin would always be trackable. Once found, traditional methods would get around any bespoke crypto (logging, bugs, cameras, unique malware).
The "Encryption is Bad" was just a useful, busy work, talking point over a decade put out to cover the total loss of network anonymity. Digital users felt safe entering data as the crypto was now really good. The tame networks would always track them down.
The "elite line is drawn" if a person walks into a safe Tempest secure vault to talk about and then sets policy in person. No notes, paper kept to one of one and collected.
ie if reading or allowed to set policy on a computer, that person never made the elite and is under constant security service tracking.
Thats the other side of the "Encryption is Good" for the almost elite part, contractors, leaders who think they made it to the very top, but are under constant watch.
ie if your allowed on a copy and paste GUI onto another computer and sending and getting party political/mil/gov messages from people globally its been watched and your "digital" security clearance is a long term trap. The allowed or given computer is a decades long honey trap for the user and all their international contacts.
That can be seen in the high level German gov crypto phone efforts and EU crypto fax efforts. Leaders and top embassy/political staff are handed digital junk hardware and told its "safe" and been fully tested by their own nations best. Every message then gets mirrored to 5 eye nations for free.
Some reading on the efforts
New NSA leaks show how US is bugging its European allies (1 July 2013)
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...
Embassy Espionage: The NSA's Secret Spy Hub in Berlin (October 27, 2013)
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
That should help with the Elite, Encryption is Good, Encryption is Bad and who gets told what, told a product is secure within their own nation, who tests and signs over what hardware within a nation and what level of leadership then is allowed to "trust" that device or gets a computer system :)

Re It's not about the hack...
Its about making the PRISM material legal in any US state or federal open court. The brand and phone becomes the named informant. GPS, logs, images, movement, voice, files.
A cell phone brand can even be the origin of an entire case in open court, hiding deeper human or mil signals parallel construction.
Recall the " and the zombies would be paying customers?" quote from
iSpy: How the NSA Accesses Smartphone Data (September 09, 2013)
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

We have pushed many of our industries overseas again and again with heavy government regulations. While OSHA, workers comp, EPA, etc. minimum wage, etc. laws and regulations may have some sense, we have to realize that these same laws also reduce employment and push industries overseas and make many of our overseas competitors more competitive. If we could create a 100% safe society through passing safety and employment laws we may have to satisfy ourselves with 100% unemployment as well.

Well these days "more competitive" is a just synonym for "cheaper", which in turn means "higher shareholder value". Workers in Europe and North America have to deal with the cost of living in Europe and North America. It's not possible to live here on the typical salaries paid in places like India and China. So it was never an option for workers the 1st world to be cost competitive.

As for the safety issues, companies moving manufacturing offshore to places where working conditions are appalling is simply immoral. Things like this and this which, quite rightly, would never be tolerated in the 1st world are just shrugged off when they happen in places like Bangladesh. People there are apparently just an expendable resource in the pursuit of corporate profits.

Quit applying to muslim immigration what you learned from Vietnamese, Irish, or Chinese immigration. It's not the same.

Even after 50 YEARS of being in Germany, these people are NOT integrating. How much longer does this disaster have to continue before you people will admit that it's a failure? If Germany becomes an Islamic state, would you admit it then? Or would you instead say "mission accomplished"? What are your goals with this?

You're either a fucking moron or have some kind of evil agenda.

You think Der Spiegel is "American media"?

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

You're either a fucking moron or have some kind of evil agenda.

You think Der Spiegel is "American media"?

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security (December 28, 2014)
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
It was always interesting to see what govs, mil and related security services made a public issue about vs what is just allowed to be offered to the public without comment over the years :)

Citation?

http://www.spiegel.de/sptv/a-2...
http://www.greenpeace-energy.d...
http://www.zeit.de/wirtschaft/...

just what I found in a few seconds. Sorry, it's all in german, but I was talking about my country.

In all instances I'm aware of, coal is cheap because its plentiful and cheap/easy to dig out of the ground.

Not once you use real costs. A lot of the subsidies are hidden subsidies because they are not officially marked as such. But when the government cleans up after companies, gives them land for free, passes special laws with special tax breaks just for them, that's a subsidy just by another name.

Interesting article here: http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
(in English)

> If immigrants are granted asylum as refugees, how are they "by definition criminals"?

If they are granted asylum, then they are (probably) not criminals, depending on the laws of the land and day. If they are not granted asylym, then they are criminals, depending on the laws of the land and day. What are you trying to say?

Occam's razor principle: Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

It is a scientific ship. It is doing a scientific research. We know less abut ocean bottom than about Mars surface.

Here is Russian submarines research the bottom of Geneva lake: http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

But not to cut some ridiculous cables, but for science: biology, geography, history, etc.

It's only hard for the small time petty criminals, though. Those who have the means to buy immunity have no problem in the current system.

On a related note, Der Spiegel's article is right on time: https://www.spiegel.de/interna...

Nobody was talking about letting Ukraine join the EU. They're way far away from meeting the standards, and as it stands, a lot of people think that even letting states like Hungary in was a mistake. What was being offered was a trade pact.

Here's a quite detailed history of the negotiations and where things went awry, from both sides. Basically, the EU handed Yanukovych a set of economics calculations showing the huge amount of money that would flow into Ukraine, and the conditions they had to meet to get it. They were never really open to negotiation, convinced that the amount of windfall was all that mattered, and they'd fall in line on the conditions. "Vast amounts of money flowing into the country" certainly appealed to ostrich wrangler Yanukovych, but the main sticking point early on was his political prosecution of former prime minister (and Princess Leia impersonator) Yulia Tymoshenko. The EU was quite confident that he'd fall in line in order to get the windfall from the trade membership, and they also didn't see how it was any matter of Russia's what Ukraine, a sovereign state, decided to do on its own, and thus how they even were relevant to the negotiations. It was a pretty haughty position, but if was a quite passive position. Everything Yanukovych tried to change about the deal was rebuffed - it was a "take it or leave it" situation, with the EU fully convinced that the "take it" answer would arrive any day. Russia first tried imposing counterpressure on Ukraine with an economic carrot and stick approach, but this approved not enough to derail the negotiations - although left the Ukrainian side increasingly rebuffed trying to get further concessions from the EU to compensate it. However, the sudden and unexpected reversal came after a relatively brief meeting between Yanukovych and Putin. What was said at that meeting is anyone's guess - although how far Russia was willing to go to keep Ukraine from drawing closer to the EU has been made abundantly clear since then.

I'm not sure that a recollection by a journalist of a conversation that took place decades earlier really represents a prediction

I'm not sure how asking pointed questions of people with a vested interest on a topic constitutes finding.

My that was easy.

Regarding hurricanes, the consensus view is that changes should not yet be evident. I'm not sure how that can be considered a failed prediction unless changes are in fact already evident.

The predictions go back to testimony before congress in the 80s.

But I am not one to quibble. Global warming is an endless source of wrong predictions

Here's another
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

It's a real shame none of the people who knew what the effects of global warming would be didn't make their careers, prove once and for all the validity of their position by pointing out the error of this. BTW doesn't the UN run the IPCC as well ?

Your "tu quoque" is pretty much irrelevant.

Since you bring it up, though, let's look at a few of your points:

Right, like the time that the highest court in the country, that had been stacked by the previous right wing governments, decided the election against the popular vote.

This is a bizarre complaint, given Germany's utterly intransparent and baroque system of holding elections. The system is so bad that the German constitutional court declared it undemocratic: http://www.spiegel.de/politik/...

Where districts are constantly gerrymandered to engineer the desired voting results.

I still prefer that over the German system of simply giving half the parliamentary seats directly to parties to do with as they see fit. You're welcome to disagree.

Voter roles are getting purged and the identification requirements made ever more difficult to ensure only the right people get to vote.

Voting identification requirements in the US are still a lot weaker than in Germany, so I frankly don't get on what basis you think that this is a problem.

A recent impartial study concluded that the system is not democratic but constitutes an oligarchy, and a former president concurred that this is indeed the case.

Compared to what? Certainly not Germany, a country that is run by a small elite of the wealthy, old aristocrats, and intellectuals. They are so good at indoctrinating you that you don't even notice it how much they have you by the balls, and you are so disconnected from your history that you don't even recognize how old a lot of these power structures are.

Not really since the food has been ordered as food. If you order an artwork and some guy with a hole in a head smears 100lbs of butter in a corner of some room, and then you bake and sell pastry from it, you might be in for some lawsuit.

Actually, if you replace pastry by liquor, you get this farce where there was indeed a lawsuit concerning the resulting product. Note that previous to that, one pupil of Beuys had been awarded EUR40000 in compensation when the janitor had cleaned away the rancid butter from the room.

All this could have been avoided if the butter had not been commissioned as an artwork but as a delivery of a baking ingredient to a wall.

"Black Hat 2013 - OPSEC Failures of Spies"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
6.56 to 9.00 in has the map reconstruction of a cell phone been active.
The "accuracy to 3m" just suggests a road used. Think of a cell log over time and a city map.
"Renditions Case" "October 28, 2009" http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
"Using special software, that had ironically been given to Megale's antiterror unit by the CIA, the police were able to create movement profiles for each mobile phone user."
"accuracy" was never a problem, only the sorting of the many calls in the area.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

http://quiet-environmentalist....

http://phys.org/news/2014-07-e...

We can get deeper into this if you want. I was sent a bunch of links from a german fellow in this thread that included detailed information about Polish power generation that is expanding to meet german demand.

If you want to talk about energy, then you have to look at the whole grid OR physically cut the connection at the national borders and THEN the national figures will be more reliable.

germany could just buy up all the clean power on the european grid and then call themselves clean. Never mind that the places they buy it from will more often than not fill the void with coal. Meaning whatever it says on paper, the consumption will be fueled by coal. The amount of power supplied by coal is vastly under estimated because it has become politically incorrect to source your power from coal. In the US about half our power comes from coal.

In Europe, it is likely to be higher if only because they have less nuclear power per capita and less hydro electric.

More strawmanning?

Is that literally all you can do?

Your argument is basically this then:
"I can't really argue against your point because i don't know anything about the subject. But I'm still really butt hurt about the last time you reamed me in a discussion. So I'm going to e-stalk you and recover from the shame of the last thread."

As it happens, you never will if your objective is to try and win against me. You'll never beat me that way. I have a fool proof way of beating little pinheads like you. Instead of trying to win, I try to be right. And by being right, I win.

See how that works? Of course not. It sounds like nonsense to you because you don't understand the distinction between winning and being right or the relationship between the two concepts.

Regardless, the euros have repeatedly over stated their carbon reductions by not properly reporting the carbon debt from imported coal derived electricity.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

They shifted from exporting power to importing it. They say they're getting it from nuclear... but the Poles are building coal fired power plants as fast as they can to keep up with German demand and they're talking about building two nuclear power plants just to feed the demand.

Someone actually sent me some links from germany elsewhere in this thread. I'll cite them for you if you like.

Raise you one:
The Mafia's Deadly Garbage: Tumors and Autism - SPIEGEL ONLINE

Assange was publicly exposed as a jerk long ago. These aren't even the really choice stories.

WikiLeaks rival plans Monday launch after internal split, founders say

Another former WikiLeaks staffer said he had brought up his discontent with Assange, but that the WikiLeaks founder had not wanted to listen.

"Eventually this ended with me arguing with Julian about basically his dictatorial behavior, which ended in Julian saying to me that if I had a problem with him I could just 'piss off,' I quote," Herbert Snorreson said.

Lifting the Lid on WikiLeaks: An Inside Look at Difficult Negotiations with Julian Assange

For some time now, Julian Assange has been sparring with New York Times Executive Editor Bill Keller. ...

Keller describes the stormy relationship with WikiLeaks founder Assange, comparing the Australian to a character straight out of a Stieg Larsson thriller, "a man who could figure either as a hero or villain." Keller claims that the journalists who worked with Assange saw him as a "source," a man who "clearly had his own agenda," and was not a "partner or collaborator."

Keller goes on to describe Assange as being "elusive, manipulative and volatile." He also writes that Assange's relationship with the New York Times became "openly hostile," and, in the end, the Australian wanted to exclude the newspaper from publishing any further WikiLeaks documents in the future.

The treachery of Julian Assange
Are Wikileaks Activists Finally Realizing Their Founder Is a Megalomaniac?
The Sexual Demigod: Wikileaks Founder Worshipped By Christian Women

re "global timing attacks to capture all and everything in a useable daily-database-task format with a spiffy frontend."
The UK has Tempora like cost effective efforts for just that kind of emerging networking issues. UK wide and ready for any packet tracking in and out of the UK.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Re "could chain some vpn's" The UK has thought of that aspect too with US help
"Prying Eyes: Inside the NSA's War on Internet Security" (December 28, 2014 )
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

I can't believe you would say these things and advocate killing more innocents, even if you're just playing devils advocate! And you got modded up too. But even worse you pass judgements on individuals you know nothing about.

I guess you haven't read up on the drone pilot news lately then. Burn-out is super high because drone pilots do have consciences. One guy talked[1] about being ordered to fire on some bad guys, shooting a missile at them, and then watching as one of them bled to death in the sand. On IR camera he could see the guy slowly get cold. That was more traumatic than you and I know. The effects of this and other incidences on this pilot have led to debilitating emotional difficulties. And that's not an uncommon experience.

Now this same pilot, had he been over in Afghanistan, in the thick of things, and under real danger and fire could have killed without remorse. The justification would be as much self defense as anything. But far removed from the action, the trauma of killing was much much more intense. And then going home afterward to a "normal" life with the wife an kids just amplifies the trauma for many personnel.

If you want to target the inhuman American war machine, go ahead. War crimes are war crimes, no doubt about it. But to claim drone pilots have no conscience is just wrong.

[1] http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

As long as people like you exist, and they always will, it goes to show why we should never trust the government to have these sorts of capabilities.

Snoop on property within the UK .. fucks sakes, you realize we're talking about people here right. Nah, best to call it property and further distance yourself from what this really means.

Shame on you.

You appear to be mistaking someone who is stating the facts of the situation for someone who agrees with the situation.

Laws should be written simly, cleanly, and transparently, and the security forces of a nation should be working for the greater good of the nation rather than against the native citizens of that nation.

As an aside, I have spent most of my working life working (both as an employee, and as a contractor) with a company that is alleged to have been a direct target of GCHQ.

-- Pete.

I'd be interested in a comparison of what percent of that spending directly benefits the intended recipient.

I don't know what that means, but welfare payments are generally much lower, and there are almost no in-kind benefits like food stamps.

Also, healthcare is a big area of public benefit spending in Europe, but costs are much lower there.

Costs are much lower because services are limited and prices are fixed (resulting in shortages). And health and life expectancy may well be (slightly) better because people receive less medical care.

I don't think you can measure the strength of social programs merely in the amount of money spent.

Indeed, you can't. I just gave you the overall number as a summary. You have to do a lot more research to figure out what's going on on the ground. There is a lot of crappy writing by hysterical left and right wingers, but there are some decent and well-reasoned analyses, like this one: http://www.spiegel.de/internat... (I'm not endorsing everything it says, but it's a good start).

I have fairly conservative fiscal views. I think it would actually be great if the US adopted a German-style welfare system and a German-style health care system. It would greatly simplify our systems and greatly lower costs. But progressives in the US don't allow it to happen because it would result in massive cuts in benefits and two-tiered systems for the rich vs. everybody else; instead, they keep proclaiming the fiction that "Europe" has better benefits than the US with less spending.

Did I miss a memo? Moscow is in Europe now? I'd better run and tell Putin as he seems to be wanting to start a war with Europe - how he'll laugh when he finds out his mistake!

Here's some stats for the UK https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/298435/Police_use_of_firearms_Commons.pdf/ and here's a German report http://www.spiegel.de/panorama/justiz/polizei-schoss-2011-seltener-im-dienst-a-832037.html/ although you'll need to translate it (or read a summary http://gawker.com/5909283/german-police-really-dont-like-shooting-at-people-used-only-85-bullets-last-year/ ).

Honestly, here in the UK, police violence tends to get newspaper headlines as there's been history of institutional racism in a lot of police forces. It's not something that typically get brushed under the carpet, but instead is used more as a political bargaining chip.

Allow me to thank you, it isn't often that you help me to make my point. He was believe to be a member of al Qaeda.

An Innocent in the Terror Prison: The Guantanamo File on Germany's Murat Kurnaz

Before transporting him to Guantanamo, the Americans placed Kurnaz in a US prison in Kandahar after he was turned over to them by the Pakistani security forces, who had arrested him in early December 2001 on his way to Peshawar airport. The US military believed it had another al-Qaida fighter under lock and key.

When he arrived at Guantanamo in October 2002, he had no idea that he would be spending almost five years on the island and that, from then on, he was categorized as a "member of al-Qaida's global terrorism network" by the Americans, as it states in his assessment, dated May 19, 2006, which was obtained by SPIEGEL as part of its reporting project with the whistleblower platform WikiLeaks.

The fact that they were mistaken doesn't change that.

A lack of evidence means that the investigation has now ended. Our congratulations to the NSA for covering their tracks so well.

"The NSA covered its tracks too well" is one theory.

Another theory is that maybe the investigation learned that Germany's own intelligence services were complicit in the "NSA" spying,, possible to the extent that they participated in the operation against their own Chancellor, and they shut the investigation down to save face.

I have, of course, no evidence that this in fact was the case, but it's hardly implausible.

P.S. God bless the NSA for making pretty much any nutty theory "hardly implausible."

Actually, it's questionable, as recent very good Der Spiegel article sums it up:
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Almost everything said here applies to TTP, because TTP includes a country with significant protections for their agriculture and specific societal rights (Japan).

Basically these two deals offer both a great opportunity to those in favour of actually advancing capitalism, socialism (note, I'm talking in factual terms here, not hysterical US pseudo-definition of the word, which means that those two are fully compatible with one another as seen in Nordic states) and free trade in a more sustainable direction as well as for those who desire to use the deals to further de-claw sovereignty (and by extension democratic process).

For example a separate, professional tribunal for resolving state-corporate dispute without the problems of current arbitration processes, which is also completely transparent would be a great thing in encouraging investment without diminishing sovereignty to a degree where new laws for things like environmental protection couldn't be passed because of arbitration fears (already occurring process in Europe). Common standards for things not culturally significantly separate (i.e. not GMOs, livestock rights but for example common, streamlined certification process...) would also facilitate ease of trade between partners because a product made for one state, would also be suitable for direct sales in another.

Things like shady copyright tightening through mutual criminalization, or insistence of demolishing social sectors like state healthcare systems in the name of private profit over societal rights on the other hand are a great example of shady back door items being pushed in these agreements.

German hands caught in the cookie jar:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05...

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

The writing's been on the wall for decades now and the process has been visible to anyone who cared to look - fossil fuel sources are being phased out entirely long term. The only thing objectionable about this story is the idea that Merkel could claim any sort of responsibility for it.

No one may be disadvantaged or favoured because of his gender, ancestry, race, language, motherland, land of origin, faith/religion, religious or political "ideology".

Unfortunately, that's just a bunch of words on paper. Germany's actual record on discrimination and intolerance continues to be dismal.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

http://www.dw.de/european-body...

Well, among other things, he revealed that:

1) The NSA intercepts and stores virtually all communications sent on electronic networks anywhere it can reach. Not just metadata. In the case of phone calls, they also speech->text them and make that archive searchable.

http://rt.com/news/172284-nsa-...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/n...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

2) The NSA constantly works at ways to break into encrypted communications, including hacking into the VPNs of supposedly friendly governments.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

3) The NSA listens to the cell calls of friendly foreign leaders. (hopefully, also, unfriendly ones).

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

4) The NSA may have worked to weaken encryption standards in order to make their task easier.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9...
http://www.scientificamerican....

5) The NSA has physically broken into the fiber plants of major public Internet companies (ie. Google), supposedly without their knowledge, in order to steal data sent only internally.

http://www.extremetech.com/int...

6) Major Internet companies, and all telcos, have willingly shared much or all of their client's communications with the NSA.

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/ar...

7) The NSA and foreign intelligence agencies share data in order to evade domestic spying restrictions.

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

8) The NSA has hacked into at least one major supplier of SIM cards, in order to spy on calls made from the phones made with them.

http://news.softpedia.com/news...

Well, among other things, he revealed that:

1) The NSA intercepts and stores virtually all communications sent on electronic networks anywhere it can reach. Not just metadata. In the case of phone calls, they also speech->text them and make that archive searchable.

http://rt.com/news/172284-nsa-...
http://www.globalresearch.ca/n...
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

2) The NSA constantly works at ways to break into encrypted communications, including hacking into the VPNs of supposedly friendly governments.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

3) The NSA listens to the cell calls of friendly foreign leaders. (hopefully, also, unfriendly ones).

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

4) The NSA may have worked to weaken encryption standards in order to make their task easier.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/9...
http://www.scientificamerican....

5) The NSA has physically broken into the fiber plants of major public Internet companies (ie. Google), supposedly without their knowledge, in order to steal data sent only internally.

http://www.extremetech.com/int...

6) Major Internet companies, and all telcos, have willingly shared much or all of their client's communications with the NSA.

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/ar...

7) The NSA and foreign intelligence agencies share data in order to evade domestic spying restrictions.

https://www.techdirt.com/artic...

8) The NSA has hacked into at least one major supplier of SIM cards, in order to spy on calls made from the phones made with them.

http://news.softpedia.com/news...

Wait for troll to vote down this!

Here in English:

'Bellingcat Report Doesn't Prove Anything': Expert Criticizes Allegations of Russian MH17 Manipulation http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Well all the points of the post above is BULLSHIT!

...And it deserved voted (Score 5: BS).

Yes, Virginia, there is even an anti-evolution movement in Europe.
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...
The claim is made that 20% of Germans believe in creation.

Ah, after some "research" I found out what Bellingcat "analysis" is. :D

Here, you can use google translate:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/...

That dismiss the "seriousness" of "research" of Bellingcat.

Spiegel is definitely not Kremlin-infected source!

7mei.nl post counter analysis of Charles Wood, a forensic analyst and researcher from Australia:

http://7mei.nl/2015/06/01/abou...
http://7mei.nl/2015/02/02/mh17...

If you don't learn from your history? Then you sir are a dumbass, because datamining is what Google does and if its one thing they love its gathering more and more intel on you.

I mean have you really already forgotten the stink over google trying to ram G+ and real names down on YouTube? From Google Drive to even spying on kids emails the simple fact is Google is all about connecting the dots, its what they do, where their income is coming from, and the more they can gather on you the more money it can make from its REAL customers, the advertisers.

I do not want your money, nor do I want anything to do with your country, or your self-righteous media's opinion. =) I'm in favor of Greece leaving the EU, just like you are. No reason for hostility.

Here's a link you might better understand.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

I'm with anonymous_braveguy on this one. Economic unity without a federal political backbone is just a failed experiment. I firmly believe when we leave Portugal or Italy will be next, but at this point I really do not care.

Is that so?

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

They outsource it

Bullshit.
http://www.bbc.com/news/259075...
http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

Most likely they are after money from the advertisement networks for guranteeing that their advertisments will be let through. It is all about acting as a "facilitator" to all activities taking place on their network. Third parties have to pay to get access to their customer base.

It could also be a move to get some sort of SSL/HTTPS MITM scheme into place, allowing inspection of traffic previously invisible to them. Certain governmental agencies would probably like that as well, since it allows "passive" interception without deploying software at the end points.

The reason ad-blocking is interesting is because it is something your customers will applaud you for doing; however, it might be to the detriment of the customers in the long run. It could also lower the customer charge, if advertisement agencies are forced to bear some of the costs.

It would be interesting to see how the CA infrastructure for mobile devices looks. Can carriers tamper with the CA remotely, using privilieged access to the device either during factory preparation or via OTA/(U)SIM-card access?

It will be an entertaining show, since some advertisers in Germany has already sued Adblock Plus: http://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt... Or maybe it won't and they are all in on it! Tinfoil hats on!

Where did I say anything about Malthus?

POPULATION BOMB :Paul R. Ehrlich
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M...

Neo-Malthusianism generally refers to people with the same basic concerns as Malthus, who advocate for population control programs, to ensure resources for current and future populations

Hope this is informative for you.

Source:
The IPCC Report [www.ipcc.ch]

The ipcc ? ehh

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/713...

I like my science with less politics and less people screaming doom you must do this, that way so they can make money off of it.

I'm well ware of the different processes and methods to manufacture oil from different sources, and those are certainly something to look into, but again, it doesn't negate the fact that natural deposits of fossil fuels are limited and we cannot ignore this. If anything it backs up my point: if we didn't need to worry about running out of oil, technologies such as this would not be investigated or needed

So new sources of oil and oil products don't count because ?????

Seriously you need to learn what a strawman is so you can build better ones.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat... How is this for a curve? Perhaps people will play nicely with each other without big brother.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

BTW you are also wrong about the Nobel, Seeing as AL Gore got it for making statements that even the climate nuts won't claim as their own anymore, the best way is not to have evidence but just make stuff up.

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

A more credible witness is the recently deceased Thuringian resident Clare Werner. On March 4, 1945, Werner, who was standing on a nearby hillside, witnessed an explosion in a military training area near the town of Ohrdruf.

"It was about 9:30 when I suddenly saw something ... it was as bright as hundreds of bolts of lightning, red on the inside and yellow on the outside, so bright you could've read the newspaper. It all happened so quickly, and then we couldn't see anything at all. We just noticed there was a powerful wind..." The woman complained of "nose bleeds, headaches and pressure in the ears."

What if the Nazi's had beat us too it.

Lets Hypothetically ?

https://news.google.com/newspa...

That would be like the "Hypothetically " ice free north pole by 2000 ?

Or would that be the same way the UN spoke of "Hypothetical" climate refugees

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

It's a result of billions of humans living on the planet and their activities and industry. Short of ridding the world of the majority of those people global warming will continue to climb

Real shame people don't take genocide well.

My views aren't really a tiny minority as you can see from the comments here, many if not most of them are saying "good riddance" to American soldiers.

And as for Poles - I say let them be scared. It is the very least they deserve for the CIA torture prisons.

who, this germany?:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/paral...

http://www.spiegel.de/internat...

http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...

americans are and should be angry at the NSA

but other countries complaining about the NSA is hypocrisy

if i was german, would i be worried about the NSA? or the BND and the BfV?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/F...

if you live in a country outside the USA, and your biggest privacy concern is the NSA, you're a moron: your own country is doing everything the NSA is doing, and in many countries, far worse. obviously, they can also abuse you a lot easier than the USA can. and they do

again: i don't have a problem with americans complaining about the NSA. americans SHOULD complain about the NSA. but i do have a problem with other countries complaining about the NSA when they do the same or worse