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I'm probably in the .01% in usage. I remember one month I did 1TB. I'm curious about their congestion issues, and their actual costs. I think they should just raise it to something ridiculous like 1TB, and be done with it. Most people don't use that much anyway, and people that do, like me, will. But of course we don't want to pay anymore, and rightly so (if it's not about congestion). We live in the day and age of unlimited talk and text. Why not data? Especially when I've heard employees from ATT spouting that they have the entire country laid with fiber, and that all "costs" are all "profit." IDK if his bragging was personally beneficial to him, but I suspect it was. What, of course, would always solve these issues is more competition. And we all know (well I do) what stands in the way of that: local, state, and federal regulations. http://www.wired.com/2013/07/w...

Then who got Microsoft and Nintendo to change their policies? Back in March 2011, Reggie Fils-Aime of Nintendo likened "hobbyist developers" to American Idol contestants. But by late 2012, Nintendo was phasing out its ban on home offices. As for Xbox, it was originally announced that Xbox One developers would need a publisher, until Microsoft backpedaled in July 2013 and announced what eventually became ID@Xbox.

Unlike the last drive-by exploit (jailbreakme.com, several years ago), this one won't be used to create a jailbreak for users. Instead, the company plans to keep it secret from Apple, selling it to nefarious organizations such as “major corporations in defense, technology, and finance”. I'm sure that also includes government organizations.

Lovely. If Apple had a bug bounty program, maybe the hacker would have sold it to them. Instead, their hubris sees them shut out, and their millions of users completely vulnerable.

> Yes, well, let's hope they can get out of the way. The water isn't moving that fast..

How fast can you move a condominium building?

http://www.wired.com/2015/02/r...

Or even if it can't be directly broken or circumvented just flash a new firmware for the disk that will install some malware on the system at a later stage when the user has actually entered the password..

Best security-practice is that nothing sensitive (code or data) should ever leave the CPU, but since most CPU's don't support ram-encryption or being able to validate that the BIOS has not been tampered with it's quite hard..

- Software encrypted harddrive:
Encrypting all data being written to the harddrive in software within the CPU (embedded keys in the CPU would be nice, programmable keys of course)..

Fixes: Injecting code/data into a system at a later stage - http://www.wired.com/2015/02/n...

- Encrypted/Obfuscated RAM
Each boot the CPU would generate a random key the RAM would be encrypted with. To obfuscate it a bit more randomizing the layout (4k blocks or so) would make it a bit harder to break. Each 4k page would be encrypted with a sha256 of key + page-id.

Fixes: Dumping the RAM of a running system - http://www.zdnet.com/article/c...

- Encrypted+signed firmware.
All firmware's (BIOS or even the internal USB connected camera) should be encrypted and signed.

Fixes: Injecting code/data into a system at a later stage - http://www.wired.com/2015/03/r...

- After resume all insecure ports (thunderbolt, usb-ports(?), networking) that could potentially be used to compromise the system should be disabled until after the user has authenticated.

Fixes: Injecting code/data into a running system
https://trmm.net/Thunderstrike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Disclamer : Links are from the first page of a google-search.. Have not been read by me.. If they contain bad info please research the issue yourself.

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Or even if it can't be directly broken or circumvented just flash a new firmware for the disk that will install some malware on the system at a later stage when the user has actually entered the password..

Best security-practice is that nothing sensitive (code or data) should ever leave the CPU, but since most CPU's don't support ram-encryption or being able to validate that the BIOS has not been tampered with it's quite hard..

- Software encrypted harddrive:
Encrypting all data being written to the harddrive in software within the CPU (embedded keys in the CPU would be nice, programmable keys of course)..

Fixes: Injecting code/data into a system at a later stage - http://www.wired.com/2015/02/n...

- Encrypted/Obfuscated RAM
Each boot the CPU would generate a random key the RAM would be encrypted with. To obfuscate it a bit more randomizing the layout (4k blocks or so) would make it a bit harder to break. Each 4k page would be encrypted with a sha256 of key + page-id.

Fixes: Dumping the RAM of a running system - http://www.zdnet.com/article/c...

- Encrypted+signed firmware.
All firmware's (BIOS or even the internal USB connected camera) should be encrypted and signed.

Fixes: Injecting code/data into a system at a later stage - http://www.wired.com/2015/03/r...

- After resume all insecure ports (thunderbolt, usb-ports(?), networking) that could potentially be used to compromise the system should be disabled until after the user has authenticated.

Fixes: Injecting code/data into a running system
https://trmm.net/Thunderstrike
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Disclamer : Links are from the first page of a google-search.. Have not been read by me.. If they contain bad info please research the issue yourself.

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CISA isn't about sharing, it's about spying on our communications.

are they difficult to build?

Quite easy.

Hacker Spoofs Cell Phone Tower to Intercept Calls - 31 July 2010

Defcon 18 - Practical Cellphone Spying - 17 Mar 2012

How to spoof a cell phone tower (cell site, base station) — homemade IMSI-Catcher - 16 Feb. 2012

Most people in developed countries already have an internet connection, and even if you don't at home there is free wifi all over the place these days... Even homeless people have internet access these days:
http://www.wired.com/2013/09/b...

Obama not keeping promises is why Snowden leaked, because he hoped things might be different with this president.

"He began to consider becoming a whistle-blower, but with Obama about to be elected, he held off. âoeI think even Obamaâ(TM)s critics were impressed and optimistic about the values that he represented,â he says. âoeHe said that weâ(TM)re not going to sacrifice our rights. Weâ(TM)re not going to change who we are just to catch some small percentage more terrorists.â But Snowden grew disappointed as, in his view, Obama didnâ(TM)t follow through on his lofty rhetoric. âoeNot only did they not fulfill those promises, but they entirely repudiated them,â he says. âoeThey went in the other direction. What does that mean for a society, for a democracy, when the people that you elect on the basis of promises can basically suborn the will of the electorate?â" source: http://www.wired.com/2014/08/e...

It depends how long methods like "Cops Don’t Need A Crypto Backdoor To Get Into Your Iphone" (10.12.15) stay open as a default over every upgrade.
http://www.wired.com/2015/10/c...
As for push down a network onto a single users device? The SISMI-Telecom scandal 1996 shows what could be done years ago given the better quality gov grade telco tools. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

I think that's the polite way of saying "because the enemy may be able to hijack the signal."

Also no:

"because it can be used by potential enemies" -Navy Capt. Terry Carraway

The big security controversy when GPS became public was that it's much cheaper and easier to make a GPS-guided missile than a cruise missile: "All normal GPS receivers got two limits build into them [...] a speed and height limit so no receivers can be used in automatic guided weapons"

http://www.wired.com/2013/09/b...

OTOH, when they retire that last mainframe running RPG, you'll be first on the RIF-list.

IBM introduced a new mainframe this year that can "process 2.5 billion transactions a day (or the equivalent of 100 Cyber Mondays every day, according to the company)."

http://www.wired.com/2015/01/z13-mainframe/

There is no conflict between the two (sensible) requirements that:
        (A) The router's source code should be freely inspectable
AND
        (B) The router should have strong technological measures to prevent users from using it in a way that violates the terms, for instance by transmitting on a band that is not licensed in that country.

This is also a very good model for the automotive industry -- another place where there is laughable security that merits some real auditing, but at the same time it would be ridiculous to allow any kid with a $50 flasher to get a few more horsepower by emitting particulates that are known health risks.

Certainly there is no technical reason that "I can view the source" must mean "I can modify and recompile the source and have the system accept the binary as authentic". TiVo (much to RMS' chagrin) adopted the model, as does Android (for some models, other's advertise open bootloaders, consumers chose between them).

Admittedly, this won't satisfy the software-freedom purists, but at the same time we have to have some logical partitioning between a home computer (that you should control down tot he metal) and a computer that controls particulate emissions that harm others' health or a router firmware that can block others' usage of our shared airwaves.

[ And to that point, it would be great if there was software partitioning such that I could tweak my car's systems but not the ECU portions that control emissions. Or modify the router's linux base to add features (disclosure:I do run DD-WRT actually, but not on a WiFi device) but lock the radio in such a fashion that I don't interfere with my neighbors' networks. There's certainly no technical reason this can't be accomplished. ]

My source is the fact that all the waste in the US is stored in dozen different places where each one is far bigger than a foorball field:
e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
or read this: http://www.nei.org/Issues-Poli... particular this: http://www.nei.org/CorporateSi...

The only thing giving your a small edge about your claim is that the above waste (first link) includes waste from weapon production and decommissioning.

FYI: http://www.wired.com/2015/07/p...

"All told, the nuclear reactors in the U.S. produce more than 2,000 metric tons of radioactive waste a year, according to the DoE"

From: http://www.scientificamerican....

I really wonder how pro nuclear advocates can be so uneducated that they not even know the basic facts.

In which desert do the USA store the biggest amount of nuclear waste in the word?

http://articles.latimes.com/ke...

You dumb cunt. Are you really that stupid? Or are you just sadly naive? You keep repeating that accusation, but she didn't use it for official business. TRY GOOGLING IT, you propaganda-spewing shitbag.

If the best defense that Hillary's brainwashed goons have is a left-wing crack-smoking delusion that was debunked almost a decade ago, then she is well and truly fucked. If this is the best she and her pathetic, bootlicking brian-fried followers can cobble together, then she might as well blow Trump in public tomorrow, while wearing a nice blue dress, because I haven't heard such a worthless, hollow, fake-ass excuse since her dear hubby said he "didn't have sex with that woman."

Here, let me find that quote for you ... the hacker (son of a Democratic politician - not, I'm sure, that it had anything to do with whom he chose to hack) read all of the e-mails in the Palin account and found "nothing incriminating, nothing that would derail her campaign as I had hoped. All I saw was personal stuff, some clerical stuff from when she was governor. And pictures of her family."

But please, keep repeating the shitty, worn-out lies lies that serve your tired narrative so conveniently. Go on. There are plenty of complete fucking morons out there just like you, desperate to grasp any straw, begging for a chance to believe that Hillary is the savior they've been waiting for.

Other Republicans ACTUALLY IN THIS YEAR'S RACE are clearly as bad or worse, but no, you don't bother dealing with this year's race. You'd rather retread the failures of a political contest that happened years ago. You're a perfect example of why she's going to lose.

There are a few data driven places where you can generate a reasonable written report without involving a human. Sporting game summaries, financial market analysis..... There may be other data sources that can be mined and turned into "news", or perhaps used by journalists to increase their productivity.

This is a nightmare scenario really for VW and anyone else involved in owning/fixing these cars. It's most likely going to cost thousands per car to add the system necessary to clean the NOx gasses out of the exhaust that larger trucks use. And there is a good chance additional modifications will be needed that will likely give a significant hit to fuel mileage. These manufacturers are staring down the barrel of thousands of dollars per car fixes plus class action lawsuits up the wazoo from customers who's cars are suddenly getting double digit worse mileage.

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/v...

http://www.popularmechanics.co...

Seems to me that a retrofix of installing the urea injection system is undoable; instead there will have to be some sort of detuning that will reduce the temperature of the combustion and exhaust (exhaust gas recirculation, for instance). And my feeling is that anything that does that will necessarily reduce the mean effective pressure or whatever they call it on the piston, which will necessarily reduce the torque which will naturally reduce the HP, etc.

TFS only has one image:

Map of Rohan, Gondor, and Mordor.

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

This is a nightmare scenario really for VW and anyone else involved in owning/fixing these cars. It's most likely going to cost thousands per car to add the system necessary to clean the NOx gasses out of the exhaust that larger trucks use. And there is a good chance additional modifications will be needed that will likely give a significant hit to fuel mileage. These manufacturers are staring down the barrel of thousands of dollars per car fixes plus class action lawsuits up the wazoo from customers who's cars are suddenly getting double digit worse mileage.

http://www.wired.com/2015/09/v...

http://www.popularmechanics.co...

Should I be allowed to modify[1] my (not even a VW!) car to increase my mileage/horsepower at the expense of polluting the air?

In fact, given the sorry state of automotive security shouldn't we require automtive firmware engineers to build a reliable code-integrity protection as a condition for meeting their emissions standards?

[1] No object to read-only access, excepting of course that the code is so awful that you'll surely find a security vulnerability leading to an exploit and then we are back to modification. That's hardly a reason not to allow read-only source access, only an observation on the fact that no one wrote this code for security.

Yeah, it reminds me somewhat of Chiat/Day's attempt to create an office-less workplace.

However, sometimes you have to iterate thru a lot of stupid ideas to find the truly brilliant ones. And you can learn stuff in failure that's useful down the road. So good on Zappos for trying, even though I don't think it will pan out so well.

The worst thing that ever happened to Twitter was the retweet, just like the worst thing that ever happened to facebook was "share". Both of these things dramatically reduced the usability and usefulness of those sites. It changed the social media from a fun way to keep up with friends to an avalanche of nonsense you don't care about with a few nuggets buried somewhere inside.

Little known feature (for me, at least): you can disable retweets for specific users you follow. This single feature made it so I could follow users who are retweet-heavy, like pmarca. Instructions here.

Since I also use Tweetbot, I had to delete my cache for this to kick in, but it does work across third party clients.

" I'd look for Icelandic hosting. They seem to appreciate privacy at a national and local level."

Yes, they're so private, they sold the DNA of all their citizens to a private company.
http://www.wired.com/2015/03/i...

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://news.slashdot.org/story...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

The story, by Greg Miller, recounts daily meetings with senior officials from the FBI, CIA, and State Department, all desperately trying to come up with ways to capture Snowden. One official told Miller: “We were hoping he was going to be stupid enough to get on some kind of airplane, and then have an ally say: ‘You’re in our airspace. Land.’ ” He wasn’t. And since he disappeared into Russia, the US seems to have lost all trace of him.

Thirdly, because of outside CIS reader can't read Russian, the MSM can spin story likely: 'suspected Russian submarine' crashed Irish fishing boat in May and silently revealed in September it is really the Royal Navy one (of course without apology).

How to write a propaganda piece on Russia (RT)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

Fourthly, yes Russians are not smart enough to use 'creative propaganda' (misleading headline, hit-n-run stories, redirected tactics, buried 'harmful' article under tons of entertainment stories...), but compare to Ukraine:
TheMoscowTimes, Novaya Gazeta (have English version) are explicitly against government, their articles are mostly in this direction, there is no 'positive' news. There Echo, NEWS.ru ... I can't confirm when I don't read Russian.

Compare to Ukraine, the Kiyvtimes, was actively against Yanukovich, now actively support the government (surprised!?). The opposition journalists, politicians of Ukraine were kills (about 6-7 of them) in bloody week not long after the death of Nemtsov.
The western medias not interested in this story, if they reported, they did not forget to add the story of Nemtsov beside these.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/...
http://www.rt.com/news/250245-...

or beaten, force head of National TV to resign. (RT had some transcript):
http://www.rt.com/news/ukraine...
The MP in the video, Igor Miroshnichenko, is a member of the new parliamentary committee on freedom of speech.
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

Klitschko said that the prosecutor general, who is also from Svoboda, should launch an open and transparent investigation into the incident

Igor Miroshnichenko is still strong and healthy. (searching for Ukraine rada fighting in Youtube)

Recently, Ukraine ban 'pro-Russian' from European countries (later lifted the ban, EU journalists only), but if this is Russia, the reaction must be different:
http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

Raytheon has been doing defense & intelligence community security software for as long as I can remember....

Here is a good example of some of their work, which was quite a few years ahead of commercial sector equivalent work in tools like Niksun or Netwitness

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

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* REPOSTING A 3rd time VS. ABUSED DOWNMODS ON THIS SAME POST here http://tech.slashdot.org/comme... AND here http://tech.slashdot.org/comme...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (+ ads not only INFECT US, but STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY+ track us too)

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid/realtime bidding & other ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (AND we're free of ads that not only INFECT US, but also STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY too)

... apk

You have two pipes of equal size at full capacity joining at right angles, and flowing into a third pipe of the same capacity as each of those pipes alone. Is encouraging the water to slow down as it approaches the intersection going to eliminate all the turbulence at the intersection even if the attempt to slow it down is successful?

Your story sounded fake, I had to look it up. I know a guy that bought 4 Bugatti Veyrons (Yes, I meant 4 and know how ridiculous it sounds) and he was driving one within a month of them finishing building it. Turns out they changed the law allowing a small number of types of cars in with a loophole.

story

Amusing thing about that story, the guy I know owns/owned about half the cars on the list. I thought he picked them based on what he suspected would go up in value, but it looks like he picked based on what he could import easier.

VR is a dead end. How would you create a VR environment that is real? How can you walk, climb? Your inner ear is telling you about the real world. Your eyes are showing you the virtual world. The disconnection between the two is what causes people to get motion sickness. You will never solve that problem.

Are you absolutely 100% percent sure about that?

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http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links (AND we're free of ads that not only INFECT US, but also STEAL BANDWIDTH & SPEED WE PAY FOR MONTHLY too) - to be continued in my next subsequent post with MORE of the same information for you vs. your b.s. advertiser

... apk

Here's a SMALL partial only sample of OpenBid ad networks malware makers have taken advantage of to infect you with:

http://www.itworld.com/securit...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.zdnet.com/ad-exec-o...

http://search.slashdot.org/sto...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023...

http://nakedsecurity.sophos.co...

http://www.securityweek.com/ea...

http://yro.slashdot.org/story/...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.wired.com/techbiz/m...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2...

APK

P.S.=> See subject & those links...

... apk

"Next time I'll say "most""

And you'll still be very, very wrong. The first car to have OTA firmware updating is the 3-year old Tesla Model S

http://www.wired.com/2012/09/t...

Other than the compliments/complements thingie and the "organic matter" tidbit, he does have a point about the fact that they can be complementary. Back in the days, Slashdot even posted a real story on this topic, which linked to a pretty interesting article.

Bhatia ADMITS hauling in competitor nerve.com's DB & posted samples of it online even! Very DUMB imo... very dumb.

* WIRED -> http://www.wired.com/2015/08/a...

APK

P.S.=> Again per my last post, see my 'p.s.' there too - it's nothing but truth & doesn't speak WELL of this EX-CTO Bhatia... I mean, in this case, he even KNEW about nerve.com's issues, & NEVER WARNED THEM (the right thing to do) + even KNEW of Ashley Madison's security issues also (never fixed them apparently either IF I understood what I just read correctly) - anyone feel FREE to correct me IF/WHEN I am off/wrong here... apk

No, it appears that Davey Alba has written yet another slovenly love letter to Ellen Pao about this already. He was the same guy who wrote those 2 weeks of cheerleading-masquerading-as-journalism articles about Ellen Pao during her lawsuit.

I wonder if he has a creepy wall of pictures of her in his bedroom that he talks to every night. "Don't worry baby, I'll be your white night."

You can still fix those cars/devices, it's just a little harder, especially for the people used to the old 'bolt and ratchet' style.

Not legally:

http://www.npr.org/sections/al...
http://www.wired.com/2015/04/d...

No, GrantRobertson was right. You accounted for gravitational time dilation but forgot relative velocity time dilation. The one on the ground aged longer because the ISS is moving so quickly.

A discussion of the two, and which one outweighs the other:
http://ideonexus.com/2009/02/1...

Other links:
https://www.quora.com/Why-is-t...
http://www.wired.com/2014/11/t...

Frankly the only one that had a consistent attitude about the PD was Kirk, he did his best to pretty much ignore it unless he had no other choice.

That's because Kirk knew what the Prime Directive actually is: a plot device to stop Enterprise from simply technobabbling every problem away in five minutes without having to come up with yet another Bored Cosmic Jerk. It's the Red Tape equivalent of a Klingon ship uncloaking at the worst possible moment: an obstacle for the heroes to overcome through some clever maneuvering.

Of course, later writers missed this and had their captains take the damn thing seriously, which of course led things to go straight to Hell. It's a bit like someone from Transport For London apparently saw a storyboard for the Lord of the Rings and mistook Sauron for the hero.

China operates massive spy operations.

Yeah, they probably do...

In the future all programmers will be super fit and experts at dance dance revolution

http://www.wired.com/2015/07/b...

If they don't offer static addressing, then it's a waste of time.

Sorry, but that's how things are going to be from now on — a government monopoly, the worst combination imaginable. Tech support by municipal workers... Any violation of rules — and you'll get a citation from police (maybe, not today, but soon — just wait). And no alternative, because who is going to compete with the City Hall? It is hard enough to get the permits even when your service does not compete with anything the government already runs...

Ah, and look at all of these fan-boys explaining, why you "don't need" static IP...

They decided to do so because the private ISPs in the area weren't willing to invest more in the local infrastructure

So, private companies, in their greedy quest for the almighty buck, did not see this as a profit-opportunity. Which means, the local residents didn't want the service — not in the sufficient numbers to justify the cost. So, the government decided to use its power to confiscate money at gun-point (also known as "tax collection") to finance a project, that people didn't want to participate in voluntarily. Tyranny has won...

You are strangely deluded - it'd be cute if it wasn't so sad.

And you are a Coward. It'd be cute if it wasn't so annoyingly common on here.

BTW, exactly what is delusional about recognizing that there is only one Platform that has actually taken a stance on User Privacy in writing, and has actually honored those Words?

Microsoft? Nope. Isn't that the whole reason behind this Article?

Google? Hahahahaha!

Linux? Well, considering that there really isn't a "Linux, Inc.", the answer to the question lies in the code of a hundred-plus distros. Care to code-review them all? I'll wait.

So, AFAICT, that pretty much leaves Apple. And when you can show me the firewall logs from an OS X system, where the User has opted-out of their PUBLISHED "Data Collection" programs, such as "Spotlight Suggestions" and "Share details about my iTunes Library with Apple" using the readily available GUI switches for same (rather than having to resort to Hosts file editing, external Firewall devices and Traffic Sniffers to attempt to plug the NON-PUBLISHED holes like with Windows), THEN I will agree that Apple == Microsoft.

But not before.

It is not "delusional" to call for evidence; remember that.

BTW, here's a recent Wired article that sort of underscores what I have been saying in this post and previous ones in this sub-thread about Apple putting their money where their mouth is. As I said, they have recognized that protecting and not-collecting User data is a marketing tool unto itself. Fortunately, as a hardware-based "monetization" model, they can keep enforcing, and enhancing, that policy without cutting into their revenues. In fact, in the long run, and especially with stuff like WinSpy10, that may look more and more attractive to users.

it was goons who killed him, not any legal venue, so no worries

http://archive.wired.com/wired...

What is more worrying is rising seawater infiltrating into the fresh water supply. http://www.wired.com/2015/08/c...

Re "Perhaps worse than people not caring (enough) that their whole world is fast becoming an Orwellian nightmare, we are now left without a credible nation to voice the message of Worldly evil."
With "Our Government Has Weaponized The Internet. Here’s How They Did It" http://www.wired.com/2013/11/t... (11.13.13) even finding the "individuals and firms from other nations" is going to be tricky.
All the other 5 eye nations, their staff, ex staff and former staff, contractors and other "friendly" 3rd party nations have some idea about the more advanced methods.
Anyone could set the end point as the most expected nations, use the correct time zone and the found log would be detailed junk..
The other question is why would any nation just allow a plain text "treasure trove of data about government employees" to exist in any form just facing the net?
Boondoggle to find contractors, limited hangout or honey pot?