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The Year's Dumbest Moments in Tech
harrymcc writes "Over at TIME.com, I rounded up the year's dumbest moments in technology. Yes, the launch of Healthcare.gov is included, as are Edward Snowden's revelations. But so are a bunch of people embarrassing themselves on Twitter, both BlackBerry and Lenovo hiring celebrities to (supposedly) design products, the release of glitchy products ranging from OS X 10.9 Mavericks to the new Yahoo Mail, and much more." I can't think of anything dumber than the NSA's claims that metadata isn't data.
Seems fine to me. You must have mistaken it for iOS 7.
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Yeah, I bought it cheap and I tried it. $40 and it sits unused currently because even after installing Classic Shell and doing a lot of unpaid work to fix what they broke, I still hate it.
Oh boy, the article made a comment about 10.9's email app. (sarcasm)The entire thing must be wrong as everyone knows everything apple does is perfect (/sarcasm)
Big nerd with big balls, Snowden.
The NSA is spying on us all... and their powerpoint slides are ugly! HAHAAAHAAH!!!1!one!!11
Look - I'm not going to try and make the argument that we should all stop what we're doing and go on humor strikes until they shut down the NSA. But seriously, if you're so desperate for column inches that you feel the need to spin the Snowden affair as "dumb", then you really need to ask yourself whether you're Part of the Problem.
Tip for next time: be funnier.
If he had "big balls," he would have stayed here and faced the music
You fail to understand civil disobedience. It means breaking an unjust law and risking facing the consequences. It doesn't mean sitting around waiting to get thrown in PMITA prison or whisked off to gitmo.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
As this is a more or less duplicate top-10 style list to the one posted yesterday, among many other "biggest foul ups" and "worst dressed" articles, the floor is open for meta-discussion.
I get that laughing at others' misfortune and fuckups makes sad people feel better about themselves and sells lots of glossy magazines, but you've got to admit it's all a bit depressing that we can't get past the psychology of school yard bullies and instead have at least one in five of these top 10 lists be about the greatest medical, quantum physics, and space exploration breakthroughs of the previous year and what's on the horizon for the next.
Celebrate good times, come on.
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Actually quite often sitting around waiting to be arrested is exactly the point of civil disobedience. You can't really show the injustice of a bad law without demonstrating the consequences of the law. However this doesn't apply to Snowden. He wasn't trying to demonstrate that the laws surrounding classified data are wrong, he was trying to show that the activities the data documented were wrong so really there would be no point in letting himself get arrested. It wouldn't have furthered his cause in any way.
We hope your rules and wisdom choke you / Now we are one in everlasting peace
Those aren't brackets, you dimwit. They're chevrons (or greater-/less-than for those fond of extra syllables). Brackets are square. Braces are squiggly. Parentheses are round.
It depends on how you can do the most good. I don't think running did his message any good. He would be in a better position to talk about how he loves his country and how this is for the good of it if he were in his country and not overseas where people have to wonder what/how much he gave to the Russians and the Chinese that may not have hit the presses.
Now, there's no telling what he gave up to some real enemies of freedom.
From my point of view (not living in any of the three countries), there's no meaningful difference between China, Russia and the USA in terms of how much of an enemy of freedom they are. Oh, the US says they're all about freedom, but in practice they're about as bad as the others.
But he still acted as a traitor by running to China and Russia.
That's your opinion ( you silly little cunt you ) and certainly not a fact. Snowden is no more a traitor
than anyone who has won the Medal of Honor. Snowden loved his country enough to
seriously fuck up his own life for the sake of that love. You don't know what a traitor
is if you think Snowden is a traitor.
In any case, these days, only a naive fool believes that the US government deserves
allegiance from its citizens.
A realist knows that the US is run by corrupt scum who have no allegiance to anything
but retaining their power. And THAT deserves the opposite of allegiance.
Let's get real. The various "wars" the US is involved in are wars of aggression and are not
being conducted to defend the American people. Only a person who doesn't understand
what is really going on believes that the US has any moral justification for being in most of
the countries it is messing around in militarily.
Snowden owes allegiance to Snowden. Snowden did the world and the American people a
considerable service, for which he may never be rewarded but instead may face a lifetime
of exile. He knew that going into the situation, and anyone who doesn't understand that
took very real courage doesn't begin to know what courage is.
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Ask Assange, the answer is YES. If you truly believe that simply having a press that is owned by the government BTW, will save your ass? I have a bridge you might be interested in. Again look at Assange where the story was instantly changed to "He's a rapist! Terrorist!"instead of all the evidence that the government supported scum, even bailing out a PMC that sold children as fucktoys to seal arms deals.
If either Snowden or Assange EVAR lave their little protected spaces they wil be given rendition rides so fast it'll make your had swim, and the entire time our whored out pres will cheer and say how wonderful big mommy is for doing it.
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
I'm still blown away that Hassleton didn't make the list.
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It depends on how you can do the most good. I don't think running did his message any good. He would be in a better position to talk about how he loves his country and how this is for the good of it if he were in his country and not overseas where people have to wonder what/how much he gave to the Russians and the Chinese that may not have hit the presses.
Yes, because everyone in Gitmo is free to give as many press conferences as they want.
I'm disappointed that /.'s beta didn't make the list.
"What he did was to intentionally NOT face the consequences."
The consequences decided by who? An out-of-control government where the court system has effectively ruled time-again that government has no limits?
Yes, he would be detained without trial and rights --- just like what Manning is enduring. Does Manning have any free speech rights? No.
Okay. Your argument just lost and lost hard.
Don't judge me, I'm just the messenger.
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Spot on. They are all bad versions of each other. They don't realize that, that's all.
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Hell, Yes!
I think that you are naiive if you think that we would have seen all the revelations if the USA had been able to reach Snowdon?
The real "Libtards" are the Libertarians!
<sarcasm>The entire thing must be wrong as everyone knows everything apple does is perfect</sarcasm>
I'm still blown away that Hassleton didn't make the list.
What's that? Google search doesn't turn up anything useful...
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
You don't have any proof of this. Shut up!
Table-ized A.I.
Do not compare Manning to Snowden. Manning was a fool and most likely a traitor. He threw out the baby with the bathwater. Just because some of what he leaked turned out to have been leak-worthy does not justify leaking everything he could get his hands on. If you save a dozen people from a burning building but in the process doom a hundred to die, you are still culpable for the deaths of the hundred. He is correctly incarcerated and his rights justifiably curtailed.
Snowden has been careful to leak only what he thinks was unconstitutional. I disagree with some of this definitions of what's unconstitutional, but I respect that he's trying to leak only the materials which are leak-worthy.
Actually quite often sitting around waiting to be arrested is exactly the point of civil disobedience.
You really have no idea what you are talking about, and therefore should stop. Simply stop. Submit to arrest is not the same as volunteer to be arrested. If the authorities arrest you, you permit them, rather than say shooting at them. That's what makes it civil. The word isn't "civic".
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Snowden has been careful to leak only what he thinks was unconstitutional. I disagree with some of this definitions of what's unconstitutional, but I respect that he's trying to leak only the materials which are leak-worthy.
Snowden has by his own words dumped the full load on the news media. Now he's simply helping to guide discussion, and less of that lately. In fact, he's done nothing to leak only the leak-only materials. That's all the media. He more carefully chose his media outlets than Manning, that is all. They both did the same thing, and you're lauding one and decrying the other. Our own government has said that Manning's releases have not cost lives. What the public has learned from Manning, our enemies already knew. Only we did not.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
He would be in a better position to talk about how he loves his country and how this is for the good of it if he were in his country
...being tortured and denied his supposedly unalienable rights. Yeah, what a great idea! You, sir, are an enemy of freedom. You would torture those who tell us the truth. Suggesting that they should be in the hands of the US amounts to the same thing. You're not still believing the USA's propaganda about itself, are you? I guess we should go back to leaflet bombing since the world's citizens are so gullible.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
Bennett Hassleton.
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Doesn’t it seem like there’s been an epidemic lately of large, established and respectable tech companies rolling out “new” products (actually just unneeded and unwanted updates of existing products, but that‘s how it goes these days) that just scream FAIL!!! loudly and clearly to anyone and everyone remotely resembling the actual end users who will eventually have to work with the final badly flawed product? I mean, honestly, Windows 8, how the hell could MS not have known that piece of steaming crud was going to be absolutely despised by the overwhelming majority of users?? Or look at Yahoo’s forced rollout of their new and “improved” mail system, another supposed upgrade that no one ever asked for. It was met with universal hatred even when it functioned as designed, which it seldom did at first because, unbelievably, the software apparently never underwent basic beta testing. How does shit like this keep happening? I mean, compared to those turkeys, even the dysfunctional Healthcare.gov website rollout seems in retrospect predictable and almost routine. How is it possible, in this day and age, for there to be such an enormous disconnect between what people actually want, and what extravagantly overcompensated corporate executives think people want? What is wrong with the tech industry, or maybe even the capitalist system in general, that causes such blatant failures to keep getting approved and marketed to the consumer? Is this, as a commenter at one of the linked sites suggests, merely proof of the Peter Principle in action? Something is very wrong, surely, when such utter dumbness is continually manifested in an industry that is supposedly run by very, very smart people.
It's turtles all the way (up in this case.)
What about iCloud requirement? That pissed a lot of people off like myself. We don't want to use the darn cloud. There's no more local USB synchronization with Mavericks and probably for now on. :(
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Yeah, I'm a linux user but haven't got to the depths of these systemd issues people are crying about all the time, some factual information would go a long way.