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Carly Fiorina: I Supplied HP Servers For NSA Snooping
MFingS writes: According to an article at Motherboard, shortly after 9/11, NSA director Michael Hayden requested extra computing power and Carly Fiorina, then CEO of HP, responded by re-routing truckloads of servers to the agency. Fiorina acknowledged providing the servers to the NSA during an interview with Michael Isikoff in which she defended warrantless surveillance (as well as waterboarding) and framed her collaboration with the NSA in patriotic terms. Fiorina's compliance with Hayden's request for HP servers is but one episode in a long-running and close relationship between the GOP presidential hopeful and U.S. intelligence agencies.
Either the NSA has some good shit on everyone in power, and/or everyone in power values convenience over the interests of the people.
No, they have some good shit on everyone. They have said as much, without really coming out and saying it outright, if you see what I mean.
Read all about it here and here.
The right to offend is far more important than the right not to be offended. (Rowan Atkinson)
I would care so much more about Carly here if I believed that any of the candidates won't cooperate fully with the NSA.
Sanders is the only one that I think would give them any pushback.
He voted against both the Patriot Act and the Iraq war, and in my book that counts for something.
Just cruising through this digital world at 33 1/3 rpm...
It's like she's bragging that she supplied the gas chambers at Auschwitz, and for a very reasonable fee.
Or IBM providing the computers for the Nazis to run the death camps (which did happen)
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There's certainly very little downside to it, these days, for most candidates. Even if you gain no traction/little notice, and you drop out early, the net resultis likely that nobody really remembers so it doesn't matter.
On the other hand, if you make a splash, but you lose out after a while, you can write/sell a book, get hired as a contributor on Fox, go give speeches, etc, and do a lot more than you could have before.
The really sad/funny thing is that Fiorina ran in 2010 as a moderate for California Senate. Now she's trying to sell herself as a hard-right ultraconservative republican. It's a bunch of flimflam, and you shouldn't buy it, any more than you should hire her to run your company.
That's really amazing especially when considering that ENIAC, which is regarded as the first digital computer, wasn't introduced until after VE day.
IBM did, however, manufacture M1 Carbine rifles for the US during WWII.
Your problem is you know nothing about computing. The first computers were literally punch cards with counter accumulators. We emulated those on chips and circuits later, as "registers". You probably don't even know why Ada Lovelace and Grace Hopper are why those electrons flicker on your screen.
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"(stares at moron who fails to understand what a computer is)"
They do make displays with matte instead of glossy screens.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law