Being able to 100% protect the President is something they have to get right the first time, and every time.
Seeing how crap they've been over the last several years (hooker scandals, fence jumping guy with a knife gets INTO the White House, etc.), I'm suspect that only applies if the POTUS is White.
The article specifically addresses the issue of standing:
"The 2013 mass surveillance disclosures included a slide from a classified NSA presentation that made explicit reference to Wikipedia, using our global trademark. Because these disclosures revealed that the government specifically targeted Wikipedia and its users, we believe we have more than sufficient evidence to establish standing."
So instead it will be thrown out as 'fruit of the poisoned tree' (stolen documents).
Weird how most bug exploits result in pretty much every OS reacting with: "I don't know what you want, so here's the keys to the kingdom! (escalation)" instead of: "I don't know what you want, so I'm jumping out of the window and taking you with me! (system crash)."
The GOP (other than small enclaves such as frat houses) is demographically doomed. Much like Fox News, their largest core group is rapidly graying and not being replaced at a high enough rate. In the long run even abject, rapacious greed isn't enough to keep them as a viable party. But they are not going quietly, screaming racist and misogynist epithets as they rapidly slide into oblivion.
Look at it as an insight into how people REALLY feel--when they're not compelled by threat of expulsion/arrest/harassment to be polite and politically correct.
The other harsh reality is that the source of easily +90% of this garbage is spewed from the orifices of white men, symmetrically bell-curving around college age.
Or even the double meaning of a title like "Moonrise". Then again, Hollywood - for all of it's rep as creative - is rather dull and cowardly at times ('No! It sounds too much like Moonrise Kingdom! Tractor-driving Peorians will be confused!').
I wish they (and juries) soon get it through their thick skulls: synthesizing and planting DNA evidence is now nearly child's play - especially if you have a vast database of samples and easy access to the Evidence Room.
The GOP-controlled Congress will soon be zeroing-out the budget for the FCC to do any enforcement on this ruling. They do control the purse-strings, but it is the most cowardly, corporate-whore, Machiavellian play imaginable. Nothing will change and consumers will pay ever more to monopolies.
Because they already have major data centers in the US and want more of them closer to their customers in Europe?
Nope. These placements are being offered as bribe money in kind to lessen or totally eliminate the fines Apple should have to pay for playing a tax evasion shell game with their massive global profits.
If you really think these being placed in Ireland (Double Irish) and the Netherlands (Dutch Sandwich) just by sheer accident, you may be one of the most Pollyannaish fanboys queuing in front of the Chrystal Cubic Cathedral.
Please tell me some academics / F/OSS folk / people who truly believe in rights and privacies are working on a clean-sheet, Security is Job One replacement for the now nearly useless sieve well call the Internet.
If they were cleaned per the Manufacturer's specs (which feels a little like the fox cleaning the hen house) then said company should be fined into oblivion and all involved with writing and approving said procedures held in gaol for quite some time.
I used to think Canadians - even those out in the forsaken, endless prairies - were far more wise and progressive than us USians, but no. How long has GOP-backed and advised Harper been in power now? What happened? Was it tar sand greed? Pure apathy? The assumption they were all as 'funny' as Laughable Bublefuck Rob Ford?
Quite sad; I thought the Canadians were better than, well, just about everybody, but now no different than the rest of the Right-Wing Police State, Might Makes Right, Western world. [le sigh]
We need a sort of Kickstarter for consumer goods, such as "Okay, we want a tv / laptop / cell phone with these agreed-upon specs and we get all access to firmware / bios / baseband, etc." Once an effective number of folks 'buy-in", the group takes their big wad of sweaty cash to a Taiwanese contract manufacturer and a run of the product is made. AFTER the product and code is inspected for any corporate / governmental tampering, the product is shipped (with an option for the purchasers to pick it up directly to avoid the NSA shipping intercepts).
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Clarke's The Sentinel was the fore-runner to 2001: A Space Odyssey.
The TLAs will never allow 100% transparency of all the silicon that would expose their mandated backdoors.
"Science: we're all about _coulda_ not about _shoulda_"
No doubt quite a few despots and TLAs are following this news closely.
Seeing how crap they've been over the last several years (hooker scandals, fence jumping guy with a knife gets INTO the White House, etc.), I'm suspect that only applies if the POTUS is White.
So instead it will be thrown out as 'fruit of the poisoned tree' (stolen documents).
Same police state, different day.
Weird how most bug exploits result in pretty much every OS reacting with: "I don't know what you want, so here's the keys to the kingdom! (escalation)" instead of: "I don't know what you want, so I'm jumping out of the window and taking you with me! (system crash)."
The GOP (other than small enclaves such as frat houses) is demographically doomed. Much like Fox News, their largest core group is rapidly graying and not being replaced at a high enough rate. In the long run even abject, rapacious greed isn't enough to keep them as a viable party. But they are not going quietly, screaming racist and misogynist epithets as they rapidly slide into oblivion.
The other harsh reality is that the source of easily +90% of this garbage is spewed from the orifices of white men, symmetrically bell-curving around college age.
[Provided our enemies accommodate us by propping their vehicles up at the optimal 45-degree angle.]
But then again, at the beginning, so was asbestos.
Well, there goes the idea that US Marshals are as cool as Raylan Givens.
Or even the double meaning of a title like "Moonrise". Then again, Hollywood - for all of it's rep as creative - is rather dull and cowardly at times ('No! It sounds too much like Moonrise Kingdom! Tractor-driving Peorians will be confused!').
Just to get 'Seal Team Sixed'? Pass.
I wish they (and juries) soon get it through their thick skulls: synthesizing and planting DNA evidence is now nearly child's play - especially if you have a vast database of samples and easy access to the Evidence Room.
Heck, can't VLC play damn near everything already? I half expect you could open a spreadsheet in VLC and have it carry a tune.
"Hey, we found Pandora's Box! Let's crack that sucker open!"
The GOP-controlled Congress will soon be zeroing-out the budget for the FCC to do any enforcement on this ruling. They do control the purse-strings, but it is the most cowardly, corporate-whore, Machiavellian play imaginable. Nothing will change and consumers will pay ever more to monopolies.
Solution is to switch them to Gemalto SIMs.
Nope. These placements are being offered as bribe money in kind to lessen or totally eliminate the fines Apple should have to pay for playing a tax evasion shell game with their massive global profits.
If you really think these being placed in Ireland (Double Irish) and the Netherlands (Dutch Sandwich) just by sheer accident, you may be one of the most Pollyannaish fanboys queuing in front of the Chrystal Cubic Cathedral.
Lenovo is about to be wiped from the marketplace as a purchase to never make again.
Please tell me some academics / F/OSS folk / people who truly believe in rights and privacies are working on a clean-sheet, Security is Job One replacement for the now nearly useless sieve well call the Internet.
If they were cleaned per the Manufacturer's specs (which feels a little like the fox cleaning the hen house) then said company should be fined into oblivion and all involved with writing and approving said procedures held in gaol for quite some time.
But America, so jack shit will happen.
I used to think Canadians - even those out in the forsaken, endless prairies - were far more wise and progressive than us USians, but no. How long has GOP-backed and advised Harper been in power now? What happened? Was it tar sand greed? Pure apathy? The assumption they were all as 'funny' as Laughable Bublefuck Rob Ford?
Quite sad; I thought the Canadians were better than, well, just about everybody, but now no different than the rest of the Right-Wing Police State, Might Makes Right, Western world. [le sigh]
But consider this: the Chinese eat ducks. #ToServeMan
We need a sort of Kickstarter for consumer goods, such as "Okay, we want a tv / laptop / cell phone with these agreed-upon specs and we get all access to firmware / bios / baseband, etc." Once an effective number of folks 'buy-in", the group takes their big wad of sweaty cash to a Taiwanese contract manufacturer and a run of the product is made. AFTER the product and code is inspected for any corporate / governmental tampering, the product is shipped (with an option for the purchasers to pick it up directly to avoid the NSA shipping intercepts).