Even the most ardent Glasshole cannot prove their piece of tech can't be hacked by the three-letter crowd, allowing not only themselves to be spied on, but also every freaking person they come into contact with.
The Congress critters, the Senators, the White House
...all know their secrets have been Hoovered up by the NSA during a decade of mining. Why else do you think there has been such a muted response to Mr. Snowden's discoveries? J Edgar was never really challenged either; most timidly waited until he died.
Given that the most lucrative demographic of music purchases is (probably) under eighteen, preventing literal exploitation of minorities might have some teeth.
These proposals are based on the wildly optimistic assumption that there are jobs (commensurate with their degrees) waiting for all college graduates. That's not even true in STEM fields, thanks to corporations in love with the idea of lower-wage indentured H1B servants mainly from the Indian sub-continent.
They also completely ignore *why* there are such massive cost increases in Higher Ed (I've never heard a valid explanation; you?). In any other industry, there would be congressional hearings about usurious price gouging, but I guess Ivy is like Kryptonite to the Alum communities on the Hill.
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Even the most ardent Glasshole cannot prove their piece of tech can't be hacked by the three-letter crowd, allowing not only themselves to be spied on, but also every freaking person they come into contact with.
Effing pointless. Legalization would actually improve everything - except militarized police budgets and powers, which IS the effing point.
Pardon me, but I'm going to go with the man who is well-known for his integrity, intellect, guts to write under his own real name, Johnny.
Even if you did actually serve, I'm still not convinced to defer to you over the right-honorable Mister Schneier.
So I can have Gone in Sixty Seconds delivered to my car and have them both stolen before I get off work!
"Because any man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun."
Don't fucking trust them, and instead of verifying, watch them like a freaking hawk.
Why bother with clean-room techniques? According to Microsoft's own Blackmail Division, they already *own* Android, along with Linux!
...all know their secrets have been Hoovered up by the NSA during a decade of mining. Why else do you think there has been such a muted response to Mr. Snowden's discoveries? J Edgar was never really challenged either; most timidly waited until he died.
Where an article about a Mercedes-Benz camera devolves into a thread about Apple developers within one page.
Blast-Tossed!
All that's left is figuring out *who* will be suing him first. CISRO? Intellectual Vultures?
I was almost in a head-on collision last night with a Prius(!) that just *had* to be in front of that truck.
Just as he got back into the other lane in the nick of time, I noted he was still talking on his phone.
Do we bother believing the DOD telling us another story about big, bad, Muslim wolves and the need for endless war footing?
And if they spent $10 million, no doubt about 75% of that was wasted, poured down the maws of corpulent military contractors (cui bono).
"WeMo dumb, we just got our customers robbed."
Additionally, our mothers are rather large.
Hit the right frequency, and no one will be able to take pictures due to the seizures.
Might have to Scotchguard the seats, though.
made a legal requirement, enforced by the FTC.
Except for a goodly chunk of central Africa. #FTFY
Given that GCHQ is a loyal lapdog of the NSA, you'll have to exclude ole Britannia Servers as well.
Oh, please. Genocide, raping public lands, company stores, monopoly; an honest look at US history shows *this* is the actual 'spirit' of the nation.
Given that the most lucrative demographic of music purchases is (probably) under eighteen, preventing literal exploitation of minorities might have some teeth.
Don't hold your breath waiting to hear any of this on your Evening Corporate News.
I also suspect the Venn circles of former High School bullies and Small Town Cops damn near overlap.
Home Owners' Associations
They're almost the perfect example of American Greed: "We forbid _you_ from doing anything that might affect _our_ property values."
Fascists.
Puritans (read: Red Americans) would rather blow up the world than allow this to happen.
These proposals are based on the wildly optimistic assumption that there are jobs (commensurate with their degrees) waiting for all college graduates. That's not even true in STEM fields, thanks to corporations in love with the idea of lower-wage indentured H1B servants mainly from the Indian sub-continent.
They also completely ignore *why* there are such massive cost increases in Higher Ed (I've never heard a valid explanation; you?). In any other industry, there would be congressional hearings about usurious price gouging, but I guess Ivy is like Kryptonite to the Alum communities on the Hill.