The last thing they want is to push Egypt into the arms of Russia when Syria, Iraq, and Iran have already moved that way.
There is no way in hell that Egypt will go to Russia. If need be US/Israel will bankroll whatever Egypt needs... assuming there's any tourism drop-off from this incident (which may or may not be the case).
Assuming the US/UK are falsely claiming a bomb, I really don't see anything they lose if they're caught lying about it.
It's also extremely suspicious timing, right after the UK government demands more powers to snoop on people. While that doesn't disprove anything, the UK government has a history of thing kind of thing
The UK government has a history of placing bombs on airliners? Do you just make up everything now?
Stop being silly. He was talking about RIPA [1] and other such orwellian moves by recent administrations in the UK. They keep introducing legislation to snoop on their citizens and blame it on "fundamentalists" (i.e., dark skinned foreign born) or incidents.
But were box-cutters the reason the hijacking happened? I guess we'll never know but it's almost amusing (in a sad dystopian way) that the Lone Gunmen series [1] pilot episode described the GOVERNMENT trying to fly planes into the WTC towers via remote control... so who knows what happened on those planes.
There's a sticker that used to be visible as you drove into the eBay campus in SJ for many years - "9/11 was an inside job".
Banning box-cutters after 9/11 sounds like the same logic (we must do something!!) that led to the US attacking Iraq as a consequence.
Large conglomerates are mainly a US creation. A concept created by Wall Street to keep CEOs shuffling operating companies around while the financial consultants skim off exorbitant fees for financing that activity.
What do you think the British East India Corporation was? Where do you think Hollywood got the idea of Weyland-Yutani corporation from? The idea of a large conglomerated colonial corporation (completely outsourced ruthless governance) isn't an American creation, it's existed for centuries.
The other day I read "The Count of Monte Cristo" - very readable even in today's standards (except the part where he goes to Rome - got lost there). It even detailed how the wealthy even relied on financial derivatives as well as orchestrating a stock trading pump & dump. That book was written in 1844.
Compared to what these companies rake in, these fines are meaningless. Either slap them with something that runs in the area of at the very least 5 times what their prospective revenue is (call the IRS and let them "guess" revenues, they're pretty good at it... at least when it comes to guessing high) or simply leave it be.
Fines that are a penny for ever dollar illegally gotten are cost of operation, not fine.
The goal is not to string up a company to be hanged (i.e., goes bankrupt) because of a ruling enforcement change. The goal is to get them to change behavior and use the news cycle to send a signal to others. Increasing fine amounts or increased enforcement is enough to make it understood to others to follow suit quickly.
If you push too hard the industry will put their crosshairs on your agency and spend money to simply sink your efforts (lobbyists, "sympathetic" judge, etc).
Never thought I'd see the day when someone on Slashdot would need to define BOFH.
LOL - I tried to find a quote where BOFH actually threatens to replace someone with a script, but neither Google nor DDG were useful to me in 30s so I gave up and linked the wiki.
I have optimized my/. posting to increase productivity.
My guess is trouble floating between the first and third person format.
Doesn't most sites like Facebook strip this out when uploading due to people actually posting location data with pictures of their new toys and getting robbed shortly after?
Im sure Facebook keeps (and indexes) the original EXIF data (all anonymously and for your benefit), but likely does remove it from published photos.
Does productivity count if you're offshoring and outsourcing everything and not growing your job/revenue/tax base (by also allow those offshore/inverted operations to avoid paying taxes) ?
...is for operating system manufacturers and cellphone makers to start making it easier to use Bluetooth tethering. No idea how bad Apple's implementation is, but I know every Android device I've used has either had non-existent support or barely functional implementations that were obviously set up and then forgotten about.
USB tethering is great when it works too, but that also seems to be rarely implemented these days.
Apple's implementation is great. If you have a Mac, you can even initiate the teetering request from the laptop (you must have it active on your phone). If your carrier doesn't support free tethering, you can easily move to one that does (T-Mobile).
Ive had great experiences with tethering on iOS with an iPhone5 and later and an honest carrier.
Because the Clintons have the party establishment tied up, Dems have no viable candidates this year other than her
Never mind that Sanders has been polling above Clinton at least part of the time, he's not "viable" because "reasons."
Of course, the only reason people believe Sanders is "crazy" is because the media keeps claiming so, but that's a total lie -- in reality, Sanders' positions are completely reasonable and moderate.
Sanders is not viable to the oligarchs. And that's who runs the country now. We peasants and bourgeois need to get back in our places, and let the two faces of the single party rule.
...or they could just stop subsidizing sugar production.
This is the smartest comment in the entire post so far. While we're at it lets stop subsidizing corn to create HFCS (and other idiocies like ethanol) as well... No need for a tax when we can instead stop handing out freebies that are corrupting our diets instead.
There - something both progressives and libertarians can get behind.
So when are cell phone comms going to be encrypted? Why should operators like T-mobile and Sprint allow this to continue? AT&T/Verizon are hopelessly corrupt at this point. I only hold out hope where there's some desire for competition.
What can be encrypted using existing technologies and what can't?
I called AT&T and asked how she could have used data when it was off. They said that it takes them four hours for them (and the app I used) to reflect our actual data usage. I asked them to set it up so that when her data goes over to just stop sending data when it's out. They said they cannot, their system was not set up that way. I told them that was bunk.
You need to move to a provider that isn't a prick. TMO (and Sprint I believe, though I'm not sure) both offer data plans that will result in little to no overage. I have not paid voice or data overage in 2 years on TMO. They do exactly what you said you want, but instead of stopping the data, you get throttled down to 128Kb/s (i.e., good 2G speeds).
I moved us over from AT&T and Verizon because both of them wanted us to pay overage once in a while, and randomly at that. You don't need to - there are options and they don't suck (my phone and data coverage with TMO is better than either AT&T or VZ were).
While we're on the subject of unrealistic counterfactuals... If each American had to choose between keeping their cellphone or their gun, how many would choose which?
Considering only about 1 in 3 Americans either owns a gun [1] I'd say most people by default would choose their smartphone since 2 in 3 Americans [2] own one of those. I assume in both cases, they're counting adults - but regardless, that means 2x smartphone owners vs gun owners. If I owned a smartphone but no gun, I'd have to answer to keep my real smartphone and not keep my (not owned therefore theoretical) firearm.
Among gun owners, you're talking about a biased group - you don't need to own a gun in most parts of the country - and lack of firearms has rarely prevented someone from finding employment unlike say, not having a car.
...they can get a ride just with their smartphone.
Plus they can always bum a ride off their friends (oh, lets be honest, more likely their parents - more and more 18+ live with their parents due to insane rents and general inflation combined with a poor job market).
3)/. doesn't care about being an "all-around inventor" in the sense of Edison. It's like a Jobs and Woz comparison, and/. is going to pretty much universally side with Woz because Woz and Tesla were people more like us, and we don't see much value in the ability to be a shrewd businessman. Tesla was a real life mad scientist, and we love that shit. --
Amusingly, there are both Jobs and Woz fanboys here - both of them were geniuses in their own right. But Nikolai Tesla is a whole 'nother ballpark, I'd say. And his unjust end does nothing to reduce his mythic/heroic status.
I like Tesla, but I have a nagging feeling that what's going to happen is that one of these days Toyota or Honda or someone will start taking electric very seriously, and Tesla will be done. Toyota and others have experience and economies of scale that Tesla can't match.
Tesla will be happy when that happens, because they've been living electrics for years, and any competition that Toyota or Honda can put up will force that company to compete with its other offerings, causing internal disruption.
This is classic innovators dilemma territory and Musk/Tesla and everyone else knows it. Which is why there will be no competition, simply hit-pieces and trumped up issues that are funded by industry groups.
and btw, Toyota has bet the farm not on battery-electric hybrids (Prius) as it's future, but instead fuel-cells. Seriously. Yeah, Toyota isn't going near electrics anytime soon.
Side-loading a new factory image isn't exactly difficult. Sure, you need the adb and fastboot tools, and it helps to be running Linux, but for the most part it's simpler than most desktop OS upgrades.
Ok, you see, I buy a phone, I expect my security upgrades to be as seamless as the competition. The alternative is that much fewer people buy the phone again after having been left out to do the manufacturer's work.
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The last thing they want is to push Egypt into the arms of Russia when Syria, Iraq, and Iran have already moved that way.
There is no way in hell that Egypt will go to Russia. If need be US/Israel will bankroll whatever Egypt needs... assuming there's any tourism drop-off from this incident (which may or may not be the case).
Assuming the US/UK are falsely claiming a bomb, I really don't see anything they lose if they're caught lying about it.
It's also extremely suspicious timing, right after the UK government demands more powers to snoop on people. While that doesn't disprove anything, the UK government has a history of thing kind of thing
The UK government has a history of placing bombs on airliners? Do you just make up everything now?
Stop being silly. He was talking about RIPA [1] and other such orwellian moves by recent administrations in the UK. They keep introducing legislation to snoop on their citizens and blame it on "fundamentalists" (i.e., dark skinned foreign born) or incidents.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
"Note that the weapons the hijackers allegedly used were ILLEGAL TO CARRY ON PLANES before then, and they got them on in other ways."
Are you sure about that? I was able to bring my pocket knife through security before 9/11 as long as the blade was just a few inches.
Wikipedia confirms this as well:
"Box cutters and similar small knives were allowed onboard aircraft at the time."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
But were box-cutters the reason the hijacking happened? I guess we'll never know but it's almost amusing (in a sad dystopian way) that the Lone Gunmen series [1] pilot episode described the GOVERNMENT trying to fly planes into the WTC towers via remote control... so who knows what happened on those planes.
There's a sticker that used to be visible as you drove into the eBay campus in SJ for many years - "9/11 was an inside job".
Banning box-cutters after 9/11 sounds like the same logic (we must do something!!) that led to the US attacking Iraq as a consequence.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
San Jose told EFF that it did not receive the federal grant and is seeking alternative funding sources.
This note piqued my interest - I wonder what other funding sources they could be speaking of?
Not just Japan. Look up mittelstand.
Large conglomerates are mainly a US creation. A concept created by Wall Street to keep CEOs shuffling operating companies around while the financial consultants skim off exorbitant fees for financing that activity.
What do you think the British East India Corporation was? Where do you think Hollywood got the idea of Weyland-Yutani corporation from? The idea of a large conglomerated colonial corporation (completely outsourced ruthless governance) isn't an American creation, it's existed for centuries.
The other day I read "The Count of Monte Cristo" - very readable even in today's standards (except the part where he goes to Rome - got lost there). It even detailed how the wealthy even relied on financial derivatives as well as orchestrating a stock trading pump & dump. That book was written in 1844.
Compared to what these companies rake in, these fines are meaningless. Either slap them with something that runs in the area of at the very least 5 times what their prospective revenue is (call the IRS and let them "guess" revenues, they're pretty good at it... at least when it comes to guessing high) or simply leave it be.
Fines that are a penny for ever dollar illegally gotten are cost of operation, not fine.
The goal is not to string up a company to be hanged (i.e., goes bankrupt) because of a ruling enforcement change. The goal is to get them to change behavior and use the news cycle to send a signal to others. Increasing fine amounts or increased enforcement is enough to make it understood to others to follow suit quickly.
If you push too hard the industry will put their crosshairs on your agency and spend money to simply sink your efforts (lobbyists, "sympathetic" judge, etc).
Never thought I'd see the day when someone on Slashdot would need to define BOFH.
LOL - I tried to find a quote where BOFH actually threatens to replace someone with a script, but neither Google nor DDG were useful to me in 30s so I gave up and linked the wiki.
I have optimized my /. posting to increase productivity.
My guess is trouble floating between the first and third person format.
Doesn't most sites like Facebook strip this out when uploading due to people actually posting location data with pictures of their new toys and getting robbed shortly after?
Im sure Facebook keeps (and indexes) the original EXIF data (all anonymously and for your benefit), but likely does remove it from published photos.
Does productivity count if you're offshoring and outsourcing everything and not growing your job/revenue/tax base (by also allow those offshore/inverted operations to avoid paying taxes) ?
Sounds like eating your seed corn to me.
I've seen no evidence that the US Government wants Assange for any reason. Just a lot of unsupported claims.
Right up until he disappears in a black site. Of course, no one could have predicted or foreseen...
USB tethering is great when it works too, but that also seems to be rarely implemented these days.
Apple's implementation is great. If you have a Mac, you can even initiate the teetering request from the laptop (you must have it active on your phone). If your carrier doesn't support free tethering, you can easily move to one that does (T-Mobile).
Ive had great experiences with tethering on iOS with an iPhone5 and later and an honest carrier.
Never mind that Sanders has been polling above Clinton at least part of the time, he's not "viable" because "reasons."
Of course, the only reason people believe Sanders is "crazy" is because the media keeps claiming so, but that's a total lie -- in reality, Sanders' positions are completely reasonable and moderate.
Sanders is not viable to the oligarchs. And that's who runs the country now. We peasants and bourgeois need to get back in our places, and let the two faces of the single party rule.
So basically, Google is pushing to completely remove me and replace me with a tiny script. :(
Yes, all the BOFH [1] are belong to Google, apparently.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Its like the daily show's "Senior blahblah Analyst" where blahblah = the subject at hand, whether it's "elections" or "toilet cleaning".
...or they could just stop subsidizing sugar production.
This is the smartest comment in the entire post so far. While we're at it lets stop subsidizing corn to create HFCS (and other idiocies like ethanol) as well...
No need for a tax when we can instead stop handing out freebies that are corrupting our diets instead.
There - something both progressives and libertarians can get behind.
So when are cell phone comms going to be encrypted? Why should operators like T-mobile and Sprint allow this to continue? AT&T/Verizon are hopelessly corrupt at this point. I only hold out hope where there's some desire for competition.
What can be encrypted using existing technologies and what can't?
I called AT&T and asked how she could have used data when it was off. They said that it takes them four hours for them (and the app I used) to reflect our actual data usage. I asked them to set it up so that when her data goes over to just stop sending data when it's out. They said they cannot, their system was not set up that way. I told them that was bunk.
You need to move to a provider that isn't a prick. TMO (and Sprint I believe, though I'm not sure) both offer data plans that will result in little to no overage. I have not paid voice or data overage in 2 years on TMO. They do exactly what you said you want, but instead of stopping the data, you get throttled down to 128Kb/s (i.e., good 2G speeds).
I moved us over from AT&T and Verizon because both of them wanted us to pay overage once in a while, and randomly at that. You don't need to - there are options and they don't suck (my phone and data coverage with TMO is better than either AT&T or VZ were).
While we're on the subject of unrealistic counterfactuals... If each American had to choose between keeping their cellphone or their gun, how many would choose which?
Considering only about 1 in 3 Americans either owns a gun [1] I'd say most people by default would choose their smartphone since 2 in 3 Americans [2] own one of those. I assume in both cases, they're counting adults - but regardless, that means 2x smartphone owners vs gun owners. If I owned a smartphone but no gun, I'd have to answer to keep my real smartphone and not keep my (not owned therefore theoretical) firearm.
Among gun owners, you're talking about a biased group - you don't need to own a gun in most parts of the country - and lack of firearms has rarely prevented someone from finding employment unlike say, not having a car.
[1] http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us...
[2] http://www.pewinternet.org/201...
...they can get a ride just with their smartphone.
Plus they can always bum a ride off their friends (oh, lets be honest, more likely their parents - more and more 18+ live with their parents due to insane rents and general inflation combined with a poor job market).
3) /. doesn't care about being an "all-around inventor" in the sense of Edison. It's like a Jobs and Woz comparison, and /. is going to pretty much universally side with Woz because Woz and Tesla were people more like us, and we don't see much value in the ability to be a shrewd businessman. Tesla was a real life mad scientist, and we love that shit.
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Amusingly, there are both Jobs and Woz fanboys here - both of them were geniuses in their own right. But Nikolai Tesla is a whole 'nother ballpark, I'd say. And his unjust end does nothing to reduce his mythic/heroic status.
I like Tesla, but I have a nagging feeling that what's going to happen is that one of these days Toyota or Honda or someone will start taking electric very seriously, and Tesla will be done. Toyota and others have experience and economies of scale that Tesla can't match.
Tesla will be happy when that happens, because they've been living electrics for years, and any competition that Toyota or Honda can put up will force that company to compete with its other offerings, causing internal disruption.
This is classic innovators dilemma territory and Musk/Tesla and everyone else knows it. Which is why there will be no competition, simply hit-pieces and trumped up issues that are funded by industry groups.
and btw, Toyota has bet the farm not on battery-electric hybrids (Prius) as it's future, but instead fuel-cells. Seriously. Yeah, Toyota isn't going near electrics anytime soon.
To be honest, I'd rather the Chinese government spy on my than my own government.
Think logical OR, not an exclusive-or (XOR).
"Only Android devices are affected, iOS users are safe"
Ah, Android, is there anything you don't fail at?
Android is open! And it still has higher marketshare than iOS!
Side-loading a new factory image isn't exactly difficult. Sure, you need the adb and fastboot tools, and it helps to be running Linux, but for the most part it's simpler than most desktop OS upgrades.
Ok, you see, I buy a phone, I expect my security upgrades to be as seamless as the competition. The alternative is that much fewer people buy the phone again after having been left out to do the manufacturer's work.
Politicians: Done. Now even reading your OBD data is illegal. Happy?