Threatened protests are the least of the story. As soon as the economy picks up a bit, these douchebags will be back with their caps and artificially-complex pricing plans and their fuck-the-consumer mentality. Right now, they're scared that customers will just quit, or a lot of very bright people without a lot of spare cash will come up with a way to render them as obsolete as the record companies.
Then it will just be a case of seeing how much damage the old dinosaur will do before its brain finally figures out that it's dead, and tells the body to lie down and let new predators feed.
That stupid dipshit says it took him 25 years to design that tarot card he's trying to pass off as a business card. He should have saved about 22 of them by spending 3 years in a decent commercial art program.
He notes quite correctly that it won't fit in a Rolodex. It will, however, fit quite nicely into the Round File...which is where it would wind up if I was given one.
I bet Diebold, or Premier, or whatever it is that pack of cheats and liars are calling themselves these days, won't be trying to place their voting machines in Finland any time soon. I doubt they could attain 98% accuracy even with only one candidate on the ballot.
The average person wants everything for nothing. As long as they have the illusion that they're getting it, they're happy. That's the current situation.
Schmidt is a leech happily feeding on content provided by the newspapers. Their ad revenue is tanking because it's so easy to get news free (and that's exactly what people are doing), but the papers still have to pay their reporters and editors. Anybody who believes bloggers and those overpaid drones on cable news can do the job a decent investigative reporter does is a damned fool. Right now, the only people employing such reporters are newspapers (yes, I know there are exceptions...they're rare and irrelevant to the point). When real content is gone, Schmidt will happily switch gears to supply the latest images of some starlet's crotch...which is what a lot of people want, after all.
Meanwhile, the access to real information, which helps keep society free, dies off.
I think you're completely right. When this XP Pro installation finally croaks, I'm moving to Linux.
I know exactly what you mean about Norton, too. Scrubbing it out of XP after it let me get infected was more of a pain than getting rid of the damned virus. Between a firewall and a weekly scan with Avast, I've never had another problem in two+ years.
Why do I get the feeling that using this is going to be like half killing yourself with a steady intake of chemotherapy drugs just because some day you might get cancer?
If the government wants to snoop Facebook, the pure volume of communications means they'll have to use some kind of filtering process. Take a page from the spammers' book. If enough people lard their communications with UK relatives and e-friends with buzzwords like "bomb" and "nuclear" and "nitrate", the cost to go through them and decide that they're all crap would be huge.
Time to have some fun, and invite these fascist pricks to honk on BoBo.
I'm not sure. It certainly isn't as cut-and-dried as the statute of limitations would be in the case of a fraud or theft charge. The argument would likely be made that the harm is on-going, and therefore the violation is still current. Whether that would fly or not, I honestly don't know.
This is genuinely frightening. Information like this needs to be disseminated so widely and so quickly that would-be info-Nazis don't have the time or resources to censor it or prosecute the thousands upon thousands of people who are helping to get it out there.
Anybody with sufficient technical expertise to suggest how this might be accomplished would enjoy my undivided attention.
Does anybody doubt for a minute that the first thing managers will do is exempt themselves from being evaluated this way? The only thing this "tool" will be used for is to intimidate employees at evaluation time, or when they're looking for a raise.
This has nothing to do with left wing or right wing, and allegations that it does are simply foolish. The English Conservative Party has a well-documented history of fascist tendencies going back at least as far as WWII. There were even quite a few Tories who thought Hitler had the right idea, and said so publicly. Sir Oswald Mosley illustrates the point well. First he was a Tory, then a Labour cabinet minister, then he abandoned both parties to found the British Union of Fascists.
You might also be unaware that in its current incarnation the Labour Party is to the right of what has traditionally been the British centre.
In any case, this situation is just another indication of a coercive government doing what it does best: get people under its thumb and squeeze out any hint of thought and activity it doesn't either monitor or control. Just try to find real differences in the position of the Tories and Labour on any issue of substance. Currently, "Right" and "Left" are simply labels of convenience to soothe the party faithful.
How could a legitimate expert in the field make the errors and omissions Prof. Doug Jacobson did in his testimony? It appears from what has been said that either Jacobson's academic credentials or his honesty are suspect. These omissions are not minor, nor are they so esoteric that a so-called "expert witness" could be forgiven for being unaware of them.
That won't take you off the hook. By luring the beast onto the device and having it agree to the EULA, you're employing the it as your proxy or agent, your utensil or tool, your...um, what's the word...your cat's-paw.
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Threatened protests are the least of the story. As soon as the economy picks up a bit, these douchebags will be back with their caps and artificially-complex pricing plans and their fuck-the-consumer mentality. Right now, they're scared that customers will just quit, or a lot of very bright people without a lot of spare cash will come up with a way to render them as obsolete as the record companies.
Then it will just be a case of seeing how much damage the old dinosaur will do before its brain finally figures out that it's dead, and tells the body to lie down and let new predators feed.
That stupid dipshit says it took him 25 years to design that tarot card he's trying to pass off as a business card. He should have saved about 22 of them by spending 3 years in a decent commercial art program.
He notes quite correctly that it won't fit in a Rolodex. It will, however, fit quite nicely into the Round File...which is where it would wind up if I was given one.
Guaranteed.
I bet Diebold, or Premier, or whatever it is that pack of cheats and liars are calling themselves these days, won't be trying to place their voting machines in Finland any time soon. I doubt they could attain 98% accuracy even with only one candidate on the ballot.
So does this mean we now have to call them dye-atoms?
Don't bother throwing things...I've already taken cover.
No doubt that old, old joke with the punchline, "That feels pretty good. Bionic arm...jerk it off" will enjoy renewed popularity.
If they're anything like you, they probably eat a lot of shit, though.
The average person wants everything for nothing. As long as they have the illusion that they're getting it, they're happy. That's the current situation.
Schmidt is a leech happily feeding on content provided by the newspapers. Their ad revenue is tanking because it's so easy to get news free (and that's exactly what people are doing), but the papers still have to pay their reporters and editors. Anybody who believes bloggers and those overpaid drones on cable news can do the job a decent investigative reporter does is a damned fool. Right now, the only people employing such reporters are newspapers (yes, I know there are exceptions...they're rare and irrelevant to the point). When real content is gone, Schmidt will happily switch gears to supply the latest images of some starlet's crotch...which is what a lot of people want, after all.
Meanwhile, the access to real information, which helps keep society free, dies off.
I think you're completely right. When this XP Pro installation finally croaks, I'm moving to Linux.
I know exactly what you mean about Norton, too. Scrubbing it out of XP after it let me get infected was more of a pain than getting rid of the damned virus. Between a firewall and a weekly scan with Avast, I've never had another problem in two+ years.
Why do I get the feeling that using this is going to be like half killing yourself with a steady intake of chemotherapy drugs just because some day you might get cancer?
...the science fiction/teen slasher movie that's bound to come out of this will have the words "mutant" and "beer" in the title?
These guys can be very, very helpful about issues like this:
http://www.eff.org/
If the government wants to snoop Facebook, the pure volume of communications means they'll have to use some kind of filtering process. Take a page from the spammers' book. If enough people lard their communications with UK relatives and e-friends with buzzwords like "bomb" and "nuclear" and "nitrate", the cost to go through them and decide that they're all crap would be huge.
Time to have some fun, and invite these fascist pricks to honk on BoBo.
I'm not sure. It certainly isn't as cut-and-dried as the statute of limitations would be in the case of a fraud or theft charge. The argument would likely be made that the harm is on-going, and therefore the violation is still current. Whether that would fly or not, I honestly don't know.
Talk to Walt Disney. They still have copyright protection and licensing rights for that fucking mouse, and it's about a hundred years old.
This is genuinely frightening. Information like this needs to be disseminated so widely and so quickly that would-be info-Nazis don't have the time or resources to censor it or prosecute the thousands upon thousands of people who are helping to get it out there.
Anybody with sufficient technical expertise to suggest how this might be accomplished would enjoy my undivided attention.
Does anybody doubt for a minute that the first thing managers will do is exempt themselves from being evaluated this way? The only thing this "tool" will be used for is to intimidate employees at evaluation time, or when they're looking for a raise.
Nonsense.
This has nothing to do with left wing or right wing, and allegations that it does are simply foolish. The English Conservative Party has a well-documented history of fascist tendencies going back at least as far as WWII. There were even quite a few Tories who thought Hitler had the right idea, and said so publicly. Sir Oswald Mosley illustrates the point well. First he was a Tory, then a Labour cabinet minister, then he abandoned both parties to found the British Union of Fascists.
You might also be unaware that in its current incarnation the Labour Party is to the right of what has traditionally been the British centre.
In any case, this situation is just another indication of a coercive government doing what it does best: get people under its thumb and squeeze out any hint of thought and activity it doesn't either monitor or control. Just try to find real differences in the position of the Tories and Labour on any issue of substance. Currently, "Right" and "Left" are simply labels of convenience to soothe the party faithful.
Thanks for clearing that up.
Thanks for filling me in on that. I haven't stayed on top of this, and appreciate the education.
How could a legitimate expert in the field make the errors and omissions Prof. Doug Jacobson did in his testimony? It appears from what has been said that either Jacobson's academic credentials or his honesty are suspect. These omissions are not minor, nor are they so esoteric that a so-called "expert witness" could be forgiven for being unaware of them.
Hippocratic Oath.
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Actually, it's people who make inaccurate blanket statements who tend to be egocentric and boring.
Perhaps you know somebody like that?
That won't take you off the hook. By luring the beast onto the device and having it agree to the EULA, you're employing the it as your proxy or agent, your utensil or tool, your...um, what's the word...your cat's-paw.