Congratulations. Yours is the most moronic comment I've seen here in a while. It takes some real, dedicated worship of The Stupid to slide that far past the odour trap.
US acronym agencies like the CIA, NSA, FBI, IRS, etc. have had things their own way for far too long. It's made them lazy, incompetent and stupid.
Remember the Secret Service yahoos who were too busy screwing Colombian whores to do their job? They're the tip of the iceberg. Now the FBI and the rest of the lazy bastards want back doors into every phone and computer on the planet because they refuse to do the hard, slow, dangerous work of infiltrating groups like ISIS, or turning existing members into willing and unwilling spies. They imagine they can snap their fingers and corporations like Apple will just roll over. And they imagine there won't be another hero like Phil Zimmermann around the next corner.
Even worse, they believe they actually can control the whole world, and the real innovators won't simply set up beyond the reach of the US. There is a huge demand for genuinely secure computing that has nothing to do with terrorism, and everything to do with getting out from under the thumb of corrupt, evil governments in all the major multi-national trading blocs.
"Agence France-Presse quoted a Waze official on Tuesday as saying that the setting to warn about areas 'dangerous or prohibited for Israelis to drive through' had been switched off on the device the soldiers used.
âoe 'In this case, the setting was disabled,' the official told the news agency. 'In addition, the driver deviated from the suggested route and, as a result, entered the prohibited area.' "
A cynic might suggest the soldiers went looking for trouble, and found more than they were counting on. Of course, we're not allowed to say things like that...it's "anti-Semitic".
OK, we've got "Murphy's Law" and a dozen more like it. We need to come up with a name now for a law that says something like, "Every time you hand power over to the cops, they will promise to use it responsibly, then not merely violate the trust you put in them, but pull its pants down and gang-rape it 'til it bleeds".
There has never once, not ever, been a time when this has not been true. Legalize drugs...all drugs...and fire about half of every police force and letter agency right on the spot.
If the US government wins this fight, you can bet your bottom dollar they'll be making "drop your pants and grab your ankles" access to peoples' devices into law across every nation in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership.
To say the implications are unsettling would be a gross understatement.
I probably should have expressed myself more clearly. I meant that the US hasn't done anything revolutionary in aviation/space in a very long time.
Where are the game-changers? A hypersonic plane? Really? Great description of the X-15. Meanwhile, there have been no manned missions beyond a point we've been able to reach reliably since the 1950's. GPS? You're proving my point! The concept was understood since before Sputnik, and it was first implemented 40 years ago. "Utility, efficiency, reliability"...Buzz words that essentially mean "more of the same but a little bit better". And none of them apply to the F-35, which is supposed to be the current incarnation of all that's best in US aerospace.
It isn't. It's a pretty little trailer queen that sucked a trillion dollars worth of air out of the room. Its so-called stealth is a joke, and it keeps catching fire on the runway and melting into a puddle of slag.
Also I have to say I disagree with your assertion that satellites can replace the SR-71. They don't have the same flexibility...not even close.
For far too long, the US Congress has whored itself out to aerospace corporations that have paid more attention to making sure some part of their grossly-overpriced new plane was built in every district in the country than building a plane that actually worked stretched the limits of what was possible.
Is there anything in the air today that can compare to the X-15 or the Blackbird? What has the US accomplished in the last 50 years that can even touch those accomplishments? And when was the last time an astronaut went further into space than anybody with a half-assed camera and a cheap pair of binoculars can photograph?
Conservative Americans play this game all the time by calling anyone who stops short of advocating complete freedom for corporations to rape and pillage as they will a "socialist".
When Google acquires an app or program you're using, the time to start searching for an alternative is the same day. You can rest assured that sooner or later, Google will toss the features you liked overboard, keep the features you loathed, and shoe-horn the result into whatever version of Google+ they're playing with at the moment.
When Google gobbles it up, it's gone. Like a beheaded chicken, your app may continue to move about in an appalling caricature of life. Do not be deceived. Mourn and move on while you've still got lots of time to find the best possible replacement, rather than when Google suddenly announces that the loathsome thing they turned your former fave into is being shut down, because the only people left using it are a few die-hards.
Great point. So let's shut down Facebook in Europe, South America, Canada...anywhere that doesn't share America's astonishing masturbatory fantasies with religion, racism, ignorance, guns and other evil things. And while we're at it, that whole domain thing...it doesn't really belong in the US.
Next, they'll be telling us seven years of research on PhD students has proved that five times out of six telling the ones with Asperger's to honk on Bobo will send them out looking for a clown to blow.
Perhaps I've missed some items that would give me a different opinion, but it seems to me that the ubiquitous "Timothy" loves stories that screw Apple almost as much as he loves stories alleging Windows 10 isn't as much of a privacy nightmare as sensible people know it is.
If an app has learned enough about your working vocabulary and writing style to predict what you're going to type next, I bet it can figure out where you're doing the typing, no matter how anonymous you think you are.
Unless you find a way to elevate yourselves by quite a lot, at least to the point where you won't lose two out of three intelligence contests to a retarded chimp, you won't have even a faint chance to start the process of getting to be as smart as a liberal.
Sorry. I know truth is a hard thing for conservatives to face.
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Congratulations. Yours is the most moronic comment I've seen here in a while. It takes some real, dedicated worship of The Stupid to slide that far past the odour trap.
US acronym agencies like the CIA, NSA, FBI, IRS, etc. have had things their own way for far too long. It's made them lazy, incompetent and stupid.
Remember the Secret Service yahoos who were too busy screwing Colombian whores to do their job? They're the tip of the iceberg. Now the FBI and the rest of the lazy bastards want back doors into every phone and computer on the planet because they refuse to do the hard, slow, dangerous work of infiltrating groups like ISIS, or turning existing members into willing and unwilling spies. They imagine they can snap their fingers and corporations like Apple will just roll over. And they imagine there won't be another hero like Phil Zimmermann around the next corner.
Even worse, they believe they actually can control the whole world, and the real innovators won't simply set up beyond the reach of the US. There is a huge demand for genuinely secure computing that has nothing to do with terrorism, and everything to do with getting out from under the thumb of corrupt, evil governments in all the major multi-national trading blocs.
Not true. There's exemptions, and a lot of them use them.
And instead of a couple of teenage rednecks driving through the black part of town looking to raise some hell...
Israel has a right to exist. A right to occupy territories and plant settlements in them outside its borders...no.
Try coming uninvited into my home and see where that gets you, jackass.
"Agence France-Presse quoted a Waze official on Tuesday as saying that the setting to warn about areas 'dangerous or prohibited for Israelis to drive through' had been switched off on the device the soldiers used. âoe 'In this case, the setting was disabled,' the official told the news agency. 'In addition, the driver deviated from the suggested route and, as a result, entered the prohibited area.' " A cynic might suggest the soldiers went looking for trouble, and found more than they were counting on. Of course, we're not allowed to say things like that...it's "anti-Semitic".
"Rouge waves".....sounds like a fashion trend.
OK, we've got "Murphy's Law" and a dozen more like it. We need to come up with a name now for a law that says something like, "Every time you hand power over to the cops, they will promise to use it responsibly, then not merely violate the trust you put in them, but pull its pants down and gang-rape it 'til it bleeds".
There has never once, not ever, been a time when this has not been true. Legalize drugs...all drugs...and fire about half of every police force and letter agency right on the spot.
This could account for the spread of conservatism in the body politic of many Western countries. :-)
...believe in the paranormal.
Maybe it's time to quit basing real-world decisions on the ridiculous assumption that everybody's opinion is of equal value.
If the US government wins this fight, you can bet your bottom dollar they'll be making "drop your pants and grab your ankles" access to peoples' devices into law across every nation in the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership.
To say the implications are unsettling would be a gross understatement.
I probably should have expressed myself more clearly. I meant that the US hasn't done anything revolutionary in aviation/space in a very long time.
Where are the game-changers? A hypersonic plane? Really? Great description of the X-15. Meanwhile, there have been no manned missions beyond a point we've been able to reach reliably since the 1950's. GPS? You're proving my point! The concept was understood since before Sputnik, and it was first implemented 40 years ago. "Utility, efficiency, reliability"...Buzz words that essentially mean "more of the same but a little bit better". And none of them apply to the F-35, which is supposed to be the current incarnation of all that's best in US aerospace.
It isn't. It's a pretty little trailer queen that sucked a trillion dollars worth of air out of the room. Its so-called stealth is a joke, and it keeps catching fire on the runway and melting into a puddle of slag.
Also I have to say I disagree with your assertion that satellites can replace the SR-71. They don't have the same flexibility...not even close.
No, my comment wasn't anti-military. My problem is with the lack of game-changers.
For far too long, the US Congress has whored itself out to aerospace corporations that have paid more attention to making sure some part of their grossly-overpriced new plane was built in every district in the country than building a plane that actually worked stretched the limits of what was possible.
Is there anything in the air today that can compare to the X-15 or the Blackbird? What has the US accomplished in the last 50 years that can even touch those accomplishments? And when was the last time an astronaut went further into space than anybody with a half-assed camera and a cheap pair of binoculars can photograph?
"Editing Genes In Human Embryos Doesn't Mean Designer Babies yet "
...fixed that for you. ;-)
Conservative Americans play this game all the time by calling anyone who stops short of advocating complete freedom for corporations to rape and pillage as they will a "socialist".
When Google acquires an app or program you're using, the time to start searching for an alternative is the same day. You can rest assured that sooner or later, Google will toss the features you liked overboard, keep the features you loathed, and shoe-horn the result into whatever version of Google+ they're playing with at the moment.
When Google gobbles it up, it's gone. Like a beheaded chicken, your app may continue to move about in an appalling caricature of life. Do not be deceived. Mourn and move on while you've still got lots of time to find the best possible replacement, rather than when Google suddenly announces that the loathsome thing they turned your former fave into is being shut down, because the only people left using it are a few die-hards.
Great point. So let's shut down Facebook in Europe, South America, Canada...anywhere that doesn't share America's astonishing masturbatory fantasies with religion, racism, ignorance, guns and other evil things. And while we're at it, that whole domain thing...it doesn't really belong in the US.
Works for me. :-)
You flatter the camp commandant.
Next, they'll be telling us seven years of research on PhD students has proved that five times out of six telling the ones with Asperger's to honk on Bobo will send them out looking for a clown to blow.
Perhaps I've missed some items that would give me a different opinion, but it seems to me that the ubiquitous "Timothy" loves stories that screw Apple almost as much as he loves stories alleging Windows 10 isn't as much of a privacy nightmare as sensible people know it is.
If an app has learned enough about your working vocabulary and writing style to predict what you're going to type next, I bet it can figure out where you're doing the typing, no matter how anonymous you think you are.
Unless you find a way to elevate yourselves by quite a lot, at least to the point where you won't lose two out of three intelligence contests to a retarded chimp, you won't have even a faint chance to start the process of getting to be as smart as a liberal.
Sorry. I know truth is a hard thing for conservatives to face.
Hey, Timothy, is it true that if Microsoft had a cock, you'd want to suck it?
This is a question long-time Slashdot commenters are starting to ask.
Or American conservatives bragging that they've finally raised their average IQ to 85.
:-)