It is a great time to own a restaurant in Munich...think of all of those dinners and "best of the best" bottles of wine and/or brandy that Microsoft and/or Microsoft's "partners" are buying for all of those "conservatives"/"traditionalists" (i.e., traditionally, they're accustomed to being wined and dined, minimally, if you want corporate/public money diverted into your pockets)....
It isn't an efficient law or action. E.g., it is illegal to rob convenience stores - but does that stop convenience stores from being robbed? Keeping that indisputable fact in mind, who would expect criminals - let alone terrorists - to comply with laws or regulations on the encryption algorithms and methods "permitted" for use? As another example, it is also illegal to 'jack airliners - and has been since well before 9/11.
IMHO, the NSA would be better off (from the perspective of accomplishing their mission) investing the time, money, and resources into developing ever better decryption methods and into the ability to detect the use of encryption techniques - be they known or new to the NSA - in the flood of traffic that is "the 'Net", thus weeding out what needs further analysis from the chaff.
(By the way: Would I care if the 'Net was reconfigured to completely block those nations and states that repetitiously source/harbor/fund crackerz and terrorists? Nope.)
That is something of an obvious conclusion given excerpts such as
Instead of a handful of product managers, engineers and marketers working directly with those SVPs on a customer hardware/software solution, engineers are now split off into separate business units, making product development coordination more cumbersome and perhaps elongating development cycles.
Separating engineering from marketing's' "Yes, we can - and by tomorrow night, too!" is far and away the best primer for a vaporware pump.
But hey...corporate longevity is as nothing compared to the need to provide current senior executives and large shareholders with maximum returns; somebody else can part out the wreckage.
The reality is that any human-made system will fail because of either fatal defects or accumulated non-fatal defects. Linus' mission is to keep Linux both running and flexible (to support improvement/new features) - and both goals require that no single developer diverts everybody else in the world away from maintenance and/or new feature development backwards to accommodating bugs/defects introduced by that single developer.
If you want to be treated with kid gloves, think back to high school: Resolve your petty differences/behavior problems before you get kicked up to the school principle (Linus, in this case). Merely being kicked up to that level indicates both that your behavior is causing significant problems and that everybody else has already given up on you
Comments such as this one make it plain that AT&T believes that they've bought enough members of Congress and enough of the FCC to be able to safely ignore those famous "free market" principles which would otherwise supposedly protect the American consumer from monopolistic practices - e.g., sending Netflix to the bottom of the priority stack on AT&T-controlled comm links.
The greatest arrogance lies in the fact that AT&T believes that they can publicly reveal - even boast of - the extent of the corruption that they've fostered without repercussion.
Seems the solution is Google builds "dense urban housing" on their campus a la Foxconn. They save the money for the shuttles, their fuel, and the shuttle drivers and return it to the shareholders - and the rest of San Francisco doesn't have to worry about upward pressure on rents, the blasting of their neighborhoods with "dense urban housing", or the Congo.
Handy double-edged sword, that "shareholder value".
(P.S. Note to personnel about to be bugged [NPI] by increasingly nervous politicians: Never tell a politician that they don't have "the need to know" - or cover something up so that they cannot see it especially if there is anybody in the vicinity who appears to be unaware of just how very important they are. Even though you, the politician, and the wall all know that the politician leaks for any reason from revenge to financial advantage to impressing that pretty young thing to free dinner on the WaPo, that just makes 'em mad and they'll take it out on you/the program/the nation's security.
Instead, pull an Alberto Gonzales and select one of the nearly infinite variations of "I forget." or "I don't know.". And remember: For anybody but a politician, those are just delay tactics. You will be expected to be capable of learning new tricks.)
Or did another/other member(s) of Congress put it into his head out of fear that Congress' insider trading, graft, legislation-written-directly-by-special-interests, and so on is actually all on NSA hard drives somewhere?
I'd feel better about Hayden's opinion if I didn't get this visual of Hayden saying "This is the intelligence we have." and then nodding compliantly as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & PNAC, LLP said "Well, this is what we'll say we have - and this is what you'll say it means." And Voila! - we're in Iraq with too few, too under-armored, for too little justification...and consequently taking too many casualties for too long at too great of an expense in both dollars and world opinion.
There are many - to include me - who despise Snowden for turncoating...but the reality is when you must watch the very top of the food chain betraying the nation for purely selfish reasons - just to hurt "labor" a.k.a. the American people and further enrich the top of the energy and financial food chains - you don't have to be an analyst to project that others further down the food chain will follow that leadership example.
That is what leaders are for: To set the example. Sell-outs shouldn't bitch about other sell-outs.
lolll...oh, yeah: And there is some concern that what Corporate America does to make money and influence our government just might be going to hard disk somewhere.
The bottom line is "the tech industry" mines and sells your data (i.e., "every little thing you do"), so in order to keep their bottom line growing "the tech industry" must get the NSA's ability to mine for terrorist activity stopped before the American people force their (not "their" as in "the American people's", but "their" as in "the tech industry's") Representatives and Senators to again prioritize their Constitutional responsibilities above their bought-and-paid-for promises and outlaw all data mining as the invasion of privacy that it is.
Maybe Google has decided "Why make it easier to pick out what our customers are interested in - or, for that matter, why reduce the volume of electronic transmissions that must be analyzed? Let the spam flow!".
I suspect that Doug Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would have been worded slightly differently had this occurred before he finished his book; i.e., when the reason for the destruction of the Earth (the construction of a hyperspatial express bypass) was given, I suspect the sentence "Doesn't matter, anyway; they chose to self-obsolete with something called 'patents'." would have appeared shortly thereafter.
Relying on people's technical ignorance is catching, it appears...spare printer parts are named weapons components (undoubtedly as a prelude for a campaign to make the printers themselves illegal)...and here in America, a $294 million (!!!!) secure website, the private contractor explains, cannot possibly be expected to work as it was never tested end to end...
And of course nobody says "What! $294 million (!!!) for a secure website, and you couldn't spare a few millions for unit testing?"...because they - both the American public and our Congress - either don't know any better or would find the truth to impair their intended political narrative.
If the Iraq War taught the world nothing else, it should lie in the example set by Tony Blair and George W. Bush: Just being a "world leader" won't stop an individual from lying...and human lives are among the stakes.
Now if you're really upset, then simply demand that the NSA share all of the conversations of the "world's leaders" with the world's peoples.
Then a possible negative is made into an absolute positive.
What are you trying to do? Make me miss the old BBS systems where a BBS owner would get in a snit because you laughed at his or her pet paradigm and toss you off?
(When you snuck back on and realized that all of the content that you'd typed or uploaded at 300 baud had also fallen victim to their wrath, it was a little depressing.)
OCZ's drives don't fail at an any higher rate than, say, WD's first generation SATA 3.0 drives, so look at the bright side: If the two vendors were sports cars, your use of OCZ SSDs would ensure that people emitted the proper "Wow!" when they read how fast you were going before your brakes failed and you hit the tree.
(lolll...personally, I bought some Vertex IIs, some Agility 2s...and stopped.)
And the post points out (in 2010) that if you reverse the string it was "edit by 04882 Joel Backdoor" so it was clearly a backdoor.
The big scandal here is how can a backdoor be known since 2010 and not revealed??!!!
Somebody found it profitable enough to make an effort to stifle the spread of knowledge about the backdoor?
"Profit" can be anything of value, of course.
lolll..and those seeking to "profit" can be individuals or groups of individuals like theft rings, political factions, religious entities, corporations, and states...
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It is a great time to own a restaurant in Munich...think of all of those dinners and "best of the best" bottles of wine and/or brandy that Microsoft and/or Microsoft's "partners" are buying for all of those "conservatives"/"traditionalists" (i.e., traditionally, they're accustomed to being wined and dined, minimally, if you want corporate/public money diverted into your pockets)....
E.g., Google "exam cheating india". And efforts to rig outcomes are not limited to India...
It isn't an efficient law or action. E.g., it is illegal to rob convenience stores - but does that stop convenience stores from being robbed? Keeping that indisputable fact in mind, who would expect criminals - let alone terrorists - to comply with laws or regulations on the encryption algorithms and methods "permitted" for use? As another example, it is also illegal to 'jack airliners - and has been since well before 9/11.
IMHO, the NSA would be better off (from the perspective of accomplishing their mission) investing the time, money, and resources into developing ever better decryption methods and into the ability to detect the use of encryption techniques - be they known or new to the NSA - in the flood of traffic that is "the 'Net", thus weeding out what needs further analysis from the chaff.
(By the way: Would I care if the 'Net was reconfigured to completely block those nations and states that repetitiously source/harbor/fund crackerz and terrorists? Nope.)
Instead of a handful of product managers, engineers and marketers working directly with those SVPs on a customer hardware/software solution, engineers are now split off into separate business units, making product development coordination more cumbersome and perhaps elongating development cycles.
from articles like NetworkWorld's Cisco reorgs trimming SVP ranks .
Separating engineering from marketing's' "Yes, we can - and by tomorrow night, too!" is far and away the best primer for a vaporware pump.
But hey...corporate longevity is as nothing compared to the need to provide current senior executives and large shareholders with maximum returns; somebody else can part out the wreckage.
Good thing my principle purpose wasn't the provision an example of the correct usage of the word "principal".
The reality is that any human-made system will fail because of either fatal defects or accumulated non-fatal defects. Linus' mission is to keep Linux both running and flexible (to support improvement/new features) - and both goals require that no single developer diverts everybody else in the world away from maintenance and/or new feature development backwards to accommodating bugs/defects introduced by that single developer.
If you want to be treated with kid gloves, think back to high school: Resolve your petty differences/behavior problems before you get kicked up to the school principle (Linus, in this case). Merely being kicked up to that level indicates both that your behavior is causing significant problems and that everybody else has already given up on you
It is AT&T that is "arrogant".
Comments such as this one make it plain that AT&T believes that they've bought enough members of Congress and enough of the FCC to be able to safely ignore those famous "free market" principles which would otherwise supposedly protect the American consumer from monopolistic practices - e.g., sending Netflix to the bottom of the priority stack on AT&T-controlled comm links.
The greatest arrogance lies in the fact that AT&T believes that they can publicly reveal - even boast of - the extent of the corruption that they've fostered without repercussion.
Too true. The two things I've gathered that are simply not taught at America's B-schools are innovation and ethics.
Did Greenwald just say that if you disagree with him, Snowden, or Snowden's pals in the PRC and former USSR you're a "government shill"?
I'd note, by the way, that injecting misinformation into "stolen government documents" after the fact isn't only a piece of cake, it's old hat.
In my opinion the next step after that, should be to abolish software patents.
Legal says "No - and would you like a job in the mail room better?".
Seems the solution is Google builds "dense urban housing" on their campus a la Foxconn. They save the money for the shuttles, their fuel, and the shuttle drivers and return it to the shareholders - and the rest of San Francisco doesn't have to worry about upward pressure on rents, the blasting of their neighborhoods with "dense urban housing", or the Congo.
Handy double-edged sword, that "shareholder value".
(P.S. Note to personnel about to be bugged [NPI] by increasingly nervous politicians: Never tell a politician that they don't have "the need to know" - or cover something up so that they cannot see it especially if there is anybody in the vicinity who appears to be unaware of just how very important they are. Even though you, the politician, and the wall all know that the politician leaks for any reason from revenge to financial advantage to impressing that pretty young thing to free dinner on the WaPo, that just makes 'em mad and they'll take it out on you/the program/the nation's security.
Instead, pull an Alberto Gonzales and select one of the nearly infinite variations of "I forget." or "I don't know.". And remember: For anybody but a politician, those are just delay tactics. You will be expected to be capable of learning new tricks.)
Or did another/other member(s) of Congress put it into his head out of fear that Congress' insider trading, graft, legislation-written-directly-by-special-interests, and so on is actually all on NSA hard drives somewhere?
I'd feel better about Hayden's opinion if I didn't get this visual of Hayden saying "This is the intelligence we have." and then nodding compliantly as Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld & PNAC, LLP said "Well, this is what we'll say we have - and this is what you'll say it means." And Voila! - we're in Iraq with too few, too under-armored, for too little justification...and consequently taking too many casualties for too long at too great of an expense in both dollars and world opinion.
There are many - to include me - who despise Snowden for turncoating...but the reality is when you must watch the very top of the food chain betraying the nation for purely selfish reasons - just to hurt "labor" a.k.a. the American people and further enrich the top of the energy and financial food chains - you don't have to be an analyst to project that others further down the food chain will follow that leadership example.
That is what leaders are for: To set the example. Sell-outs shouldn't bitch about other sell-outs.
lolll...oh, yeah: And there is some concern that what Corporate America does to make money and influence our government just might be going to hard disk somewhere.
The bottom line is "the tech industry" mines and sells your data (i.e., "every little thing you do"), so in order to keep their bottom line growing "the tech industry" must get the NSA's ability to mine for terrorist activity stopped before the American people force their (not "their" as in "the American people's", but "their" as in "the tech industry's") Representatives and Senators to again prioritize their Constitutional responsibilities above their bought-and-paid-for promises and outlaw all data mining as the invasion of privacy that it is.
The real power in America has been transferred to corporations; if you're serious about protecting chimpanzees, incorporate them.
Voila! - instant super-"citizens".
Maybe Google has decided "Why make it easier to pick out what our customers are interested in - or, for that matter, why reduce the volume of electronic transmissions that must be analyzed? Let the spam flow!".
I suspect that Doug Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy would have been worded slightly differently had this occurred before he finished his book; i.e., when the reason for the destruction of the Earth (the construction of a hyperspatial express bypass) was given, I suspect the sentence "Doesn't matter, anyway; they chose to self-obsolete with something called 'patents'." would have appeared shortly thereafter.
Relying on people's technical ignorance is catching, it appears...spare printer parts are named weapons components (undoubtedly as a prelude for a campaign to make the printers themselves illegal)...and here in America, a $294 million (!!!!) secure website, the private contractor explains, cannot possibly be expected to work as it was never tested end to end...
And of course nobody says "What! $294 million (!!!) for a secure website, and you couldn't spare a few millions for unit testing?"...because they - both the American public and our Congress - either don't know any better or would find the truth to impair their intended political narrative.
If the Iraq War taught the world nothing else, it should lie in the example set by Tony Blair and George W. Bush: Just being a "world leader" won't stop an individual from lying...and human lives are among the stakes.
Now if you're really upset, then simply demand that the NSA share all of the conversations of the "world's leaders" with the world's peoples.
Then a possible negative is made into an absolute positive.
What are you trying to do? Make me miss the old BBS systems where a BBS owner would get in a snit because you laughed at his or her pet paradigm and toss you off?
(When you snuck back on and realized that all of the content that you'd typed or uploaded at 300 baud had also fallen victim to their wrath, it was a little depressing.)
OCZ's drives don't fail at an any higher rate than, say, WD's first generation SATA 3.0 drives, so look at the bright side: If the two vendors were sports cars, your use of OCZ SSDs would ensure that people emitted the proper "Wow!" when they read how fast you were going before your brakes failed and you hit the tree.
(lolll...personally, I bought some Vertex IIs, some Agility 2s...and stopped.)
And the post points out (in 2010) that if you reverse the string it was "edit by 04882 Joel Backdoor" so it was clearly a backdoor.
The big scandal here is how can a backdoor be known since 2010 and not revealed??!!!
Somebody found it profitable enough to make an effort to stifle the spread of knowledge about the backdoor? "Profit" can be anything of value, of course.
lolll..and those seeking to "profit" can be individuals or groups of individuals like theft rings, political factions, religious entities, corporations, and states...
And the post points out (in 2010) that if you reverse the string it was "edit by 04882 Joel Backdoor" so it was clearly a backdoor.
The big scandal here is how can a backdoor be known since 2010 and not revealed??!!!
Somebody found it profitable enough to make an effort to stifle the spread of knowledge about the backdoor?
"Profit" can be anything of value, of course.