And you will always have people that flies under the radar that can create trouble.
If you're intent on doing evil, it's much easier to "fly under the radar" in a crowd than in a sparse population. The government's program of amassing as much data as they possibly can on American citizens actually makes it easier to hide ones nefarious activities because it only creates a vanishishly small signal compared to the tremendous amount of noise.
According to the recent Nova program on the Boston Marathon Bomber manhunt, the two perpetrators were on a terrorist watch list, albeit along with over 800,000 other people. Furthermore, one of their names was entered incorrectly in the FBI database, a simple typo, so it didn't raise any red flags when he travelled to Chechnya for bomb-making lessons.
Amassing tons of data on your citizens is easy, knowing how to use that data effectively is orders of magnitude more difficult.
Think you'll get THAT right the first time? Even if you are a security expert?
Well, yes, that's what makes me an expert. However, TFA is abiout a company putting all of its customer records online, unencrypted and searchable through a simple Google query. There is no excuse for that level of malfeasance.
What law would Google take MS to court over breaking a TOS?
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. An act that violates a Web site's terms of service can be considered "unauthorized access of information systems" in one interpretation of that law. You can thank Congress for that little gem.
Given the employment issues you correctly raise, what insurance?
Unfortunately, that's an excellent point. For the unemployed, there's not much. Medicare, Medicaid, and whatever state programs there are. Sadly, none of these offer decent insurance options for the mentally ill until they are hospitalized.
These shysters, after poking the proverbial hornets nest with a pointy stick and getting stung, are at it again? Unbelievable. I guess the lesson they learned from last time is that it's worth it. Crime does pay. There is no other explanation for this behavior.
And if you just live, you already engage in regular accidental autocannibalism.
Care to expound on this? I'm not sure I want to hear the answer, but I can't let this pass without asking for clarification as I don't ever recall accidentally eating people.
In a word, no. The people most likely to benefit from treatment are also the least likely to be able to afford it. Not many companies actively recruiting schizophrenics for high paying jobs these days. Additionally, insurance companies would love to deny medical claims for the mentally ill as psychiatric treatment and medications do not come cheap. Without a diagnosis there is no way in hell any insurance company will honor a claim for treatment.
Because the pics DO disappear when you open them. Both from your phone and their servers
How do you know the pictures "disappear" from their servers? We've already ascertained they are not actually removed from the phone. How do we know the server admins don't keep some of the more "interesting" photos for their private collection? Of course, they wouldn't disclose that publicly.
Furthermore, in the United States, the Stored Communications Act mandates that providers must preserve stored data for up to 180 days upon government request. For an application whose target demographic seems to be horny teenagers, I can see this law being used (or abused) in cases of suspected child pornography.
No one is ever going to take up arms against the government, and if someone does, he's easily dismissed as a kook by the media, and killed in a hail of gunfire and we all cheer on TV that we've been "saved" from this guy by the long arm of oppression.
People aren't taking up arms against the government because that's not how we do things in the United States. People effect change in government at the ballot box. It may not be fast enough for your liking, but it's certainly more civilized.
What's astonishing is that this system works at all given the diversity of personal incentives, political agendas, and world views of so many people acting independently (presumably in their own self-interest.) Change does occur, it's just hard to see it happening when you examine the minutiae of day-to-day events.
Can't imagine that a career testing software would be compelling. You'd get yelled at from the user and from the dev side, except for the more thoughtful devs.
I can't imagine being a marriage counselor is much better - you have to be able to deal with a lot of anger. Still, there are people who still do it. One I talked to flat out said that other people's anger doesn't affect him. This is the type of guy we need doing software testing!
Bitcoin mining becomes much more lucrative if you use someone else's hardware and electricity. Certainly others have been charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for smaller shenanigans than this. I will be interesting to see how this plays out.
I vote gross negligence. The West Fertilizer plant failed to notify the DHS of it' ammonium nitrate stockpiles. It is required to do under the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Act. They are not out of the woods by any means, someone is going to be held accountable.
What if these guys bombed the marathon because they were mad about Aaron Swartz's mistreatment?
First thing I thought of after hearing an MIT officer was shot near the campus. Why would they be heading to MIT of all places?
Why were they still in Massachusetts at all? I'd think after committing a high-profile crime they would have wanted to leave the area. With a major manhunt under way they should have put as much distance between themselves and Boston as they possibly could. Maybe they wanted to be caught?
Anti-possession laws are universally dumb, no matter how evil or heinous you might personally think the thing being possessed is.
Anti-possession laws when applied to the so-called "vice" crimes are universally dumb. Using your examples, drugs and sex. In that case I agree with you.
Obviously, I don't want my neighbor to stockpile radioactive materials or nerve gas. Things that can be used to hurt other people I'm OK with being banned.
...they need to make encryption as simple and easy as pushing a button...
I quite agree, only I'd do away with the button. Always-on encryption is what users need today. This one step would eliminate the most egregious violations of the user's privacy by corporate, governmental, and criminal enterprises.
If it's too late to add always-on encryption to the existing internet infrastructure, then so be it. We'll have to build another, more secure, network. The sooner, the better.
The decision was a marketing one, to sacrifice something of the Windows brand (and userbase) in order to leap onto the Tablet/Mobile device bandwagon.
A desktop computer user has vastly different needs than a tablet or mobile device user.
Microsoft could have kept the desktop UI the same, and *added* additional support for tablet and mobile devices instead of insisting that all use cases are the same. Instead they deliberately chose to dumb down the UI for the desktop user. Heck, even webpages often have different UIs depending on the what device is used to access them. I think MIcrosoft made a big mistake here.
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Why does it always have to be a fundamentalist religious government?
Because historically it isn't gangs of fundamentalist atheists blowing things up.
And you will always have people that flies under the radar that can create trouble.
If you're intent on doing evil, it's much easier to "fly under the radar" in a crowd than in a sparse population. The government's program of amassing as much data as they possibly can on American citizens actually makes it easier to hide ones nefarious activities because it only creates a vanishishly small signal compared to the tremendous amount of noise.
According to the recent Nova program on the Boston Marathon Bomber manhunt, the two perpetrators were on a terrorist watch list, albeit along with over 800,000 other people. Furthermore, one of their names was entered incorrectly in the FBI database, a simple typo, so it didn't raise any red flags when he travelled to Chechnya for bomb-making lessons.
Amassing tons of data on your citizens is easy, knowing how to use that data effectively is orders of magnitude more difficult.
Think you'll get THAT right the first time? Even if you are a security expert?
Well, yes, that's what makes me an expert. However, TFA is abiout a company putting all of its customer records online, unencrypted and searchable through a simple Google query. There is no excuse for that level of malfeasance.
If you want aim assist, play a console FPS. Otherwise, what's the point?
They advertise even a novice can hit the target in one shot at 500 yards. Obviously, it's being marketed to the wannabe assassin.
What law would Google take MS to court over breaking a TOS?
The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. An act that violates a Web site's terms of service can be considered "unauthorized access of information systems" in one interpretation of that law. You can thank Congress for that little gem.
Given the employment issues you correctly raise, what insurance?
Unfortunately, that's an excellent point. For the unemployed, there's not much. Medicare, Medicaid, and whatever state programs there are. Sadly, none of these offer decent insurance options for the mentally ill until they are hospitalized.
These shysters, after poking the proverbial hornets nest with a pointy stick and getting stung, are at it again? Unbelievable. I guess the lesson they learned from last time is that it's worth it. Crime does pay. There is no other explanation for this behavior.
And if you just live, you already engage in regular accidental autocannibalism.
Care to expound on this? I'm not sure I want to hear the answer, but I can't let this pass without asking for clarification as I don't ever recall accidentally eating people.
Would most people be better off undiagnosed?
In a word, yes.
In a word, no. The people most likely to benefit from treatment are also the least likely to be able to afford it. Not many companies actively recruiting schizophrenics for high paying jobs these days. Additionally, insurance companies would love to deny medical claims for the mentally ill as psychiatric treatment and medications do not come cheap. Without a diagnosis there is no way in hell any insurance company will honor a claim for treatment.
My dad is in this business, and they're all neck deep in "tax avoidance" and many of them dabble in outright tax evasion.
Why on earth would you post this on a public forum?
Because the pics DO disappear when you open them. Both from your phone and their servers
How do you know the pictures "disappear" from their servers? We've already ascertained they are not actually removed from the phone. How do we know the server admins don't keep some of the more "interesting" photos for their private collection? Of course, they wouldn't disclose that publicly.
Furthermore, in the United States, the Stored Communications Act mandates that providers must preserve stored data for up to 180 days upon government request. For an application whose target demographic seems to be horny teenagers, I can see this law being used (or abused) in cases of suspected child pornography.
No one is ever going to take up arms against the government, and if someone does, he's easily dismissed as a kook by the media, and killed in a hail of gunfire and we all cheer on TV that we've been "saved" from this guy by the long arm of oppression.
People aren't taking up arms against the government because that's not how we do things in the United States. People effect change in government at the ballot box. It may not be fast enough for your liking, but it's certainly more civilized.
What's astonishing is that this system works at all given the diversity of personal incentives, political agendas, and world views of so many people acting independently (presumably in their own self-interest.) Change does occur, it's just hard to see it happening when you examine the minutiae of day-to-day events.
What 67 year old (even a rich one) can attract the attention of a woman 1/3 his age?
A rich one.
Can't imagine that a career testing software would be compelling. You'd get yelled at from the user and from the dev side, except for the more thoughtful devs.
I can't imagine being a marriage counselor is much better - you have to be able to deal with a lot of anger. Still, there are people who still do it. One I talked to flat out said that other people's anger doesn't affect him. This is the type of guy we need doing software testing!
Bitcoin mining becomes much more lucrative if you use someone else's hardware and electricity. Certainly others have been charged under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act for smaller shenanigans than this. I will be interesting to see how this plays out.
Or gross negligence.
I vote gross negligence. The West Fertilizer plant failed to notify the DHS of it' ammonium nitrate stockpiles. It is required to do under the Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards Act. They are not out of the woods by any means, someone is going to be held accountable.
I'm pretty sure the "slippery slope fallacy" can no longer be called a fallacy since it happens every single damn time.
It's still a fallacy, repeated use of it does not diminish its value.
But the Boston police didn't shut down an entire city. They shut down an entire city except for the donut shops.
http://www.popehat.com/2013/04/20/security-theater-martial-law-and-a-tale-that-trumps-every-cop-and-donut-joke-youve-ever-heard/
Because, well, they have donuts.
What if these guys bombed the marathon because they were mad about Aaron Swartz's mistreatment?
First thing I thought of after hearing an MIT officer was shot near the campus. Why would they be heading to MIT of all places?
Why were they still in Massachusetts at all? I'd think after committing a high-profile crime they would have wanted to leave the area. With a major manhunt under way they should have put as much distance between themselves and Boston as they possibly could. Maybe they wanted to be caught?
NBC is saying they are linked to the Islamic Jihad Union, an "affiliate" of al Quaida. For what it's worth.
Anti-possession laws are universally dumb, no matter how evil or heinous you might personally think the thing being possessed is.
Anti-possession laws when applied to the so-called "vice" crimes are universally dumb. Using your examples, drugs and sex. In that case I agree with you.
Obviously, I don't want my neighbor to stockpile radioactive materials or nerve gas. Things that can be used to hurt other people I'm OK with being banned.
...they need to make encryption as simple and easy as pushing a button...
I quite agree, only I'd do away with the button. Always-on encryption is what users need today. This one step would eliminate the most egregious violations of the user's privacy by corporate, governmental, and criminal enterprises.
If it's too late to add always-on encryption to the existing internet infrastructure, then so be it. We'll have to build another, more secure, network. The sooner, the better.
The decision was a marketing one, to sacrifice something of the Windows brand (and userbase) in order to leap onto the Tablet/Mobile device bandwagon.
A desktop computer user has vastly different needs than a tablet or mobile device user.
Microsoft could have kept the desktop UI the same, and *added* additional support for tablet and mobile devices instead of insisting that all use cases are the same. Instead they deliberately chose to dumb down the UI for the desktop user. Heck, even webpages often have different UIs depending on the what device is used to access them. I think MIcrosoft made a big mistake here.
They are fired preemptively, before they are even hired.
The fancy graphics are just there to whet the children's appetite; it makes them hungary for more.