"Mrs. Clinton, what you do in your private life for sexual satisfaction, be it a Russian Urine Romp with eastern European prostitutes of dubious age . . .
. . . oh, wait . . . that was the other guy . ..
OK, so Bernie Sanders walks into a bar, and Donald Trump is working there, and asks Sanders,
What would you like to drink? What can I do for you . .."
If you even dare to ask that question . . . well, . . . never mind . . .
. . . it's like that guy on the project who asks, "why don't you guys let me program something important . . . ?"
In one of my dysfunctional former lives, I grew up in a place called Haddonfield, New Jersey. Folks had money back then, and built architecturally interesting ranch houses there.
When I visited recently, a lot of them had been knocked down to erect "Candy Castles" . . . I thought that if I hit a few of those with a hose full of water, they would melt.
Oh, well. The Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright crew left a while ago . . . although, the chief architect of the Deptford Mall once showed me some sketches of his time at the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture . . . and it wondered me how folks with such artistic talent get trapped into building crap for the masses . . .
I am personally aware of 57 "nefarious activities against the United States," . . . most of them being performed by various US government three letter institutions . . .
. . . and a round of Green Cards for Terry Gou's family, friends, associates, etc.
Hey, but it's like a good old Las Vegas Casino . . . if a high roller drops a lot of money there, if he wants to burn down the casino, they will give him a match.
. . . along with the your data sold by Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc . . .
Actually, a foreign intelligence service might want to think about setting up a dummy marketing corporation to buy information from Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc . . .
"Comrade, you must have excellent spies in the USA! Where did you get this information . . . ?"
The question is whether you want to open your machine to NSA/CIA/FBI/CBP or to FSB/FSO/SVR/GRU. Who is more likely to break down your door in the middle of the night?
Stop! It's an entangled quantum mechanics trick question, like Schrödinger's Secret Squirrel! It's both the NSA/CIA/FBI/CBP *AND* the FSB/FSO/SVR/GRU at the same time!
Einstein: "So, when you open the box, is the left-handed glove or the right-handed glove in the box . . . ?"
In other words, is there a reason for me to install Kaspersky instead of Sophos or Bitdefender, which I both used in the past?
Right there in the summary:
Instead of trying to make ad money off your patronage, Kaspersky will use the data you contribute to improve machine learning across its products.
Whatever that means . . .
Do they maybe me "computation time", that you contribute . . . ? Turning your AV software into a compute node . . . ? Or maybe "data about other users", that you may contribute . . . ? *Real Espionageware*!
Aren't you aware that the NSA works towards making encryption and secure systems available to the US public and corporations?!?
Yes, the NSA has a long history of "helping" the US public and corporations with encryption . . . like the DES standard . . . invented by IBM, intentionally crippled by the NSA.
An ancient rule of war . . . don't provide your allies with any weapons that you are not able to defeat yourself . . . just in case your allies today become your enemies tomorrow.
But an opera about Steve Jobs? Have the hipsters taken over even the southwest?
Well, as they say, "today, the southwest, tomorrow the whole world."
Although, I wouldn't shove this one in the hipsters loafers . . . the US entertainment industry is desperately lacking any original ideas, and will give anything a go these days. They are running out of old comic book stories, and remakes of remakes of the Director's Cut Special Limited Editions are getting old as well.
What will be interesting . . . is how Bezos and Zuckerberg will respond to this gauntlet being tossed down. An artistic literary or musical epic is just what their budding Presidential campaigns need to get jump started. Their staff are probably already ramping their projects up in Hollywood.
Meanwhile, when asked about his artistic masterpiece plans, Warren Buffet responded, "I'm an investor, Jim. Not a musical genius."
No enemy "nation" will attack the US. The US armed forces already have enough firepower to do a whack-a-mole job on any "nation" in the world.
The folks to worry about don't have a nation, but wear beards and rags on their heads. The US won't be able to use a s00per-s0nic-giga-Internet-Of-Things-Blockchain rocket against them anyway. Where should the US fire the rocket? Into the country "hosting" them . . . ? If the government even is actively supporting them . . . ? Is it a case of a bunch of Kalashnikov and meth'ed up Koran Kooks bullying a bunch of ignorant primitive peasants into religious submission . . . ? Frankie, says, "pre-teen war-bride sex slaves for all true believers!"
Actually, screw the giga-sonic missile . . . just give me Colonel Kurtz and ten divisions of his men, and "our troubles here would be over very quickly."
Of course, our current Western morals and ideals would never permit us to commit such atrocities.
I've often wondered how Muslims living in the West deal with living in such a modern society: surrounded by Kafir, to fruit of the flesh of the devil. Do they really believe that they can live in tolerance of other folks?
This is the real security concern for the world of the future: not which country has the biggest, fastest missile. When Korea's Jar of Kimchi lobs a missile at Japan or the US, everyone knows how that one will end . . . really ugly. Go to your local airport, and observer the "Islamic Security Tax" paid by all the folks in the world because of the threat of Islamic Terrorism. That is a far bigger threat that will not be solved by any conventional weapons . . . or even an armed conflict.
We need desperately to find a way to live in peace with each other, without resorting to violence. But up until now . . . I have only seen solutions involving violence. Maybe we don't yet want peace enough . . . ?
I hate to use that word, because it is an integral part of the CIO Schtick these days, but in this case, it really could be a possible solution to the problem.
Of course, there are folks these days who claim that every problem can be solved by hitting it over the head with a Blockchain, but if you can navigate through the Blockchain hype fog, there really is something there.
Hey, but how about some IoT with a Blockchain together? And add some microservices and fuzzing . . . micro-fuzzing! And do it in an innovative, disruptive way . . .
Wrong question . . . the proper question is not What? but Who?
Some folks say that they do drugs, but sometimes drugs do you.
Maybe if you buy the stick, the Deep Learning and AI components will be able to tell you what is actually is supposed to do?
"Alexa, Siri, . . . just what the Hell do you think you are doing . . . ?"
"I have ordered your 6 Whoppers for you. Would like some fries with them . . . ?"
My tip: Buy one of these sticks, plug it into your computer at work, and show it to your manager. He will then state in his departmental meeting that one of his workers is experimenting with disruptive innovation behaviors of new technologies
If you get into an accident driving one, everything you did is logged and will be submitted into court if it goes that far.
The helpful engineers at VW have logged all the emissions data from my car, and the data proves that my Triple-Diesel-Turbo-Afterburner-Stinker is actually Carbon Negative! This means that the more I drive and the more diesel I burn is actually better for the environment!
I have this faint, fleeting notion that Tesla software is never going to log a problem that implicates itself.
"Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error."
Well, I'm waiting for the family, friends, relatives and enemies of UK MPs to get plastered with emails and snail-mails inquiring if they are old enough to be viewing, "Double-Headed Dildo Robot Wars", "The Homeopathy of Spanking Enema Nuns", and "Rum, Sodomy, The Lash, Assorted Farm Animals, and a Oxford Men-Only Dining Club for Former Prime Ministers."
How long will it take for MPs' addresses to "mysteriously disappear" . . . ?
My dysfunctional English Wackyparser read this as "curd cutting", which would kinda sorta make sense since "cutting the cheese" causes a big stink, as well.
Just simply declare Mars to be a strategic military objective of the newly created "Space Marines" armed service. Poof! Space exploration and military intergalactic security goals are now one and the same!
Rumors have it that the ethnic Südeten Martians want Anschluss with the United States of the Solar System (hmmm . . . USSS?) anyway.
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Don't drop the soap BRO!!
I seriously doubt if he will ever see the inside of a prison.
He "faces" up to 20 years in prison sentences, but will find some legal folks to help him drag this on longer than the IBM-SCO-Linux lawsuit.
He'll cut some deal, maybe by ratting out some other folks, and will end up with a suspended sentence.
You can shove economics up your ass
"Mrs. Clinton, what you do in your private life for sexual satisfaction, be it a Russian Urine Romp with eastern European prostitutes of dubious age . . .
. . . oh, wait . . . that was the other guy . . .
OK, so Bernie Sanders walks into a bar, and Donald Trump is working there, and asks Sanders,
What would you like to drink? What can I do for you . . ."
. . . and then Sanders says . . . .
What is a McMansion then?
If you even dare to ask that question . . . well, . . . never mind . . .
. . . it's like that guy on the project who asks, "why don't you guys let me program something important . . . ?"
In one of my dysfunctional former lives, I grew up in a place called Haddonfield, New Jersey. Folks had money back then, and built architecturally interesting ranch houses there.
When I visited recently, a lot of them had been knocked down to erect "Candy Castles" . . . I thought that if I hit a few of those with a hose full of water, they would melt.
Oh, well. The Mies van der Rohe and Frank Lloyd Wright crew left a while ago . . . although, the chief architect of the Deptford Mall once showed me some sketches of his time at the University of Pennsylvania School of Architecture . . . and it wondered me how folks with such artistic talent get trapped into building crap for the masses . . .
Maybe the coax cable will have a Retro-Hipster-Tube-Amplifier-Monster-Cable Renaissance Resurrection value in the future . . . ?
"Nothing sounds as secure as the smell of burning coax sound in the morning!"
"Yes, the house was built in the pre-McMansion period, with real building materials, by real highly skilled illegal labor!"
"With *real* coax in the walls, that the NSA can't tap without leaving a traceable impedance!"
House Un-American Software Activities Committee
I am personally aware of 57 "nefarious activities against the United States," . . . most of them being performed by various US government three letter institutions . . .
FB is using the cheapest bid for food service they could get.
. . . Facebook employees eat Soylent Green . . . ?
Google spends millions to provide WiFi to "refugee" camps in the EU
Wow! Google is selling their data, even before they even become integrated into the EU!
[1]: It is interesting to see what both Apple and Android device makers stick in the root CA store.
. . . it would be interesting to see what both Apple and Android device makers stick in the hidden root CA store.
I'm smelling... TAXBREAKS!
. . . and a round of Green Cards for Terry Gou's family, friends, associates, etc.
Hey, but it's like a good old Las Vegas Casino . . . if a high roller drops a lot of money there, if he wants to burn down the casino, they will give him a match.
your data will be sold to the KBG!
. . . along with the your data sold by Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc . . .
Actually, a foreign intelligence service might want to think about setting up a dummy marketing corporation to buy information from Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc . . .
"Comrade, you must have excellent spies in the USA! Where did you get this information . . . ?"
"Google, Facebook, Amazon, etc . . ."
The question is whether you want to open your machine to NSA/CIA/FBI/CBP or to FSB/FSO/SVR/GRU. Who is more likely to break down your door in the middle of the night?
Stop! It's an entangled quantum mechanics trick question, like Schrödinger's Secret Squirrel! It's both the NSA/CIA/FBI/CBP *AND* the FSB/FSO/SVR/GRU at the same time!
Einstein: "So, when you open the box, is the left-handed glove or the right-handed glove in the box . . . ?"
Pick the other.
Yes, it is, in fact the third option.
In other words, is there a reason for me to install Kaspersky instead of Sophos or Bitdefender, which I both used in the past?
Right there in the summary:
Instead of trying to make ad money off your patronage, Kaspersky will use the data you contribute to improve machine learning across its products.
Whatever that means . . .
Do they maybe me "computation time", that you contribute . . . ? Turning your AV software into a compute node . . . ? Or maybe "data about other users", that you may contribute . . . ? *Real Espionageware*!
Well, that ought to finally put an end to those meddlesome European kids and their lawsuits!
Google has nukes!
Don't like way Google runs their business in your country!?
Eat neutrons, baby!
Aren't you aware that the NSA works towards making encryption and secure systems available to the US public and corporations?!?
Yes, the NSA has a long history of "helping" the US public and corporations with encryption . . . like the DES standard . . . invented by IBM, intentionally crippled by the NSA.
An ancient rule of war . . . don't provide your allies with any weapons that you are not able to defeat yourself . . . just in case your allies today become your enemies tomorrow.
Well, as soon as the NSA spooks get wind of this, the US government will ban vendors from supplying any useful encryption, as well.
Because banning encryption from the hands of ordinary citizens will "fix" the problem of terrorism, right?
If good old King George of England had the NSA back then, the American Revolution never could have happened.
"One, if by land! Two, if by sea!"
Oh, wait, the American Colonists are not allowed to have lanterns!
But an opera about Steve Jobs? Have the hipsters taken over even the southwest?
Well, as they say, "today, the southwest, tomorrow the whole world."
Although, I wouldn't shove this one in the hipsters loafers . . . the US entertainment industry is desperately lacking any original ideas, and will give anything a go these days. They are running out of old comic book stories, and remakes of remakes of the Director's Cut Special Limited Editions are getting old as well.
What will be interesting . . . is how Bezos and Zuckerberg will respond to this gauntlet being tossed down. An artistic literary or musical epic is just what their budding Presidential campaigns need to get jump started. Their staff are probably already ramping their projects up in Hollywood.
Meanwhile, when asked about his artistic masterpiece plans, Warren Buffet responded, "I'm an investor, Jim. Not a musical genius."
. . . but added, "I like ice cream."
No enemy "nation" will attack the US. The US armed forces already have enough firepower to do a whack-a-mole job on any "nation" in the world.
The folks to worry about don't have a nation, but wear beards and rags on their heads. The US won't be able to use a s00per-s0nic-giga-Internet-Of-Things-Blockchain rocket against them anyway. Where should the US fire the rocket? Into the country "hosting" them . . . ? If the government even is actively supporting them . . . ? Is it a case of a bunch of Kalashnikov and meth'ed up Koran Kooks bullying a bunch of ignorant primitive peasants into religious submission . . . ? Frankie, says, "pre-teen war-bride sex slaves for all true believers!"
Actually, screw the giga-sonic missile . . . just give me Colonel Kurtz and ten divisions of his men, and "our troubles here would be over very quickly."
Of course, our current Western morals and ideals would never permit us to commit such atrocities.
I've often wondered how Muslims living in the West deal with living in such a modern society: surrounded by Kafir, to fruit of the flesh of the devil. Do they really believe that they can live in tolerance of other folks?
This is the real security concern for the world of the future: not which country has the biggest, fastest missile. When Korea's Jar of Kimchi lobs a missile at Japan or the US, everyone knows how that one will end . . . really ugly. Go to your local airport, and observer the "Islamic Security Tax" paid by all the folks in the world because of the threat of Islamic Terrorism. That is a far bigger threat that will not be solved by any conventional weapons . . . or even an armed conflict.
We need desperately to find a way to live in peace with each other, without resorting to violence. But up until now . . . I have only seen solutions involving violence. Maybe we don't yet want peace enough . . . ?
How does enterprise IT prevent log tampering?
Blockchain
I hate to use that word, because it is an integral part of the CIO Schtick these days, but in this case, it really could be a possible solution to the problem.
Of course, there are folks these days who claim that every problem can be solved by hitting it over the head with a Blockchain, but if you can navigate through the Blockchain hype fog, there really is something there.
Hey, but how about some IoT with a Blockchain together? And add some microservices and fuzzing . . . micro-fuzzing! And do it in an innovative, disruptive way . . .
What does it actually DO?!
Wrong question . . . the proper question is not What? but Who?
Some folks say that they do drugs, but sometimes drugs do you.
Maybe if you buy the stick, the Deep Learning and AI components will be able to tell you what is actually is supposed to do?
"Alexa, Siri, . . . just what the Hell do you think you are doing . . . ?"
"I have ordered your 6 Whoppers for you. Would like some fries with them . . . ?"
My tip: Buy one of these sticks, plug it into your computer at work, and show it to your manager. He will then state in his departmental meeting that one of his workers is experimenting with disruptive innovation behaviors of new technologies
If you get into an accident driving one, everything you did is logged and will be submitted into court if it goes that far.
The helpful engineers at VW have logged all the emissions data from my car, and the data proves that my Triple-Diesel-Turbo-Afterburner-Stinker is actually Carbon Negative! This means that the more I drive and the more diesel I burn is actually better for the environment!
I have this faint, fleeting notion that Tesla software is never going to log a problem that implicates itself.
"Well, I don't think there is any question about it. It can only be attributable to human error. This sort of thing has cropped up before, and it has always been due to human error."
Well, I'm waiting for the family, friends, relatives and enemies of UK MPs to get plastered with emails and snail-mails inquiring if they are old enough to be viewing, "Double-Headed Dildo Robot Wars", "The Homeopathy of Spanking Enema Nuns", and "Rum, Sodomy, The Lash, Assorted Farm Animals, and a Oxford Men-Only Dining Club for Former Prime Ministers."
How long will it take for MPs' addresses to "mysteriously disappear" . . . ?
Pornhub never asks me.
Maybe they just know me as a regular.
You'd better check out their "Real Live Amateur Hidden Camera Videos" section . . . maybe they just know you as a star . . . ?
"If you are old enough to act[sic] in this film, then you are probably old enough to watch it."
The US defense department AI system starts talking to the Russian defense department AI system, in their own language . . .
Things take a wee bit of a turn for the worse for humanity right there . . .
There is no mention of "cord cutting" in TFA.
My dysfunctional English Wackyparser read this as "curd cutting", which would kinda sorta make sense since "cutting the cheese" causes a big stink, as well.
Just simply declare Mars to be a strategic military objective of the newly created "Space Marines" armed service. Poof! Space exploration and military intergalactic security goals are now one and the same!
Rumors have it that the ethnic Südeten Martians want Anschluss with the United States of the Solar System (hmmm . . . USSS?) anyway.