French suggested that the company could sell 50,000 computers, but more skeptical executives disagreed and suggested 1,000 to 3,000 per year at the target $199 price. Roach persuaded Tandy to agree to build 3,500—the number of Radio Shack stores—so that each store could use a computer for inventory purposes if they did not sell.
Still forecasting 3,000 sales a year, the company sold over 10,000 TRS-80s Model Is in its first one and a half months of sales, and over 200,000 during the product's lifetime.[
I'm one of those "consumers" who expects that "free" mean "free". I don't expect to be offered a free service, when in reality that "free" service is exploiting me in some way. I expect the offer to be very upfront, and informative. "In exchange for this nearly worthless service, the Company will use this app to mine all the data on your device. Please select "accept" to proceed with installation."
No, no, no - the Queen has her morning constitution pretty regulalry, then wipes with Royal constitution paper!
The Constitution of the United Kingdom is the set of laws and principles under which the United Kingdom is governed.[1]
Unlike many other nations, the UK has no single constitutional document. This is sometimes expressed by stating that it has an uncodified or "unwritten" constitution.
Some of those feminists make even stupider arguments. It's perfectly alright for women to cooperatively solve problems together, but add a man to the equation, and the solution becomes "sexist".
If a gang of women need to pass through a door that is difficult to open, the strongest woman present will probably pull the door open, and the least strong women in the gang will duck through as quickly as possible. If a man and a feminist need to pass through that door, if the man opens and holds the door for the feminist, he is sexist. We have basically the same solution to the same problem, but the sexist feminist refuses to acknowledge that the solution is the CORRECT solution.
MOST WOMEN will just accept this trivial act of consideration with a nod of gratitude, or a word of thanks, and go on about their business. SOME FEMINISTS will want to kick the man in the balls for being sexist.
You are probably somewhat asocial. I know that I am asocial. I don't give a small damn what they other kids are playing with. I like what I like, and I have zero interest in getting a G.I. Joe doll just because all the other kids have one. Thirty nine kids in school are all wearing the latest fad jeans from CK, Tommy, or whatever. I stuck with Levi's all through school.
Adult life is little better. I mean, does anyone really NEED a wall-sized plasma TV? Does ANYONE need it? Marketing departments tell us that we do, so anyone and everyone who has the money to get one, does get one. Or, almost everyone.
No - live steam is never pleasant to be around. I have a shipmate who was lucky to have had all the children he wanted before his mishap. That was with low pressure steam from the pier - with high pressure steam, he wouldn't have survived the encounter.
"governments and supportive media always seem quick to tell us that most people do want the claimed security benefits and are willing to accept the unpleasantness as a result"
That is called social engineering, and predates the hacker's practice by the same name. People without a firm opinion on any subject can be swayed by being told that government and "most people" approve of whatever. Only people with firm opinions to the contrary resist the engineering.
I'm safe, only because I'm such an opinionated old bastard.
"I asked the guy giving me a tour, "what happens when the steam plant has a leak and all this water condenses and suddenly fills the basement?""
It doesn't exactly happen that way. Even a small steam leak is going to be noticed very quickly by the boiler tech, because he can no longer maintain pressure. But, even a HUGE steam leak is only going to result in a relatively small amount of liquid water.
Any server(s) located near to the steam leak are going to be hosed by both temperature and humidity extremes. But the basement isn't going to fill up with water to destroy all the servers.
I will note that I'm not a qualified boiler tech. For what it's worth, I was DC qualified to control catastrophic casualties aboard boiler powered Navy ships, and I have operated small boilers, adequate to provide heat and hot water to moderately large apartment buildings.
That falls in line with my own thoughts. It's time that the people showed government that government works FOR THE PEOPLE, not the other way around.
Just publish all the details. Publish everything. Tell the government to go screw itself - they can't enforce unjust laws. Government can scream "CONSPIRACY" all they want, but if 60, 75, even 90% of people and corporations are in on it, what can government do?
A number of articles over the past weeks have shown that congress really doesn't have a clue what NSA is up to. Congress critters lack the technical understanding to figure this stuff out. But, worse, the NSA only "answers to" a small committee, and that committee isn't sharing jack-shit with the rest of congress.
Each year, congress authorizes money for NSA and the rest of government, without any accounting for that money. I think that congress should just cut that money by about 75% and tell NSA to make do. At the same time, demand a full accounting for HOW that money is spent. If NSA doesn't have a billion dollars with which to snoop on citizens, and another billion with which to pay "analysts", then they won't be snooping and analyzing citizens. The money that they have left will be targeted specifically toward terrorism and national security.
Like, there are no alienated people already? For starters, how about that group of people who are railroaded with stupid, asinine laws that do NOTHING for society, other than provide tools with which to "get" someone in disagreement with powerful people?
Edward Snowden's case is pretty damned complicated, and he probably is in violation of some laws that would normally make sense. But, government is wheeling out all sorts of idiot laws to charge him with. Snowden seems to be alienated quite well, already!
That's downright vulgar. Much worse that stupid, ignorant and wrong. It's just vulgar. Bieber breath has never contributed a damned thing to the world. Comparing him to someone who has contributed is just vulgar.
I thought they only burned vivacious buxom females at the stake. Guys are just thrown into the tinder pile at the base of the stake. I learned that from Hollyweird!
Oh, my. Your post has been up for more than a minute, and not down modded to hell? Wow. I've posted things about the real Ghandi in the past, on slashdot and elsewhere. The downmods, thumbs downs, and dislikes always pour in immediately.
During World War I, Gandhi called for a repeal of the unpopular Indian Arms Act of 1878 that granted the government extensive powers to restrict the possession of arms. In his autobiography, Gandhi condemned this act in the strongest of words: “Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”
Ghandi was no pacifist, by any stretch of the imagination. He used pacifist methods, only because he was forced to do so.
A proper air gap, in which your own data is stored on your own servers, and only accessed under rigorous guidelines, wouldn't be crossing your ISP's infrastructure. Therefore - the ISP can't hand it over to the government. No one can reach what is inaccessible from the internet, unless then come in to your place of business, to gain physical access to your servers. That might be done with a secret warrant from a secret court - but the moment they come through your doors, it's no longer very secret. You KNOW that the government is snooping through your data, and you KNOW that you've been compromised.
Well, at least with open source, I can decide whom I want to trust, if anyone. With Microsoft or Apple, what are your choices? The various officers of either company can make statements that "You can trust us!" but there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that ANYONE can inspect the code to find those back doors.
I'm far less than competent at reading code, but I can actually step through some of it, with open source. I can do it openly, without fear of someone finding out that I "hacked" the code. I can look at it all day. If I find something that I don't like, I can contact someone - anyone - to find out what it is. My buddy, down the street, who is a little more competent than I am. People on a support forum, some of whom are actually competent. The developers themselves, if I think I've really got something.
Try that with Microsoft or Apple. You might want to consult with a good lawyer before doing so.
Trust? WTF trusts us, anyway? Ignore everything and anything we may have done wrong prior to 9/11/01. Let's call that water under the bridge. WTF have we done SINCE 9/11/01 to earn or to bolster anyone trust in us? What has government done to earn the trust of US citizens, much less the trust of foreign citizens, corporations, or governments?
I'm having a very hard time seeing anything of the nature.
Exactly the opposite. This is why it was necessary that the programs never be started. I don't care if you're a private citizen, a church, a corporation, or a government. If you're committing acts that have to be kept SECRET, then you're doing something wrong. No, we don't need lurid details of your sex life behind closed doors - but yeah, we figure you're banging each other at night, Mr. and Mrs. Private citizen. No, we don't need to examine your church doctrine, we don't much care - but if you're having initiation orgies and human sacrifices that you are keeping secret, then it's WRONG. Businesses can have trade secrets of course, but deliveries, shipments, and financial transactions should be an open book for auditors. And, government. Yeah, we know you spy. It's cool, up to a point. But if you're a paranoid bunch of assholes who need to keep track of everyone and everything that happens - it's time for you to take a hike. We need a new government. It's really that simple. Remember - you work for us, not the other way around.
One plate for a private citizen, another plate for a politically designated office, possibly another plate for commercial vehicles. and possible yet another for public service vehicles. The private citizen's plate was never very likely to duplicate a plate for any other pool of vehicles, but it happened when the guy ordered his own special vanity plate.
The first action in any scenario that I have described is your verbal assault and threat. In any state that has a self defense law, the only test that must be met is that I had a reasonable fear of death or serious injury.
If you make the threat, and follow that up with the slightest gesture that can be construed to be threatening, then self defense works. One doesn't have to wait until that first blow connects successfully to defend himself. If Mike Tyson threatens to punch your lights out, then raises his hand, are you going to wait until he has knocked you out to react? DUHH! Self defense is what it is, and your lack of understanding doesn't change the law.
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I don't think the first PC's were produced in million-sized batches either. Lemme think a moment, and confer with my buddy, Google.
It is only AFTER some measure of success is established that lots of millions become routine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRS-80#History
French suggested that the company could sell 50,000 computers, but more skeptical executives disagreed and suggested 1,000 to 3,000 per year at the target $199 price. Roach persuaded Tandy to agree to build 3,500—the number of Radio Shack stores—so that each store could use a computer for inventory purposes if they did not sell.
Still forecasting 3,000 sales a year, the company sold over 10,000 TRS-80s Model Is in its first one and a half months of sales, and over 200,000 during the product's lifetime.[
I'm one of those "consumers" who expects that "free" mean "free". I don't expect to be offered a free service, when in reality that "free" service is exploiting me in some way. I expect the offer to be very upfront, and informative. "In exchange for this nearly worthless service, the Company will use this app to mine all the data on your device. Please select "accept" to proceed with installation."
That actual prevention worked well at the Boston Marathon, didn't it? I was dumb founded at the government's efficiency on that one!
No, no, no - the Queen has her morning constitution pretty regulalry, then wipes with Royal constitution paper!
The Constitution of the United Kingdom is the set of laws and principles under which the United Kingdom is governed.[1]
Unlike many other nations, the UK has no single constitutional document. This is sometimes expressed by stating that it has an uncodified or "unwritten" constitution.
Heh - maybe you're right there. Point taken.
Sounds to me like you might be a racist. Black women? Welfare queens? What is YOUR point?
Some of those feminists make even stupider arguments. It's perfectly alright for women to cooperatively solve problems together, but add a man to the equation, and the solution becomes "sexist".
If a gang of women need to pass through a door that is difficult to open, the strongest woman present will probably pull the door open, and the least strong women in the gang will duck through as quickly as possible. If a man and a feminist need to pass through that door, if the man opens and holds the door for the feminist, he is sexist. We have basically the same solution to the same problem, but the sexist feminist refuses to acknowledge that the solution is the CORRECT solution.
MOST WOMEN will just accept this trivial act of consideration with a nod of gratitude, or a word of thanks, and go on about their business. SOME FEMINISTS will want to kick the man in the balls for being sexist.
Well, WTF is herecy, anyway? Would that be one of Heracle's cousins? His little sister? Did Hercules bang his little sister then? HERESY I SAY!
You are probably somewhat asocial. I know that I am asocial. I don't give a small damn what they other kids are playing with. I like what I like, and I have zero interest in getting a G.I. Joe doll just because all the other kids have one. Thirty nine kids in school are all wearing the latest fad jeans from CK, Tommy, or whatever. I stuck with Levi's all through school.
Adult life is little better. I mean, does anyone really NEED a wall-sized plasma TV? Does ANYONE need it? Marketing departments tell us that we do, so anyone and everyone who has the money to get one, does get one. Or, almost everyone.
No - live steam is never pleasant to be around. I have a shipmate who was lucky to have had all the children he wanted before his mishap. That was with low pressure steam from the pier - with high pressure steam, he wouldn't have survived the encounter.
"governments and supportive media always seem quick to tell us that most people do want the claimed security benefits and are willing to accept the unpleasantness as a result"
That is called social engineering, and predates the hacker's practice by the same name. People without a firm opinion on any subject can be swayed by being told that government and "most people" approve of whatever. Only people with firm opinions to the contrary resist the engineering.
I'm safe, only because I'm such an opinionated old bastard.
"I asked the guy giving me a tour, "what happens when the steam plant has a leak and all this water condenses and suddenly fills the basement?""
It doesn't exactly happen that way. Even a small steam leak is going to be noticed very quickly by the boiler tech, because he can no longer maintain pressure. But, even a HUGE steam leak is only going to result in a relatively small amount of liquid water.
Any server(s) located near to the steam leak are going to be hosed by both temperature and humidity extremes. But the basement isn't going to fill up with water to destroy all the servers.
I will note that I'm not a qualified boiler tech. For what it's worth, I was DC qualified to control catastrophic casualties aboard boiler powered Navy ships, and I have operated small boilers, adequate to provide heat and hot water to moderately large apartment buildings.
That falls in line with my own thoughts. It's time that the people showed government that government works FOR THE PEOPLE, not the other way around.
Just publish all the details. Publish everything. Tell the government to go screw itself - they can't enforce unjust laws. Government can scream "CONSPIRACY" all they want, but if 60, 75, even 90% of people and corporations are in on it, what can government do?
A number of articles over the past weeks have shown that congress really doesn't have a clue what NSA is up to. Congress critters lack the technical understanding to figure this stuff out. But, worse, the NSA only "answers to" a small committee, and that committee isn't sharing jack-shit with the rest of congress.
Each year, congress authorizes money for NSA and the rest of government, without any accounting for that money. I think that congress should just cut that money by about 75% and tell NSA to make do. At the same time, demand a full accounting for HOW that money is spent. If NSA doesn't have a billion dollars with which to snoop on citizens, and another billion with which to pay "analysts", then they won't be snooping and analyzing citizens. The money that they have left will be targeted specifically toward terrorism and national security.
Like, there are no alienated people already? For starters, how about that group of people who are railroaded with stupid, asinine laws that do NOTHING for society, other than provide tools with which to "get" someone in disagreement with powerful people?
Edward Snowden's case is pretty damned complicated, and he probably is in violation of some laws that would normally make sense. But, government is wheeling out all sorts of idiot laws to charge him with. Snowden seems to be alienated quite well, already!
That's downright vulgar. Much worse that stupid, ignorant and wrong. It's just vulgar. Bieber breath has never contributed a damned thing to the world. Comparing him to someone who has contributed is just vulgar.
I thought they only burned vivacious buxom females at the stake. Guys are just thrown into the tinder pile at the base of the stake. I learned that from Hollyweird!
Oh, my. Your post has been up for more than a minute, and not down modded to hell? Wow. I've posted things about the real Ghandi in the past, on slashdot and elsewhere. The downmods, thumbs downs, and dislikes always pour in immediately.
During World War I, Gandhi called for a repeal of the unpopular Indian Arms Act of 1878 that granted the government extensive powers to restrict the possession of arms. In his autobiography, Gandhi condemned this act in the strongest of words:
“Among the many misdeeds of British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.”
Ghandi was no pacifist, by any stretch of the imagination. He used pacifist methods, only because he was forced to do so.
A proper air gap, in which your own data is stored on your own servers, and only accessed under rigorous guidelines, wouldn't be crossing your ISP's infrastructure. Therefore - the ISP can't hand it over to the government. No one can reach what is inaccessible from the internet, unless then come in to your place of business, to gain physical access to your servers. That might be done with a secret warrant from a secret court - but the moment they come through your doors, it's no longer very secret. You KNOW that the government is snooping through your data, and you KNOW that you've been compromised.
"American envoys are now pressing the Australian government to alter its official guidelines on data security."
Don't do it. It's a trap, plain and simple. "Come into my parlor, said the spider to the fly."
Well, at least with open source, I can decide whom I want to trust, if anyone. With Microsoft or Apple, what are your choices? The various officers of either company can make statements that "You can trust us!" but there isn't a snowball's chance in hell that ANYONE can inspect the code to find those back doors.
I'm far less than competent at reading code, but I can actually step through some of it, with open source. I can do it openly, without fear of someone finding out that I "hacked" the code. I can look at it all day. If I find something that I don't like, I can contact someone - anyone - to find out what it is. My buddy, down the street, who is a little more competent than I am. People on a support forum, some of whom are actually competent. The developers themselves, if I think I've really got something.
Try that with Microsoft or Apple. You might want to consult with a good lawyer before doing so.
Trust? WTF trusts us, anyway? Ignore everything and anything we may have done wrong prior to 9/11/01. Let's call that water under the bridge. WTF have we done SINCE 9/11/01 to earn or to bolster anyone trust in us? What has government done to earn the trust of US citizens, much less the trust of foreign citizens, corporations, or governments?
I'm having a very hard time seeing anything of the nature.
Exactly the opposite. This is why it was necessary that the programs never be started. I don't care if you're a private citizen, a church, a corporation, or a government. If you're committing acts that have to be kept SECRET, then you're doing something wrong. No, we don't need lurid details of your sex life behind closed doors - but yeah, we figure you're banging each other at night, Mr. and Mrs. Private citizen. No, we don't need to examine your church doctrine, we don't much care - but if you're having initiation orgies and human sacrifices that you are keeping secret, then it's WRONG. Businesses can have trade secrets of course, but deliveries, shipments, and financial transactions should be an open book for auditors. And, government. Yeah, we know you spy. It's cool, up to a point. But if you're a paranoid bunch of assholes who need to keep track of everyone and everything that happens - it's time for you to take a hike. We need a new government. It's really that simple. Remember - you work for us, not the other way around.
One plate for a private citizen, another plate for a politically designated office, possibly another plate for commercial vehicles. and possible yet another for public service vehicles. The private citizen's plate was never very likely to duplicate a plate for any other pool of vehicles, but it happened when the guy ordered his own special vanity plate.
" If that happened, Travon certainly continued well beyond any allowance for self defence, between (2) and (3)."
How do you arrive at that conclusion? While, at the same time, defending Zimmerman's right to shoot Martin dead?
If Zimmerman had the right to kill someone in self defense, then so did Martin.
The first action in any scenario that I have described is your verbal assault and threat. In any state that has a self defense law, the only test that must be met is that I had a reasonable fear of death or serious injury.
If you make the threat, and follow that up with the slightest gesture that can be construed to be threatening, then self defense works. One doesn't have to wait until that first blow connects successfully to defend himself. If Mike Tyson threatens to punch your lights out, then raises his hand, are you going to wait until he has knocked you out to react? DUHH! Self defense is what it is, and your lack of understanding doesn't change the law.