Look. If they wanted certain approval and funding into the indefinite future, they should have named the telescope program "Infinite Freedom" or "Patriotism Chapter II" or "Frontier: American Majesty".
That should have put the handwriting on the wall for anyone interested, that new inventories were being dumped - and that buying one at cost was probably soon to follow for a just-released device.
I resisted the Woot! - 'cos I anticipated kicking myself about this. I bet those who did get it this route are pretty sore.
349 USD is too much for an Ubuntu experiment - which is what this would be for me. But 149? Hello, big YELLOW TAG!
"The Middle Class Proletariat -- The middle classes could become a revolutionary class, taking the role envisaged for the proletariat by Marx. The globalization of labour markets and reducing levels of national welfare provision and employment could reduce peoples' attachment to particular states. The growing gap between themselves and a small number of highly visible super-rich individuals might fuel disillusion with meritocracy, while the growing urban under-classes are likely to pose an increasing threat to social order and stability, as the burden of acquired debt and the failure of pension provision begins to bite. Faced by these twin challenges, the world's middle-classes might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest."
-- UK Ministry of Defence report: 'The DCDC Global Strategic Trends Programme 2007-2036' (Third Edition) p.96, March 2007
You have a valid point about the sandbox - but the study doesn't really do security a justice, when comparing the browsers.
Malware is seldom a browser injection issue, but is instead vectored through plug-ins (I'm looking at YOU, Adobe!) which are privileged at a higher-level than the "sandboxed" container application.
Flash has been a real horrorshow. It was never designed - rather acquiring tacked-on and retro-fitted capability for dynamic content updating, video playback and scripting with user interactivity, etc.
I could deliver extended anecdotes about the 0-day flash and pdf exploits that I've witnessed, unfolding right in front of me... Suffice it to say, fully patched systems with browser sandboxes are not immune.:-)
The combination of security and privacy extensions that are developed for Firefox are, still, unmatched. Ghostery, AdBlock+ and BetterPrivacy will together prevent the opportunity to ever render many of the malicious, content delivered exploits. They also serve to screen and scrub the most pernicious of web-threats: covert bugging and monitoring of the browser by a third party.
Occam's razor is for competing theories about observed natural phenomena.
It is a wholly inappropriate tool for evaluating political, sociological or psychological phenomena - all of which may include elements of concealment, delusion and distortions of perception.
Anything official communication involving covert agencies is - by definition - deceptive. This is an area of government that operates through officially lying, and dissecting the lies of others.
Now, if the Chinese had been given access by Pakistan - maybe true, maybe not - what is the purpose of revealing this to the American public, when it is by Occam's Razor the correct action of an intelligence agency to conceal how much they know?
There is an operation to mould public opinion and shape policy here - and things are not to be taken at the face value. To do otherwise is to remain naive - and subject to manipulation.
I reiterate: The CIA is not paid to ensure that the truth is reported to the American public, nor anyone else.
So the fake helicopter involved in the fake raid at the fake Bin Laden compound which fakely resulted in the fake death of a fake Osama Bin Laden was a fake!?!?!!!??
Look. If he WERE there, and were the head and master strategist for a world-wide terror conspiracy, capable of striking the United States?
He would be an incredible intelligence asset.
Anyone in uniform who shot him, should be up for court-martial!
Instead, you'd draw a surveillance noose around him - and get his confidence up. You'd keep him in the dark for years, while intercepting every communication.
A child could figure that out. But the dumbest shits on earth - the US Public - believe fairy-stories about heroic Seal teams. They don't even know that this "Bin Laden" was once in CIA employ...
Question: Do you believe the US to be a covert police state? If you answer "No", is this based on verified independent observation, historic reputation or emotional reaction?
I submit that it IS a covert police state, operating extra-legally with regards to its foreign relations and its internal policy.
The US has the largest per-capita prisoner population in world history. You can say they broke the law. But what is "law" without the informed consent of the governed? Re-read the link, and ask if such a condition exists in the secret police state of America.
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Look. If they wanted certain approval and funding into the indefinite future, they should have named the telescope program "Infinite Freedom" or "Patriotism Chapter II" or "Frontier: American Majesty".
It would be unthinkable to stop it.
> Sorry but I would much rather trust Facebook than Google.
Pity, that.
Both are in no position to engender your trust - which runs contrary to their acquiring revenues.
And what would either do, should STASI^H^H^H^H NSA come, with a request?
Sarah Palin's house?
Beer? Take that piss away. Bottom fermented, for the bottom-feeder, I say!
There's nothing like an Ale - free of that hoppy contamination, rich dark and malty.
China has AWESOME OS/2 POWERS!!!!
As in, "It is OBVIOUS that you've been HAD!" ;-)
You are, as always, private from each other, but not from Facebook, nor private in any meaningful sense from those with whom Facebook does business.
Just say, "No, I'm not on Facebook."
You single out the most prophetic / insightful line of the entire film.
Police State training. When our generation are dead and gone, you will have this younger population come after us, raised in this invisible cage.
Go watch Brazil, again.
Had this last week at 349.
That should have put the handwriting on the wall for anyone interested, that new inventories were being dumped - and that buying one at cost was probably soon to follow for a just-released device.
I resisted the Woot! - 'cos I anticipated kicking myself about this. I bet those who did get it this route are pretty sore.
349 USD is too much for an Ubuntu experiment - which is what this would be for me. But 149? Hello, big YELLOW TAG!
Microsoft is clearly doing its part in this, by taking actions to kill-off Windows.
For which effort, I heartily commend them!
Mark! Super Hans is going to jail!
This means the end of the band!
They're coming for you, mate.
"The Middle Class Proletariat -- The middle classes could become a revolutionary class, taking the role envisaged for the proletariat by Marx. The globalization of labour markets and reducing levels of national welfare provision and employment could reduce peoples' attachment to particular states. The growing gap between themselves and a small number of highly visible super-rich individuals might fuel disillusion with meritocracy, while the growing urban under-classes are likely to pose an increasing threat to social order and stability, as the burden of acquired debt and the failure of pension provision begins to bite. Faced by these twin challenges, the world's middle-classes might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest."
-- UK Ministry of Defence report: 'The DCDC Global Strategic Trends Programme 2007-2036'
(Third Edition) p.96, March 2007
True. And, unfortunately, ineffective:
http://nathanieltapley.com/2011/08/10/an-open-letter-to-david-camerons-parents/
In anticipation of the innovation of digital "Smell-o-Vision", by pornographers.
Kill the pig! Slit her throat!
Bash her in! Kill the pig!
Slit her throat!
Bash her in! Kill the pig!
Slit her throat! Bash her in!
Kill the pig! Slit her throat!
Bash her in!
Kill the pig!
Look. We killed a pig!
We stole up on it!
You let the fire out.
We can light it up again.
You should have been
with us, Ralph.
There was lots of blood!
You should have seen it.
It would be nice to see.
As long as such a GUI selectively reveals to the user, what the logic of programming is actually like.
You have a valid point about the sandbox - but the study doesn't really do security a justice, when comparing the browsers.
Malware is seldom a browser injection issue, but is instead vectored through plug-ins (I'm looking at YOU, Adobe!) which are privileged at a higher-level than the "sandboxed" container application.
Flash has been a real horrorshow. It was never designed - rather acquiring tacked-on and retro-fitted capability for dynamic content updating, video playback and scripting with user interactivity, etc.
I could deliver extended anecdotes about the 0-day flash and pdf exploits that I've witnessed, unfolding right in front of me... Suffice it to say, fully patched systems with browser sandboxes are not immune. :-)
The combination of security and privacy extensions that are developed for Firefox are, still, unmatched. Ghostery, AdBlock+ and BetterPrivacy will together prevent the opportunity to ever render many of the malicious, content delivered exploits. They also serve to screen and scrub the most pernicious of web-threats: covert bugging and monitoring of the browser by a third party.
I was here, before the beginning (Chips and Dips).
Were there any payment required for Slashdot? I'd have been long gone...
Occam's razor is for competing theories about observed natural phenomena.
It is a wholly inappropriate tool for evaluating political, sociological or psychological phenomena - all of which may include elements of concealment, delusion and distortions of perception.
Anything official communication involving covert agencies is - by definition - deceptive. This is an area of government that operates through officially lying, and dissecting the lies of others.
Now, if the Chinese had been given access by Pakistan - maybe true, maybe not - what is the purpose of revealing this to the American public, when it is by Occam's Razor the correct action of an intelligence agency to conceal how much they know?
There is an operation to mould public opinion and shape policy here - and things are not to be taken at the face value. To do otherwise is to remain naive - and subject to manipulation.
I reiterate: The CIA is not paid to ensure that the truth is reported to the American public, nor anyone else.
So the fake helicopter involved in the fake raid at the fake Bin Laden compound which fakely resulted in the fake death of a fake Osama Bin Laden was a fake!?!?!!!??
What do you think the TSA is for?
Just wait.
No.
The US is the worst evil-empire. 20 years from now, we will wish the Soviets had survived, to keep their horror in check.
Look. If he WERE there, and were the head and master strategist for a world-wide terror conspiracy, capable of striking the United States?
He would be an incredible intelligence asset.
Anyone in uniform who shot him, should be up for court-martial!
Instead, you'd draw a surveillance noose around him - and get his confidence up. You'd keep him in the dark for years, while intercepting every communication.
A child could figure that out. But the dumbest shits on earth - the US Public - believe fairy-stories about heroic Seal teams. They don't even know that this "Bin Laden" was once in CIA employ...
Clap you hands and say "I want to believe!"
Tinkerbelle will come to life, dressed as Lady Liberty, with the CIA defending to the death, freedom of expression.
Yes. My mistake.
The CIA earns its check by telling you the truth.
Question: Do you believe the US to be a covert police state? If you answer "No", is this based on verified independent observation, historic reputation or emotional reaction?
I submit that it IS a covert police state, operating extra-legally with regards to its foreign relations and its internal policy.
Why not read something you might disagree with? Or is that "not the American way"?
http://dissidentvoice.org/2011/08/as-economy-tanks-new-normal-police-state-takes-shape/
The US has the largest per-capita prisoner population in world history. You can say they broke the law. But what is "law" without the informed consent of the governed? Re-read the link, and ask if such a condition exists in the secret police state of America.
Not exactly "home of the free" now, is it?