Apparently this guy thinks there are only a couple copies and they need to be physically returned to the NSA so they can be certain that no copies exist anywhere else. Or he's just being more obvious in deliberately implying things that are false than is normal even for someone in his position.
At the very least they should put up a torrent of the encrypted full document dump as an insurance file against the US/England harassing more journalists or using extraordinary rendition. Glenn Greenwald's partner might not have been detained for 9 hours if there was a chance it would result in the release of all the documents.
What's funny is that IE11 on Win8.1 is finally fast, at least as fast as Firefox/IceCat and Chromium. And it is stable and actually compliant with standards.
Not that I'd use it voluntarily, but it's the least horrible it's ever been at the same time it has the lowest market share.
There aren't many "Snowden's claims". The weird leaks are coming from security researchers pouring over all the power point presentations Snowden got from the NSA. So unless you think he faked those before passing them off to the media...
Come to think of it, "deleted data" is probably exactly what this cold storage is for. They never have to worry about overwriting it when users change the data because it's data the users have already "deleted".
& still no one really cares? spiritual bankruptcy proceedings are ongoing..... going on....
If the United States files for spiritual bankruptcy how will it influence our long term spiritual credit rating? Will we be allowed to retain our dignity through the proceedings or will that be auctioned off?
"Because a government is by definition corrupt, dishonest, and incompetent, then a whistleblower and a spy are essentially the same thing, as they threaten the positions and livelihoods of the corrupt, dishonest, and incompetent politicians and bureaucrats who comprise it."
His data analysis and harvesting will help the guy get a first date with more women. But all he's doing is trawling for ones that match what he thinks he wants. To get a second date his real-life personality and interests have to match what the other person thinks she wants.
Even with the women in question also choosing him on the basis of his tailored responses, he's simply increasing the sample size (i.e. the number of first dates) he gets, without really addressing the quality of the data - how closely the women match him in reality and vice-versa.
One of his descriptions in the article "star signs and all that crap" (or words to that effect) indicates that he still hasn't really "got" the women in the database. By dismissing what they consider important in a profile (the "crap") he's not helping himself. Maybe he should have turned around his search. Instead of hacking his profile to get more matches, he should consider modifying his personality to be more attractive to what the larger numbers of women feel they want in a man.
But I guess to a techie, every problem has a technical solution. No doubt all the first-date restaurants will thank him for his patronage and his (later, but maybe not much later) divorce lawyer will also be suitably grateful.
Wait... if I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that what women want/think they want is important? I've never really considered that, this could be a novel idea. Perhaps that's where so many of us have gone wrong all these years?
"seat heaters that would be turned on if an owner paid for them and then turned off if a subsequent owner did not"
But part of the reason an owner of a vehicle springs for extra features like this is because they enhance the resale value of the car. If the features get disabled during resale then there is less incentive to purchase them.
Granted the people behind this scheme probably already factored that against the number of times they will "sell" the feature more than once on the same vehicle. This is worse than Intel's idea of software unlockable CPU features.
"This is the difference between a monopoly and a normal company. A normal company has to make more money by pleasing customers -- higher quality, more features, better overall value proposition, etc. A monopoly will inevitably take the sleazy route of forcing customers to do things they don't want to"
I'm not sure "monopoly" is the right word but a lot of companies, particularly tech companies seem to go through two distinct phases: Phase 1: Expand customer base as quickly as possible by pleasing customers Phase 2: Once customer base has reached saturation and growth from new customers is slow, new growth comes from increasing the amount of money that can be made from each customer. This usually involves pissing off the customer base.
Once a company can no longer grow its customer base at a significant rate it's either 1) become evil or 2) tell the board of directors that you won't increase revenue. Guess which one is the more popular option.
But then how can Microsoft coax users toward their walled garden of software that they get a cut of the revenue from while simultaneously making users sign in to their Microsoft Accounts? It's not an accident that in Win 8.1 it defaults to dropping you back into Metro whether you want it to or not and the easiest way to get out is to open a desktop application.
Metro isn't about what the user wants from the operating system, it's about what Microsoft wants from the user.
Supposedly Windows 9 will stick to desktop mode when it's installed on a desktop and run Metro apps in a windows instead of going to Metro mode. I suppose if we're to expect an invasion of dockable tablets this compromise is acceptable.
If docked: disable Metro mode and open Metro apps in a normal window in desktop mode If in tablet mode: run metro apps full screen
Microsoft still has to figure out how to integrate Metro apps with Windows 9 or customers will complain and they will lose Windows Store revenue.
Metro isn't just about merging tablet and desktop operating systems. It's also about moving people toward the Windows Store and a Microsoft Account. Skype for desktop allows signing in with a Skype account. Skype for Metro requires either a Microsoft account or merging your Skype account into a Microsoft Account, as do downloading many Metro apps.
Microsoft is starting to realize that being just a software company in a shrinking market is a bad position to be in. They want to get people stuck in their Microsoft account/Microsoft app store/Bing/Skype/Outlook.com mail/Office 365 subscriptions in order to generate revenue off of people in the long term instead of just the initial sale. The large number of Chromebooks sold in 2013 was likely a wake up call - not only do they come with Google Docs which people are starting to use instead of Microsoft Office, but Microsoft Office actually can't be sold to those customers except for Office Web Apps through a live.com account.
The types of devices that people are using is changing and Google/Apple/Microsoft all seem like they're trying to offer a total solution to customer needs that makes it difficult to leave one faction without losing your integrated e-mail/office software/messenger/phone/laptop/search ecosystem. Most people here probably don't particularly want those things integrated for various reasons but it does make things useful to the average consumer who prefers to use a touchscreen because a mouse is too difficult to use.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-po...
Apparently this guy thinks there are only a couple copies and they need to be physically returned to the NSA so they can be certain that no copies exist anywhere else. Or he's just being more obvious in deliberately implying things that are false than is normal even for someone in his position.
At the very least they should put up a torrent of the encrypted full document dump as an insurance file against the US/England harassing more journalists or using extraordinary rendition. Glenn Greenwald's partner might not have been detained for 9 hours if there was a chance it would result in the release of all the documents.
"mobile devices over the last few years (hundreds of millions) and none of those are running IE."
Well IE is the default browser that comes with Windows Phone so that's like... the 5 people that bought a Windows Phone.
What's funny is that IE11 on Win8.1 is finally fast, at least as fast as Firefox/IceCat and Chromium. And it is stable and actually compliant with standards.
Not that I'd use it voluntarily, but it's the least horrible it's ever been at the same time it has the lowest market share.
"'I taught myself some coding and computer repair"
Ah yes, that tough hurdle that few women, or indeed men, manage to accomplish.
5). General Alexander: "This is Chewbacca..."
https://www.schneier.com/
Bruce Schneier has access to the documents and is releasing an exploit a day for the next few months. Each exploit contains a line of the format:
"Unit Cost: $0
Status: Released / Deployed. Ready for Immediate Delivery"
That's a pretty good indication the programs made it to the real world.
There aren't many "Snowden's claims". The weird leaks are coming from security researchers pouring over all the power point presentations Snowden got from the NSA. So unless you think he faked those before passing them off to the media...
If so, it pretty much guarantees that Facebook keeps a copy of your stuff forever, even if you "delete" it.
Facebook keeps a copy of your stuff forever, even if you "delete it". So does gmail/google. Even stuff you type into a textbox but never submit.
http://www.slate.com/articles/...
Come to think of it, "deleted data" is probably exactly what this cold storage is for. They never have to worry about overwriting it when users change the data because it's data the users have already "deleted".
I am a farmer you insensitive clod.
I have tintoil installed and I don't even own any electronics.
If you can demonstrate your assertion I would like to purchase one of your flint edged shaving razers. My face tears up metal blades in no time.
& still no one really cares? spiritual bankruptcy proceedings are ongoing..... going on....
If the United States files for spiritual bankruptcy how will it influence our long term spiritual credit rating? Will we be allowed to retain our dignity through the proceedings or will that be auctioned off?
"We need a better Congress! :-)"
Congress needs better oversight, we need a better American people!
"Any rational person with half a brain would come to the same conclusion."
The real question is, how did people like that manage to get onto an oversight board?
" In essence, the sentence says that each politician and bureaucrat has a little government inside him."
Isn't there a little government in all of us? A few inches more than we'd like around tax time especially.
"Because a government is by definition corrupt, dishonest, and incompetent, then a whistleblower and a spy are essentially the same thing, as they threaten the positions and livelihoods of the corrupt, dishonest, and incompetent politicians and bureaucrats who comprise it."
Fixed that for you.
His data analysis and harvesting will help the guy get a first date with more women. But all he's doing is trawling for ones that match what he thinks he wants. To get a second date his real-life personality and interests have to match what the other person thinks she wants.
Even with the women in question also choosing him on the basis of his tailored responses, he's simply increasing the sample size (i.e. the number of first dates) he gets, without really addressing the quality of the data - how closely the women match him in reality and vice-versa.
One of his descriptions in the article "star signs and all that crap" (or words to that effect) indicates that he still hasn't really "got" the women in the database. By dismissing what they consider important in a profile (the "crap") he's not helping himself. Maybe he should have turned around his search. Instead of hacking his profile to get more matches, he should consider modifying his personality to be more attractive to what the larger numbers of women feel they want in a man.
But I guess to a techie, every problem has a technical solution. No doubt all the first-date restaurants will thank him for his patronage and his (later, but maybe not much later) divorce lawyer will also be suitably grateful.
Wait... if I'm understanding you correctly, you're saying that what women want/think they want is important? I've never really considered that, this could be a novel idea. Perhaps that's where so many of us have gone wrong all these years?
How well would a Truecrypt container with two-fish and a strong passphrase work in this situation?
"seat heaters that would be turned on if an owner paid for them and then turned off if a subsequent owner did not"
But part of the reason an owner of a vehicle springs for extra features like this is because they enhance the resale value of the car. If the features get disabled during resale then there is less incentive to purchase them.
Granted the people behind this scheme probably already factored that against the number of times they will "sell" the feature more than once on the same vehicle. This is worse than Intel's idea of software unlockable CPU features.
"This is the difference between a monopoly and a normal company. A normal company has to make more money by pleasing customers -- higher quality, more features, better overall value proposition, etc. A monopoly will inevitably take the sleazy route of forcing customers to do things they don't want to"
I'm not sure "monopoly" is the right word but a lot of companies, particularly tech companies seem to go through two distinct phases:
Phase 1: Expand customer base as quickly as possible by pleasing customers
Phase 2: Once customer base has reached saturation and growth from new customers is slow, new growth comes from increasing the amount of money that can be made from each customer. This usually involves pissing off the customer base.
Once a company can no longer grow its customer base at a significant rate it's either 1) become evil or 2) tell the board of directors that you won't increase revenue. Guess which one is the more popular option.
But then how can Microsoft coax users toward their walled garden of software that they get a cut of the revenue from while simultaneously making users sign in to their Microsoft Accounts? It's not an accident that in Win 8.1 it defaults to dropping you back into Metro whether you want it to or not and the easiest way to get out is to open a desktop application.
Metro isn't about what the user wants from the operating system, it's about what Microsoft wants from the user.
Supposedly Windows 9 will stick to desktop mode when it's installed on a desktop and run Metro apps in a windows instead of going to Metro mode. I suppose if we're to expect an invasion of dockable tablets this compromise is acceptable.
If docked: disable Metro mode and open Metro apps in a normal window in desktop mode
If in tablet mode: run metro apps full screen
Microsoft still has to figure out how to integrate Metro apps with Windows 9 or customers will complain and they will lose Windows Store revenue.
Metro isn't just about merging tablet and desktop operating systems. It's also about moving people toward the Windows Store and a Microsoft Account. Skype for desktop allows signing in with a Skype account. Skype for Metro requires either a Microsoft account or merging your Skype account into a Microsoft Account, as do downloading many Metro apps.
Microsoft is starting to realize that being just a software company in a shrinking market is a bad position to be in. They want to get people stuck in their Microsoft account/Microsoft app store/Bing/Skype/Outlook.com mail/Office 365 subscriptions in order to generate revenue off of people in the long term instead of just the initial sale. The large number of Chromebooks sold in 2013 was likely a wake up call - not only do they come with Google Docs which people are starting to use instead of Microsoft Office, but Microsoft Office actually can't be sold to those customers except for Office Web Apps through a live.com account.
The types of devices that people are using is changing and Google/Apple/Microsoft all seem like they're trying to offer a total solution to customer needs that makes it difficult to leave one faction without losing your integrated e-mail/office software/messenger/phone/laptop/search ecosystem. Most people here probably don't particularly want those things integrated for various reasons but it does make things useful to the average consumer who prefers to use a touchscreen because a mouse is too difficult to use.
You can compare one act of piracy to one act of burglary, or you can compare all piracy to all burglary. Don't mix and match.