A subsidiary company has a separate board of directors. It is the task of those directors to run the company in the interests of the shareholder, in accordance with local law. In this case, given that the company is subject to European Data Protection legislation, it would be for the local directors to refuse to obey the court order - and invite MS USA to sack them at an AGM. By the time the AGM comes along, there's a good chance that either the Irish courts will have got involved, or the US government will realise that the enforcement of this will ensure that NOONE uses American companies for any purpose, and that the non-American alternative to Google and MS will gain market share....
That's the excuse that is being trotted out by our lords and masters. In that context, these moves make sense in their eyes. The debate is whether (a) whether the threat is real (b) it's enough to justify the intrusions by the state and (c) whether the state actually achieves anything by these intrusions. All these points are disputable, but it's unfair to dismiss them without consideration.
So all the newspapers of the USA were closed and no TV stations were broadcasting news? Certainly today it would make a strong story - after all we're resurrecting it after all these years; I'm dubious that the fact that the newspapers of New York were shut would be a such a barrier then.
It's interesting to consider that the contractors were able to keep this secret despite its news value. This may challenge those who are against conspiracy theorists: 'The story you're telling would come out'. The Snowden revelations have shown that many hints WERE accurate - but some strongly underestimated what the NSA was up to. Conspiracy theorist 1, others 0 on this one...
Given that the public wants measurable results for their tax dollars, getting an easy conviction is their optimum strategy. Upsetting the parents of the bullies, who are probably high status bullies themselves, by revealing that their brats are nasty pieces of work, is not going to do the police any favours. The publicity this case has generated will do some good to this particular situation, but in general, we're stuck with this problem...
If the effect is to kill a large proportion of the population, then the clothes left behind will mostly last forever, so there will be no need for new clothes. Actually the number of clothes that most of us have is FAR more than we will need for the rest of our life, so it's dubious that there will be much of a need for it, unlike food production, which will need to be restarted quite soon.
The assumption that science needs taxpayer support is a very modern belief, one that working scientists love to live by, but one that seldom justifies itself!
And they lost in Malaya, the forgotten episode of the Cold War. Actually the CHINESE lost in Vietnam; by the end the North was aligned with Moscow and actually fought a war with China in 1979. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
On that logic the widespread use of antibiotics shouldn't have caused the emergence of antibiotic resistant strains. Since it is usually argued that it is the prevalence of antibiotics at low levels that enable these strains to develop, it surely works the way I suggest. Or am I missing something?
If we train the Candida to resist the anti-fungal chemical because it's far more widely in use in pharmaceuticals, we have the lovely prospect of Candida becoming a pandemic because our defences have been compromised...
Sometimes I'm grateful that I probably won't be around to see the worst consequences of our foolish use of technology!
Read up your rights under that, especially your right to get all the data that they hold about you for £10. If that data includes the history of your web browsing, then certain consequences follow; make sure you're using a proxy even for innocent activity for a while before you submit the request. On the other hand if it doesn't and they subsequently challenge something that you have posted on line, they will be in BIG trouble for failing to reveal that they knew your browsing history..
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Assuming you are under 18, your parents' role in this is more significant than yours. If you are over, it gets far more interesting!
Away from the power of the US government. Then we might, possibly, believe these comments. Till then, use American tech companies last, or to provide misinformation to them...
It gives an idea of the scale. If they are getting court orders for less than 1000, we can believe they have reason to look at that data. If they are getting orders for 100,000 we KNOW that they are not seriously engaging with the information that they are getting. It's not a great gain, but it's not squat. OTOH if it's all we ever get, then it's probably not worth anything. If nothing else, it gives us hope that we can get more control in the future...
Surely the existence of these abilities is a useful power in meaningful intelligence activity, so its revelation does make the NSA less effective in its legitimate work. The whole debate is always sailing close to this line; to me these revelations are over the line, unlike a lot of the earlier ones.
It's really really hard to avoid the conclusion that they've got some killer blackmail data that's keeping her dancing this oppressors' line. The alternative is that she really believes these lies.
Given that the GOP isn't winning California in the foreseeable future, the only realistic prospect for her removal is a primary challenge, which, of course, is the easiest thing to pre-empt with convenient revelations. Sadly however, given that she was reelected in 2012, we're not getting rid of her soon unless the grim reaper gets her - she is 80.
Most world religions call for 'love of the neighbour as yourself'. However all who have children should hear 'love your neighbour as your child', as in practice parents are not good at being rational about when their children are concerned, with the result that we see children locked up in doors in reaction to 'stranger danger' - and thereby, overall, suffering more damage from lack of exercise and social interaction. This is merely an example of this wider irrationality... we can HOPE for reason to prevail...
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. This seems remarkably like a monopoly trying to sow FUD to prevent the destruction of their business model...
The British have introduced widespread solar power generation from roof tops without a sniff of this issue, although people DO install specific meters that record their input / output as part of the installation of solar power. So I assume that's resolving those issues? Or is the issue being ignored by the British grid operator? Or is this a technical issue in theory - but in reality for small scale producers not significant, as in practice the power will be used by local consumers, not actually reaching the first level of substation? And is it made worse by the US 110v standard, against our 230v?
Child porn either hidden on his computer or on cds hidden in the depths of the apartment somewhere. On his computer a timer to reveal it in a few days time; the disks are 'stumbled across' at some point in the future. He needs to check the apartment and totally shred the computer disks...
Any bets anyone?
which should be pursued by newspapers... who don't care if their phones are tapped. The question is who decided not to prosecute - and then invite a court to overule that decision. The criminal would then be offered a plea bargain to rat on some of the other illegal things they knew about - and so the prosecutions would spread... Well it's a nice dream!
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A subsidiary company has a separate board of directors. It is the task of those directors to run the company in the interests of the shareholder, in accordance with local law. In this case, given that the company is subject to European Data Protection legislation, it would be for the local directors to refuse to obey the court order - and invite MS USA to sack them at an AGM. By the time the AGM comes along, there's a good chance that either the Irish courts will have got involved, or the US government will realise that the enforcement of this will ensure that NOONE uses American companies for any purpose, and that the non-American alternative to Google and MS will gain market share....
That's the excuse that is being trotted out by our lords and masters. In that context, these moves make sense in their eyes. The debate is whether (a) whether the threat is real (b) it's enough to justify the intrusions by the state and (c) whether the state actually achieves anything by these intrusions. All these points are disputable, but it's unfair to dismiss them without consideration.
So all the newspapers of the USA were closed and no TV stations were broadcasting news? Certainly today it would make a strong story - after all we're resurrecting it after all these years; I'm dubious that the fact that the newspapers of New York were shut would be a such a barrier then.
It's interesting to consider that the contractors were able to keep this secret despite its news value. This may challenge those who are against conspiracy theorists: 'The story you're telling would come out'. The Snowden revelations have shown that many hints WERE accurate - but some strongly underestimated what the NSA was up to. Conspiracy theorist 1, others 0 on this one...
Given that the public wants measurable results for their tax dollars, getting an easy conviction is their optimum strategy. Upsetting the parents of the bullies, who are probably high status bullies themselves, by revealing that their brats are nasty pieces of work, is not going to do the police any favours. The publicity this case has generated will do some good to this particular situation, but in general, we're stuck with this problem...
Which detected when an International Rescue craft was being filmed - though it didn't do anything about it...
If the effect is to kill a large proportion of the population, then the clothes left behind will mostly last forever, so there will be no need for new clothes. Actually the number of clothes that most of us have is FAR more than we will need for the rest of our life, so it's dubious that there will be much of a need for it, unlike food production, which will need to be restarted quite soon.
The assumption that science needs taxpayer support is a very modern belief, one that working scientists love to live by, but one that seldom justifies itself!
And they lost in Malaya, the forgotten episode of the Cold War. Actually the CHINESE lost in Vietnam; by the end the North was aligned with Moscow and actually fought a war with China in 1979. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
On that logic the widespread use of antibiotics shouldn't have caused the emergence of antibiotic resistant strains. Since it is usually argued that it is the prevalence of antibiotics at low levels that enable these strains to develop, it surely works the way I suggest. Or am I missing something?
Sometimes I'm grateful that I probably won't be around to see the worst consequences of our foolish use of technology!
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Assuming you are under 18, your parents' role in this is more significant than yours. If you are over, it gets far more interesting!
Away from the power of the US government. Then we might, possibly, believe these comments. Till then, use American tech companies last, or to provide misinformation to them...
It gives an idea of the scale. If they are getting court orders for less than 1000, we can believe they have reason to look at that data. If they are getting orders for 100,000 we KNOW that they are not seriously engaging with the information that they are getting. It's not a great gain, but it's not squat. OTOH if it's all we ever get, then it's probably not worth anything. If nothing else, it gives us hope that we can get more control in the future...
Surely the existence of these abilities is a useful power in meaningful intelligence activity, so its revelation does make the NSA less effective in its legitimate work. The whole debate is always sailing close to this line; to me these revelations are over the line, unlike a lot of the earlier ones.
It's really really hard to avoid the conclusion that they've got some killer blackmail data that's keeping her dancing this oppressors' line. The alternative is that she really believes these lies. Given that the GOP isn't winning California in the foreseeable future, the only realistic prospect for her removal is a primary challenge, which, of course, is the easiest thing to pre-empt with convenient revelations. Sadly however, given that she was reelected in 2012, we're not getting rid of her soon unless the grim reaper gets her - she is 80.
Whilst Torvalds is Calvin - the one who pulled the logic of the previous reformers together to create a complete system.
Most world religions call for 'love of the neighbour as yourself'. However all who have children should hear 'love your neighbour as your child', as in practice parents are not good at being rational about when their children are concerned, with the result that we see children locked up in doors in reaction to 'stranger danger' - and thereby, overall, suffering more damage from lack of exercise and social interaction. This is merely an example of this wider irrationality... we can HOPE for reason to prevail...
An interesting surprise!
If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it's probably a duck. This seems remarkably like a monopoly trying to sow FUD to prevent the destruction of their business model...
The British have introduced widespread solar power generation from roof tops without a sniff of this issue, although people DO install specific meters that record their input / output as part of the installation of solar power. So I assume that's resolving those issues? Or is the issue being ignored by the British grid operator? Or is this a technical issue in theory - but in reality for small scale producers not significant, as in practice the power will be used by local consumers, not actually reaching the first level of substation? And is it made worse by the US 110v standard, against our 230v?
Do you really believe they ever really leave the organisations they used to work for? Putin is clearly still KGB...
Child porn either hidden on his computer or on cds hidden in the depths of the apartment somewhere. On his computer a timer to reveal it in a few days time; the disks are 'stumbled across' at some point in the future. He needs to check the apartment and totally shred the computer disks... Any bets anyone?
When she complains you're spending all your time in WoW, you can say you're trying to get a job with the NSA...
which should be pursued by newspapers... who don't care if their phones are tapped. The question is who decided not to prosecute - and then invite a court to overule that decision. The criminal would then be offered a plea bargain to rat on some of the other illegal things they knew about - and so the prosecutions would spread... Well it's a nice dream!