"automatically assumed to be doing unproductive work by their immediate supervisor" If your job description is not related to IT security you are being unproductive in the eyes of your supervisor. For example, if you are getting paid to develop and support applications that is what you should be doing. You can work on your security concerns after hours or get a job in IT security.
If you are a lawyer you should understand that there is no true international law, established or otherwise, because there is no enforcement mechanism that can be brought to bear equally in every corner of the world. Even countries with advanced rule of law have all kinds of problems defining jurisdiction, extradition rights, and problems leading towards sovereignty issues. Only a few countries have the ability to enforce there definition of international law and that relies on political pressure backed up by economic and ultimately military power when things truly escalate. The EU seems well on it's way towards a thought police state while simultaneously bending over backwards to accommodate people holding beliefs that would have seemed extreme even back in the 12th century. The only permitted hate speech in the EU is anything denigrating and insulting to the US and everyone living there. While the EU chattering classes were hyperventilating over the NSA they failed to notice whose national security and intelligence services were actually collecting their data and then sharing it with the NSA. Do they think all that data was deleted from the servers located in Europe after the hand over?
"more and more bosses want to see a Facebook profile before hiring you " Define more and more. Is there any proof this statement is accurate in any way outside of a few anecdotal cases? There are plenty of online sites that specialize in providing targeted employment and contracting opportunities so why wade through all the dross on FB? You may well see a lot of online services that allow you to use a Facebook account to login but it is an option not a requirement. Just like using FB in general is an option not a requirement.
"The only valid reason to use MS W are a few highly specialized apps used in science/engineering" And how did you arrive at this idiotic conclusion? Did you take a poll? Perform indepth studies to backup your conclusion? Maybe you have over 25 years of actual hands on experience in the IT world? " no need for "security updates" for Internet" You really are clueless and what's worse is you probably think you are right and go out of your way to inflict your stupidity and ignorance on others.
"You don't have to use Windows for anything" Except for running the majority of applications frequently used by individuals and companies every day. People don't run OS's they run applications.
"Oh I have to keep up to date for work" The updates are security and bug fixes. Issues all the non-MS OS's also have to deal with. The update mechanism is to make things easier for the non-technical users not the whiny bitches masquerading as software developers.
The Muslim theocracies have been pursuing the right to force their ideas of what is and what is not allowable on the Internet for quite some time at the UN. And damn near every country on the planet except for the US is demanding the US turn the governance over to the UN. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea is moron. And can someone point out where the "right to be forgotten" is granted in the US Constitution or Bill of Rights? And Google should stop using data to fine tune their advertising and instead just start charging a nominal fee for each user search. They could stop all this advertising and marketing bother and start making some real money. Of course someone will point out that free internet searches are a fundamental human right.
The report was done by the National Academics of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine which is non-profit research organization. And they posted all of the findings on the Internet along with a summary of the public submitted comments and information on the researchers who created the report. How much more can they disclose? And just because the report may benefit the companies that develop genetically modified crops that doesn't mean the reported findings are false or misleading. In this case you have already made up your mind that the agro companies are evil and no amount of evidence will make you change your position.
So in other words you have no idea what data is being sent to MS. Your "good picture" is nothing more than a wild ass guess. Sort of like the fabled "back door" hidden within Windows that allows MS to access your machine at will. If there was a backdoor why are people constantly trying to create their own? Some of these guys are damn smart and if there really was a designed backdoor in the OS someone would have found it and published the details. Do we live in a world where facts are replaced by innuendo, guesses, and out right lies? Is exaggeration and misinformation acceptable as long as it supports a pre-determined point of view or political stance?
What data is actually being reported back to MS? Do you have any verifiable details on the data being transmitted? Does the transmitted data contain personal details that can be used to identify or track a specific user?
Yes. Violate probation and you break the law. If there were no consequences in violating probation then the probation option disappears in sentencing and everyone serves time.
Sure there are a lot of web-based applications but they usually run on top of a database, middle tier components, and services that depend on the OS. Internal web-based applications are also responsible for the slow adoption of alternative browsers. Companies designate a standard browser and all the intranet applications are developed against that one browser.
The government has been involved in developing aerospace technology since WW1. The government doesn't actually research or build anything. They pay the private sector to research and build things. The private companies supply the US military with aerospace technology but they are also in the business of building commercial aircraft.
The US occupies Gitmo because both countries signed a lease agreement in 1903 which is still legal and in effect today. Thus the US base is there because of an agreement with the host country. And the US lease agreement took Cuba to the cleaners because they only pay $4,085 a year. Maybe Cuba has been unable to scrape up enough money to payoff the lease?
The real danger with NK having a nuclear arsenal is they would not hesitate to sell their nukes to every terrorist and authoritarian government on the planet. NK knows that if they were to launch a nuclear weapon on anybody they would be committing suicide. If a nuclear weapon was used by a 3rd party they would still committing suicide because. It's not the US who should handle NK it is China. They are the ones that actually created NK. In 1953 the UN military forces had driven the NK army to the Chinese border. Then China sent 700,000 conscripted soldiers to retake NK using human wave attacks.
If they only managed to injure someone's dog they would still earn them a full retaliatory strike from the US who do have outstanding targeting capabilities and some fairly clean tactical nuclear war heads.
NK would be completely and utterly destroyed if they started launching missiles towards the US. And how accurate do they really need to be with a nuclear missile? All they need to do is point it in the general direction of the US and push the red button. What is surprising is that China has not taken care of the NK problem all by themselves. China is being surrounded by missile defense batteries capable of degrading their own nuclear deterrent. NK threats are causing every country in SE Asia to upgrade their militaries and seek tighter alliances with the US. And to top it off the US has sent even more military assets to the region. China needs NK like a fish needs a bicycle.
Those who have joined the anti-Trump movement better hope he doesn't win. Trump doesn't strike me as the kind of person who forgives slights. At the very least Trump has already assured the total destruction of the Republican party while also bringing to light the total worthlessness of winning state delegates. The entrenched Republicans and possibly the Democrats are going to be in the position of telling everyone who participated in the State Primaries that their votes are meaningless. It's been a long time since the last brokered conventions and back then social media did not exist to incite the population into an anti-government frenzy in real time. Personally I would like to see Trump win for the sheer entertainment value he would bring to the office. His campaign has rattled all the entrenched politicians and the behind the scenes political power brokers. People who have invested billions of dollars into their candidates are afraid their long term investments are going to be wasted. The US has desperately needed something to shake up the US political and patronage landscape. No President has the power to bring the country down. There are just too many checks and balances in place. The sheer inertia of US domestic and foreign policy cannot be easily set aside. Presidential candidates all make campaign promises that they know will never happen. People complaining about Trump act as if he is running for Emperor and can rule by fiat. He cannot fire Congress or the Supreme Court if they stand in his way. If he tries to exceed any his Presidential powers he can always be impeached. And since every politician in Washington hates him articles of impeachment would be drawn up and passed through Congress unanimously.
A whole 15,000 subscribers and a petition with 5000 signatures are an insignificant amount of people to force anyone's hand. Amazon deals with millions of subscribers. The righteous indignation of the few is just background noise. And the people starting these boycotts demand that all their views and opinions be taken seriously while any dissenting opinions need to be quashed.
The FBI has shuffled Apple to the side. In the current case the owner of the phone gave the FBI permission to search the phone. No warrant required. The Court order would have required Apple to provide resources to satisfy the Court order. Of course Apple made it seem like they would have to shut down the company to supply the necessary resources which was grade A bullshit. Now if a similar case comes up and the owner of the phone does not willingly give permission to search their phone contents the FBI will need a search warrant. If they get a search warrant the FBI apparently now has the ability to do so without Apple's help or approval. Apple can now claim they valiantly fought off the government but their claims of security have taken a hit.
The government could have hit Apple with a NSL or FISA warrant. Instead they used the open court system to state their case and get a warrant. The simple truth is Apple knew they could have told the court that they could not give the government what they want because it was technically impossible. Since they did not take this option means they were well aware they could circumvent the security and give the FBI what they wanted. If they could do it so could anyone else with the necessary resources.
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"automatically assumed to be doing unproductive work by their immediate supervisor" If your job description is not related to IT security you are being unproductive in the eyes of your supervisor. For example, if you are getting paid to develop and support applications that is what you should be doing. You can work on your security concerns after hours or get a job in IT security.
If you are a lawyer you should understand that there is no true international law, established or otherwise, because there is no enforcement mechanism that can be brought to bear equally in every corner of the world. Even countries with advanced rule of law have all kinds of problems defining jurisdiction, extradition rights, and problems leading towards sovereignty issues. Only a few countries have the ability to enforce there definition of international law and that relies on political pressure backed up by economic and ultimately military power when things truly escalate. The EU seems well on it's way towards a thought police state while simultaneously bending over backwards to accommodate people holding beliefs that would have seemed extreme even back in the 12th century. The only permitted hate speech in the EU is anything denigrating and insulting to the US and everyone living there. While the EU chattering classes were hyperventilating over the NSA they failed to notice whose national security and intelligence services were actually collecting their data and then sharing it with the NSA. Do they think all that data was deleted from the servers located in Europe after the hand over?
"more and more bosses want to see a Facebook profile before hiring you " Define more and more. Is there any proof this statement is accurate in any way outside of a few anecdotal cases? There are plenty of online sites that specialize in providing targeted employment and contracting opportunities so why wade through all the dross on FB? You may well see a lot of online services that allow you to use a Facebook account to login but it is an option not a requirement. Just like using FB in general is an option not a requirement.
"The only valid reason to use MS W are a few highly specialized apps used in science/engineering" And how did you arrive at this idiotic conclusion? Did you take a poll? Perform indepth studies to backup your conclusion? Maybe you have over 25 years of actual hands on experience in the IT world?
" no need for "security updates" for Internet" You really are clueless and what's worse is you probably think you are right and go out of your way to inflict your stupidity and ignorance on others.
"You don't have to use Windows for anything" Except for running the majority of applications frequently used by individuals and companies every day. People don't run OS's they run applications.
"Oh I have to keep up to date for work" The updates are security and bug fixes. Issues all the non-MS OS's also have to deal with. The update mechanism is to make things easier for the non-technical users not the whiny bitches masquerading as software developers.
No, No, No! Bing and Yahoo would want their share of the per search revenue as well. The only losers in this scenario are the actual users.
The Muslim theocracies have been pursuing the right to force their ideas of what is and what is not allowable on the Internet for quite some time at the UN. And damn near every country on the planet except for the US is demanding the US turn the governance over to the UN. Anyone who thinks this is a good idea is moron. And can someone point out where the "right to be forgotten" is granted in the US Constitution or Bill of Rights? And Google should stop using data to fine tune their advertising and instead just start charging a nominal fee for each user search. They could stop all this advertising and marketing bother and start making some real money. Of course someone will point out that free internet searches are a fundamental human right.
"and no I've never heard of the US national academy of sciences" Follow the link the above poster has provided and educate yourself.
The report was done by the National Academics of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine which is non-profit research organization. And they posted all of the findings on the Internet along with a summary of the public submitted comments and information on the researchers who created the report. How much more can they disclose? And just because the report may benefit the companies that develop genetically modified crops that doesn't mean the reported findings are false or misleading. In this case you have already made up your mind that the agro companies are evil and no amount of evidence will make you change your position.
" appearing too close to U.S. spy agencies" Are they applying the same rules for non-US spy agencies?
So in other words you have no idea what data is being sent to MS. Your "good picture" is nothing more than a wild ass guess. Sort of like the fabled "back door" hidden within Windows that allows MS to access your machine at will. If there was a backdoor why are people constantly trying to create their own? Some of these guys are damn smart and if there really was a designed backdoor in the OS someone would have found it and published the details. Do we live in a world where facts are replaced by innuendo, guesses, and out right lies? Is exaggeration and misinformation acceptable as long as it supports a pre-determined point of view or political stance?
What data is actually being reported back to MS? Do you have any verifiable details on the data being transmitted? Does the transmitted data contain personal details that can be used to identify or track a specific user?
Yes. Violate probation and you break the law. If there were no consequences in violating probation then the probation option disappears in sentencing and everyone serves time.
Sure there are a lot of web-based applications but they usually run on top of a database, middle tier components, and services that depend on the OS. Internal web-based applications are also responsible for the slow adoption of alternative browsers. Companies designate a standard browser and all the intranet applications are developed against that one browser.
The government has been involved in developing aerospace technology since WW1. The government doesn't actually research or build anything. They pay the private sector to research and build things. The private companies supply the US military with aerospace technology but they are also in the business of building commercial aircraft.
The individuals listed could personally pony up $250 million from petty cash. Why ask the government for funding?
The US occupies Gitmo because both countries signed a lease agreement in 1903 which is still legal and in effect today. Thus the US base is there because of an agreement with the host country. And the US lease agreement took Cuba to the cleaners because they only pay $4,085 a year. Maybe Cuba has been unable to scrape up enough money to payoff the lease?
The real danger with NK having a nuclear arsenal is they would not hesitate to sell their nukes to every terrorist and authoritarian government on the planet. NK knows that if they were to launch a nuclear weapon on anybody they would be committing suicide. If a nuclear weapon was used by a 3rd party they would still committing suicide because. It's not the US who should handle NK it is China. They are the ones that actually created NK. In 1953 the UN military forces had driven the NK army to the Chinese border. Then China sent 700,000 conscripted soldiers to retake NK using human wave attacks.
If they only managed to injure someone's dog they would still earn them a full retaliatory strike from the US who do have outstanding targeting capabilities and some fairly clean tactical nuclear war heads.
NK would be completely and utterly destroyed if they started launching missiles towards the US. And how accurate do they really need to be with a nuclear missile? All they need to do is point it in the general direction of the US and push the red button. What is surprising is that China has not taken care of the NK problem all by themselves. China is being surrounded by missile defense batteries capable of degrading their own nuclear deterrent. NK threats are causing every country in SE Asia to upgrade their militaries and seek tighter alliances with the US. And to top it off the US has sent even more military assets to the region. China needs NK like a fish needs a bicycle.
Those who have joined the anti-Trump movement better hope he doesn't win. Trump doesn't strike me as the kind of person who forgives slights. At the very least Trump has already assured the total destruction of the Republican party while also bringing to light the total worthlessness of winning state delegates. The entrenched Republicans and possibly the Democrats are going to be in the position of telling everyone who participated in the State Primaries that their votes are meaningless. It's been a long time since the last brokered conventions and back then social media did not exist to incite the population into an anti-government frenzy in real time. Personally I would like to see Trump win for the sheer entertainment value he would bring to the office. His campaign has rattled all the entrenched politicians and the behind the scenes political power brokers. People who have invested billions of dollars into their candidates are afraid their long term investments are going to be wasted. The US has desperately needed something to shake up the US political and patronage landscape. No President has the power to bring the country down. There are just too many checks and balances in place. The sheer inertia of US domestic and foreign policy cannot be easily set aside. Presidential candidates all make campaign promises that they know will never happen. People complaining about Trump act as if he is running for Emperor and can rule by fiat. He cannot fire Congress or the Supreme Court if they stand in his way. If he tries to exceed any his Presidential powers he can always be impeached. And since every politician in Washington hates him articles of impeachment would be drawn up and passed through Congress unanimously.
A whole 15,000 subscribers and a petition with 5000 signatures are an insignificant amount of people to force anyone's hand. Amazon deals with millions of subscribers. The righteous indignation of the few is just background noise. And the people starting these boycotts demand that all their views and opinions be taken seriously while any dissenting opinions need to be quashed.
Apple is just pissed off because their own backdoor into the phones has been exposed.
The FBI has shuffled Apple to the side. In the current case the owner of the phone gave the FBI permission to search the phone. No warrant required. The Court order would have required Apple to provide resources to satisfy the Court order. Of course Apple made it seem like they would have to shut down the company to supply the necessary resources which was grade A bullshit. Now if a similar case comes up and the owner of the phone does not willingly give permission to search their phone contents the FBI will need a search warrant. If they get a search warrant the FBI apparently now has the ability to do so without Apple's help or approval. Apple can now claim they valiantly fought off the government but their claims of security have taken a hit.
The government could have hit Apple with a NSL or FISA warrant. Instead they used the open court system to state their case and get a warrant. The simple truth is Apple knew they could have told the court that they could not give the government what they want because it was technically impossible. Since they did not take this option means they were well aware they could circumvent the security and give the FBI what they wanted. If they could do it so could anyone else with the necessary resources.