The Belgian government commented on the situation a few days ago, saying that they will take "certain measures" if it turns out to be cyber espionage.
As a Belgian and a heavy user of a lot of American online services, I actually hope it doesn't turn out to be the NSA. I really don't want Belgium to become the next Iran or China and some websites are already DNS-blocked here (thepiratebay for one).
Something needs to be done to make the internet open and secure again, or the internet will soon have geographical borders. The problem is we can't do much, it's up to you, Americans, to tell your government to get its shit back together.
Off course they aren't selling. As long as it has windows in the name, people will relate that to instability and blue screens. Though even I, a Linux user, have to admit blue screens aren't that common now on win 7, but people will never put the Vista horror out of their mind.
And unless like for the desktop, there are valid and cheap alternativels out there which regular users have no difficulties with.
Nokia also failed to respond on the smartphones on time and if they don't get their shit straight soon, I predict a bad ending like what happened to Kodak. It's sad though, always likes their dumbphones.
...when they are done on a massive scale. But things like murder, theft, destruction of property,... are no acts if terrorism on their own, and to say they are is just ridiculous. Plus as already pointed out, you can't just call everything an act of terrorism just because it happens a lot. This way some lonely thug who steals one or a few credit cards will instantly be labeled a terrorist. The only thing they should do at the maximum is call a specific event an act of terrorism and everyone involved in that event can be labeled as terrorist.
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The Belgian government commented on the situation a few days ago, saying that they will take "certain measures" if it turns out to be cyber espionage.
As a Belgian and a heavy user of a lot of American online services, I actually hope it doesn't turn out to be the NSA. I really don't want Belgium to become the next Iran or China and some websites are already DNS-blocked here (thepiratebay for one).
Something needs to be done to make the internet open and secure again, or the internet will soon have geographical borders. The problem is we can't do much, it's up to you, Americans, to tell your government to get its shit back together.
Off course they aren't selling. As long as it has windows in the name, people will relate that to instability and blue screens. Though even I, a Linux user, have to admit blue screens aren't that common now on win 7, but people will never put the Vista horror out of their mind.
And unless like for the desktop, there are valid and cheap alternativels out there which regular users have no difficulties with.
Nokia also failed to respond on the smartphones on time and if they don't get their shit straight soon, I predict a bad ending like what happened to Kodak. It's sad though, always likes their dumbphones.
Konrad von Finckenstein
Anyone else read "von Frankenstein"?
... And they only have about 330 million IPv4 addresses. I mean, even with the abuse of large scale NAT they must be getting in serious problems.
...when they are done on a massive scale. But things like murder, theft, destruction of property,... are no acts if terrorism on their own, and to say they are is just ridiculous. Plus as already pointed out, you can't just call everything an act of terrorism just because it happens a lot. This way some lonely thug who steals one or a few credit cards will instantly be labeled a terrorist. The only thing they should do at the maximum is call a specific event an act of terrorism and everyone involved in that event can be labeled as terrorist.
Are they gonna set up their own internet too?