Because there must be something psychologically invalid about the people who do not 'believe' as you do...it could not be, I don't know, that you have not made a strong argument for the position you are taking.
Yeah...using Facebook for data mining would be the epitome of scraping the bottom of the barrel. I mean, the Finance people are really messing up: they should drop what they're doing, and hold a class (mandatory) on how to balance a checkbook, as well as offer some classes on how to actually invest / budget / handle loans in a non-idiotic way. True, historically high defaults is certainly making them a lot of money, but it's all paper -> not enough stuff is being produced to offset that paper creation, so essentially more paper for less stuff is a losing proposition (the downside of destroying markets for personal gain). Since there is less total supply, the price for individual items goes up, which means that extra dosh is kind of...pointless. And the goal at the end of the day is not to have a pile of paper, but a pile of stuff...at least if you are pursuing the materialistic route.
Thank you. My critics are non-thinking automatons; even my errors, made during nights of drunken debauchery and zero later recollection, show more thought that many of these precanned responses.
"When large numbers of investors trade mutual funds in lockstep, it can force fund managers to buy and sell securities at inopportune times. They may have to find securities to buy in a hurry if the pack invests all at once, and may have to sell quickly to pay off sellers who cash out together."
Right...because when an average investor buys and sell securities at an inopportune time, it's totally cool, but when a fund manager has to do it....well, we can't have that.
Love this world to death: it has so many laws, so many rules, for so many different peoples, and they're all different! No two people abide by the same set of rules. God Himself would be proud.
Dude, just try and fix the security thing in the Enterprise. It's Hell on Earth.
You end up giving people too many permissions, or too little. Business wants things to happen, doesn't understand anything until after they are robbed; on the other hand, bureaucracy doesn't understand the need to move while people are still around and maintaining some level of interest in their job. Add in the whole human angle, where humans are, let's be honest, very capable, if motivated to, breaking something...and you have a problem.
Some places think giving everyone permissions / access to the company web server isn't going far enough...some companies think that giving software developers carte blanche rights to install whatever software they want on their laptops without forms signed in triplicate is going too far.
The NSA appears to slowly be learning that there is always someone just a little smarter, just a little further ahead of you out there.
Just a little personal message to the boys cracking this and breaking that: when the paranoia gets to you, I recommend going fishing (like with a boat, and some tackle). Might save your life.
Of course, because mindshare / word of mouth / buzz / flash in the pan / eyeballs / and likes are more important than putting out a product that your customers (corporate and home / small-business) would consider, I don't know, 'useful' in the 'Oh God, I did not know something like that existed, it's expensive, but it scratches an itch that I did not know could be scratched, and makes it go away forever without notice' kind of way.
"It's just amusing to me to see NSA as the scapegoat of the day for any quirk anyone experiences related to computers or connectivity in general."
Well, you know how it is in IT. Anyone who has computer-related skills, last seen in the vicinity of the machine, when it stopped working, is suddenly suspect. They're just experiencing what everyone else in IT has experienced for decades...and getting a dose of their own medicine. The paranoia they've created, plus the problems those backdoors / other tricks have caused were slightly less than trivial; up until now, other people were dealing with it, and the NSA, heh, was getting a free ride; the NSA could create malware, and others would pay the price; the NSA could tap into people's lives, and others would pay the price.
How many times has law enforcement used one of their wonderful 'devices,' only to end up breaking something for everyone else in the process? I imagine the judges / legislative bodies think that these devices, once plugged in, are hidden / stealth devices, and never cause any unforeseen side effects. They certainly aren't responsible for any widespread outages (business wise), or the with-holding of upgrades because law enforcement needs certain versions of software that if you upgrade, it will suddenly be incompatible. Nah, has never happened. "Oh yes, lie to the customer about why this can't be upgraded...lose their business if you have to...gag order LOL."
But very nice, the part about the NSA being used to steal our competition's secrets...their IP, I mean. Less about national security, more about national economic security.
If this is data that the American and British spooks presumably already have, why not just post it publicly? What's the point of keeping a copy of data they already have hidden from them?
In other words, it's greed + stupidity, it's going to be seen as a huge disaster in a decade, but in the short term "everyone is doing it, and making lots of money, so we should totally be doing it too."
Except your customers are totally going to remember that you fucked them, and fucked them good. They'll pay it short term, don't get me wrong...you got them up against the wall; but major companies will begin looking into projects to, heh, lighten the rental costs. Those will come to fruition in about a decade, maybe less, maybe more.
And the added bonus? You're totally forgetting about all the students who are going to have to use a free variant of CAD, not made by AutoCAD, and will be totally unfamiliar with AutoCAD when they get out...increasing training costs, decreasing productivity, and introducing the possibility of the free stuff eventually displacing AutoCAD in the work place. But, you say, they can always use a pirated copy if they want to learn AutoCAD...well, your dial-home DRM / Cloud stuff prevents that, doesn't it? But, you say, surely we will make it cheap enough for them to purchase as an Academic version, or for their college / university to provide to the...except college / universities are also into 'saving money,' and would totally cut the legs out from under AutoCAD if it meant an extra pack of cigarettes at the end of the day; and college students...well, between those loans, hideously low wages, and of course, just being college students (beer first, bros), no one is spending money on a monthly subscription to AutoCAD cloud.
Not at all. If you consider than the NSA was used for business interests, as opposed to government (national security interests, they tell me), it makes perfect sense.
Why not spy on everyone, learn their IP in development, and come out with something similar, possibly ahead of even the original product's release? You'll notice the US changed its patent laws from original inventor to first filer (lol). And why not use, illegally, the NSA to find future defendants? They're all criminals, right? So who cares? True, it's a minor detail, in that they haven't been convicted yet, and you'll be committing a crime to discover a crime...arguably committing a greater crime, covering it up, to bring to light a lesser crime...but hey, this is about money. The NSA has become an enforcement arm of the MPAA / RIAA.
The whole 'National Security / Terrorist' thing has been a cover for business interests getting illegal peeks into the competition. It's anti-free market (theft / fraud, violation of market rules).
Nonsense. You see, for the people doing this stuff on behalf of the NSA, their actions are completely justified: to beat the criminals, they needed to become better criminals than the criminals. The irony of said statement, as well as the mental gymnastics involved, are truly breath-taking...but rest-assured, they are very righteous in their cause.
Actually, there may have been people in the US for Big Government who really did believe that their government, if given these kinds of widespread powers, would never abuse them. They've been stoically making the arguments for years at this point, jumping on everyone about how the government can be totally trusted, and how any distrust of a government (brought on by reading just about any history book) was a sign of paranoid schizophrenia.
When they heard that the NSA was intercepting every piece of electronic data flowing through the US, many of them didn't want to believe it. They still don't...
Well, it takes some talent to get them there. First you need to starve them a bit. Then you need to eradicate all of the moderate / peaceful imams. Then you need to repress the youth, and make them feel trapped. Then you need to make them feel that violence is the only answer to solving their lifestyle problems.
Sure, it takes a large investment in that kind of control / behavioral modification, but it has worked wonders on various indigenous populations, no matter which religion they choose to identify with.
I mean, let's be honest, a fat and happy populace is not a populace which is going to attack anyone. You need to lie to them, cheat them, steal from them, every single day, from every angle, so they feel that even their emotions are on loan from you; that's when you know you have them, when they will altruistically damage themselves to be just like the false image of you. You need to remove that innermost sense of peace that humans are born with, and make them uneasy to be alone with themselves.
I hope you get the dripping sarcasm in the above statements.
Nonsense. Let's spy on people, but only if they're female, between the ages of consent and too ripe, and only if it's on a Friday. And have it broadcast from Mulder.FBI.gov...for 'National Security' purposes...these are dangerous times, and we need to take extra special precautions that our women are not harmed during them...which is why they need to be placed under surveillance. As it stands, there are plenty of adolescent males at home who, during this time of sequestering, are willing to do their patriotic duty to their country, and offer their ocular services to their homeland, free of charge, so long as we are willing to provide them with an ample supply of tissues and lotion.
Oh, I think you'll find we have one of those. It's just that everyone disagrees about who is running it: Aliens, the Devil, God, the Jews, the Nazis, the British Monarchy, the Templars, the Roman Catholics, the Free Masons, the UN, the US, the USSR, the Bankers, the Illuminati, an AI, etc.
Tell you what. Everyone get together, and decide who is, and isn't running this Universe, and when you all agree on the same people (and I want this in writing), come and find me; I'll be busy getting high, and trying to accomplish some pleasantly futile task...futile because of what I am, and my own personal failings, and perhaps what I have set out to do, not because I'm high.
Oh God shutup. The new students just want what their parents got, or maybe something a little better. It's the schools dealing with the larger influx of students who have to build new dorms to house all new students (guess what, the population grew, big surprise, which means the percentage of people going to college grew as well). Many of these kids are not getting a full-ride, they have scholarships (full or partial), grants, or loans.
I'm going to need some proof that the 46% constitutes living, breathing people.
Personally, any poll showing a president not taking a hit for the unveiling of a giant surveillance program is rather suspect -> you could have been totally against the program from day one, with video proof every day you were in office, spending every moment railing against it, and you'd still take a hit. For someone who is for it to come out with a 46% approval rating is, well, what we could call "Putin-high" in the business.
And that example, yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theatre, needs to be corrected. The Supreme Court error'ed in its ruling there; now would be a good time to remove the poison, before it does further damage.
Sure, we can play the "Who are thou to question the great rulings of the mighty learned Justices of yester-year, thou piece of dystended human rectum!"; but let's be honest, it's just someone's pride talking, it's kind of boring, and I don't know anyone who hasn't been burned by that ruling.
We have an entire leaning tower of 'free' speech that clerks spend waaaaaay too much time trying to defend each day, and it's time to perform some controlled demolitions, if only so they can go on vacation. That means finding out where we actually want freedom of speech to be (where the original line of thinking went, as well as proofing against as possible theoretical attacks / exceptions), and vacating the older rulings, and substituting the newer ones.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Identity validation within reason. Remember, the core of this government is already outlined by its Constitution. Anything beyond what is needed to implement, to a reasonable degree, the services laid out therein, is going overboard. I.e. it's experiencing either a mid-life crisis ("Tell me I'm still pretty!") or it's experiencing some OCD ("This pencil tip could be sharper...let me get out my pencil sharpening toolkit").
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The fact that you immediately cling to the idea of a consensus means that you have never understood the words of scientists such as Richard Feynman.
Because there must be something psychologically invalid about the people who do not 'believe' as you do...it could not be, I don't know, that you have not made a strong argument for the position you are taking.
Nonsense. It has electrolytes, but it doesn't have what plants crave...didn't you watch the movie?
Yeah...using Facebook for data mining would be the epitome of scraping the bottom of the barrel. I mean, the Finance people are really messing up: they should drop what they're doing, and hold a class (mandatory) on how to balance a checkbook, as well as offer some classes on how to actually invest / budget / handle loans in a non-idiotic way. True, historically high defaults is certainly making them a lot of money, but it's all paper -> not enough stuff is being produced to offset that paper creation, so essentially more paper for less stuff is a losing proposition (the downside of destroying markets for personal gain). Since there is less total supply, the price for individual items goes up, which means that extra dosh is kind of...pointless. And the goal at the end of the day is not to have a pile of paper, but a pile of stuff...at least if you are pursuing the materialistic route.
Edit: than* (switch with that).
Seriously need to get a better prescription for these glasses.
Thank you. My critics are non-thinking automatons; even my errors, made during nights of drunken debauchery and zero later recollection, show more thought that many of these precanned responses.
"When large numbers of investors trade mutual funds in lockstep, it can force fund managers to buy and sell securities at inopportune times. They may have to find securities to buy in a hurry if the pack invests all at once, and may have to sell quickly to pay off sellers who cash out together."
Right...because when an average investor buys and sell securities at an inopportune time, it's totally cool, but when a fund manager has to do it....well, we can't have that.
Love this world to death: it has so many laws, so many rules, for so many different peoples, and they're all different! No two people abide by the same set of rules. God Himself would be proud.
"Bank of America wishes to be friends with you. Do you accept their request?"
Dude, just try and fix the security thing in the Enterprise. It's Hell on Earth.
You end up giving people too many permissions, or too little. Business wants things to happen, doesn't understand anything until after they are robbed; on the other hand, bureaucracy doesn't understand the need to move while people are still around and maintaining some level of interest in their job. Add in the whole human angle, where humans are, let's be honest, very capable, if motivated to, breaking something...and you have a problem.
Some places think giving everyone permissions / access to the company web server isn't going far enough...some companies think that giving software developers carte blanche rights to install whatever software they want on their laptops without forms signed in triplicate is going too far.
The NSA appears to slowly be learning that there is always someone just a little smarter, just a little further ahead of you out there.
Just a little personal message to the boys cracking this and breaking that: when the paranoia gets to you, I recommend going fishing (like with a boat, and some tackle). Might save your life.
Of course, because mindshare / word of mouth / buzz / flash in the pan / eyeballs / and likes are more important than putting out a product that your customers (corporate and home / small-business) would consider, I don't know, 'useful' in the 'Oh God, I did not know something like that existed, it's expensive, but it scratches an itch that I did not know could be scratched, and makes it go away forever without notice' kind of way.
"It's just amusing to me to see NSA as the scapegoat of the day for any quirk anyone experiences related to computers or connectivity in general."
Well, you know how it is in IT. Anyone who has computer-related skills, last seen in the vicinity of the machine, when it stopped working, is suddenly suspect. They're just experiencing what everyone else in IT has experienced for decades...and getting a dose of their own medicine. The paranoia they've created, plus the problems those backdoors / other tricks have caused were slightly less than trivial; up until now, other people were dealing with it, and the NSA, heh, was getting a free ride; the NSA could create malware, and others would pay the price; the NSA could tap into people's lives, and others would pay the price.
How many times has law enforcement used one of their wonderful 'devices,' only to end up breaking something for everyone else in the process? I imagine the judges / legislative bodies think that these devices, once plugged in, are hidden / stealth devices, and never cause any unforeseen side effects. They certainly aren't responsible for any widespread outages (business wise), or the with-holding of upgrades because law enforcement needs certain versions of software that if you upgrade, it will suddenly be incompatible. Nah, has never happened. "Oh yes, lie to the customer about why this can't be upgraded...lose their business if you have to...gag order LOL."
But very nice, the part about the NSA being used to steal our competition's secrets...their IP, I mean. Less about national security, more about national economic security.
If this is data that the American and British spooks presumably already have, why not just post it publicly? What's the point of keeping a copy of data they already have hidden from them?
In other words, it's greed + stupidity, it's going to be seen as a huge disaster in a decade, but in the short term "everyone is doing it, and making lots of money, so we should totally be doing it too."
Except your customers are totally going to remember that you fucked them, and fucked them good. They'll pay it short term, don't get me wrong...you got them up against the wall; but major companies will begin looking into projects to, heh, lighten the rental costs. Those will come to fruition in about a decade, maybe less, maybe more.
And the added bonus? You're totally forgetting about all the students who are going to have to use a free variant of CAD, not made by AutoCAD, and will be totally unfamiliar with AutoCAD when they get out...increasing training costs, decreasing productivity, and introducing the possibility of the free stuff eventually displacing AutoCAD in the work place. But, you say, they can always use a pirated copy if they want to learn AutoCAD...well, your dial-home DRM / Cloud stuff prevents that, doesn't it? But, you say, surely we will make it cheap enough for them to purchase as an Academic version, or for their college / university to provide to the...except college / universities are also into 'saving money,' and would totally cut the legs out from under AutoCAD if it meant an extra pack of cigarettes at the end of the day; and college students...well, between those loans, hideously low wages, and of course, just being college students (beer first, bros), no one is spending money on a monthly subscription to AutoCAD cloud.
Hmm. Solar eruptions due to things dropping into the sun...
Not at all. If you consider than the NSA was used for business interests, as opposed to government (national security interests, they tell me), it makes perfect sense.
Why not spy on everyone, learn their IP in development, and come out with something similar, possibly ahead of even the original product's release? You'll notice the US changed its patent laws from original inventor to first filer (lol). And why not use, illegally, the NSA to find future defendants? They're all criminals, right? So who cares? True, it's a minor detail, in that they haven't been convicted yet, and you'll be committing a crime to discover a crime...arguably committing a greater crime, covering it up, to bring to light a lesser crime...but hey, this is about money. The NSA has become an enforcement arm of the MPAA / RIAA.
The whole 'National Security / Terrorist' thing has been a cover for business interests getting illegal peeks into the competition. It's anti-free market (theft / fraud, violation of market rules).
Nonsense. You see, for the people doing this stuff on behalf of the NSA, their actions are completely justified: to beat the criminals, they needed to become better criminals than the criminals. The irony of said statement, as well as the mental gymnastics involved, are truly breath-taking...but rest-assured, they are very righteous in their cause.
Actually, there may have been people in the US for Big Government who really did believe that their government, if given these kinds of widespread powers, would never abuse them. They've been stoically making the arguments for years at this point, jumping on everyone about how the government can be totally trusted, and how any distrust of a government (brought on by reading just about any history book) was a sign of paranoid schizophrenia.
When they heard that the NSA was intercepting every piece of electronic data flowing through the US, many of them didn't want to believe it. They still don't...
Well, it takes some talent to get them there. First you need to starve them a bit. Then you need to eradicate all of the moderate / peaceful imams. Then you need to repress the youth, and make them feel trapped. Then you need to make them feel that violence is the only answer to solving their lifestyle problems.
Sure, it takes a large investment in that kind of control / behavioral modification, but it has worked wonders on various indigenous populations, no matter which religion they choose to identify with.
I mean, let's be honest, a fat and happy populace is not a populace which is going to attack anyone. You need to lie to them, cheat them, steal from them, every single day, from every angle, so they feel that even their emotions are on loan from you; that's when you know you have them, when they will altruistically damage themselves to be just like the false image of you. You need to remove that innermost sense of peace that humans are born with, and make them uneasy to be alone with themselves.
I hope you get the dripping sarcasm in the above statements.
Nonsense. Let's spy on people, but only if they're female, between the ages of consent and too ripe, and only if it's on a Friday. And have it broadcast from Mulder.FBI.gov...for 'National Security' purposes...these are dangerous times, and we need to take extra special precautions that our women are not harmed during them...which is why they need to be placed under surveillance. As it stands, there are plenty of adolescent males at home who, during this time of sequestering, are willing to do their patriotic duty to their country, and offer their ocular services to their homeland, free of charge, so long as we are willing to provide them with an ample supply of tissues and lotion.
Oh, I think you'll find we have one of those. It's just that everyone disagrees about who is running it: Aliens, the Devil, God, the Jews, the Nazis, the British Monarchy, the Templars, the Roman Catholics, the Free Masons, the UN, the US, the USSR, the Bankers, the Illuminati, an AI, etc.
Tell you what. Everyone get together, and decide who is, and isn't running this Universe, and when you all agree on the same people (and I want this in writing), come and find me; I'll be busy getting high, and trying to accomplish some pleasantly futile task...futile because of what I am, and my own personal failings, and perhaps what I have set out to do, not because I'm high.
Oh God shutup. The new students just want what their parents got, or maybe something a little better. It's the schools dealing with the larger influx of students who have to build new dorms to house all new students (guess what, the population grew, big surprise, which means the percentage of people going to college grew as well). Many of these kids are not getting a full-ride, they have scholarships (full or partial), grants, or loans.
I'm going to need some proof that the 46% constitutes living, breathing people.
Personally, any poll showing a president not taking a hit for the unveiling of a giant surveillance program is rather suspect -> you could have been totally against the program from day one, with video proof every day you were in office, spending every moment railing against it, and you'd still take a hit. For someone who is for it to come out with a 46% approval rating is, well, what we could call "Putin-high" in the business.
And that example, yelling "Fire!" in a crowded theatre, needs to be corrected. The Supreme Court error'ed in its ruling there; now would be a good time to remove the poison, before it does further damage.
Sure, we can play the "Who are thou to question the great rulings of the mighty learned Justices of yester-year, thou piece of dystended human rectum!"; but let's be honest, it's just someone's pride talking, it's kind of boring, and I don't know anyone who hasn't been burned by that ruling.
We have an entire leaning tower of 'free' speech that clerks spend waaaaaay too much time trying to defend each day, and it's time to perform some controlled demolitions, if only so they can go on vacation. That means finding out where we actually want freedom of speech to be (where the original line of thinking went, as well as proofing against as possible theoretical attacks / exceptions), and vacating the older rulings, and substituting the newer ones.
Whoa, whoa, whoa. Identity validation within reason. Remember, the core of this government is already outlined by its Constitution. Anything beyond what is needed to implement, to a reasonable degree, the services laid out therein, is going overboard. I.e. it's experiencing either a mid-life crisis ("Tell me I'm still pretty!") or it's experiencing some OCD ("This pencil tip could be sharper...let me get out my pencil sharpening toolkit").