As if either country will give two flying rat's arses what happens to him 30 seconds after his story is off the front pages. He'll end up living in such squalor that solitary confinement in a US Federal penitentiary will look like paradise.
Every country is now and always has spied on every other country. That's the way of the world since the dawn of time. Anyone who thinks otherwise is either profoundly naive or dangerously deluded; like the people who enable "private browsing" in their browser and think no one can find out they're watching pr0n.
He'll get exactly what he deserves. All of the political rhetoric, bigotry, hyperbole and fanaticism aside, Snowden knew what he did was going to have live altering serious repercussions. He's not a hero nor is he the anti-Christ, but he dang sure is going to be made to pay a high price for what he did and he gets no sympathy from me.
I predict Oculus will have marginal appeal. A few geeks and nerds will get one, realize its limitations and minimal usefulness, at which point it will be marginalized and eventually replaced by the next techi device.
It's sad when a fatcat oligarch like Woz, sitting on his millions, lectures how no one owns anything. I look forward to the day no one prints his skewed, self-serving view.
... They all brag about saving a ms here and a ms there, making a big marketing deal out of a browser taking one blink or two blinks of an eye to display a page.
The NSA Prism program began in 2007 under Pres. G.W. Bush and was authorized by Congress and has been reauthorized. It's not a Democratic or Republican program, it's bipartisan. Anyone who thinks the NSA is finding and listening to their phone conversations (2B/day), reading their emails (144.8B/day), or reading their txts (6B/day) would have to be awfully vain.
It is telling that the same people who whine about any changes to a GUI are the same people who insist existing GUI's are boring, behind the times, dated, uninspired, and/or blah? If bashing Windows 8 is the only thing you can find to write about, perhaps you could branch out and whine about skeuomorphic icons in iOS. Both are vitally important to world peace, curing disease, and the betterment of humanity. lol.
... no one is researching a way to control the planet's climate in any meaningful way. Since we've already tipped the scales into climate change, and there's no way the human race will stop consuming cheap fossil fuel energy for the foreseeable future, research needs to direct itself to figuring out how the human race can survive climate change, not analyzing it.
You have to join a group to mine, mining alone is a forever task with almost zero hope of return... and even in a group the chances of actually ending up with spendable cash is almost nil. Such is the way of scams and pyramid schemes.
... the "on" button. Because no one has ever pressed an on button before. No one has turned a page. No one ever thought to make a phone a rectangle with rounded edges. The only ones these ideas are novel to are the nitwit patent attorney's who convince companies to pay them to file this crapola lol. But... I'm sure there's an app for that.
Genetically modified Arabidopsis is already considered a plant pest by USDA. And $100k is chicken feed in biotechnology labs; that money won't last long and accomplish very little.
Try reading scientific journals before showing off your lack of knowledge... there are some organisms and some sequences of nucleic acid that could be used as bio-weapons but they wouldn't be a "threat to life on this planet". Those that could be weaponized are maintained very securely, use and access is tightly controlled and restricted, and they are quite expensive and cumbersome to do research with or on.
... is never a way of avoiding obvious legal trouble in business. The installer knew they were smuggling huge amounts of cash and should have called the authorities, not make them remove the cash and pretend he never saw it. Basically his arrest was not about building a hidden compartment, it was about abetting money laundering tied to drug trafficking. Abetting money laundering hooked him.
This is from someone's blog, not a reputable news source with fact checking. He's just another troll trying to get 15 minutes of fame to try to drum up his next consulting job.
It's called business... business operates on contracts... just because you're lousy at negotiating contracts doesn't mean one of your suppliers is anti-competitive unless the contract stipulates you can't sell other manufacturer's phones. Man-up and learn how to do business and stop relying on your "bought-and-paid-for" regulatory agencies to boost your bottom line.
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As if either country will give two flying rat's arses what happens to him 30 seconds after his story is off the front pages. He'll end up living in such squalor that solitary confinement in a US Federal penitentiary will look like paradise.
Here, let me re-adjust your tinfoil hat.
Every country is now and always has spied on every other country. That's the way of the world since the dawn of time. Anyone who thinks otherwise is either profoundly naive or dangerously deluded; like the people who enable "private browsing" in their browser and think no one can find out they're watching pr0n.
And, it's just another tablet in an already saturated market.
... and all their alt accounts. FTFY
you can afford fragmentation.
He'll get exactly what he deserves. All of the political rhetoric, bigotry, hyperbole and fanaticism aside, Snowden knew what he did was going to have live altering serious repercussions. He's not a hero nor is he the anti-Christ, but he dang sure is going to be made to pay a high price for what he did and he gets no sympathy from me.
I predict Oculus will have marginal appeal. A few geeks and nerds will get one, realize its limitations and minimal usefulness, at which point it will be marginalized and eventually replaced by the next techi device.
It's sad when a fatcat oligarch like Woz, sitting on his millions, lectures how no one owns anything. I look forward to the day no one prints his skewed, self-serving view.
... They all brag about saving a ms here and a ms there, making a big marketing deal out of a browser taking one blink or two blinks of an eye to display a page.
The NSA Prism program began in 2007 under Pres. G.W. Bush and was authorized by Congress and has been reauthorized. It's not a Democratic or Republican program, it's bipartisan. Anyone who thinks the NSA is finding and listening to their phone conversations (2B/day), reading their emails (144.8B/day), or reading their txts (6B/day) would have to be awfully vain.
It is telling that the same people who whine about any changes to a GUI are the same people who insist existing GUI's are boring, behind the times, dated, uninspired, and/or blah? If bashing Windows 8 is the only thing you can find to write about, perhaps you could branch out and whine about skeuomorphic icons in iOS. Both are vitally important to world peace, curing disease, and the betterment of humanity. lol.
... no one is researching a way to control the planet's climate in any meaningful way. Since we've already tipped the scales into climate change, and there's no way the human race will stop consuming cheap fossil fuel energy for the foreseeable future, research needs to direct itself to figuring out how the human race can survive climate change, not analyzing it.
... ummm no we won't. It's not even a good toy (like tablets).
That's an over-simplified and over-optimistic description of how it works.
You have to join a group to mine, mining alone is a forever task with almost zero hope of return ... and even in a group the chances of actually ending up with spendable cash is almost nil. Such is the way of scams and pyramid schemes.
I have zero interest in an app tied to a scam/pyramid scheme.
... the "on" button. Because no one has ever pressed an on button before. No one has turned a page. No one ever thought to make a phone a rectangle with rounded edges. The only ones these ideas are novel to are the nitwit patent attorney's who convince companies to pay them to file this crapola lol. But ... I'm sure there's an app for that.
Genetically modified Arabidopsis is already considered a plant pest by USDA. And $100k is chicken feed in biotechnology labs; that money won't last long and accomplish very little.
... let the Dr. drive last year's Mercedes, BMW or Caddy and put some money into the business.
Try reading scientific journals before showing off your lack of knowledge ... there are some organisms and some sequences of nucleic acid that could be used as bio-weapons but they wouldn't be a "threat to life on this planet". Those that could be weaponized are maintained very securely, use and access is tightly controlled and restricted, and they are quite expensive and cumbersome to do research with or on.
... no FB Home for iOS. Have fun with it droidsters bwahahahaha
... is never a way of avoiding obvious legal trouble in business. The installer knew they were smuggling huge amounts of cash and should have called the authorities, not make them remove the cash and pretend he never saw it. Basically his arrest was not about building a hidden compartment, it was about abetting money laundering tied to drug trafficking. Abetting money laundering hooked him.
This is from someone's blog, not a reputable news source with fact checking. He's just another troll trying to get 15 minutes of fame to try to drum up his next consulting job.
It's called business ... business operates on contracts... just because you're lousy at negotiating contracts doesn't mean one of your suppliers is anti-competitive unless the contract stipulates you can't sell other manufacturer's phones. Man-up and learn how to do business and stop relying on your "bought-and-paid-for" regulatory agencies to boost your bottom line.