I want to believe it is cool, but after researching the Parrot series of automotive android systems, I find myself disappointed. You can do a lot better with a Nexus 7 tablet.... cheaper.
I still kind of want a Parrot car stereo but I know what to expect already. The screen res isn't great and the applications you can use are limited to what they offer at their prices. The Android version is still 2.x. And when I exchanged emails with some of the people there, they insist it's not a computer, it's an automotive something or other and that updating the OS isn't something they consider to be important. (not important because they want to control the software on them so they can control the price and everything else.) Android needs to be free. Linux needs to be free.
It can and will be hacked, of course. They will not be able to keep that genie in the bottle.
With a clever mount and pogo dock, my Nexus 7 loaded with music, GPS software and OBD2 software are all I need in the car. It's effective and inexpensive. Also, when tethered to my Nexus 4, I get internet too if I need it. All these other in-car things are ridiculously underpowered and over-priced. I hope everyone begins to wake up to the gouging car makers put over on consumers. (Seriously, is a Lexus THAT much better than a Toyota? They use mostly all the same parts!!!)
Seems like. Looks like. How about looking into the situations? I have been a lot. Question everything you're being told. So much of it is simply wrong. It is absolutely amazing how it can be shown that people in different parts of the world are getting serious rises in various serious conditions which go unexplained and more importantly unchallenged. No serious studies are being done on autism. None. Not that highlight the differences between what people in the US are consuming versus what people in other nations are consuming. And in the UK, cancer is way worse than in the US. What are THEY doing different?
The differences in symptoms and the differences in what people are exposed to shouldn't be impossible to track down. But I find it quite likely that there are known and/or strongly suspected causes which are being kept quiet in just the same way smoking research was for so long.
Remember this: People who claimed that smoking was killing people long ago received the same reaction from people I get today regarding caution about vaccines and other things which are leading to things we are seeing now.
Please learn about autism and how it is being diagnosed. The numbers should be LOWER not higher based on their updates methods.
And it's also quite amazing how things which are considered poison in other parts of the world are routinely added to our tap water.
I have learned more on the subject recently especially on the subject mercury based preservatives. Turns out the last holdout on that is Flu vaccines which I haven't had in forever. They're almost completely ineffective anyway as the last few years have missed the predictions meaning people got useless mercury injections.
So for kids, I'm a little more okay with getting them fully vaccinated, however, there are still two problems:
1. Too many vaccinations for a little body to handle is a problem. I know they space them out already, but it's a problem for many kids because they aren't getting good enough nutrition to support a healthy immune system. After all, vaccinations RELY on a healthy immune system. If they aren't ready, it's either useless, a problem or both. 2. The autism rates are still climbing. It's now like 1 in 50. And that's with the recent adjustments in diagnostic criteria which was intended to lower the rate, not raise it. We have a serious epidemic which no one is reporting or talking about. If this were the common cold, people would be freaking out!!! (1 in 50... more among boys than girls, so the current odds are at least one "special kid" in each class! And at this rate of increase it will be reported as 1.5 to 2 per classroom next year.)
So we have some serious problems in this country and no one is seriously looking into it.
"The Fed" usually refers to the Federal Reserve Bank. It was the DOJ who brought this in and home. I'm astounded there was jail and prison time assigned. These white collar crimes of this nature don't result in such usually..,at least we never hear of it.
Ineed, the matter prosecuted was a criminal one. Based on the success of the criminal investigation and prosecution, civil suits should br brought. However, it will be the lawyers who win, not us.
Water circulates. It moves all over the place whether we like it or not. We should be more concerned about pollution than water. It doesn't truly get "used" as much as it gets moved from one place to another.
All that said, we continuously use increasingly more efficient things which use energy. It's important we continue doing that. We continually develop efficient energy production systems. It's important we continue doing that... and perhaps important that we do that even more. Efficiency is good for everyone except people who sell the resource at the core of this -- energy.
But to say "OMG! We're running out of water!?" Just not happening. We need better ways to manage water, but we're not exactly running out either.
Working in support of or in cooperation with the US government is very bad for your business. The government might shut you down for a moment until people start complaining that they can't get service any longer. But eventually the message will be clear and it will be heard. Money interests will cause the government to respond. Especially state and local government.
1. It's Microsoft and Windows. The reputation of both are quite strong. 2. It was late to the game which offers the advantage of being able to see what people like without all that needless research. 3. The price was right and it became "righter" as they lowered it to make it more attractive. 4. It could integrate seamlessly with everything people were already doing.
Full disclosure: I've never seen, let alone touched or used a Windows RT tablet. I didn't want to because of #1 and didn't believe Microsoft would avail itself of #2. The price is never right if you don't want it...at all. And since I don't like Microsoft all that much, integration with non-Microsoft things isn't all the likely to happen.
And the marketplace seems to agree with me on all points.
Microsoft? Are you reading this? Hope so. I used to be a huge fan. Windows 95 was awesome. Windows 98 was just improvements over 95 which was awesome too. But you lost me when you started playing some pretty heavy-handed games and made your OSes too heavy and started obsoleting perfectly good hardware. Then you got worse and worse. You kept taking from OSS and calling it "new." I remember when AD was being talked about. It's LDAP but it's not LDAP. Embrace and extent. Your crap with the web simply angered anyone who knew what you were doing while you [intentionally] fooled the majority into thinking that no one else could do it right. You took from the world and gave back nothing good at all. It took a really long time but business and consumers did eventually catch on with what you were doing. ("Why is my XP so damned slow?! All I did was re-install and run updates?")
And while the RT was a failure before the Snowden leaks, most of us knew you were giving it all up to governments around the world. Only the uninformed felt safe using your products. And now? Everyone knows. As alternatives present themselves, people are increasingly interested in them. People didn't want Linux, but they're REALLY interested in Android. This is proof positive that you COULD HAVE created a Linux based product of your own a very long time ago. Why didn't you? "Developers developers developers?" Really? How's that working out for you now? Kinda slowing down isn't it. If it doesn't work for or support iPad and/or Android, people are less interested.
Microsoft, your hubris has cost you the game. A company doesn't have to "age." But its leaders certainly do. Balmer, you should have retired on a high-note. I'm not sure you were ever young and inventive to begin with. You will die a slow and painful death, but it would seem the decreasing trust in you by consumers, business and government will speed up the process.
And seriously? (And this is directed at Google too) You have to "ask permission" to tell people the truth? Snowden will get the Nobel peace prize for his courage. The world will support you if you tell the truth about what you have been doing with government. Why are you afraid? If you and everyone else stand up, not only will we regain some respect, we might even start to love you again. Get your heads out of government asses.
While I agree we shouldn't pollute the planet and that we should strive to be as neutral to this planet as possible, I have started having some doubts that warming is caused in any meaningful way by man's activities. Given the situation on Mars I have to wonder. Science is science and it means we should keep our eyes open to new possibilities.
Do I deny that we should keep the planet clean? Hell no. We should. It's in our best interests. And we should ensure that enough O2 producing life is available to sustain our lives and the lives of the other creatures we depend on.... and those that others depend on... you know... "ecosystem crap."
But we can't turn a blind eye to factors we can't control or prevent. Things happen and our survival depends not as much on our ability to maintain the planet, but our ability to adapt with the changes. It has always been man's success in adaptation which has advanced us this far. Our ability to eat cereal grains allowed us to venture out of the jungles as things changed. And when we fight for resources with other humans, the winner won the right not to change while the losers died or adapted -- and adapt we did -- advance we have -- and only because we were required to. After all, by nature we resist change. We want to remain comfortable where we are most of the time. So when you plot man's spread from Africa, you begin to understand how and why things changed and advanced for man as they have. Adaptation is key to our survival. Understanding what we can do is key to our survival. It is not enough to fight so that we can stay the same.
Surprising. It's a "new low" in the US as far as I'm concerned. If an area is not safe for human habitation, it needs to be closed off.
"Why don't they tell people?!" What?! And have property values in the area plummet costing the banks loads of money?! NEVER. We don't often like to mention it, but it's a fact and we say it every day in rather indirect ways, but human lives and human suffering are not as important as money. It's a fact. You can claim otherwise all day long, but at the end of the day, when it comes down do it, a human life is less important than money -- even SMALL AMOUNTS of money to those who stand to lose it.
We need not only people doing this, but we need to draw national and international attention to this. If they start pulling this "national security" excuse the way they have been for years and years (decades has it been? yeah... since Bush's first term and before!) the world will be watching. Stock in US companies will decline until the government begins to answer for its crimes. Money is the only way to see any sort of resolution to the problem. And no doubt the first resolutions will be "yes, of course we will stop doing this... the things you know about... but we won't stop doing the things you didn't know about and we will quietly change the things you knew about so they are now different enough that they are no longer the same thing." They won't "stop" and they won't reform. They'll wriggle and dodge. Then they will get exposed again. It won't be over the first time.
The cries of the people will not bring results. It will be the cries of business and speculators/investors/bankers which will be heard. I don't like the way the system currently works, but if it can be somehow used to make some change, it's good. It's not ideal and we should have something better. But things have to change and the sooner, the better. But more than that, we need some constitutional amendments and/or laws which add specific consequences to government players who violate the constitution. That stuff just can't keep going on.
Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing. I suspect we will find these markers and create some sort of genetic therapy to get rid of it except for certain people... the ones they use to control the resulting sheep.
At one time, long ago, it was most often the sites themselves which were hacked, hijacked and made to serve up malware. But lately, the methods have become more sophisicated. Ad servers are more often targeted and those servers are accessed by requests delivered by a wide range of sites out there. The thing about his is that the original site which might be blamed for the malware, would be uncompromised. The ad servers seem to take a lot longer to detect such compromise.
If someone is interested in setting up a secure station for email and web, I would recommend a nice Linux distro. This is not for the reasons believed -- that Linux is invulnerable. It's not. But when a site sends a "setup.exe" the user is less likely to unwittingly run the code successfully.
Quite true in that law is only effective when it is followed and enforced. If people aren't RIOTING about the law makers and law enforcement offices of the nation not following the laws and the judicial not enforcing them, then it just shows that people seriously lack comprehension of just how bad things really are.
I have been saying this since the Snowden releases -- because all of US products compromised by the NSA/CIA/FBI and used as spy devices, people will change the way they feel about US products and services INCLUDING communications.
I would find it not hard to imagine that other nations would begin setting up additional/supplemental communications links across the world to avoid passing through US controlled circuits. It simply makes sense to route around the damage. And F/OSS is also looking REALLY attractive to other nations as well.
Zimmerman has at least a short-term career in exploiting his story and his persecution.
He needs to file many, many law suits. The new black panther party needs to be sued for their actions and calls for vigilanteism against him. He needs to sue all of those responsible for terrorist threats against him. He needs to sue the media for their false reporting which has endangered his life. He needs to sue the federal government for their clearly inappropriate involvement in a state matter. He needs to sue Al Sharpton for his hate and race baiting of the situation which was largely instrumental in causing a nation-wide situaiton which has endangered not just white people, but honest, law-abiding, respectable black people everywhere and especially black business owners who would be among the more likely victims in any given riot responses.. (And seriously, black people need to be suing Sharpton too -- he does more damage to the reputaiton of black people everywhere than anyone else.)
He also needs to write a book. People will buy it just so they could burn it.
And then? When it has faded away? Then he should change his name and move away. After all, Florida is a "constitution free zone" at the moment.
I think one thing is coming from this trial and that's the attention black racism has been getting. In watching videos on aftermath, I saw black protesters responding to white people holding signs which read "creepy assed cracker is a racist slur" or something to that effect. The response was screaming out cracker-this and cracker that followed by chanting that they are not racist.
I think the attention to the matter is and will continue to grow. There is no "making up" for something no one alive today is responsible for. I think it has been amply demonstrated it is behavior which leads to mistrust and even fear among people far more than racial appearance. Of course, bad experiences with a person of a particular genetic lineage, but that is most certainly true on both sides -- Al Sharpton is a dinosaur and a profiteer who sees a racist in every white person and earns a LOT of money from his insistence that there is. But he fails to recognize his own people are the current cause of any fear and mistrust.
And younger people today? I'm actually a little scared for them at the moment. My son has lots of black friends and he is very, very mixed himself. He trusts his black friends in every way. And that's great. I have met them and most of them are pretty genuine people. (most, but not all) Indeed they think the whole racism issue is ridiculous -- an item for history books. And yet, there is no shortage of violent threats out there. There isn't much noise from the KKK these days, but there is certainly a lot of noise about killing white babies from the new black panther party. These threats are real and they aren't driven by any strong or particular "anti-black" sentiment or activity.
Seriously, these black racists are scary to me. They, like the US government, are fighting a nebulous war on a vapor enemy.
Zimmerman followed because the operator was asking specific questions about the person he was calling in about. He stopped following when told. What did he do wrong exactly?
Correct. The unfairness is the suppression of evidence to prove their case. They couldn't show Martin had a violent lifestyle. So it was that much harder to prove their case. They couldn't introduce any form of character analysis to prove their case. I think they were lucky to be able to show pictures of his own injuries -- injuries the public seem to believe are minor. It's as if no one has ever been in a fight before and has no idea what "life threatening" feels like. Well they probably don't.
In any case, that evidence was suppressed and even kept from the defense is pretty damning.
But the state needed to prove their case as well... beyond a reasonable doubt. Most people believe the prosecution failed in that task. And the evidence for self-defense was pretty good circumstancially.
That thought has also occurred to me. On one hand, the initial reaction of all the professionals in this case initially felt there wasn't a good case against Zimmerman. The evidence for self-defense was clear. But they were pressured to make this case. Many people lost or changed jobs because of this case. But once the case was a public spectical, it couldn't be dropped without a LOT of noise and probable rioting.
But the question of "are they throwing the case" or "are they prosecuting a man with bad evidence?" Well, it's pretty hard to prove it either way. But their evidence against Zimmerman is horrible and their witnesses supported the defense more than the prosecution.
I think most disturbing, though, is the ridiculous way people continue parroting the original media's assertions about the case. Countless falsehoods. The "tea" that isn't tea, the baby pictures that didn't depict the deceased. The suppression of important defense evidence. The assertion that he "stalked" an innocent youth. Zimmerman didn't stalk. He was reporting suspicious activity. Martin didn't live there as far as Zimmerman knew -- you know, the neighborhood watch guy that generally knows everyone there? And calling the police while trying to keep a visual on a situation is pretty damned normal. And finally, all the evidence shows that when the operator said not to follow, that he complied. Keep in mind the operator was ASKING for details about this person which he could only get by observing the person.
And let's think about this. If someone were walking through a neighborhood with a phone to his head, talking to a police operator, how could that be confused for illegal or inappropriate behavior? This, especially in a neighborhood that has had MANY burglaries and other crimes known to be committed by people fitting Trayvon Martin's description. It is unfortunate that so many criminals fit a particular description, but that's reality. How or why would Martin have felt threatened by a person in a neighborhood walking around with a phone to his head? He had one too, apparently. Not quite menacing behavior and certainly not behavior warranting being attacked "in self defense" by Trayvon Martin.
This is just bad and yet the Al Sharptons and the "family lawyer" and even the POTUS have managed to insert themselves into this case to the point that now thousands upon thousands of terrorist threats are being transmitted all over the internet related to this case. This is more than a trial. Way more.
Slashdot Mirror
I want to believe it is cool, but after researching the Parrot series of automotive android systems, I find myself disappointed. You can do a lot better with a Nexus 7 tablet.... cheaper.
I still kind of want a Parrot car stereo but I know what to expect already. The screen res isn't great and the applications you can use are limited to what they offer at their prices. The Android version is still 2.x. And when I exchanged emails with some of the people there, they insist it's not a computer, it's an automotive something or other and that updating the OS isn't something they consider to be important. (not important because they want to control the software on them so they can control the price and everything else.) Android needs to be free. Linux needs to be free.
It can and will be hacked, of course. They will not be able to keep that genie in the bottle.
With a clever mount and pogo dock, my Nexus 7 loaded with music, GPS software and OBD2 software are all I need in the car. It's effective and inexpensive. Also, when tethered to my Nexus 4, I get internet too if I need it. All these other in-car things are ridiculously underpowered and over-priced. I hope everyone begins to wake up to the gouging car makers put over on consumers. (Seriously, is a Lexus THAT much better than a Toyota? They use mostly all the same parts!!!)
Seems like. Looks like. How about looking into the situations? I have been a lot. Question everything you're being told. So much of it is simply wrong. It is absolutely amazing how it can be shown that people in different parts of the world are getting serious rises in various serious conditions which go unexplained and more importantly unchallenged. No serious studies are being done on autism. None. Not that highlight the differences between what people in the US are consuming versus what people in other nations are consuming. And in the UK, cancer is way worse than in the US. What are THEY doing different?
The differences in symptoms and the differences in what people are exposed to shouldn't be impossible to track down. But I find it quite likely that there are known and/or strongly suspected causes which are being kept quiet in just the same way smoking research was for so long.
Remember this: People who claimed that smoking was killing people long ago received the same reaction from people I get today regarding caution about vaccines and other things which are leading to things we are seeing now.
Please learn about autism and how it is being diagnosed. The numbers should be LOWER not higher based on their updates methods.
And it's also quite amazing how things which are considered poison in other parts of the world are routinely added to our tap water.
They didn't. They are just running out of money. People are as stupid as ever before and possibly more.
I hear Sum Ting Wong is looking for a new job. :)
I have learned more on the subject recently especially on the subject mercury based preservatives. Turns out the last holdout on that is Flu vaccines which I haven't had in forever. They're almost completely ineffective anyway as the last few years have missed the predictions meaning people got useless mercury injections.
So for kids, I'm a little more okay with getting them fully vaccinated, however, there are still two problems:
1. Too many vaccinations for a little body to handle is a problem. I know they space them out already, but it's a problem for many kids because they aren't getting good enough nutrition to support a healthy immune system. After all, vaccinations RELY on a healthy immune system. If they aren't ready, it's either useless, a problem or both.
2. The autism rates are still climbing. It's now like 1 in 50. And that's with the recent adjustments in diagnostic criteria which was intended to lower the rate, not raise it. We have a serious epidemic which no one is reporting or talking about. If this were the common cold, people would be freaking out!!! (1 in 50... more among boys than girls, so the current odds are at least one "special kid" in each class! And at this rate of increase it will be reported as 1.5 to 2 per classroom next year.)
So we have some serious problems in this country and no one is seriously looking into it.
"The Fed" usually refers to the Federal Reserve Bank. It was the DOJ who brought this in and home. I'm astounded there was jail and prison time assigned. These white collar crimes of this nature don't result in such usually..,at least we never hear of it.
Ineed, the matter prosecuted was a criminal one. Based on the success of the criminal investigation and prosecution, civil suits should br brought. However, it will be the lawyers who win, not us.
Water circulates. It moves all over the place whether we like it or not. We should be more concerned about pollution than water. It doesn't truly get "used" as much as it gets moved from one place to another.
All that said, we continuously use increasingly more efficient things which use energy. It's important we continue doing that. We continually develop efficient energy production systems. It's important we continue doing that... and perhaps important that we do that even more. Efficiency is good for everyone except people who sell the resource at the core of this -- energy.
But to say "OMG! We're running out of water!?" Just not happening. We need better ways to manage water, but we're not exactly running out either.
Working in support of or in cooperation with the US government is very bad for your business. The government might shut you down for a moment until people start complaining that they can't get service any longer. But eventually the message will be clear and it will be heard. Money interests will cause the government to respond. Especially state and local government.
1. It's Microsoft and Windows. The reputation of both are quite strong.
2. It was late to the game which offers the advantage of being able to see what people like without all that needless research.
3. The price was right and it became "righter" as they lowered it to make it more attractive.
4. It could integrate seamlessly with everything people were already doing.
Full disclosure: I've never seen, let alone touched or used a Windows RT tablet. I didn't want to because of #1 and didn't believe Microsoft would avail itself of #2. The price is never right if you don't want it...at all. And since I don't like Microsoft all that much, integration with non-Microsoft things isn't all the likely to happen.
And the marketplace seems to agree with me on all points.
Microsoft? Are you reading this? Hope so. I used to be a huge fan. Windows 95 was awesome. Windows 98 was just improvements over 95 which was awesome too. But you lost me when you started playing some pretty heavy-handed games and made your OSes too heavy and started obsoleting perfectly good hardware. Then you got worse and worse. You kept taking from OSS and calling it "new." I remember when AD was being talked about. It's LDAP but it's not LDAP. Embrace and extent. Your crap with the web simply angered anyone who knew what you were doing while you [intentionally] fooled the majority into thinking that no one else could do it right. You took from the world and gave back nothing good at all. It took a really long time but business and consumers did eventually catch on with what you were doing. ("Why is my XP so damned slow?! All I did was re-install and run updates?")
And while the RT was a failure before the Snowden leaks, most of us knew you were giving it all up to governments around the world. Only the uninformed felt safe using your products. And now? Everyone knows. As alternatives present themselves, people are increasingly interested in them. People didn't want Linux, but they're REALLY interested in Android. This is proof positive that you COULD HAVE created a Linux based product of your own a very long time ago. Why didn't you? "Developers developers developers?" Really? How's that working out for you now? Kinda slowing down isn't it. If it doesn't work for or support iPad and/or Android, people are less interested.
Microsoft, your hubris has cost you the game. A company doesn't have to "age." But its leaders certainly do. Balmer, you should have retired on a high-note. I'm not sure you were ever young and inventive to begin with. You will die a slow and painful death, but it would seem the decreasing trust in you by consumers, business and government will speed up the process.
And seriously? (And this is directed at Google too) You have to "ask permission" to tell people the truth? Snowden will get the Nobel peace prize for his courage. The world will support you if you tell the truth about what you have been doing with government. Why are you afraid? If you and everyone else stand up, not only will we regain some respect, we might even start to love you again. Get your heads out of government asses.
While I agree we shouldn't pollute the planet and that we should strive to be as neutral to this planet as possible, I have started having some doubts that warming is caused in any meaningful way by man's activities. Given the situation on Mars I have to wonder. Science is science and it means we should keep our eyes open to new possibilities.
Do I deny that we should keep the planet clean? Hell no. We should. It's in our best interests. And we should ensure that enough O2 producing life is available to sustain our lives and the lives of the other creatures we depend on.... and those that others depend on... you know... "ecosystem crap."
But we can't turn a blind eye to factors we can't control or prevent. Things happen and our survival depends not as much on our ability to maintain the planet, but our ability to adapt with the changes. It has always been man's success in adaptation which has advanced us this far. Our ability to eat cereal grains allowed us to venture out of the jungles as things changed. And when we fight for resources with other humans, the winner won the right not to change while the losers died or adapted -- and adapt we did -- advance we have -- and only because we were required to. After all, by nature we resist change. We want to remain comfortable where we are most of the time. So when you plot man's spread from Africa, you begin to understand how and why things changed and advanced for man as they have. Adaptation is key to our survival. Understanding what we can do is key to our survival. It is not enough to fight so that we can stay the same.
Either that or start getting more serious about the constitution and something known as the spirit of the law.
Surprising. It's a "new low" in the US as far as I'm concerned. If an area is not safe for human habitation, it needs to be closed off.
"Why don't they tell people?!" What?! And have property values in the area plummet costing the banks loads of money?! NEVER. We don't often like to mention it, but it's a fact and we say it every day in rather indirect ways, but human lives and human suffering are not as important as money. It's a fact. You can claim otherwise all day long, but at the end of the day, when it comes down do it, a human life is less important than money -- even SMALL AMOUNTS of money to those who stand to lose it.
We need not only people doing this, but we need to draw national and international attention to this. If they start pulling this "national security" excuse the way they have been for years and years (decades has it been? yeah... since Bush's first term and before!) the world will be watching. Stock in US companies will decline until the government begins to answer for its crimes. Money is the only way to see any sort of resolution to the problem. And no doubt the first resolutions will be "yes, of course we will stop doing this... the things you know about... but we won't stop doing the things you didn't know about and we will quietly change the things you knew about so they are now different enough that they are no longer the same thing." They won't "stop" and they won't reform. They'll wriggle and dodge. Then they will get exposed again. It won't be over the first time.
The cries of the people will not bring results. It will be the cries of business and speculators/investors/bankers which will be heard. I don't like the way the system currently works, but if it can be somehow used to make some change, it's good. It's not ideal and we should have something better. But things have to change and the sooner, the better. But more than that, we need some constitutional amendments and/or laws which add specific consequences to government players who violate the constitution. That stuff just can't keep going on.
Yeah, I was thinking the exact same thing. I suspect we will find these markers and create some sort of genetic therapy to get rid of it except for certain people... the ones they use to control the resulting sheep.
Also, it will be used to discriminate racially.
I think not only DNS but they should oversee the major internet carriers as they participate on the public internet as well.
Compromise by government is still compromise.
At one time, long ago, it was most often the sites themselves which were hacked, hijacked and made to serve up malware. But lately, the methods have become more sophisicated. Ad servers are more often targeted and those servers are accessed by requests delivered by a wide range of sites out there. The thing about his is that the original site which might be blamed for the malware, would be uncompromised. The ad servers seem to take a lot longer to detect such compromise.
If someone is interested in setting up a secure station for email and web, I would recommend a nice Linux distro. This is not for the reasons believed -- that Linux is invulnerable. It's not. But when a site sends a "setup.exe" the user is less likely to unwittingly run the code successfully.
Quite true in that law is only effective when it is followed and enforced. If people aren't RIOTING about the law makers and law enforcement offices of the nation not following the laws and the judicial not enforcing them, then it just shows that people seriously lack comprehension of just how bad things really are.
I have been saying this since the Snowden releases -- because all of US products compromised by the NSA/CIA/FBI and used as spy devices, people will change the way they feel about US products and services INCLUDING communications.
I would find it not hard to imagine that other nations would begin setting up additional/supplemental communications links across the world to avoid passing through US controlled circuits. It simply makes sense to route around the damage. And F/OSS is also looking REALLY attractive to other nations as well.
Zimmerman has at least a short-term career in exploiting his story and his persecution.
He needs to file many, many law suits. The new black panther party needs to be sued for their actions and calls for vigilanteism against him. He needs to sue all of those responsible for terrorist threats against him. He needs to sue the media for their false reporting which has endangered his life. He needs to sue the federal government for their clearly inappropriate involvement in a state matter. He needs to sue Al Sharpton for his hate and race baiting of the situation which was largely instrumental in causing a nation-wide situaiton which has endangered not just white people, but honest, law-abiding, respectable black people everywhere and especially black business owners who would be among the more likely victims in any given riot responses.. (And seriously, black people need to be suing Sharpton too -- he does more damage to the reputaiton of black people everywhere than anyone else.)
He also needs to write a book. People will buy it just so they could burn it.
And then? When it has faded away? Then he should change his name and move away. After all, Florida is a "constitution free zone" at the moment.
I think one thing is coming from this trial and that's the attention black racism has been getting. In watching videos on aftermath, I saw black protesters responding to white people holding signs which read "creepy assed cracker is a racist slur" or something to that effect. The response was screaming out cracker-this and cracker that followed by chanting that they are not racist.
I think the attention to the matter is and will continue to grow. There is no "making up" for something no one alive today is responsible for. I think it has been amply demonstrated it is behavior which leads to mistrust and even fear among people far more than racial appearance. Of course, bad experiences with a person of a particular genetic lineage, but that is most certainly true on both sides -- Al Sharpton is a dinosaur and a profiteer who sees a racist in every white person and earns a LOT of money from his insistence that there is. But he fails to recognize his own people are the current cause of any fear and mistrust.
And younger people today? I'm actually a little scared for them at the moment. My son has lots of black friends and he is very, very mixed himself. He trusts his black friends in every way. And that's great. I have met them and most of them are pretty genuine people. (most, but not all) Indeed they think the whole racism issue is ridiculous -- an item for history books. And yet, there is no shortage of violent threats out there. There isn't much noise from the KKK these days, but there is certainly a lot of noise about killing white babies from the new black panther party. These threats are real and they aren't driven by any strong or particular "anti-black" sentiment or activity.
Seriously, these black racists are scary to me. They, like the US government, are fighting a nebulous war on a vapor enemy.
Zimmerman followed because the operator was asking specific questions about the person he was calling in about. He stopped following when told. What did he do wrong exactly?
Correct. The unfairness is the suppression of evidence to prove their case. They couldn't show Martin had a violent lifestyle. So it was that much harder to prove their case. They couldn't introduce any form of character analysis to prove their case. I think they were lucky to be able to show pictures of his own injuries -- injuries the public seem to believe are minor. It's as if no one has ever been in a fight before and has no idea what "life threatening" feels like. Well they probably don't.
In any case, that evidence was suppressed and even kept from the defense is pretty damning.
But the state needed to prove their case as well... beyond a reasonable doubt. Most people believe the prosecution failed in that task. And the evidence for self-defense was pretty good circumstancially.
What?! What does being black have to do with cuts on knuckles?!
That thought has also occurred to me. On one hand, the initial reaction of all the professionals in this case initially felt there wasn't a good case against Zimmerman. The evidence for self-defense was clear. But they were pressured to make this case. Many people lost or changed jobs because of this case. But once the case was a public spectical, it couldn't be dropped without a LOT of noise and probable rioting.
But the question of "are they throwing the case" or "are they prosecuting a man with bad evidence?" Well, it's pretty hard to prove it either way. But their evidence against Zimmerman is horrible and their witnesses supported the defense more than the prosecution.
I think most disturbing, though, is the ridiculous way people continue parroting the original media's assertions about the case. Countless falsehoods. The "tea" that isn't tea, the baby pictures that didn't depict the deceased. The suppression of important defense evidence. The assertion that he "stalked" an innocent youth. Zimmerman didn't stalk. He was reporting suspicious activity. Martin didn't live there as far as Zimmerman knew -- you know, the neighborhood watch guy that generally knows everyone there? And calling the police while trying to keep a visual on a situation is pretty damned normal. And finally, all the evidence shows that when the operator said not to follow, that he complied. Keep in mind the operator was ASKING for details about this person which he could only get by observing the person.
And let's think about this. If someone were walking through a neighborhood with a phone to his head, talking to a police operator, how could that be confused for illegal or inappropriate behavior? This, especially in a neighborhood that has had MANY burglaries and other crimes known to be committed by people fitting Trayvon Martin's description. It is unfortunate that so many criminals fit a particular description, but that's reality. How or why would Martin have felt threatened by a person in a neighborhood walking around with a phone to his head? He had one too, apparently. Not quite menacing behavior and certainly not behavior warranting being attacked "in self defense" by Trayvon Martin.
This is just bad and yet the Al Sharptons and the "family lawyer" and even the POTUS have managed to insert themselves into this case to the point that now thousands upon thousands of terrorist threats are being transmitted all over the internet related to this case. This is more than a trial. Way more.