Indeed. All those secret things the governments have been doing are all getting exposed and the people aren't prepared and processed yet. You know, disarmed, pacified, collected into groups, camps, re-educaiton facilities and the like?
I call for MORE insiders to expose what's going on.
They want to call this treason? They want to call it espionage? Treason and espionage is precisely what they are doing.
If they used this as a system for tracking mail and not ONLY as a law enforcement tool, I'd be happier. So unless there are cameras at all postal drop locations, you can still spoof and anonymize yourself in useful and various ways, but usually, there is no such need for that. But it does bug me that they could use this technology to improve service but are, instead, using it to collect metadata on the stuff we receive. Now, depending on where something came from, they might know just what's in our plain brown boxes... sad.
Here's the thing that gets me. They will go on and on about how wrong something is, that they lied and they may even admit that it's illegal and unconstitutional at some point. But what WILL NOT happen is that it will not stop. Presidential Candidate Obama promised to get rid of and undo all the crap that Bush and Co. set up and then President Obama not only forgot his promises but made things worse.
I think that until the dark, hidden forces that are actually making these things happen are exposed, nothing will change. The puppets will enter and leave various offices, but the root cause will remain.
You can RELOAD the device's OS with custom ROMs that don't do this crap. If it was discovered Apple does this (and who's to say they don't) what choice have you? And Windows phone? Don't even start.
Part of the reality of "security" is taking responsibility for your own. Security is not a product you can buy. It's not something that other people can do for you (because that's tyranny). It's a personal responsibility and it takes knowledge and understanding to do. Tough luck to all those people who have neither the inclination nor the ability to learn.
Drivel. Windows was built from a crap DOS into what it is today filled with backwards bug compatibility and a complete lack of real security.
There have been realtime OSes on PC hardware long before DOS/Windows. It didn't take Microsoft to "make it happen." But if all you know is Microsoft, then you will always believe they did it first and are the only ones who do.
The people and the stories all focus on the device. The device is not inherently educational. People think of these devices as fun things... entertaining things. They are, in fact, designed mostly for entertainment. Why is this good for schools?
Now, if some educational software system out there which makes especially good use of iPad as a student interface, then great! Let's hear about this great software system. To put out "students get consumer device" followed by "students are easily distracted by social media and entertainment" makes me wonder what they have in mind for the educational system.
I'll bet you're forgetting that Microsoft (and other platform makers) pay game makers for "exclusive" titles which draw more players to their platform.
Direct X is for games. And people who want to play their games will give up all sorts of important things in order to play them.
Recently, the always-online and amazingly intrusive Microsoft eye have caused Microsoft to back off on some things and that's encouraging, but the behavior is obvious and Microsoft wouldn't try it if they didn't think they could get away with it.
"Oh, I hate Windows 8...I'll never use that... oh? What's that? The next release of my favorite game? Only on Windows 8? I hate Windows 8... oh well... Windows 8 'just so I can play my game.'"
This isn't even so much about "individual" needs of individuals. This is about the health of a nation's economy. People who understand that money is more about flow than about hoarding (accumulating wealth) also understand that when people are not working and are not making enough money, they aren't spending money. This causes a reactive affect which radiates out everywhere in every direction.
Now we're opening the doors even wider to bring in more people which will put more locals out of work, raising unemployment and underemployment and those people reacting with the rest of the economy. Additionally, this brings a much larger number of people who will require social/government programs to survive.
This feels "intentional" and if feels planned. But one part isn't planned -- it's corporate greed and short-sightedness. They have no sense of responsibiity for what they are doing to the economy -- an economy in which those very businesses cannot exist for long without. That's a kind of given natural law. The real decision makers, the same ones who spend orders of magnitude more money than they collect in taxes on weapons we don't need, have decided they would rather help a small few at the expense of the nation's economy.
Meanwhile? The people who are the most affected? They're bitching about what's on "reality TV" and the news of the latest xbox. Sheeple.
It can't be stopped because not enough people are going to actually do anything about it. A person writes "shame on [the banks]" in chalk and getting charged with a crime that could end up with years in prison. We're in a real problem situation and the leadership of the country is unable to stop the train wreck that is happening all around us.
1. Everyone knows that it's not really invented unless Apple invents it. When Apple does it, it's a "Coolvention." 2. All these "pre-existing" devices should expect letters from Apple's lawyers in a short while.
Okay, with my attempt a mild humor failing so badly, I have to wonder why they are bothering with wires at all. Seems to me, with all this inductive charging and what-not, seems to me various signals could be crammed into a single point of inductive charging. Headphones should be bluetooth. Everything should be contactless. Fewer things to break. I essentially operate this way now with my Nexus 4. Since it has built-in Qi inductive charging, I do all my phone I/O over WiFi.
Technology has a long history of turning profitable things into losses. Every industry suffers this eventually. 3D printing is the latest comer that suggests that even manufacturing is threatened by technology as has been many other things.
There may be no solution to keeping an old business model viable. It should be allowed to die if it is no longer relevant.
Some Microsoft bugs take a ridiculous amount of time to get fixed and all the reports seem to fall on deaf ears. We bash Microsoft for this behaviour but doesn't having a reporting relationship with the NSA help it all to make sense? Taking a long time to fix? Well, they may not be done exploiting it yet. Falls on deaf ears? Well maybe it's not a "bug" but a back door that no one was supposed to know about and Microsoft cannot comment on it without NSA approval.
It's DRM'd content that kills. And it doesn't kill a person, it destroys culture and human legacy. Because when a thing is published and yet not available except under specific conditions controlled by a party, when changes occur, bad things happen to that content.
It is a violation of the spirit of copyright law to have DRM. The spirit of copyright is that for a limited time, the work is exclusive to a party for licensing, publishing and distribution. But when that time is up, it SHALL fall into the public domain as a contribution to the collection of human works. The problem is the content will be lost forever before the content is released to the public domain and there is no financial incentive for publishers to publish DRM free content free of charge and certainly no such REQUIREMENT.
Publishers think they "own" the content and I don't think that is entirely the case. The content is allowed under government blessing like a child. A parent has rights and responsibilities over a child until the limited term of parenthood has expired. The law doesn't allow a parent to kill a child or otherwise to prevent him from entering society. Additionally, other forms of abuse of children are illegal and/or prohibited.
When a copyright holder engages exclusive rights, the second half is not being honored or guaranteed. That needs to change. Furthermore, the publishers need to be held to task and even sued over the loss of things which have already been lost.
Human culture and history is being lost and it is significant. And the losses are due to be increasingly larger as content of today is almost exclusively digital in storage format.
I believe I have made comments in the past fortelling what we can expect. We have known for a very long time that communications and technology owned by US companies have been compromised by US government interests. The US government routinely tells companies what they can and cannot sell or offer. This is compromise enough, but it gets worse than that. We have been following stories releated to the problem for the last couple of decades.
But now, at last, the world is waking up to the fact that because our government has become so corrupt, all of our products and services are ALSO suspect. As other people of other nations realize the very obvious problems of using US technologies, US technologies are likely to be rejected, removed and boycotted. I would be not surprised at all to lean of a movement to replace the existing communications infrastructure with something which can be better trusted and protected and completely avoids the US and US territories.
This, more than anything else -- the loss of trust of the rest of the world -- will doom the US and all of the people that do business with and within the US. It doesn't take a global economic collapse to kill the US... not while the US dollar is still the international unit of exchange.
And it's not like we're not seeing this elsewhere. The increasing incident of prohibition of Monsanto's poison in other countries is just a sign of what will likely become a much bigger problem for the US, business in the US and the people of the US.
I am not a climate scientist. So someone please help me to understand how and why the ice caps melting is a perfectly okay thing? I'm not asking whether or not the ice caps melting is man made. It's another discussion and certainly one which is harder to prove or observe. But we've got ice melting that has been frozen for many, many planetary cycles giving scientists access to a wealth of new data on earth's history.
How is it not climate change?
I have an extremely open mind. Just lay out some reasons why it's not climate change. Is the melting ice a lie? Bigger lies have been told after all. What's the deal? I *want* to believe climate change is a hoax. It just doesn't look like one to me.
For a while, gold was not legal for people to have in large qualtities (The Gold Reserve Act 1934). It wasn't until 1974 that people could own gold again. How long before gold will once again become illegal?
The reasons gold was illegal are the same reasons they want to prevent BitCoin from becoming a public currency -- they don't want competition. By they, I mean the Federal Reserve Bank.
Because you have to have "someone" to do all the killing. And that's the challenging part. First you have to have a bunch of really stupid people working for you. They're making serious progress in that area. Next, everyone 'else' must be branded as a criminal or terrorist or both. That's the fun part because we're seeing that everywhere too. One of the latest initiatives is electronic license plates! That's right! Imagine how much easier it will be to identify bad people when their license plates are blinking a message to everyone on the road. Every "good citizen" will report you to the authorities at a moment's notice. And of course if your electronic plates aren't working, they'll impound your car.
So now we've got people who think they are "good" being the finger pointers for the dumbasses with guns. It won't be long as we are all fighting each other for "government love and approval" killing each other in the name of "god" as we always have, only the new god is government.
While I generally agree with the concept, there's one problem with McCarthyism you may have missed.
Turns out, after a lot of documents from the era and before have revealed, Russia and the communist movement actually DID have widespread influence over the US government. The results have been quite visible. For example, one obvious result is that "the people" have this ridiculous notion that the government is "here to protect them."
The federal government is not here to "protect us." It is charged with the common defense and general welfare. That's just about it.
"Trust of his country?" Sorry, but not. The government is NOT the country. And the last time the government acted in the interests of the majority of this country was WELL before I was born. I was pretty happy believing the US government was the good guys -- I'm a good guy and so it's not hard to extend that belief to the government that, I believed, represents me. They don't. They endanger us all. There are places in this world I can't go because of the symbols associated with my identity material. Was it because of anything I did or believe? Not particularly. It's because of other people and other causes. And the same is absolutely true of millions of innicent men, women and children in this country.
The fact that someone within the government (or at least, in this case associated with it) could see what's going on and realize it's wrong AND act on it is amazing. There is no shortage of people in government who see what's going on. There's a large number who realize what's going on is wrong. But so very few will do anything about it. Take it from a former TSA screener.
I think it's time for you to do a personal check-list about what's going on. Check the constitution and the bill of rights. How much of it do you agree with? Check what people in government are actually doing and compare with how much you actually agree with. And forget the causes and motivations you've been told. They're moronic on their faces. "The official stories" are written so badly, it's as if they aren't even trying to really convince anyone of anything any longer.
I'm still having trouble deciding if you're a troll or an idiot. The two, of course, are not mutually exclusive. After all, if you were trolling, you're clearly divorced of the gravity of this situation which makes you an idiot. But if you're just an idiot who believes what he's saying? Well... I can't see where there's much hope for you.
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Indeed. All those secret things the governments have been doing are all getting exposed and the people aren't prepared and processed yet. You know, disarmed, pacified, collected into groups, camps, re-educaiton facilities and the like?
I call for MORE insiders to expose what's going on.
They want to call this treason? They want to call it espionage? Treason and espionage is precisely what they are doing.
For a second there, my brain read "Boxxy" instead of Boxee. I thought "OMG! What a awesome spokesmodel?!"
It "protects" content right?
If they used this as a system for tracking mail and not ONLY as a law enforcement tool, I'd be happier. So unless there are cameras at all postal drop locations, you can still spoof and anonymize yourself in useful and various ways, but usually, there is no such need for that. But it does bug me that they could use this technology to improve service but are, instead, using it to collect metadata on the stuff we receive. Now, depending on where something came from, they might know just what's in our plain brown boxes... sad.
Here's the thing that gets me. They will go on and on about how wrong something is, that they lied and they may even admit that it's illegal and unconstitutional at some point. But what WILL NOT happen is that it will not stop. Presidential Candidate Obama promised to get rid of and undo all the crap that Bush and Co. set up and then President Obama not only forgot his promises but made things worse.
I think that until the dark, hidden forces that are actually making these things happen are exposed, nothing will change. The puppets will enter and leave various offices, but the root cause will remain.
You can RELOAD the device's OS with custom ROMs that don't do this crap. If it was discovered Apple does this (and who's to say they don't) what choice have you? And Windows phone? Don't even start.
Part of the reality of "security" is taking responsibility for your own. Security is not a product you can buy. It's not something that other people can do for you (because that's tyranny). It's a personal responsibility and it takes knowledge and understanding to do. Tough luck to all those people who have neither the inclination nor the ability to learn.
Indeed, the absense of NoScript is a security issue.
Drivel. Windows was built from a crap DOS into what it is today filled with backwards bug compatibility and a complete lack of real security.
There have been realtime OSes on PC hardware long before DOS/Windows. It didn't take Microsoft to "make it happen." But if all you know is Microsoft, then you will always believe they did it first and are the only ones who do.
The people and the stories all focus on the device. The device is not inherently educational. People think of these devices as fun things... entertaining things. They are, in fact, designed mostly for entertainment. Why is this good for schools?
Now, if some educational software system out there which makes especially good use of iPad as a student interface, then great! Let's hear about this great software system. To put out "students get consumer device" followed by "students are easily distracted by social media and entertainment" makes me wonder what they have in mind for the educational system.
I'll bet you're forgetting that Microsoft (and other platform makers) pay game makers for "exclusive" titles which draw more players to their platform.
Direct X is for games. And people who want to play their games will give up all sorts of important things in order to play them.
Recently, the always-online and amazingly intrusive Microsoft eye have caused Microsoft to back off on some things and that's encouraging, but the behavior is obvious and Microsoft wouldn't try it if they didn't think they could get away with it.
"Oh, I hate Windows 8...I'll never use that... oh? What's that? The next release of my favorite game? Only on Windows 8? I hate Windows 8... oh well... Windows 8 'just so I can play my game.'"
C'mon! There's a sex joke in there somewhere! Who has one?
This isn't even so much about "individual" needs of individuals. This is about the health of a nation's economy. People who understand that money is more about flow than about hoarding (accumulating wealth) also understand that when people are not working and are not making enough money, they aren't spending money. This causes a reactive affect which radiates out everywhere in every direction.
Now we're opening the doors even wider to bring in more people which will put more locals out of work, raising unemployment and underemployment and those people reacting with the rest of the economy. Additionally, this brings a much larger number of people who will require social/government programs to survive.
This feels "intentional" and if feels planned. But one part isn't planned -- it's corporate greed and short-sightedness. They have no sense of responsibiity for what they are doing to the economy -- an economy in which those very businesses cannot exist for long without. That's a kind of given natural law. The real decision makers, the same ones who spend orders of magnitude more money than they collect in taxes on weapons we don't need, have decided they would rather help a small few at the expense of the nation's economy.
Meanwhile? The people who are the most affected? They're bitching about what's on "reality TV" and the news of the latest xbox. Sheeple.
It can't be stopped because not enough people are going to actually do anything about it. A person writes "shame on [the banks]" in chalk and getting charged with a crime that could end up with years in prison. We're in a real problem situation and the leadership of the country is unable to stop the train wreck that is happening all around us.
Have a nice weekend.
1. Everyone knows that it's not really invented unless Apple invents it. When Apple does it, it's a "Coolvention."
2. All these "pre-existing" devices should expect letters from Apple's lawyers in a short while.
Okay, with my attempt a mild humor failing so badly, I have to wonder why they are bothering with wires at all. Seems to me, with all this inductive charging and what-not, seems to me various signals could be crammed into a single point of inductive charging. Headphones should be bluetooth. Everything should be contactless. Fewer things to break. I essentially operate this way now with my Nexus 4. Since it has built-in Qi inductive charging, I do all my phone I/O over WiFi.
Technology has a long history of turning profitable things into losses. Every industry suffers this eventually. 3D printing is the latest comer that suggests that even manufacturing is threatened by technology as has been many other things.
There may be no solution to keeping an old business model viable. It should be allowed to die if it is no longer relevant.
Some Microsoft bugs take a ridiculous amount of time to get fixed and all the reports seem to fall on deaf ears. We bash Microsoft for this behaviour but doesn't having a reporting relationship with the NSA help it all to make sense? Taking a long time to fix? Well, they may not be done exploiting it yet. Falls on deaf ears? Well maybe it's not a "bug" but a back door that no one was supposed to know about and Microsoft cannot comment on it without NSA approval.
It's DRM'd content that kills. And it doesn't kill a person, it destroys culture and human legacy. Because when a thing is published and yet not available except under specific conditions controlled by a party, when changes occur, bad things happen to that content.
It is a violation of the spirit of copyright law to have DRM. The spirit of copyright is that for a limited time, the work is exclusive to a party for licensing, publishing and distribution. But when that time is up, it SHALL fall into the public domain as a contribution to the collection of human works. The problem is the content will be lost forever before the content is released to the public domain and there is no financial incentive for publishers to publish DRM free content free of charge and certainly no such REQUIREMENT.
Publishers think they "own" the content and I don't think that is entirely the case. The content is allowed under government blessing like a child. A parent has rights and responsibilities over a child until the limited term of parenthood has expired. The law doesn't allow a parent to kill a child or otherwise to prevent him from entering society. Additionally, other forms of abuse of children are illegal and/or prohibited.
When a copyright holder engages exclusive rights, the second half is not being honored or guaranteed. That needs to change. Furthermore, the publishers need to be held to task and even sued over the loss of things which have already been lost.
Human culture and history is being lost and it is significant. And the losses are due to be increasingly larger as content of today is almost exclusively digital in storage format.
I believe I have made comments in the past fortelling what we can expect. We have known for a very long time that communications and technology owned by US companies have been compromised by US government interests. The US government routinely tells companies what they can and cannot sell or offer. This is compromise enough, but it gets worse than that. We have been following stories releated to the problem for the last couple of decades.
But now, at last, the world is waking up to the fact that because our government has become so corrupt, all of our products and services are ALSO suspect. As other people of other nations realize the very obvious problems of using US technologies, US technologies are likely to be rejected, removed and boycotted. I would be not surprised at all to lean of a movement to replace the existing communications infrastructure with something which can be better trusted and protected and completely avoids the US and US territories.
This, more than anything else -- the loss of trust of the rest of the world -- will doom the US and all of the people that do business with and within the US. It doesn't take a global economic collapse to kill the US... not while the US dollar is still the international unit of exchange.
And it's not like we're not seeing this elsewhere. The increasing incident of prohibition of Monsanto's poison in other countries is just a sign of what will likely become a much bigger problem for the US, business in the US and the people of the US.
I am not a climate scientist. So someone please help me to understand how and why the ice caps melting is a perfectly okay thing? I'm not asking whether or not the ice caps melting is man made. It's another discussion and certainly one which is harder to prove or observe. But we've got ice melting that has been frozen for many, many planetary cycles giving scientists access to a wealth of new data on earth's history.
How is it not climate change?
I have an extremely open mind. Just lay out some reasons why it's not climate change. Is the melting ice a lie? Bigger lies have been told after all. What's the deal? I *want* to believe climate change is a hoax. It just doesn't look like one to me.
For a while, gold was not legal for people to have in large qualtities (The Gold Reserve Act 1934). It wasn't until 1974 that people could own gold again. How long before gold will once again become illegal?
The reasons gold was illegal are the same reasons they want to prevent BitCoin from becoming a public currency -- they don't want competition. By they, I mean the Federal Reserve Bank.
Because you have to have "someone" to do all the killing. And that's the challenging part. First you have to have a bunch of really stupid people working for you. They're making serious progress in that area. Next, everyone 'else' must be branded as a criminal or terrorist or both. That's the fun part because we're seeing that everywhere too. One of the latest initiatives is electronic license plates! That's right! Imagine how much easier it will be to identify bad people when their license plates are blinking a message to everyone on the road. Every "good citizen" will report you to the authorities at a moment's notice. And of course if your electronic plates aren't working, they'll impound your car.
So now we've got people who think they are "good" being the finger pointers for the dumbasses with guns. It won't be long as we are all fighting each other for "government love and approval" killing each other in the name of "god" as we always have, only the new god is government.
While I generally agree with the concept, there's one problem with McCarthyism you may have missed.
Turns out, after a lot of documents from the era and before have revealed, Russia and the communist movement actually DID have widespread influence over the US government. The results have been quite visible. For example, one obvious result is that "the people" have this ridiculous notion that the government is "here to protect them."
The federal government is not here to "protect us." It is charged with the common defense and general welfare. That's just about it.
Like anyone else, I'm more interested in clearing up this NSA matter before I go about selling my consumerist soul any further.
"Trust of his country?" Sorry, but not. The government is NOT the country. And the last time the government acted in the interests of the majority of this country was WELL before I was born. I was pretty happy believing the US government was the good guys -- I'm a good guy and so it's not hard to extend that belief to the government that, I believed, represents me. They don't. They endanger us all. There are places in this world I can't go because of the symbols associated with my identity material. Was it because of anything I did or believe? Not particularly. It's because of other people and other causes. And the same is absolutely true of millions of innicent men, women and children in this country.
The fact that someone within the government (or at least, in this case associated with it) could see what's going on and realize it's wrong AND act on it is amazing. There is no shortage of people in government who see what's going on. There's a large number who realize what's going on is wrong. But so very few will do anything about it. Take it from a former TSA screener.
I think it's time for you to do a personal check-list about what's going on. Check the constitution and the bill of rights. How much of it do you agree with? Check what people in government are actually doing and compare with how much you actually agree with. And forget the causes and motivations you've been told. They're moronic on their faces. "The official stories" are written so badly, it's as if they aren't even trying to really convince anyone of anything any longer.
I'm still having trouble deciding if you're a troll or an idiot. The two, of course, are not mutually exclusive. After all, if you were trolling, you're clearly divorced of the gravity of this situation which makes you an idiot. But if you're just an idiot who believes what he's saying? Well... I can't see where there's much hope for you.
He's just going on a vacation. I've heard Russia hosts space tourism and he's just gonna go visit the ISS for a bit.