"Russia Today.. is also meant to amplify the self-doubts of Europeans and Americans who have been forced by recent events to wonder if their own countries -- like Russia and China -- are corrupt and in the grip of a pervasive intelligence apparatus".
Without the pretext of the Cold War, it is patently obvious that the US is continuing its war on Democracy..
Please spend your last $11.1 million on a facility that is never going to become operational. Make sure the money goes to companies financing political lobbysts.
"Back when Ellison was pushing for the Network Computer( NetPC) over 10 years ago it was a desktop appliance and WinTel was able to counter it with cheap hardware and discounted licensing and marketing programs which effectively killed it"
Intel was pushing the NetPC and it was Microsoft that acted to kill it..
--
"do you have a list of issues on this topic? we have a conference call with them (intel) re NetPC today at 9, and pending your response we can bring them up or try to stave off a little, but the latter isn't really a good choice - we're running out of time, as everyone is painfully aware... yup, it would be crazy to Intel define this.. the only urgent issue I can think of is defining how it boots, if we let Intel do this in a proprietary way we're screwed.. Note the flag below on the NetPC. we need to get cranking on this. I know it is difficult to do a spec until the sw work is crisply defined but having Intel draft this spec and take it to the industry will cause up more headaches in the long run if we don't get out in front." link
"Halt the NC from making any noise in FY98. Though the NC has failed to live up to its early threat of mass PC replacement, we are actively tracking threatened accounts and monitoring and attacking the NC constituents (IBM, Sun, Oracle) with high level TCO and Windows messages. We are executing on a PR plan to expose the NC as "dead""
Actually, he's wrong, not that he ever did understand the Internet. Knowledge does save lives. Access to education does help people get out of poverty. And there is a website -- in fact, more than one -- where you can find out a simple way to help your child who has diarrhea. Here's one. And another. And it's not a binary thing. Gates can work to get rid of malaria while Google simultaneously tries to bring internet connectivity to the same people. Why is that a competition requiring a negative remark? Everyone can do what they are good at.] -
"Agencies working to curb drug trafficking, cyberattacks, money laundering, counterfeiting and even copyright infringement complain that their attempts to exploit the security agency's vast resources have often been turned down because their own investigations are not considered a high enough priority"
I would suspect that anyone engaged in any of the above activities don't use the public Intertubes for communication. Besides which, where you do have such activity there's usually some nation state behind it. Yea, really, go look it up...
"Your screen size argument affecting the overall experience requiring fine-tuning for each size clearly shows your vast inexperience with Android development. While that may have been the case 15 versions ago for the SDK, it is not even remotely the case with the latest builds of the SDK.
In addition, you only need to support Android 2.2 (2.5% share) and higher, 1.5 and 1.6 and those in between devices are long gone and only a micro-fraction of a micro-fraction of the existing devices in use today. The reality is Gingerbread 2.3.x is around 30%-35%, Ice Cream Sandwich is around 20%-35% and Jelly Bean is around 30%-35%.
If either of your points were valid, we wouldn't have half of the professional apps we currently have and enjoy on our Android phones, and I assure you, a lot of them are a lot more complex than your FRONTLINE App would ever be and run just fine on Gingerbread 2.3.x. If Netflix can do it, PBS can do it.
I would suggest consulting an avid Android developer that despises Apple to get the real facts. Any Apple fan is going to tell you it is too much of a burden to develop for Android... which in turn makes you look foolish.
I've been developing on Android for years and can tell you I could make a single FRONTLINE App that would work on both phones and tablets from Android 2.3.x on up seamlessly and with little effort to do so." link
"Microsoft had this brilliant idea to change their default document view from "Normal" to "Print Layout" that shows how the document would (should) look like when printed out. It's a small change"
Except when you send it to someone with a different make of printer, all the margins are off a bit.
Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one. But I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the NSA, and somebody puts a code on my desk, somethin' no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, cus' I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East and once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels are hiding... Fifteen hundred people that I never met, never had no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, Send in the marines to secure the area" cus' they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot.
Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, cus' they were off pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there takin' shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, cus' he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so that we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices.
A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work. He can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin' cus' every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected President.
Good Will Hunting (1997)
If the cost of protecting us from the terrorists is to live in a police state, then I would prefer to take my chances with the terrorists. The odds of me being a target are minimal while the risks of a corrupt government using this total awareness system to oppress my freedom are that much greater. Fact is, you are more in danger from your own state security apparatus that any foreign terrorist. Iraq never attacked the US. Saddam Hussein was a puppet president installed by the CIA and an ally of the US, at least until he invaded Kuwait and threatened to stop trading his Oil in petrodollars. Al-Qaeda was formed from the remnants of a guerilla army armed and financed by the CIA to oppose the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As such, US state security would have been aware of their capability, ideology and intentions. As such the state security apparatus didn't need the NSA to know this as they - state security - helped create it. What this lawful intercept program is really about is silencing political dissent, such as the Occupy Wall St movement.
27:25 "We comply with the court orders and do this exactly right", Gen. Keith Alexander
"This summary is not praising anyone, it is a factual story about MS changing their MAPP program. As someone working in security I find it interesting. We don't like facts now?"
I don't like this fact, in order to protect *MY* documents from hackers, I must upload them to a VM in the Azure cloud...
"Microsoft is also putting Azure cloud to work via the MAPP Scanner program, which uses Redmond's servers to scan Office documents, PDF files, flash movies, and URLS for potential malicious content.. The scanner works by spinning up VMs for every supported version of Windows, and opens the content in all supported versions of the appropriate application, then looks for signs of a threat."
Reminds me of that Japanese horror movie where this feller is trapped in a sand pit and has to continually shovel sand into a basket that some unknown entity draws up to the surface with a rope, only the sand is continually falling back into the pit. If he don't keep shoveling then he drowns in sand..
If you don't have to deal with the Microsoftparadigm then you don't spend your time endlessly reinstalling or patching against malware. I suspect a large part of the design philosophy is to make it virtually impossible to clone.
You still need to hire someone to install and configure the virtualization apps. Not much different than running all your apps on the one piece of hardware. Virtualization: A solution in search of a problem, in a saturated market...
"So, my conclusion: Microsoft farmed out their website to someone who was either under-skilled, over-worked, under-motivated, or some combination of those. The result isn't of top quality. Go figure. Next story please.:-D".
Yea, it's not as of Microsoft was ever caught before jiggling the code to make the competition look bad. link
"This case was about if an elderly man.. deserved to be "struck off" the medical record. It was the judge's conclusion that Walker-Smith was essentially an unwitting dupe
I hope you don't mind me saying so, but you're making up your own quotes and talking nonsense and your retrospective re-interpreting of the judge's conclusion is totally erroneous, dishonest and bogus.
"The panel had no alternative but to decide whether Professor Walker-Smith had told the truth to it and to his colleagues, contemporaneously. The GMC's approach to the fundamental issues in the case led it to believe that that was not necessary -- an error from which many of the subsequent weaknesses in the panel's determination flowed"..
"The panel's determination cannot stand. I therefore quash it. Miss Glynn, on the basis of sensible instructions, does not invite me to remit it to a fresh Fitness to Practice panel for redetermination. The end result is that the finding of serious professional misconduct and the sanction of erasure are both quashed."
"We can appeal to screenwriters to buck the trend. But why would they? The formula is incredibly useful"
And soul destroying as any decent writer who sold his soul to Hollywood would testify to. The screenwriters haven't stopped writing movies for grown-ups, they've moved to television. The best stuff being written currently is on television, "The Americans", "Breaking Bad", "True Blood", "Boardwalk Empire", "Mad Men", "The Big Bang Theory", "The Sopranos"..
"No, Andrew Wakefield deserves a good chunk of the blame. He has caused children to die by his self-aggrandising actions, and in a just world would be up on charges for it."
It's curious that the co-author of the original paper, Professor Walker-Smith, was subsequently totally exonerated. Meaning there was nothing in that paper that could be deemed fraudulent or unethical. Wakefield was the victim of a smear campaign by the pharma-industry who stood to lose masses amount of revenue.
"The federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, better known as "vaccine court," has just awarded millions of dollars to two children with autism for "pain and suffering" and lifelong care of their injuries, which together could cost tens of millions of dollars."..
"Some observers will say the vaccine-induced encephalopathy (brain disease) documented in both children is unrelated to their autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Others will say there is plenty of evidence to suggest otherwise. link
Lucas and Spielberg both destroyed the US film industry. What remains are translations of comic strips and live action video games. It's all the average attention of that particular audience demograph (fourteen) that these "motion pictures" are aimed at . Apart from the first one, the entire "Star Wars" serial is infantile rubbish interlaced with endless shots cadged from Metropolis and the Sith/Jedi mythology being endlessly and (retrospectively) rehashed. eg. Yes Luke you are your own mother and father, as you went back in time had a sex change and married yourself. As Harrison Ford once put it: "You can type this shit, George, but you sure can't say it."
Slashdot Mirror
"Russia Today .. is also meant to amplify the self-doubts of Europeans and Americans who have been forced by recent events to wonder if their own countries -- like Russia and China -- are corrupt and in the grip of a pervasive intelligence apparatus".
..
Without the pretext of the Cold War, it is patently obvious that the US is continuing its war on Democracy
American Power and the New Mandarins
Imperial Ambitions
Vulture Fund Threat to Third World
Please spend your last $11.1 million on a facility that is never going to become operational. Make sure the money goes to companies financing political lobbysts.
Fact Sheet on Licensing Yucca Mountain
How do I dual boot with Ubuntu ..
"Back when Ellison was pushing for the Network Computer( NetPC) over 10 years ago it was a desktop appliance and WinTel was able to counter it with cheap hardware and discounted licensing and marketing programs which effectively killed it"
..
.. yup, it would be crazy to Intel define this .. the only urgent issue I can think of is defining how it boots, if we let Intel do this in a proprietary way we're screwed .. Note the flag below on the NetPC. we need to get cranking on this. I know it is difficult to do a spec until the sw work is crisply defined but having Intel draft this spec and take it to the industry will cause up more headaches in the long run if we don't get out in front." link
Intel was pushing the NetPC and it was Microsoft that acted to kill it
--
"do you have a list of issues on this topic? we have a conference call with them (intel) re NetPC today at 9, and pending your response we can bring them up or try to stave off a little, but the latter isn't really a good choice - we're running out of time, as everyone is painfully aware.
NC Attack Plan-"The NC is Dead"
"Halt the NC from making any noise in FY98. Though the NC has failed to live up to its early threat of mass PC replacement, we are actively tracking threatened accounts and monitoring and attacking the NC constituents (IBM, Sun, Oracle) with high level TCO and Windows messages. We are executing on a PR plan to expose the NC as "dead""
Actually, he's wrong, not that he ever did understand the Internet. Knowledge does save lives. Access to education does help people get out of poverty. And there is a website -- in fact, more than one -- where you can find out a simple way to help your child who has diarrhea. Here's one. And another. And it's not a binary thing. Gates can work to get rid of malaria while Google simultaneously tries to bring internet connectivity to the same people. Why is that a competition requiring a negative remark? Everyone can do what they are good at.] -
"Agencies working to curb drug trafficking, cyberattacks, money laundering, counterfeiting and even copyright infringement complain that their attempts to exploit the security agency's vast resources have often been turned down because their own investigations are not considered a high enough priority"
...
I would suspect that anyone engaged in any of the above activities don't use the public Intertubes for communication. Besides which, where you do have such activity there's usually some nation state behind it. Yea, really, go look it up
"Your screen size argument affecting the overall experience requiring fine-tuning for each size clearly shows your vast inexperience with Android development. While that may have been the case 15 versions ago for the SDK, it is not even remotely the case with the latest builds of the SDK.
... which in turn makes you look foolish.
In addition, you only need to support Android 2.2 (2.5% share) and higher, 1.5 and 1.6 and those in between devices are long gone and only a micro-fraction of a micro-fraction of the existing devices in use today. The reality is Gingerbread 2.3.x is around 30%-35%, Ice Cream Sandwich is around 20%-35% and Jelly Bean is around 30%-35%.
If either of your points were valid, we wouldn't have half of the professional apps we currently have and enjoy on our Android phones, and I assure you, a lot of them are a lot more complex than your FRONTLINE App would ever be and run just fine on Gingerbread 2.3.x. If Netflix can do it, PBS can do it.
I would suggest consulting an avid Android developer that despises Apple to get the real facts. Any Apple fan is going to tell you it is too much of a burden to develop for Android
I've been developing on Android for years and can tell you I could make a single FRONTLINE App that would work on both phones and tablets from Android 2.3.x on up seamlessly and with little effort to do so." link
What search engine did they use to search for pressure cookers and backpacks?
"Microsoft had this brilliant idea to change their default document view from "Normal" to "Print Layout" that shows how the document would (should) look like when printed out. It's a small change"
Except when you send it to someone with a different make of printer, all the margins are off a bit.
Why shouldn't I work for the NSA? That's a tough one. But I'll take a shot. Say I'm working at the NSA, and somebody puts a code on my desk, somethin' no one else can break. Maybe I take a shot at it and maybe I break it. And I'm real happy with myself, cus' I did my job well. But maybe that code was the location of some rebel army in North Africa or the Middle East and once they have that location, they bomb the village where the rebels are hiding... Fifteen hundred people that I never met, never had no problem with get killed. Now the politicians are sayin', "Oh, Send in the marines to secure the area" cus' they don't give a shit. It won't be their kid over there, gettin' shot.
Just like it wasn't them when their number got called, cus' they were off pullin' a tour in the National Guard. It'll be some kid from Southie over there takin' shrapnel in the ass. He comes back to find that the plant he used to work at got exported to the country he just got back from. And the guy who put the shrapnel in his ass got his old job, cus' he'll work for fifteen cents a day and no bathroom breaks. Meanwhile he realizes the only reason he was over there in the first place was so that we could install a government that would sell us oil at a good price. And of course the oil companies used the little skirmish over there to scare up domestic oil prices.
A cute little ancillary benefit for them but it ain't helping my buddy at two-fifty a gallon. They're takin' their sweet time bringin' the oil back, of course, maybe even took the liberty of hiring an alcoholic skipper who likes to drink martinis and fuckin' play slalom with the icebergs, it ain't too long 'til he hits one, spills the oil and kills all the sea life in the North Atlantic. So now my buddy's out of work. He can't afford to drive, so he's walking to the fuckin' job interviews, which sucks because the shrapnel in his ass is givin' him chronic hemorrhoids. And meanwhile he's starvin' cus' every time he tries to get a bite to eat the only blue plate special they're servin' is North Atlantic scrod with Quaker State. So what did I think? I'm holdin' out for somethin' better. I figure fuck it, while I'm at it why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected President. Good Will Hunting (1997)
If the cost of protecting us from the terrorists is to live in a police state, then I would prefer to take my chances with the terrorists. The odds of me being a target are minimal while the risks of a corrupt government using this total awareness system to oppress my freedom are that much greater. Fact is, you are more in danger from your own state security apparatus that any foreign terrorist. Iraq never attacked the US. Saddam Hussein was a puppet president installed by the CIA and an ally of the US, at least until he invaded Kuwait and threatened to stop trading his Oil in petrodollars. Al-Qaeda was formed from the remnants of a guerilla army armed and financed by the CIA to oppose the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. As such, US state security would have been aware of their capability, ideology and intentions. As such the state security apparatus didn't need the NSA to know this as they - state security - helped create it. What this lawful intercept program is really about is silencing political dissent, such as the Occupy Wall St movement.
27:25 "We comply with the court orders and do this exactly right", Gen. Keith Alexander
There are NO court orders !
NSA Director General Keith Alexander at Blackhat 2013
"This summary is not praising anyone, it is a factual story about MS changing their MAPP program. As someone working in security I find it interesting. We don't like facts now?"
...
I don't like this fact, in order to protect *MY* documents from hackers, I must upload them to a VM in the Azure cloud
"Microsoft is also putting Azure cloud to work via the MAPP Scanner program, which uses Redmond's servers to scan Office documents, PDF files, flash movies, and URLS for potential malicious content .. The scanner works by spinning up VMs for every supported version of Windows, and opens the content in all supported versions of the appropriate application, then looks for signs of a threat."
..
Reminds me of that Japanese horror movie where this feller is trapped in a sand pit and has to continually shovel sand into a basket that some unknown entity draws up to the surface with a rope, only the sand is continually falling back into the pit. If he don't keep shoveling then he drowns in sand
"Technology giant Apple is facing fresh allegations of worker rights violations at Chinese factories of one of its suppliers"
What other western companies do business with the Pegatron Group and why is Apple only singled out for attention by China Labor Watch?
"Do you even sysadmin? ..
If you don't have to deal with the Microsoft paradigm then you don't spend your time endlessly reinstalling or patching against malware. I suspect a large part of the design philosophy is to make it virtually impossible to clone.
You still need to hire someone to install and configure the virtualization apps. Not much different than running all your apps on the one piece of hardware. Virtualization: A solution in search of a problem, in a saturated market ...
"So, my conclusion: Microsoft farmed out their website to someone who was either under-skilled, over-worked, under-motivated, or some combination of those. The result isn't of top quality. Go figure. Next story please. :-D".
Yea, it's not as of Microsoft was ever caught before jiggling the code to make the competition look bad. link
MSN deliberately breaks Opera's browser
"This case was about if an elderly man .. deserved to be "struck off" the medical record. It was the judge's conclusion that Walker-Smith was essentially an unwitting dupe
..
I hope you don't mind me saying so, but you're making up your own quotes and talking nonsense and your retrospective re-interpreting of the judge's conclusion is totally erroneous, dishonest and bogus.
Judge Mitting's full Judgment:
"The panel had no alternative but to decide whether Professor Walker-Smith had told the truth to it and to his colleagues, contemporaneously. The GMC's approach to the fundamental issues in the case led it to believe that that was not necessary -- an error from which many of the subsequent weaknesses in the panel's determination flowed"
"The panel's determination cannot stand. I therefore quash it. Miss Glynn, on the basis of sensible instructions, does not invite me to remit it to a fresh Fitness to Practice panel for redetermination. The end result is that the finding of serious professional misconduct and the sanction of erasure are both quashed."
The Andrew Wakefield Story: How Big Pharma and the UK Government Destroyed a Man to Save a Flawed Vaccine Program
Discredited Defamation: The Fallacious Case against Dr. Andrew Wakefield
Decision Awarding Damages to Ryan Mohabi 13 Dec 2012
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders March 2009;39(3):405-13
"We can appeal to screenwriters to buck the trend. But why would they? The formula is incredibly useful"
..
And soul destroying as any decent writer who sold his soul to Hollywood would testify to. The screenwriters haven't stopped writing movies for grown-ups, they've moved to television. The best stuff being written currently is on television, "The Americans", "Breaking Bad", "True Blood", "Boardwalk Empire", "Mad Men", "The Big Bang Theory", "The Sopranos"
Thanks for all the constructive responses. It's worse than I thought, see this slashdot article ..
"The Book That Is Making All Movies the Same"
"No, Andrew Wakefield deserves a good chunk of the blame. He has caused children to die by his self-aggrandising actions, and in a just world would be up on charges for it."
It's curious that the co-author of the original paper, Professor Walker-Smith, was subsequently totally exonerated. Meaning there was nothing in that paper that could be deemed fraudulent or unethical. Wakefield was the victim of a smear campaign by the pharma-industry who stood to lose masses amount of revenue.
"The federal Vaccine Injury Compensation Program, better known as "vaccine court," has just awarded millions of dollars to two children with autism for "pain and suffering" and lifelong care of their injuries, which together could cost tens of millions of dollars." ..
"Some observers will say the vaccine-induced encephalopathy (brain disease) documented in both children is unrelated to their autism spectrum disorder (ASD). Others will say there is plenty of evidence to suggest otherwise. link
"We're very confident we can still maintain a safe and secure school because of the 200 cameras"
And this will deter the next shooter from shooting up a school - like how ?
Lucas and Spielberg both destroyed the US film industry. What remains are translations of comic strips and live action video games. It's all the average attention of that particular audience demograph (fourteen) that these "motion pictures" are aimed at . Apart from the first one, the entire "Star Wars" serial is infantile rubbish interlaced with endless shots cadged from Metropolis and the Sith/Jedi mythology being endlessly and (retrospectively) rehashed. eg. Yes Luke you are your own mother and father, as you went back in time had a sex change and married yourself. As Harrison Ford once put it: "You can type this shit, George, but you sure can't say it."