a) I don't assume anything. Learn to read and notice I was quoting someone else. Stop making stupid assumptions before you criticize other people making assumptions
b) He was not relying on anything. He only stated his belief. He never tried to change ours.
c) I've read Stephen Hawking, along with probably more book than you ever seen in your life. Again, you are making assumptions, which only makes you look like an idiot.
Actually, I went to catholic school. Jesuits, to be more precise. Out science lab teacher was a priest (quite an old one, 70+ years old). He used to say:
"It is not the duty of religion to say HOW things happen, but WHO is behind it. Science, on the other hand, will tell you HOW, but now WHO is behind it. I see no conflict whatsoever between the Big Bang and my faith. Between evolution and my faith. When I see Darwin's evolution, I see God's hand behind it."
As an IT person who have worked to identify and block corporate espionage in the past here in Brazil, I would have to say that, even if it is a smaller problem than in China, it is still pretty big. But then again, isn't it everywhere ?
Aolizio Mercadante, the Brazilian Minister of Science and Technology, confirmed to the press earlier this month that Foxconn’s Jundiaí, Brazil factory is ready to begin production
I would take that with a grain of salt. Mercadante and his political party have strong root and support from blue collar workers. Heck, their party name can be translated as "Workers Party". So this could be nothing more than a political move to increase his popularity with his support base.
Mercadante + Foxconn... Yeah, that's a source you are really trust...... NOT.
I wish really that the jobs could be kept in the US because all this outsourcing has brought quite a lot of poverty to the place and the real cost is in the resulting unemployable underclass the US now has to support.
Well, that's what you get when you keep demanding lower prices.
Americans can be quite organized when they want. They have campaigned and blocked trade of various products in the past, by simply refusing to buy them (wasn't there something about tuna ? They refused to buy it until they started using more eco friendly nets ?). It can be done, it was done in the past. The only reason I can imagine for it not being done right now is: the people who can and buy those products don't care. The ones that care wouldn't be able to afford them, either at current prices or the higher prices if they were manufactured in the US.
You are talking about point to point encryption. Yes, it would be possible, assuming you are able to establish encrypted point to point connections to all services you connect to. Or you can setup a VPN to a "relay" server. The first is simply not a reality at this point, and the second is something most people wouldn't know how to do.
Privacy would still be a problem, because anything up to Layer 3 would not be encrypted in the scenario you propose. Depending on how it is implemented, even Layer 4 would not be encrypted. Regardless, a lot of identifiable information (privacy issue, not necessarily security) would still be available.
The technology allows for this already. However, the security and privacy implications are big. Not to mention bandwidth limitations. And switching capability. And routing tables. And ARP tables. And those are the problems I though about while typing this. I'm sure there are several others.
Creates an environment of mistrust. If you can not trust your employees to do the right thing, particularly in the tech industry, you shouldn't have hired them in the first place
That is the lamest excuse I ever heard:
- Do you trust known websites ? - Do you trust the technical knowledge of all your users to identify bad websites ? - Do you trust your prevention system (antivirus etc) to block 100% of the malware ?
Nothing personal means "I don't know him, and can't judge him as a person".
I don't know him to say "he may have good traits". As far as I know, all his other traits might be good. My only problem is with his lack of taste/sense choosing articles.
I don't know any of them either, but I see this as an opportunity to discover new authors. I will sure be looking for some of these in the next few days.
Just like deciding not to count Android tablets in Android sales figures.
Which they shouldn't be. We are talking about phone here. Tablets are not phones. Actually, Android's (as of right now) has a separated version for tablets (yes, I know some creepy ones run on 2.3, but the real Android for table is 3.x).
If you are comparing phones, it should be only iPhone vs Android Smartphones.
If you are comparing platform-wide devices, what is to stop someone to counting all Linux devices ? After all, Android runs on a modified Linux kernel.
Lets keep it within the same category, and compare oranges to oranges, please.
What difference would it make even if it did ? I mean, all android versions that come from the manufactures suck in one way or another (bloatware, bad parameters etc).
In any case, now we know the next Nexus phone will be from Motorola.
Most Android smartphones are cheap "smartphones" that can barely powerful enough to do the things you'd expect a smartphone to do. Android has the market cornered on junk phones. Also keep in mind that, with iPads and iPod touches counted, iOS greatly surpasses Android in total market share, and the iPhone is the top-selling smartphone as well as the most profitable.
Also keep in mind that, with bicycles and oranges counted, Android greatly surpasses iPhone.
It is totally possible the iPhone is the most profitable, but can you back your other claims somehow ? It being the top-selling and most android phones being "barely powerful enough to do the things you'd expect a smartphone to do" ?
Until you back that somehow, all you did is make a faith based statement. Is Apple still a religion these days ?
Humm, as far as I know, he doesn't unlock stuff. Actually, based on his statements regarding the Motorola Milestone, he doesn't and won't support phones with locked bootloaders.
I have no complains about their hardware. Well, mostly. Their batteries need work. But man, their software sucks. My aging Motorola Milestone (that's the original Droid's GSM version) will out perform most of phone around now that I replaced the original OS with Cyanogenmod.
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a) I don't assume anything. Learn to read and notice I was quoting someone else. Stop making stupid assumptions before you criticize other people making assumptions
b) He was not relying on anything. He only stated his belief. He never tried to change ours.
c) I've read Stephen Hawking, along with probably more book than you ever seen in your life. Again, you are making assumptions, which only makes you look like an idiot.
Actually, I went to catholic school. Jesuits, to be more precise. Out science lab teacher was a priest (quite an old one, 70+ years old). He used to say:
"It is not the duty of religion to say HOW things happen, but WHO is behind it. Science, on the other hand, will tell you HOW, but now WHO is behind it. I see no conflict whatsoever between the Big Bang and my faith. Between evolution and my faith. When I see Darwin's evolution, I see God's hand behind it."
Sorry, I had my headset off. The music is awful, so I recommend muting it before watching the video.
As an IT person who have worked to identify and block corporate espionage in the past here in Brazil, I would have to say that, even if it is a smaller problem than in China, it is still pretty big. But then again, isn't it everywhere ?
FTFA:
I would take that with a grain of salt. Mercadante and his political party have strong root and support from blue collar workers. Heck, their party name can be translated as "Workers Party". So this could be nothing more than a political move to increase his popularity with his support base.
Mercadante + Foxconn ... Yeah, that's a source you are really trust ...... NOT.
Well, that's what you get when you keep demanding lower prices.
Americans can be quite organized when they want. They have campaigned and blocked trade of various products in the past, by simply refusing to buy them (wasn't there something about tuna ? They refused to buy it until they started using more eco friendly nets ?). It can be done, it was done in the past. The only reason I can imagine for it not being done right now is: the people who can and buy those products don't care. The ones that care wouldn't be able to afford them, either at current prices or the higher prices if they were manufactured in the US.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg3SvxoyRFY (NSFW --- kinda)
You are talking about point to point encryption. Yes, it would be possible, assuming you are able to establish encrypted point to point connections to all services you connect to. Or you can setup a VPN to a "relay" server. The first is simply not a reality at this point, and the second is something most people wouldn't know how to do.
Privacy would still be a problem, because anything up to Layer 3 would not be encrypted in the scenario you propose. Depending on how it is implemented, even Layer 4 would not be encrypted. Regardless, a lot of identifiable information (privacy issue, not necessarily security) would still be available.
The technology allows for this already. However, the security and privacy implications are big. Not to mention bandwidth limitations. And switching capability. And routing tables. And ARP tables. And those are the problems I though about while typing this. I'm sure there are several others.
That is the lamest excuse I ever heard:
- Do you trust known websites ?
- Do you trust the technical knowledge of all your users to identify bad websites ?
- Do you trust your prevention system (antivirus etc) to block 100% of the malware ?
Business shouldn't do blacklisting. They should do whitelisting (everything is forbidden, you only allow specifics).
That is the only way to have a somewhat working control system (and even that is not perfect).
Block everything. Allow what needs to be allowed.
[blockquote]application updates itself automatically[/blockquote]
Yeah, that is not scary at all .....
Really ? Check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_J._Watson#Famous_misquote
Nothing personal means "I don't know him, and can't judge him as a person".
I don't know him to say "he may have good traits". As far as I know, all his other traits might be good. My only problem is with his lack of taste/sense choosing articles.
Nothing personal, but I had Timothy filtered for years. Decided to remove the filter a few days ago to see if things have changed ... they haven't.
Back to being filtered.
It is even better when people have speakers (not headphone), and click on it.
You only feel the full rathergoodness of it 5.1.
Nah. They will sing the moon song
Blooming business for covert channel VPNs ... I saw one implementation over ICMP ECHO (ping) once, and it was pretty interesting ...
I don't know any of them either, but I see this as an opportunity to discover new authors. I will sure be looking for some of these in the next few days.
Corporate will just have a local relay server. Just like most AV companies are doing already (McAfee, F-Secure etc).
Just like deciding not to count Android tablets in Android sales figures.
Which they shouldn't be. We are talking about phone here. Tablets are not phones. Actually, Android's (as of right now) has a separated version for tablets (yes, I know some creepy ones run on 2.3, but the real Android for table is 3.x).
If you are comparing phones, it should be only iPhone vs Android Smartphones.
If you are comparing platform-wide devices, what is to stop someone to counting all Linux devices ? After all, Android runs on a modified Linux kernel.
Lets keep it within the same category, and compare oranges to oranges, please.
What difference would it make even if it did ? I mean, all android versions that come from the manufactures suck in one way or another (bloatware, bad parameters etc).
In any case, now we know the next Nexus phone will be from Motorola.
Most Android smartphones are cheap "smartphones" that can barely powerful enough to do the things you'd expect a smartphone to do. Android has the market cornered on junk phones. Also keep in mind that, with iPads and iPod touches counted, iOS greatly surpasses Android in total market share, and the iPhone is the top-selling smartphone as well as the most profitable.
Also keep in mind that, with bicycles and oranges counted, Android greatly surpasses iPhone.
It is totally possible the iPhone is the most profitable, but can you back your other claims somehow ? It being the top-selling and most android phones being "barely powerful enough to do the things you'd expect a smartphone to do" ?
Until you back that somehow, all you did is make a faith based statement. Is Apple still a religion these days ?
Humm, as far as I know, he doesn't unlock stuff. Actually, based on his statements regarding the Motorola Milestone, he doesn't and won't support phones with locked bootloaders.
I have no complains about their hardware. Well, mostly. Their batteries need work.
But man, their software sucks. My aging Motorola Milestone (that's the original Droid's GSM version) will out perform most of phone around now that I replaced the original OS with Cyanogenmod.