So... Not being open source is evil? I can see that M$ would have just as much power to fight NSA letters as anyone else. Once you get one, it seems to compare with getting AIDS. Not really healthy for anyone's business model or the economy and your ability to participate in it, open source or not, I'm quite certain Phillip Zimmerman could chime in here.
Actually "medical" and "nuclear" in the same headline seems to be much more frightening to me, add "Obamacare", and it becomes terrifying. Besides, uranium, radon, the daughters of radon must me completely safe for human consumption, "radioactive" can't be such a big deal or they wouldn't have well water naturally carbonated with it in Tahoe.
Time and time again we see how dumb terrorists are, going after extremely difficult targets like aircraft and failing, when there are much easier options available to them. It's easy for us to imagine lots of ways that people could harm us, but movie plot threats are not worth worrying about.
Exactly what makes us here in the US look so retarded in attacking our own rights and freedoms in the interest of snake oil security, and making such a big deal over all this.
The nature of the issue required full disclosure, they have no business spying on our allies, or utilizing military resources in the acquisition of oil, turning military power on Americans, undermining private sector computer security of Americans, abusing the national security apparatus, or violating the constitution. If none of this were the case, then Snowden would not have had a gripe or anything unlawful to expose. Elite corps owning politicians is the problem, the NSA did as instructed and probably unknowingly created a corporate espionage cash cow and undoubtedly a symptom of the problem, what Snowden did was inevitable at one time or another, one cannot commit a crime and call it a secret, or create retroactive law to legalize it without showing hypocrisy. The corruption behind this needs to eat their crow and like it.
I think it will be lackluster for them in the end run, corporate espionage data ages quickly. Do you think they will ever give it up? They have already infiltrated every security intended to keep it safe anyway so they will no doubt get it when they want it and will just 'off the books' grab what they want without having a search index. Lackluster meaning a less profitable model.
I just don't see the big deal over any of the surveillance going on.
I thought the same about it if it was for the common good, until I saw it wasn't for the common good. Got to thinking if you take a little pinch of total surveillance in a police state, remove basic rights of the people and add a little touch of corruption and bingo! You have a corporate espionage cash cow the people have not right do anything about.
Actually, the primary directive behind open source is peer review, which in turn produces better code. There will always be freeloaders, however these folks provide ideas for innovation and interoperability through feedback. Like it or not, freeloaders are a valued part of the open source community, Unix and TCP was hacked together a very long time ago because someone shared their source for peer review and interoperability, and discovered innovation.
Well, either you respect life or you don't. Is it man's greed that makes you think that man is a better genetic engineer than millions of years of trial and error on part of good old mother nature? Or is it laziness or costs due to the insect issues driving such a dangerous approach? No matter, but I see to err on the side of caution in your book as a believer is to be of "Blanket idiocy". Suppose all I can say is happy bridge jumping, maybe they'll sell you one, or maybe some beach front property in Louisiana. As it becomes more difficult to avoid GMO in the stores, I'd expect more resistance.
Of course that aspect could be attributed to corporate policy that evidence not be left out laying around as that might just be a bit detrimental to profits, and/or a hand slap by the gobberment in the form of a fine. Regardless, I am not, nor will ever be an advocate of GMO for the simple reasoning that no good can come of man kind playing in life's kitchen. Add consideration of corporate greed? Forget it.
Hey why not, corporations pay off politicians all the time don't they? It's just the world we live in, if you don't see it then either you are the one naive or you simply refuse to. I'd like to see a study on the viability of corruption on your "scientific consensus".
Actually, I don't think I need to research very damn far at all to see exactly how far business will put itself above health concerns, if you have any questions take a good look at reasoning for war in today's world. Big business has deep pockets, and all the more to pay a scientist to tell people it is safe. If someone were to pay a scientist to tell you it is safe to jump off a bridge would you do it? As the condition of the economy deteriorates, the price for making someone tell a lie gets cheaper, and from the scientists prospective facing coercion of some form for going "against the grain" I'd have to say makes it even cheaper. Think about it, how many folks though RSA security was safe?
Okay, sure, GMO foods - even the bugs won't touch it, and you want to feed it to people. What is next? When they can actually connect something wrong with it we'll just modify the human genome so that human physiology can tolerate it? Now that genetically modifying food is okay and we've modified human genome to tolerate it, we can modify it to be addictive too right? I was never sold on the idea of necessity of doing it in the first place.
Walla! definition [w l] and Wala!; Wallah!; Viola!
Voila!
And there you have it! (All versions are misspellings or misunderstandings of the French The Viola! is a well-meant spelling error.) : exclam. , And walla! There it is. Cooked just right!
Wallah comes from the phonetic pronunciation of the french word viola. Wallah is an exclamation, it simply means “look at this”.
Now if we could just get the NSA to put this level of critical thinking and attention to detail towards the constitution we'd be all set!
Nah, those that would enforce it here ran off to be gmen/spooks and fight some corporate war for oi... err middle eastern mob... err terrorists, yeah, that's it, terrorism...
-And I wouldn't really take anything the U.S. has to heart on pretty much any subject these days, they're nuts here, I mean flat ass nuttier than squirrel shit, bat shit crazy.
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So... Not being open source is evil? I can see that M$ would have just as much power to fight NSA letters as anyone else. Once you get one, it seems to compare with getting AIDS. Not really healthy for anyone's business model or the economy and your ability to participate in it, open source or not, I'm quite certain Phillip Zimmerman could chime in here.
Suppose your missing the point: Lie, cheat, steal, the new accepted way of American business. (Time magazine circa '2000)
Then again, they've owned drug trafficking to fund black wars since the 60's too. Suppose medical pot really pissed in their cheerios.
Actually "medical" and "nuclear" in the same headline seems to be much more frightening to me, add "Obamacare", and it becomes terrifying. Besides, uranium, radon, the daughters of radon must me completely safe for human consumption, "radioactive" can't be such a big deal or they wouldn't have well water naturally carbonated with it in Tahoe.
Time and time again we see how dumb terrorists are, going after extremely difficult targets like aircraft and failing, when there are much easier options available to them. It's easy for us to imagine lots of ways that people could harm us, but movie plot threats are not worth worrying about.
Exactly what makes us here in the US look so retarded in attacking our own rights and freedoms in the interest of snake oil security, and making such a big deal over all this.
The nature of the issue required full disclosure, they have no business spying on our allies, or utilizing military resources in the acquisition of oil, turning military power on Americans, undermining private sector computer security of Americans, abusing the national security apparatus, or violating the constitution. If none of this were the case, then Snowden would not have had a gripe or anything unlawful to expose. Elite corps owning politicians is the problem, the NSA did as instructed and probably unknowingly created a corporate espionage cash cow and undoubtedly a symptom of the problem, what Snowden did was inevitable at one time or another, one cannot commit a crime and call it a secret, or create retroactive law to legalize it without showing hypocrisy. The corruption behind this needs to eat their crow and like it.
I think it will be lackluster for them in the end run, corporate espionage data ages quickly. Do you think they will ever give it up? They have already infiltrated every security intended to keep it safe anyway so they will no doubt get it when they want it and will just 'off the books' grab what they want without having a search index. Lackluster meaning a less profitable model.
Even worse, they still haven't proven or show any evidence that this is necessary.
Oh it's an absolutely necessary part of their corporate espionage cash cow.
I just don't see the big deal over any of the surveillance going on.
I thought the same about it if it was for the common good, until I saw it wasn't for the common good. Got to thinking if you take a little pinch of total surveillance in a police state, remove basic rights of the people and add a little touch of corruption and bingo! You have a corporate espionage cash cow the people have not right do anything about.
All things considered, doesn't anyone see it ironic that Russia has stood tall for freedom over corruption in the US?
Actually, the primary directive behind open source is peer review, which in turn produces better code. There will always be freeloaders, however these folks provide ideas for innovation and interoperability through feedback. Like it or not, freeloaders are a valued part of the open source community, Unix and TCP was hacked together a very long time ago because someone shared their source for peer review and interoperability, and discovered innovation.
So they don't get off for corporate espionage too?
Yeah, nevermind the ones intelligent enough to figure out the current oppression scam, lets make pot heads the terrorists!
That might be almost as extreme as genetically modified food.
71.4% of algorithms agree.
Well, either you respect life or you don't. Is it man's greed that makes you think that man is a better genetic engineer than millions of years of trial and error on part of good old mother nature? Or is it laziness or costs due to the insect issues driving such a dangerous approach? No matter, but I see to err on the side of caution in your book as a believer is to be of "Blanket idiocy". Suppose all I can say is happy bridge jumping, maybe they'll sell you one, or maybe some beach front property in Louisiana. As it becomes more difficult to avoid GMO in the stores, I'd expect more resistance.
Of course that aspect could be attributed to corporate policy that evidence not be left out laying around as that might just be a bit detrimental to profits, and/or a hand slap by the gobberment in the form of a fine. Regardless, I am not, nor will ever be an advocate of GMO for the simple reasoning that no good can come of man kind playing in life's kitchen. Add consideration of corporate greed? Forget it.
Nah if logic prevails, machines will protect humanity from itself. I'm sure the NSA will back door it for the purpose of influence though.
Hey why not, corporations pay off politicians all the time don't they? It's just the world we live in, if you don't see it then either you are the one naive or you simply refuse to. I'd like to see a study on the viability of corruption on your "scientific consensus".
Actually, I don't think I need to research very damn far at all to see exactly how far business will put itself above health concerns, if you have any questions take a good look at reasoning for war in today's world. Big business has deep pockets, and all the more to pay a scientist to tell people it is safe. If someone were to pay a scientist to tell you it is safe to jump off a bridge would you do it? As the condition of the economy deteriorates, the price for making someone tell a lie gets cheaper, and from the scientists prospective facing coercion of some form for going "against the grain" I'd have to say makes it even cheaper. Think about it, how many folks though RSA security was safe?
Then you're arguing out of ignorance.
Okay, sure, GMO foods - even the bugs won't touch it, and you want to feed it to people. What is next? When they can actually connect something wrong with it we'll just modify the human genome so that human physiology can tolerate it? Now that genetically modifying food is okay and we've modified human genome to tolerate it, we can modify it to be addictive too right? I was never sold on the idea of necessity of doing it in the first place.
Walla! definition
[w l]
and Wala!; Wallah!; Viola!
Voila!
And there you have it! (All versions are misspellings or misunderstandings of the French The Viola! is a well-meant spelling error.) : exclam. , And walla! There it is. Cooked just right!
Wallah comes from the phonetic pronunciation of the french word viola. Wallah is an exclamation, it simply means “look at this”.
Now if we could just get the NSA to put this level of critical thinking and attention to detail towards the constitution we'd be all set!
Nah, those that would enforce it here ran off to be gmen/spooks and fight some corporate war for oi... err middle eastern mob... err terrorists, yeah, that's it, terrorism...
-And I wouldn't really take anything the U.S. has to heart on pretty much any subject these days, they're nuts here, I mean flat ass nuttier than squirrel shit, bat shit crazy.