He's blown a whole lot of trust as it is, by stabbing his country in the back so spectacularly.
What makes him think that everyone should believe him now?
The Russians have taken in traitors/defectors from the West; but they know that traitors are the scum of the Earth, and can never, ever be fully trusted.
If he would have gone to Cuba he could get a tan working in the sugar cane fields.
There's a zero percent chance the Russians or Chinese have received any documents,' he said. Snowden turned them all over to the journalists.
Turning documents over to journalists, or anybody employed in any other profession, does not make them magically uninterceptable, unreadable, or unposessable by Russians, Chinese, or anybody else. He has no control over the distribution after he hands it off to anybody, and the people who have the stuff might not even know if someone else is reading it.
I ran into the same thing trying to help a (non-technical) neighbour upgrade her PC. Unlike any other update, MS is forcing you to use the Windows Store to upgrade rather than making it a standard Windows Update. So she had to set up a Windows Store account, which she'd never done before. Then Windows Store wanted to install a mountain of crapware (Mettrash apps) that she'd never use and had no interest in. Then it demanded that she register a credit card number to cover the costs of all the apps she had no intention of ever buying from the store. Then she finally got a chance to look for the 8.1 upgrade. Problem is that no matter what she did, she couldn't find it in the store. After about an hour she gave up.
If MS doesn't make this thing available using Windows Update, they're going to have serious problems with adoption. The only time I've ever seen upgrades that were this painful was with "enterprise-grade" software from IBM.
I did not have to do any of that initiating the upgrade through Chrome. It took about an hour start to reboot, IIRC. However, now when I am running any audio, like streaming radio, and I press play in Movie Maker, it mutes all of the other sound. It was NOT doing that before 8.1, and started doing it after 8.1.
Wrote MS about it and, of course, they came back with the standard "upgrade drivers" nonsense. I KNOW that is not the problem, but I upgraded every driver that came up from Toshiba (filtered for sound) and guess what? Problem still here.
As a man who is 6'6" and 255, I have a place in mind where they can stick these new seats.
I'm only 6' 1" and 230, the biggest pain for me is my knees hitting the seat in front of me. Since I have only a 36" inseam, I am seeing 30" between my back and the row in front of me beautiful in theory. In reality, I know my shins are longer than 6", so I am still puzzled on what they are measuring here.
Yeah, cost of repairing small damage just goes through the roof if you do this.
So what happens if you put in flat rechargeable modules like the flat 6v batteries in Polaroid SX-70 film packs, in various places (upgraded of course), like attached to the back seat on the trunk side, or just use arrays of Li-ion batteries all over the place? Not embedded, as small modules that can be replaced as they fail?
I tried to upgrade through my MS account using IE. NOTHING happened and I gave up after several tries. Tried again with Chrome, the download began right away. Interesting. I wonder what junk Toshiba wants to throw in there too?
It could be worse. If a man in the middle intercepts the communications, they have it indefinately. One of the first things they teach in forensics is that younever work from the original so a copy will likely always be around once they have a copy of it.
I suspect that it IS worse. No doubt it is being intercepted without a warrant anyway, and if the parties that be get caught they just say "oops" and nothing happens to them.
You go to legalzoom.com and it costs you from $99 + state filing fees.
Alternatively: pay a lawyer.
Not exactly. Sure, you can pay someone to go talk the government into letting you incorporate, but no lawyer can bestow corporate status on anybody or any group. In the USA, you go to a State government to gain corporate status. Other places are different I suppose.
No, AT&T was "broken up" because they *asked* to stop being the exclusive national long distance phone service utility.
You have no clue. AT&T was broken up as part of a consent decree where they divested themselves of the LOCAL telephone services (the RBOC -- regional Bell operating companies) so they could KEEP the long distance operation. This consent decree came about as the result of an anti-trust lawsuit from their vertical integration of everything from local to long distance to telephone equipment.
MCI also helped the breakup by filing anti-trust lawsuits.
To claim that AT&T asked to be broken up is just ridiculous.
Well, yea I do have a clue. I was following the breakup hen it was happening.
Characterizing it as if the government just waltzed in and said "okay boys, this nice little monopoly of yours is ending now" is completely wrong. As is characterizing it as a "monopoly" that just happened without a government grant of monopoly.
The predecessor to the FCC made them a monopoly, then the Justice Department started suing them for being a monopoly around 1949. After a couple decades of that nonsense the asked to stop being the monopoly provider. Rather than just opening up competition against a firm that was an entrenched monopoly, the agreement was to the breakup. Yes, THEY ASKED, and the form of the breakup of the monopoly the government granted was administered by the government.
No competition? Tell that to the old AT&T, which got crushed by it's children. Or Yahoo as it watches Goggle zoom ahead. Or Google, as it watches Facebook grow its mobile ad revenue like there's no tomorrow. Or Microsoft as even microsofties use iPads. Or PanAm as Southwest ate their lunch. In my company, I get a win/loss email every week about how we won a customer from our rivals and they beat us at another.
It's a mixed bag. Some markets are more open to competition than others. But competition is alive and well in many, many places.
I like the other example when tech folks start talking "monopoly" and ask when the last time they used AOL to get to the Internet was. Then again, you have to be talking to someone who actually remembers when AOL/Time Warner was being accused of being an unstoppable monopoly:)
AT&T was broken up by the Government, so not the best example.
No, AT&T was "broken up" because they *asked* to stop being the exclusive national long distance phone service utility. They were made that long distance utility by the federal government, and given a monopoly on long distance phone service. They by no means became the exclusive long distance service through competition, other than perhaps greasing the FDR administration palms to become the exclusive carrier.
What "competition"? Maybe in your libertarian fantasy world. But here in the real-world, powerful corporations collude, buy monopolies, crush any smaller competitors--and generally do everything to ensure that there is no real competition, and never will be. The "free market" is a bunch of horseshit shoveled to gullible suckers.
The competition that is possible when the police power of government is not playing favorites on who gets to do business. THAT competition. The only time monopolies persist is when governments protect them. When they are at the mercy of consumers and competition they are fleeting at best. One positive outcome of the persistent monopoly when government is not shoring them up is decreasing prices, increased quality, and increased efficiency of production. You cannot show one example of a business to support your theory. To support mine, I submit Standard Oil (broken up for the "sin" of selling petrol at a price too low to compete against) and The Aluminum Company of America (continually the lowest price for aluminum ingots, for decades).
The only difference is which rich assholes get richer.
The tech companies want to be given the ability to do anything to make a profit. The government wants to be given the ability to do anything to spy on us.
It's douchebags on both sides fighting for their piece of the pie -- we all get fucked over in the end.
Without a government that is forcing you to give your money to someone, those "assholes" have to compete with others for the privilege of serving you.
Not to worry. It is not like the customers of Healthcare.Gov are going to go shopping anywhere else. They have captured 100% of the market at the barrel of a gun. It is like the old American Telephone & Telegraph phone service, except they can go into your checking account for a billing dispute, or take your tax refund if you refuse to do business with them.
Oddly, budget and midscale hotel chains are more likely to offer free Wi-Fi, while luxurious hotels — already costing the traveler more — regularly ding us.'"
This isn't odd at all. People staying at budget and midscale hotel chains are more price sensitive, so they're going to not come to your hotel if you don't have free wifi. The people staying a luxury hotels are not as price sensitive and are more likely to be worried about other things beside a charge for internet access when selecting a hotel.
Works the same other places too. Since two Paneras* in a row were "unable" to connect me to the Internet for hours on end (spare me the peak hours jazz, even then you are supposed to get 1/2 hr. and I was able to connect to other nearby networks) I stick to Starbucks when I want to work away from the house. What I drink is nearly the same price either place and the SBX staff in these parts usually give you a heads up if they are having trouble.
Beware the Church of Panera. When I mentioned this issue on Facebook, a gaggle of them cackled that it is "free" and should not be complained about, ever. I really don't understand those people.
I suppose Gartner would have a coronary if he was around when the forklift came into being. I wonder if he hires a personal truck to pickup his latest reading material from the publisher, rather than letting the paper see the inside of a jobs killing train car?
Sometime soon they will remember that they failed to tax your hindquarters ten years ago and make a tax bill for that, which will require a new round of lobbying for repeal.
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He's blown a whole lot of trust as it is, by stabbing his country in the back so spectacularly.
What makes him think that everyone should believe him now?
The Russians have taken in traitors/defectors from the West; but they know that traitors are the scum of the Earth, and can never, ever be fully trusted.
If he would have gone to Cuba he could get a tan working in the sugar cane fields.
Turning documents over to journalists, or anybody employed in any other profession, does not make them magically uninterceptable, unreadable, or unposessable by Russians, Chinese, or anybody else. He has no control over the distribution after he hands it off to anybody, and the people who have the stuff might not even know if someone else is reading it.
I ran into the same thing trying to help a (non-technical) neighbour upgrade her PC. Unlike any other update, MS is forcing you to use the Windows Store to upgrade rather than making it a standard Windows Update. So she had to set up a Windows Store account, which she'd never done before. Then Windows Store wanted to install a mountain of crapware (Mettrash apps) that she'd never use and had no interest in. Then it demanded that she register a credit card number to cover the costs of all the apps she had no intention of ever buying from the store. Then she finally got a chance to look for the 8.1 upgrade. Problem is that no matter what she did, she couldn't find it in the store. After about an hour she gave up.
If MS doesn't make this thing available using Windows Update, they're going to have serious problems with adoption. The only time I've ever seen upgrades that were this painful was with "enterprise-grade" software from IBM.
I did not have to do any of that initiating the upgrade through Chrome. It took about an hour start to reboot, IIRC. However, now when I am running any audio, like streaming radio, and I press play in Movie Maker, it mutes all of the other sound. It was NOT doing that before 8.1, and started doing it after 8.1.
Wrote MS about it and, of course, they came back with the standard "upgrade drivers" nonsense. I KNOW that is not the problem, but I upgraded every driver that came up from Toshiba (filtered for sound) and guess what? Problem still here.
As a man who is 6'6" and 255, I have a place in mind where they can stick these new seats.
I'm only 6' 1" and 230, the biggest pain for me is my knees hitting the seat in front of me. Since I have only a 36" inseam, I am seeing 30" between my back and the row in front of me beautiful in theory. In reality, I know my shins are longer than 6", so I am still puzzled on what they are measuring here.
Yeah, cost of repairing small damage just goes through the roof if you do this.
So what happens if you put in flat rechargeable modules like the flat 6v batteries in Polaroid SX-70 film packs, in various places (upgraded of course), like attached to the back seat on the trunk side, or just use arrays of Li-ion batteries all over the place? Not embedded, as small modules that can be replaced as they fail?
I tried to upgrade through my MS account using IE. NOTHING happened and I gave up after several tries. Tried again with Chrome, the download began right away. Interesting. I wonder what junk Toshiba wants to throw in there too?
If Zero Cool was not a lesson to all parents, I don't know what is. The fact that he grew up to be Sherlock Holmes is neither a blessing nor a curse.
I still prefer the Bitcoin schemes. Now, if I only had some bitcoin to toss around :(
It could be worse. If a man in the middle intercepts the communications, they have it indefinately. One of the first things they teach in forensics is that younever work from the original so a copy will likely always be around once they have a copy of it.
I suspect that it IS worse. No doubt it is being intercepted without a warrant anyway, and if the parties that be get caught they just say "oops" and nothing happens to them.
You go to legalzoom.com and it costs you from $99 + state filing fees.
Alternatively: pay a lawyer.
Not exactly. Sure, you can pay someone to go talk the government into letting you incorporate, but no lawyer can bestow corporate status on anybody or any group. In the USA, you go to a State government to gain corporate status. Other places are different I suppose.
WTF? AOL/Time Warner accused of being a monopoly? When? You're just making that up.
Where you alive and aware back then?
Ignore previous reply and replace with "LOL, yea, that is what they sound like!" Sorry, took me all night to realize the spirit of your comment :)
WTF? AOL/Time Warner accused of being a monopoly? When? You're just making that up.
Where you alive and aware back then?
Uh, yea I was alive, kickin, and some would say "old" back then, lol. http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=76066&cid=6789993 http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/2612.html http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2000-06-19/business/0006190010_1_instant-messaging-aol-instant-messenger-tribal-voice It was just a few years ago. Google is your friend and all that.
And Al Bell being the first one to the patent office with a diagram was another government grant of monopoly.
No, AT&T was "broken up" because they *asked* to stop being the exclusive national long distance phone service utility.
You have no clue. AT&T was broken up as part of a consent decree where they divested themselves of the LOCAL telephone services (the RBOC -- regional Bell operating companies) so they could KEEP the long distance operation. This consent decree came about as the result of an anti-trust lawsuit from their vertical integration of everything from local to long distance to telephone equipment.
MCI also helped the breakup by filing anti-trust lawsuits.
To claim that AT&T asked to be broken up is just ridiculous.
Well, yea I do have a clue. I was following the breakup hen it was happening.
Characterizing it as if the government just waltzed in and said "okay boys, this nice little monopoly of yours is ending now" is completely wrong. As is characterizing it as a "monopoly" that just happened without a government grant of monopoly.
The predecessor to the FCC made them a monopoly, then the Justice Department started suing them for being a monopoly around 1949. After a couple decades of that nonsense the asked to stop being the monopoly provider. Rather than just opening up competition against a firm that was an entrenched monopoly, the agreement was to the breakup. Yes, THEY ASKED, and the form of the breakup of the monopoly the government granted was administered by the government.
No competition? Tell that to the old AT&T, which got crushed by it's children. Or Yahoo as it watches Goggle zoom ahead. Or Google, as it watches Facebook grow its mobile ad revenue like there's no tomorrow. Or Microsoft as even microsofties use iPads. Or PanAm as Southwest ate their lunch. In my company, I get a win/loss email every week about how we won a customer from our rivals and they beat us at another.
It's a mixed bag. Some markets are more open to competition than others. But competition is alive and well in many, many places.
I like the other example when tech folks start talking "monopoly" and ask when the last time they used AOL to get to the Internet was. Then again, you have to be talking to someone who actually remembers when AOL/Time Warner was being accused of being an unstoppable monopoly :)
AT&T was broken up by the Government, so not the best example.
No, AT&T was "broken up" because they *asked* to stop being the exclusive national long distance phone service utility. They were made that long distance utility by the federal government, and given a monopoly on long distance phone service. They by no means became the exclusive long distance service through competition, other than perhaps greasing the FDR administration palms to become the exclusive carrier.
What "competition"? Maybe in your libertarian fantasy world. But here in the real-world, powerful corporations collude, buy monopolies, crush any smaller competitors--and generally do everything to ensure that there is no real competition, and never will be. The "free market" is a bunch of horseshit shoveled to gullible suckers.
The competition that is possible when the police power of government is not playing favorites on who gets to do business. THAT competition. The only time monopolies persist is when governments protect them. When they are at the mercy of consumers and competition they are fleeting at best. One positive outcome of the persistent monopoly when government is not shoring them up is decreasing prices, increased quality, and increased efficiency of production. You cannot show one example of a business to support your theory. To support mine, I submit Standard Oil (broken up for the "sin" of selling petrol at a price too low to compete against) and The Aluminum Company of America (continually the lowest price for aluminum ingots, for decades).
What do you have?
The only difference is which rich assholes get richer.
The tech companies want to be given the ability to do anything to make a profit. The government wants to be given the ability to do anything to spy on us.
It's douchebags on both sides fighting for their piece of the pie -- we all get fucked over in the end.
Without a government that is forcing you to give your money to someone, those "assholes" have to compete with others for the privilege of serving you.
Not to worry. It is not like the customers of Healthcare.Gov are going to go shopping anywhere else. They have captured 100% of the market at the barrel of a gun. It is like the old American Telephone & Telegraph phone service, except they can go into your checking account for a billing dispute, or take your tax refund if you refuse to do business with them.
So real science is just like we see it on TV? Nice to know.
And my cash is still anonymous until da man Lojacks it.
This isn't odd at all. People staying at budget and midscale hotel chains are more price sensitive, so they're going to not come to your hotel if you don't have free wifi. The people staying a luxury hotels are not as price sensitive and are more likely to be worried about other things beside a charge for internet access when selecting a hotel.
Works the same other places too. Since two Paneras* in a row were "unable" to connect me to the Internet for hours on end (spare me the peak hours jazz, even then you are supposed to get 1/2 hr. and I was able to connect to other nearby networks) I stick to Starbucks when I want to work away from the house. What I drink is nearly the same price either place and the SBX staff in these parts usually give you a heads up if they are having trouble.
Beware the Church of Panera. When I mentioned this issue on Facebook, a gaggle of them cackled that it is "free" and should not be complained about, ever. I really don't understand those people.
It was never backed by gold.
But it was once backed by SILVER, an it said so right on the face of Silver Certificates, which you could turn in for actual silver. Allegedly.
You can still turn your bills in for gold, silver, zinc, or BTC. You just have to trade it with someone besides the government.
I suppose Gartner would have a coronary if he was around when the forklift came into being. I wonder if he hires a personal truck to pickup his latest reading material from the publisher, rather than letting the paper see the inside of a jobs killing train car?
Sometime soon they will remember that they failed to tax your hindquarters ten years ago and make a tax bill for that, which will require a new round of lobbying for repeal.