My boss can hire two fresh-outs for what he pays me. He knows this. A short sighted person might think two fresh-outs are more effective than me. My boss knows better. I regularly deliver way more than two fresh-outs, and I show up on time every day, not hung over. No drama.
Not every boss is like mine. Many think that more cheap labor can get the job done. Good luck with that. You get what you pay for.
I'd argue that it is nothing like classical Florence, where the artists had sponsors. There's no analog in Silly Valley for that, none of the new rich are sponsoring great art, whether for themselves or the public.
Comcast router software completely BLOWS. And I mean that. Laden with bugs, utter crap. I just got a new "gateway" from them, a Arris TG862 and it was pretty much completely unusable until they put it into bridge mode. I would get pages that would not load (static DNCP), pages that said features were disabled (dynamic DNS), etc.
I got on chat with support and they put it into bridge mode. The support guy told me I would have to get them to put it back into router mode if I ever desired (I don't)
The good news is that the thing is crazy fast, and I mean > 120 mbit/sec incoming and > 20mbit/sec outgoing. Yee-haw.
Actually, Turing designed an improved "bombe" -- the "Turing Bombe" -- and there are reproductions of those at Bletchley Park, as well as the Colossus.
Note that Colossus was not built to crack Enigma. It was built to crack teleprinter code. The "Lorenz Cipher" -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
You need to pay more attention. The NSA's spying on Americans in the USA is absolutely contrary to the 4th amendment. What Snowden leaked shows much, much more than that.
For instance: spying on Russian politicians is part of what our national intelligence organizations are supposed to be doing, and Snowden revealing that Sweden and Norway have helped us to that is worse than unhelpful to every American, as well as being damaging to Sweden and Norway.
Further, his disclosures have shown what the tools and methods used to by the NSA to accomplish their legitimate role have damaged the NSA's ability to collect the intelligence they are charted to collect. Another example: The NSA had put some espionage "malware" onto computers used by the Russian Military, mexican drug cartels, and others (see http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01...) -- how was disclosing this information useful to anybody but our adversaries?
No apologies from me for the NSA. They broke the law with respect to the fourth amendment by illegally spying on Americans at home and they should answer for it. Clapper and Alexander lied to Congress and they should be made to answer for that.
when the NWS issues a "watch", that means something could happen. when they issue "warning", they mean business.
case in point: we get a lot of "tornado watch" alerts around here. That means pay attention, somthing might happen. when we get a "tornado warning" than means it's time to go into your hidey hole.
There's no nuance there! That's about as polar as opinions get on this subject.
Snowden disclosed the NSA's illegal violations of the 4th amendment, and that is OK in my book. This is helpful to Americans.
However, he also disclosed a whole lot more, and that has damaged the ability of the NSA to do what is chartered to do, and that is not OK in my book. This is not helpful to Americans.
The NWS nailed it. They described exactly what was going to happen.
The travesty was that **everybody** ignored the Winter Storm Warning that was issued in plenty of time to cancel school, make other arrangements for work. That was compounded with a situation where the roads went from dry to impassible in one hour, and then 5 million people all tried to drive home at once.
General Keith Alexander. Meant well (trying to protect Americans), lied under oath to congress, violated federal laws. Knew it was wrong. Should be punished.
James Clapper. Meant well (trying to protect Americans), lied under oath to congress, violated federal laws. Knew it was wrong. Should be punished.
Edward Snowden. Meant well (trying to protect Americans), stole and released classified materials, violated federal laws. Knew it was wrong. Should be punished.
The fact that Snowden is being pursued for what he did, while Alexander and Clapper appear to be getting off scott-free is the biggest hypocrisy ever.
God forbid you offer "nuanced" opinions on/. -- you'll get downmoderated as a troll. There is no tolerance here, even though most of the readers and moderators would tell you they are very tolerant.
People have their prejudices, and those color their views on every bit of information they receive, and if your opinions don't agree, then you must be the idiot. This is as true on/. as in the real world, though perhaps it is more obvious here than in RW, the vitriol spewed in various flame wars here go beyond what would be considered "fighting words" if uttered to a person's face.
Putin stuck Obama in the eye. He thinks Obama is an amateur, a lightweight, and he is correct. Putin is a KGB spymaster, Obama is a "community organizer."
This will not be the last time he poke Obama in the eye. Trust me. Ol' Vladimir is not a nice man, but he is not a stupid man. He knows an easy mark when he sees one.
"Russia doesn't go around invading any country without nukes".
Guess what? before the USA invaded Afghanistan, the USSR did. It's in the history books, should you bother to read them. Or maybe some current news, like about The Ukraine, where the citizens want to ally with the EU, but ol' Putin won't have it.
Once again, Slashdot cannot tolerate a range of views on politics. If it's not approved by "Progressive Democrats", it's a "Troll".
3 hours later, this post has been down modded 3 times -- "Troll" and "Overrated". For what? offering an unpopular opinion? Trust me, I would not have written over 200 words if I wanted to troll slashdot, because it is much much easier than that.
My point is that he did not need to reveal all of it, just exposing the domestic surveillance would have been enough... Congress and the average American don't give one tiny shit if the NSA bugged Angela Merkel's phone, and many are probably secretly pleased that we did and got away with it until this guy opened the kimono on that.
My question is how was releasing that information helpful? While certainly unethical, bugging Merkel's phone (for instance) was NOT illegal under US law, and not forbidden under the NSA's charter, while the domestic data collection clearly was both illegal and forbidden. I applaud the exposure of the NSA's illegal activities, but I abhor the exposure of their legal ones.
This is why I believe he had other motives. Snowden is not a hero, he's an attention whore.
Yours is a thoughtful reply, and I thank you for that.
However, I must disagree with your "elite corps owning politicians" being the root of this problem. That's a whole different problem, I don't believe the politicians knew what the NSA was doing at all. The NSA was running totally rogue, and the unlawful surveillance of US citizens on US soil -- with Congress having no clue at all -- clearly demonstrates that. Our corporate bought-and-paid-for politicians stack things in favor of their corporate sponsors, and this NSA problem is a loser for everybody.
I don't think you and I agree much on politics, but I think we both agree that there is too much money in it, and the power of the individual has been subverted by big money interests.
Thanks for your comment (and not down-modding me!)
Merriam-Webster's first definition of "treason" is
"the betrayal of trust."
Snowden signed an agreement to keep things he learned on the job secret, and he betrayed that trust. Again, I don't disagree with him blowing the whistle on the NSA's illegal and unconstitutional surveillance of U.S. citizens going about their business here in the USA. My beef is that he unveiled way more than that, way more than he needed to, and I do not support that. I believe that was wrong.
My opinion is that his behavior crossed beyond "whistleblower" into the range of "criminal."
Do you not think the USA's allies were not spying on the USA? The French continue to conduct large scale industrial espionage against the USA to this day. They just have not had the whistle blown on them (yet.) It is pretty common knowledge that Israel spies on the USA continuously.
Snowden's revelations about the NSA spying on American Citizens should earn him immunity from prosecution as a whistleblower. That was a valuable and risky thing he did.
However, his revelations about NSA spying outside the USA have caused severe and lasting damage to the USA's reputation, and to the USA's ability to collect intelligence that it needs to defend it's interests, **including national security interests**. That was a dangerous and over-the-top thing he did -- it **is** treason, and the severity of that (IMHO) outweighs any potential immunity he might have deserved from the above.
Snowden dropped a tactical nuke when he could have used a stick of dynamite. This indicates to me that his goal was to bury the NSA, not to reform it. In my opinion, this moves him from hero to traitor, and he needs to answer for this.
I think he is relatively safe if he stays in Russia. "Relatively". Should he leave there, he should prepare to be dragged into a van with a canvas sack over his head -- the subject of an "extraordinary rendition." (This is of course illegal. I don't condone it, but I do expect it.) He's barely safe in Russia, and probably not safe anywhere else. He made his own bed, now he gets to sleep in it.
I fully expect this post to get down-moderated into oblivion.
Government programs are **never** more efficient than private counterparts. The US Government is so full of graft and waste it is utterly infuriating to anybody who has any idea of what is going on. There is **no** accountability. This is not tied to any administration, this has been happening for years, through many administrations. At least for most private enterprises, there is somebody who wants to see a return on their investment.
Medicare is going to run out of money, most likely before you are eligible. Social Security, too. I hope you were not counting on either of those, because our inefficient, wasteful, and corrupt government has been blowing those trust funds like a cokehead in Vegas.
You need to step back from the bong and take a look at what is going on.
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My boss can hire two fresh-outs for what he pays me. He knows this. A short sighted person might think two fresh-outs are more effective than me. My boss knows better. I regularly deliver way more than two fresh-outs, and I show up on time every day, not hung over. No drama.
Not every boss is like mine. Many think that more cheap labor can get the job done. Good luck with that. You get what you pay for.
Let me guess the city where the writer lives...
I'd argue that it is nothing like classical Florence, where the artists had sponsors. There's no analog in Silly Valley for that, none of the new rich are sponsoring great art, whether for themselves or the public.
Comcast router software completely BLOWS. And I mean that. Laden with bugs, utter crap. I just got a new "gateway" from them, a Arris TG862 and it was pretty much completely unusable until they put it into bridge mode. I would get pages that would not load (static DNCP), pages that said features were disabled (dynamic DNS), etc.
I got on chat with support and they put it into bridge mode. The support guy told me I would have to get them to put it back into router mode if I ever desired (I don't)
The good news is that the thing is crazy fast, and I mean > 120 mbit/sec incoming and > 20mbit/sec outgoing. Yee-haw.
anybody think Obama is still not Bush 2.0?
Actually, Turing designed an improved "bombe" -- the "Turing Bombe" -- and there are reproductions of those at Bletchley Park, as well as the Colossus.
Note that Colossus was not built to crack Enigma. It was built to crack teleprinter code. The "Lorenz Cipher" -- see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C...
You need to pay more attention. The NSA's spying on Americans in the USA is absolutely contrary to the 4th amendment. What Snowden leaked shows much, much more than that.
For instance: spying on Russian politicians is part of what our national intelligence organizations are supposed to be doing, and Snowden revealing that Sweden and Norway have helped us to that is worse than unhelpful to every American, as well as being damaging to Sweden and Norway.
Further, his disclosures have shown what the tools and methods used to by the NSA to accomplish their legitimate role have damaged the NSA's ability to collect the intelligence they are charted to collect. Another example: The NSA had put some espionage "malware" onto computers used by the Russian Military, mexican drug cartels, and others (see http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01...) -- how was disclosing this information useful to anybody but our adversaries?
No apologies from me for the NSA. They broke the law with respect to the fourth amendment by illegally spying on Americans at home and they should answer for it. Clapper and Alexander lied to Congress and they should be made to answer for that.
actually, no.
when the NWS issues a "watch", that means something could happen. when they issue "warning", they mean business.
case in point: we get a lot of "tornado watch" alerts around here. That means pay attention, somthing might happen. when we get a "tornado warning" than means it's time to go into your hidey hole.
There's no nuance there! That's about as polar as opinions get on this subject.
Snowden disclosed the NSA's illegal violations of the 4th amendment, and that is OK in my book. This is helpful to Americans.
However, he also disclosed a whole lot more, and that has damaged the ability of the NSA to do what is chartered to do, and that is not OK in my book. This is not helpful to Americans.
The NWS nailed it. They described exactly what was going to happen.
The travesty was that **everybody** ignored the Winter Storm Warning that was issued in plenty of time to cancel school, make other arrangements for work. That was compounded with a situation where the roads went from dry to impassible in one hour, and then 5 million people all tried to drive home at once.
Disaster.
General Keith Alexander. Meant well (trying to protect Americans), lied under oath to congress, violated federal laws. Knew it was wrong. Should be punished.
James Clapper. Meant well (trying to protect Americans), lied under oath to congress, violated federal laws. Knew it was wrong. Should be punished.
Edward Snowden. Meant well (trying to protect Americans), stole and released classified materials, violated federal laws. Knew it was wrong. Should be punished.
The fact that Snowden is being pursued for what he did, while Alexander and Clapper appear to be getting off scott-free is the biggest hypocrisy ever.
God forbid you offer "nuanced" opinions on /. -- you'll get downmoderated as a troll. There is no tolerance here, even though most of the readers and moderators would tell you they are very tolerant.
People have their prejudices, and those color their views on every bit of information they receive, and if your opinions don't agree, then you must be the idiot. This is as true on /. as in the real world, though perhaps it is more obvious here than in RW, the vitriol spewed in various flame wars here go beyond what would be considered "fighting words" if uttered to a person's face.
That is funny.
Really that would have been Clinton's legal team.
Perhaps perfidious would be a better word to describe Mr. Snowden.
What Oliver North did was criminal. Doing the wrong thing for the right reasons is still wrong.
Putin stuck Obama in the eye. He thinks Obama is an amateur, a lightweight, and he is correct. Putin is a KGB spymaster, Obama is a "community organizer."
This will not be the last time he poke Obama in the eye. Trust me. Ol' Vladimir is not a nice man, but he is not a stupid man. He knows an easy mark when he sees one.
Uhh? really?
"Russia doesn't go around invading any country without nukes".
Guess what? before the USA invaded Afghanistan, the USSR did. It's in the history books, should you bother to read them. Or maybe some current news, like about The Ukraine, where the citizens want to ally with the EU, but ol' Putin won't have it.
Are you living under a rock? Moron.
Once again, Slashdot cannot tolerate a range of views on politics. If it's not approved by "Progressive Democrats", it's a "Troll".
3 hours later, this post has been down modded 3 times -- "Troll" and "Overrated". For what? offering an unpopular opinion? Trust me, I would not have written over 200 words if I wanted to troll slashdot, because it is much much easier than that.
My point is that he did not need to reveal all of it, just exposing the domestic surveillance would have been enough... Congress and the average American don't give one tiny shit if the NSA bugged Angela Merkel's phone, and many are probably secretly pleased that we did and got away with it until this guy opened the kimono on that.
My question is how was releasing that information helpful? While certainly unethical, bugging Merkel's phone (for instance) was NOT illegal under US law, and not forbidden under the NSA's charter, while the domestic data collection clearly was both illegal and forbidden. I applaud the exposure of the NSA's illegal activities, but I abhor the exposure of their legal ones.
This is why I believe he had other motives. Snowden is not a hero, he's an attention whore.
Yours is a thoughtful reply, and I thank you for that.
However, I must disagree with your "elite corps owning politicians" being the root of this problem. That's a whole different problem, I don't believe the politicians knew what the NSA was doing at all. The NSA was running totally rogue, and the unlawful surveillance of US citizens on US soil -- with Congress having no clue at all -- clearly demonstrates that. Our corporate bought-and-paid-for politicians stack things in favor of their corporate sponsors, and this NSA problem is a loser for everybody.
I don't think you and I agree much on politics, but I think we both agree that there is too much money in it, and the power of the individual has been subverted by big money interests.
Thanks for your comment (and not down-modding me!)
Merriam-Webster's first definition of "treason" is
"the betrayal of trust."
Snowden signed an agreement to keep things he learned on the job secret, and he betrayed that trust. Again, I don't disagree with him blowing the whistle on the NSA's illegal and unconstitutional surveillance of U.S. citizens going about their business here in the USA. My beef is that he unveiled way more than that, way more than he needed to, and I do not support that. I believe that was wrong.
My opinion is that his behavior crossed beyond "whistleblower" into the range of "criminal."
Oh Please!
Do you not think the USA's allies were not spying on the USA? The French continue to conduct large scale industrial espionage against the USA to this day. They just have not had the whistle blown on them (yet.) It is pretty common knowledge that Israel spies on the USA continuously.
Snowden's revelations about the NSA spying on American Citizens should earn him immunity from prosecution as a whistleblower. That was a valuable and risky thing he did.
However, his revelations about NSA spying outside the USA have caused severe and lasting damage to the USA's reputation, and to the USA's ability to collect intelligence that it needs to defend it's interests, **including national security interests**. That was a dangerous and over-the-top thing he did -- it **is** treason, and the severity of that (IMHO) outweighs any potential immunity he might have deserved from the above.
Snowden dropped a tactical nuke when he could have used a stick of dynamite. This indicates to me that his goal was to bury the NSA, not to reform it. In my opinion, this moves him from hero to traitor, and he needs to answer for this.
I think he is relatively safe if he stays in Russia. "Relatively". Should he leave there, he should prepare to be dragged into a van with a canvas sack over his head -- the subject of an "extraordinary rendition." (This is of course illegal. I don't condone it, but I do expect it.) He's barely safe in Russia, and probably not safe anywhere else. He made his own bed, now he gets to sleep in it.
I fully expect this post to get down-moderated into oblivion.
Maybe these poor souls should step away from the game for a while and enjoy interacting with living people.
Are you twelve?
Government programs are **never** more efficient than private counterparts. The US Government is so full of graft and waste it is utterly infuriating to anybody who has any idea of what is going on. There is **no** accountability. This is not tied to any administration, this has been happening for years, through many administrations. At least for most private enterprises, there is somebody who wants to see a return on their investment.
Medicare is going to run out of money, most likely before you are eligible. Social Security, too. I hope you were not counting on either of those, because our inefficient, wasteful, and corrupt government has been blowing those trust funds like a cokehead in Vegas.
You need to step back from the bong and take a look at what is going on.
This is great. /. moderation at it's finest. Modded "Overrated" with a score of 1.
Seriously?
What happened to news for nerds? Is slashdot going to become a political commentary site?
News for Nerds, stuff that matters my eye.
If I was looking for this, I would have looked at msnbc.com or foxnews.com
Boooo! on Timothy. Boooo! on Slashdot. This article does not even meet your own submission guidelines: http://slashdot.org/faq/submissions.shtml