but he needs to understand that pervasive surveillance is also bad for business.
No, getting caught is bad for business. Some of the ways that cooperation and collaboration is rewarded (e.g. trade secrets) are quite good for business, which is why nobody made a stink about this before these revelations became public.
So we as good little citizens are supposed to help the NSA "find a better way" to "connect all the dots," but they have no idea what to do even when all the "dots" are in their physical possession?
Maybe if they spent more time monitoring and logging their own systems everyone would be better off.
U.S. tech companies have been "unfairly hurt" by revelations of NSA surveillance this year, he said.
First off, considering the degree of collaboration we've seen, I'd say that the hurting (if any) has been more than fair.
But what really bothers me is that this is all that matters here. It's not that there's blanket spying going on, it's that the revelation is hurting the bottom line of some major campaign contributors. No violin is too tiny for AT&T!
When a doctor tortures a patient there is a direct cause and effect from the doctor's actions to the pain and suffering of the victim.
When an engineer designs a weapon, he's not actually causing the pain and suffering. Once you get away from "complete responsibility", the rest is easy:
And if a doctor is asked to treat a tortured prisoner so that they may be healthy enough to be tortured more?
But DARPA pie-in-the-sky projects are but a drop in the bucket compared to the budgets and industries involved directly in "designing a missile system to kill lots of brown people on the other side of the world," including the number of engineers employed.
And you and your customers always agree who the "bad guy" is in all situations? Or do you try to avoid asking too many questions (and all mention of Wikileaks)?
And does your employer only sell weapons to customers you are morally comfortable with, or do those weapons end up being sold to just about anybody the government wants to placate at the moment?
Can you guarantee that the weapons you're designing are being deliberately used to threaten someone else's sleeping baby girls, if not your own outright?
Its not the scalpel or the gun that is the problem, it is the mind and the intentions behind the hand holding the scalpel or gun.
Medical companies refuse to export drugs to the United States that they know are used in executions. But nobody will stop selling arms to someone else unless and until international law gets involved, and sometimes not even then.
It seems pretty clear that those in the field of medicine have a higher moral standard.
A medical doctor who participates in a state-sanctioned execution will still find himself in professional jeopardy at home and typically wouldn't be allowed to practice abroad. The same is not true of engineers involved in the design of devices used in state-sanctioned executions.
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but he needs to understand that pervasive surveillance is also bad for business.
No, getting caught is bad for business. Some of the ways that cooperation and collaboration is rewarded (e.g. trade secrets) are quite good for business, which is why nobody made a stink about this before these revelations became public.
Could have left the headline at that.
So we as good little citizens are supposed to help the NSA "find a better way" to "connect all the dots," but they have no idea what to do even when all the "dots" are in their physical possession?
Maybe if they spent more time monitoring and logging their own systems everyone would be better off.
My mobile carrier is AT&T. The NSA doesn't need to break the encryption.
U.S. tech companies have been "unfairly hurt" by revelations of NSA surveillance this year, he said.
First off, considering the degree of collaboration we've seen, I'd say that the hurting (if any) has been more than fair.
But what really bothers me is that this is all that matters here. It's not that there's blanket spying going on, it's that the revelation is hurting the bottom line of some major campaign contributors. No violin is too tiny for AT&T!
Asking for "a better way to do X" presumes that X should be done to begin with.
"Help us find a better way to torture prisoners!"
Naturally the Senate didn't challenge him on this presumption just as it didn't hold him accountable for lying to them to begin with.
But if people can't make phone calls from airplanes, how can the NSA listen into them?
The only space-faring plumbers we have spend most of their time saving princesses.
There is still time for orderly change and peaceful reform.
"Mr. Gorbachev, gradually reduce the height of this wall over the coming years and decades!"
Funny how Ronald "Southern Strategy" Reagan only appeals to gradualism in this instance.
Mortgage-backed securities!
I feel more confident already!
When a doctor tortures a patient there is a direct cause and effect from the doctor's actions to the pain and suffering of the victim.
When an engineer designs a weapon, he's not actually causing the pain and suffering. Once you get away from "complete responsibility", the rest is easy:
And if a doctor is asked to treat a tortured prisoner so that they may be healthy enough to be tortured more?
But DARPA pie-in-the-sky projects are but a drop in the bucket compared to the budgets and industries involved directly in "designing a missile system to kill lots of brown people on the other side of the world," including the number of engineers employed.
And you and your customers always agree who the "bad guy" is in all situations? Or do you try to avoid asking too many questions (and all mention of Wikileaks)?
And does your employer only sell weapons to customers you are morally comfortable with, or do those weapons end up being sold to just about anybody the government wants to placate at the moment?
Can you guarantee that the weapons you're designing are being deliberately used to threaten someone else's sleeping baby girls, if not your own outright?
And did those rough men design and build their own weapons?
Its not the scalpel or the gun that is the problem, it is the mind and the intentions behind the hand holding the scalpel or gun.
Medical companies refuse to export drugs to the United States that they know are used in executions. But nobody will stop selling arms to someone else unless and until international law gets involved, and sometimes not even then.
It seems pretty clear that those in the field of medicine have a higher moral standard.
"State electrician" isn't just a euphemism.
A medical doctor who participates in a state-sanctioned execution will still find himself in professional jeopardy at home and typically wouldn't be allowed to practice abroad. The same is not true of engineers involved in the design of devices used in state-sanctioned executions.
Everybody knows it's Bern!
I worked with machine language in elementary school!
(We used discarded punchcards in arts and crafts.
Professional sports isn't exactly known for myriad career opportunities either.
The password is actually 8 Unicode capital omicrons.
They *THINK* they can get someone younger for much less pay.
And they *THINK* they will get all the experience from that younger person too.
And they're the ones signing the paychecks, so any difference between what they think and reality is irrelevant.
Apple is listed in Android benchmark rankings?
Then you'll have no problem finding a shareholder vote on executive pay that was binding.
Today Norway's army consists of...
conscripts...
that can't wait to get back home