I remember a couple of years ago a couple drove through what they though was a shortcut in Northern Nevada and ended up stranded. The husband died as he tried to find help but the wife was found inside the car starving but otherwise okay. The locals were amazed to hear that this couple with a 2WD van went on a jeep trail that they even avoid during the winter months with their 4WD vehicles because the road is in bad shape and there are all kinds of surprise snowstorms in the area. This couple simply followed their GPS device and never thought of the fact that they were driving on a jeep trail with a 2WD van in an area notorious for sudden snowstorms. GPS leads people to many places that aren't safe and in combination with people doing simple google searches and hiking rough trails, California officials started calling "Yuppie 911" when a inexperienced camper gets in trouble and has to call 911 for help because they failed to prepare for the hike or did a simple 5 minute google search and tried to hike a trail for experienced hikers when hey are novices.
Actually men can become the victims of sexual harassment just as much as women but men rarely report it because people like you discount them as abusing the system or accuse them of being a wimp and to just put up with it. Harassment based on a person's disability is also illegal in the workplace but is rarely reported by victims. One reason disability harassment isn't reported is victims feel ashamed while others victims feel that since it isn't harassment based on a sexual manner that human resources will do nothing about their complaint or even side with the harasser.
By the same token if I were to play a game of Grand Theft Auto after a hard day at work and beat the tar out of random people on the street, steal cars, and get into police chases will I do this in real life? Of course not! It's a game and actually helps vent my frustrations and I would never consider doing this in real life. If I vent my frustrations by punching a punching bag does this mean I am going to start punching another person to vent my frustrations someday? Of course not! If I do start hurting other people in order to vent my frustrations then it is time for me to seek professional help.
If someone were to say "Cortana, did you eat lead paint chips when you were a kid?" will she also get offended? This comment isn't derogatory towards her being a woman but the person is inferring that she has a mental disability which is also a form of harassment. If she puts up with this then why? Disability based harassment is just as hurtful as sexual harassment.
I assume the developers and possibly a focus group determined what is/isn't considered sexual harassment so a comment you make towards cortana may offend her that doesn't offend any of your female co-workers. Does she also refuse to put up with someone making derogatory comments about others when someone asks a query? For example if you called a co-worker a derogatory name in a query would cortana respond in a way telling you she will not put up with you making derogatory comments about others?
Sorry, everyone wishes that companies would hire Americans and pay them a fair wage but if Trump were to hire US Citizens most likely he will have to charge more for people to stay at his Casino's compared to the competition and people will choose to save money by staying at a Casino with lower rates. As for as my comment about everything made in China, I try to look for US made goods since I hate cheap Chinese crap but unfortunately it is hard to find things not made in China or other country.
Good luck with that. They own a lot of TV networks and movies that you probably watch right now and have no idea Disney is the company who owns the rights. Even if you don't have any Disney movies and avoid ABC, ESPN, and other Disney networks chances are a network or movie you watch will eventually be owned by Disney. Just look at how Disney managed to purchase the rights to Star Wars and not all Star Wars fans are happy that Disney now owns the rights to Star Wars. They are also one of the main companies pushing DRM (Digital Rights Management or what some call Digital Restrictions Management) to forcefully lock entertainment. Chances are your children will be Disney fans after going to a friends house or seeing a Disney production in school. Unfortunately it's hard to avoid Disney and I'm sure plenty of parents have sworn that they will never take their kids to Disney Land or Disney World or watch anything produced by Disney only to have their kids upset and they eventually cave in and let them watch Disney shows and take a family vacation to Disney Land or Disney World.
You also have a bigger chance of being struck and killed by lightening than being killed in a terrorist attack. What is the government doing to protect us from lightening other than telling us to avoid being outside on high ground during a thunderstorm?
Don't worry! I'm sure the government is also working with the lock industry to find a compromise that allows the government to have a back door to all locks including the lock on your house, your safes, your car, your shed, and anything else you use a lock on. Like back door encryption they argue that it is necessary for them to have access to a back door on all locks in order to protect us from terrorism and they claim they will not abuse such a key. Think of the positives! If the DEA, DHS, or your local narcotics strike force comes to your house by accident to serve a knock-and-announce or no-knock warrant they won't have to use battering rams to force your door open resulting in you having to file a homeowners insurance claim. They also can do it while you are not home or while you're sleeping so that they don't disturb you and you will never even notice that they were going through your stuff since there will be no signs of forced entry and law enforcement will be sure to lock your door after they are done so that nobody else can break in. Now the bad news! burglars will eventually figure out this back door key and also be able to break into your house at any time not showing any signs of forced entry. One day you will have a valuable turn up missing or some of your money disappear and you will think that you simply misplaced this money or valuable or that your spouse or one of your children is the thief. Since you have no idea that someone was even inside your house, you will have no idea that you are the victim of theft and how would you be able to prove to police that such an item was stolen anyway? With no physical evidence that you were robbed, how do you expect the police to believe you that someone stole items from your house. It could even be a corrupt law enforcement officer who went inside your house to steal items.
Very true! If the government has nothing to hide then why don't they release back door keys to all of the data they hold so that we the people can take a look and make sure our government isn't doing anything corrupt? They have nothing to hide just like we have nothing to hide so why don't they support giving US Citizens access to sensitive data or a back door key to all government systems.
To see how well this key will be protected just look at the recent breeches on US Government computers such as OPM (Office of Personnel Management) having millions of SSN's, fingerprints, and other sensitive employee data stolen by Chinese hackers. Other agencies such as the IRS also have had breeches. Even if this key is on the most secure system, nothing is stopping some employee from being bribed by someone to reveal this key for a profit. I support what Edward Snowden did as he is a whistleblower but he is also a good example of how someone can get all kinds of information from a secure US Government computer and share it with others. The NSA has no idea how much information he has stolen from them.
Don't worry, they will justify using these powers to go after drug dealers once Americans realize that the threat of terrorism is small. Once you give up right, you lose it forever. The government and the media wants everyone to be afraid of the rare acts of terrorism and be willing to give up their rights to be protected by the government. It's not like terrorist groups would be able to create their own encryption or operate on networks outside the jurisdiction of the United States or even create their own private network to share data.
Any terrorist group knows that in the United States they don't stand a chance of being private. This will only force companies and people to look offshore for places to host data and servers. Terrorists will simply create their own encryption (if they already haven't done so) while innocent citizens will be the ones with useless backdoor encryption.
As long as people will choose between these candidates we are screwed. Of course people not familiar with technology or encryption have the opinion that anyone using encryption is using it to hide something and that anyone who takes the Fifth Amendment and refuses to talk to law enforcement without a lawyer is trying to hide something. They have no idea that giving the government a back door to security is the same as giving the government a copy of the keys to your house so that they can search your house anytime and trust that they will not abuse these powers and that nobody else will be able to get a hold of these keys and rob your house.
But who will Trump hire for housekeeping in his casinos? I doubt he hires US Citizens for housekeeping or his competition will have an advantage over him since they do hire undocumented workers for housekeeping to save money. I'm sure he is a big supporter of NAFTA too since companies can save money by moving their workload to Canada or Mexico instead of building on US soil. How do you explain his most recent comment that he wants to force apple to make all computers and cell phones in the USA? Nearly everything has parts made in China and other countries and it would be nearly impossible for Apple to remain competitive price wise against imports if they make everything in the USA. It's just lip service like other politicians who have made the magic claim that the will increase government spending but not raise taxes.
I wouldn't be surprised if the government mandated that all locks must be the TSA approved locks so that law enforcement can open your locks without your permission to take a peek of what you have locked. The problem with this is that others have figured out the TSA approved back door keys and this lock is useless in protecting anything since anyone can open the lock if they wanted to. Building back doors into encryption will do the same thing to encryption. This will make stealing data from companies like your bank and target much easier since even if the stolen data is encrypted, they could figure out the back door and decrypt this stolen information so it would be worthless to encrypt data just as much as it is worthless to lock your luggage with a TSA approved lock.
The government could simply get a warrant and ask the user to turn over his/her keys but then they will know the government is snooping on them. They want to be able to snoop on people who have done nothing wrong and are not suspected of anything which is in violation of their fourth amendment rights.
Very true! Just as Levar Levinston of Lavabit what happens if you refuse to give keys to the US Government after receiving a security letter. You cannot even disclose to anyone that you received such a letter since it's classified information. He chose to shut down his company rather than comply and could end up in trouble for shutting down his company. He was willing to help if they had a warrant for a specific person but wasn't willing to turn over the encryption keys to all of his customers or create a back door to allow the NSA to scoop up emails stored on his server.
The back door will be owned by the Department of Homeland Security and the alphabet agencies under the DHS. You know, the same ones who failed to connect the dots on the Boston Marathon bombing or the more recent attack in San Bernardino. Even without snooping they should have been able to stop the Boston Marathon Bombers. They even received warnings from Russian Intelligence to look out for one of the brothers. In addition this brother was calling his mom back home talking about starting a holy war in the United States that didn't seem to raise any eyebrows in the US intelligence community. Even if the DHS is successfully able to prevent anyone from getting a hold of the secret key, there are plenty of people who could figure out this back door key and use it for illegal means. A back door would probably be as laughable as the back door TSA approved locks that "protects" luggage but also allows the TSA to inspect your baggage. You can use other keys to open your locks and a few years back someone created a copy of the back door keys so any of these locks can be opened. China and other countries must be proud. Of course I wouldn't be surprised if the United States condemns these countries for spying on their citizens through back door encryption even though they are trying to spy on Americans with back door encryption.
Another example of the major parties listening to special interests instead of the people. I simply cannot support any candidates who supports back door encryption and spying on their own citizens. Both major parties and candidates are in full support of back doors.
Hopefully this isn't true or this will turn the PC into a closed proprietary Microsoft Windows System. This is one reason (having an open architecture) Microsoft has made millions as PC clones dominated the market and since Microsoft broke away from IBM offering their own Disk Operating System (MS-DOS), clone makers simply installed MS-DOS and prices of clones were cheaper and just as compatible with the PC-DOS IBM PC models.
Let me add that I'm sure Yahoo thought they were too big to fail when Marissa Mayers took over and updated their email system that irked a lot of longtime customers who eventually left Yahoo. Hopefully if Microsoft and the computer makers who preinstall Windows 10 lose money, we don't see a bailout like what happened when banks failed and when US automakers lost customers.
I really shouldn't be commenting about Microsoft since I'm still a little upset that they automatically updated my laptop that wasn't compatible with Windows 10 to Windows 10 resulting in an unusable laptop that I am still recovering from even though I faithfully made backups. It got stuck in an endless loop trying to update drivers for my system, rolling back the failed updates, then again trying to update it's drivers. In the process, my stable Windows 7 system became an unbootable Windows 10 system. What more than disabling automatic updates and not deciding to update to Windows 10 despite the constant ad on my taskbar does it take for Microsoft to get the message that I don't wish to upgrade to Windows 10 and not to attempt to update my system because they feel they know better than me even though my laptop has multiple hardware issues that make it incompatible with Windows 10?
It doesn't take much to lose customers and even though you have shot yourselves in the foot several times while dominating both DOS and Windows, eventually you could end up killing yourself. Hopefully people who offer laptops will give users the option of having Linux or some other OS installed instead of Windows 10 especially if they are not going to update previous editions of Windows (Win 7/8) to support these new processors and even cut short their support of older versions of Windows in an attempt to force Windows 10 down everyone's throat. Most of my Windows machines are dual booted with the exception of this Laptop but now either this laptop will not have Windows installed on it or will be dual booted. Thanks to Linux LiveDVD's I was able to recover files that didn't get updated in my most recent backup. Hopefully Microsoft makes it easier to remove all traces of Windows 10 so that when I buy a new computer I can remove Windows 10 and install another operating system instead.
With car companies adding software to cars you will eventually have to take your car to a dealer instead of a trusted independent mechanic. In addition, companies will eventually make simple tasks such as rotating tires or changing oil into something that must be done by a mechanic to make money off of servicing cars. Currently car dealers have an advantage over independent mechanics since they receive diagnostic equipment for their car company for free or at a reduced cost but an independent mechanic would have to pay a fortune for this equipment or simply tell customers who own certain makes that they cannot service their car and to take it to a dealer. Dealers are notorious for charging more for repairs that independent mechanics and sometimes the technicians at a dealer isn't as experienced at fixing cars as an independent mechanic.
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I remember a couple of years ago a couple drove through what they though was a shortcut in Northern Nevada and ended up stranded. The husband died as he tried to find help but the wife was found inside the car starving but otherwise okay. The locals were amazed to hear that this couple with a 2WD van went on a jeep trail that they even avoid during the winter months with their 4WD vehicles because the road is in bad shape and there are all kinds of surprise snowstorms in the area. This couple simply followed their GPS device and never thought of the fact that they were driving on a jeep trail with a 2WD van in an area notorious for sudden snowstorms. GPS leads people to many places that aren't safe and in combination with people doing simple google searches and hiking rough trails, California officials started calling "Yuppie 911" when a inexperienced camper gets in trouble and has to call 911 for help because they failed to prepare for the hike or did a simple 5 minute google search and tried to hike a trail for experienced hikers when hey are novices.
Actually men can become the victims of sexual harassment just as much as women but men rarely report it because people like you discount them as abusing the system or accuse them of being a wimp and to just put up with it. Harassment based on a person's disability is also illegal in the workplace but is rarely reported by victims. One reason disability harassment isn't reported is victims feel ashamed while others victims feel that since it isn't harassment based on a sexual manner that human resources will do nothing about their complaint or even side with the harasser.
By the same token if I were to play a game of Grand Theft Auto after a hard day at work and beat the tar out of random people on the street, steal cars, and get into police chases will I do this in real life? Of course not! It's a game and actually helps vent my frustrations and I would never consider doing this in real life. If I vent my frustrations by punching a punching bag does this mean I am going to start punching another person to vent my frustrations someday? Of course not! If I do start hurting other people in order to vent my frustrations then it is time for me to seek professional help.
If someone were to say "Cortana, did you eat lead paint chips when you were a kid?" will she also get offended? This comment isn't derogatory towards her being a woman but the person is inferring that she has a mental disability which is also a form of harassment. If she puts up with this then why? Disability based harassment is just as hurtful as sexual harassment.
I assume the developers and possibly a focus group determined what is/isn't considered sexual harassment so a comment you make towards cortana may offend her that doesn't offend any of your female co-workers. Does she also refuse to put up with someone making derogatory comments about others when someone asks a query? For example if you called a co-worker a derogatory name in a query would cortana respond in a way telling you she will not put up with you making derogatory comments about others?
Sorry, everyone wishes that companies would hire Americans and pay them a fair wage but if Trump were to hire US Citizens most likely he will have to charge more for people to stay at his Casino's compared to the competition and people will choose to save money by staying at a Casino with lower rates. As for as my comment about everything made in China, I try to look for US made goods since I hate cheap Chinese crap but unfortunately it is hard to find things not made in China or other country.
Good luck with that. They own a lot of TV networks and movies that you probably watch right now and have no idea Disney is the company who owns the rights. Even if you don't have any Disney movies and avoid ABC, ESPN, and other Disney networks chances are a network or movie you watch will eventually be owned by Disney. Just look at how Disney managed to purchase the rights to Star Wars and not all Star Wars fans are happy that Disney now owns the rights to Star Wars. They are also one of the main companies pushing DRM (Digital Rights Management or what some call Digital Restrictions Management) to forcefully lock entertainment. Chances are your children will be Disney fans after going to a friends house or seeing a Disney production in school. Unfortunately it's hard to avoid Disney and I'm sure plenty of parents have sworn that they will never take their kids to Disney Land or Disney World or watch anything produced by Disney only to have their kids upset and they eventually cave in and let them watch Disney shows and take a family vacation to Disney Land or Disney World.
You also have a bigger chance of being struck and killed by lightening than being killed in a terrorist attack. What is the government doing to protect us from lightening other than telling us to avoid being outside on high ground during a thunderstorm?
Don't worry! I'm sure the government is also working with the lock industry to find a compromise that allows the government to have a back door to all locks including the lock on your house, your safes, your car, your shed, and anything else you use a lock on. Like back door encryption they argue that it is necessary for them to have access to a back door on all locks in order to protect us from terrorism and they claim they will not abuse such a key. Think of the positives! If the DEA, DHS, or your local narcotics strike force comes to your house by accident to serve a knock-and-announce or no-knock warrant they won't have to use battering rams to force your door open resulting in you having to file a homeowners insurance claim. They also can do it while you are not home or while you're sleeping so that they don't disturb you and you will never even notice that they were going through your stuff since there will be no signs of forced entry and law enforcement will be sure to lock your door after they are done so that nobody else can break in. Now the bad news! burglars will eventually figure out this back door key and also be able to break into your house at any time not showing any signs of forced entry. One day you will have a valuable turn up missing or some of your money disappear and you will think that you simply misplaced this money or valuable or that your spouse or one of your children is the thief. Since you have no idea that someone was even inside your house, you will have no idea that you are the victim of theft and how would you be able to prove to police that such an item was stolen anyway? With no physical evidence that you were robbed, how do you expect the police to believe you that someone stole items from your house. It could even be a corrupt law enforcement officer who went inside your house to steal items.
Very true! If the government has nothing to hide then why don't they release back door keys to all of the data they hold so that we the people can take a look and make sure our government isn't doing anything corrupt? They have nothing to hide just like we have nothing to hide so why don't they support giving US Citizens access to sensitive data or a back door key to all government systems.
To see how well this key will be protected just look at the recent breeches on US Government computers such as OPM (Office of Personnel Management) having millions of SSN's, fingerprints, and other sensitive employee data stolen by Chinese hackers. Other agencies such as the IRS also have had breeches. Even if this key is on the most secure system, nothing is stopping some employee from being bribed by someone to reveal this key for a profit. I support what Edward Snowden did as he is a whistleblower but he is also a good example of how someone can get all kinds of information from a secure US Government computer and share it with others. The NSA has no idea how much information he has stolen from them.
Don't worry, they will justify using these powers to go after drug dealers once Americans realize that the threat of terrorism is small. Once you give up right, you lose it forever. The government and the media wants everyone to be afraid of the rare acts of terrorism and be willing to give up their rights to be protected by the government. It's not like terrorist groups would be able to create their own encryption or operate on networks outside the jurisdiction of the United States or even create their own private network to share data.
Any terrorist group knows that in the United States they don't stand a chance of being private. This will only force companies and people to look offshore for places to host data and servers. Terrorists will simply create their own encryption (if they already haven't done so) while innocent citizens will be the ones with useless backdoor encryption.
As long as people will choose between these candidates we are screwed. Of course people not familiar with technology or encryption have the opinion that anyone using encryption is using it to hide something and that anyone who takes the Fifth Amendment and refuses to talk to law enforcement without a lawyer is trying to hide something. They have no idea that giving the government a back door to security is the same as giving the government a copy of the keys to your house so that they can search your house anytime and trust that they will not abuse these powers and that nobody else will be able to get a hold of these keys and rob your house.
But who will Trump hire for housekeeping in his casinos? I doubt he hires US Citizens for housekeeping or his competition will have an advantage over him since they do hire undocumented workers for housekeeping to save money. I'm sure he is a big supporter of NAFTA too since companies can save money by moving their workload to Canada or Mexico instead of building on US soil. How do you explain his most recent comment that he wants to force apple to make all computers and cell phones in the USA? Nearly everything has parts made in China and other countries and it would be nearly impossible for Apple to remain competitive price wise against imports if they make everything in the USA. It's just lip service like other politicians who have made the magic claim that the will increase government spending but not raise taxes.
I wouldn't be surprised if the government mandated that all locks must be the TSA approved locks so that law enforcement can open your locks without your permission to take a peek of what you have locked. The problem with this is that others have figured out the TSA approved back door keys and this lock is useless in protecting anything since anyone can open the lock if they wanted to. Building back doors into encryption will do the same thing to encryption. This will make stealing data from companies like your bank and target much easier since even if the stolen data is encrypted, they could figure out the back door and decrypt this stolen information so it would be worthless to encrypt data just as much as it is worthless to lock your luggage with a TSA approved lock.
The government could simply get a warrant and ask the user to turn over his/her keys but then they will know the government is snooping on them. They want to be able to snoop on people who have done nothing wrong and are not suspected of anything which is in violation of their fourth amendment rights.
Very true! Just as Levar Levinston of Lavabit what happens if you refuse to give keys to the US Government after receiving a security letter. You cannot even disclose to anyone that you received such a letter since it's classified information. He chose to shut down his company rather than comply and could end up in trouble for shutting down his company. He was willing to help if they had a warrant for a specific person but wasn't willing to turn over the encryption keys to all of his customers or create a back door to allow the NSA to scoop up emails stored on his server.
The back door will be owned by the Department of Homeland Security and the alphabet agencies under the DHS. You know, the same ones who failed to connect the dots on the Boston Marathon bombing or the more recent attack in San Bernardino. Even without snooping they should have been able to stop the Boston Marathon Bombers. They even received warnings from Russian Intelligence to look out for one of the brothers. In addition this brother was calling his mom back home talking about starting a holy war in the United States that didn't seem to raise any eyebrows in the US intelligence community. Even if the DHS is successfully able to prevent anyone from getting a hold of the secret key, there are plenty of people who could figure out this back door key and use it for illegal means. A back door would probably be as laughable as the back door TSA approved locks that "protects" luggage but also allows the TSA to inspect your baggage. You can use other keys to open your locks and a few years back someone created a copy of the back door keys so any of these locks can be opened. China and other countries must be proud. Of course I wouldn't be surprised if the United States condemns these countries for spying on their citizens through back door encryption even though they are trying to spy on Americans with back door encryption.
Another example of the major parties listening to special interests instead of the people. I simply cannot support any candidates who supports back door encryption and spying on their own citizens. Both major parties and candidates are in full support of back doors.
Hopefully this isn't true or this will turn the PC into a closed proprietary Microsoft Windows System. This is one reason (having an open architecture) Microsoft has made millions as PC clones dominated the market and since Microsoft broke away from IBM offering their own Disk Operating System (MS-DOS), clone makers simply installed MS-DOS and prices of clones were cheaper and just as compatible with the PC-DOS IBM PC models.
There are alternatives to using Gnome 3, Pulse Audio, and Systemd.
Let me add that I'm sure Yahoo thought they were too big to fail when Marissa Mayers took over and updated their email system that irked a lot of longtime customers who eventually left Yahoo. Hopefully if Microsoft and the computer makers who preinstall Windows 10 lose money, we don't see a bailout like what happened when banks failed and when US automakers lost customers.
I really shouldn't be commenting about Microsoft since I'm still a little upset that they automatically updated my laptop that wasn't compatible with Windows 10 to Windows 10 resulting in an unusable laptop that I am still recovering from even though I faithfully made backups. It got stuck in an endless loop trying to update drivers for my system, rolling back the failed updates, then again trying to update it's drivers. In the process, my stable Windows 7 system became an unbootable Windows 10 system. What more than disabling automatic updates and not deciding to update to Windows 10 despite the constant ad on my taskbar does it take for Microsoft to get the message that I don't wish to upgrade to Windows 10 and not to attempt to update my system because they feel they know better than me even though my laptop has multiple hardware issues that make it incompatible with Windows 10? It doesn't take much to lose customers and even though you have shot yourselves in the foot several times while dominating both DOS and Windows, eventually you could end up killing yourself. Hopefully people who offer laptops will give users the option of having Linux or some other OS installed instead of Windows 10 especially if they are not going to update previous editions of Windows (Win 7/8) to support these new processors and even cut short their support of older versions of Windows in an attempt to force Windows 10 down everyone's throat. Most of my Windows machines are dual booted with the exception of this Laptop but now either this laptop will not have Windows installed on it or will be dual booted. Thanks to Linux LiveDVD's I was able to recover files that didn't get updated in my most recent backup. Hopefully Microsoft makes it easier to remove all traces of Windows 10 so that when I buy a new computer I can remove Windows 10 and install another operating system instead.
With car companies adding software to cars you will eventually have to take your car to a dealer instead of a trusted independent mechanic. In addition, companies will eventually make simple tasks such as rotating tires or changing oil into something that must be done by a mechanic to make money off of servicing cars. Currently car dealers have an advantage over independent mechanics since they receive diagnostic equipment for their car company for free or at a reduced cost but an independent mechanic would have to pay a fortune for this equipment or simply tell customers who own certain makes that they cannot service their car and to take it to a dealer. Dealers are notorious for charging more for repairs that independent mechanics and sometimes the technicians at a dealer isn't as experienced at fixing cars as an independent mechanic.