PS: yes, you can trademark the word "monster" but it has to be tied to certain conditions.
Oh. So, for example, all I have to do is get people to buy my audio cables and wires for ten times what they're actually worth and I can trademark the word "Monster"? Got it.
Nice try. The Republican's have been stroking themselves over the idea of convicting Mrs. Clinton for years now. Despite all the political will that a majority political party can bring to bear, they can't make anything stick. Your shooter analogy fails to meet the most sophomoric application of logic, for he would surely have been tried and convicted. I take it back. That wasn't even a nice try. It was amateurish to the point of being mindless. Everything we've come to expect from tea party fan bois.
You're assuming they've even heard of the vietnam war.
Yep, our wonderful school systems in action.
You mean like here in Texas, where the state school board requires text books to refer to African American slaves as "workers", not to mention a long list of other Republican revisionist bullshit. Yeah, just like that. I'm pretty sure that next year, the books will conclude that we lost the Vietnam War because of "hippies".
Also, Mr. McAfee will continue to make the name less valuable with time. But the days of SCAN and CLEAN...those were wonderful days.
So it's not just me. We suffered through a POC project that was an absolute embarrassment for Intel/McAffee and it took days to burn out the remnants of the installation on the various systems that couldn't simply be re-imaged.
This university should lose it's state and federal funding for doing something like this.
Horrible insult to the USA, our students, and our educators.
Terrible.
Oh, shut up, you whiny liberal bitches. This is the free market at work and it is a glorious thing. If you work in IT and your job is sent off shore, it simply must mean that your work is not worth what you were being paid for it. No other explanation makes sense. Right? After all, who would send your job offshore, to a someone of dubious skills, suffer the additional security risks, management overhead, language barriers, etc. just to save a buck. No, that can't be it. The free market would never let that happen./s
Maybe, but he should do some research on Bluetooth before making recommendations. It appears that Bluetooth 5.0 may provide support for higher quality audio.
From Wiki: Bluetooth 5 was announced in June 2016. It will quadruple the range, double the speed, and an eight-fold increase in data broadcasting capacity of low energy Bluetooth connections, in addition to adding functionality for connection-less services like location-relevant information and navigation
Oh, well then. That's different. That ought to allow me to play my mp3 files, in all their shitty lossy resolution, quite faithfully. Jeezuz, talk about a pointless gripe. Fix the music industry's (and Apple's) focus on mp3 first, then we can bitch about the fidelity of Bluetooth.
Because if you really believe that Putin's goons intervene into your elections to promote honesty, integrity, and democracy, you are wrong, very wrong, and I doubt it can be fixed.
Do we actually have any proof that Russia is involved? This is just the spin to divert us from the content of the leaks.
Well, FireEye seems to think that they have a smoking gun. Oh, right. FireEye is just another liberal bias security company. Right...
The NSA should make it its PRIMARY MISSION to warn industry about the exploits it finds rather than keep them secret for years while our foreign adversaries also utilize them to undermine us.
Fine let the NSA use newly discovered exploits for 90 days to give the US a head start in both fixing our own systems and exploiting the vulnerability, but then mandate that the NSA inform industry to fix the security vulnerabilities WITHOUT EXCEPTION.
Oh, my. What quaint naivete. Child, what makes you think the NSA is not sharing it's intel with it's corporate overlords? The fact that it isn't shared publicly? If you were in a position to do so, wouldn't you insist on an exclusivity clause? That's a huge competitive advantage, worth a fair chunk of change. Why in the world would you let that "investment" be squandered by some bullshit, social responsibility notion? Poke fun at my foil hat if you like, but for amount of money that we're talking about here, not much is really in the "too paranoid" category, and certainly not the notion that there are other customers of the NSA's output.
Because if you really believe that Putin's goons intervene into your elections to promote honesty, integrity, and democracy, you are wrong, very wrong, and I doubt it can be fixed.
Do we actually have any proof that Russia is involved? This is just the spin to divert us from the content of the leaks.
Uhm... no. The attribution came from multiple independent security researchers with from more credibility than whoever gave you the spin idea (cough... Fox News). Nice try. Thanks for playing.
Its easy. Just don't buy your phone from the carrier.
And another Rand fan boy is heard from...
Sorry, boy, but your free market idealism fails, for the same reason all free market idealism fails - consumers are not able to make intelligent decisions. No, that is not the same as saying consumers are not intelligent. The mythical free market requires that consumers are free to choose the goods and services they need from a competitive marketplace. Most consumers of smartphones lack the technical expertise to do as you suggest, buying a phone from some source other than the carrier or it's agent. This leaves them at the mercy of a carrier (and it's agents) who will exploit this by forcing egregious terms onto the consumer.
Hell, I am technically savvy enough to buy an unlocked phone and the service I want/need, but I don't want to. It's a hassle I don't have time for, so I will pay a reasonable premium for a phone free of crap-ware. Since there is nowhere enough competition in the space to make that a reality, I will settle for regulation making it so.
Republicans won't listen to science, you think Facebook posts are going to make a difference?
He's got you there, my friend. Indeed, I would submit that Republicans, more often than not, won't listen to reason. But then I'm probably not being fair to an awful lot of Republicans, lumping them all in with those who think Trump is the answer to their prayers. But then again, virtually all Republicans think Ronald Reagan was their messiah, when the facts show something much darker for the average Republican voter. So yeah, don't expect facts or reason to sway the Republican faithful on Facebook.
It's ironic, but the same is also true for Democrats. Democrats constantly use pseudo science to justify their non-scientific position and ideology. Worse, for many on the left, science is becoming their religion. So you wind up with two religiously dogmatic zealots arguing about who's idiocy is best.
[citation needed]
With the exceptional outlier of the anti-vaxers (largely a liberal phenomenon) the facts would seem to be against you. Please support your assertion.
It's not illegal at all - how do you think Verizon is rolling out FiOS? If you wanted to launch the Raymorris Cable Company, and deploy service in NYC, you could certainly do so, provided you (a) could show you had sufficient financial backing to be a viable concern, and (b) agreed to cover at least a large portion of the city, if not all, and weren't just going to cherry-pick affluent neighborhoods.
Oh, you mean like Google, who is being fought at every turn, by incumbent carriers as it seeks to expand into those underserved markets. I'll say it, Internet service is a utility. It should be treated as such and regulated as such. There a many ways to do this, some better than others. If we look at electricity, for example, the public utility model is demonstrably the best. The operators of the utility are beholden to the ratepayers/electorate, not stockholders, and that makes all the difference in the world.
The last thing I want is every ISP commercial followed by 25 seconds of a guy reciting disclaimers like we are at with pharmaceutical ads. Fucking lawyers.
Right. We should all just trust what our corporate betters tell us. After the all, they're richer and smarter than us, so they must know better than anyone, especially dirty government regulators, what's best for us. Advertising shouldn't have to truthful, just truthy. Right?
Fucking dim-witted Rand fan boys.
So Comcast steals from its customers because zOMG SOOOOCIALISM!
So Comcast puts you through the wringer for daring to cancel their "service" because zOMG SOOOOOCIALISM!
Don't put any rules at all on business and we'll all be drinking that free bubble up and eating that rainbow stew, just like we were about 1880 or so before the zOMG SOOOOCIALISTS! ruined everything.
And here I thought thievery was the fault of the thief, and Republicans were about personal responsibility.
The Comcasts of the world are the backbone of the U.S. economy, the job creators, shining examples of the free market at work. And yet again, we have government coming in to ride rough-shod over a company with a long history of innovation and customer service. If only there were a candidate who was a real leader when it came to business. Then we'd see things change for the better...
...OK. I give up. I can't type with a straight face anymore.
And if enough people do what you are proposing you will never end up with anything other then the choice between dumb and dumber. If all the D's who hate Hillary and R's who hate Trump would vote for one third party candidate instead US politics would be reformed overnight. Instead D and R continue the charade that nothing but Roe Vs Wade matters.
Wrong again. It has been said that all politics is local. If you want to see change, get involved in the Democratic party and do your part to make it into what you want to see. Don't be like the disaffected dipshits who are walking away from the election just because their candidate didn't get nominated.
"The DNC is corrupt and badly in need of change! Don't do the one thing in your power to change it!"
Pull the other one.
See, there's your problem. You, who clearly failed high school civics, seem to think that the only recourse you have is to act like a petulant child and throw your vote away, very possibly allowing an unstable buffoon to get elected. That is not the way to get it done. Not even close.
I was a Sanders supporter. Now I'll vote for Jill Stein.
I'll *****NEVER***** vote for Hillary Clinton..... EVER.
And if enough retards like you do what you are proposing to do, Trump gets elected and appoints ultra conservative justices to The Supreme Court. Do you have any idea how badly that is going to fuck things up for this country? Don't bother answering. Clearly you don't, otherwise you wouldn't be acting like a petulant child with your vote. No, don't even try stand on principles here, because what you are doing is utterly unprincipled. I agree that the DNC is corrupt and badly in need of change. This is not the way to do it.
Exactly. I am very disappointed that people think it's okay to compel anyone to assist in any way one's own prosecution,
So... you would hold that opening the door when the police inform you that they have a warrant to search your premises for evidence of a crime is somehow different from unlocking your phone in the face of the same kind of legal request. Fine. Please tell us. In what way is it different?
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PS: yes, you can trademark the word "monster" but it has to be tied to certain conditions.
Oh. So, for example, all I have to do is get people to buy my audio cables and wires for ten times what they're actually worth and I can trademark the word "Monster"? Got it.
Nice try. The Republican's have been stroking themselves over the idea of convicting Mrs. Clinton for years now. Despite all the political will that a majority political party can bring to bear, they can't make anything stick. Your shooter analogy fails to meet the most sophomoric application of logic, for he would surely have been tried and convicted. I take it back. That wasn't even a nice try. It was amateurish to the point of being mindless. Everything we've come to expect from tea party fan bois.
Yep, our wonderful school systems in action.
You mean like here in Texas, where the state school board requires text books to refer to African American slaves as "workers", not to mention a long list of other Republican revisionist bullshit. Yeah, just like that. I'm pretty sure that next year, the books will conclude that we lost the Vietnam War because of "hippies".
Hillary is a criminal
[citation needed] And no, Fox News does not count. Deliver evidence of a successful prosecution or STFU.
I think you meant "un-uninstallable malware".
Also, Mr. McAfee will continue to make the name less valuable with time. But the days of SCAN and CLEAN...those were wonderful days.
So it's not just me. We suffered through a POC project that was an absolute embarrassment for Intel/McAffee and it took days to burn out the remnants of the installation on the various systems that couldn't simply be re-imaged.
This university should lose it's state and federal funding for doing something like this.
Horrible insult to the USA, our students, and our educators.
Terrible.
Oh, shut up, you whiny liberal bitches. This is the free market at work and it is a glorious thing. If you work in IT and your job is sent off shore, it simply must mean that your work is not worth what you were being paid for it. No other explanation makes sense. Right? After all, who would send your job offshore, to a someone of dubious skills, suffer the additional security risks, management overhead, language barriers, etc. just to save a buck. No, that can't be it. The free market would never let that happen. /s
Doesn't mean he isn't right.
Maybe, but he should do some research on Bluetooth before making recommendations. It appears that Bluetooth 5.0 may provide support for higher quality audio.
From Wiki: Bluetooth 5 was announced in June 2016. It will quadruple the range, double the speed, and an eight-fold increase in data broadcasting capacity of low energy Bluetooth connections, in addition to adding functionality for connection-less services like location-relevant information and navigation
Oh, well then. That's different. That ought to allow me to play my mp3 files, in all their shitty lossy resolution, quite faithfully. Jeezuz, talk about a pointless gripe. Fix the music industry's (and Apple's) focus on mp3 first, then we can bitch about the fidelity of Bluetooth.
Because if you really believe that Putin's goons intervene into your elections to promote honesty, integrity, and democracy, you are wrong, very wrong, and I doubt it can be fixed.
Do we actually have any proof that Russia is involved? This is just the spin to divert us from the content of the leaks.
Well, FireEye seems to think that they have a smoking gun. Oh, right. FireEye is just another liberal bias security company. Right...
The NSA should make it its PRIMARY MISSION to warn industry about the exploits it finds rather than keep them secret for years while our foreign adversaries also utilize them to undermine us.
Fine let the NSA use newly discovered exploits for 90 days to give the US a head start in both fixing our own systems and exploiting the vulnerability, but then mandate that the NSA inform industry to fix the security vulnerabilities WITHOUT EXCEPTION.
Oh, my. What quaint naivete. Child, what makes you think the NSA is not sharing it's intel with it's corporate overlords? The fact that it isn't shared publicly? If you were in a position to do so, wouldn't you insist on an exclusivity clause? That's a huge competitive advantage, worth a fair chunk of change. Why in the world would you let that "investment" be squandered by some bullshit, social responsibility notion? Poke fun at my foil hat if you like, but for amount of money that we're talking about here, not much is really in the "too paranoid" category, and certainly not the notion that there are other customers of the NSA's output.
Because if you really believe that Putin's goons intervene into your elections to promote honesty, integrity, and democracy, you are wrong, very wrong, and I doubt it can be fixed.
Do we actually have any proof that Russia is involved? This is just the spin to divert us from the content of the leaks.
Uhm... no. The attribution came from multiple independent security researchers with from more credibility than whoever gave you the spin idea (cough... Fox News).
Nice try. Thanks for playing.
Its easy. Just don't buy your phone from the carrier.
And another Rand fan boy is heard from...
Sorry, boy, but your free market idealism fails, for the same reason all free market idealism fails - consumers are not able to make intelligent decisions. No, that is not the same as saying consumers are not intelligent. The mythical free market requires that consumers are free to choose the goods and services they need from a competitive marketplace. Most consumers of smartphones lack the technical expertise to do as you suggest, buying a phone from some source other than the carrier or it's agent. This leaves them at the mercy of a carrier (and it's agents) who will exploit this by forcing egregious terms onto the consumer.
Hell, I am technically savvy enough to buy an unlocked phone and the service I want/need, but I don't want to. It's a hassle I don't have time for, so I will pay a reasonable premium for a phone free of crap-ware. Since there is nowhere enough competition in the space to make that a reality, I will settle for regulation making it so.
Republicans won't listen to science, you think Facebook posts are going to make a difference?
He's got you there, my friend. Indeed, I would submit that Republicans, more often than not, won't listen to reason. But then I'm probably not being fair to an awful lot of Republicans, lumping them all in with those who think Trump is the answer to their prayers. But then again, virtually all Republicans think Ronald Reagan was their messiah, when the facts show something much darker for the average Republican voter. So yeah, don't expect facts or reason to sway the Republican faithful on Facebook.
It's ironic, but the same is also true for Democrats. Democrats constantly use pseudo science to justify their non-scientific position and ideology. Worse, for many on the left, science is becoming their religion. So you wind up with two religiously dogmatic zealots arguing about who's idiocy is best.
[citation needed]
With the exceptional outlier of the anti-vaxers (largely a liberal phenomenon) the facts would seem to be against you. Please support your assertion.
a team of American hackers
I read that first as "team America hackers."
Fuck yeah!
It's not illegal at all - how do you think Verizon is rolling out FiOS? If you wanted to launch the Raymorris Cable Company, and deploy service in NYC, you could certainly do so, provided you (a) could show you had sufficient financial backing to be a viable concern, and (b) agreed to cover at least a large portion of the city, if not all, and weren't just going to cherry-pick affluent neighborhoods.
Oh, you mean like Google, who is being fought at every turn, by incumbent carriers as it seeks to expand into those underserved markets. I'll say it, Internet service is a utility. It should be treated as such and regulated as such. There a many ways to do this, some better than others. If we look at electricity, for example, the public utility model is demonstrably the best. The operators of the utility are beholden to the ratepayers/electorate, not stockholders, and that makes all the difference in the world.
" seriously intimate personal information like when you get off, how long it take"
Most Slashdotters already have information like this collected by their ISP ;-)
No mod points today, but +1 Funny, everybody.
The last thing I want is every ISP commercial followed by 25 seconds of a guy reciting disclaimers like we are at with pharmaceutical ads. Fucking lawyers.
Right. We should all just trust what our corporate betters tell us. After the all, they're richer and smarter than us, so they must know better than anyone, especially dirty government regulators, what's best for us. Advertising shouldn't have to truthful, just truthy. Right?
Fucking dim-witted Rand fan boys.
Oh man. At least tell me they still play Spot The Fed.
So Comcast steals from its customers because zOMG SOOOOCIALISM! So Comcast puts you through the wringer for daring to cancel their "service" because zOMG SOOOOOCIALISM! Don't put any rules at all on business and we'll all be drinking that free bubble up and eating that rainbow stew, just like we were about 1880 or so before the zOMG SOOOOCIALISTS! ruined everything. And here I thought thievery was the fault of the thief, and Republicans were about personal responsibility.
Whoosh much?
The Comcasts of the world are the backbone of the U.S. economy, the job creators, shining examples of the free market at work. And yet again, we have government coming in to ride rough-shod over a company with a long history of innovation and customer service. If only there were a candidate who was a real leader when it came to business. Then we'd see things change for the better...
...OK. I give up. I can't type with a straight face anymore.
And if enough people do what you are proposing you will never end up with anything other then the choice between dumb and dumber. If all the D's who hate Hillary and R's who hate Trump would vote for one third party candidate instead US politics would be reformed overnight. Instead D and R continue the charade that nothing but Roe Vs Wade matters.
Wrong again. It has been said that all politics is local. If you want to see change, get involved in the Democratic party and do your part to make it into what you want to see. Don't be like the disaffected dipshits who are walking away from the election just because their candidate didn't get nominated.
"The DNC is corrupt and badly in need of change! Don't do the one thing in your power to change it!"
Pull the other one.
See, there's your problem. You, who clearly failed high school civics, seem to think that the only recourse you have is to act like a petulant child and throw your vote away, very possibly allowing an unstable buffoon to get elected. That is not the way to get it done. Not even close.
I was a Sanders supporter. Now I'll vote for Jill Stein.
I'll *****NEVER***** vote for Hillary Clinton..... EVER.
And if enough retards like you do what you are proposing to do, Trump gets elected and appoints ultra conservative justices to The Supreme Court. Do you have any idea how badly that is going to fuck things up for this country? Don't bother answering. Clearly you don't, otherwise you wouldn't be acting like a petulant child with your vote. No, don't even try stand on principles here, because what you are doing is utterly unprincipled. I agree that the DNC is corrupt and badly in need of change. This is not the way to do it.
lets blame russia
Because, well, there's all this evidence and shit.
Exactly. I am very disappointed that people think it's okay to compel anyone to assist in any way one's own prosecution,
So... you would hold that opening the door when the police inform you that they have a warrant to search your premises for evidence of a crime is somehow different from unlocking your phone in the face of the same kind of legal request. Fine. Please tell us. In what way is it different?