I think the interesting point is that the FBI is asking Apple. Undoubtedly, other arms of the US government have this ability. NSA's Tailored Access group could do it.
The case is explicitly about forcing Apple to do it. And that in itself is interesting. The US Government could do this but it wants to set the precedent that it can bully companies into doing it for them. Witch tells me it has nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with control.
I' think you're very close with that idea but I'd replace military industrial complex with corporatism. The same corporatism that inhibits change on climate issues, industrial imprisonment, campaign finance, banking reform, etc.
There was a time when we could equate what was good for our corporations as good for our countries but this time has passed.
We need to stop being distracted by media chaff and start acting in the interest of our communities and individuals.
I've read David Graebner's study and this has very little to do with it. The study set out to discover where our increase in productivity went to. He concluded that we created whole new classes of jobs that didn't exist before and aren't strictly necessary to produce goods which chewed up the productivity gains. IT/programming jobs were classed in the bullshit category. It was more along the lines of marketing, HR, etc. He also pointed out that the more crucial the job was to production the less likely it was to be well paid and the more likely the workers were to be over worked. He also pointed out that the pay rate and/or staffing is usually under active assault.
Three of his examples of this were teachers, garbage men, and firefighters.
At the same time bullshit jobs (like marketing and public relations) were well funded and the workers usually only put in 30 hours out of an expected 40 hour work week.
It has nothing to do with how workers spend there time and everything to do with the creation of waste in a capitalist system that should be driven to efficiency.
What's stopping the NSA from man in the middling all this SSL traffic? They have the fibre providers rooted, I find it hard to believe that they don't have to print certs like the treasury prints money. I seem to recall China doing something similar with one of their root CAs a couple of years back.
What I'm amazed about is the fact that private corporations have access to this data and no one seems to care. Snowden wasn't even a member of the NSA he was just a contractor. I highly doubt that private security companies are above reproach in using tools only for the intended purposes. I can't even imagine what Blackwater would have gotten up to with access to such tools.
I think if you look into it you'll find the companies purchasing these are probably replacing backup generators which have very high maintenance costs. High enough to cover the early adopter premium.
Security is now a huge business in the US and will remain so as long as everyone stays scared.
If people start blowing off the TSA and their requests the idea will spread that the requests are just ineffectual window dressing.
It's has more to do with their own job security than anyone's personal security.
They refer to Dell as [i]Intel's closet ally[/i].
It also seems to assume that the Intel transition is at its end game rather than the first move of a more elaborate strategy. I always assumed that the transition was phase one and that Intel's motivation for the transition was to get an OS partner that was willing to run with some of Intel's more proprietary technology that MS never allowed to take off. That in turn might have forced MS into accepting it (Apple competitive reasons) and aid Intel in their fight with AMD. Far fetched but...
figuring out why the press said nothing about these incidents might be a better use of time than arguing about whether democrates or republicans are more responsible.
They are, after all, an important check in the democratic system that seems to be FUBAR.
Considering humans probably used to bred as soon as they were capable I think a more accurate statement would be:
Humans are once again suceeding in throwing off artificial barriers to "adulthood".
On the one hand we have justifiable affront...
On the other adverstising dollars...
I don't know why, but I suspect the media won't be too pissed off. I also suspect that we'll be seeing alot of HP adds on C|Net.
As it was pointed out earlier, they are not asking for something like a colour screen that might come with a newer model, but something more analagous to a OS update. How is this dislike buying a computer and being told you have to buy a new computer to run the new OS six months later?
I agree with the anonymous coward who posted earlier about the shameful coverage in the Mac press. The only people who covered this story acurately were the register:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/30486.html
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I think the interesting point is that the FBI is asking Apple. Undoubtedly, other arms of the US government have this ability. NSA's Tailored Access group could do it. The case is explicitly about forcing Apple to do it. And that in itself is interesting. The US Government could do this but it wants to set the precedent that it can bully companies into doing it for them. Witch tells me it has nothing to do with terrorism and everything to do with control.
I' think you're very close with that idea but I'd replace military industrial complex with corporatism. The same corporatism that inhibits change on climate issues, industrial imprisonment, campaign finance, banking reform, etc. There was a time when we could equate what was good for our corporations as good for our countries but this time has passed. We need to stop being distracted by media chaff and start acting in the interest of our communities and individuals.
That should have read: IT/programming jobs were *not classed* in the bullshit category. But I can't find the edit button for the original post...
I've read David Graebner's study and this has very little to do with it. The study set out to discover where our increase in productivity went to. He concluded that we created whole new classes of jobs that didn't exist before and aren't strictly necessary to produce goods which chewed up the productivity gains. IT/programming jobs were classed in the bullshit category. It was more along the lines of marketing, HR, etc. He also pointed out that the more crucial the job was to production the less likely it was to be well paid and the more likely the workers were to be over worked. He also pointed out that the pay rate and/or staffing is usually under active assault.
Three of his examples of this were teachers, garbage men, and firefighters.
At the same time bullshit jobs (like marketing and public relations) were well funded and the workers usually only put in 30 hours out of an expected 40 hour work week.
It has nothing to do with how workers spend there time and everything to do with the creation of waste in a capitalist system that should be driven to efficiency.
What's stopping the NSA from man in the middling all this SSL traffic? They have the fibre providers rooted, I find it hard to believe that they don't have to print certs like the treasury prints money. I seem to recall China doing something similar with one of their root CAs a couple of years back.
What I'm amazed about is the fact that private corporations have access to this data and no one seems to care. Snowden wasn't even a member of the NSA he was just a contractor. I highly doubt that private security companies are above reproach in using tools only for the intended purposes. I can't even imagine what Blackwater would have gotten up to with access to such tools.
I think if you look into it you'll find the companies purchasing these are probably replacing backup generators which have very high maintenance costs. High enough to cover the early adopter premium.
Security is now a huge business in the US and will remain so as long as everyone stays scared. If people start blowing off the TSA and their requests the idea will spread that the requests are just ineffectual window dressing. It's has more to do with their own job security than anyone's personal security.
Are these the same people that voluntarily threw away the full db range of the CD just to make it louder?
that the bullet is for OSS. Perhaps its meant for a large competitor that heavily utilizes open source in their service offering.
Or you can claim that the lack of thinking and loss of rationale that ideologies encourage in their proponents is the evil.
Considering his references to sun flares as a possible cause for warming I'm kind of surprised there is no mention of global dimming.
Would seem to be a required plank for his argument that he's completely steered clear of.
They refer to Dell as [i]Intel's closet ally[/i]. It also seems to assume that the Intel transition is at its end game rather than the first move of a more elaborate strategy. I always assumed that the transition was phase one and that Intel's motivation for the transition was to get an OS partner that was willing to run with some of Intel's more proprietary technology that MS never allowed to take off. That in turn might have forced MS into accepting it (Apple competitive reasons) and aid Intel in their fight with AMD. Far fetched but...
figuring out why the press said nothing about these incidents might be a better use of time than arguing about whether democrates or republicans are more responsible. They are, after all, an important check in the democratic system that seems to be FUBAR.
No it's not. http://hardware.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=19646 4&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&pid=160963 88#16096511
Even the Econmist has recognized global warming. Its time to give that line up.
Considering humans probably used to bred as soon as they were capable I think a more accurate statement would be: Humans are once again suceeding in throwing off artificial barriers to "adulthood".
On the one hand we have justifiable affront... On the other adverstising dollars... I don't know why, but I suspect the media won't be too pissed off. I also suspect that we'll be seeing alot of HP adds on C|Net.
IIRC the work was on those levees was actually cancelled so that the funds could be re-allocated to the "War on Terror".
As it was pointed out earlier, they are not asking for something like a colour screen that might come with a newer model, but something more analagous to a OS update. How is this dislike buying a computer and being told you have to buy a new computer to run the new OS six months later? I agree with the anonymous coward who posted earlier about the shameful coverage in the Mac press. The only people who covered this story acurately were the register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/39/30486.html