I have friends in India, Bangladesh, Africa, Thailand, Indonesia who sell phones, and they tell me that, for every one Nokia smartphone that they sell, they sell 8 Nokia non-Smartphones.
Nokia's offerings in many 3rd world countries are largely comprise of very cheap cellphones, selling as cheap as 15 euro (or about 20 USD) a pop.
None of those phones has Windows installed on them.
So, NASA spends millions every year monitoring debris (more commonly knows as space crap) and are worried that even a flake of paint can damage a space station because of its speed, and they deliberately put debris (crap) into space. Well done NASA.
I'm sure Infosys made more than $35mln by bringing those programmers in the way they did. Aside from not having to pay for the H1B visas, they could pay the programmers much less this way.
Why are you guys looking only at the dollar $$$igns ?
What Infosys had trespassed is way much than mere money.
What Infosys had indeed done was breaking THE SOVEREIGNTY of The United States of America !!!
Every country has its own set of laws, and the laws signified that that country has its own sovereignty over what transpired INSIDE its own border.
What Infosys did, by bringing in FOREIGNERS from OUTSIDE of the country, and put them to work ILLEGALLY, INSIDE the country, Infosys has IGNORED THE SOVEREIGNTY RIGHT of the United States of America !!!
And that company, Infosys, itself is a FOREIGN COMPANY !
Why are we allowing a FOREIGN COMPANY to carry out such an illegal act of violating our nation's sovereignty, inside our country ?
And as you guys are commenting about what the family should do... I do not think that guy would last that long because, according to the firewall theory, once he hit the event horizon the entanglement would occur
All the lies and deceit that has come along from them so far means that WE. DO. NOT. TRUST. WHAT. YOU. SAY.
Don't you get it yet ?
They are using Youtube, a place where the sheeples congregate
They are NOT talking to the people like you and me --- they are talking AT the sheeples
As long as the sheeples in America (and the world) believe their lies, and the sheeples do believe them, NSA will get to continue their deceits without any hindrance
Whether or not taxpayer-funded research should be accissible to the taxpayers for FREE is a matter to be acertained, but the fact is that it is no longer possible for anyone, including the professional researchers, to know where to find the result of the various facet of related research on a given field.
It is as if we are back to the pre-Internet days.
Before Internet, it was a Herculean task to find out if there had been a research carried out on any particular subject, simply because there was no one central database.
When Internet first arrived, the situation was greatly improved - although there were still no centralized database for all research results, at the very least we could search for it online.
Now ?
Not only the research papers are hidden behind paywalled, most of them don't even appear on search queries anymore.
Paywall does not only representing GREED that is retarding the progress of the human society, it is actually STRANGLING the progress of scientific research.
I, and many others, risking our lives and swam to Hong Kong back in the 1970's. They were shooting at us, back then.
We risked our lives not because we were poor (and we were) but because there was NO FREEDOM for the people.
Everything that we did - who your friends were, where you been to, what you did, why you did what you did, everything - was under the watchful eyes of the BIG BROTHER.
I went to the United States precisely because, back then, the United States of America was the only country that could guarantee my freedom, because, back then, the government of the United States of America still had respect for The Constitution.
I became an American citizen precisely because I found the freedom that I had longed for.
That was back then.
Not now.
Nowadays, the so-called "freedom" has all but evaporated.
When the prosecutors (or rather, persecutors) can charge people with warrantless wiretaps, what is the difference between the United States of America and the former East Germany under Stasi or China under CCP ?
Back when I became a naturalized citizen of the United States of America, my new government was still operating under the Constitution of the United States.
No more.
Under the Obama administration, I am sorry to say, the Constitution of the United States has become as valuable as soiled disposable diaper.
As an American, I am sad.
As one who was from an oppressed state, risking live in order to gain freedom, I am HORRIFIED.
I am watching THE COUNTRY THAT I ADOPTED turning into just like the one I ran away from.
While the idea behind utilizing the additive manufacturing technology in helping out emergency medical cases right inside the disaster area sounds probable, the title of TFA ( " Is 3D Printing the Future of Disaster Relief? " )is totally bonker.
Whoever wrote TFA had never worked in disaster relief --- else the writer would know that the logistic requirement in association with the additive manufacturing (clean room, electricity supply, et cetera) is hard to come by in a true disaster scenario.
That is why most of the seriously injured vitims were routinely been transported OUT of the disaster area because much better conditions exists outside rather than inside the disaster area.
Plus, do not ever forget that additive manufacturing technology as what we have right now is SUPER SLOW.
To print out a simple gadget takes hours.
That is, you already have the configuration file ready.
In an emergency situation, where can you find people who can produce the base file to make an implantable medical device ?
And...
There are a lot nano-size DUST left over in the additive manufacturing process. That in itself creates another logistical headache for the disaster relief operation.
US President Barack Obama had assured German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the US is not monitoring her communications, according to the White House spokesman.
For its part, the White House denied that the U.S. is listening in on Merkel's phone calls now.
"The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor," White House spokesman Jay Carney said. "The United States greatly values our close cooperation with Germany on a broad range of shared security challenges."
Besides, I think most international observers will recognize that the US govt does not represent its people.
I am an American staying outside America, and in my personal experience, most of the world people (non-Ameicans) do not seem to separate the American government from the people of the United States of America.
In other words, the world at large treats what the American government did as if it was done by the citizens of America.
It has embarrased the Obama administration, and destroyed his credibility with American allies.
I am afraid that much more had been destroyed than Obama's personal reputation.
I am afraid that the reputation of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA had been severely destroyed because of what Obama administration has done.
First, it was Brazil. Then, France. Followed by Mexico, and then Germany.
And when Angela Merkel angrily called up Obama regarding matter, you know what Obama did ?
THAT GUY DENIED EVERYTHING !!
Obama was caught with his hands in the cookie jar and yet he acted just like a little kid telling bold face lies.
As an American, I rather my president comes clean, admitting his faults, remedy the mistakes, than telling seriously inane bold face lies.
Obama seemed to forget that he is THE POTUS - and as the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, his category denial has shamed the nation of the United States of America.
I am sure, by now, no government in the world would ever trust the President of the United States, nor the nation of the United States of America.
In other words, Obama has shamed all of us, the Americans !!
Darpa's intention is not to build a secured system, but rather, finding fresh international talents to enable NSA to break more systems all over the world.
I am an American, and it is not that I do not trust my own country.
I do trust my country.
I simply have lost all trust to my own government.
It is also about restricting the spreading of information
True, nowadays most of the data flow online are leisure vids (netflix, youtube et all) but... critical vids, such as the ones that we got from area of conflicts, such as Syria, also consume up lots of data
Capping of the data could restrict the spread of information as well
Let's say there is something happening that the power-that-be does not want others to know, and it was an emergency and they did not have time to cut off the net feed...
Without data capping anyone with a net-enable smartphone can upload the critical vids and perhaps store it in an online cloud somewhere
With data capping the power-that-be can, theoretically, get the ISP to stop the flow (even if they can't cut the net feed)
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I believe that the stat is skewed.
I have friends in India, Bangladesh, Africa, Thailand, Indonesia who sell phones, and they tell me that, for every one Nokia smartphone that they sell, they sell 8 Nokia non-Smartphones.
Nokia's offerings in many 3rd world countries are largely comprise of very cheap cellphones, selling as cheap as 15 euro (or about 20 USD) a pop.
None of those phones has Windows installed on them.
Instead of fixing a bunch of hopeless code, why can't they start over the damn thing - with a properly designed paradigm ?
So, NASA spends millions every year monitoring debris (more commonly knows as space crap) and are worried that even a flake of paint can damage a space station because of its speed, and they deliberately put debris (crap) into space. Well done NASA.
Do what I say not what I do.
I'm sure Infosys made more than $35mln by bringing those programmers in the way they did. Aside from not having to pay for the H1B visas, they could pay the programmers much less this way.
Why are you guys looking only at the dollar $$$igns ?
What Infosys had trespassed is way much than mere money.
What Infosys had indeed done was breaking THE SOVEREIGNTY of The United States of America !!!
Every country has its own set of laws, and the laws signified that that country has its own sovereignty over what transpired INSIDE its own border.
What Infosys did, by bringing in FOREIGNERS from OUTSIDE of the country, and put them to work ILLEGALLY, INSIDE the country, Infosys has IGNORED THE SOVEREIGNTY RIGHT of the United States of America !!!
And that company, Infosys, itself is a FOREIGN COMPANY !
Why are we allowing a FOREIGN COMPANY to carry out such an illegal act of violating our nation's sovereignty, inside our country ?
You said, of Snowden ...
Technically he is a traitor ...
Would you be so kindly tell us how would you define your term of " Technically " ?
What Mr. Edward Snowden did was not treacherous to the country of the United States of America.
No.
Just because the Obama Administration that called Edward Snowden a "traitor" doesn't make it so.
Most people are passive mentally and believe thinking to be a burden that should be avoided whenever possible
In other words, sheeples OUTSOURCE their thinking to others.
But this is not surprising.
The power-that-be can get to be power-that-be because people don't and / or can't think for themselves.
The absence of competition in this area drives many to Google, making data siphoning easy for the NSA.
For me, I do not use any provider that has their HQ inside the United States of America.
And ... in order to retard NSA's snooping in my traffic, I deploy SSL forward secrecy on my sites.
Anyone who wants to know about forward secrecy please visit https://community.qualys.com/blogs/securitylabs/2013/06/25/ssl-labs-deploying-forward-secrecy to get more info
There's a write up for the Firewall theory at http://www.preposterousuniverse.com/blog/2013/06/05/firewalls-burning-brightly/
And as you guys are commenting about what the family should do ... I do not think that guy would last that long because, according to the firewall theory, once he hit the event horizon the entanglement would occur
All the lies and deceit that has come along from them so far means that WE. DO. NOT. TRUST. WHAT. YOU. SAY.
Don't you get it yet ?
They are using Youtube, a place where the sheeples congregate
They are NOT talking to the people like you and me --- they are talking AT the sheeples
As long as the sheeples in America ( and the world ) believe their lies, and the sheeples do believe them, NSA will get to continue their deceits without any hindrance
Whether or not taxpayer-funded research should be accissible to the taxpayers for FREE is a matter to be acertained, but the fact is that it is no longer possible for anyone, including the professional researchers, to know where to find the result of the various facet of related research on a given field.
It is as if we are back to the pre-Internet days.
Before Internet, it was a Herculean task to find out if there had been a research carried out on any particular subject, simply because there was no one central database.
When Internet first arrived, the situation was greatly improved - although there were still no centralized database for all research results, at the very least we could search for it online.
Now ?
Not only the research papers are hidden behind paywalled, most of them don't even appear on search queries anymore.
Paywall does not only representing GREED that is retarding the progress of the human society, it is actually STRANGLING the progress of scientific research.
... there is NOTHING FREE !!!
I am speaking on experience.
I am an American, a naturalized American citizen.
I came from China.
I, and many others, risking our lives and swam to Hong Kong back in the 1970's. They were shooting at us, back then.
We risked our lives not because we were poor (and we were) but because there was NO FREEDOM for the people.
Everything that we did - who your friends were, where you been to, what you did, why you did what you did, everything - was under the watchful eyes of the BIG BROTHER.
I went to the United States precisely because, back then, the United States of America was the only country that could guarantee my freedom, because, back then, the government of the United States of America still had respect for The Constitution.
I became an American citizen precisely because I found the freedom that I had longed for.
That was back then.
Not now.
Nowadays, the so-called "freedom" has all but evaporated.
When the prosecutors (or rather, persecutors ) can charge people with warrantless wiretaps , what is the difference between the United States of America and the former East Germany under Stasi or China under CCP ?
Back when I became a naturalized citizen of the United States of America, my new government was still operating under the Constitution of the United States.
No more.
Under the Obama administration, I am sorry to say, the Constitution of the United States has become as valuable as soiled disposable diaper.
As an American, I am sad.
As one who was from an oppressed state, risking live in order to gain freedom, I am HORRIFIED.
I am watching THE COUNTRY THAT I ADOPTED turning into just like the one I ran away from.
... why can't they prevent that soldier boy Lee Rigby from being chopped to death in the Woolwich area of London, by two Moslems from Africa ?
In America too ... refugees from Somalia returned to Somalia to become terrorists
If the surveillances are so effective, why can't they prevent all these from happening ?
Medical supplies are rather uselss to someone who dies of thirst, too. What's your point?
He may be thinking that additive manufacturing technology can print out a water fountain ?
While the idea behind utilizing the additive manufacturing technology in helping out emergency medical cases right inside the disaster area sounds probable, the title of TFA ( " Is 3D Printing the Future of Disaster Relief? " )is totally bonker.
Whoever wrote TFA had never worked in disaster relief --- else the writer would know that the logistic requirement in association with the additive manufacturing (clean room, electricity supply, et cetera) is hard to come by in a true disaster scenario.
That is why most of the seriously injured vitims were routinely been transported OUT of the disaster area because much better conditions exists outside rather than inside the disaster area.
Plus, do not ever forget that additive manufacturing technology as what we have right now is SUPER SLOW.
To print out a simple gadget takes hours.
That is, you already have the configuration file ready.
In an emergency situation, where can you find people who can produce the base file to make an implantable medical device ?
And ...
There are a lot nano-size DUST left over in the additive manufacturing process. That in itself creates another logistical headache for the disaster relief operation.
Yeah, just wait until the republicans get into office.
The point being ... THE REPUBLICANS HAD NOT BEEN IN THE WHITE HOUSE FOR THE PAST SIX MOTHERFUCKING LONG YEARS !!!
Would you guys please grow the FUCK up ??
It is as if Robber A had robbed the neighborhood 7-11 and killed the clerk.
Instead of punishing Robber A for his crime, you guys are saying "Yeah, wait till Robber B arrives" ...
Exactly how insane can you guys be ?
Why are you guys STILL trying so hard to defend the TOTALLY UNDEFENDABLE ???
Party politics can only go so far ...
What is truth, is truth.
Obama has fucked up.
No matter how you guys want to deny the whole thing, Obama still fucked up !!
Do you think Mitt Romney or John McCain would have stopped these programs?
You are asking something that NOBODY COULD ANSWER FOR CERTAIN, because IT NEVER HAPPEN.
What ACTUALLY TOOK PLACE is that Obama DID NOT stop the program despite given SIX MOTHERFUCKING LONG PRECIOUS YEARS of time to do so.
Were? You think things are better? Our government is executing Americans overseas without a trial(even an unfair one) now.
It so happened that it was under Obama that whistle blowers are being persecuted
Both Manning and Snowden blew their whistle during the Obama years, and both are being punished by the same administration.
From http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2013/10/us-denies-tapping-merkel-mobile-phone-20131023185133142198.html ---
US President Barack Obama had assured German Chancellor Angela Merkel that the US is not monitoring her communications, according to the White House spokesman.
From http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-24647268
The White House said President Obama had told Chancellor Merkel the US was not snooping on her communications.
"The United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor," White House spokesman Jay Carney said on Wednesday.
From http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/23/merkel-phone-tapped_n_4150812.html
For its part, the White House denied that the U.S. is listening in on Merkel's phone calls now.
"The president assured the chancellor that the United States is not monitoring and will not monitor the communications of the chancellor," White House spokesman Jay Carney said. "The United States greatly values our close cooperation with Germany on a broad range of shared security challenges."
Besides, I think most international observers will recognize that the US govt does not represent its people.
I am an American staying outside America, and in my personal experience, most of the world people (non-Ameicans) do not seem to separate the American government from the people of the United States of America.
In other words, the world at large treats what the American government did as if it was done by the citizens of America.
The REAL douchebag is Obama, definitely not Snowden.
We ought to be grateful to Edward Snowden in allowing us, the Americans, a chance to redeem ourselves.
The NSA, the PRISM PROGRAM, the TAPPING of foreign leaders, are way out of bound.
If not for Edward Snowden, more despicable schemes might commence, with even worse consequences to the Americans and the rest of the world.
... should you eat shit as well ?
This is all just a bunch of political bullshit people. There are a wide variety of world leaders being monitored by a wide variety of governments
I am getting VERY FUCKING TIRED of listening to this asinine excuse !
Just because the whole world is eating shit, would you eat shit too ?
The world's government may be tapping each others, but they are NOT caught in the action.
America, on the other hand, did.
Why can't Obama just admit what happened, and then proceed with action to remedy the problem, instead of issuing a CATEGORY DENIAL to everything ?
Seems to me it is just another case of Obama getting blamed for the actions of the Bush Administration
Seems to me that you liberals can't get pass the blame game, can you ?
Yes, it was that idiot Bush who started the ball rolling.
But Obama had SIX MOTHER-FUCKING LONG YEARS to stop the program.
Did Obama stop the eavesdropping program ?
Did he ????
Now that he has been caught with his hands in the cookie jar Obama DENIED EVERYTHING.
This is not what a President should do.
A President is not a commoner.
A President (even for a teeny tiny country) should be MAN ENOUGH to admit his guilt.
But did Obama admit his guilt ?
Why not ?
Why is Obama still insist of telling BOLD FACE LIES, even in a time like this ???
It has embarrased the Obama administration, and destroyed his credibility with American allies.
I am afraid that much more had been destroyed than Obama's personal reputation.
I am afraid that the reputation of THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA had been severely destroyed because of what Obama administration has done.
First, it was Brazil. Then, France. Followed by Mexico, and then Germany.
And when Angela Merkel angrily called up Obama regarding matter, you know what Obama did ?
THAT GUY DENIED EVERYTHING !!
Obama was caught with his hands in the cookie jar and yet he acted just like a little kid telling bold face lies.
As an American, I rather my president comes clean, admitting his faults, remedy the mistakes, than telling seriously inane bold face lies.
Obama seemed to forget that he is THE POTUS - and as the PRESIDENT of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, his category denial has shamed the nation of the United States of America.
I am sure, by now, no government in the world would ever trust the President of the United States, nor the nation of the United States of America.
In other words, Obama has shamed all of us, the Americans !!
Darpa's intention is not to build a secured system, but rather, finding fresh international talents to enable NSA to break more systems all over the world.
I am an American, and it is not that I do not trust my own country.
I do trust my country.
I simply have lost all trust to my own government.
Data capping is not only about money
It is also about restricting the spreading of information
True, nowadays most of the data flow online are leisure vids (netflix, youtube et all) but ... critical vids, such as the ones that we got from area of conflicts, such as Syria, also consume up lots of data
Capping of the data could restrict the spread of information as well
Let's say there is something happening that the power-that-be does not want others to know, and it was an emergency and they did not have time to cut off the net feed ...
Without data capping anyone with a net-enable smartphone can upload the critical vids and perhaps store it in an online cloud somewhere
With data capping the power-that-be can, theoretically, get the ISP to stop the flow (even if they can't cut the net feed)
Never trust the intention of the power-that-be