He's the head of the executive branch, which is the equivalent of a CEO. He absolutely has the power to ignore directives such as this. I'm not saying I think he's doing the right thing, but he can do it if he wants.
No he can't, see Nixon and/or Clinton f you need examples. There are rules which even the president has to follow.
Can't these pieces of hardware be disabled within the phone before handing it over to do just twitter?
I'm sure they can, but the first line of the summary tells us that "[Trump's phone] isn't equipped with sophisticated security features designed to shield his communications", so this is exactly the point.
Uh oh, someone with mod points doesn't like people pointing out when Trump does things he's railed against others for doing.
I commented on a Trump thread once with about four separate factual responses and had every one of them modded to -1 within hours.
Based on what we know of Cambridge Analytica and Russian Troll factories, it's quite feasible that a group somewhere has ghost accounts specifically to get mod points to to try swaying the conversation.
It would be good if there were some Slashdot analytics you could run on mod operations to see if there's any manipulation going on here.
Hoe many here know a CxO who wanted to get rid of some security or ignored their company policy?
Difference is that a CxO as an executive of a private company has that power to make such decisions. And this pretty much sums up Trump's stupidity. He still thinks POTUS is the boss of the country, rather than a servant of the people. Govt policy is our our policy which all must follow.
You realise that an iPhone has a GPS, microphone and camera on it? DoD has policy for such things specifically to maintain an certain national security posture, and he is deliberately ignoring it. When I work for federal gov this was a dismiss-able (and possibly criminal depending on severity) offence.
No, people choose to use FB as their news source rather than going to real news organizations. These people believe they don't have the time to read the source material and instead want to be spoon-fed dribs and drabs.
FB is offering the service. That people are too lazy to do their own footwork is not FB's problem.
But it is a problem if you believe in a strong democracy. And the democracy has the right to respond appropriately.
All the focus has been on Facebook, when Google, Apple, Amazon, Adobe and even Microsoft collect just as much data and do the same types of analytics.
One difference is that all of the others are public companies with directors that can be fired if the shareholders want change. Zuckerberg is effectively an unremovable dictator at Facebook. Shareholder votes are worthless.
Then they're definitely not going to break up Facebook, provided of course Facebook throws enough money to politicians and K Street.
There's a big difference. Banks and politicians have all sort of interweaving shared interests so it's a complicated beast. Facebook can easily be sacrificed with zero personal impact to any politician and it will make them look good in the polls. This could have some legs.
I voted for a 3rd-party candidate, because I don't want to be that guy who doesn't vote then complains about the results.
And the funny part is that this is actually a really simple solution to the current problem. Not everyone has to vote third party to have an effect, but once you start getting into the 5-10% bracket the shock-waves to the major parties become huge.
If the millions of people who complain about politics every day simply voted third party the problem would mostly fix itself. I always vote independent, not because I support them (they are mostly fringe loonies) but because a robust political system needs more than two parties (even if the third is bat shit crazy)
No doubt the world is shifting the the centre (ie a mix of capitalism and socialism that produces the maximum benefit for all). The old world extreme left is dead (even China and Russia accept that), but for some reason the extreme right won't let go of old fashioned viewpoints. I guess it's the main flaw with being conservative is that conservative means resistant to new ideas, so it takes longer for them to be accepted. As you say this will happen naturally as old people die off, so maybe we just have to be patient.
Their ENTIRE NATION is just a little smaller than the state of OHIO. They geographically have LITTLE
area. Try doing that in the ENTIRE United States!
More fake news, so to speak.
US population is 250x and land mass is 220x of Estonia so density is quite similar. Then of course the US has much more mountains, desert and Alaskan wilderness, and you don't need to build public transport *everywhere* only the main towns and cities.
#Fake brain, so to speak....
I don't live in Estonia, but we have a pretty decent public transport network here. During rush hours, the trains are packed full of commuters, despite the fact that tickets are not cheap. If they were to make it free, the trains would be filling up even more with people going shopping and doing other fun but unproductive things, and probably force more commuters into their cars.
This seems to be a capacity planning issue, not a price issue.
No he doesn't. Scott Adams is a smart guy with some great ideas, but his book on Trump (which I read twice to ensure I didn't miss the punchline) was a miserable failure of logic. The thrust of the book is that Trump is a 'Master Persuader', which in itself is a persuasion technique to make his skill stack sound good, but 'Master Persuader' is interchangeable with 'con-man', so the book fails. Then where the punchline is supposed to be, Adams moans about Hillary wanting to tax the super rich, and since Adams is super rich it's all unfair so he prefers to endorse a fucking moron with no understanding of anything as a better choice for leader of the free world. The book was amateur hour stuff which was surprisingly since Adams usually has some great insights.
There's still people out there that believe Trump is making himself look foolish as some sort of 4d chess instead of the much better explanation that he is genuinely ignorant? Sad!
Tesla seems to take all the fun out of performance. It used to be able oil and gas and the small of exhaust coming out of two dual 2.5" exhaust pipes with a sound that made an indication of how fast it was. Now it's just a really quick golf cart.
I think my great granddad said the same thing when the ICE replaced the steam engine. And his great granddad said the same when steam replaced the horse. And his....
Welcome to progress.
He's also accomplishing, or trying to accomplish, things I don't like, but they have been far outweighed by the good so far.
Such as? Oh I see the extensive list below...
ISIS is no longer a threat,
Define threat? Then describe which policy decisions Trump made that contributed to that? The ISIS situation in Syria and Iraq has a lot more players than just Trump, it's disingenuous to claim that is all him.
the US economy is doing better,
Better than what? The economy has been in recovery mode for at least 5 years, after the last Republican administration left it in tatters and it had to be rescued. Some short term growth can probably be attributed to Trump's position on regulation, but these are likely to incur larger long term problems as per GFC and the '87 crash which followed similar patterns. Only time will tell but you'd be naive to think there will be no consequences fro mass deregulation and general ignorance on risks.
and he's gotten N. Korea to the negotiating table. Things the last few administrations have failed to accomplish.
Not yet. And recent events don;t have much to do with to do with the US (the historic SK and NK leadership meeting was organised between themselves just as the pre-Trump Olympic gesture was).
NK said they are pulling out of the planned US meeting specifically because of things Trump and his National Security adviser are saying.
You are right that actions count, but of the three things you came up with, two haven't happened yet, and the other was mostly inherited.
His biggest objectively verifiable achievement so far is probably the tax cuts which the CBO have claimed will be a net loss for most Americans except the top 1%. And getting tax cuts through a Republican congress and Senate is hardly difficult. The other objectively big measure is that he has passed the least amount of bills of any President since WW2 despite claiming he has done the most (ie outright lies).
So far the only conclusion is that he talks like a dummy and acts like one too.
Pretty much describes the life cycle of every large country and corporation, from its idealized conception to its fall into the corrupt and greedy abyss.
FTFY. And it's an important distinction because there are a lot of small countries and corporations that are neither corrupt nor greedy. Norway, Finland, Denmark New Zealand etc all do well in the quality of life/low corruption indexes and they each only have population around 5 million. Maybe the solution is a physical hard limit to the amount of people any one organisation/country can grow to?
Your signature implies you might have a slanted view of the world. I'm not a big fan of political team sports and both sides have their flowers and their weeds, but a minimum standard should be the ability to talk like an adult, yet the most recent Republican presidents lack this simple skill. How does anyone find that acceptable?
This is just my opinion, but I think the majority of the GOP held their nose and endorsed Trump because they just couldn't stomach 4 to 8 years of Hillary Clinton (as if I blame them...)
I never really understood this hate. I'm not American so may not have all the details, but Hillary comes across as someone who can put together coherent sentences, and seems to grasp concepts and respond to them reasonably and logically. I get you might not agree with her worldview, but I don't know how anyone can vote for a leader without these basic skills?
It's true that Trump's election is a symptom, but the cause is public frustration with "establishment" Republicans and Democrats, both. People are fed up. They elected Trump as a giant "fuck YOU!" to BOTH the Democrat AND Republican "establishment".
And, if Trump is still an effective thorn in the sides of both (R) & (D) in 2020, guess who's going to be throwing a reelection gala?
Strat
Oh he'll win again, and he'll win because the average voter is stupid. They'll vote a big Fuck You to 'the establishment' without realising that the establishment for all its ills was still net gain for them overall. This is why an effective democracy only works with an effective public education system and quality media. America has neither.
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He's the head of the executive branch, which is the equivalent of a CEO. He absolutely has the power to ignore directives such as this. I'm not saying I think he's doing the right thing, but he can do it if he wants.
No he can't, see Nixon and/or Clinton f you need examples. There are rules which even the president has to follow.
Can't these pieces of hardware be disabled within the phone before handing it over to do just twitter?
I'm sure they can, but the first line of the summary tells us that "[Trump's phone] isn't equipped with sophisticated security features designed to shield his communications", so this is exactly the point.
Uh oh, someone with mod points doesn't like people pointing out when Trump does things he's railed against others for doing.
I commented on a Trump thread once with about four separate factual responses and had every one of them modded to -1 within hours.
Based on what we know of Cambridge Analytica and Russian Troll factories, it's quite feasible that a group somewhere has ghost accounts specifically to get mod points to to try swaying the conversation.
It would be good if there were some Slashdot analytics you could run on mod operations to see if there's any manipulation going on here.
Hoe many here know a CxO who wanted to get rid of some security or ignored their company policy?
Difference is that a CxO as an executive of a private company has that power to make such decisions. And this pretty much sums up Trump's stupidity. He still thinks POTUS is the boss of the country, rather than a servant of the people. Govt policy is our our policy which all must follow.
You realise that an iPhone has a GPS, microphone and camera on it? DoD has policy for such things specifically to maintain an certain national security posture, and he is deliberately ignoring it. When I work for federal gov this was a dismiss-able (and possibly criminal depending on severity) offence.
No, people choose to use FB as their news source rather than going to real news organizations. These people believe they don't have the time to read the source material and instead want to be spoon-fed dribs and drabs.
FB is offering the service. That people are too lazy to do their own footwork is not FB's problem.
But it is a problem if you believe in a strong democracy. And the democracy has the right to respond appropriately.
All the focus has been on Facebook, when Google, Apple, Amazon, Adobe and even Microsoft collect just as much data and do the same types of analytics.
One difference is that all of the others are public companies with directors that can be fired if the shareholders want change. Zuckerberg is effectively an unremovable dictator at Facebook. Shareholder votes are worthless.
Then they're definitely not going to break up Facebook, provided of course Facebook throws enough money to politicians and K Street.
There's a big difference. Banks and politicians have all sort of interweaving shared interests so it's a complicated beast. Facebook can easily be sacrificed with zero personal impact to any politician and it will make them look good in the polls. This could have some legs.
I voted for a 3rd-party candidate, because I don't want to be that guy who doesn't vote then complains about the results.
And the funny part is that this is actually a really simple solution to the current problem. Not everyone has to vote third party to have an effect, but once you start getting into the 5-10% bracket the shock-waves to the major parties become huge.
If the millions of people who complain about politics every day simply voted third party the problem would mostly fix itself. I always vote independent, not because I support them (they are mostly fringe loonies) but because a robust political system needs more than two parties (even if the third is bat shit crazy)
No doubt the world is shifting the the centre (ie a mix of capitalism and socialism that produces the maximum benefit for all). The old world extreme left is dead (even China and Russia accept that), but for some reason the extreme right won't let go of old fashioned viewpoints. I guess it's the main flaw with being conservative is that conservative means resistant to new ideas, so it takes longer for them to be accepted. As you say this will happen naturally as old people die off, so maybe we just have to be patient.
Their ENTIRE NATION is just a little smaller than the state of OHIO. They geographically have LITTLE area. Try doing that in the ENTIRE United States! More fake news, so to speak.
US population is 250x and land mass is 220x of Estonia so density is quite similar. Then of course the US has much more mountains, desert and Alaskan wilderness, and you don't need to build public transport *everywhere* only the main towns and cities.
#Fake brain, so to speak....
I don't live in Estonia, but we have a pretty decent public transport network here. During rush hours, the trains are packed full of commuters, despite the fact that tickets are not cheap. If they were to make it free, the trains would be filling up even more with people going shopping and doing other fun but unproductive things, and probably force more commuters into their cars.
This seems to be a capacity planning issue, not a price issue.
Scott Adams has an interesting insight...
No he doesn't. Scott Adams is a smart guy with some great ideas, but his book on Trump (which I read twice to ensure I didn't miss the punchline) was a miserable failure of logic. The thrust of the book is that Trump is a 'Master Persuader', which in itself is a persuasion technique to make his skill stack sound good, but 'Master Persuader' is interchangeable with 'con-man', so the book fails. Then where the punchline is supposed to be, Adams moans about Hillary wanting to tax the super rich, and since Adams is super rich it's all unfair so he prefers to endorse a fucking moron with no understanding of anything as a better choice for leader of the free world. The book was amateur hour stuff which was surprisingly since Adams usually has some great insights.
I'm neither a Trump voter nor a GOP "operative". But given the increasing idiocy of the American left, I may well become one in the future.
That'll show them! You are genius...
There's still people out there that believe Trump is making himself look foolish as some sort of 4d chess instead of the much better explanation that he is genuinely ignorant? Sad!
Gold!
Most super rich are out of touch with reality.
Yet they are super rich. What does that tell about the value of keeping things real?
Tesla seems to take all the fun out of performance. It used to be able oil and gas and the small of exhaust coming out of two dual 2.5" exhaust pipes with a sound that made an indication of how fast it was. Now it's just a really quick golf cart.
I think my great granddad said the same thing when the ICE replaced the steam engine. And his great granddad said the same when steam replaced the horse. And his....
Welcome to progress.
So I guess Toyota ripped everything down and trashed the joint before they sold it to Tesla?
Well this is the standard practice when transferring commercial property so yeah...(not the trashing part, but stripping down)
He's also accomplishing, or trying to accomplish, things I don't like, but they have been far outweighed by the good so far.
Such as? Oh I see the extensive list below...
ISIS is no longer a threat,
Define threat? Then describe which policy decisions Trump made that contributed to that? The ISIS situation in Syria and Iraq has a lot more players than just Trump, it's disingenuous to claim that is all him.
the US economy is doing better,
Better than what? The economy has been in recovery mode for at least 5 years, after the last Republican administration left it in tatters and it had to be rescued. Some short term growth can probably be attributed to Trump's position on regulation, but these are likely to incur larger long term problems as per GFC and the '87 crash which followed similar patterns. Only time will tell but you'd be naive to think there will be no consequences fro mass deregulation and general ignorance on risks.
and he's gotten N. Korea to the negotiating table. Things the last few administrations have failed to accomplish.
Not yet. And recent events don;t have much to do with to do with the US (the historic SK and NK leadership meeting was organised between themselves just as the pre-Trump Olympic gesture was).
NK said they are pulling out of the planned US meeting specifically because of things Trump and his National Security adviser are saying.
You are right that actions count, but of the three things you came up with, two haven't happened yet, and the other was mostly inherited.
His biggest objectively verifiable achievement so far is probably the tax cuts which the CBO have claimed will be a net loss for most Americans except the top 1%. And getting tax cuts through a Republican congress and Senate is hardly difficult. The other objectively big measure is that he has passed the least amount of bills of any President since WW2 despite claiming he has done the most (ie outright lies). So far the only conclusion is that he talks like a dummy and acts like one too.
Hey, we're the baddies
I knew what this was going to be before I even clicked it. It's strange how comedians can absolutely nail political issues so accurately.
Pretty much describes the life cycle of every large country and corporation, from its idealized conception to its fall into the corrupt and greedy abyss.
FTFY. And it's an important distinction because there are a lot of small countries and corporations that are neither corrupt nor greedy. Norway, Finland, Denmark New Zealand etc all do well in the quality of life/low corruption indexes and they each only have population around 5 million. Maybe the solution is a physical hard limit to the amount of people any one organisation/country can grow to?
Someone smarter than me describes the problem here: http://www.cracked.com/article...
Right, well that actually makes a lot of sense. What I find odd is that previously tough Republican leaders just roll over and allow this to happen?
Your signature implies you might have a slanted view of the world. I'm not a big fan of political team sports and both sides have their flowers and their weeds, but a minimum standard should be the ability to talk like an adult, yet the most recent Republican presidents lack this simple skill. How does anyone find that acceptable?
This is just my opinion, but I think the majority of the GOP held their nose and endorsed Trump because they just couldn't stomach 4 to 8 years of Hillary Clinton (as if I blame them...)
I never really understood this hate. I'm not American so may not have all the details, but Hillary comes across as someone who can put together coherent sentences, and seems to grasp concepts and respond to them reasonably and logically. I get you might not agree with her worldview, but I don't know how anyone can vote for a leader without these basic skills?
It's true that Trump's election is a symptom, but the cause is public frustration with "establishment" Republicans and Democrats, both. People are fed up. They elected Trump as a giant "fuck YOU!" to BOTH the Democrat AND Republican "establishment".
And, if Trump is still an effective thorn in the sides of both (R) & (D) in 2020, guess who's going to be throwing a reelection gala?
Strat
Oh he'll win again, and he'll win because the average voter is stupid. They'll vote a big Fuck You to 'the establishment' without realising that the establishment for all its ills was still net gain for them overall. This is why an effective democracy only works with an effective public education system and quality media. America has neither.