That only works until somebody like Castro (or Chavez) comes along and locks the doors to all the island banks.... And TAKES all their stashed money! Hence the REAL reason the USA dislikes him so much.
And the "book value" of his crime was 2-5 years probation. They were making a POLITICAL EXAMPLE of him and threatening DECADES in jail for ONE offense.
In more civilized times, the elected officials just pushed these types out the door to satisfy the Angry Mob with Pitchforks. The angry mob took care of it and the balance of power appeared restored.
The problem now is that the HIRED and NON-ELECTED officials have more power and job security than the ones we actually elect. Most of the time the EMPLOYEES manipulate the actual elected officials now.
My opinion is that the telcos have too many cheap overseas cables being hacked. These are "inside jobs". Some unscrupulous telcos are selling their leftover call center volume on hard lines to the USA.
So they are "war dialing" from blocks that the telcos reserved for large company call centers, debt collectors, etc.. Those are lines with all the "spoofing" left on so YOU can't block the paying telemarketers and debt collectors. The telco can't cut them off because its the same lines companies pay lots of money for.
This typically isn't "hacked" somebody is selling it. The people operating the call center think they are answering calls PLACED TO THEM... The wonders of integrated IP phones...
But if we let everybody do as much drugs as they can, the stupid ones will die off, the pushers will get murdered off by angry families and it will be "just another stupid thing" some people do.
We already tried "saving" people with prohibition of alochol and it clearly didn't work.
But it's like when you used to shred stuff.. SOMEBODY is out there with nothing better to do than scotch tape your pages together... That's like 95% of how criminal hackers get started.
But it's fun. After all, we nearly kill ourselves for a living keeping all this data perfectly intact, 24x7x365.25.
There are entire companies that DESTROY SHIT FOR MONEY!!
One day you you can be fired for losing A file... The next these guys get to have the fun tearing ALL THE FILES to shreds. Let that settle in your mind and embrace the Stone of Sisyphus we push up the hill every day.
Non-criminal is the tricky part. Much of what one group orders done BECOMES criminal when political circumstance changes. As this happens quite often it being its all three sides if they just agree to destroy everything all the time.
Because their buddies in the CIA heard on a TV show that the NSA did this one thing and used it to recover the whole drive full of data and valid time stamps that sent a politician to jail!!!
But they also make a REAL product that they will "sell the company" to Intel, TSCM, AMD for "reasonable" amounts of money if their work pans out. The work is known, the players are known, the exit is known... They have a high risk problem... But it's a DEFINED problem, with an answer worth a certain amour of money... It's not "blue sky" research. Those aren't "gamble startups" where VC is expecting 100 fold returns for customer facing websites.
The issue is that they pulled a page out of the "Halloween Documents" in that the spec is "open" but OEMs only have to MATCH Microsoft's implementation as a minimum to boot Windows... There was never any "QA" to follow the other parts of the spec....... Oops! Imagine that happening?
The goal is not to "lock out" everybody... But to make 5% of customers that want to use the freature have to beg and hassle manufactures for every. single. model... Individual apathy at each manufacturer will keep it relatively locked down, or perpetually six month behind...
Ironically, the EFI bios in Macs has few problems now booting most Linux Live CDs...
"If either of those people sat in front of you for an interview would you recognize them?"
Google Glasses will. THAT is expressly the point. 10 years from now nobody cares... Except all these services are gathering this stuff SPECIFICALLY to shove it back in your face. "You know, this one time, in band camp.."
A better example will be when credit reports NEVER EXPIRE. I mean you can get a legal bankruptcy, but all they have to do is leave the report out there on Google for it to pick right back up... It's not a "legal" credit report... But it's not YOUR DATA so they don't care and your potential employer sees it anyway.
Many fors of discrimination are going to be right back in vogue when employers can pre-filter you through Facebook for religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity... That's basically what these companies are selling..
Effectively, they would be paying some stockholders to "go away". Given that smaller holders get their power stripped the worst when a company goes public its something to offer.
Actually Dell has plenty of financing,servers, and consulting business. They are moving so they sell "IT departments" in a box and hardware is just one piece... Vertically integrated.
This is a last ditch attempt by big holders to fuck it over before it goes private and the board can just ignore such offers outright.
How about giving them an option to use that for FREE on their terms versus "being given" something by Bill and Melinda that uses power requirements they don't have and expires in 3 years causing them to spend all their Medical Aid money on software, not medicine.
The USA is far to behind for this, and far to ligatuous. It's ironic, because you'd think the USA would benefit form all the Federal interest in Open Medical Redords standards... But in reality, that mandate is going to be so complex, only the big companies already playing have a chance.
That's why it only works if Michael Dell is the one at the top. At least he has a big stake in the company because his name is on the door... He won't want to chop it up and part it out so quickly.
The other player are just pumping their stocks so they can bail when it goes private... They won't have nearly as much power to corner the stocks as they have now.
Dell just went private because they have LOST so much share they didn't want to stay public. Looks like it was Mike that was paying back the stockholders,.. Not Steve, ouch.
Lenovo, IBM outsourced PC maker that IBM finally just gave up trying to make money on.
HP has bought Compaq and several other brands trying to stay solvent making PCs and gone through how many CEOs?
Lastly, Samsung and Acer are only on the game because they WERE the CHEAP LABOR 10 years ago, and now as OEMs they had enough parts and/or assembly tied up to bring their own brand when the First String players all went under. They are bodies and screwdrivers, nothing more.
Of this whole list only two companies (HP & Dell) have ever had any input at all into WRITING SOFTWARE that is important enough to Microsoft Windows to make the copyright blurb. The rest of the parties build boxes and put its good enough effort into making the machines boot up properly.. Microsoft or chipmakers do all the rest. Only Dell and HP were ever vaguely "partners" the rest were BENEATH MS customer status a very long time they built boxes.
Many foreign software "company offices" are FRANCHISEES wholly owned by somebody in the other country. Usually that is due to taxes and things like that. The Adobe Franchisee makes all the local sales plans, pays taxes, etc... But often buys the "product" under "distributor" terms, not as a part of the company.
So do the Aussies want these companies to VOID their local franchise contracts and fire all those workers... Because that's usually how these things work. The company selling the item IN Australia fights to keep the big, bad parent from overstepping into the territory they rightfully rented. To show "good faith" the parent keeps its prices for products into Australia high.
It's all a big payoff, but they don't get that they passed laws that keep "home team" companies from getting beat up... Which big companies turn right around on them.
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That only works until somebody like Castro (or Chavez) comes along and locks the doors to all the island banks.... And TAKES all their stashed money! Hence the REAL reason the USA dislikes him so much.
And the "book value" of his crime was 2-5 years probation. They were making a POLITICAL EXAMPLE of him and threatening DECADES in jail for ONE offense.
In more civilized times, the elected officials just pushed these types out the door to satisfy the Angry Mob with Pitchforks. The angry mob took care of it and the balance of power appeared restored.
The problem now is that the HIRED and NON-ELECTED officials have more power and job security than the ones we actually elect. Most of the time the EMPLOYEES manipulate the actual elected officials now.
My opinion is that the telcos have too many cheap overseas cables being hacked. These are "inside jobs". Some unscrupulous telcos are selling their leftover call center volume on hard lines to the USA.
So they are "war dialing" from blocks that the telcos reserved for large company call centers, debt collectors, etc.. Those are lines with all the "spoofing" left on so YOU can't block the paying telemarketers and debt collectors. The telco can't cut them off because its the same lines companies pay lots of money for.
This typically isn't "hacked" somebody is selling it. The people operating the call center think they are answering calls PLACED TO THEM ... The wonders of integrated IP phones...
But if we let everybody do as much drugs as they can, the stupid ones will die off, the pushers will get murdered off by angry families and it will be "just another stupid thing" some people do.
We already tried "saving" people with prohibition of alochol and it clearly didn't work.
But it's like when you used to shred stuff.. SOMEBODY is out there with nothing better to do than scotch tape your pages together... That's like 95% of how criminal hackers get started.
That goes right next to the fax/shredder combo unit!
To be fair, any furnace capable of melting a Hard Drive is going to cost more than $9000 when you figure in permits and utilities...
Melting stuff for money is expensive.
Is an Electric Arc Furnace good enough? It melts 50 tons of steel....
But it's fun. After all, we nearly kill ourselves for a living keeping all this data perfectly intact, 24x7x365.25.
There are entire companies that DESTROY SHIT FOR MONEY!!
One day you you can be fired for losing A file... The next these guys get to have the fun tearing ALL THE FILES to shreds. Let that settle in your mind and embrace the Stone of Sisyphus we push up the hill every day.
Non-criminal is the tricky part. Much of what one group orders done BECOMES criminal when political circumstance changes. As this happens quite often it being its all three sides if they just agree to destroy everything all the time.
Because their buddies in the CIA heard on a TV show that the NSA did this one thing and used it to recover the whole drive full of data and valid time stamps that sent a politician to jail!!!
But they also make a REAL product that they will "sell the company" to Intel, TSCM, AMD for "reasonable" amounts of money if their work pans out.
The work is known, the players are known, the exit is known... They have a high risk problem... But it's a DEFINED problem, with an answer worth a certain amour of money... It's not "blue sky" research. Those aren't "gamble startups" where VC is expecting 100 fold returns for customer facing websites.
We STILL get that kind of service with our IBM System I (AS400) support.
If you are willing to pay, they have 4-hour support where they will get it there FASTER than overnight. And the tecs are super knowledgable.
Sadly, their blade and x86 support is not REMOTLY as sharp. And with converged hardware it became painful... Fast.
The issue is that they pulled a page out of the "Halloween Documents" in that the spec is "open" but OEMs only have to MATCH Microsoft's implementation as a minimum to boot Windows... There was never any "QA" to follow the other parts of the spec.... ... Oops! Imagine that happening?
The goal is not to "lock out" everybody... But to make 5% of customers that want to use the freature have to beg and hassle manufactures for every. single. model... Individual apathy at each manufacturer will keep it relatively locked down, or perpetually six month behind...
Ironically, the EFI bios in Macs has few problems now booting most Linux Live CDs...
When they bring in Apaches and A-10's with the large cal "daisy cutters", most homes don't count as "cover" merely an "obstruction".
After the Mythbusters episode with RPGs, your house barely has enough massive objects to trigger an RPG to explode.
These doors are MEANT to be shot at by tanks and RPGS....
"If either of those people sat in front of you for an interview would you recognize them?"
Google Glasses will. THAT is expressly the point. 10 years from now nobody cares... Except all these services are gathering this stuff SPECIFICALLY to shove it back in your face. "You know, this one time, in band camp.."
A better example will be when credit reports NEVER EXPIRE. I mean you can get a legal bankruptcy, but all they have to do is leave the report out there on Google for it to pick right back up... It's not a "legal" credit report... But it's not YOUR DATA so they don't care and your potential employer sees it anyway.
Many fors of discrimination are going to be right back in vogue when employers can pre-filter you through Facebook for religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity... That's basically what these companies are selling..
Effectively, they would be paying some stockholders to "go away". Given that smaller holders get their power stripped the worst when a company goes public its something to offer.
Do they know what kind of "score sheet" INSURANCE COMPANIES keep? Those guys must be really evil monsters!!! Like in the Incredibles.
No! Because you are just pumping TROLLS STOCK, and they are betting on it going up to cover THEIR EXIT when the deal concludes.
Actually Dell has plenty of financing,servers, and consulting business. They are moving so they sell "IT departments" in a box and hardware is just one piece... Vertically integrated.
This is a last ditch attempt by big holders to fuck it over before it goes private and the board can just ignore such offers outright.
How about giving them an option to use that for FREE on their terms versus "being given" something by Bill and Melinda that uses power requirements they don't have and expires in 3 years causing them to spend all their Medical Aid money on software, not medicine.
The USA is far to behind for this, and far to ligatuous. It's ironic, because you'd think the USA would benefit form all the Federal interest in Open Medical Redords standards... But in reality, that mandate is going to be so complex, only the big companies already playing have a chance.
That's why it only works if Michael Dell is the one at the top. At least he has a big stake in the company because his name is on the door... He won't want to chop it up and part it out so quickly.
The other player are just pumping their stocks so they can bail when it goes private... They won't have nearly as much power to corner the stocks as they have now.
Since you said it:
Dell just went private because they have LOST so much share they didn't want to stay public. Looks like it was Mike that was paying back the stockholders,.. Not Steve, ouch.
Lenovo, IBM outsourced PC maker that IBM finally just gave up trying to make money on.
HP has bought Compaq and several other brands trying to stay solvent making PCs and gone through how many CEOs?
Lastly, Samsung and Acer are only on the game because they WERE the CHEAP LABOR 10 years ago, and now as OEMs they had enough parts and/or assembly tied up to bring their own brand when the First String players all went under. They are bodies and screwdrivers, nothing more.
Of this whole list only two companies (HP & Dell) have ever had any input at all into WRITING SOFTWARE that is important enough to Microsoft Windows to make the copyright blurb. The rest of the parties build boxes and put its good enough effort into making the machines boot up properly.. Microsoft or chipmakers do all the rest. Only Dell and HP were ever vaguely "partners" the rest were BENEATH MS customer status a very long time they built boxes.
Many foreign software "company offices" are FRANCHISEES wholly owned by somebody in the other country. Usually that is due to taxes and things like that. The Adobe Franchisee makes all the local sales plans, pays taxes, etc... But often buys the "product" under "distributor" terms, not as a part of the company.
So do the Aussies want these companies to VOID their local franchise contracts and fire all those workers... Because that's usually how these things work. The company selling the item IN Australia fights to keep the big, bad parent from overstepping into the territory they rightfully rented. To show "good faith" the parent keeps its prices for products into Australia high.
It's all a big payoff, but they don't get that they passed laws that keep "home team" companies from getting beat up... Which big companies turn right around on them.