Nice list, you got a little carried away though. The Office documents are not obfuscated as much as designed for another time and lazily modernized (they are dumps of the in original in-memory representation of the documents in C++ saved to disk). And I don't think they "swindled" the HTML standard. IE4 was the first browser to implement CSS1 and HTML4, Netscape were the ones trying to abuse their dominance by making their own extensions. Of course after MS won, the situation changed and MS slowed down and made their own shit for IE6.
Other than that, yet pretty spot on. There were also updates in Windows 3.11 to break it in new ways when running inside OS/2. OS/2 ended up having to apply patches to unbreak the stuff MS put in to break OS/2, a slow arms race with patches distributed by floppies for a while. Sure that was a few more companies they screwed as well, it was hard to keep track of in the 90s.
It doesn't work if it is an electron. It has to be perfectly spherical cows, and rigid too, otherwise undergraduate physics professors are still going to be wrong.
The point is that in many places it is not legal to put in a phone "in jail" in the first place. So if they want to get rid of physical SIM card they need a non-physical way of changing the phone to a different provider on the fly.
The way to deal with shooter situations is having a better emergency procedures? What about all the hidden surveillance and monitoring and CCTVs and metal detectors and RFID tags? What did they do to help?
Ensure reelection of officials by pretending to do something?
Doesn't matter what the law says. If anything from any source is using my computer for any purpose which was hidden, disguised, or obfuscated from me, then it is an illegitimate use. Full disclosure, with explicit permission, or it's illegitimate.
That would make the Chrome browser illegitimate. Most people are not aware that it is spyware and it is not advertised as spyware, it just mentions it deep in an EULA (much like the application in this stories does about being bitcoin miners).
The problem is that a lot of people rely on and trust applications that classically would fall into the category of malware. Google even went as far as inventing a new category called badware, which was the same as malware except it didn't include spyware intended for advertisement.
If we accept that people are okay with using some types of malware (like Google Chome), then we need to consider our definitions much more deeply, because suddenly software that has unintended and potentially unwanted side-effects are considered legitimate.
No, I have seen overly specific job posting that only had local applicants and went to local people. They are written that way because they are written by idiot HR people based on loosely answered questions from an idiot PHB.
I would still call it spontaneous combustion if car catches fire in an accident. It is not something that actually happens outside of holiwood movies, and I still call it spontaneous combustion in the movies as well. Gasolin cars do not catch on fire unless there is a spark and a collection of dirty oil, because gasoline is actually quite hard to set fire to.
The European Union backed down on Wednesday from threats to suspend agreements granting the United States access to European data, rejecting calls for a tougher stance over alleged U.S. spying
Alleged? What part of the official U.S. policy and actions they have admitted to, apologized for but vowed to continue, is alleged?
It already appears to not apply on ferries between EU countries. Annoyingly even when you can stil reach land based towers the ferries local repeater wins and will try to fleece you.
Also, certain things don't scale well. It's conceivable the system that works so well in Scandinavia won't work in more populous countries.
It is not a question of size it is question of trust, and ultimately corruption. The people need to trust the government and the government need trust the people and corrupt entities should feel ashamed of what they are doing, so society at least has the _appearence_ that corruption is abnormal (increasing trust, which lowers corruption which increases trust...)
So you are an expert on Italian law? It is a common trick used by many companies but it is illegal in most places. The hard part for the local tax offices though is to prove the internal pricing between Apple offices is fraudulent.
Nevertheless, you don't deny that European politicians don't let the same facts and figures get in the way of their ideology, do you?
Depends. When it comes to budget negotiations it is always a laugh, one side arguing we can save money by spending more, and the other that we will get better service and products by buying cheaper junk and firing the service personal. Usually though, they are in the same realm of reality just with different degrees of ideology induced reality distortion. American politicians and pundits does not as much seem to have different ideology and economic theories as much as they seem to live on different planets with different rules of reality than everybody else,
In what states and under what conditions? You do realize that machine guns are large guns that either stationary or mounted on vehicles, right? Or are you confusing them with assault rifles and machine pistols?
Even if a criminal could get his hands on one, he would probably ignore it, that isn't much use for a machine gun unless you are drug lord with his own army. Other fully automatic weapons are under similar restrictions depend on state and they are limited on magazine size making the automatic part much less usefull.
OTOH, there hasn't been a single crime committed with a lawfully-owned civilian machine gun (or other automatic firearm) since 1934.
ROFL!!
OTOH, there hasn't been a single crime committed with a lawfully-owned civilian cruise missiles since 1860.
OTOH, there hasn't been a single crime committed with a lawfully-owned civilian aircraft carrier since 2000BC.
I wish I could say the same about tanks though, but unlike the above mentioned items, tanks are actually something civilians can lawfully own, and therefore something that has been involved in crimes (usually getting stolen for a joyride of havock).
There are studies of it, plenty. What we don't need is politically motivated research with predefined results. That has also been done several times, and they all ended up agreeing with the scientific consensus (though sometimes only after being called out on fabricated numbers and bad science).
Sounds like an extremely leading question "Do you support having your personal communication monitored if you are not suspected of any crime?" Ask the question differently and the result would be very different. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
I don't think I know any US ambassadors that speak Danish, but as a very cushy position of an unimporant but close ally, the post of US ambassedar to Denmark fetches a quite high price.
You remember the case where a governor tried to sell a senate seat? His excuse afterwards was that, he thought it was acceptable because that is how diplomatic positions are traditionally "awarded".
The part about industrial espionage turned up in 1999 when EU officials decided to leak the existance Echelon, because the US has abused it to feed Boeing secret information about Airbus.
Uhmm, the IT community in Sweden was in oproar about FRA, but most Swedes support it. They actually like being watched all the time by the government. It is like the NSA in the US except it is all public and supported by the people. Why did the EU parliament choose to investigate Sweden again? FRA is not exactly secret, just creepy and weird, or as we say in Denmark, very Swedish.
Actually we can only resolve individual pixels at 50pixels/degree, we can still perceive details way below that limit, just not as individual pixels. Similar to how there is a huge difference between 20fps and 60fps, it is just that 20fps is where we stop being able to spot individual frames and they start to blur together.
This apple retina craze has really started to make people underestimate the human eye.
Debian had a waiver for Firefox. There was a few years between the first Iceweasel project, and the modern reincarnation when Debian shiped Firefox (2004-2006), but Mozilla changed the rules so that Debian was no longer allowed to support and maintain stable versions of Firefox, and this they could not get a waiver for.
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Nice list, you got a little carried away though. The Office documents are not obfuscated as much as designed for another time and lazily modernized (they are dumps of the in original in-memory representation of the documents in C++ saved to disk). And I don't think they "swindled" the HTML standard. IE4 was the first browser to implement CSS1 and HTML4, Netscape were the ones trying to abuse their dominance by making their own extensions. Of course after MS won, the situation changed and MS slowed down and made their own shit for IE6.
Other than that, yet pretty spot on. There were also updates in Windows 3.11 to break it in new ways when running inside OS/2. OS/2 ended up having to apply patches to unbreak the stuff MS put in to break OS/2, a slow arms race with patches distributed by floppies for a while. Sure that was a few more companies they screwed as well, it was hard to keep track of in the 90s.
It doesn't work if it is an electron. It has to be perfectly spherical cows, and rigid too, otherwise undergraduate physics professors are still going to be wrong.
The point is that in many places it is not legal to put in a phone "in jail" in the first place. So if they want to get rid of physical SIM card they need a non-physical way of changing the phone to a different provider on the fly.
Ensure reelection of officials by pretending to do something?
That would make the Chrome browser illegitimate. Most people are not aware that it is spyware and it is not advertised as spyware, it just mentions it deep in an EULA (much like the application in this stories does about being bitcoin miners).
The problem is that a lot of people rely on and trust applications that classically would fall into the category of malware. Google even went as far as inventing a new category called badware, which was the same as malware except it didn't include spyware intended for advertisement.
If we accept that people are okay with using some types of malware (like Google Chome), then we need to consider our definitions much more deeply, because suddenly software that has unintended and potentially unwanted side-effects are considered legitimate.
No, I have seen overly specific job posting that only had local applicants and went to local people. They are written that way because they are written by idiot HR people based on loosely answered questions from an idiot PHB.
I would still call it spontaneous combustion if car catches fire in an accident. It is not something that actually happens outside of holiwood movies, and I still call it spontaneous combustion in the movies as well. Gasolin cars do not catch on fire unless there is a spark and a collection of dirty oil, because gasoline is actually quite hard to set fire to.
Alleged? What part of the official U.S. policy and actions they have admitted to, apologized for but vowed to continue, is alleged?
That is not a neutral story. I wouldn't trust it.
It already appears to not apply on ferries between EU countries. Annoyingly even when you can stil reach land based towers the ferries local repeater wins and will try to fleece you.
It is not a question of size it is question of trust, and ultimately corruption. The people need to trust the government and the government need trust the people and corrupt entities should feel ashamed of what they are doing, so society at least has the _appearence_ that corruption is abnormal (increasing trust, which lowers corruption which increases trust...)
So you are an expert on Italian law? It is a common trick used by many companies but it is illegal in most places. The hard part for the local tax offices though is to prove the internal pricing between Apple offices is fraudulent.
Who actually _sends_ them there? Only Russia and US ever had the capability but the US has cancelled the program that can actually send men there.
It is still an international space station, it just happens to be under effective Russian control as they are the only ones able to service it.
That is how I would design a smart watch. Not watch sized, but a widescreen smart phone worn on the arm.
Depends. When it comes to budget negotiations it is always a laugh, one side arguing we can save money by spending more, and the other that we will get better service and products by buying cheaper junk and firing the service personal. Usually though, they are in the same realm of reality just with different degrees of ideology induced reality distortion. American politicians and pundits does not as much seem to have different ideology and economic theories as much as they seem to live on different planets with different rules of reality than everybody else,
In what states and under what conditions? You do realize that machine guns are large guns that either stationary or mounted on vehicles, right? Or are you confusing them with assault rifles and machine pistols?
Even if a criminal could get his hands on one, he would probably ignore it, that isn't much use for a machine gun unless you are drug lord with his own army. Other fully automatic weapons are under similar restrictions depend on state and they are limited on magazine size making the automatic part much less usefull.
ROFL!!
OTOH, there hasn't been a single crime committed with a lawfully-owned civilian cruise missiles since 1860.
OTOH, there hasn't been a single crime committed with a lawfully-owned civilian aircraft carrier since 2000BC.
I wish I could say the same about tanks though, but unlike the above mentioned items, tanks are actually something civilians can lawfully own, and therefore something that has been involved in crimes (usually getting stolen for a joyride of havock).
There are studies of it, plenty. What we don't need is politically motivated research with predefined results. That has also been done several times, and they all ended up agreeing with the scientific consensus (though sometimes only after being called out on fabricated numbers and bad science).
C11 is more important, and also fixed so it is compatible with C++. Don't expect any C++ compilers to support the bad parts of C99.
Sounds like an extremely leading question "Do you support having your personal communication monitored if you are not suspected of any crime?" Ask the question differently and the result would be very different. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0ZZJXw4MTA
I don't think I know any US ambassadors that speak Danish, but as a very cushy position of an unimporant but close ally, the post of US ambassedar to Denmark fetches a quite high price.
You remember the case where a governor tried to sell a senate seat? His excuse afterwards was that, he thought it was acceptable because that is how diplomatic positions are traditionally "awarded".
Here are some guesses on the price:
http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2012-12-13/the-economics-of-being-a-u-dot-s-dot-ambassador
http://taxpol.blogspot.de/2013/09/how-to-buy-us-ambassadorship-and-how.html
The part about industrial espionage turned up in 1999 when EU officials decided to leak the existance Echelon, because the US has abused it to feed Boeing secret information about Airbus.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/820352.stm
It is not that hard to google, so stop defending it, or pretending it has anything to do with the recent leaks.
Uhmm, the IT community in Sweden was in oproar about FRA, but most Swedes support it. They actually like being watched all the time by the government. It is like the NSA in the US except it is all public and supported by the people. Why did the EU parliament choose to investigate Sweden again? FRA is not exactly secret, just creepy and weird, or as we say in Denmark, very Swedish.
Actually we can only resolve individual pixels at 50pixels/degree, we can still perceive details way below that limit, just not as individual pixels. Similar to how there is a huge difference between 20fps and 60fps, it is just that 20fps is where we stop being able to spot individual frames and they start to blur together.
This apple retina craze has really started to make people underestimate the human eye.
Debian had a waiver for Firefox. There was a few years between the first Iceweasel project, and the modern reincarnation when Debian shiped Firefox (2004-2006), but Mozilla changed the rules so that Debian was no longer allowed to support and maintain stable versions of Firefox, and this they could not get a waiver for.