Yea. we didn't know about it. We were too busy reading everyone's emails. Ignorance of the law is our excuse. Give us a tax break, which simply means that the average citizens pay more than the people who spy on them. The irony here is that they were only 3-4 months from completion, "AT THE TIME" and are less now. So it wasn't like they were going to leave the state, walk away from all of the money already spent, and let the citizens go without someone to spy on them. They would have paid the tax, they just didn't like it. Glad to know that everyone else there must like it. I guess the Utah state constitution doesn't have any sort of equal protection clause that would prevent giving this unfair treatment to some but not to others (mine does, but it is ignored when inconvenient).
Finally. Nice to get a little good news in my day, even if the issue doesn't affect me directly. I firmly believe this kind of thing should happen much more often (think SCO, for just one example).
On the other hand, as these researchers learned, if you notify the company, they can get a court order against you. If you let the cat out of the bag without notifying them them, they can't really stop you. And if you figured it out, there is a good chance that the company knows about it already anyway. They simply don't have any incentive to correct it unless they know that the general public knows about it too.
I just looked at it. I need an account with them to encrypt my files? And it seems that my files may even transfer to them before encryption and after decryption. or am I missing something? And the video even is narrated by someone with a foreign accent and shows the names of encrypted files change to something that looks like Chinese????? If I'm going to encrypt my files for security or safety or even privacy, I'm certainly going to do it on my own computers, not with something where I need an "account" with someone else to have them encrypted. Adding a layer of encryption would be nice (although likely not good enough to protect ITAR data properly), but doing it after the data leaves the computer is just crazy talk.
Those fringe conspiracy wackos are the same one who say that there are UFOs, point out strange things about the moon landing, don't believe the government story about Timothy McVeigh and Oklahoma City, question how building 6 collapsed at the World Trade center when it wasn't even hit by a plane, question the government's story about TWA 700, claimed that Bill Clinton was having "sex with that woman " when even Hillary assured us they were crazy, and think that the NSA is spying on all Americans and invading our privacy. Ignore anything they say, because we have labeled them "fringe" and "conspiracy theorists". Just go back to your flock and let us restart Haarp. Nothing to see here. Move on.
Don't be fooled by those insidious drones that the government has been building lately that are disguised as Cessnas, Piper Cubs, and local news helicopters.
Just this afternoon I opened my first dispute with Alibaba. This was on my first received shipment through them. Actually my second order, but the first order still has not been received. I got the package on Monday but the enclose item was not at all as advertised. I wrote to the seller on Monday but two full business days later I still had no response and Alibaba wanted to close out the payment so I tried to open the dispute. Interesting to note that your detailed explanation of the problem is artificially limited to 512 characters. You are encouraged to include attachments and they mention correspondence, but the attachments will not accept text files. (Almost like they don't really want the details). And they all know it will be too expensive with US International postage charges to return the item.
You gotta give them credit. Most of use remember the stories of Alibaba and his forty "business associates". This has got to be one of the best choices in names since years ago when a similar American fencing organization wanted to call themselves "The Electronic Bay of Thieves" but it was pointed out that this was too long and hard to type correctly and they decided to shorten it.
Assuming that Safe Mode is a mode that the owner can turn off and on, isn't that just the same as just not going to the porn sites? At least if you are the owner and an adult and not playing the "think of the children" game?
His offer sounds like he either wants to impose his values on others, or he knows that such "safe surfing" isn't really technically feasible so he can make to offer to sound like he's a decent guy rather than a pervert trying to profit big.
The "Stand your ground law" isn't really a factor when someone jumps you, pounds your head against the cement, is on top of you and reaches for a gun, even your gun. And if you're ever in that situation and waste time considering if it does, then you will likely not survive. This was clear cut self-defense, as the evidence showed.
Other evidence showed it was racially motivated. The guy's own girlfriend testified that he called Zimmerman a "cracker" before the attack. And the judge excluded evidence of his interest in violence and attacking people, but anyone paying attention outside the jury caught that.
The cops didn't even want to arrest Zimmerman, they investigated and knew enough about what happened to understand he shouldn't be charged with a crime. He was only charged after a lot of blacks fired up the black community to send a message to other black youths that it is alright to attack and try to kill a "cracker", and if he defends himself we can get him arrested.
Gotta go now and research just what that information was that the D.A. illegally hid from the defense. That alone pretty much should tell you this wasn't a attempt to get justice, it was an attempt to convict an innocent man who was attacked.
You're omitting a key concept about price that I've seen many fools around me exploit. If they are managing a big project that has software costs of millions a year then they must be very important. If I'm managing a project that only costs the company a hundred thousand or so in software costs a year then I must be less important. It really doesn't seem to matter if my project does more or is actually more critical to the operation of the company, those are concepts that are too abstract for upper management to understand. So if you want your department to look important then waste as much money as you can.
Yea, I use those lockers all the time. Get a buck off my $8 big gulp. Keep my phone in my pocket so that I don't miss any calls. That way I don't have to waste time getting my phone out when the movie ends and the crowds all try to claim their phones. And I get a nice locker key out of the deal too. If I remember to bring it next time I can even use it for another huge savings off of my reasonably priced drink without having to buy another discount key.
The dark and evil world that you envision presents no risk or tangible costs to me. My credit card company and Visa assume all of those risks. Sure, you might argue that there are hidden costs that are passed along to all customers when credit cards are used, but costs would hit me anyway, even if I just paid cash (and I don't get 1% back when I pay cash). And if you really think that way then let me assure you that Clinkle and it's investors are out to make a buck too, so in the end this will just mean higher prices that are passed along to the consumer.
The Wall Street Journal mentions Clinkle having some 30-odd employees already.
But how many normal employees do they have?
And why exactly would I want a product where I have to provide my own terminal to run their code and use my own capped data to support their service? Can't imagine any benefit to the actual consumer over just using my plastic card.
Boy, not sure what I'm more excited about. The "What's the Vic's net worth?" facial recognition application for Google Glass or this great new tool for burglars.
At a moment when governments and corporations alike are hellbent on snooping through your personal digital messages, it'd sure be nice if there was a font their dragnets couldn't decipher.
It is just a font! If I'm sending a digital message, as the intent of this article states, then it hardly matters what font I want it displayed in. What am I expected to do, print every email that I type and all of the data that I want to send into an image that uses this font and just send the image? I'm not convinced that would slow the NSA down as much as it would impact the people I was trying to send it to, not to mention the potential for errors in receiving messages. I'll stick with my one time pad software.
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Yea. we didn't know about it. We were too busy reading everyone's emails. Ignorance of the law is our excuse. Give us a tax break, which simply means that the average citizens pay more than the people who spy on them. The irony here is that they were only 3-4 months from completion, "AT THE TIME" and are less now. So it wasn't like they were going to leave the state, walk away from all of the money already spent, and let the citizens go without someone to spy on them. They would have paid the tax, they just didn't like it. Glad to know that everyone else there must like it. I guess the Utah state constitution doesn't have any sort of equal protection clause that would prevent giving this unfair treatment to some but not to others (mine does, but it is ignored when inconvenient).
In all fairness, Google was in favor of net neutrality before they became evil. Things are different on the dark side.
No idiot, it's a trip.
Finally. Nice to get a little good news in my day, even if the issue doesn't affect me directly. I firmly believe this kind of thing should happen much more often (think SCO, for just one example).
On the other hand, as these researchers learned, if you notify the company, they can get a court order against you. If you let the cat out of the bag without notifying them them, they can't really stop you. And if you figured it out, there is a good chance that the company knows about it already anyway. They simply don't have any incentive to correct it unless they know that the general public knows about it too.
It sure is a good thing that England controls the entire Internet and that no one anywhere will be able to publish this information now.
I just looked at it. I need an account with them to encrypt my files? And it seems that my files may even transfer to them before encryption and after decryption. or am I missing something? And the video even is narrated by someone with a foreign accent and shows the names of encrypted files change to something that looks like Chinese????? If I'm going to encrypt my files for security or safety or even privacy, I'm certainly going to do it on my own computers, not with something where I need an "account" with someone else to have them encrypted. Adding a layer of encryption would be nice (although likely not good enough to protect ITAR data properly), but doing it after the data leaves the computer is just crazy talk.
Those fringe conspiracy wackos are the same one who say that there are UFOs, point out strange things about the moon landing, don't believe the government story about Timothy McVeigh and Oklahoma City, question how building 6 collapsed at the World Trade center when it wasn't even hit by a plane, question the government's story about TWA 700, claimed that Bill Clinton was having "sex with that woman " when even Hillary assured us they were crazy, and think that the NSA is spying on all Americans and invading our privacy. Ignore anything they say, because we have labeled them "fringe" and "conspiracy theorists". Just go back to your flock and let us restart Haarp. Nothing to see here. Move on.
Obama: "Matthew Weaver rigged an election to steal an office. He could have been me."
And for Colorado they have been building some small ones that they cover with feathers and disguise as bald eagles.
Don't be fooled by those insidious drones that the government has been building lately that are disguised as Cessnas, Piper Cubs, and local news helicopters.
There are plenty of sellers on there at least representing themselves as selling single units or low quantities directly to U.S consumers.
Just this afternoon I opened my first dispute with Alibaba. This was on my first received shipment through them. Actually my second order, but the first order still has not been received. I got the package on Monday but the enclose item was not at all as advertised. I wrote to the seller on Monday but two full business days later I still had no response and Alibaba wanted to close out the payment so I tried to open the dispute. Interesting to note that your detailed explanation of the problem is artificially limited to 512 characters. You are encouraged to include attachments and they mention correspondence, but the attachments will not accept text files. (Almost like they don't really want the details). And they all know it will be too expensive with US International postage charges to return the item.
You gotta give them credit. Most of use remember the stories of Alibaba and his forty "business associates". This has got to be one of the best choices in names since years ago when a similar American fencing organization wanted to call themselves "The Electronic Bay of Thieves" but it was pointed out that this was too long and hard to type correctly and they decided to shorten it.
Assuming that Safe Mode is a mode that the owner can turn off and on, isn't that just the same as just not going to the porn sites? At least if you are the owner and an adult and not playing the "think of the children" game?
His offer sounds like he either wants to impose his values on others, or he knows that such "safe surfing" isn't really technically feasible so he can make to offer to sound like he's a decent guy rather than a pervert trying to profit big.
But will it run Android?
The "Stand your ground law" isn't really a factor when someone jumps you, pounds your head against the cement, is on top of you and reaches for a gun, even your gun. And if you're ever in that situation and waste time considering if it does, then you will likely not survive. This was clear cut self-defense, as the evidence showed.
Other evidence showed it was racially motivated. The guy's own girlfriend testified that he called Zimmerman a "cracker" before the attack. And the judge excluded evidence of his interest in violence and attacking people, but anyone paying attention outside the jury caught that.
The cops didn't even want to arrest Zimmerman, they investigated and knew enough about what happened to understand he shouldn't be charged with a crime. He was only charged after a lot of blacks fired up the black community to send a message to other black youths that it is alright to attack and try to kill a "cracker", and if he defends himself we can get him arrested.
Gotta go now and research just what that information was that the D.A. illegally hid from the defense. That alone pretty much should tell you this wasn't a attempt to get justice, it was an attempt to convict an innocent man who was attacked.
You're omitting a key concept about price that I've seen many fools around me exploit. If they are managing a big project that has software costs of millions a year then they must be very important. If I'm managing a project that only costs the company a hundred thousand or so in software costs a year then I must be less important. It really doesn't seem to matter if my project does more or is actually more critical to the operation of the company, those are concepts that are too abstract for upper management to understand. So if you want your department to look important then waste as much money as you can.
I've visited the "blog" but I can't find any link for the "audio file". Has anyone found it? Anyone have the link?
Yea, I use those lockers all the time. Get a buck off my $8 big gulp. Keep my phone in my pocket so that I don't miss any calls. That way I don't have to waste time getting my phone out when the movie ends and the crowds all try to claim their phones. And I get a nice locker key out of the deal too. If I remember to bring it next time I can even use it for another huge savings off of my reasonably priced drink without having to buy another discount key.
Ah! Grasshopper! When you can snatch the phone from my hands it will be time for you to leave.
The dark and evil world that you envision presents no risk or tangible costs to me. My credit card company and Visa assume all of those risks. Sure, you might argue that there are hidden costs that are passed along to all customers when credit cards are used, but costs would hit me anyway, even if I just paid cash (and I don't get 1% back when I pay cash). And if you really think that way then let me assure you that Clinkle and it's investors are out to make a buck too, so in the end this will just mean higher prices that are passed along to the consumer.
The Wall Street Journal mentions Clinkle having some 30-odd employees already.
But how many normal employees do they have?
And why exactly would I want a product where I have to provide my own terminal to run their code and use my own capped data to support their service? Can't imagine any benefit to the actual consumer over just using my plastic card.
Let me fix that for you. No one wants to live in SF if they are straight. The gays do.
Boy, not sure what I'm more excited about. The "What's the Vic's net worth?" facial recognition application for Google Glass or this great new tool for burglars.
At a moment when governments and corporations alike are hellbent on snooping through your personal digital messages, it'd sure be nice if there was a font their dragnets couldn't decipher.
It is just a font! If I'm sending a digital message, as the intent of this article states, then it hardly matters what font I want it displayed in. What am I expected to do, print every email that I type and all of the data that I want to send into an image that uses this font and just send the image? I'm not convinced that would slow the NSA down as much as it would impact the people I was trying to send it to, not to mention the potential for errors in receiving messages. I'll stick with my one time pad software.