Considering the current political and social climate is ruled by politicians that clueless fucktards like this 'marlor' voted for, it's best practice to assume an NSL compromise.
So would less ad hominem and more critical thinking. If people of your sort hadn't elected the past two administrations into power, we wouldn't have this problem in the first place.
There are plenty of the faux intellectual type liberals here, more than enough to offset the smaller but very vocal libertarian contingent. There are few if any neocons here.
I'm a boss. There are lots of right people. The right person is someone who can get along with all the OTHER people. Aptitude is not as important as attitude. Yours is kind of selfish and cynical. I'd hire a woman over you. She's more likely to be a team player. It's a stereotype, but....
This might explain why so many products and services today cost too much and fail to deliver. Attitude without aptitude is worthless unless your goal is to throw a sterile party for the perpetually offended. People who are 'team players' are far less likely to come up with unique ideas about anything. They're too busy spending their cycles on social conformance.
I don't think I can stress this enough. For the vast majority of positions, there are plenty of people who can do the job I need them to do. There are no rock stars needed. We have rock stars. They cause problems and unneeded stress. I need bright motivated people who get along well. One asshole ruins motivation for everyone.
or maybe you're causing your 'rock stars' unneeded stress by surrounding them with intellectually mediocre but nice people. These situations are quite common, usually with the 'rock star' doing 90% of the workload while the 'nice' people spend most of the day talking instead of working. Of course, when it's time to take credit, these 'nice' people line up, and being photogenic and 'nice', they fool idiot bosses like you into thinking they did the work. Eventually, you fire the 'negative nancy' and then wonder why suddenly you're behind schedule. You beg the guy to come back, and he agrees, for 2.5x the pay as a consultant. It's managers like you who should be fired.
That's why we need diversity. That's why we need people with emotional intelligence. Then there's the whole "diversity of experiences helps come up with clever solutions to the problems we are trying to overcome." thing, which is really really important.
The definition of 'diversity' used by these PC professional victims only works one way. They have no problem with all female run organizations, just all male run organizations. 'emotional intelligence' is newspeak for feelings-before-logic. That's hardly a talent worth seeking. Rooms full of 'emotionally intelligent' people spend most of their O2 talking instead of working. The most insufferable kind are the faux intellectual types who sophistize about everything, telling the 'rock star' how to do his job when they know almost nothing.
..or maybe you need to grow a thicker skin and quit expecting society to coddle you to your grave. Since we're not in your office, we have no idea if you're really being objective or you just want others to conform to your expectations. Smart people are an eclectic bunch. They will NOT necessarily conform to your social whims.
Of course it does. The biggest systemic and pervasive form of it is in the way 'equal opportunity' laws are enforced.
I guess your definition of 'good' is different from others. Lay off the doctrine a bit and realize your preferences are subjective. Be tolerant of the diversity that comes from the power of individuals of various stripes choosing their own paths. Expecting equal distribution for race, sex, orientation, etc across all walks of life is insanity in such a model.
..and if they're choosing men because they're men, or women because they're women, or gays because they're gay, or straights because they're straight, they're bigoted assholes according to the affirmative action model. The affirmative action CROWD, however, won't cry wolf if white and/or straight and/or male is selected against.
that makes no sense whatsoever when the politically correct premise is that attributes like race, sex and orientation aren't supposed to be relevant to job skillset. I wonder if the study was biased in order to promote more affirmative action.
The point is that you cannot trust microsoft because it's an obvious target for an NSL. You asked me to trust them just because "they would not knowingly backdoor bitlocker". What kind of proof is that? For all I know you're paid to shame/defame people like me to get others to use the software.. If you're going to use crypto it pays to be a bit paranoid. Real security is self evident and intrinsic. Shaming language that may hide possible smoke and mirrors is not.
You're right, there's no guarantee for TC, but at least the source is available which grants the possibility of code review. That alone puts it ahead of microsoft and other closed solutions.
Legal this legal that. At the end of the day, the only people who care about that are government sellouts anyway (which microsoft is most certainly). If my company had data that was even remotely interesting to governments I would not trust bitlocker worth a damn...at least not by itself. As far as liability is concerned, I don't consider any software truly reliable. I assume it will fail at some point, wherein the vendor will kick in its "we're not liable" clause that's in their license...you know, like microsoft's?
If microsoft truly cared about their customers they would unite with them against the feds, along with google, apple, and the wireless telcos.. Of course, they're all in bed with them instead.
You think they're not monitoring that too? It runs over the same lines.. It would also be illegal. eventually. Would you, with a cushy career, risk it all for this? For every snowden there thousands who wouldn't.
Eventually what will happen is that any country that is out of conformance will simply be cut from the network...or bought off. Passive resistance like that only works for so long.
Just remember that before snowden, the people here saying the things snowden has revealed were labeled as paranoid delusionals by the pro-government 'progressive' radiant socialist future types.
Yeah, well when a government routinely violates the laws that are supposed to restrict its power in order to maintain liberty, there's a good reason to be concerned and suspicious of future motives.
I don't buy into this optimism/cynicism dichotomy. I buy into a truth/honesty vs bullshit/lies dichotomy. Reality is how it is, and while it is malleable in some ways, it is not in others. Many times people equate the latter as bad news or 'cynicism' rather than a reality check, and don't listen.
1. no control over purchase as it can be revoked at any time for any reason. 2. even the best internet streams hitch, lag, and drop frames. 3. complexity: the majority of nontechnical people understand the concept of placing a disk in a tray and hitting play. 4. value proposition. I won't pay $20 for a movie I can't really own.
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Yes. It would be started by the NSA and use a few bought developers as a honey pot to draw 'open participation.' Who would know?
Considering the current political and social climate is ruled by politicians that clueless fucktards like this 'marlor' voted for, it's best practice to assume an NSL compromise.
So would less ad hominem and more critical thinking. If people of your sort hadn't elected the past two administrations into power, we wouldn't have this problem in the first place.
What does the first change prove?
Unless the bitlocker master keys leak (or are bruteforced in the future)..
There are plenty of the faux intellectual type liberals here, more than enough to offset the smaller but very vocal libertarian contingent. There are few if any neocons here.
I'm a boss. There are lots of right people. The right person is someone who can get along with all the OTHER people. Aptitude is not as important as attitude. Yours is kind of selfish and cynical. I'd hire a woman over you. She's more likely to be a team player. It's a stereotype, but....
This might explain why so many products and services today cost too much and fail to deliver. Attitude without aptitude is worthless unless your goal is to throw a sterile party for the perpetually offended. People who are 'team players' are far less likely to come up with unique ideas about anything. They're too busy spending their cycles on social conformance.
I don't think I can stress this enough. For the vast majority of positions, there are plenty of people who can do the job I need them to do. There are no rock stars needed. We have rock stars. They cause problems and unneeded stress. I need bright motivated people who get along well. One asshole ruins motivation for everyone.
or maybe you're causing your 'rock stars' unneeded stress by surrounding them with intellectually mediocre but nice people. These situations are quite common, usually with the 'rock star' doing 90% of the workload while the 'nice' people spend most of the day talking instead of working. Of course, when it's time to take credit, these 'nice' people line up, and being photogenic and 'nice', they fool idiot bosses like you into thinking they did the work. Eventually, you fire the 'negative nancy' and then wonder why suddenly you're behind schedule. You beg the guy to come back, and he agrees, for 2.5x the pay as a consultant. It's managers like you who should be fired.
That's why we need diversity. That's why we need people with emotional intelligence. Then there's the whole "diversity of experiences helps come up with clever solutions to the problems we are trying to overcome." thing, which is really really important.
The definition of 'diversity' used by these PC professional victims only works one way. They have no problem with all female run organizations, just all male run organizations. 'emotional intelligence' is newspeak for feelings-before-logic. That's hardly a talent worth seeking. Rooms full of 'emotionally intelligent' people spend most of their O2 talking instead of working. The most insufferable kind are the faux intellectual types who sophistize about everything, telling the 'rock star' how to do his job when they know almost nothing.
..or maybe you need to grow a thicker skin and quit expecting society to coddle you to your grave. Since we're not in your office, we have no idea if you're really being objective or you just want others to conform to your expectations. Smart people are an eclectic bunch. They will NOT necessarily conform to your social whims.
Of course it does. The biggest systemic and pervasive form of it is in the way 'equal opportunity' laws are enforced.
I guess your definition of 'good' is different from others. Lay off the doctrine a bit and realize your preferences are subjective. Be tolerant of the diversity that comes from the power of individuals of various stripes choosing their own paths. Expecting equal distribution for race, sex, orientation, etc across all walks of life is insanity in such a model.
..and if they're choosing men because they're men, or women because they're women, or gays because they're gay, or straights because they're straight, they're bigoted assholes according to the affirmative action model. The affirmative action CROWD, however, won't cry wolf if white and/or straight and/or male is selected against.
Yeah.. most of the students there are asian, not white. Of course this breaks down the whole leftist 'white fright' model.
that makes no sense whatsoever when the politically correct premise is that attributes like race, sex and orientation aren't supposed to be relevant to job skillset. I wonder if the study was biased in order to promote more affirmative action.
Perhaps you should use the browser that comes with sega saturn..
I ride too. Every ounce does count when riding long distances, especially when you've got a backpack on.
Seems a bit big and bulky for a bicycle rider, where every ounce counts.
The point is that you cannot trust microsoft because it's an obvious target for an NSL. You asked me to trust them just because "they would not knowingly backdoor bitlocker". What kind of proof is that? For all I know you're paid to shame/defame people like me to get others to use the software.. If you're going to use crypto it pays to be a bit paranoid. Real security is self evident and intrinsic. Shaming language that may hide possible smoke and mirrors is not.
You're right, there's no guarantee for TC, but at least the source is available which grants the possibility of code review. That alone puts it ahead of microsoft and other closed solutions.
Legal this legal that. At the end of the day, the only people who care about that are government sellouts anyway (which microsoft is most certainly). If my company had data that was even remotely interesting to governments I would not trust bitlocker worth a damn...at least not by itself. As far as liability is concerned, I don't consider any software truly reliable. I assume it will fail at some point, wherein the vendor will kick in its "we're not liable" clause that's in their license...you know, like microsoft's?
If microsoft truly cared about their customers they would unite with them against the feds, along with google, apple, and the wireless telcos.. Of course, they're all in bed with them instead.
You think they're not monitoring that too? It runs over the same lines.. It would also be illegal. eventually. Would you, with a cushy career, risk it all for this? For every snowden there thousands who wouldn't.
Eventually what will happen is that any country that is out of conformance will simply be cut from the network...or bought off. Passive resistance like that only works for so long.
No, but if discs go the way of vhs, it'll be the only option as they'll be heavily drm'd.
I have a better idea. If you're concerned about STDs, don't have sex. That's the best defense against society's lack of self control with sex.
Just remember that before snowden, the people here saying the things snowden has revealed were labeled as paranoid delusionals by the pro-government 'progressive' radiant socialist future types.
Yeah, well when a government routinely violates the laws that are supposed to restrict its power in order to maintain liberty, there's a good reason to be concerned and suspicious of future motives.
I don't buy into this optimism/cynicism dichotomy. I buy into a truth/honesty vs bullshit/lies dichotomy. Reality is how it is, and while it is malleable in some ways, it is not in others. Many times people equate the latter as bad news or 'cynicism' rather than a reality check, and don't listen.
All this 'stuff' we keep adding is already duplicated by local operating systems. It's not necessary. Fuck SaaS.
1. no control over purchase as it can be revoked at any time for any reason.
2. even the best internet streams hitch, lag, and drop frames.
3. complexity: the majority of nontechnical people understand the concept of placing a disk in a tray and hitting play.
4. value proposition. I won't pay $20 for a movie I can't really own.
Good to know you have stairs in your house, citizen. You will be protected from the terrible secret of space.