"Anything transmitted online - whether it be VOIP or cleartext or whatever - can be tapped"
I would dispute this. Or do you mean "They could tap it given several centuries and all the computing power on the earth" ?
Some of encryption is that good, and no I don't believe that the secret, shadowy, magical NSA have backdoors in every encryption library on the planet.
I do roam the countryside, sometimes I'm out of signal range for days or (very occasionally) weeks. Pinning would require knowing in advance what I want to listen to.
I will investigate this Google Music of which you speak, it sounds interesting, but I'm not sure it's a perfect fit for me.
I like to put my music collection on things. It's currently around the 50GB mark. This is why I like things with micro SD slots because a 64GB card is only ~70 bucks these days. 50 bucks for 8 is ludicrous.
I was worried about pocketability, and like the author of TFA I started looking for a small, powerful phone. I'm now extremely glad I didn't buy one, the screen on my Note is beautiful. It also goes in my jeans pocket just fine.
Well, then your definition of sports bears little to do with current competitive sporting events or the people that take part in them, which is kinda what TFA was about.
Because I was getting the impression that the point of sports was to shift more Big Macs and pitchers of Coke, while a bunch of highly trained athletes were put to the test trying to best each other at slipping performance enhancers under the radar.
What do you mean by "anything which weakens the US" ?
Because from where I'm watching, continued abuse of the US political system by monied interests (be they civilian or military-industrial) is weakening the US, weakening it's freedoms, weakening its civil rights, and weakening the prosperity of the majority of its people.
And now I look at the comment history it turns out to be the same moron, what d'you know.
I repeat, if you were managing developers "before agile" that weren't already using these things then you and they were incompetent. Not agile or waterfall, not old or new way of doing things, but simply incompetent.
It was forced on us by "hip and trendy" managers who saw it as a way to get more frequent status reports (i.e. pretty much daily) and try to get more work out of people (it's agile! Crunch time is every sprint!).
Not that I hate working that way, I like the morning meetings when they're conducted correctly, but it's not a panacea. Neither is it really anything new AFAICT, it's just waterfall with shorter iterations.
It implies there was value in it in the first place.
Oh, you mean value for advertisers to report to their bosses how well they were doing because so many people 'like' their stuff. Seriously? That's the best metric you assholes have at the moment?
What's not clear from the article is what was in it for the fake or foreign accounts that 'like' things regardless - is this facebook pretending that advertising there works or is this third party likers with am unknown agenda?
That's not what you said though, is it? You said -
"My evidence is my brother with shrapnel in his face from an RPG that barely missed him, plus multiple concussions alongside his three tours overseas."
I'm not arguing that they're not The Bad Guys(TM), I'm just saying that your statement of evidence there was pretty worthless.
No offence meant to your brother here, but your evidence that the Taliban is evil is that your brother, a foreign soldier and member of an occupying army, has been attacked?
Yeah, it's kind of sickening hearing about them. They start some sort of idea, often one that's been done before and better, and then put a hell of a lot of effort into trying to find VC investors dumb enough to fund them while they polish it enough to sell it and perform a 'successful exit'.
Kings, emperors, priests, dictators and all other types of power-seeking politicians, who drag a country to war seemingly over little more than a bad case of butthurt, maybe then we could have some sort of peace without the MAD.
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"Anything transmitted online - whether it be VOIP or cleartext or whatever - can be tapped"
I would dispute this. Or do you mean "They could tap it given several centuries and all the computing power on the earth" ?
Some of encryption is that good, and no I don't believe that the secret, shadowy, magical NSA have backdoors in every encryption library on the planet.
I do roam the countryside, sometimes I'm out of signal range for days or (very occasionally) weeks. Pinning would require knowing in advance what I want to listen to.
I will investigate this Google Music of which you speak, it sounds interesting, but I'm not sure it's a perfect fit for me.
For you perhaps.
I like to put my music collection on things. It's currently around the 50GB mark. This is why I like things with micro SD slots because a 64GB card is only ~70 bucks these days. 50 bucks for 8 is ludicrous.
Because death threats are serious business?
Seems pretty obvious to me.
Should be more than blackmail, this is harassment and a direct threat of harm, which I'm pretty sure is illegal in a large variety of ways.
The police *should* be chasing this one pretty hard as it will have scared the pants off more than a few people. They probably won't though.
Likewise.
I was worried about pocketability, and like the author of TFA I started looking for a small, powerful phone. I'm now extremely glad I didn't buy one, the screen on my Note is beautiful. It also goes in my jeans pocket just fine.
Other people's phones now look like toys to me.
Well, then your definition of sports bears little to do with current competitive sporting events or the people that take part in them, which is kinda what TFA was about.
I don't disagree, by the way :)
Really?
Because I was getting the impression that the point of sports was to shift more Big Macs and pitchers of Coke, while a bunch of highly trained athletes were put to the test trying to best each other at slipping performance enhancers under the radar.
What do you mean by "anything which weakens the US" ?
Because from where I'm watching, continued abuse of the US political system by monied interests (be they civilian or military-industrial) is weakening the US, weakening it's freedoms, weakening its civil rights, and weakening the prosperity of the majority of its people.
And now I look at the comment history it turns out to be the same moron, what d'you know.
I repeat, if you were managing developers "before agile" that weren't already using these things then you and they were incompetent. Not agile or waterfall, not old or new way of doing things, but simply incompetent.
No, I don't think you can have anything you can remotely call a development process without them, that's what I think.
Sorry if it wasn't clear, but the moron I was responding too seems to think that these items are unique to an agile way of working. That is incorrect.
WOW. You think unit testing and *source control* are properties of an Agile workflow?
No, they are the properties of a competent engineer or engineering team and have been since long before agile.
Nope.
Given your comments on source control, you shouldn't be managing anything.
Strange, I actually socialise with all the people on my friends list, but then it's about 35 people long and consists only of actual friends.
You must be thinking of someone else with your snarky comment.
It was forced on us by "hip and trendy" managers who saw it as a way to get more frequent status reports (i.e. pretty much daily) and try to get more work out of people (it's agile! Crunch time is every sprint!).
Not that I hate working that way, I like the morning meetings when they're conducted correctly, but it's not a panacea. Neither is it really anything new AFAICT, it's just waterfall with shorter iterations.
It implies there was value in it in the first place.
Oh, you mean value for advertisers to report to their bosses how well they were doing because so many people 'like' their stuff. Seriously? That's the best metric you assholes have at the moment?
What's not clear from the article is what was in it for the fake or foreign accounts that 'like' things regardless - is this facebook pretending that advertising there works or is this third party likers with am unknown agenda?
No true Scotsman huh?
Funny how all small scale tribal communities have those issues though, isn't it?
Why would you say Samsung when the Nexus 7 is made by Asus?
That's because it's very much like current democracy - it's the worst system except for all the others we've come up with.
That's not what you said though, is it? You said -
Oh for god's sake.
I wasn't saying the Taliban aren't evil or that the US is, I was saying his standard for evidence of that was ludicrous.
Try reading comprehension sometime.
No offence meant to your brother here, but your evidence that the Taliban is evil is that your brother, a foreign soldier and member of an occupying army, has been attacked?
Wow.
Yeah, it's kind of sickening hearing about them. They start some sort of idea, often one that's been done before and better, and then put a hell of a lot of effort into trying to find VC investors dumb enough to fund them while they polish it enough to sell it and perform a 'successful exit'.
Kings, emperors, priests, dictators and all other types of power-seeking politicians, who drag a country to war seemingly over little more than a bad case of butthurt, maybe then we could have some sort of peace without the MAD.
Yup, both Pauls are crackpots with some downright evil ideas. Libertarian(ish) when it suits them, old fashioned religious nutjob at other times.
Not that libertarianism is a good idea anyway, but these guys aren't even that.
If you're working for MS then you have options beside "suck it up" and "starve in a stinking pit"