GCSB. Government Communications Security Bureau. NZ's CIA/MI5/MI6 equivalent
The police got the spooks to do it, presumably because police snooping would have needed permission from a judge.
But GCSB can spy on foreigners freely, which makes it all legal. This reasoning has been lambasted on billboards by a beer company.
So now the GCSB is facing ugly questions about what is they actually do and why we even need spooks since they are just a police dirty trick and tool for the US.
Let me get this right:
Because they had lots of outside contractors working on the control systems they have lots of disparate control systems, and they are going to solve this by getting an outside contractor to write a new control system?
Does anyone else see the inherent flaw in this plan?
Please Google, please please please, label it the Persian Gulf.
Everything that is Persia pre-dates Islam and shows that Persia was great without the help of Allah.
Long before the mullahs Persia ruled most of the civilised world in the west, with the mullahs its a bit player in a sideshow.
Everything Persian undermines the regime in Tehran, so...
Please Google, please please please, label it the Persian Gulf. And call the middle east "greater Persia", and Afghanistan Inland Persia, and Tehran the Persian Capital, and Iran the Persian Empire.
Also, can we sell Greece back to Persia? They wanted it a while back and its really no use to us anymore?
Tell me why trademarks need continual work to maintain, and patents worth BILLIONS last only 20 years but copyright lasts over a hundred years for NO MORE EFFORT THAN INITIAL CREATION.
What is so special about Walt Disney and Stephanie Meyers that they trump Steve Jobs and Arthur C Clarke?
Why are Arthur C Clarke's awesome books SOOO much more awesome than inventing geosynchronous satellites?
How come modern telephones are dependent on Hettie Lamar's expired and now worthless patent but her forgotten films are still "valuable"?
Until it comes from your boss, it's only a request and you can say "no".
If you're proud of the application, and you think it might help some people you know, by all means tell people about it.
Until it's an order and you disagree with the text of that order, you don't have a problem.
If it is an order and you disagree with the statement, then you have to consider whether that damage to your reputation is excessive given the consequences of not complying.
"spent eight years slaving over a bottle opener that quickly and neatly extracts all the cork along with the wire restraint and foil wrapping from a champagne bottle."
Hardly sounds like an easy job, or much like a buggy whip.
By the way, NZ law specifically excludes inventions that have been patented elsewhere, so patenting 'extrapolate one obscure datapoint to generalise millions' is probably blocked by the yankee precedent.
Beautifully said sir. I applaud your erudite and insightful analysis of the situation, and pray that many will follow example of pecuniary support to a just cause.
What more precautionary measures could Megaupload have taken?
They are a non-USA company, operating outside the USA, with executives living outside the USA. And even if they had a spare 25 petabytes of storage for co-location, somewhere other than outside the USA(???), the USA would have seized that as well.
Most of the best investigative journalism has been thru some form of misrepresentation. Like the journalist pretending to be mad to expose the horrors of early twentieth century asylums...
The Yanks are so lame in their security assessments: did drugs 30 years ago; not a communist; has human failings. None of these matter, being communist would actually make him more useful to a strong central government in some roles.
How about: totally committed to Apple; completely inappropriate for the job; polarizing figure; much more useful as an entrepreneur; will make the best damn product in the world and alienate 75% of the people doing so.
Speaking as a longtime Apple fanboi and iPad owner:
Whoops, bwahahahahaha!
Oh well, At least Apple only missed a trademark in one country (Taiwan+China are technically the same country). With a trademark as simple as "iPad", that's pretty good.
For comparison wasn't there a company that accidentally infringed Ireland?
Apple and Microsoft cross-licensed many years ago.
The current problems are from a predominately computer industry company moving into the telecoms sector as a predominately telecoms sector company moves into the computer industry. The 2 different ways of doing business, cross-licensing versus common standards over expensive infrastructure, are clashing spectacularly.
Which one will win? I don't know but I hope software patents die.
This is a silly argument: PCs have programs, they should be sold in ProgStores.
Apple has always talked about Applications: even the file type was APPL.
Partly I'm sure this was an in-joke (is APPL short for APPLication or APPLe?) but it's in their programming and UI design books, the file system, and the Mac API.
Meanwhile PCs have the "Programs" menu and the "Program Files" directory. API-wise there is no program concept that I know of, only windows. So an App store for a PC or Windows tablet would be silly and confusing.
Google can call the android executables what it likes but if it uses Programs or Applications then it's copying Microsoft or Apple respectively. Android Units maybe?
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GCSB. Government Communications Security Bureau. NZ's CIA/MI5/MI6 equivalent
The police got the spooks to do it, presumably because police snooping would have needed permission from a judge.
But GCSB can spy on foreigners freely, which makes it all legal. This reasoning has been lambasted on billboards by a beer company.
So now the GCSB is facing ugly questions about what is they actually do and why we even need spooks since they are just a police dirty trick and tool for the US.
But since all that money would pay for NZ Government for the next 1000yrs, LETS DO IT!
Let me get this right:
Because they had lots of outside contractors working on the control systems they have lots of disparate control systems, and they are going to solve this by getting an outside contractor to write a new control system?
Does anyone else see the inherent flaw in this plan?
Please Google, please please please, label it the Persian Gulf.
Everything that is Persia pre-dates Islam and shows that Persia was great without the help of Allah.
Long before the mullahs Persia ruled most of the civilised world in the west, with the mullahs its a bit player in a sideshow.
Everything Persian undermines the regime in Tehran, so...
Please Google, please please please, label it the Persian Gulf. And call the middle east "greater Persia", and Afghanistan Inland Persia, and Tehran the Persian Capital, and Iran the Persian Empire.
Also, can we sell Greece back to Persia? They wanted it a while back and its really no use to us anymore?
Most everyone is happy about 20 year patents.
Hardly anyone thinks no copyright is a good idea. And the exceptions are mostly hippy crazies that we can ignore.
The problem is that copyright is excessive for the purposes for which it was created.
Tell me why trademarks need continual work to maintain, and patents worth BILLIONS last only 20 years but copyright lasts over a hundred years for NO MORE EFFORT THAN INITIAL CREATION.
What is so special about Walt Disney and Stephanie Meyers that they trump Steve Jobs and Arthur C Clarke?
Why are Arthur C Clarke's awesome books SOOO much more awesome than inventing geosynchronous satellites?
How come modern telephones are dependent on Hettie Lamar's expired and now worthless patent but her forgotten films are still "valuable"?
third option: enclose the astroturfing in astroturf tags
<astroturf>XYZ App is the greatest thing ever. It completely paradigm shifted my synergy</astroturf>
You've complied with the company request and made it obvious that it is not your own writing/feelings.
if they interpret that as a threat that is their problem.
If you're proud of the application, and you think it might help some people you know, by all means tell people about it.
Until it's an order and you disagree with the text of that order, you don't have a problem.
If it is an order and you disagree with the statement, then you have to consider whether that damage to your reputation is excessive given the consequences of not complying.
"spent eight years slaving over a bottle opener that quickly and neatly extracts all the cork along with the wire restraint and foil wrapping from a champagne bottle."
Hardly sounds like an easy job, or much like a buggy whip.
By the way, NZ law specifically excludes inventions that have been patented elsewhere, so patenting 'extrapolate one obscure datapoint to generalise millions' is probably blocked by the yankee precedent.
Beautifully said sir. I applaud your erudite and insightful analysis of the situation, and pray that many will follow example of pecuniary support to a just cause.
What more precautionary measures could Megaupload have taken? They are a non-USA company, operating outside the USA, with executives living outside the USA. And even if they had a spare 25 petabytes of storage for co-location, somewhere other than outside the USA(???), the USA would have seized that as well.
How does "acquitted" make it a grey area?
Most of the best investigative journalism has been thru some form of misrepresentation. Like the journalist pretending to be mad to expose the horrors of early twentieth century asylums...
Ok, I'll bite.
Christ is an inspirational person with some really interesting teachings, but not the Son of God.
Bullsh*t!
Inalienable rights are the basic requirements for all people to have a reasonable chance of enjoying their lives within society.
Religion has absolutely FA to do with it.
Hah! Being America's friend is much better than being his enemy ... or ally.
Etymological Fallacy.
Just because the 3 religions started from the same point does NOT mean they arrived at the same destination.
"I know we're supposed to hate the commies..."
As most Americans define it, this means hating most other countries in the world.
The Yanks are so lame in their security assessments: did drugs 30 years ago; not a communist; has human failings. None of these matter, being communist would actually make him more useful to a strong central government in some roles.
How about: totally committed to Apple; completely inappropriate for the job; polarizing figure; much more useful as an entrepreneur; will make the best damn product in the world and alienate 75% of the people doing so.
Speaking as a longtime Apple fanboi and iPad owner:
Whoops, bwahahahahaha!
Oh well, At least Apple only missed a trademark in one country (Taiwan+China are technically the same country). With a trademark as simple as "iPad", that's pretty good.
For comparison wasn't there a company that accidentally infringed Ireland?
Used to stop speeding driver in 10, 9, 8,...
Apple and Microsoft cross-licensed many years ago.
The current problems are from a predominately computer industry company moving into the telecoms sector as a predominately telecoms sector company moves into the computer industry. The 2 different ways of doing business, cross-licensing versus common standards over expensive infrastructure, are clashing spectacularly.
Which one will win? I don't know but I hope software patents die.
This is a silly argument: PCs have programs, they should be sold in ProgStores.
Apple has always talked about Applications: even the file type was APPL.
Partly I'm sure this was an in-joke (is APPL short for APPLication or APPLe?) but it's in their programming and UI design books, the file system, and the Mac API.
Meanwhile PCs have the "Programs" menu and the "Program Files" directory. API-wise there is no program concept that I know of, only windows. So an App store for a PC or Windows tablet would be silly and confusing.
Google can call the android executables what it likes but if it uses Programs or Applications then it's copying Microsoft or Apple respectively. Android Units maybe?
Nah, Samsung ripped it off, even where they aren't constrained they did the same thing.
Green phone icons when they had literally millions of colours available?
And using icons in the exact the same way as Apple.
Even Microsoft tried to be different with Metro and they've made BILLIONS from copying everything from everybody.
Apple is using design patents for a crime called "passing off" here: essentially Samsung are pretending to be Apple to confuse customers.