Microsoft really wants everyone's keystrokes, don't they? What other rationale is there to spend even $1 on a company that develops and maintains a product only to give it away to its customers free of charge? If decide to ever go back to Android, it'll be stock keyboards for me from here on out!
Thank you! I get this all the time from people. No matter what someone says, they get the classic ad hominem attack thrown at them. Do I like the NSA? Not particularly, after everything I've seen. Do I believe anything the government has to say about most topics? Generally, no. But this man is correct, and his message is correct: "Arguing against encryption is a waste of time."
We can wax intellectual all day long about whether we think he has ulterior motives for coming out with that message, or whether the organizations he's associated with can ultimately be trusted, but the message is correct and we need to champion it. So others can see it, read it, hear it, reference it; get the message out there to the non-believers. In the end, whether they have broken all known forms of encryption or not, arguing against it is indeed a waste of time.
Blindly disagreeing with someone because they're "the NSA" means, in this case, that you have to make the argument that "Arguing against encryption is a worthwhile endeavor", and that's just stupid.
I offer another proposal to Chairman Wheeler: allow the carriers to choose between common carrier status (with all its legal protections) and, what, data portal status maybe (with zero liability protections for transmitted content). If Verizon, Comcast, et al want to snoop traffic, then they should be legally on the hook for the content of that traffic. If they don't want to be liable for every possible copyright violation or prohibited content flowing through their network, then they damn well better choose to be dumb pipes.
I agree whole-heartedly. However, this uses an incorrect assumption. The assumption being that we still have a functioning republic with a just legal system. We don't, it's been usurped and the big boys just make up the rules as they go.
Once you understand that, the problem is this: given the option they'll gladly choose to be a "data portal". Of course, they won't be held liable for *every* possible copyright infringement or prohibited content that flows through the network, only the content deemed by the corporate overlords and elitists to be dangerous. At which point such content will be banished from the network. This will happen every time a slave gets uppity and creates or consumes content that is dangerous to their complete control over the population.
The "fines" for allowing the banished content will always be a slap on the wrist, putting on airs for all us proles to feel good about. Unless, of course, people who know better stand up now, not now but RIGHT NOW, and demand an end to all of this nonsense. But time's running short; a few more years and there won't be many of us left who understand what the free, open internetwork is supposed to look like, and once the network's gone full-on cable-TV replacement, we've lost for good.
Go fuck yourself. I own an iPhone and a MacBook, which I love and use every day, and am seriously considering voting for Trump. I am not a luddite, nor a troglodyte, and neither inbred nor uneducated.
You're playing right into their hands. Trump is a bit of a blowhard, and he consistently says things that, when taken out of context or provided in a 5 second sound bite, sound completely ludicrous.
He's using Apple computer as an example of a company that has (for better or worse) gotten filthy rich off of slave labor and overseas production while Americans here at home are out of work. I happen agree with him that we need to build things here again. Make things in the United States that we can take pride in. We really *can* do those things here. There are plenty of other examples besides Apple of companies that use the current arrangement to their benefit, not just Apple.
But as long as people like you can reduce someone who happens to agree that we should see what we can do about making things, something, here at home again to "neo fascist piles of human excrement", we all lose. I'm not a Republican (nor a Democrat), but even if Trump was saying we should put restrictions on companies using overseas slave labor instead of American labor (which he wasn't), that sure sounds awful god-damned left wing to me. What is it you're fighting against exactly? The message or the man?
The reason why manufacturing of consumer goods was shipped overseas is because it was discovered that we couldn't afford the consumer goods as well at higher prices to pay American workers to make the goods.
Bullshit. Americans could absolutely afford to buy their own goods before the major outsourcings during the 80's and 90's. Things cost more back then, yes, and as such had more value placed on them as well as an expectation of durability that no longer exists. I remember my parents paying ~$750 for a console television in 1978. That was a lot of cake for 1978, considering you could get a really nice car for about 10x that (~$7500). That console TV lasted well into the 90's and I believe was replaced in 1998.
Those $750 TVs were providing a lot of people with good jobs with good benefits to go along with them. Nowadays, we'll still pay $2000 for a (arguably more advanced) TV that fails within a decade and gets replaced again, made with slave labor and by robots. Where's all that money going? If we don't have the factories and fabs to produce modern electronics in the United States, that's no one's fault but our own for buying into the bullshit of the "modern global economy". It doesn't work for the slaves overseas and it doesn't work for us.
Whether Trump is right or wrong I agree, it's time to end this failed experiment of "Free Trade" and see what we can do about actually producing things in this country again. Otherwise we have nowhere to continue but further down the hole.
I remember taking a field trip in 4th grade to the local telephone central office. We toured the entire facility. I don't think I would be who/where I am today if I hadn't have taken that field trip. I had never seen so many different wires and connections and lights, and I wanted to know what they all did.
Today, the CO is a "domestic terrorist target" and as such is off limits to anyone, especially those pesky 10 year olds. You know they're all secret sleeper cells, right? Kids today are screwed, they're mentally DOA from all the nanny-state and helicopter parent garbage and there is no vision to the real world to break them out of it.
I hate to be this guy, but why do you run a device that won't let you install your own software? I don't mean to say you shouldn't use Android, but my Verizon LG G3 at least allows me to root it and install a custom recovery so I can run Cyanogenmod or whatever other custom builds I'd like.
This is why I would never buy a Samsung phone, way too locked down for what I want to do with it. I have an iPhone and an iPad for all of my walled garden needs, I refuse to accept the same from Android. If the day ever comes where I am unable to find suitable hardware to run the way I see fit, I just won't use it any longer. If I'm forced into a walled garden, I'll use Apple's because at least they don't try to pretend they aren't one.
If you have a jailbroken iPhone 4S (and only the 4S), you can downgrade it to iOS 6.1.3 through a glitch in Apple's upgrade system. I'm waiting for a jailbreak for 9.2 so I can do exactly that.
The method is described in detail here, it's a bit involved but it might help some technically minded people restore some life back into their perfectly capable devices.
I still travel. Of course, I don't get to see the socialist utopias of Europe (which, with that attitude is where I assume you're from and exactly why I have no desire to ever set foot around you people ever again), but you see, most people over here see YOU as the ignorant joke of the first world, with the exception of super-liberal media sites and NPR. But keep telling yourselves how much better you are than everyone else and I'm sure one day you'll make it!
Merry Christmas from the US of fucking A, asshole!
There is still no legal basis to be forced to participate in a search in order to travel. Of course, most people couldn't find their asshole with both hands, so they don't realize that they actually have rights and just go right along with it. And by the way, the airlines don't give a fuck, this is the fucking government sicko whackjobs who get off on molesting people who continue to perpetrate this shit.
And I'm a whimpering sheep? If you read the rest of my comment, which you didn't, I already stated I DON'T travel in this way. Haven't flown since May of 2001. I've got gray hairs from standing up for what I believe for the last two decades. Who the fuck are you, anyway?
Go fuck yourself. If you are not suspected of a crime, nor have had a writ or warrant signed by a judge, there is no legal basis for a search. "Purchasing a ticket" does not give anyone the legal basis to violate your rights. If you believe that, you're part of the problem.
Fortunately, I won't willingly subject myself to being treated like a slave so I stay as far away from airports as I possibly can. If I ever do have to go to the airport again, I'll be sure and opt-out for the patdown. Of course, I'll also make sure I take 2-3 extra strength Viagra before I turn up at the checkpoint.
Honestly, what more does Winamp need? For what most people who still use it want to do with it, it works just fine. Vivendi being involved in it means it'll probably promptly be ruined and made into some type of iTunes clone with a metric shit-ton of bloat and do half-a-million things in a mediocre fashion. As for Shoutcast, it also does what it's supposed to do: stream audio.
The fact that a company owned the product and was doing nothing in particular with it was, to me, a good thing.
Does Cox have the Balls to just block all traffic to BMG label sites and any other commercial entities with a presence on the net that are even loosely related to BMG? Because that'd be my first move.
Apparently because the average end-user can't be bothered to use something that actually requires a modicum of knowledge about how the service operates.
I asked in another post why the users aren't just routing around the damaged network with a VPN, and the answer was that it's too hard. So if the lowest common denominators using WhatsApp can't even figure out how to do something as simple as connecting to a VPN, they'd never be able to understand something like XMPP or VOIP. Life is hard.
I've always used the example that if Ford invented the automobile today, they'd have to have a 24x7 toll-free support line so people can call and ask things like what it is they're supposed to do when they want the car to turn a corner, to which the support agent would reply that you need to rotate the steering wheel in front of you in the direction of the turn and press the accelerator slightly until moving in the desired direction of travel.
Can I get a "do not steal my credit card number" bill, and a "pretty please don't assume my identity" bill, while they're at it?
Damn...our politicians are just so forward-thinking. If only they would have have had the foresight to pass a "do not blow up skyscrapers" bill before 9/11. Just think how different the world would be today!!
Republicans, the right, etc. all clamor for smaller government. Which I happen to whole-heartedly agree with. However, smaller government includes staying out of what substances people put in their bodies, what a woman chooses to do with hers, staying out of the average citizen's email and electronic communications, the list goes on and on. Repubs want to control all of those things, so I can't agree with their position.
Democrats, the left, etc. all clamor for bigger government. Which I don't agree with, for the same reasons listed above. However, Dems would rather dictate what food you can eat, what substances are approved to smoke and which ones are not, what you drive, how you choose to arm and defend yourself and your family, and also want to read the average citizen's email and electronic communications just for different reasons, so I can't agree with their positions, either.
The thing is, you can't have your cake and eat it, too. Both sides are just petulant children who want what THEY want and nothing more. Either we have an overarching nanny-state "security" (theatre) culture, or we have freedom. Freedom means you have the choice to make bad (subjective) choices, meaning women can do what they want, people can eat what they want and smoke what they want and ingest whatever substances they want, can own whatever firearm they want, and not at all the least, freedom from having your communications spied upon unless a warrant has been issued signed by a judge (and not a rubber-stamp federal spy-approval one) and for a limited duration for specific information.
Unfortunately, freedom is scary to the vast majority of people. Those clutching their bibles won't be happy until abortion is punishable by death (ironic?), and those clutching the keys to their Priuses won't be happy until owning a v8-powered automobile, gun or cigarette (ironic?) is punishable by death. So, we will always have people demanding ignorant things like backdoors in encryption and "super viruses" because they want their side to win, and of course their side is perfect and smart and can do anything and will never be used for evil, everyone is the good guy who knows what's best for everyone else and freedom is dead because of spineless jellyfish on both sides of the political spectrum.
e.g. WD-Green for laptop, but WD-Red for a NAS (yes there is a difference)
In firmware. Variable RPM, head parking/load cycles, read or write optimized caching/buffering, etc...? All set in the firmware. Platters of spinning metal and heads are platters of spinning metal and heads.
How's about selling me a drive and providing an fscking utility to tweak the settings as needed for whatever application the end-user deems fit. I don't care if they sell a bunch of drives with preconfigured settings for common usage, but let me tweak them as I desire for my use case.
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Microsoft really wants everyone's keystrokes, don't they? What other rationale is there to spend even $1 on a company that develops and maintains a product only to give it away to its customers free of charge? If decide to ever go back to Android, it'll be stock keyboards for me from here on out!
Remind me to change the combination on my luggage.
Thank you! I get this all the time from people. No matter what someone says, they get the classic ad hominem attack thrown at them. Do I like the NSA? Not particularly, after everything I've seen. Do I believe anything the government has to say about most topics? Generally, no. But this man is correct, and his message is correct: "Arguing against encryption is a waste of time."
We can wax intellectual all day long about whether we think he has ulterior motives for coming out with that message, or whether the organizations he's associated with can ultimately be trusted, but the message is correct and we need to champion it. So others can see it, read it, hear it, reference it; get the message out there to the non-believers. In the end, whether they have broken all known forms of encryption or not, arguing against it is indeed a waste of time.
Blindly disagreeing with someone because they're "the NSA" means, in this case, that you have to make the argument that "Arguing against encryption is a worthwhile endeavor", and that's just stupid.
I offer another proposal to Chairman Wheeler: allow the carriers to choose between common carrier status (with all its legal protections) and, what, data portal status maybe (with zero liability protections for transmitted content). If Verizon, Comcast, et al want to snoop traffic, then they should be legally on the hook for the content of that traffic. If they don't want to be liable for every possible copyright violation or prohibited content flowing through their network, then they damn well better choose to be dumb pipes.
I agree whole-heartedly. However, this uses an incorrect assumption. The assumption being that we still have a functioning republic with a just legal system. We don't, it's been usurped and the big boys just make up the rules as they go.
Once you understand that, the problem is this: given the option they'll gladly choose to be a "data portal". Of course, they won't be held liable for *every* possible copyright infringement or prohibited content that flows through the network, only the content deemed by the corporate overlords and elitists to be dangerous. At which point such content will be banished from the network. This will happen every time a slave gets uppity and creates or consumes content that is dangerous to their complete control over the population.
The "fines" for allowing the banished content will always be a slap on the wrist, putting on airs for all us proles to feel good about. Unless, of course, people who know better stand up now, not now but RIGHT NOW, and demand an end to all of this nonsense. But time's running short; a few more years and there won't be many of us left who understand what the free, open internetwork is supposed to look like, and once the network's gone full-on cable-TV replacement, we've lost for good.
Go fuck yourself. I own an iPhone and a MacBook, which I love and use every day, and am seriously considering voting for Trump. I am not a luddite, nor a troglodyte, and neither inbred nor uneducated.
You're playing right into their hands. Trump is a bit of a blowhard, and he consistently says things that, when taken out of context or provided in a 5 second sound bite, sound completely ludicrous.
He's using Apple computer as an example of a company that has (for better or worse) gotten filthy rich off of slave labor and overseas production while Americans here at home are out of work. I happen agree with him that we need to build things here again. Make things in the United States that we can take pride in. We really *can* do those things here. There are plenty of other examples besides Apple of companies that use the current arrangement to their benefit, not just Apple.
But as long as people like you can reduce someone who happens to agree that we should see what we can do about making things, something, here at home again to "neo fascist piles of human excrement", we all lose. I'm not a Republican (nor a Democrat), but even if Trump was saying we should put restrictions on companies using overseas slave labor instead of American labor (which he wasn't), that sure sounds awful god-damned left wing to me. What is it you're fighting against exactly? The message or the man?
The reason why manufacturing of consumer goods was shipped overseas is because it was discovered that we couldn't afford the consumer goods as well at higher prices to pay American workers to make the goods.
Bullshit. Americans could absolutely afford to buy their own goods before the major outsourcings during the 80's and 90's. Things cost more back then, yes, and as such had more value placed on them as well as an expectation of durability that no longer exists. I remember my parents paying ~$750 for a console television in 1978. That was a lot of cake for 1978, considering you could get a really nice car for about 10x that (~$7500). That console TV lasted well into the 90's and I believe was replaced in 1998.
Those $750 TVs were providing a lot of people with good jobs with good benefits to go along with them. Nowadays, we'll still pay $2000 for a (arguably more advanced) TV that fails within a decade and gets replaced again, made with slave labor and by robots. Where's all that money going? If we don't have the factories and fabs to produce modern electronics in the United States, that's no one's fault but our own for buying into the bullshit of the "modern global economy". It doesn't work for the slaves overseas and it doesn't work for us.
Whether Trump is right or wrong I agree, it's time to end this failed experiment of "Free Trade" and see what we can do about actually producing things in this country again. Otherwise we have nowhere to continue but further down the hole.
I remember taking a field trip in 4th grade to the local telephone central office. We toured the entire facility. I don't think I would be who/where I am today if I hadn't have taken that field trip. I had never seen so many different wires and connections and lights, and I wanted to know what they all did.
Today, the CO is a "domestic terrorist target" and as such is off limits to anyone, especially those pesky 10 year olds. You know they're all secret sleeper cells, right? Kids today are screwed, they're mentally DOA from all the nanny-state and helicopter parent garbage and there is no vision to the real world to break them out of it.
It makes me very sad.
Once again, New York proving that it belongs in North Korea rather than the United States.
Tons and tons of paid posters here
Thanks for being so forthcoming.
Whoooooshh!
I hate to be this guy, but why do you run a device that won't let you install your own software? I don't mean to say you shouldn't use Android, but my Verizon LG G3 at least allows me to root it and install a custom recovery so I can run Cyanogenmod or whatever other custom builds I'd like.
This is why I would never buy a Samsung phone, way too locked down for what I want to do with it. I have an iPhone and an iPad for all of my walled garden needs, I refuse to accept the same from Android. If the day ever comes where I am unable to find suitable hardware to run the way I see fit, I just won't use it any longer. If I'm forced into a walled garden, I'll use Apple's because at least they don't try to pretend they aren't one.
If you have a jailbroken iPhone 4S (and only the 4S), you can downgrade it to iOS 6.1.3 through a glitch in Apple's upgrade system. I'm waiting for a jailbreak for 9.2 so I can do exactly that.
The method is described in detail here, it's a bit involved but it might help some technically minded people restore some life back into their perfectly capable devices.
But only the truly ignorant waive their rights. I see which category you fall under.
I still travel. Of course, I don't get to see the socialist utopias of Europe (which, with that attitude is where I assume you're from and exactly why I have no desire to ever set foot around you people ever again), but you see, most people over here see YOU as the ignorant joke of the first world, with the exception of super-liberal media sites and NPR. But keep telling yourselves how much better you are than everyone else and I'm sure one day you'll make it!
Merry Christmas from the US of fucking A, asshole!
There is still no legal basis to be forced to participate in a search in order to travel. Of course, most people couldn't find their asshole with both hands, so they don't realize that they actually have rights and just go right along with it. And by the way, the airlines don't give a fuck, this is the fucking government sicko whackjobs who get off on molesting people who continue to perpetrate this shit.
And I'm a whimpering sheep? If you read the rest of my comment, which you didn't, I already stated I DON'T travel in this way. Haven't flown since May of 2001. I've got gray hairs from standing up for what I believe for the last two decades. Who the fuck are you, anyway?
Go fuck yourself. If you are not suspected of a crime, nor have had a writ or warrant signed by a judge, there is no legal basis for a search. "Purchasing a ticket" does not give anyone the legal basis to violate your rights. If you believe that, you're part of the problem.
Fortunately, I won't willingly subject myself to being treated like a slave so I stay as far away from airports as I possibly can. If I ever do have to go to the airport again, I'll be sure and opt-out for the patdown. Of course, I'll also make sure I take 2-3 extra strength Viagra before I turn up at the checkpoint.
Honestly, what more does Winamp need? For what most people who still use it want to do with it, it works just fine. Vivendi being involved in it means it'll probably promptly be ruined and made into some type of iTunes clone with a metric shit-ton of bloat and do half-a-million things in a mediocre fashion. As for Shoutcast, it also does what it's supposed to do: stream audio.
The fact that a company owned the product and was doing nothing in particular with it was, to me, a good thing.
Does Cox have the Balls to just block all traffic to BMG label sites and any other commercial entities with a presence on the net that are even loosely related to BMG? Because that'd be my first move.
Apparently because the average end-user can't be bothered to use something that actually requires a modicum of knowledge about how the service operates.
I asked in another post why the users aren't just routing around the damaged network with a VPN, and the answer was that it's too hard. So if the lowest common denominators using WhatsApp can't even figure out how to do something as simple as connecting to a VPN, they'd never be able to understand something like XMPP or VOIP. Life is hard.
I've always used the example that if Ford invented the automobile today, they'd have to have a 24x7 toll-free support line so people can call and ask things like what it is they're supposed to do when they want the car to turn a corner, to which the support agent would reply that you need to rotate the steering wheel in front of you in the direction of the turn and press the accelerator slightly until moving in the desired direction of travel.
Not that I'd want to use WhatsApp anyway, but what's stopping the end-user from routing around the damaged portion of the network?
Can I get a "do not steal my credit card number" bill, and a "pretty please don't assume my identity" bill, while they're at it?
Damn...our politicians are just so forward-thinking. If only they would have have had the foresight to pass a "do not blow up skyscrapers" bill before 9/11. Just think how different the world would be today!!
It's because all people are hypocrites.
Republicans, the right, etc. all clamor for smaller government. Which I happen to whole-heartedly agree with. However, smaller government includes staying out of what substances people put in their bodies, what a woman chooses to do with hers, staying out of the average citizen's email and electronic communications, the list goes on and on. Repubs want to control all of those things, so I can't agree with their position.
Democrats, the left, etc. all clamor for bigger government. Which I don't agree with, for the same reasons listed above. However, Dems would rather dictate what food you can eat, what substances are approved to smoke and which ones are not, what you drive, how you choose to arm and defend yourself and your family, and also want to read the average citizen's email and electronic communications just for different reasons, so I can't agree with their positions, either.
The thing is, you can't have your cake and eat it, too. Both sides are just petulant children who want what THEY want and nothing more. Either we have an overarching nanny-state "security" (theatre) culture, or we have freedom. Freedom means you have the choice to make bad (subjective) choices, meaning women can do what they want, people can eat what they want and smoke what they want and ingest whatever substances they want, can own whatever firearm they want, and not at all the least, freedom from having your communications spied upon unless a warrant has been issued signed by a judge (and not a rubber-stamp federal spy-approval one) and for a limited duration for specific information.
Unfortunately, freedom is scary to the vast majority of people. Those clutching their bibles won't be happy until abortion is punishable by death (ironic?), and those clutching the keys to their Priuses won't be happy until owning a v8-powered automobile, gun or cigarette (ironic?) is punishable by death. So, we will always have people demanding ignorant things like backdoors in encryption and "super viruses" because they want their side to win, and of course their side is perfect and smart and can do anything and will never be used for evil, everyone is the good guy who knows what's best for everyone else and freedom is dead because of spineless jellyfish on both sides of the political spectrum.
e.g. WD-Green for laptop, but WD-Red for a NAS (yes there is a difference)
In firmware. Variable RPM, head parking/load cycles, read or write optimized caching/buffering, etc...? All set in the firmware. Platters of spinning metal and heads are platters of spinning metal and heads.
How's about selling me a drive and providing an fscking utility to tweak the settings as needed for whatever application the end-user deems fit. I don't care if they sell a bunch of drives with preconfigured settings for common usage, but let me tweak them as I desire for my use case.
I see the answer is no.
I've never seen the word teabag used so many times in one comment section in my life.
Does shouting "teabag" actually do anything productive other than another ad-hominem attack?