Snowden was an administrator and had fairly high level access to documents. He also found ways to get the data he felt relevant. He walked with millions of documents.
They tried that 30 years ago when they created the FISA courts. To stop abuses in the NSA there was a transparent review process which is not working apparently as they are abusing it now as they did then. The power is not something they are capable and appropriate stewards of, and they shouldn't nor should anyone be entrusted with it.
The NSA was corrupt then, and they created the FISA courts to resolve the abuses that were rampant. Now with the oversite of the FISA we see more of the same, just more political jockeying to codify their abuses as lawful and constitutional.
This works for simple use scenarios with Apple. Look at their foray into XServ and Servers and OSX server software. The whole it just works myth crumbles. The whole support myth crumbles. The whole you get what you pay for crumbles. Especially when Apple quits the sector so soon after entering. People who paid top dollar for "great support, best in class hardware and support you can count on" were screwed in whatever empty hole they had and left with no upgrade cycle or easy exit strategy to boot.
Yes but the workstation (Mac Pro) is decidedly geared towards those who need non Apple software for a significant portion of their work flow. Adobe Premiere/Photoshop etc. Right now Premiere only uses the second GPU for exporting. The CPU is what is in use during theplaying of streams color correction etc in application. So this is only as useful as Adobe and other App developers make it.
No. The tax this time is hidden by the thunderbolt devices. Each and every thunderbolt device and cable is a profit for Apple. Can;t use your old monitors without a thunderbolt adapter. Firewire enclosures? Get a thunderbolt adapter and cable and or replace the enclosure and get a cable. $50 per cable. Plus the enclosure pays Apple to use the technology. If they could get away without using USB then they would give you no other choice but thunderbolt. The tax is hidden and heavy handed.
How many companies can you name that have large amounts of Mac Pro's that are relying on the genius bar to have parts in stock and to beable to do anything more than offer a refurbished system as a swap (likely they wouldn't even have a matching system in stock) You can't even buy a Macbook pro with a bigger hard disk they have to have it shipped to them. Anyone who is supporting large amounts of Apple hardware usually have a licensed technician in employment in house or has a paid service who brings the appropriate gear on site to repair in house.
The amount of ignorance you are spewing reads like a vendors sales pitch. So you are either wholly incapable of independent thought or just run of the mill variety ignorant. I'd fire any technician that decided that all workstations need to be Apple. Luckily the request would have to be approved by me, and it wouldn't happen. This is being written while there is about $8k of my own Apple hardware in view. There are scenarios where Macs are appropriate and they are a minority. If I could operate an entire enterprise off of Mac/OSX then I could easily use Linux and white boxes. Saving OSX for the machines that had applications that were OSX specific.
"A good way to determine who's hirable in IT, is if they pick Apple workstations." A good way to be ignored in an interview is to spew closed minded gibberish like this. This is almost as stupid as the claim that you can't run a server that isn't Microsoft. Not in a 'serious" work environment. Well I hope you like your mac mini servers. and the 29.99 OSX server OS. They scale so nicely.
Tweaked off the bat? How about no weaking whatsoever has been performed.
Right now Adobe Premiere uses the CPU on the Mac Pro. Apple has been working on this hardware for a long time. You would think the companies you mentioned would have optimized already for the set up. So unless you are using Final Cut Pro X (many professionals jumped ship after 7) this machine is slower than the previous generations Mac Pro. Adobe is not on great terms with Apple, and may be inclined to drag their feet on this one.
For Video editing (mainly in Final Cut Pro) professionals. Do you think the cloud is going to handle raw 4k video uploads and downloads? Sure it might handle the 15 seconds on your iPhone but that is hardly what this machine is targeting.
The thing is though that right now, the benefits of the Mac Pro only seem to be realized by Final Cut Pro. Premiere in testing defaults to the CPU for the lifting on this machine. Until Adobe configures an update for their apps specifically for this machine it is actually slower at many tasks than the old Mac Pro's. That being said I use Final Cut Pro, but I couldn't justify the hardware here for how I use it.
No where in the linked article or the summary post you are commenting on was hate speech brought into the conversation. The fact is the UAE is attempting to stifle conversation by arresting the eight people who made the video. But yes Lets listen to an anonymous coward spewing hate for jews who have nothing to do with this article, or the way the UAE is exerting their power over these individuals.
You are so ready to condemn left wingers and Jews that your hatred made you oblivious to what exactly you are being shown here. I'm sure somewhere in the twisted little caverns of your minds hatred you can contort this all into jew/left wing hate. That is irrational and a big part of the problem.
In the case of Boston Robotics, Google said it would honor existing contractual obligations but that going forward it would no longer process military orders.
The test is simple. If Snowden lied, then the NSA and the President have nothing to charge him with. It is simple. They tried claling him a liar and a traitor guilty of treason in the same paragraph. When it was pointed out he couldn't be both they quickly stopped pretending he was lying.
The challenge that the US faces today is that citizens have been conditioned to a nanny state and to trust in the Governments ability to do what is best for them and never to abuse the powers they have been allotted. IN short, they fail to recognize that what the founding fathers experienced could and would ever happen to them, hence the things are different now analogies when giving up liberties that protect us from them to protect us from a faceless enemy.
I agree we need to change the system. The sad part is though the lack of consequence for those who deliberately defy the law. The current NSA apparatus is based nearly entirely off of Poindexter's TIA (total information awareness) program which was deemed unconstitutional and defunded by congress. Instead of dismantling they moved it sideways and implemented it under a different acronym. Was there ever a single arrest or trial regarding the legality of this information/system transfer? If we want change the accountability apparatus needs to be vigilant. This should have been prevented about 10-12 years ago.
This list below is a short one of individuals in intelligence communities who penned an open letter in complete support of what Snowden did. MOst of them tried to go through the system and wasted years doing exactly that. The systems involved are to prop up the organization not to keep it in line with the laws and government that empower them.
Peter Kofod, ex-Human Shield in Iraq (Denmark) Thomas Drake, whistleblower, former senior executive of the NSA (US) Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower, former US military analyst (US) Katharine Gun, whistleblower, former GCHQ (UK) Jesselyn Radack, whistleblower, former Department of Justice (US) Ray McGovern, former senior CIA analyst (US) Coleen Rowley, whistleblower, former FBI agent (US)
I'd argue point for point on your conjectural approach to this but why bother when you seem to choose to be deliberately ignorant of the facts. I'll put my trust in the the above list of people who have first hand experience with leaks, and the intelligence communities actions. If you don't trusty Snowden then why not Ellsberg Binney Drake or Wiebe who all did the same before him. Yes all these leakers are god complexed narcissists who just want to promote themselves...
""before that it was possible to listen and read, what the suspects are SAYING and WRITING"
They couldn't read the letter without a warrant. They couldn't listen to a phone call without a warrant. They have no way of knowing what was being written without a warrant. They also sure as hell do not have the authority to open all envelopes and scan the contents in case they found a future reason to want to read it. Likewise they could not record all phone calls and put them in a database just in case they want to listen to them at a later date. Another thing they couldn't do is put a GPS tracker on you to collect your personal "metadata" whereabouts in case it might prove to be useful in the future.
You can't listen to metadata. You can't read a letter without a warrant. Saying and writing are not meta-data. These are your words not mine. Your argument here is shifted because now neither saying/writing apply.
Except Obama already released a statement saying that there will be no such thing as Civilian leadership in the NSA and that they will not be separated from the Cyber command. So nothing is changing.
The NSA isn't charted with finding Drug smuggling rings inside the USA or outside the USA. Preventing civilians in the US from committing crmes in the US is not their charter either. They exist for sigint of foreign threats. No more no less. The fact is they have no right to be lookingat US communications to prevent crimes. If they do that is an illegal act.
"before that it was possible to listen and read, what the suspects are saying and writing"
Without a warrant they couldn't even open a letter because you had a right to privacy/unreasonable search and seizure, and that right still exists. That letter was encrypted by an envelope. To open that letter they needed a specific warrant for that person with a court approved reasoning. Your comment is completely and utter nonsense.
They aren't arguing that they have the right to decrypt here. They are saying you don't have the right to an envelope and or that they should be able to open all envelopes because envelopes contain evil missives. Which means innocent until proven guilty has become. Guilty until you can prove you have nothing to hide, which of course happens too late.
Cell phone call and location data is not part of the internet. Nor are your purchasing habits. Tracking GPS data and cellular location is also not part of the internet or communication. They take it none the less. They are following much more than communications they are tracking your existence.
"Long term fantasies" is one term, the ten year and the five year plan is another for the same thing. Essentially ebay is so hamstrung together they haven't the slightest understanding of what drives someone to use a service. This is similar to when the Google founders went to Yahoo! and they were told it wasn't in Yahoos!'s interest to get people to their destination more quickly or at all.
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Snowden was an administrator and had fairly high level access to documents. He also found ways to get the data he felt relevant. He walked with millions of documents.
They tried that 30 years ago when they created the FISA courts. To stop abuses in the NSA there was a transparent review process which is not working apparently as they are abusing it now as they did then. The power is not something they are capable and appropriate stewards of, and they shouldn't nor should anyone be entrusted with it.
The NSA was corrupt then, and they created the FISA courts to resolve the abuses that were rampant. Now with the oversite of the FISA we see more of the same, just more political jockeying to codify their abuses as lawful and constitutional.
This works for simple use scenarios with Apple. Look at their foray into XServ and Servers and OSX server software. The whole it just works myth crumbles. The whole support myth crumbles. The whole you get what you pay for crumbles. Especially when Apple quits the sector so soon after entering. People who paid top dollar for "great support, best in class hardware and support you can count on" were screwed in whatever empty hole they had and left with no upgrade cycle or easy exit strategy to boot.
Yes but the workstation (Mac Pro) is decidedly geared towards those who need non Apple software for a significant portion of their work flow. Adobe Premiere/Photoshop etc. Right now Premiere only uses the second GPU for exporting. The CPU is what is in use during theplaying of streams color correction etc in application. So this is only as useful as Adobe and other App developers make it.
No. The tax this time is hidden by the thunderbolt devices. Each and every thunderbolt device and cable is a profit for Apple. Can;t use your old monitors without a thunderbolt adapter. Firewire enclosures? Get a thunderbolt adapter and cable and or replace the enclosure and get a cable. $50 per cable. Plus the enclosure pays Apple to use the technology. If they could get away without using USB then they would give you no other choice but thunderbolt. The tax is hidden and heavy handed.
How many companies can you name that have large amounts of Mac Pro's that are relying on the genius bar to have parts in stock and to beable to do anything more than offer a refurbished system as a swap (likely they wouldn't even have a matching system in stock) You can't even buy a Macbook pro with a bigger hard disk they have to have it shipped to them.
Anyone who is supporting large amounts of Apple hardware usually have a licensed technician in employment in house or has a paid service who brings the appropriate gear on site to repair in house.
The amount of ignorance you are spewing reads like a vendors sales pitch. So you are either wholly incapable of independent thought or just run of the mill variety ignorant.
I'd fire any technician that decided that all workstations need to be Apple. Luckily the request would have to be approved by me, and it wouldn't happen. This is being written while there is about $8k of my own Apple hardware in view. There are scenarios where Macs are appropriate and they are a minority. If I could operate an entire enterprise off of Mac/OSX then I could easily use Linux and white boxes. Saving OSX for the machines that had applications that were OSX specific.
"A good way to determine who's hirable in IT, is if they pick Apple workstations." A good way to be ignored in an interview is to spew closed minded gibberish like this. This is almost as stupid as the claim that you can't run a server that isn't Microsoft. Not in a 'serious" work environment. Well I hope you like your mac mini servers. and the 29.99 OSX server OS. They scale so nicely.
Tweaked off the bat? How about no weaking whatsoever has been performed.
Right now Adobe Premiere uses the CPU on the Mac Pro. Apple has been working on this hardware for a long time. You would think the companies you mentioned would have optimized already for the set up. So unless you are using Final Cut Pro X (many professionals jumped ship after 7) this machine is slower than the previous generations Mac Pro. Adobe is not on great terms with Apple, and may be inclined to drag their feet on this one.
For Video editing (mainly in Final Cut Pro) professionals. Do you think the cloud is going to handle raw 4k video uploads and downloads? Sure it might handle the 15 seconds on your iPhone but that is hardly what this machine is targeting.
The thing is though that right now, the benefits of the Mac Pro only seem to be realized by Final Cut Pro. Premiere in testing defaults to the CPU for the lifting on this machine. Until Adobe configures an update for their apps specifically for this machine it is actually slower at many tasks than the old Mac Pro's. That being said I use Final Cut Pro, but I couldn't justify the hardware here for how I use it.
No where in the linked article or the summary post you are commenting on was hate speech brought into the conversation. The fact is the UAE is attempting to stifle conversation by arresting the eight people who made the video. But yes Lets listen to an anonymous coward spewing hate for jews who have nothing to do with this article, or the way the UAE is exerting their power over these individuals.
You are so ready to condemn left wingers and Jews that your hatred made you oblivious to what exactly you are being shown here. I'm sure somewhere in the twisted little caverns of your minds hatred you can contort this all into jew/left wing hate. That is irrational and a big part of the problem.
In the case of Boston Robotics, Google said it would honor existing contractual obligations but that going forward it would no longer process military orders.
The test is simple. If Snowden lied, then the NSA and the President have nothing to charge him with. It is simple. They tried claling him a liar and a traitor guilty of treason in the same paragraph. When it was pointed out he couldn't be both they quickly stopped pretending he was lying.
The challenge that the US faces today is that citizens have been conditioned to a nanny state and to trust in the Governments ability to do what is best for them and never to abuse the powers they have been allotted. IN short, they fail to recognize that what the founding fathers experienced could and would ever happen to them, hence the things are different now analogies when giving up liberties that protect us from them to protect us from a faceless enemy.
I agree we need to change the system. The sad part is though the lack of consequence for those who deliberately defy the law. The current NSA apparatus is based nearly entirely off of Poindexter's TIA (total information awareness) program which was deemed unconstitutional and defunded by congress. Instead of dismantling they moved it sideways and implemented it under a different acronym. Was there ever a single arrest or trial regarding the legality of this information/system transfer?
If we want change the accountability apparatus needs to be vigilant. This should have been prevented about 10-12 years ago.
This list below is a short one of individuals in intelligence communities who penned an open letter in complete support of what Snowden did. MOst of them tried to go through the system and wasted years doing exactly that. The systems involved are to prop up the organization not to keep it in line with the laws and government that empower them.
Peter Kofod, ex-Human Shield in Iraq (Denmark)
Thomas Drake, whistleblower, former senior executive of the NSA (US)
Daniel Ellsberg, whistleblower, former US military analyst (US)
Katharine Gun, whistleblower, former GCHQ (UK)
Jesselyn Radack, whistleblower, former Department of Justice (US)
Ray McGovern, former senior CIA analyst (US)
Coleen Rowley, whistleblower, former FBI agent (US)
I'd argue point for point on your conjectural approach to this but why bother when you seem to choose to be deliberately ignorant of the facts. I'll put my trust in the the above list of people who have first hand experience with leaks, and the intelligence communities actions. If you don't trusty Snowden then why not Ellsberg Binney Drake or Wiebe who all did the same before him. Yes all these leakers are god complexed narcissists who just want to promote themselves...
Greenwald isn't the only person with the full set of documents. This is a non issue.
""before that it was possible to listen and read, what the suspects are SAYING and WRITING"
They couldn't read the letter without a warrant.
They couldn't listen to a phone call without a warrant.
They have no way of knowing what was being written without a warrant.
They also sure as hell do not have the authority to open all envelopes and scan the contents in case they found a future reason to want to read it. Likewise they could not record all phone calls and put them in a database just in case they want to listen to them at a later date. Another thing they couldn't do is put a GPS tracker on you to collect your personal "metadata" whereabouts in case it might prove to be useful in the future.
You can't listen to metadata. You can't read a letter without a warrant. Saying and writing are not meta-data.
These are your words not mine. Your argument here is shifted because now neither saying/writing apply.
The problem is the same here. You just moved the puck and made it another pile for analysis. They'd make the same argument for the new database
I know the data is in there judge but I can't connect the dots without querying it all...
So in order to save us all I need to see it all.
Except Obama already released a statement saying that there will be no such thing as Civilian leadership in the NSA and that they will not be separated from the Cyber command. So nothing is changing.
The NSA isn't charted with finding Drug smuggling rings inside the USA or outside the USA. Preventing civilians in the US from committing crmes in the US is not their charter either. They exist for sigint of foreign threats. No more no less. The fact is they have no right to be lookingat US communications to prevent crimes. If they do that is an illegal act.
"before that it was possible to listen and read, what the suspects are saying and writing"
Without a warrant they couldn't even open a letter because you had a right to privacy/unreasonable search and seizure, and that right still exists. That letter was encrypted by an envelope. To open that letter they needed a specific warrant for that person with a court approved reasoning. Your comment is completely and utter nonsense.
They aren't arguing that they have the right to decrypt here. They are saying you don't have the right to an envelope and or that they should be able to open all envelopes because envelopes contain evil missives. Which means innocent until proven guilty has become. Guilty until you can prove you have nothing to hide, which of course happens too late.
Cell phone call and location data is not part of the internet. Nor are your purchasing habits. Tracking GPS data and cellular location is also not part of the internet or communication. They take it none the less.
They are following much more than communications they are tracking your existence.
"Long term fantasies" is one term, the ten year and the five year plan is another for the same thing. Essentially ebay is so hamstrung together they haven't the slightest understanding of what drives someone to use a service. This is similar to when the Google founders went to Yahoo! and they were told it wasn't in Yahoos!'s interest to get people to their destination more quickly or at all.