The more devices using Google search/services/ads makes money for Google. They don't make more money by having you buy a new phone. It is in Googles best interest to have as many people accessing their services as possible. Cutting off a user base only hurts their bottom line. Try that with MS or Apple and the numbers never work out the same for the consumer.
This is unprecedented that companies are folding in response to the abuses of the US government. It is not something to ignore and yet we still have anonymous cowards humping the legs of slashdot making sophomoric marginal comments. Keep up the good work AC. You truly are the lowest common denominator.
Plus they have the luxury of saying: This was a mistake done by an employee of a third party company. There is no federal crime it is a corporate mistake.
Except when they say a single violation was using Washington DC rather than Egypt. That does not necessarily imply that it was a single unique number that was analyzed. If they say were using a broad term against 202 err.. then they spied potentially on tens or hundreds of thousands of individuals privacy and data. Say they scanned for the term NSA or Secret Intelligence etc... This is why you don't give the government this much power.
2776 for one year = 27,760,000 USD fines. Although this sort of mass scale violation should be considered a larger crime. 2776 with five years per violation is 13,880 years of jail time.
However consider more closely that these errors likely affect thousands to tens or even hundreds of thousands citizens privacy. instead of looking at all information from Egypt they looked at all of the communications for Washington DC. Extrapolating those numbers out to the reality of how much private information and how many people were illegally spied upon by the NSA and you can safely say this would bankrupt the executive branch pretty quickly.
Considering that VMWare is/was on the board of OpenStack I'd say they are internally realizing how much money they could make by building a proprietary alternative (probably just middleware management tools built on top of open source). This is a move to promote their own tools and services in what is going to be a competitive field. This is similar to someone saying that no serious business uses open source software. Of course those business always sell closed source software that are saying it.
As much as I despise Ballmer, he is a bean counter/finance guy. I don't think you can lay all blame for all decisions in Win8 at his feet. The issue with Win8 is that what works about tablets: Security/simplicty/stability etc weeded out the bulk problems of users. Making Win8 a full OS forced onto tablets took away all of those and left behind the pains of legacy cruft. Now tablet users get to worry about Virus' and malware and services that conflict. New device same problems. Plus the added confusion of WinRT and the fact that you need to jump back and forth to a desktop mode (entirely schizophrenic in practice)
The fact that he only apologized after being proven a liar, implies that trust is nowhere to be had when they speak to use petty citizens. Trust us is a bridge that has been burned from the start. You do not lie when the truth will do.
Greenwald will be dead before this is released. An accident of course.
Then all of the information in it's entirety will be leaked to the public. There were multiple people who received this information... Unless each and every source is known the data becomes public. They should be afraid. 15000 documents is a bit more than the 42 slides which initially we were warned of.
Whoever leaked the intelligence about our ability to listen to a conference call by the "Legion of Doom" is somehow free from persecution however. I find it odd that one leak is sanctioned while another is vilified.
If there was a chance of a fair trial, and public discussion about the situation you'd be surprised about what he might do. However if the USA was the country to offer a fair trial by jury, then he might never have leaked this to begin with. The others who tried to go through the system failed, were victimized and suffered for this.
So says the Anonymous Coward making Cheetos/mothers basement and World of Warcraft jokes? 2006 called they said: Grow up and look around you sack-less little bitch. Your jokes are old and the coward thing speaks volumes.
More than likely your requirement would be to insert less than random generation techniques into those platforms. You know "perverting" the system so to speak.
You are legally obliged in working for the NSA to put the US Constitution first. Any work requirement that asks you to violate the constitution is illegal. So you would willfully be violating your primary objective by "putting your job first".
You are missing the larger point that this illegal practice was occurring prior to the Snowden leaks. It is only visible/under public scrutiny as a result of the public awareness. There is nothing ironic about ignorance/bliss.
An employer needs to follow the guidelines outlined in the Human Rights Act and respect the private life of an employee. This means that throughout the working day, employees are allowed by law to use telephone and email for private purposes, not only during break times but throughout the day. I am not a lawyer, but when recently writing a new IT Policy/Employee handbook we employed legal counsel to guarantee all employee rights were respected and protected.
This is the bigger issue with the surveillance state. In a free society you can read what you want, think what you want and say what you feel: WITHOUT FEAR OF RETRIBUTION. The chilling effect that occurs, that even searching for a news item such as this flags you and puts you on a watch list. It is a direct assault on personal liberties. When you say that "aside from self-educating concerned citizens, no one other than an engineer should be searching for such a thing" I find it truly offensive. No one has the right to tell you what you should think, what you can read or what can be said. There is no humanity or dignity in a world where the level of control and power has shifted to allowing for this. No person should be afraid of retribution for free thinking, learning or reading what they want for whatever reason they want. The mere fact that you can justify the infringement of these liberties shows how far the ideals this country was founded upon have slipped away.
I'm not certain if you're trolling... Expectations are a two way street. Within reason, there is a right of the employee to receive a personal call or to send a personal email during work hours. This is doubly true considering the work day no longer ends when you leave the office. Since the work life pours into our personal, the personal has to pour into our work.
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The more devices using Google search/services/ads makes money for Google. They don't make more money by having you buy a new phone. It is in Googles best interest to have as many people accessing their services as possible. Cutting off a user base only hurts their bottom line. Try that with MS or Apple and the numbers never work out the same for the consumer.
Except for collecting their percentage.
Trainspotting?
This is unprecedented that companies are folding in response to the abuses of the US government. It is not something to ignore and yet we still have anonymous cowards humping the legs of slashdot making sophomoric marginal comments. Keep up the good work AC. You truly are the lowest common denominator.
Plus they have the luxury of saying: This was a mistake done by an employee of a third party company. There is no federal crime it is a corporate mistake.
Except when they say a single violation was using Washington DC rather than Egypt. That does not necessarily imply that it was a single unique number that was analyzed. If they say were using a broad term against 202 err.. then they spied potentially on tens or hundreds of thousands of individuals privacy and data. Say they scanned for the term NSA or Secret Intelligence etc... This is why you don't give the government this much power.
2776 for one year = 27,760,000 USD fines. Although this sort of mass scale violation should be considered a larger crime.
2776 with five years per violation is 13,880 years of jail time.
However consider more closely that these errors likely affect thousands to tens or even hundreds of thousands citizens privacy. instead of looking at all information from Egypt they looked at all of the communications for Washington DC. Extrapolating those numbers out to the reality of how much private information and how many people were illegally spied upon by the NSA and you can safely say this would bankrupt the executive branch pretty quickly.
Considering that VMWare is/was on the board of OpenStack I'd say they are internally realizing how much money they could make by building a proprietary alternative (probably just middleware management tools built on top of open source). This is a move to promote their own tools and services in what is going to be a competitive field. This is similar to someone saying that no serious business uses open source software. Of course those business always sell closed source software that are saying it.
As much as I despise Ballmer, he is a bean counter/finance guy. I don't think you can lay all blame for all decisions in Win8 at his feet. The issue with Win8 is that what works about tablets: Security/simplicty/stability etc weeded out the bulk problems of users. Making Win8 a full OS forced onto tablets took away all of those and left behind the pains of legacy cruft. Now tablet users get to worry about Virus' and malware and services that conflict. New device same problems. Plus the added confusion of WinRT and the fact that you need to jump back and forth to a desktop mode (entirely schizophrenic in practice)
The fact that he only apologized after being proven a liar, implies that trust is nowhere to be had when they speak to use petty citizens. Trust us is a bridge that has been burned from the start. You do not lie when the truth will do.
As an American if it is hosted outside of the US and encrypted, it will be double scrutinized and subject to complete and total surveillance.
Greenwald will be dead before this is released. An accident of course.
Then all of the information in it's entirety will be leaked to the public. There were multiple people who received this information... Unless each and every source is known the data becomes public. They should be afraid. 15000 documents is a bit more than the 42 slides which initially we were warned of.
Whoever leaked the intelligence about our ability to listen to a conference call by the "Legion of Doom" is somehow free from persecution however. I find it odd that one leak is sanctioned while another is vilified.
If there was a chance of a fair trial, and public discussion about the situation you'd be surprised about what he might do. However if the USA was the country to offer a fair trial by jury, then he might never have leaked this to begin with. The others who tried to go through the system failed, were victimized and suffered for this.
So says the Anonymous Coward making Cheetos/mothers basement and World of Warcraft jokes? 2006 called they said: Grow up and look around you sack-less little bitch. Your jokes are old and the coward thing speaks volumes.
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More than likely your requirement would be to insert less than random generation techniques into those platforms. You know "perverting" the system so to speak.
You are legally obliged in working for the NSA to put the US Constitution first. Any work requirement that asks you to violate the constitution is illegal. So you would willfully be violating your primary objective by "putting your job first".
You are missing the larger point that this illegal practice was occurring prior to the Snowden leaks. It is only visible/under public scrutiny as a result of the public awareness. There is nothing ironic about ignorance/bliss.
An employer needs to follow the guidelines outlined in the Human Rights Act and respect the private life of an employee. This means that throughout the working day, employees are allowed by law to use telephone and email for private purposes, not only during break times but throughout the day. I am not a lawyer, but when recently writing a new IT Policy/Employee handbook we employed legal counsel to guarantee all employee rights were respected and protected.
I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.
This is the bigger issue with the surveillance state. In a free society you can read what you want, think what you want and say what you feel: WITHOUT FEAR OF RETRIBUTION. The chilling effect that occurs, that even searching for a news item such as this flags you and puts you on a watch list. It is a direct assault on personal liberties.
When you say that "aside from self-educating concerned citizens, no one other than an engineer should be searching for such a thing" I find it truly offensive. No one has the right to tell you what you should think, what you can read or what can be said. There is no humanity or dignity in a world where the level of control and power has shifted to allowing for this. No person should be afraid of retribution for free thinking, learning or reading what they want for whatever reason they want. The mere fact that you can justify the infringement of these liberties shows how far the ideals this country was founded upon have slipped away.
I'm not certain if you're trolling... Expectations are a two way street. Within reason, there is a right of the employee to receive a personal call or to send a personal email during work hours. This is doubly true considering the work day no longer ends when you leave the office. Since the work life pours into our personal, the personal has to pour into our work.
The entire social (governing) contract is based on the consent of the governed. We cannot consent to what we cannot know.
Please stop wasting pixels and clogging up the internet with this gibberish.