The double speak is getting nauseating. This one in particular: "Last year, fewer than 300 phone numbers were checked against the database of millions of U.S. phone records gathered daily by the NSA in one of the programs". There are 4 programs, which program are they saying had on 300 checked. Which of the 4 is particularly used for tracking phone calls? How manyin total were there among all four programs? As for the FISA oversight, the Amended Act was so controversial that Obama himself said he would never vote to support it, but voted for it despite campaigning otherwise. That act sanctified the inability for citizens to sue the telcos and ISP's for infringing on our civil liberties. The oversite is a complete failure, and this smells like a lie hiding behind more wordplay. For example: Collection = reading the data not collecting.
This is how we feel. The bits blocked are of national security concerns.
Why does this change anything? Today they don't tell us based on security concerns. Tomorrow they they just give us redacted pages of no use and they are then in full compliance.
And it wouldn't make it Constitutionally appropriate or legal. Luckily the Constitution serves to limit the powers from the Government. Secondly it also serves to other citizens who would seek to limit or impinge on the liberties framed in the Constitution from doing so. Our founding fathers knew how easily coerced people are.
I assume they are worried about what else he plans on releasing. If he has much more damning evidence (Which I assume he does) they want to get into the fold of Mother USA's arms to squeeze... hug him into silence before he says much more.
Similarly the base logic follows: If I've done nothing wrong why are you going through my life with a fine tooth comb. The fact they are defending their logic of mass surveillance indiscriminately is the truly frightening part.
That is the greater problem here. We are such a nation of pussies at this point that people are genuinely worried about writing something that disagrees with our current surveillance provider. err... government. Freedom of speech is essentially the crux of our nation. For us to worry about how we are being monitored, and tagged for what we say is a barometer of how far they've eroded our liberties. I'd rather die in a terrorist attack than suffer through the monitoring and paranoia of my own government.
If he dies a freak death, he will become a martyr. The government will fabricate anything it can to dispel his credibility and most people will belief it because they saw it on the TV.
You need to lay off the Alex Jones show for a bit. Or is your next anonymous post going to tell us how these elite families are actually Satanic lizard demons? Are you going to say that all hacking has been done by bankers and "Elite European" families to make it seem like a plausible scenario so they could later ignite a profitable cold war between the two nations?
The operating environment eh? Well the cloud is essentially operating environment agnostic. By stringing together some conflated tie-in making the cloud Windows only is to ignore the shit they pulled with IE. Their OE is doomed if the only way they can save it is to artificially use it to help gain a foothold in a cloud that serves to make the totally irrelevant.
Stop thinking legacy. The most important OS is the one you use to do what you need to do. No more, no less. If that OS is iOS or Android (Soon to have 1 billion activations) then that is the dominant OS. The Apps follow the OS people are using. Right now, the relevance of Windows is fading and the relevance of Android is increasing (Along with web apps). If MS loses the battle for dominant OS (which is apparently happening) they lose developers and relevance and profit. How can they lock people in if they do something sinister like build web apps, or chrome based ones? MS relies on Windows as a the primary link in their chains.
People follow the Apps. Enterprise did and will continue that trend. If people develop their apps for the cloud or an OS with a larger user base (Android is set to pass one billion activation's this fall) and it saves an enterprise from a Microsoft Tax, then rest assured enterprises will pull MS out of their infrastructure as fast as their budgets will allow them. MS was relevant because of their App base and their lock in.Take the apps elsewhere or replace them with cloud based and let me know how the enterprises feel about paying for an irrelevant OS.
There are plenty of people making money offering cloud provisioning/services. This is more along the lines of: Dell accepted 2 billion dollars of cash infusion from Microsoft. Dumping open stack and not building ChromeOS or linux boxes is part of the agreement terms I suppose. Open stack has been fairly successful and the vendors who seem to be dropping support for it are to entertain ways of making more money in licensing.
I never used the word stealing, nor have I ever considered the use of Napster theft. in this particular case MS is making it impossible (not even optional) for the creator or distributor to get any form of return whatsoever for their efforts on YouTube. It shows zero goodwill to the many artists who are directly trying to make a living, by making and providing the content that you are choosing to view. They are not all RIAA and MPAA juggernauts. Watch or don't watch ads, that is up to you, but not having the option whatsoever to support these people is poor form by Microsoft and in the long run you are just leeching and enjoying the labors of the content creators efforts. If Google made an app that let you have full access to XBox Music, for free I would expect that MS would likely want it pulled from their store.
They are legally obligated to prevent downloads, and Microsoft is directly preventing the content creators from earning a thing for their efforts, as well as costing Google money to stream with no potential revenue stream in return. The application is flagrantly defying the terms of service for YouTube. I wouldn't be surprised if lawsuits were forthcoming by concerned parties/content creators.
Don't forget the content creators earn money through those advertisements. Essentially bypassing the ads, rips of the artists directly (if you can call YouTube creators that) and cost Google money directly for streaming for free. I can't imagine the RIAA and the MPAA are looking at Microsoft with warm regards at this moment either. This is Napster territory.
Completely incorrect. Apple/Microsoft and Google all want your money and data and patience. Data is in many ways more valuable than money. FYI AOSP code is open source pull out the parts you don't like and make the OS suit your purposes. There are many ROMs out there that are doing somethign similar Cyanogen to an extent and or replicant. The world doesn't need an armchair RMS, nor do they owe it to do the work for you since you are completely unwilling to offer effort, time or money or data to make what you are demanding.
It would be a near impossibility for hardware/chipset/radio manufacturers to release open source drivers for their hardware (at least in America). It hampers the ability to upgrade these devices at your your discretion and hands it over to the manufacturers, and OEM's and carriers. The same driver issues have hobbled Linux adoption and sometimes feasibility for years. The alternative would be to never release anything and let only the closed source people who could care less about open own the whole mobile stack.
The comment you made was about how Apple will save the world by building an iHUD device that shames the unreleased beta of Google Glass. Putting iPhones in a bucket and Androids in another doesn't even remotely relate to what Google Glass will be. Apple quite clearly sucks at the cloud and this is heavily cloud/messaging/Google Now centric. I want Apple to build a good quality one of these and force the technology forward but iPhone 4 support is not related to this very much. It is/... Otherwise I wouldn't have been such a rude bastid in my comment. Cheers mang. enjoy the day.
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The double speak is getting nauseating. This one in particular: "Last year, fewer than 300 phone numbers were checked against the database of millions of U.S. phone records gathered daily by the NSA in one of the programs". There are 4 programs, which program are they saying had on 300 checked. Which of the 4 is particularly used for tracking phone calls? How manyin total were there among all four programs? As for the FISA oversight, the Amended Act was so controversial that Obama himself said he would never vote to support it, but voted for it despite campaigning otherwise. That act sanctified the inability for citizens to sue the telcos and ISP's for infringing on our civil liberties. The oversite is a complete failure, and this smells like a lie hiding behind more wordplay. For example: Collection = reading the data not collecting.
Which problem does this license solve? We can bear arms. We cannot sell them without a license. You don't need a license to do what is not illegal.
This is how we feel. The bits blocked are of national security concerns. Why does this change anything? Today they don't tell us based on security concerns. Tomorrow they they just give us redacted pages of no use and they are then in full compliance.
Hong Kong is run very differently than China.
And it wouldn't make it Constitutionally appropriate or legal. Luckily the Constitution serves to limit the powers from the Government. Secondly it also serves to other citizens who would seek to limit or impinge on the liberties framed in the Constitution from doing so. Our founding fathers knew how easily coerced people are.
I assume they are worried about what else he plans on releasing. If he has much more damning evidence (Which I assume he does) they want to get into the fold of Mother USA's arms to squeeze... hug him into silence before he says much more.
Similarly the base logic follows: If I've done nothing wrong why are you going through my life with a fine tooth comb. The fact they are defending their logic of mass surveillance indiscriminately is the truly frightening part.
Or he could become martyred like Steve Biko,.
That is the greater problem here. We are such a nation of pussies at this point that people are genuinely worried about writing something that disagrees with our current surveillance provider. err... government. Freedom of speech is essentially the crux of our nation. For us to worry about how we are being monitored, and tagged for what we say is a barometer of how far they've eroded our liberties. I'd rather die in a terrorist attack than suffer through the monitoring and paranoia of my own government.
If he dies a freak death, he will become a martyr. The government will fabricate anything it can to dispel his credibility and most people will belief it because they saw it on the TV.
You need to lay off the Alex Jones show for a bit. Or is your next anonymous post going to tell us how these elite families are actually Satanic lizard demons? Are you going to say that all hacking has been done by bankers and "Elite European" families to make it seem like a plausible scenario so they could later ignite a profitable cold war between the two nations?
The operating environment eh? Well the cloud is essentially operating environment agnostic. By stringing together some conflated tie-in making the cloud Windows only is to ignore the shit they pulled with IE. Their OE is doomed if the only way they can save it is to artificially use it to help gain a foothold in a cloud that serves to make the totally irrelevant.
Ballmer would let the ship sink first. This would only happen if they throw him out to stay afloat.
They are already beginning to manufacture steam LinuX based game consoles.
Stop thinking legacy. The most important OS is the one you use to do what you need to do. No more, no less. If that OS is iOS or Android (Soon to have 1 billion activations) then that is the dominant OS. The Apps follow the OS people are using. Right now, the relevance of Windows is fading and the relevance of Android is increasing (Along with web apps). If MS loses the battle for dominant OS (which is apparently happening) they lose developers and relevance and profit. How can they lock people in if they do something sinister like build web apps, or chrome based ones? MS relies on Windows as a the primary link in their chains.
People follow the Apps. Enterprise did and will continue that trend. If people develop their apps for the cloud or an OS with a larger user base (Android is set to pass one billion activation's this fall) and it saves an enterprise from a Microsoft Tax, then rest assured enterprises will pull MS out of their infrastructure as fast as their budgets will allow them. MS was relevant because of their App base and their lock in.Take the apps elsewhere or replace them with cloud based and let me know how the enterprises feel about paying for an irrelevant OS.
There are plenty of people making money offering cloud provisioning/services. This is more along the lines of: Dell accepted 2 billion dollars of cash infusion from Microsoft. Dumping open stack and not building ChromeOS or linux boxes is part of the agreement terms I suppose. Open stack has been fairly successful and the vendors who seem to be dropping support for it are to entertain ways of making more money in licensing.
This is what a two billion dollar cash infusion buys? They are the new Nokia apparently.
I never used the word stealing, nor have I ever considered the use of Napster theft. in this particular case MS is making it impossible (not even optional) for the creator or distributor to get any form of return whatsoever for their efforts on YouTube. It shows zero goodwill to the many artists who are directly trying to make a living, by making and providing the content that you are choosing to view. They are not all RIAA and MPAA juggernauts. Watch or don't watch ads, that is up to you, but not having the option whatsoever to support these people is poor form by Microsoft and in the long run you are just leeching and enjoying the labors of the content creators efforts. If Google made an app that let you have full access to XBox Music, for free I would expect that MS would likely want it pulled from their store.
They are legally obligated to prevent downloads, and Microsoft is directly preventing the content creators from earning a thing for their efforts, as well as costing Google money to stream with no potential revenue stream in return. The application is flagrantly defying the terms of service for YouTube. I wouldn't be surprised if lawsuits were forthcoming by concerned parties/content creators.
Don't forget the content creators earn money through those advertisements. Essentially bypassing the ads, rips of the artists directly (if you can call YouTube creators that) and cost Google money directly for streaming for free. I can't imagine the RIAA and the MPAA are looking at Microsoft with warm regards at this moment either. This is Napster territory.
Completely incorrect. Apple/Microsoft and Google all want your money and data and patience. Data is in many ways more valuable than money. FYI AOSP code is open source pull out the parts you don't like and make the OS suit your purposes. There are many ROMs out there that are doing somethign similar Cyanogen to an extent and or replicant. The world doesn't need an armchair RMS, nor do they owe it to do the work for you since you are completely unwilling to offer effort, time or money or data to make what you are demanding.
It would be a near impossibility for hardware/chipset/radio manufacturers to release open source drivers for their hardware (at least in America). It hampers the ability to upgrade these devices at your your discretion and hands it over to the manufacturers, and OEM's and carriers. The same driver issues have hobbled Linux adoption and sometimes feasibility for years. The alternative would be to never release anything and let only the closed source people who could care less about open own the whole mobile stack.
The comment you made was about how Apple will save the world by building an iHUD device that shames the unreleased beta of Google Glass. Putting iPhones in a bucket and Androids in another doesn't even remotely relate to what Google Glass will be. Apple quite clearly sucks at the cloud and this is heavily cloud/messaging/Google Now centric. I want Apple to build a good quality one of these and force the technology forward but iPhone 4 support is not related to this very much. It is /. .. Otherwise I wouldn't have been such a rude bastid in my comment. Cheers mang. enjoy the day.
Damn beat me to the comment. At least it serves dual roles.