I am imaging the new range of after market rests, You know, keyboard rest, mouse rest and now touch screen rest, I thinking some sort of suspension system hanging from the ceiling, you know something you would see in a hospital for people with mangled arms.
It's far more like too little too late. Face it the US in it's stupidity has kicked off and internet arms race. Basically want security you require a total ban all foreign hardware, software and business from communications infrastructure, don't have a ban and you can now guarantee back doors. Reckon the US will slow down, absolutely not, in fact they will ramp up their efforts because they will claim because of what the US has done, other countries will be forced to retaliate in order to secure their systems ie a self creating and perpetuating threat, US declaring internet war upon the rest of the globe and then demanding they build up defences because of the war the declared.
Do it yourself means that you manage risk and cost. Handing it over to an outside contractor means, inevitably, eventually, with all companies, some douche nozzle accountant executive with limited tech knowledge in the pursuit personal bonuses and claiming great savings and extra profit with the typical B$ spreadsheet. Will take a series of cost savings short cuts that allow risk of data loss to become a certainty of data loss. They lose customers, the customers go elsewhere but unfortunately so do those douche nozzle executives and the problem relocates. It the cycle of greed, build trust, sell that trust for extra profit, fail and back too build trust (there ain't no profit, just bonuses for no nothing douche nozzle executives, you know, psychopaths in suits). It is always just a matter of time, to greed driven contractor failure.
Since hacking computer networks is a crime and extradition treaties exist. So when Americans hack computer networks and get caught, they are subject to extradition where treaties exist, unless of course the US wants to abandon existing extradition treaties and declare the US and the US public open slather to foreign internet attacks. Can't have it both ways, dummy, make a choice.
Now seriously, make up your mind, are you talking about saving a particular backward country or the whole fucking world, now, c'mon, make up your fucking mind. Combating a single disease in one country will have zero impact upon our current ecological impact, except perhaps to make it a tiny bit worse but fine keep up your PR, like what ever.
How to put it to an idiot. Not all coastline is the same, some is elevated well above sea level and some like say Florida is only slightly above sea level. As sea levels rise and major storms occur, in conjunction with tides, sea levels rise at the coast line. This can be very high including waves 3 metres or more, however if your property is situated higher than that and well constructed you do not have a problem. Now, idiot, as you can see from the external view the property is in fact well and truly above sea level, in fact on the top of a hill. The colour you are looking for is of course maroon.
Will education help people? Hmm, how's that cave going, heard about fire yet, perhaps you should try skinning and tanning animal hides, might even try growing crops, you know reading and writing and great ways to exchange and expand upon knowledge.
The mind boggles that you and your ilk do no comprehend the value of education. Education frees people, the more aware they are of the shared plight, the more aware they become of shared solutions, the sooner they just like we or at least our forebears, can solve their own problems. Ignorance just like wealth driven arrogance solves no problems.
The crimes committed where so extensive, so elaborate, so extensively documented, that no person or group of persons was in any position to audit all of the documents to release only those that detailed crimes. It is obvious the more information that was revealed the more crimes that became apparent. Hence where does an honourable person with integrity stop, knowing that others will lie and destroy evidence given the opportunity and any further crimes detailed would be lost. There is only one thing a law abiding honourable citizen could do, obtain as much as possible and release it to those who would ensure that laws where upheld, in this case the countries citizens themselves.
It is illegal to obey illegal instructions. Those documents detailed crimes and hence where classified illegally in order to hide those crimes. He disclosed those crimes publicly due to the conspiracy to hide them by a government department with the approval of elected officials. Seriously, what the fuck do you not understand about the idea that it is illegal for any government department to break any laws and the requirement for any member of that department to report those criminal acts, be they criminal or constitutional infringements. Do you get it yet? The government can not legally order anyone to break the law, end of story and in the attempt that person so ordered is required by law to report the attempted crime, let alone obey the criminal order. Crimes can not be legally hidden under the auspices of national security, that would be a licence to run the government as a criminal organisation rather than being the democratically representatives of the electorate. I don't have to try, the law is the law.
Reality is Bill Gates is wrong yet again. Getting everyone connected to the internet, in point of fact, will save the world. Right now run by psychopathic capitalism we are on a path to self destruction by greed and mass consumerism, we are wasting our resources and converting that waste into pollution at an insane rate by allowing the psychopathically insane to run the system.
The internet is giving the majority a voice and is exposing the insane minority who currently run the system for who they really are. The more independent real voices there are on the internet, sharing information globally all hooked up with auto translation services. The sooner we see that deep down we all share the same problem, that we have all allowed the most unfit amongst us to gain control of our core social structures and, the sooner it will change.
The 1% are slowly but surely killing our world and us along with it. When the 99% have full voice on the internet globally and can share in their common values, so we will save our world and future generations. The change in the last decade has been immense, the change in the next decade will be even greater. The internet is saving the world because it give us, the majority, a shared global voice we have never had before, FACT.
Sorry, reporting a crime is not breaking the law, it is adhering the law and in point of fact it is a criminal act not to report witnessing a crime, accessory after the fact. Will he be able to return to the US, not for decades, all the psychopaths in power will have to be removed first. They will permanently target him as an example, they will take hostile moves against any country that harbours him and most western countries will not bother protecting him as he is not one of their own.
You can also add, a pre-existing infection in hardware into the mix. The extra electronic component fitting into the hardware at the manufacturers that doesn't do what you expect it to do but rather simply carries a payload that it uploads into the system. You can fit an awful lot of data into a pretty small easily concealable chip but you would want to maintain some pretty surreptitious communication methods to hide the presence of that chip. The best place by far to do this stuff is always going to be at the manufacturers.
In that case, the best place for security is at the manufacturers, so essential infrastructure, local audited manufacture on all hardware otherwise you are just guessing whether it is secure or not. Hell, the chip could be embedded within a layer actually inside the motherboard completely invisible, picking up connections as they go through the mother board. Once you can insert and or substitute stuff inside the manufacturers with the use of secret do not tell warrants under threat of treason, anything at all is possible.
I expect my government to uphold the principles of law globally as is does within the country. I expect my government to respect the rights of other countries citizens especially within their own country. I expect my government to act honourably and with integrity when dealing with other countries.
The difference between us is insurmountable, when representative from your government interact with representatives from my government within my governments borders. I expect my government representatives to treat your governments representatives like psychopaths, persons not to be trusted in any way shape or form and only very limited numbers to be allowed within the country at any time and to be kept under close observation at all times. I would consider all treaties agreed too and mere paper and never to be trusted.
Have to be really carefully about the power consumption ratings for plasma, most of the manufacturers fudged a bit and the power ratings are not at anywhere near full brightness. The brighter the image the more power used, LCD doesn't vary.
It also makes sense in the long run. Sure you can save a few dollars here and there but all it takes is one bad purchase with zero chance of warranty and all your savings are gone. It is the middle men, the retailer's in Australia that inflate the costs. Want better prices, work to become a better customer and deep discounts will become available. Attempt to squeeze the maximum dollars and in reality you will find all that effort went for nothing due to the occasional bad purchases eating all the savings.
More importantly what the crap is that Apple gaming score doing when comparing it too other hardware pushing around 2.5x the pixels. Seriously, WTF, has everyone gone stupid all of the sudden. Want to compare gaming bench marks than do it at the same resolutions otherwise, seriously, piss off.
What they don't show is why. In any autocratic system failure to show proper obeisance and provide what ever service is required when demanded by a person deemed to be in authority brings the threat of immediate dismissal. The more autocratic, the greater the threat of dismissal and the greater the compliance to any request by authority. So control breaks down security through threat of failure to comply. Where you have less control and greater individual responsibility you strengthen the resolve of those protecting what they perceive as their area of control and power. Next up of course comes loyalty a two way street. Companies that show little loyalty to their employees get very little in return hence, meh who cares, when it comes to company security. Want secure loyal employees than companies had better start being loyal to their employees.
The reality here is that the surveillance is more about rich versus everyone else and their desire to maintain global control by being able to totally control the financial sector at all levels and to control all democracy by having a complete record of all possible political candidates and their families in order to extort compliance. Also the new threat of applying security levels to everything, employment, the right to travel, communications access, basically monitoring everyone's activities in order to put select individuals on non-persons lists. Also the blatant targeting of people with smoke and mirrors prosecutions, where the cases fall apart but by this time those victims have spent tens of thousands of dollars in lawyers fees and, spent months even years in jail, along with threats to similarly target their families, all with a whoops tee hee when it all falls apart but those victims still end up us non-persons. This is not about terrorism this is all about turning all of the poor and middle class into terrorists who need to be watched and monitored all of the time and if the step out of line brutally crushed, this is all about the psychopathic greed of the 1% and where they are trying to take the whole of the world. All of the spying has been politically approved and the public has been lied too and their rights stripped away.
Free speech has been squashed in America, since the law enFORCEment started publicly torturing protesters and the court system was blatantly abused with false accusation and extended trials where the travail through that court system was the punishment (lawyers fees as fines and of course imprisonment during the trial process, with bail blocked by false claims of terrorist like activities).
As for on the record according to you human rights only applies to US citizens, well, screw you, "everyone else is fair game", you don't even try to hide your psychopathy, seriously sick stuff.
You sort of have the answer. It's all how bean counters see the numbers. Back around 2000, the bulk of sales where desktop and notebooks, not gadgets now toys, whilst that was the bulk of the market, in reality it was not the bulk of the possible market, those people still not regularly buying computers.
Now shift forward to now and sales for desktops and notebooks have stagnated, not because they are losing but because they have saturated their market, no growth. Now smart phones and tablets are selling into a larger market, all those people who were not into personal computers or notebooks, the greater number of people, so they have growth sales.
The reality is though that smartphone and tablets are having very low impact upon desktops and notebooks (notebooks of course are having a significant impact on desktops). The numbers might seem like that, stangant at one end and growth at the other end but reality is, it was saturation at one end and a 'BRAND NEW UNTAPPED' market at the other end. Tablets are toys and the majority of individuals purchases are done on that basis.
It would seem you have the wrong idea about "Anonymous". Anyone can be "Anonymous", you can be "Anonymous". All that happens is you choose to do an act of protest and rather than doing it in your name, you do in under the banner of "Anonymous". Your choice of protest, what you are protesting and how you are protesting it, is entirely your own. Whether you choose to act on your own or in association with others is entirely you and their choice. Just remember to have fun while doing and take precautions. Safe protesting is like safe sex, taking precautions to prevent, diseases like government and corporate persecution twisted into corrupt prosecution (where the penalty is a "FAILED" extended court case but your are imprisoned for the duration anyhow).
You want action, then you take action, either alone or in groups but please practice safe protesting.
Labour laws, that's next to rampant unionism, that fixed minimum wages for all job types, that, OH MY GOD, communism;D. Face it your screwed. Psychopathic corporations having be adding in the slap on the wrist fines as a normal cost oh high profit transactions for decades. Basically straight up organised crimes, where the criminals, those corporate executives know that they will not only get away with it without even a slap on the wrist but they keep their bonuses too boot and who get fined, why the shareholders. Corporate executives are really out of control, until they personally start getting targeted with prison sentences for their criminal conspiracies in committing acts organised crime nothing will change.
You do realise there is a significant amount of difference between an oil platform and it's crew versus a data centre and it's engineers. Between diesel powered drilling equipment and banks of computers. National exclusive economic zones now extend 200nautical miles out and no you can not sit out there and pollute with sewerage. The further out you go the greater the problems. Then of course you data needs to make it way back to shore but now you are importing and exporting data and subject to fees and charges as well as limits on transaction. You want to sail on the high ho jolly pay no taxes just parasite on the infrastructure that everyone else pays for, you will likely find that governments will give you short shrift. Hell, if it all just about cheating on taxes, relocate your data centres to tax havens and be done with it.
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I am imaging the new range of after market rests, You know, keyboard rest, mouse rest and now touch screen rest, I thinking some sort of suspension system hanging from the ceiling, you know something you would see in a hospital for people with mangled arms.
It's far more like too little too late. Face it the US in it's stupidity has kicked off and internet arms race. Basically want security you require a total ban all foreign hardware, software and business from communications infrastructure, don't have a ban and you can now guarantee back doors. Reckon the US will slow down, absolutely not, in fact they will ramp up their efforts because they will claim because of what the US has done, other countries will be forced to retaliate in order to secure their systems ie a self creating and perpetuating threat, US declaring internet war upon the rest of the globe and then demanding they build up defences because of the war the declared.
Do it yourself means that you manage risk and cost. Handing it over to an outside contractor means, inevitably, eventually, with all companies, some douche nozzle accountant executive with limited tech knowledge in the pursuit personal bonuses and claiming great savings and extra profit with the typical B$ spreadsheet. Will take a series of cost savings short cuts that allow risk of data loss to become a certainty of data loss. They lose customers, the customers go elsewhere but unfortunately so do those douche nozzle executives and the problem relocates. It the cycle of greed, build trust, sell that trust for extra profit, fail and back too build trust (there ain't no profit, just bonuses for no nothing douche nozzle executives, you know, psychopaths in suits). It is always just a matter of time, to greed driven contractor failure.
Since hacking computer networks is a crime and extradition treaties exist. So when Americans hack computer networks and get caught, they are subject to extradition where treaties exist, unless of course the US wants to abandon existing extradition treaties and declare the US and the US public open slather to foreign internet attacks. Can't have it both ways, dummy, make a choice.
Now seriously, make up your mind, are you talking about saving a particular backward country or the whole fucking world, now, c'mon, make up your fucking mind. Combating a single disease in one country will have zero impact upon our current ecological impact, except perhaps to make it a tiny bit worse but fine keep up your PR, like what ever.
How to put it to an idiot. Not all coastline is the same, some is elevated well above sea level and some like say Florida is only slightly above sea level. As sea levels rise and major storms occur, in conjunction with tides, sea levels rise at the coast line. This can be very high including waves 3 metres or more, however if your property is situated higher than that and well constructed you do not have a problem. Now, idiot, as you can see from the external view the property is in fact well and truly above sea level, in fact on the top of a hill. The colour you are looking for is of course maroon.
Whoops, I left out one problem ignorance does solve, sorry. How do you keep slaves in check, obvious, keep them ignorant.
Will education help people? Hmm, how's that cave going, heard about fire yet, perhaps you should try skinning and tanning animal hides, might even try growing crops, you know reading and writing and great ways to exchange and expand upon knowledge.
The mind boggles that you and your ilk do no comprehend the value of education. Education frees people, the more aware they are of the shared plight, the more aware they become of shared solutions, the sooner they just like we or at least our forebears, can solve their own problems. Ignorance just like wealth driven arrogance solves no problems.
The crimes committed where so extensive, so elaborate, so extensively documented, that no person or group of persons was in any position to audit all of the documents to release only those that detailed crimes. It is obvious the more information that was revealed the more crimes that became apparent. Hence where does an honourable person with integrity stop, knowing that others will lie and destroy evidence given the opportunity and any further crimes detailed would be lost. There is only one thing a law abiding honourable citizen could do, obtain as much as possible and release it to those who would ensure that laws where upheld, in this case the countries citizens themselves.
It is illegal to obey illegal instructions. Those documents detailed crimes and hence where classified illegally in order to hide those crimes. He disclosed those crimes publicly due to the conspiracy to hide them by a government department with the approval of elected officials. Seriously, what the fuck do you not understand about the idea that it is illegal for any government department to break any laws and the requirement for any member of that department to report those criminal acts, be they criminal or constitutional infringements. Do you get it yet? The government can not legally order anyone to break the law, end of story and in the attempt that person so ordered is required by law to report the attempted crime, let alone obey the criminal order. Crimes can not be legally hidden under the auspices of national security, that would be a licence to run the government as a criminal organisation rather than being the democratically representatives of the electorate. I don't have to try, the law is the law.
Reality is Bill Gates is wrong yet again. Getting everyone connected to the internet, in point of fact, will save the world. Right now run by psychopathic capitalism we are on a path to self destruction by greed and mass consumerism, we are wasting our resources and converting that waste into pollution at an insane rate by allowing the psychopathically insane to run the system.
The internet is giving the majority a voice and is exposing the insane minority who currently run the system for who they really are. The more independent real voices there are on the internet, sharing information globally all hooked up with auto translation services. The sooner we see that deep down we all share the same problem, that we have all allowed the most unfit amongst us to gain control of our core social structures and, the sooner it will change.
The 1% are slowly but surely killing our world and us along with it. When the 99% have full voice on the internet globally and can share in their common values, so we will save our world and future generations. The change in the last decade has been immense, the change in the next decade will be even greater. The internet is saving the world because it give us, the majority, a shared global voice we have never had before, FACT.
Sorry, reporting a crime is not breaking the law, it is adhering the law and in point of fact it is a criminal act not to report witnessing a crime, accessory after the fact. Will he be able to return to the US, not for decades, all the psychopaths in power will have to be removed first. They will permanently target him as an example, they will take hostile moves against any country that harbours him and most western countries will not bother protecting him as he is not one of their own.
You can also add, a pre-existing infection in hardware into the mix. The extra electronic component fitting into the hardware at the manufacturers that doesn't do what you expect it to do but rather simply carries a payload that it uploads into the system. You can fit an awful lot of data into a pretty small easily concealable chip but you would want to maintain some pretty surreptitious communication methods to hide the presence of that chip. The best place by far to do this stuff is always going to be at the manufacturers.
In that case, the best place for security is at the manufacturers, so essential infrastructure, local audited manufacture on all hardware otherwise you are just guessing whether it is secure or not. Hell, the chip could be embedded within a layer actually inside the motherboard completely invisible, picking up connections as they go through the mother board. Once you can insert and or substitute stuff inside the manufacturers with the use of secret do not tell warrants under threat of treason, anything at all is possible.
I expect my government to uphold the principles of law globally as is does within the country. I expect my government to respect the rights of other countries citizens especially within their own country. I expect my government to act honourably and with integrity when dealing with other countries.
The difference between us is insurmountable, when representative from your government interact with representatives from my government within my governments borders. I expect my government representatives to treat your governments representatives like psychopaths, persons not to be trusted in any way shape or form and only very limited numbers to be allowed within the country at any time and to be kept under close observation at all times. I would consider all treaties agreed too and mere paper and never to be trusted.
Have to be really carefully about the power consumption ratings for plasma, most of the manufacturers fudged a bit and the power ratings are not at anywhere near full brightness. The brighter the image the more power used, LCD doesn't vary.
It also makes sense in the long run. Sure you can save a few dollars here and there but all it takes is one bad purchase with zero chance of warranty and all your savings are gone. It is the middle men, the retailer's in Australia that inflate the costs. Want better prices, work to become a better customer and deep discounts will become available. Attempt to squeeze the maximum dollars and in reality you will find all that effort went for nothing due to the occasional bad purchases eating all the savings.
Which is exactly where the security went and why social 'engineering' is so effective. Basically in that environment security is for sale.
More importantly what the crap is that Apple gaming score doing when comparing it too other hardware pushing around 2.5x the pixels. Seriously, WTF, has everyone gone stupid all of the sudden. Want to compare gaming bench marks than do it at the same resolutions otherwise, seriously, piss off.
What they don't show is why. In any autocratic system failure to show proper obeisance and provide what ever service is required when demanded by a person deemed to be in authority brings the threat of immediate dismissal. The more autocratic, the greater the threat of dismissal and the greater the compliance to any request by authority. So control breaks down security through threat of failure to comply. Where you have less control and greater individual responsibility you strengthen the resolve of those protecting what they perceive as their area of control and power. Next up of course comes loyalty a two way street. Companies that show little loyalty to their employees get very little in return hence, meh who cares, when it comes to company security. Want secure loyal employees than companies had better start being loyal to their employees.
The reality here is that the surveillance is more about rich versus everyone else and their desire to maintain global control by being able to totally control the financial sector at all levels and to control all democracy by having a complete record of all possible political candidates and their families in order to extort compliance. Also the new threat of applying security levels to everything, employment, the right to travel, communications access, basically monitoring everyone's activities in order to put select individuals on non-persons lists. Also the blatant targeting of people with smoke and mirrors prosecutions, where the cases fall apart but by this time those victims have spent tens of thousands of dollars in lawyers fees and, spent months even years in jail, along with threats to similarly target their families, all with a whoops tee hee when it all falls apart but those victims still end up us non-persons. This is not about terrorism this is all about turning all of the poor and middle class into terrorists who need to be watched and monitored all of the time and if the step out of line brutally crushed, this is all about the psychopathic greed of the 1% and where they are trying to take the whole of the world. All of the spying has been politically approved and the public has been lied too and their rights stripped away.
Free speech has been squashed in America, since the law enFORCEment started publicly torturing protesters and the court system was blatantly abused with false accusation and extended trials where the travail through that court system was the punishment (lawyers fees as fines and of course imprisonment during the trial process, with bail blocked by false claims of terrorist like activities).
As for on the record according to you human rights only applies to US citizens, well, screw you, "everyone else is fair game", you don't even try to hide your psychopathy, seriously sick stuff.
You sort of have the answer. It's all how bean counters see the numbers. Back around 2000, the bulk of sales where desktop and notebooks, not gadgets now toys, whilst that was the bulk of the market, in reality it was not the bulk of the possible market, those people still not regularly buying computers.
Now shift forward to now and sales for desktops and notebooks have stagnated, not because they are losing but because they have saturated their market, no growth. Now smart phones and tablets are selling into a larger market, all those people who were not into personal computers or notebooks, the greater number of people, so they have growth sales.
The reality is though that smartphone and tablets are having very low impact upon desktops and notebooks (notebooks of course are having a significant impact on desktops). The numbers might seem like that, stangant at one end and growth at the other end but reality is, it was saturation at one end and a 'BRAND NEW UNTAPPED' market at the other end. Tablets are toys and the majority of individuals purchases are done on that basis.
It would seem you have the wrong idea about "Anonymous". Anyone can be "Anonymous", you can be "Anonymous". All that happens is you choose to do an act of protest and rather than doing it in your name, you do in under the banner of "Anonymous". Your choice of protest, what you are protesting and how you are protesting it, is entirely your own. Whether you choose to act on your own or in association with others is entirely you and their choice. Just remember to have fun while doing and take precautions. Safe protesting is like safe sex, taking precautions to prevent, diseases like government and corporate persecution twisted into corrupt prosecution (where the penalty is a "FAILED" extended court case but your are imprisoned for the duration anyhow).
You want action, then you take action, either alone or in groups but please practice safe protesting.
Labour laws, that's next to rampant unionism, that fixed minimum wages for all job types, that, OH MY GOD, communism ;D. Face it your screwed. Psychopathic corporations having be adding in the slap on the wrist fines as a normal cost oh high profit transactions for decades. Basically straight up organised crimes, where the criminals, those corporate executives know that they will not only get away with it without even a slap on the wrist but they keep their bonuses too boot and who get fined, why the shareholders. Corporate executives are really out of control, until they personally start getting targeted with prison sentences for their criminal conspiracies in committing acts organised crime nothing will change.
You do realise there is a significant amount of difference between an oil platform and it's crew versus a data centre and it's engineers. Between diesel powered drilling equipment and banks of computers. National exclusive economic zones now extend 200nautical miles out and no you can not sit out there and pollute with sewerage. The further out you go the greater the problems. Then of course you data needs to make it way back to shore but now you are importing and exporting data and subject to fees and charges as well as limits on transaction. You want to sail on the high ho jolly pay no taxes just parasite on the infrastructure that everyone else pays for, you will likely find that governments will give you short shrift. Hell, if it all just about cheating on taxes, relocate your data centres to tax havens and be done with it.