Which begs the question, why exactly did they hire Elop. What influence with the board of Nokia did M$ already have, what did it cost to get the Nokia board to basically set up Nokia for sale to M$ at a substantive discount, what commissions did the board receive. Now that Nokia has been crippled, has M$ shot itself in the foot because there will be no real recovery from collapse and continuing down the same path will simply result in greater loss of value.
Far more likely, some group created a series of methods for intercepting internal communications (NSA) and passed this information onto another group (CIA) with deep links with major contracting firms (the whole global military industrial complex and it's financiers). Insiders risk getting caught and actually being punished where as, thanks to a whole range political communications interceptions, the other groups will blatantly commit crimes with no fear of prosecution.
The real point is M$ management where stupid and incompetent in their tackling of the game console market. History has solidly proven that they would have been far better off financially if they would have simply bought Sony. However egoistic Uncle Fester psychopathically believes he can do everything better than any everyone else on the planet. So where would M$ and Sony be now if M$ had simply bought Sony and actively forbidden Uncle Fester from molesting it?
So rather than fighting Android and Samsung, should M$ just buy Samsung and stick with Android. Currently M$ are carrying on like blindingly stupid idiots by focusing on preserving Windows to the point of self destruction, rather than taking Linux on board and seeking to derive a direct income from it.
As a technology company they are actively hamstringing themselves, by sticking with what was a stupid decision, even when the failure is obvious to the most stupid, excluding of course Uncle Fester and his 'yes person' Ballmerites.
Every theory starts with a hypothesis and that in term is fed by ideas, silencing any source of ideas, is never desirable. It is clean, just like spam filtering on email, a central repository for spam filtering on comments is required. Rather than those people who put up forums having to directly control comment filtering to remove spam and trolls, an automated script to check each comment against a central registry prior to them being put up to eliminate spam and trolls, via checking content and ip addresses, will be worthwhile. People enjoy exchanging opinions and sites that drop that opportunity often lose against sites that provide it.
I wonder how much the top executives and the board paid themselves and how much in luxuries the spent on themselves in total, while they were so busily losing a billion dollars, here's betting it was way over a billion dollars so yeah the unsuspecting investors got a screwed without getting the rim@%#. Watch the golden parachutes opening up all over place except of course for the people who actually did the work.
Which is why the phablet is becoming so popular. The phablet actually makes full use of the computing power, storage and screen to make a very usable when not actually making a phone call. Killing time when waiting anywhere for anything 24/7 and providing easier search capabilities when you are out and about. It seems very likely that the phablet is going deeply chew into the tablet market, so Android will when and Apple failed when it didn't introduce an iPhablet in series 5 (so three models, stupid mistake).
When you hand over your coding too the lowest bidder, who recovers all their costs in the first few claims for payment, leaving them in profit long before project collapse, all so some moron bean counter can claim a major bonus on a pretend saving, well, do I need go further. This of course is the governments failure, some regulations should be in place to heavily fine and imprison executives for failures in essential infrastructure due to stupid decisions. There should be some serious penalties for taking stupid risks with essential infrastructure.
It seems likely that something else was really going on, the FBI agent was feeding information to the reporter for money but they couldn't prove it, hence they searched for anything and everything they could charge the agent with instead. So likely there were a whole series of leaks they couldn't pin to the agent but they where fairly certain the agent was the problem.
At that time I bought a computer that came with windows and when OS/2 came out it was just too damn expensive to "cross grade", that was IBM's singular greatest failure, even greater than going with Gates in the first place.
Checked on the web site after making the comment and the cruiser class (two person) seems very interesting and the way to go, the vehicles must achieve road registrable classification in the country of origin. So overnight recharge allowed to allow for lights, indicators. Definitely the class the incorporates greater overall design elements.
Rather than forcing them to stick to the speed limit they should start introducing other factors that will slow the vehicles down. Things like introducing the additional mass of a passenger/navigator (ensuring driver/passenger mass is uniform across all vehicles by introducing weights to balance them out to a set minimum mass). Perhaps look at including some off bitumen back roads to test suspension (including energy recovery) and vehicle durability.
To keep things focused around design, any technology used on one vehicle or team should be available to all vehicles/teams (not necessarily for free but at a reasonable price).
Nope a public back door in Linux would be proof of the value of Linux. Remember there have been many commercial contribution to Linux, there in fact Have been contributions by the NSA. Finding a back door in Linux would be proof of the value of Linux. Anyone who refused to remove that discovered back door of course would burn all their trust and by publicly derided by the whole community. Back doors are not the problem, back doors that you can not lock or remove are the problem.
Any country that wanted to subvert Linux would have the problem of subverting their own system or keeping those systems clean and enabling others to do a quick comparison and find the difference.
The big reason for the comparison has always been cost. Comparing the cost of shifting that data via the internet, versus the cost of putting it on storage and flying with it to the destination. The argument being we are getting seriously ripped off with data transmission charges across the board when it is cheaper to carry data via sneaker net.
Of course that doesn't even touch the best function of a 64GB micros SD card, boot from SD card rather than built in storage. 64 GB all in something the size of a thumb nail, that allows you to turn in PC into a whole new and separate device via boot from option in BIOS. This allowing you to create a Public PC (boot from disk) and a Private PC (boot from device) and never the twain shall meet. Serious application and storage capacity readily concealed in the tiniest of crevices.
Logically as it is bound to essential infrastructure. All government sourced, installed and owned. All based around open source hardware and software to ensure compatibility and so the public can be aware of what is going on. Cost more, hmmm, so what. Greater public control and scrutiny. Basically if a country does not produce their own communications infrastructure then their communications is under the control of who ever does, end of story.
They also don't have the intelligence to realise that the NSA is just the tech guy. They do the hacking but they are not the ones issuing the instructions for what to go for or the ones doing the data storage and consolidation. They do not call it the 'Central' intelligence agency for nothing. Right now in the foreground exposed for what is was doing is the NSA but make no mistake this is all the CIA's doing and they were the ones doing the nasty with all the private data they go from the NSA, the tech guy.
Still not one political demand to uncover where the data went and what was done with it. The CIA has had deep control of the US government for decades and has been deeply political both within the US and overseas. Want to look at why the NSA went so far off the rails, look no further than the CIA.
Ahh, yes, but in reality who are those adds really targeted at, the buyer or the seller. If you think about it, who do you really want to see the adds targeted at, the seller or the buyer. If you target the seller, they always see their add, in their ignorance they think this is fantastic, their add is always on line, woo hoo, and they continue to pay for them. So targeted adds one great big marketing scam targeted at the sellers, why, because it is automated. Actually aligning adds with content cost money because people have to review it to make sure it is accurate.
The real reason why M$ failed with windows is basically people didn't really like it all that much. They didn't appreciate the change for upgrade charges sake, they didn't appreciate the BSODs, they didn't appreciate failed standby mode, the didn't really appreciate the in your face nature of windows. Why did they buy it because M$ effectively (illegally, the were investigated and prosecuted) manipulated the application makers and the hardware manufacturers and 'OH YES' IBM fucked up big time by being so stupidly greedy with OS/2 to kill it at birth by overcharging for it, rather than going in dirt cheap.
Basically once M$ came under real competition that slipped by whilst they were under anti-competitive constraints and that customers were already looking for they lost. People were looking for an alternate, that is why they choose it, as soon as it became readily available and was not choked under monopoly abusive practice. Ballmer could only win by cheating ie look no further than the standards debacle that truly showed Ballmer for who he is and for what he turned M$ into.
The reality is M$'s biggest mistake was losing Paul Allen and keeping Steve Ballmer, face it, it couldn't get any more stupid than that (apart from Lotus's failure to adjust price's and offer an Office suite and IBM's failure on OS/2 pricing, dang, mind bogglingly stupid mistakes).
The important question here is why autonomous killing machines, what benefit? The answer is likely to be very deeply disturbing. At a guess so military types and politicians can blame the supplier for murdering children, whilst continuing to send in the device's to terrorise the targeted populace in order to gain control of resources or just to spend money for no reason at all other than generating a profit from that spending.
Seriously who cares how they label the privacy invasion just stop doing it, it's very annoying. I am sick of adds targeting products I have just purchased, a really seriously annoying idea, now who was the idiot who thought it was a good idea ie search for product, find what your after and for weeks there in after get adds for it, why, what is the purpose?
Just align adds with the content, it is by far less jarring and honestly will produce the most positive response and the most likely click link reaction. It is really annoying when adds don't align with content, it throws impressions of both right off and if in any way shape or form gives off an impression of privacy invasion will likely result in script and cookie blocking as well as a thumbs down.
Also sound, don't even dare to spew screaming adds at me without my request and most certainly don't screw over pause and sound controls, basically your product and company is screwed from there on in with zero chance of purchase and guaranteed complementary script and cookie blocking on the supplying and advertised sites.
PS once you stick a unique identifier on someone's computer it is never ever anonymous as with the very slightest change of the requisite algorithms it is as anally probingly invasive as the sales perverts can make possible. Face it trust is long, long gone, so they can save the B$ we don't believe, what they say today has absolutely no relationship in any reality with what they will do tomorrow, as the next psychopath corporate executive seeks to monetize us.
With a remotely activate able microphone and camera, a wireless connection to the schools servers controlled by school admins, with ability to monitor all activity on the tablet when ever the tablet is on and reporting of all unauthorised activity reportable. Personally if I were at that age, the very last thing I would want to accept is a school supplied and controlled computing device. If stuck with one, definitely throw in faraday and sound shielded case and bring along a matching appearance unit that didn't connect to the school server and regional administration beyond that. Google plus M$ plus News Corp, why does the 'EWWW' in privacy invasion come to the fore.
So was it about terrorism or feeding the lusts of a perverted group of individuals who were able to exploit a billion dollar budget for self gratification and delusions of power over others. Which others were contented to let slide because of information which they gained which they could financially and politically exploit. For those billions spent, I wonder how many billions were made by insiders with free access to the information.
Note how the totally incompetent authorities have absolutely twisted terrorism legislation to the maximum in order fabricate charges for a thought crime. Everyone was warned how that anti-terrorist legislation would be twisted and voilà we see it in action. What exactly are the authorities trying to achieve, is it arrest for arrest sake just to fill quota's, is it just a publicity thing to get elected, is it just a bully carrying on their bullying preferences targeting a victim, seriously what the fuck is in those sick people's heads.
Tck, tck, tck, tck, news at eleven US Constitution 13th Amendment, just out, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." They can search for something you have, then can not force you to "go get it" for them, one is a search and the other is involuntary servitude. It didn't just free people of colour. So straight up constitutional challenge and the FISA warrants go down on two counts of 'CONSTITUTIONAL INFRINGEMENT' (1st and 13th, possible that occupation by the military might also count with the placement of hardware and personal).
Notice how the lies continue to this day about Vista and now Windows 8. Balmer basically spending M$'s money to make himself not quite look like the Uncle Fester of software that he is. No mention that the substantive XP upgrade represents a jump over Vista and to windows 7, just to get it in before they are forced to use windows 8 by windows 7 being made unavailable. Now add to this no mention of servers, just talk about desktops. I wonder how many XP equivalent servers are becoming Linux servers and all talk of that is being silenced in mass media by M$ marketing dollars.
How many people are going to wait for windows 9 or will they simply label that one Windows Uncle Fester Free.
Sorry not a sting, straight up breaking of computer laws by the FBI. I have ended up upon hundreds of thousands of internet pages I never intended to, some by misrepresentation on search results, some by redirects, some by stumble upon, some by other random web site selectors, some by bad web page adds, some by simple eye hand coordination between mouse pointer and mouse clicks (overall the worst has been re-directs, ending up going from one place to another without ever getting to the place intended until you give up and start again). On today's internet the claim by the FBI that every one who ended up on that site purposefully is laughable and that they had the right to hack a visitors computer based upon that is a criminal lie, especially when they had no idea from where the visitor comes or how they got there.
The absolute limit of what the FBI could do is to make available a downloadable file, an executable, with claim of illegal contents being made available, which the end user has to voluntarily download and execute. A trojan web site is and always will be a criminal act because everyone with half a brain knows once it is found out or suspected, bogus links will appear all over the web to suck people into going there.
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Which begs the question, why exactly did they hire Elop. What influence with the board of Nokia did M$ already have, what did it cost to get the Nokia board to basically set up Nokia for sale to M$ at a substantive discount, what commissions did the board receive. Now that Nokia has been crippled, has M$ shot itself in the foot because there will be no real recovery from collapse and continuing down the same path will simply result in greater loss of value.
Far more likely, some group created a series of methods for intercepting internal communications (NSA) and passed this information onto another group (CIA) with deep links with major contracting firms (the whole global military industrial complex and it's financiers). Insiders risk getting caught and actually being punished where as, thanks to a whole range political communications interceptions, the other groups will blatantly commit crimes with no fear of prosecution.
The real point is M$ management where stupid and incompetent in their tackling of the game console market. History has solidly proven that they would have been far better off financially if they would have simply bought Sony. However egoistic Uncle Fester psychopathically believes he can do everything better than any everyone else on the planet. So where would M$ and Sony be now if M$ had simply bought Sony and actively forbidden Uncle Fester from molesting it?
So rather than fighting Android and Samsung, should M$ just buy Samsung and stick with Android. Currently M$ are carrying on like blindingly stupid idiots by focusing on preserving Windows to the point of self destruction, rather than taking Linux on board and seeking to derive a direct income from it.
As a technology company they are actively hamstringing themselves, by sticking with what was a stupid decision, even when the failure is obvious to the most stupid, excluding of course Uncle Fester and his 'yes person' Ballmerites.
Every theory starts with a hypothesis and that in term is fed by ideas, silencing any source of ideas, is never desirable. It is clean, just like spam filtering on email, a central repository for spam filtering on comments is required. Rather than those people who put up forums having to directly control comment filtering to remove spam and trolls, an automated script to check each comment against a central registry prior to them being put up to eliminate spam and trolls, via checking content and ip addresses, will be worthwhile. People enjoy exchanging opinions and sites that drop that opportunity often lose against sites that provide it.
I wonder how much the top executives and the board paid themselves and how much in luxuries the spent on themselves in total, while they were so busily losing a billion dollars, here's betting it was way over a billion dollars so yeah the unsuspecting investors got a screwed without getting the rim@%#. Watch the golden parachutes opening up all over place except of course for the people who actually did the work.
Which is why the phablet is becoming so popular. The phablet actually makes full use of the computing power, storage and screen to make a very usable when not actually making a phone call. Killing time when waiting anywhere for anything 24/7 and providing easier search capabilities when you are out and about. It seems very likely that the phablet is going deeply chew into the tablet market, so Android will when and Apple failed when it didn't introduce an iPhablet in series 5 (so three models, stupid mistake).
When you hand over your coding too the lowest bidder, who recovers all their costs in the first few claims for payment, leaving them in profit long before project collapse, all so some moron bean counter can claim a major bonus on a pretend saving, well, do I need go further. This of course is the governments failure, some regulations should be in place to heavily fine and imprison executives for failures in essential infrastructure due to stupid decisions. There should be some serious penalties for taking stupid risks with essential infrastructure.
It seems likely that something else was really going on, the FBI agent was feeding information to the reporter for money but they couldn't prove it, hence they searched for anything and everything they could charge the agent with instead. So likely there were a whole series of leaks they couldn't pin to the agent but they where fairly certain the agent was the problem.
At that time I bought a computer that came with windows and when OS/2 came out it was just too damn expensive to "cross grade", that was IBM's singular greatest failure, even greater than going with Gates in the first place.
Checked on the web site after making the comment and the cruiser class (two person) seems very interesting and the way to go, the vehicles must achieve road registrable classification in the country of origin. So overnight recharge allowed to allow for lights, indicators. Definitely the class the incorporates greater overall design elements.
Rather than forcing them to stick to the speed limit they should start introducing other factors that will slow the vehicles down. Things like introducing the additional mass of a passenger/navigator (ensuring driver/passenger mass is uniform across all vehicles by introducing weights to balance them out to a set minimum mass). Perhaps look at including some off bitumen back roads to test suspension (including energy recovery) and vehicle durability.
To keep things focused around design, any technology used on one vehicle or team should be available to all vehicles/teams (not necessarily for free but at a reasonable price).
Nope a public back door in Linux would be proof of the value of Linux. Remember there have been many commercial contribution to Linux, there in fact Have been contributions by the NSA. Finding a back door in Linux would be proof of the value of Linux. Anyone who refused to remove that discovered back door of course would burn all their trust and by publicly derided by the whole community. Back doors are not the problem, back doors that you can not lock or remove are the problem.
Any country that wanted to subvert Linux would have the problem of subverting their own system or keeping those systems clean and enabling others to do a quick comparison and find the difference.
The big reason for the comparison has always been cost. Comparing the cost of shifting that data via the internet, versus the cost of putting it on storage and flying with it to the destination. The argument being we are getting seriously ripped off with data transmission charges across the board when it is cheaper to carry data via sneaker net.
Of course that doesn't even touch the best function of a 64GB micros SD card, boot from SD card rather than built in storage. 64 GB all in something the size of a thumb nail, that allows you to turn in PC into a whole new and separate device via boot from option in BIOS. This allowing you to create a Public PC (boot from disk) and a Private PC (boot from device) and never the twain shall meet. Serious application and storage capacity readily concealed in the tiniest of crevices.
Logically as it is bound to essential infrastructure. All government sourced, installed and owned. All based around open source hardware and software to ensure compatibility and so the public can be aware of what is going on. Cost more, hmmm, so what. Greater public control and scrutiny. Basically if a country does not produce their own communications infrastructure then their communications is under the control of who ever does, end of story.
They also don't have the intelligence to realise that the NSA is just the tech guy. They do the hacking but they are not the ones issuing the instructions for what to go for or the ones doing the data storage and consolidation. They do not call it the 'Central' intelligence agency for nothing. Right now in the foreground exposed for what is was doing is the NSA but make no mistake this is all the CIA's doing and they were the ones doing the nasty with all the private data they go from the NSA, the tech guy.
Still not one political demand to uncover where the data went and what was done with it. The CIA has had deep control of the US government for decades and has been deeply political both within the US and overseas. Want to look at why the NSA went so far off the rails, look no further than the CIA.
Ahh, yes, but in reality who are those adds really targeted at, the buyer or the seller. If you think about it, who do you really want to see the adds targeted at, the seller or the buyer. If you target the seller, they always see their add, in their ignorance they think this is fantastic, their add is always on line, woo hoo, and they continue to pay for them. So targeted adds one great big marketing scam targeted at the sellers, why, because it is automated. Actually aligning adds with content cost money because people have to review it to make sure it is accurate.
The real reason why M$ failed with windows is basically people didn't really like it all that much. They didn't appreciate the change for upgrade charges sake, they didn't appreciate the BSODs, they didn't appreciate failed standby mode, the didn't really appreciate the in your face nature of windows. Why did they buy it because M$ effectively (illegally, the were investigated and prosecuted) manipulated the application makers and the hardware manufacturers and 'OH YES' IBM fucked up big time by being so stupidly greedy with OS/2 to kill it at birth by overcharging for it, rather than going in dirt cheap.
Basically once M$ came under real competition that slipped by whilst they were under anti-competitive constraints and that customers were already looking for they lost. People were looking for an alternate, that is why they choose it, as soon as it became readily available and was not choked under monopoly abusive practice. Ballmer could only win by cheating ie look no further than the standards debacle that truly showed Ballmer for who he is and for what he turned M$ into.
The reality is M$'s biggest mistake was losing Paul Allen and keeping Steve Ballmer, face it, it couldn't get any more stupid than that (apart from Lotus's failure to adjust price's and offer an Office suite and IBM's failure on OS/2 pricing, dang, mind bogglingly stupid mistakes).
The important question here is why autonomous killing machines, what benefit? The answer is likely to be very deeply disturbing. At a guess so military types and politicians can blame the supplier for murdering children, whilst continuing to send in the device's to terrorise the targeted populace in order to gain control of resources or just to spend money for no reason at all other than generating a profit from that spending.
Seriously who cares how they label the privacy invasion just stop doing it, it's very annoying. I am sick of adds targeting products I have just purchased, a really seriously annoying idea, now who was the idiot who thought it was a good idea ie search for product, find what your after and for weeks there in after get adds for it, why, what is the purpose?
Just align adds with the content, it is by far less jarring and honestly will produce the most positive response and the most likely click link reaction. It is really annoying when adds don't align with content, it throws impressions of both right off and if in any way shape or form gives off an impression of privacy invasion will likely result in script and cookie blocking as well as a thumbs down.
Also sound, don't even dare to spew screaming adds at me without my request and most certainly don't screw over pause and sound controls, basically your product and company is screwed from there on in with zero chance of purchase and guaranteed complementary script and cookie blocking on the supplying and advertised sites.
PS once you stick a unique identifier on someone's computer it is never ever anonymous as with the very slightest change of the requisite algorithms it is as anally probingly invasive as the sales perverts can make possible. Face it trust is long, long gone, so they can save the B$ we don't believe, what they say today has absolutely no relationship in any reality with what they will do tomorrow, as the next psychopath corporate executive seeks to monetize us.
With a remotely activate able microphone and camera, a wireless connection to the schools servers controlled by school admins, with ability to monitor all activity on the tablet when ever the tablet is on and reporting of all unauthorised activity reportable. Personally if I were at that age, the very last thing I would want to accept is a school supplied and controlled computing device. If stuck with one, definitely throw in faraday and sound shielded case and bring along a matching appearance unit that didn't connect to the school server and regional administration beyond that. Google plus M$ plus News Corp, why does the 'EWWW' in privacy invasion come to the fore.
So was it about terrorism or feeding the lusts of a perverted group of individuals who were able to exploit a billion dollar budget for self gratification and delusions of power over others. Which others were contented to let slide because of information which they gained which they could financially and politically exploit. For those billions spent, I wonder how many billions were made by insiders with free access to the information.
Note how the totally incompetent authorities have absolutely twisted terrorism legislation to the maximum in order fabricate charges for a thought crime. Everyone was warned how that anti-terrorist legislation would be twisted and voilà we see it in action. What exactly are the authorities trying to achieve, is it arrest for arrest sake just to fill quota's, is it just a publicity thing to get elected, is it just a bully carrying on their bullying preferences targeting a victim, seriously what the fuck is in those sick people's heads.
Tck, tck, tck, tck, news at eleven US Constitution 13th Amendment, just out, "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction." They can search for something you have, then can not force you to "go get it" for them, one is a search and the other is involuntary servitude. It didn't just free people of colour. So straight up constitutional challenge and the FISA warrants go down on two counts of 'CONSTITUTIONAL INFRINGEMENT' (1st and 13th, possible that occupation by the military might also count with the placement of hardware and personal).
Notice how the lies continue to this day about Vista and now Windows 8. Balmer basically spending M$'s money to make himself not quite look like the Uncle Fester of software that he is. No mention that the substantive XP upgrade represents a jump over Vista and to windows 7, just to get it in before they are forced to use windows 8 by windows 7 being made unavailable. Now add to this no mention of servers, just talk about desktops. I wonder how many XP equivalent servers are becoming Linux servers and all talk of that is being silenced in mass media by M$ marketing dollars.
How many people are going to wait for windows 9 or will they simply label that one Windows Uncle Fester Free.
Sorry not a sting, straight up breaking of computer laws by the FBI. I have ended up upon hundreds of thousands of internet pages I never intended to, some by misrepresentation on search results, some by redirects, some by stumble upon, some by other random web site selectors, some by bad web page adds, some by simple eye hand coordination between mouse pointer and mouse clicks (overall the worst has been re-directs, ending up going from one place to another without ever getting to the place intended until you give up and start again). On today's internet the claim by the FBI that every one who ended up on that site purposefully is laughable and that they had the right to hack a visitors computer based upon that is a criminal lie, especially when they had no idea from where the visitor comes or how they got there.
The absolute limit of what the FBI could do is to make available a downloadable file, an executable, with claim of illegal contents being made available, which the end user has to voluntarily download and execute. A trojan web site is and always will be a criminal act because everyone with half a brain knows once it is found out or suspected, bogus links will appear all over the web to suck people into going there.