I'd rather put the government at the mercy of the mob because it is that wild unruly mob that is really starting to enjoy the internet. Government tries to take away the internet or the corporations try to strangle it, well, it is just a wee bit too late. The mob that is really starting to get into the internet will quickly degenerate into a 'BORED', wild angry lynch mob if anybody tries to take it away. Nothing is more easy to fire up than a bored, frustrated mob, instant angry protesters, whose fury will only build as the boredom and frustration builds.
It is pretty obvious that the internet it better at keeping the populace busy and content than the idiot box. The only catch, the truth tends to dominate on the internet, simply because it is not subject to that old mass media 72 hour news cycle. Where you can spread a lie to hide the truth and the public will start to forget about it a few days latter. The internet exposes the lie and the liars and keeps it alive for years after as well as shining a light on the truth right through to the next election cycle, that's what really freaks are the psychopaths and narcissists that are currently running the system. They can feel the end approaching, which is why they are ratcheting up the fear, hate and ignorance. It seems 'you can't have one without the other' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwoRMAC461A .
Of course underlying trade marking of a name is that it must be aligned to a product and you can not trademark a name across an infinite variety of products and services.
So it is impossible to trademark Sarah Palin human being and deny anyone using that name, even those who embarrassingly enough already have it. So it is all rather pointless as your identity is your own and is already protected and until you produce products under that name and it is that product branding you wish to protect it is all rather pointless.
You can not steal other peoples name just because they are unfortunate enough to share it with a narcissistic idiot.
Porn, obviously it is not about lawsuits, it is simple extortion, pay up or, we will disclose to friends, relatives, neighbours and co-workers the type of off colour porn we claim you download, now try and prove you didn't.
In this case it takes people of courage to counter sue, for the intent to cause psychological harm and slander by the blatant extortion attempt.
The reality of setting up an offshore IT help desk is, it is neither ethical nor unethical, is is basically career suicidal..
Obviously it is a one time short term contract once it is done, you will be fired and replaced with a cheaper local manager and of course you have eliminated your own on shore supervision job.
Offshore IT help desk support has largely been a failure leaving a trail of angry ex-customers. The best help desk support is as localised as possible, whilst he offshore initially appears cheaper, it's realistic onshore impact soon kicks those companies right up the bottom line.
When offered don't walk, run away to a local company with high quality management who understand the true benefits of localised support and it's impact upon company survivability and not just this quarters bonuses followed by next quarters golden parachute.
I once worked in industrial construction, which would have been the more logically sound decision to use cheaper imported product or to use more expensive locally produced products, did I mention it was industrial construction and without local production of products there is a substantial reduction in the number of industrial buildings required.
Putting food on the commodities exchange also has an extreme bearing on the price of food, adding up to fifty percent to the price of food with the pretend buying and selling of whilst not adding one iota of value.
The difference between the cost of producing food and forcing third world countries into violent revolution because they can no longer afford to eat, is largely driven by financial institutions, that neither grow, harvest, transport, store, process or distribute, who just add a parasitical burden to it, crippling farmers and starving the poor.
Thousands literally starving billions because of their psychopathic greed, now wheres the vaccine for that.
The US prison system was basically crippled by a shift from rehabilitation to sadistic punishment (the punishment is not even applied as rehabilitation, simply as a punitive measure).
This altered the nature of officials in charge of prisons, they shifted from being trained 'correctional' services officers with pay reflecting their training and skills, to dumbed down thugs with pay reflecting their absolute lack of training and their only skill, brutality.
Net result the psychology of the prison guards in the US prison system is pretty much the same as the inmates, so corruption is guaranteed.
Good example they are either too stupid or corrupt, likely both, to be able to track a device that emits a readily detectable or jam able signal. Of course give those idiots torture grade pepper spray and tasers and they can quite readily brutalise prisoners into being violent habitual criminals (in some kind of insane private prison for profit scheme, got to keep them coming back and get that three strike bonus, bugger the victims).
Lines of code, stop and think about that for a moment. When any countries DoD starts with open source, they can start with a fairly clean source, that can be compared with the source being used by other countries DoD, everyone watches everyone else.
So you have a new submission to be inserted, not replacing of all previous code just s portion of it, this portion of course can be readily audited.
Closed source code is a huge problem for secure, even when they get the code, they get millions of lines at once which can take years to audit dependent upon the number of specialists put into the task. Now consider the contrary fiscal logic of DoD buying closed source code, they have to spend millions of dollars to audit code so that they can but licences of that code one desk at a time and those code audit cost for debugging and securing can be as expensive as writing the code in the first place.
Open source means at least after having spent the money on auditing the code for bugs and security they at least don't have to continue to spend money on licences, now that would be corruptly crazy. Also bear in mind those auditing cost can be shared across departments and even with allied countries, making it really cheap per desk.
Now closed source software corporations are fully aware of this which is why, they skulk around in the shadows making shady deals with people making the software procurement decisions to get unsecured, risky and expensive software in the door, all of it tied to permanent data retention lock in and, bull pucky retraining costs, typical corporate slime.
Ahhm, yes, as long as you have millions and millions of dollars to fight out interpretive laws in court. They have first claim as they filed patent first, your must then prove at great expense that they did not invent but stole, they can of course submit false evidence of invention (as simple as a statutory declaration by some know nothing flunky) which you must try to prove as false.
So corporation versus corporation no problems, corporation versus individual basically individual screwed (funny about that, almost like the law was written by corporate lobbyists).
Of course first inventor to file is corporate doublespeak, for first ass hat to steal somebody elses idea because they didn't patent it and then demand payment from them for inventing it. Your idea, you now me money for legally stealing it. Basically a thieves 'R' us patent system, especially targeted at those that share ideas, rather clamouring greedily for every cent and crippling future development.
Well depending upon the cost of snow removal and lost productivity due to the number of snow days. Perhaps large precast concrete box culverts to cover all public roads might be the solution (cover with solar panels to pay for maintenance costs). Leave the snow up out of the way and continue to use the road. Of course aligning entry points (driveways) is likely to be a real hassle but a one time truly enormous cost versus an annual high cost.
Lateral thinking applied, you could retrieve a substantial portion of the cost by selling the airspace above the roads as building space. Say six metres clear and then multi story beyond for construction.
It is more than just aggregating news services. The old print model, people bought the paper and pretty much read the whole paper just skipping a few minor bits of least interest to them.
The internet model is different, people pretty much skip most of the news and only read those bits of most interest to them. This make subscriptions an impossible sell, why pay when you are going to ignore 90 percent or more of the content. Free via the internet allows you to focus on the 10 percent you are currently interested in across multiple sources.
News sources now come in via multiple points on the internet, your home page, email subscriptions, aggregation and commentary web sites, social media and of course actual news sites, all of these make a subscription to one service at the exclusion of all others truly pointless and basically the previous millenniums print on dead trees technology.
News corp is of course desperate, as it is a big loser on the internet with a solid track record of buying growing web sites and then screwing them up and, being pretty lack lustre performance at transferring it's print and idiot box media to the internet (apart from Fox Sport, though still pretty low on internet ratings).
All indications are, the internet is really unforgiving when you push advertising as news, propaganda as truth and then fail to report what is really going on, all of which is pretty much the News Corp business model. Truth is internet users don't like free stuff (your paying a subscription for your internet connection, often a pretty expensive subscription) they like choice and, any paid for news subscription kills choice because you only have some much time in the day. So you either read your subscribed service and ignore the rest or you ignore your subscribed service to read the rest.
As long as it is internalised ie the science of astrology and does not claim precedence over other sciences, even theological sciences, does it really matter. The US is really struggling with theological science crossing over into biological science amongst others.
Each culture will inevitably define the scope of it's language, however, biology is biology, physics is physics, chemistry is chemistry and of course religion is religion. Tacking science on the end of them does not alter their scope, although the first bunch work together and the last one is all one it's own.
Of course big government tends to solve these kind of problems with, Federal regulations and standards applied uniformly across the whole country. Tends to save a lot of money, when everyone know what the rules are, regardless of country or state boundaries and of course in the event of a dispute with local political appointees there is a clear cut method of appeal and corrective measures being taken with penalties for out of control local authorities.
Local authorities should be purely administrative and regulatory with no legislative ability, that should really go to state or federal government in order to significantly reduce compliance costs and to prevent corrupt localised abuses both for and against.
Contract law, look it up. No, absolutely no condition of contract can exceed the law. You can not implement in a contract a condition that is a criminal act. Freedom of speech is a part of the constitution, which exceeds criminal law and criminal law exceeds contractual law.
It has always been a legal bluff, an employer never has the right to commit a criminal act against the employee nor force the employee to commit a criminal act, regardless of what some ass hat lawyers writes in a contract.
Have you never heard of high performance motor vehicles that can do 200 miles per hour or more, far in excess of the speed limit. Much the same as any product with hyped up performance, it is all about the inflated profit margin.
Of course make any attempt to use that performance and you are immediately penalised. In the case of bandwidth marketing, it has always been a lie, since dial up modems, companies always selling far more than they can actually provide.
Blaming the customer for product failure, has always been a corporate PR=B$ standard when misrepresenting what a product can actually do. In this case it is the customers fault for attempting to use their connection in exactly the way it was advertised.
Facebook owns all the data uploaded to it's website. Want to avoid all legal issues, than they simply need to buy the data in question. Facebook is well know as a grossly privacy invasive company already looking to aggregate private data beyond the pages of Facebook, so when it comes to generating profits by selling data 'secretly' there is very likely to be little resistance.
The catch is how factual is the data held at Facebook, how secure is the log in process, what substantiation is provided for the person who actually uploaded or downloaded data and, even if IP address records are kept for every input and download what proof if who actually committed any acts at the user end.
Everything associated with facebook is wildly circumstantial and pretty legally meaningless apart of getting the naive to admit to things when they should not be saying anything at all (they only time you should speak is in court, before then say nothing without a lawyer being present other than to provide a truthful alibi). The only thing that really counts are the photos and in that case flicker et al is just as dangerous.
Hmm, yeah that liberal media fantasy land, all owned by conservative corporations but filled with people that disobey editorial instruction 24/7 with out getting fired, "we believe". Liberal media is simply a mass media marketing lie targeted at any story, I repeat, absolutely any story that paints pseudo conservatives in a bad light (they have not been actual conservatives for more than two decades but rather ruthless exploiters and their puppets).
Apparently 'liberal media' is presenting at least some of the truth and not censoring it all out of public consciousness. You possibly might be thinking of the liberal internet problem, where truth gets centre stage and the lies whilst still out there in force gets shoved out of the light to skulk in the shadows as soon as the real facts are obtained and released (which last far, far longer than the old 48 hour media cycle, months and years and the truth still bites back big time). When it comes to the internet Fox not-News is a big loser, with tiny little actual 'liberal media' companies well and truly kicking it's ass in terms of internet ratings (multi-billlion dollar company and it's internet ratings are a joke).
Apple is trying to improve sales of iPad by appealing to the conservative market and News corp is trying to slime into some of Apples marketing cool. Likely results double fail, conservatives tend to be cheap greedy buggers who wont part with cash and News corp will simply tarnish Apples reputation.
This is of course a reminder of the legal problems inherent in this application. Monitoring the activities of minors in terms of signal interception and recording of sound and video.
Of course in any mass application, it is just crazy as. Seriously what would be the point of a whole bunch of remote controlled droids looking at each other in an otherwise empty board room, might as well just create a far cheaper virtual environment. As for medical application strapping a headcam, microphone and speaker to a trained orderly would be far cheaper and much more functional.
Lack of focus on the primaries by the US electorate are the core of these problems not legislation. Want real hope and change, then focus on the primaries and forget the elections.
Back to reality of course, the want to scam a bunch of really smart students who are most likely to be marketing resistant into believing they can be as 'cool' as their jock strap counter parts, even though career prospects means they'll be getting paid 1/10th as much, be shunned by mass media and women that pursue cash or fame will still have no interest in them.
Reality is, if they want to convince suitable types, they will have to convince them there is a solid well paying career. That they won't get dumped or their salary package screwed with by politicians, whenever it's politically convenient. That they will have a pleasant work environment and will not be stood over by administrative political appointees seeking to claim credit for the work and blame them for the idiot political appointees mistakes.
For the cybergeeks (argh, just die already) there are already very popular places to work for, be it google type private corporations, high tech corporations like boeing and when it comes to security, well, take your pick of multinational banks. If security is your thing not only will pay and conditions be far better at the banks but there are also many opportunities for overseas postings. Basically as you work your way through the list, only the anal left overs end up at government, except of course the main professionally paranoid government institutions which can still manage to snag a few top flight types.
Want to promote the security industry, then sponsor a TV series targeted at mid-teen sci fi types, that isn't dumbed down and creates a false 'er' exaggerated impression of career desirability. Sponsor computer games that also give a false 'er' exaggerated impression of rewards for security success.
The arrangement of a list of "not facts" by most likely search results based upon user profile (from simple IP adress location to a more detailed profile). Facts in the case of search query results would be a completely random output of little relevance to the user, the arrangement, the order of results, the order of likely search results, which results comes up first and on the first pages, represent a body of work. How that body of work is produced is arbitrary.
Search results can not really be called facts, they are the results of complex data base and it's associated algorithm, as the user does not know the algorithm nor the structure of the database the output is more fuzzy logic than factual output. What M$ is likely cheating on is the elimination of 'factually correct' but bad ass hat search optimised web sites.
Whilst Ballmer is buggering up M$ it is Gates that keeps him in the chair. The most damage that has been done to M$ is the routine firing of any threats to Ballmer over the last decade. As a result M$ has lost some of the best and brightest to protect the ego of an insurance salesman and that same attitude has crippled MSN.
Pretty much copyrights infringement. Googles search engine can be considered to be a body of work, whilst any individual query can be considered to be fair use. However an attempt to replicate the body of work to create another search engine of equal efficacy would have to be copyright infringement.
M$ copyright lawyers and management should be fully aware of this, as of course they are the ass hats of greed when it comes to their copyrights, patents and trademarks, claiming ownership of everything and routinely being caught of for cheating.
So 'BUSTED', whether google sues or not their choice but it would be funny to force M$ to spend millions of dollars advertising that Bing's search qualities are based upon Google's search engine and that Google provides better search outcomes;D.
Do you know what IQ is most driven by, your own internal brain chemical reward system, ahh, to be in that thinking zone. Smarter is nothing much more than drug addict.
So higher IQ is not all that much to brag about but it does of course alter your thinking processes and reactions to mass media marketing and adhering to accepted mass consumption norms which inevitably results in sharing mutual irritation with the in crowd and their followers (marketing victims)..
Simpler to provide 2 (technically 3 including smartphone) computers at each desk. A smart terminal and a netbook. Netbooks are getting cheaper all the time and a 12inch screen will do most 'communication' apps really well.
Let the employees 'play' (it's inevitable) without any harm to secured system and even allows the communications network to be a provision of service to the employee as part of conditions of employment rather than an company communications channel, shifting all legal liability for communications back to the employee.
Still need to scan the netbook whilst connected for illicit company data or unsafe applications etc. but games and other crap would be OK (give the employees some space to improve employee well being )
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I'd rather put the government at the mercy of the mob because it is that wild unruly mob that is really starting to enjoy the internet. Government tries to take away the internet or the corporations try to strangle it, well, it is just a wee bit too late. The mob that is really starting to get into the internet will quickly degenerate into a 'BORED', wild angry lynch mob if anybody tries to take it away. Nothing is more easy to fire up than a bored, frustrated mob, instant angry protesters, whose fury will only build as the boredom and frustration builds.
It is pretty obvious that the internet it better at keeping the populace busy and content than the idiot box. The only catch, the truth tends to dominate on the internet, simply because it is not subject to that old mass media 72 hour news cycle. Where you can spread a lie to hide the truth and the public will start to forget about it a few days latter. The internet exposes the lie and the liars and keeps it alive for years after as well as shining a light on the truth right through to the next election cycle, that's what really freaks are the psychopaths and narcissists that are currently running the system. They can feel the end approaching, which is why they are ratcheting up the fear, hate and ignorance. It seems 'you can't have one without the other' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwoRMAC461A .
Of course underlying trade marking of a name is that it must be aligned to a product and you can not trademark a name across an infinite variety of products and services.
So it is impossible to trademark Sarah Palin human being and deny anyone using that name, even those who embarrassingly enough already have it. So it is all rather pointless as your identity is your own and is already protected and until you produce products under that name and it is that product branding you wish to protect it is all rather pointless.
You can not steal other peoples name just because they are unfortunate enough to share it with a narcissistic idiot.
Porn, obviously it is not about lawsuits, it is simple extortion, pay up or, we will disclose to friends, relatives, neighbours and co-workers the type of off colour porn we claim you download, now try and prove you didn't.
In this case it takes people of courage to counter sue, for the intent to cause psychological harm and slander by the blatant extortion attempt.
The reality of setting up an offshore IT help desk is, it is neither ethical nor unethical, is is basically career suicidal..
Obviously it is a one time short term contract once it is done, you will be fired and replaced with a cheaper local manager and of course you have eliminated your own on shore supervision job.
Offshore IT help desk support has largely been a failure leaving a trail of angry ex-customers. The best help desk support is as localised as possible, whilst he offshore initially appears cheaper, it's realistic onshore impact soon kicks those companies right up the bottom line.
When offered don't walk, run away to a local company with high quality management who understand the true benefits of localised support and it's impact upon company survivability and not just this quarters bonuses followed by next quarters golden parachute.
I once worked in industrial construction, which would have been the more logically sound decision to use cheaper imported product or to use more expensive locally produced products, did I mention it was industrial construction and without local production of products there is a substantial reduction in the number of industrial buildings required.
Putting food on the commodities exchange also has an extreme bearing on the price of food, adding up to fifty percent to the price of food with the pretend buying and selling of whilst not adding one iota of value.
The difference between the cost of producing food and forcing third world countries into violent revolution because they can no longer afford to eat, is largely driven by financial institutions, that neither grow, harvest, transport, store, process or distribute, who just add a parasitical burden to it, crippling farmers and starving the poor.
Thousands literally starving billions because of their psychopathic greed, now wheres the vaccine for that.
The US prison system was basically crippled by a shift from rehabilitation to sadistic punishment (the punishment is not even applied as rehabilitation, simply as a punitive measure).
This altered the nature of officials in charge of prisons, they shifted from being trained 'correctional' services officers with pay reflecting their training and skills, to dumbed down thugs with pay reflecting their absolute lack of training and their only skill, brutality.
Net result the psychology of the prison guards in the US prison system is pretty much the same as the inmates, so corruption is guaranteed.
Good example they are either too stupid or corrupt, likely both, to be able to track a device that emits a readily detectable or jam able signal. Of course give those idiots torture grade pepper spray and tasers and they can quite readily brutalise prisoners into being violent habitual criminals (in some kind of insane private prison for profit scheme, got to keep them coming back and get that three strike bonus, bugger the victims).
Lines of code, stop and think about that for a moment. When any countries DoD starts with open source, they can start with a fairly clean source, that can be compared with the source being used by other countries DoD, everyone watches everyone else.
So you have a new submission to be inserted, not replacing of all previous code just s portion of it, this portion of course can be readily audited.
Closed source code is a huge problem for secure, even when they get the code, they get millions of lines at once which can take years to audit dependent upon the number of specialists put into the task. Now consider the contrary fiscal logic of DoD buying closed source code, they have to spend millions of dollars to audit code so that they can but licences of that code one desk at a time and those code audit cost for debugging and securing can be as expensive as writing the code in the first place.
Open source means at least after having spent the money on auditing the code for bugs and security they at least don't have to continue to spend money on licences, now that would be corruptly crazy. Also bear in mind those auditing cost can be shared across departments and even with allied countries, making it really cheap per desk.
Now closed source software corporations are fully aware of this which is why, they skulk around in the shadows making shady deals with people making the software procurement decisions to get unsecured, risky and expensive software in the door, all of it tied to permanent data retention lock in and, bull pucky retraining costs, typical corporate slime.
Ahhm, yes, as long as you have millions and millions of dollars to fight out interpretive laws in court. They have first claim as they filed patent first, your must then prove at great expense that they did not invent but stole, they can of course submit false evidence of invention (as simple as a statutory declaration by some know nothing flunky) which you must try to prove as false.
So corporation versus corporation no problems, corporation versus individual basically individual screwed (funny about that, almost like the law was written by corporate lobbyists).
Of course first inventor to file is corporate doublespeak, for first ass hat to steal somebody elses idea because they didn't patent it and then demand payment from them for inventing it. Your idea, you now me money for legally stealing it. Basically a thieves 'R' us patent system, especially targeted at those that share ideas, rather clamouring greedily for every cent and crippling future development.
Well depending upon the cost of snow removal and lost productivity due to the number of snow days. Perhaps large precast concrete box culverts to cover all public roads might be the solution (cover with solar panels to pay for maintenance costs). Leave the snow up out of the way and continue to use the road. Of course aligning entry points (driveways) is likely to be a real hassle but a one time truly enormous cost versus an annual high cost.
Lateral thinking applied, you could retrieve a substantial portion of the cost by selling the airspace above the roads as building space. Say six metres clear and then multi story beyond for construction.
It is more than just aggregating news services. The old print model, people bought the paper and pretty much read the whole paper just skipping a few minor bits of least interest to them.
The internet model is different, people pretty much skip most of the news and only read those bits of most interest to them. This make subscriptions an impossible sell, why pay when you are going to ignore 90 percent or more of the content. Free via the internet allows you to focus on the 10 percent you are currently interested in across multiple sources.
News sources now come in via multiple points on the internet, your home page, email subscriptions, aggregation and commentary web sites, social media and of course actual news sites, all of these make a subscription to one service at the exclusion of all others truly pointless and basically the previous millenniums print on dead trees technology.
News corp is of course desperate, as it is a big loser on the internet with a solid track record of buying growing web sites and then screwing them up and, being pretty lack lustre performance at transferring it's print and idiot box media to the internet (apart from Fox Sport, though still pretty low on internet ratings).
All indications are, the internet is really unforgiving when you push advertising as news, propaganda as truth and then fail to report what is really going on, all of which is pretty much the News Corp business model. Truth is internet users don't like free stuff (your paying a subscription for your internet connection, often a pretty expensive subscription) they like choice and, any paid for news subscription kills choice because you only have some much time in the day. So you either read your subscribed service and ignore the rest or you ignore your subscribed service to read the rest.
As long as it is internalised ie the science of astrology and does not claim precedence over other sciences, even theological sciences, does it really matter. The US is really struggling with theological science crossing over into biological science amongst others.
Each culture will inevitably define the scope of it's language, however, biology is biology, physics is physics, chemistry is chemistry and of course religion is religion. Tacking science on the end of them does not alter their scope, although the first bunch work together and the last one is all one it's own.
Of course big government tends to solve these kind of problems with, Federal regulations and standards applied uniformly across the whole country. Tends to save a lot of money, when everyone know what the rules are, regardless of country or state boundaries and of course in the event of a dispute with local political appointees there is a clear cut method of appeal and corrective measures being taken with penalties for out of control local authorities.
Local authorities should be purely administrative and regulatory with no legislative ability, that should really go to state or federal government in order to significantly reduce compliance costs and to prevent corrupt localised abuses both for and against.
Contract law, look it up. No, absolutely no condition of contract can exceed the law. You can not implement in a contract a condition that is a criminal act. Freedom of speech is a part of the constitution, which exceeds criminal law and criminal law exceeds contractual law.
It has always been a legal bluff, an employer never has the right to commit a criminal act against the employee nor force the employee to commit a criminal act, regardless of what some ass hat lawyers writes in a contract.
Workers are employees not bloody slaves.
Have you never heard of high performance motor vehicles that can do 200 miles per hour or more, far in excess of the speed limit. Much the same as any product with hyped up performance, it is all about the inflated profit margin.
Of course make any attempt to use that performance and you are immediately penalised. In the case of bandwidth marketing, it has always been a lie, since dial up modems, companies always selling far more than they can actually provide.
Blaming the customer for product failure, has always been a corporate PR=B$ standard when misrepresenting what a product can actually do. In this case it is the customers fault for attempting to use their connection in exactly the way it was advertised.
Facebook owns all the data uploaded to it's website. Want to avoid all legal issues, than they simply need to buy the data in question. Facebook is well know as a grossly privacy invasive company already looking to aggregate private data beyond the pages of Facebook, so when it comes to generating profits by selling data 'secretly' there is very likely to be little resistance.
The catch is how factual is the data held at Facebook, how secure is the log in process, what substantiation is provided for the person who actually uploaded or downloaded data and, even if IP address records are kept for every input and download what proof if who actually committed any acts at the user end.
Everything associated with facebook is wildly circumstantial and pretty legally meaningless apart of getting the naive to admit to things when they should not be saying anything at all (they only time you should speak is in court, before then say nothing without a lawyer being present other than to provide a truthful alibi). The only thing that really counts are the photos and in that case flicker et al is just as dangerous.
Hmm, yeah that liberal media fantasy land, all owned by conservative corporations but filled with people that disobey editorial instruction 24/7 with out getting fired, "we believe". Liberal media is simply a mass media marketing lie targeted at any story, I repeat, absolutely any story that paints pseudo conservatives in a bad light (they have not been actual conservatives for more than two decades but rather ruthless exploiters and their puppets).
Apparently 'liberal media' is presenting at least some of the truth and not censoring it all out of public consciousness. You possibly might be thinking of the liberal internet problem, where truth gets centre stage and the lies whilst still out there in force gets shoved out of the light to skulk in the shadows as soon as the real facts are obtained and released (which last far, far longer than the old 48 hour media cycle, months and years and the truth still bites back big time). When it comes to the internet Fox not-News is a big loser, with tiny little actual 'liberal media' companies well and truly kicking it's ass in terms of internet ratings (multi-billlion dollar company and it's internet ratings are a joke).
Apple is trying to improve sales of iPad by appealing to the conservative market and News corp is trying to slime into some of Apples marketing cool. Likely results double fail, conservatives tend to be cheap greedy buggers who wont part with cash and News corp will simply tarnish Apples reputation.
This is of course a reminder of the legal problems inherent in this application. Monitoring the activities of minors in terms of signal interception and recording of sound and video.
Of course in any mass application, it is just crazy as. Seriously what would be the point of a whole bunch of remote controlled droids looking at each other in an otherwise empty board room, might as well just create a far cheaper virtual environment. As for medical application strapping a headcam, microphone and speaker to a trained orderly would be far cheaper and much more functional.
Lack of focus on the primaries by the US electorate are the core of these problems not legislation. Want real hope and change, then focus on the primaries and forget the elections.
Back to reality of course, the want to scam a bunch of really smart students who are most likely to be marketing resistant into believing they can be as 'cool' as their jock strap counter parts, even though career prospects means they'll be getting paid 1/10th as much, be shunned by mass media and women that pursue cash or fame will still have no interest in them.
Reality is, if they want to convince suitable types, they will have to convince them there is a solid well paying career. That they won't get dumped or their salary package screwed with by politicians, whenever it's politically convenient. That they will have a pleasant work environment and will not be stood over by administrative political appointees seeking to claim credit for the work and blame them for the idiot political appointees mistakes.
For the cybergeeks (argh, just die already) there are already very popular places to work for, be it google type private corporations, high tech corporations like boeing and when it comes to security, well, take your pick of multinational banks. If security is your thing not only will pay and conditions be far better at the banks but there are also many opportunities for overseas postings. Basically as you work your way through the list, only the anal left overs end up at government, except of course the main professionally paranoid government institutions which can still manage to snag a few top flight types.
Want to promote the security industry, then sponsor a TV series targeted at mid-teen sci fi types, that isn't dumbed down and creates a false 'er' exaggerated impression of career desirability. Sponsor computer games that also give a false 'er' exaggerated impression of rewards for security success.
The arrangement of a list of "not facts" by most likely search results based upon user profile (from simple IP adress location to a more detailed profile). Facts in the case of search query results would be a completely random output of little relevance to the user, the arrangement, the order of results, the order of likely search results, which results comes up first and on the first pages, represent a body of work. How that body of work is produced is arbitrary.
Search results can not really be called facts, they are the results of complex data base and it's associated algorithm, as the user does not know the algorithm nor the structure of the database the output is more fuzzy logic than factual output. What M$ is likely cheating on is the elimination of 'factually correct' but bad ass hat search optimised web sites.
Whilst Ballmer is buggering up M$ it is Gates that keeps him in the chair. The most damage that has been done to M$ is the routine firing of any threats to Ballmer over the last decade. As a result M$ has lost some of the best and brightest to protect the ego of an insurance salesman and that same attitude has crippled MSN.
Pretty much copyrights infringement. Googles search engine can be considered to be a body of work, whilst any individual query can be considered to be fair use. However an attempt to replicate the body of work to create another search engine of equal efficacy would have to be copyright infringement.
M$ copyright lawyers and management should be fully aware of this, as of course they are the ass hats of greed when it comes to their copyrights, patents and trademarks, claiming ownership of everything and routinely being caught of for cheating.
So 'BUSTED', whether google sues or not their choice but it would be funny to force M$ to spend millions of dollars advertising that Bing's search qualities are based upon Google's search engine and that Google provides better search outcomes ;D.
Do you know what IQ is most driven by, your own internal brain chemical reward system, ahh, to be in that thinking zone. Smarter is nothing much more than drug addict.
So higher IQ is not all that much to brag about but it does of course alter your thinking processes and reactions to mass media marketing and adhering to accepted mass consumption norms which inevitably results in sharing mutual irritation with the in crowd and their followers (marketing victims)..
Simpler to provide 2 (technically 3 including smartphone) computers at each desk. A smart terminal and a netbook. Netbooks are getting cheaper all the time and a 12inch screen will do most 'communication' apps really well.
Let the employees 'play' (it's inevitable) without any harm to secured system and even allows the communications network to be a provision of service to the employee as part of conditions of employment rather than an company communications channel, shifting all legal liability for communications back to the employee.
Still need to scan the netbook whilst connected for illicit company data or unsafe applications etc. but games and other crap would be OK (give the employees some space to improve employee well being )