I have read quite a few forums in my time and Fox not-News definitely does not get the same style of comments as other news sites, there is most definitely a distinct flavour of knee jerk, reactionary, hateful, ignorant tone to Fox not-News comments. Things like 'they should be killed', 'hang them', 'make them suffer' etc. appear quite frequently and make for difficult and disturbing reading.
Even in this case where it is quite clear that a psychotic break and easy access to a weapon specifically designed to kill people were the problem and politics were largely arbitrary.
This incident does of course bring up gun control and whether mandatory psychological evaluation should be required prior to access to the most dangerous forms weapons designed specifically to kill people. Even the idea of compulsory psychological evaluation of all people at late high school age to pick up on warning signs and initiate treatment or support when required to try to avoid these random very destructive events, is starting to look more acceptable. Quite invasive, fairly expensive but, would likely save many lives.
In this case, the real answer is how do you prove testing saves money, truth is, exactly the same way, customer service and support saves money, you can't.
It's the old bean counter, no real world experience con. It is dead easy to prove not spending money on testing or it's partner customer service and support, saves money and if you still need to, offshore it to third world contractors for cents on the dollar. Of course experience teaches exactly why those easy to prove bean counter exercises blow up in everyone's face, with lost customers.
So once you have a boss or manager who lacks the experience and wants you to mathematically prove how spending money to prevent losing money is worth it, don't, give up walk away and let the noob learn their lesson the hardway (avoid the "I told you so" because they will want to blame you for their mistake).
Don't forget to ignore those people who say, just do a perfect job and you don't need testing or customer service and support, to defend their bean counter no customer relations experience mentality. Investing in precautions is an impossible sell, until the have had to pay the price of failing to do so.
Simply put in this case, the marketing is all about pumping the perceived value of Facebook so Goldman Sachs can get in, dump Facebook on mug investors making a huge profit and then bet on the collapse and make another profit.
Facebook's real value simply divide their profit numbers by the current loan interest rates and that's your answer (why no higher, they have insufficient assets to justify it and no goodwill, they are a fad social networking site).
Hard fact is 100% not 99.99% but 100% of social networking sites have gone from nothing, to leader, to trailing behind and there's 20 years of hard data to prove it. Don't point to Google, they are a search site and portal, want to point to google then talk only about Orkut it had it's time in the sun too.
Will Goldman Sachs make their money, likely they will, by screwing anyone that listens to them (buying when Sachs are selling) and via off balance sheet in tax haven executive bonuses for pension fund managers. Funny how all those losing pension funds seem to be run be somehow still rich idiots.
Now the real question will the Goldmans Sachs investment be the death knell for Facebook, have Blankfein and Cohn, put the mockers on, just like Murdoch did to MySpace.
It's the computer age. It is all about cutting out the middle man unless they provide a real service to manufacturer and the customers. With a limited number of major airlines it would be craziness not for them to sell direct and offer the best bargains direct to the customer, including return customer bargains.
Watch for new selling points like, "We provide our own security check it for Airline Club Members, no more hostile TSA molesting". So getting customers that always book with the same airline purchasing tickets direct and even paying by direct funds transfer to save credit card fees, flight clubs, where customers are pre-identified and even own a share of the company and thus are no longer passengers but owners, all to gain that walk in, board and take off, with out strip, scan and grope (only the barefoot, harassed, radiated and molested fly Soviet style on the cheap).
It's almost like you like in a world where, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, Korea and India don't exist.
China manufacturing is being driven by western corporate greed, the desire to cripple the middle class, and the willingness of the China leadership to ruthlessly exploit the Chinese people.
Fair trade will happen (import adjustments to ensure product competitiveness is based upon fair equitable costs including, minimum wages, pollution controls, labour conditions, product safety, taxation base).
China's problem with burdensome US debt and offloading that debt by buying European and other countries industrial, farming base with basically junk US dollars, is really going to start hitting a wall shortly.
Technically scale of leak and some artful techno babble about computer generated false documents make use of elements of real documents, works fine. The denial is about obfuscating the most embarrassing documents under a layer of exaggeration and outright falsity.
Of course with the revelation about the psychopathic nature of Henry Kissenger coming to light and being deemed as acceptable by numerous US administrations, making anything no matter how bad disbelieve able, is likely impossible. In fact no matter how bad, the rest of humanity would likely expect the full truth of US action in foreign theatres to be even worse.
So wired real complaint, as facilitators to one of the greatest betrayals of the internet age, they thought they were going to get away with the illusion of Adrian Lamo the betrayer as a hero and Bradley Manning the hero who risked life a liberty to free the truth as the villain.
Of course the piggish little eyes of Wired editors just saw the dollar signs of a news scoop and the value of likely long term US government support. For them their readers will believe what ever they are told to believe.
Once of course things started to turn around as release after release revealed, lies and deceit, Wired's efforts in the betrayal of Bradley Manning and their implicit support of the deceit uncovered, is making them look worse and worse.
The expectation is that the Wired staff who directly participated in the betrayal will fall upon the swords to reduce the continuing harm being done to Wired's image by their presence. All the noise coming out of wired of late is simply their self serving attempt to survive.
A foreign politician lied to his constituency in order retain power with them while secretly allying with a foreign power to weakening a competitor within in his country.
Why is it when US foreign service gets involved the choice ends up between one dishonest politician that wants power versus another dishonest politician that's wants power but will support the US corporate takeover of the country.
Now that is the reality of fifty years of US meddling, a pro US corporate profits dictator versus a dictator that was not pro US corporate profits. That being the only defining value by which the US foreign service values the harm caused by two choices. The number of citizens they kill, the corruption of the government, the threat to neighbours, meh, 'SHOW ME THE MONEY' cries the US Secretary of State the prostitute to US corporate imperialism.
Truth and Justice, those two words go together for a reason and don't ever expect justice to occur without the truth.
So a possible warning against children who lack associative depth perception and who ten to walk in front of moving vehicles when they misinterpret the distance of the vehicle. This of course could be considered an extreme example but it is likely they distorting the visual plane to achieve 2.5d could likely produce an accident prone generation.
Just go with a much more sound legal defence. Were the notebook in question and the email account auto-logon, by definition accessible to anyone who turns on the computer, no illegal access to an open to be shared network.
So the best defence for husband number three is the autologon defence, default browser apps and whether he serviced the computer for her. Side defences are who actually paid for the computer (apparently not the wifes computer but a family computer).
Now did the wife in question cheat on husband number two to go out with the future husband number three, well in that case husband number three is an idiot for expecting to be treated any different.
The criminal case is all about ramping up the divorce settlement for maximum dollar bonus for the wife. For husband number three the big lesson here is admit to nothing, do not talk to the police except through a lawyer and only when forced to do so in court.
Any bets that the Government of China will drop the price of rare earths once Molycorp has invested the greatest amount of capital in it and then has huge, bankruptcy risk. Expect those in the know to buy shares early and then dump them latter just before the stock price collapse.
Once into receivership a Chinese company will buy the mine and decommission it, the reduced supply will result in a substantial price increase in rare earths.
face it folks, this is standard corporate economics 101. Free market thing guarantees that it will and the greed of local investors (Americans stabbing Americans in the back and betraying their own country) ensure it will happen. Corporate law, have to buy the cheapest source of supply regardless of consequences, just invest smartly to profit as a result of those consequences.
The biggest problem with these patents, is everything they are claiming has been done before so all they are claiming is, they are doing with leds. So blindingly obvious that all previous technology applications facilitated by light emitting devices will transfer over to LEDs. So if they invented LED's fine if they did not, gees, just fuck off.
Hint, hint, a video display device communicates information to the human brain via lcds and leds, making use of the biological receiving devices of the human eye, which transfer the data upon the human internal nervous system network. Next the asshats will want patents upon the human eye and the optic nerve ie obvious application is obvious, the only thing distorting the obvious is those pesky dollar symbols flashing of in their eyes, a veritable plethora off them.
Even in wired networks there is no problem in adjustment of networks with changes in workstations, because of course shifting power points is still far more expensive (so the best way to save costs is to use electricians who can do both jobs at the same time).
Lets cut through the jokes and freedom. One word Stuxnet. That spelt the ends of windows upon any foreign secure system, after that attaxk you would have to be a bloody idiot to continue down that path.
Think about corporate for profit influence upon that country, if an overseas corporation proves to be excessively competitive and is crippling the profits of a local corporations, why not cripple that foreign corporations computer infrastructure. Face it stupidity like that is only a matter of time.
With a FOSS OS and major applications, each government department can run slightly different versions that will not be affected by the same virii.
The only question is how long will M$ wait before launching their own investigation and start seeking billions in damages against a country that used source code supplied by M$ to destroy the security reputation of that software. M$ are fully entitled to damages for the abusive use of the source code provided.
It really seems like the TSA grope had much more to do with distracting peoples attention away, from how much lobbyists and private corporations where extracting in profits from the TSA.
The old, look here, look here, subterfuge. Billions in profits but all of you are now focused on being sexually assaulted at airports. No testing, no external corroboration, no valid tenders, no safety, no independent medical evaluation and testing, just billions done the rabbit hole and some sexual abuse to distract everyone attention from it.
I still find it unbelievable that Americans put up with it, what happened to you people, has baa, baa and, cluck, cluck become you national anthems.
Oh, crappity, crap, crap, crap. Small ISP's came from wholesaling bandwidth provided by larger players who did not yet see the money making opportunity in the internet. So small ISP's charged forward with email services, web hosting services and low cost (shared bandwidth) internet services.
Some of those small ISP's were truly horrendous, wildly overselling the bandwidth they had wholesaled (some whas hidden by crappy dial modems and bad phone lines), their employees would also wholesale spy on what their customers were doing as some kind of ego power trip.
As time progressed the true value of the internet became apparent and the incumbent telecoms attempted to drive smaller ISP's out of business, those telecoms also saw the developing opportunity to become monopolists content supplies by driving all other content suppliers out of business. The telecoms would supply the content they were 'publishing' free of data charges and then add data charges to any other content supplies often those data charges far exceeding the price of the content, so either 'publish' via an incumbent telecom or go out of business.
What buggered it up was the telecoms greed, they were not working with the RIAA and MPAA et al, as far as the telecoms were concerned they were competitors to be driven out of business. That pot of gold, the trillions at the end of the rainbow, mega bonuses lit up those piggish little eyes of psychopath telecoms executives and it fell apart.
We are now looking at stage two where the sociopathic greed of the telecom executives has been stifled and rather than competing with the RIAA and MPAA they are working together to shut down forever independent publishing. Make no mistake it will be cheaper to send a DVD via post than electronically upload it, including all associated costs. So no independent movies, music or games, even larger web sites will be threatened (by larger, I mean anything in the top 10,000, maybe even 100,000 foreign or domestic).
So electrical free market. The existing electrical supply company owns all the power lines for say 200 miles. You are free to disconnect and pay another company say 200 million dollars to run a power line that distance and perhaps a couple million dollars per year maintenance fee but hey you get cheaper electricity.
So free market never existed for essential services like roads, water, sewer, storm water, electricity and wired communications. To privatise any of them is to immediately establishes localised monopolies, who are free to charge what they want, subject only to government regulation, all based on no alternate realistic method of supply.
Privatising essential services has just proved to be a profit bonanza for often foreign corporations (less opportunity for effective protest) to screw over populations. It is a lie driven by nothing but psychopathic greed. Pretty much any person that calls for privatisation of essential services should be subject to immediate investigation, it's called behavioural profiling, you can be pretty certain that they cheated on their taxes, are involved in offshore tax avoidance schemes, regularly break environmental laws, break labour laws at every opportunity and fiddle with the books to inflate their bonuses.
Really, Really dumb. This is about reality, you pay top dollar for access and still get crappy service, why you don't know. bad modem, bad software, your ISP suck, some in between ISP sucks, the sites you access ISP sucks, the site has bad servers and can not handle the traffic.
Basically all of them can bullshit you all of the time and no matter how much you pay sell you bugger for years, until their systems are independently audited. Far simpler to set rules and make them adhere to those rules. No monitoring other than for occasional and only as required quality of service. No alteration of data in either direction. You sell the bandwidth, then you provide the bandwidth.
The alternate is content distribution monopolies based around ISP's. Want to distribute direct forget it, they will put you out of business by slowing down or even blocking your traffic, you will be required to use a digital publisher (see same middle men arseholes back again).
As for VOIP as long as it is all on their network fine, off their network cripple the traffic to make competing ISPs look bad, do it intermittently to get away with it. How about intercepting all traffic and I mean all traffic including VOIP to inserts ads. How about monitoring and data mining all traffic to sell the data to marketing firms. How about monitoring all traffic and cutting of any complaint traffic.
There is a substantial deference between, hey wikileaks how do I submit these documents and hey wikileaks how do i obtain these documents. In point of fact in the first case the documents are unsubstantiated documents until they are submitted and of course once published they can not be defined as factual by anyone else the 'oops' US government.
So CIA will no play the propaganda game, denial, obfuscation and, misinformation. Pretty much the same stuff that was already indicated in a lot of the documents.
To be clear the stupidest the US government could ever do in the first place was to admit the documents released were real, dumb, dumb, dumb. I know, difficult to deny, but certainly easy no to admit to. This at least enables the challenging of any individual document as being true or valid, dumb, dumb, dumb. In fact the US government did everything imaginable to validate the documents, international diplomatic pressure, corporate strong arm tactics, ramping up of criminal charges, political rah rah with talks of execution, dumb, dumb, dumb.
So counter intelligence in every sense of the word in every facet of the US government. Hint, here's how to lie next time, some documents were released by a foreign source who has tainted and altered them, for political and economic reasons. Most of the documents released were inconsequential and yet still altered here are some examples and the rest are just fabrications based upon the wording of those other unimportant documents. See no terrorism, no executions, no extraordinary renditions, no diplomatic rubbish, no threats of prosecution and you bust the leak for inappropriate access to a secured computer network not espionage, so still admitting nothing.
In all the private contractor bullshit and politics, US intelligence services have become really clumsy and stupid, dumb, dumb, dumb.
Profit comes from charging more for something than it cost you to gain. Profit is generally increased by lying about the cost of the product, lying about the serviceability of the product, lying about the desirability of the product, eliminating alternate sources of supply to inflate price and using corrupt political tactics to enforce purchase and eliminate alternate sources of supply.
A government of the people, by the people and for the people. Perhaps you maybe just might of heard of it, the government is the people, the people are the government (how can you steal what you in part already own, the theft comes when certain individuals try to substantively increase the size of their part). This of course ceases to be true when private for profit interests corrupt the government to suit their own psychopathic greed, this same group will also tell the rest of the public the government is bad and they are better off having nothing to do with it and ignoring it, the simplifies control of the government by those individuals.
PS the easiest way to end corporate welfare is to limit the size of corporations and reduce the risks associated with their limited liability, no corporate welfare is required as the loss of any particular corporation is of no great significance.
The Republicans are already talking about de-funding the FCC, basically running them into bankruptcy if they try to enforce net neutrality. So the big miss was getting it into law, now it is just a matter of politicians bankrupting a government agency if the agency attempt to uphold the law against the wishes of corporate interests.
Besides let's work the the car analogy and the opposite of net neutrality, net economic freedom. If you can pay more for your drivers licence and registration why shouldn't you be able to drive faster. So the average drivers licence and registration pays for the average speed, so the current base fee for drivers licence and rego should only get you base speed, say 20 mph in the slow lane and you always have to give way to higher licensed and registered traffic.
You could even have an entry level where you can only drive to subsidised location, like your employer (if they are willing to pay) or the supermarket (if they pay), every where else you need to catch a specially licensed taxi but the basic access still gains you access to the footpath (excluding pedestrian crossings you have to pay to use those after all you are obstructing a full fee paying driver). As for the rich, why not open slather access, when it comes to crashes it is never their fault and they always get access. As for public transport that's a socialist plot, if you can only afford minimum you should be made to walk.
You should easily be able to see the substantial opportunities for profit in the scheme, especially when drivers licences and registration are privatised and, where would the Ferengi 'er' Conservatives be without profit.
The fact is, the woman in question suffered from an un-declared obsessive compulsive disorder which she claimed was worsened by the street view images of her underwear.
Likely true but, is Google liable for worsening an un-reasonable condition that it was unaware of and thus had no control over.
It seems a lawyer is choosing to exploit a person's psychological weaknesses for the lawyers own benefit.
Don't you know content monopolists loathe open and will attack it with FUD fear, uncertainty, doubt every time. With good reason it threatens the high profit centre of licence distribution fees, hardware repurchase (else loose the content you rented) and, of course choice.
Choice is bad for profits, hints at real competition and customers just saying no. Of course with Android everyone is a customer, even Google and everyone gets to choose and those choices are driven by the level of effort and investment they wish to make in driving your choice for the way Android works.
In this case they are allowing a spell checker for 'writing tests'. Test that you would normally expect to be all about spelling, grammar and punctuation.
For the calculator equivalency you should be allowed to bring in a dictionary. Catch with the dictionary, slows you way down, so you won't complete the test if you use it too much.
So spell checker bad, dictionary OK, electronic dictionary, hmm.
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I have read quite a few forums in my time and Fox not-News definitely does not get the same style of comments as other news sites, there is most definitely a distinct flavour of knee jerk, reactionary, hateful, ignorant tone to Fox not-News comments. Things like 'they should be killed', 'hang them', 'make them suffer' etc. appear quite frequently and make for difficult and disturbing reading.
Even in this case where it is quite clear that a psychotic break and easy access to a weapon specifically designed to kill people were the problem and politics were largely arbitrary.
This incident does of course bring up gun control and whether mandatory psychological evaluation should be required prior to access to the most dangerous forms weapons designed specifically to kill people. Even the idea of compulsory psychological evaluation of all people at late high school age to pick up on warning signs and initiate treatment or support when required to try to avoid these random very destructive events, is starting to look more acceptable. Quite invasive, fairly expensive but, would likely save many lives.
In this case, the real answer is how do you prove testing saves money, truth is, exactly the same way, customer service and support saves money, you can't.
It's the old bean counter, no real world experience con. It is dead easy to prove not spending money on testing or it's partner customer service and support, saves money and if you still need to, offshore it to third world contractors for cents on the dollar. Of course experience teaches exactly why those easy to prove bean counter exercises blow up in everyone's face, with lost customers.
So once you have a boss or manager who lacks the experience and wants you to mathematically prove how spending money to prevent losing money is worth it, don't, give up walk away and let the noob learn their lesson the hardway (avoid the "I told you so" because they will want to blame you for their mistake).
Don't forget to ignore those people who say, just do a perfect job and you don't need testing or customer service and support, to defend their bean counter no customer relations experience mentality. Investing in precautions is an impossible sell, until the have had to pay the price of failing to do so.
Face it the real choice is, do you want to be 'sold' software, or do you want to 'buy' hardware that is forced to compete.
Simply put in this case, the marketing is all about pumping the perceived value of Facebook so Goldman Sachs can get in, dump Facebook on mug investors making a huge profit and then bet on the collapse and make another profit.
Facebook's real value simply divide their profit numbers by the current loan interest rates and that's your answer (why no higher, they have insufficient assets to justify it and no goodwill, they are a fad social networking site).
Hard fact is 100% not 99.99% but 100% of social networking sites have gone from nothing, to leader, to trailing behind and there's 20 years of hard data to prove it. Don't point to Google, they are a search site and portal, want to point to google then talk only about Orkut it had it's time in the sun too.
Will Goldman Sachs make their money, likely they will, by screwing anyone that listens to them (buying when Sachs are selling) and via off balance sheet in tax haven executive bonuses for pension fund managers. Funny how all those losing pension funds seem to be run be somehow still rich idiots.
Now the real question will the Goldmans Sachs investment be the death knell for Facebook, have Blankfein and Cohn, put the mockers on, just like Murdoch did to MySpace.
It's the computer age. It is all about cutting out the middle man unless they provide a real service to manufacturer and the customers. With a limited number of major airlines it would be craziness not for them to sell direct and offer the best bargains direct to the customer, including return customer bargains.
Watch for new selling points like, "We provide our own security check it for Airline Club Members, no more hostile TSA molesting". So getting customers that always book with the same airline purchasing tickets direct and even paying by direct funds transfer to save credit card fees, flight clubs, where customers are pre-identified and even own a share of the company and thus are no longer passengers but owners, all to gain that walk in, board and take off, with out strip, scan and grope (only the barefoot, harassed, radiated and molested fly Soviet style on the cheap).
It's almost like you like in a world where, Taiwan, Japan, Indonesia, Korea and India don't exist.
China manufacturing is being driven by western corporate greed, the desire to cripple the middle class, and the willingness of the China leadership to ruthlessly exploit the Chinese people.
Fair trade will happen (import adjustments to ensure product competitiveness is based upon fair equitable costs including, minimum wages, pollution controls, labour conditions, product safety, taxation base).
China's problem with burdensome US debt and offloading that debt by buying European and other countries industrial, farming base with basically junk US dollars, is really going to start hitting a wall shortly.
Technically scale of leak and some artful techno babble about computer generated false documents make use of elements of real documents, works fine. The denial is about obfuscating the most embarrassing documents under a layer of exaggeration and outright falsity.
Of course with the revelation about the psychopathic nature of Henry Kissenger coming to light and being deemed as acceptable by numerous US administrations, making anything no matter how bad disbelieve able, is likely impossible. In fact no matter how bad, the rest of humanity would likely expect the full truth of US action in foreign theatres to be even worse.
So wired real complaint, as facilitators to one of the greatest betrayals of the internet age, they thought they were going to get away with the illusion of Adrian Lamo the betrayer as a hero and Bradley Manning the hero who risked life a liberty to free the truth as the villain.
Of course the piggish little eyes of Wired editors just saw the dollar signs of a news scoop and the value of likely long term US government support. For them their readers will believe what ever they are told to believe.
Once of course things started to turn around as release after release revealed, lies and deceit, Wired's efforts in the betrayal of Bradley Manning and their implicit support of the deceit uncovered, is making them look worse and worse.
The expectation is that the Wired staff who directly participated in the betrayal will fall upon the swords to reduce the continuing harm being done to Wired's image by their presence. All the noise coming out of wired of late is simply their self serving attempt to survive.
How truly pathetic.
A foreign politician lied to his constituency in order retain power with them while secretly allying with a foreign power to weakening a competitor within in his country.
Why is it when US foreign service gets involved the choice ends up between one dishonest politician that wants power versus another dishonest politician that's wants power but will support the US corporate takeover of the country.
Now that is the reality of fifty years of US meddling, a pro US corporate profits dictator versus a dictator that was not pro US corporate profits. That being the only defining value by which the US foreign service values the harm caused by two choices. The number of citizens they kill, the corruption of the government, the threat to neighbours, meh, 'SHOW ME THE MONEY' cries the US Secretary of State the prostitute to US corporate imperialism.
Truth and Justice, those two words go together for a reason and don't ever expect justice to occur without the truth.
So a possible warning against children who lack associative depth perception and who ten to walk in front of moving vehicles when they misinterpret the distance of the vehicle. This of course could be considered an extreme example but it is likely they distorting the visual plane to achieve 2.5d could likely produce an accident prone generation.
Just go with a much more sound legal defence. Were the notebook in question and the email account auto-logon, by definition accessible to anyone who turns on the computer, no illegal access to an open to be shared network.
So the best defence for husband number three is the autologon defence, default browser apps and whether he serviced the computer for her. Side defences are who actually paid for the computer (apparently not the wifes computer but a family computer).
Now did the wife in question cheat on husband number two to go out with the future husband number three, well in that case husband number three is an idiot for expecting to be treated any different.
The criminal case is all about ramping up the divorce settlement for maximum dollar bonus for the wife. For husband number three the big lesson here is admit to nothing, do not talk to the police except through a lawyer and only when forced to do so in court.
Any bets that the Government of China will drop the price of rare earths once Molycorp has invested the greatest amount of capital in it and then has huge, bankruptcy risk. Expect those in the know to buy shares early and then dump them latter just before the stock price collapse.
Once into receivership a Chinese company will buy the mine and decommission it, the reduced supply will result in a substantial price increase in rare earths.
face it folks, this is standard corporate economics 101. Free market thing guarantees that it will and the greed of local investors (Americans stabbing Americans in the back and betraying their own country) ensure it will happen. Corporate law, have to buy the cheapest source of supply regardless of consequences, just invest smartly to profit as a result of those consequences.
The biggest problem with these patents, is everything they are claiming has been done before so all they are claiming is, they are doing with leds. So blindingly obvious that all previous technology applications facilitated by light emitting devices will transfer over to LEDs. So if they invented LED's fine if they did not, gees, just fuck off.
Hint, hint, a video display device communicates information to the human brain via lcds and leds, making use of the biological receiving devices of the human eye, which transfer the data upon the human internal nervous system network. Next the asshats will want patents upon the human eye and the optic nerve ie obvious application is obvious, the only thing distorting the obvious is those pesky dollar symbols flashing of in their eyes, a veritable plethora off them.
Even in wired networks there is no problem in adjustment of networks with changes in workstations, because of course shifting power points is still far more expensive (so the best way to save costs is to use electricians who can do both jobs at the same time).
Lets cut through the jokes and freedom. One word Stuxnet. That spelt the ends of windows upon any foreign secure system, after that attaxk you would have to be a bloody idiot to continue down that path.
Think about corporate for profit influence upon that country, if an overseas corporation proves to be excessively competitive and is crippling the profits of a local corporations, why not cripple that foreign corporations computer infrastructure. Face it stupidity like that is only a matter of time.
With a FOSS OS and major applications, each government department can run slightly different versions that will not be affected by the same virii.
The only question is how long will M$ wait before launching their own investigation and start seeking billions in damages against a country that used source code supplied by M$ to destroy the security reputation of that software. M$ are fully entitled to damages for the abusive use of the source code provided.
It really seems like the TSA grope had much more to do with distracting peoples attention away, from how much lobbyists and private corporations where extracting in profits from the TSA.
The old, look here, look here, subterfuge. Billions in profits but all of you are now focused on being sexually assaulted at airports. No testing, no external corroboration, no valid tenders, no safety, no independent medical evaluation and testing, just billions done the rabbit hole and some sexual abuse to distract everyone attention from it.
I still find it unbelievable that Americans put up with it, what happened to you people, has baa, baa and, cluck, cluck become you national anthems.
Oh, crappity, crap, crap, crap. Small ISP's came from wholesaling bandwidth provided by larger players who did not yet see the money making opportunity in the internet. So small ISP's charged forward with email services, web hosting services and low cost (shared bandwidth) internet services.
Some of those small ISP's were truly horrendous, wildly overselling the bandwidth they had wholesaled (some whas hidden by crappy dial modems and bad phone lines), their employees would also wholesale spy on what their customers were doing as some kind of ego power trip.
As time progressed the true value of the internet became apparent and the incumbent telecoms attempted to drive smaller ISP's out of business, those telecoms also saw the developing opportunity to become monopolists content supplies by driving all other content suppliers out of business. The telecoms would supply the content they were 'publishing' free of data charges and then add data charges to any other content supplies often those data charges far exceeding the price of the content, so either 'publish' via an incumbent telecom or go out of business.
What buggered it up was the telecoms greed, they were not working with the RIAA and MPAA et al, as far as the telecoms were concerned they were competitors to be driven out of business. That pot of gold, the trillions at the end of the rainbow, mega bonuses lit up those piggish little eyes of psychopath telecoms executives and it fell apart.
We are now looking at stage two where the sociopathic greed of the telecom executives has been stifled and rather than competing with the RIAA and MPAA they are working together to shut down forever independent publishing. Make no mistake it will be cheaper to send a DVD via post than electronically upload it, including all associated costs. So no independent movies, music or games, even larger web sites will be threatened (by larger, I mean anything in the top 10,000, maybe even 100,000 foreign or domestic).
So electrical free market. The existing electrical supply company owns all the power lines for say 200 miles. You are free to disconnect and pay another company say 200 million dollars to run a power line that distance and perhaps a couple million dollars per year maintenance fee but hey you get cheaper electricity.
So free market never existed for essential services like roads, water, sewer, storm water, electricity and wired communications. To privatise any of them is to immediately establishes localised monopolies, who are free to charge what they want, subject only to government regulation, all based on no alternate realistic method of supply.
Privatising essential services has just proved to be a profit bonanza for often foreign corporations (less opportunity for effective protest) to screw over populations. It is a lie driven by nothing but psychopathic greed. Pretty much any person that calls for privatisation of essential services should be subject to immediate investigation, it's called behavioural profiling, you can be pretty certain that they cheated on their taxes, are involved in offshore tax avoidance schemes, regularly break environmental laws, break labour laws at every opportunity and fiddle with the books to inflate their bonuses.
Really, Really dumb. This is about reality, you pay top dollar for access and still get crappy service, why you don't know. bad modem, bad software, your ISP suck, some in between ISP sucks, the sites you access ISP sucks, the site has bad servers and can not handle the traffic.
Basically all of them can bullshit you all of the time and no matter how much you pay sell you bugger for years, until their systems are independently audited. Far simpler to set rules and make them adhere to those rules. No monitoring other than for occasional and only as required quality of service. No alteration of data in either direction. You sell the bandwidth, then you provide the bandwidth.
The alternate is content distribution monopolies based around ISP's. Want to distribute direct forget it, they will put you out of business by slowing down or even blocking your traffic, you will be required to use a digital publisher (see same middle men arseholes back again).
As for VOIP as long as it is all on their network fine, off their network cripple the traffic to make competing ISPs look bad, do it intermittently to get away with it. How about intercepting all traffic and I mean all traffic including VOIP to inserts ads. How about monitoring and data mining all traffic to sell the data to marketing firms. How about monitoring all traffic and cutting of any complaint traffic.
There is a substantial deference between, hey wikileaks how do I submit these documents and hey wikileaks how do i obtain these documents. In point of fact in the first case the documents are unsubstantiated documents until they are submitted and of course once published they can not be defined as factual by anyone else the 'oops' US government.
So CIA will no play the propaganda game, denial, obfuscation and, misinformation. Pretty much the same stuff that was already indicated in a lot of the documents.
To be clear the stupidest the US government could ever do in the first place was to admit the documents released were real, dumb, dumb, dumb. I know, difficult to deny, but certainly easy no to admit to. This at least enables the challenging of any individual document as being true or valid, dumb, dumb, dumb. In fact the US government did everything imaginable to validate the documents, international diplomatic pressure, corporate strong arm tactics, ramping up of criminal charges, political rah rah with talks of execution, dumb, dumb, dumb.
So counter intelligence in every sense of the word in every facet of the US government. Hint, here's how to lie next time, some documents were released by a foreign source who has tainted and altered them, for political and economic reasons. Most of the documents released were inconsequential and yet still altered here are some examples and the rest are just fabrications based upon the wording of those other unimportant documents. See no terrorism, no executions, no extraordinary renditions, no diplomatic rubbish, no threats of prosecution and you bust the leak for inappropriate access to a secured computer network not espionage, so still admitting nothing.
In all the private contractor bullshit and politics, US intelligence services have become really clumsy and stupid, dumb, dumb, dumb.
Profit comes from charging more for something than it cost you to gain. Profit is generally increased by lying about the cost of the product, lying about the serviceability of the product, lying about the desirability of the product, eliminating alternate sources of supply to inflate price and using corrupt political tactics to enforce purchase and eliminate alternate sources of supply.
A government of the people, by the people and for the people. Perhaps you maybe just might of heard of it, the government is the people, the people are the government (how can you steal what you in part already own, the theft comes when certain individuals try to substantively increase the size of their part). This of course ceases to be true when private for profit interests corrupt the government to suit their own psychopathic greed, this same group will also tell the rest of the public the government is bad and they are better off having nothing to do with it and ignoring it, the simplifies control of the government by those individuals.
PS the easiest way to end corporate welfare is to limit the size of corporations and reduce the risks associated with their limited liability, no corporate welfare is required as the loss of any particular corporation is of no great significance.
The Republicans are already talking about de-funding the FCC, basically running them into bankruptcy if they try to enforce net neutrality. So the big miss was getting it into law, now it is just a matter of politicians bankrupting a government agency if the agency attempt to uphold the law against the wishes of corporate interests.
Besides let's work the the car analogy and the opposite of net neutrality, net economic freedom. If you can pay more for your drivers licence and registration why shouldn't you be able to drive faster. So the average drivers licence and registration pays for the average speed, so the current base fee for drivers licence and rego should only get you base speed, say 20 mph in the slow lane and you always have to give way to higher licensed and registered traffic.
You could even have an entry level where you can only drive to subsidised location, like your employer (if they are willing to pay) or the supermarket (if they pay), every where else you need to catch a specially licensed taxi but the basic access still gains you access to the footpath (excluding pedestrian crossings you have to pay to use those after all you are obstructing a full fee paying driver). As for the rich, why not open slather access, when it comes to crashes it is never their fault and they always get access. As for public transport that's a socialist plot, if you can only afford minimum you should be made to walk.
You should easily be able to see the substantial opportunities for profit in the scheme, especially when drivers licences and registration are privatised and, where would the Ferengi 'er' Conservatives be without profit.
Perhaps Ralph Nader put it best http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7IshiClQqCM, hmm, Uncle Tom Obama and, look who is doing the defening Fox not-News.
So is Obama caving or just doing his job. Ralph certainly doesn't cave in for Fox not-News.
The fact is, the woman in question suffered from an un-declared obsessive compulsive disorder which she claimed was worsened by the street view images of her underwear.
Likely true but, is Google liable for worsening an un-reasonable condition that it was unaware of and thus had no control over.
It seems a lawyer is choosing to exploit a person's psychological weaknesses for the lawyers own benefit.
Don't you know content monopolists loathe open and will attack it with FUD fear, uncertainty, doubt every time. With good reason it threatens the high profit centre of licence distribution fees, hardware repurchase (else loose the content you rented) and, of course choice.
Choice is bad for profits, hints at real competition and customers just saying no. Of course with Android everyone is a customer, even Google and everyone gets to choose and those choices are driven by the level of effort and investment they wish to make in driving your choice for the way Android works.
In this case they are allowing a spell checker for 'writing tests'. Test that you would normally expect to be all about spelling, grammar and punctuation.
For the calculator equivalency you should be allowed to bring in a dictionary. Catch with the dictionary, slows you way down, so you won't complete the test if you use it too much.
So spell checker bad, dictionary OK, electronic dictionary, hmm.