When authorities corrupt one messaging platform, users will either switch or employ more sophisticated means of masking their activity.
Anyone remember which credit card payment service cut off Wikileaks? That kind of memory sticks with the collective a long time. Sell out your users and you can expect them to remember a long, long time.
I don't think this is good for the state or RIM. There are other ways to get the same information that rely on nothing more than good old fashioned police work. RIM volunteering to help police identify their customers, many of whom may have had legitimate reasons for being in the vicinity, is not a message I'd want to send.
It's an interesting idea, but how would it be funded? Almost like a postal service for the internet. I'm trying to think of a value added service that would make users and ISPs want to sign up with the internet post office and can't think of one. There would have to some kind of fee to fund the agency and I'm not sure a reduction in spam would be enough incentive.
If the major service providers told people they had to register with the internet post office before they could send mail, how do you enforce that?
Internet protocols were designed to thwart central control and a single point of failure.
Faceless corporations with nothing in the way of accountability and very little oversight with the keys to the FBI and other government data systems. I don't see how anything could go wrong with that arrangement.
Why pay attention to that when you have those darn teacher's unions trying to live high off the taxpayer hog?
AT&T has you by the nads. You have a hard time finding phone service where you don't waive your right to sue and the carrier can make changes any time they want.
There's always some pompous horses ass who jumps in to say, "If you don't like the terms, don't sign the contract." But when you can't get service anywhere without those stipulations, there is no consumer choice. The wireless carriers operate as a cartel, not a free market.
Markets are not free if they're not also fair. And when one side can change the terms of a contract at any time, it's not fair.
Compared to how the White House usually negotiates, that's amazing. I'm surprised they didn't do what they usually do: Give up concessions early, then compromise on everything the other side wants.
It must be the heat from the armies of the Dark Lord Sauron building their underground weapons factories.
Pay no attention to the droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and scorching summers the agency that couldn't plan a new heavy lift rocket program says everything is hinky dinky.
How exactly is that comment flamebait? The John Birch Society, the Federalist Society, FreedomWorks, Americans For Tax Reform, and several others have openly been trying to gut the government in one way or another for decades.
Surely the cognitive dissonance, even among the old-timers here, can't be that extreme. The statement is factual whether you like the content or not.
What makes you think that any of them aren't still "aligned" (mutually coordinated)?
Both organizations have indicated they no longer are affiliated with one another. There were rumors there were divisions over priorities. Still loosely aligned, certainly. Mutually coordinated, likely only to the extent they're getting talking points and messaging from the same core group.
The last effort I remember seeing like this was the genesis of the Tea Party and we discovered later it was funded by the Koch family through FreedomWorks (they are no longer aligned).
I'm looking over their site, not seeing any information on where the money comes from. I like the idea, but I'm vaguely concerned this is an effort to split the Democrats vote.
We need something like this, even at the risk of aiding the scumbag Republicans.
The Air Force Space Command and the contractor, Lockheed Martin...
And what penalties is Lockheed Martin going to pay for the shoddy workmanship and untested processes? Will they have to reimburse the government for the expense? Lose their ability to bid on government contracts?
When there's no accountability, there's no incentive to fix anything.
Too bad Apple is going to abandon desktops and their pro line software. They laid off 40 staff on the FCP team and turned it over to the iMovie people. If the FCP X fiasco is any indication, the transition not going to be clean or pretty.
Apple should have sold their desktop business and licensed their OS to someone else. They're a successful consumer electronics company trailing a part of the business they hang on to for nostalgia.
They did a lot of amazing things over the last 30 years, but everything comes to and end. NASA is not the same agency they were. Today they're a bloated, middle-management heavy, risk-adverse organization that is a shadow of what they used to be.
I think they deserved a chance to re-invent themselves, but because a lot of you here thought Bush would make a fine two-term president, they didn't get that chance.
So we are where we are. NASA is a crumbling relic of past glory. Just like a fat, middle-aged guy looking back at his college days. Not only do we not have a space program, but the agency that's supposed to be running it is ill-equipped for the job because the previous 8 years the problem has been dictating the solution.
It's going to take decades to rebuild a space program and will never look like it did. Elections have consequences.
I don't think they really do. Any large scale power system carries risk, but if you try to be honest about the risks people go off the rails.
At least as far as the Yucca Mountain leeching data goes, I've seen that with my own eyes. And that was before the nuclear industry basically took over the regulatory authority. Yucca Mountain planning did take cataclysmic events into consideration, up to what would most likely be extinction events for the rest of globe anyway.
If something really bad happened, you'd be safer inside Yucca Mountain than outside. If it wasn't for the remote location, I'd live next to the facility without a second thought.
I remember working on some of the Yucca Mountain studies years ago and there really isn't a better place you could store nuclear waste. It's very stable geologically, and the storage medium leeching was practically non-existent, even if you stored the blocks under water.
Most of the objections are NIMBY related and don't represent any realistic threat.
I can promise you where nuclear waste is being stored now, where ever that is, is a lot less safe than it would be at Yucca Mountain.
See, I don't buy that. You may want it to be true because it excuses Fox. False equivalence lets one side keep moving the goal post. The other side does it, therefore it's okay if our guys do it.
the News of the World, a scandal which is threatening Rupert Murdoch's planned takeover of BSkyB.
You know News of the World isn't the only News Corp property hacking people's voicemails. Something like that would be all in a day's work for Fox News. Would anyone even pretend to be surprised if they're doing the same, or worse? It's the same people at corporate.
Wouldn't surprise me to find out the same thing was going on at WSJ. News of the World had a lot of great people working there who were dicked by a few News Corp lackeys. WSJ likewise used to be a reputable newspaper, but that was before Murdoch came along.
'There was some wonderful stuff about [railway trains] too in the U.S., that women's bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour. Our uteruses would fly out of our bodies as they were accelerated to that speed,' she says"
Yeah, nothing worse than riding on the bus or a train when, all of a sudden, whoa flying uterus!
I don't care if the military said they'd give everyone in America a pony if we just leave our guys there another six months. Get out. Turn over anti-terrorism activities to the special forces and bring the rest home.
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. came under pressure from UK Prime Minister David Cameron to respond to 'really appalling' allegations that its News of the World tabloid hacked into the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
How about just throwing some of those assclowns in jail? Let the pressure come from their new cellmate, Tyrone, who likes cuddling and moonlight walks around the exercise yard.
By outsourcing our heavy lift capacity to the Russians! Wooo, success!
I think a statement like that just proves NASA has become an overhead intensive collection of mid-managers whose best days are behind them. Shifting heavy lift to the Russians was necessary, and it may help get the program out of the hands of NASA management and the money-sucking contractors. Sad development but maybe ultimately for the best. NASA is over. They've lost the sense of urgency and turned into a giant, thoughtless bureaucracy.
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When authorities corrupt one messaging platform, users will either switch or employ more sophisticated means of masking their activity.
Anyone remember which credit card payment service cut off Wikileaks? That kind of memory sticks with the collective a long time. Sell out your users and you can expect them to remember a long, long time.
I don't think this is good for the state or RIM. There are other ways to get the same information that rely on nothing more than good old fashioned police work. RIM volunteering to help police identify their customers, many of whom may have had legitimate reasons for being in the vicinity, is not a message I'd want to send.
You might use Chrome but do you know what a Quarter Pounder with cheese is in French?
It's an interesting idea, but how would it be funded? Almost like a postal service for the internet. I'm trying to think of a value added service that would make users and ISPs want to sign up with the internet post office and can't think of one. There would have to some kind of fee to fund the agency and I'm not sure a reduction in spam would be enough incentive.
If the major service providers told people they had to register with the internet post office before they could send mail, how do you enforce that?
Internet protocols were designed to thwart central control and a single point of failure.
Faceless corporations with nothing in the way of accountability and very little oversight with the keys to the FBI and other government data systems. I don't see how anything could go wrong with that arrangement.
Why pay attention to that when you have those darn teacher's unions trying to live high off the taxpayer hog?
AT&T has you by the nads. You have a hard time finding phone service where you don't waive your right to sue and the carrier can make changes any time they want.
There's always some pompous horses ass who jumps in to say, "If you don't like the terms, don't sign the contract." But when you can't get service anywhere without those stipulations, there is no consumer choice. The wireless carriers operate as a cartel, not a free market.
Markets are not free if they're not also fair. And when one side can change the terms of a contract at any time, it's not fair.
54.5 is pretty close
Compared to how the White House usually negotiates, that's amazing. I'm surprised they didn't do what they usually do: Give up concessions early, then compromise on everything the other side wants.
It must be the heat from the armies of the Dark Lord Sauron building their underground weapons factories.
Pay no attention to the droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, floods and scorching summers the agency that couldn't plan a new heavy lift rocket program says everything is hinky dinky.
How exactly is that comment flamebait? The John Birch Society, the Federalist Society, FreedomWorks, Americans For Tax Reform, and several others have openly been trying to gut the government in one way or another for decades.
Surely the cognitive dissonance, even among the old-timers here, can't be that extreme. The statement is factual whether you like the content or not.
What makes you think that any of them aren't still "aligned" (mutually coordinated)?
Both organizations have indicated they no longer are affiliated with one another. There were rumors there were divisions over priorities. Still loosely aligned, certainly. Mutually coordinated, likely only to the extent they're getting talking points and messaging from the same core group.
The last effort I remember seeing like this was the genesis of the Tea Party and we discovered later it was funded by the Koch family through FreedomWorks (they are no longer aligned).
I'm looking over their site, not seeing any information on where the money comes from. I like the idea, but I'm vaguely concerned this is an effort to split the Democrats vote.
We need something like this, even at the risk of aiding the scumbag Republicans.
I rest my case.
Fox News would be going on 24/7 about liberal violence. But when it's directed at a black Democrat, then both sides need to tone it down.
The Air Force Space Command and the contractor, Lockheed Martin...
And what penalties is Lockheed Martin going to pay for the shoddy workmanship and untested processes? Will they have to reimburse the government for the expense? Lose their ability to bid on government contracts?
When there's no accountability, there's no incentive to fix anything.
Is that our government has gone completely off the rails of common sense. But, if you lived here, you'd already know that.
Too bad Apple is going to abandon desktops and their pro line software. They laid off 40 staff on the FCP team and turned it over to the iMovie people. If the FCP X fiasco is any indication, the transition not going to be clean or pretty.
Apple should have sold their desktop business and licensed their OS to someone else. They're a successful consumer electronics company trailing a part of the business they hang on to for nostalgia.
They did a lot of amazing things over the last 30 years, but everything comes to and end. NASA is not the same agency they were. Today they're a bloated, middle-management heavy, risk-adverse organization that is a shadow of what they used to be.
I think they deserved a chance to re-invent themselves, but because a lot of you here thought Bush would make a fine two-term president, they didn't get that chance.
So we are where we are. NASA is a crumbling relic of past glory. Just like a fat, middle-aged guy looking back at his college days. Not only do we not have a space program, but the agency that's supposed to be running it is ill-equipped for the job because the previous 8 years the problem has been dictating the solution.
It's going to take decades to rebuild a space program and will never look like it did. Elections have consequences.
I don't think they really do. Any large scale power system carries risk, but if you try to be honest about the risks people go off the rails.
At least as far as the Yucca Mountain leeching data goes, I've seen that with my own eyes. And that was before the nuclear industry basically took over the regulatory authority. Yucca Mountain planning did take cataclysmic events into consideration, up to what would most likely be extinction events for the rest of globe anyway.
If something really bad happened, you'd be safer inside Yucca Mountain than outside. If it wasn't for the remote location, I'd live next to the facility without a second thought.
I remember working on some of the Yucca Mountain studies years ago and there really isn't a better place you could store nuclear waste. It's very stable geologically, and the storage medium leeching was practically non-existent, even if you stored the blocks under water.
Most of the objections are NIMBY related and don't represent any realistic threat.
I can promise you where nuclear waste is being stored now, where ever that is, is a lot less safe than it would be at Yucca Mountain.
See, I don't buy that. You may want it to be true because it excuses Fox. False equivalence lets one side keep moving the goal post. The other side does it, therefore it's okay if our guys do it.
the News of the World, a scandal which is threatening Rupert Murdoch's planned takeover of BSkyB.
You know News of the World isn't the only News Corp property hacking people's voicemails. Something like that would be all in a day's work for Fox News. Would anyone even pretend to be surprised if they're doing the same, or worse? It's the same people at corporate.
Wouldn't surprise me to find out the same thing was going on at WSJ. News of the World had a lot of great people working there who were dicked by a few News Corp lackeys. WSJ likewise used to be a reputable newspaper, but that was before Murdoch came along.
'There was some wonderful stuff about [railway trains] too in the U.S., that women's bodies were not designed to go at 50 miles an hour. Our uteruses would fly out of our bodies as they were accelerated to that speed,' she says"
Yeah, nothing worse than riding on the bus or a train when, all of a sudden, whoa flying uterus!
I think we've already defeated them.
I don't care if the military said they'd give everyone in America a pony if we just leave our guys there another six months. Get out. Turn over anti-terrorism activities to the special forces and bring the rest home.
It's not like the scareware crooks are blowing the whistle on potentially illegal government activity, so why would they get involved?
Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. came under pressure from UK Prime Minister David Cameron to respond to 'really appalling' allegations that its News of the World tabloid hacked into the voicemail of murdered schoolgirl Milly Dowler.
How about just throwing some of those assclowns in jail? Let the pressure come from their new cellmate, Tyrone, who likes cuddling and moonlight walks around the exercise yard.
because we've laid the foundation for success
By outsourcing our heavy lift capacity to the Russians! Wooo, success!
I think a statement like that just proves NASA has become an overhead intensive collection of mid-managers whose best days are behind them. Shifting heavy lift to the Russians was necessary, and it may help get the program out of the hands of NASA management and the money-sucking contractors. Sad development but maybe ultimately for the best. NASA is over. They've lost the sense of urgency and turned into a giant, thoughtless bureaucracy.