For some unknown reason, the plans show there will be a small table with a large red button mounted on it, with the label "Press Me If You Dare" on it, just outside the front door of the building.
You won't believe how many attacks the NSA has stopped, just this week. Of course, it's all classified beyond ultra-super-mega-top-secret, so they can't even talk about it amongst themselves.
Really? A bunch of VERY large companies have been caught fudging their numbers for years just to meet or beat the 'number' that wallstreet thinks they should do, so their stock price would go up and/or at least not go down too much. And only a few of the companies that do this only get caught.
The culture seems to be different in other parts of the world, but in North America, the pressure to 'make the number' that wall street has [which of course, you don't know in advance] is stupidly high. And it is damaging to US corporations.
I wish it were different, where the corporation would be run for it's long-term success, but their stock price would be mercilessly punished by Wall Street for doing that.
Bizarrely, the only company that seems to get a free pass on this is Amazon.
Because we MUST HAVE PROFITS NOW. FOR THIS QUARTER. Otherwise, we'll all be fired and replaced with people who will only focus on what happens today and tomorrow, and fuck next week.
OMG. I can't imagine ANY corporation with more than a couple of 'stores', particularly across more than one state, having a privacy statement vetted by lawyers that 'has the best of intentions' for their customers. They all are worded to be "we'll try to make sure we know everyone accessing your private data, but if we don't, there's no penalty".
this database would be bent over and f*cked from all sides, the gov't, the insurance industry and anybody else who could make a buck from accessing this data.
In particular, the gov't would need unfettered access to it, because they heard a terrorist once rode in a car. And also a child-molester.
So, the goal is to flood the market with enough people who can claim to install solar panels, to depress to salaries to the level of a Walmart Greeter, so that we subsidize training these people [who also wind up handsomely in debt] rather than subsidizing the installation of solar panels?
Really? Instead of the 'classic' Windows hierarchical menu of apps, which is designed for use with a mouse, instead you get to have the Windows 8 start screen as the 'menu' in desktop mode [which is 110% designed for a touch screen]?
Microsoft still doesn't get that there is a fundamental difference in how you use a desktop computer when you have a keyboard and mouse while looking at one or more 17-30" display vs a 6-11" touch screen that you are holding in your hand.
What revenge porn? You just image somebody and slap on nude tits and a vag, and 3d print a naked chick. It's not like a video where it's a pain to patch everything nicely. And what's the person going to do, go "See, that is totally not my vagina [lifts skirt]"?
It's not enough to just help find the bad guy, you also have to help punish him or get information from him about the next bad guy. And it's not enough that there are a bunch of bad guys outside the US, there are some within the US. Gotta catch those guys as well. And it's not enough to only catch terrorists or spies. Since we're looking at EVERYBODY [because anybody could be a terrorist], might as well also go after the everyday crimes.
there really isn't any choice in the matter. one company has been scanning license plates in a bunch of cities for years and storing the data. And of course selling the data to anybody with a buck. The DHS wants permission to wallow in this data. Cost doesn't matter.
If there is one thing we have learned over the last few years, it is that the NSA hasn't met a limit they haven't crossed. And they've been doing it since their inception.
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For some unknown reason, the plans show there will be a small table with a large red button mounted on it, with the label "Press Me If You Dare" on it, just outside the front door of the building.
Yes, Anonymous Coward was born a LONG time ago. Unfortunately, he is also immortal.
You won't believe how many attacks the NSA has stopped, just this week. Of course, it's all classified beyond ultra-super-mega-top-secret, so they can't even talk about it amongst themselves.
Really? A bunch of VERY large companies have been caught fudging their numbers for years just to meet or beat the 'number' that wallstreet thinks they should do, so their stock price would go up and/or at least not go down too much. And only a few of the companies that do this only get caught.
The culture seems to be different in other parts of the world, but in North America, the pressure to 'make the number' that wall street has [which of course, you don't know in advance] is stupidly high. And it is damaging to US corporations.
I wish it were different, where the corporation would be run for it's long-term success, but their stock price would be mercilessly punished by Wall Street for doing that.
Bizarrely, the only company that seems to get a free pass on this is Amazon.
Because we MUST HAVE PROFITS NOW. FOR THIS QUARTER. Otherwise, we'll all be fired and replaced with people who will only focus on what happens today and tomorrow, and fuck next week.
Yup. Tall guys going around crushing everyone in their way.
Stupid tiny child.
Yes, terrorists will ride anything.
OMG. I can't imagine ANY corporation with more than a couple of 'stores', particularly across more than one state, having a privacy statement vetted by lawyers that 'has the best of intentions' for their customers. They all are worded to be "we'll try to make sure we know everyone accessing your private data, but if we don't, there's no penalty".
what planet are you from?
this database would be bent over and f*cked from all sides, the gov't, the insurance industry and anybody else who could make a buck from accessing this data.
In particular, the gov't would need unfettered access to it, because they heard a terrorist once rode in a car. And also a child-molester.
Possibly true. But they are trying hard to make sure there are no parts of their personality and behaviour that aren't douchy.
If people thought about what it actually means, they would treat it the same as "let them eat cake"
Oh no you didn't. That beard is hot, particularly the way he doesn't trim it.
So, the goal is to flood the market with enough people who can claim to install solar panels, to depress to salaries to the level of a Walmart Greeter, so that we subsidize training these people [who also wind up handsomely in debt] rather than subsidizing the installation of solar panels?
Pork Across the Country.
Really? Instead of the 'classic' Windows hierarchical menu of apps, which is designed for use with a mouse, instead you get to have the Windows 8 start screen as the 'menu' in desktop mode [which is 110% designed for a touch screen]?
Microsoft still doesn't get that there is a fundamental difference in how you use a desktop computer when you have a keyboard and mouse while looking at one or more 17-30" display vs a 6-11" touch screen that you are holding in your hand.
Given that we are discussing a Canadian company without any real operating presence in the US, it is unlikely to be a significant part of any 401K.
What revenge porn? You just image somebody and slap on nude tits and a vag, and 3d print a naked chick. It's not like a video where it's a pain to patch everything nicely. And what's the person going to do, go "See, that is totally not my vagina [lifts skirt]"?
...they do get their wrist slapped for doing that...
It's new, therefore it's improved. They go together like military spending and pork.
$30K! I can start building a satellite for you right now starting at $5.
Course, actual capabilities, real or imagined, do add to the final cost.
But I start at $5.
AND YOU GET A WARHEAD! AND YOU GET A WARHEAD! AND YOU GET A WARHEAD! EVERYBODY GETS A WARHEAD!
Yes, today, for my birthday, everybody gets a warhead!!!!!
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I really didn't want to say this, but...sucks to be you.
http://www.stripes.com/news/sail-army-the-unknown-career-field-of-us-army-mariners-1.214294
There's an official term for it: Mission Creep
It's not enough to just help find the bad guy, you also have to help punish him or get information from him about the next bad guy.
And it's not enough that there are a bunch of bad guys outside the US, there are some within the US. Gotta catch those guys as well.
And it's not enough to only catch terrorists or spies. Since we're looking at EVERYBODY [because anybody could be a terrorist], might as well also go after the everyday crimes.
there really isn't any choice in the matter. one company has been scanning license plates in a bunch of cities for years and storing the data. And of course selling the data to anybody with a buck. The DHS wants permission to wallow in this data. Cost doesn't matter.
To late. Already on all their watch lists.
If there is one thing we have learned over the last few years, it is that the NSA hasn't met a limit they haven't crossed. And they've been doing it since their inception.