It'd be a huge improvement if the NSA had to go get a court order every time they wanted to read someone's e-mail (or whatever).
The biggest problem right now is that they're just sucking up everything they can get their hands on. That has to be stopped. Individual court orders are OK. Those are a normal part of police investigation and they're totally acceptable (assuming mostly functional courts of course).
I'd be a lot more threatened by your opinions if they'd ever shown a sign of involving any actual thought. As it is, they just seem to repeat whatever the intelligence state decided to try to throw out today.
Pretty sure these traitors usually got a quaint little thing called a 'trial' where the prosecution used an outmoded idea called 'evidence' before the execution. (And if they didn't they were certainly supposed to.)
Amusingly, this is also just another restatement of the argument I was complaining about. "We used to be worse, so this is OK!". No it's bloody not!
I'm getting seriously tired of the "We're not as bad as the Taliban/Russians/Chinese/Storm Troopers/..." argument.
You're supposed to be a whole lot better, not just slightly better!
Also, it's not a question of what could happen, it is happening. It's even happening to US citizens. Your government now asserts that it's allowed to arbirtarily kill its own citizens. I don't care how much worse someone else is. That's BAD.
It turns out that (one of) the companies responsible for performing the background checks didn't actually do them (and not "failed once or twice", but "systematically faked them to increase their profit margins). There was a total failure on every level to provide any sort of auditing.
You assert damage, just like the US government has. Just like the US government you fail to provide any sort of evidence for this. In fact, there are reports that these programs are totally ineffective anyway. Any political damage from them happened because they existed, not because they are revealed in the same way (in exactly the same way, because that's what this is. A crime.) that prison time results from the crime, not from being caught.
Even if there was massive damage, the decision about wether or not we're willing to sacrifice essential freedoms (like not being watched 24/7) in return for (alleged) safety from terrorists is one which needs to be made by the people, in the open. Not by a secret court interpreting secret laws.
It's a logical conclusion based on the available evidence: No safeguards were in place to defend against an analyst stealing data and giving it to someone else, despite this being an obvious threat the NSA could not possibly have been unaware of.
No such measures were taking until someone (i.e. Snowden) leaked this information to the public. Add this to the extremely negative way in which the NSA and the entire administration talks about journalists reporting on this, and the response to other whistleblowers and this really is the most likely explaination.
You don't seem to understand how a man in the middle attack works.
They will insert themselves between the two ends of the conversation, and intercept everything, They'll decrypt it with their own private key, and reencrypt it with your public key.
Unless you know the public key of the other party beforehand there's no way to defend against this.
None if this is very hard if you own the phone network in between the two phones.
Count OS X, by comparison, is counting on his few enemies to see him through. His armour is forged from the fires of Linux, which he hopes will keep him safe from the common viruses that plague the land.
Clueless reporters. They're either unable to clearcly express that OS X is a unix-like system _like_ linux, or they simply don't know.
My money is on number two.
You did forgot the step before Next,Next,Finish. Where did you find the installer? Did you virus scan it+ Can you trust it? My codecs came from Yast. They installed in exactly the same way as all (well, most to be honest) my other software. Because it's part of Yast I know I can trust it (no viruses, no spyware).
I can control my HTTP sever using Yast as well, which means Next, Next, fill out server name, next, finish is all I need to do to add a virtual server.
Bullshit. You're comparing a simple windows install, with nothing beyond the most basic applications to a fully features Linux install, with a webserver and mulimedia capability.
If you want to play divx on windows you need the codec. If you want a webserver on windows you need to install it. That's normal, but when you need to the the same goddamn thing on Linux it's suddenly a huge problem?
Let me counter your silly example with a slightly less silly one: Whenever I upgrade/reinstall my laptop (openSuse 10.x) I need about 4 hours. Half an hour to backup my home directory, two hours to wait while the installer runs and an hour to set up the system again. Setting it up again is basically restoring my home directory and installing a few missing packets.
The same thing on windows takes me twice as long and even so I never manage to reproduce all settings the way they used to be, because windows software insists on using that abomination of a registry. In windows I have to go hunt all over the net to find all of my software again, in Linux I can just use the package manager. I don't need to reconfigure the mail client, my bookmarks are all there,...
Another example: IBM's ClearCase is most certainly about 10 years behind the FOSS revision control systems such as Subversion. Infact, I'd say that ClearCase is a lot worse than CVS. That is definately not to say that there aren't other closed solutions that are better still. So I would ask - what would be the reason for buying ClearCase? It clearly wouldn't be based on functionality, and it clearly wouldn't be based on price.
I don't think you've ever _really_ used ClearCase. SVN is great for fairly straightforward projects, but once you need serious merge/branching capabilities it falls short.
ClearCase, for all its (many, many) faults, at least implements merge tracking. It also has a few unique (as in, I've looked and not found them anywhere else) features like configurations records and dynamic views (which can sometimes be VERY useful).
Actually it's quite possible to prevent the common hacker from doing anything to an embedded device while still respecting the GPL.
I work for an embedded software company, and we use a custom bootloader which checks the software for the correct digital signature. Without our private key it's impossible to change the sofware on the device (short of actually removing and reprogramming the flash chip).
If (more like when) we distribute a linux based device we can distribute the full source code and you still can't change the software on the device.
In my experience Opera is more stable. But even if it wasn't you'd want it:)
If Opera crashes it will restore the windows you had open. Yes, Firefox has an extension to do this, but it often fails, and so far Opera NEVER lost an open tab when it eventually crashed (Opera tends to stay open 100% of the time here. My main complaint is that it gets sluggish after about a week:)).
China is communist, but is struggling to grow with it's own burgeoning capitalist economy
What are you on, because that has to be some good stuff.
China's economy is exploding right now. It's growing so fast experts are concerned that it's overheating.
Try to understand this: the previous Spanish governement took Spain to war against the will of a large majority of the people.
Why can't you understand that this tends to upset people, and may cause them to vote for the guy how says he'll take them out of there?
The people who bought the game when it came out can't even use steam.
I HAVE bought the game. I HAVE the CD key. Unfortunately steam expects a totally different key (letters and numbers, and more of them) than I have.
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Where has he done this?
It'd be a huge improvement if the NSA had to go get a court order every time they wanted to read someone's e-mail (or whatever).
The biggest problem right now is that they're just sucking up everything they can get their hands on. That has to be stopped. Individual court orders are OK. Those are a normal part of police investigation and they're totally acceptable (assuming mostly functional courts of course).
Oh yes, in exactly the same way that an ice cube has something to do with heat.
I'd be a lot more threatened by your opinions if they'd ever shown a sign of involving any actual thought. As it is, they just seem to repeat whatever the intelligence state decided to try to throw out today.
"The Russians did it too." is not an excuse. Not that I'd expect any better from an NSA shill of course.
Friend, friends, ... Why all the fighting?
Can't he be an idiot and an asshole?
Pretty sure these traitors usually got a quaint little thing called a 'trial' where the prosecution used an outmoded idea called 'evidence' before the execution. (And if they didn't they were certainly supposed to.)
Amusingly, this is also just another restatement of the argument I was complaining about. "We used to be worse, so this is OK!". No it's bloody not!
[SARCASM] Yeah, it's been half a year since he exposed massive abuses of power in the US government. Can't he give it a rest already! [/SARCASM]
I'm getting seriously tired of the "We're not as bad as the Taliban/Russians/Chinese/Storm Troopers/..." argument.
You're supposed to be a whole lot better, not just slightly better!
Also, it's not a question of what could happen, it is happening. It's even happening to US citizens. Your government now asserts that it's allowed to arbirtarily kill its own citizens. I don't care how much worse someone else is. That's BAD.
It turns out that (one of) the companies responsible for performing the background checks didn't actually do them (and not "failed once or twice", but "systematically faked them to increase their profit margins). There was a total failure on every level to provide any sort of auditing.
You assert damage, just like the US government has. Just like the US government you fail to provide any sort of evidence for this. In fact, there are reports that these programs are totally ineffective anyway. Any political damage from them happened because they existed, not because they are revealed in the same way (in exactly the same way, because that's what this is. A crime.) that prison time results from the crime, not from being caught.
Even if there was massive damage, the decision about wether or not we're willing to sacrifice essential freedoms (like not being watched 24/7) in return for (alleged) safety from terrorists is one which needs to be made by the people, in the open. Not by a secret court interpreting secret laws.
As others have said: "How so?"
It's a logical conclusion based on the available evidence: No safeguards were in place to defend against an analyst stealing data and giving it to someone else, despite this being an obvious threat the NSA could not possibly have been unaware of.
No such measures were taking until someone (i.e. Snowden) leaked this information to the public. Add this to the extremely negative way in which the NSA and the entire administration talks about journalists reporting on this, and the response to other whistleblowers and this really is the most likely explaination.
You don't seem to understand how a man in the middle attack works. They will insert themselves between the two ends of the conversation, and intercept everything, They'll decrypt it with their own private key, and reencrypt it with your public key. Unless you know the public key of the other party beforehand there's no way to defend against this. None if this is very hard if you own the phone network in between the two phones.
You did forgot the step before Next,Next,Finish. Where did you find the installer? Did you virus scan it+ Can you trust it? My codecs came from Yast. They installed in exactly the same way as all (well, most to be honest) my other software. Because it's part of Yast I know I can trust it (no viruses, no spyware). I can control my HTTP sever using Yast as well, which means Next, Next, fill out server name, next, finish is all I need to do to add a virtual server.
Bullshit.
...
You're comparing a simple windows install, with nothing beyond the most basic applications to a fully features Linux install, with a webserver and mulimedia capability.
If you want to play divx on windows you need the codec. If you want a webserver on windows you need to install it. That's normal, but when you need to the the same goddamn thing on Linux it's suddenly a huge problem?
Let me counter your silly example with a slightly less silly one:
Whenever I upgrade/reinstall my laptop (openSuse 10.x) I need about 4 hours. Half an hour to backup my home directory, two hours to wait while the installer runs and an hour to set up the system again.
Setting it up again is basically restoring my home directory and installing a few missing packets.
The same thing on windows takes me twice as long and even so I never manage to reproduce all settings the way they used to be, because windows software insists on using that abomination of a registry. In windows I have to go hunt all over the net to find all of my software again, in Linux I can just use the package manager.
I don't need to reconfigure the mail client, my bookmarks are all there,
4GB?
I've had Linux running on a 8MB CF card, with more than 4MB to spare.
I don't think you've ever _really_ used ClearCase. SVN is great for fairly straightforward projects, but once you need serious merge/branching capabilities it falls short.
ClearCase, for all its (many, many) faults, at least implements merge tracking. It also has a few unique (as in, I've looked and not found them anywhere else) features like configurations records and dynamic views (which can sometimes be VERY useful).
Actually it's quite possible to prevent the common hacker from doing anything to an embedded device while still respecting the GPL.
I work for an embedded software company, and we use a custom bootloader which checks the software for the correct digital signature. Without our private key it's impossible to change the sofware on the device (short of actually removing and reprogramming the flash chip).
If (more like when) we distribute a linux based device we can distribute the full source code and you still can't change the software on the device.
In my experience Opera is more stable. But even if it wasn't you'd want it :)
If Opera crashes it will restore the windows you had open. Yes, Firefox has an extension to do this, but it often fails, and so far Opera NEVER lost an open tab when it eventually crashed (Opera tends to stay open 100% of the time here. My main complaint is that it gets sluggish after about a week :)).
Let me second the recommendation. I bought the 710T a while back (same monitor + DVI input) and it's great. No dead pixels either.
A space elevator has to be equatorial. Without centifugal 'force' it won't stay up.
China is communist, but is struggling to grow with it's own burgeoning capitalist economy
What are you on, because that has to be some good stuff. China's economy is exploding right now. It's growing so fast experts are concerned that it's overheating.
Try to understand this: the previous Spanish governement took Spain to war against the will of a large majority of the people. Why can't you understand that this tends to upset people, and may cause them to vote for the guy how says he'll take them out of there?
The people who bought the game when it came out can't even use steam. I HAVE bought the game. I HAVE the CD key. Unfortunately steam expects a totally different key (letters and numbers, and more of them) than I have.
One kilo of anti-matter will be fully converted to energy. One pount of plutonium will probably convert less than a gram to energy.