Sounds nice. If that would hold water, what you need to do is always go after the lawyers. That way if you have enough money, there will be nobody to defend the other party, so you start to win even easier.
Imagine if the MAFIAA would start doing that Or the patent trolls themselves.
When you start thinking, instead of reacting, you will see that this would be a very bad idea.
Europe does NOT need to USofA for protection. For that we have, as had been said, the NATO. We have two countries that have atomic weapons and as a whole, there is only one country that could threaten us and that is the USofA. Russia was never a threat to Europe.
We also have several spying agencies in Europe, so no real issue there.
So why all these (secret) compromises with the NSA and the CIA? I am guessing here, but I think it is because 1) It is easy. Why invest in something if you can just buy the information. If the only price is the peoples privacy, who really cares? 2) Europe is not one country, so if one country does not give you what you want, you go looking for the next country.
I would, if I thought it would help the people working there.
It is generally known that having a nice work environment helps people feel good. And that will result in better working people or a lower retention rate.
What I have a problem with is that they clearly went for the show effect and not for anything to do with productivity. Hollywood is nice on how it should look, but that does not mean it is functional when you are there.
Star Trek hired people from OUTSIDE Hollywood to let it make all sense.
So would I be spending other peoples money? Yes, I would. I have spend money buying some plants. I have spend money painting offices. I have spend money buying 'expensive' chairs.
I often see that they don't do that enough in government, but that is slowly changing. Why should they NOT have a nice office? I pay for it with higher taxes or higher prices in the store and that is the same to me. _I_ am paying for it or _I_ get the rewards.
When you do a payment in Belgium to a company, it takes 2 to three days (even at the same bank) because they need that much time to prevent terrorism.
It would be great if the people reading those messages would work on the weekend as well, because it takes 2 to 3 WORKING days. No transactions on the weekend.
And in Europe when they say 'because of terrorism' they mean 'We hand it over to the USofA.' (Insert joke about the USA being the real terrorists.)
That would be the logical way to handle this. What will happen is that some people will say that this proves that there is no climate change and that we can increase the output of fossil fuel consumption and what not.
The people buying them intended to give that money to the legal owners. These people pretended to be that, so yes, they should be punished.
If they would have said that they were selling copies, then you would have been right and that would have been a different discussion.
e.g. If I buy a watch and I pay 10.000USD because it is a Rolex and afterward it isn't a Rolex, then I have been mislead and the Rolex company has been illegally taken away income.
If they say upfront that it isn't a Rolex (and even indicate it as a Rolox or Rollex or whatever) and I depart from my 10.000USD (or 10USD) then there is no problem.
Instead of having one person doing a 75 hour job and 2 people doing nothing, you could have 3 people doing 25 hour jobs. That way they still contribute AND have lots of time with friends and family and do whatever they desire.
In an ideal world, the way to pay this is by giving the money that is saved by giving the job to automation to the people who were doing the job in the first place.
However in the real world, we will have one person doing a 75 hour job and have no life and 2 people have nothing and ALSO have no life, just so the person owning it all get a little bit richer.
Lies, damn lies and statistics. I have no idea how each country makes them up, ur, collects them, but there are bound to be differences. Perhaps one says a barfight is a violent crime, perhaps another says it isn't. Perhaps there is a difference in carrying, threatening to use and using a weapon. Domestic violence can be seen in various ways when looking at it from statistics. And perhaps one country is more looking at solving that domestic violence and trying NO to arrest as many people as possible. That would make it an incident and perhaps not a crime.
So even with identical situations, the outcome would be different.
Most likely there are several reasons the numbers are different for different countries.
Reminds me of when some people tried to compare what the best train service was in Europe. That was not really possible, because 'late' was different for each country. e.g. one said 10 minutes is late, another said 5 minutes. So a train would be late in one country, but not in another country. And this could be the same train 7 minutes arriving after the expected time.
Yes, it is illegal, but why would the FBI care about being caught?
They will fire some lower pion that was the reason for their embarrassment and if we are lucky, they will change the law so it won't be illegal anymore.
Other then that, nothing will change. As long as all the agencies can get away with it, this will worsen. As long as there is not a serious protest, nothing will change.
I think it is already known that what is happening is unconstitutional. The question is what you are going to do about it.
Look at your standard kid or dog raising show. If you forbid them to take a cookie and they still do it and you do nothing, they will take another cookie. Telling them not to take it does not impress them, because there is no reaction to their action.
What is going on now is telling the kids in a STERN voice they should not take that cookie. And what happens? They take the cookie and laugh in your face while doing it. The next step will be yelling "Wait till your (other) dad/mom comes home." and he also does nothing and both of you are yelling.
At one moment you will explode and take away the cookie by force and perhaps even (out of frustration) slap the kid.
If you compare it to the real world, the last part is called a revolution.
The reason all this is happening is because the kid/government does not have any respect. There are no incentives NOT to do what they are doing.
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On a show called Talking BadVince Gilligan said at one point (paraphrasing)... in part 2 of series 5 that is how our lawyers say we should call it... To me this means several things in the way it was worded. 1) For the creators it is series 6. Mr. Gilligan did not seem to agree with it being season 5 part 2. 2) For the legal department it is series 5 3) It has already been discussed (at least internally) on a legal level
For all I know some parties might have asked to turn it into separate seasons, so they can sell it twice instead of once. That has been rejected for some reason.
I do not have a bandwith cap. I pay 284.88EUR per year for ADSL. It is not the fastest connection I could get, but I get a fixed IP, Reversed DNS, no ports blocked and no cap.
I rather have a bit slower connection without a cap that I can use all the time then a superfast connection that I can use only part of the time.
I am able to see FullHD movies, so it s fast enough for me.
Does not work for me. The reason is that I do not know if I am a terrorist or not. We live in a time where EVERYBODY can be labeled a terrorist or worse.
Once saw a BBC program (I think) where they gave a group of people red and blue shirts. No explanation was given and no specific tasks where given that mentioned anything about red team or blue team. Still there groups formed.
It reminded me of many years ago when punk started. I asked a punker why he dressed the way he did. He started talki g about distancing himself from groupthink and how people in suits looked down on how he dressed instead of him as a person. I (almost obviously) asked why all punkers dressed the same and why they looked down on people on the way they dressed he looked at me with a very puzzeld face and told me that was not the case.
People (even nerds) are social animals and will group together with those that pose the least threat. Or to those who will give them the best benefits to survive.
For people the way you dress shows you what you group is. People will know what that group thinks and even if as individuals you might disagree, on a group level, the differences are not that big.
Oh and ladies: if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it most likely will be treated as a duck.
Tough luck. You are not your own company. Sure, there are good managers and there are bad ones. Just like there are good IT people and bad ones.
Many IT departments I have been in contact with don't listen "Please follow procedure." without any reasoning. 10 different logins that they choose with different password rules for each of them. Next they moan if I call for a reset. I have seen how they did a annual presentation of their department with a one page excel sheet. I have seen an IT department tell everybody to leave the building and go home, because there was a computer virus. Inadequate people are everywhere, including in IT.
I have seen bad management teams as well. Looking for whatever they were looking for and not listening to reason. IT department who told they could save a LOT of money, but no reaction what so ever. Investing 60 EUR was prohibited, because nobody cleared it and thus at least 120EUR per day was lost. Meetings of several hours of the brand of coffee that would be bought for 50 people.
So unfortunately it comes all down to interacting with others. If there is a dialogue possible, it all went well. If no dialogue was possible, it all went to shits.
The report doesn't even say what they are supposed to have cracked, only some nebulous "widely used internet encryption:.
Well, the one way to find on is to look at the budget. There is a 2.7 billion USD hidden budget for the years 2005-2010 for Decrypt ROT 13. Probably they went a bit over in both money and time.
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Sounds nice. If that would hold water, what you need to do is always go after the lawyers. That way if you have enough money, there will be nobody to defend the other party, so you start to win even easier.
Imagine if the MAFIAA would start doing that Or the patent trolls themselves.
When you start thinking, instead of reacting, you will see that this would be a very bad idea.
Europe does NOT need to USofA for protection. For that we have, as had been said, the NATO. We have two countries that have atomic weapons and as a whole, there is only one country that could threaten us and that is the USofA. Russia was never a threat to Europe.
We also have several spying agencies in Europe, so no real issue there.
So why all these (secret) compromises with the NSA and the CIA? I am guessing here, but I think it is because
1) It is easy. Why invest in something if you can just buy the information. If the only price is the peoples privacy, who really cares?
2) Europe is not one country, so if one country does not give you what you want, you go looking for the next country.
I would, if I thought it would help the people working there.
It is generally known that having a nice work environment helps people feel good. And that will result in better working people or a lower retention rate.
What I have a problem with is that they clearly went for the show effect and not for anything to do with productivity. Hollywood is nice on how it should look, but that does not mean it is functional when you are there.
Star Trek hired people from OUTSIDE Hollywood to let it make all sense.
So would I be spending other peoples money? Yes, I would. I have spend money buying some plants. I have spend money painting offices. I have spend money buying 'expensive' chairs.
I often see that they don't do that enough in government, but that is slowly changing. Why should they NOT have a nice office? I pay for it with higher taxes or higher prices in the store and that is the same to me. _I_ am paying for it or _I_ get the rewards.
They spy on national money transfers as well.
Or do you think they draw the line just when things don't end up in the same country?
SWIFT does a LOT of transactions between banks.
When you do a payment in Belgium to a company, it takes 2 to three days (even at the same bank) because they need that much time to prevent terrorism.
It would be great if the people reading those messages would work on the weekend as well, because it takes 2 to 3 WORKING days. No transactions on the weekend.
And in Europe when they say 'because of terrorism' they mean 'We hand it over to the USofA.' (Insert joke about the USA being the real terrorists.)
Interesting part at the end
That would be the logical way to handle this. What will happen is that some people will say that this proves that there is no climate change and that we can increase the output of fossil fuel consumption and what not.
The people buying them intended to give that money to the legal owners. These people pretended to be that, so yes, they should be punished.
If they would have said that they were selling copies, then you would have been right and that would have been a different discussion.
e.g. If I buy a watch and I pay 10.000USD because it is a Rolex and afterward it isn't a Rolex, then I have been mislead and the Rolex company has been illegally taken away income.
If they say upfront that it isn't a Rolex (and even indicate it as a Rolox or Rollex or whatever) and I depart from my 10.000USD (or 10USD) then there is no problem.
So for me it has nothing to do with copyright.
Pay attention in history class when they talk about France if you want to know how this will work out. See what their 99% did with the 1%.
Instead of having one person doing a 75 hour job and 2 people doing nothing, you could have 3 people doing 25 hour jobs. That way they still contribute AND have lots of time with friends and family and do whatever they desire.
In an ideal world, the way to pay this is by giving the money that is saved by giving the job to automation to the people who were doing the job in the first place.
However in the real world, we will have one person doing a 75 hour job and have no life and 2 people have nothing and ALSO have no life, just so the person owning it all get a little bit richer.
Lies, damn lies and statistics. I have no idea how each country makes them up, ur, collects them, but there are bound to be differences.
Perhaps one says a barfight is a violent crime, perhaps another says it isn't.
Perhaps there is a difference in carrying, threatening to use and using a weapon.
Domestic violence can be seen in various ways when looking at it from statistics. And perhaps one country is more looking at solving that domestic violence and trying NO to arrest as many people as possible. That would make it an incident and perhaps not a crime.
So even with identical situations, the outcome would be different.
Most likely there are several reasons the numbers are different for different countries.
Reminds me of when some people tried to compare what the best train service was in Europe. That was not really possible, because 'late' was different for each country. e.g. one said 10 minutes is late, another said 5 minutes. So a train would be late in one country, but not in another country. And this could be the same train 7 minutes arriving after the expected time.
Yes, it is illegal, but why would the FBI care about being caught?
They will fire some lower pion that was the reason for their embarrassment and if we are lucky, they will change the law so it won't be illegal anymore.
Other then that, nothing will change. As long as all the agencies can get away with it, this will worsen. As long as there is not a serious protest, nothing will change.
There are people who still trust their government?
If they would have gone of, you would have gotten a bombing, not a highjacking.
OMG. We must warn them. It is people. It is people. The government is full of people.
I think it is already known that what is happening is unconstitutional. The question is what you are going to do about it.
Look at your standard kid or dog raising show. If you forbid them to take a cookie and they still do it and you do nothing, they will take another cookie. Telling them not to take it does not impress them, because there is no reaction to their action.
What is going on now is telling the kids in a STERN voice they should not take that cookie. And what happens? They take the cookie and laugh in your face while doing it. The next step will be yelling "Wait till your (other) dad/mom comes home." and he also does nothing and both of you are yelling.
At one moment you will explode and take away the cookie by force and perhaps even (out of frustration) slap the kid.
If you compare it to the real world, the last part is called a revolution.
The reason all this is happening is because the kid/government does not have any respect. There are no incentives NOT to do what they are doing.
Ass Hole Google added me to Google Plus. By deleting it, it deleted the video as well. So have another place: https://vimeo.com/74143850
Ready in about an hour.
Uploaded the segment where he said it: http://youtu.be/jFDJbjxa1ZU
On a show called Talking Bad Vince Gilligan said at one point (paraphrasing) ... in part 2 of series 5 that is how our lawyers say we should call it ...
To me this means several things in the way it was worded.
1) For the creators it is series 6. Mr. Gilligan did not seem to agree with it being season 5 part 2.
2) For the legal department it is series 5
3) It has already been discussed (at least internally) on a legal level
For all I know some parties might have asked to turn it into separate seasons, so they can sell it twice instead of once. That has been rejected for some reason.
wich is German and not Dutch. More about that right here
I do not have a bandwith cap. I pay 284.88EUR per year for ADSL. It is not the fastest connection I could get, but I get a fixed IP, Reversed DNS, no ports blocked and no cap.
I rather have a bit slower connection without a cap that I can use all the time then a superfast connection that I can use only part of the time.
I am able to see FullHD movies, so it s fast enough for me.
Does not work for me. The reason is that I do not know if I am a terrorist or not. We live in a time where EVERYBODY can be labeled a terrorist or worse.
I just tell them to read the code I provide.
Once saw a BBC program (I think) where they gave a group of people red and blue shirts. No explanation was given and no specific tasks where given that mentioned anything about red team or blue team. Still there groups formed.
It reminded me of many years ago when punk started. I asked a punker why he dressed the way he did. He started talki g about distancing himself from groupthink and how people in suits looked down on how he dressed instead of him as a person.
I (almost obviously) asked why all punkers dressed the same and why they looked down on people on the way they dressed he looked at me with a very puzzeld face and told me that was not the case.
People (even nerds) are social animals and will group together with those that pose the least threat. Or to those who will give them the best benefits to survive.
For people the way you dress shows you what you group is. People will know what that group thinks and even if as individuals you might disagree, on a group level, the differences are not that big.
Oh and ladies: if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, it most likely will be treated as a duck.
if it wasn't for the other people.
Tough luck. You are not your own company. Sure, there are good managers and there are bad ones. Just like there are good IT people and bad ones.
Many IT departments I have been in contact with don't listen "Please follow procedure." without any reasoning. 10 different logins that they choose with different password rules for each of them. Next they moan if I call for a reset.
I have seen how they did a annual presentation of their department with a one page excel sheet. I have seen an IT department tell everybody to leave the building and go home, because there was a computer virus. Inadequate people are everywhere, including in IT.
I have seen bad management teams as well. Looking for whatever they were looking for and not listening to reason. IT department who told they could save a LOT of money, but no reaction what so ever. Investing 60 EUR was prohibited, because nobody cleared it and thus at least 120EUR per day was lost. Meetings of several hours of the brand of coffee that would be bought for 50 people.
So unfortunately it comes all down to interacting with others. If there is a dialogue possible, it all went well. If no dialogue was possible, it all went to shits.
Well, the one way to find on is to look at the budget. There is a 2.7 billion USD hidden budget for the years 2005-2010 for Decrypt ROT 13.
Probably they went a bit over in both money and time.
To make it clear: this is in the US alone. The actaual number ca be seen right here