The price of life in Russia and especially in Moscow is very high. The government of RF does not assist E.S. in fear of further reprisals from the US government.
E.S. has to hire a protection from a private security company, an apartment, etc.
I would not be surprised if visionaries and leaders of the computer industry, including FOSS, turn out to be generals, admirals and colonels. And that the leading technological companies are just the departments of the single organization.
I am an office worker. Sometimes I work from home via computerized communication channel. I remain an office worker.
The same about piloting. If a pilot wants to seat inside an aircraft - fine. But if she wants to be somewhere else and still pilot an aircraft, the technology does exist for it.
Piloting an aircraft via remote control is risky. Any human endeavor is risky.
Major western newspapers publish the stuff he reveled. Give him a legal immunity, so that he could return back home on his own will.
Uncle Sam is very angry with Russian Federation. It is getting out of control. I guess the RF did not realize how serious is all this. It seemed at the beginning that he was sort of an American Solzhenitzyn, but it turns out the the US government has lost a lot of money because of this event.
But it was not Eurasia's fault. It is an American story.
Could governments to reach an international agreement, a treaty, with verification inspections to stop this network sabotage? I have severe unexplainable problems on my routers periodically.
I could not explain it. I spent years trying to find a reason. Now I have got an idea.
Was it a problem to follow a common sense and an accepted international laws? To wiretap only the criminals on a court order? With discipline and self-restraint?
Such irresponsible behavior harms the US companies and the Internet network in general.
"Others do it..", but the USA is the leader, it had to show an example.
The US government is still being very angry with the Russian Federation about Snowden. Still RF can not extradite him as there is no extradition agreement. Besides it would be against public opinion. The US government is asking impossible.
But if the USA gives E.Snowden a iron-clad immunity guarantees, restore his US passport he can come to the USA on his own will.
He would be home, with his family. He will not be able harm the USA and the US government could be sure of it.
We see as the world political situation deteriorates because of this anger of the US political elite. Still such a compromise is realistic.
We should understand that the US nation has got a profound trauma in 2001 when its landmark symbolic buildings were barbarically destroyed.
This is the cause of all these draconian laws, acts, dragnet surveillance, etc.
Hannibal crossed Alps with a bunch of ragged militants. The senators of the Great Roman Empire were literally laughing when the news broke out in Rome.
Roman soldiers took wine, festive food with them as they thought that after checking out Hannibal's group they would have a picnic outdoors.
But Hannibal new cunning military tactics nearly destroyed the Roan Empire in the following 2nd Punic war.
My point is that if we want privacy and other freedoms we should learn to abstain from military conflicts, even from ones which seem to look easy and insignificant.
In general, there is always an economical interest behind a military conflict. But nowadays getting rich means, more often than not, getting isolated from normal healthy physical activity and consequently overweight. Being overweight outweighs any advantages.
Exactly. It means that it applies to all humans in the universe. Even if a human is in space, on an orbit, or at, say, a moon.
When I hear as the president says that the US citizens are not being snooped upon, I always think: "And what about us, who did not happen to be US citizens." Are we a too easy target?
We are also protected by The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The USA has signed it by the way, the same as China, Russia, and many other countries.
The should be developed an international mechanism of verifications of the Article #12 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Many countries have signed it. The should be international inspections of data centers, telephone companies, etc.
Article 12.
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
I know that Russian government has been asking the US government for years to conclude an extradition treaty. The US always refuses.
It is understandable why. And in this case it is also, sort of, understandable.
Such figures as Pussy Riot, Snowden, etc. were a good news story weeks. They entertained us. Is it fair instead of a payment for the show to put them in cages?
I think of a human civilization, not about the USA, China, Venezuela, etc.
Why do we need such services, OSs, etc. at all, if all of them turned into the total carpet-eavesdropping on us. It is not only the USA agencies. I assume other states' agencies engaged in it too.
We, the society, have to rethink from the ground, invent new grand ideas in order to return the Internet to the state of decency and order.
I think it will be the end of "social networks" and return to the Internet, which based on open source technologies.
The approach - "trust me, trust my closed binaries, as I am good guy" - is over.
I expect clearer interfaces, as people will not trust convoluted websites and OSs anymore.
It could be a chance for small and medium companies from all over the world. Why, for instance, to have one Skype when we can have several competing clients talking via open protocols.
Why there are no web-cameras with a lid? It is so obvious and inexpensive to install a small light lid on a web-camera and microphone to control them physically. Still it is never done.
When something is closed with a physical lid, it is closed 100%. No way to open it for eavesdropping from network.
So this device kills and inflicts heavy injuries on hundreds people on the streets, and we have no right to get any information on it.
I, for example, never saw such a thing. And now I am afraid even to make a search to have a look at its image. But how I will recognize one to save my colleagues or bystanders when I see one?
Slashdot Mirror
Right. I wonder was it due to the fact that English is not my native tongue, or was it a Freudian slip.
In any case E.S. needs money to survive in a megalopolis.
The price of life in Russia and especially in Moscow is very high. The government of RF does not assist E.S. in fear of further reprisals from the US government.
E.S. has to hire a protection from a private security company, an apartment, etc.
I would not be surprised if visionaries and leaders of the computer industry, including FOSS, turn out to be generals, admirals and colonels. And that the leading technological companies are just the departments of the single organization.
Seth Vidal, creator of “yum” open source software, killed in bike accident: http://www.businessinsider.com/36-year-old-seth-vidal-tragically-killed-2013-7
His last words were: "don't track things. Just ride," Vidal
One or two infested OSs or encryption algorithms are not enough. It is an opportunity for the new "cottage cheese" computers and software industry.
Various hardware architectures, various OSs, encryption approaches, etc. which are talking to each other via open clear protocols.
Let my computer be less sleek or cool but it should me my computer and my software.
I am an office worker. Sometimes I work from home via computerized communication channel. I remain an office worker.
The same about piloting. If a pilot wants to seat inside an aircraft - fine. But if she wants to be somewhere else and still pilot an aircraft, the technology does exist for it.
Piloting an aircraft via remote control is risky. Any human endeavor is risky.
Major western newspapers publish the stuff he reveled. Give him a legal immunity, so that he could return back home on his own will.
Uncle Sam is very angry with Russian Federation. It is getting out of control. I guess the RF did not realize how serious is all this. It seemed at the beginning that he was sort of an American Solzhenitzyn, but it turns out the the US government has lost a lot of money because of this event.
But it was not Eurasia's fault. It is an American story.
An aircraft flies very quickly. It can happen to any pilot.
It is a bit primitive. The "US is a sole superpower", "Russia lost power", etc.
The US and Russian are still capable to destroy each other several times over.
"something good" would be promoting education and development in the region. That's what it really needs. No one would mind it.
Could governments to reach an international agreement, a treaty, with verification inspections to stop this network sabotage? I have severe unexplainable problems on my routers periodically.
I could not explain it. I spent years trying to find a reason. Now I have got an idea.
Was it a problem to follow a common sense and an accepted international laws? To wiretap only the criminals on a court order? With discipline and self-restraint?
Such irresponsible behavior harms the US companies and the Internet network in general.
"Others do it..", but the USA is the leader, it had to show an example.
The US government is still being very angry with the Russian Federation about Snowden. Still RF can not extradite him as there is no extradition agreement. Besides it would be against public opinion. The US government is asking impossible.
But if the USA gives E.Snowden a iron-clad immunity guarantees, restore his US passport he can come to the USA on his own will.
He would be home, with his family. He will not be able harm the USA and the US government could be sure of it.
We see as the world political situation deteriorates because of this anger of the US political elite. Still such a compromise is realistic.
We should understand that the US nation has got a profound trauma in 2001 when its landmark symbolic buildings were barbarically destroyed.
This is the cause of all these draconian laws, acts, dragnet surveillance, etc.
Hannibal crossed Alps with a bunch of ragged militants. The senators of the Great Roman Empire were literally laughing when the news broke out in Rome.
Roman soldiers took wine, festive food with them as they thought that after checking out Hannibal's group they would have a picnic outdoors.
But Hannibal new cunning military tactics nearly destroyed the Roan Empire in the following 2nd Punic war.
My point is that if we want privacy and other freedoms we should learn to abstain from military conflicts, even from ones which seem to look easy and insignificant.
In general, there is always an economical interest behind a military conflict. But nowadays getting rich means, more often than not, getting isolated from normal healthy physical activity and consequently overweight. Being overweight outweighs any advantages.
Exactly. It means that it applies to all humans in the universe. Even if a human is in space, on an orbit, or at, say, a moon.
When I hear as the president says that the US citizens are not being snooped upon, I always think: "And what about us, who did not happen to be US citizens." Are we a too easy target?
We are also protected by The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The USA has signed it by the way, the same as China, Russia, and many other countries.
The should be developed an international mechanism of verifications of the Article #12 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Many countries have signed it. The should be international inspections of data centers, telephone companies, etc.
http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml#a12
Article 12. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
the Transparency watches you.
(sorry could not resist after all that "in soviet Russia").
I think it is a very good idea. I would add that an e-mail client, say, "Thunderbird", allows to use several e-mail accounts.
This way not all e-mail messages are readily available for an snooping on one server.
I know that Russian government has been asking the US government for years to conclude an extradition treaty. The US always refuses.
It is understandable why. And in this case it is also, sort of, understandable.
Such figures as Pussy Riot, Snowden, etc. were a good news story weeks. They entertained us. Is it fair instead of a payment for the show to put them in cages?
I think of a human civilization, not about the USA, China, Venezuela, etc.
Why do we need such services, OSs, etc. at all, if all of them turned into the total carpet-eavesdropping on us. It is not only the USA agencies. I assume other states' agencies engaged in it too.
We, the society, have to rethink from the ground, invent new grand ideas in order to return the Internet to the state of decency and order.
The problem is tot about legality. The problem is that information could be turned into money.
And it is not only US services. We are being eavesdropped online big time by numerous agencies; we got it.
Now the society needs time to think of an answer.
I think it will be the end of "social networks" and return to the Internet, which based on open source technologies.
The approach - "trust me, trust my closed binaries, as I am good guy" - is over.
I expect clearer interfaces, as people will not trust convoluted websites and OSs anymore.
It could be a chance for small and medium companies from all over the world. Why, for instance, to have one Skype when we can have several competing clients talking via open protocols.
What is a Westerner? In, say, Italy 6.5 % of the population was born abroad. It is only an official figure.
An if there is no connection to Runet, than no more news on Snowden, on Pussy Riot, on launching US astronauts from Baikonur, etc.
Welcome to the new brave globalized World!
Why there are no web-cameras with a lid? It is so obvious and inexpensive to install a small light lid on a web-camera and microphone to control them physically. Still it is never done.
When something is closed with a physical lid, it is closed 100%. No way to open it for eavesdropping from network.
So this device kills and inflicts heavy injuries on hundreds people on the streets, and we have no right to get any information on it.
I, for example, never saw such a thing. And now I am afraid even to make a search to have a look at its image. But how I will recognize one to save my colleagues or bystanders when I see one?
What was the rank of Lonnie Snowden, Edward Snowden's father, in the Coast Guard? I cannot find this information neither in wiki nor in google.