Yeah totally! I mean...what kind of murderous rampage was the Berlin Airlift after all! If those bloodthirsty Wrights didn't take military funding and build those planes that atrocity could never have happened. I mean...the military is such a one sided cut and dry issue here. Radio allowed us to bomb military and industrial targets much more accurately while greatly reducing civilian loss using triangulation instead of bombadiers trying to see through smoke and hoping that big building was a factory and not a school.
In case you missed the original point, the military didn't have to give up any of those developments. The DoD could have remained a much more effective military force against ALL by sealing up and suppressing anyone from getting that technology. They didn't and our quality of life is much better for it. Also, some of the greatest advances actually came from finding ways to save lives not kill, but hey...feel free to paint with that big ol brush you have there.
I agree...I am not some ideologist over what is happening over there, but the whole "three sides" of the story crap with insurgents is a bit unreal. I am well aware that the vast majority of the Arabic world is not a bunch of bloodthirsty immoral killers, however, in the context of the people fighting it is perfectly acceptable to lie to infidels (and shoot them, and cut off their heads, and so on). I mean seriously...this is like interviewing the Nazi soldiers while the war was still going on. Yeah...there certainly are more than one side, and All Quiet on the Western Front is a good example of that...but they are also the team that was running death camps... I hope to God that these insurgents weren't "compensated" for their involvement. Ugh... War profiteering and exploiting the lives of soldiers is bad enough, these guys exploiting the deaths of soldiers is even worse.
I even like the historically based war movies/games etc...but for fucks sake they could at least wait until the bodies are cold... If they actually released a game that "told the story of the insurgent in his quest to kill marines"... Well...I guess I would suggest having them roam around that area unarmed just so they can see what kind of story they would find...
It isn't a stronger message so much as it is a clearer message. They are investing in the process to get marketing information that they are going to carefully analyze. This has to do with accounting and inventory procedures since most places don't individually track stock (especially in the types of things that use those discount card things).
I probably wasn't clear enough about the card, it is just one of the common things that gets brought up every time there is a privacy discussion here and represents what I believe is the overly paranoid response.
You! With the clue! You are to report for immediate groupthink reprogramming!
This goes WAY beyond source code. DoD and DARPA have been giving away technology of all varieties for ages. Radar, guidance systems, tons of computing and communications tech, medical technology. Bitch about the military all ya want...but be honest...stop using everything the military has played key role in building. For starters no computers, no internet, no weather reports, no flying, and certainly no trauma treatment in an ER anywhere...
1. The cards around here typically don't send you anything. They are just a little "price with card vs price without card" kinda shopping thing. They are typically more like universal coupon things.
2. Feel free to stop buying food. You need to buy quite a bit of stuff for day to day use and it isn't really an option of buy it/don't buy it. Now, you could not shop at that store, but why not save a few cents and tell the retailer what products you want on the shelf.
3. I don't think not using a card makes you stand out. I was just using it as an example of some of the rather overly paranoid behavior. However the end of your post here makes me think we are not talking about the same type of card. The discount cards I am talking about are just some plastic thing with the store logo and a barcode on it that you scan at checkout that acts like a coupon. You can use them with cash, card, or check. The stores are the ones getting the market data, not the credit card company.
Opt out of everything! Encrypt everything! Privacy is supreme! Oh wait...except you make yourself a bit of a target by being part of that tiny percent that actually gives a shit about that kind of stuff. I agree that privacy is important. I agree that some things should not be so easily made public information. I agree that advertising is irritating as hell. However, making yourself relatively unique by fighting so hard to stay "under the radar" actually makes you stand out as one of the few that actually are totally concerned about it. The unfortunate reality is MANY people believe "If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear" and the "they" rely on that behavior to find the "suspect" people.
Let us break this down in a way that I suspect all "geeks" and whatnot can understand. Do you spend much time investigating the events/items that meet your expectations of "normal"? Or are you more interested in the "odd" result? How much time do you really dedicate to fixing a Windows glitch vs how many time you just write it off to "Yeah, typical Windows behavior". Compare that to how many times you investigate into a *nix type glitch where the norm is to behave in exactly the same fashion every time unless some odd and relatively easily discoverable condition occurs...
The very act of struggling so hard to make yourself completely anonymous and "off the radar" makes you a high visibility target. I often see people go on about how they refuse to use discount cards and so on... WHY?! Seriously...is your hot dog and milk buying patterns so fucking important to your privacy? If you are really buying something "suspect" or "interesting" then don't use the card. Fuck, I actively check costs and ingredients in shit because I am concerned about what I am paying and what I am eating. What better way to "vote with your dollar" then to send a nice "I am not buying this fucking garbage" message every time you check out? I don't buy shit with aspertame, I don't buy shit with partially hydroginated bullshit (did you know they can legally claim 0 trans fat by making it less than.5g per serving? Who the fuck eats 1 cookie as a serving? Eat 2 cookies and you get ~1g of trans fat...5g of which per week increases your heart attack risk by ~25%). I am more than happy to provide that information to the marketeers because I want them to know I don't want that bullshit in my cupboards! How else do you plan to send a strong message with your dollar? Make sure they pay attention to your dollar!
Put yourself in "their" shoes. Who stands out more...the guy trying to mind his own business in the large crowd of other people who are generally just trying to mind their own business or the guy who is sneaking with sticks strapped on all over trying to look like a shrub. "They" employ a great number of very intelligent people more interested in solving puzzles than being "bad guys" to weed out those strange responses. It is an interesting challenge in human behavior.
Seriously...hiding every aspect of your life makes you more suspect. I think the notion of making every aspect of your life public voluntarily through myspace/facebook/twitter/whatever is absolutely moronic in the extreme, but trying to hide every aspect is the same thing. Unless you are looking for pedophilia, necrophilia, beastiality, or some other pretty universally questionable porn...you probably stand out more as "I don't ever look at porn" rather than "I like *XYZ* kind of porn".
The biggest violators of "privacy" are in it to make money, not to be evil dictators. They are going to dig into your information whether you like it or not. Provide them information that sends a clear message of what you want and they will most certainly meet your demands to continue making money! Every time some telemarketer calls me with some survey I am HAPPY to spend 5-10 minutes of my day answering their questions. You cannot even begin to imagine my amusement when they start asking about how much TV I
I had to Google "solar flare crystal planet" and the #1 hit was your post... #2 was Starflight...
Congratulations... You have made such an obscure reference that the first search result was you actually making the reference... I don't think there is actually a prize for that though... Please don't kill yourself...
The unfortunate thing here is that more and more the laws are protecting the asshats. Child A bullies Child B, Child B punches Child A, Child B is now the one in trouble. All of the normal means that society has ever used to deter asshat behavior is being stopped. We are all just told to grow a thicker skin, ignore them, or whatever. How many school shootings were there in the days where fistfights didn't end in lawsuits? Not that I am really interested in going back to frontier justice, but back when you could be convicted and sentenced just for being an asshole rather than tapdancing out of court with a shit eating grin due to a high priced lawyer...well...getting your rocks off by being an asshole actually involved some personal risk.
It is called being delusional. You are welcome to live in your self deluded fantasy land, but please, stop injecting your nonsensical ideas into how reality should work.
You really are an idiot aren't you? Do you think there is some magical way to control everything and everyone a child interacts with? OK, outside of being a callous prick about this, you shouldn't breed because you are too stupid to have children if you actually believe the shit you are saying. Explain to me how you are supposed to stop "easy access to coke", if you have a real answer to that I am sure that law enforcement would love to hear your ideas. However, you can pretty much go anywhere on the planet and still get access to drugs. Law enforcement can't even keep drugs out of jails! What the hell makes you think there is some magical way to stop that? As far as the car, she had a license, she could legally drive. There shouldn't be anything more to it other than "don't drive this one". She disobeyed, but that hardly has anything to do with what happened to her, she just as easily could have done it in a car that she was allowed to drive.
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Bob/Clippy sadly must be forgiven. Melinda Gates was responsible for those atrocities. Do you think he would kill the pet project of the one he shares a bed with?
I sure hope your daughter never has to have a brain tumor removed either. If you bother to read the story the real root of her problems was from brain damage suffered during the removal of a tumor at 8 years old. Also...you are an unbelievably stupid moron if you think you "not let your kid get her hands on coke" or not steal cars. Unless of course you plan on giving up your entire life to follow her around like a stalker 24/7.
And actually...I agree that you should never have kids, not because of what you may or may not let them do, but because sick self absorbed callous pricks shouldn't multiply.
What? You mean that downloading illegal software and then installing "evil trojan" isn't safe? Hell those Mac users probably even got a nice dialog box asking them for their password to continue to install the trojan. Totally the same thing as the drive by installs so common in Windows.
Now I agree with most of what you say, but the OS design behind XP and friends IS inherently flawed. Defense in depth is the only sane approach to security, but the depth that you must go to is going to be influenced greatly by the quality of the products involved. The more flawed the products, the more layers required, and the more expenses involved. It is all very simple to crow about defense in depth when you aren't begging the finance department for the funds to purchase those levels of depth. The reality is that most places simply cannot afford the defense in depth required to protect themselves. I can't tell you how many times I get drug along kicking and screaming because some "Critical" app requires all users on that computer to be administrators, or some such other nonsense that is DIRECTLY linked to piss poor OS design and the bad coding practices it encouraged. The piles of sensitive and authentication information that gets held in insecure places just to facility "easy" and "automatic" tasks is revolting. I don't know much about Vista, the fact that it is MUCH easier than XP to work as a user and only elevate privs as needed is pretty nice, but it has piles of other irritations that I don't have much patience for.
You do understand that the difference between a convicted felon and any other politician is one of them has been caught. So a convicted felon is the better choice because we know we can catch him. As far as the corpse...shall we review who the corpse was running against? I would vote for a dead guy any day over that loon.
You might want to do some research on this particular company. This is way beyond anti-corporate stuff. These guys are grade A evil shit assholes. Microsoft looks like a bunch of saints next to the kind of shit these assholes put out.
Agent Orange, Round up, Aspertame (and the associated FDA/Reagan tap dancing act that got it unbanned), Bovine Growth Hormone (and all of the associated information suppression via media pressure and lawsuits), and we have the whole terminator gene lawsuit business...
You have no idea how many people it takes to run all of the abacuses that the military uses. It is pretty difficult to get any kind of equipment for calculations that wasn't made in China, but at least an abacus is easier to check for problems.
Oddly enough when a politician does something right you don't see their name at all!
I sure do hate that the media only attacks Republicans with cheap shots to make them look bad and stupid. I mean...using the feed directly off of Dean's mic instead of the crowd mics so his scream made him look like a psycho rather than shouting over a loud audience...or that whole "invented the internet" meme, there was also that "flip flop" thing...oh wait...shit...my bad...those guys were Ds weren't they? Well damn...maybe we can stop pretending like Republicans don't understand how to use the "MSM" as they call it to push their own propaganda and dirty trick shit.
I bought a truck because I don't want to release a bunch of smug into the atmosphere. It was like purchasing a smug credit to make up for the fact that I like my iPhone.
So...now that we have more and more technology and more and more capability for governments to track every aspect of their priso..citizens there should be a few things noted. This is nothing new. Advancing technology has ALWAYS resulted in governments trying to leverage it for this very purpose. I seriously doubt this will ever change despite various groups flag waving about how THEIR country would never do this and pointing at other countries that have implemented things like this. As such, all the bitching and moaning in the world is not likely to stop this. A number of countries throughout history have "reset" their governments abilities through various revolutions (some rather bloody, others bloodless). Unfortunately the bloody type ones have typically been the most likely to result in destruction of government records by one side or the other. (Which is why the whole 2nd Amendment thing was put there, the notion that we are supposed to use our right to bear arms to protect ourselves from our fellow citizens is a warping of reality...it was meant ensure an armed citizenry to discourage government abuse. Of course this is all moot when the majority happily embraces this kind of "safety" measure.)
At the end of the day with technology constantly advancing and the "here there be monsters" parts of the map becoming non-existent there is only one way to ensure our future freedoms. My daughter will know how to execute SQL injections by the time she is 10! We live in an era where your average teenager is more capable of destroying/manipulating government plans/records/whathaveyou than any pitchfork and torch wielding mob has had since the days of the caveman!
Disclaimer: Parents, be careful with this plan, you wouldn't want to have your records swapped with (notorious threat of the day) for grounding your kid.
Do you bitch this much when you choose what hammer you are going to use? Those "driveling whiney developers" are the ones the build all of those cool embedded Linux things that just work. Good luck using Windows Vista as the basis of your Linksys router firmware. You also have "companies you can blame" in Redhat and SuSE or the handful of other corporate driven distros. Linux is not a product, nor will it ever be a product, because GNU and Linux and every other little bit in there are pieces that get used to build products. The list of companies that use Linux to build products, desktop or otherwise, is huge. Even if you cut out all the stuff targeted at businesses you still have hordes of stuff that uses Linux because OS X or Windows or whatever just can't cut it. Specific distros are products and some specific distros have those very things you are complaining about.
Whoa whoa whoa...who the hell do you think you are? Making reasonable statements about a story that only exists so that Apple haters can have a good laugh at how stupid Apple is? I mean...why do you think no one is pointing out that Oracle had the exact same language in their EULA about 10yrs ago or that you had to agree to those terms before you were even allowed to download the trial version. You sir, are completely out of line.
Yeah...because the horrible failures of things like the gay bomb and acoustic kitty really need to be well known. I am sure all sides have similar tales of absolute stupidity. The whole spy game stuff sounds really interesting because the only stories we hear are the ones of "success". All of the monumentally stupid embarrassing stuff tends to get hidden quite a bit better. The gay bomb and acoustic kitty should have everyone embarrassed to be human, let alone any specific nationality. Evil government scheming aside, the fact that a group of otherwise reasonably intelligent people that have developed some amazing things and pulled of impossible ideas over the years got together and allowed those kinds of ideas to become anything more than a hilarious brainstorming joke.
I am perfectly OK with many of those failed projects never being released just so we can remove them from process of figuring up the average worth of human intelligence. I would really like to maintain the fantasy that humans actually do have better ideas than dog on the porch that spends the day licking his balls in public.
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Yeah totally! I mean...what kind of murderous rampage was the Berlin Airlift after all! If those bloodthirsty Wrights didn't take military funding and build those planes that atrocity could never have happened. I mean...the military is such a one sided cut and dry issue here. Radio allowed us to bomb military and industrial targets much more accurately while greatly reducing civilian loss using triangulation instead of bombadiers trying to see through smoke and hoping that big building was a factory and not a school.
In case you missed the original point, the military didn't have to give up any of those developments. The DoD could have remained a much more effective military force against ALL by sealing up and suppressing anyone from getting that technology. They didn't and our quality of life is much better for it. Also, some of the greatest advances actually came from finding ways to save lives not kill, but hey...feel free to paint with that big ol brush you have there.
China. Billy gave them most of the source already.
I agree...I am not some ideologist over what is happening over there, but the whole "three sides" of the story crap with insurgents is a bit unreal. I am well aware that the vast majority of the Arabic world is not a bunch of bloodthirsty immoral killers, however, in the context of the people fighting it is perfectly acceptable to lie to infidels (and shoot them, and cut off their heads, and so on). I mean seriously...this is like interviewing the Nazi soldiers while the war was still going on. Yeah...there certainly are more than one side, and All Quiet on the Western Front is a good example of that...but they are also the team that was running death camps... I hope to God that these insurgents weren't "compensated" for their involvement. Ugh... War profiteering and exploiting the lives of soldiers is bad enough, these guys exploiting the deaths of soldiers is even worse.
I even like the historically based war movies/games etc...but for fucks sake they could at least wait until the bodies are cold... If they actually released a game that "told the story of the insurgent in his quest to kill marines"... Well...I guess I would suggest having them roam around that area unarmed just so they can see what kind of story they would find...
It isn't a stronger message so much as it is a clearer message. They are investing in the process to get marketing information that they are going to carefully analyze. This has to do with accounting and inventory procedures since most places don't individually track stock (especially in the types of things that use those discount card things).
I probably wasn't clear enough about the card, it is just one of the common things that gets brought up every time there is a privacy discussion here and represents what I believe is the overly paranoid response.
You! With the clue! You are to report for immediate groupthink reprogramming!
This goes WAY beyond source code. DoD and DARPA have been giving away technology of all varieties for ages. Radar, guidance systems, tons of computing and communications tech, medical technology. Bitch about the military all ya want...but be honest...stop using everything the military has played key role in building. For starters no computers, no internet, no weather reports, no flying, and certainly no trauma treatment in an ER anywhere...
1. The cards around here typically don't send you anything. They are just a little "price with card vs price without card" kinda shopping thing. They are typically more like universal coupon things.
2. Feel free to stop buying food. You need to buy quite a bit of stuff for day to day use and it isn't really an option of buy it/don't buy it. Now, you could not shop at that store, but why not save a few cents and tell the retailer what products you want on the shelf.
3. I don't think not using a card makes you stand out. I was just using it as an example of some of the rather overly paranoid behavior. However the end of your post here makes me think we are not talking about the same type of card. The discount cards I am talking about are just some plastic thing with the store logo and a barcode on it that you scan at checkout that acts like a coupon. You can use them with cash, card, or check. The stores are the ones getting the market data, not the credit card company.
Opt out of everything! Encrypt everything! Privacy is supreme! Oh wait...except you make yourself a bit of a target by being part of that tiny percent that actually gives a shit about that kind of stuff. I agree that privacy is important. I agree that some things should not be so easily made public information. I agree that advertising is irritating as hell. However, making yourself relatively unique by fighting so hard to stay "under the radar" actually makes you stand out as one of the few that actually are totally concerned about it. The unfortunate reality is MANY people believe "If you have nothing to hide then you have nothing to fear" and the "they" rely on that behavior to find the "suspect" people.
.5g per serving? Who the fuck eats 1 cookie as a serving? Eat 2 cookies and you get ~1g of trans fat...5g of which per week increases your heart attack risk by ~25%). I am more than happy to provide that information to the marketeers because I want them to know I don't want that bullshit in my cupboards! How else do you plan to send a strong message with your dollar? Make sure they pay attention to your dollar!
Let us break this down in a way that I suspect all "geeks" and whatnot can understand. Do you spend much time investigating the events/items that meet your expectations of "normal"? Or are you more interested in the "odd" result? How much time do you really dedicate to fixing a Windows glitch vs how many time you just write it off to "Yeah, typical Windows behavior". Compare that to how many times you investigate into a *nix type glitch where the norm is to behave in exactly the same fashion every time unless some odd and relatively easily discoverable condition occurs...
The very act of struggling so hard to make yourself completely anonymous and "off the radar" makes you a high visibility target. I often see people go on about how they refuse to use discount cards and so on... WHY?! Seriously...is your hot dog and milk buying patterns so fucking important to your privacy? If you are really buying something "suspect" or "interesting" then don't use the card. Fuck, I actively check costs and ingredients in shit because I am concerned about what I am paying and what I am eating. What better way to "vote with your dollar" then to send a nice "I am not buying this fucking garbage" message every time you check out? I don't buy shit with aspertame, I don't buy shit with partially hydroginated bullshit (did you know they can legally claim 0 trans fat by making it less than
Put yourself in "their" shoes. Who stands out more...the guy trying to mind his own business in the large crowd of other people who are generally just trying to mind their own business or the guy who is sneaking with sticks strapped on all over trying to look like a shrub. "They" employ a great number of very intelligent people more interested in solving puzzles than being "bad guys" to weed out those strange responses. It is an interesting challenge in human behavior.
Seriously...hiding every aspect of your life makes you more suspect. I think the notion of making every aspect of your life public voluntarily through myspace/facebook/twitter/whatever is absolutely moronic in the extreme, but trying to hide every aspect is the same thing. Unless you are looking for pedophilia, necrophilia, beastiality, or some other pretty universally questionable porn...you probably stand out more as "I don't ever look at porn" rather than "I like *XYZ* kind of porn".
The biggest violators of "privacy" are in it to make money, not to be evil dictators. They are going to dig into your information whether you like it or not. Provide them information that sends a clear message of what you want and they will most certainly meet your demands to continue making money! Every time some telemarketer calls me with some survey I am HAPPY to spend 5-10 minutes of my day answering their questions. You cannot even begin to imagine my amusement when they start asking about how much TV I
I had to Google "solar flare crystal planet" and the #1 hit was your post... #2 was Starflight...
Congratulations... You have made such an obscure reference that the first search result was you actually making the reference... I don't think there is actually a prize for that though... Please don't kill yourself...
The unfortunate thing here is that more and more the laws are protecting the asshats. Child A bullies Child B, Child B punches Child A, Child B is now the one in trouble. All of the normal means that society has ever used to deter asshat behavior is being stopped. We are all just told to grow a thicker skin, ignore them, or whatever. How many school shootings were there in the days where fistfights didn't end in lawsuits? Not that I am really interested in going back to frontier justice, but back when you could be convicted and sentenced just for being an asshole rather than tapdancing out of court with a shit eating grin due to a high priced lawyer...well...getting your rocks off by being an asshole actually involved some personal risk.
It is called being delusional. You are welcome to live in your self deluded fantasy land, but please, stop injecting your nonsensical ideas into how reality should work.
You really are an idiot aren't you? Do you think there is some magical way to control everything and everyone a child interacts with? OK, outside of being a callous prick about this, you shouldn't breed because you are too stupid to have children if you actually believe the shit you are saying. Explain to me how you are supposed to stop "easy access to coke", if you have a real answer to that I am sure that law enforcement would love to hear your ideas. However, you can pretty much go anywhere on the planet and still get access to drugs. Law enforcement can't even keep drugs out of jails! What the hell makes you think there is some magical way to stop that? As far as the car, she had a license, she could legally drive. There shouldn't be anything more to it other than "don't drive this one". She disobeyed, but that hardly has anything to do with what happened to her, she just as easily could have done it in a car that she was allowed to drive.
Bob/Clippy sadly must be forgiven. Melinda Gates was responsible for those atrocities. Do you think he would kill the pet project of the one he shares a bed with?
I sure hope your daughter never has to have a brain tumor removed either. If you bother to read the story the real root of her problems was from brain damage suffered during the removal of a tumor at 8 years old. Also...you are an unbelievably stupid moron if you think you "not let your kid get her hands on coke" or not steal cars. Unless of course you plan on giving up your entire life to follow her around like a stalker 24/7.
And actually...I agree that you should never have kids, not because of what you may or may not let them do, but because sick self absorbed callous pricks shouldn't multiply.
What? You mean that downloading illegal software and then installing "evil trojan" isn't safe? Hell those Mac users probably even got a nice dialog box asking them for their password to continue to install the trojan. Totally the same thing as the drive by installs so common in Windows.
Now I agree with most of what you say, but the OS design behind XP and friends IS inherently flawed. Defense in depth is the only sane approach to security, but the depth that you must go to is going to be influenced greatly by the quality of the products involved. The more flawed the products, the more layers required, and the more expenses involved. It is all very simple to crow about defense in depth when you aren't begging the finance department for the funds to purchase those levels of depth. The reality is that most places simply cannot afford the defense in depth required to protect themselves. I can't tell you how many times I get drug along kicking and screaming because some "Critical" app requires all users on that computer to be administrators, or some such other nonsense that is DIRECTLY linked to piss poor OS design and the bad coding practices it encouraged. The piles of sensitive and authentication information that gets held in insecure places just to facility "easy" and "automatic" tasks is revolting. I don't know much about Vista, the fact that it is MUCH easier than XP to work as a user and only elevate privs as needed is pretty nice, but it has piles of other irritations that I don't have much patience for.
Rove does look like he would be into some sick shit doesn't he?
You do understand that the difference between a convicted felon and any other politician is one of them has been caught. So a convicted felon is the better choice because we know we can catch him. As far as the corpse...shall we review who the corpse was running against? I would vote for a dead guy any day over that loon.
You might want to do some research on this particular company. This is way beyond anti-corporate stuff. These guys are grade A evil shit assholes. Microsoft looks like a bunch of saints next to the kind of shit these assholes put out.
Agent Orange, Round up, Aspertame (and the associated FDA/Reagan tap dancing act that got it unbanned), Bovine Growth Hormone (and all of the associated information suppression via media pressure and lawsuits), and we have the whole terminator gene lawsuit business...
You have no idea how many people it takes to run all of the abacuses that the military uses. It is pretty difficult to get any kind of equipment for calculations that wasn't made in China, but at least an abacus is easier to check for problems.
Oddly enough when a politician does something right you don't see their name at all!
I sure do hate that the media only attacks Republicans with cheap shots to make them look bad and stupid. I mean...using the feed directly off of Dean's mic instead of the crowd mics so his scream made him look like a psycho rather than shouting over a loud audience...or that whole "invented the internet" meme, there was also that "flip flop" thing...oh wait...shit...my bad...those guys were Ds weren't they? Well damn...maybe we can stop pretending like Republicans don't understand how to use the "MSM" as they call it to push their own propaganda and dirty trick shit.
Can you imagine any other industry working that way? Every time you got a cold you would be getting a transplant.
I bought a truck because I don't want to release a bunch of smug into the atmosphere. It was like purchasing a smug credit to make up for the fact that I like my iPhone.
So...now that we have more and more technology and more and more capability for governments to track every aspect of their priso..citizens there should be a few things noted. This is nothing new. Advancing technology has ALWAYS resulted in governments trying to leverage it for this very purpose. I seriously doubt this will ever change despite various groups flag waving about how THEIR country would never do this and pointing at other countries that have implemented things like this. As such, all the bitching and moaning in the world is not likely to stop this. A number of countries throughout history have "reset" their governments abilities through various revolutions (some rather bloody, others bloodless). Unfortunately the bloody type ones have typically been the most likely to result in destruction of government records by one side or the other. (Which is why the whole 2nd Amendment thing was put there, the notion that we are supposed to use our right to bear arms to protect ourselves from our fellow citizens is a warping of reality...it was meant ensure an armed citizenry to discourage government abuse. Of course this is all moot when the majority happily embraces this kind of "safety" measure.)
At the end of the day with technology constantly advancing and the "here there be monsters" parts of the map becoming non-existent there is only one way to ensure our future freedoms. My daughter will know how to execute SQL injections by the time she is 10! We live in an era where your average teenager is more capable of destroying/manipulating government plans/records/whathaveyou than any pitchfork and torch wielding mob has had since the days of the caveman!
Disclaimer: Parents, be careful with this plan, you wouldn't want to have your records swapped with (notorious threat of the day) for grounding your kid.
Do you bitch this much when you choose what hammer you are going to use? Those "driveling whiney developers" are the ones the build all of those cool embedded Linux things that just work. Good luck using Windows Vista as the basis of your Linksys router firmware. You also have "companies you can blame" in Redhat and SuSE or the handful of other corporate driven distros. Linux is not a product, nor will it ever be a product, because GNU and Linux and every other little bit in there are pieces that get used to build products. The list of companies that use Linux to build products, desktop or otherwise, is huge. Even if you cut out all the stuff targeted at businesses you still have hordes of stuff that uses Linux because OS X or Windows or whatever just can't cut it. Specific distros are products and some specific distros have those very things you are complaining about.
Whoa whoa whoa...who the hell do you think you are? Making reasonable statements about a story that only exists so that Apple haters can have a good laugh at how stupid Apple is? I mean...why do you think no one is pointing out that Oracle had the exact same language in their EULA about 10yrs ago or that you had to agree to those terms before you were even allowed to download the trial version. You sir, are completely out of line.
Yeah...because the horrible failures of things like the gay bomb and acoustic kitty really need to be well known. I am sure all sides have similar tales of absolute stupidity. The whole spy game stuff sounds really interesting because the only stories we hear are the ones of "success". All of the monumentally stupid embarrassing stuff tends to get hidden quite a bit better. The gay bomb and acoustic kitty should have everyone embarrassed to be human, let alone any specific nationality. Evil government scheming aside, the fact that a group of otherwise reasonably intelligent people that have developed some amazing things and pulled of impossible ideas over the years got together and allowed those kinds of ideas to become anything more than a hilarious brainstorming joke.
I am perfectly OK with many of those failed projects never being released just so we can remove them from process of figuring up the average worth of human intelligence. I would really like to maintain the fantasy that humans actually do have better ideas than dog on the porch that spends the day licking his balls in public.